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I'm an International deciding between the above schools, of which Princeton and Yale is need-blind with International admission and Dartmouth is not. Yale has 10% International, the highest of the three, but I don't know whether that's a bless or curse 'cause they might be tired of having to pay for all those Internationals(schools don't get federal funding for them). Dartmouth is the most unselective of the three, but its International admission could be the toughest since they take financial aid into consideration (and their EFC calulator gave a EFC of 5000 for my family).

Here's my STATS
I'm Asian and International.(bane of my existence)
SAT:
750(V)
800(M)
SAT II
800(IC)
800(IIC)
800(Chemistry)
will take writing later.

Grades: 4.0
Rank: 2/300

EC:
Math club(lots of regional winnings, 4th place in the state). somehow I'm not particularly good with AMC problems. I was 9th place in region 3 in 10th grade but fell to 200ish place in 11th grade.(I blame this on cross country) made to AIME both years, can only get 1/5 to 1/7 of the questions right. )

Quiz Bowl: can achieve local(county) domination(ocassionally regional)

Varsity Cross country, ocassionally drop to JV.(our team is 10th place in the state! its hard!)
Always win JV races though)

By Stanfordhopeful (Stanfordhopeful) on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 - 08:59 pm: Edit

I am an international as well and responses to this thread would be greatly appreciated....

By Haon (Haon) on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 - 10:50 pm: Edit

You should definitely also consider Williams College--it is the same level as Princeton or Yale and is also need-blind...They however are slightly less selective (only slightly).
Middlebury also loves internationals (give them a look).

All of that said I see no reason why you cannot apply to all of the schools that you're interested in...why limit yourself to one now?

By Nop86 (Nop86) on Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 12:09 pm: Edit

I would pick between Yale and Princeton since they are need blind and more centrally located and accessible. That would be important for any international student I think. Princeton has a higher ranking between the two.

By Bmxbabe03 (Bmxbabe03) on Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 12:48 pm: Edit

If i'm looking into entering into Pre-Med would Prineton be a college to go to?

By Adxj220 (Adxj220) on Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 04:50 pm: Edit

No, they are not very pre-professional, and don't even have a med school if you want to do research in that area. I don't know about yale...

By Agamemnon314 (Agamemnon314) on Friday, September 26, 2003 - 01:09 pm: Edit

Does anyone know why Yale's International population burgeoned latedly? It went from 5% in 2001 to 10% last year.

Did anyone find out what percent of Princeton's entering freshman class major in Science/Engineering/Math?

My goal in choosing between these three schools is to get into one of them. I don't care which one is ranked highest, but which one is easiest for me to get into.Can any one comment more in that aspect?

By Heartfang2 (Heartfang2) on Saturday, September 27, 2003 - 01:31 am: Edit

What country are you from? Also,are you a US citizen living overseas?

By Agamemnon314 (Agamemnon314) on Monday, September 29, 2003 - 05:59 pm: Edit

no. I'm immigrated from Asia and lived in the U.S for 7 years now. My Green card should come soon but you never know.

By Agamemnon314 (Agamemnon314) on Wednesday, October 01, 2003 - 05:05 pm: Edit

bump

By Oxfordboundboy (Oxfordboundboy) on Saturday, October 04, 2003 - 03:56 pm: Edit

What about Oxford and Cambridge? Some of the best universities in the world are outside of the United States, believe it or not:

Some top 5 american universities are not even top 20 in a world ranking scheme. Check this out:

http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/ranking.htm

In particular, DUKE, which is ranked by USNEWS at #6 or so, is ranked only #32 in the world.