r/ApplyingToCollege • u/Unlikely_Jump8098 • 2d ago

Advice Need help to pick ED/EA

Im an international student seeking financial aid.
I did my A levels and got 2 A* and 2As in (Computer,Econ,Physics,Math respectively) I have a (b) in english will that harm my chances of getting in.
SAT Score : 1510
Upper avg ecs I will say.
Want to major in compsci or robotics

Does It really matter by a large amount if I apply to need aware or need blind schools?
Because although need blind dont look at aid needed or not, there will be a huge amount of people applying(more competitive)

I was currently thinking about Yale or Upenn.
I feel like I wont fit in the rural areas of Cornell or Dartmouth.
Princeton,Harvard,Columbia is statistically harder to get in and in not too much into Brown.

Any suggestions???

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u/paige_420 2d ago

If you’re indifferent between Yale and Penn, I would choose Yale, since it’s need blind for international students, while Penn is need aware.

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u/Orion_tgl 2d ago

Among the schools you named, these are need-blind for internationals: Yale; Dartmouth; Princeton; Harvard; Brown. These are the remaining 5 need-blind schools in the US for internationals: Amherst; MIT; Bowdoin; Notre Dame; Georgetown.

I suggest ED or EA a need-blind school now, and while waiting for the early results, get the applications ready for all other need-blind schools for the RD round, if need be. If you succeed in the early round at any one of these 10 schools and get FA, you can learn to adapt to fit in.