<p>So, when I had sent the Columbia app, I noted that I'd be applying for Financial Aid. when i told my parents this, they simply told me that I wouldn't even get $1000. So, I know people still apply for fin aid, but I sorta got lazy and didn't (well, at least for columbia). on the tracking application thing, it says applied for fin aid. should i bother telling them I didn't apply for it. will it hurt my chances?</p>
<p>ED applicant.</p>
<p>thanks for the help!</p>
<p>are you applying as a citizen of the us (canada or mexico) where it is need blind?</p>
<p>if yes, then no it wont hurt your chances that you are or are not applying for financial aid. i would apply if you are an american mostly because you never know what will happen in your family’s circumstances - dad loses a job, someone gets sick - and having a file open with financial aid is the best way to appeal for more funding.</p>
<p>Doubt it would hurt your chances either way. I did the same thing, though – originally said I’d be applying for financial aid, and later changed my mind. I called them and they quickly updated my file. Figured it wouldn’t hurt to be explicit.</p>
<p>thanks photographer. i’ll call them up tomorrow.</p>
<p>Apply for financial aid will hurt the admission chance more or less unless you are super super good so that the college will feel a pity if you are not accepted due to the lack of financial resource. If you could read the book " The price of admission" by Daniel Golden, and the book “Fiske guide to getting into the right college” by E. B. Fiske, you will fully understand what I am saying…</p>
<p>ww2015, can you elaborate on that? i’m slightly confused</p>
<p>that doesn’t make much sense. i don’t think thats the case, because these colleges have so much money.</p>
<p>I suspect ww is a ■■■■■. </p>
<p>Columbia is need-blind for domestic applicants and I think those in Canada and Mexico as well. Done. End of story.</p>
<p>WW has no idea what he’s talking about. Columbia is need-blind for domestic applicants; the admissions committee will not know whether you are applying for financial aid. of course, they can get an idea of your socioeconomic status by looking at your family’s background, but they’ll have that whether or not you apply for financial aid. </p>
<p>WW can peddle his ******** wherever he likes, but it does not apply to elite schools in the United States, which are uniformly need-blind for domestic applicants.</p>
<p>Hi! Can someone please help me, l need opinion on something closely related to fin.aid. l am really intersted in applying to MFA program at Columbia. l’m not a US citizen and l’ve been looking through this fin.aid stuff for some time. Since Columbia isn’t need blind for international students l get it that they have to think of someone as a pretty great candidate in order to be accepted.
So here’s my problem. Our grading system is different and although l know that they will transfer it in US when they get transcripts l can’t figure whether l have ok GPA or not. Lowest passing grade is 6 (5 is fail), 10 being the highest. My GPA is 8.9 ,which is really good GPA by our standards (everything from 9-10 is considered great!) .My professors love the works in my portfolio, l got 4 great recomandations from them and english realy insn’t a problem, so TOEFL score should also be fine.
Getting any fin.aid depands on whether l get accepted and getting accepted depands on few factors l mantioned above, so l would be really greatfull if someone could tell me how does it all look from someone else’s point of view. </p>
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<p>I can’t claim to be an expert, and I understand that an 8.9 might be considered good at your school…but remember a lot of the people applying in the US have 4.0 GPAs and the competition is even stiffer internationally. Also, I would continue to brush up on your English, so you are as impressive as possible on that. Your English is fairly good, but from reading your post your writing is a bit stilted, you are missing some connecting words, and “greatfull” is actually spelled “grateful”. Remember, your GPA is only one piece of your admission. If you have a stellar SAT, great ECs, and good recs like you said…don’t discount your ability to get in. However, your GPA alone wouldn’t get you in.</p>