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What should I do?
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Find out what your parents are willing to pay each year, subtract $12,000 from that figure for transportation, books, living expenses, etc. and run the college-matching search engines to identify places where your tuition and fees will cost no more than the difference. For example, if your family can pay $30,000 each year, you can search for engineering programs where the tuition and fees are $18,000 or less.
With your stats, you can get into a top 100-150 college if they're willing to pay full costs.
If not, you can get into a lower-tier college and hope for some kind of scholarship for your stats, but you'd likely attend a 4th tier university, or have a gap year so that you can try again.
4th tier?? which are...
You can find out the universities yourself fairly easily:
type "USNWR Liberal arts colleges" in your browser and start at #100 or so; type USNWR regional universities" and start at #20 or so, focusing on universities within your price range; you can even add "USNWR national universities" starting at rank 80 or so and "regional colleges", any ranking.
This should give you a list of 100 schools or so. Select about 4-5 in each list and come back to post here (AFTER you tell us how much your parents can afford to pay).
Check out the schools suggested above and add Colleges that change lives (ctcl.org).
1. NYU-Poly (dream school)
2. UWashington
3. U of Illinois (reach school)
4. Texas at Austin
5. Ohio state U
6. Penn state
7. Stevens Institute of Technology
8. University of Maryland College Park
9. Purdue University
10. Colorado Boulder (safety school)
11. Rose-Hulman
12. Yeshiva
Just a question: have you looked at the lists suggested above? And have you looked at costs?
Stevens and Colorado are matches, not safeties, but they're outside your price range. Everything else on your list is either a reach or unaffordable.
Start with the regional universities and colleges to find safeties and matches, then add a a few national universities and colleges.
what list?? im actually chinese ... haha... btw which are unaffordable and reach???
Read about each.
Look at costs and application deadlines.
I doubt your final list will include Yeshiva (even if you're Chinese from Malaysia)
Yeshiva isn't part of Columbia and it's not a college of engineering....