<p>I’m Italian (.-.) and I hope I’ll aplly an American Universtity - very good, naturally, otherwise I remain in my country. I have a doubt:
I’m really work hardly in order to accomplish this ‘dream’, but if I apply a (goode) American University, will I risk I’ll be “discriminated” against by other students 'causa I’m a foreigner ?</p>
<p>In a few words, I don’t want to work very hardly and then have lots of problems in the university. Do you know this ‘aspect’ of American Universities ?</p>
<p>Only another thing.
If I take in the SAT for exemple 750+ Mathematics and good, but not excellent achievements (not too less, for exemple 650+ or 700 ) at CR and W, will to be a foreigner count, in order to apply a very good university ?</p>
<p>I would be amazed if an Italian faced any discrimination here other than having to listen to an occasional bad joke. People of Italian descent live all over this country and their ethnicity is barely noticed. Getting admitted to a U.S. university is the hard part, since seats for internationals are limited.</p>
<p>I found that foreigners face much less discrimination in the US than in many European countries. I am German and I have never felt that I was treated differently because I had an accent.</p>
<p>Another two things:
The first is :
I read in the third post that there are a number of international seats.
I believed applying to an american Universities is only very-very-very hard for internationals, but now I read differently. And how many - more or less - are these Seats in big Universities ?
Anddd… I forgot the second one…
Oh^^ here is… </p>
<p>I repeat the question about the Sat for Int.s that you can read in my second post.</p>
<p>Yes XDXD Beh, you’re lucky you live in U.S.A. In italy you wuold be stopped every time you use the tube or a bus by the police for a ‘casual control’… .-.‘’’
Italy is a beautiful country for many things, but is really filled with intollerant people…</p>
<p>Yes you will, mostly at state schools.
Its hard enough for California student to get in to UCLA or Berkeley, and even harder for OOS students to achieve admission. It is not impossible for you to get in, but state schools serve their state, then the country, then the world.
Private Universities will be less biased, but still somewhat so. They don’t know what it is like to be at an Italian School. They have no basis for which to go off of. But this might be more questionable. If you REALLY want to come to the US, you could apply to a school in a slightly lower tier. The less prestigious the university, the easier it is to get in.</p>
<p>No offense to Italy… but international competition is tough. You will need to WORK.
IMO European schools are not putting enough students into American Universities.
The top three countries putting students into American Universities are:
1)China/India
2)China/India (I forget which one is where… I think India is number one)
3)S. Korea (which is surprising as the pop. of Korea is relatively small in comparison so their ratio is higher)</p>
<p>In other words… you need to work you butt off because ‘dem asians’ are “bringin it”.</p>
<p>and 750 is excellent IMO…but like I said you are competing with kids who score almost perfect on these standardized tests. It’s almost scary.
The “discrimination” you will receive is not because of your skin color though.
It is primarily though lack of knowledge and Tax Dollars (Tax dollars go to the universities, and Italian citizens don’t lay American Taxes).
But if you are Bright, you should gain admission.</p>
<p>Extremely wealthy and competitive universities will treat you just like an American for admissions purposes. Having said that, it would be extremely unlikely for (say) Harvard to take more than a few Italians in a given year. The UK usually does the best of any EU country in terms of # applicants accepted/year, and I think Harvard accepts maybe 10 UK kids per year. </p>
<p>Aside from the most wealthy schools, internationals are put into a separate pool and rarely make up more than 10% of the incoming class. If you need financial aid, it becomes even more difficult. For example, the admit rate for financially needy internationals applying to the University of Chicago is around 3%.</p>
<p>As for the SAT score you mentioned, a 2100 is good enough that you won’t be eliminated because of a bad SAT score at most American schools. What ‘good’ schools are you looking at?</p>