aid for international students

Penn95
Sat, 13 Aug 2016 19:29:38 +0000

Penn is need aware for financial aid for international students. This means that applying for aid as an international student lowers your chances of getting in. therefore only extremely impressive students can get in with financial aid. Financial aid for internationals is need based (just like for US students) so how much you get will depends on your family income, assets etc.

The reason why Penn need aware for international students is probably because it doesnt have the money to be sustainably be fully need blind. (Dartmouth tried to be need blind for internationals for a few years but reversed the policy because it was not sustainable). But then again even Stanford, which has about twice as much money as Penn is not need blind for internationals either. Maybe it is a matter of priorities and how important the schools deem it to be, and has less to do with actually ability to sustain such a move.