Chance and match an international student (junior right now) for STEM T50s + some LAC's

The vast majority of us here are unfamiliar with foreign grading systems, so please provide us context: are you at the top, or very near the top of your class? Your region? Your country?

Your intended majors are among the most competitive to get into. As an international student seeking substantial financial aid, there are no safeties.

You will need to eliminate all the public schools on your list as they will not provide you need based aid. ASU does provide merit scholarships to international students but I don’t know if it’ll be enough to meet your budget. Maybe @tsbna44 can weigh in.

The only schools that will meet your full need are the super reaches like MIT and Yale. These are all very hard to get into even for students with perfect stats. They look for a lot more beyond stats, and unfortunately your ECs don’t stand out.

There are lower tier schools that may provide merit money (but hard to gauge that without knowing your academic strength or SAT/ACT score).

Any particular reason you’re looking for LACs? They typically don’t have engineering schools and aren’t particularly strong for CS. Bowdoin for example.

Do you have an affordable safety school in your home country?

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