Please Help Me Choose My College!!! My Life Begins Here!!!

College Search & Selection
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<p>what you need to do is something like this
city, suburb, or rural?
public or private?
large, medium or small?
hot weather, temperate weather, or cold weather?
liberal or conservative?
possible fields of study?
etc.
pick which ones you want from that list,and list them from what is most important to you, to what is least important. </p>

<p>for me it would look something like this:
possible fields of study?--history, anthropology, sociology
city, suburb, or rural?--city or suburbs
large, medium or small?--medium-small
hot weather, temperate weather, or cold weather?--preferably temperate, but I can deal with the others
liberal or conservative?--liberal
public or private?--doesn't matter</p>

<p>then, you'd take your most important preference (in my case, field of study), and compare it with each of the colleges on that list. Eliminate any colleges that don't fit (I'd eliminate any colleges that don't have very good humanities programs or put emphasis on math/sciences)
then go to the next preference, and do the same thing with your newly shortened list
go on until you have ~10-12 colleges, and then research those more in depth to make your final 8</p>

<p>If you'd rather not do that, use Princeton Review, but beware--they do a decent job of finding a fit based on interest, but don't think that all the schools they tell you are match are really match schools. Don't depend on their reach/match/safety ranks--they're very skewed
Then you can use the lists they give you and compare it to your list of cooperative colleges. </p>

<p>Good Luck!</p>

<p>--oh yeah, and Cornell Engineering is supposed to be really good, but also EXTREMELY demanding, hard to get into, and its in a rural area</p>

<p>and as an international student I think you should stick with 1 reach, 1-2 matches, and 1-2 safeties</p>

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<p>Actually, many colleges do grant graduate degrees. It just depends on the school. This is usually only true for broader degrees though. Universities usually have more opportunities for graduate studies.</p>

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<p>about the questions above, i dont really care at all. i wont have any problem as long as i can study in a good engineering school (but not the best -- it's hard kk). and what do you say about Carleton? how is it on engineering and CS?
yea, i should mention that i'm interested in CS too. I heard that it's okay to choose major as sophomore.</p>

<p>ps: are colleges that are good at engineering usually also good at CS?</p>

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<p>Carleton is an LAC that does not offer engineering. You need to do more research on engineering schools.</p>

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<p>I don't see any schools on the list that I would equate with a highly-recognized Engineering program. For starters, you can probably rule out any of the schools with "College" in their title - they will tend to be liberal arts focused rather than featuring pre-professional fields. The state universities will likely offer Engineering - I just checked Maine and Idaho State, and they both have schools of Engineering - though they are not very selective universities and I wouldn't think that their programs would immediately come to mind when one thinks of engineering.</p>

<p>I'd recommend that you visit the websites of the universities on your list. The address of the website will usually be <a href="http://www"&gt;www&lt;/a>. and then the key word in the school name (for instance, Maine) or the school's acronym (for instance, ISU) . edu.</p>

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<p>Guys, I don't actually have ti apply to only those colleges. But you know, I'm an international student, who have never been abroad b4. Many say it's really hard for me to get into MIT, CalTech, Vanderbilt or Cornell, which are my dream colleges.
Some Chinese or Korean students are luckier than me to have graduated their high school in the States and are acclimated to the atmosphere.
I really do want to apply to those schools, but I'm just afraid of being kicked out. Then it's just gonna be a waste of money.
What do you think, guys? I'm taking SAT I in Oct and SAT II in Nov. I bet my SAT I score would be over 2000 or so, if I do my best 2100+. And I'm determined to get 2 800's on my Math IIc and physics. You might know that those 2 are taught pretty well in Asian countries, though just theoritically, not practically.</p>

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<p>UMaine is good in engineering.</p>

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<p>Carleton doesn't offer engineering, but does have a strong CS program.</p>

<p>If you are interested in urban and engineering/CS, may I suggest WPI, RPI, or Stevens Institute of Technology?</p>

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<p>Tsenguun - I'd take a look at Georgia Tech (the Georgia Institute of Technology)</p>

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<p>I need to find colleges that are good at CS and not too selective.</p>

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<p>I second the suggestion to look into Georgia Tech</p>

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<p>Let me post the list of colleges again, so that one won't have to go through all 3 pages.</p>

<ol>
<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>

<ol>
<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>

<ol>
<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>Isn't there really good college that is great at CS in the list? Guys, please just tell me the truth. And I'm well into Georgia Tech. I like it very much. How is it compared to MIT or CalTech? Are Vanderbilt and Cornell as good as Ivies( at CS)?</p>

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<p>please guys!!! help me out here!!!</p>

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<p>According to CB's Majors and Careers Central, there are over 20 specialties under Computer Science and Technology, such as Computer Graphics, Computer Networking and Telecommunications, Computer Programming, Computer Science, Information Technology. Please tell me if it's okay to choose one of them after getting into school without choosing, as long as long school provides CS.
I'm specially interested in IT and Computer networking $ Communication.</p>

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<p>^The Computer Science specialties aren't offered at most schools. At best, a school usually has 2 or 3 specialties in Computer Science, with exceptions for very large universities. Therefore, you really won't have to worry too much about choosing a specialty.</p>

<p>What you should do is take a look at each college on the list using CollegeBoard's website. If you don't want schools that are too selective, take out Pennsylvania, Harvard, and Yale. Others on the list are still selective, but they are a little less competitive for international students.</p>

<p>I have to ask about Wharton College. Is that Wharton Business School at University of Pennsylvania or Wharton County Junior College? You don't want the junior college.</p>

<p>Using the above list of USAP schools near a big city (smile dog), enter them into College Board's website and research their majors and other information. I think that's the best way for internationals to find out about colleges when they can't visit.</p>

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<p>It says Wharton School, just under the name of UPenn.</p>

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<p>You can cross out Smith and Mt Holyoke. You have no chance of getting admitted regardless of your stats.</p>