Please name some top undergrad business and alse economics programmes that are OBSESSED with great (alias PERFECT) SAT I scores and award great scholarships (a.k.a. full waivers) to lure them.
You may even mail me privately if you don’t want to disclose.
<p>None. At least, none would ever dare admit to it.</p>
<p>The Ivy League, Stanford, and MIT give no merit money as a matter of policy. Virtually every other school does to at least some degree. Concentrate your search on colleges where you would be in the top of the applicant pool (including everything, not just SAT scores).</p>
<p>Try Babson - it worked for me.</p>
<p>hey is babson a good school? its in boston or smthing right?</p>
<p>Babson is a great school...but only offers business-related majors.</p>
<p>Babson is next door to, and shares facilities with, Olin School of Engineering. Students can cross-register.</p>
<p>Babson is close to Boston. It's no Ivy, but it's pretty good, and my financial aid was crazy generous.</p>
<p>I've shortlisted 10 UNDERGRAD BUSINESS PROGS for myself and would like to have advice and suggestions on it.</p>
<p>It's here - <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=308480&posted=1#post308480%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=308480&posted=1#post308480</a></p>
<p>NEW LIST</p>
<p>Business :</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
Univ. of Southern California (Marshall)
Indiana University–Bloomington (Kelley)
Emory University (Goizueta) (GA)
University of Notre Dame (IN)
Georgetown University (McDonough) (DC)
University of Georgia (Terry)
Tulane University (Freeman) (LA)
Boston University(MA)</p>
<p>Economics :
Stanford
UCLA
University of Chicago</p>
<p>1) Any other top business/economics school where the climate is pleasant that I did not mention here ?</p>
<p>2) Please tell me why why Uof Virginia, Uof Illinois, cornell and purdue are being disapproved for me, even though they are in the top 20 for business</p>
<p>3) IS IT POSSIBLE TO APPLY TO BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS PROGRAMMES (DIFFERENT COLLEGES) ?</p>
<p>Thank you for all comments and suggestions</p>
<p>Sinbce you will be applying as an international student, you will hae to look at schools which may be need blind to interanational students in addition to offereing generous aid to international students. You must also realize that the international pool is going to be very competitive with many students applying for a few spots.</p>
<p>I would suggest that you start with edupass so that you can gain some insight to the financial aid process and list schools that offer aid to international students</p>
<p><a href="http://www.edupass.org/finaid/%5B/url%5D">http://www.edupass.org/finaid/</a></p>
<p>UChicago is probably not a good fit for you. The U of Chicaco has good reputation in econ, but it might not be a good choice for someone who wants to study business as an undergraduate. You do not study business as an undergrad there. It has a very through liberal arts core that you will spend 2 years fufilling. UChicago emphasizes the theoretical over the applied, so they don't have undergrad business (or engineering either). They do give merit and free rides, but perfect scores are not the criteria for this. I'm sure they are not obsessed with perfect scores as all their materials emphasize creative, intellectual thought.</p>
<p>I had visited this place called Anahem (near DisneyLand) in California more than a decade ago and still regard this experience as one of the most pleasant memories of my life. That place wasn't exactly a concrete jungle (at that time, atleast), but such a place is what I'd least expect for a college setting - and WILL BE CONTENTED with it. </p>
<p>If anyone is familiar with that place as it was 12 years ago, you know what my least expectation for a college setting is.</p>
<p>In fact, an economics major from a TOP LAC is fine for me. So, compared to Anahem, how are the settings of the LACs - Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Amherst, Swarthmore, Haverford, Carleton, Davidson, Williams, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Brown and Dartmouth ?</p>
<p>Is there any other GREAT college (for UG business/Economics or Lib Arts) that you'll may have crossed off due to my city setting preferences ? I'm still deliberating on the CLIMATE issue - but definitely don't want to live in HARSH and EXTREME weather conditions.</p>
<p>If you're good all-around SC gives out about 100 Trustee Scholarships a year (or is it 100 Trustee and Presidentials) which is full tuition covered renewable for three additional years...(I got trustee without perfect grades nor even-near perfect SAT scores...but now I'm at Stanford)...so you could potentially apply that to a pre-business degree at Marshall.</p>
<p>I'll hopefully be in the running for the Trustee scholarship this year, but I'm a little worried about the interview. I've heard that about 300 kids get invited to interview, but only half of those actually receive the full-ride scholarship. Do you have any tips for the interview? (You must have done something right!) I'd greatly appreciate any information you can give about it. Thanks!</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply</p>
<p>-Would you mind sharing your stats ?
-What was the main reason for you being awarded a full ride without having perfect grades, SAT scores (Was it ECs, Recs, or a Great profile cumulatively or some other factor ?)
-How did you end up with Stanford over USC (you could afford the costs, or Stanford awarded you with something similar) ?</p>
<p>New List</p>
<p>BUSINESS MAJOR
1)University of Southern California (Marshall) - DREAM SCHOOL IF I GET THAT COVETED FULL RIDE..</p>
<p>--</p>
<p>ECONOMICS MAJOR (merely beacause they don't offer BUSINESS) (Colleges are in no specific order)
2)Stanford University
3)Duke University
4)University of California - Los Angeles
5)University of California - San Diego
6)Vanderbilt University
7)Rice University
8)California Institute of Technology
9)Pomona - LAC
10)Claremont McKenna - LAC
11)Harvey Mudd (where is it? & est-il LAC ?)
12)Davidson (where is it? & est-il LAC ?)</p>
<p>--</p>
<p>Should I apply for ECONOMICS or BUSINESS in these colleges ? (Which DO allow applying to both programmes ?? - and I'm not talking about DOUBLE MAJORING)
13)University of California - Berkeley
14)University of South Carolina – Columbia
15)Emory University
16)Tulane University
17)University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
18)University of Florida
19)University of Georgia
20)Georgia Institute of Technology</p>
<p>--</p>
<p>Any other GOOD SOUTH COLLEGE that I missed out ?</p>
<p>--</p>
<p>Since my college list is pretty big, I NEED TO SHORTEN IT TO HALF
So,
A) Which of the colleges in this list (particularly UCs, Stanford and Rice) are not good with INTERNATIONAL STUDENT 'aid' (need-blind or whatever) & 'scholarships' ?
B) Still any colleges above, where there is cold weather (particularly Duke, Vanderbilt and Uof North Carolina)?</p>
<p>I can only help with a few schools, and none of its good news, I'm afraid.
Stanford has a limited amount of financial aid for international students, and, while they will cover all demonstrated need, they will take the amount into acount when considering your application. Put in other words, it means that if you are applying as an international for aid, you have a very slim chance (as if getting into Stanford wasn't hard enough). The same applies to Caltech.
Rice is even worse. They will not let you apply without documentation to prove that you can support all four years of a Rice education. While they do offer a scholarship, the Edgar Odell Lovett Scholarship (half tuition), only to international students, you are only considered for it after you have been admitted. In other words, I don't think you'll be able to apply to Rice.
Berkeley is the worst of the lot: it offers no aid whatsoever to international applicants.</p>
<p>As to the business vs. economics, it's been done to death, but at the end of it what matters is what you want to do with your degree after you graduate.</p>
<p>As to the weather - right now at Chapel Hill its -8 Centigrade. You decide.</p>
<p>Scratch UNC-Chapel Hill. They say very clearly on their website that they offer NO scholarships or financial aid for internationals. <a href="http://www.admissions.unc.edu/applying/international.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.admissions.unc.edu/applying/international.htm</a></p>
<p>The UC's also do not offer much in the way of financial aid or scholarships for internationals. If you do some research, you'll find that most of the public universities in the US (including Florida, South Carolina, and Georgia) are going to be pretty much the same.</p>
<p>Duke takes only 50 international freshman and year and they clearly say on their web site that they divide applicants into two groups: ones who can pay and ones who can't. Therefore, while they do offer limited financial aid to internationals, it is going to be extremely difficult to (1) get in with need and (2) get a full ride.</p>
<p>You also need to do some basic research about the other schools on your list - you shouldn't even be considering schools that you don't know something as basic as where they are located. Tip: each school's web site can easily be found by typing in "<a href="http://www.nameofschool.edu">www.nameofschool.edu</a>"</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd is an LAC. It is located right next door to Pomona, in the 5c consortium, in Pomona, CA.</p>