<p>@Nk1237 no they won’t they even specify that they do not convert, my GC said 80+ is a 4.0 and from what I have seen online, 85+=4.0 is an accurate scale, however, they will use the system that my school uses which is 80+=4.0</p>
<p>LAC stands for liberal arts college, which is a school (generally small) which focuses on giving students a well-rounded education. They are known for generally having a more intellectual vibe (of course there are exceptions) and not offering pre-professional subjects (eg business, engineering, nursing etc.). If you are interested in grad school, many LACs fare very well in grad school placement. </p>
<p>What school specifically gave you that percentage for international acceptance? It doesn’t really seem to jive with me on a common sense level, because there are many more international applicants that apply to a school like MIT than most states in the US. Because you’re pulling from such a huge pool (and a pool where most are well-qualified), it makes sense that the international acceptance rate would be lower than the normal acceptance rate which, in the case of MIT, is about 7.7%. </p>
<p>The international acceptance rate at MIT last year was 2.6%. It was probably lower this year.</p>
<p>Oh my bad everyone, didnt see you guys were talking about acceptance rates,</p>
<p>Colleges usually care about your raw performance. It seems like Canada’s system is equivalent to a weighted AP system in the US. In order for schools to say that you have a 4.0 with an 85 average, Canadian courses would have to be sufficiently harder. In the United States, a 4.0 is usually a 93-95, so schools would not look as favorably upon an 85 unless Canada’s system was sufficiently more difficult. If you can prove that Canadian courses merit a 4.0 with an 85 to the level that we would call a 4.0 here, then maybe you’d be fine with respect to grades.</p>
<p>However, moving onto college preferences, a good liberal arts college in the US for Math is Reed College. They don’t have an official Computer Science major, but they do offer CS courses, so you’d be able to do something similar to the minor you are interested in.</p>
<p>From Reed’s website: “Reed meets the full demonstrated need of all admitted students. Since our funds are limited, we can offer financial aid to approximately 20 to 25 international students each year. In a typical year, 200 to 250 qualified international first-year and transfer applicants compete for these few awards.”</p>
<p>Reed is an example of one of the 10-15% schools you are talking about with respect to international acceptance rates. The overall rate is 36%, so they do place higher standards on international students, and 10% is a pretty tough acceptance rate to deal with. However, they do meet full financial need of all accepted (from their website), so you wouldn’t necessarily go broke there.</p>