I’m an international student who intend to study in the us at one of these universities (Caltech,Princeton university,stanford,MIT,yale university,Harvard university)
But since financial aid (full financial aid) doesn’t include flight tickets I will be only able to acford the flight tickets for my freshman year only so my questions is : is finding an on-campus job for international students at one of these universities hard ? Do they require experience ?
If you can get admitted to any of those places you will be able to get an on-campus job.
I wouldn’t bet the farm on that happening though.
Protip: CalTech, Princeton and Stanford will consider how much financial aid you need when deciding whether to accept you
Additionally, your visa will limit how many hours you can work. If your tickets are expensive, then working an on-campus job isn’t going to help a lot with travel expenses. Also, you have to get the job first, and that may not happen.
Financial aid is complicated. Here’s how it worked for super low-income international students at the college I attended:
Financial aid included the cost of three flights: a one-way ticket from the student’s home to the college, one round-trip ticket for a visit home during the student’s course of study, and a one-way ticket home after graduation.
Financial aid assumed that the student would be working a 10 hour/week part-time job to cover their personal expenses and textbooks while classes are in session. Many international students chose to work more hours to cover their living expenses during school breaks (particularly winter break) and “luxuries” not included in the standard financial aid cost of living (like a cell phone, a visit to the dentist, etc).
Financial aid also assumed that students could contribute $2,000 from work during summer break. There were on-campus jobs that made that possible, even after paying for summer room & board. If you are from a high-income country, you may be able to earn that if you fly home and live with your parents over the summer. However, international students from low-income countries found that they had to spend their summers in the US to make that contribution happen.