<p>Oh, sorry :p</p>
<p>There are also “need-blind” schools for international students such as Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth and Amherst which do not take into consideration your ability to pay the sticker price. Your chances will no be diminished at these places.</p>
<p>Others like Columbia, Brown, Penn, Cornell are “need-aware” (or some wordplay on that) which basically means that they care about how much money you can pay. The more you can pay, the more chances you have at these places.</p>
<p>The third category, which includes other universities (mostly public schools) like UC Berkeley, UCLA, Georgia Tech, UIUC, outright say that they will not provide you with any kind of financial assistance. That is, if you are accepted and intend to attend, then you will have to bear the full burden of the costs.</p>