Please give me advice on how to improve my application

International95
Sun, 02 Mar 2014 15:40:29 +0000

What I meant by exceptions was that Bard is willing to offer up to full ride to exceptionally compelling applicants – but these exceptional students are most probably capable of getting into other schools as well.

Here you go: “Generally, Bard will admit an academically eligible international student who can demonstrate sufficient funding to cover at least half of the cost of attendance.” http://www.bard.edu/admission/applying/international/ (Under “International Application for Financial Aid”).

I have friends who applied to Bard and who received word in early March last year and years before that Bard cannot offer them more than 30k. So unless you are planning to study economics or STEM, Bard is a financially bleak option.

Again, do not be discouraged by this. Exceptional international applicants will receive as much aid as they need to attend. But it is likely that these applicants will be accepted elsewhere as well. In fact, I read on the news last year that an Indian girl was accepted to Bard, NYU and American with full rides. These aren’t schools that are known for their generosity to international students, but they are willing to make exceptions for amazing applicants.

Good luck with this process, @evelynne1996! :)

PS You might still get the full ride to Agnes Scott. You’ll have to wait till mid-April, though. Depends on whether the one who got it will accept the offer or not. Also, I might know who you are haha. We may have a few mutual friends. Some time ago I saw on fb that a certain somebody from Vietnam wrote about how she didn’t get into Middlebury and something about “haters” idk. Vietnamese people in general are so amazingly talented! One of my Viet friends got a likely to Penn last year! This was incredible because I had not heard of international likelies before that.