<p>14 people got into USC?
Impossible,there are 120 students in each class, I guess they at least accepted more than 300 poeple, and the majority of acceptants chose other schools over USC.</p>
<p>100 people are accepted to the arch school at USC, about 60-80 go. I don't think I will be one of them. I plan to go to Tulane on a scholarship and then if I really can't take it transfer out with USC as a back up hopefully.</p>
<p>hmm okay, that sounds about right. i thought 14 was insanely krazy.........</p>
<p>I'm a Canadian student, meaning international, looking for some general information regarding financial aid in US colleges.
Can anyone give a list of schools with good financial aid for international students(Except for Cooper). Jimminy's post was a shock to me, so I'd like to find out more about the aid in different schools.</p>
<p>Most schools take Canadian applicants along with the US pool, meaning that, they offer need blind admissions to both Canadian and American applicants (and in some cases, Mexican). I imagine that financial aid shouldn't be much of a problem. But you never can tell, you can't be sure of anything. </p>
<p>Where are you thinking of applying? Harvard, Yale (to some extent), Princeton are quite generous. WashU also has great fin aid offers and you should also look into their scholarships, too. IIT will give you $9000 initially as an international student (merit schol). But if you qualify for the Camras thing, you'll be invited for an interview and you could win a full-tuition scholarship.</p>
<p>Are you planning to take the 4-2 or 5 year program? Because that will greatly affect your choice of school. If you want to apply to Cornell, don't feel discouraged. Go ahead and also seriously look into scholarship opportunities. </p>
<p>Top on my list for aid is WashU, then maybe Harvard and Princeton.</p>
<p>hello everyone~
do you remember me? I posted a reply asking an advice whether I should choose MIT or Cornell for architecture.
well, I decided to go to MIT after all, and I know some of you recommended Cornell, but I have talked to some of the students from both schools and I decided I liked MIT better. Also everyone else I talked to recommended MIT and some of them very strongly.
I guess it is true that the success depends more on how hard you work then what school you go to. I am happy about my decision, and I just wanted to thank you all with your help. :) good luck to everyone who is still going through all that hassle of college admission process.</p>
<p>Another lucky guy!
Good job!</p>
<p>Great to hear that you finally chose MIT! Good choice (even better), as long as you're happy. All the best. :)</p>
<p>Many schools have different financial aid and merit aid packages for internationals. Chedk carefully. Also, Harvard does not have an undergraduate program in architecture. Different programs have different characters, Princeton's focuses on architectural history while MIT has more of an emphasis on engineerig while at RISD it is art. Finding the school that matches you is more important than an IVY name.</p>
<p>savvyz0r, did USC send you a card signed by the Dean, complimenting one of your porfolio works?! I just received one and he said he particularly enjoyed seeing one pencil drawing (portrait of my mother). I was also sent a big book on The Gamble House. Did you get any book?
It's a real pity, I'm not freaked, lol.</p>
<p>I got them</p>
<p>Great. Was it the Gamble House book you got or another Phaidon publication?
Sadly, I'm not going to USC. Can you take courses at other schools or would you just be stuck in Architecture, because that's exactly what i'm trying to avoid.</p>
<p>Check the curriculum requirements. Architecture programs always include a variety of gen ed classes, sometimes which those are is limited other times it is quite broad. Also the programs will usually include some electives, how many and what they are varies also. If you bring in ap math, english, and/or physics you may be able to replace requirements with additional elelctives as well.</p>
<p>I guess the situation at USC is very different, almost like that at IIT. You only get to do Calculus/Mathematics and Physics, History of Architecture, and that's all, of course with the Arch101, or whatever.
What I'm trying to avoid is the "school" concept, and I imagine that if I applied to Viterbi, it'd be very much the same thing. Just like Cornell. I would really want a broad and flexible curriculum.</p>
<p>To SRMom3:</p>
<p>Please do you know of any undergraduate majors one can study, apart from architecture, in order to be eligible to enroll in a graduate school of architecture? Civil engineering? Or just engineering?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Actually, you can study anything and be eligible for graduate architecture programs.</p>
<p>you can study pretty much anything.
make sure there are a few art courses though, so you can build up a good portfolio.</p>
<p>Thanks, guys! That's really good news, but I still get the feeling that B.Arch holders may have an edge over guys with degrees in other fields. Yeah, I wouldn't mind taking art courses. In fact, I would love to take them. I'm going to try find a kind of interdisciplinary or dual/double program. But the thing is, I need to sit down and focus, and know what I should do, when I should , and where I have to do it.</p>
<p>where are you heading this fall JRock?</p>
<p>I'm heading off to Harare, Zimbabwe, to think, work and learn. (A-level, German, etc). I need to mature a little and I need to know what I really want.</p>