My father was working in HSBC, HongKong at first, and came to Shanghai in about 2002 and had worked for JPM as manager of Security Information management department almost 20yrs already.
I was studied in AP system as a Chinese citizen which is not allowed to get in any Chinese colleges. (btw the only way is GaoKao for Chinese
My dad’s company will subsidize about 40k/year as I mentioned. And my family will pay for remaining parts.
Those are not UCs.
My iu are talking about a school like Rice, like I mentioned above.
I don’t know if they include international. And they look at assets. If you have too many you won’t qualify.
I’m wondering is there any other colleges to highly recommend except for Arizona.
I mentioned several in my first post.
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I understand how it works now. Thank you. Maybe I can’t be included as low-income.
Right, they are safety. But I’m searching for a list of school which needed a bit of efforts to reach.
Just catching up on this thread, and I was hoping for clarification on the GPA. I thought you said the 91 is weighted? What is your unweighted GPA?
You can calculate your UC GPAs here: GPA Calculator for the University of California – RogerHub
Michigan State
Virginia
UIUC
Rochester
New Mexico State
If you are full play, there are a number of schools that will work. Just not in the top 30, which are all highly unlikely for you.
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Virginia is a top 30 school as per USNWR, which is what OP is using to determine “worth”. UIUC is a tad lower at #33.
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I mentioned b4 - Rice, Case Western, Rice. You can add USC and Vanderbilt.
You are unlikely for all except maybe Rochester and Case Western.
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A TOEFL of 104 suggests that your English is quite good, and you will not have any problems studying at a university that teaches in English.
How good a GPA of 91 is will depend upon what high school system you are coming from. Where I went to high school this would have made you either the #1 or #2 student in the high school (and would have knocked me down one notch). Where my older daughter went to high school this would not put you in the top 10%, and probably not in the top 20%. My impression from the discussion above is that your high school is closer to mine in the sense that this puts you pretty close to the top. University admissions in the US will know how to interpret grades from high schools in your country.
This is pretty good. It is very good for the large majority of universities in the US, including U.Arizona and Arizona State which are mentioned above.
For the very top universities in the US such as MIT, Stanford, or Harvard, this is somewhat low but not necessarily by itself a reason for rejection.
The average starting salary for graduates from any particular university is very heavily slanted based on what majors the university is known for, and where they are located. As one example, some parts of California are very expensive places to live. This tends to make salaries higher in those locations. This in turn means that a university located in an expensive place to live tends to have slightly higher starting salaries just because its graduates are more likely on average to start working in an expensive location. In contrast a university that is in a more affordable location might have more students graduate and then work in the same affordable location, where salaries might be a bit lower on average. Also, a university that has a lot of engineering students might tend to have graduates with higher average salaries, whereas a university with a lot of students in a different major might have lower average salaries across all students graduating from that university, even if their fewer engineering graduates still do very well.
I have worked in high tech for my entire career (after getting a degree in mathematics). The other students who I work with got their bachelor’s degrees at a very wide range of universities. Some got degrees from MIT or Stanford. Many attended in-state public universities. Quite a few graduated from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, but that is just because I worked most of my career in the northeast of the US. Today probably the majority of people I work with (I am mostly retired but work a bit part time) graduated from universities outside of the US. However, a lot of the people I work with are located outside of the US (we have regular meetings using Internet conferencing facilities similar to Zoom).
If you want to study engineering, then you might want to start university as an engineering major.
For finance, one option is to start as a math major. I was a math major in university. The other students I know who graduated with a degree in mathematics went on to a rather wide range of careers. One friend for example went into acoustics. Another went into law. Some went into software engineering (often with software jobs that were math-heavy). Today it is not unusual for some students with a degree in math to then go into finance (this was less common back when I graduated from university).
The top 30 universities overall are not necessarily the same as the top 30 universities for any particular major. There are lots of examples. For example the U. of Wisconsin is ranked #39 overall, but is ranked in the top 10 for mathematics. Perhaps more extreme, Colorado State is not in the top 140 overall, but is ranked #2 in North America for Veterinary Medicine. Their DVM program really is that good. Something like Julliard is not normally ranked at all overall, but is superb for dance or music. You should be looking for universities that are very good for your particular major.
The cost of attending university in the US is likely to vary wildly depending upon which university you end up attending. You could spend $100,000 per year, and very likely could find an equally good university that costs less than half that much.
And be cautious about taking on debt. It is possible to get part way through university and discover that you cannot borrow enough money to complete your degree. It is possible to end up with a large debt but no degree. You do not want this to happen.
You are very unlikely to be able to stay in the US after graduating from a university in the US. Working in Shanghai seems way more likely.
I am also wondering whether you should consider universities outside of China and also outside of the US. In Canada there are a number of universities that might be worth considering, with UBC and Toronto being two schools to consider (there are many more that are very good). You might want to also think about universities for example in Australia.
There is a lot to think about. Best wishes.
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Realistically- just to use MIT as an example from this list - 1.9% admit rate for international applicants, with middle 50 SAT 780-800 math and 740-780 English. Sure OP can take a shot but it is highly, highly unlikely. Especially as his/her only criteria for the schools seems to be ranking, it’s going to be very hard to write convincing supplemental essays imo.
As with any other applicant this one needs a balanced list, recognizing that internationals have lower admit rates almost everywhere so with more emphasis on targets and safeties than domestic applicants. Your suggestions of Canadian and Australian universities is sound. I’m guessing Australian ones have higher name recognition in China than Canadian?
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Thank you for your help! I learned a lot. And I want to ask whether it is necessary to take part in the physics competition, because there almost every student who want to take Physics major will take part in various physics competition. Therefore, I’m considering spending my time on training myself about competition or just do some applied physics inventions where my passion is.
I see. What if I will get 1540 SAT or 34 ACT, because I still have literally 9 months to do so.
Obviously that will improve your competitiveness, but only to the extent that it puts you in the same basket as most of the people you will be competing with. Again, these universities have very low single digit acceptances for internationals. Even people with a 1600 SAT can get rejected. Take your shot, but make sure you also have more likely admit options on your list. What will you do if you only apply to reaches and don’t get into any of them? That happens.
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I honestly don’t know much about this program but what about this? I have no idea how competitive it is for admissions. Perhaps someone else knows.
It’s hard to tell, I do know that they look at Chinese applicants in a separate pool from internationals (i.e. non Chinese in that context ). My understanding was that it was a higher admit rate for Chinese when my D19 was at NYU but we never really looked into it. I believe it’s common for their students to spend a year at the NY campus, which could be an attraction.
I ‘m not qualified with this this school. Unfortunately, they also accept Chinese students through GaoKao.