Advice for an international student

momrath
Sun, 29 Mar 2015 09:02:46 +0000

Apply to as many as you can afford and can handle competently. As I said your essays are an important element of your application, especially the “Why College X?” essays. This is hard to tackle if you’re unable to visit, so you have to do on-line research into the culture and character of the college. You need to express what you can contribute to the campus community, not so much what the college can do for you.

Eastern Europe is a hotspot that is of interest to colleges today, so think about how you can leverage your life story into compelling essays. I don’t mean that you should give the admissions committee a history lesson, but rather you should indirectly imply that your background would be a positive diversity factor.

I would note that Middlebury is a language magnet, and that Williams and Amherst like scholar athletes.