<p>Hello!</p>
<p>I am international and these schools a suitable for me:</p>
<p>Brown
California San Diego
California-LA
Caltech
Case Western Reserve
Columbia in the city of NY
Cornell
Duke
Harvard
Harvey Mudd
John Hopkins
Lehigh
MIT
Northwestern
Notre Dame
Rice
Stanford
Texas at Austin
UPenn
Vanderbilt
Yale
Berea
Univ fo Chicago
Swathmore
Colgate
Colorado College
Williams
Amherst
Pomona
Middlebury</p>
<p>Because of the enormous final application fee, I need to reject some choices.</p>
<p>Are there any disadventages of listed schools? (for example: poor dormitories, bad climate/weather conditions, etc?)</p>
<p>Please give some tips.</p>
<p>Greets.</p>
<p>Think about the program you want to do, and look up to see if all of these universities offer that program.</p>
<p>Also think about the environment you want - these schools range from giant public party sports school to small quiet private liberal arts. Do you want to go to a school with 1,000 students or 50,000? That’s a big difference and something to think about.</p>
<p>Also, what type of place would YOU like to live in? A suburb, a rural area, an urban area? The south, the north, by the beach, on top of a mountain?</p>
<p>Ask yourself what you would like, then start to research. Make a chart with the properties of the different schools (size, location, etc.). You can find this info on the official school websites, or on other college review websites. Best of luck!!</p>
<p>Thanks. I definately would like sunny and warmy climate. The school size doesn’t matter. My intended major is astrophysics.</p>
<p>Also, most of these universities are <em>extremely</em> hard to get into. Make sure you have a safety or some sort of backup. Also, can you afford all of these? Some of them aren’t need-blind for international students.</p>
<p>Students in the US are tending to apply to 10-15 colleges these days. 20 would definitely be a lot. You have definitely too many on this list right now.</p>
<p>Well I can tell you Swarthmore doesn’t have an astrophysics major so you may want to cross that one off your list. I recommend first looking at academics – does the school have the program of study you want, do you want small classes, what about distribution/core requirements? Take a look at all of that. Then look at the social scene. Check out College ******* and see what students have to say. Do those all fit? Finally, after you get financial packages back, look at those. You should have a short list after you get decisions back that match all of your criteria. Then make those decisions based on gut. Just my .02.</p>
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<li>p r o w l e r</li>
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<p>Look at:</p>
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<li>Whether the school offers a decent curriculum and course selection for your major.</li>
<li>How much the school will cost.</li>
<li>How realistic your chance of admission is.</li>
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<p>For astrophysics, should the following be under consideration?</p>
<p>UC Berkeley
UC Santa Cruz
Ohio State
Penn State
Washington
Arizona
Hawaii</p>
<p>If you need aid, take off the state schools.</p>
<p>I need full-ride for international. :)</p>
<p>Very few (if any) schools in the US are generous with financial aid for international undergraduate students. Most of those which do give financial aid to international undergraduate students are extremely difficult to get admitted to.</p>
<p>we are talking near Impossible. You would need to be the son of some African government official or have major connections and money, which is a catch 22 because you would not need the Fin aid if you had the money… so you need to be the best of the best!</p>