<p>I don’t feel like doing the research on each college’s website, but off the top of my head, I don’t believe that any of the universities on the original poster’s list are need-blind for international applicants. Telling him (or her) that applying for aid won’t impact admissions chances is just flat out wrong. </p>
<p>That doesn’t mean that an international student won’t get accepted to and receive excellent aid packages from a non-need blind school. Swarthmore is not need-blind for internationals, but has significant international aid money.</p>
<p>The game is completely different for internationals and domestic applicants. You can’t compare the two.</p>
<p>AHH sorry, I’m an idiot, here’s the list of schools that are need-blind:</p>
<p>A number of schools state they offer both need-blind admissions and full-need for U.S. students. However, experts speculate the actual number is much lower–perhaps about eight to twelve schools nationwide.[1]</p>
<p>The following schools state they are need-blind and full-need:</p>
<pre><code>* Amherst College
Beloit College
Boston College
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University
Brown University
California Institute of Technology
Claremont McKenna College
Columbia University
Cornell University
Cooper Union
Dartmouth College
Davidson College
Duke University
Emory University [2]
Georgetown University
Grinnell College
Harvard University
Haverford College
Lawrence University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Middlebury College
Northwestern University
Pomona College
Princeton University
Rice University [3]
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
University of Chicago
University of Miami
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of Richmond
University of Virginia [4]
Vassar College [5]
Vanderbilt University
Wake Forest University
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Williams College
Yale University
</code></pre>
<p>I’m looking at colleges and was not aware that not all schools are not need-blind</p>
<p>The colleges and universities have an aid budget and a very good idea of what percentage of their international applicants will need aid and how much that aid will cost. So, you can get admitted with 100% aid. Or, you might be on the dividing line where they are choosing to fill the last 20 slots with students who don’t need aid. </p>
<p>I don’t know anyone who can give you a precise answer. It depends how strong you are relative to the other international applicants.</p>
<p>It doesn’t really matter does it? I mean, you either apply or you don’t and then it’s out of your hands! Need-blind for internationals is mostly a marketing gimmick designed to boost the number of international applicants from students who think that they have a better chance of being accepted and getting a full-aid package.</p>
<p>Pierre:</p>
<p>That list is need-blind for US students. Again, I don’t feel like doing the research (you guys are applying, you can do the research), but very few of the schools on the list above are need-blind for internationals.</p>
<p>It doesn’t necessarily hurt to apply to a lot of schools. If you don’t get in, it’s not the end of the world. The only caveat is that if you applied to too many schools, you might end up not being able to give each one a good amount of individual attention. If that occurs, you might end up not writing as good of an essay, etc. But you should definitely have some schools that you’re really reaching for, even if they seem like impossible reaches.</p>
<p>Pierre could not be more wrong! I know he meant well but disregard his posts completely. It is an entirely different ballgame for international applicants. It is much harder to get in for internationals (need higher stats) and MUCH harder to get aid. At all but a handful of schools that are mostly ivies, it will hurt a lot to ask for financial aid. </p>
<p>Food good advice post on the international board.</p>