Look into CS adjacent majors at universities (for instance, Informatics, Computing, Cybersecurity, Data Science). For an Indian international who needs close to a full ride it’ll help you be in a smaller pool at meet-need and competitive merit schools.
MIT admits internationals without regards to financial need but may admit at most a handful of young Indians, boys and girls, for thousands of applicants from the Subcontinent.
You can try and compete for competitive merit on top of automatic merit, for instance at UArizona, UAlabama, UCincinnati, UMinnesota Morris…
If your family makes less than the equivalent to $50,000 a year you can get a fee waiver, meaning you don’t need to pay the application fee, at many if not most universities.
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