From now until November 30th is the filing period for the University of California system. Also closing Novemeber 30 is the California State system. These university require no recommendations or secondary school report and transcripts are sent AFTER you are admitted. So be honest–they do check.

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If you are a non US citizen but want to study in the US, arranging financing is a tough go. Currently there are only a handful of colleges that are need blind to international students:

Harvard
Yale
MIT
Princeton

Yet there are many with generous opportunities for international students that NEED money. I have long kept a list of colleges [...]

The Rhodes Scholarship is one of the most prestigious awards in academia. It is awarded to an undergraduate student to study for two years at Oxford.

Mr. Rhodes’ Will contains four criteria by which prospective Rhodes Scholars are to be selected:

literary and scholastic attainments;

energy to use one’s talents to the full, as
exemplified by fondness for and [...]

There are many ways to deliver instruction. On such way is a Socratic Discussion groups.

St.
Mary’s College of California offers an Integral Studies major
(essentially the Great Books). If a student wants to start out with
this and changes their mind reverting back to a traditional curriculum
for their major, they can do the first two years in GE [...]

None of the reviewed criteria for international ranking seems to have very good construct validity for both educational and research excellence, and most don’t have very good construct validity even for just one of these two aspects of excellence. Measurement error for many items is also considerable or is not possible to determine due to [...]

Yes, I suck at languages…although I have now successfully butchered French, German, Thai, Spanish and I am working on Chinese. But greek, in this case, means a wee bit different thing. Fraternities and Sorieties are a unique and defining characteristic of US education (although not all colleges have them). One of my favourite college comedies [...]

What do New York University, Florida State, Syracuse, University of Mississippi, University of New Haven, and Plymouth State University have in common? I will give you a clue: Ireland, Panama, Scotland and Florence, just to name a few. What? You see a growing number of universities in the US are offering Freshmen year aboard programs. [...]

And the SAT is under siege again…
In
a recent issue of The American, a magazine of the American Enterprise
Institute think tank, Murray said the test had become a “negative force
in American life” and irrelevant to college admissions. After analyzing
data of test results and follow-ups since 2001 conducted by the
University of California system and comparing them with [...]

Man the communications director at New York Institute of Technology really should learn some history. What are they thinking with their press release for opening a campus in China”
Some
might call it a true great leap forward in higher education. In a move
destined to establish a precedent for educating some of China’s best
students, New York Institute [...]

Man the communications director at New York Institute of Technology really should learn some history. What are they thinking with their press release for opening a campus in China”
Some
might call it a true great leap forward in higher education. In a move
destined to establish a precedent for educating some of China’s best
students, New York [...]