Long, but grateful for any help!!

<p>Ok, so i am from england and have 0 clue about how the american uni system works, and the internet has proved to be of little help. So I have a few questions that I would be soooooooooo grateful if someone/anyone could awnser.</p>

<li><p>In England you choose 1 subject/degree and that is ALL you study. But I’ve heard that in America in your first year you also take stuff like history? Can someone expand on that? What exactly do you have to take? Is it only for a year? And do you take you main choosen subject alongside it?</p></li>
<li><p>Ivy Leagues - To be honest these are the only uni’s I am considering applying to, how much are fee’s, can you get scholarships. What are campuses like (catered/self catered).</p></li>
<li><p>Subjects - I want to do business, but i noticed that on the columbia uni site they don;t offer this as an undergraduate degree! Does this mean i would have ot take another subject for 4 years, then take a post graduate in business? Can a take Law with Business, or can you not combine subjects in America?</p></li>
<li><p>Veiwbook - Few of the websites for the ivy leagues seem to allow you to order a veiwbook, you have to look at them online., things is I need a hard copy, does anyoen know a way round this, or if there is a different website I can order veiwbooks of for all the ivy leagues?</p></li>
<li><p>SATS - So in England you don;t have to take these, what are they comprised of? How hard are they? How long do you need to revise for them?</p></li>
<li><p>Is it true that the American’s love english people.</p></li>
<li><p>Location - So columbia is in NY, where is Harvard and Yale?</p></li>
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<p>I aslo know little about the US system but i wanted to make a few points where i can.</p>

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<p>I imagine its roughly the same as it is here. A business degree isnt a prerequisite for going into business. A lot of people major in things that interest them (languages, history, economics etc) and then take a business masters.</p>

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<p>Wikipedia tells me Harvards in Cambridge, Massachusetts (which might explain why Yankees think my Cambridge graduate friends went to MIT) and Yale is in New Haven, Connecticut.</p>

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<p>In Liberal Arts Colleges, you study anything you fancy + some college requirements in the 1st yr. After the 1st yr, you declare your major and mostly study its required courses. Generally speaking, you have a lot more liberty to take subjects outside of your degree.</p>

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<p>Total cost of attendance usually amounts to $50,000 per annum. In the Ivy league, there are no scholarships, only financial aid, or FA for short. FA, unlike scholarships, is awarded on the basis of your family’s financial health (called demonstrated financial need) and not on merit/athleticism. Campuses are catered except on public holidays.</p>

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<p>Email an admissions counsellor or an international admissions official. If you can’t get one from them, there’s always the US Consulate/Library to visit.</p>

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<p>They can be hard for someone not acquainted to the MCQ format. But given 3-4 months of solid preparation, you can easily manage a good score (2200+). If you are not so lucky on your first attempt, you can always take it later (SAT can be taken at six different dates / yr: [SAT</a> Test Dates & Fees for 2009-10](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>SAT Dates and Deadlines – SAT Suite | College Board).)</p>

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<p>I will let an American answer this :)</p>

<p>To help you understand the US higher education system, you should read everything (and I do mean everything) at <a href=“http://educationusa.state.gov/undergrad.htm[/url]”>http://educationusa.state.gov/undergrad.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Then you should make an appointment at the advising center nearest to you so that you can ask the counselors there your questions. These people are truly expert on helping students from your country find good places to study in the US.</p>

<p>Studying in the US for four years can easily cost more than US$200,000. Before you go one step farther in this process, sit down with your family and find out just exactly how much money is available for your education. You also need to find out whether an undergraduate degree from the US will be useful when it comes time to look for a job after you return home.</p>

<p>I think you should start your initiation process by going to a US educational Foundation (USEF) in your country. Attend sessions there its free of cost.</p>

<p>Even I had questions like you before. But take your time and you will slowly learn.</p>

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Not exactly but it will vary by college and degree program. My college requires 32 credits to graduate (most courses are 1 credit) and a major only requires about 12 credits. That means that we have a lot of room to take whatever classes we want to take: we can take more courses in our major, complete a second major or just take random classes that we find interesting. We also have a few general education requirements. Everyone has to take 2 credits each in humanities, sciences and social sciences at some point as part of the free electives. Which order we take those classes in is up to us. We can finish our major by the end of our 2nd year (and then spend the other 2 years taking whatever), we can postpone our major until the last 2 years, or we can take 1 or 2 classes in our major every semester. It’s all up to us.</p>

<p>I should point out that I am attending a liberal arts college and the flexibility with the major requirements comes from that. More technical majors (engineering, some sciences) require the classes to be taken in a certain sequence and then you cannot play around with your schedule like that.</p>

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You don’t need the viewbook unless you want to see some advertising. The college website has a <em>lot</em> more information than the viewbook. (For example, the viewbook will might give you a list of all the majors offered, but the website has a description of each and a list of the requirements they entail.) </p>

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Not all colleges offer business as an undergraduate degree. Law is never offered as an undergraduate degree - you would have to get another undergraduate degree first and then go to law school. Law school itself is so demanding that you cannot get a law degree concurrently with a business degree, but you can most definitely get them consecutively.</p>

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Harvard is in Cambridge, MA which is practically a part of Boston. Yale is in New Haven, CT. Harvard’s campus is much prettier than Yale’s, in my opinion. Yale doesn’t really have a campus in that sense…</p>