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<p>From the U. Chicago web site:</p>

<p>"Chicago offers financial support to a number of its most highly qualified international applicants who have demonstrated financial need. This past year, we offered support ranging from $9,000 to $49,000 to 16 of our most qualified international applicants. This support totaled $660,000.</p>

<p>When reviewing international applications, Chicago takes into account whether or not an applicant has requested financial assistance. Applying for financial aid places you in an extremely competitive applicant pool. We therefore advise you to apply for financial aid only if you do not have the resources to fund your education."</p>

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<p>**Penn Facts and Figures **</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.upenn.edu/about/facts.php[/url]”>http://www.upenn.edu/about/facts.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>***Internationalism ***</p>

<p>A total of 2,440 international students applied for admission to Penn’s undergraduate schools for Fall 2004, and 489 (20%) received admissions offers. More than thirteen percent of the first year class are international students. Of the international students accepted to the Class of 2008, 15.8% were from Africa and the Middle East, 48.1% from Asia, 0.4% from Australia and the Pacific, 11.7% from Canada and Mexico, 10% from Central/South America and the Caribbean, and 14.1% from Europe. Penn had 4,192 international students enrolled at all levels in Fall 2004.</p>

<p>The approximately 237 students admitted into the class of 08 are representive of ** all of Asia ** throough out the 4 undergraduate schools. Even with all things being equal if 50 students from India were admitted to all 4 schools it would be an average of 12 students per school which is still a small number when you consider the larger number of students vying for those spots</p>

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<p>You will have to leave school with an unusual skill set to get a US company to sponsor you these days. Many internationals keep that in mind when choosing course of study if they really want to stay here.</p>

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<p>I guess I am more optimistic than most of you. Yes, the percentages are small. But there are some real numbers there, and Ashkay does have outstanding academic stats. No reason why he can’t be one of the lucky ones. He has a good start on the process. But as an international needing aid, he must cast a much wider net, as most of the schools are not need blind for foreign students, and those that are do not necessarily provide full aid. If there is a gap, US laws prohibit him from studying here without showing that he has a way to pay.</p>