International Student looking for suggestions

tk21769
Sat, 28 Dec 2013 09:53:34 +0000

As per my knowledge, these colleges don’t offer 100% Financial Aid to International Students, still, I will recheck …



Where are you checking?
The Common Data Set is the one authoritative, public, easily accessible source for information about financial aid outcomes (unless the school posts separate statements on its site). The CDS does not break out a separate number, solely for internationals, showing average percentage of need covered. It only reports the overall average percentage of need that was met of enrolled students who were awarded any need-based aid. That number is shown on line H2i.

All but a handful of super-selective colleges are need-aware for internationals. Therefore, a school may be rejecting many internationals due to high need, yet still wind up with a high number in line H2i. Conversely, a school may be covering 100% of determined need for a small number of internationals with relatively high stats, yet show less than 100% in line H2i.

For a high-need applicant in a need-aware evaluation, your stats should be high relative to the average applicant’s in order to have a good shot at admission. This, I think, is more important in that scenario than whether the number in line H2i is “100%”.