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    Admissions Guide To American Colleges For International Students
    Admissions Guide To American Colleges For International Students
    Admissions Guide To American Colleges For International Students
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    Admissions Guide To American Colleges For International Students

    By Andrew Dolan

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    This book shows international students how to apply for admission to undergraduate colleges in the United States. It tells where to find out the SAT, ACT and TOEFL scores needed to get admitted to American colleges from print and online directories, and how to avoid common mistakes on college admission essays. It explains where to get information about financial aid for international students, and how to obtain detailed inside information about individual colleges that is not available from college directories and web sites. This book shows how to apply to multiple American colleges using a common application, and how to transfer into four-year colleges and universities. This book tells international students what to do while studying in American undergraduate schools to improve their chances of admission to selective American graduate schools, and includes the web sites of over a hundred major American colleges.

    Table Of Contents

    Chapter One
    Types Of Colleges In The United States

    Chapter Two
    How To Apply For Admission

    Chapter Three
    College Admissions Essays And Interviews

    Chapter Four
    How American Colleges Decide Who To Admit

    Chapter Five
    Get Ready For Graduate School While In college

    Chapter Six
    Where To Find More Information
    ACT Test
    SAT Test
    SAT And ACT Test Scores Needed For Admission
    Print Directories
    Online Databases
    TOEFL Test
    TOEFL Test Scores Needed For Admission
    IELTS Test
    Guides To Individual Colleges Written By Students
    Common Application Program
    College Fairs
    College Admissions Essays
    English Writing Skills
    Financial Aid For International Undergraduates
    Books About Education In American Colleges
    Admission to Graduate Schools
    Web Sites Of Large American Colleges
    Universities And Four-Year Colleges
    Community Colleges

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrew Dolan
    Release dateApr 4, 2011
    ISBN9781458110534
    Admissions Guide To American Colleges For International Students
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    Andrew Dolan

    Andrew Dolan is the author of several nonfiction books

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      Admissions Guide To American Colleges For International Students - Andrew Dolan

      Admissions Guide To American Colleges

      For International Students

      Andrew Dolan

      Copyright © 2011, 2010 by Andrew Dolan

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      Table Of Contents

      Chapter One

      Types Of Colleges In The United States

      Chapter Two

      How To Apply For Admission

      Chapter Three

      College Admissions Essays And Interviews

      Chapter Four

      How American Colleges Decide Who To Admit

      Chapter Five

      Get Ready For Graduate School While In College

      Chapter Six

      Where To Find More Information

      ACT® Test

      SAT® Test

      SAT® And ACT® Test Scores Needed For Admission

      Print Directories

      Online Databases

      TOEFL® Test

      TOEFL® Test Scores Needed For Admission

      IELTS Test

      Guides To Individual Colleges Written By Students

      Common Application Program

      College Fairs

      College Admissions Essays

      English Writing Skills

      Financial Aid For International Undergraduates

      Books About Education In American Colleges

      Admission to Graduate Schools

      Web Sites Of Large American Colleges

      Universities And Four-Year Colleges

      Community Colleges

      Chapter One

      Types Of Colleges In The United States

      Major Types Of American Colleges

      There are five major types of American colleges, as well as several slightly different sub-types of each of the five major types.

      The five major types of American colleges are:

      Research Universities (Four-Year)

      State Colleges (Four-Year)

      Private (Independent) Colleges (Four-Year)

      Church-Affiliated Colleges (Four-Year)

      Community Colleges (Two-Year)

      Research universities are large universities with tens of thousands of students. These universities offer bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, and doctoral degrees in numerous fields. They are called research universities because one of the major responsibilities of faculty members is to conduct and publish scholarly research in the form of books, conference proceedings and academic journal articles. Such research is most often funded by the American federal government, state governments, foundations and corporations.

      Research universities often draw students both from the United States and from other countries, and have large libraries that are useful to those who conduct research and need to find books and journal articles, reference books and so on. Undergraduates are often required to live in dormitories during their first year in college at large research universities.

      Graduate students at research universities often help faculty members with their funded research by working as research assistants. Funded research thus helps pay for the tuition and other bills of many graduate students. There are two subtypes of research universities: public universities controlled by state governments and private universities.

      State colleges are publicly-funded four-year colleges that offer bachelor’s degrees, and possibly a few types of master’s degrees, but rarely offer doctoral degrees. State colleges are funded by state governments. Some state colleges offer only bachelor’s degrees.

      In general, state colleges tend to have smaller enrollments than research universities. They usually enroll most of their students from the states within which they are located, but may attract some graduate students from other states and other countries. Some state colleges have dormitories, while others do not. There are several specialized subtypes of state colleges that may specialize in technical subjects, such as state colleges that specialize in agriculture.

      Private colleges are also known as independent colleges. These are four-year colleges founded by groups of private citizens, and have admission policies that often require applicant interviews and multiple admission essays. These institutions usually cost double or triple what public colleges and universities cost.

      Private colleges tend to be teaching-oriented, and put less emphasis on faculty research than is the case in large universities. They feature small classes instead of the sort of large lecture-hall classes that are common at large research universities, and often have total student enrollments that are less than five thousand students. It really is possible in some small private colleges to know every single student in such colleges personally. Most private colleges that offer only bachelor’s degrees tend to focus on liberal arts, but there are a few private colleges that specialize in engineering, languages and the arts.

      A few private colleges, usually those located in or near major cities, have enrollments of up to ten thousand students. Undergraduates are usually required to live in dormitories during their first year or two in private colleges. Most private colleges are secular, meaning that they are non-religious..

      Church-affiliated colleges are private four-year colleges that are controlled and operated by churches or other types of religious organizations. They are also known as religious colleges, and most such colleges are Christian colleges. Both students and faculty members at church-affiliated colleges must usually sign written agreements to live in accordance with the beliefs of the churches that operate such colleges.

      These beliefs vary widely among different churches. One church-affiliated college might forbid students from drinking alcohol or smoking tobacco, even during vacations, while another Christian college might promote the separation of men from women during their college years.

      You do not have to be a member of whichever church operates a particular college to be a student at that church-affiliated college. You must, however, conform to their rules for student behavior while you are a student there. Many church-affiliated colleges require students who are members of their churches to attend religious services, and require students who are not members of that church to take a philosophy class instead.

      Each church-affiliated college is different, so be sure to find out what the church and the college in question have to say on their web sites, admission materials, and so on. Undergraduates are often required to live in dormitories during their first year in college, and church attendance on Sundays may be mandatory.

      Well-known research universities, some private colleges and a few church-affiliated colleges that have selective admissions policies usually draw their undergraduate and graduate student bodies from the entire United States, meaning that such colleges are national colleges, or even international, in the sense that they draw students from a number of other countries as well as from within the United States.

      Community colleges are different than universities and four-year colleges in several ways.

      One primary difference is that community colleges offer academic degree programs that are only two years in length. Another primary difference is that community colleges have transfer programs that specifically get students ready to finish the final two years of their education at four-year (senior) colleges and universities. Yet another primary difference is that faculty members at community college are less involved in research than in four-year institutions. A final primary difference is that most community colleges are open-admissions colleges.

      Community colleges usually draw most of their

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