<p>Weighted GPA:3.1
ACT:29+ i took it yesterday</p>
<p>Based on my stats above,can I get a 35K aid package from both Bard college and bu(boston)?
I am intl and i have lived in us for 2 years,i am EA to BC btw,my EFC is 0-15k.</p>
<p>You say that you are an international student. Are you eligible for need-based aid at BU or Bard? That is, do you have American citizenship, a green card or a visa status that entitles you to federal financial aid?</p>
<p>BU does not have need-based aid for internationals at all, and Bard says that their financial aid awards for international students are partly merit-based (whether you get financial aid is based on merit, how much you get is based on need). They also explicitly say that they cap institutional grants for international students at $25,500 per year (tuition, room and board is $51,180).</p>
<p>Your chances for merit-based aid at these schools seem rather slim.</p>
<p>A bit of personal experience: I applied to college as an international applicant a couple of years ago, while I was in the process of obtaining my green card. I was in the top 2% of my high school class and had a 34 on the ACT. My EFC was around $5K. The most selective college that offered me financial aid was Bryn Mawr.</p>
<p>Did you have green card when you applied to Bryn Mawr?How much aid did you get?</p>
<p>I just did a calculation on collegeboard bard college and the average aid international student got was 36k</p>
<p>this is what they said
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<p>if they really set maximum at $25,500 then i might not apply there.</p>
<p>Given that your unweighted GPA may lower than 3.0, I doubt you’re getting into either.</p>
<p>There are different ways to calculate my GPA,it may or may not be under 3, my circumstance is quiet unique.</p>
<p>I would say that you have a better shot at Skidmore, Warren Wilson as more “target” than Bard. BU may also be a reach --maybe look at Hampshire? Good luck!</p>
<p>Based on the non-unique information you gave, you are very unlikely to get into either, and neither Bard nor BU guarantees 100% of need, so it’s all very, very speculative, and that’s being kind.</p>
<p>And why Bard and BU? While I can imagine two institutions more different, the differences between these two are very, very wide. Can’t imagine someone being really happy at one being happy at the other.</p>
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Aid past 25K is given as loans. Still aid, but maybe not the sort of aid you are looking for? <a href=“http://www.bard.edu/financialaid/international/[/url]”>http://www.bard.edu/financialaid/international/</a></p>
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No, I didn’t have a green card when I was applying. I got my green card in the second semester of my freshman year. If I had taken a gap year, I might be going to a more selective college now, but I really didn’t want to take time off. And I got enough aid to attend. (Actually, my aid package as an international student was a bit more generous than my FAFSA package. It had an allowance for travel and health insurance.)</p>
<p>thanks for the responses by far, I just removed bard off my list,i do not know much about this school,my school search is based on the aid package the school most likely would offer to me.</p>
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If you were posting this on the international student forum, you would get the following advice:</p>
<p>Apply to colleges you are overqualified for. Financial aid for international students, outside of the top universities (Harvard & Co), is always at least partly merit-based and the competition for these limited funds is keen. Think about it this way: It is more expensive for any college to give financial aid to you than to a domestic applicant with similar resources because you are not eligible for federal grants, state grants, federal loans and many outside scholarships to supplement institutional grants. That means that you need to offer more of something else (other than money) to be an attractive candidate for admission. </p>
<p>Your B average makes both Bard and BU reaches. You are lucky to gain admission at all, and they would certainly have no incentive to give you an academic scholarship on top of that. You should be looking at colleges where you are in the top 25% of the student body, or colleges that you can pay for on your own. Your classmates’ safeties are your matches, and their matches are your reaches.</p>
<p>That will change once you have your green card, but for the time being you are playing the admissions game with a handicap.</p>
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<p>Not really,but thanks for the response,i appreciate it. U of wyoming is my safety right now,i think they would give me some scholarship.</p>
<p>I am glad to hear that you have a safety. If it’s your in-state school, you are lucky that Wyoming has so generous residency, tuition and scholarship policies. Most students in your situation have to look a lot harder to find an affordable education.</p>
<p>oh,unfortunately i am not from wyoming,i am actually from massachusetts,the flagship of mass is always ranked around 100 by USNWR, and it is very a expensive school so i am not even going to apply there.D</p>