Which schools have a good financial aid for Transfer International Students?
Harvard, Yale and Princeton…if you can get admitted. Most colleges give no need based aid to internationals and merit aid is rare for all transfers.
Basically, none have good financial aid except for Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, and Amherst. Except they MIGHT take ONE per year - someone’s who’s done something internationally famous, perhaps. Very few people leave these colleges and therefore very few spaces open up for transfers. International transfers are at the very bottom of transfers.
Everywhere else, there’s little to no merit aid and little to no financial aid.
So, if you need 10,000 to attend a private college, you may get a small scholarship. But nothing like full tuition.
If you’re an international student and you have a scholarship, stay where you are.
There are a decent number of schools that meet full demonstrated need for all admitted students, even international transfer students. Only a select few of these schools, however, are need blind for international applicants, so add that hurdle to just being admitted to a highly selective school as a transfer student where there are few available slots.
Princeton? I don’t think so. They haven’t accepted transfer students in years.
<<<
I applied to Harvard and MIT and I got rejected as a freshmen applicant. So can I try again and apply to Harvard and MIT as a Transfer applicant from another college?
<<<
OP’s stats are as follows: Weighted GPA: 3.7,SAT: 1350/1600.
You will be attending USF in the fall. What aid did you get there?
You can pay less than 3k
Take a gap year. Starting at an unaffordable school and then transferring will be a fail.
@thumper1: now they do. But their apparent goal seems to be increasing economic diversity by admittign gifted lower income students who commented to community college to save money.
@TuyTuyTuy : is USF affordable? If so, attend and stay there, aiming at getting into the Honors College. If it’s nor affordable, take a gap year and find a job or volunteer in your current town, and reapply as a freshman with no college credits.
@TuyTuyTuy you have threads currently about applying to colleges with rolling admissions…for when? This fall 2017?
On one thread, you mention Framingham State…how will you pay the pay of state cost of attendance THERE.
@mom2collegekids seems to think you are heading to USF.
Could you please clarify exactly what you are doing?? Have you accepted an admissions offer from one college…but are still applying for admission for fall 2017 elsewhere?
Ah…still…I would NOT count on getting accepted to Princeton as a transfer student.
This student sounds like he will be entering his fresh,an college year in fall 2017…this year…and is already planning to transfer.
@TuyTuyTuy please keep in mind…if you apply to transfer after your freshman year in college, your HS record will be used to determine your admissions. You won’t HAVE a college record of significance when you send in your applications to transfer.
So…if you didn’t get accepted to MIT and Harvard this year…what will be the change? One semester of college grades?
Is University of San Francisco affordable for you? Well…it would have to be because to get your student visa, you would have needed to demonstrate that you have the money to pay the bills (which can include college financial aid).
@thumper1 : that’s what I was trying to convey. 
Is It USF Florida or California?
On the other thread…if this student is applying to Framingham State in MA…read this:
USFlorida
He is planning on attending there this fall. I don’t know what kind of aid he was given.
<<im attending="" usf(south="" flo)="">>
http://global.usf.edu/is/pro-admission_cost.php
COA about $34,000 a year at South Florida. International students can receive school awarded scholarships…but this kid would need $30,000 in scholarships if his parent can only pay $3000 a year.
I hope he comes back and clarifies his situation a bit. Is he still applying to other college for this fall?
Yes, he needs to clarify how USF is being paid. Maybe he lives in that state as an int’l and gets instate rate and can commute??
I hope he realizes that attending USF with the plan to transfer is a horrible idea for someone who needs a lot of aid.
@TuyTuyTuy also posted…this…wondering is this student a grad or undergrad student?? Lots of clarification needed.
Transferring in grad school…and expecting aid…not likely…at all.
Never mind that grad school financial aid is totally different from undergrad.
@TuyTuyTuy could you please clarify??
- Are you applying to undergrad or grad school?
- Have you already chose USF...but are still applying?
- Are you a resident of Florida?
- Do you have an undergrad degree?