Baller17

Can anybody tell me whether or not will it be too late for me to give SAT at January for LUMS or Sate unis?
And is anybody here applying to University of Notthingam?

oldfashioned

Bump.
Someone please reply me??

junaid123

Good question, leo118.

Best course of action, people?

leo118

I always knew my questions have the power to leave people speechless...but THIS speechless *tch tch*! Wake up my fellow applicants...and please try to help me out! XD

BTW anyone else applying to Williams this year??

perazziman

leo, I would think if you have A level results in hand, then mocks would be unnecessary. However, check with the unis to make sure. Either way, I don't think it will make or break an application.

leo118

Thanks perazziman

And where are my manners? Eid Mubarak to all of you!

junaid123

Hello, everyone.

I need to finalize my college list in the coming few days, and I need your help to help short-list 13 colleges.

The tentative list is as follows:

Yale
Dartmouth
UPenn
Princeton
Williams
Gettysburg
Wesleyan
NYU AD
Pomona
Amherest
Middlebury
Bowdoin
Claremont McKena
Swarthmore
Carelton

Since I am an international student who's in search of financial aid, I have no option but to apply to top-ranked colleges.

A few details about what type of a college I'd like to attend:

- Major: Physics and/or Economics
- Preferably a university, where research is given top priority
- I'd like to enroll myself in a 'liberal' education program
- Debate Society is a must!
- Generous in giving financial aid.

Please help me short-list colleges and all.

oldfashioned

@junaid123, i think u should definitely apply to yale,princeton, dartmouth and Amherst since these uni's are need-blind AND need-based, which will obviously be an important factor since like all of us Pakistani's, u'll need bag fulls of financial aid....i'd suggest u apply to Swarthmore as well. I've heard it's only second to Ivy's.

junaid123

All of the universities have an acceptance rate between 15 and 20 percent.

Any good universities with an acceptance rate of around 40 percentthat offer tons of financial aid ?

oldfashioned

nope, i really doubt there's any college like THAT.
Btw, are u going to submit just ur final O and A'level results or will u submit the complete high school transcript? like mid-terms, etc?

perazziman

Junaid,

There are only about 50 need blind colleges in the USA. They enroll about 30,000 students of the 3 million high school graduates or ~ top 1% each year.

If colleges could offer generous need blind scholarships to top 40% of applicants (40% admit rate), then 1.2 million students would theoretically be eligible for generous need blind scholarships and every American with a 1600 (60 percentile rank) on the SAT would be sitting in college enjoying generous financial aid.

Your competition is the top 1% of American students and you can expect financial aid if you are among the top 25 percent of students at a college. Otherwise, there are plenty of cash paying Americans who want to attend these colleges who are far more financially attractive than a foreign student who wants to be paid money to attend.

junaid123

perazziman,

I was asking are there any colleges that give healthy aid packages to student and have admit rate between 35% to 40%.

Anyway, this is my college list at the moment:

Dartmouth
Yale
UPenn
Princeton

NYU AD

Amherst
Pomona
Middlebury
Williams
Wesleyan/Vassar
Trinity/Reed
Skidmore/Gettysburg
Duke/Northwestern

Pumpzoo69

You know these class of 201x threads are pretty motivating
anyhow i'm an alevels student <roots islamabad>. Got my sat in december, super nervous y'all!
My stats are pretty OK:
-got 4As in olevels
-got 2As and 2Bs in AS
-attended 6 muns
- 3 internships in wwf/hbl
- head of the music club, have performed in loads of colleges with my band
- president of 2 clubs in my school
-work as a professional programmer. I know most of the programming languages and web scripting languages.

What do you think? Got a chance at the unis that offer need-blind aids?

junaid123

Anyone, please?

Princeton2017

didn't realize AIDS was blind to need.