<p>ajayc:I really liked your opinion.Indeed I'm applying to brazilian universities(safeties) to make sure I have a place to study if the U.S colleges turned me down.</p>
<p>haha...I've got another doubt.</p>
<p>My country's high school system has only 3 grades,so we don't have the 9 grade.</p>
<p>Should I send a letter explaning this fact to the adcom?</p>
<p>@ajay: hmm yeah, that may be true. but for me it's more like.. i really really want a liberal arts education, and there's nowhere else that can offer me such. not my own country, not singapore.</p>
<p>@brazilian: i think your high school counsellor does that for you.</p>
<p>brazilian, you should be fine. The counselor at your high school should send a school profile, and that will contain everything about your high school including the grading system and academic curriculum. Make sure to check that your counselor (or whatever the equivalent position is) is sending something like that.</p>
<p>limitedvocab and haru07,thanks a lot!</p>
<p>hey can you tell me what exactly LACs stand for? <em>sorry</em>
and I want to apply for financial aid and scholarship in every college that I apply. Which is the best university/college for that option also which is good for economics with management/mathematics?</p>
<p>LACs = Liberal Arts Colleges..
LACs give quite good need based aid (to those who are accepted and require aid), but of-course, the competition is very STIFF for internationals...
And as for ''which university'' you will have to search many universities' sites and know thoroughly about them..and after that good long work, you will know which university suites you!...:)..
As for Financial aid, there are only few universities which consider need-blind case for internationals, Many prefer Need-based case but then, many also give very limited aid in that case and so, competition is stiff, yet again..
As for Scholarships, there are few universities which offer Merit Based Scholarships...</p>
<p>As an international student you have to be aware that you are in a completely separate pool of applicants. This goes especially for LACs, because internationals applying to LACs frequently ask for aid whereas those wanting to attend universities (such as USC, UVA, UChicago, NYU, etc, which do not offer need-based aid to internationals) pay full price if the school does not offer aid. Most people however do require aid and apply to the few universities which offer aid, as well as LACs, thus making the competition crazy for those schools.</p>
<p>hi haru:
Being an international student too, i would like you to give me an honest answer: What are my chances for med school if i obtain a BS in Biochemistry/Genetics? I've heard that it is nearly impossible for internationals to get admitted to med school for several reasons, including the lack of financial aid, and even fear of teaching their knowledge to an "alien"?
Thanks in advance!!!</p>
<p>taniuxka20: I am not very knowledgable about grad school (yet), but some med schools are extremely difficult to get into even as a domestic applicant. Lack of aid I think is less of a problem than undergrad because there are many grants or funds at the graduate level as compared to UG. The one thing you might want to be careful about medschool as an international, if you want to actually become a doctor/physician is that, from what I have heard licenses will not always work in other countries and you will not be able to practice depending on location. Again, I don't want to sound too confident here because I haven't researched much about postgraduate education. I have just given my opinions, not facts, and if you want solid answers I advise you to go into the graduate school forum.</p>