<p>No chance for International Aid Applicant? </p>
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<p>I'm a domestic international student applying for financial aid. I was wondering if the following scenario was ever possible for an international student. Can a school admit an international student WITHOUT awarding the financial aid that s/he needs? Or, am I safe to assume that it will be an AUTOMATIC REJECT for the student if the school does not have enough institutional money? </p>
<p>I know that there are some need aware schools (e.g. Columbia) who are more selective towards International Aid applicants but still giving full award based on need. Will the same thing apply to THESE SCHOOLS in that they will also REJECT when they cannot fully meet the need?</p>
<p>Thank you,</p>
<p>unefille </p>
<p>p.s: I would like to know if there are schools that admit students without giving adequate aid. I heard that Cornell is one of them, but I wasn't sure if it was true.</p>
<p>Depends on the school. Stanford is not need-blind towards internationals but pledges to meet full-need of all admitted internationals who need aid. Other schools that do not pledge to meet full-need might actually “gap” you.</p>
<p>Yeah i have heard tht about cornell too. Most schools however just reject u if they cant meet ur aid. but there are many who tell you how much they can contribute… ithink union college does tht. but to find such places u will really have to give a detailed look to the FA policies</p>
<p>If you got admitted w/o the financial aid you need, how would you attend anyway? </p>
<p>If you can get a loan or have some other source of funding, you can clearly state that on your financial aid application so that you would net get rejected due to a lack of funding. The reason colleges reject international applicants who have not secured funding is because they need to verify that you have funding available for one year’s worth of attendance (tuition, room, board, personal expenses) before they may issue you the visa documents you need.</p>
<p>I guess it really depends on the college. I was wery worried about the whole crisis thing, but I got admitted to a need-aware college (Grinnell) with full aid (in the cert of finances I put that our family could contribute about 15K), so that’s not entirely hopeless.</p>
<p>^^
i c. But the thing is, I’m a DOMESTIC iNTERNATIONAL, meaning I will not need the schools to issue me a student visa. My family stated that they would provide up to 14k per year, so is there hope for me getting accepted?</p>
<p>I can think of three ways of interpreting “domestic international”:</p>
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<li><p>You are an immigrant and grew up overseas, but you have the paperwork that makes you a domestic student (as opposed to an international). In this case, ignore this thread.</p></li>
<li><p>You are here on a non-immigrant visa. An H-4 visa is the only non-student non-immigrant visa I am aware of that lets you go to college. All other types of visas allow you to go to high school but not college - you would need to change your status to F-1. Even if you are on a H-4 visa, switching to F-1 might be advantageous because F-1 students are allowed to work in the States while H-4 students are not.</p></li>
<li><p>You are an undocumented immigrant. Well, in that case most of this thread does not apply to you, but you might want to be very careful about what colleges you are applying to. Not all colleges are open to undocumented immigrants.</p></li>
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<p>Hello, b@r!um is right about your particular immigration status being important to figuring out your options (and even if you happen to be undocumented, there are still options, just not as many and not very good in most states). If you’re an LPR (“green card” holder), refugee/asylee or in certain other humanitarian statuses, you’re in good shape. And certain derivative immigration statuses like H4 allow full time study, though they don’t allow work authorization/OPT. I have heard that some state universities consider H4 students to be eligible for in-state tuition under their residency analysis, though as an F1 you’d have to pay full price. So it really depends on the specifics of your situation.</p>