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A student wrote to ask if there’s such a thing as asking too many question sof a university – especially when it comes to financial aid.  The student is afraid that asking too many questions might annoy the university representative, and hurt his or her chances of being accepted to that university.

The answer is that sure, at some point you should stop pestering university staff about financial aid.  If you ask about scholarship opportunities and loans, how other international students finance their education, etc., and you receive all the answers, then at that point there’s really not much more the university staff can tell you.  At that point asking more questions might seem a little pushy.

But in general, so long as you are polite, and so long as you remember that the university admissions staff has thousands of students they work with, and not just one (you), than you should feel free to ask as many questions as you want.  Remember, the job of admissions staff is to find qualified, talented students and enroll them in their university.

So while there is such a thing as askign too many questions, the much more common problem international students have is not asking enough!