Questions and Answers from College Fair

1.       How important are personal essays and teacher recommendations in the admissions process? What do you look for in a personal essay?

2.       How can I improve my chances if my GPA and/or SAT scores are not perfect?

3.       What services or financial aid does your school offer international students?

4.       What do you personally love best about the university?

University of California:

1. Teacher's recommendation letter are not important while applying. However, personal essays are very important. It needs to reflect the person you are and must be short but up to the point. They do not accept any paper work either.

2. You need to have a very good GPA and SAT scores in order to get admitted here. The average GPA and SAT scores are 3.88 and 1960-2230 accordingly. If your GPA is not good then u need to really work hard in pulling your grades up in order to apply.

3. Berkley provides financial aid according to the performance and GPA of the student. The student needs to have a GPA of at least 3.93 to apply for any financial aid programs.

4. The various programs that Berkley provides the students with and also that it has won noble prize in many fields and has a distinguished faculty.

Northern Michigan University:

1. Teacher's recommendation is very important but writing essays while applying is not that important.

2. They do not require SAT scores and the minimum GPA requirement is 1.75! As the GPA requirement is very low it is very easy to get admitted here.

3.You will get scholarship according to your GPA. You need to have a GPA of at least 3.0 to get any kind of financial aid.

4. The professor loves that the teacher to student ratio in NMU is 1:18 and hence the people are very close with each other.

Waldorf College:

1.  Teacher's recommendation and personal essays play a very important role in the process of accepting students.

2.  The applicant has  to have a GPA of 3.0 or higher in order to be enrolled in Waldorf. However, if you do not have a perfect score then you need to be actively participating in various extracurricular activities.

3.  The tuition fees of Waldorf is pretty high but if you work for extra hours in the school then you will a $1000 scholarship which will gradually increase according to time and performance.

4. All the extracurricular activities that Waldorf provides its students.

Susquehanna University:

1. In Susquehanna, personal essays are very important and it is recommended that the applicant writes less than 250 words. The essay must however give the reader a clear idea of what kind of person the applicant is.

2.The applicant must have a GPA of at least 3.0 and incase of not fulfilling the GPA requirement, the applicant must have a good transcript.

3. As the tuition fee is very high they provide scholarship to almost 90% of their student body. However, the scholarship varies from your academic and extracurricular performances.

4. The best thing about Susquehanna University is the location and people.

Ohio State University:

1. Teacher's recommendation and personal essays are not required while applying.

2. The minimum GPA and SAT score needed is 2.5 and 1260. The participant needs to have a record of participating in various extracurricular activities and leadership programs if he/she doesn’t has a very good score.

3. Ohio State University provides the students with various financial aids and scholarships but the applicant has to go through a very competitive process to get one.

4. Ohio State University has various fields in which students can major.