International student FinAid form... why so expensive?

International Students
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<p>I don't get it. Do we have to buy a Int'l student Finaid form from Collegeboard?
<a href="http://store.collegeboard.com/productdetail.do?Itemkey=073102110&category=319&categoryName=International+Education&secondCategory=&secondCatName=&thirdLevelCategory=&thirdLevelCatName=%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://store.collegeboard.com/productdetail.do?Itemkey=073102110&category=319&categoryName=International+Education&secondCategory=&secondCatName=&thirdLevelCategory=&thirdLevelCatName=&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>The price is stupidly expensive. Do we have to download this sooner or later?</p>

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<p>^^
Collegeboard sells the forms to colleges which distribute them to their applicants for free :slight_smile: If you don’t find the forms for download on your college’s website, just google “2008-09 International Student Financial Aid Application” and you will get tons of hits on other college’s websites, for example [url=<a href=“http://www.finaid.caltech.edu/uploads/File/0809IntlApp.pdf]here[/url”>http://www.finaid.caltech.edu/uploads/File/0809IntlApp.pdf]here[/url</a>], [url=<a href=“http://www.hmc.edu/files/admission/0809%20International%20Students%20Financial%20Aid%20Application.pdf]here[/url”>http://www.hmc.edu/files/admission/0809%20International%20Students%20Financial%20Aid%20Application.pdf]here[/url</a>] and [url=<a href=“Home | Dartmouth Admissions”>Home | Dartmouth Admissions]here[/url</a>]. The same holds true for the Certification of Finances.</p>

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<p>NOOOO.</p>

<p>Don’t worry, schools that require that form will have it on their FinAid website for you to download :wink: - FOR FREE!</p>

<p>Besides, if by any chance the school that requires it doesn’t have it on their website (or have an old version only) then you can just google it with something like “Int’l student Finaid form <em>insert year</em>” and it’ll list bunch of other schools that will let you download the form ;)</p>

<p>EDIT: lol, b@r!um was 2 mins faster with better reply! (But basically, glad I was right about my answer :p)</p>

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<p>^phew!
Sry guys, I’m was feeling nervous enough to think that I’d actually have to pay $200 for FinAid. :p</p>

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<p>Hehe I don’t think a college that actually required a $200 fee for the fin aid form would be likely to be particularly generous when giving out the aid. Unless they used the fees to finance the fin aid? ;)</p>