Urgent:ED-Deferred, Help me pick colleges to apply to...

College Search & Selection
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Hello guys, my ed application to Bowdoin has been deferred. I have shorted my list to apply for ED2, can you guys help me decide a college for ED2.( it can also be ones not included in the list)
My stats
Alevles 4A* 1a
SAT 1360 (I know not so great)
SAT 2 800 Physics 800 Maths 2 790 Chem

Have some meaningful ECAs.

Top in the world As Physics.
Have some international and national competitions under my belt.
Good recommendations

The colleges to choose from:
Middlebury
NYUAD
Colby
Colgate
Franklin and Marshall
Gettysburg

Ethnicity: Asian (Indian)
Financial aid: Huge amount of aid
Family contribution <=5000

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Are you a US student or international?

Are you male or female? If F, would you consider a women’s college?

What do you want to study? Physics?

What was it about Bowdoin that you liked?

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I’m a male.
International Student
Intended major: CS
I liked the cs program at Bowdoin, also the generous financial aid.

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Do you have any preference for size of school, geographic location, or urban vs rural?

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Ordinarily I would tell you to look at

https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf13323/nsf13323.pdf

which identifies the Bacalurate origins of STEM PhDs.

But the US Government is shutdown due to lack of appropriations so the site went dark. I looked at the cache, and

Colgate is at 19 and Middlebury is at 20 on the last list.

Good luck.

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Any student interested in CS at an LAC should consider Hamilton based on general program strength as well as success in coding competitions.

https://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/comp-sci-department-hosts-college-computing-conference

https://cs.hamilton.edu/ccscne/

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@colligate44, It’s certainly possible to get admitted to any of the schools on your list and receive sufficient aid to be able to afford it. However, I think it’s also important to look at the total amount of aid that the college has budgeted for international students. Although this isn’t a fixed figure, it’s a good indication of the school’s commitment to enrolling low income internationals. Complete statistics aren’t available, but from what we can glean for the CDSs, Bowdoin’s spending on aid to internationals is relatively low (compared to other academically rigorous LACs).

You might look at some of the following on the high end of the $$ committed to financial aid for internationals:
Macalester USD11.3 million

St Olaf 11.0

Trinity CT 10.6
Amherst 9.1
Grinnell 8.1

Middlebury 8.0
Dickinson 7.7
Colgate 7.1
Wesleyan 6.0
Williams 5.8
Oberlin 5.7
F&M 5.4

By comparison, these are on the low end
Colby 4.5
Gettysburg 3.9
Hamilton 3.2
Bowdoin 2.6

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You can apply to Hamilton by submitting your excellent subject test scores and not the SAT, as they have a test flexible option.

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Hamilton does, however, require a verbal standardized testing submission such as, in the case of international applicants, the TOEFL or IELTS.

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Thank you Guys,
Could you also suggest some national universities which meet my criteria.
Also, How is URoch with the aid and also how the CS at URoch?

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As for the English language proficiency test, I only have Duolingo Test of English language (DTE) with a score of 93.

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Read this: http://www.personalcollegeadmissions.com/financial-aid-nonresident

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Then you might need to submit your SAT I EBRW result if you were to apply to a test flexible school that requires a breadth of exams. However, this appears not to be necessary for text-flexible Middlebury from your list.

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Rochester is outstanding in just about everything. In the USA we have so many great schools we have lists to rank and nitpick the hundreds of options. Take a place in any of the top 200 and you are already ahead of the game. This is an embarrassment of riches here and the whose school is better contest is a first world luxury. Rochester is a great school. Period. Full stop. If you can afford it.

It is cold and snowy in the winter.

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OP: Seems clear that you were deferred due to your need for financial aid in light of the school’s limited financial aid budgeted for international students.

@momrath: Very helpful post !

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Note that colleges listed in the upper category above may nonetheless indicate very low acceptance rates for international students, so it’s not clear that stong conclusions can be drawn with respect to correlation. Colgate for example posts an acceptance rate for international applicants of 7%.

https://www.colgate.edu/admission-financial-aid/first-year-class-profile