Am I fit for MIT/Caltech/Stanford?

DadTwoGirls
Sun, 14 Jul 2019 04:32:08 +0000

I think that MIT is need blind for all students, including international students. Caltech and Stanford may consider your financial need when deciding whether to admit you. I am pretty sure that all three of these schools do provide need based financial aid for international students. I don’t think that any of them have any merit based scholarships at all. You would need to apply for need based financial aid at the same time that you apply to the schools unless you can afford to be full pay for a full four years.

One way to think of this is that all three of these schools might admit one or maybe two students from Kenya in a given year, or they might (more likely) not accept any.

Admissions is hard to predict for the very top students. A perfect SAT score will help, but will not by itself get you accepted.