<p>So, I was accepted to Wake Forest University but I received no scholarships or financial aid because I am an international student and unfortunately, I was rejected from a bunch of college cuz I asked for financial aid.</p>
<p>Anyway, the problem I am having right now is to somehow pay full tuition for Wake Forest and transfer somewhere else in a year or go to Waseda Uni in Japan (prestigious in Japan) and transfer from there.</p>
<p>My plan is to apply to places like Yale, Cornell, Northwestern, UChicago, and Tufts as a transfer.</p>
<p>Is it easier to transfer to US colleges from another US college rather than a Japanese college? </p>
<p>Why did you get rejected for asking for financial aid…?</p>
<p>It’s definitely going to be easier to transfer from a U.S. college/university. International transfer processes are a pain and you need amazing credentials, especially to beat the swarms of internationals applying to top U.S. schools.</p>
<p>well let’s take vassar for example. i think the overall acceptance rate is like 10 +% but the acceptance rate for international students asking for aid was 8% for last year and also, my parents are rather well off so yea… </p>
<p>hm so you suggest i go to wake forest for a year?</p>
<p>^
what are the schools that offer generous F-aid(at least asking for FA does affect your chance) to international students?</p>
<p>No such school as far as I know. Maybe for local US students, asking for FA doesnt affect your chance much, but for international students, that’s a different story. Even for schools that are well known for being “international-friendly”, such as Wesleyan, their admission rate for international FA applicants are still significantly lower than that of the non-FA counterparts.</p>
<p>For international student applications with FA, they are placed into a separate pool. This is the case at JHU, Brown, Dartmouth and Duke. I was told this by the admissions officer as I changed my application to FA.</p>
<p>Also, Duke and JHU do not offer any sort of need-based aid to international tranfers (don’t think they have merit-based awards, either, but I’m not sure).</p>
<p>Didn’t know that. What a shame. I’d think they’re type of school would want to attract the best minds from overseas, but that seems like it’d turn a lot away. </p>
<p>“My plan is to apply to places like Yale, Cornell, Northwestern, UChicago, and Tufts as a transfer.”</p>
<p>And if you can’t transfer, what will you do? Stay at Wake Forest? Can you pay full expenses there for all four years? As an international student, even if you are trying to transfer from a US institution it will be very, very, very, very hard. Especially if the truth of the matter is that you need financial aid in order to attend the university in question.</p>
<p>Not to mention of course, that you have to show that you’ve got the money for Wake or you won’t get your student visa. Take another look at Waseda, and think about coming to the US for grad school.</p>
and also, my parents are rather well off so yea… </p>