Hello!
I am an international student and I want to know what are some good colleges to study business at? I’m a very sociable person but I do not enjoy a lot of noises when I’m going to study (I’ve heard about party schools and stuff where it’s impossible to study not sure if this is true or not), I would like a college in the city, but I can settle for something in between as long as it’s not like super far away from everything. I want to study either Marketing, Business Administration or International Business.
Preferably a school that offers financial aid for International students? I’d love a school with like super good school spirit, I love to participate in school activities.
I was thinking of the Ivies and notre dame and maybe MIT. But my GPA is 4.4 in a scale of 5.0 which is my country’s system and honestly I’m having a hard time converting it. Not sure if it’s a 3.4 or a 3.8. I have a thread on this.
But yeah, what are some colleges I can consider for my list?
I haven’t taken them yet since I’m a sophomore and when I asked my school about them, they told me I should take them in junior year. So, so far all I’ve got is the GPA. I plan on taking the SAT, though. I’m not really an ACT type of person(I never did pretty well in science and I’m not taking any science classes currently). What could be considered a good SAT score? I heard about schools valuing URM, does being an asian student who was born and raised in latin america help with that?
Take a practice test online but it really wouldn’t do any good since you would be taking the new SAT which isn’t even out yet. Come back next year when you’ve progressed more in high school.
One thing you should do is learn about the colleges a bit and of course look beyond the Ivies as they are very difficut for anyone to get admission. The Ivies do not offer business as an undergraduate course of study in general. No business admin, no marketing. They are primarily focused on studies in the arts and sciences. Major exception is the Wharton school at Penn. And Dyson at Cornell. Others may have some small offering like COE at Brown. Princeton has a finance certificate.
MIT has a BS in Management Science
Course 15
majors also complete a set of management science core requirements and a concentration in one of four areas: finance, information technologies, marketing science, or operations research. The course work is rigorous and intensive.
and Notre Dame has the top ranked program on many lists. I’m not sure how ND is on international financial aid, likely it is limited.
I’ll start practicing for the SAT this year, I want to get in a course to study, but they recommended me to just wait since I’m too young and the material they’re covering is hard or something along those lines? They just told me to wait until I had finished this trimester. I think I’ll do pretty good in the test, I mean my only weakness is math and I think that if I really get into it and practice I’ll more or less accomplish a decent score in math? I doubt I’ll get anything lower than a 1700-1900, I plan on taking it twice, regardless of my score the first time. I know there’ll be a new SAT by the time I take it so and I’ve heard it’s 1600 points instead so I guess I won’t get anything lower than a 1400?
Can I choose which SAT to take or will it be mandatory to take the new one?
I’m not sure whether to take the ACT or not, the science section does scare me due to the fact that I’m currently not taking any science classes and also, I won’t be taking trig(which is why I’ll go on a prep course, my school didn’t assign me this classes. The system in my country is super different as you can tell)
Will you be taking science classes? The science section on the ACT does not test your knowledge of science. It tests your ability to read and interpret academic language and graphs. Trig is very important on the math portion though.
The new SAT comes out in March. If you take the SAT this fall, you’ll be taking the old SAT.
My baccalaureate is Marketing, The last science class I took was last year (Physical science, I’ve always taken science before. 7th-9th. HS starts on 7th here) The classes are given depending on what baccalaureate you chose and I chose Marketing, so I’ll no longer be assigned science classes. If I find a ACT prep course, then yes hopefully they’ll prepare me for that section. Or I can hire a tutor? Can you please give me a bit more of information on these sections?
Since I chose marketing, my education and classes are more focused on like the business field, I take business math which is mostly arithmetics and we’ll take a bit of algebra and calc later on. Not sure about trig, I didn’t buy a trig book and haven’t seen students in my baccalaureate carry it, so I doubt I’ll be assigned trig.
So, if I take it this fall and then re take it later on, what should I put on the applications? What I like about the current one is the essay section, I’m pretty good at writing essays and I actually enjoy it.
I’m currently trying to figure out the pro and cons of the current sat and the new one and honestly both seem pretty hard, haha.
I think I’ll probably take the sat twice, regardless and the ACT if I feel I’m prepared enough for it. I plan on taking the SAT subject test on world history. Can I take the subject test before the SAT?
I had the best professor last year and everything history is still fresh in my mind and I just want to take it and get it over with.