No, but there is no harm OP emailing like I suggested. Williams has the best financial aid out there and they should ask.
Agree…they can ask. But they will be asking for an exception to the stated williams policy for international students.
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Going to college in the US absolutely, positively will not lead to a green card
They won’t. In fact, they won’t offer any aid.
See above. The response email will be “not gonna happen.”
The OP is international. Williams is need-aware for international applicants. That means acceptance was due, in part, to not needing aid. There’s no going back to the well in this case. File under “if it were that easy, everyone would do it.”
So Williams isn’t a good choice for the OP.
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If what the student wants is a green card and has money, then E would be a better choice than F.
(Or buy property&offer jobs through/for a Malta investment residency card and become a European citizen).
It is my impression though that @gohito is genuinely interested in the intense, well-rounded education Williams offers.
I had missed that the inheritance was future. That’s a problem - I know parents who invested their inheritance in their kids’ education, often with the grandparents’ blessings, and that’s entirely a family’s choice… but in this case it’d likely mean borrowing against future money that will be available at an unreliable (and, hopefully, as late as possible for their relatives’sake) time, unless the i heritance is currently “in process”.
So, @gohito, is this a case of “my parents find the costs steep but they can handle it through their investments’ returns” or a case of “we didn’t apply for aid because it’d decrease my odds bur now we can’t afford it at all”?
If the former, talk with your family using various points made here.
If the latter, you have UCL.
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As a current Williams parent, I wouldn’t factor the Williams at Oxford program (WEPO) into your decision. It’s a competitive program that requires an application that’s more demanding than the applications to typical study abroad programs. Every year accomplished students are not accepted to the program.
Williams does offer Oxbridge-style tutorials that any student can take. They are a wonderful, and unique, part of a Williams education.
As much as I am a Williams fan, I don’t think that it’s worth the significant debt OP would most likely have to incur.
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As an international student, you will need to complete a certificate of finances to get a student visa to study here. You need to document that you have sufficient funds for all four years of college. This can include already awarded financial aid, already approved loans, and current income. It cannot include future loans or things like future inheritances.
So…will your family be able to document that you have roughly $350,000 at the ready to fund your college education?
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^ @thumper1 is right: if your family is expecting money it won’t be enough for the F1 visa. You’ll need to demonstrate that you can pay for your first year fully and have a legit plan (with bank statements to back that up) for Year 2, 3, and 4.
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Expected money is also not figured in calculated aid.
My understanding is that for colleges that are not need-blind for internationals, the bucket of aid is limited, and competitive, so it may not be available anymore. And needing aid could have affected admission, so it could be considered unfair to now say you need aid. But it is worth asking.
Again, need blind schools for internationals are Amherst, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Bowdoin and in 2025 Brown. That is not to say other schools won’t accept you and give you aid. It sounds like you deserve some aid.
That depends on the college. Some with deeper pockets will fund an accepted international student…but they just don’t accept more than they think they can fund.
@thumper1 but that calculation would affect admission chances, don’t you think? So not sure it can be awarded after the fact, since admission was based on no aid needed. For a need-blind school that would not be relevant. But yes, worth asking.
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Seems clear from Williams’ website, which thumper posted above, that if an international didn’t apply for aid initially, the school won’t consider it later. I don’t understand why they would make an exception for OP.
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They won’t, for reasons I, and others, have mentioned above.
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Agreed. That is pretty much what I was saying. Especially for a school that is not need-blind. No harm in asking but more than doubtful there will be any aid. It does seem the OP thought that future inheritance meant they should not apply for aid, which is too bad.
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This Forbes article is older, and perhaps not especially relevant to your situation, but it should give you an idea as to how Williams is regarded in the U.S: