<p>I'm a student in Mumbai, India, and will be graduating next year. I want to do my undergraduate on Computer Science. Now I've done my research on English, Australian colleges but I'm a little flimsy on American ones. I scored a 2120 on my SAT, (1430 without the writing section). I have reasonably good extracurriculars and event participation (a Senior Diploma in a classical form of dance, two distinction certificates in classical music, Community Service Director of the local Rotaract Club, part of a student exchange programme to Denmark, etc), and as far as gpa goes we don't really have that system in India. We have the percentage system for the 10th and 12th class, and I got a 94% in my 10th. My interim marks for 12th are good. So here's the question:
What colleges should I be looking at? A few of my seniors got accepted in UBC and I do have my eyes set on it. Do I have a chance? U of A sounds good too. In the US, I was looking at Rochester Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology as matches, Tufts and Brown as serious reaches. Please suggest something?
Oooh and financial aid is definitely a big consideration!</p>
<p>Come to the Indian forum. You will have help there. Who others can help you other those who did all this?</p>
<p>I will be on that forum regularly. I’m about to leave now. When I come back, I’ll answer you on the Indian forum.</p>
<p>Many public (state) schools in the USA do not offer need-based financial aid to Internationals. Georgia Tech, for example, does not offer need-based (or non-need-based) aid to Internationals, according to its Common Data Set. RIT is private but apparently does not publish a Common Data Set file showing a break-down of aid amounts and types; I don’t know how much aid it awards to Internationals.</p>
<p>The following site claims to show the top 25 schools for financial aid to Internationals (but note that these schools have need-aware admission policies for Internationals):
[Top</a> 25 Financial Aid Colleges in US for International Students (Need-aware) - Desperate Guide: Undergraduate College Financial Aid, Scholarship<a href=“many%20of%20these%20are%20small,%20private,%20selective%20liberal%20arts%20colleges”>/url</a></p>
<p>Very few US schools are need-blind for Internationals:
[url=<a href=“http://www.desperateguide.com/us/top-6-need-blind-colleges-in-us-for-international-students]Top”>http://www.desperateguide.com/us/top-6-need-blind-colleges-in-us-for-international-students]Top</a> 6 Need-blind Colleges in US for International Students - Desperate Guide: Undergraduate College Financial Aid, Scholarship](<a href=“http://www.desperateguide.com/us/top-25-financial-aid-colleges-in-us-for-international-students-need-aware]Top”>http://www.desperateguide.com/us/top-25-financial-aid-colleges-in-us-for-international-students-need-aware)</p>
<p>@hopingforbetter: I don’t understand why you couldn’t just reply here, but alright. I’m hunting down the indian forum and posting there now. </p>
<p>@tk21769: Yeah I know thats GIT’s downside for me. But I met an RIT representative at a college fair we had at my high school a few months ago and he directed me to this page on their website that has a scholarship table not exclusive to US citizens, and their co-op includes international students too, so I do have some hope there.</p>
<p>Also how is Stony Brook for Computer Science? Do they have co-op programs cause I couldn’t find a mention of it anywhere.</p>