Financial Aid for Internationals

Student Lounge International Students
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<p>If you are (or someone you know is) an international student attending a college in the US with significant need-based financial aid (more than 90% of the cost of attendance) please write down the name of the school. The idea is to create a growing list of colleges that offer A LOT of aid for internationals based on personal experiences of applicants. This will help out future applicants.</p>

<p>I will go first:</p>

<p>Middlebury College (I'm a sophomore)
Lafayette College (my friend goes here)
Washington University in St. Louis (a friend of my mine also goes here)</p>

<p>*we all got $50,000+ in grant</p>

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<p>People I know go to these colleges (with full or almost full ride):
Barnard, Mount Holyoke, Bryn Mawr, Carleton</p>

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<p>check Colgate</p>

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<p>I’ve got friends at M.I.T, Brown, Amherst, Harvard, Beloit, U of Kansas, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, U of Chicago, Furman, Mount Holyoke, Fairfield and Wesleyan with FULL RIDES. Usually the top tier schools dish out a lot. Some of the smaller schools also do give full rides to internationals some times. I think it really depends on how competitive the applicant is and how much the school wants said applicant. Diversity etc… Most of these guys are top 5% material.</p>

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<p>U of Richmond, Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Stanford, Duke, Rice, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, UPenn, Trinity college, Harvey mudd, Claremont McKenna, Amherst, U at Buffalo(Merit), Boston University(Merit), U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee(Merit), Drexel(merit), WUSTL</p>

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<p>Do UW-M, Drexel, SUNY Buffalo, Furman and U of Kansas offer scholarships that can cover up to the full cost of attendance? :S</p>

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<p>A friend of mine from India got a nice merit aid package from Georgia Tech.</p>

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<p>Add Smith, I got an amazing FA package with a 55k grant.</p>

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<p>Congratulations Guitar500, that’s amazing!!</p>

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<p>my friend princeton me cornell</p>

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<p>generally speaking, any private US News Top 20 college/university will give full rides.</p>

<p>after that it’s on a case-by-case basis. if you are a very attractive applicant for a college, they will go out of their way to fund you.</p>

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<p>Thanks! </p>

<p>For liberal arts, it’s not necessarily the top 20. MHC, BMC, Macalester, and many others are full-need for internationals as well.</p>

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<p>well yeah womens colleges.
duh.</p>

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<p>This might help prospective students to short the lists:</p>

<p>http://*******/3WWFeC</p>

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<p>Occidental College gives full need-based aid. USC gives full-ride merit scholarships.</p>