Type: Liberal Arts, 4-year college
Setting: Suburban setting
Size: a little bit less than 3000 students total
Cost: $34,926 per year(including tuition/room/board)
Degree offerings: Bachelor’s, Master’s
Hello! I hope you’ve had a chance to meet me already. Today we will be touring Otterbein College, located in  Westerville, Ohio (a town just outside of Columbus, Ohio in the middle part of America). Otterbein is a small four-year liberal arts college that has a total enrollment of  about 3000 students every year, with students coming from all over the US and other parts of the world. Although …

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This is not usually a problem most American students face when applying to college – but is a common problem for most people whose mother tongue is not English.
Transliteration of a non-English name, specifically those written in non-latin based languages, creates headaches for governments, colleges and universities, and for the students. Something as simple as a hyphen can create serious problems for a student leading to rejected paperwork, non-issuance of a visa, and difficulties in opening bank …

These are a few of the colleges and universities in the US that offer rolling admissions (read more about rolling admissions here)- while we’re working on our new database of colleges and universities, we’ll give you a list of a some of the schools that have rolling admissions. Good luck with your application!
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI http://www.msu.edu

Lasell College, Newton, MA http://www.lasell.edu

Marymount University, Arlington, VA http://www.marymount.edu

University of New Haven, New Haven, CT http://www.newhaven.edu

University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA http://www.uml.edu

Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH http://www.snhu.edu
Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO   …

Are you thinking its too late for you to apply to college or university in the US? That the only schools who may still be accepting students at this date would be low-caliber, border-line diploma mills?
Well you would be wrong! Many well ranked, highly respected colleges and universities have rolling admissions. These institutions do not have a “hard” deadline by which your application must be received but instead continue to accept applications until the class is full.
If you were not accepted at your chosen schools, your first choice, or even …

Now that you’ve read the basics of how to start selecting a college or a university in the United States (Selecting an American College) you need to start thinking about what you want to study. The US has a unique and flexible system allowing you to choose your field of study (called a Major) after you have started college or even change it after a year or so of study.

What do you want to study?
Do you already know what you want to study? Most international students …