It does not preclude a school from giving a student a full scholarship.
I just felt that the OP was fear-mongering in a way that was not helpful.
Agree 1,000,000%! One caveat though for all DACAs, based on something that came up last cycle.
It turns out that, counterintuitively, even though DACA is an immigration status, it is not a legal status, like a Green Card, so
@wysdoc is correct about federal loans, and schools are forced to treat these students as foreign students.
Unlike many actual foreign students, however, DACA tend not to come from wealthy families. As a result, aside from the few schools that offer generous scholarships, they have no way to pay if the school will not either provide institutional loans, OR, at the very least, certify private loans. And, this one school in particular would not, insisting that DACA was like any other foreign student and had to either deposit the full amount of tuition and fees for the 4 years in advance, or deposit a smaller amount, with an American guarantor on the hook for the balance. All of this was quite a shock for the student when it became an issue at the 11th hour after acceptance.
Just throwing this out there. You are correct about fear mongering, but it is heartbreaking to see someone successfully navigate the admission gauntlet only to be faced with a gotcha regarding being unable to pay at the end of the process. So, yes, no current DACA needs to worry about packing their bags. Congress or the courts will figure this out one way or the other, and people who are currently in the US are probably never going to be forced to leave, and certainly not in the intermediate term.
OTOH, all DACA need to know in advance not only whether the school will accept the application, but what their expectations are with respect to funding, because, unfortunately, the answer is not always what one would expect, especially with respect to private loans.
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