<p>Hello all! I’m facing some difficulties regarding my college list.</p>
<p>I have given my SAT Reasoning Test twice; the frist time i attempted it I got 2050 AH while my second attempt’s result is still pending. I did my IGCSEs in 2011 and achieved 6A*s and 3As. The following year I appeared for my A-levels and achieved 4As (of which 3 were distinctions) along with a ‘B’. My extracurriculars are mainly centred around activities relating to Mathematics along with Basketball and Table Tennis. </p>
<p>My dream college is Princeton and I’ve loved Mathematics all my life so I want to major in mathematics. However besides Princeton, I have no other colleges on my list. I’d be really thankful to anyone out there who could highlight colleges which are financially generous towards international students and are renowned for their mathematics courses. I have to apply early to some public US colleges so I’d be really thankful if you could respond as soon as possible since the November 1 deadline is approaching fast. Thank you once again!</p>
<p>What is your CR/Math score? If high enough, you could qualify for merit aid at university of Alabama. Their application is available now.</p>
<p>You do realize that Princeton is a reach for almost everyone who applies.</p>
<p>If you are applying SCEA to Princeton, are you even allowed to apply early elswhere? I thought that is what SINGLE CHOICE meant…one choice early…Princeton.</p>
<p>As to schools that are “generous” to International students, you need to look for schools where your test scores bring you to the very top of the students going there. Also make sure the school does not flat out exclude international students for aid. Waste of time applying to those. The policies change year to year, so you need to check each school individually.</p>
<p>Also run through the NPCs of some schools and find out if the schools themselves even consider your family eligible for fin aid. Princeton is a very generous school in terms of need and they have treated international students no differently from US students, but their formula is different from most schools. So give it awhirl at a school like Colgate, more typical in terms of how they define need, and not cluttered with merit awards. RUn another set of numbers under Fordham that does include a lot of merit aid. If accepted at Colgate, you have a CHANCE of getting full need met (if international aid policies have not changed). For Fordham, you would get be in the running for some nice merit money (if things have not changed). So run the NPCs and see what the POSSIBILITIES are . </p>
<p>Once you see that, look at where your test scores put you. If a school gives 15% of the kids merit money with the average award of $20K, and you are right about at that 15% mark, you might get about half or less than that, because that sort of aid is rarely evenly distributed. The same with financial aid, though less easily predictable as federal/state aid may be in the picture to which you are not entitled. But running the numbers and seeing where you stand in with the common data sets for each school can give you some idea.</p>
<p>If you can get into Princeton, your full NEED would be met, but you have to know if Princeton even considers your family needy. They don’t go by what you and your family define as need, but they have their own definitions so the NPC will give you some idea about that. Be aware if your family owns businesses and properties, the school might assess them very different, so such NPCs are often not accurate, but it gives you a start. But at Princeton, there is no merit money. It all has to be backed by need. </p>
<p>Fordham doesn’t guarantee to meet need, and doesn’t meet very many students’ needs fully. But you have some good numbers, (test scores) and now we are talking You might get some money for that. Look at the section for guaranteed awards as well, and see if you make any cuts there. Alabama has some geneorus cut points that you might make, and they have a good math department, for example. Most of the state flagships do.</p>