Hi guys, I try to remain calm and not to panic but it just gets worse. I’ve received emails from Lehigh, Elmira, Oberlin. The first two colleges reject me for financial reasons, the last places me on their Wait-List. I’m still waiting for many other colleges, but with this you-dont-have-enough-money tendency, I fear that every school will reject me 
I’m an international student by the way.
<p>What other colleges are you waiting for?</p>
<p>Among them are Carleton, Williams, Colgate, Macalester :(</p>
<p>i'll be getting my slew of rejections thursday night too =/</p>
<p>Do the schools actually tell you the rejection is because of money?</p>
<p>Yeah, Lehigh even told me if I can cover their cost for 4 years, which is about $160,000, then they will try to get me in !!!</p>
<p>What are your stats? I'm trying to guage my chances at Lehigh next year.</p>
<p>SAT
Verbal: 610
Math: 800</p>
<p>GPA: 8.0/10.0 (Vietnamese scale)</p>
<p>Good luck with the rest of the schools. Sorry to hear about your disappointments. :(</p>
<p>Sorry to hear about that, hoan... The fact that I don't have enough money to cover costs is precisely why I applied only to top schools that have a need-blind admission policy. I'm not sure I'll get in, but we'll see... I got waitlisted at Middlebury, but at least they didn't say it was the money (although I suspect that's exactly what the problem was).</p>
<p>awww :( hopefully you will get in somewhere, good luck :)</p>
<p>Thanks guys, just got another rejection from Clark :( Luckily I got accepted to IWU. Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>There are many schools<br>
that will five you a full ride
with your SAT scores.</p>
<p>I assume you applied to
some of them.</p>
<p>Hold on there proud, u mean a score of 1410 might get me a full ride ??? I've never heard of that, what about those with 1500 and up ??? I applied to Carleton, Williams, Colgate, and Macalester.</p>
<p>hoanginc, do you have to o this year? It seems like you didn't apply to the right schools. A 1410 is borderline for an American at most of your schools, much less an international who needs aid. But there are many schools you would be attractive to.</p>
<p>Macalester seems to court internationals so that might work but my d, american, was waitlisted at Mac with 1400 and a much higher GPA. Rejected at Carleton. I agree that 1410 doesn't look very strong to the schools you listed.</p>
<p>Is it true that schools may reject kids with need for fin. aid over kids who don't need any? </p>
<p>I know many schools have need-blind admission policies, but what schools don't? All of the Ivies do, but how about schools right under there, like Gtown, WashU, Vassar?</p>
<p>It would make sense for them to have need-blind admissions and I actually posted a thread about this earlier, and was pretty convinced that they all do - till I saw this.</p>
<p>Can someone clairfy?</p>
<p>i think the policy is different for internationals.</p>
<p>There are only about 50 need blind schools in the Country. Those that are not very much consider need. All schools can not afford to be needs blind, just thoe with high endowments which tend to be the better colleges, but there are many exceptions and not all top colleges ignore need. Just look on their FA pages for the schools you're curious about.</p>
<p>I know Harvard and Yale are need-blind, but Dartmouth is not.</p>