Thank you all for the helpful tips!
@Torveaux that’s exactly it…
I would like to point out that a lot of my safeties are in Canada because being a French citizen gets you a huge discount on Quebec due to international agreements between both governments.
I will not even entertain the thought of paying anything for schools that aren’t good just because they’re affordable.
I know keeping an open mind is important but location is probably my number one factor in the search and frankly
Montreal > South Dakota.
Though going to a US school is very important to me, I won’t go if it means attending a subpar institution.