International wanting financial aid?

M_s_Mom
Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:25:22 +0000

It’s not the level of the school-it how much money they have available from their endowment and how willing they are to pay for diversity. For example, Grinnell, a highly regarded mid-western LAC, has a huge endowment uses it to draw the best and brightest international students (including Asians) to their campus. They are still very competitive for foreign students seeking $30k+, but 12% of their student body is international and most of those students have received generous financial aid.

And LACs do put a lot of emphasis on the essays because they are small schools so the ‘fit’ and mix of students matters a lot to them.