A thread for applicants from over-represented pools

Wharton:

Wharton is pleased to announce a new partnership with Quorum Federal Credit Union that will provide a non-cosigned loan product for incoming international students. This loan program does not require a U.S. cosigner, and specific information on this program will be made available after students are admitted. Some U.S. banks will also permit international students to borrow through them provided the student has a creditworthy U.S. citizen cosigner.

Please Note (OFAC Sanctions): In accordance with mandatory federal regulatory guidelines, students from the United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets (OFAC) sanctioned countries are not eligible for the private education line of credit through Quorum Federal Credit Union. If you are an applicant from these countries, please complete a thorough search of funding opportunities to help with the cost of attendance at Wharton.

https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/admiss ... ograms.cfm

Stanford:


The Stanford University Graduate School of Business has partnered with the Star One Credit Union to provide private educational lines of credit to international Business School students. There may be other private educational loans for international students. However, many private educational loans do not offer the combination of relatively low interest rates with the possibility of not requiring a US co-signer for the loan.

Please Note: Star One Credit Union will not approve a line of credit for international students who are from countries listed on the United States Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) list of programs and countries with Financial Sanctions. The list of countries include Western Balkans (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania, FYR of Macedonia), Belarus, Myanmar (Burma), Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Cuba, DR Congo, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Zimbabwe.

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/mba/financi ... loans.html

Harvard:

Harvard University has partnered with the Harvard University Employees Credit Union (HUECU) to provide private educational loans to international students with no co-signer for 2012-2013. There may be other private educational loans for international students, and we urge all students to investigate their home country and/or country-of-residence loan options.

OFAC Sanctions Note: Lenders based in the United States (including HUECU) may not be able or willing to make loans to students from countries on the United States Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Sanctions; or to individuals identified by name, or related to or connected with anyone on the Specially Designated Nationals List. All applicants from these countries are strongly cautioned to be prepared to make their own financial arrangements to attend HBS

https://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/loans ... ional.html

Kellogg:

The option to borrow with a non-US co-signor is there. You can borrow with a co-signor in your home country.

https://www.northwestern.edu/sfs/student ... erest.html

Chicago Booth:

Chicago Booth is committed to providing financing opportunities for all students regardless of their citizenship and has loan programs available for students without U.S. co-signers. More specific information regarding these programs will be made available via the admitted students website upon admission to the program.

https://www.chicagobooth.edu/fulltime/ad ... alaid.aspx

You may also refer to the following thread:

financing-your-mba-international-students-95916.html