<p>Looking at your list I suspect you are focusing on schools with low OOS tuition, which may be prescribed by your finances, but that will limit how well you can match your other criteria. Financial aid is difficult to find anywhere in the states for any international student, and the limited stats you show are those of a very good but not outstanding student. The other criteria you list: mild weather, not a too big school, lower teacher-student ratio, are easily checked with any one of a half a dozen standard references (USNWR, Petersons, Barrons, …) and a simple map. Most of your schools have more than 20,000 students, and low teacher-student ratios. Several of them have very cold winters by my standards: Cornell, Michigan, and Wisconsin, others have winters that you might consider cold. OTOH with appropriate clothing others from the tropics have enjoyed cold winters. The admissions session we attended at Colby was by a former student originally from Malaysia, who radiated love of the place and you don’t get much warmer than Malaysia or much colder than Colby and have a place habitable year round.</p>