Looking for universities that give full tuition or 50% + scholarships to INTERNATIONALS?

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<p>As an international I do not qualify for Federal Aid and with no Social Security Number or ARN I cannot fill in the FAFSA form. I consider myself to be a very competitive applicant (33+ ACT, 3.90 UW GPA, lots of EC and community service, internships etc.) I'm looking for colleges that are good options for engineering students. I'm specially looking for upper-tier universities but ultimately any suggestions are welcome. </p>

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<p>Best Need-Based Aid for Internationals
<a href=“http://www.desperateguide.com/us/top-6-need-blind-colleges-in-us-for-international-students”>http://www.desperateguide.com/us/top-6-need-blind-colleges-in-us-for-international-students&lt;/a&gt; (super selective)
<a href=“http://www.desperateguide.com/us/top-25-financial-aid-colleges-in-us-for-international-students-need-aware”>http://www.desperateguide.com/us/top-25-financial-aid-colleges-in-us-for-international-students-need-aware&lt;/a&gt; (many of these are small colleges with no engineering programs)
<a href=“http://www.thecollegiateblog.org/2012/12/06/27-colleges-that-meet-100-of-demonstrated-need-for-international-students/”>Loading...; (names many of the same colleges as the two sources above)</p>

<p>Large Merit Scholarship Opportunities
<a href=“http://www.thecollegiateblog.org/2012/12/09/national-universities-that-offer-full-ride-scholarship/”>http://www.thecollegiateblog.org/2012/12/09/national-universities-that-offer-full-ride-scholarship/&lt;/a&gt; (ranked by selectivity; not all of these have strong engineering programs; some scholarships may not be open to internationals)
<a href=“Automatic Full Tuition / Full Ride Scholarships - Financial Aid and Scholarships - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-p1.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The University of Alabama often is recommended for students seeking large merit scholarships guaranteed for specific stats. They offer full tuition scholarships for out of state students.
<a href=“http://scholarships.ua.edu/types/out_of_state.html”>http://scholarships.ua.edu/types/out_of_state.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p><<<
I’m specially looking for upper-tier universities
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<p>Many upper tier dont give any merit because all of their students are top students. When a school’s upper quartile is an ACT 35+, it is hard to select a few to give some merit.</p>

<p>the few top schools that do might choose to select a few exceptional students who have very high scores 2300+ or ACT 35+ and/or who help them with their DOMESTIC diversity numbers or have some amazing hook. some will not award to intls, some might.</p>

<p>You can try a few top schools that give merit, but those will be a crapshoot.</p>

<p>Luckily for engineering, there are many very good programs out there. Some of them do give large merit for stats, even to intls.</p>

<p>Tk2 mentioned Alabama. … If those are your stats, then Alabama would give you free tuition plus 2500 per year.</p>

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<p>Only 6 are need blind and meet 100% of need for internationals - Dartmouth, MIT, Harvard, Amherst, Yale, Princeton. There are ~20 more that meet need but are need aware, so applying as a financial aid requesting international will lower your chances greatly at those schools. If you can get into one of the 6 you’re set but obviously they are all extremely difficult.</p>