讀美國大學的fg姊妹請給我些建議~~~

To luxe,
Thank you for responding. I've applied to several schools, but afraid that i'll miss out on some of the really good school i don't know of.

I don't think my school counselor's that hopeful, his suggestion and understanding of schools are basically like what i can find in books and websites. That's why i wanna ask ppl at fg that truely experienced college life to tell me stuff i can't get out of books. THANKS AGAIN LUXE~~

To ah...
Hi~~thank u for ur suggestion. Here's some criteria i'm looking for
1) well-known in Asia, espeically Taiwan, b/c i wanna go back there to work
2) Have a good proportion of Asian students
3) Anyway in united states

Can u also talk about the univeristy u attend? I really want some opinion from the student point of view, instead of from college resource books that made every school seems really great and similar. Thank you again.

to cutebunnyL:
看你是對哪方面有興趣囉, 另外也可以考慮看你想不想念離家裡近/遠的學校啊, 學校環境啊, 你是住美國哪裡呢?? 如果你想到華人較多的學校, 那麼去唸加州的大學準沒錯^^; 只是現在都12月多了, 很多學校都截止報名了耶...我現在也是在讀美國大學, 如果你想參考看看我讀的學校或科系, 可以按小信封寫email給我再另外跟你講:)

Do you know what you want to major yet??

There are lots of good schools in the US but not all of them are good at all the majors that they offer!

I am an expert (自誇啦) who can give you some suggestion if you want to major in Business and Art.

If you are interested in "International Relations", my school, The George Washington University, has a decent program here at DC.

Georgetown also has a good reputation for "International Affairs”.

If you think you might want to major in Business, Art or maybe Science, Carnegie Mellon, which is located in Pittsburgh, will be a good choice for you too if you don’t mind the location and if you score high enough on your SATs.

I will give you some list of school to look at:

Lehigh
Boston U(I hate BU for some reason but there are LOTS OF RICH ASS TAIWANESE KIDS THERE)
Babson College (Business Only, school is very hard and students are very happy…but a very good business school.)
GWU (my school)
Boston College (Asian applicants are hard to get it cuz BC is racist!)
U of Maryland

By the way, what kind of school do you go to now? Private of Public? What is you GPA (unweighted)? Can you afford to go to a private school? What kind of classes are you taking? Any APs?

謝謝大家
大家都好熱心歐 ^_^

to kisou,
謝謝你喔
我會近快跟你用e-mail聯絡的
我現在住紐約
我爸媽沒有規定我要讀離家進的所以我的選擇滿大的
我有申請UC的學校 ucla, uc-berkeley, ucsd
可是因該蠻難上的吧
聽說他們大部分都只收本洲學生

to luxe,
Thanks again!! U r right i'm interested in international relation and business, but i think i'll probably major in some kind of business and then do international relation as a minor.

u said that u used to be ur school's admission officer? which school? can u tell me more about it? Thanks!!

to ah.....
what school do u go to?
I live in NY too!!
maybe we are really close!

TO chowson,
thank you so much for ur helpful information. I got to a public school in NY. I have a 92 unweighted average. I can afford to go to private school. And i'm taking 7 AP classes in total (plus 12th grade).

A lot of ppl in my school goes to GWU. but i heard kids there are really rich and kinda snobby...is that true (hope my question's not affensive..)? do u like it there? how's the work load? when did u come to the states? sorry for asking so many questions.... I'm think of applying to BU and carnegi mellon. I already applied to BC. and although i really wanna go to georgetown, i don't think i'm gonna get in with my criteria......
ANyway, thanks again!!

Well, it's true that there're lots of rich kids in GWU but not all of them are snobby.

I like it here a lot and the work load is ok. I came to the US 7 years ago, and my home is still in Taiwan.

GWU is pretty good at "International Business" and its IB is listed as #10 in the US! I am majoring in IB!

When you come to majoring in IB though, you better make sure you will have another concentration or minor because overall, IB is too broad and it might be hard to get a job if you only major in IB in college.

I am doing IB, Japanese and Marketing la!

If I were you, I would not go to BU because BU is expensive and stingy...that is why I hate it!

When I was a senior, I was struggling to decide which school to go, GWU or BU? Then I decided to go to GWU and now I feel like I made the right choice because BU is going down on the ranking these years...

But I love Boston as a city though. I mean I went to a private high school around that area for 4 years and got to know the city pretty well.

There are lots of good school in the Boston area and I think you should look into those, not BU unless u want to major in communication, which is the only thing that BU really good at.

To luxe,
Thank you for the suggestion. I think i'm going to apply to CMU b/c i heard they have really good business school. But i think georgetown is gonna be a little bit hard for me to get in.

Which school did u do the interview for? Is is a important part of the application? can i ask u about the school u attend? what are their admission critia? do i have a chance getting in?

why did u say that liberal arts school is not a good choice if i wanna go back to taiwan? i thought that the only difference is that Lib art school is smaller, and have core circum. but then i did some research most of the regular universities require core circum. first year too. can u tell me what u mean?
THANKS

The reason that Luxe said Liberal Art Schools are not good for you is because most of the people who attend Liberal Art colleges don't know what they are going to major.

Most of Libreral Art colleges will have an Econ department, but at the same time, you will have to take classes like as if you were in high school. So you might be taking, English, Math, Bio, Spansih, and Econ in Liberal Art colleges.

And on the other hand, if you are in the business school, you will be taking classes like Financial Accouting, Econ, Business Law, Marketing Management...etc.

If you do go to CMU, let me know cuz I have an good ABC friend who goes there. CMU is full of ABCs (those who can't really read or write chinese, only good at speaking). And many of them are from TAS (Taipei American School). According to the admission director at CMU, TAS is one of the top feeder school for CMU.

Liberal School are not very specific and yes, usually they have a lower # of students.

CMU is almost as hard as GU(Georgetown) in terms of the SAT scores that they are looking for. CMU is really strong in their sciences, so they tend to look for students who have good Math SAT 2 (Math IC and IIC) scores.

GWU is full of GU rejected...and many of my friends who did really well in high school and on their SATs did not get into GU because GU likes to accept rich students.

On of my friends who went and had an interview at GU said that the GU guy asked her how much do her parents make a year! My friend refused to answer that question and she didn't get in...interesting, isn't it...

哇, 好勢利~
CMU 不錯喔, 各項都不錯, 而且還滿有名的
也有很多廠商投資在他們的學生身上
我男朋友也是那邊畢業的
可是妳如果要去Pittsburgh的話
而且還是愛玩的話
要有心理準備喔 那邊滿無聊的

umm...念到排名高的學校真的對自己的未來很有幫助嗎!?
我想申請德州大學跟休士頓大學...但是德州大學離我家比較遠所以我可能會選擇休士頓大學!可是休士頓大學的排名比德州大學差!假如我選擇了休士頓大學而沒選擇德州大學真的會對我的未來比較不好嗎!?
wondering...@@"

To ah...

Wow, you were at BC and then transfered to NYU?!

I applied to NYU and BC as a transfer student last year. I got rejected from NYU and got on to the waitlist at BC...neither both of them saw my 2nd semester...

I had a 4.0 for the second semester ...sigh...anyways, I am happy here now at GWU and since GWU gave me $10,000USD for the 4.0 that I earned, I guess I will be staying here and save my parents some $! ^_^

Stern is a good school, do you like it?

I don't really agree with what you said about CMU's business school though. Although CMU has strong science departments, it is well known of MIS (Management Info. System).

CMU is actually ranked # 2 in MIS in the country; # 1 is MIT.

To chowson,
I guess CMU is a really good school to apply to, at first i was doubtful about it. b/c i thought that ppl in taiwan doesn't really know about CMU and there's not that much asian population. I think i'm gonna apply there now, I luv the fact that there's a lot of asian, especially ppl from taiwan.

I know that for some HS students Georgetown is not that hard to get in but although i live in a wealth town, most of the students here are jewish, and GU is a catholic univeristy (my teacher said that they like blond hair, blue eyes kids. and u know the whole jewish and catholic conflict thing). therefore, it's really hard to get accepted from my school. The rate of getting into GU for my school is about the same rate as getting accpeted to Harvard....that's how hard it is!!

to p-diddy (i'm sure u r not ugly ^_^):
Thank u for ur suggestion.
actually i applied to UC berkeley, UCLA and UCSD already. But i think my chance of getting accepted is pretty low, since i'm an out-of-state student. I'm interested in going to school in CA b/c of the mass asian population(taiwanese) and the fact that it's warm all year round. I'm also thinking about applying to USC, is that a good school? I heard that some ppl refer to USC as University of Spoiled Children. ^_^ What other CA schools do u suggest?

To joliu:
你說你男友是CMU畢業的嗎?
他現在在台灣工作嗎?
以CMU的學歷在台灣因該蠻吃香的吧?

Luxe,

so do u go to Harvard then?

to cutebunnyL

Just let you know that the headmaster at GW is Jewish too.

And the entire school is 40% Jewish.

Are u sure that GU don't like Jewish students? Cuz I know GU has quite a few Jewish fraternities and sororities...