<p>I have been living in the US for almost seven years, and still an international student. I have actually never been bothered by this until recently. I began to search for scholarships and outside aids that can help me to pay for college, but almost all of them are only for US citizen/permanent resident. Also, the financial aid provided by most schools to international student is almost nothing. I guess my point is "Man, it's difficult to get financial help as an international student". </p>
<p>Well, I am posting this because I have really nowhere else to say it. So anyone here in the same boat?</p>
<p>There is one unnoticed but very good liberal arts school in New London, New Hampshire. Its name is Colby-Sawyer College. Colby-Sawyer offers need based financial aid and scholarships to any international students. website Colby-Sawyer</a> College Home Page </p>
<p>Any international students considering FA and small good liberal arts school should look at this college. I have received full aid from Colby-Sawyer.</p>
<p>I'm beginning to love Colby-Sauwyer. As I collect information from the school website and some statistics, I come to an understanding that this college is very generous to international students. Is this really the case? </p>
<p>As a current Colby-Sawyer student, how do YOU feel about the ACADEMICS here? I'm gonna major in Economics/Finance-Banking, are these departments at CS good enough? Any chance to go to a well-reputed grad school? ....</p>
<p>I'd be grateful if you can give elaborate answers to my questions. If possible, please tell YOUR opinions in terms of some other factors like climate, campus life, food and so on.</p>
<p>My DD looked at this formally all women's school several years ago. Realize it is completely unknown in the US which means I'm sure it's unknown in Asia. Depending on your stats, this is probably not a good choice for someone interested in business.</p>
<p>There are a few universities who are need-blind and full-need for international students. The lists are: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, Williams, Middlebury, Dartmouth, and Amherst.</p>
<p>To nguyenminhhieuh: Colby-Sawyer does not offer a major in economics.</p>
<p>A very general word of advice:</p>
<p>Be selective about which college you want to attend. In particular, be very careful about small unselective colleges. Even if you get a full ride at such a college, going there would have a huge "opportunity cost" (for those of you who know economics) because you are giving up a far superior education in your home country. </p>
<p>I am currently a student at Bryn Mawr College and even though it is relatively selective, many classes here are easier than my high school classes and I get As in upper-level courses without trying very hard. It's not too bad because Bryn Mawr has cross-registration agreements with Haverford, Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania and I am taking most of my classes at those colleges. However, if I was stuck with classes at Bryn Mawr, I would have probably transferred or gone back to my home country. </p>
<p>Bryn Mawr's average SAT score range is 620-720. Colby-Sawyer's is 440 - 540. Draw your own conclusions.</p>
<p>You should realize that college in the US is not like college anywhere else. In Europe people go to college to become doctors or lawyers or engineers or get advanced degrees in a subject. College graduates are intellectuals and overall maybe 10% of the population have a college degree. In the US that rate is closer to 50%. And colleges make their classes easy enough to accommodate those students... </p>
<p>Before you decide to attend a college, take a very careful look at their course catalog. Does the college offer only a single economics class that uses Calculus? If in your home country <em>every</em> economics class uses calculus (chances are that's true if calculus was mandatory in high school), don't go to such a college to study economics. Do you want to major in math and the most advanced math class offered is Real Analysis? Bad idea! Don't only look at the general course catalog but also at the classes offered in a given semester. Some colleges have 20 upper-level courses in their course catalog, but they only offer one of them per semester. Again, bad idea. </p>
<p>Also compare the general admission statistics to your high school class. If only about 20% of the students in your country earn the kind of high school credentials you need to go to college (e.g. A levels when most students stop after O levels), pretend that if your high school was a college, 50% of the class would have been in the top 10% of the general population (= top 10% of their high school class in the US). If you think that many of the kids in your high school were dumb and you want to be surrounded by a more intellectual student body in college, only attend a college where significantly more than 50% of the student body were in the top 10% of their high school class. (Ideally 90+%) I hope this reasoning is clear. If not, I would be happy to expand on it.</p>
<p>Colby-Sawyer was ranked as a top comprehensive baccalaureate college in the Northeast by U.S. News and World Report. U.S</a>. News & World Report Ranking</p>
<p>Top, relative to the 4000 US colleges! Which consists of many community colleges aiming to educate adults who otherwise, wouldn't get access to higher-level education.</p>
<p>It couldn't compare to the national universities in the rest of the world...</p>
<p>Well, Colby-Sawyer is not meant to be a general college. They don't even have majors or minors in common subjects such as math, physics or economics. It offers a few other select liberal arts majors, but its focus lies on vocational programs such as Graphics Design, Early Childhood Education, Athletic Training and Business Administration. Their programs are very hands-on, and I do believe that it is among the leading colleges that share the same approach to education. </p>
<p>However, that approach is not what most international students are looking for...</p>
<p>Psychology is their single most popular major, but their biology department is mediocre at best. It is kinda entertaining to take a list of all the biology courses offered in a given semester and cross off the courses for non-majors - in particular the bio courses for the nursing program (which do not count towards a bio major btw). Wanna guess how many courses are left?</p>
<p>Since this thread turned into a discussion about the merits of Colby-Sawyer, I thought I would contribute a list of the most popular majors there, taken from Collegeboard:</p>
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* Psychology: 17%
* Health Professions: 16%
* Business/Marketing: 12%
* Education: 12%
* Visual and Performing Arts: 12%
* Parks And Recreation: 11%
* Communications/Journalism: 7%
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<p>Colby-Sawyer is a great college for some students. But it looks like a liberal arts major would be pretty lonely there...</p>
<p>Colby Sawyer doesn't even give too much aid to international students. The range of its scholarships is 4-25k. Its cost of attendence? 40k! So be very sure they meet full need before you apply. Call the adcoms! I emailed them and this is the scholarship range they gave me (see above).</p>
<p>Seems like invinciblebunny has been lucky. Very lucky.</p>
<p>I don't know if you guys know it or not, but University of kansas gives full ride scholarships to international students. It gave full rides to 25 international undergrads in fall '08. Most of the departments are small here and admit only 80-100 students but the faculty are very good. Engineering courses in particular are almost always taught by professors except for a few EECS courses that are taught by TAs.</p>
<p>^ Can you please send me the link where the uni talks about full-ride international scholarships? I only found scholarships for first-year int'l undergrads - and they too were only partial.</p>
<p>Alright the scholarship name is KU-IIE scholarship and is partially financed by IIE. </p>
<p>There isn't alot of stuff available about the scholarship on KU's ISSS webpage but the the ISSS staff is really good and will help you if you write an email to them.</p>
<p>By full ride, I meant that the scholarship covers you entire tuition and course fees which ranges between 20k-24k depending on your major. The scholarship does not pay for housing and board or for books. Also, there are numerous other departmental scholarships which are open for international students. I know about one for sure. Its known as Black-Babbcock Mathematics scholarship for new students. The award money is not very large but is sufficient to cover books for an year.</p>
<p>If you need the names of the people you should contact if you want more info on this scholarship please PM me and i will get back to you.</p>