Safeties ?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Which colleges would you consider as safeties for an international student with 4 GPA and 33 ACT ?</p>

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<p>Are you looking for public or private universities? What area of the country?</p>

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<p>Yeah, it depends on the above and what you’re interested in, and also how much you can pay. My admissions safety (with the same stats as you, domestic applicant) is the University of San Francisco but because it’s so expensive, I’m applying to a school in-state too.</p>

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<p>I’d recommend the University of Kansas as a safety if you’re just asking for any suggestions at all and don’t care about location or public/private. You’d qualify for a $10,000/yr scholarship (I don’t know if being international affects that) based on your scores, and you’d also be an automatic admit. They have a wide range of majors, as well.</p>

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<p>The problem for the OP is that being a non-US citizen does affect which schools are safeties. There are very few, relatively speaking, schools in the US that offer internationals any aid. And in choosing a safety, OP’s family must absolutely be able to afford the school. So OP needs to find a school that will provide OP with all the aid his family needs.</p>

<p>Now if OP’s family needs no aid, OP is free to choose as safety any school OP can get into.</p>

<p>Otherwise, OP needs to know the names of the schools that do offer at least some aid to OP. Some are accounted for here, but I cannot swear to the accuracy of these sites:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.educationusa.info/financial-aid.php”>http://www.educationusa.info/financial-aid.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/2013/09/19/colleges-that-give-international-students-the-most-financial-aid”>http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/2013/09/19/colleges-that-give-international-students-the-most-financial-aid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://www.desperateguide.com/us/top-25-financial-aid-colleges-in-us-for-international-students-need-aware”>http://www.desperateguide.com/us/top-25-financial-aid-colleges-in-us-for-international-students-need-aware&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>After solving the money problem, OP can find some safeties for OP’s stats. OP will have to tell us more about where OP wants to live or doesn’t want to live, what OP is majoring in, whether OP prefers small or large, etc.</p>

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<p>@430ktk @figgycat @jkeil911 Yes I will need scholarship for safeties (I can pay around 20,000 $ myself)
And I dont care whether it is a public or private university but it should be a university which offers post graduation too</p>

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<p>KU’s scholarship is a merit scholarship, so you may still be eligible, but I’m not completely sure. That brings the total cost of attending just below $20,000.</p>

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<p>if that’s the case, OP, you’d better get reading those urls I provided. </p>

<p>Is the GPA unweighted? Have you taken any AP or IB courses? What are your ECs?</p>

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<p>Your question makes no sense. How can you expect to get useful information from those reading this thread without providing much more information. It would be like asking you what restaurant I should go to without telling you what country I live in, whether I have transportation, what type of food I want, how much money i want to spend, etc. </p>

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<p>Alabama would give you FREE tuition ( about a 25k per year scholarship). apply now, the app is up.</p>

<p>what is your major?</p>

<p>for an intl with a 20k budget, you NEED free tuition because of all an intl has to pay for…room, board, books, insurance, personal expenses, and intl travel.</p>

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<p>Why do you care if the university offers post-graduate degrees? Most students do not go on for a post-graduate education at the same college. This limits your choices. </p>

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<p>You need to be focusing FIRST on schools where you are eligible for FA or merit scholarships as an int’l applicant. All the other considerations are moot without money.</p>

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And I dont care whether it is a public or private university but it should be a university which offers post graduation too</p>

<p>Why do you care if the university offers post-graduate degrees? Most students do not go on for a post-graduate education at the same college. This limits your choices.</p>

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<p>Intparent is right. people usually go to another school for grad school…that is preferred to have different profs.</p>