Do I stand out a chance?

billabongboy9828
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:54:51 +0000

Only six American schools will be need-blind in admissions for you (Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, Amherst, Yale and Princeton), and all schools have a very limited amount of aid that they can offer to Internationals. The financial burden of going to college in the U.S. is enough to discourage many qualified International students from even applying.

And you are going to want to take the SATs and the TOEFL. Without knowing your test scores and high school GPA, it is very difficult to assess your chances at any U.S. school. But from what you listed, Stanford most likely will be out of reach. However, there are plenty of other schools that have excellent computer programming programs, like UIUC and CMU, that are much less selective.