I dont know if this has been asked before…
I’m in my junior year as of now, and I’d be very grateful if anyone can guide me a bit to what are the opportunities available for scholarships etc.
Thank You so much.
Of the colleges you’ve pinned, Penn, MIT, Caltech and Princeton are all need-blind for admissions and meet full need (as they calculate it). I am not sure if or how living abroad complicates the need calculation.
Georgia Tech is a public so favors GA residents; financial aid and scholarship info is here https://finaid.gatech.edu/finaid-home-page
As @SJ2727 points out, as a US Citizen, you are eligible for federal & institutional need-based financial aid and will be considered for need-blind admission based on each school’s policies. Arizona universities provide automatic merit scholarships based on test scores and GPA, though I would confirm that this applies to Americans attending a HS outside the United States.
Thank you so much @PikachuRocks15 @SJ2727.
Also, would you have any suggestions for 3rd party scholarships, for example one of QuestBridge ones does accept citizens living abroad… but that is all I know.
Basically the same as for any other US citizen, except that you would not have any state residency for state universities’ lower in-state tuition and better in-state financial aid and scholarships.
Institutional need-based aid doesn’t necessarily depend on citizenship status.
@BelknapPoint Schools being need-blind or not can, which is what I was more referring to.
^ yes, being a USC matters for need-blind admissions in all but a handful of cases, and it often helps in terms of the aid available (though not necessarily so for the top tier of schools). Should also have mentioned that it means OP is not restricted in terms of part time work while studying, which is an advantage over the limitations of those on student visas.
Understood. One possible reading of what you posted was that a student must be a U.S. citizen to be eligible for institutional need-based aid, which is not correct. While this may not be what you meant to convey, I felt it was important to clarify.
If this student is a US citizen, his application will be reviewed in the same way as other US citizens. So if a school is need blind for US citizens, his application will have a need blind read even if he goes to high school on the moon.
OP will be need blind in the admissions process, meaning the family’s ability to pay will not be a factor in admissions. However, his application will be read by and he will be in the pool with all other students from India.
Op is not eligible for questbridge because op does not attend school in the US