<p>Oh no, the person was serious about the cow thing. Liberal-minded students are often worried about the conservative Texan nature. However, Rice, I think, tends to be more liberal than conservative (as is the trend with many upper tier colleges). In fact, most of my friends in Texas are liberals (but then, I tend to hang around people with similar attitudes). I won’t deny that we do house a large conservative population, but Rice itself is pretty liberal.</p>
<p>Both repping The Dirty, too, teamam! Nice.</p>
<p>i thought rice place internationals who need FA in a separate group, just like Vanderbilt.
which basically means that they will only accept if they feel that you can get a merit-based scholarship and stuff.</p>
<p>Ascendancy - thanks: that’s reassuring to hear.</p>
<p>Shuai - by my undertanding that’s right, but the same is true of pretty much everywhere, to be honest. Most of them are a bit more “analogue” in their approach, but that’s not necessarily a good thing.</p>
<p>how much FA are you looking for anyways, i’m looking for around 40K, that much bit too much lol. I might have to stay in canada =( My hopes lie with ivies.</p>
<p>I’m after quite a bit, too, though not quite that much. I’m praying that one of the need-blind colleges will admit me, but it’s a long shot. Where are you from?</p>
<p>canada, the tuition here is only like 10k can you believe it, and i can get an automatic 5 k scholarship lol, that’s how **** the universities here are</p>
<p>what schools have good FA to internationals except ivies, do you know any?</p>
<p>Well, I can trump that: here in the UK it’s capped at £3k per year.</p>
<p>I’m not really an authority, but I’ve heard some of the liberal arts colleges are very generous. Check out this (if you haven’t already):
[Need-blind</a> admission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need-blind_admission]Need-blind”>Need-blind admission - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>what ivies are you trying for?</p>
<p>hold up, is it easy to get into oxford and cambridge?</p>
<p>Nope. And those fees are only for domestic students - for internationals it’s as much as the US (and no FA). Of the Ivies, I’m applying to Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Dartmouth and Brown.</p>
<p>It’s my understanding that oxford and cambridge are relatively cheap, given the fact thay you all pay much higher taxes to compensate, but still. </p>
<p>Also, i wouldn’t recommend texas weather: down here, towards the bottom of texas, the weather averages out to 101 F each day. I’ll be happy to move to a much cooler climate in upstate New York-- though i’ve never been up to New York before, so i’m unsure of what to expect from the rumors of a tundra.
I’m not sure how heavily Cornell weights subject tests; i had a 770 on math 2, and a 680 on chem ( i made up for chem with a 5 on the AP).
You might want to try Caltech. Caltech, supposedly, puts quite a bit of weight on the science subject tests: in fact, there are rumors that a few years ago, everyone admitted had an 800 on the math 2.</p>
<p>Hi Chaotic -
I just googled the oxbridge fees thing, and you’re right: it’s about £12k per year, which isn’t much, as the pound’s insanely weak at the moment. Plus our courses are only three years long, which obviously makes things easier.</p>
<p>101F - that’s like 38C - I don’t know I could handle that! Mind you, I’m not a big fan of New England weather, either… maybe I’m just too picky.</p>
<p>Unfortunately I’m not really a science person, so Caltech’s out. On the other hand, the weather’s probably better there :D</p>
<p>Princeton also requires 3 so they seem to value them more.</p>
<p>Balaylay - I think you’re right: when I visited P’ton they mentioned subject tests more than any of the others.</p>