<p>Does anyone have an idea of colleges that provide good aid for international students who wish to transfer within US institutes? I know it is hard to figure out when there are not many colleges that provide good aid to international transfer students, but my question is based on assumption that some people here in CC have might have knowledge about some international students transferring to very good school from an average school with very good decent aid.</p>
<p>P.S.: I like the college I am attending now, but a part of heart says search for better. :p</p>
<p>Don’t.
Unless your current college truly isn’t working out, don’t even fantasize about it.
It’s not a matter of " colleges don’t give good FA to international transfers" - that’s “don’t give very good FA to American transfers and none to internationals”… it actually makes sense since transfers get the crumbs left after freshmen have received their awards except at large State universities that accept lots of students from community colleges where FA may be given, only if they’re in state residents and even these don’t get access to freshmen merit scholarships and grants. Some top privates don’t even admit transfers.
May be a blanket statement, but there’s no financial aid for international transfers.</p>
<p>Wrong, it’s a lot harder to get aid, but there ARE schools that give aid for international transfers. Grinnell College is one of them. It is, however, a ridiculously competitive process, and I wouldn’t bother unless you really hate your school, which doesn’t seem to be the case.</p>
<p>Guitar, that’s exactly what I was trying to say.
(Penn also has 5 scholarships for international transfers so anyone with a basic understanding of ratios understands it’s quasi impossible to get them unless one comes from a top ranked school, has an ironclad reason for transferring, and basically ranks at the top of one’s class. In other words, musings like “a part of heart says search for better” = not gonna happen.)
I used a shortcut.</p>
