Will you push (or help) students to apply to “Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Yale, Amherst, Dartmouth, and Bowdoin” and other top universities that offer enough financial assistance? Getting them into one of those seems far cheaper than paying for their tuition at an expensive university without enough financial assistance.
Are there enough excellent universities or programs with enough financial assistance globally that you should just focus on helping students get into those instead of funding them to attend the top universities without enough financial assistance?
(EDIT: To be clear, by “enough financial assistance”, I mean that the cost for the student after any needs-based aid, scholarships and help from their parents will be low enough to not be a significant deterrent to attending.)
In the US at least, I believe there are relatively few schools that offer significant need-based financial aid to international students. But to the extent there are, spending a few thousand dollars on helping international students get into very-good-but-not-Harvard schools would seem to have a higher ROI than paying for four years at a very top school.
We leave it up to our scholars to decide where to apply, but in our experience they’re generally aware that applying to Harvard, MIT, etc. is a good idea.
We’re open to offering support for admissions counseling to some applicants who don’t quite meet the bar for a tuition-and-fees scholarship. (All applicants who do meet the bar are offered counseling.)
Will you push (or help) students to apply to “Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Yale, Amherst, Dartmouth, and Bowdoin” and other top universities that offer enough financial assistance? Getting them into one of those seems far cheaper than paying for their tuition at an expensive university without enough financial assistance.
Are there enough excellent universities or programs with enough financial assistance globally that you should just focus on helping students get into those instead of funding them to attend the top universities without enough financial assistance?
(EDIT: To be clear, by “enough financial assistance”, I mean that the cost for the student after any needs-based aid, scholarships and help from their parents will be low enough to not be a significant deterrent to attending.)
In the US at least, I believe there are relatively few schools that offer significant need-based financial aid to international students. But to the extent there are, spending a few thousand dollars on helping international students get into very-good-but-not-Harvard schools would seem to have a higher ROI than paying for four years at a very top school.
We leave it up to our scholars to decide where to apply, but in our experience they’re generally aware that applying to Harvard, MIT, etc. is a good idea.
We’re open to offering support for admissions counseling to some applicants who don’t quite meet the bar for a tuition-and-fees scholarship. (All applicants who do meet the bar are offered counseling.)