International applicants

MYOS1634
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 23:34:51 +0000

A 90% would be the minimum, 97% preferred.
PLUS a high SAT score, preferably with 800 or as close to a perfect 800 in math as possible.
PLUS everything else required for an application
PLUS something extraordinary and unique, like major prize national winner or Math olympiads national team etc.
And with all this, your odds are 2% (perhaps 5% if you’re on the national team for STEM olympiads).
That’s why it’s the best STEM school in the world -they choose not only the best in your country, they choose the best in the world.

Note that there are lots of world class universities in the US: look up “UPenn NETS”, Cornell UX design, HarveyMudd Engineering - to list 3 amazing colleges that offer financial aid even to internationals.
You’ll need to have a yearly budget - and if, as for most, your parents can afford 10k max, then your choices will be limited due to cost.
If you can afford 35k, 50k, 75k or more each year, more choices open: UMaine, University of Iowa, Missouri S&T, Michigan state, UCincinnati, Penn State, Virginia Tech, NCSU, UT Dallas, Cal Poly Pomona and Humboldt, UAlabama, UMN, UMichigan, …
Some of these offer merit aid (scholarships as an incentive for someone with top 2% or top 1% test scores to attend their school).