cptofthehouse:
Unless a person is privy to the internal decisions on specific cuts, it’s not likely anyone can give accurate information on how much a specific program is going to be defunded. You can ask specifically, but these days things change even more quickly than they did early this year. We are in an unkind situation.
IMO, the question is whether there will be fewer international students admitted to University of Chicago this year because of less money to fund them. UC has committed to remaining need blind in admissions to US applicants , and meeting full need as the school determines. Whether they have changed anything in their need formula, I do not know. Possible. FAFSA has made at least two changes in their formula, I notice. With schools own formulas, it’s nearly impossible to detect changes, as they tend to keep this information private.
As I mentioned before, offering an international student admissions if they cannot immediately show how they are going to pay for the UC college experience is a useless offer because these students have to come up with this info to get their student visa. They can’t just make it up as they go as US students may be able to do. They have to have that info up front.
Getting exact info is not possible, it’s an ever changing situation , and just a simple yes or no as to whether any given school is going to be cutting is useless info without knowing how much the cut is and how/where. Full rides were exceedingly rare even before all of this. I’m surprised to read that your high school has had any number kids with full rides from University of Chicago. There aren’t that many full rides. Possible that the anonymous donor has own stipulations on scholarship money used donated and that may be more relevant than cuts to UC’s own money situation. Maybe that donor is from your country, area, school. Too many unknowns here to give you definitive answers. Perhaps local detective work on your part can come up with more answers.
Agree with this. One quick and easy change Chicago could make is requiring NCP financial info which they don’t currently require.
Currently, This makes them an attractive school for students in a bad NCP situation, but is outside the norm of other selective schools, with the exception of Vandy.