<p>if you are an internationl applicant and you also apply for financial aid, how will that affect your chances? I'm looking at top-tier colleges and Ivies.</p>
<p>It depends on how strong your stats are. Particularly for the Ivies, the internationals who receive acceptance letters have very strong stats. Also, internationals tend to be disadvantaged, especially if they need aid.</p>
<p>It will not matter at HYPD. It will matter at the rest.</p>
<p>it also doesnt matter at MIT, Williams and Amherst and Middleburry (not sure about Amherst)</p>
<p>My bad, I only noticed the 'Ivies' part of your question. :)</p>
<p>It actually doesnt matter anywhere, if they like you they will take you. But yeah the top tier colleges are need blind so you have a little bit of advantage.</p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>
<p>It does matter. Financial aid for US students and international students come from separate funds and it is limited especially at the top schools because of the high number of self pay applicants.</p>
<p>This is from Stanford's website regarding financial aid for international students.
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<p>Are international students eligible for financial aid? Does Stanford offer scholarships to international students?</p>
<p>Stanford has a limited amount of financial aid for international students (students who are neither U.S. Citizens nor U.S. Permanent Residents), and the need for aid will be a major factor in your admission decision. You must indicate on the Basic Information Form of the Application for Admission whether or not you intend to apply for financial aid and also must indicate how much money you have available per year for your educational and living expenses.
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<p>You may have better luck at smaller colleges that a lot of internationals overlook. I know Oberlin gives a few full tuition scholarships to internationals.</p>
<p>Oberlin is as competitive as any top LAC could get for International students.</p>
<p>trust me not to scare u but i am an international and i applied for aid and it really hurts ur chances except at like harvard princeton yale</p>
<p>All right. Thanks for the info. All I was interested in were, infact, schools such as HYPS. For US colleges, those were the ones I was looking into. If I don't get accepted into any one of those, I'd rather attend college in my country. Also, I'm from Canada. I heard that some Ivies and other schools offer advantages to canadian internationals over others?? which are some of the schools that do have these kind of benefits, if they do at all?</p>
<p>Dartmouth is going to be need-blind for internationals next year, so you're in luck there too. :)</p>
<p>I heard that Columbia and Cornell dont distinguish canadians from americans as "internationals" when it comes to admissions/applications/passport/etc.. is this true?? I sure hope so. And it seems as though many US colleges are turning to this need-blind type of policy. Is this the case? do you think that many other colleges will follow throughout the next few years?</p>
<p>applying to need-blind school doesn't increase your chances. there are only a few schools who are need-blind to internationals which is why everyone and their dog apply there. good luck though!</p>
<p>Quite frankly, Yes. Financial Aid is like a counter-offer. You have to offer them something special for which they're going to give you the aid. Which usually is academics but can be sports and so on..</p>
<p>Right. I understand that the "international need-blind" thing wont increase my chances but what I'm asking is, it won't lessen my chances any more than american applicants will it?</p>
<p>Frankly I think for Canadians applying financial aid is going to hurt you unless you have a great hook because most universities in Canada are free and the education is excellent. A lot of top schools would probably grant financial aid to students from third world countries who have no higher education opportunities than to Canadians.</p>
<p>If you have further questions regarding specific schools, the best way is to email them and ask.</p>
<p>The bottom line is it doesnt matter where you apply, if you are good enough you get the money. Otherwise, you don't! </p>
<p>I'd think that an Internationals chances would be greater at schools that do offer aid but dont have a lot of internationals applying because just like Rister said, at need blind schools even the applicants dogs apply or whatever he said...</p>
<p>im fron india...wish to study at MIT..i scored 720 in math level 2.....what are my chances??</p>
<p>Aonkan, you might want to go make a chances thread...and that much information is not suffice for anybody to chance you at MIT. </p>
<p>++ anyways, ajayc, I understand that if I am a "good" applicant, my international status should not matter. However, isn't it inevitable for internationals who need aid to have less of a chance? Anyways, the schools that I was worried about were those such as HYPS..and some schools that offer benefits for canadians(I heard that Columbia and Cornell do this.. somebody please clear this up for me). If I don't get into any of those colleges, like I said, I might as well attend school in canada.</p>
<p>++Cbreeze, do colleges seriously tend offer aid to students from third-world countries over canadians...? I don't want to come off as ignorant but... are there schools in third-world countries that actually prepare students for Ivy leagues...? I mean, there probably are.. but how many of these third-world students apply?</p>