UIUC(university of illinois urbana champaign) financial aid

Paying for College
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<p>Hi!
I'm from India and i wanted to clarify if UIUC offers financial aid to international students.</p>

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<p>No it does not. Rarely does a public univ give need-based aid to int’ls. </p>

<p>from the website…
*There is no need-based financial aid available to international undergraduates, and F-1 visas allow very limited opportunities with the University for students to work. Thus, all foreign undergraduate students must have sufficient funds for their entire period of study.</p>

<p>*</p>

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<p>What about merit based scholarships?</p>

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<p>UIUC is not known for its merit scholarships even for domestic students, much less int’l students. </p>

<p>What is your situation? What are your test scores and GPA (include SAT breakdown)?</p>

<p>How much will your family pay?</p>

<p>What is your major?</p>

<p>Even if you were given a $5k per year dept scholarship, you’d still have about $35k-40k per year to pay.</p>

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<p>Standardized tests :
SAT - 1970 (CR-560,Math-760,W-650)
TOEFL - 109
AP Physics C mech -5</p>

<p>With a 1320 Math + CR, it’s doubtful that you’d get a decent amount of merit at any top 100 school. Usually you’d need a 1400+ to get decent merit at a top 100 school. Even at Alabama (super generous with merit), a 1320 M+CR only gets a student 3500 per year…not much at all. </p>

<p>You need to look at: LSU, Miss St, UAB, and similar. </p>

<p>On another thread you have a list of top schools that you’re applying to. I think you need a new list. Maybe apply to 1-2 of those top schools, but then apply to some 3rd/4th tier schools that might give you large merit.</p>

<p>Right now, your chances of admittance with needed aid at the top schools you’re considering is very, very low. You’re from India, a country that has a gazillion applicants with perfect/near perfect scores. You indicate that you need a lot of FA. You’re not likely going to get accepted to the few schools that give lots of FA to int’ls. That’s why you need a better list. </p>

<p>Applications take a lot of time and money. Why waste on a bunch of schools that are highly unlikely?</p>