<p>Hi! I'm currently a freshman in a university in Indonesia. I have taken the SAT tests and I plan to report the scores to two universities in Asia. As I can send two more scores, I'm interested in universities in USA.</p>
<p>However, I find that it is difficult to find universities that provide financial aid for international students. Education in USA is tremendously expensive. After doing so much research, I only found MIT and Harvard, which I believe both are way too hard to enter lol. It would be helpful if someone could recommend me great universities that are generous toward international students. And anyway, I'm planning to take Electrical Engineering program.</p>
<p>There are only a few schools in the US would give need based aids to international students. There are merit aids at many schools though. How is your credential?</p>
<p>Billscho, there are actually a number of schools that award need based aid to international students. HOWEVER, most don’t meet full need for all students, and so are also need aware for international students as well.</p>
<p>There are only six colleges that are BOTH need blind and meet full need for all international students.</p>
<p>BUT this student has an additional challenge. Getting a LOT of financial aid as an incoming freshman is a challenge for international students. But getting a LOT of need based or merit aid as a transfer student is even MORE of a challenge. Most aid of this sort is reserved for incoming freshmen. </p>
<p>Even some of the schools that meet full need for internationals do NOT do so for transfer students.</p>
<p>I do not have any exceptional award, perhaps the best is only being the best student at school and achieving second best national exam scores in my city. I do have great high school GPA, perfect TOEFL and SAT Subject Tests Score, and currently aiming to get >2300 SAT Score (later in December) and >3.8 GPA at college. Talking about my high school activities, the highest rank I achieve is being a treasurer at classical music club. Therefore, I find myself not quite interesting for any merit award.</p>
<p>@thumper1: Could you please list these six colleges you mentioned? Yeah, it is sad that most universities only consider international financial aid for freshmen, but not for transfer students, e.g. Caltech :(</p>
<p>Paul2752…that is not true. Those six schools are both need blind for admissions AND meet full need for all international students.</p>
<p>There are many other schools,which are need blind. In fact MOST schools are need blind, even for international applicants. But the vast majority of those schools do NOT meet full need for all accepted students (international or not international).</p>
<p>@thumper1
thanks for reminding, forgot about the schools who are need blind for everyone but do not meet 100% need.
Although I already knew that those 6 schools give full need and full ride to int as well. </p>
<p>Anyway…top schools(top 25) except Cornell University(doesn’t meet full need for int) are need aware to International students.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure this is not correct, Cornell doesn’t “have to” meet the requested aid after accepting, but I know they give out full aid on ED, including internationals (especially considering they average like a 50K aid to all internationals currently studying there).</p>
<p>some universities like TTU offer diversity scholarships, as they are hoping to attract international students from other regions.
TTU has many students from Central Asia, thus we are trying to attract more students from East Asia, Europe and South America. thus we have some partial scholarships.
CJW</p>
<p>Most schools are need blind to US citizens and Permanent residents. The majority of schools are need sensitive/need aware to international students where your ability to pay will be a factor in the admissions process</p>
OP will be a transfer student to most universities & colleges in US. Many schools don’t require SAT scores for transfer admission; some schools may ask for SAT scores during secondary schools.</p>
<p>I do’t think there are any schools offer generous scholarships/financial aid to transfer international students, beside those 6 schools mentioned in post #5. However those 6 schools admit very few transfer students.</p>