You didn’t attend…so it doesn’t matter at all for college applications.
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I will try to earn some scholarships to ease my parents’ financial pressure, but if not, it will be ok for my family to afford it.
I will take SAT in March which will be 2nd time for me to take it.
I will likely go to graduate school for engineering or quantitative finance.
Someone else will need to comment, but an engineering masters degree is a tough nut to crack without an undergrad degree in…engineering.
Where do you plan to work with a degree in quantitative finance?
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Can I write I was accepted by high selective program?
You can write whatever you want to write…but the fact is…you didn’t attend the program. So don’t make it sound like you did. Be honest.
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After graduate stage, If I can’t find any satisfied job in America, I plan to work in JPMorgan Shanghai after Graduating where my grandpa and my father worked there.
That’s right I will.
Perhaps @Catcherinthetoast can comment on your quantitative finance goals…and give suggestions.
IIRC, as an international person, some finance jobs will not be available to you in the United States…at.all.
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People are accepted all the time by highly selective programs or schools that they don’t end up attending, for one reason or the other. If you haven’t attended there’s no point putting it on your resume. Admissions officers will see from your academic record and essays what they value. Essays (PIQs) are critical for UC admits. Suggest you focus on those for UCs.
For other top 30 programs look at middle 50 to get an idea of what is competitive. You’d probably need SAT noticeably above 1500. When you look at admit stats, bear in mind the low admit rate for internationals probably means you should be closer to the 75th percentile.
So how are you low income, first generation exactly? I’m sorry, but your story is ever changing.
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Sure but they won’t care. And they’ll think you are bragging instead of sharing why they should want you. That someone else wants you is not relevant.
Schools don’t admit kids based on others admitting you.
If your family can pay $120,000 a year for you to attend college…how can you be “low income”
And they worked there without college degrees? Doing…what?
Because my mom doesn’t work, and my grandpa and farther were both studied in sort of home school.
For a degree that would enable them to work where they did? Please explain.
No one who can make up a $40000+ shortfall in college fees (or anything else) is considered low income in the US.
I think the threshold for low income is usually considered somewhere below making that amount as annual income, actually.
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This doesn’t matter…what matters is if your mom got a college degree. Of any kind. Did she?
I remembered there is some colleges will not ask students to pay tuition for those whose income are under 200k/year.(I’m not sure whether I’m wrong
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You said your parents could afford up to $120,000 a year for college costs. How is that possible with an income less than $200,000 a year.
Also, those colleges offering this full tuition to families with incomes under $200,000 also qualify that by saying “with typical assets”.
What assets do your family have that would enable them to pay up to $120,000 in college costs per year.
I’m not sure if the income level cutoff is that high but there are very few. And they are highly selective. Take your shot, but again I ask you: at what “level” college do you decide it’s better to study in China?
We are not trying to be nasty here, we are trying to make sure you understand how realistic your goals are.