<p>to give you a totally useless piece of advice, I'd choose UCL - its a great place.</p>
<p>Warwick and Bristol, imo, are behind UCL.</p>
<p>I'd accept Claremont if you can back out of it, take UCL as your first choice, and maybe Warwick as the backup</p>
<p>'Claremont Mckenna has one of the best econ departments in the US' even if Claremont McKenna has a better econ department than say Harvard, Harvard's prestige and connections will still give you far more advantages in employment. Similiar thing with UCL. If you're unsure of what you take, then the prestige tradeoff might be worth it for a more flexible curriculum, but if you are absolute that this is in your blood, then you one of the world's best unis asking you to study your dream subject there =P</p>
<p>@Changeling: I don't think so, recruiters know which colleges have the best departments. I've read liberal art college viewbooks, and top recruiters are all companies like Goldman Sachs. Most companies know the strength of departments at colleges, and Claremont McKenna isn't exactly a lower ranked LAC.</p>
<p>@the OP: I don't know anything about UK, but Claremont is very different from UK universities, you can try out a variety of courses, and there are the Claremont colleges. I don't think British universities allow the flexibility of curriculum that US does, especially since Claremont is a liberal arts college. The whole atmosphere is different.</p>
<p>I'd go to Claremont, but I'm not exactly a "I'm going to college so I can make lots of money" type person, and I'd go solely for the atmosphere :).</p>
<p>Well I considered the Mudd CMC combination of Econ and Engineering, but that becomes 5 years. I didnt seem to have too many industry advantages and was $45000 more. </p>
<p>BedHead, the problem isnt foregoing the deposit. My school is very ethical etc. and my counselor isnt allowing anyone to do that. She said you can only accept one school blah blah blah...</p>
<p>Changeling, I would have to disagree with you there. There's no guarantee that a Harvard Education (undergrad) would make you go places for post grad etc. there was actually a study that showed a greater percentage of students at Big Grad schools coming from LAc's</p>
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<p>Well, I wouldn't want you to be an instrument of making a bad reputation for your school and thereby making it harder for later alumni to be accepted at the schools you anger potentially. On the other hand, your counselor only has as much sway over you as you let her. I accepted a place in grad school at a top tier US university and then decided in July that I didn't want to go after all. I felt very bad contacting the Dean to tell him; he didn't mind at all and told me that I was making someone on the wait list very happy. That's why they have wait lists. But I understand your viewpoint, and you might find out about UCL or elsewhere too late even for this.</p>
<p>Thank you for your sound advice Bedhead. I completely agree with you. I have a good working relationship with my school, counselor, coordinator etc. In addition, the school does have a lot of say. Everyone applies to college, and the school takes a very active role. They are part of some CIS thing and therefore are very ethical and play by the rules. Our reply has to go to both the college and my counselor. She, in turn, contacts the colleges, sends final transcripts etc. The UCAS online forms (UK admissions commonapp) is formalized and she has a counselors account that overseas all student id's..in fact she is informed automatically of all offers and rejections, there's some database i guess.</p>
<p>hi everyone i am a permanent resident here in the u.s. i have been living here for six years and i have a green card. i am also african-i am from somalia. i was wondering if i am included under affirmative action because i'm a permanent resident. is it true that you have to be a citizen?</p>
<p>thanks a lot</p>
<p>please respond</p>