<p>*I agree, but colleges would take into account that we’re looking for a house and that might entail selling the lands we own. *</p>
<p>No, they won’t. Colleges deal with the “here and now”. They aren’t going to give your family a “pass” because they “might” buy a home in the future.</p>
<p>As of now, I intend to apply to the following colleges:</p>
<p>Yale
UPenn
Princeton
Dartmouth
NYUAD
Amherst
Williams
Pomona
Middlebury
Trinity
Vassar
Skidmore </p>
<p>Could someone please suggest other colleges that might give healthy aid packages to international students </p>
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<p>junaid123 -</p>
<p>b@r!um who posts regularly in the International Students Forum, has written about her strategies for finding the aid she needed. Go look her up. Send her a PM (click on where her username appears in blue and follow the instructions in the drop-down list). Ask for her advice. </p>
<p>And read through the threads on guaranteed merit-based aid. Here is the link to one that includes links to may of the others: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships.html</a> Some of the full rides have early cut-offs to you would need to apply NOW.</p>
<p>Junaid, I gave you a cite for you to do a search. It will be hard work because those colleges that will give a lot of money to anyone are often not well known ones. Look in the archives for the thread started by Momfromtexas.</p>
<p>OP,</p>
<p>Most of the schools on your list are not need blind to international students. This means that your ability to pay will be a factor in the admissions process.</p>
<p>in addition with your stats of
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<p>Most of them are going to be extreme reaches for you (with a cost of almost $75 per application, your money could be better spent revising your list). ITA with cpt’s suggestion of setting your sights lower and looking at schools where you stand a good chance of getting merit aid.</p>
<p>sybbie719,</p>
<p>I am going to be applying for application fee waivers as well. I know, all these schools are extreme reaches for anyone, but there’s not much I can do about it since I need a healthy financial aid package.</p>
<p>I’ll be re-appearing for the SAT in a couple of days. Hoping to bring up my CR score to around 700</p>
<p>As an international student, you are not eligible for college board, ACT or NACAC fee waivers.</p>
<p>Yes, I am aware of that. I’ll be sending letters from my student counselor so that I can hopefully get be application fee waived.</p>
<p>Junaid, all students, US ones, those with near perfect test scores and proflies that fit top school acceptees, those who have no financial need, should have some schools that are certain to accept them and are affordable. It’s fine to apply to top reach schools, heck, I’m buying a Powerball ticket tonight if I can get there in time, but it’s also wise to have some back up plans as well. For international students, given that there are a number of schools that will not fund them, as well as for any student who needs money from a school to attend, there really are not true safety schools when it comes to wanting someone or something else to give you room and board as well as free tuition money.</p>
<p>Good luck to you.</p>
<p>cptofthehouse,</p>
<p>One last thing, could you list some good schools that’ll generously (of course, relatively) offer aid to international students? All the schools that I’ve researched (which give good financial aid to internationals) have very modest admit rates</p>
<p>For example, The College of Wooster expects students to contribute at least $30,000/year. I see a very strong co-relation between admit rates and the amount of average aid offered to students.</p>
<p>Could you please list some schools that don’t fit this trend?</p>
<p>I can’t, Junaid. Things have changed so quickly in the last few years, that one can’t even say that a school that was giving good aid and no loans will do the same any more. Or that they even give any money to international sudents. You are not looking for a school that gives good financial aid to all students that are admitted. You already have that list, and the problem there is getting admitted. What you want is a school that gives very poor financial/merit aid but will give it to YOU. Probably more merit than financial aid. You are looking for schools that are widely unknown but are looking for some diversity, some higher than usual test scores, and willing to pay for this. That is why I am sending you to the archives to Momfromtexas 's thread on how she got full ride scholarships for her kids. Some may be small Catholic schools, small state colleges, schools that have an open admission, schools that are generally overlooked by kids with test scores as high as yours so that you stand out in the crowd. Why should a school pay for someone like you, when there are many just like you standing in line able to pay? You need to stand out. So you need to look for schools where the name recognition is simply not there. It takes a lot of work to come up with such a list and getting someone to do the search for you is asking someone to do a lot of work and spend a lot of time. IT’s up to you to do this.</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Could you please send me the links to momfromtexas’s archived threads?</p></li>
<li><p>Over the top of your head, could you please list 2-3 schools, so that I have a baseline from which to start my research</p></li>
</ul>
<p>try looking at colgate u</p>
<p>Jun…it’s almost December 1. It’s getting pretty late to START research about colleges…especially if you are looking for schools that provide a LOT of merit aid (the momfromtexas thread was about merit aid…and how she maximized that for her kids). MOST of the deadlines for applications for students who want to be considered for hefty merit aid awards is December 1. Some schools do award merit aid based on the strength of your application, but the most generous awards tend to come with those Dec 1 deadlines, and sometimes with an extra application which is also usually due…about now.</p>
<p>Have your started completing applications? Are your essays all written? What kind of “research” did you do when you were compiling your orignal list?</p>
<p>And lastly, do you have some less costly schools in your country where you could go for undergrad…with plans to pursue a graduate degree here at a later date? If not, this should be added to your list.</p>
<p>Of course, I have safety schools in my country.</p>
<p>Yes, I am aware of the Dec, 1st deadline.That’s why I was asking you to name a couple of colleges that automatically consider you for merit aid whenever you apply </p>
<p>Sent from my GT-S5360 using CC</p>
<p>Since your Math + CR is a 1350, only some of the lower ranked schools would give you large merit. Most schools don’t use the Writing section for merit. </p>
<p>There are schools that will give you “partial tuition” or maybe “full tuition”, but you’d have to pay the other $20k+ per year, which it sounds like you’re not able to pay. </p>
<p>for instance, Alabama would likely give you a 2/3 tuition scholarship, but that’s not enough for you. </p>
<p>UA-Birmingham might give you full tuition, but that’s not enough either.</p>
<p>junaid123 -</p>
<p>Are you communicating with us from a hand-held device or from a computer? I have no idea how to run searches with the mobile app. To run a search from a computer, look up to the top of the screen, and find the tab labeled “search”. In my computer the letters are white in a blue bar that runs across the screen. Your screen colors might be set differently.</p>
<p>Click on “search” and you will get a drop-down menu. There, click on “advanced search”, and then type momfromtexas into the space on the right for search by username. It will ask for a search by the exact name, so check the box for exact name. Then click on the “search now” button at the bottom. This will pull up the threads that she started. Read through both of them. Her strategies are excellent.</p>