<p>Hey guys!!</p>
<p>How many of you are attending an american college right now? What do you think about your college and what should an international student know about it? How did you find to be life on campus?
How many of you are applying right now to an american college?
Let's talk more about life in an american college I'm really curious about it.</p>
<p>yeahmeh</p>
<p>hey
yeahmeh, where're u from? i'm from Thailand.
do most int'l student in this cc board intend to pay full tuition for college? (around $45,000-50,000) or apply for int'l financial aid--which is really limited.</p>
<p>I'm from wester Europe.
Personally I beleive that it isn't very difficult to get need financial aid at private university you just need to have a strong curriculum to be accepted</p>
<p>hes already been accepted to cornell</p>
<p>losoland, my parents are willing to pay full tution to a private college but they said that they would be much much much happier if I went to a public good school instead of a private normal school (not ivy).
yeahmeh, i dont know which universities you are talking about but I know that judging from this year's stats, many brilliant brilliant geniusy people got rejected from schools like stanford, columbia, (etc.) because they asked for aid.
Yes campus life! I'm applying to mostly social schools (with good acadamics), in exception to Johns Hopkins and Chicago.
Are you guys looking for social schools too? or is it not a factor to most intels?</p>
<p>I'm at Penn right now (UK citizen). I mostly like my university a lot, and the academics are probably about as good as you get. There are also plenty of international students here and the international student office are generally helpful and organise some international events. There are so many nationality based clubs here that it's not too difficult to find similar people if homesickness strikes. If anything I think I am in a fairly unusual situation as a non-American native English speaker, I feel a bit betwixt and between sometimes.
As far as campus life goes, there's plenty of stuff going on but an awful lot of it is centred around greek life. I've also found that many students don't seem to have any experience of drinking alcohol, and lots of people just go completely crazy. It's a bit strange having come from a culture where the mystique of alcohol is all but gone by the time you reach 18 (not that it stops many people from overindulging I suppose). Probably the most frustrating thing about it is not being able to go out to clubs or bars or anything, even if it would just be to socialise.
That might just be me though :). It's certainly been a great experience and I would definitely make the same choice over again if I had to. Try it and see!
And yeah, I get financial aid - it's supposed to be competitive but I'm living proof that it's not impossible!</p>
<p>Hey!
Yeah, financial aid is too competitive and there are so few need-blind colleges for intels.
lauraanne, your post is great, and I found smth new for myself there.
I'm applyng to Harvard and MIT (since they are need-blind) in USA. I'm also applyng to IUB (Germany), METU (Turkey) and already admitted at Moscow State Univ.
Good luck, there.</p>
<p>Oh crap. I totally forgot I wanted to apply to IUB.</p>
<p>I see you are all looking mostly at the Ivy league.
I applied early decision at Kenyon college in Ohio with financial aid, one of the top liberal art colleges in the USA and I will study over there molecular biology as an undergraduate. I think it would give me the opportunity to get accepted in a good graduate chool after my graduation. What do you thik about this?
Are you going for undergraduate or graduate schools?
Yeah you may be right, it's difficult to get financial aid for int'l students in the USA but it is not impossible. Most of the people think it is just impossible but I'm a proof that it is.
I understand some of your problems with the socialization. In the USA you don't have bars and pub, actually they've got some but you need to be 21 one to go there. I beleive you can always find people similar to you and I think (not sure about it) it changes when you proceed with graduate studies.</p>
<p>yeahmeh</p>