<p>Hi!</p>
<p>Which scholarships are the most popular among International applicants? How 'possible' are they to get?</p>
<p>Also, which colleges are more open to Financial Aid to Internationals; excluding the Ivies.</p>
<p>What are some low Cost-of-attendance colleges that Internationals attend?</p>
<p>Also, what is the average SAT 1 and SAT 2 score of an International.</p>
<p>:) Lots of info, I know...</p>
<p>This should preferably become a wiki-type--answer - I hope.. :)</p>
<p>The short answer is that most of the statistics you are asking for are not publicly available.</p>
<p>Here are the best resources, to the best of my knowledge.</p>
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You can get the most up-to-date numbers from Collegeboard’s College Search Engine. (Though some colleges do not report that number.) A few people have tried to compile all of these numbers in lists over the years. These are generally outdated but may still give you a starting point. Here’s one: [Schools</a> Awarding International Financial Aid](<a href=“http://www.internationalstudent.com/schools_awarding_aid/]Schools”>Schools Awarding International Financial Aid) Maybe you don’t like that this list is sorted by state and the alphabetically. There’s another list with the most generous colleges sorted by the amount of aid they are awarding floating somewhere out in the web, but I don’t have the link anymore. Maybe someone else has it?</p>
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Use a college search engine to sort colleges by tuition or cost of attendance.</p>
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Not generally published but it probably depends on the school. Among the aid-seeking internationals, probably much higher than average. (I recall one Midwestern liberal arts college with a median ACT score range of 23-27 saying that international students should score at least a 32 to be considered for financial aid.)</p>
<p>A few public universities do publish very detailed admission statistics, but they generally don’t give aid to foreigners. For example, in 2009 the average SAT scores of international students admitted to UC Berkeley were 687 Verbal and 759 Math. (Keep in mind that these are all full-paying students!)</p>
<p>Thanks for the info. That link is pretty helpful, too!</p>
<p>What do you think of Amherst C’ undergrad program in CS?</p>
<p>Can you recommend any colleges that have better acceptance rates vis-a-vis international undergrads, for a Computer Science course?</p>
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I’m thinking that it’s way too small. I was going to major in CS at Bryn Mawr, which has a department the same size. Here’s what happens when your major department has 4 professors:</p>
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<li>One of them will be on leave at any point in time.</li>
<li>One of them will be teaching introductory courses. </li>
<li>One of them will be teaching lower-level requirements for the major.</li>
</ul>
<p>That means that you’ll never actually have a choice which electives you’d like to take. Would you rather learn about computer graphics and networking than about compilers or the history of women in technology? Too bad. A bigger department would actually offer you choices for your upper-level electives. Liberal Arts Colleges cannot because the departments are too small. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, I am not aware of a liberal arts college with a larger computer science department. The five-college consortium might give Amherst students a few extra options, but I’d encourage you to research how practical it is before you rely on it. </p>
<p>What I have learned from the Quaker Consortium in Philadelphia is that an inconvenient bus schedule makes the consortium almost useless.</p>
<p>Bryn Mawr and Haverford are a 10-minute bus ride apart and there’s a bus at least every half hour. The two colleges enjoy about 3,000 cross-registrations every year. Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore are 40 minutes apart and there’s a van only once every 90 minutes. They only have ~80 cross-registrations per year because it’s really really difficult to squeeze a Swarthmore classes between Bryn Mawr classes. </p>
<p>For example, if you wanted to take an 11am class at Swarthmore, it would be impossible to take any other Bryn Mawr class that day. (And “that day” probably means 2-3 days per week.)</p>
<p>@b@r!um-</p>
<p>Thanks for the info!</p>
<p>I’ve heard good thing about Williams C and Rice U? Any thoughts?</p>
<p>As far as I know, Rice has no F-aid for internationals. If u want, try the top 10 liberal arts college and the top 15 uni listed on US news. They all i think provide full need base aid if accepted and the top uni’s I think are need blind too. In fact, there is I think more uni with great aid for international than time (and money) for you to actually research and apply to all of them. Oh and trust me, you just need a compelling story/reason that makes you unique. I mean, I got accepted with 1750+ sth SAT and I was given tons of aid by the college, so I am sure you can too! :D</p>
<p>@farkula-
What was your story and achievements? Which college did you get in?</p>
<p>I don’t think u will know it but I got to Middlebury. My story, basically a self studied 6 A* for alevels and how it isn’t too easy. Of course, its more complicated than that (pm me if u want to know more) and I am just fortunate to get accepted. GL</p>
<p>OK, thanks!
Also, [Financial</a> Aid at Rice University](<a href=“http://financialaid.rice.edu/main.aspx?id=78]Financial”>http://financialaid.rice.edu/main.aspx?id=78) - Rice does indeed have FA for intl’s. Though it IS limited.</p>
<p>@barium - Any college recommendations?</p>
<p>a word of warning re 5 college consortium:</p>
<p>the bus service is TERRIBLE. depending on what colleges you’re traveling between, travel can take anywhere between 20 to 60 minutes one way, which shackles your schedule. aside from that, the consortium and the individual colleges are lovely, but i wouldn’t recommend amherst for anything but classics and some other traditional LAC disciplines.</p>
<p>@barium & @vienneselights</p>
<p>Thanks! I probably wouldn’t have thought about those things much until it came to accepting/rejecting offers!</p>