<p>I think your list is good . I’d add one Rolling Admission school just to make sure but many of the highly ranked are in areas that get snow such as Penn State or U Wisconsin … But overall yes you’re good to go!</p>
<p>what do you mean? do you have some suggestions?</p>
<p>You have several types of admission processes and deadlines:
1° Rolling Admissions: you can apply as soon as the app is online. The earlier you apply, the better. You learn your admission decision about 6 to 8 weeks after your file is complete. You have until May 1st to decide.
2° a) Early Admission: you apply by November 1st/November 15/December 1st (depending on the college) and you have your answer about one month to 6 weeks later. You have until May 1st to decide.
b) SCEA: practiced by some Ivy-League level schools. You can apply to Rolling Admission universities as well as public universities, but not to private universities.
3° Early DECISION: if you apply “ED”, you promise to attend the school if they admit you. You can apply to other universities but if the ED school admits you, you must withdraw your applications and you never learn if these other universities admitted you or what financial aid offer they’d make you. ED deadlines tend to be November 1st. You can only apply to one school ED (obviously) and you learn the decision about 6 weeks later. You get a little or big boost compared to the “RD pool”. Then, you learn if you’re admitted and you must give your answer immediately (it has to be yes, UNLESS financial aid is insufficient, in which case you’re supposed to call and explain the problem). If you say no for financial reasons and the ED school doesn’t increase your financial aid package, you can’t be sure you’ll get a better package from another school and you forfeit your admission to the ED school (you can’t wait till you have other decisions and choose).
4° Regular decision (RD): the most common “pool”. You have until January 1st/15/February 1st and you hear between mid March and mid April. You have until May 1st to decide where you’ll attend.</p>
<p>If you apply in August or September to a Rolling Admissions university, you’ll have a decision in your pocket before you apply to other schools. This way, if you target your rolling admissions well, you can be denied at your ED or EA school and still know you got into a great school.</p>
<p>Thank you @MYOS1634, that was really helpful! </p>
<p>It will be basically impossible for me to apply by September I think (due to the school system/professors)… But I can try!
The only thing is that I tried to search for schools w/ rolling admission, but I only found long lists… How can I choose?</p>
<p>Someone knows some kind of college search with this option?</p>
<p>Well, as I said, UWisconsin, Penn State, and Pitt are the best “rolling admissions” schools and if you apply, say, in early October, your odds are still very good (you only need grades, SAT score, and TOEFL score). However if your criteria remain the same and you want universities without snow, that should eliminate 90% of the list.</p>
<p>oh, that’s bad. Nothing in VA?
Does it snow a lot near Penn State and Pitt?</p>
<p>They do not offer the major I want, so thet are automatically crossed :/</p>
<p>I’m quite sure all three universities offer the major you want. They have over 100 of them :)</p>
<p>Well, there’s snow basically from December till March, sometimes November… It doesn’t snow a lot, but there’s snow on the ground. In Wisconsin, there’s snow from late October until mid April.</p>
<p>Those are the three “famous” ones (highly-ranked, etc). I can check and see if there are some elsewhere.</p>
<p>University of Alabama is rolling admissions and its App is up right now for Fall 2015… No snow there, but lots of heat and humidity. (Honestly, I prefer snow and dry cold to lots of heat and humidity, but that’s me, ymmv.)</p>
<p>Yay! Another Italian! :)</p>
<p>Before I give you my advice, what do you do? Liceo scientifico, Liceo Classico or Instituto Tecnico?
You know, the licei are tough, especially the Classico!</p>
<p>@MYOS1634 I want to be a Cog Sci major, if not this, Neuroscience (but w/ a program very similar to cog sci) 
Uhm I don’t really want to bother you this much! Tell me how do you find theese, I will check them ;)</p>
<p>@S2Stan Heeeey! I’m in the Liceo Scientifico Scienze Applicate, nuovo ordinamento I think this is a pretty tough school, basically like the Liceo Classico. Do you know it?</p>
<p>for instance
<a href=“http://www.cba.pitt.edu/”>http://www.cba.pitt.edu/</a>
<a href=“http://www.neuroscience.pitt.edu/”>http://www.neuroscience.pitt.edu/</a></p>
<p><a href=“Guide < University of Wisconsin-Madison”>Guide < University of Wisconsin-Madison;
<a href=“http://cogsci.wisc.edu/”>http://cogsci.wisc.edu/</a></p>
<p>I didn’t even considered winsc!
The program at pitts is not really what I’m searching for 
I’m more on “Cog Sci/Neuroscience” than Neuroscience itself. :/</p>
<p>Anyway, I just wanted to ponit out that since I’m a disable (walking problems), walking on snow/ice/too much rain will be a problem, that’s why I want a good weather. It is not just some kind of whim.</p>
<p>@woahika Well, Liceo Classico is unarguably the hardest. I would say that Liceo Scientifico is a close second. Well, I stopped studying in an Italian school after the Licenza Media, but, IIRC, the only difference between the “normal” Liceo Scientifico and Scienze Applicate is that, instead of studying Latin, you study ICT. While I think that Latin might potentially be harder, I don’t see that much of a difference.</p>
<p>An average of 7/8 is OK. In what year are you? Terzo, Quarto o Quinto?</p>
<p>@S2Stan I think the liceos are equally harder, you know? That’s just because they are Liceum. Plus, reading CC I get that the USA values Science as more difficult than anything else (possibly?). in school we do Programming (HTML, Javascript, VB.net, C) and basically everyone - uhm apart from me and 2 other st.- risks the debito in that. We have 5 hours of Science (earth, chem, bio, geology) and physics from the 1st year (with 1 more hour than the normal liceum - 3h).</p>
<p>Anyway, that doesn’t matter very much, does it?
I’m in the Quarta, will be in Quinta in Sept. I have 7.73 this year 
</p>
<p>If, in the Primo quadrimestre/trimestre (I really hope for your sake that you use trimestri), you get a 9/10 average, you might bring your average to a full 8 (Which is kinda high for Licei, lol all of my friends were either rimandati or they had 6 in most subjects. IB seems almost easier :’) ).</p>
<p>With an 8 you would be in great shape for most schools! :)</p>
<p>@S2Stan yeah, that would be basically impossible. Most of my HS professors don’t do 9s (or 10s).
Right now my average for is 7.4 (Terza e Quarta). I don’t really know what to expect next year bc I change some professors… we will see!
I might have some kind of 7.7 again… might have more, might have less.
For example, this year I had almost 8 in math Primo Quadrimestre, but screwed up to a 6 in the Secondo Quadrimestre (due to personal problems)… I might have something written by my professors about my axiety problems and how do they affect my grades. </p>
<p>We have a trimester and a pentamester :)</p>
<p>uhm, bump?</p>
<p>@MYOS1634 you said that for rolling admission I need only SAT/ACT, GPA and TOEFL…
I was looking into George Fox and they also need 2 rec and essays.
Is this normal or just George Fox? I don’t think that it is a good idea to apply to rolling adm if I need to ask rec letters! (just because it is difficult to have them!)</p>
<p>Plus, just to know (not really important, but it doesn’t hurt to ask), someone thinks I could get a merit scholarship form any of the school I mentioned? </p>
<p>George Fox is a super conservative, seriously Christian school. They require essays and recommendations because they must make sure you meet their requirements and accept their creed.</p>
<p>The requirement for letters of recommendation doesn’t depend on the admission type (Rolling, EA, etc) but on the type of school. Most very large flagships admit based on GPA X score. Most private universities are “holistic”, meaning they admit based on a variety of factors.</p>
<p>If you get into the Honors College at Pitt or Penn State (not sure about U Wisconsin and at Pitt it’s very hard to get merit aid, at Penn State there’s very little money, some are for specific majors and some are reserved to honors college students) you may be able to apply to the Honors college before December 1 (which you really should do, “priority deadline” means that your odds become very low for other dates) and thus you may get some merit money. </p>
<p>@MYOS1634 ok, so GF is crossed.
Still thinking about Penn State and Pitts though.</p>
<p>What about my initial list (U of A, USD, Regis, U Richmond, UT Austin & Dallas)?</p>
<p>I’m still searching for schools with rolling adm. if anyone has ideas!</p>
<p>I gave you the list of rolling admission schools so that you don’t have to look for them… use it. :)</p>
<p>You may qualify for some merit at UT Dallas and Regis. Unlikely at UT Austin.</p>