Liberal Arts College for IR?

tk21769
Tue, 02 Dec 2014 09:56:37 +0000

I’ve noticed Liberal Arts Colleges are less known than many big research-based universities, but I was surprised at the fact that many LACs cover most or even all of the tuition of any admitted students.



Maybe what you mean to say is something like this:
Many LACs (maybe about 30 of them) claim to cover 100% of demonstrated need of admitted students.

That is very different from what you actually said.
For one thing, few of those colleges award any financial aid at all to more than about 50% of students.
The rest don’t have (or are not determined to have) any need, so they pay the full price.
Furthermore, their financial aid policies/practices may not be the same for domestic and international students. Only 6 colleges claim to be need-blind and also to meet 100% of need for international students.