<p>Which colleges are need blind for internationals? Plese help me find a good one for me, althoug I'm really whising to go to JHU, but...</p>
<p>Universities: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT
LACs: Williams, Middlebury</p>
<p>what about universities that are less competitive??</p>
<p>That's pretty much deceitful. If any of these (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT) have 2 internationals applying, say person A and person B, and person A is a slightly stronger applicant than person B, but person B can pay his expenses, while person A needs $ 40,000 a year, I can tell you that they are going to admit B. So there is not exactly such a thing like "need blind" admission. You'd probably do wise to apply to both "need blind" admission schools, and "non-need blind" such, since if most people needing money apply to "need blind" schools, it would be easier for you to be admitted to "non-need blind" schools.</p>
<p>don't need-blind schools process the financial aid application separately from the rest of the application?? if this is the case, all applicants should be on the same footing in terms of aid.</p>
<p>so with harvard and mit especially, intls don't need to worry about aid..</p>
<p>This is what they say they do. But is it really?</p>
<p>Yeah that's what they say and I don't fully trust their words.. i dunno why.. Like, imagine if there were like 100 qualified intels wanting 45 grand for the next 4 years and there's about 10 slightly-qualified intels that need only less than half of that... I'm just saying that there will be 10 lucky slightly-qualified people and 10 unlucky over-qualified-people.</p>
<p>But what they say is that they first go through with the whole admitting, rejecting process. Then, the papers go through the fin aid office. Admitted people get all the aid they want.</p>
<p>And dashella, those are the only schools that are need blind. And I heard somewhere that Middlebury is NOT needblind..</p>
<p>i think middlebury is not needblind, but still quite generous in fin.aid to int'ls</p>
<p>do not trust "need-blind" ^_^</p>
<p>so...which other universities are "need-blind" for internationals?</p>
<p>may be ..the fact is that the applicants admitted are so highly qualified taht they dont feel when they shell out 40k per year for them..they get funds frm alumni..</p>
<p>do you guys know any generous to international students CA colleges (except for Pomona)</p>
<p>well be sceptical all you like, its your own loss if you end up not applying and precluding yourself from receiving finaid.</p>
<p>Since you don't know anyway, then just apply. But this can throw a lot of people off-guard when the decisions come. My friend got into Williams but got rejected by quite a few lower-tier schools. He went on to get 4.0 GPA at Williams. He'd have EASILY got into all the schools that rejected him if he didn't need FA. Asking for money can turn a "safety" into "reach".</p>
<p>absolutely right...... ask for money and pray to god..... for u can get admitted anywhere</p>
<p>I just got a huge packet from Middlebury with its brochure and packet of application forms for International Students and it DOES say it's Need-blind. (One reason why I'm applying there. Another is that my IB History teacher is from Vermont and she's all "gaga" over it. And it sounds really nice and calm, a little tough, but caring at the same time.)</p>
<p>I think Bates, too, is need-blind. And pretty need-generous. </p>
<p><em>thinking</em> I don't know where else. I swear, they should make a website JUST for international that EXPLICITELY list which uni/colleges are need-blind. I know it's not a great reason or way to pick the universities/colleges you'll apply to, but...<em>sigh</em> being poor and having a family income of less than US$20,000/year is tough. And if you have siblings going through uni at the same time, too!!</p>
<p>no no bates is not needblind for intels.
All LACs are generous with fin aid to intels because it's a way of recruiting international diversity.
Izzy, if you have an income of less than 20g, you immediately qualify for all the fin aid you need - i think the full cost - (if you are admitted) for Princeton (or Yale?) - the one with only grants, no loans. I think it's Princeton. Aim for princeton!!</p>
<p>:)))
i cant think of any generous ones at the top of my head but I know that Stanford is damn stingy with fin aid.</p>
<p>Thanks! (I don't know how to do that quote thing. ARGH!) I guess I automatically assumed "OOOH MY GOD, SUCH MONEY!" = need-blind. <em>blush</em> Stupid me.</p>
<p>I WOULD aim for Princeton and Yale (need-blind and need-generous <em>stars in eyes</em>) except that it's beyond my league. As in...WAY beyond. As in...my IB scores for HL are 5's and I get a smattering of C's through my 5/6 years high school career and I actually failed one semester. If not an entire year.</p>
<p>So I'm hoping that some of top liberal art colleges would accept me with my defective brain and broken psyche. My stats are up in the Middlebury section. I am too tired to bring the link here (4:01 am here) but yeah...</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Never ever trust need-blind policy. Colleges are, in the first place, dishonest. You just get emotional relief from them and hardly anything beyond them. Just take need-blind schools and other top-notch need-aware colleges(as they claim to int'ls) as the same. If you are indeed excellence, your chance will not be much too different at elite colleges. The admission officers might not look at your financial need, but they can tell the difference simply by looking at the occupation of your parents or the addresses you live, those being provided on your basic info form.</p>