I am an international student and I had applied to Trinity college CT earlier last month. I applied RD. I read a lot of forums and other reviews from international students at Trinity who said that if you are international student with very high financial need, it is almost impossible for you to get in. My EFC was $10,000. I want to know that if I make some changes and bring my EFC up to $15,000, will that make a big difference in my chances of acceptance?
I will have to download my CSS Profile and print it and then manually make changes and then scan it and email it to them. Do you think being able to pay additional $5,000 dollars might actually increase my chances of acceptance or it probably won’t make much of a difference at all?
With a $66,000 annual cost of attendance, it’s not going to make any difference if you’re requesting $51,000 or $56,000 to attend. It’ll probably only make a difference if you were a full-paying student.
Trinity’s website says the school meets 100% demonstrated need of all admitted students, so I’m assuming this applies to international applicants as well. If that’s the case, then Trinity will be need-aware for international applicants, and bumping your EFC up by $5k can’t hurt. But I don’t think that anyone here can tell you if it will help. You would have to be a competitive international applicant to start with; a student that the college wants to have. Without knowing your stats and how you compare to the rest of the international applicant pool, it’s impossible to know if another $5k of EFC will make any difference.
My family would be able to afford it. Obviously paying $10,000 would be a lot easier for me but $15,000 wouldn’t be all that difficult to afford either. I heard a lot of people say that admission preference is given to people who can contribute more towards their cost of education.
For states
My GPA was 3.5/4.0
I didn’t submit my SAT since it was optional.
I got honors in Math and English.
My extracurriculars are just wonderful.
I am the founder and head of operations at a UN recognized NGO.
I am also the National Director for another UN recognized NGO.
I’ve a profile of 65 slides of the work I’ve done.
I did an internship at a software company in India for 2 months.
I want to major in CS and already know Java, VB.Net, Javascript, HTML and C Programming. I am learning C# at the moment.
I am home-schooled and applying at the age of 16. Will that give me a benefit?
Do you think the $5,000 will really make a difference?
In what world can a high need family “make changes” and end up with an extra $20K to pay for college?
OP- are you talking about declaring income which you are getting under the table? Selling assets which you own but are somehow not titled to your family? How is it possible to generate a magical extra 20K without doing something either ethically or legally suspect???
I don’t think you read my information correct. I didn’t say extra 20K. I said extra 5K.
My EFC earlier was 10K and I want to bring it up to 15K.
10K would be very easily affordable for me.
15K would be slightly harder to afford but not entirely out of reach.
Without knowing your stats and how you compare to the rest of the international applicant pool, it’s impossible to know if another $5k of EFC will make any difference.
My dad did take up a new job recently and he isn’t getting paid all that much. But my brother will probably start working from next year too and he might be able to pay a little towards my cost of education. So affording $15,000 annually for 4 years shouldn’t be wayyyyyyyy too difficult. There might be annual increases but I am hoping that our financial situation will slightly improve by then.
I think you misunderstand how EFC calculations work. Everything that goes into calculating your EFC is already set in stone from the 2015 calendar year. It makes no difference if your dad started a new job (that’s only 2016 income) or your brother or other family members can contribute some money (their income/assets are not counted at all). You can’t add or subtract from your EFC; it is automatically calculated from your parents’ and your income and asset information.
I understand that. The thing is that my dad is doing a part time job at another place and he is getting some money from there too. Although I didn’t report that on the CSS Profile. It is more of a private consulting job. I could always mention that my father recently started the job and my ability to pay has increased by 5K. The question is whether it would actually make a difference or it won’t? Trinity College will probably reject you if they are unable to meet your 100% need. But I don’t really think it’s going to make much of a difference anyway.
It is private consulting. We don’t pay any sort of tax for it and it’s very much legal here. So no, I didn’t lie about anything. I just chose not to mention it. There’s a difference.