<p>I've heard horror stories where students with stellar college records are denied transfer admission into Brown because they asked for financial aid and have a low EFC, and I've seen less impressive students that didn't apply for financial aid get right in.
Now, I'm wondering exactly how much will applying for financial aid hurt my Brown application? I understand that someone with an EFC of 0 might be at a disadvantage, but say someone with a medium EFC (let's call it 15,000-18,000) were to apply for financial aid in their transfer application. Would it hurt them terribly, considering that Brown's COA is around $40,000?</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/936056-brown-transfer-applicant-survey-fa-need-aware-admissions.html?highlight=aware[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/936056-brown-transfer-applicant-survey-fa-need-aware-admissions.html?highlight=aware</a></p>
<p>So this is just like international freshmen applicants? Like how even if they are 4.0 2400 students, they can apply to Columbia with financial aid and most likely get rejected right away?</p>
<p>Last year most of the transfers that didn’t need aid were actually accepted… i didnt apply for any aid and was accepted to cornell yet straight out rejected by brown… honestly, its all a numbers game… they get thousands of applications every year, there looking for numbers… most important.</p>
<p>Seems like applying for FA is pretty detrimental to your application.</p>