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You’ll explain your supporters and relatives that the acceptances indicate you have good odds next year when you apply to universities that cover financial need for internationals.
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This student needs to stop wasting time and money applying to US schools. S/he does not have the stats to get into a school that meets need for int’ls.
He needs to explain to his supporters that unless they can come up with the $200k+ to send him, he can’t go to a US Univ for undergrad. Now, if he does very well as an undergrad in Peru, maybe he’ll get into a funded PhD program in the US later on.
There’s no shame in simply saying that very few US universities provide a lot of aid to int’ls. It’s just a fact. Once you have your likely rejections from Princeton and Yale, you simply tell them that those were the schools that provide aid…and the others don’t. Period. End of story.