hi, i’m a little confused about the need-based financial aid that colleges give to international students. Is there a website/thread where I might be able to find the colleges that offer 100% need-based financial aid to international students. I know about the need-blind ones (yale, harvard, mit, princeton and amherest). Are there any need-aware colleges that do that offer full fin aid to int’l students?
Also, on Commonapp I saw that yale asked me to state if i’m applying for fin aid or not. Does this means that yale is need-aware? But i have read on their website that they are need-blind. If they are need blind, why do they ask for students to state about their position on aid
Yes there are need aware that will offer full aid but remember that full aid is as determined by them. I think there is a thread in the financial aid forum and there are certainly threads on that in the International student forums.
Ask Yale if you want to know why they ask for data.
You can Google as a starting point. You want to find colleges that commit to meeting need. Then I think the next stop is the college websites for those schools to see what they say about aid for international students. I think there is some data in the Common Data Set (you can also Google that for each school) that tells something about aid given and average amounts to international students.
Yale probably asks so their FA department has knowledge of who to expect FA paperwork from.
As a mum to an international Yale freshman on almost full financial aid, I can confirm it’s possible! We were very fortunate in that the financial settlement was good first time, however, our Financial Adviser at Yale was surprised as apparently most of ‘her’ students had to appeal their decision as the figures were unaffordable the first time round.