Penn State vs Michigan State

legend.dracula
Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:56:02 +0000

Can anybody tell me which college is better and possible for me ? Here’s my profile:
I’m Asian, rising senior living in east coast. I’ve just lived in US for 1 year so there aren’t many ECs (I’ll try to work for about 40 hours). SAT is not high, didn’t take the SAT yet but I will do in Oct. ( the last time I took the practice test at PR I got CR 480 and M 660, W I don’t have the grade for essay but I got 67 for grammar). GPA is about 4.1 weighted which equals to 3.6 unweighted I believe. I’m going to a Catholic High school and trying to get toughest class ( next year I will have 2 AP classes, 2 honors, 1 level 1, the rest are theology and selectives). My school doesn’t have the ranking for international students but I think I stay at top 20.
The reasons I choose Penn State and Michigan are both have Business/finance, my SAT is not good so I’m looking for reachable schools. I will try to boost CR to 600. The tuition is affordable for me (37k usd is maximum) . If I get financial aid that’ll be great.
Is MSU competitive ? I see it requires low SAT.
And if you have any recommendations for me I’d appreciate.