domingo, 9 de setembro de 2012

Post 2

In the last International Studies Classs, we met the college advisor from a college in Ohio. From what I heard from her, their college is weak in therms of Med courses and Law courses. The college appears to show support in terms of accepting International Students, and seem to be willing to shape their expectations to the students level. From what I could see from the Advisor, she was trying to make her college not sound so bad other than making it sound a good college. She kept pointin g out the downside of the colleges and how we could make up to htem, like how we could take pre-med at their university and then switch schools. The way she showed that they don´t have a fixed requirement to enter, like a GPA of 3.0, can cause you to think that grades aren´t important at all to enter a university.
Some fears and concerns that I have are how do they manage the International Students scholarships, and if we are double agents (in case we were born in another coutry, in that case, the USA, and live in Brazil) are we still counted as International Students?
Also, in this conference, I learned that SATs don´t count much in some Universities, and they take the TOFEL to analyze if a student can join or not.