Please give me advice on how to improve my application

International95
Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:45:39 +0000

@EarlyAction95 You have not been through Bard’s website thoroughly. Bard writes that it would like international students to be able to pay at least 30k or half the cost of attendance. And Bard costs about $65k, actually, if you look at the comprehensive fee rather than just tuition + room&board (i.e health insurance, flights, books, supplies, personal expenses etc etc.) There will always be exceptions, but generally, the aid is terrible.

OP: Stated major does not matter unless you have garnered considerable accomplishments in that field. In fact, I have usually thought that indicating a humanities major actually hinders acceptance because liberal arts colleges already have a lot of Americans who want to study that. But then again, that’s just speculation. Also, someone I know with ditto stats to you got accepted to Middlebury ED 1. That person, too, is international. So, yeah, this is all a very random process.

I do not understand why you have applied to colleges like Knox, though? They require EFC’s of 18k and more, generally.

Your chances at Mt. Holyoke are the best. Good luck!