International Student, Advice greatly Needed!!!

woebegone
Tue, 11 Apr 2006 03:34:15 +0000

I think extracurriculars, just like academics, will be viewed in context of your country/highschool. Just make sure you stand out from your peers in your school. For instance many applicants from China don’t have stella extracurriculars either, but they still get in like nobody’s business

Apart from Harvard, Princeton and Yale, MIT, Williams and Middlebury are also needblind. But yeah, they’re all very hard to get into. But there’s no harm giving a shot. You seem to be looking at only large research universities, why not consider liberal arts colleges as well? Many of them offer finaid to internationals - and are not nearly as hard to get in compared to large research universities for finaid applicants coz most internationals who apply to LACs apply for finaid anyway.