<p>I am really stumped now, I have applied to couple of colleges but am so unsure abt gettin there that I want to apply in few safeties. Please Please Please give me some suggestions regarding this!!</p>
<p>Blip******</p>
<p>More info might be helpful. Stats, interests, extracurriculars, colleges you've already applied to, etc.</p>
<p>Ok heres the thing I don't sport such good stats soo .... I was hesitant in displaying them, but the heck I here it goes.</p>
<p>GPA-3.2
SAT:1390(690-V and 700-Maths)
TOEFL:287
Giving SAT II in Jan 22</p>
<p>Colleges applied:
Hamilton(ED II)
Vassar
Kenyon
Bard
Whitman
Washington and Lee
U of Richmond
Skidmore</p>
<p>And I need to decide the rest!!!</p>
<p>blip*************</p>
<p>It seems that you like Liberal Arts... </p>
<p>St. John's has rolling admission and is an excellent school w/ relative easy admission.
Kalamazoo is also very decent school that has deadline later.
Are u applying for fin aid? If so, then it gets tricky....</p>
<p>blip where are you from? I'm applying at whitman too and you must be the first person I've seen mention it. Anyway, I think you should try st john's too my cousin goes there and loves it.</p>
<p>I was aware that the safeties type colleges are gonna have less fin aid!!
But someone told me that there are plentyof colleges who offer generously!1</p>
<p>And I am thinking abt doing at Depauw University....What do you say!!</p>
<p>and rightly guessed I am opting for liberal arts colleges</p>
<p>blip******</p>
<p>Hey thnks collegeconfusion!!
I am from Nepal and u must be glad to hear that there are quite a number of guys frm here who are applying at the college. </p>
<p>In between, guys St. John's are you all talkin about???</p>
<p>blip********</p>
<p>Which St. Johnes I mean,</p>
<p>blip</p>
<p>St. John's College in MD/ NM</p>
<p>It is arguably one of the best undergraduate schools to study literature or humanity related fileds. It's similar to Reed in the sense that they both didn't report data to US NEWS. And it's a great great school. btw, they do provide fin aid to international students and I believe they're need-blind (as their representative told me) to international students as well.</p>
<p>St. John's doesn't rank high for the reason I stated above and neither does Reed (what a joke! see <a href="http://www.sjca.edu/asp/main.aspx?page=6563%5B/url%5D">http://www.sjca.edu/asp/main.aspx?page=6563</a>)
But its uniqueness is in its Great Books Program - which is a legend. From their website:</p>
<p>The undergraduate program at St. Johns College is an all-required course of study based on the great books of the Western tradition. The curriculum is interdisciplinary and includes: </p>
<p>-Four years of seminar
-Four years of language
-Four years of math
-Three years of laboratory science
-One year of music
-Seminar readings include works of literature, philosophy, theology, political science, and history. The course of study is roughly chronological, beginning with the Greeks in freshman year and continuing to the 21st century in senior year.</p>
<p>If you're really interested in reading, check out their reading list:
<a href="http://www.sjca.edu/asp/main.aspx?page=1302%5B/url%5D">http://www.sjca.edu/asp/main.aspx?page=1302</a></p>
<p>In humanities and english literature diciplines, St. John's beats Yale, Swarthmore. Amherst and all the colleges in U.S. for the per capita of students receiving PhD.
Their per capita of PhD in linguistics, area/ ethnic studies, political science and foreign languages also ranked top 10 in this nation. <a href="http://web.reed.edu/ir/phd.html%5B/url%5D">http://web.reed.edu/ir/phd.html</a></p>
<p>The annapolis campus' website is :
<a href="http://www.sjca.edu%5B/url%5D">http://www.sjca.edu</a></p>
<p>Okay!
Here's my problem!
I get good suggestions frm you all ,regarding St. John's but when I contact a senior who studies there, he blatantly tells me that he wishes (I never get admitted to that horrible place).I am actually more stumped now.</p>
<p>He also mentioned abt not much aid being available to the international students. So, bowtoserenity are you mistaken abt St. John's providing financial aid to international students? </p>
<p><strong><em>blip</em></strong>***</p>