Stanford Financial Aid: Need-aware?

BigMike3541
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:36:46 +0000

No one will be able to give you legitimate stats on the international students that get in with financial aid. There’s definitely a healthy number of international students that get financial aid though, and they all are not necessarily total rockstars (by stanford stanfords) by any stretch.

The big thing is that international students who do need aid NEED TO APPLY FOR IT. so many people try to “game” the system by not applying for aid because the think it will prevent them from getting in. But at the end of the day, if you can’t afford to go to stanford without aid (and you have to prove you can pay for it before you can get immigration stuff worked out), you won’t be able to come here either…so you may as well apply for aid.