Middle eastern chances for financial aid

AdanBrac
Sat, 04 Jun 2005 21:00:07 +0000

1450 on the old SAT or the new one? There’s a huge difference… And it depends on what you mean by ‘good’. If you want an ivy league school, I’m inclined to say you’ve got a chance but you’re not a guaranteed winner there. My suggestion would be to go to something just below ivy level, perhaps Michigan or UNC. Those are all good colleges. Michigan and UNC have fairly large (got to realize this is America and few colleges are likely to have more than around 10% international students) numbers of international students. You could also consider Northwestern, which is a very good college in the midwest. I’m not very well acquainted with west coast schools… Since you’re from the mideast, Michigan would be a good fit for you since the Ann Arbor and Detroit area has a very large amount of Saudi, Jordanian, Kuwaiti, and Iraqi (as well as other mideast nations) immigrants. But don’t get discouraged by what I say, it seems most people here find anything less than ivy league to be failure… To me, I wouldn’t want to go to an ivy even if I had the grades to get into one.