Help-do I need more safeties??

AustroHungarian
Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:29:03 +0000

I’m assuming you are an international/foreign born* student? If so, good luck, you will be competing with a huge pool of well-qualified students for those top schools.

*Even if you live in the US, if you were born elsewhere they may categorize you differently, depending

On a personal level, if you are Pakistani, I would try to aim for a university on the West Coast or Northeast; those tend to be the most liberal and accepting. A few Americans can be very close-minded about the Middle East and Islam in general, so you want to be careful. This is not to say that you will be harassed in the South or Midwest, but as an American in the Midwest, I can tell you that I hear very offensive things that were intended to be innocuous.