<p>I'm an international student, so most schools dont offer need blind admissions and/or financial aid.</p>
<p>So for the common ap, there are some schools I want to apply for aid, but some i dont (in fear of getting rejected) </p>
<p>however, on common app main app, there's a place where they ask whether you want aid, i think it refers to all schools.
how do I dodge this?</p>
<p>say i have 5 schools i want aid and 5 i dont, should I just sent the 5 w/ aid first, then go back and switch my option and then send the second 5 out?
like, in 2 batches? </p>
<p>it's my first time applying to college (obviously) and i dont want to make any mistakes....so plz help out!</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure all the schools on the common app have a seperate app just for the school itself just incase a student wishes to hand write their apps etc etc. </p>
<p>But KennyK the reality is most schools endowments are so big whether you ask for aid or not does not make a huge difference, especially schools that are fairly well known/prestigious. On top of that, as an international you wont get financial aid. The only thing you can get is scholarships and possibly federal loans at best.</p>
<p>no, as an international student, if we ask for aid we will be put to a separate pool, and as stanford pointed out, the acceptance rate is 3%. </p>
<p>Only HYPM Williams, Middlebury are need blind.
so I have to separate them.</p>
<p>i know a lot of supplements as wehther u want financial aid as well, but on common app the main one asks for it too. it'd be weird if the two were inconsistent...</p>
<p>The Aid your talking about is the aid the school will give you i.e. scholarship funds. I thoguht you were takling about financial aid wehre the US government subsidizes your college tuition. </p>
<p>You can send in a seperate application to the schools you want aid for. The supplements are found only on the common app schools cuz those schools want extra info peculiar to waht they want in a student. If you send in an application for a single school i.e. taking a Harvard app and filling that out, the info from can be different from what you write on the common app since they wont see wuts on the common app</p>
<p>but that means I'll use Harvard's own app for applying to Harvard?</p>
<p>thing is, i'll be applying to Princeton, and I wanna use common app for all my common app schools since it's mre convenient :p
i might apply to harvard and yale for the sake of financial aid, but so far they're not on my list.</p>
<p>kenny, i know that you're allowed to make different instances of the common app once you have turned it in. so after you apply to certain schools, and send in the app, you can create another application and send it to other schools. I did this in january when i heard duke extended their deadline, after i had sent in my app to all the other schools. But I'm not exactly sure if you can change anything in the application, so what i told you could be completely useless.</p>
<p>like after you're done sending in the app to all the schools, a new option comes out so that you can create another instance of your application. it copy pastes everything that you already put in there. but i'm not exactly sure if you could change all the fields or not.</p>