<p>Hi fellows!</p>
<p>Didi here anyone receive a full time tuition scholarship? Is this possible for an international student?</p>
<p>Thanks.
Gery</p>
<p>It is definitely possible and there are quite a number of schools out there that do distribute full-tuition scholarships. However, the schools that will give you merit-based full-tuition scholarship are not the schools you want to attend. Other than that you can go for need-based aid at better colleges (I will be receiving need-based assistance in excess of tuition at Bryn Mawr College next year). And if you are a good athlete you can contact the coaches at colleges you are interested in and try to be recruited and receive an athletic scholarship.</p>
<p>I did. Check out Olin College in Needham, MA.</p>
<p>Although their definition of "international student" means whether you eventually need an I-20, which is a little different than everyone else's. So I'm not international by their standards, but I am by every other college, which define it as whether or not I qualify for federal student aid, which I don't.</p>
<p>To answer the second question, yes. There are several international students who live and study in countries other than the US. Everyone receives full-tuition scholarships.</p>
<p>And probably Olin College doesn't charges tution, so you don't need any scholarship :)</p>
<p>Most of the top colleges guarantee to meet 100% of the demonstrated need - even for international students. Thus, it's definitely possible to receive a (need-based) full time tuition scholarship. There are international students on CC who received free rides to US colleges (taemi who will be attending Harvard next fall is one, I think).</p>
<p>However, please be aware of the fact that most top colleges only offer financial aid to literally a handful of students. HYPM and Middlebury (and a few others?) notwithstanding, the more financial aid you need the smaller your chances.</p>
<p>It's definitely possible. It happens to a few hundred every year. But it's very difficult.</p>
<p>If you're looking at colleges not as prestigious as HYP and the likes, University of Rochester offers a nice amount of merit aid to internationals. I didn't recieve 100% but some type of scholarship for international students (32k) and I didn't even apply for any type of aid.. I actually handed in my application one month after the scholarship consideration deadline.. They are very international-friendly :)</p>
<p>Thanks guys for the replies. I have just graduated at high school. I would like to attend the university next fall. Will this impact (I will be 20) my application and scholarship?</p>
<p>Thanks
Gery</p>
<p>Your age won't really matter - provided you can explain why it took you longer than usual to graduate from high school? I'm 21 this year (sigh) and I'll be entering as a freshman this fall... though I applied 1 years ago which was one year after my graduation from high school. And I'm also receiving full financial aid, excess of tuition, from Connecticut College. So age shouldn't be a problem. Most people enter late either because or military service requirement or that they took a gap year to do voluntary work or something. But in you case I realize you said you just graduated from high school, what is your reason? Or is the pre-college education system in your country just longer than usual?</p>
<p>I am pretty old for a freshman too (I will be going to college for Fall 2007) but that's because it took me a while to join school when I had to move to Japan (international school btw) and also because I decided to take an year off and apply for Fall 2007 instead of Fall 2006 for a few reasons:</p>
<p>1) I maybe old but an only child doted upon by parents so there's the independency factor --- kind of a stupid one as an additional year spend at parents' doesn't help decrease that or rather the opposite...</p>
<p>2) I was very busy in Fall 2005 (when you begin applying or Fall 2006) with probably the most courses out of all my classmates. It was especially hard as unlike most of them I had to travel for an hour to get to college everyday in the heat and that combined with my 12 units courseload over a single semester was going to wear me off if I put college apps in my routine as well. I can't say it was worth is though, I got extremely bored by half of those units being Math later on and ended up dropping the most difficult one. I was also not prepared to become a 'college student' and for some reason it was like the least of my concerns then.</p>
<p>3) I didn't want to leave my parents that early... I'll be having to go to MA this fall and I am more sad than excited and it has seriously become a 'it's a have to, I have no choice hence I am going' thing... as I don't want to study here (my country is good for MBA, medical school and particular fields of engineering but that's about it). They're becoming old and have no one to take care of them. Plus they're sick and will have to work their asses off to pay the remaining yearly $7000. Being on an F-1 visa, I can't even do summer off-campus jobs to pay a part of that (I have never worked before anyways).</p>
<p>So yeah lots of slacking and bad decisions and mostly bad luck... SAT screw ups by collegeboard, loss of internet access due to Taiwan quake just before Jan 1st (deadlines of most of my applications) so not suiting my last minute habits, most of my top schools not receiving particular materials/payments in time although I was heavily organized and thorough with sending my work in time and proper labelling, and some of the most sad and bitter memories developed with my greatest non-academic passion when some of my fellow members decided to drop the bomb on me just at the time when my apps were due. It was the worst winter and fall seasons I've experienced ever... ugh.</p>
<p>Anyways, long as you fall in the tradional age range, age doesn't matter. Traditional would be under 23 I think. Over that, I think there's some restrictions. But colleges do require you to state what you've been doing if you've been out of school. My friend has chronic health problems and she can't walk. She'll be attending RIT as a transfer student from this fall (before she attended Drexel but they made her life hell). She is 22 and she was going to apply as freshmen initially. She's incredibly smart (awesome GPA & APs although low SATS --- probably because of health isssues as she is very sick most of the time) and learned to read medical books at the age of two. So yeah these things happen, you're only 20 still that really isn't anything. Lots of people are freshmen at that age.</p>