<p>It would help if you printed your initial email inquiry to Vanderbilt along with the response.</p>
<p>Dear Sir/Madam,</p>
<p>My name is <something>, I will be applying to Vanderbilt shortly. I
have
a question regarding financial aid for international students, and
was wondering if you could help me with it.</something></p>
<p>Question is, if insufficient funds would cause
admission refusal. For example, my family can pay about 15-20% of
the tuition. If I get offered another 10-20% and will fit
all the criteria besides financial, will I be still admitted? Or I
would be refused
immediately, without any time to find money to fund the education? The
reason I am asking is that there are various scholarships available to
students who apply abroad from <country name=“”>, but they are available only
after one is
admitted.</country></p>
<p>Thank you in advance, I appreciate your help.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p><something></something></p>
<hr>
<p>Dear <something>,</something></p>
<p>Thank you for your e-mail and for your concern regarding financial
assistance practices. Vanderbilt has limited need-based financial
assistance to offer international students. Since admission is “need
aware,” those students who demonstrate they can afford the cost of
attending Vanderbilt will be given preferential treatment in the
admissions process. So, yes, if we feel there is a risk of insufficient
funds we have no choice but to deny your application for admission.
There is a repeal process and if you do have sufficient funding at some
point after being offered admission you can appeal the decision on those
grounds.</p>
<p>I hope that answers your question.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<hr>
<p>Mr. <someone>, thank you for your prompt reply!</someone></p>
<p>However, based on the information you provided I have another
question. If I get rejected, will I know if it is overall rejection,
or specifically a rejection based on my financial status? I am asking
because if it is the latter - I could still apply for the scholarship.</p>
<p>Thank you in advance for spending your time on me,</p>
<hr>
<p>Hello <something>,</something></p>
<p>The e-mail you will receive from Vanderbilt a few days after 1 April
2009 will specifically indicate the reason we would deny a student -
especially if it is based on the financial ability to pay for a
Vanderbilt education. That way you know if the appeal could be based
solely on a change in financial circumstances.</p>
<p>We are here to answer questions.</p>
<p>Wow, that’s really interesting that they’ll tell you why you were rejected!! I guess it’s a special thing for international applicants…</p>
<p>It would be sad to be rejected and then get a letter saying you were rejected because you aren’t interesting enough…</p>
<p>Haha.
Yeah, that would be an ouch</p>
<p>There are a few grammatical errors in the email replies that suggest that the responses may have been written by a student working in the admissions office. Other than for an incomplete application or lack of sufficient available financial aid funds, you will not be told of the reasons for a rejection as the potential legal liability would be too great.</p>
<p>^ ColdWind, this person is identified on the website [name deleted by Moderator] So unless a student used his mail… (which I doubt).</p>
<p>Then this will be a first. Regardless, it is still unlikely that you will receive reasons for a rejection other than for inadequate available financial aid funds or due to an incomplete application.
P.S. I suspect that this admissions officer will be receiving a few calls on Monday.
P.P.S. Now watch Vanderbilt mess everything up & accept you with a generous financial aid award just so we will never know.</p>
<p>I guess you should contact the other colleges you’re interested in directly then and ask if they’ll do the same thing! Good luck!</p>
<p>Yeah, I was going to do this. It’s just that the email was very surprising, that I decided to ask if anyone else heard about this. I guess not 
Thanks for help</p>