<p>That’s good to hear. I don’t think international students should get financial aid.</p>
<p>Thanks for posting this in the internationals’ forum 
lol</p>
<p>Don’t forget that almost all Americans are immigrants.</p>
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WHAT ?!?</p>
<p>Do you mean what you said???</p>
<p>Yes. It depends on the situation I guess but I DEFINATELY believe that no state funded school should provide financial aid to international students. As far as private colleges giving grants, that is up to them as long as no public funds are used. I don’t believe government funded financial aid is available to international students (at least I hope it isn’t!). </p>
<p>I have nothing against international students but if you can’t afford an education go to school in your home country - don’t come looking for a hand-out here. Just my opinion.</p>
<p>:eek: :eek: :eek:… no public funds will be EVER used for international students… we all simply depend on college grants and not state grants…</p>
<p>Funding a couple international students can have a huge positive impact on the college. It can:</p>
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<li><p>raise the college’s general selectivity and US News rank: Advertising financial assistance for a few international students will attract a flood of international applicants and increase the school’s selectivity. If enough students receive financial aid, it will also raise the mean test scores. Both of these result in a higher perceived selectivity, which seems to make a college more desirable. </p></li>
<li><p>more publishable stories: since competition for financial aid is so fierce, the international students on financial aid will often be at the very top of their college class and might gain admission to prestigious graduate schools. This gives colleges something to advertise to prospective students. </p></li>
<li><p>diversity: whether you believe in diversity or not, international students might add another perspective to discussions inside or outside of the classroom. They might also be helpful as undergraduate TAs for language classes in their native language.</p></li>
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<p>Computing admission rates without international applicants is actually quite an interesting game to play. For example: Mount Holyoke - 52% overall, 64% US applicants only. In contrast: Sarah Lawrence - 44% overall, 46% US only.</p>
<p>Seems like some colleges sincerely need the international attention to keep their admission rates in the neighborhood of their competitors.</p>
<p>b@r!um, where do you get data to calculate international admission rates?</p>
<p>Petersons.</p>
<p>^ im international NOT applying for financial aid, are the acceptance rates lower for me too? i agree with mr tulane about the gov funded ones, but internationals are another perspective to a univ. so its beneficial to have them. therefore private grants should be available to int.</p>
<p>It depends where you are applying to. As a rule of thumb, if the university is prestigious or relatively cheap, your statistical chance of getting in are lower as an international student, regardless of whether or not you apply for financial aid. For example, the international admission rates at Berkeley and UCLA are only a fraction of the domestic rates and neither of them has financial aid for international students at all. </p>
<p>On the other hand, if you apply to expensive colleges without much of an international reputation, the odds are in your favor.</p>
<p>jjavdm, these are likely to be averages. So those applying for aid, the rates are likely to be lower and for those not applying, the rate will be slightly higher. For need-blind schools, whether or not you are applying for aid doesn’t count in the admissions process.</p>
<p>Today I got acceptance letter from Wooster 
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<p>I did not expect to get the decision now since I applied RD, so I hope this means they really liked my application. There’s a problem, though, with the financial aid - I’ve been only awarder a grant of $20,500 a year, which is a way less than I expected.</p>
<p>Congratulations! IIRC, Wooster doesn’t offer need based aid, only scholarships. Most scholarships cover only half tuition. Hope you get the fat letters from other schools offering need based aid to internationals.</p>
<p>Congrats Emils!
I got into Mount Holyoke but had to decline their offer due to the financial reasons, i.e. they didn’t need my fin need and they are need-based school. :S hope sth like that wont happen with my other schools</p>
<p>I just found out that I have got the second place in the national English Olympiad. I wonder if I should email the schools about this; it is probably too late anyway. What would you suggest?</p>
<p>Is that Wooster’s final Aid package? I got my acceptance a couple week ago and they gave me 19.5k and said my aid might increase and the final aid decision will come sometime at the end of march.</p>
<p>A friend of mine got the same letter and the same amount as you did, but from my acceptance I understood that the aid award was final.</p>
<p>Do you think the following universities would be willing to offer good amounts of financial aid to an internatioanl third world student planning to major in public health, health science or biomedical science with a 3.8 gpa 31 act community servicre and great essays and recs?</p>
<p>Tulane
Virginia tech
Texas a&m
Georgetown
U. Rochester
Suny albany
Ufl</p>
<p>If not. Which university would u recommend</p>
<p>I only got accepted to Wooster, four top liberal arts schools waitlisted and eventually rejected me…</p>
<p>But yesterday I got my IB Diploma results and I was surprised to learn that I got 42 points, a lot more than expected. Wouldn’t such score greatly improve my chances of getting into top liberal arts colleges if I were to apply again next year? It seems that I could be going to a lot better school than Wooster. I could also retake my SATs and now I would probably get 2200-2300.</p>
<p>Of course, I could still go to Wooster and try to transfer to a better school, but I’ve heard that transferring is almost impossible if you’re an international asking for financial aid.</p>
<p>I’m really confused now, any advice would be greatly appreciated.</p>