<p>I'm an international student and i have been in the US for 5 years. i'm a HS senior right now, and i'm going to a small-town so-so engineering college. i want to study business/economics, and this college's business sucks so much....i have a list of schools which would give limited scholarships to international students and have great business/econ programs</p>
<p>Yale
Stanford
Columbia
Duke
Harvard
UPenn
Dartmouth
Amherst
Northwestern
Georgetown
Chicago
Cornell
NYU</p>
<p>here are my stats from high school</p>
<p>SAT: 1980 ~ i'm going to retake it, i think i can get it up to at least 2100
SAT II: 800, 730, 710
GPA:3.96 (my school doesn't weight GPA)
Rank:16/100 (i'm worried about my rank, but my school is a small town school and people take easy class to get good grades)
ECs: President of Model UN, Debate, VP of newspaper, UNICEF volunteer, published articles on national newspapers in my native country
--the only good thing about the college i'm going now is that it's small and a lot of the professor are my parents' good friends, so i'm sure i can get some good recommendations.</p>
<p>so what do i need to do to have a good shot at those schools? i know a GPA of 3.5-4.0 is a must...but what else?</p>
<p>uhm.... tons of people who apply to those colleges u've listed have similar or better stats than urs. PLUS, A BIG PLUS .....being an international student sucks like a biiiiaaaatch. personally, i ranked 9/486 in high school, straight A's, similar SAT II scores(800 770 710), exactly same SAT I score(which sucks). lots of EC's and sh1t. i only got into UCI from high school. im not writing these to discourage u or to brag myself. just wanna share my disappointment. maybe transfer is a different process, maybe u have some sort of talent they are interested in,, so just apply, who knows. and of course do good in ur current college.</p>
<p>Transferring after your freshman year is extremely difficult. To the schools you are looking at... you shouldn't have lower than a 3.8 to really even be looked at. Those schools are so extremely competitive that your chances are extremely low even if you do have a 4.0.</p>
<p>You should also consider University of Michigan. I'm not sure about their aid programs, but they have one of the top business schools in the nation (Ross) and a really good Economics program.</p>
<p>i already got into the university of michigan.....
the only problem is....i have been living in michigan for 5 years but i'm still a "non-resident", so i have to pay about $50-60,000 a year...so i declined the acceptance</p>