<p>Where are you applying if you are from Africa?</p>
<p>Good luck fellows :D</p>
<p>hi! i am Nigerian. Where are you from?</p>
<p>I am from Kenya :)</p>
<p>Where are you applying?</p>
<p>princeton SCEA, darthmouth, harvard, wellesley, mount holyoke, colby, yale, amherst,williams bryn mawr and maybe a few others. i need a full ride so i’m pretty pessimistic about my chances.</p>
<p>Luckily Princeton, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale and Amherst are need blind for both domestic and international applicants. You should have a good chance at those! Colby is also very international friendly, so… :)</p>
<p>im from Kenya…and was accepted by Williams for class of 2016 with great aid. Goodluck guys. The road ahead is quite challenging so put a lot of effort in your applications.</p>
<p>Congrats huss182! I’ve heard only great things about Williams :-)</p>
<p>It may be a little late…
I’m from Africa applying to: Stanford, Georgetown, U-Michigan ann arbor, Rice University, University of Texas at Austin</p>
<p>anyone else on CC from africa?</p>
<p>Yes</p>
<p>Sent from my Ideos using CC</p>
<p>Hey, I’m from South Africa, applied to(in the order of my preference) YALE, Dartmouth, Princeton, Columbia, Duke, Harvard, Amherst, Cornell, Colgate, Davidson, and Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>I know the list is exhaustive, however, I chose the schools carefully, and there’s about 10-15 schools which I eliminated from my initial list.
Although I’m in my grades top 5% , my grades are fairly low, and I need full financial aid, so the odds are stacked up against me.
However, with each essay, for each school, I felt a strong connection to the school (I know I may sound ridiculously optimistic) but, I believe in viciously going for what you want, especially when there’s nothing too loose.</p>
<p>And the Liberal Arts education and the ‘intellectual bubble’ found at these schools is imperative to the type of writer I want to be one day. So I’m praying hard for an acceptance(especially from my YALE!)</p>
<p>“I believe in viciously going for what you want, especially when there’s nothing too loose”</p>
<p>With that kind of philosophy, you will succeed, no matter where you go (or don’t go) to college. Good luck!</p>
<p>PS Long live the intellectual bubble. Personally, I think that’s what college is for.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, I personally know of people who were far from the best students in high school (heck, they graduated a year later), and they did very well in college (good, but not well renowned ones) and are currently thriving in the job environment that they like. The one I am most closely acquainted with sold her first business before turning 26, and before turning 28, had bought another in a foreign country. Two years later, she had sold a franchise of that business in another country.</p>
<p>And you know what…she didn’t go to Wharton. She was an English major at a no-name school.</p>
<p>I agree with Katliamom. It’s all about you. Granted, the very top schools can offer you a certain academic environment that you wouldn’t get elsewhere - hey, that’s why I want to go to a LAC - but after all is said and done, what matters the most is what <em>you</em> do.</p>
<p>@Sombre Yeah i thinks that’s true. The job market for Internationals is not great now though so that would be much harder to achieve today.</p>