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International Students' Financial Aid at Rice University
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So this is, again, in the United States. Level of study is bachelor's
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It's in Rice University, a smaller issue, small university, but a university that has kind of like a kind of higher quality of education
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It is full funding, meaning it covers more than tuition fees. It's financial aid
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So, like basically, anyway, no specific nationalities or subjects. And as you can see, the admission and both scholarship deadline is in November
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So what financial aid means in this context, as you can see
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it covers up to 100% of the students demonstrate needs. So what that means is basically you give university information about your financial situation
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your family's financial situation. And the university then use that information to estimate how much your family can contribute to your financial expenses, educational expenses, and how much of those expenses are not met, like, your family cannot meet, how much of that financial needs
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So then, like, if you get the financial aid, university covers the rest, covers the part that your family cannot
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contribute. So basically, you create a CSS profile, which is short for, I believe, college
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scholarship service. Basically, you give them a lot of information about your family's financial
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situation. Not only that, but also, like, it's used not for this scholarship, but it's a
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platform that will give you access to, like, opportunity, a lot of opportunities, scholarship
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opportunities. We'll say about that in a second. And if you want to find the perfect scholarship
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for yourself. Go to our website, Global Scholarships.com, and use our free search tool
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Type in the program, university, or the country you are interested in and see all the available scholarships
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Use our filters to find the most suitable scholarship for yourself. It's completely free
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and doesn't even require registration. Find the perfect scholarship right now. So as you can see
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you just need to be able to apply to CSS profile. Now, the university
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again, It kind of a small school It in Houston Texas And as you can see we have information here about like admission process deadlines
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Tuition fees, as you can see, are quite high. Well, not extremely high
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Like, in the United States, they can go up to like $60,000. But still, even for U.S. standards, $54,000 is kind of high
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Right? And the university, if you want to see where it is, what does it
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look like it's here. It's a good university, another very large one in Texas, Houston
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As you can see, this is, or the university is pretty much. Actually, yeah. No, sorry
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Here it is in Texas, Houston. So this is the university, as you can see. I quite like the architecture
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Anyway, basically a really good university, but a very expensive university, a very small
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university. So, the scholarship, if you go to the university's page, as you can see
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they don't have a lot of information here because there's not that much
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information to give. Basically, we have the deadlines here, early decision, and regular decision
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like important dates. An application process is basically you apply with a CSS profile, which is you can just click here to go to the
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CSS platform. And as you can see, this is the CSS platform. Each year unlocks access to more than
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$10 billion in non-federal aid to thousands of students. So it's a platform that match students
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with available scholarships. It's a great platform. If you're interested in studying abroad
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if you're interested in finding scholarships. This will help you greatly. So you should look into this
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All right. So basically you create a profile here and then you give to the university when you apply
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And if I remember correctly, Rice University is also need aware for international students, I believe
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So like when you apply, you tell them I need financial aid
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to be able to study here. And then like they, like they consider that, like they keep that in mind when you consider, when they consider
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whether admitting you or not to the university so your application will be affected by whether you need financial aid If I remember correctly But if I not I pretty sure Eamon will correct me on that in a second
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So other than that, that's it. Again, it covers your financial needs that your family cannot cover
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Amon, do you want to add anything about this? Yes, so as you said, Bryson
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universities actually need-aware, and I think, and I could be wrong on this, but whenever a university
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says that they're ready to meet 100% of the students demonstrated need, that means that
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they're either need-aware or need-blind, but need-blind, just it goes without saying, but for
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need-aware universities, when they say that, when a university says that they're ready to
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meet up 100% of the students demonstrated need, it means that it's need-aware
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But the other way it doesn't work because not all need-aware universities are ready to meet 100% of demonstrated need
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So what need-aware means? it just means that, well, for one, your financial situation will affect your admission
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meaning that if you don't have enough funds to cover your tuition
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that could probably lead to your application being rejected. But at the same time, it also means that you will be considered for financial aid
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So they are aware of the fact that you probably can't afford it and they'll take that into consideration when they're awarding scholarships
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Generally, scholarships are just awarded. So although they're based on needs, but like on the, they're going to admit the top applicants
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at the end of the day and then depending on how much you need
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they will determine if they can afford to give you a scholarship
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Yeah right Yeah so I think that is the gist of it There aren too many need universities as far as international students are concerned
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There are exactly five scholars, five universities that are. But there are plenty of need-aware universities
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So, as I said, it doesn't mean that applying to these universities doesn't mean that you're getting scholarships
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but at the same time it does mean that you have a chance of getting on
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But being admitted to the university when you stated you need financial aid
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means that you will get it, right? Yes, so if they have admitted you
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well, admissions are also they'll give you, so if we're talking about an offer
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they'll tell you how much they're ready to to give you in scholarships
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but that doesn't mean it's always 100% of demonstrated need unless it's a university like Rice University
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where they actually say that they're ready to do that yeah so if a university says that they're ready to
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meet 100% of your demonstrated need Yes, when you're accepted, so when they admit you, you'll get a 100% or a fully funded scholarship
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I think one thing to note in the CSS profile, I think they're getting rid of the expected family contribution and they're starting a completely new system for 2024, 2025
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I believe it's the S-A-I, so it's student-aid index instead of the current EFC system
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So for students who are, students who are interested in studying abroad
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maybe they should look into that starting now because it's the new system starting this year onward
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Right. I'm looking to see if I can get some, like maybe a link about that from here. but
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I guess not anyway, let me share the link for CSS or anyone interested
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so yeah, okay well okay, thank you very much that was a very good, very thorough explanation
