Suggest a safety school?

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<p>i don’t mean to sound arrogant. but my mother really wants me to study in the united states, she said she doesn’t want me to go to mcgill… (which is one of the best schools in canada and north america)… so i need at least one safety school.
so here i am, making a list of colleges to apply to… since im international and my school doesnt send a lot of ppl to Ivies. i don’t really know which school i can get into…</p>

<p>here is my list for now:
for sure:
all the ivies cept for brown.
mit
caltech
johns hop
u chicago
georgetown*

  • very likely.</p>

<p>even those nonivies schools seem to be very hard to get into. could someone suggest a school that gives need blind FA to Canadians and has a solid academic program that MIGHT be able to be my safety, if i dont get into any of the above? my stats is in ■■■■■■■, the url is in my profile</p>

<p>the main reason why im posting this here is b/c i know most of u for awhile and u guys seem to know a lot :p</p>

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<p>mcallister is a great university in minnesota.
apply to duke
apply to UVA
apply to Georgia Tech</p>

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<p>duke is not need blind for canadians. i’ll check the other ones you listed tho!</p>

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<p>That’s a lot of schools!</p>

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<p>yeah. but none of them can be considered as a “safety”</p>

<p>i need just ONE safety school…
even williams and amherst are quite tough.</p>

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<p>princetonwannabe, i found the perfect safety school for you: syracuse university.</p>

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<p>Look at Pomona</p>

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<p>pomona isn’t a safety.</p>

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<p>firstly, </p>

<p>johns hop
u chicago
georgetown</p>

<p>are not need blind for Canadians.</p>

<p>Secondly, you’ll be hard-pressed to find American safeties that are also need-blind for Canadians. Because, they don’t have the money to be need-blind. As well, if they do offer funds… it is very limited and it goes to extremely qualified international students. There are plenty of Canadians schools that you can call safeties with your stats. For example, UBC, U of T, McGill are excellent schools, that you can probably get into with your eyes closed.</p>

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<p>carnegie mellon is a top 25 school that isnt very hard to get into unless ur applying to the computer science/technology school.</p>

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<p>johns hop and georgetown are need blind for cdns. i asked</p>

<p>uchicago isnt. i agree… </p>

<p>i’ll take a look at carnegie mellon. thx</p>

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<p>who did you ask?? The Georgetown guy came to Toronto and he explicity said that Georgetown was need-aware.</p>

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<p>Georgetown has very crappy financial aid.</p>

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<p>Wait a minute none of these is really a safety…how about some places along the lines of the university of michigan, university of wisconsin, RPI, Case Western, Boston College, etc?? I’m not really sure about their financial aid but you should look into schools ranked outside of the USNews top 30.</p>

<p>Some of the schools on this list waive application fees if you apply online AND are on the common app so there is little to no work involved in applying to them:</p>

<p><a href=“http://app.commonapp.org/Additional...equirements.pdf[/url]”>http://app.commonapp.org/Additional...equirements.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I’m considering applying to several of the better ranked ones as “backups”.</p>

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<p>i emailed the officer in charge of intl admission.</p>

<p>for georgetown, dont we have to take religion courses each semester?</p>

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<p>Georgetown’s religious classes are not in any way catholic, from what they said on the tour. Apparently they are on some sort of religious philosophy.</p>

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<p>depends on which you take. the most popular are world religions and The Problem of God. And I believe you are only required to take two semesters.</p>

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<p>Nyu!!!</p>

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<p>none of them are need blind for Canadians, so i couldn’t apply :frowning: … but, here is my final college choice list:
Princeton ED
Harvard
MIT
Yale
PENN Engineering
Dartmouth
Columbia SEAS
Cornell Engineering
Cal Tech
Johns Hopkins
University of Chicago</p>

<p>hope i can get into at least one of the schools… ■■■■■■■ link in profile… what do you guys think?</p>

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<p>you…still don’t have any safeties</p>