Other special factors First generation to college:
Intended Major(s)
CS, Cyber Security, Data Science GPA, Rank, and Test Scores
Unweighted HS GPA: 4
Class Rank: Top 10%
ACT/SAT Scores: Optional
Coursework (My school doesn’t provides AP/IB/Dual Enrollment classes. We go through by national curriculum like: Foreign Language: Bangla (adv), English (adv), Physics (adv), Chemistry (adv), Math (adv), Biology (adv), Information and Communication Technology (adv)
Awards
Carrom Champion at Inter School Indoor Game
Runner-up in Regional Cycling Competition
Employee of the Year Award Extracurriculars
*1. Did a 6 months Internship at ‘X’ IT which is one of the best cyber security agency of my country, working with Detective Branch of Police.
Worked as a Cyber Security Analyst at ‘X’ organization which one is one of the best Nonprofit Organization focused on cyber awareness, cyber harassment prevention for woman.
Working as a Cheif Technology Officer of an EdTech Startup which one focused on underprivileged poor students to bring easy to access online education.
Founder of School Computer and Programming Club
Swimming Instructor of ‘X’ Academy
Lead of A Facebook based Student Community of my academic batch with 213k members
Project ‘X’ - a non profit organization for underprivileged rural students that helps them to adopt digital technologies.
Family Responsibility: Tution and Cooking
Essays/LORs/Other Working on it
Cost Constraints / Budget $10k yearly
Schools 1. Vassar College
2. Bard College
3. Reed College
4. Northeastern University
5. Haverford College
6. Middlebury College
7. Earlham College
8. Kenyon College
9. Case Western University
10. St. Olaf College
11. Oberlin College
12. Whitman College
13. AMERICAN university
14. Lehigh University
15. Connecticut College
16. Lafayette College
17. Rhodes College
18. Duke Kunshan University
19. Goucher College
I have selected these colleges for now. Someone give me a good suggestion based on my profile. What can I do?
Since you already have LACs on your list, you may benefit from researching those with an available major in data science/analytics, such as Hamilton, Macalester and Denison. As other suggestions, Wesleyan University offers a minor in data analysis as well as an interdisciplinary quantitative analysis center, and Davidson offers a minor in data science. Although generally highly selective, these schools are not necessarily more selective than some of those on your current list. Nonetheless, some of the schools you have included above, such as Northeastern, Lehigh and CWRU, would be excellent for your interests.
Any college is the US must be considered a reach for an international student requiring significant financial aid. I would suggest applying to colleges in your home country as well.
What do you hope to do with your cybersecurity degree? If you are planning to work in this country after graduation, understand that you will have no chance of getting a security clearance as an international.
Note that list you posted is not a list of schools that meet full need (as calculated by each school) for all internationals. There are many schools that will meet full need for some students, e.g., the schools choose which students they want to invest their money in. It does make sense for high need internationals to apply to some of these schools as well. An example would be Centre College, which is on the list you linked, as well as Berea college, which is not on that list.
You’ll want to confirm this, but according to Wikipedia there are 7 (soon to be 8) schools that are need blind for international students AND meet full demonstrated need of international students:
Amherst
Bowdoin
Brown (starting for class of 2029)
Dartmouth
Harvard
MIT
Princeton
Yale