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I'm an international student with limited financing options without a co-signer. This scholarship is such a hard thing to walk away from...

School that offered the scholarship: Rice
How much was offered: $30k/year (90% of tuition) - Rice offers only 2 full scholarships
GMAT score: 670
GPA: 2.7
College you attended: Top 3 in my country
Work experience: over 7 years WE by the time I resign
Type of work: 1.Financial analyst with govt with loads of responsibility. Our office is responsible for a string of successful privatizations over the past two years. Our successful transactions have privatized over $1.5 billion in assets. The record is even more impressive knowing that the assets we have left are ones with plenty of problems.
2. real estate and technology research analyst
3. programmer

Extras: No much ECs after graduating. Still, had one of my projects pushed through, it would have provided direct employment to 1,400 people for 25 years. I had to drop out of an EC while working for govt because of time conflicts.
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Still waiting on a few other schools... I'll likely go to Indy though. I have had some really great interactions with the school as well and they are very excited about me as a student and job prospects.
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B'town is cool. I liked it a lot when I went there (my gf went to school at IU). Good Bagel shop.
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School that offered the scholarship: HBS
How much was offered: $10k per year
GMAT score: 750
GPA: 3.72
College you attended: top 50 state university
Work experience: 3 years at top software company
Type of work: engineer
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I have a sense that international students are more likely to get a scholarship. In fact, a lot of people I know from India or some Asian countries receive a lot of scholarship.
Statistically, I am far behind you guys, but I got some scholarships(50K from Notre Dame, 50K from Emory, 60K from Purdue). So maybe, because Int students are poor, if schools want them pursue MBA, they usually offer scholarships.

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I have a sense that international students are more likely to get a scholarship. In fact, a lot of people I know from India or some Asian countries receive a lot of scholarship.
Statistically, I am far behind you guys, but I got some scholarships(50K from Notre Dame, 50K from Emory, 60K from Purdue). So maybe, because Int students are poor, if schools want them pursue MBA, they usually offer scholarships.

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That's coz several scholarships are more need based than merit based. Hence, low pre-MBA salaries = high scholarships. Congrats on your scholarships, by the way.
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Thanks Lepium.(now I understand why ryhme didn't receive scholarship while everything of him are perfect: He's a millionaire)
Should you put a lower salary or any special circumstances in your application to more likely receive a scholarship?
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what is considered low pre-mba salaries? 80k? 90k? i'm sure a lot of peoples here ( the engineers, IT, finance people) make a lot..

do they also look at your FASFA?
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what is considered low pre-mba salaries? 80k? 90k? i'm sure a lot of peoples here ( the engineers, IT, finance people) make a lot..

do they also look at your FASFA?
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Is 90k a low sal??? Thats close to the median sal at most elite schools.

I guess the median incoming salary at even the ultra-elites won't cross 65-70k.

By low salary, they mean the dollar equivalent of an Indian/Asian/African salary. For eg, 10k/annum is a good salary in India, but its pittance compared to an American salary in absolute dollar terms.
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School that offered the scholarship: University of Washington, Seattle
How much was offered: 20K (1st year)
GMAT score: 680
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I don't know about international applicants getting more... in other cases I have seen it the other way around.
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I don't know about international applicants getting more... in other cases I have seen it the other way around.
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I guess it varies across schools or maybe clusters. Probably for Ultra Elites or some Elites, where there's not much convincing needed, the scholarships would tend to be more "need based" than merit or sth. Then for lower clustered schools, it could be the other way round, i.e. they are trying to convince their top applicants to actually attend.

Additionally, there are several scholarships which are for US citizens only.

To summarize:

Need based scholarships are for low income / low net worth people (typically internationals, but not limited to). Examples of schools which provide need based scholarships (that I know of): HBS, Stanford.

Merit-based scholarships (sometimes from the school and other times from separate organizations such as the Forte Foundation): are based on several criteria including GMAT, application assessment, etc. If provided by the school, they could be used as a "yield boosting" tool. If provided by 3rd parties, then probably merit based within a certain pool.

By the way, does anyone have any representative sample or are we just guessing based on maybe 5 - 10 cases we know?}

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School: Michigan (Ross)
$: 20k per year (40k total)
GMAT: 750
Undegrad: small college in the Midwest
Profile: GPA 3.9, International Student (Polish), 1 WE, very good community service and extras

School: Darden (Virginia)
$: Full Ride (Batton Institute for Enterprenuership Scholarship)

School: Chicago (GSB)
$: 10k per year (20k total)

School: CMU Tepper
$: 10k per year, 20k total
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School: Duke Fuqua
Amt: $21k per year ($42k total)
GMAT: 710 (with wretched Q, hottie V)
Undergrad: Small Midwest Liberal Arts (Phi Beta Kappa, 3.94)
WE: almost 6 years; financial services for low-income populations & VISTA
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And now I'm off to woo the Park Fellowship people at Cornell...wish me luck.
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School: Duke Fuqua
Amt: $15k per year ($20k total)
GMAT: 710 (with wretched Q, hottie V)
Undergrad: Small Midwest Liberal Arts (Phi Beta Kappa, 3.94)
WE: almost 6 years; financial services for low-income populations & VISTA
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And now I'm off to woo the Park Fellowship people at Cornell...wish me luck.
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All the best......
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School: Duke Fuqua
Amt: $15k per year ($20k total)
GMAT: 710 (with wretched Q, hottie V)
Undergrad: Small Midwest Liberal Arts (Phi Beta Kappa, 3.94)
WE: almost 6 years; financial services for low-income populations & VISTA
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And now I'm off to woo the Park Fellowship people at Cornell...wish me luck.
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Congrats! How did you hear so soon re: the $$ amount? Did they tell you on the phone?

Also I think its 30k total, right?

Have fun!
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Got an email from Duke this afternoon offering a $10k scholarship ($5k/yr).

They must love Aaud more! Then again, so do I. ;)
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Aaudetat - You weren't kidding about needing to brush up on the quant skills, 15K per year is 20K total?

Kidding of course!
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Aaudetat - You weren't kidding about needing to brush up on the quant skills, 15K per year is 20K total?

Kidding of course!
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2 + 8 = 11

See, I get it.
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School: Duke
Amt : $21K/yr (total $42K)
GMAT: 720
GPA: 3.5 from top 5 liberal arts college
WE: 5 years consulting
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