<p>Hi. I'm an international student in the Shanghai American School, applying for universities in the USA. </p>
<p>I got accepted by Purdue (Engineering), Penn State (Engineering) and UIUC (Waiting list).</p>
<p>I'm still waiting for RPI, USC, four UC campuses (Irvine, Davis, San Diego, Santa Barbara), BU and Michigan University.</p>
<p>I have one question. Is there any way to get financial aid from universities i applied for? i heard most financial aid programs require its applicants to have either US citizenship or green card, but they are out of reach.</p>
<p>I don't think i can get federal aid, because i can not fill out the FAFSA, but I hope there are some universities require CSS profile only.</p>
<p>Thank you and have a nice day. i hope there are some international students who can help me out!</p>
<p>Hello!
Are you from SAS Puxi or Pudong? Anyways, you can’t fill FAFSA since that’s for domestic students. Usually financial aids are for domestic students since they are aids given to students by the federal government. Looking at all the colleges I have applied the only way to get ‘financial aid’ for international students is really only through scholarships. But if your GPA and SAT scores are really high, you should have a high chance of being rewarded.</p>
<p>Thank you for your reply. Is it possible to apply for scholarship after i get into college? </p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>None of the publics that you applied to give FA to int’l students. Most don’t give aid to citizens who aren’t residents of each school’s state, either.</p>
<p>I don’t know what the policies of the privates, look at their websites.</p>
<p>It is difficult for an int’l to get scholarships once enrolled. Scholarships for enrolled students are hard to get and for small amounts…and may only be awarded to domestic students.</p>
<p>if an int’l wants merit scholarships he needs to apply to the schools that award them to int’l students. There aren’t many, but there are some.</p>
<p>BTW…for you to get your visa to come here, you will have to show that you already have all the funds for your education. You won’t get a visa if you can’t show funds.</p>
<p>How much will your parents pay for college?</p>
<p>edited to add…</p>
<p>USC…International students do not qualify for need-based financial aid, but are eligible for merit-based scholarships.</p>
<p>Thank you for your reply, mom2collegekids. </p>
<p>My parents say they can pay 100% of my education fee, but i don’t believe it’s a good way. I want to find a way to reduce their financial burden. </p>
<p>I just checked Penn state and purdue, and there is no scholarship available for international students. </p>
<p>Thank you for your reply. I’m still waiting for new comments!</p>
<p>You need to visit the International Students Forum. There are several threads there on paying for an education in the US. The best advice I’ve seen is from b@r!um who wrote that she investigated the financial aid and scholarship policies of several hundred (yes you read that correctly) colleges and universities in the US before she made the list of places that she would apply to.</p>
<p>Really? I know Purdue offered scholarship to international students because there’s this Korea guy in our school (yea, I go to SAS too) that got either $4,000 or $40,000 per year. When did you submit your Purdue app though? I know that if you wanted scholarship you had to submit early like before November I think.</p>
<p>Oh. I know some international students get financial aid from purdue, but i relatively recently decided to apply for purdue, and passed the scholarship deadline, which was ahhhh… i think it was nov 2010. I know this is not a good example of a ‘well prepared’ student. lol.</p>
<p>*My parents say they can pay 100% of my education fee, but i don’t believe it’s a good way. I want to find a way to reduce their financial burden.
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<p>If your parents can afford to pay 100% of your education, then even if you had been able to apply for aid, you probably would not have qualified. Aid is based on income/assets and it sounds like your parents have enough income/assets.</p>
<p>mom2collegekids,Thank you for your kind reply.</p>
<p>Yes, they say they can afford my education, but they will retire next year. Except some pensions from the Korean Government and private insurance companies, there will be no stable income. </p>
<p>Again, thank you!</p>
<p>I hear you. but as you know, FA isn’t just based on income. It’s also based on assets. If your parents are saying that they can pay $200k+ for you to go to school here, that suggests that they must have a lot saved. Hopefully, your parents don’t intend on spending all of their savings on college. Yikes!</p>
<p>Good luck…and I hope that you get a merit scholarship for USC… If your stats are high, then you have a good chance. :)</p>
<p>Are you SAT (like above 2000) and GPA high? UCs tend to be a bit hard to get scholarship because of the budget cut (yes I applied there too) though if you applied as an international student you have a higher chance of getting one. BTW did you get accepted to UCI? I heard people who have gotten accepted to UCI were qualify for some scholarship thing. </p>
<p>BTW are you from SAS Puxi or Pudong?</p>