<p>Gender: Male
Location: India
High School: Private
High School Type: rarely sends grads to top schools
Will apply for financial aid: Yes</p>
<p>Academics:</p>
<p>GPA - Unweighted: 93.00
GPA - Weighted: 92.00
Class Rank: 2
Class Size: 250</p>
<p>Scores:
SAT I - 770(W),750(M),780(CR)
hoping to give sat ii this year</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:</p>
<p>Significant Extracurriculars: partcipated in intel isef
winner of the city level science fair
winner of the state level science fair
winner of the regional science fair
winner of the national science fair(IRIS)
captain of college debating team(hoping to be national champion this year)
captain of the school quiz team
captain of the school science team
captain of the community service club
vice captain of the debating team
prefect of the school
member of the literary board of the school
member of the school magazine "constantia"
member of the community service club</p>
<p>Athletic Status - list sport and your level:
swimming :school level
track and field :school level
hockey :school level
table tennis: school level
badminton:city level
Honors and Awards:
recipient of the micfest award
recipient of the literary fest award
winner of the quanta competition
winner of the McFair competition</p>
<p>Area:
Importance of cost: Extremely important</p>
<p>With your stats you could easily be looking at HYPM. I don't really know enough to comment further, but that's my impression. Good essays and recommendations and you'd be right in the mix.</p>
<p>Edit: Sorry - I just saw your title - "safety colleges". You know, I think you'd stand a very good chance of landing a near-full ride at many schools that would be considered (admissions-wise) a safety for you, if you pick them well. But I'll let someone else talk about that.</p>
<p>Take a look at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa-a top-ranked, nationally respected LAC. Their incoming class is 12-15% foreign students. They have an enormous endowment which they use, in part, to provide very generous financial aid because they are actively seek to increase the diversity of their student body. Indians and Chinese are the two largest groups of foreign students on campus.</p>
<p>OK, these are the colleges tht offer financial aid to a good number of interntional students:
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Arizona State University (AZ), Barry University (FL), Clark Univ. (MA), Eastern Michigan Univ. (MI), Grinnell College (IA), Harding Univ. (AR), Harvard (MA), Illinois Inst. of Tech. (IL), Liberty Univ. (VA), Louisiana State Univ. (LA), Macalester College (MN), Marquette Univ. (WI), MIT (MA), Mount Holyoke College (MA) Ohio Wesleyan Univ. (OH), Princeton (NJ), SUNY Plattsburgh (NY), Univ. of Bridgeport (CT), Univ. of Houston (TX), Univ. of Pennsylvania (PA), Univ. of South Florida (FL)
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<p>I recommend you investigate Arizona State, Eastern Michigan, and SUNY Plattsburgh as possible safeties.</p>
<p>If you plan to major in a liberal arts area, I recommend you investigate University of Minnesota, Morris. It is a very good small public liberal arts college and the price is quite reasable for international students. It may be cheaper without financial aid than other schools are with financial aid. They want more international students and it would definitely be a safety school.</p>
<p>Here's the link to a Google Docs spreadsheet I've partially compiled and cross-referenced the figures to colleges' common data sets. Hope you find this useful.</p>
<p>Notes regarding the cost figures in the spreadsheet
1. Most of the figures are obtained from the colleges' common data set 2007-2008 if available.
2. Figures that haven't been cross-referenced have been entered as text, indicated by a green arrow/ a hyphen entered before the figure (does not affect calculations).
3. The above figures are only 70% accurate as of 2005-2006 and should be only used as a rough reference/estimate to calculate the cost of attendance per annum (Total cost).</p>
<p>Notes regarding middle 50% SAT scores in the spreadsheet
1. The scores are obtained from Princeton Review.
2. The scores are the average per section, where the lowest and highest are taken when colleges post different scores for each section. (i.e. 560-640 for Maths and 600-680 for Critical Reading would generate a 560-680 figure)
3. Average interquartile range of SAT scores is 100.
4. 90% of cases where a certain section's average is significantly higher, the critical reading score will be higher than the maths score.
5. ACT scores are converted where SAT scores aren't available.
6. A considerable amount of colleges do not regard the writing section of the SAT I.
7. Scores from admitted students are on average lower than the scores of accepted students.</p>
<p>Additional notes
1. The Princeton Review selectivity rating is to be viewed in tandem with the other information provided as there are non-quantifiable factors in the admissions game.
2. Some of the cells are unfilled, resulting in a unrealistic 'Total cost'.
3. Colleges which provide Merit aid and Need-based aid usually award a higher amount of merit aid per person, thereby making figures unreliable.
4. Disclaimer: I will not be held responsible for any inaccuracies in any of the figures and for the consequences resulting from the usage of the figures in the spreadsheet.</p>
<p>what do you wanna major in? If its engineering, then LACs rarely offer that. You would have to look for private universities like Tufts university.</p>
<p>Most of these LACS are matches or high matches for the OP stats wise and definitely not financial safeties.
Here is a list of the Columbia 3-2 program(a B.A. from an LAC and an engineering degree from Columbia) and there are some excellent safety prospects, with the option to attend Columbia, provided various conditions are met. Affiliated</a> Liberal Arts Colleges and Universities | Columbia University Office of Undergraduate Admissions</p>
<p>There is no such thing as financial safeties. The reason is, when you ask for a lot of aid from safeties, you admission becomes really competitve! Most safety colleges don't have that much money to finance internationals.</p>