<p>I’m an international student and i have been in the US for 5 years. i’m a HS senior right now, and i’m going to a small-town so-so engineering college. i want to study business/economics, and this college’s business sucks so much…i have a list of schools which would give limited scholarships to international students and have great business/econ programs</p>
<p>Yale
Stanford
Columbia
Duke
Harvard
UPenn
Dartmouth
Amherst
Northwestern
Georgetown
Chicago
Cornell
NYU</p>
<p>here are my stats from high school</p>
<p>SAT: 1980 ~ i’m going to retake it, i think i can get it up to at least 2100
SAT II: 800, 730, 710
GPA:3.96 (my school doesn’t weight GPA)
Rank:16/100 (i’m worried about my rank, but my school is a small town school and people take easy class to get good grades)
ECs: President of Model UN, Debate, VP of newspaper, UNICEF volunteer, published articles on national newspapers in my native country
–the only good thing about the college i’m going now is that it’s small and a lot of the professor are my parents’ good friends, so i’m sure i can get some good recommendations.</p>
<p>so what do i need to do to have a good shot at those schools? i know a GPA of 3.5-4.0 is a must…but what else?</p>
<p>uhm… tons of people who apply to those colleges u’ve listed have similar or better stats than urs. PLUS, A BIG PLUS …being an international student sucks like a biiiiaaaatch. personally, i ranked 9/486 in high school, straight A’s, similar SAT II scores(800 770 710), exactly same SAT I score(which sucks). lots of EC’s and sh1t. i only got into UCI from high school. im not writing these to discourage u or to brag myself. just wanna share my disappointment. maybe transfer is a different process, maybe u have some sort of talent they are interested in, so just apply, who knows. and of course do good in ur current college.</p>
<p>Transferring after your freshman year is extremely difficult. To the schools you are looking at… you shouldn’t have lower than a 3.8 to really even be looked at. Those schools are so extremely competitive that your chances are extremely low even if you do have a 4.0.</p>
<p>You should also consider University of Michigan. I’m not sure about their aid programs, but they have one of the top business schools in the nation (Ross) and a really good Economics program.</p>
<p>i already got into the university of michigan…
the only problem is…i have been living in michigan for 5 years but i’m still a “non-resident”, so i have to pay about $50-60,000 a year…so i declined the acceptance</p>