<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am an international who does not need financial aid. So my question is which universities/LACs love internationals that can pay full tuition. I am primarily looking at top 30ish universities/LACs. Please let me know where internationals who can pay full will be looked at very favorably. I posted this before but got no response. Thanks</p>
<p>Almost any public university.</p>
<p>Any top privates? I would appreciate some specific names.</p>
<p>Why not just look them up? We’re not experts round here, and we don’t have many details of a lot of specific universities.</p>
<p>Your best bet is to research colleges you like, and check their financial aid policies. If they only tend to admit international students who have the funds to pay for their education it will say so on their websites.</p>
<p>That aside, you’re in a very good situation! Good luck :)</p>
<p>GWU. Seriously. They gave me a full merit ride and my stats are much lower than the full ride offers they give to Americans.</p>
<p>All universities that are not need-blind towards internationals prefer paying applicants. I don’t remember the list of need-blind universities off the top of my head, but I am sure someone else can help you out. However, it is also worth pointing out that no top-30 university is desperate enough to accept you just because you can pay the bill. You have to be a qualified applicant to begin with. </p>
<p>Just to give you a few specific numbers: Emory does not offer financial aid to international applicants, but they still only accept 300 out of 1000+ international applicants. The University of Virginia recently accepted 500 out of 1600 international applicants. NYU 1000 out of 4000. Harvey Mudd 44 out of 300. Scripps 36 out of 100. </p>
<p>Not requiring financial assistance does not make you a sure bet for admission at any of the colleges in your target range.</p>
<p>@alam1</p>
<p>Why don’t you tell us ur GPA,test scores,intended major.Then we can make some real suggestions.</p>
<p>California is broke, please apply early and often to UCs-we need the money and OOS tuition.</p>
<p>At least you won’t be sexiled!</p>
<p>^^^^OOps! Wrong thread…so sorry!^^^^</p>
<p>So the UCs? Barium where did you get those statistics… can you tell me?</p>
<p>Peterson’s college info for international students: [US</a> College Search for International Students](<a href=“http://www.petersons.com/acuus/code/psector.asp]US”>http://www.petersons.com/acuus/code/psector.asp)</p>
<p>Re UCs: In 2008, 48% of the international freshmen applicants were accepted to at least one of the UC campuses they applied. ( [University</a> of California Office of the President](<a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/news/studstaff.html]University”>http://www.ucop.edu/news/studstaff.html) ) But that’s your chance for all campuses combined. If you are aiming for Berkeley, you are looking at a 11% acceptance rate (254 out of 2,372 in 2007), and 16% for UCLA (299 out of 1,877).</p>
<p>Cornell, Emory, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Rice, UVA, UC Berkeley, UW Madison, UT Austin, U Michigan are top notch colleges which have no/very little aid for internationals</p>
<p>I see… btw i have like 3.7 GPA 1430/2090 SAT … full IB diploma</p>
<p>All the colleges that say we don’t give aids to internationals basically.</p>
<p>i see… any other opinions…how big of an advantage are we talking here?</p>
<p>Not requiring financial aid does not really give you an advantage at any of the top universities. They receive so many applications from affluent students that they can still afford to be picky. Asking for financial aid puts applicants at a huge disadvantage, but as I already said, no top university is desperate enough to accept someone just because he can pay the bill. Liberal arts colleges are more likely to care because they receive less applications from international students. I guess that’s because highly qualified international students prefer to attend a school with name recognition in their home country. (I suspect that so many LACs offer financial aid to international students because they would not get enough applicants otherwise.) </p>
<p>That being said, your test scores are in range for some excellent schools. If the rest of your application is equally impressive, you don’t need to worry about buying your way into some school.</p>
<p>thanks for your answer! I would appreciate any other opinions…</p>
<p>UK universities generally fit that description.</p>
<p>A parent here…what was your IB score? which country are you applying from? My friends son had a score of 42 and was not accepted at top US schools, he is going to UK.</p>