<p>hello everyone i am a new member to this site. I would like to know what are my chances of getting a college scholarship as an international student.</p>
<p>Are you highly accomplished in anything? World-class athlete? Mathematician? Artist? Do you have qualities that make you stand out from tens of thousands of other international students?</p>
<p>If not... your odds are very, very slim.</p>
<p>It is true for scholarships in general, and for scholarship <em>and need-based aid</em> for international students in particular, that you have to be significantly higher qualified than the average student at that college to get some sort of financial assistance. For example, if the average ACT score of a college is 26-30, you would probably need a 33 (out of 36) to get significant aid as an international student. Are you willing to go to a college below your academic level?</p>
<p>If you want to get into Harvard & Co, you would probably have to be highly accomplished in something, as katliamom already stated.</p>
<p>"If you want to get into Harvard & Co, you would probably have to be highly accomplished in something, as katliamom already stated."</p>
<p>is this only if you need aid? or for internationals in general(including Canadians)?</p>
<p>It's not quite as extreme for Canadians as it is for other internationals because Harvard accepts more Canadians than other internationals, but just think about it: Harvard enrolls about 600 international students (fact) from around 100 countries (my guess). That's about 6 students per country, or 1-2 students per country per class. Just one or two students per country... You don't think that those 1 or 2 students have distinguished themselves beyond their high school, probably on a national or international level? </p>
<p>If the former is not true, it would mean that top colleges prefer garden-variety good students over accomplished ones, or that all outstanding students prefer to stay in their home country and only the "second-tier valedictorians" want to go abroad.</p>
<p>And since Harvard is supposedly need-blind, it shouldn't matter whether or not you apply for fin aid.</p>