<p>*** r u talking about piglette?</p>
<p>If you are an international student and non-native english speaker, you simply take the TOFEL!</p>
<p>well, the point about need-blindness is a good one. If he needs a full ride, then his profile better absolutely knock the socks off the admissions committee.</p>
<p>backing shraf on this one,, *** are you talking about...
the point for looking at non-native speaker's verbal score it to make sure that their english will not hinder their academic work, and most students from india are proficient enough in english anyways. she/he can take TOFEL.
the full ride part is going to hurt though. I think your activities look great, but I'll have to reserve my judgement because the international pool is extremely unpredictible.</p>
<p>any thing else, anybody???</p>
<p>would Physics and Philosophy and astrophysics interests make a difference? which is actually a good reason that I am considering american universities?
And is SAT THAT much big a factor that they will overlook your nice work over the years ?
Is the full ride realistic???</p>
<p>Can I just ask... where does everyone get this idea that being an international student way decreases your chances. I know that last year at Harvard the admit rate for UK students was 10%, the same as from US. Are Uk students special? Or is this anti-international thing just a fallacy, does anyone have any stronger evidence that there is such a bias?</p>