What do you intend to study?
-  If you are still in secondary school, or if you have completed secondary school, but have not attended any additional academic coursework, then you will applying to study an Associate’s Degree, or a Bachelors degree as a first year student, or “freshman”.
-  If you are currently attending or have attended a university, but you have NOT graduated from that institution with a degree, then you would be applying to a U.S. university as a “transfer” student in order to complete a bachelor’s degree.
-  If …

Do I want a college or a university?
“College” and “university” mean the same thing in the United States.   For example, there is a Boston College and a Boston University, and they are two different institutions.  Both offer Bachelor’s Degrees and both offer Master’s Degrees, and both are very competitive with their admissions standards.  The major differences are that colleges tend to be private and not all of them offer graduate degrees.  Universities are normally larger and most do offer graduate degrees.  If the school has word “state” in the title, …

Okay guys, I’ve been sorting through student registrations for our upcoming Fall US Educational Group fairs in the Middle East – and I just want to say, some of you have CRAZY email addresses.
Can I just recommend one quick thing that will help improve the first impression you give the admissions counselor reading your application? Especially if you are a graduate student applying for a Masters or PhD program.

Sign up for a new email address
All of you. Seriously. You can’t submit your application to a professional program with an …

MLA, APA, Chicago, Research papers, and YOU!
Research papers in your own language are one thing. While they may not be your favorite thing in the world to write, it probably doesn’t intimidate or scare you. A teacher or professor says write a paper, you write it and forget it. Papers in a foreign language are scary enough to boggle most people’s minds.
I wrote a couple papers in German, while I was in Austria, and even more once I came back to the States. Included in these was a ten page …

The book 1984 was written by George Orwell back in the 1920s 1940s (thanks to our commenter Santa for picking that huge mistake up). While it is mainly a book about Orwell’s vision of the future, it also offers those who study language an important lesson. The main character, Winston, must understand why two plus two is five. His teacher explains that it is simple, because the party said it was. Four is simply a label, and if the party changes the label, then two plus two is five.
While the …