<p>I am trying to pick one college for early decision. Whitman and Union both have pretty high early decision acceptance rate and are good schools.</p>
<p>Where should I apply?
Which college do you think is better? (of course, my opinion is most important but if you were to choose, what would you do)</p>
<p>I am an international student. I have studied in California for three years now, and I want to go to college in Cal but there is no pretigious LAC that I could get into....:(
CMC, Pomona and Stanford are too hard to get into and Oxy gives 4~5 students financial aid.....</p>
<p>I like sports and outdoor activities.
I like that Whitman is outdoor feel college and have Econ-Math combined major.
I like that Union's Minerva houses.
Both are pretty prestigious.</p>
<p>These are two very tiny colleges, so the odds of anyone having enough knowledge to help you out is low.</p>
<p>I have 3 credits from Union, but it’s not a place I could have seen myself going to full-time. I haven’t been to Whitman, but I’d probably go there just because I prefer the west coast.</p>
<p>Whitman. I grew up in upstate NY, know some Union grads, know Schenectady a little, but now live in WA and know a bunch of Whitman grads and a few current students. IMO, Whitman students are happier bunch. It is kind of fratty, though.</p>
<p>If you can get in ED to Whitman you should have an easier time being admitted to Union RD.</p>
<p>Edit to add: I have stayed in Walla Walla on a few occasions and really like the small town in wine country. It is also home to Walla Walla U. and the local CC. Not far from the Tri-Cities area.</p>
<p>If you need financial aid as an international, you shouldn’t apply ED unless you know for a fact that it will help you with the competition for scholarships.</p>
<p>Union offered my son a very generous package, one of the best we rec’d. Don’t know if that’s diff for international students. It’s a nice, small LAC-y school. Lovely campus, some of the prettiest buildings we saw. Minerva houses seemed like alot of fun. I got a pretty strong “party” vibe…tho’ I think academics are fairly strong. Lots of opportunity for interaction with faculty. Sports are pretty typical of a D3 school…they like their hockey. Schenectady is your pretty typical small “city”…I got the impression that there’s not a spectacular relationship between the natives and the Union students, but that’s not unusual when you plunk a $60K/year preppy college in the middle of a working class neighborhood. Overall we liked it alot.</p>
<p>,I just found out that international students who apply for financial aid are not allowed to apply to whitman through early decision…i need significant amount of financial aid…im in miser. this is so discouraging</p>
<p>Not ED2 either? Have you run their FA calculator? My son’s high school doesn’t rank or officially calculate GPA but my best guess would be top 25% and +/- 3.5. He got a 31 on the ACT and 2000 on SAT. His school doesn’t offer many APs…He took a total of four and got 4’s.</p>
<p>well, the website says that students like me just cannot apply for ED if I apply for financial aid…not sure it is ED1 or ED2 but it just says ED. so i guess both of them. oh this makes me so discouraged. I emailed the admission office to make sure though. hoping I misunderstood somehow</p>