<p>Your stats do not make you a shoo-in, especially considering you’re asking for aid. For internationals applying to Northwestern, asking for aid hurts quite a bit. If you look at the percent of their internationals who are getting aid, it is not a very encouraging number (I think it was like 10%??)</p>
<p>So I got rejected. <em>■■■</em></p>
<p>^Well, hope you will continue to <3 NU anyway. You saw that stats of many of those accepted, the NU admission gates have become a gauntlet!</p>
<p>I actually feel like swearing at them. My no 1 choice and I worked soo hard on the application. Anyway, the SAT scores etc were amazing, can’t really blame 'em either.</p>
<p>Just for the record, I was an international student (Romanian) applying for FULL financial aid and I was accepted. My parents earn 17 K a year so if NU “meets 100% demonstrated need of all admitted students”, I guess that means full financial aid. (I am yet to receive my mailed fin aid package)</p>
<p>Besides, every year in the last 4 years, someone from my school was accepted to NU with a full scholarship. </p>
<p>My point is, therefore, that being an international asking for FA is not that bad if the admissions officers already know the quality of the high school you come from. In fact, when I was narrowing down the list of colleges I would apply to, I chose those colleges/universities that had accepted students from my high school before and where those students had made a good impression.</p>
<p>I also had 2310 on the SAT 1 which probably helped but I am sure many intl students with scores this high were rejected.</p>
<p>“NU meets 100% demonstrated need of all admitted students”</p>
<p>^ I was not aware that this applied to internationals? Have you confirmed that?</p>
<p>I don’t think it says so anywhere but I am pretty sure they saw how little my income was and if they weren’t going to give me substantial aid, they wouldn’t have accepted me in the first place.</p>
<p>In general, I have not heard of a single Romanian (or international) student accepted to a prestigious university (with or without a need blind policy) without its financial need being 100% met. Of course, this 100% is relative; it could mean $54 000/$56 000 for some universities or $55 800 /$56 000 for others but come on, $2 000 is not that much. I can work to make $2 000. :)</p>
<p>Of course, I will have to wait for the official letter to come to know for sure, but in general, Romanian students receive full financial aid because our families are very poor in comparison with American families.</p>
<p>NU was my top choice. I live 45 minutes away, but was an international student from India until 4 days ago when I got my green card. I too was rejected from the international applicant pool while asking for aid and was denied a request to be reviewed as domestic applicant. Nothing to do but move on. Best of luck with your remaining decisions.</p>
<p>Keep in mind financial aid includes loan packages too, not just grants</p>
<p>In any case, grats to the acceptees, I will probably be at Lake Forest or Mac, so thats that.
See, Chance Me threads are useless, or were useless this year.</p>
<p>plantsvs,
Are loans mostly federal? If that’s the case, whatever internationals get would mostly be grants.</p>