(International Student) Please help me find a safety college.

I’ m an Indian applying to US schools. My old thread shows my stats and advice given.
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/2141086-international-student-india-please-help-me-select-colleges-p1.html
Budget is limited to 7k an year.
I have decided to apply to a mix of international schools where I have a chance of getting close to a full ride.
All I’ m searching for is an international safety school. It could be anywhere, i don’ t care. I just want to have a backup to fall back upon in case i get rejected from these schools.
Please list atleast one affordable safety school apart from the ones in India.
Major- Physics.
Budget- 7000$ annually.

Safeties have to be affordable. If your budget is $7k/year you pretty much need a full ride. Your safeties will be the colleges in your home country.

please also add the deadline of applying. I do not know how to use the internet very well, so the help will be appreciated.

The safties are not restricted to the US only. It can be anywhere.

I don’t know if you have any safeties, as such, but maybe consider investigating Leipzig University’s Physics program in English.

even one safety will be enough.

Anyone Please reply, i have been waiting for 2 days.

The advice in your other thread is very good. You have to retake the SAT because your 2400 score is more than 3 years old. Follow up on the schools listed in that thread.

A safety is a school that you stand a strong chance of being admitted to, that you’d be happy to attend, and will be affordable. With a $7k budget that means you pretty much need a full ride for schools outside of India. I don’t believe there are any schools that can be considered a safety when you need a full ride. Apply to a few if you get a strong SAT score on the retake, but consider them reaches. Are there any schools in India that you can attend for $7k/year? Those are your safeties.

Well Arizona tuition is 36,500 and if you have the states they want they could give you 35k in scholarships

Anyone wanting a free ride has very few safeties. Particularly not international students. We are still not at the point of giving all of our citizens and residents free college. This is a capitalist country and most everything costs money. A lot more money than in India. What are you home options? Those will cost you the least unless you win the lottery here. That’s about what your chances of getting someone or some school to pay your living expenses as well as the tuition at a college Still, people do enter this lottery, so give it a try. There is no safety net for getting a free ride.

Look at UIS (university of Illinois Springfield), Berea College.
U Cincinnati has the Cincinnatus scholarships and then honors within honors scholarships.
France and Germany, programs in smaller towns would be within budget.

Which colleges in france and germany? When and how to apply? I dont know german or french. Is that a problem?

Look up Campus France to see if they offer programs in English. As far as I know the free tuition courses are in French and require a high level in the language as a pre-requisite.
For Germany I think you get 18minthd to become fluent in German or your admission is rescinded.
Type in CampusFrance and Study in Germany, make sure the URL ends with .fr or .de.

What exactly do you want to study?

Check on https://educationusa.state.gov/ for an advising center for your country to get info on applying to US colleges.

Look in http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/international-students/ as I am sure other international students have the same issue.

The problem is that the colleges that offer full aid to international students are not safety schools. No one is answering because I don’t think there is an answer.

I am not asking for a college that requires a full ride. All I want is an affordable safety, anywhere like Turkey, germany anywhere in the world.

Helium90, please don’t take this the wrong way. In my view, you need to be a bit more realistic. You are proposing gambling a reasonably large sum of thousands of U.S. dollars of your family money, on a very difficult academic course of study- physics—and doing it thousands and thousands of miles away from home, in a quite different culture (both academically and in your day to day life), with apparently a thin financial safety net.

To do that successfully, it’s not enough that you are bright and got good grades in your high school. It’s necessary, but not sufficient. Firstly, many very successful, intelligent and hard-working students have a difficult time when they get to university-level physics. They struggle even though they are living in their home countries, and have experienced family members to support them.

In addition to being book-smart and very hard-working, you would have to be mature for your age, as well as independent, resourceful, flexible, and a creative problem-solver. Asking other people for basic things you can research on your own because “you don’t know how to use the internet well” (#3) just isn’t going to work. You would need to be very good, not only at the internet, but at solving all kinds of practical problems. You need to follow up and do the work on your own.

Also, you should understand the limits of this forum. People posting here mainly live in the U.S., and are knowledgeable about United States high school qualifications and how those qualifications relate to United States colleges. You cannot expect people on this forum to understand how to correctly interpret your high school achievements in India and give you solid global guidance—from Turkey, to Europe, to the United States.

Do you have internet access on your phone or through a cyber cafe?

Why don’t you pursue an undergrad degree in India and go to grad school somewhere else? You’ll be older and will have learned how to do basic Google searches by then, and you’ll have had some time to earn some money to put toward your expenses.