International students generally are ineligible for pretty much all financial aid. There arent actually any “poor” international students who are benefiting from financial aid.
I went to a need-based aid school, like the way Harvard and many top institutions especially are (not that mine was one of those, but still). All of our international students were the only ones ineligible for need-based money. The international students had to pay full tuition, often on tighter timeframes than even full-payer Americans did.
The reality is that cutting out international students actually harms an institution’s ability to provide aid to American students. They get charged full tuition for a multitude of reasons, but partly to fund need based aid for Americans
International students generally are ineligible for pretty much all financial aid.
Nope. Top American universities are pretty generous—probably the most generous among first-world countries—with need-based aid for undergrad internationals if you can get in (which is expectedly more difficult than for domestics). I know a few people in top American universities with full or near-full rides, most relevantly including one in Harvard, so yeah they exist. Of course most internationals are still filthy rich full-payers, but technically it’s not all filthy rich full-payers.
The reality is that cutting out international students actually harms an institution’s ability to provide aid to American students.
International students generally are ineligible for pretty much all financial aid. There arent actually any “poor” international students who are benefiting from financial aid.
I went to a need-based aid school, like the way Harvard and many top institutions especially are (not that mine was one of those, but still). All of our international students were the only ones ineligible for need-based money. The international students had to pay full tuition, often on tighter timeframes than even full-payer Americans did.
The reality is that cutting out international students actually harms an institution’s ability to provide aid to American students. They get charged full tuition for a multitude of reasons, but partly to fund need based aid for Americans
Nope. Top American universities are pretty generous—probably the most generous among first-world countries—with need-based aid for undergrad internationals if you can get in (which is expectedly more difficult than for domestics). I know a few people in top American universities with full or near-full rides, most relevantly including one in Harvard, so yeah they exist. Of course most internationals are still filthy rich full-payers, but technically it’s not all filthy rich full-payers.
Definitely true.