<p>What is the best safety college for international students? 'Best' being empirical for low fees (or lenient aid), good reputation and good faculty. </p>
<p>I am mainly looking for Engineering and/or Economics majors- so state colleges, LAcs and everything under the sun is welcome. Rolling preferred.</p>
<p>I don't want a controversy but just some brazen hard truth. I want at least one decent acceptance before I get pulled into the crap-shoot admission process of the Top 20s.</p>
<p>there really is no answer to that.</p>
<p>What is the best safety college for international students? ‘Best’ being empirical for low fees (or lenient aid), good reputation and good faculty. </p>
<p>none…but if you take out aid, a couple; and if you take out low fees, a lot.</p>
<p>Purdue, probably.</p>
<p>SUNY Buffalo.
Great school!
Very very low fees.</p>
<p>Im applying there, might go because debt free undergrad+grad from an ivy > undergrad with a lotta debt!</p>
<p>SUNY Buffalo != great engineering education.</p>
<p>@blue box:
Purdue was already on my list as a MAJOR safety!</p>
<p>@aniruddh:
Buffalo? OK I’ll look it up!</p>
<p>What is the verdict on UT Austin?</p>
<p>Very very good for engineering, especially computer engineering. But not a safety.</p>
<p>By no means is it a safety.
Kinda expensive too.</p>
<p>Agree with Aniruddh.</p>
<p>SUNY isn’t exactly a safety…
aslo the term ‘safety’ is applied wrt the student himself. You cannot generalize.</p>
<p>College of Wooster
DePauw University
Knox College
Denison
pretty much any CTCL place</p>
<p>To add however, safeties vary not only with the student but also with how much aid one needs. If you can pay something like 25k- 30k easily, then certain state universities and CTCL colleges would work for you. If you require more aid than that, it’s doubtful any college can REALLY be a safety.</p>
<p>@sushmita:I don’t need aid though I’d be open for merit based scholarship!(Who isn’t?) </p>
<p>And my stats are fine! My ECs, rank, SAT IIs (800, 800, 800) are very strong and my essay writing skills are not half bad! The only prob is my SAT 1 (2000) but I did that without much studying and I am taking a retake this Oct so I am hoping for at least a 2200 or better!</p>
<p>@cheese: thanks I’ll look them up!</p>
<p>your stats are really good!</p>
<p>Ask sush about the SUNY Buffalo Presidential Scholarship… I have half-baked knowledge about the same but sush is a presidential scholar so she’d know the criteria etc</p>
<p>Thanks aniruddh! My stats are good (not very good though!) but my SATs are bringing me down and unless and until I don’t get it up to CC level I am not being complacent! 3 months and a 300 points increase- I might need a few miracles! :p</p>
<p>@Sush: Care to shed some info on it?</p>
<p>Well, you can look up the criteria here: [UB</a> Undergraduate Admissions: Costs, Scholarships and Aid - Scholarships - Merit Scholarships](<a href=“http://admissions.buffalo.edu/costs/meritscholarships.php]UB”>http://admissions.buffalo.edu/costs/meritscholarships.php)</p>
<p>However, you would need to bring up your SAT scores as there is a minimum requirement, which I’m not sure you fulfill (1470/1600) as of now.
Apart from that, the application has 3 essays, recommendation letters and your ECs. I believe the essays are given quite a bit of importance and some candidates are interviewed too (though I wasn’t).</p>
<p>That said, if you don’t need aid- apply early to schools like Chicago and Michigan.</p>
<p>SUNY Buffalo is definitely a good school. (only negative is winter weather over there)</p>
<p>I think UT Austin is a better safety. It is big but their honors program is top notch. I know several students who transferred from Rice to UT. I just don’t understand why most posters here on Indian forums put down state schools. I think it is a myth that state schools don’t give any aid to international students. Good state schools like UT Austin do give FA to international students. Their reputation hinges partly on attracting talented international students. My gut feeling is that it is a status issue that prevents most Indian students from considering state schools.</p>
<p>Aid at state schools is only merit though, and so requires a person to be at the very top of the applicant pool. Need based aid at privates can be a lot more generous (though it wasn’t in my case!)
I do agree though- I see no reason for perpetually putting down state schools.</p>
<p>State schools are kinda cheaper and as good as private ones!</p>