Are these Universities good enough for an International seeking low contribution?

It is a bit vague that you compare them to IIT’s. They focus only on academics, in addition, many of my IB (IB students cannot join an IIT) friends with great extracurricular’s did get in few of the t50s and t20s.

I mainly want to come there just for the sake of education, I have no intention of earning.

Thank you for the reply.

You’ll have to find a place. You can’t expect someone else to pay your way. You can hope but you cannot expect. And that’s what you are doing.

People pay, often more than half of them, near $100k per year to attend US schools you existed. Even though these meet need, they are out of the reach of many, if not most U.S. students.

In addition to your defined budget and most have one - the school’s need to agree.

I had a $50k budget for my kids. No school that cost more agreed. I got zero aid.

You very well might get aid if you get in but it will be what a school decides, not what you decide.

Bottom line, if you want to leave India, I’m guessing you’ll need to find another country.

I do wish you luck though and hope you get an affordable acceptance. I don’t see it but I am not an admission or financial aid officer. And hope is not a plan. So if you want to leave, make a non US plan in case it’s needed.

Good luck.

Hmm :thinking:

I wonder how the country has such a vast pool of technology talent. All those hundreds of thousands of employees at the India offices of Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and dozens of other companies - I do wonder where they were educated!

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Your safeties are in India. Why only the US? There are other countries. The US has a good system of education, but so do other countries.

The definition of a safety is a university that will meet your budget (affordable), fits you, and where you would be happy to attend.

Your budget of $10 to $12 K per year, barely covers your room costs, it probably doesn’t include your food fees. You also need to pay for medical insurance because the universities require it. You need to cover tuition and fees, so unless your budget is $40k annually, I think you’re not in a good place.

I’m trying to describe it in a linear fashion so that you can understand that the cost of funding, for a US university education, is not simplified.

It includes tuition, fees, room and board, books, health insurance, disposable income for discretionary needs like toiletries, lab fees, supplemental texts, pharmaceuticals, an occasional pizza, uber/lyfts, etc. You’re asking for a university to cover you for YOUR expenses.

With a student visa, you cannot work to pay your university tuition expenses. You are limited in how many hours you can work on campus. Most students work very few hours because they need to maintain their grades. You can’t rely on an on campus job to fund a majority of your expenses while on campus.

The definition of “need blind” is when the admissions committee is reviewing your application they don’t look at whether or not you “need” funding to attend. They are BLIND to whether or not you NEED money to attend.

So they may say “OK let’s admit this student, but we’re not going to give him any money.”

What do you do then?

The schools you’ve listed have huge Costs of attendance fees/expenses. This is why they are reaches and you can’t afford them.

They’re very selective and they want different types of students. They may want a classical oboe player, or a tuba player for their marching band who is a legacy (parents are alumni). They may want an athlete who will be playing in the Olympic games, for their teams on campus. They may want a Malala or a Greta Thunberg. The universities have a finite number of seats; they have even smaller numbers of dollars to fund students.

You and a very large number of your compatriots want to leave your country, but where would you go?

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This could easily happen at a college that doesn’t meet full need…whether need blind or need aware.

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