<p>hey..does anybody have an idea of how good the economics departments of cornell,columbia,john hopkins is?plus does anyone have an idea of a school with a great economics department in either new york or maryland?please leave your comments.tnx</p>
<p>On your other thread, MallomarCookie very helpfully posted this list of "top undergrad econ" schools, and some suggestions on how to evaluate if you are qualified to be admitted to them. It should be easy to figure out using the Internet which of the listed schools are in NY or MD. (OK, I'll do that for you: Columbia, Johns Hopkins, U of Rochester, St. Lawrence U. And of course Cornell is in NY.) If you can explain why NY and MD are attractive to you, perhaps readers can suggest other choices in similar or nearby states.
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Decide how much you can afford to spend on college, decide how strong of an applicant you are, and then dive into a list like this (the top undergrad econ programs):</p>
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Allegheny
American
Bates
Bowdoin
Brown
Bryn Mawr
UC Berkeley
CULA
CArnegie Mellon
U of Chicago
Claremont McKenna
Columbia
Dartmouth
Denison
Hamilton
Harvard
Haverford
Heidelberg C
Hendrix C
Johns Hopkins
Lafayette
Macalester
MIT
U of Michigan Ann Arbor
Middlebury
Mt. Holyoke
Northwestern
U of Pennsylvania
Pomona
Princeton
Rhodes
U of Rochester
Smith
STanford
ST. LAwrence
St. Olaf
Swarthmore
Trinity College (CT)
Trinity University (TX)
Ursinus College
Vanderbilt
U of Virginia
Wake Forest
Washington and Jefferson
Washington and LEe
Washington U in St. Louis
Wesleyan
Whitman
Willamette
Williams
U of Wisconsin-Madison
Wofford
Yale
London School of Economics</p>
<p>Use collegeboard.com to see if you have a chance at a college on the list (if you can get in or not). Then go to the college's own website to see their financial aid info--to determine if they offer aid to internationals or not, and if so, if they do so on a need-blind basis.
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