<p>What top US colleges (preferrably with high ranking undergraduate economics programs) have the best financial aid for international transfer students? </p>
<p>I could technically afford anything < $40,000 per year, but I would be more comfortable at around $30,000 (including any financial aid). Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc. are all relatively easy to afford, but they are a long shot acceptance wise. </p>
<p>What prominent US universities have:</p>
<p>(a) Tuition prices that aren't disgusting ($50,000 per year)</p>
<p>(b) May have high tuitions, but have decent financial aid</p>
<p>By the way, I am Canadian. I know that a few universities are more lenient with aid for Canadians & Mexicans.</p>
<p>Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc. are all relatively easy to afford</p>
<p>Why do you say that? Their costs can be about $60k per year.</p>
<p>I doubt that there are many schools that give int’ls aid as transfers. Besides, if your family can pay $40k per year, it’s likely these schools will expect your family to pay a lot more, if not all costs.</p>
<p>You have 41,000 posts here and you don’t know that these schools offer excellent financial aid, even to international transfers?</p>
<p>Unbelievable.</p>
<p>Just so you can get an idea, I figured out that my cost to go to Harvard would be $29,000 per year.</p>
<p>I know that those schools accept very few transfers…domestic or int’l. </p>
<p>And, my point was how do you know that those schools will be easily affordable? You don’t know what they’ll expect your family to pay. What if they determine that your family should pay full freight?</p>
<p>More to the point, there are few schools in the US that “meet need” for int’l transfers. Are you saying that’s not true?</p>
<p>Maybe that’s why I said “Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc. are all relatively easy to afford, but they are a long shot acceptance wise.”</p>
<p>I also said this: “I could technically afford anything < $40,000 per year”</p>
<p>I am asking you if there are any good schools that have tuitions of < $40,000 per year with good econ programs. Hopefully there are some of those, because we’re not all rich.</p>
<p>I hesitate to ask this…but aren’t there any Canadian universities that would meet your criteria. Actually let me
Rephrase that…why aren’t you looking at Canadian universities, which would be mighty affordable. Save your money for grad school in the U.S.</p>
<p>No… I am not interested in learning about Canada’s economic systems. Plus I am going to the UofA right now and the economics department is very poor.</p>
<p>You’re at U of Alberta?</p>
<p>To find safety schools that have COAs below $40k would likely mean applying to some state flagships…maybe UTexas, UVA, UNC, UMinn, etc. You’ll likely be expected to pay full freight as an int’l transfer.</p>
<p>Agree your best best if to look for the big state universities. If you’ve got the top grades to support a transfer application you could, I suppose, try for HYP etc., but they accept very few transfers as M2 is trying to tell you. In general aid is more limited for transfers and you are international. I would suggest asking your question on the transfer forum where you might get an idea of what kind of aid is granted to transfer students.</p>
<p>Actually, I don’t think Princeton accepts transfer students at all…at least they haven’t done so in a number of years.</p>