<p>All of the service academies have foreign students. It is little known and actually given the importance of commercial maritime activities to Taiwan, Kings Point might be a very good fit.</p>
<p>what is a service academy?</p>
<p>it is a government college that trains men and women to serve in one of the armed forces or merchant marine.</p>
<p>For safeties, I don't think that you can use top public universities. It's risky at best, unless you qualify as a resident of that state. I would look at some schools like Rensselaer Polytech, Worchester Polytech, Rose-Hulman.</p>
<p>any other suggestions?
I really want to get into the MIT, Caltech, Princeton, Cornell, Stanford....
btw, I'm self studying AP Computer sci this following year as well</p>
<p>any other suggestions on what I could do to help?</p>
<p>I've asked the head of math department to set up a math team
(want to be captain lolll)
hopefully by September he'll respond.</p>
<p>You should also consider University of Chicago which has a highly rated Math Department. The math department focuses more on theory and pure math. Depending on what math you want to pursue Chicago is probably better than Cornell and on a par to MIT, Princeton and Stanford. It has a good number of International students and a respected core curriculum.</p>
<p>as my first post, I want to do Electrical engineering
but thanks for the advice!</p>
<p>someone previously said my stats are ok but I need a hook.</p>
<p>What's the hook?</p>
<p>besides, I've kinda changed my mind to add Berkeley to my list~</p>
<p>Princeton, MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Cornell, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, U Mich, Georgia Tech, UIUC, Penn State.</p>
<p>A hook is what you are passionate about, what sets you apart from everyone else.</p>
<p>is debate good enough for a hook?
I've excell in CHinese and English debate.
It has nothing to do with engineering though (not that I can think of)
one way to put it is that my ulterior goal is to do business+engineering, and debate might have some connection with business</p>
<p>if you haven't looked at Olin College of Engineering....you might want to</p>
<p>is that a LAC school?
or is Olin a college inside a university?</p>
<p>It's a freestanding college.
Obviously the focus is on engineering, but you get plenty of business/entrepreneurship and liberal arts education as well. And there's free tuition.</p>
<p>But be warned: we have only 350 students.</p>
<p>Try olin.edu or the collegeconfidential olin forum</p>
<p>any other suggestions on "hooks"?
is debate good enough to be a hook even tho I want to do engineering?</p>
<p>Most schools like to see you doing at least <em>something</em> that doesn't involve your major. Olin calls the things "passions" (assuming you enjoy them, and are not merely good at them.)</p>
<p>I, for example, ran cross country. I'd say that's pretty unrelated to engineering.</p>
<p>in that case, I guest debate could be one
I'm really interested, spent my past 3 summers doing relative programs, and am pretty good at it~!
hope I fill that criteria:)</p>
<p>for more reference, I'm taking AP Bio and Ap Stats the following year and self studying Ap Computer Sci as well. </p>
<p>Do anyone see any "hook" in my ECs?</p>
<p>I highly suspect whether mastering in Chinese+English debate affects admissions. I've thought about putting "political science" for intended major to universities that accept you as together (unlike Cornell which you apply to a separate school).</p>
<p>Would that be a good idea? I'll have no difficulty transfering colleges b/c I won't have to.</p>
<p>I was just wondering whether a math/science EC would be better than a debate EC for engineering"</p>
<p>You'll get more responses if you start a thread asking the above question and giving some info about your background. What you have now looks mainly like a chances post, and those tend to attract the least informed people on CC.</p>
<p>From what I can tell, for engineering, it's important to have very high stats in math/science and to have taken and have excelled in rigorous math and science courses such as calculus, chemistry and physics. Doing those things proves that you have the ability to handle engineering, which lots of people switch out of becuase they can't handle the academics. </p>
<p>Many people don't know that having excellent verbal skills is important, too, because engineers have to write reports, manage work teams, and make presentations </p>
<p>Consequently, if you continue running with your debate talent, that could be a strong plus that could make you stand out in an applicant pool of people who are strong in math/science, but can't communicate. There's no reason, however, that you shouldn't also do a math or science-related EC , too, if you have the time and interest.</p>
<p>thanks a lot. I think that will be enough!:)</p>