 Hello, my people. Welcome to the SCORE channel and welcome to Siena Heights University. This is the last stop of my U.S. Winter University tour and I'm hoping it'll be a good one. So I'm looking forward to checking out Siena Heights, learning a little bit more about the programs and talking to Danilo. Danilo handles the international admissions here at Siena Heights and so we're going to talk to him a little bit about what it's like to be a Siena Heights student, what kind of programs they have, and a whole lot more. My name is Danilo Iela. I'm the Senior Assistant Director of Admissions here at Siena Heights University. I was an international student back in 2016 when I transferred from a community college. A little bit about Siena Heights University. Siena was founded in 1919 by the Asian Dominican sisters. They immigrated from Siena, Italy. We have very diverse populations of Europeans, a lot of South American students, a lot of students from China and Japan. We've had over 30 different countries that are on campus. To this day, we have over 60 majors. Five popular ones we have would be probably nursing, engineering, business administration is probably number one. We also have criminal justice, the arts. I'd say, you know, art, graphic design, music, musical theater. As a liberal arts institution, we're very involved with the arts. So students that have, you know, any artistic abilities can earn scholarships. We're always looking for new majors to bring to the university. For example, in 2020, agriculture and sustainable agriculture. Exercise science is one of our newest majors and probably one of the most popular. The university's also progressed in other ways like this place used to just be for women only because of the Dominican sisterhood and their rules. But now you as a guy are welcome to join too. Siena Heights University used to be called Saint Joseph College and it was founded by Dominican sisters from Siena, Italy. That's how it gets its name. And you can even get that vibe when you just look at the style of the buildings and even their names like Dominican Hall and Archangelus Hall. There's a lot of religious themed elements here at the university. But it's not strictly a religious school anymore. Danilo was nice enough to ask a couple of Siena Heights students to walk me around campus and show me around. So I want to show you some of my highlights from my time on campus. We have to like get like the individualized dungeon here if you don't really get that. No. There's just another number at some big 600 person freshman school, you know. We have a student here from Japan that graduated actually a year ago. You know what he is working right now? He's working in Japan for Goldman Sachs. Whoa. Yeah. He explained the whole process how challenging it is because in Japan like the interview process is very aggressive. He passed and he passed against people from back schools too and it was like amazing. So I think the school is really what you make of it. They are going to provide you with access. The professors, a lot of the times they are smart there. They are smart here too. You know, they have Ph.D. here just like somebody has a Ph.D. at Harvard or... So it's really the access that you have as well as your mentalities. In terms of international students, we help them with the transportation back and forth from the airport to go to the bank. If you ever need to go to the doctor or weekly grocery trips to the grocery store. We do everything we can in our power to give the access to the international students. It says a lot about the way Sienna Heights feels about its students. Like they clearly care about you. They clearly want to make sure that you want to be here and that you will succeed here. I can't really think of a better way to get a good personalized education. But it even goes beyond that because the financial aid packages are really really good as Danilo explained. Our cost without any grant is $40,222,000. When you look at those numbers, even for me, I was an international student, that sounds like a lot. I'd say 100% of the international, they come with a lot of scholarships. So either through athletics, through arts, through their GPA, or just to the fact that they are coming from a different country, we will give them a discount between $14,000 in discount up to full tuition. The academics first, any student that has a GPA above $3.25, automatically qualifies for $6,000 on our scholarship. And then if you have above $3.5, then you qualify for the academic scholarship competition where you can get a little bit more. We have the athletics. Scholarships from athletics, they range from $3,000 all the way up to $15,000. So that's kind of the range. The average, I would say it's about $7,000 to $8,000 for most of the athletes. The arts and the music, the theater, which are basically in the same range as the sports. They can go from $3,000 all the way up to around $15,000. That would be the range. All the scholarships at Siena, they're stacked up on top of each other. So let's say you're coming in and you're an athlete, you also play music, you're graduating as a music student, and you also have a great GPA from high school. You definitely qualify for an athletics scholarship. You qualify for a music scholarship, and you also qualify for the academic scholarship. So we'll put everything on top of each other to create the best possible award for our students. So you could get scholarships for arts. You could get scholarships for sports. You can get scholarships for academics. And if you put all those together, you could pay well under $20,000 a year for your education here. That's probably one of the best deals an international student is going to get at a private university. Generally, what kind of student are you looking for? Or what would be the ideal profile for a student? You know, I haven't really gave a lot of thought to this question before, but I feel like because Siena is such a diverse campus, we're very welcoming of, you know, differences. We want students that are engaged, basically. You know, students that want to be self-starter, students that have a positive attitude, students that are not afraid to, you know, start something without waiting for people to tell them what to do. The mission of Siena Heights is to assist students to become more competent, purposeful, and ethical through a teaching learning environment that respects the dignity of all. So, you know, that's basically what we're looking for. Fairly simple to apply at Siena Heights.edu and complete the application to the CAS, you know, main campus. There is an essay at the end of the application, and then after completing the application, they're probably going to receive an email from me asking for, you know, transcripts, grades, TOEFL scores, Duolingo, anything that you can provide. But we also tend to do a, you know, a little Zoom interview where we can get to know you, get to know if you're a fit for the institution, and then we start, you know, pairing you with the people on campus. So if you're interested in athletics, we pair you to the coach. If you're interested in a specific major, it's always good that you have a meeting with them to see, you know, what can this program provide to me. We work with you every step of the way. We've been test-optional, I believe, since 2014, 2013. We can still accept those and we'll happily review them, but it's not necessary for admissions. It's optional, for sure. We are rolling. Yeah, we're open enrollment, I would say. We accept students up until, you know, let's say, fall semester starts at the end of August. We work with students until the end of July. That gives us a month, you know, to work with them throughout August. So, that'd be the deadline, but there's not really a deadline. If you want to get in touch with me, guys, my name is Danilo Riella. My email is driella.edu. I'm also available through Zoom. Thank you for having me here. It's been a pleasure to talk a little bit about Sienna, and I hope to hear from you in the future. I want to say a big thank you to Danilo and to everybody else at SHU, who met with me today. Thank you so much for receiving me. I had a wonderful time. It's been a real pleasure checking out the university. If you want to apply, you'll have to apply directly to the university. They're not on the Common App. If you need help with that application, though, you can hit us up at preposcore.com. 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