<p>here's some info abt my [url=<a href="http://www.ooehs-dxb.sch.ae/home.php%5Dschool%5B/url">http://www.ooehs-dxb.sch.ae/home.php]school[/url</a>]</p>
<p>H88, if your school in Sharjah is really "horrible" and does not send students to good universities, I would certainly recommend you transfer. How were your SAT II? What do you plan to major in?</p>
<p>Seems like a good school Hello. 8,000 students around the UAE or just in Dubai? That is a huge school. What are your college plans?</p>
<p>just Dubai. </p>
<p>College Plans: MIT or UMich :D</p>
<p>Are there really THAT MANY people from Taiwan applying :O? gasp
I guess I'm out of touch after living abroad for so long...</p>
<p>Hello, good luck with MIT and Michigan. Good schools to chose from. Let me know if you have any questions regarding Michigan.</p>
<p>i know Korea and India have hundreds to thousands of applicants each year. From my country, less than 15 apply to Harvard each year, about 58 apply to MIT last year, and 61 to Yale.</p>
<p>I bet there aren't a whole lot of people who apply to Caltech or MIT from the UAE. I would say less than 15 or even 10. Alex or Hello might know, though.</p>
<p>H88, CalTech probably has 10-20 or so applicants annually. But MIT probably has closer to 100 or so. Coueifat alone produces about 20 applicants annually. But then you have the American schools (ACS, ASD), the elite British schools (Dubai College) and the Indian schools (too numerous to count) and those produce many more.</p>
<p>^ Actually none of my friends are applying to Caltech, it's not need blind + very hard to get into.</p>
<p>MIT on the other hand, everyones applying there :D</p>
<p>Wow, that's such a huge figure! Yeah I guess I missed these schools. ACS's senior class isn't that big, around 63 seniors or so (I used to live in Abu Dhabi), and ASD sent a couple of students last year (or so I've heared).</p>
<p>Coueifat has campuses everywhere, so the 20 annual figure isn't much of a surprise. I am not really sure if this is going to hurt me, especially for schools with quotas (that is to say, if I go to Coueifat next year). </p>
<p>On the other hand, if it happens that I'm going to RSI next summer (decisions are out in April), I'll transfer to Coueifat. If not, I'll take courses during the summer or fall at AUS (not yet confirmed, but there's a chance that they will accept me as a part-time non-degree seeking student). Else, I'm doomed.</p>
<p>if you get into RSI, you wont have to worry abt college admissions anymore ;)</p>
<p>btw whats your nationality</p>
<p>Haha Hello, that's encouraging.</p>
<p>I am originally from Iraq, and was born in Abu Dhabi.</p>
<p>don't worry h88, IMO you will get into either MIT or RSI.</p>
<p>NOW that would be a tough decision :D, a decision I would be :) to make</p>
<p>MIT is a fat chance, and so is RSI. If 100 students or so apply to MIT, then RSI is bound to get the same (or at least close to) number of applications.</p>
<p>March will tell us, but I'm positive that MIT will not admit me. But I have to admit, that I'm hoping for an RSI admission. :P</p>
<p>thanks for your encouragement, hello. =)</p>
<p>hi,
anybody know about the number of Ivy-league applicants from France? I'm the only person from my school applying to top US schools (even though it's an int'l school), but I don't know about other schools in France</p>
<p>AXFR, France does not stand alone as in entity in the eyes of most college adcoms. It would most likely be lumped together with Belgium, Switzerland, Spain and Italy. Many applicants apply from those countries but the competition is not as insane as it is for students applying from East Adia and Subcontinental Asia. France sends roughly 1,000 students to American undergraduate institutions each year. Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Belgium send another 2,000. So there is competition. </p>
<p>And by the way, I realize that you may not aware of this, but in the eyes of top French employers, the Ivies are not the only top universities in the US. So do not limit yourself to the Ivies. The US as a country is larger than France. It is 20 times larger in terms of surface area, 5 times larger in terms of population and 6 times large in terms of GDP. So if France has 10 top universities, it is safe to assume that the US has 50 or so top universities. Only 8 of those are Ivies. The Ivies are always harder to get into because they are tiny and many kids are obessessed with them, but many great schools like the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins etc... have more reasonabgle admissions processes and as such, are more relastic. So I urge you not to limit yourself to the Ivies.</p>
<p>I applied to a couple of Ivies (Dartmouth and Cornell) because of their rural locations, superb hiking opportunities, gorgeous campuses and rigorous academics; the other Ivies didn't really interest me. I'm really hoping I get into the University of Chicago; thankfully, none of the people I know have ever heard of it - they just confuse it with UIUC, haha. The one fella who HAS actually heard of it backed out of applying after he realised (with a few assurances from myself :P) that the U of C is indeed the place where fun comes to die.</p>
<p>I don't think being an international student would hurt your chances unless you're:
a) applying for financial aid. A friend of mine got rejected by all the universities he applied to as a result. And he ended up in Cambridge, who were nice enough to offer him a scholarship.</p>
<p>b) applying to state schools, such as the University of California, who give preference to Californians</p>
<p>c) are from a country from which a huge number of students are applying, i.e. India. But to be more accurate, it would make the admissions process a lot more competitive; I can't really say whether if it would hurt your chances.</p>
<p>What about schools that have affirmative action? Would it HELP your chances if you were an international student?</p>
<p>nkay, I wish more students had your approach to university selection and application. Many just look for the Ivies or follow what their friends (who know nothing) say and do. You, on the other hand, have obviously done your research. Dartmouth and Cornell indeed have gorgeous campuses...and for those who love the outdoors, they cannot be beaten. </p>
<p>About the University of Chicago, let me tell you a few things: </p>
<p>1) Although many of your fellow students do not know of the University of Chicago, trust me, where it counts (in the academic and coprorate worlds), Chicago is second to none. </p>
<p>2) It is a myth that Chicago is where fun goes to die. I went to a couple of parties at the University of Chicago back in the day (1993 and 1994) and let me tell you, it had its share of good looking students wearing next to nothing, having a carefree time etc.... Plus, the university is located very close to the downtown my favorite City in North America. </p>
<p>Obviously, the university is a no-nonsense institution and its students are serious intellectuals. But there is a lot of fun to be had at Chicago...if wish to find it.</p>
<p>Good luck with Chicago, Cornell and Dartmouth. Great choices!!!</p>
<p>Thanks! The U of C is my undisputed top choice. It's not as well known as the other universities that I've applied to (Stanford, the Ivies, Berkeley), but this fact works in my favour because the less applicants a university has, the less competition. <em>dances</em></p>
<p>It really is second to none considering that most of the classes there have an average of about 25 students. I learn best in discussion-oriented classes (can't help it, I'm a blabbermouth!), so I'm really happy with the U of C's class sizes.</p>
<p>And although the University's self-proclaimed image is of one where fun comes to die, this doesn't bother me at all because what counts as fun for one person may be very boring to the next. I'm a nerd and an avid reader, so my kind of fun lies in learning. I enjoy the occasional party, but I'm not a serious party-goer so even if the University was lacking in the number of parties hosted, it wouldn't make a difference to me.</p>
<p>Thanks again!</p>