UChicago ED or Princeton REA? [international living in the US, <$70k, physics]

Applying to College Early Decision / Early Action
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Our school has a pretty large sample, 150 applicants in 6 years. NJ public full of high achievers.

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Our sample only goes 3 years. It’s interesting though, we do have a lot of high achievers that go to tippy-tops and the rest of the T20 every year (also public), but they just don’t seem very interested in Chicago and one or two of the other T10 (Yale is also unpopular for some reason). We have more students applying to, for example, Princeton (20% admit rate for the school), Harvard (very low success rate historically and I think the ones that went are mostly recruited athletes) and Johns Hopkins (35% admit rate). Many more apply to Stanford (8% admit rate) (we are west coast).

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This is interesting, I am only interested in Chicago as it is good for breaking into finance after physics. Most in my school want Princeton, mit, or Stanford.

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So you plan to study physics to break into finance? Not finance itself or econ
nothing wrong with that, just making sure I understand.

But if you’re international, how will you stay?

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OP only needs less than a third of the aid of a full-need student. It might not be an advantage over the no-need international students, but it would be an advantage over the greater number of full-need international students.

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If it is a good college, jobs will easily sponser H1B. I can also get a phd and ensure fast green card through eb1

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No! That’s now how it works.

“Fast” is relative - it’s still many years.

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And a PhD in no way guarantees an EB visa or there would be many many more of them.

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