Updated List of US Colleges/Universities that meet 100% demonstrated need for International Students

 

Some of you already started building your college list, so I thought this would be the right time to share this info that has been the soul of most BD applicants for the past 6 years. This list was originally compiled by Saraf Nawar apu and for some reason, it’s not on the files section anymore. Also, some of the colleges updated their policies and as a result, I’ll be building on top of that list. 

Notes: 

You’ll find 99% of all colleges that meet 100% demonstrated need in this list; for the rest of the 1%, if you know, comment down below.

I’ll also be adding a short “Fullride” keyword next to some colleges, which will mean, I know some Bangladeshi who got into those colleges with Fullrides. [Again if you know someone who got fullride to a college but isn’t indicated here, comment down below. I’ll update the list.] 

There are some colleges that have ScholarshipS [but not need-based aids] that meet the full cost of attendance aka fullride; I’ll not be adding those colleges to this list. They are already in the files section.

THE LIST

The Need-blinds [Your financial need doesn’t affect your admission]

Amherst College [Fullride]

Harvard University [Fullride]

Massachusetts Institute of Technology [Fullride]

Princeton University [Fullride]

Yale University [Fullride]

New York University Abu Dhabi [Fullride]

The Need-baseds/Need-awares/Need-sensitives [Your financial need affects your admission]

Barnard College (All Women's College) 

Bates College

Bennington College [Fullride]

Berea College [Fullride]

Bowdoin College 

Brown University 

Bryn Mawr College (All Women's College)

Carleton College [Fullride]

Colby College

Colgate University  

Colorado College [Fullride]

Columbia University [Fullride]

Connecticut College 

Cornell University [Fullride]

Dartmouth College [Fullride]

Davidson College [Fullride]

Dickinson College

Duke University [Fullride]

Franklin & Marshall College

Gettysburg College 

Hamilton College

Harvey Mudd College 

Haverford College [Fullride]

Johns Hopkins University

Kenyon College [Fullride]

Lafayette College

Lehigh University [Fullride]

Minerva Schools at KGI 

Macalester College 

Middlebury University [Fullride]

Oberlin College

Pomona College

Reed College [Fullride]

Rice University [Fullride] 

Skidmore College

Smith College (All Women's College) [Fullride]

Swarthmore College [Fullride]

Stanford University [Fullride]

Trinity College 

Tufts University [Fullride]

University of Chicago

University of Miami 

University of Pennsylvania

University of Richmond [Never heard of any Bangladeshi getting in]

Vanderbilt University [Fullride]

Vassar College

Washington University in St. Louis 

Washington & Lee University

Wellesley College (All Women's College)

Williams College [Fullride]

~ Talha Chowdhury [24-03-2021]

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1. Harvard University
2. Stanford University
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
4. California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
5. Princeton University
6. Yale University
7. Columbia University
8. University of Chicago
9. University of Pennsylvania
10. Johns Hopkins University
11. Northwestern University
12. University of California, Berkeley
13. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
14. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
15. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
16. University of Texas at Austin
17. Carnegie Mellon University
18. Duke University
19. University of Washington
20. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
21. New York University (NYU)
22. Georgia Institute of Technology
23. University of Wisconsin-Madison
24. University of Florida
25. University of Virginia
26. Cornell University
27. University of Southern California
28. Rice University
29. Brown University
30. University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
31. Purdue University
32. University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
33. University of California, Irvine (UCI)
34. University of Notre Dame
35. Washington University in St. Louis
36. Emory University
37. Boston University
38. Texas A&M University
39. Ohio State University
40. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
41. University of Maryland, College Park
42. University of Pittsburgh
43. University of Arizona
44. University of Colorado Boulder
45. University of Rochester
46. University of Miami
47. University of Iowa
48. Indiana University Bloomington
49. University of Massachusetts Amherst
50. Virginia Tech
51. North Carolina State University
52. Pennsylvania State University
53. Michigan State University
54. Florida State University
55. Arizona State University
56. University of California, Davis (UC Davis)
57. University of Georgia
58. Syracuse University
59. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
60. Case Western Reserve University
61. Tufts University
62. University of California, Riverside (UCR)
63. Iowa State University
64. Boston College
65. University of Connecticut
66. Colorado School of Mines
67. University of Delaware
68. University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)
69. Northeastern University
70. George Washington University
71. Lehigh University
72. University of South Florida
73. University of Utah
74. Wake Forest University
75. University of Kentucky
76. University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)
77. Dartmouth College
78. University of California, Merced (UC Merced)
79. University of Alabama
80. University of Missouri
81. Baylor University
82. University of Cincinnati
83. Texas Christian University (TCU)
84. University of New Mexico
85. Utah State University
86. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
87. Colorado State University
88. University of Nebraska-Lincoln
89. University of Vermont
90. Stevens Institute of Technology
91. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
92. University of Arkansas
93. Brandeis University
94. Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech)
95. University of Houston
96. University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
97. University of Oklahoma
98. Stony Brook University (SUNY)
99. Oregon State University
100. San Diego State University (SDSU)