<p>Yeah, CMU and NYU definitely aren't safeties.</p>
<p>tetrisfan- I know you must be a high achieving student.. so schools like NYU will be your safety as long as you don't stay on CC 24-7.</p>
<p>Conflicting advice!</p>
<p>NYU is too selective to be considered a safety, even though tetris is asking for no aid. There is a very high chance she would get in if she were to apply but it isn't a safety, per se.</p>
<p>I second polydentate. Besides, tetrisfan, you have been around long enough to know that you will never get unanimous advice at CC :P</p>
<p>Haha yes :D</p>
<p>You know what, Tulane University is the dark horse of 2008's application process. Tulane received twice applicants than last year and admitted only 24-25% of its applicant this year. It is a large difference from Tulane's last year accepatance rate of 48%.</p>
<p>But Tulane=major party school. Not my type.</p>
<p>i think you should apply to a few places that do offer aid to international students but are not need blind...you will have an edge over all the other international applicants since you won't be asking for aid...a few places that come to mind are Lafayette College, Dickinson and Villanova</p>
<p>I think you should apply to Bryn Mawr as a safety because it's an awesome college :D and they actively recruit full-paying internationals.</p>
<p>Joking aside, to answer your initial question: I think you can go about choosing a safety in the same fashion an American student would; just take into account that a few colleges are more popular among internationals than domestic students (NYU comes to mind).</p>
<p>I'm not going to talk about safeties but rather top schools which would be somewhat easier to get into by paying full. Cornell, UPenn, Brown, Stanford and perhaps Dartmouth will obviously be very difficult to get into even without asking for FA but it will be significantly easier than if you had asked for grants. But this works ONLY if you have very good academic credentials and decent ECs.</p>
<p>Yay Brown!</p>
<p>[don't mind me, I get hyper whenever Brown is mentioned]</p>
<p>Wait, in another thread I thought you were already accepted to Brown! Haha. So that's your dream school?</p>
<p>Oh yeah, it is :). I'm a rising junior, so no applications till next fall!</p>
<p>Would Brandies fit the bill?</p>
<p>most likely in @ brandeis.
but i wouldn't call it a REAL safety</p>
<p>Then what's a REAL safety? Most of the colleges thrown around in this thread are hardly real safeties! :)</p>
<p>All publics except UCB, UCLA, Umich.</p>
<p>Brandeis cannot be considered as a safety.</p>
<p>Oh my bad, UVA isn't a real safety either. Forgot to include that one.</p>