<p>Hi,
Could anyone here tell me a bit about when and how to apply for campus jobs? According to what i’ve heard, financial aid office usually email us a bit too late before many jobs have been picked up :(</p>
<p>Oh and is there anyone who still has the job listings from the previous years and is willing to email me them? My email is buih(at)lafayette.edu Thanks a lot!!</p>
<p>@bookbuddy</p>
<p>Relax. You’ve got a long time before you start college. You basically just go talk to the people (supervisors) and check if they’ve got openings. You can do that during orientation too. Sometimes you need to fill out an application, some times not. You talk to upperclassmen about where the jobs are. </p>
<p>Some of the places you can look for is:
Skillman Library
Kirby Library
College bookstore
Phonathon
Dining Services (although, not sure what’s gonna happen now that we’ve changed the company)
ITS
Admissions office (although I think you have to have spent at least a semester at Lafayette to be a tour guide. Taylor can say more on this)
ATTIC Academic Tutor
Aside from that, once you’ve spent a year or so, you can talk to professors if they’re doing something interesting and ask if you could work with them as excel scholars. </p>
<p>You can apply for an RA position after your first year.</p>
<p>That’s all I can think of right now. You’ve got some time, chill.</p>
<p>Hi sixstringsroker
Thanks a lottttt for your reply (and your email too!). Guess I should stop worrying right away:) Yes i’m an international student from Vietnam, and i’m a girl not a guy lol. And btw, you reallyyy make me want to join ISA next year:></p>
<p>haha, sorry. I don’t know why I thought you were a guy. I thought I had read it somewhere in the thread a while ago, so took a shot anyways. Yes, ISA helps out a lot getting adjusted to life in the US. Also, ISA helps facilitate cultural exchange among students. Our international peer advisers will be getting in touch with you soon, if they have not done so already. This year is our biggest international student class ever, and I’m looking forward to meeting you during orientation. Feel free to ask me any questions you might have, on CC or via email.</p>
<p>Hey bookbuddy,</p>
<p>Just to add to sixstring’s post…you may become a tour guide after one semester. There will be an application process in the fall that you can take part of, to start giving tours in the spring. </p>
<p>Another good job on campus is to work as a writing associate (WA) starting your sophomore year (I think that’s the minimum). They help students in seminar classes write papers.</p>
<p>Sixstrings pretty much covered the rest of the major jobs on campus.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Taylor</p>
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>Do you know which day is the first day of international student orientation? Somewhere it says Aug 18, at another place it says Aug 19–I am quite confused.</p>
<p>Let’s say it is Aug 18. Should I plan to be at Lafayette on Aug 17, so that I can move-in that day and be ready for the orientation activities on Aug 18? Or is the first day of orientation is just spent with moving-in?</p>
<p>General orientation begins 22nd august.
International orientation is 19th-21st August, so you should plan on arriving on the 18th</p>
<p>^Thank you! I am relieved.</p>
<p>I understand this is a somewhat personal question, but for those of you who were accepted ED, what were your sat scores?</p>
<p>The class profile on the school’s website breaks out ED separately so you can get a very good idea of average SATs for the ED candidates as opposed to the RD candidates. This might be more helpful than any single individual’s test scores.
[Entering</a> Class Profile · About · Lafayette College](<a href=“http://www.lafayette.edu/about/lafayette-at-a-glance/entering-class-profile/]Entering”>http://www.lafayette.edu/about/lafayette-at-a-glance/entering-class-profile/)</p>
<p>Yes, I agree with happy1. ED applicants tend to have lower average stats, as many of them apply ED to get a boost in admissions.</p>
<p>If you would still like to know though, I scored a 2180 on my SATs. Just know that this is only my score, not the average.</p>
<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>My brother intends to apply to Lafayette this Dec. Can you help me answer some questions:</p>
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<li><p>If my bro wants to study majors relating to Chemistry or Biology, should he go to Lafayette? Can you also recommend me some schools with the majors he wants to study, but NOT SO HARD for international student (Vietnamese) to get in?</p></li>
<li><p>(Asking other international students) Is there any minimum requirement for family contribution in Lafayette? </p></li>
</ol>
<p>Thank you very much for your help.</p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Yes. The appeal of Lafayette (from my point of view at least) is the small size and low student:faculty ratio. It gives me a lot of time with the profs. Regardless of major, it’s super awesome. Also, I’ve heard Laf’s bio program is pretty good.
Go over to the international students section of this forum, and look for the “Nepal” subforum. You’ll see a class of 2017 accepted thread, and they’ll have a list of schools that accepted the Nepali students. Pretty much all those schools accept international students with decent aid and what not. Some of them are hard to get in, but that shouldn’t stop him from applying. Shoot for the best.</p></li>
<li><p>There’s no minimum for Lafayette. You fill out ISFAA (or CSS) and the CoF and your family contribution is decided from there.</p></li>
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<p>@ sixstringsrocker</p>
<p>Thank you for your answer.</p>
<p>Btw, do you know anyone has the full ride in Lafayette? I"m curious that how strong their profile is to get the full ride.</p>
<p>I cannot speak for international students specifically, but the only people I know with full tuition scholarships are the Posse Scholars (and other students who have a collection of scholarships that together cover the costs of tuition). In terms of financial aid for foreign students, sixstringsrocker should know more…</p>
<p>Taylor</p>
<p>I’m not exactly sure of the actual number of people who have full rides, but there are a few. There are also students who receive special scholarships like the Oeschle Scholarship, which is basically a full ride, you don’t have to pay a cent but you have to be from Eastern Europe (Mr. Oeschle is from Eastern Europe, I believe). There are a few scholarships like that. There is no special application for any of these.</p>
<p>You should also understand, that it’s never only about the stats. There’s a lot more to your application, specially as an international student, than your stats. Laf’s international acceptance rate is around 8-9% I believe. You really gotta show more than just the numbers. The FA is need based, so it is actually irrelevant to your stats. You just need to get accepted.</p>
<p>Are triples common at Lafayette? I have been assigned a triple in Gates Hall… Would this be a forced triple or just a room for three people?</p>
<p>Triples aren’t super common, but not unusual. Gates has triples, (not forced ones, they are just bigger rooms), so does Watson Hall, and a couple in Easton I believe.</p>
<p>Since Lafayette is a smaller school, do you find difficulty in getting classes you need for your major, i.e. due to not being offered or conflicting with the time slots of other classes?</p>
<p>Not really. If you need to take a class at that particular semester, the registrar will make sure you get it. The professor will do that too, since professors can bypass the registrar in cases. If a professor is letting you take the class, the registrar can’t stop it from happening even if the class is overfilled. You just need to talk to the professor. (personal experience).</p>