<p>It isn't particularly motivating to find loads of US students lamenting over not winning prestigious scholarships such as the Cornelius, Jefferson, etc. despite 2350-plus SAT 1 superscores and tons of ECs and stuff - I just don't belong to that league ! Good heavens, when most Indians applying abroad know very well that securing financial aid is as important as securing an admission in an American uni, why is it that this place seems devoid of any mention of Indian scholarship winners or atleast some statistics for the past few years ? </p>
<p>It's utterly frustrating. Merely a 100 or so students are awarded the Cornelius every year (for your info, the Cornelius Award is by Vanderbilt ) ... who knows how many of those lucky few are Indians ? or internationals atleast, for that matter ?!? I mean, after browsing through the posts of Americans who were awarded in 2010, it's become apparent that for an Indian to get through, he/she ought to have done something unimaginably extraordinary. </p>
<p>Look, blue_box, you claim that Vandy doesn’t carry the same prestige as UPenn, MIT,Stanford, etc. among the typical Indian looking for a US education. Agreed. But for your information, it does have a much larger scholarship program than, say, the Jefferson scholarship at Virginia or the Trustee Scholarship by Boston. Do you know how many of these are given out each year? Jefferson - approx 28 ; Trustee - 50. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the odds are, relatively speaking, much higher at Vandy’s Cornelius (139 given out in 2010) or the Uni. of Southern California’s Presidential/Trustee (200 awards annually, or so they say). </p>
<p>@harisheena : True, the Tata Memorial is the lone contender for international scholarships wherein Indians have a real chance. If I may add, NRIs aren’t eligible. Why? 'coz the miserable terms and conditions state that "the candidate must have completed secondary schooling in India. " It’s as if all those hundreds of thousands of NRIs studying in CBSE curriculum in schools abroad are not true Indians. (i might as well confirm the obvious - I happen to fall under that category of NRIs)</p>
<p>Well so I ask once again : does anybody know where we can get hold of some sort of statistics for international students (alright, forget Indians ) who’ve conquered these hopelessly prejudiced scholarship programs ? </p>
<p>Mount Holyoke has a few full scholarships and a few partial ones. I know of somebody who got a full and later went onto do her post grad at Johns Hopkins. She is currently a doctor. But this information would only be of use to you if you are female.</p>
<p>By saying that Al Gore is from Vanderbilt doesn’t necessarily make it a good university. </p>
<p>Vandy is known for nothing at all.</p>
<p>Let me tell you why-</p>
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<li><p>Nashville, TN. Who in the world wants to study in Tennessee? What kind of job opportunities do you expect in nashville? </p></li>
<li><p>55k/yr. It’s super expensive.</p></li>
<li><p>Not much aid</p></li>
<li><p>Not well-known for any specific major or academic discipline</p></li>
<li><p>NOT well respected in america too. I’d know, my sister and her husband do recruiting across the united states and vandy is most certainly not as well respected as any other university in the top 50</p></li>
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<p>Being totally honest, I have no clue why vandy is in the top 20 on usnwr… I guess we should take rankings with a pinch of salt!</p>
<p>----> University of Maryland & University of Texas - Dallas provide full scholarships to Intl students who show some good/ great achievements in **chess<a href=“three%20from%20Kolkata%20in%20last%202%20yrs”>/b</a></p>
<p>----> SUNY Buffalo - some full scholarships for Intls</p>
<p>----> UK (University of Kentucky) - 25 full scholarships for Intls</p>
<p>----> Need blind inst, need aware inst, loans, etc. There are so many ways to get funding.</p>
<p>I just don’t understand what’s the point of asking this question. What do you want to convey?</p>
<p>Do you mean to say that US don’t want Internationals?</p>
<p>Was this directed to me? In any case, let’s not jump the gun here. All I said was that there aren’t many scholarships available for international students. This doesn’t mean that US doesn’t want international students. That’s just grossly preposterous. It’s actually a very understandable situation since any college what first want to cater to the needs of indigenous students. There are, however, scholarships available for students intending to pursue grad and phd programs.</p>
<p>Just so we are clear, the JN Tata Endowment Scholarship is different from the Tata Cornell Scholarship. I’m not aware of the Tata Memorial scholarship though.</p>