<p>After reading many threads in this forum, I understand that for international students that need full aid have very low chance of admission</p>
<p>However, if I only need only about 20-30k aid for a school with a comprehensive fee of 60k, are my chances any different from a student who needs full aid.</p>
<p>Do the admission committees and the financial aid offices in most schools communicate with each other so that they know how much a student needs and whether he or she qualifies for the amount of aid requested?</p>
<p>If I need very little money should I just not apply for aid at all and seek other alternatives (if there are any alternatives at all)?</p>
<p>Keep in mind that except for no more than a dozen of the top private schools, international students receive no need based aid at all. You would have to rely on merit aid. </p>
<p>20k-30k need is better than needing full cost still.
Need aware=more money means less chance, so yes, admission and the FA office communicate if the school is need aware.</p>
<p>@tomsrofboston Thanks for the response!
@paul2752 I would like to think so haha!</p>
<p>I would say that I am average, but I made sure that I apply to schools where I am at their top 25 percentile of the admitted students’ SAT scores. That is one of the few statistics that are disclosed, so I can only use this to gauge my chance. I am aware that admission is based on more than SAT scores though.</p>
<p>If asking for less aid increases my chances, then I would rather ask for education loans in my country and due with the debt upon graduation than to ask for more aid and not get admitted at all.</p>