Delhi Collage Fair Q&A

Questions:
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 you school offer international students?
4. What do you personally love best about the university?

UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN MICHAGIN
1. She wasn’t too sure if it was even in the application to fill out personal essays but recommendations are very important.
2. They’ll also look to your extracurricular activities and recommendations.
3. International students can compete with everyone else for academic and sports scholarships but you have to be “the best of the best” so yeah. Also, anyone with a 3.0 GPA receives an automatic scholarship.
4. She personally loves the people. There are such great student-teacher relations that she’s even still friends with some of her old professors today. Great, lifelong friends are made there and the environment is beautiful.  

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

1. Personal essays & teacher recommendations aren’t required in admissions process.

2. They look at teacher recommendations, your extra curricular activities, leadership positions, work experience, and so on.

3. Ohio State offers scholarships based on merit to international students. However, these are highly competitive and based on academic merit, leadership accomplishments, special talents and/or financial need.

4. The representative said that he personally loved the college so much because of the amazing relationships found in between both you and your classmates and your professors.

WOLDORF COLLEGE
1. Personal essays are not too important in the admissions process and recommendations will help as a last resort. They’re do more interviewing at Woldorf.
2. They’ll look at your extracurricular activities; specifically theatre stuff as that is their big thing.  
3. They offer up to $6000 in international scholarships.
4. Loves the sense of community and how they really care about you. For example this football player they allowed in had a GPA of 2.0 and they got it up to a 3.2 by the end of his first year. “That can’t happen unless the teachers truly care.”

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH PACIFIC, FIJI

1. Personal essays and teacher recommendations are not looked for here.

2. They’ll look at the extracurricular activities and leadership roles you have partaken in. As for SAT scores, they are not required and 2.5 is the minimum GPA.

3. Students with a GPA greater then 2.5 are enrolled for financial aid automatically.

4. He loved that all the students were really engaged in learning about both the school’s culture and their surroundings. In fact there were about 200 students who learned the traditional dance of Fiji.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY

1. Personal essays are important and are highly considered in the admissions process, but not so much with teacher recommendations. They look for personal essays that reflect you as a person by writing about your experiences and how they’ve helped shape you into who you are today.

2. With a low GPA, your chances of getting accepted are quite low as they really focus on high GPAs (the average is around a 3.88). However they will glance at the leadership roles you have taken on and then your extracurricular activities.

3. Berkeley’s a quite expensive school, and for this reason they do offer many scholarships based on academics and/or financial need. Applicants are considered based on their financial needs and GPA.

4. She loved the fact they that hey have a very, highly distinguished faculty (22 members of their faculty have won the Nobel Prize.)