If a college is need-aware, how much does the fact that you apply for aid affect your chances of admission?
It might as well be the most important factors for intls.
Agreed.
Could you elaborate?
Most colleges formally or informally limit the percentage of intl students. The rate of acceptance for intls is roughly half the overall rate. For need-aware colleges, the pool of FA for intls is limited. Therefore, with 2 applicants with equal credentials, the colleges will usually select the student who requires less aid.
Do I have a chance of getting accepted in a college that fulfills all of my financial nee d if I have a 3.9 unweighted gpa and an act of 35
You have the same <5% chance as any other qualified applicant.
Are there any statistics released about acceptance rates of specific colleges of international students wanting financial aid?
@SwaggaSnoopDoge While colleges don’t usually post international student acceptance rate, it is MUCH LOWER than posted admission rates. For example, Washington and Lee University, one of the top liberal arts college, accepted around 18% of applicants, but it actually accepted only 7% of international students. How do I know this? I called them last year I applied to the school.
So a college with an acceptance rate of 35% will have an acceptance rate of like 9% for international students and 7% for international students applying for financial aid? Are there any threads on cc with more info about this?
Note that if college promises to meet ‘full need’ there is an even bigger weight on the ‘need aware’- they only have so much money to give to international students, full need is usually a LOT of money, so you will be competing not with the regular pool of qualified applicants, but with the top international applicants.
Occidental college meets 100% need.it’s acceptance rate is more than 40 percent. Apparently 15 International students there received aid. So what is the chance an international student wanting aid gets in?
Why don’t you ask colleges on your own?
They don’t provide that info
Really? Did you email them?
If I could get that info, then I wouldn’t be asking these questions. What college that meets 100% of need is the easiest for an international student with financial need to get into?
Answer: Nowhere. Plenty of posts above has already talked about how hard it is to gain admission with aid as an international.
However you can aim for merit scholarship, but that requires SAT score and GPA. What would be your American GPA be if you converted yout grade?
I am in an American high school and have a gpa of 3.9 unweighted and an act score of 35
100% need is asking a great deal. Aside the Ivies (enormous competition) you could try University of Alabama and colleges mentioned here:
Yes, it will involve a lot of emailing to different schools, a lot of research and possibly a lot of applications. But that’s just the reality of looking for what could be a quarter of a million dollars in scholarships.
“I am in an American high school and have a gpa of 3.9 unweighted and an act score of 35”
Do you need a full-ride or something approaching that in order to attend college in the US? Then unless your own high school guidance counselor has some secret up his or her sleeve, the only places where you might be flat-out guaranteed admission as well as significant merit-based aid are the ones on this list: http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com/ Check each scholarship separately to determine whether it is open to international applicants.