<p>I'm looking to apply to CS schools that offer financial aid to international applicants.
can someone please give me a list of all the top schools that offer financial aid ?</p>
<p>What are your stats?</p>
<p>Are you looking for need based aid? Is your family low income?</p>
<p>How much can your family contribute towards college?</p>
<p>Are you looking for merit-based aid.</p>
<p>Most schools give NO aid to int’ls. Some give “some aid” to some int’ls (usually only to a number of high stats int’ls that the school really wants.)</p>
<p>A small number are need blind and give full aid to int’ls. These are the hardest to get into and you need tippy top stats to have a chance at admissions because a gazillion other int’ls are applying.</p>
<p>Some school give merit aid to int’ls but they aren’t “full rides”…the family has to cover the rest of the costs.</p>
<p>We need more info from you.</p>
<p>My stats are on here :
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1685709-chance-me-for-each-college-on-my-list.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1685709-chance-me-for-each-college-on-my-list.html#latest</a></p>
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<p>Cornell, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Dartmouth give on,y need based aid. It will be based on your family income and assets. Your first hurdle, however would be to get accepted. These are highly competitive colleges, and accept a very small percentage of international applicants…like less than 10%.</p>
<p>UT Dallas, UT, Austin, and UM-twin cities do not meet full need for all accepted students. </p>
<p>Caltech is a reach as well…in terms of acceptance. </p>
<p>What exactly are you looking for? How much aid do you need? Why did you choose these colleges? Have you looked on their websites to see their policies for awarding aid to international students? </p>
<p>Some of these are likely need aware for admissions as well. This means your ability to pay will be considered when your application for admission is considered.</p>
<p>Cal tech-not happening with that SAT score, and their aid packages are extremely limited to top tier students. </p>
<p>Top CS program? and you need aid?</p>
<p>You need to be realistic with your stats. “Top schools” aren’t going to admit you or they won’t give you aid.</p>
<p>There are many very good CS programs here. Going to a “top one” is not necessary at all.</p>
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<p>They won’t give you anything.</p>
<p>What is your cum GPA for grades 9-11?</p>
<p>How much will your family pay.</p>
<p>Hello, Plz help…
I am an Indian student of the CBSE board studying in Dubai…I wish to get accepted in any of the prestigious schools…but I aim for Harvard , Princeton or Yale…Can you tell me my chances of getting in as an NRI ( Non Residential Indian ) and also if i can get any financial aid , as here they are not many ( in fact no ) scholarship programs…I am not good in music but i am very fond of Reading/Writing/Literature and want to become a psychologist. So can anyone guide me , like how do i give the AP tests , since we don’t have them here and the interviews , essays and all the other basic application formats - and above all inform me if I have any chance of acceptance( 'coz i am an Indian studying in Dubai , ps. note that we follow the Indian curriculum )…Plz reply.</p>
<p>Many schools do have some financial aid available to those international students they MOST want. You need to check the websites of each school on your list and make sure none of them exclude international students for financial aid and/or merit money. I would also double check with each Financial Aid office to make sure that there is aid available to you. No sense fishing in an empty pond. </p>
<p>However, you should also look at your test scores and grades, and think about what the chances are that you even get into the schools on your list and diversify those risks. A lot of schools that are need blind in admissions for US students are NOT for international students. So even getting accepted is an issue.</p>
<p>Also, the schools define need, not you and your family, so you might want to run NPCs of the colleges you are considering, inputting the numbers the best you can, and see if you even qualify and for about how much. Again, you are wasting your time looking for something that is not possible for you to get. </p>
<p>@mom2collegekids I had a CGPA of 9.2 in class 9th and 10th.</p>
<p>@cptofthehouse See, getting IN is not the problem for me. My counsellor tells me that with my ECs all I need to do is improve my SATs by about a 150 points, and I should be good to go for Cornell or Stanford. Also, i’m expecting pretty good predicted scores based on my performance in my 12th grade in-school exams.</p>
<p>The real problem is paying for college. Currently I am applying only to Stanford, Cornell, UT A, UT D, UM TC, SUNY Buffalo etc. because they at least offer aid to international applicants. I just wanted to know whether any other good CS school CAN offer aid to an international applicant. </p>
<p>Your GC is full of hot air. Acceptance to Stanford isn’t a guarantee for ANYONE who applies (well…maybe the child of a president, or the like). And Cornell isn’t much easier. Both are highly competitive universities for admission. HIGHLY competitive. And the acceptance rate for international students is lower than for U.S. Citizens.</p>
<p>Stanford accepts about 10% of applicants. This means that 90% do NOT get accepted. In that group of rejected students there are some very well qualified applicants. I don’t think you are a shoe in for Stanford.</p>
<p>Cornell is a small tad less competitive, but not by much. It is still a highly competitive school. Again, I don’t think your acceptance there is guaranteed by any measure or means!</p>
<p>Wow, just as thumper1 wrote, your gc is not to be believed. </p>
<p>“Here is a brief summary of my profile -
Scores -
SAT - 2110
SAT subjects - Math - 680 , Phys - 730”</p>
<p>2110 and those SAT subject test scores do NOT bode well for admittance to highly selective schools. And remember, as an Indian, you are an ORM (Over Represented Minority) for many schools. </p>
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My counsellor tells me that with my ECs all I need to do is improve my SATs by about a 150 points, and I should be good to go for Cornell or Stanford. </p>
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<p>ROFLMAO</p>
<p>Your GC should be reprimanded for giving you such bad info.</p>
<p>EVEN IF YOU had a 2400 SAT, you would not be “good to go” for either school.</p>
<p>Many schools that do meet full need, also do so to the international students that they do accept simply because it is often a waste of an acceptance to accept someone that cannot afford to pay for the school. Unlike US students that might be able to scrounge up some money with work, hitting up relatives, borrowing, parents doing the same, foreign students have to be able to document ahead of time how they are coming up with the money to meet the college and living costs in order to get a student visa from Immigration. You don’t just come up with off the top of the head ideas. If you think Uncle Abe is going to give you money you not only need a notarized statement from him that he is, but he has to show he has it with certified bank statements. That’s not a college requirement but one of the US government, and you can’t come here until every dollar of what it is going to cost is accounted for and certified. You also don’t have any of the federally backed loan options that a citizen would have. So, getting into some of these schools is going to be an issue if need is in the picture. </p>
<p>I believe Cornell is need blind in admissions for international students though they do not guarantee meeting such students’ need, and I don’t know how many such students they accept each year that are gapped and by how much. Not many from what the common data info reports, because it’s not affecting total % need met. </p>
<p>Also to be considered is that fact that there are country quotas and most schools for international students, and you come from an overrepresented country. Indian students flood our system, and only the very top ones get consideration. Many of those of Indian nationality have perfect or close to perfect stats and some of them are denied. Your counselor is wrong in what he told you about any sure thing with Cornell and Stanford. Yes, I know some sterling kids who did not get accepted to those schools, and with hooks stronger than yours. Your grades alone are likely to disqualify you from most selective schools as they look carefully at junior year grades, and they could not care less what your school philosophy is about schools. Plenty of Indian candidates with perfect 100 grades. I see UTD, UMinn maybe–don’t know that school, UBuff as possibilities but the rest are truly lottery tickets for you with your junior grades. I don’t know anyone without some very strong hook, reason, to get into the other schools with such a transcript as a junior. Not to say, you should not give it a go, but realize that even with perfect grades and test scores, you are not a shoo in for those schools, and so with a problem of low grades junior year, it’s almost certainly going to be a wash out.</p>