Final UK undergrad ranking is out as if last night (The Times)

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Anonymous wrote:No Ivy League gives Merit Aid. Unless it is a specific scholarship. They all are either need blind or need aware.

Either way, if you from the UK and applying to Ivies, you better make under $150k a year to get an kind of significant need based aid as a foreigner. And even then, unless your income is less than 60 tr 80k then you might as well use the UK system at £9.3k per year….

Have you ever done Princeton's net price calculator?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No Ivy League gives Merit Aid. Unless it is a specific scholarship. They all are either need blind or need aware.

Either way, if you from the UK and applying to Ivies, you better make under $150k a year to get a kind of significant need based aid as a foreigner. And even then, unless your income is less than 60 tr 80k then you might as well use the UK system at £9.3k per year….

Pretty sure you can't get aid for financial reasons FAFSA as a foreigner

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No Ivy League gives Merit Aid. Unless it is a specific scholarship. They all are either need blind or need aware.

Either way, if you from the UK and applying to Ivies, you better make under $150k a year to get a kind of significant need based aid as a foreigner. And even then, unless your income is less than 60 tr 80k then you might as well use the UK system at £9.3k per year….

Pretty sure you can't get aid for financial reasons FAFSA as a foreigner

yes you can

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No Ivy League gives Merit Aid. Unless it is a specific scholarship. They all are either need blind or need aware.

Either way, if you from the UK and applying to Ivies, you better make under $150k a year to get a kind of significant need based aid as a foreigner. And even then, unless your income is less than 60 tr 80k then you might as well use the UK system at £9.3k per year….

Pretty sure you can't get aid for financial reasons FAFSA as a foreigner

That is 100% INCORRECT.

You absolutely can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know you guys take A levels. But has he taken SAT or ACT? How did he do?

Yes, you are correct. A Levels only in the end of the school year. But yes he took the SAT recently, not the ACT. He scored 1590. He is working on this US applications now. Our income level is such that he probably wont qualify for much financial aid. We are in the thin band of making too much for meaningful financial aid while at the same time not enough to afford full pay in the US.

[Anonymous]

In that case, lets say your kid gets in one of the schools you mentioned, Stanford, MIT or Wharton but no financial aid or very little. How are you going to justify a $80k+ vs £9.3k?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In that case, lets say your kid gets in one of the schools you mentioned, Stanford, MIT or Wharton but no financial aid or very little. How are you going to justify a $80k+ vs £9.3k?

That is a tough one. For us UK citizens, outside of Oxbridge is a full pay degree from Stanford/MIT/Wharton worth $300k more than a degree from Durham, St. Andrews or Warwick? As a Brit, I personally do not think so. But lets see what happens.

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American here. From an American centric perspective and those who know nothing about UK unis, Americans will always select those schools since the international cost for UK schools is not what you UK residents pay.

But if I was a UK citizen, it is hard to justify not staying in and paying just £9,350 per yr vs $65k plus in tuition for these American Schools. This assumes you dont qualify for any aid in the US.

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If I am English and my kid is accepted to any of the top 5-6 schools in the UK, there would be zero chance I’m sending them to America to any school without financial aid…..

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Anonymous wrote:In that case, lets say your kid gets in one of the schools you mentioned, Stanford, MIT or Wharton but no financial aid or very little. How are you going to justify a $80k+ vs £9.3k?

That is a tough one. For us UK citizens, outside of Oxbridge is a full pay degree from Stanford/MIT/Wharton worth $300k more than a degree from Durham, St. Andrews or Warwick? As a Brit, I personally do not think so. But lets see what happens.

My kid was accepted to Brown ED. Zero aid. He is going to St Andrews.

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I can see that

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In that case, lets say your kid gets in one of the schools you mentioned, Stanford, MIT or Wharton but no financial aid or very little. How are you going to justify a $80k+ vs £9.3k?

That is a tough one. For us UK citizens, outside of Oxbridge is a full pay degree from Stanford/MIT/Wharton worth $300k more than a degree from Durham, St. Andrews or Warwick? As a Brit, I personally do not think so. But lets see what happens.

My kid was accepted to Brown ED. Zero aid. He is going to St Andrews.

Breaking the ED contract? Why apply ED the? Hugely unethical.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In that case, lets say your kid gets in one of the schools you mentioned, Stanford, MIT or Wharton but no financial aid or very little. How are you going to justify a $80k+ vs £9.3k?

That is a tough one. For us UK citizens, outside of Oxbridge is a full pay degree from Stanford/MIT/Wharton worth $300k more than a degree from Durham, St. Andrews or Warwick? As a Brit, I personally do not think so. But lets see what happens.

My kid was accepted to Brown ED. Zero aid. He is going to St Andrews.

Breaking the ED contract? Why apply ED the? Hugely unethical.

Please stop. ED only apply in the US….go ahead and let the school sue….will never happen….

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In that case, lets say your kid gets in one of the schools you mentioned, Stanford, MIT or Wharton but no financial aid or very little. How are you going to justify a $80k+ vs £9.3k?

That is a tough one. For us UK citizens, outside of Oxbridge is a full pay degree from Stanford/MIT/Wharton worth $300k more than a degree from Durham, St. Andrews or Warwick? As a Brit, I personally do not think so. But lets see what happens.

My kid was accepted to Brown ED. Zero aid. He is going to St Andrews.

Breaking the ED contract? Why apply ED the? Hugely unethical.

Actually most colleges are sympathetic to financial constraints.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No Ivy League gives Merit Aid. Unless it is a specific scholarship. They all are either need blind or need aware.

Either way, if you from the UK and applying to Ivies, you better make under $150k a year to get a kind of significant need based aid as a foreigner. And even then, unless your income is less than 60 tr 80k then you might as well use the UK system at £9.3k per year….

Pretty sure you can't get aid for financial reasons FAFSA as a foreigner

That is 100% INCORRECT.

You absolutely can.

You can get financial aid, but not through FAFSA. FAFSA requires your SSN, which foreigners don't have.