Best State University?

samgeeth
Sun, 11 Sep 2005 04:47:11 +0000

Thanks GoBlue81 & Alexandre, I understand Austin is a very livable city and that might tip the balance in addition to costs, but will look at Rice again, since it does’nt sock it to out-of-staters, like Michigan.

Thee more questions:
a) Is Wisconsin-Madison also up there in terms of prestige and “actual quality” when it comes to undergraduate degrees in general and eng. programs in particular?
b) Does anyone know what universities are looking for in int’l students? They all say the same thing, well-rounded blah, but we out here in the far east, feel that SAT I and II scores seem to matter most, plus our “O” level results (this is the British patterned education, where one takes a common GCE O level exams after 10 years of study) - especially since our final A level results are out only in March next year.
b) Thanks to the person who alerted me to Plan II at UT? A double degree program (not a double major) makes a whole lot of sense esp since we get about a year of credit from our A levels, also from the cost angle. UPenn has this (M&T program), not sure if one has a life on campus doing such. My question: any one knows about other universities which have similiar programs? Cliched as it may sound, I’d like to graduate with a bit more.