{"id":5835,"date":"2019-01-25T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=5835"},"modified":"2019-01-28T17:37:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T22:37:56","slug":"isnt-it-unfair-that-bc-doesnt-give-financial-aid-to-international-students-unlike-harvard-mit-amherst-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/01\/25\/isnt-it-unfair-that-bc-doesnt-give-financial-aid-to-international-students-unlike-harvard-mit-amherst-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Isn&#8217;t it unfair that BC doesn&#8217;t give financial aid to international students unlike Harvard, MIT, Amherst, etc.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5834\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5834\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/012519-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5834\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/012519-1-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"Isn't it unfair that BC doesn't give financial aid to international students unlike Harvard, MIT, Amherst, etc.? How can we attract the best of the world if it is unaffordable to go here ??!? #injustice\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/012519-1-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/012519-1.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isn&#8217;t it unfair that BC doesn&#8217;t give financial aid to international students unlike Harvard, MIT, Amherst, etc.? How can we attract the best of the world if it is unaffordable to go here ??!? #injustice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Well, my assistants called around campus, and though I don&#8217;t have an answer to &#8220;why,&#8221; I do have a clarification: BC does not offer financial aid to students who are not permanent residents or citizens. This is a decision made at levels higher than, say, the Student Services office, who only carries out policy. Federal financial aid, on the other hand, is only ever available to permanent residents or citizens. If you want to challenge that policy, I suggest garnering support from UGBC and approaching the administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my assistants called around campus, and though I don&#8217;t have an answer to &#8220;why,&#8221; I do have a clarification: BC does not offer financial aid to students who are not permanent residents or citizens. This is a decision made at levels higher than, say, the Student Services office, who only carries out policy. Federal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/01\/25\/isnt-it-unfair-that-bc-doesnt-give-financial-aid-to-international-students-unlike-harvard-mit-amherst-etc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it unfair that BC doesn&#8217;t give financial aid to international students unlike Harvard, MIT, Amherst, etc.?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[469,470],"class_list":["post-5835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college","tag-financial-aid","tag-international-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5880,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835\/revisions\/5880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}