Search help once again about selecting a college ， dear US parents

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Dear US parents, thank you for your help solving my problems sevral moths ago.
Now, it is time to select some colleges to apply for my son who is rising senior this fall.

His TOEFl is 109, and old SAT is 2050 and new SAT is 1490( 690CR+800MATHS).
His first choice is a college in New England region , and wants to get some scholarship.
To study English, he does not want apply to those univiversities which has a large Chinese population.

Acording to his idea, could you please give some suggestions?

Thank you!

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Please tell us what your maximum budget is. International students who need significant financial aid must be very strategic in their applications.

Also, it would help to know what he’d like to study, and what size of a school he’d prefer: some schools are tiny, with just a couple thousand students, others are huge (20,000+). Would he prefer a city, or a more quiet suburban/rural area?

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Thank you very much.

  1. Max 40K usd;
  2. Major undiceded ( like common education, and spend 2 years to find his interst)
    3.Not care LACS OR UNIVERSITIES;
  3. Not care the location.
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So…you can pay $40,000 a year? the schools will determine need based aid based on what you CAN pay…based primarily on your income.

What about Trinity in Hartford?

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SUNY Binghamton is under $40K a year.

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Many SUNYs are uner $40K. Other good SUNYs are SUNY Geneseo (an LAC); SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Purchase for the arts near NYC, SUNY Fredonia, SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry, SUNY Stonybrook for Marine Science and other sciences; F.I.T. for fashion

CUNYs in NYC are also good, Hunter College, Baruch, City College, Brooklyn College, Queens College. There is the Macaulay Honors College that you may want to consider. It provides full tuition and a stipend to attend. The application schedule is early because the candidates are top level. Macaulay is competing with the Ivies to get top students. That is one reason why they accept early.With Macaulay you apply to a CUNY AND the Macaulay program. It’s an amazing value.

Also look at Wells College with tuition and fees at about $37K. They allow you to take two courses at Cornell. This is a potentially great way to establish relationships for graduate school. They have other connections with some of the other great schools in their region, including Ithaca which has great arts and communications programs. https://www.wells.edu/

Rowan University

UMass Amherst is slightly above $40K

UConn is $47K

University of Maine Orono

UDelaware is $43K

UMBC

Towson

Westminster

Colby is about $47K

Manhattanville

Manhattan College

Niagara U

Forham $45K

St. John’s University in New York

St. Mary’s Honors College in Maryland – $41K (Not religious)

Wagner College

St. Joseph’s NY

Juniata

Cazenovia is about $43K

Syracuse is about $42K

Marist

Adelphi

Cooper Union (nearly free tuition)

Sage College of Albany

Union

Siena

Webb Institute (free tuition)

New England College in NH

Colby-Sawyer in NH

Maine Maritime Academy

SUNY Maritime

Unity College in Maine (environmental)

Providence College

Rhode Island College

University of Rhode Island

For Massachusetts schools click on the link below. For each school google the name of the school plus the words “tuition and fees” to get an estimate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_Massachusetts

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Temple is not in New England, but is in Philadelphia (ie. Northeast/mid-Atlantic region). It costs a little more than $40k for non-residents (it’s a public university), but they might offer merit aid. They usually do for students with good stats, but I don’t know what policy is for international students.

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Yup, the New York schools are cheap and efficient. And if you want excellence, you may want to look beyond NY and U Mass.

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Kiplinger’s does not show any 4 year public universities in the New England states with out-of-state sticker prices <= $40K. However, the SUNY schools (New York state) do have OOS sticker prices below $40K.
http://www.kiplinger.com/tool/college/T014-S001-kiplinger-s-best-values-in-public-colleges/index.php

The NESCAC schools (http://www.nescac.com/about/members) seem to be quite generous with financial aid to the international students they admit. Examples:
Avg Aid Amount … School
$59,674 Williams
$58,477 Amherst
$54,315 Wesleyan
$53,193 Tufts
$52,715 Bates
$50,530 Middlebury
$47,118 Bowdoin
(However, admission to these schools is very competitive).

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For English, Kenyon is a great choice, but run the NPC to see if you’re eligible for some aid.

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check out The college of new jersey. it is a small new England style school , colonial campus. one of the most beautiful campuses and highly ranked schools #3 in the north by USnews and world report.

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Look at Clark University in Worcester, maybe…