<p>what sort of schools could a near 2400 sat achiever with great grades, consider as safeties</p>
<p>i recently jumped from a 2150 to a 2390(!!!!) and need to quickly tweak my college list.....</p>
<p>any thoughts?</p>
<p>Congrats. What kind of college do you want, research/lac? Majors? Location? This all plays into it.</p>
<p>im looking for a uni that is:
strong in engineering and economics
has a good social life
good recruitment
research or LAC
in any location</p>
<p>and i am a canadian asking for financial aid</p>
<p>my first choice is the m&t program at penn
2nd to 4th choices - dartmouth, columbia, cornell</p>
<p>If international aid is an issue, you’ll definitely want to consider applying to Harvard.</p>
<p>all the schools im applying to are need-blind for canadians, except for duke and johns hopkins, which are need aware but, with my stats, i guess i would be competitive for the limited aid that they provide…</p>
<p>i dont think harvard would be a personal fit, and i dont want to go there just because of the brand name…</p>
<p>any other college suggestions?</p>
<p>a friend of mine last year was deferred at Yale with a 2400 perfect score! so it is not a guarantee of getting in. Anyway congrats!</p>
<p>^ dammmn- the unpredictablity of college admissions make the list we build all the more important…</p>
<p>so what schools Could i consider as safeties? i have u of rochester…but…is this a place where i would be wayy too overqualified?</p>
<p>i need another safety suggestion, perhaps a bit higher up in the rankings</p>
<p>whats your gpa?</p>
<p>choose Carnegie Mellon, great academics (engineering and business are top 10), well-known, and located in a up-and-coming city (Pittsburgh)</p>
<p>wanted to, but carnegie have NO aid for internationals :S</p>
<p>oh yeah and my school doesnt calc GPA or rank, but i have, apart from one B in my freshman year, straight As taking the most rigourous courseload</p>
<p>How about Lehigh? I think you will get in to Penn, but not sure about the money.</p>
<p>USC. WashU (maybe not so much a “safety” as they are on the lookout for those using them as such…). Case Western (engineering, anyway; not sure about economics).</p>
<p>You are CANADIAN. Your safeties are in, get this, CANADA. If you have grades and test scores as good as you report, then any number of the very fine Canadian universities are going to be delighted to admit you. Not to mention that they (by and large) are going to be waaaaaaay cheaper than colleges and universities in the US.</p>
<p>As an international student in need of financial aid, there are no true safeties for you in the US. The best that you can hope for are matches and reaches.</p>
<p>Good Schools for Engineering </p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon University Tartans
Rice University Owls
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets </p>
<p>Good for Economics/ Business</p>
<p>University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Georgetown University Hoyas
Boston College Eagles</p>
<p>I assume you will apply to Ivies and such so I did not put those down.</p>
<p>Happymomof1 is correct, IMHO. I think that Rochester is a good US safety for you, although it may not be a <em>financial</em> safety. They have some very good merit scholarships, but their need-based aid is not great in my experience.</p>
<p>How about U of T, or Waterloo right in Canada. They may not be as highly ranked as UPenn or Duke, but a good alternative to Rochester, especially in Engineering or Medicine.</p>
<p>Depends on how serious you are about engineering. Among the Ivies, Cornell and Princeton stand out. Agree with Country Day on CMU and Rice, though neither is a safety. Duke has excellent engineering and econ. Again, it is not a safety for anyone. Engineering at all of the above is very demanding and most of your classmates will have stats virtually identical to yours.</p>
<p>Rice, Northwestern, Michigan and Dartmouth, in addition to your list.</p>
<p>How about McGill?</p>
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<p>You are not at all overqualified. Plenty of applicants with your stats are rejected by the schools on your list every year. Admission to undergraduate study in the U.S. at private universities and colleges is more than a matter of grades and test scores. You have to sell yourself through your extra-curricular activities and essays as well. And most of the schools on your list require an essay wherein you explain why you want to go to that school, and they will expect you to articulate why scarce aid resources should be spent on you when you have many excellent, inexpensive options in Canada. For an international in need of financial aid, there really aren’t any U.S. safeties i.e. schools where you are extremely likely to be admitted that guarantee to meet full financial need as they define it.</p>