<p>Does anyone know here what the maximum financial aid package I can expect from Columbia University, when I transfer from my current Liberal Arts College to the Engineering 3/2 program at Columbia.</p>
<p>If you don't know, could you tell me if Columbia is still as stingy about financial aid to international students as they used to be?</p>
<p>I know it's tough,. but dunno how tough..</p>
<p>Just wondering.. why would a pre-engineering major decide to attend Middlebury?</p>
<p>Probably cause Midd is on the list of colleges Columbia accepts as 3/2.</p>
<p>It depends on how much aid you ask for and how good you are and how much your record sticks to the pre-requisite. For international students, though, aid at the 3-2 level is extremely hard to come by, I'd expect it'd be like the transfer level.</p>
<p>Its very VERY difficult. If you are a star student at Midd, then there is some hope. I would suggest getting a physics degree and then doing engg. at Masters level. </p>
<p>Good Luck! :)</p>
<p>psh......columbia rarely gives fin. aids to internationals. I know for a fact they give at most only 10,000 a year to ONE or TWO EXTREMELY outstanding students out of many many, but def. nothing more than that.</p>
<p>freestyla: where have you heard this? Do you have any proof to validate your point? It's an Ivy League with a LOT of money to its name; I somehow cannot believe that they'd only give 10 grand to students.</p>
<p>freestyla is just shooting in the air. Absolutely false statement.</p>
<p>I found the following paragraph about the availability of financial aid for international students at Columbia's website. It is about the College of General Studies and thus neither proves nor disproves freestyla's claim about Engineering, but it does support his/her estimate about the amount of financial aid given to international students: </p>
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Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science will consider foreign students for financial aid awards, but the number of awards given annually is very small. The School of General Studies (GS) provides scholarships to undergraduate degree candidates that range from $500 to $15,000 per academic year.
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<p>Columbia does give financial aid to international students applying as combined plan every year and they can cover your full financial need. I received full tuition, room and board financial aid.
So it is worthwhile applying to Columbia, if you are a good student and really in financial need!</p>
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<p>Not true, they give quite decent aid to international students. I know a couple of people personally who have gotten good aid. The 3-2 plan is a different case entirely though.</p>
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<p>Thats interesting- did you go to a LAC? And like what GPA range did you get? I seriously thought they did not give finaid for the 3-2. Problem with Columbia is that there finaid system is nebulous and not centralized throughout the university making it hard to really find out what programs are funded and which are not.</p>