<p>Sounds like you have a WONDERFUL option, and it’s not a 4th tier either.</p>
<p>what makes you think that you would have gotten enough aid for HYPSM??</p>
<p>Take the free ride and make the most of it! You are very lucky to have this option.</p>
<p>I didn’t think I’d even get into HYPSM as an international.
But I wish I had tried for some other top 10 liberal arts colleges, since I got into a few top 20 liberal arts colleges and was in the top 2% of one of these.</p>
<p>Anything else I can do? Anybody???</p>
<p>I’m calling ■■■■■ on this one. He’s not listening and has not posted on any other threads.</p>
<p>there is nothing you can do other than going to the school where you were accepted for free.</p>
<p>Your other option is to decline admission and reapply next year. You may get into more top schools which you likely will not be able to afford (just like you can’t afford the LACs you got into tis year), and you may or may not get another chance to have a free ride at a respectable, but not top tire school. Since state budgets are in pretty bad shape now, most likely you will not get this chance again, especially as an international student.</p>
<p>I know that.</p>
<p>well, then what was your post #24 about??</p>
<p>There are smart, hardworking U.S. citizens who’d be thrilled to have a full ride to even a 4th tier public. It’s sad that the opportunity was given to an international student who doesn’t appreciate it. </p>
<p>If you turn it down, realize that your options next year probably will be even worse. Most U.S. citizens can’t even get 100% of their demonstrated need met by any college including the public universities in their own states. My guess is that public universities are going to decrease even more next year they offer to international students since public universities’ first priority is to help their own state’s residents. Only two public universities can meet the full demonstrated need of all students that they accept: UNC and UVA.</p>
<p>When I taught at a second tier public, there were impoverished, hardworking students who were state residents who were having to work as many as 30 hours a week and even sell their blood and take out hefty loans to pay for college. Count your blessings. If you don’t like the college, please turn down that scholarship so someone appreciative can get it.</p>
<p>I am stunned by how often internationals on CC seem to think that only the top 20 or 30 US colleges (per some ranking or another) are worth attending! We have a staggeringly large number of great colleges here, and you can get a great education and be a big success coming out of any one of them. Not getting into HYPMS does not equal failure.</p>
<p>I am surprised at how many domestic students think “the rankings” and the artificail tiers have some profound meaning. imo they are a sales tool used by a magazine that sells their rankings.
They do have a small meaning as one of many factors.</p>
<p>I don’t picture 2 HR guys talking after a series of interviews and one says
How about that Mary? And the other saying, "no, U.S. News rated her school 65th, but Gwen’s school was rated #49. We must go with Gwen. But how about Tom? His school was rated Best in the South? And then there’s Bob, his school was #2 in the Region. Or
Beth- she’s a real hot tamale’ (just threw that one in)</p>
<p>Nope, just can’t picture that.</p>