I had a wonderful conversation with a doctor at a wedding last month. He came to the US with his family and applied to US colleges as an international student, no green card He ended up at a school in Arkansas. Not his first choice. Luckily he applied to schools that were not oversubscribed and was accepted. He did extraordinarily well there and was accepted to medical school here in this country. Again at s school that would not be his first choice. But his title is Dr now and he is doing his residency at one of his top choices.
Sometimes we have choices that are not on the agenda. We have to work to get them on the table because they may offer us the path to get where we want. As you well know, Indian nationality is way over represented at top schools. If you have the grades and test scores, absolutely give it a try but don’t ignore the statistics. The most selective schools by definition are long shots.
At least finding a list of the most selective schools is easy. Just google and there they are. The crux of good college search is finding the unheralded schools with little name recognition that can give you what you want in all but name recognition. There are thousands of these schools. Any flagship state university is a good bet—check out Arkansas, Mississippi, Idaho. You need to check out programs , what is offered etc etc. That is where the work in college search lies.
I don’t know if Japanese citizenship confers Any advantage over Indian in terms of International quotas at colleges.
The University of Utah would be a good safety that fits your objectives for a safe urban/suburban campus. It has a good CS program and an excellent honors college with interesting course options.
Ohio State University - https://cse.osu.edu/current-students/undergraduate/majors
If you are more interested in business, you should actually apply for direct admission to their Fisher College of Business https://fisher.osu.edu/undergraduate because it can be very difficult to transfer into later. If you are sure you want engineering then you need to apply to their College of Engineering (international students need to be directly admitted - only domestic students can transfer into the College of Engineering). In addition to Honors/Scholars programs there is a small, competitive program (36 students/year) that combines engineering and business “students receive a bachelor of science in business administration or engineering major, a minor in the opposite field, and an “Honors in Integrated Business and Engineering” diploma distinction” https://u.osu.edu/ibeprogram/program/about/
Safety - admission to Ohio State
Target - admission to College of Engineering or Fisher
Reach - acceptance to the IBE program
Hi @BuckeyeMWDSG@Twoin18@cptofthehouse@Greymeer@Hippobirdy@Hamurtle
Thank you for your responses. I will definitely be looking for these as safeties.
However, I am more inclined to looking for safeties on the East Coast (Mostly NE) and West Coast and maybe great lakes area too. Also, I’m not really concerned about scholarships. I know that most public universities are focused on catering to students in state or at least in-country (unless they have historically admitted lots of international students). If you could recommend any PRIVATE Safeties for CS that would be helpful. At the same time I am looking for safeties for economics or business