<p>Country: Romania
Accepted at: Amherst, Northwestern, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Vassar, Colgate, Colby, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Lafayette, Jacobs Bremen
Waitlisted: Dartmouth, Upenn, Williams
Rejected: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Johns Hopkins, Duke
Attending: Amherst or Wellesley- any advice?</p>
<p>Still waiting:none
Dream school (accepted or not, where would you love to go): Columbia <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>Country: Japan
Accepted at: Yale, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UPenn (UK: Cambridge, HK: HKU, HKUST)
Waitlisted: Stanford, UChicago, Dartmouth, CMU
Rejected: Princeton, Columbia, Caltech, MIT
Attending: Yale!!!</p>
<p>Dream school: MIT =(</p>
<p>QUESTION: Does anyone know how to obtain the I-20 for the F-1 visa? I’m on Yale Financial Aid, so do I need to request the I-20 from Yale, or will they just know what to do and send it to me via mail?</p>
<p>Country: Vietnam
Accepted at: Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown
Waitlisted: Princeton
Rejected: Yale, Duke, Caltech, MIT</p>
<p>Dream school: MIT, Yale, Princeton and Harvard (in that order). haha </p>
<p>@helpperman89, same question for me, no idea how to do this :(</p>
<p>helpper and Johan, The University will send you the required documents via mail. You must have an I-20 to apply for a student visa.</p>
<p>@confidential2015, Thank you for the reply.
But if I’m not mistaken, we need to ‘prove that we are able to pay’ before they issue the I-20 to us right? However, if I am on financial aid, do I still need the ‘proof’? Or will the university know about this and just send us the I-20 without anything else?</p>
<p>If you are on financial aid, you will need to show the proof that you can afford your tickets, insurance and all those things only. That means, you need to show the embassy that you can afford around 2,000 dollars every year. That is not a huge amount of money and it won’t create any kind of problem. Also, your document(I-20) will state that you are on financial aid so you need not be worried. :)</p>
<p>Hi, Thanks again.
=D</p>
<p>I just read a section on Yale’s website…</p>
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<p>Financial Certification</p>
<p>If your total family contribution for 2011-12 exceeds $2000, please complete and submit the Financial Certification Form (with supporting bank documents) to OISS via email or fax to 203-432-7166.</p>
<p>Obtaining an Immigration Document</p>
<p>After receiving your completed Financial Certification Form and supporting documentation, OISS will issue your immigration document (I-20). This generally takes 2-3 weeks. Yale College admissions will mail this document to you via courier service to the address listed on your Yale application. </p>
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<p>Just to make sure – Does this mean that I do not need to file a “Financial Certification” if my family contribution is <2000?</p>
<p>I guess so… :)</p>
<p>Country: Indonesia
Accepted: University of Minnesota, CU Boulder, University of Virginia, Case Western Reserve University, University of Virginia
Waitlisted: Vassar College
Rejected: Princeton (didnt expect either, tho i did hope!), cornell, brown, columbia, university of chicago, stanford, UCs.
Dream School: Brown University. sigh sigh sigh.</p>
<p>i am very disappointed of course. i wish i could rewind eleventh grade. oh well. i do regret applying all those UCs, seeing as they take so few students OOS.</p>
<p>Country: Latvia
Accepted: Colby-Sawyer College (35k aid), Agnes Scott College (17k aid), Juniata College (16k aid), Randolph College (20k aid), DePauw University (14k aid) also some unis in UK (still waiting for Berry College, W&J College and UC Maastricht (The Netherlands))
Waitlisted: -
Rejected: ED II Kenyon, Vassar, Duke, Smith, Lafayette, Trinity. These were all pretty much reaches, because of my aid and far from stellar stats. Also St Lawrence and Wooster (which were actually funny to get)
Dream School: Kenyon </p>
<p>The only rejection I was bitter about was Kenyon, but i would’ve loved to attend Smith, Lafayette and Duke (lol) as well. I have no idea where am I going, perhaps, I’m even staying in Europe.</p>
<p>UC Maasticht is an amazing school. Their core requirements and course distributions are great! I would really suggest you to stay in Europe. :)</p>
<p>Country: Paraguay</p>
<p>Accepted: WashU (full aid), Amherst (full aid), Northwestern (good financial aid, but not as great as the aforementioned two), Cornell (NO aid)
Waitlisted: UChicago, Williams
Rejected: Harvard, Upenn</p>
<p>Attending: WashU or Amherst (don’t know yet, gasp)</p>
<p>Dream School: Harvard University (looks like I’ll be going here for grad school like my dad)</p>
<p>Well, I decided that I wanted to study in the US for college literally less than a year ago. I thought that financial aid was available only for graduate studies, so I didn’t bother trying. Then, I knew of the possibilities of getting fin aid for undergraduate studies, that was in June of last year, and that’s when I started my college application process. So, I’m psyched about my offers, and, mark my words, I’m going to Harvard for grad school.</p>
<p>Great choices.I would pick Amherst if you’re shooting for Harvard grad(better preparation for grad school at small school).But who knows,maybe you’ll get off the Harvard waitlist!</p>
<p>Edit:I misread your last post as waitlisted at Harvard.I still vouch for Amherst though,it’s sort of the Harvard among LACs.</p>
<p>Thank you macmill! I’m still not sure, but I will take your suggestion into account when making my final decision!</p>
<p>Is financial aid an option for International applicants as well?</p>
<p>rdgonzalez - The general perception is that aid is rarely available for international applicants for UG. Can you please advise more on the procedures , eligibility etc from your experience. thanks.</p>
<p>see this link for more details on international applicant requesting for aid </p>
<p>[Do</a> UK Applicants Need Higher SAT’s than US Applicants? - Ask The Dean](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/do-uk-applicants-need-higher-sats-than-us-applicants.htm]Do”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/do-uk-applicants-need-higher-sats-than-us-applicants.htm)</p>
<p>Hey query123, financial aid is definitely an option for international applicants, but it is definitely not going to be easy. Well, if you want to assure yourself that you’ll have all your need met if you’re accepted and that admissions are going to be need-blind, you should apply to: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Dartmouth and/or Amherst(where I fortunately got in). It is true though that these schools are veery selective. There are also some schools that provide aid to international applicants that are need-aware. These schools know if you’re applying for aid and take it into account when deciding to accept you or not. So, they will accept you only if they’re willing to give you financial aid and some do not meet your full need there also. I’ve heard that liberal arts colleges give a lot of aid to internationals as well for diversity, but I didn’t want to apply to too many of those, I just applied to Amherst and Williams, but there are surely others that would be very generous if you meet their standards. There are also universities that have merit scholarships and those are also a very good option. </p>
<p>Well, considering my eligibility I’m having a full ride to Amherst and WashU because of my family’s financial circumstances, although my family makes around $65000 a year. Well, from my experience I won a merit scholarship from WashU that covered all tuition and the need-based aid covered the rest. For Amherst the need-based aid covered all, I think there’s something like $500 that I will have to pay for the academic year and a campus job that covers $1800 for the academic year. For Northwestern I received about $40000 in grants, $5000 in loans and there was still a gap that I had to fill that was over $10000. At Cornell, they decided to not give me aid in the end, I don’t recommend you apply here if you’re looking for financial aid because I know a lot of internationals that got accepted and didn’t get aid in the end. Heck, I even know a guy from my country who got a full ride to Boston College, Stanford, Penn and Yale(where he’s now attending) and he didn’t get anything from Cornell. Your link is kind of true though my SAT score was only 2050. I did have an 800 on Spanish, a 710 on Math 1 and a 770 on Math 2 for my SAT Subject Tests though. My TOEFL was okay, I expected to get a better score, but I got a 110. My GPA was pretty good too.</p>
<p>I’ll be glad to help a fellow international student in what I can. Feel free to PM if you have any questions!</p>