Hey, can anyone suggest me some good CS college which I can keep as safety school and what are your thought on my profi

Hi @Priyanshu15,

Thanks for your question. I think I need to better explain the dilemma of low-income International applicants needing full funding who are trying to use the same criteria as Americans to get into colleges.

As a low-income international applicant, the concepts of REACH, TARGET, and SAFETY only solve 1/2 of the problem because regardless of their acceptance, unless one gets fully funded, one can't attend any of those schools regardless of their difficulty to get in.

So someone can give you a list of Safety Schools to apply to based on your stats, ECs, and test scores but that would be futile because most Safety colleges in the US have terrible financial aid for International students who need a full ride to attend.

For all international students, the best thing to do is not to think of college admissions as 2 sets of problems but as the same problem. You can't separate the notion of acceptance and financial aid unless you are a wealthy international student that requires minimal financial aid like 0%-20% to attend out of the avg. $80,000-$90,000 per year to attend (privates colleges class of 2023-24 rates).

So you are really limited to the list of colleges in the US that have the potential to fully fund an International student regardless of the rankings/prestige/clout of these schools.

Therefore, you really can't look at Public Universities like State Colleges or Unis because their mandate is to educate locals and get a lot of their funding from the US Govt and States. As an Int'l, you are not qualified to apply for Pell Grants (Fed Grants), State Grants, Federal or State-backed Institutional loans, or work-study programs. So schools like UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois are not going to fully fund you. It would be a poor use of time to apply to such schools.

Furthermore, since you require full funding, I would also not be applying to ED or EA or SCREA schools since one limiting factor with early acceptances is that their financial aid package is tied to their early agreement and fairly fixed. So if you apply to NYU which is a need-aware for Int'l students, you may or may not get the financial aid package you want. And if it's missing $20,000 you have to accept it or attempt to negotiate that with their financial aid office or ask them to release you from your obligation to attend NYU so you can in good faith apply to other colleges Regular Decisions. While it's a doable hassle, it takes time, energy, and an emotional toll to have to do this. So that is why I'm bringing it up. You may be less problematic to just apply to Regular Decision and only to NEED BLIND and those that meet 100% of demonstrated needs like these:

Amherst College

Bowdoin College

Dartmouth College

Harvard University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Minerva University (part of the 5C Keck School)

Princeton University

Yale University