<p>Hi
I have what I think are pretty decent stats that would put me in a good range for the public schools I am looking at (UCSD, UT) if I was in-state.
I'm looking at Public Schools mainly because of financial reasons, and I have read that UT and the UC's are very difficult to get into out of state. I have around a 3.6 GPA and 1340/2020 on the SAT. I'm retaking the SAT for hopes of a 2100+ and I was wondering which Public schools are not as harsh on international students as Texas and California.
If there are such things as private schools that generously award financial aid to international students, I would be very happy to know them- even if I have better scores than most of the student body.</p>
<p>THANKS!
P.S. I posted this in the other forum before I found out about the existence of this one so sorry about that!</p>
<p>Academically Im similar to you. though my GPA is quite higher my SAT's are a little lower (resitting too).</p>
<p>Do you need fin aid? The thing is, private universities are much more generous with aid than public universities.
So the cost may end up being about the same overall.</p>
<p>Where are you from and what schools are you looking at?</p>
<p>I don't NEED financial aid, but paying 50K a year for the next four years is going to eliminate A LOT of choices for my younger sister.
I'm looking at NYU (my brother's school, financial aid hell), UC's, was hoping for UT Austin but realized that it's unreasonable (out of state UT is very rough), USC, and I was just looking for a couple of options that would be easy on the wallet. I figure since I need safeties and matches anyway, it might as well be schools that won't break the bank.
I'm a Korean citizen, but I didn't actually start living here until last year.</p>
<p>I think you have a shot for UT. You might as well try. You only lose a bit of time and 60$ maybe ?</p>
<p>Definitely look at privates. They tend to be more generous than public Universities. Look at the schools listed in this thread <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/international-students/508008-so-schools-each-international-going-10.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/international-students/508008-so-schools-each-international-going-10.html</a> , I think most people there got financial aid. My stats were very similar to yours I had a 3.6 and a 1330 SAT, you might want to look into Trinity. They were very generous to me.</p>