<p>cornell is not need blind. need blind means that they don’t care about your ability to pay AND will guarantee to meet full need if you’re admitted. it means you only have to worry about getting in, and your financial need won’t affect you even as they guarantee to foot all your bills.</p>
<p>and also take note that “guarantee to meet full need” may sound good only. some schools meet your need by making you take out big student loans, while the rare ones just give you grants which you don’t have to pay back e.g. Princeton.</p>
<p>“need blind means that they don’t care about your ability to pay AND will guarantee to meet full need if you’re admitted.”</p>
<p>I don’t know about Cornell, but this is not true at other schools. It’s just as windowsmaclinux said above: Need-blind does NOT mean that your need will be met. NYU is like this, need-blind for admission but doesn’t meet full need for all who are admitted.</p>
<p>@ ycang : So what you’re suggesting is for me not to retake my ‘A’ Levels? Sorry but what do you mean by "Then, even if you don’t get your desired aid package, you’re still relatively better off having already done a year in a local uni, and knowing that you didn’t waste that year ". Are you saying that I should not take a gap year and apply to US unis during my 1st year in local uni instead? Wouldn’t I be considered as a transfer applicant then? Thanks. :)</p>
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<p>I see, so some NYU financial aid applicants would nevertheless be left hanging even if they applied for financial aid and were admitted?</p>
<p>^ Yep. It happens way too often. 
Just a handful of schools have enough endowment to be need-blind (especially for internationals) AND meet full need.</p>
<p>Damn, did that happen to you? That’s the most terrible thing to happen. It’s like telling you that you WERE good enough but you’re not rich enough. At least those that’re not need-blind give you outright rejections.</p>
<p>No, we were fortunately not caught in that situation, but it is a bit cruel.</p>
<p>@mamaroneck @melsonchun </p>
<p>berkeley said my previous admission offer is now pending.</p>
<p>anyway i didn’t do great for As. ohwel i suppose if i’m meant to go i will go. i barely passed economics which you know, is an e, but the rest aren’t gr8 either. my ecs are ok i think i can’t rmb what i wrote, but i wrote stuff that were sort of academia-leadership related (ie congressional youth leadership council’s global young leaders conference - merit certificate, united nations of singapore young diplomat award: gold etc etc) and was on my school’s touchrug team, was on the exco of the student national education committee, was a member of the northwest cdc’s 7th young leaders committee & president of my secondary school’s peer support board. the latter i used for my essay.</p>
<p>but it doesn’t rlly matter anymore lol my grades can’t make it.</p>
<p>if i go overseas it’d prolly be on father-mother scholarship ):</p>
<p>If you’re really adamant about going to the US for higher education but either can’t really fully afford it or aren’t good enough to get into the so called top 20 unis, then you should really try to widen your search cos there are other great colleges/unis too. </p>
<p>Loren Pope has a great and comprehensive list of 40 colleges titled 40 Colleges That Change Lives, which aren’t as expensive as the ivy leagues but have been known to provide just as good an education with high value-add.</p>
<p>But most of the colleges listed are LACs which Singaporeans are for some reason very wary of what with the different type of system and name recognition problem. Then again, you also have to take note that these very LACs, the good ones and those listed in Loren Pope’s book, are big feeder schools to the top graduate school in the states so you could still get an ivy league education in the end. </p>
<p>Yeah. Gd luck, guys. :)</p>
<p>@ Superscale: I’m not too sure if they HAVE to consider you a transfer applicant, if you attend a local uni for a year before going to the US. I was thinking you might be able to just enter as a freshman, if you don’t declare a desire to transfer any university credits. Not 100% certain what their policy is on that though.</p>
<p>some people mentioned that international transfer apps have alot of difficultly securing fin aid. not sure how true that is though</p>
<p>Oh well, so sorry to hear that! I really hope you get in though. If you’re going to Bristol , what will you be studying over there? Personally, I’m currently thinking of applying to the states for physics, but im not particularly sure if they’ll look favourably upon my B in h2 physics. Furthermore, all the time in ns have rendered me totally vulnerable to the knowledge required in the SAT I and II</p>
<p>^ i will be taking this course at bristol: <a href=“http://■■■■■■/cnZVea[/url]”>http://■■■■■■/cnZVea</a> social policy-politics joint degree if i do go. a b in h2 physics is fine. but actl you might wna consider UK? SATs are pretty impt though! but i’m sure you’d be ok h2 physics + chem i heard is way more advanced than SAT II.</p>
<p>^ Ha, thanks for your offer though - I already have accepted Warwick for law. Looking into the US for possible options too.</p>
<p>melson, what are you planning to major in? do you really know what you want to do?</p>
<p>So, I need to send transcripts of my A level results, high school results yada yada out to Berkeley because they’re only asking for it NOW, and while my admissions officer has insisted that it must be AN OFFICIAL COPY, it’s really fine if I send them photocopied (but certified by school admin) copies, right?</p>
<p>Really not keen on forking out like $20 for a new A Level cert.</p>
<p>I guess it is okay. That is what I did. I just sent in photocopies. I am going to a UC too. Not Berkeley though, Davis.</p>
<p>Davis didn’t receive my transcripts yet but once they do (which will be in a few days), if they do not acknowledge my transcripts, I will let you know.</p>
<p>anyone here got into UNC for FALL 2010?</p>
<p>Hey, is anybody going to Amherst College this year?</p>