Financial Aid for Internationals

Fin-IB
Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:40:00 +0000

sybbie719, I’m not sure whether you understood me correctly (I apologize if I was unclear), so just to make sure my family makes about 100k in euros which with the current currency rates is about 160k in USD.

I’m applying to UPenn (Wharton/M&T) without asking for aid, in which case I would probably finance the rest by taking loans and by working. However, of course I would rather not graduate with $30k-40k of debt. I haven’t quite decided where else I should apply to without asking for aid, but I’m retaking the SAT I and hoping to make my scores a bit more competitive. My GPA and class rank are great and SAT II scores (2250 total) seem to be OK, at least for MIT I am well within their middle 50% score ranges.

And I forgot to mention that I have an older brother currently in college here. Shouldn’t that bring down my family’s EFC a little bit?