<p>Lijia,</p>
<p>I think even if you are of CCU quality, you’d still better off to educate over in TW then come here, its LOT cheaper. You probably has the stats to go to FU, Colgate and such, but not for Merit Aid purposes. There are ten’s thousands of internationals want to come to the US to get a low cost or even free education. They all have high stats, when you run into those students, you will not get the merit aids you are expecting.</p>
<p>If you do well over there, the graduate schools are more open for you.</p>
<p>You need not to run the stats on this board as those stats do not track with the American system and you will be misguided. The international admission offices have data to measure your level of accomplishment. Here on CC, the advisors are only familiar to the US HS student stats. Of course, if you are from TAS or the equivalent, there is no problem.</p>