<p>well i know that aking for aid affects your admission chances
but does the amount of money u ask for matters or not??
say we have A and B both of them equally qualified and asking for aid.
But A asks for 20000 and B for 30000. who will get in??
my common sense tells me A will get in. is this correct??
also on the financial aid application u r asked to enter ur expected contribution. will this be the deciding amount or will the colleges evaluate my monetary capacity on its own using other information.</p>
<p>Yes, A will get in. Unless B has a fabulous essay which blows A out of the water or something…</p>
<p>Not only the essay, but the overall application of the candidate adking for more aid should be great.</p>
<p>B can get in if he’s from East Timor , while A is from China/India</p>
<p>It depends whether the college/uni is need blind or not. If not depends on overall app…if both are matched them A will get in !</p>
<p>If the two applicants were completely identical except for finances, person A would have an advantage. But in reality I doubt that 20K vs 30K will make much of a difference because (especially international) applicants bring a lot more to the college than money. But I would expect that e.g. $300 vs $30,000 will have a large impact.</p>
<p>On the other hand, what you “offer” to pay is almost insignificant. Most colleges determine for themselves what they expect you to contribute and make their admission decisions based on that.</p>
<p>Not exactly, some need aware schools (for internationals) take into account only the fact that you require aid or not. So asking for $20,000 or $30,000 won’t make a difference, the office will place all the international financial aid applicants in the same pool. But yes, if you need only ~ $500, you would be evaluated with far more ease, I don’t reckon they would even think twice if you were a competitive applicant.</p>
<p>Most of them though, take the amount into consideration, and that branches the process even further. That said, if the applicant who needs $20,000 has a profile far worse than that of the one who needs $30,000, colleges would indifferently tilt towards the latter. But in practice, there are scores of international applicants with varying degrees of financial need (and of talent), and so one can never predict the outcome.</p>
<p>gouchicago, which are the schools that take into account only the fact that we require aid?</p>
<p>I think Haverford does (at least their website says that they fund exactly three international students per year). I don’t know any others though.</p>
<p>Pomona also looks at aid factor while considering internationals.</p>
<p>Why do you think that Pomona only cares about whether or not you need aid, as opposed to how much aid you need?</p>