What colleges should i choose:INTERNATIONAL STUDENT

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<p>Hello dear CC members,
i am a tunisian student and i'mapplying to US colleges thanks to the advising services of eucationUSA, i'm nit new with the process and i really love this forum since it gives plenty of information about it .
Ok, let me tell you a little about me:</p>

<p>two months ago thanks to Amideast(USA EDUCATION CENTER) i've heard for the first time about the possibility of going to Study in the US</p>

<p>And since Our family income can't be compared to the american lifestyle i've decided to aim high and have a shot at applying to the most selective colleges
and to be honnest I've always dreamt to go to Yale</p>

<p>So, as for my capabilities (which is a bit hard to translate to the american educational system) let me first tell you that english is my THIRD language after arabic and french and i speak german too.</p>

<p>Ok ,the Sat , Ihaven't took but a practise site offers a predicatble minimum score all i had to do was having a diagnostic in the 3 sections and then practise for two hours and
i received a minimum score of 2200: 780Math-720 Reading-700Writing
and i had the same score in the online free practise test but let me remind you that i haven't done any preparation before that!!!!!!</p>

<p>That's why: i know that with some practise i could have <strong><em>2300</em></strong></p>

<p>As for my academics i am the top of my pionner high scholl(top 3 HS in the country) and my GP is about 4.0 (i have to say compared to my country HS my school is pretty competitive) it is like a charter school with admission tests and all.</p>

<p>As for my extra-curricular activities i play chess tennis and MAth olympiads in addition to mathematical games(top in the country and going to compete in the international in france with great chances) I participate in KANGOROO too.I have many other extra-currilcular activitites but never had a remarkable position .</p>

<p>I have been doing community service too as free tutoring , organising english day camp, raising donation, beach clean up ...</p>

<p>I've written the essay a good one i must saay talking about my personal backgroung goals and enginnering and how studying in the US would affect me.</p>

<p>Here is my college list ::
MIT dream school ::::know that it is a long shot but what the heck i am going for it
Princeton
Dartmouth
Cornell
Vassar</p>

<p>And i'm looking for safeties that would offer a great financial aid >>92%</p>

<p>PLEASE HELP LOOK FOR SAFETIES</p>

<p>By the way, if it doesn't work i could be going to FRANCE or GERMANy and those have great engineering schoos too.</p>

<p>Thanks for the help and sorry for the typing or grammatical mistakes due to my hasty typing..</p>

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<p>come on guys 61 visits and no comment?..</p>

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<p>Well, I go to Ohio State University, and it has oodles of foreign students and there is a larger-than-average African immigrant population in the area. It is also the highest-ranked engineering college in Ohio. I think it would make a very decent safety for you.</p>

<p>For top-tier engineering schools in the US also consider Georgia Tech, UC Berkeley, Caltech, UIUC, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Carnegie Mellon, Purdue, UT Austin, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Columbia, Harvey Mudd, Rose-Hulman, Cooper Union, Virginia Tech, Texas A&M, and any of the service academies (the Air Force engineering college, the Army engineering college, etc., but I think you have to join the military to go to these schools).</p>

<p>For very respectable “safeties” consider OSU, Duke, University of Washington, Case Western, UCLA. It doesn’t show up highly in the rankings but I’ve heard nothing but good things from people who attended University of Cincinnati’s engineering college.</p>

<p>Dartmouth and Vassar are fancy rich-people schools, but they are not renowned for their engineering colleges.</p>

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<p>Here is a website where you can search, state by state, for schools that offer financial aid to international students.</p>

<p>[Schools</a> Awarding International Financial Aid](<a href=“http://www.internationalstudent.com/schools_awarding_aid/]Schools”>Schools Awarding International Financial Aid)</p>

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<p>They dont usually hand out financial aid to International Students, International students are usually seen as a source of additional income for the US Goverment, to balance out its budget deficit. Even if they award you with some sort of financial aid, I doubt that it will exceed %30 of the annual tuition.</p>

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<p>Do you have any source of funds coming from your home country? A rich Uncle? A scholarship? Hey, maybe you could ask George Lucas for a scholarship.</p>

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<p>FYI I don’t consider Duke and UCLA “safeties”!!</p>