Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 15:52     Subject: Re:I heard international students admitted to ivies get needs based financial aid and free tuition?
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Most international students pay full price. That's why schools like to accept them.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 15:50     Subject: I heard international students admitted to ivies get needs based financial aid and free tuition?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is this true? How does that work and who pays for it?


I am a substantial (for me) donor for financial aid to an ivy league, so I guess I pay for it in small part. I hope so!


Thank you, from a parent who has a kid receiving FA.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 15:48     Subject: I heard international students admitted to ivies get needs based financial aid and free tuition?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is this true? How does that work and who pays for it?


Heard?
Source?


Institutional need or merit based aid. Internationals get full rides to University of Southern Mississippi because of GPA + test scores. Some get full rides to Harvard and Yale because of need based aid.
Are you sure that's not graduate TA or RA?


It’s for undergrad. You can see it on their website.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 15:39     Subject: I heard international students admitted to ivies get needs based financial aid and free tuition?
Anonymous wrote:All the Ivies are need blind to international students and many international students get financial aid, which comes out of the endowment and is NOT subsidized by full pay students. Donors to the endowment contribute with the explicit understanding that those funds and income/principal or equity growth that they achieve will be used to provide aid to the best and brightest who might not otherwise be able to attend, regardless of where they come from.

NP. Correction, Ivies are not all need blind for internationals.

UPenn, Cornell, Columbia are need-aware for internationals, not need-blind.

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth are need-blind for internationals.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 14:04     Subject: Re:I heard international students admitted to ivies get needs based financial aid and free tuition?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am one of those international students who got a full scholarship at a PRIVATE university. No public university will do this, but privates do AS THEY SHOULD!!!!!

Do you want to tell corporations how they can donate their money too?????



Do you want to tell corporations how they can donate their money too?????

looks like Harvard will need remedial english classes now


Don't be a racist xenophobe. International students are such a small portion of these elite school student bodies, that they are the best in their countries who manage to gain admission. I have two HYPSM degrees, and for both of them, the international students were a disproportionately large share of the top students.
Just because they are asian doesn't mean they're international. Who is racist xenophone now


No one has mentioned Asians, just international students. And it's xenophobe, not xenophone--you don't need to comment if you're not able to understand the conversation.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 13:33     Subject: Re:I heard international students admitted to ivies get needs based financial aid and free tuition?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am one of those international students who got a full scholarship at a PRIVATE university. No public university will do this, but privates do AS THEY SHOULD!!!!!

Do you want to tell corporations how they can donate their money too?????



Do you want to tell corporations how they can donate their money too?????

looks like Harvard will need remedial english classes now


I never said I went to Harvard. Also, make sure you capitalize and use proper punctuation next time since we are correcting each other's grammar.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 13:32     Subject: Re:I heard international students admitted to ivies get needs based financial aid and free tuition?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am one of those international students who got a full scholarship at a PRIVATE university. No public university will do this, but privates do AS THEY SHOULD!!!!!

Do you want to tell corporations how they can donate their money too?????



Do you want to tell corporations how they can donate their money too?????

looks like Harvard will need remedial english classes now


Don't be a racist xenophobe. International students are such a small portion of these elite school student bodies, that they are the best in their countries who manage to gain admission. I have two HYPSM degrees, and for both of them, the international students were a disproportionately large share of the top students.
Just because they are asian doesn't mean they're international. Who is racist xenophone now
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 13:30     Subject: Re:I heard international students admitted to ivies get needs based financial aid and free tuition?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am one of those international students who got a full scholarship at a PRIVATE university. No public university will do this, but privates do AS THEY SHOULD!!!!!

Do you want to tell corporations how they can donate their money too?????



Do you want to tell corporations how they can donate their money too?????

looks like Harvard will need remedial english classes now


Don't be a racist xenophobe. International students are such a small portion of these elite school student bodies, that they are the best in their countries who manage to gain admission. I have two HYPSM degrees, and for both of them, the international students were a disproportionately large share of the top students.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 13:27     Subject: Re:I heard international students admitted to ivies get needs based financial aid and free tuition?
Anonymous wrote:I am one of those international students who got a full scholarship at a PRIVATE university. No public university will do this, but privates do AS THEY SHOULD!!!!!

Do you want to tell corporations how they can donate their money too?????



Do you want to tell corporations how they can donate their money too?????

looks like Harvard will need remedial english classes now
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 13:17     Subject: I heard international students admitted to ivies get needs based financial aid and free tuition?
Anonymous wrote:All the Ivies are need blind to international students and many international students get financial aid, which comes out of the endowment and is NOT subsidized by full pay students.
money is fungible
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 13:14     Subject: I heard international students admitted to ivies get needs based financial aid and free tuition?
Anonymous wrote:I was an international student and got a full ride not from an Ivy but from elsewhere. Part was merit, based on my straight A's. Part was based on my family income which was laughable compared to US income levels even for low income families. International students don't qualify for any type of federal aid, so everything was covered by the school. Things were still tough due to large income disparities between the US and where I was from, so my parents couldn't help even if they wanted to. I was able to get a 20-hour a week minimum wage on campus job (the only jobs available to foreign students), so that helped some, but it wasn't an easy ride by any means, alone in a foreign country with no family or any financial support.


OP thinks we got her child spot. They don't care about what our situation was or how hard we worked. We are a strawman for why her child is not getting into an Ivy League school.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 13:08     Subject: Re:I heard international students admitted to ivies get needs based financial aid and free tuition?
I am one of those international students who got a full scholarship at a PRIVATE university. No public university will do this, but privates do AS THEY SHOULD!!!!!

Do you want to tell corporations how they can donate their money too?????

Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 13:06     Subject: I heard international students admitted to ivies get needs based financial aid and free tuition?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is this true? How does that work and who pays for it?


Just like if you got financial, the school pays for it by giving a discount…


Yes, in all likelihood, the full pay students are paying a premium, to afford others to get a discount. So you, OP, are paying.

However, schools with large endowments also have unrestricted funds that might be used for financial aid.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 13:01     Subject: I heard international students admitted to ivies get needs based financial aid and free tuition?
I was an international student and got a full ride not from an Ivy but from elsewhere. Part was merit, based on my straight A's. Part was based on my family income which was laughable compared to US income levels even for low income families. International students don't qualify for any type of federal aid, so everything was covered by the school. Things were still tough due to large income disparities between the US and where I was from, so my parents couldn't help even if they wanted to. I was able to get a 20-hour a week minimum wage on campus job (the only jobs available to foreign students), so that helped some, but it wasn't an easy ride by any means, alone in a foreign country with no family or any financial support.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2025 12:49     Subject: I heard international students admitted to ivies get needs based financial aid and free tuition?
All the Ivies are need blind to international students and many international students get financial aid, which comes out of the endowment and is NOT subsidized by full pay students. Donors to the endowment contribute with the explicit understanding that those funds and income/principal or equity growth that they achieve will be used to provide aid to the best and brightest who might not otherwise be able to attend, regardless of where they come from.