<p>Please rate from most generous to most stingy.</p>
<p>(Ivies, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, and all of the other great colleges.)</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Need Blind:
Princeton, MIT, Harvard, Yale, Williams, Georgetown, Middlebury (almost).</p>
<p>Need Aware.
1. Stanford/Caltech/Dartmouth
2. Brown/Upenn/
3. Columbia
4. Cornell</p>
<p>I think these are correct. anyone else plz confirm</p>
<p>I believe with the exception of Brown, the Ivy League universities are need blind to Canadians and Mexicans. (I'm not sure if this would affect you)</p>
<p>Georgetown??? Since when...</p>
<p>Anyway, generous is one thing, how many they give is another. There are colleges which give very good financial aid packages to very few (international) students. For example, it's extremely hard to get finaid from Cornell and Upenn, but if you do, you are likely to find a very good financial aid package. </p>
<p>Cornell is actually need-blind for internationals (or so they claim), but they can accept you but deny you aid... which is more often than not the prevalent case. A rather dumb practice anyway.</p>
<p>Oh i'm sorry, Georgetown is need blind only in its selection process.. financial aid is limited...sorry</p>
<p>so all of the other, say top 25, are need aware for internationals?</p>
<p>yea...........</p>
<p>oic, so georgetown has the same policy as cornell...</p>
<p>"say top 25"
In your dreams fellow....i dont even think all top 25 offer aid in the first place....
what do you want to do anyway...i mean coz if u are talking abt LAC's then yeah you'll find that many...but if u are talking abt Engineering and stuff...then you are going to be in for a surprise..</p>
<p>no engineering! perhaps prelaw? or economics</p>
<p>thts very good then! you have a lot of options middlebury, carleton, amherst, williams, lafayette, bucknell, brandeis, wake forest, university of chicago, swarthmore .. all these unis provide aid.</p>
<p>how about biochemistry?</p>
<p>that comes under life sciences/natural sciences right ? i think all the above mentioned schools have that option.. the biggest advice is: apply to safeties.. even if you think "Naah this school sucks too much" .. trust me you will end up liking it if you (God forbid) get rejected from everywhere ..</p>
<p>golden words from waleedk
apply to safeties or prepare to cry (a lot)</p>
<p>for Engg prospectives, apply to WPI, Lehigh University as safeties.</p>
<p>Lehigh University is full of it! It doesn't accept internationals unless they are self-financed; in other words, if you are an international asking for aid, Lehigh will reject you and tell you that if your financial situation changes then the admissions office will re-evaluate your file (at least that is what happened to everyone I know who applied there, including an ED-er).</p>
<p>yup....the following well known colleges do NOT welcome internationals who seek financial-aid. Applying to them is only a waste of time, as many of my friends found out!</p>
<ol>
<li>Franklin & Marshall</li>
<li>Vassar</li>
<li>Lehigh</li>
<li>Grinnell (only gives partial aid to many)</li>
<li>JHU</li>
<li>Cornell Univ.</li>
<li>Embry Riddle</li>
<li>Rose-Hulman</li>
<li>Swarthmore (they were particularly stingy this year!)</li>
</ol>
<p>I am adding some colleges of my own...feel free to give comments on my additions...</p>
<ol>
<li>Franklin & Marshall</li>
<li>Vassar</li>
<li>Lehigh</li>
<li>Grinnell (only gives partial aid to many)</li>
<li>JHU</li>
<li>Cornell Univ.</li>
<li>Embry Riddle</li>
<li>Rose-Hulman</li>
<li>Swarthmore (they were particularly stingy this year!)</li>
<li>Gettysburg College</li>
<li>Washington University in St. Louis</li>
<li>Oberlin College</li>
<li>Centre College (supposedly the best college in Kentucky)</li>
</ol>
<p>I think many people forget to apply to even safer universities with rankings somewhere around 50-60 in USNEWS, which actually offer significant aid to intels.</p>
<p>WPI's ranking is around 60 in the US News Ranking. One of my friend from India is going there this fall with lots of scholarships(offered by WPI).
I know one another Indian student who has got in Lehigh University with scholarships. :)</p>