<p>I am going to join an economics school here in India this academic year. I came to know about the SATs pretty late so I've missed my chance for this year
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I wanted to know whether selective schools like UCLA, UCB, Univ Of Chicago or even more selective schools like Harvard or Princeton will accept International transfer students as sophomores or even 2nd semester freshmen. Will they accept the credits of my ongoing academic year? I went through the admission prospectus of a few universities, but it's still unclear. And do they offer any financial help?</p>
<p>Also, I would like to know which are the best colleges for economics in the States. ( that are easier to get into)
Like most, I will be needing financial aid.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Transfer*
Sorry about the typing error.</p>
<p>UCB, Univ of chicago, and UCLA, do offer financial assistance, either based on merit or based on need. If your planning to transfer to these unis, then the availability of certain scholarships is questionable. for further queries in financial assistance, you might want to look at this thread <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/india/1502560-list-schools-give-aid-international-students.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/india/1502560-list-schools-give-aid-international-students.html</a>.</p>
<p>Univ of Chicago is supposed to be one of the finest universities for Economics, but its very selective. You may want to look at some public universities, like universty of Wisconsin Madison, university of Michigan Ann Arbour, university of Minnesota twin cities. These unis have really good economics programs.</p>
<p>Im not really sure about transfer credits, though i do know that all the unis you have mentioned accept international transfer students. Hope i have been helpful :)</p>
<p>Well I just went through the prospectus for UCLA…
This is what it says :</p>
<p>"UCLA does not award scholarships or financial aid to undergraduate students who are not citizens or permanent residents of the United States. International students must prove that they have sufficient funds available to them to pay for their educational and living expenses. "</p>
<p>Ugh.
This is baaaaad. Im counting on UoC.
Thanks a lot for your help… Do you know any other colleges for eco?</p>
<p>UCLA must be an exception to this…granted, that most of the financial assistance decisions favour US citizens…but there are many unis that provide financial aid…you will have to fill out an ISFAA in order to qualify.</p>
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<p>Thank you so much! :)</p>
<p>No problem…good luck :)</p>
<p>Near to no state universities offer financial aid to International students. Be it UCB, UIUC, Umich, Purdue, UTAustin, UCLA. These univs don’t have financial help for us.</p>
<p>Well I guess there isn’t any FA for international transfer students at UChicago. So you can very well move it off your list.</p>
<p>codeguy is right. As far as I know, there isn’t any public university that offer FA to international students. U of Minn only has two scholarships: one that can cover the entire gap between in-state and OOS tuition (~$5000) while the other one covers 50% of that gap.</p>
<p>I don’t remember Michigan offering any help too. Neither is GaTech nor is Purdue. We can pull the UC’s off without any second thought.</p>
<p>I forgot to mention this: Princeton doesn’t accept transfer applications!</p>
<p>Well one of my friends is in UChicago… But she got almost 50% off on tuition. :
Yea well, neither does Harvard. They haven’t accepted any transfer student in the past 7-8 years.</p>
<p>Go to the “Costs & Aid” section on UChicago Admissions website. You will know that UChicago doesn’t offer any need or merit aid for international transfer students. I don’t know how you friend got 50% of her tuition waived. Maybe she is a US permanent resident?</p>