<p>Hello everyone. This is Yutakatsumi from Tokyo, Japan.</p>
<p>This time I would like to share opinions and thoughts with you guys about my international admission at Berea College for Fall 2009.</p>
<p>For a quick introduction...I'm a 20 yo man, don't have parents, currently working and living here alone in japan. I've been dreaming about studying abroad in the U.S. since years ago and finally happened to know about BC last year. I've already applied to it in january and now I'm wondering how it's gonna be in April.</p>
<p>I have looked into several websites and past threads here, and now I would like to know what you think about this college, especially about the international admission. </p>
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<li>Has anyone ever attended here as an international student?</li>
<li>Does anyone know any info other than what's on the official website? I rarely have an opportunity to talk with people in the U.S. so I want to listen to what you know.</li>
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<p>... This time I don't ask my chances or clarify any figures of my TOEFL test or how economically disadvantaged I am, but please do not hesitate to ask me further information. I would be happy if you could give me any word about it.</p>
<p>Finally, thank you all for reading this thread.
If you can refer me to other threads that helps me, it's be also great.
I hope I could get in touch with you soon.</p>
<p>You probably have known about BC's cost and financial aid policies already (free tuition and a laptop for every student, and something like 10 hours/ week of unpaid on-campus work is mandatory). I don't know about Berea particularly well, but basically the mission of the school is to provide a quality college education for students from not so well-off families, which means you need to have a kind of "humble" family background to get admitted. </p>
<p>that's what I remember reading on BC's website. Not sure though, it can be complete bs (lol), so you'll have to wait for another poster to confirm (or deny) that.</p>
<p>@batdoi
thanks... yea i'm pretty sure that my family resources are extremely limited. One thing i'm concerned is how they are going to pick up 30 people while every student is from different countries where the cost for living, culture, and learning environment are also different...? Could you understand what i'm saying?</p>
<p>not really Yutakatsumi. I think BC has some sort of admission quota for international students. I heard that BC admits at most 1 (or 2) students from a foreign country a year - very unsure about this though. The main point is to increase the diversity of the student body - they WANT their students to have different backgrounds, cultures and environments, they WANT to make sure every student can contribute something special to the community, so that everyone can learn from each other.</p>