International Financial Aid, Richmond or Brandeis

College Search & Selection
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<p>which of the two is more generous with Aid?</p>

<p>And with a 1450 SAT composite,3.95GPA, and extra-curriculars mainly related to community service.
where do I stand a better chance?</p>

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<p>For finaid, probably Richmond.</p>

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<p>apples and oranges: Brandeis offers very little merit, so its FA (known as need-based) will depend on how your family income and assets. Richmond offers such need-based aid, but they also offer quite a bit of full tuition/ride aid to the very best applicants. </p>

<p>In order to determine what need-based aid you could get, you must go to the financial aid page of any school in which you’re interested, click on the net price calculator (npc), and provide the info they request. The npc will provide you with an EFC and that will pretty accurately (unless your parents are divorced or own a business or second home) tell you what you’ll have to pay the first year and perhaps each year thereafter unless there’s a change in your family’s assets, income, or ability to pay. Do this for each college. It will not consider merit aid. There is no predictor for merit aid, but there are ways to see what some people with your resumé have rec’d in the past.</p>

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<p>@jkeil911 thanks a lot! Figured out brandeis is gonna be out of bounds so excluded it from my list now.
btw… could you recommend any other place like Richmond with FinAid and a reputable Economics(or Accounting program) where I have a good chance with 2000 SAT and 3.9 GPA and decent EC’s…</p>

<p>thanks a lot!</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.desperateguide.com/us/top-25-financial-aid-colleges-in-us-for-international-students-need-aware”>http://www.desperateguide.com/us/top-25-financial-aid-colleges-in-us-for-international-students-need-aware&lt;/a&gt;
Some of the numbers on this page may be more than a year out-of-date.
Many of the listed schools are LACs (like Richmond).</p>

<p>Schools on this list roughly similar to Richmond in selectivity include:
Trinity, Bates, Colorado College, Reed, Macalester.
Schools a bit less selective include:
Skidmore, Dickinson, Hampshire, Union.</p>

<p>Colorado College, Reed, and Hampshire have distinctive programs/characteristics that you should investigate carefully before applying. Any of them might be perfect for you, not good at all, depending on your interests/needs/personality.</p>

<p>The others are more-or-less typical LACs.</p>

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<p>@tk21769‌ how do I research about the rankings and future prospects of each of their respective econ programs.?!</p>

<p>Thanks a lot btw!!</p>

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<p>There don’t seem to be any reliable rankings of undergraduate economics programs.
Browse the online course catalogs and faculty profiles to see if there are enough courses and professors in your major to meet your needs. </p>

<p>Outcomes also are a little challenging to tease out.<br>
The Forbes rankings are more outcome-oriented than the USNWR rankings. They cover LACs and universities in a single list.
<a href=“Ranking America's Top Colleges 2014”>http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2014/07/30/ranking-americas-top-colleges-2014/&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2014/09/08/best-colleges-ranking-criteria-and-weights”>http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2014/09/08/best-colleges-ranking-criteria-and-weights&lt;/a&gt;
The rankings may be helpful in identifying unfamiliar schools that are more or less in the same peer group as better-known schools. However, I recommend that you don’t pay much attention to differences of 10 or even 20 positions. Do your own research once you’ve identified schools that interest you.</p>

<p>Forbes ranks Richmond at #96. Other small colleges ranked at least that high, but which aren’t far more selective, include:
Rhodes
Trinity
Occidental
Macalester
Holy Cross
Colorado College
Reed
These are small, relatively urban colleges (like Richmond) that Forbes ranks in the 40-80 range.</p>

<p>Schools in the 100-120 range with more-or-less similar characteristics include:
Skidmore
Lawrence
Hampshire
Lewis & Clark
University of Denver</p>

<p>It’s hard to say what the chances really are for a high-need international student, with scores below 2100, to be admitted to these schools with adequate aid. Each school’s Common Data Set file, section H6, shows how many international students are awarded financial aid and the average amounts.
Example:
<a href=“http://www.lawrence.edu/mw/CDS_2014-2015%20Lawrence%20University%20Section%20H.pdf”>http://www.lawrence.edu/mw/CDS_2014-2015%20Lawrence%20University%20Section%20H.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>You can also try running each school’s online net price calculator, although I don’t know how accurate they are for internationals. </p>

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<p>@tk21769‌ thanks a lot!</p>

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<p>@am291x With a 2000 SAT, your success is going to depend heavily on how much finaid you need. There’s a big difference in how appealing you are as an international (more so than domestic students) when you can pay $40K per year, out-of-pocket, versus $10K. Good schools have a lot of outstanding int’l students to choose from, with few places available, so an international’s ticket through the front door is typically punched with either superlative grades/talents or a wheelbarrow full of money.</p>