<p>What about financial aid?</p>
<p>You are allowed to apply for financial aid in February. The early deadline is only for an indication what your package is expected to be but it will be officially based on 2011 tax returns, FAFSA that opens on January 1st and a CSS profile. These documents are usually due in February.</p>
<p>@texaspg</p>
<p>Not for internationals.
Once we indicate on the CommonApp that we’re not US citizens, a box appears on the supplement requiring us to check that we understand “you will receive no financial support throughout the four undergrad years” if we choose not to request with applying REA… Stanford’s not need-blind to us:P</p>
<p>@UPenns yea but with no merit based scholarships the prospects look grim.
oh well…</p>
<p>That’s why it’s great to live in the U.S.</p>
<p>nah i’d hate to live for more than two years in the States (if it wasn’t for college, of course). Europe and Asia are so much better.</p>
<p>best thing would be just being born in the States to get a citizenship</p>
<p>where are all of you applying other than Stanford?</p>
<p>@avtrox Where are you from?</p>
<p>@ThousandMiles I’m aiming for HYP and then a state safeties.</p>
<p>@avtrox
don’t be too distressed 
we will figure out somehow… to survive from such hardships, etc.</p>
<p>COME ON STANFORD! LET US HEAR YOUR WORDS! XD</p>
<p>Hey guys, I am in the same boat as you. Am an international from Singapore applying into Stanford!!! 
3 weeks more to decision day…<em>nervous</em></p>
<p>@ThousandMiles
Amherst, Dartmouth and MIT because they’re need-blind to int’l (great schools, goes without saying…) Williams, Brown, Columbia, Tufts, Vassar</p>
<p>@InTheCards
I’m south korean and am living in germany atm</p>
<p>@UPenns
Good to see optimism. yeah hopefully!</p>
<p>@teddynuts
I’m just trying not to count the days and focus on other stuff:))</p>
<p>Ugh. I don’t even know if I’ll be applying to Stanford at all this year. I didn’t apply SCEA, but now there’s a chance I may not apply RD - just because I’m perpetually dissatisfied with my responses to the supplement. APWOEIRUPDFKJG;AFS;LKJFDSA;LKZ,VZXCN. </p>
<p>(Ha, I somehow typed “woe” in there while mashing the keys on my keyboard randomly out of frustration. Nice.) But seriously, I’m having a bad day. First my November SAT IIs come back and they are suspiciously low, then I realize that my Harvard SCEA decision is a mere three weeks away and can’t help thinking about it, and now I find out I’m too uncreative to talk about myself within the context of Stanford’s application. Why do they have to ask so many questions anyway? Ugh. :(</p>
<p>(Accidental double post. Man, this day just keeps getting worse…)</p>
<p>@calgirl15
Once again, don’t be too distressed; if you are experiencing a chaos and can not think of a creative piece, try go to beach (you are in california I presume?) or go to a place where you can find a peace and an equanimity. Doing such definitely worked for meh and sparked off my brain
Law of attraction: if you think bad-ly, bad things will happen. Cheer up :)</p>
<p>@avtrox
South Korean? I am glad to hear that! So am I
Optimismmmmmmm X)</p>
<p>I’ve gone CRAZY!!! I have already picked out classes I want to take at Stanford, so if I get rejected, I will be uber upset.</p>
<p>Wow Stanford CS… That really is kind of obsessive.</p>
<p>@ThousandMiles</p>
<p>I’m also applying to harvard, rice, duke, emory, vanderbilt, purdue, and UIUC.</p>
<p>@JacobStudent, I think for my sanity they should admit me.</p>
<p>@calgirl
It’s not that hard, all those trite advice like “be honest about it” really works… Just try to be good humored, and be smart enough on the intellectual vitality one. I actually liked Stanford’s supplements compared to other schools’ (Columbia’s are similar to Stanfords too) Sorry you’re having a bad day:( cheer up!
(lol Rush10 was consoling me for my bad day a few pages ago and now i’m doing the same for calgirl. it’d be cool to meet some of you later)</p>
<p>@UPenn
Yay Koreans:) One of my big worries is finding myself a good supplier of kimchi at whichever school i end up at… cant live without a regular dose of something spicy.</p>
<p>@StanfordCS
I started to do that too, but stopped myself and ran a Judd Apatow movie marathon. this helps.</p>
<p>anyone know if Noam Chomsky still teaches at MIT? i know he’s still technically a professor there but could undergrads actually meet him in class?</p>
<p>Haha, StanfordCS thanks a lot now I’m gonna go do that and its just gonna make getting rejected even worse</p>