Do schools reject you if you can't pay for it?

Groundwork2022
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 21:35:46 +0000

“Lots of schools will accept you, but then gap you (international or not). They won’t give you enough of any kind of aid to cover your need.”

@intparent, I believe this is true. However, wouldn’t that lower their very important yield statistics? Or are you talking about colleges where that is hardly an issue (like those that accept 80%+ of their students anyway)? It would make some sense to admit-deny some American students because their parents might possibly cosign loans to pay the difference. International students, however, can’t get loans from American banks and they probably have extremely restricted lending options from their own country’s banks. So, for top 200 or 300 schools (both LAC and University) except in few very exceptional cases, admit-deny doesn’t make sense in terms of yield protection.

“Currently, there are only 5 colleges in the country that are both need blind and will meet 100% of demonstrated need to international students.”

Those five should be listed in a post pinned at the top of the International Students boards!