<p>akashdip … Interested is the father of a Swathmore student and I believe with no formal ties to any school … I’m also not sure he is still active on the board since his daughter entered college … you may want to PM him directly if you have any questions.</p>
<p>^well i was not posting to him specifically. i came across this thread and felt how wrong his info was, specially for we indians. i wanted to tell this to all who may be reading this thread(i doubt anyone would though)</p>
<p>akashdip, who do you think should pay for a US education that costs US citizens $50000 per year?</p>
<p>^ sorry but i dont get your question.</p>
<p>and sorry if i have offended anyone. i really dont wanna get into a fight with the respectable mums and dads of college students(i dont want them to be waiting at the airport to kick me out of their country, if i even get admitted into any us school!!)</p>
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Going away to school is a luxury.</p>
<p>Going away to school in a foreign country is an even bigger luxury.</p>
<p>There are many many many students in the US who have to live at home while attending a local state school or community college, instead of going away to their dream school, because they can’t afford it.</p>
<p>Why should you get the money instead of them? What is so special about you?</p>
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<p>Or perhaps the needier internationals are all attracted to the few schools that give significant financial aid to internationals, and the schools in question have acquired that reputation?</p>
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<p>The first people in line when it comes to paying for your education is your parents. Are you saying that there is no affordable colleges in India? </p>
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<p>I think the point that menloparkmom is trying to make is who do **you feel **should responsible for paying the 50k/year needed for your education in the US? </p>
<p>I think the point that the parents are trying to raise to you is that there are 10s of thousands of needy/middle class students in the US, who are citizens that would love to attend a 50k/year school. At the end of the day, they will have to attend the schools that there parents can afford to send them.</p>
<p>@notrichenough whats special in me is something i hopefully can show to the adcoms. </p>
<p>anyway i was talking specifically for US schools. most of us can afford schools in our own country.</p>
<p>Don’t forget, not all international students are actually living internationally. In heavy tech areas (Seattle, Bay) many Indian, Chinese and other international families make plenty of money in US dollars to pay for tuition. Their kids are still not US citizens, so I’m assuming that they apply as international students, but they have US education and income and are here because their parents are on tech visas.</p>
<p>^ im definitely not one of those indians.</p>
<p>We also have many Chinese “anchor families” in our area. Family buys house or condo and mom and kids live here while dad makes money someplace else. Kids take advantage of all public AP, IB, dual enrollment programs which apparently pencils out expense and quality wise.</p>
<p>well, no use telling these to me. i live in my own country and am applying as an international.</p>
<p>“a lot of really brilliant students here are from poor families. and in case you have forgotten, the GDP in india is not equal to the GDP in usa. an upper-middle class family earns between $15000 to $30000 here. now do you get why we need financial aids? dont know much about other countries but in india this is the condition. how could you expect us to pay the full tuition fees with a family income like that?”</p>
<p>My point in bringing it up is that there are a lot of “really brilliant” international kids who live in the US, have been going to US highschools, and have parents with US incomes. My D has many such kids in her friend group at her local HS. They might be expected to pay more, and they might be more attractive candidates to schools that are need aware because they may have higher stats and higher incomes than non-resident international candidates.</p>
<p>There may be lots of special things about some poor internationals that would cause schools in the US to want to admit them and give them aid. Of course, they are no more “entitled” to aid from a private institution than any American student is.</p>