Do Soka and Sewanee (the University of the south) offer merit based aid?
Did you check their websites?
Thanks am going to check first
Sewanee offers merit aid
Is it so competitive… Like the admission statistics? Am an international student…and also Soka has both need based and merit but they say they offer only one degree (BA in liberal arts). What are liberal arts? Coz I actually want to do maths or chemistry.
Soka is a tiny school. It doesn’t offer many courses in math or chemistry.
Ok so what does liberal arts mean?
Okay maybe try google for some of these questions. Also for data on how much FA each institution gives, you can try the website collegedata. search for the name of school. Soka and Sewannee other than that they both start with the letter S are very different schools. One is in rural Tennessee with 13,000 acre campus. One is in the dry California oceanside hills and more international/ Pacific Rim in outlook. Look at the course catalogs of the two schools to see what you’re getting into. Sewanee is very very very traditional with some students wearing Hogwarts type robes. Soka is brand new and has a more (to my mind) Zen approach.
They are both great schools, just different.
Liberal arts are the traditional disciplines of knowledge and their contemporary branches - economics, political science, psychology, English, foreign literarure, history, music, mathematics, physics, computer science, biology, Neuroscience, environmental science, American studies, gender studies, international studies… You learn thinking processes (critical thinking and skills) that you apply to a variety of professional fields.
It’s in opposition to more 'vocational ’ programs (that lead to one type of job) like engineering, nursing, teaching.
Soka is a tiny school so they don’t have many subjects; that degree name is their way of saying that you won’t really have a major.
For math and science at that level of selectivity , look at St Olaf, Lawrence, Rhodes.
Thanks alot guys…am really Going to look into those others schools thanks
By the way can I not declare a major like until am a sophomore, coz Soka really have good need based scholarships for international students, I can transfer after the first year of college.
Transfers get lousy aid, and internationals don’t get any.
Scholarships go to freshmen.
Soka is extremely small with just 412 total undergraduate students. The only degree offered is Bachelor of Liberal Arts with a concentration is one of these four areas:
Environmental Studies
Humanities
International Studies
Social & Behavioral Sciences
Is this what you want to study?
Did you look at the website for aid?
http://www.soka.edu/admission_aid/Financial_Aid/soka-scholarships.aspx
Soka will be of my last option “plan b” but I plan to apply to Tulane, University of Alabama (Huntsville) n Carleton. Finances are the problem so I have to apply to generous colleges to international students leaving out the ivies. My gpa is 3.8 I haven’t taken the tests…am going to apply next year after yr r taking both tests…
So you are a junior (age 16 or 17)? What do you plan to study?
No am way older than that (18 taking a gap year due to personal reasons) … I want to study either chemistry or maths
just a note… I love it when young people say “way older” and mean “18”. 
For math, look into Williams, Grinnell, HarveyMudd, Northwestern
Ok am going to do that thanks