<p>For me, this site has been truly a blessing, because I was able to get basically all information I needed from it. But, sometimes I feel that it is hard to find precise info scattered in this haystack of data called College Confidential - that's why I thought appropiate a reference material for international students to use.
I suppose I am not the only one who thought about writing a guide for international students applying to US colleges. The problem is, of course, that no one has sufficient knowledge to write a comprehensive guide in this respect. As I am quite amazed of the power of wiki-technology, I thought about creating this "International Student Wiki" thing, to which everyone could contribute, of course voluntarily. I don't know how to implement it so a programmer would be vital, but help is certainly going to be needed in all areas. So, any volunteers?</p>
<p>I guess not. Bump anyway!</p>
<p>I'd love to contribute :)</p>
<p>But for programming skills you'll have to ask 'mercurysquad' or 'Shash_rao', I ain't that good :p</p>
<p>I would also love to help you out!!!</p>
<p>Thanks hello and mariela. I hope more people will pledge their help in order to make this idea workable! I'll work on a possible content structure tomorrow.</p>
<p>sounds interesting. Count me in!</p>
<p>yea, i am in as well :)</p>
<p>I like this idea! Definitely count me in...</p>
<p>I like the idea and I definetly support it! (but i don't know if i'll be of any use)</p>
<p>Thanks everyone - it seems that we certainly can create this resource. Thinking about it, I guess we can use wikipedia - it has a good enough platform. I created a very primitive page here:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Student_Wiki%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Student_Wiki</a> </p>
<p>1.Basic questions:
a.Why study in the US?
b.How much is it going to cost?
c.Do I stand a chance?
d.When to start preparing?
2.College search and selection
a.Building the list
b.US Institutions
i.Universities
1.Ivy League
2.Technologic Institutes
3.Top Tier Nationals
4.Public Universities
5.Other Universities
ii.Liberal Arts colleges
c.European Institutions (based on American model)
d.Canadian Institutions
3.Tests and preparation
a.The New SAT
b.SAT IIs
c.TOEFL
d.APs
4.Preparing the application:
a.Common Application and supplements
b.Essays
c.Recommendations
d.School transcript and scores
e.Resume, cover letter, certificates
5.Financial Aid
a.Institutional Aid
b.External Scholarships
c.Loans
d.Work
6.When you send that application
a.Early Decision, Early Action, Regular Decision etc.
b.Postal details
7.Interviews
8.The wait-game
9.After their decision
a.deciding between more institutions
b.waitlists
c.not enough aid?
d.what if I did not get in anywhere?
10.The F1 Visa
a.Visa Interview
b.Rights and Prohibitions
c.OPT</p>
<p>Hope the content above is not too confusing. Everyone's contribution is welcome - of course, in the beginning people should concentrate on writing on unadressed topics, but you can choose what you want to do.</p>
<p>If you have problems with wikispeak:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents</a></p>
<p>Thanks to whoever made the first correction (someone from Dhaka, Bangladesh). By the way, what do MBBs mean? I would kindly ask you that in the future you identify yourself when editing - it will be a lot easier to discuss things that we write this way.</p>
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<p>in what context? in india, MBBS (the S is part of the abbreviation too) is basically bachelors in medicine and surgery.
(although that probably isnt what you menat....:p)</p>
<p>I guess that is probably not what the person who corrected the page meant. I googled it and I found the same thing, although I am not sure what it represents. Maybe it is something about requirements for med schools, I don't know for sure.</p>