ED to Barnard or NYU?

blossom
Thu, 10 Sep 2020 23:29:01 +0000

OP- here’s the list of colleges which are need blind for internationals AND meet full need for internationals:

Amherst College.
Curtis Institute of Music.
Harvard University.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Princeton University.
Yale University.

It does you no good to ED to a college which you cannot afford. And you need to do your research to understand that you telling a college “I need 60K per year” does not mean that the college- even a “meets full need” college is going to give you 60K per year. Every college has their own formula, criteria, methodology for awarding their own money.

If you truly need a lot of aid, I’d be looking hard at schools where your stats put you at the top of the pile if the college gives generous merit awards to international students. And I don’t think NYU or Barnard falls into that category.