Why avoiding highly competitive schools is a winning applications strategy

Dream20school
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 15:54:39 +0000

My son is an international student attending a university in NY. It was an eye-opener for me when helping my son to search US schools. It is a such complicated procedure. It took me more than half a year to do the research and got familiar with schools’ names for which I never heard of before. After reading forums on College confidential or articles on other websites I do think there is yield protection exist. Also, there are no true safety schools for internationals, especially if need financial aid. A lot of times I thought why we needed to go through this stress? Why didn’t we just stay in our own country? It is just like a simple click on the computer to complete the college applications? Oh, well. Fortunately, my son got accepted by a school ranked between 60 - 70 by USnews with a very good award combined with a merit scholarship and financial aid. We didn’t really show too much interest for most schools we applied for as visiting campus wasn’t easy for internationals. I always think we are lucky doesn’t matter what application strategy we used.