<p>how do u shortlist colleges if u dont live in the us…wat are the best colleges if i want to major in eco and wich will give me financial aid</p>
<p>search CC for 'environmental science or biology.</p>
<p>by eco i meant economics not ecology</p>
<p>aanch93, almost every top 20 LAC or Top National University is above average, if not ecellent or stellar in economics.</p>
<p>We’ll need stats/info and preferences from you to really tailor a list of such schools to match your profile.</p>
<p>If you’re dead set on Economics, I would check out Stanford and the University of Chicago. But don’t choose a school because they are really really great in one program. Your undergraduate experience is too valuable to be placed in the hands of a major that you may find you don’t like anyway. Choose a well-rounded school with good programs in most things. Besides, your the Graduate degree carries more weight, so make a decision based on one program when you’re searching for Grad schools.</p>
<p>How can we help you if you don’t share your stats with us? Harvard and Wisconsin-Madison both have excellent Econ departments, but clearly, Harvard is generally regarded as slighly more selective than Wisconsin! IF you don’t tell us more about yourself, we really cannot help you.</p>
<p>ok im in my last year of school…ive always been in the top five out of a class of 100 in my school…i have few extracurriculars …a bit of community service…attended model un …my sat 1 score was 2090…still have to give my sat 2’s …</p>
<p>Good. Ok, well, sounds pretty solid. Top 5% of your class, SAT of roughly 1400 (2100 new) and some extra curricular activies. </p>
<p>What’s your unweighed GPA like? Is your school a highly competitive school where close to 100% of the students end up going to college and where many of those end up going to top universities or is your school an average school| Did you take many AP classes? Any AP exam results?</p>
<p>k dats the problem…my school dosent follow the american system…its the indian system so i dont know my gpa and we dont have ap courses…competitive schoool where the entire 100% will end up going to college but u cant compare grades</p>
<p>Well then, it is difficult to help. But generally speaking, almost all good universities have respectable Econ departments.</p>
<p>do u think i stand a chance of getting into a good college with fin aid…</p>
<p>Public universities do not usually provide any sort of FA to international students. Private universities do, but it is not always easy. Schools like MIT and Princeton are known for giving good FA packages to internationals, but as you can expect, the competition to get into those schools is very intense.</p>
<p>Top Econ programs: HYPSM, Chicago, Columbia, a slight drop, then Brown, Duke, NU, Michigan, Berkeley, also look at liberal arts colleges - most actual rankings are based on PhD programs so they aren’t very useful to you, but econ quality is fairly correlated with overall school strength. This also depends - if you want to major in econ and work in finance or investment banking, the above schools would be great for that as well - but you don’t have to neccesarily major in Econ.</p>
<p>If moneys a factor I’d want to look into that a bit more though at what schools offer good aid</p>
<p>Here is how I would group the top Econ departments:</p>
<p>GROUP I
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of Chicago</p>
<p>GROUP II
Northwestern University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University</p>
<p>GROUP III
Columbia University
University of Calfornia-Los Angeles
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</p>
<p>GROUPS IV & V
Boston University
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
New York University
University of California-San Diego
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Rochester
University of Texas-Austin
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>Those are all awesome in Economics. You really cannot go wrong with any of those departments.</p>
<p>Furthermore, you have a few Liberal Arts (and Liberal Artish) universities that also offer excellent Economics curriculae:
Amherst College
Bowdoin College
Carleton College
Claremont McKenna College
Colgate University
Dartmouth College
Haverford College
Macalester College
Middlebury College
Pomona College
Swarthmore College
Wesleyan University
Williams College</p>
<p>Most of the private universities and LACs offer some sort of need-based aid to internationals, but do not expect a full ride.</p>
<p>If you think you might be interested in a smallish liberal arts college I’d look at Denison. Very strong economics dept, great scholarships.</p>
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<p>Denison is definitely excellent in Economics.</p>