<p>On the "International Student Financial Aid Application"...
Why do I have to list the names of the colleges that I am applying to??
does this matter at all? Will it affect my financial aid package?</p>
<p>do you guys have any idea?
thanks</p>
<p>I'm not an expert on the Int'l form, but let me relay an experience of one of my clients:</p>
<p>She applied to 5 colleges. It turned out that two of them had a rather competitive history with one another. When school 1 saw that she had applied to school 2, they contacted her and told her to send over the FA offer when it arrived. We faxed them shool 2's offer about a week later.</p>
<p>School 1's response was, we can beat that by $500, and sent her their offer. We then sent school 1's offer to school 2. School 2's response was, we can beat that by $500.</p>
<p>We did this about 3 more times and ultimately improved her FA awards by about $2,500 per year.</p>
<p>This will not happen in all cases, but my advice is make sure all the schools know who you are applying to. It can often work in your favor.</p>
<p>Unless of course you applied to a bunch of stingy schools. Then you may be SOL.</p>
<p>Do you think it will look arrogant if I put HYPSM and so on?
I'm not a prestige-seeker or anything like that and I dont want to give them the wrong impression.
I am applying to top colleges because they happen to be the only ones that give out financial aid..</p>
<p>If you have applied there list it.</p>
<p>Why do you think that the top schools are the only ones that give out aid?</p>
<p>oh i forgot the keyword...International Students</p>