Application Process: Choosing the Right Institution

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Application Process: Choosing the Right Institution
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What are Ivy League Universities?
Ivy League is the name applied to eight universities in the US (Brown, Columbia Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale ) that over the years have had common interests in scholarship as well as in athletics. The Ivy Group (as the league was called in the Presidents' Agreement of 1954) established schedules in other sports, including some in existing leagues with non-Ivy members. Although the Ivy League colleges share certain policies, high academic standards, historic pedigrees, and compete in the same athletic conference, they differ from each other in many significant respects. They differ in their academic focus, the size of their undergraduate enrollment, the size of the overall campus, the feel and the location of the campus and campus safety. For more information on Ivy League go to www.go4ivy.com

For finding the right college and program you can either go to Internet sites like www.petersons.com or www.usnews.com to use their college search engines, or read articles and try to dig into those resources to find out information.
You can also look through the following list of colleges that offer programs for international students.
Arizona State University (AZ)
Barry University (FL)
Brown University (RI)
California State University Northridge(CA)
Calvin College (MI)
Clark University (MA)
College of Wooster (OH)
Dartmouth (NH)
Dordt College (IA)
Eastern Michigan University (MI)
Eckerd College (FL)
Florida Inst. of Tech. (FL)
Georgia Southern University (GA)
Graceland College (IA)
Grand Canyon University (AZ)
Harding University (AR)
Harvard (MA)
Illinois Institute of Technology (IL)
Juniata College (PA)
Liberty University (VA)
Louisiana State University (LA)
Luther College (IA)
Macalester College (MN)
Marquette University (WI)
Middlebury College (VT)
MIT (MA)
Montana State University (MT)
Oberlin (OH)
Ohio Wesleyan University (OH)
Princeton (NJ)
Savannah College of Art and Design(GA)
Slippery Rock University (PA)
Stanford (CA)
Texas Christian University (TX)
Tri-State University (IN)
University of Bridgeport (CT)
University of Houston (TX)
University of Pennsylvania (PA)
University of South Florida (FL)
University of Miami (FL)
University of Rochester (NY)
Yale (CT)

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EdRef College Search Reference
EdRef.com is a free online college directory providing information on more than 7,000 US colleges and trade schools. EdRef.com tries to present unbiased information on substantially all of the colleges in the country. All EdRef.com content is free of charge for the use of students and educators.
Graduate study guide for international students
Directory of graduate schools,rankings,programs,addmission requirements,school deadlines- geared towards prospective graduate student community.
US Colleges and Universities Guide
The database currently consists of around 9500 Institutions, which includes Community Colleges, 2-4 year Colleges, Universities that offer around 1300 different programs. These Institutions offer Associate, Undergraduate, Graduate, Doctorate degrees and other certificate programs.

Request information pack from the college/university you'll apply in. You will need to e-mail, fax, phone or mail them your request. Remember: your request should be short, contains enough information including the information you want and how they can contact you. The request should be directed to Admission Office, not the President or Director of Admission or so. Because your request won't earn you the scholarship or admission chance, therefore you shouldn't waste time in typing a beautiful letter with persuasive words, instead, just type a short e-mail indicating your interest and the request. This should be enough and satisfy both sides. After you have received the information pack, usually via mailing, make sure you read it very carefully to get out such info: requirements, international students, required standardized tests (SAT/ACT/TOEFL...) and required minimum scores, financial aids opportunity (need-based or merit-based), deadlines, application requirements... In general, to pull out and remember as much info as you can.

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