I know that international acceptance rates are quite low compared to those of US citizens and Ivies are not fond of offering financial aid to international applicants. But if you’re an international applicant with >250k income over a year and you’re not applying for financial aid, does being an international applicant still hinder your admission chances?
Yes. Many colleges have official or unofficial limits on the number of international students they will accept. While being full pay at some schools may be a (very slight) boost, it will still be more difficult to get accepted than if you were a domestic applicant.
Yale Princeton and Harvard are need blind for internationals. They are among the MOST generous with fin aid for internationals. But this also makes them even more difficult to obtain since more internationals apply to them because of this.
Depends what colleges you’re applying to. Can you list them so that we can tell you?
@MYOS1634 I’m applying to more than 20 colleges, so I’ll just list the reaches here:
Princeton
Columbia
Upenn
Brown
UChicago
Please also list the others Since those are auper reaches for all (also known as crapshoot or lottery schools. )
Being full pay will be a boost a Penn, Brown, and uchicago. But it means odds of 1in 15instead of 1 in18…
@MYOS1634
NYU
Northwestern
Johns Hopkins
UMich
UVA
5 UC’s
Tufts
etc