<p>Anyone knows any good liberal arts college with a warm and socially friendly environment that is near the country side and which offers full scholarship and financial aid?</p>
<p>There are many great LACs that offer to meet financial need, and others that offer "merit" aid above financial need. Do you know what your estimated family contribution ("EFC") is? Can you handle it?</p>
<p>We need more info about SATs, grades, class rank, and personality/interests, as well as region preferred, if any.</p>
<p>hEY,Thanks for your information. I am an international student and i think i will only be able to study in U.S.A if i get a full scholarship or financial aid. Do you have the names of the kinds of LACs that offer full aid or scholarship to foreign students?
Thanks</p>
<p>gotta know your stats....</p>
<p>I don't know how you fit in the range, but Grinnell is known for fairly good fin aid for internationals.</p>
<p>I don't know if Pomona does this for internationals, but I know they guaruntee to meet the need of incoming students. </p>
<p>Full scholarships and finaid are two very different things. Find out your EFC. If it is low enough, then you can consider schools that offer only finaid. If not, then your main focus will have to be schools that offer scholarships. How much money do you need?</p>
<p>Have you tried the international threads? Grinnell is the only one I know of off hand. Look also at schools with big endowments.</p>
<p>My son is an international student with SAT I (new) scores 550V 720 M 660 W . He is interested in a Psychology major.
Can anyone reccomend some good LACs ?</p>
<p>Also what are the chances of financial aid there ?</p>
<p>thanx</p>
<p>To answer the original post, I would highly recommend the Claremont Colleges to you. If you are not familiar with them, go to the website for the Claremont Consortium and it will take you to each of the 5 schools. They are quite different and one (Scripps) is an all women's college.</p>
<p>The schools are located about 45 minutes outside of Los Angeles and you are about that driving time, in a given direction, from the mountains, beaches, museums, Disneyland, etc. etc. The location can't be beat. The student bodies at the 5 schools are amazingingly warm and friendly. There is also tremendous diversity and you have students from most everywhere.
You can take classes at all 5 schools, regardless of the school at which you are enrolled. You can eat at any of the 5 school dining halls, attend parties, events, sports, etc. </p>
<p>All five are excellent schools academically and quite well endowed. I believe all have need based scholarships and give very generous financial aid packages, including grants and loans. Some may also have merit scholarships. None have athletic scholarships.</p>
<p>Best of luck in your search.</p>
<p>The Claremont colleges, including Pomona, are excellent schools but offer VERY limited financial aid for international students.</p>
<p>Colgate, Macalester, Middlebury and Grinnell all offer either financial aid and/or scholarships for international students. Competition for merit scholarships at these schools is very intense however, so I suggest considering some lesser-known schools with excellent academics:
Earlham College in Indiana offers several full scholarships to international students. Excellent academics (good psychology program), small city of 45,000 but campus is on the edge and very "country", excellent support for international students. Beloit College in Wisconsin is another school with strong financial aid/scholarships for international students. The College of Wooster in Ohio is another excellent choice for internationals.</p>
<p>FYI, The Claremont Colleges are within the Los Angeles metropolitan area, and are not any where NEAR what would be termed "the countryside". You would have to go another 30 or so miles north to be away from the LA urban area.</p>
<p>If you're not as concerned about rankings (like many people browsing these pages are) a good place to check out is Austin College, ranked 70ish by the way, located in Sherman Tx (a little north of Dallas). </p>
<p>The campus is small and offers the intimate countryside environment that you might be looking for. It has ~1300 students and excellent pre-med program (90% of students applying get accepted) as well as good 3-2 engineering affiliations with schools such as WashU and Columbia. I am pretty sure the financial assistance is great and there are opportunities for full presidential scholarships. The campus is small and is in a smaller city compared to other LAC's, but offers students a lake-campus on lake Texoma to relax at, roughly 25 mins north of the campus. Psychology is well represented there in the student body.
<a href="http://www.austincollege.edu%5B/url%5D">www.austincollege.edu</a></p>
<p>Might try Bucknell, Holy Cross, and Bowdoin.</p>