It is very sad and quite unfair that we all have SSN in my family, we pay taxes and are completely legal up untill now, but still I have not get any financial aid from the gov or my college (public college). I can’t even get student loan: need a co-signer for that. Next year i am gonna apply for all the Ivy League colleges. Even if i don’t get in it will still be a satisfaction.
Don’t quite understand what you’re getting at or trying to ask or trying to tell?
Your transfer chances to an Ivy are practically zero.
Yes, that describes the situation of a LOT of U.S. Citizens. If your income is high, the colleges expect that you and your family will use that income to pay for college. Paying taxes and being legal does not mean you automatically get any kind of financial aid or assistance to pay for school. Not trying to sound mean, but that is just the way it is.
What specifically is keeping you from financial aid? Is your family income too high? Was there a mistake on the financial aid application? What can we do to specifically answer questions?
Why waste time and money applying to schools you have zero chance for acceptance? Many, many Americans citizens get no financial aid.
No, cause I am non-eligible non citizen. My family income is very low.
How do you know?
So you are not a US citizen and you do not have a green card?
Yes
Will you paying the in-state rate for your public schools?
Then you are an international student despite having an SSN… You ae not eligible for federal aid. Period.
I will have to pay evrything out of pocket.
but yes. I need to pay the in-state rate.
If you have the stats to get into an Ivy then you have the stats to get great merit aid at some school that give merit for stats for non citizens. What are your stats? Could you go to a school where you are a citizen would they give you aid in your home country?
Does your home country give FA for non-citizens to attend college there?
I think you’re misunderstanding how the grant programs work. To qualify for federal or state grants you have to meet certain standards. One of them is to be a US citizen. I don’t really understand how you can have a social security number legally and not be a citizen, but since you’re not you won’t qualify for grants or loans.
OP might be confusing a taxpayer ID number with a Social.
The OP is probably using the terms TIN & SSN interchangeably.
OP has a card type other than 1: https://www.ssa.gov/ssnumber/cards.htm
It’s generous that the public university is offering you instate tuition rate. Does your home country also give discounted college tuition to noncitizens?