<p>Ah, I see. The total annual income of my parents is 90k to 100k ish. And what constitute as the EFC?</p>
<p>[EFC</a> Calculator: How Much Money for College Will You Be Expected to Contribute?](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>Expected Family Contribution (EFC) – BigFuture)</p>
<p>I really wanna tell you to stay away from “chance me” website but I know that you wouldn’t listen :)</p>
<p>I will admit that these websites are fun to play with, but I recommend that you ignore their advice COMPLETELY. The algorithms are hugely oversimplified and if you get chanced by actual people for free, those people are most likely other college applicants who have no idea what they are doing.</p>
<p>One much more accurate tool is the [UC</a> Stat Finder](<a href=“http://statfinder.ucop.edu/]UC”>http://statfinder.ucop.edu/). You can query the actual admission data from all UC schools broken down by characteristics such as SAT score, GPA, number of honors courses, region of home location or ethnicity. It’s also a good tool to cross-validate the results of various “chance me” websites. Most of the time the “chance me” websites are completely off from the actual admission data for the UC schools! (And if they are off for the UCs, they are probably off for other universities as well.)</p>
<p>Haha, yah, good point!
I will check the website out, thanks for sharing!</p>
<p>Are you a student? You seem to be super knowledge in this :D</p>
<p>Unlike most poor internationals who ask almost full financial aid, you should be fine asking partial financial aid. I estimate that your EFC is between $10k and $20k. Let me assume $15k. On your Common App, you can put $15k (EFC) as you are going to pay. However, on your each institution’s supplement, you can put a higher $ amount than $15k up to whatever number you are willing to pay. For need-blind schools, such as Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, Dartmouth, Amherst & Cornell, you should just put $15k (EFC) on the institution’s supplement because it does not help you by putting a higher $ amount. I am confident that you should be fine.</p>
<p>I am currently a graduate student. I have been following the college admissions scene for a few years and the more I read, the more I realize just how little I know and how little other people know too. I have become very wary of the advice of anyone who claims to be able to “chance” students but who’s not actually working in admissions themselves. Chances are that they are very misinformed.</p>
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<p>I don’t think that is correct. If the OP has been in the US since the age of 9 and has been educated since that age in English-speaking schools, he probably won’t be required to take the TOEFL, irrespective of his citizenship status. </p>
<p>Anyway, the right way to know for sure is to check with the admissions office at each college you are interested to apply to.</p>
<p>@ik65
Thanks a lot for the advice. Yah it turned out to be around 15k.
Do you know where i can find a list of schools that are need-blind schools?</p>
<p>@b@r!um
Ah, I see. I have to agree with you on that. The “chancing” can sometimes be very misleading, and without having a thorough knowledge of the student and the school, it is very difficult to come up with a worthwhile “chance”.</p>
<p>[Need-blind</a> admission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need-blind_admission]Need-blind”>Need-blind admission - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>[The</a> Washington Monthly - The Magazine - Administrators Ate My Tuition](<a href=“http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2011/features/administrators_ate_my_tuition031641.php?page=all&print=true]The”>http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2011/features/administrators_ate_my_tuition031641.php?page=all&print=true)</p>
<p>[Steve</a> Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (with intro by President John Hennessy) - YouTube](<a href=“Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (with intro by President John Hennessy) - YouTube”>Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (with intro by President John Hennessy) - YouTube)</p>
<p>[Study</a> This to See Whether Harvard Pays Off: Laurence Kotlikoff - Bloomberg](<a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?)</p>
<p>bentley8,</p>
<p>For the TOEFL you need to ask each college and university separately about their specific policy. That is the only way to know.</p>
<p>Check out this post for some of the best US colleges for foreign students, ranked by Newsweek: [UNIcq</a> | Blog | FAST FACTS: Best colleges for Foreign Students by Newsweek, USA](<a href=“http://unicq.net/universe/blog/2011/08/30/fast-facts-best-colleges-for-foreign-students-by-newsweek-usa/]UNIcq”>http://unicq.net/universe/blog/2011/08/30/fast-facts-best-colleges-for-foreign-students-by-newsweek-usa/)</p>
<p>Also, there appears to be only 7 need-blind colleges in the US, according to an excerpt in the article researched by another student:</p>
<p>a) Dartmouth
b) Harvard
c) Yale
d) Princeton
e) MIT
f) Amherst
g) Williams</p>
<p>I am not sure if this is still accurate - Anyone has any thoughts?</p>
<p>Williams went need aware in 2010</p>