<p>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.</p>
<p>You may even mail me privately if you don't want to disclose.</p>
<p>Usc...............</p>
<p>The top schools (i.e., Yale, Harvard, UPenn) do not give merit awards - they only give need-based aid. For merit awards based on SATs, look at schools such as USC, Tulane, Emory. U of Chicago, which has an excellent economics program, also gives a few full rides to internationals with exceptional stats (grades, EC's AND test scores).</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>Don't know about Cornell but UVA, U of Illinois and Purdue do not have financial aid for international students and have very limited merit scholarships available.</p>
<p>Georgetown does not give merit money. Neither does Stanford nor Cornell. As to applying to business and economic programs, it really depends on the college. At CMU you can apply to Tepper which is the business school AND HS&S which houses economics, choose which one is your primary or even double major. But that is just one school. The climate is not pleasant at CMU, Indiana, Purdue, Uof Il, Indiana, ND or BU.</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>it's spelled 'anaheim.'</p>
<p>anyways, i don't know about all the other schools but pomona and claremont mckenna both are about 20 minutes from anaheim. if you went there, you'd be able to visit as many times as you wanted.</p>
<p>anaheim isn't the BEST of cities. it can be kind of dirty at times but it has a lot to do. the city that these two are in, claremont, is nothing like anaheim. there are no major amusement parks or tourist attractions, and is more of a residential neighborhood.</p>
<p>but there is the fact that you could visit anaheim whenever you wanted.</p>
<p>New List</p>
<p>BUSINESS MAJOR
1)University of Southern California (Marshall) - DREAM SCHOOL IF I GET THAT COVETED FULL RIDE..</p>
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<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>Rice offers the Edgar Odell Lovett Scholarship which is a merit award given only to students who are foreign nationals. That's half tuition. Considering how much lower Rice's tuition is than schools like Duke, Stanford, Emory, USC, etc., that might be a good option for you. For example, say that you got a half tuition scholarship at both Rice and USC. Picking Rice would save you about $22,000 over four years. Since Stanford doesn't give merit aid (if you didn't get anything based on need) picking Rice over Stanford, even with no scholarship, would save you about $42,000 over four years. Now, that's not a great reason to choose a school, but it might come into consideration. Think about what exactly the extra money is getting you. This will be much easier to compare once you see where you are accepted and what fin aid offers you recieve.</p>
<p>More info on Rice's merit aid can be found here:
<a href="http://futureowls.rice.edu/futureowls/Merit_Scholarships.asp%5B/url%5D">http://futureowls.rice.edu/futureowls/Merit_Scholarships.asp</a></p>
<p>Also, I don't know specifically about any of your schools that you were trying to decide econ or business, but at a lot of schools you don't have to make this decision when you apply, you can decide once you get there and try out both.</p>
<p>CMU offers poor aid.</p>
<p>I wrote a long response to you but I don't see it here - perhaps you double posted elsewhere and I replied there. The short end of my post: None of the public universities on your list offers financial aid for internationals and very few offer any sort of merit money at all for internationals. By public schools, I'm talking about the UC schools, UNC Chapel Hill, U of Georgia, U of Florida, U of South Carolina.</p>
<p>You really need to do some basic research on your own to develop your list, especially if you have to ask where certain schools are located. Hint: websites for all schools can be found by typing in <a href="http://www.nameoftheschool.edu%5B/url%5D">www.nameoftheschool.edu</a></p>
<p>Thanks Carolyn, all the public univs are off my list. Sorry for my ignorance, but I never researched any of the schools except USC, Pomona and Claremont before adding them to my list. Yes, I've been posting my college lists on other CC forums too, to get a more general consensus.</p>
<p>Georgetown defintely does not offer merit $. BU does if your stats are excellent</p>
<p>Justa BUMP</p>
<p>internationals and full tuition waivers are sticky subjects when put together, you're going to have to do a lot of study on your own to figure out how to make it work for you</p>
<p>Celebrian is right. You might want to get on the phone to the financial aid offices of these colleges and start discussing your situation and options with them. It's going to be a time consuming process but hopefully it will pay off (literally) in the end.</p>
<p>I hope it ends up well for you, but unfortenately red tape is probably going to be a big problem. Just be straightforward with them. The website is going to do nothing for you, this is one of those situations where you'll probably going to have to call</p>