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Cornell or Amherst college?
Ronitsingh1405
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As an international applicant needing financial aid and applying ED, which college Cornell or Amherst has higher acceptance rate for international students?
As far as I know, Cornell provides TATA Scholarship to Indian students that cover their needs and Amherst is need blind, so I am confused where to apply considering my profile given in my previous discussions.
21 replies As far as I know, Cornell provides TATA Scholarship to Indian students that cover their needs and Amherst is need blind, so I am confused where to apply considering my profile given in my previous discussions.
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Replies to: Cornell or Amherst college?
When applying for finaid, it's important to meet all requirements and deadlines. Both Cornell and Amherst meet full need, but they determine what that need is..... not the student/parents.
Read up on these two schools! They could not be more different.
And yes, you can only apply binding ED to one school.
Cornell is need aware when it comes International students admission.
I do agree that Cornell and Amherst are two very different schools. You should do more research on those schools and make sure they are the riht fit.
Since Computer Science is not a traditional liberal arts subject, I don't know if Amherst College even offers such a major. Even if it does, this would likely also not be directly applied to coming in initially. Though you would have to investigate that.
My guess is in that case they will tell you that you can take many CS courses at U Mass Amherst- a nearby state university which is part of a consortium with Amherst.
However there is travel and scheduling involved in getting to the various consortium institutions, and Amherst students on average use the consortium the least.
As to your direct question, I know of no published breakdowns of admissions chances for international applicants at either school, period, much less for the subset of those applicants who require extensive sholarships. Without this data nobody can answer your question with authority. My common sense tells me that admission under these circumstances will be tremendously competitive, at either institution. But I am just guessing. And I have no idea which would be the harder admit in this case . Without data, how could I ?
And FWIW, I didn't even know Amherst had a CS major, where Cornell has a top rated program.
https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/computer_science
As noted above, the of computer science department at Cornell is among the most highly regarded CS departments in the United States.
As far as admission chances are concerned, both Amherst and Cornell are highly selective, especially for international students. We cannot predict which is more "likely" for the OP, other than to say that the chances are daunting.