<p>Hi guys,
I am planning to apply to Grinnell College. It's mathematics faculty is even awesome. But the problem is that I am an international applicant. So,does Grinnell provide need based finanacial aid to international applicants. If it does, do you people have any idea about the average aid it provides?
thank you</p>
<p>“The average grant/work aid award for students receiving aid in the class of 2017 was $29,800. We offer a full range of financial aid opportunities including scholarships, grants, loans and on-campus employment.”</p>
<p>This is from the Grinnell FAQ page for international students, which I found by Googling “Grinnell financial aid international”.</p>
<p>The average amount has nothing to do with you or any one person.</p>
<p>Grinnell may look at your family finances and determine that you should get $5k or nothing…or much more. </p>
<p>If you were to get a small amount or nothing, how would knowing the “avg amount” help you. The amount is based on finances, and everyone’s finances are different.</p>
<p>Short answer: yes, Grinnell provides need-based financial aid to International Applicants. </p>
<p>Long answer: read the college’s website carefully. If you need FA you’d need to apply RD (Grinnell “prefers” you do, so it means you really should). You can try to run the NPCs entering a random state and “American” - this will show the minimum you’d have to pay; you’d have to subtract from the financial aid amount $5,500 in federal loans you wouldn’t have, plus if relevant the Pell grants you wouldn’t have. But it’d give you a rough estimate if you truly are clueless about how much your family would have to pay ($10,000? $40,000?)
In addition, if you’re an international who needs financial aid, you need to divide the % admission by two (at least).
For example, Haverford (a highly selective college) had over 3,000 applications (domestic and international) and admitted 23% of them (The rate was 48% ED so it means the rate was probably 15% in the RD round). Out of these, only 3 international applicants are funded every year.
For international students who need FA, it’s all a risky betting game. If you have top stats, need money, and are among the most interesting applicants, you have a shot, but you can’t really predict anything at the top colleges (= top 25 universities/LACs and even top 50.)</p>
<p>thanks a lot for all those infromation</p>