<p>I’m attending USAP which is kinda program for foreign students and helps them study in the US. And they gave the list of colleges and universities that support USAP.</p>
<li>Berea College 2. Brandeis University 3. Carleton College</li>
</ol>
<p>4.College of St. Catherine 5.College of Wooster 6. Colorado College</p>
<li><p>Connecticut College 8. DePauw University 9. Drake University</p></li>
<li><p>Grinnel College 11. Harvard University 12. Haverford College</p></li>
<li><p>Idaho State Uni 14. International Uni of Bremen</p></li>
</ol>
<p>15.Ithaca College 16. Lafayette College 17. Lawrence University</p>
<p>18.Luther College 19. Middlebury College 20. Mt Holyoke College</p>
<li><p>Oberlin College 22. Pomona College 23. Reed College</p></li>
<li><p>Smith College 25. Swarthmore College 26. Trent University</p></li>
<li><p>University of Maine 28. University of Missouri 29. Uni of Pennsylvania</p></li>
<li><p>Wharton College 31. Viterbo College 32.Wartburg College</p></li>
<li><p>Wesleyan University 34. Whitman College 35. Williams College</p></li>
<li><p>Yale University</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Everyone knows about Harvard or Yale. So they’re in the exceptions list.</p>
<p>ONE QUESTION: big difference between college and university in the US??</p>
<p>First I have to choose 8, then 4 and apply. PM me just the numbers of 8 colleges that are popular and qualified in the US.</p>
<p>Generally speaking, the differences between college and university is that universities tend to be public (some, like Harvard and Yale, are exceptions and are private), and they tend to be bigger.</p>
<p>Well, what colleges are "qualified" and good for you depends on other factors - what do you want to study? Where in the US do you want the school to be located? How big a student population do you want? Do you want to be near a city, in a rural area, or inbetween? Give us some more information about your college preferences, and we'll be able to help you more.</p>
<p>Also, just for the record, a couple of those colleges are all-womens, so you wouldn't be able to go to them. Smith is one of them, and I think Mt. Holyoke is all-female as well, although I'm not sure about that.</p>
<p>There isn't a legal definition of "university" in the USA but universities tend to be bigger and offer more graduate programs. There are exceptions though.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies, guys!!! You know I've never been to USA and barely knows anything, except for the movies, stars...
Also I'm having diffuculty in choosing my proffesion. I'm totally confused!!!
But I'll try to provide you with more infos ASAP.</p>
<p>Yeah, it'd really help to know what sort of school you want. Near a big city? In a big city? Large student population? Any idea on what major? Any preference on climate? Does it have to be near an airport? Thats a pretty varied list of schools so there will probably be one for you on there, but we can't really help much without any info.</p>
<p>What an eclectic list of schools! If you don't know much about them (other than the obvious H and Y), I can see why you would be having a hard time sorting through to pick 8.</p>
<p>As suggested, first you need to ask yourself some basic questions like what subject areas you might be most interested in, whether you want to be located in or near a city (which would make travling back and forth to home much easier), whether you like the lecture-type class or the discussion-type, how big you want your classes to be (on average), whether you mind having graduate students teaching some sections of your classes, whether you want to be around a very diverse group of people or more homogeneous. Once you decide on these basics, we could help you pare down the list you posted. I could go through the list and tell you which ones are the most well-known/prestigious, but I don't think that wouldn't be particularly helpful.</p>
<p>So, get back to this thread with some specifics of what you're looking for and we can be more focused in our responses for you.</p>
<p>I think it's better located near a city and I don't mind studying with many different kind of people. i'd rather want a discussion type as well.
and i'm really good at maths, physics, and social sciences.
i've just read that i can choose my profession while being junior, before becoming sophomore. is it true??</p>
<p>Just based on your wish to be near a city, I would cut your list down to the following:</p>
<p>Brandeis
College of St. Catherine
Drake
Harvard
Haverford
Lafayette
Pomona
Reed
Swarthmore
U. of Missouri
UPenn
Viterbo
Whitman
Yale</p>
<p>I don't know anything about Trent Univ. or the International Univ. of Bremen. Mount Holyoke and Smith are women's colleges and therefore not right for you.</p>
<p>Not all of the colleges that I listed above are in the "big" city but all are fairly close to a big city and/or near an airport.</p>
<p>Now what you should do is log on to Princetonreview.com or some other such website and look into majors, size of campus, etc., for these schools. They vary substantially in terms of size, curricular requirements and approach to education, so you still have an enormous range of options to choose from. Is there any way you can arrange a visit to the US to get onto the campuses of some of these schools? That would be the best way to get a feel for them, although I realize it may be too far, or too expensive.</p>
<p>And it is certainly true that you can choose your major whenever you want in the first 2 years at American colleges. You are encouraged to try out some new topics generally and most schools require a decision by the end of your sophomore year just so you can have the time to complete requirements, etc. American schools are less focused on choosing a profession, however, so you will have some more flexibility in the process than you might be anticipating.</p>
<p>So, let's think that I'll choose by prof by the end of my sophomore year. I'll have to choose college/university that provides wide range of majors, considering that I've not chosen.
Can you name the ones that are good at all majors?</p>
<p>I think generally schools are stronger in some areas than others... What I'd suggest is that you go to princetonreview.com, register there, go to the college section, and click on Counselor-o-Matic. Then you can take a test, entering all your college preferences and info about your academic history, and they'll give you some ideas about what schools might be right for you.</p>
<p>You should note that in general you can wait to choose a major until the end of yor sophomore year, but not if you want to study engineering. There you typically need to be aadmitted to that program at the very beginning of college. The same may be true of certain science and business majors, in certain schools.</p>
<p>rescuing an old thread. kk. i think i better major in engineering, especially electronical or networking engineering. can you guys name colleges that are good at engineering from the list?</p>
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<p>Actually, the main difference is that, with few exceptions, a "college" grants bachelor's degrees only and focuses on undergraduate teaching. Universities on the other hand focus both on teaching and research and, in addition to bachelor's degrees, also grant advanced master's and doctor's degrees, and, in some cases, also professional degrees (for example in law, medicine, or business).</p>
<p>The historical universities in the US like Harvard and Yale started out as colleges, awarding bachelor's degrees only. Nowadays, the undergraduate section in most of the older universities is still referred to as a "college" (for example, Harvard College, Yale College, etc.), but the university also includes one or more "graduate schools", where it is possible to get a master's or a PhD degree, and, perhaps, also several professional schools (as I said before, of law, human and dental medicine, business, etc.).</p>
<p>Contrary to what has been implied before, many universities in the US (e.g., most of the top 25 national universities in USN&WR ranking) are actually private.</p>
<p>Several of the colleges on your list are superselective. Do you have the grades and test scores to be competitive? As an international applicant, the competition will be even worse.</p>
<p>can you just name those that are very good at engineering? surely i am not going to apply to H & Y and UPenn -- I heard UPenn is not that good at engineering.</p>