<p>anybody apply to the ivys</p>
<p>Well I jsut mentioned columbia, it iss an ivy =D</p>
<p>I’m from HK!!</p>
<p>UK – got in LSE and a few others (not important).</p>
<p>USA – waiting on Columbia, UChicago, and a few others.</p>
<p>Applied to Columbia and Brown…doubt I’ll get in though…</p>
<p>congrats about LSE, korektphool! lol I applied to 2 different courses and got rejected from both of them…</p>
<p>Cynicalowl: bad luck about LSE. If they rejected you it would seem that you’re much more suited to America than the UK anyways. So good luck tomorrow !!</p>
<p>just as well…I’m slacking off on my A levels, which I shouldn’t be doing if I was going to the UK ;)</p>
<p>The A-Levels are still regarded in the U.S., even if most people haven’t heard of them. Colleges will.</p>
<p>It’s good to see some HK posters here.</p>
<p>Anyone here accepted to Tufts???</p>
<p>Do you know when there’s going to be a reception for admitted students in Hong Kong??</p>
<p>bytheway…doverdemon</p>
<p>HI ANDY!!! its me JANETTE hahaha what a coincidence</p>
<p>Haha yes, hey there!</p>
<p>hi,
i’m from toronto
accepted to uiuc, michigan, usc, rochester(10k) and tufts
where should i go (engineering)</p>
<p>I have a difficult decision to make. Can someone help me. I got pretty good offers from LSE and Imperial in UK and had just been accepted by Northwestern and Duke of the States. I know NU and Duke has a great reputation in the States but LSE and Imperial is very well known here in Asia - especially in the business community. I think I would probably end up working in the banking or finance sector after I finished my University. Understood that UK and US has very different education system but reputational wise which one is better well accepted in Asia. Can someone give me some opinion? Thanks!</p>
<p>Definitely LSE if you’re going to come back to Asia, most rich Chinese companies value a degree from that school most. I know that US schools might have a better udergrad program, but you’re asking about name recognition, and that’s LSE.</p>
<p>Thanks! but what abt the international financial institutions instead of those local one? Do they rate it differently?</p>
<p>ddzai,</p>
<p>I went to Northwestern and I am biased. But NU has a well-known and top-10 economics program. Even you can’t major in business at the undergrad level, there are still a lot of business/finance related courses you can take to compliment your econ major. </p>
<p>If you are good at math (like most internationals from Asia do, LOL!) as quants are highly sought after in business; there are two great programs at NU you should seriously consider:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Mathematical Method for Social Sciences:
<a href=“http://www.mmss.northwestern.edu/[/url]”>http://www.mmss.northwestern.edu/</a>
<a href=“http://www.mmss.northwestern.edu/current_students/Internship%20Directory.pdf[/url]”>http://www.mmss.northwestern.edu/current_students/Internship%20Directory.pdf</a> shows the interships MMSS students get in the past couple years. Elite firms know about the program and it shows.</p></li>
<li><p>Certificate program from Kellogg School of Management (new)
<a href=“Certificate Program for Undergraduates | Kellogg School of Management”>http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/certificate/index.htm</a>
This is a new program and it’s gonna be really great to have the name Kellogg on anyone’s resume. Considering the highly math-oriented prerequisites, the courses are more advanced than those found in typical undergrad business program.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>The only thing is you don’t know for sure if you will get into them. You need to apply.</p>
<p>There’s also Business Institutions minor <a href=“Harvey Kapnick Center for Business Institutions - Northwestern University”>Harvey Kapnick Center for Business Institutions - Northwestern University;
<p>And the IEMS department (another top-10 in the US) further enhances the offering: <a href=“http://www.iems.northwestern.edu/content/courses.asp[/url]”>http://www.iems.northwestern.edu/content/courses.asp</a> (e.g. financial engineering). I am not 100% sure but I think you can take some of the courses even without being in the engineering school or being that major as long as you have the prerequisite listed under your belt. This is the kind of flexibility US schools have. You may take that into consideration.</p>
<p>I don’t know how reputation compares. It’s hard to guage when it comes to this sort of thing. I do know LSE has great reputation in Asia. But Northwestern does have one of the top business schools in the world also. Anyway, one of the guys from Hong Kong got a job offer to work for Goldmans Sachs in Hong Kong when I was at NU. He was a chemE major. I am not sure if he also double-majored in econ (I don’t know him well; the quarter system at Northwestern makes double-majoring really easy).</p>
<p>if , say i have a choice between northwestern and unc chapelhill, is it worth the 20k a yr extra.
you talk about northwestern having one of the top programs, but you do agree tha LSE has a great reputation. is the prestige of northwestern enough to offset LSE’s reputation in Asia, i would guess not</p>
<p>In Asia, definitely LSE has a better reputation!</p>
<p>haha I got in LSE Actuarial Science and Imperial BSc Mathematics.</p>
<p>Going Imperial’s BSc Maths soon. </p>
<p>I am a maths person and a bit of research reveals that LSE is not that good in quantitative stuff. Imperial is a much better Science school.</p>
<p>The two seem to be different anyway. AS seems to me like a vocational major.
By the way, I heard the Act Sci program at HKU is the most difficult major to get in–straight As in Hong Kong A-level?</p>
<p>rukun,</p>
<p>There’s no clear answer. If money is such a big factor, then I guess the most sensible thing to do is to go to universities in Hong Kong instead and if that person really wants to come to the US, there’s always one-year master program. That route would probably make more economic sense.</p>
<p>FYI,</p>
<p>I know a guy that went to La Salle and got into UNC. He transferred to NU after his freshman year. So apparently, TO HIM, it’s worth the extra.</p>