Is Columbia Stingy with FA for Internationals?

Student Lounge International Students
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<p>Well the title says it all. I just read in another forum here on this website that only a few international students in need of finanacial aid were accepted to Columbia... Can anyone confirm with details??</p>

<p>Here's where I read this unpleasant news... <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=90338%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=90338&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>infact what u've heard is applicable to all major colleges except the need blind ones....</p>

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<p>smartmind, u r applying to which colleges and tell me about ur Stats...</p>

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<p>see ronty as per my list of colleges i am still in th emaking.over which to include and which not. i hav been doin the reasearching for over 2 months now and the lists will be ready within 2 weeks.. </p>

<p>Some of my stats and a tentative list i once prepared is on the cc forum. However things are drastically diff than that.
My stats will be posted on the forum only in Oct end when i get the sat scores ( i have horrible sat results in june : total 2000/2400).... till then i will only say
1) I hav loads of EC, intra school, intra city , intra state , intra country ...
2) Got amts of national state and olympiad awards..(olympiad one is only state qualifier, nationals are gud).. EC</p>

<p>Am into scouting( core national level participation also), in journalism ( deeply) Comp sc. ( NAt. ) etc..</p>

<p>But details later.....
I believe till i get gud scores nothing helps......
Waiting........</p>

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<p>Great :)</p>

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<p>yep check their international students website, only 4-5 (they admit it themself ) .</p>

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<p>please read the site.
<a href="http://www.bibl.u-szeged.hu/reac-europe/intfinaid_awards.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.bibl.u-szeged.hu/reac-europe/intfinaid_awards.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>gud one . though i personally feel such stuff is less helpfull. More will be found by personal reasearch and contacting present students and adcomms.. and seeing the univpolicy for scholarships etc....</p>

<p>Such stuf is available at USEFI already</p>

<p>No offence..NIce one</p>

<p>Ankur</p>

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<p>LF61 the link states things that are downright crap.</p>

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<p>are you serious?!!!! 4-5 intl with aid?!! omg well they must be REALLY pov...</p>

<p>how are all other non need-blind unis? does that mean i shouldnt bother to apply?</p>