<p>Hey guys, I’m an intl student thinking about applying EA II and my first choice of college offers full ride scholarship. And they ask intl students to submit the Declaration of Finances. The thing is, the only way I can afford the tuition is if I got the scholarship. So I couldn’t submit the declaration when I submit my common app. </p>
<p>I don’t know what this declaration looks like. Does it say only the funds available to fund your study or it must say that you’re capable of funding your tuition even if you don’t get the scholarship?</p>
<p>I thought this declaration is used for visa purpose only, and if I get the scholarship, then I wouldn’t have to prove my ability to pay the tuition. Is that correct? So if I can’t submit the declaration when I apply, do you think I shouldn’t bother applying at all?</p>
<p>Because I think it’s a little bit odd if I couldn’t even apply just because I can’t submit the declaration form. </p>
<p>Thanks for the help!</p>
<p>You need to call the school and ask. Also, is this scholarship available to int’ls?</p>
<p>BTW…even if you got the full ride, it’s not a full ride in the sense of what an int’l has to demonstrate. The full ride probably only covers tuition, room, board, books. You’ll have to show that you have several thousand per year to cover personal expenses, insurance, int’l travel, etc.</p>
<p>yes, the scholarship is available to intl students. and yes, my family can cover the personal expenses, intl travel, etc. Thanks for your answer, @mom2collegekids 
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<p>i’ve emailed the school but haven’t got the reply.</p>
<p>First of all, you are probably applying ED2, not EA2. Basically, all international students have to show that they can afford to come to this country and pay whatever amount of expenses they say they can. For College admissions purposes, this is important because many schools that are need blind in admissions for US students, are not, for foreign students. The school does not want to go throught the trouble of admitting and dealing with students that cannot afford to come here because you can’t get a student visa without all of this laid out with evidence backing it. </p>
<p>From what I have seen in this Declaration, you complete in with what you and your family can possibly afford and then there is a space for what the college has to give you in order to make this work. You need to put down what that gap is for you . Basically, you are saying to the college that without the full ride scholarship, you cannot afford to go to this school. And I guess a short note explaining that you need either a full scholarship in at least the amount of $X or a financial aid from the college in that amount, you cannot go there. So if the school isn’t able to give you that money, they will likely turn you down. That’ is not always the case, as some schools may just gap you and then leave you to come up with any money to fill out the form so that all expenses are covered, but you are laying right out there what you need to the school in order to get your student visa in that Declaration. Do email some international student groups at the school as well for some information. SOmeone who has gone through the process there might be able to help you more specifically.</p>
<p>A concern I have for you, one specifically, is that ED acceptances may be given BEFORE certains scholarhship awards are announced, and I don’t know how that would affect you in this particular case. My son, who did not do ED, did apply EA to a number of schools, got accepted in December, and then got scholarship awards in March/April along with all of the RD kids. Most school will put together a financial aid package for ED applicants, and based on that commitment, ED accepted students get a window of time to decide whether they want to commit to the school and withdraw all of their other application, but that fin aid package may not include any merit awards that are not going to be announced until April for everyone. That puts ED kids in a bind. You can’t really apply ED with the qualifier that you have to get a merit award that isn’t going to be given out until after the ED window. The ED exception includes financial aid issues, absolutley not merit ones. So, in your case, unless this is a financial aid award, and it does not sound like it, I don’t think ED is a good idea for you. Do talk to the school, but do you see what I am saying to you? ED acceptances,as a rule, do not have merit award contingencies to them, just because of the way it works with most ED, and I think you have an ED case here. You may have a contingency that is not going to be resolved till after RD acceptance.</p>
<p>@cptofthehouse I’m applying EA, not ED because it’s not binding and I’m applying RD to a few other schools. But, thanks for your clarification :)</p>