 screen. Please let me know when you're able to see it. Yeah, it looks good. Perfect. Sorry, let me go back. So thank you everyone so much for joining me today. And thank you to SCORE for having me on their series presenting on US universities and all the information about MSOE and what it takes to be admitted to MSOE. I'm going to go over all that information today, as well as leave some time at the end for questions and questions about MSOE or higher education in the United States in general. I'm very happy to help answer those questions. So to begin, I'll introduce myself. So my name is Samantha. I am the director of admissions at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. And you can see on this photo on the screen, this is one of our newest buildings. This is our computer science facility. As Andrew was saying, we have a very high tech campus. We have a lot of equipment that's very up to date and relevant to the industry. We are primarily a STEM institution. So primarily engineering actually undergraduate engineering is what we specialize in. But we do offer programs in nursing, business and computer science as well. So if you're looking for a STEM program, we likely have something that's going to fit your needs. And you can see on the screen, we are very highly ranked in the United States when it comes to undergraduate engineering. So we are ranked number 10 in the United States for our engineering programs. And you can see that some of our individual programs are also very highly ranked. So you can see we have actuarial science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, civil engineering and mechanical engineering are all ranked in the top 10 as well. Meaning that we have high quality programs that are recognized across the United States as being really good programs, especially within the field of engineering and STEM. But if you're not interested in engineering, you're interested in more of the healthcare field, we do offer a really good nursing program as well. So you can see on the screen, we have a 90% pass rate for the NCLEX, which is the test that nurses have to take when they finish their degree, and they're trying to get their nursing license. We have a very high pass rate for the first attempt. And we also offer a computer science program. So on our campus, we actually focus our computer science students on artificial intelligence and machine learning. And we do have a supercomputer located on our campus, which is a little bit more of a rare thing for a university to have a supercomputer on their campus. It's even more rare for undergraduate students to use the supercomputer in their classes, which our students do as a part of their curriculum starting in the second year. The reason why we're so successful in all of these areas is we have an application oriented curriculum. So this means that we're extremely hands on, right? So our students are in the lab, they're in the class, and they're working on the machines, the tools and the equipment that they need to be successful in their program, and eventually in their career once they leave MSOE. If you're not familiar with where we're located, we are in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. So here we have two really beautiful pictures, one in the daytime, one in the nighttime of the downtown Milwaukee area. Our campus is located right in the middle of downtown Milwaukee. So you do have access to all the different things that you need. You can access all these things within walking distance of our campus. So restaurants, sports venues, shopping centers, anywhere that you need to go anywhere downtown that you need to get to, it's very easy to get to within the immediate downtown area. If you're unfamiliar with where Milwaukee is in the United States, you can see on the map we are located in the state of Wisconsin, which is in the Midwest region of the United States. Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin with about 1.6 million people in the city and in the surrounding neighborhoods. And we are located on the shores of Lake Michigan. So if you're familiar with the Great Lakes region, Wisconsin is right in between Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. So we have really nice access to the lake. And it's something that our students love to do, especially during the summertime to walk down to the lake and visit. If you're still unfamiliar with where we're located, we are located pretty close to Chicago. Chicago is one of the main metropolitan cities in the United States. And we are located just a 90 minute drive north of Chicago. So you can see us in relation to the city of Chicago. As I mentioned, we're very beautiful, friendly, clean, safe and fun city. So you can see the pictures are all located in the downtown area very close to our campus. So it's very easy to get around and explore the different parts of downtown Milwaukee. We also have two major sports venues that are located in the downtown area, the Milwaukee Bucks Stadium, which is a basketball team, professional basketball, is just a few blocks away from our campus within walking distance. And then the Milwaukee Brewers, which is our professional baseball team is located about five minute drive away from our campus. So there's a ton of stuff to do. It's all very easy to get to in the downtown area, you don't have to have a car in order to get to these places. Obviously, as an international student, you most often don't have a car. So you need to be able to get to all these places easily by either walking, taking public transportation or riding a bike. Alright, so now we'll talk a little bit more about the institution itself. So we are a small university. So when you're thinking of the different types of universities in the United States, we have very large public universities, we have small public universities, we also have small private universities. So we are a small private university, just about 3000 students in total on our campus. We do have a good population of international students between about 120 to 150 international students are on our campus. And it's actually closer to 40 different countries represented now. So we have students from all across the world represented at MSOE. And we do have international faculty as well who are teaching some of our classes. So again, that last bullet point is just stating we are a university that is focusing on the practical application of what you are learning in the classroom. So in the classroom, you're going to be learning your theory, your theory of engineering, your theory of nursing or computer science. And then you're going to be applying all of that in a hands on manner in the lab and within the classroom. So that way you are prepared for your internships and for your career in the future. If you're unfamiliar with what types of programs we offer, these are all the different undergraduate academic programs that we offer. So you can see we have kind of four different areas. So the first is building and construction. And you can see the architectural and civil engineering program actually offers a five year program to get your bachelors and masters. We also have computer. So this is very popular, especially within the last few years, our computer science program has become very popular among our students who are looking to get into that field for their career. We also offer engineering. So these are some of our most popular programs in terms of engineering fields. So in mechanical engineering is definitely the most popular program that our students are pursuing. Mechanical engineering degree is a very broad degree. You can go into a lot of different fields, such as aerospace or manufacturing. So a lot of our students will choose to do that as their undergraduate degree. And then math, business, and nursing. So those are the other programs that I mentioned. Actuarial science is a math program. We have a Bachelor of Business Administration as well and then nursing. Our business programs are actually broken down into five different Bachelor of Science programs. So we have accounting, finance, operations and systems management, general management and marketing. So if you're a student who's interested in business, you can always pursue one of those programs as well. Alright, so when we talk about our educational philosophy, this is what makes us different. This is what makes us stand out from other universities in the United States, other universities in the Midwest, and then of course against other institutions that offer very similar STEM programs. So the first is that we are a direct entry. So what does that mean? When you come to study in the United States, you'll be admitted into the University of your choice, but it doesn't always mean you're going to be admitted into your program of choice. So you have to be conscious of that when you're making your decision of what university you're going to pick. Here at MSOE, when you're admitted into MSOE, you're also admitted into the program of your choice right away. So you start taking those major specific courses in the very first term. When we think about some other large public institutions, sometimes they have what's called pre-engineering or pre-nursing. What that means is that you're admitted into the university, but you actually have to take some general education classes for the first and second year before you can actually apply into the engineering school or into the nursing school. So you want to make sure you understand the university that you're applying to. Is it a direct entry school or is it not a direct entry school? So please make sure you understand the differences and you contact the universities that you're applying to to figure out what type of entry they have. So here you'll start taking those major specific courses right away in the fall when you arrive on campus. So that makes you a very marketable student, especially when it comes to looking for internships that next summer. Because you have taken some of your major specific classes right away in that first year, you typically have enough content knowledge to apply to be accepted into an internship that very following summer. We also have a lot of time spent in the lab. So you can see there over the course of four years of study, we have plenty of time for you to spend in the lab working hands on in the lab with the machines, the tools, the equipment that you need to be successful in that program. So that way when you leave MSOE and you start your career, you are the best engineer or the best computer scientist that you can be because you've learned on all of our technologically advanced equipment. We also have a year long senior design project in the final year. So in the fourth year, you will spend some of your time doing a senior design project and answering a question or solving a problem that pertains to your major and you're working with a team of student engineers to accomplish that project. Overall, we are a very small school, so we have small class sizes. We have 13 to 1 student to professor ratio with about 20 to 25 students per class. This means that you're going to get a lot of attention from your professors and we'll talk about that on the next slide. We also have a four year graduation guarantee. So this means that as long as you're staying on your track of your courses and you're passing all of your classes, you are guaranteed to graduate within four years. So we talked a little bit about professors already. All of our professors are highly qualified with industry experience and that's what they bring to their classes in MSLE. So not only do they have experience in the industry as maybe a previous career, but some of them are still really involved in the industry. So they're able to help you with your career and help you with your direction of where you want to go when you graduate. They're also able to help you find things like internships and jobs. Sometimes they can recommend you for jobs or internships that they previously worked at or someone that they know in the industry. All of our professors teach all of our classes and labs. So this means that we have professors with at least master's degrees or PhDs who are teaching all of your classes and labs. Another thing that you need to pay attention to when you're looking for universities is sometimes much larger universities use what's called a teaching assistant. We don't use teaching assistants at MSLE. All of our professors who have this quality industry experience and these advanced degrees are teaching all of our classes. So this just leads to a great professor-student interaction. Our professors are going to know who you are. They're going to know your name. They're going to know your challenges and your successes. They're going to know if you're missing from class one day. They're really here for the success of the students and this is really beneficial being on a small campus because you will be able to have that interaction with your professors very easily. This slide just mentions our accreditation so you can see overall we are accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and then each of our programs has its own accreditation as well. So you can see our engineering accreditation, nursing accreditation, and construction education accreditation as well. One thing that you might be really interested in as an international student is what type of work and research opportunities exist. So a lot of our international students will choose to have on-campus student jobs. Any international student can get a job on campus and earn some extra spending money. Having an on-campus job really will not pay off your tuition. It's just for you to have additional funds so that you can get what you need while you're living in the United States. We do have some opportunities for undergraduate research. These are mostly faculty-led research projects and you can become aware of these once you actually arrive on campus and you start taking classes. And then finally we do have CPT and OPT work authorization. So CPT is what you'll use while you're in school if you're doing an internship that's related to your academic focus and then OPT is what you become eligible for after you leave MSOE. And most of our programs also have STEM OPT eligibility so that adds an additional two years onto your OPT work authorization for a total of three years. So now we're going to talk a little bit about campus life. So what's it like to be a student on our campus outside of academics? So the first thing you need to think about is living on campus. So if you are an international student you're coming to MSOE to enroll as a student you do have to live on campus for the first two years and I'm going to talk about the different options that we have for living on campus. So the first that's pictured here is the Grumman Tower. This is on campus furnished apartment with a kitchen and a bathroom and all utilities are included in the price of monthly rent. So what does that mean? When you're living in the United States you do have to pay additional fees if you're living in an apartment. So that includes electricity usage, water usage, heat, internet. So you have to think about all those things if you're choosing to live off campus. So when you live on our campus if you live in this building all of those utilities are included in the price of rent and rent is paid every month. So if you do live in this building you do have to have the funds to pay to live here every month. This is a really nice living arrangement because it's very new. It's very up to date. It's apartment style so you have a little bit more privacy. You have a full kitchen and a bathroom but in order to make it affordable you do have to live with other students. But it is only MSOE students that live in this building. So if you choose to live here you would be paired with between one to three other MSOE roommates to live here. Of course if you want more of the traditional residence hall you can see we offer three different residence halls. The first is Herman Beach Tower and this building is also very new. It's very modern, very up to date. The facilities are very nice. There's air conditioning in this building and this is a traditional style residence hall. So you would share one room with another student and then all the students who live on that floor would share the bathroom and shower facilities. We also have two additional residence halls Margaret Lock Hall which is a little bit older of a facility but it still is the same type of residence hall and then Regents residence hall which is more of a suite style living and is currently only reserved for women to live in this building. So if you live here you do have to have a meal plan, a seven-day meal plan which is included in the cost of living here for a full year. Now when we're taking a look at other student services what else does MSOE have to offer our students across campus? The first is the Wellness Center. So the Wellness Center is where we offer counseling services and health services. So this is for the overall well-being of the students. So if you are having some troubles in some of your classes in terms of your anxiety or your mental health maybe you're having a challenge with your roommate or with a friend and you need someone to talk to. That's what counseling services provides to you and it's free free of cost. Health services also includes those minor health issues. So we have a nurse practitioner on our campus who can meet with you and help you with any of those minor health issues that you may have. We also have tutoring so this is free for all of our students. This is academic tutoring and of course it's free for you to use but we also recommend it as a preventative measure. So this is keeping a good grade in your class. It's helping you understand the material a little bit better. It's helping you prepare for an exam that might be coming up. It's helping you with homework every week. So this is free for all of our students and it's highly encouraged so that way you're staying consistent in your classes and you're achieving the grades that you want to achieve while you're at MSOE. MSOE is a very academically challenging institution. So you will be challenged throughout your time in terms of your academics and your classes but we provide the support to help you keep those grades in your classes and to be confident in what you're learning. We also offer the current center which is a full athletic and workout facility. So at the current center we offer three different levels of sports participation. So the first is varsity sports so this would be for someone who is really good at their sport, dedicates a lot of time to their sports and wants to make their sports a big passion for them while they're studying at school. Then we have club level sports so this would be for someone who really loves to play their sport but maybe doesn't want to dedicate as much time to it or wants to focus more on their studies but still wants to play that sport and to play some other schools in that sport. Then we finally have intramural level sports so this is within MSOE so this is MSOE sports teams playing each other and maybe this is for somebody who really likes to play a sport maybe doesn't consider themselves to be that great at that sport but still really likes to participate in half fun. We also have a full workout facility so this is free for all of our students to use a lot of our students take advantage of this it's a very nice workout facility within the current center. We also have the career fair so this is really important it's one of the most important department offices on campus is our career connections department and this is where they can assist you with things like updating your resume, creating a personal statement if you're wanting to apply to graduate school. They help you with mock job interviews they help you look for internships and jobs and they provide career fairs throughout the year where we invite companies to come on to our campus to talk with our students, network with our students maybe interview some of our students for internships or jobs and this last year over 380 companies actually came to our campus to look at our students so this career fair is only for MSOE students it is not open to the public we have some really big name companies that come to this career fair looking for our students this past year Tesla actually came to our campus looking for our students this is the first time we've welcomed them on our campus we're very happy to have big name companies like Tesla come to our campus looking for our students. We also of course offer student life so over 90 different student organizations and societies on our campus so this ranges from volunteer organizations to travel to professional societies that are connected to your major and a lot of organizations that are just for fun hobbies that our students have such as gaming or robotics so we have something on campus for everyone and if you don't have a club or organization that interests you you can actually start a club on campus and get students into that club with you to share your interests so we talked about this a little bit already where do our graduates typically get typically get hired you can see Harley Davidson Rockville Automation Milwaukee Tool GE Healthcare Johnson Controls these are just some examples of companies in the Milwaukee and the Midwest area that consistently hire our students but then we have students who are hired by very large companies such as Tesla Google or Amazon so it just depends on where your interests are and what these companies are looking for but our students are consistently and continually hired by the top named companies across the Midwest and the United States now when describing the cost information we need to think about a few things so first keep in mind MSOE is a private institution so sometimes private institutions have a little bit higher of a tuition but sometimes that means we have a higher return on investment which is the case for MSOE and it also means that you may have access to a scholarship which we also provide our students so you can see the total listed up at the top of the screen about $61,446 per year and this is for your tuition your living expenses all of your meals and health insurance which is required in the United States even though that price may seem a little bit high you have to keep in mind that all accepted undergraduate international students will receive a $25,000 scholarship per year and this is based on your GPA coming in so if you are admitted to MSOE you are guaranteed to receive the $25,000 scholarship so this will bring the cost down to about $36,000 per year one thing to keep in mind is the return on investment so you need to be looking at the other institutions you're comparing to see what the return on investment is after you graduate so the return on investment would be the job outcome rate and the average starting salary and you can see the job outcome rate is about 95% across all of our programs so this is an average some of our programs are even higher and we have a few programs that have a 100% job outcome rate we also have a very high starting salary so our starting salary is about $65,000 per year and this is within six months of graduation so how likely is it that you're going to receive a job in your field within six months after graduation and what is the average starting salary for your major so this is very important to consider when you're looking at the cost of education in the United States you want to make sure that what you're putting into your education is going to have a very good return for you after you graduate and when you start looking for a job of course in the STEM field there's always a very high return on investment because STEM jobs and engineering careers are very high in demand but you want to make sure that what you're putting into your education is going to result in a really good return on investment after you leave we do have a few additional scholarship opportunities so if you have participated in Science Olympiad or any of the robotics or project lead the way under the destination MSOE this does qualify you for an additional scholarship opportunity I will say that MSOE does not offer need-based aid so you need to consider the scholarships that we're able to offer you and the cost of education that your family is able to afford when it comes to discussing or pursuing opportunities at MSOE all right so when it comes to admission requirements our application is very straightforward it's very easy so we need a free application which you can see at the link below and then we require your transcripts with a minimum GPA of 3.0 on the US system or a 2.8 for business and construction management it's a little bit lower for those programs we also require to see an English proficiency test so we do accept a TOEFL or IELTS we also accept the Duolingo we do not require the ACT or the SAT it is recommended because this does help you receive a visa when you go through the process of applying and receiving a visa taking the ACs here the SAT makes you look like a very serious candidate who knows what they're doing in the United States when it comes to education and we also look for someone who has a strong math and science background so if you're someone who fits this description you could be a great fit for MSOE and then finally we do require to see a financial guarantee and a passport after you are admitted so that way we can move forward with the I-20 issuing process and this is my contact information so you can reach out to me via email you can also reach out to me via WhatsApp and I have both of my contacts listed there on the screen so please reach out to me if you have further questions if you want to apply I encourage you to do so it is free to apply and one of our admissions counselors will reach out to you right away once we receive your application so that way we can get your other documents and determine if you're admissible to MSOEV so there's really nothing to lose with the process if you're interested it's free and it's very easy to do so at this time I will now pause and see if we have some questions in the chat feel free to ask me any questions that you have whether they're related specifically to MSOE or university admissions in the United States I'm very happy to answer for those questions yeah thank you so much Samantha yeah if you want to raise your hand and ask questions we can open up microphones the other option we have the chat open here for everybody so feel free to just type any questions you might have about MSOE I wanted to ask a little bit more specifically about some of the work experience opportunities for the programs while they're you know studying at the university you have a lot of job placement opportunities when they get out but also I know we talked a little bit about some of those internship opportunities and the students that I interviewed when I went there talked about that too maybe if you could share a little more about that yeah of course so we talked a little bit already about how MSOE students start taking program specific courses in the very first term right so this prepares our students to be eligible and to be qualified for an internship a paid internship within the first summer now MSOE does not place you in internships it is up to you to find internships and to apply and to be accepted into an internship but about 80 percent of our students participate in paid internships within their second year that's when it's most common for students to start doing internships some internships can be over the academic year but typically students will always do an internship over the summer so you can find internships in the Milwaukee area or across the nation we have students who will go to the west coast to the east coast to do an internship during the summer and these internships are very well paid our students are getting paid to be intern engineers or intern computer scientists so not only are you getting paid to do this work that's related to your major and is a passion of yours you're also getting relevant work experience that you can put on your resume so that way when you do leave MSUE and you are searching for a career you have experience you have proof that you've been in the field while you are in school this is a really great opportunity too for you to just network yourself with the internships that you're in so most of our students will actually get hired by the company that they're interning with in their fourth year so a lot of our students will have a job secured even before they leave MSUE and they graduate because they've done multiple internships sometimes they'll be asked to do the same internship each summer because that company really liked you and really liked the work that you produced so it's a great way for you to market yourself to get hired in a full-time job and really just to make sure that the field that you're going into is something that you're interested in any other questions again feel free to raise your hand if you have any questions doesn't have to relate to MSUE specifically it can be about the admissions process or any questions revolving involving university admissions so here's a question what do you usually look for in a student so I'm assuming that means throughout the application process so that's a really great question unfortunately I can't speak for every university right so every university in the United States is looking for something different but what I can't speak to is what a STEM university is looking for or what an engineering university is looking for so a lot of liberal arts universities or large public universities are looking at your application holistically so they're looking at your application your transcripts your high school GPA your test scores they're looking at your personal statement or your essays sometimes letters of recommendation to determine the applicant holistically that's how most universities will determine applications and who's admitted into the program MSUE is a little different and some STEM schools are a little different because we are trying to determine your success in our programs and your success in our programs are typically based on your math experience and your science experience so we are looking at your GPA we're looking to see how well you performed in high school in your classes we're also looking to see what your math grades are or what your science grades are because this typically predicts if you're going to be successful in an engineering program so if you're looking at something that's more STEM or engineering based for probably looking at your scores in your GPA if you're applying to a school that's more of a liberal arts school that offers many different types of programs in the humanities and the social sciences they're probably going to be looking at everything holistically on your application which could include essays or letters of recommendation so great question another question what aspects do you value in a CV so in the United States we call a CV a resume so a resume is showing your work experience it's also showing your educational experience so when we're talking about university admissions when you're most often going to be submitting a CV or a resume is when you're applying to a graduate school there might be some undergraduate schools that require a CV or a resume but it's not as common so when you're applying to graduate school and you have your resume or your CV like I mentioned you should have all of your relevant work experience your educational experience and your qualifications in your education you might want to include some relevant skills if you have any type of certifications or if you're especially proficient in Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel or some type of qualification that makes you stand out that's what you can include on your CV or your resume and just to elaborate I think a little bit on that question I think a lot of times our students are looking at applications both in the US and other countries and a lot of times a CV even for undergraduates is a component of that but we tend to look at it you know more through the lens of like extracurriculars and maybe other high school experiences and things and I guess it'd be I know you've mentioned a lot of emphasis on GPA and academics at MSOE you know we always hear about the holistic review process in the United States how important for MSOE are some of those other things like extracurriculars and other activities that the students might have done Sure yeah great question and it I might not be answering this the way that most people would but unfortunately those things don't matter as much at MSOE while we do value the organizations you've participated in in the extracurriculars and the volunteer experience that you have unfortunately it's not a part of our admissions process our admissions process we are looking at two things for international students we're looking at two things we're looking at your cumulative GPA and we're looking at your English proficiency test if you're able to meet those two qualifications you're admitted to MSOE and the nice thing about our university is you're not competing against other people to get admissions so you might know of or you might understand university and the admissions in the United States to mean that you have to be the top of the top in order to get into that university or into that program at MSOE this is not the case so here you're only competing against our admissions qualifications and if you meet those qualifications you will be admitted to our university so we don't have any caps on how many students can be in a certain program we don't have only a certain percentage of students that we admit into a program if you are admissible you will be admitted so that is a little bit different than some other universities in the United States because a lot of universities in the United States are looking at everything in your application they're looking at your extracurriculars they're looking at your volunteer experience they're looking at things that you've done on your CV or your resume and they're using that information to determine if you're going to be a good applicant or a strong applicant for their university but here because we are so focused on math and science and STEM we want to make sure that you have the academic qualifications to be successful in our programs I think we have one more question on the top all right so we have a question about recommendation letter so the student is asking is it mandatory to send a recommendation from the math teacher so again at many other institutions this could be a great idea if you have a really good recommendation letter from one of your professors that shows that you're a top math student and that you're very successful in math it would be worth it to attach a recommendation letter to your application if you're specifically applying to MSOE we are not going to use that to determine your admission because remember we're only looking at your GPA and your English proficiency test while a recommendation letter from your math teacher will show that you're a really good and strong student we need to see that reflected in your GPA and reflected in your math courses I think we got some raise hand features going here let's hear from Ani Hi and my name is Ani some people here want to study in the U.S. because they want to stay in the U.S. you talk about your job outcomes and they are amazing I would like to know how they translate to people wanting to find a job that could sponsor a visa after a graduation yeah great question that is a concern that most of our international students have when they're intending to study in the United States they of course want to have work authorization but they want to know what does that mean after my OPT is up so as a reminder if you're pursuing a STEM degree you can have up to three years of OPT work authorization in the United States and then after that you either need to get some type of sponsorship from a company or you need to return to your home country so I am obviously not here to give advice on how students can be able to do that but I will say that we've had a number of international students who have been very successful in getting that sponsorship from companies so much so that we had a graduate student in our office today who was successful in getting sponsorship from his company so one of the areas that MSU is very strong in is our corporate and company partnerships and our job outcome rates so 95 to 96 percent of our students are going to get a job in their field after they graduate then the rest is really up to you to prove that you are such a good engineer such a good computer scientist that your company wants to sponsor you and wants to keep you in that position in the United States so we are able to help you get there and help you get those jobs because of our reputation in the community and across the nation when people see the Milwaukee School of Engineering they know the quality of the student that they're getting but then it really is up to you to be able to prove to that company that you do deserve that work authorization that you have the background from MSU that makes you that strong candidate to do so any other questions and then of course too you can also pursue graduate school right so after your undergraduate degree you can stay in the United States and complete your graduate or your master's degree in order to continue building your academic career but then getting additional time to stay and work in the United States as well yeah I think that's very well explained and I know just from my time on campus there's a bunch of laboratories with companies names on the windows and doors so you definitely have a lot of contact with these local businesses even while you're studying and even if you don't necessarily get an internship opportunity right away there's multiple avenues for you to be discovered I think and that's definitely something that's important to getting those opportunities who you know and who gets to see you will definitely impact the likelihood of you getting that kind of job offer and so I think the fact that you're being put into a lot of good situations that MSOE is going to help to yes that's a very very good point to make is you know even if you're not considering MSOE when you're looking at a university you need to look at what they offer in terms of their career connections so you need to see what type of companies are working with the institution you need to see how much the institution is going to help you find an internship or find a job while we do not place you in internships or jobs there are plenty of opportunities for you to be connected to these big name corporations or industries based on our professor connection and the reputation of MSOE so on some previous slides I mentioned some of the companies that work with us or who continually hire our students so if we go back here and we take a look quickly you can see Harley Davidson is one of the biggest companies in Milwaukee it's a global brand people know who Harley Davidson is same thing with Milwaukee Tool Google Tesla these are some of the biggest corporations or companies in the United States and these companies know who we are and they continually offer students internships and jobs so there's plenty of opportunities for you it might be a little bit more difficult if you go to some other universities that are more of a liberal arts focus or who aren't as well known among these big name companies any other questions I am not seeing any other questions that is okay hopefully I've been able to answer every question that you have and if you think of something else or you would prefer to message with me outside of this webinar feel free to send me an email or send me a whatsapp message I'd be very happy to continue working with you and if you do decide to submit an application one of our admissions counselors will reach out to you right after you submit it and start to gather your documents and start to answer your questions excellent and just a real quick reminder when would you encourage anyone to apply if they are interested yeah so if you are in high school your 12th grade year is the best time to start applying so if you're in your final year right now you should be applying right now our applications have been accepted or have been starting to be processed all the way back in August all the way through the end of this year and into the spring of course as an international student there's a lot more with this process than just submitting your application there's the entire visa process that you have to go through you have to go through so submitting your application now is the best time but we're on a rolling admission so we don't have a deadline so we will have students who will submit applications all the way through the spring into the next year just remember that the closer you get to fall the harder it's going to be to get a visa in time all right perfect all right well thank you everyone so much for having me thank you to SCORE for having me here again I always appreciate being able to present to international students and answer those questions yeah thank you so much Samantha really appreciate you taking some time to talk to us today and you know definitely if you're interested in MSOE you can get in touch with her directly she's already left her information or you can always reach out to us at SCORE as well if you guys need any assistance if you're working with one of our counselors and you want to add MSOE to your list just let them know if you're not working with us yet you can reach out to us too if you need any assistance with your application thank you all right have a good day Samantha thank you so much bye Samantha all right and our next guest will be from IE University Spain that will be starting up at 6 p.m. so we're going to take a little break you're welcome to stay here we're going to use the same link the rest of the day or you can come back at 6 so IE is coming up next we'll see you soon one more time listen we're still going just like any other thing we're going to see another fair here and we'll have a meeting here or one day we'll be able to go to SCORE and again thank you so much for being here because you know that IE is one of our the best places for us guys so we already have some of them who have come in some of them are on their way some of them are putting the list so that's the chat of course they're not 6 yet we have to see them too well they're already 6 I think we can start perfect Andrew in the email you sent us you said that it's 50 minutes to last everything including the questions correct? yes yeah perfect yeah yeah well right now right now we're starting thank you all so much for being here we present you Monica Paz representative of IE now she's going to tell you a little more about the university and I also wanted to take the opportunity to tell you that together with Monica we're also working to make a trip with score in January to IE to visit the campus we're going to have a private workshop suddenly Monica so you can you can tell them a little more about the workshop and everything but it's going to be a totally personalized to the campus and also for the students for the teachers and for the staff of the university and as I told you this workshop is going to be directed by our students about entrepreneurship and business so it's going to be a great opportunity if you want you can also join us you can write to Monica but we're here to answer all your questions so nothing Monica whenever you want thank you thank you both to Andrea and Mariale thank you guys for being here this nothing like that I'm going to start quickly to tell you what Mariale was saying about the trip actually we're organizing together with score in this which is a full day in IE University and the idea is to be able to visit the two campuses we're going to be first visiting the campus of Segovia we're going to do a campus tour there which is going to be guided by the same students so that they can show reporting in progress as all the facilities and then we're going to have a workshop of entrepreneurship with an IE teacher there in the cafeteria a lunch with students too so that they can continue the idea is that they can interact with the students and ask them things and then from there we return to Madrid and the tour goes through the tower of Madrid and they're going to have contact also with people from admissions so that they can tell you a little about IE about the processes and this but well about the processes in general and the postulation if they finally decide they talk to me or Mariale so nothing that hopefully we can count on a large group and and I would love to be able to see them there well let's start this can I share the screen let's see yes of course let's see if you want to share that so we can see it already good that if not yes that's it perfect let's see okay so this nothing guys I'm Monica Paz I'm a representative I university for Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay well I'm Peruvian I'm here in Lima in fact we have a physical office here so now well with everything that what has happened in the last years we have all been back virtual but before I attended all the consultations presently but well now we are in this modality but they know that we have an office here so anything you need you can get in touch with me who we are there university is a university in Spain that has two campuses the one in Segovia and the one in Madrid and what is the main characteristic is the fact that that despite that we are in Spain all the races are part of 100% in English I think that's one of the things that most differentiate us from other Spanish universities the races that we offer we are going to see it in the presentation are we oriented towards the world of the company towards the corporate world in fact well we have a program of business very recognized worldwide but there are others many other races but they all have to do with the world of the company the business so well here they are seeing a little bit of images of both campuses both the one in Madrid and the one in Segovia and what I wanted to start was telling them how are our students who are our students a little bit of where they come from we have students of more than 50 different educational systems this is a little bit for them to have an idea of how diverse that is the student body of yesterday here in Peru maybe among the different colleges we could handle about five or six educational systems because it's good obviously the Peruvian system and then we have the IB there are the European bachelors that some colleges offer like the German bachelors the Italian bachelors the French bachelors and also in a college that is offered in the American High School Diploma but well in the IB there are more than 50 different educational systems and 75% of our students are not Spanish so make the idea that they are really going to share classes with students from all parts of the world there are more than 45 languages different in the campus and we have been in the last convocation in both campuses more than 130 nationalities so this really makes a very international experience and of which you could take a lot of advantage and I'm going to explain to you now I wanted to tell you a little in what is based our system or our educational model are these four pillars in which it focuses first of all everything that is the entrepreneur mentality is present in each of the careers that we share and in the different methodologies that the professors use what do we understand for entrepreneurship we don't understand entrepreneurship only as the fact of creating a business that in fact is an entrepreneurship but entrepreneurship as the activity of generating new things of not staying still of always looking for what else can we do what new projects we can get involved and in what things we can change turn things around look at them from another point of view to see what we already have what other way we can present it and always try to have new projects get involved in different things and always keep us active this always supported with the subject of technology and a culture of innovation which for us is fundamental the diverse experience that was a little what I told you when at the beginning of the presentation I really wanted you to realize how important it can be that they are surrounded by different people you no in fact socially it can be incredible having friends from all parts of the world and say I already have a friend from Egypt or a friend from Korea or a friend from Singapore of course is the maximum that is to say socially it is also very attractive but professionally speaking they have no idea how much they are going to grow to be on the side of different boys of boys who have grown in a different world or you who have a totally different culture you then this is fed a lot because the methodology there is a very practical methodology it is based a lot on working in a team in making projects together then the teacher is more a moderator than a dominant speaker let's say who is ahead sharing with you ideas if you are taking notes if it is not simply okay we are going to work on this project and the teacher moderates the class that becomes a debate a team presents something and the others argue and no, it does not seem to me this does not seem to me the other then what is the problem what is the solution that you propose then you can think and be sure that the problem is one and the solution is another and that for you is this let's say a fact but suddenly a boy from another part of the world totally different to someone who says no for me the solution is this other and we can get to this place for this other path and you stay as if it had never happened to me no then this this that is going to start to happen every day you realize that it is going to open the world no that opens your mind says okay because it never happened to me and it never happened to you because you grew up in a in a let's say you have a specific background and and a culture and a family and some friends that that more or less handle similar information and this other boy has a totally different world and he saw things from another perspective then that's what I want you to understand that that it's really going to help you to grow to be in a in a diverse environment in a multicultural environment and well and in fact also the focus towards humanity for us is fundamental that not only that is not only imparting technical knowledge what it has to do with your career not but also to talk about art of culture that they always have to be present in everything and also handle the subject of the soft skills soft skills for us are fundamental that can be complemented a professional successful not only is going to form through their technical knowledge but it has to have these skills as for example the team work there is no way that we can develop or carry out a project if we are not able to adapt to the ideas of others to accept different thoughts if we do not have the ability to lead them and inspire others so that they follow us that we can communicate effectively and be able to transmit what we are thinking then all these soft skills or interpersonal skills really are going to are going to create a better version of us that is, we can be excellent professionals dominating our field but with these skills we are going to do even better and for us that is fundamental well I told you that we had two fields not one is in Madrid the other is in Segovia for those who do not know well obviously Madrid the capital of Spain is the biggest city of Spain in fact quite smaller than Lima but well it is the biggest of Spain it is not around about five million inhabitants but it is an incredible city and they do not know the amount of offers well if it is that maybe some or several of you have already visited it but the amount of offers of entertainment the cultural offer that it has is an incredible city to live and I really recommend it but Segovia which is a very small city is only 25 minutes distance from Madrid on the fast train on bus on the road is a little more it is like an hour and 15 but the traffic and everything but the truth is that it is very close now if it is a small city but the nice thing about Segovia is that being a small city is practically a university city then wherever you go if you are studying in Segovia you will get to know and get along with kids of your age and you end up meeting among all not only those who study the same as you if not those who study the other careers and those who are in previous years and later years and finally it generates a community so solid and so strong they make ties so strong that you make friends for life and that that really is also very valuable then the adaptation when you go out of your house to live alone for the first time the truth is that it is very easy in Segovia not then we have the option that they do the middle of the career in Segovia and then move to Madrid or the other option is to do the whole career in Madrid not they are those two options no one can do the whole career in Segovia except the architecture that if it is all in Segovia but all the others are or the four of them in Madrid or two in Segovia and two in Madrid here you have a little bit of images of Segovia the campus is located in a convent of the 12th century that is cultural heritage of humanity they will tell you during their visit what was important because it was this is the Roman aqueduct that is in the biggest square of Segovia it is the insignal monument of the city in La Brasca it is very beautiful and it is also very green everything no this the building this one that you are seeing here on the left it was the building of Iba Misa this Catholic Isabel in the era of discovery of America and here it was where he met with Cristóbal Colón to give him the instruction of the trip of going to India or to the Indies that finally he ended up bringing it to America but hey that is now on the outside because the building obviously as it is cultural heritage it remains intact but inside it is all remodeled as you have seen in the images the truth is that it is a very, very beautiful campus and well in contrast to this we have Madrid with its new tower that has just been inaugurated last year in September 2021 it is incredible the modern the technological which is the tower has installations of all you have this sports fields you have relaxation rooms of music that is, this is obviously part of the classroom of study and of the administrative offices of all the staff but but in reality and below has already been created a shopping center and restaurants there are stores then yes all that area of the city is growing around the university and it is also becoming something very, very attractive for the students well these are the careers that we are offering for the year 2023 they have entered three new careers the one of applied math the one of environmental sciences and sustainability and the one of urban studies those are the three new ones but well apart from that we had architecture we had a lot of behavioral science business administration communication digital media computer science data design economics international relations law and the PPLE which is philosophy politics law and economics ok all the careers are part of 100% in English all of them last four years with architecture which is the only one that lasts five and as I was telling you the great majority in 90% you can make the two versions both the four in Madrid as two and two two Segovia, two Madrid but there are some in which you cannot choose for example design design right now it is only available two years in Segovia and two years in Madrid it does not yet have the option of making the four years in Madrid and so there are other three more no or behavioral science and computer science only one year ago in Segovia and three in Madrid but that's good no no no we do not get into detail because it is difficult after remembering already when someone decides asks me and the project is also the detailed information apart from these bachelors we offer dual degrees which are dual degrees it is the opportunity to make two races of one at a time you have two races in parallel and you take them out in five years nothing else so you have two diplomas in five years it is not a diploma more of a specialization but there are two two diplomas in five years now that yes it has a much stronger academic load no because you take more credits but well they are right now these seven combinations which are available four of business business with data with design with international relations and with law and then we have international relations with economics and with law and finally the PPLE with data I would like if you have the phone or the hand that you can take a picture of this because well since we are not seeing each other in person I do not have the possibility of giving them foils with this QR code you can download the foils of any of the careers so that you can see the detail of those who are interested so I leave it there for a few seconds so that you can enter the code and download the foils no so you can check them and if you have any questions in the foils you will find apart from the general information for example what people are going what kind of people do you like to study these these careers what could be the possible professional activities where what positions you could occupy a company and study that career then there is also the study plan detailed a little year by year what are the courses you would take and so the subject of the exchanges the subject of the practices the subject of the laboratories everything is in each of the foils what other additional things offers IE for example within the extracurriculars are the IU labs these laboratories what are they they will ask you the labs are projects that we develop with companies and that they take care of us from that is, the company takes care of them and develop a project so that their students can be involved from the beginning of their career it will be the practical application of what they are studying you know that to graduate any university asks for a number of hours of practice okay, in IE it is the same they need a certain number of hours of practice to graduate but the practice is only available in the last two years of the career then and we have conveniences with many companies for those practices and taking advantage of those conveniences that IE designed the laboratories then in reality they would be like practices also but they would not be going to the company if they would not be going to the university and then we have at this moment this these laboratories where real projects are developed that then they will be presented to the companies and where they lead recruit students of all careers sorry because for example for the the innovation lab or the startup lab no or the marketing lab even if if you want to make a marketing project or a project of of a startup to start a company you need students of all careers not only of business you need students of communication you need students of design of law to see the legal part the students of behavioral science to see the whole part of consumer behavior and be able to design the different strategies then in reality they have the opportunity if they participate in the laboratories to be able to know from first hand and from the beginning of the career what would be the application of what they are studying in the real world in the working world now these are our curriculars therefore they are optional but we also have theater of debate of music of cooking different clubs in which you could get involved some hours a week to do things that interest you and obviously the sports part that I also think that most of them like and as you can see there is a great variety of sports that can be practiced in both fields well also speaking of all the extra things that we offer are the the exchanges with universities from outside Elie has a meeting with more than 140 universities here on the map there are some of them as you can see we have many universities in Canada and in the United States also in all of Europe and also many that are now calling a lot of attention and that the majority is going is the Asia-Pacific part there are many guys going to Singapore going to Hong Kong this is a totally different reality you do a semester outside you get it all because there are meetings in the middle you keep paying the rates of your university that is, of IE you don't have to pay extra that is the academic part that is totally covered well, yes, the transfer and and the cost of life yes, that happens on account of each one but it is an experience more that you would accumulate for your personal and professional development and well to tell you now a little bit about the admission process at first this has been divided in four parts these first three is to fill the application online it is available on our platform which has a cost of 120 euros postulate they are going to ask for good personal, academic information and then also information about your extracurriculars international experiences that is to say if they were ever at a summer camp if they went from exchange they did some kind of if they have had some experience living alone if they have had some work experience some business some practice something they have done well, a little information and documents that you have to present as well the photo the passport copy the notes of the school is the main thing and if they have done something that is to say if they have finished the school and they are doing university you also have to present the notes of the university that is to say yes or yes the notes of everything what they have studied that is to say be on the other side and if you are already in the university you have to present the notes of the school and right now Elie is asking some minimums in terms of academics and if you are doing IB for example the minimum that I ask is 32 points if they are doing national system Peruvian system we are asking around 17 average if they are doing university we wait for a 15 of average in the university already well that's just the documents you also have to present an essay some recommendations and a curriculum okay then they are working on that application and you have to give an admission exam you decide at what time you give that exam you can give while you are filling the application before you finish it or you can do it once you have finished it that's what you decide okay but it happens that until you are not the exam that is, you can have finished everything and put all the documents together but if you do not give the exam the committee will not evaluate them in terms of the exam there are two options or to present the IE exam which is a is an exam that is done virtually that is available every week you can take Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays of every week except Christmas New Year, Holy Week that there are no dates but then throughout the year there are three days in which there are dates to take exams it is an exam that does not measure excuse me that does not measure knowledge then it is an exam that measures abilities analytical capacity logical therefore there is no way to study or prepare for that exam and they have the option if it is that for example they were posturing another university that asks for an SIT and they already have it or they are preparing and they are going to give it then they can present the SIT and they no longer have to give the IE exam we asked for the SIT a minimum of 1200 points and step number three which is the online assessment is once you deliver the request it receives a link to enter this platform that throws them three questions in an random way and you have to answer two spoke to the camera of the computer and one for writing then when we have these three steps covered the committee will just meet to evaluate their candidacy and if at that moment determines that they meet all the requirements that IE requests they give them the okay to go to the next stage which is the personal interview okay the interview is going to be the last step of the process I would say that maybe it could be the most important because it is the one that allows us to meet them at the bottom it is the only the only time that the admissions committee will be in contact with you you no it is an interview that focuses on you yourself in trying to meet them more what are your passions what do you like the most what plans do you have for the future why did you choose that career why did you choose IE why do you want to go away no then it's a bit there we also evaluate the character of the people that are so clear they have things their level of maturity then it is important it is important in the interview it is not that you necessarily have to study or prepare too much but you have to take it seriously because I as I tell you I think it is one of the most important parts of the process and after the interview is done the committee meets again and already decides if they are admitted or not okay once if everything goes well and they get the admission they send you their letter and if you at the moment that you make the decision that IE is your option that they are going to go to IE because many can some already have it very clear from the beginning but others have to consider other factors for example there are guys who are waiting for answers from other universities there are guys who need a scholarship and who until they do not answer from the scholarship can not make the decision then at the moment that they can make the decision and say okay IE is my option I'm going to study there you have to make a reservation of your cup the place reservation and you have to pay 2000 euros to separate the cup okay then with that they have guaranteed their start in the economy career in Segovia in the year 2023 for what they gave you then you already have reserved your cup and let's say that from there you can start to see all the other topics no once you make the place reservation just from that moment you are considered IE student before you are only admitted no then when you are IE student because you start to get the communications of all the steps to follow the matriculation process already to to make the enrollment they send you information about the accommodations the university residencies the visa procedures the medical insurance that you have to get no and several more things and information of the university itself no student services is the department that I believe that with the most contact they are going to have once they finish the admission process because student services is in charge of everything that is the the arrival of the students in Spain and their their environment already and the legal procedures that you have to do outside of those who have European passports then they can enter Europe freely those who do not have to ask for a student visa but both whether it is European or only Peruvian once you arrive to Spain they have, for example, to register before the municipality where they are going to live to say that they are going to live there then the European if you have passports Spanish even even if you are Spanish you have to go to the municipality and register so that you are registered as a Spanish resident in Spain because finally you were a Spanish resident in Peru ok then but that is a all that helps you student services no those who have a student visa that visa they have to go to convert it in a in a resident document as a student then to pass that document also student services to help open your bank accounts this see the subject of the phone line the cell phone that I know all that kind of things this student services is going to work with you no this I was talking talking instead of entering the where all the information was well here it is the student visa the residence permits the airport reception service that not many take it because they usually travel with some of their parents to install the search for the residence is that information they send it from that you are here so that you can serve the different options the medical insurance and the bank account in terms of the housing options well they are the university resins which is the most common option that the majority take into account that they are basically as if you are in a hotel you have this room with your private bathroom you have common areas they give you food they clean the room they wash the sheets once a week then that's how they are in a hotel but it's the most expensive option also so there are others that can be a little cheaper how to share a department with friends or live in a room inside a family house finally each one according to what they want and what they can they are going to choose their housing option but all that the student services is also going to go through some pages where you can see the different options that they have that I think is important to also share what is more information for parents but the same so that you can communicate it the prices for the year 2023 the bachelors are going to cost 25,000 euros and the wall degrees 30,000 euros well I already told you that the admission fees are 120 and that the place reservations are 2,000 euros LLPT is the language proficiency track which is an option that if when they do the admission process and it determines that you need a little bit in your English level you are admitted with the condition that you are matriculated in that program which are two or three weeks prior to the start of classes of an immersion in business English and you have to get there as I told you two or three weeks before to take that program but that is already communicated at the moment when you post it and well finally also the financial aid the whole issue of the bachelors is available and it has a foundation through which you can get bachelors for any of our students the only requirement is to have achieved the admission you can not post a bachelors until you have been admitted there are many options of bachelors but you can only apply up to three of them and you apply to three but you can only benefit with one ok you can not add the bachelors and usually they are partial bachelors that move to Peru more or less between 20 and 40 percent of the annual cost of the race that bachelors can be renewed automatically depending on if you get good grades and you can last the whole race without having to ask for it again there are also direct bachelors or direct awards that communicate together with the admission without even asking for it but those bachelors are for the academic excellence if you are excellent you have been excellent in the college so when they evaluate you they communicate the admission and they tell you that they have also given you a scholarship directly without asking for it and those bachelors are higher they can reach 75 percent in the case of the normal bachelors that were the ones that were counting between 20 and 40 the committee will evaluate on one side their merits their merits and on the other side the economic need of the family in the case of the direct awards it doesn't matter if the student the postulate has a comfortable situation and could pay without problems in this case if you are excellent academically you will be offered a scholarship and a very high scholarship so if there is a reward for those who are super good students and well nothing here is my e-mail if in case someone would like to give me some additional consultation also if after checking this information and they tell their parents and they would like to have a meeting with me they can write me so that we program a meeting a Zoom with their parents and be able to explain them in detail that QR code is if they want to receive information from the university they can register in our database and give us their authorization or consent to receive information from us so whoever wants can also fill it so that we do events regularly they come to teachers we make talks so if they want to receive the invitations then they can fill that form and that would be all for me I think we are in time so that we can start with the questions and this nothing what they need I'm going to stop sharing to be able to see them because I don't see anything because I'm looking at the screen Perfect, thank you Monica if you want that question please, the option to raise your hand we can open your microphone or you can also write in the chat and that way Monica can also see your question There's something in the chat now The dual degrees of my international relations are done completely in Segovia they could also be carried out a few years in Madrid No, the dual degrees those who have the option that is, they can do it five years in Madrid or they do it two years in Segovia and three years in Madrid in the case of this specifically of economic and international relations as both individually have the option of the two camps this one also has it that is, they do it two in Segovia and three in Madrid or they do it five in Madrid How much does the European passport cost? It doesn't cost anything the cost is the same for all regardless of nationality that way it is even Spanish not necessarily only European even Spanish it costs the same if you're Perpanese Thank you very much What happens if I don't get 32 points on my bike? Let's see Are you already done with college? Are you doing something at university? Or is it that it depends? And it also depends on how much less than 32 Look, would things be evaluated if it is like a like a filter, let's say the 32 points of IB but it would have to be seen because suddenly if up to fifth of secondary with the Peruvian system your notes are quite better and suddenly for X reasons in the IB it was not so good they could evaluate you with the notes of the Peruvian system or if you already finished college and you're doing something at university and the university is going super well it could not have so much weight the IB issue if the university is going well but you have to evaluate the case I would not be able to tell you urgently to give you an answer because it was evaluated case by case There are sports teams Yes, that is, what I put in the clubs is like the extracurricular you register and train I don't know, two or three times a week now, in fact, there are also selections that the coach already decides who is but if you come to participate to participate in the selection then yes, you can participate in the inter-university competitions of the inter-university leagues in which he participates if there is that possibility what is the duration of the cycles the academic year is divided into two semesters which are actually four semesters I don't know, well, just like here it lasts more or less four months each semester the first one starts from September until the end of December then around the 20th, 21st of December the holidays begin on Christmas you go back to classes around the 18th the 10th of January and that semester begins at that date and lasts until the end of May June, July, August are summer holidays and they are free they don't exist in summer cycles you can't be in summer the field closes and everything is fine so it's only two semesters a year there is no, let's say because there is no, like here in Peru for example, that if you fail a course, you have to repeat it and it doesn't repeat nor you have to give a recovery test at the end of the year that is, in the semester of September you fail just like in the semester of January you continue to carry what corresponds to you and at the end of May those who have failed they stay a couple of weeks in June to give the recovery tests then the races are made to end in four years exactly then it's like in college every semester Elie says these are your courses and that's what you have to carry it's not like here that you choose this semester I don't want to take so many courses and I'll take four or I want to work and I'll take two or I can't pay and I'll take two no, you can't there are six and you have to take the six then in the race, yes or yes you finish it in four years already what is the focus of the new race of urban studies more to do sociology social aspects it is more, yes more to social aspects that is the subject of the of to build thinking in in the common well-being in the social well-being in the sustainability of the environment and all that in doing smart cities in seeing how we can grow the city in a responsible way is focused on that side not so much architecture because that's what we already have the architecture career although in any way there will be design issues and all that but it is more focused on developing cities or communities more sustainable and more socially responsible what would I benefit from having Spanish passports because you don't have to pass the visa nothing else actually nothing else that there is no the European passports right now for us it was the pass of the visa but and well and that obviously you can stay there later without any kind of restriction to work to continue studying to do what you want because you don't have to ask for permission for nothing no even this that is, being Spanish or European but for costs or having more possibilities of being admitted or better options for BECA no it's the same for everyone I am a selected sportsman and many years ago I went to school I traveled a lot the diet take into account that kind of case let's see I don't know if I understand the question well if I take into account that kind of case in case you want to go there if it's going to leave you or it's going to give you permission to continue traveling if you mean that or if you mean as I think you were the one who asked me about the issue of the of the I.B. of the I.B. if it's because you are a outstanding sportsman you could consider that as a plus so as not to see the academic part look what happens to see if the answer in the two in the two aspects of what I think that could happen in general in Europe it doesn't have the same culture that it has in the United States for example with respect to sports that is, it is not structured so the university life as to generate high performance sportsmen and that the idea is that they study because obviously it is important that they study try to take them to a professional level as a sportsman in Europe and in I.B. it's not like that therefore if you are a high performance sportsman and you want to dedicate yourself to that more than to your to the academic part they can give you some permissions but you are not going to have that ease of losing classes freely let's say just because you have a competition or you have to travel so it wouldn't be like that if what you want is to dedicate yourself to sports and have let's say the the backing of the of the studies it wouldn't be there the university is indicated for you because it doesn't develop the subject of sports in that way I'm filling the application form and I have a doubt if I put my two nationalities but in Italian I put the main nationality because that decides your own thing I would think that your main nationality is Peruvian so what you should put is Peruvian and automatically not open the second nationality put the Italian it will ask you the the passport photo and I would suggest as it only allows you to upload a file that you put first in a single file the two photos that is that you put the two passports and upload that file with the two passports but when you ask for the passport number if you put the Italian passport because finally that will be the document with which you will be in Spain with which you will enter Spain it will be with your Italian passport then the number if you put the Italian but then the information of the nationalities put the two and it doesn't matter if you put it I mean if you want to put that the Italian is your main then you can do it but you that choose it as you want no it's indistinguishable ah ok one of the reasons why your grades were not high for the sport for the time you dedicated the sport well it could be in fact in fact if if you get to the interview you can explain that actually you are very involved in the sport and that's why the academic performance was not the expected no and that now in the future you plan to make a change and suddenly you already dedicate yourself more to the studies that is, if you can that is, if you can understand that the grades are not so high for that reason no that if you can understand but that's why you should see how low they are that is, if you tell me that you didn't get out of 32 that you stayed in 30 but if you tell me that you stayed in 25 from her I would tell you that with 25 if you are not going to be able to do anything I got a little late I could explain it again about housing please yes well let's see the subject of housing is a personal question most of the guys at least when they just arrive the option they take is the one in the university residence that what they said is like a hotel they are buildings that have rooms and private bathrooms and common areas and they give them food because they have cafeterias they serve breakfast and dinner normally because lunch is always on the campus at that time so it's normally lunch on the campus of the university unless you choose a residence that is from IE and therefore they give you the three meals a day yeah because anyway they give you I mean they eat in the cafeteria of the university but they are included in the three if it is a residence that is not from IE they give you breakfast and dinner and lunch you already have to eat it in IE well, if you want you can't go to your room and eat there but it's not logical let's say but there are also other options that can be as I said rent apartments or live in family houses in a room with a family which are families besides that that are perfectly identified with which we have been doing this many years ago and they are totally registered in IE so they don't go to feel fear because there is no risk I covered all the questions and I have three minutes left something else guys for if you didn't get to take a note of my data I leave you here in the chat my email recording stop of all the and and Andrew also have it so but if you need to contact me you can write me there directly what is the craze? sorry for the ignorance I don't know what it is it's complicated it's a complex the craze but it is this the note will say that it has the catholic to know more or less how much of promenade each one of the guys has so so of course it can be top ten but be less than 14 aha for example in a course in which I don't know for example economy so the notes go suddenly between 12 11 so if you get 14 and you're like in the let's say higher than like compared to that population no that's what we're talking about ah well but in that case if it were like that if it would be good to present the document that says no that indeed because that is how much was the middle of the of the of the class or the of the of the promotion to know that you were above the middle even when your score numerically is not let's say to their eyes is nothing of course aha of course but compared to the others if it's like about that alien of course of course of course of course of course and perfect good we have a few questions to see but for now I don't think well I hope to have helped you have solved your doubts and you know that anything that you need contact your coaches there in score and they contact them with me or write me directly as they want I was delighted to help them thank you very much Monica and thank you all also for coming in truth the the chat is excellent and of course we will be contacting as always so thank you very much well thank you Monica to all of nothing only one last thing to all of you who are already filling application Thursday there will be an application workshop where we are going to give tips for the filling of the application so that they can finish it and on December 17th there will be an admission day if you want to participate because if you do interviews that day the answers come out in just one week so that's the one who wants to write me to ask me details perfect nothing guys a pleasure thank you for coming thank you very much Monica thank you all bye bye thank you thank you thank you and please don't leave because we have two more expositions of universities of the United States we have right now the 7th Niagara University and then we will also have the University of New Mexico so they are all invited to continue here connected to see these two expositions to close tonight I'll wish you a day for one day then they send me back on the road I'm the assistant director of international enrollment here at NU so my job is to recruit and read applications and everything like that for students who are first-year undergraduate students I my territory is the entire world outside of the U.S. and Canada so you guys would all be assigned to me hooray so if you have questions or anything like that I'm your go-to gal all of my contact information is right on here so you can reach me on my email it's Gorman just my last name at Niagara.edu I am on WhatsApp so if you prefer a little bit more casual conversation texting you can always reach out to me at that number but the best way to reach me if you want more immediate and faster answers is to schedule a one-on-one Zoom meeting with me by the vote going to Niagara.edu slash meet Brigid I have 30-minute time slots each day where I sit down and I wait to chat with you guys so I promise I'm there so if you sign up I will be there I will be there so if you have questions about application statuses or anything like that we can definitely connect that way too so here's the information that I have today feel free to put questions in the chat box as they come so that way you don't forget your questions and I can touch on them at the end or if they fit kind of what I'm talking about right now I can answer them pretty much as I go but I have a quick overview of NU and I know the most exciting thing to learn about is what will my life like be like during my time at the university and things like that because academics are always super important but if you're going all the way to the other side of the world you also might want to know what your day-to-day might involve so I'll be talking about student life so basic requirements of our application process and I know super important we all want to know what scholarships we qualify for so I'll be touching on that today as well so we are on Niagara University we're located in Lewiston, New York right near the city of Niagara Falls and we're actually right on the border of the United States in Canada I see Canada every single day from campus that means that we're about a seven minute drive away from Niagara Falls which is super cool so if anyone has been to Niagara Falls and wants to experience it again you've already been about seven minutes away from our campus which is super cool we experience all four seasons because we're in the northeastern United States so we have a winter a spring a summer and fall right now we're in that really fun and exciting between fall and winter phase right now so I have a student from India who is reaching out to me and she said I don't know if I can handle the cold I'm like you know what you can never have too many layers on so she and I are going to schedule Andrew's like yep I've experienced that so she and I are going to have a lunch and we're going to figure out some different ways to stay warm during the time he blankets our savior to some of our students and things like that too but we do get really hot summers that go all the way up sometimes to 90 degrees Fahrenheit and things like that too so you will have a wide variety of different climates to experience during your time here and our academics we fall liberal arts curriculum this means that we want you to be a really well-rounded student you'll have an undergraduate program that you want to study so a major within our five colleges which is we have a college of business a college of nursing college of hospitality tourism and sport management our college of education and I'm forgetting what I'm going crazy right now our College of Arts and Sciences was our absolutely largest college right now and those programs in the College of Arts and Sciences they range anywhere from biology to performing arts as well so there's a lot of different programs that you can choose from but what's really good about looking into the liberal arts universities is that we want to make sure that you are exposed to a great foundational curriculum so you'll take maths sciences history classes we also have philosophy classes built into that curriculum as well cultural diversity language so that we will be a really really good adaptable employee wherever you go so if you last minute want to take a totally different career path when you graduate kind of like what I did last minute you will have all the tools that you need to succeed in whatever you want to do so this told us about eight different programs that you can choose from we also have a really great undecided program which I will touch on in just a second our campus culture we are a very warm family field type community if you really love the small town feel but not so small that everybody's in each other's business will be a really great fit for you as well we are founded by the catholic ascension fathers this means that our community has a really really strong dedication to community service so you don't have to be catholic to attend our university or anything like that we're not going to make you go to maths or anything but we want to make sure that we are creating worldly leaders during their time here too so by the numbers these are the super important numbers that you might always ask so we have an 11 to 1 student to faculty ratio so for every 11 students so there's a group of 11 students they will be guaranteed to have one professor sit down with them with our total undergraduate enrollment being about 2700 undergraduate students this makes our average class size about 18 students each so you'll really have that really great individualized support during your time here and if you really really benefit from your teachers knowing your name right now say that you're going to a smaller school and you have a lot more individualized support and time to sit with your teacher after class or during your lunch or something like that guaranteed to have their individualized time would be a great fit for you and then we have a really pretty number that we're very proud of is our 98% job placement rate upon graduation this might not be directly on your radar right now you might still be figuring out what you want to study and things like that too but it's really important to have your future goals set in mind wherever you choose to study so with this 98% job placement rate this means within one year of graduation our students are enrolled in law school medical school graduate school or working in the field that they had studied directly upon graduation which is awesome this speaks a lot to our career services office so that means that we give a lot of really great guidance to make sure that students know the specific goals that they're working towards because right now like I said you're worried about oh what do I want to study I don't know and then you're like take a deep breath I submit my applications I know what I want to do but then you get to university and you're like wait what am I working towards so this is when we start connecting you with our career services office super super early on so you know directly what you are working towards as well and Andrew you're welcome to jump in with any thoughts anything to build on I'm super casual about this too we love to have you awesome but yeah if you have anything to add any other pointers I know you're a great college counselor anything that's important you're more than welcome to kind of build on this I'm super casual of presentations you guys are welcome to turn on cameras unmute ask questions more than happy to chat with you guys too so that's kind of us by the numbers again we're that smaller private university as well so now what would would your life be like so say that you finally decided to become a purple eagle big question would be okay what would my time be like here as a student so obviously academics is most important so I'm going to talk about that first you'll have a lot of different experiential learning opportunities this means that you'll have really really great dedicated faculty during your time here so like I said we have an 11 to one student to faculty ratio means you'll really have great individualized support during your time here so we do it we really really emphasize advisement massively here and you some universities they have a separate building where they have last names maybe a throughout and they just make sure that you're taking the classes that you need to graduate on time which is great but we kind of want to go the extra mile so say that you are studying biology we are going to assign you one of your biology professors as your academic advisor their job is not only to make sure that you're taking the classes to stay on track to graduate on time but their job is also to make sure that you're taking classes that are a really good fit for you we don't want you to be taking classes that are so easy that you kind of sit back go spy we want you to grow but we also don't want to challenge you so much that you're going to be like oh my gosh I don't know if I'm going to make it to final exams we don't want to have any experiences like that during your time here so that's super super important to have the right guidance in terms of making sure you're taking classes that are a good fit for you their job is also make sure that you're achieving all of your academic goals if you want to do a kind of like inception of study abroad a study abroad within your study abroad maybe you want to spend the like one semester in Italy or something like that or you want to take a class that has a study abroad built into it the first two weeks of summer you can totally do that just have that communication with your advisor during your time here and it's their job to make sure that you're achieving all of your academic goals as well so I mentioned a really great undecided program we call it our academic exploration program we are nationally recognized for this so you're probably open to the idea of coming to the United States but family might have reservations sending you so far away if you don't know what you need to study I always say sometimes it's better for you to figure out what you don't want to do than focus on what you already enjoy so the academic exploration program you start in that you apply as basically an undecided student and we give you really really great advisement to make sure that you're taking quizzes to figure out your likes dislikes balancing out your values what you enjoy doing and then they place you in your first major through the academic exploration program you actually get to fully test different majors before you make a final decision so say that you are enjoying biology right now in school and you're like okay I'm kind of vibing with biology maybe I want a major in it we're going to pop you in biology treat you as if you were a biology major for a whole semester we'll give you a white lab coat gloves goggles you'll do the labs all the classes as if you were a full on biology major for that semester you might step back and say yep I love it I'm going to declare that as my major and then you're done you tested it that's what you want to do but so you're like I'm not vibing with biology at all anymore I did the labs it was just too much for me I don't speak the science language as well as I thought I didn't I'm going to switch all the way over to teaching so we will put you in the classrooms you'd be treated as if you were a full education major for that semester you would have the study schedule the professors the classmates the whole experience before you make that final decision you can be in this program for two years so if you have no clue what you want to do and you have to test drive everything before you make a final decision or maybe you're tossing up between two different majors this program is going to be absolutely stellar for you all of my friends who went through this program when I went to NU they absolutely loved it they didn't want to leave it because they just love the different possibilities and the advisors are absolutely outstanding in the academic exploration program so if you are prepared to go to university directly upon graduation but you aren't 100% confident in what you want to study even if you have a one or two percent doubt I say that that this is going in and decided is always a great idea for you as well we also have a lot of really great research opportunities for students so if you're interested usually in the sciences and things like that there's going to be a lot of research opportunities for our students my one friend she was a psychology major and she went up to a professor at the end of class one day and she was like hey what are you working on do you need my help I want to help you and all of a sudden she was published at the age of 19 and people are quoting her in papers which is super super crazy so now she's in graduate school and then she's going to move on to her PhD she's super fancy it makes me wonder what the heck what am I doing with my life so if research wants to be the foundation of your time in university there's definitely going to be those opportunities for you if you're willing to advocate for yourself and look for them and then like I mentioned there's going to be field experience and internship opportunities too if you want to dive into internships and things like that early on in your time here I always say just go right to career services and see what your options are and then connect with your academic advisor to move forward from there so that's kind of like really big experiential learning a lot of really really great guidance during your time here too I approach pictures of my time here to prove to you guys that I am not lying so these are all true so we have a lot of really great leadership opportunities on our campus some of the most popular options are our nine university student government associations so they plan all of our really huge traditions events they also work super tightly with our administration so if there's any big changes that need to be had on campus I know during my time as a student we have one of one of our residence halls there was this big field between the residence hall and our science building and students because we want to be efficient we didn't want to take the lap around campus in order to get to the academic building so a lot of students were walking through two three feet of snow in order to get to class on certain days our student government was like maybe that's not the best student experience for our peers so we're going to put a sidewalk in from that residence hall to the science building and they built that up and now it's one of the most used sidewalks on our campus so students really do make a difference during their time here we also have campus programming board which I'll go a little bit more in-depth on in a minute they do all of our fun events on campus that's led by my dear friend Bill Newton in our campus activities office and then you can actually create your own club so if there's something that you really enjoy doing after class right now maybe it's something cultural or I'm really asking someone to start a kayaking club if you want to get started on the kayaking club and you like kayaking you can put founder of the kayaking club on your resume that's super awesome and then I'll come out and I'll help you guys kayak that'd be awesome so you can create your own club which is really really great leadership opportunity you just need yourself 10 friends you go to my guy Bill Newton in campus activities let him know hey I want to start this club he's like great that's super awesome and then you present it to student government association and then you're all set good to go you have your own club we also have a lot of really great on-campus employment opportunities so in every single one of these pictures it looks like I'm having a lot of fun I'm actually getting paid in all of them which is pretty cool so in this picture on the right I was a campus tour guide everyone qualifies to be a campus tour guide anyone can apply doesn't matter if you're domestic or international student we actually have about I think three international students on our tour guide team right now which is super awesome these bottom two pictures I was serving as an orientation leader so I did that for two years and it's the most fun job on the planet as well and then I also was a leader in our student government association during my time here where I got to help plan all of our concerts on campus and festivals and all that stuff too so traditions are really great in huge here huge on events so Andrew got to experience Ridge Day on our campus so we do orientation like no other so we bring you guys on campus in two phases so when you arrive as an international student you come a whole week before everybody else you will experience international student orientation where we take you introduce you to our campus give you tools and how to set up a bank account those kinds of things but of course you'll probably want to explore the area because we have one of the natural wonders of the world less than 10 minutes away from our campus so of course we're going to take you on the middle of the mist to experience Niagara Falls and everything like that so we usually take our international students there and then they go on the experience like we all get dinner together and things like that too this year we did a traditional barbecue right on our campus which was a lot of fun for our students but during the school year you will then meet our domestic students which we then bring on campus about three days before classes start for a new student orientation known as NSO at NSO you're placed into larger groups where you kind of get built in friends so it's that are led by an orientation leader so you're going to get to build those connections early on instead just tossing you in and saying okay have fun make your connections you'll have group meetings so you'll kind of have a little bit of a home base during your transition to time here as a student we'll give you guys some seminars to assist you with your overall transition to Niagara University and then we always cap it off with a really fun ridge day which you can check out on Andrew's video on the score YouTube as well so we have a lot of really fun events that introduce you to our university but during your time here we do a lot of great late night Niagara programming so we have every single Friday night usually around nine or 10 p.m. if you're not don't have any big we can plans a lot of our students like to hang out on campus it might be game show events movie nights we've had magicians come hypnotists you name it we've done everything on Friday nights my favorite has always been our outdoor movie nights where we get a big projector and students bring their blankets out and we kind of camp out between our two residence halls and they do that grocery bingo is a huge huge tradition on our campus so we do that once a semester if you know the game of bingo have bingo at the top and they call the numbers and then you pull your tab down once your bingo letter and number have been called but so you get four in a row and you say bingo but then another pier says bingo you technically are supposed to win $100 worth of groceries do you really want to split those groceries though so what we're going to do is we're going to call you down to the front of the room with your co-winner and you'll do a dance-off and then by audience applause they're going to choose who wins $100 worth of groceries and it's all the food that you need right it's your cheez-its your ramen noodles your easy macs your Gatorade all the really great college food is in there so that's really really fun and it's crazy to see the things that people do for free food so that's one of our most attendant events on our campus but we always have pizza and fun food giveaways at all these events too but we also have a little bit of a big school feel because we do have Division I sports on our campus so this is kind of like pre-professional level athletics this picture right here is from one of our basketball games our most popularly attended games are basketball and ice hockey for students as well which are always a good time and then of course we have to do the northeastern traditions we always do ice skating usually once a semester for our students as well even in the summer which is kind of crazy so that's kind of the events that happen on our campus and then of course I have to touch on on our location one more time because why not there's going to be a lot of really great opportunities to travel so with our proximity being so close to Buffalo New York which is about 30 minutes south of our campus we have some professional sports team so if you are hoping to experience an American football game we have the American football team of the Buffalo Bills not too far away from us we had a really tough game on Sunday I'm still recovering from it I was there I had to watch it it was tough but those those events are really really fun we actually took the nag university students to that game as well so they had a lot a lot of fun experiencing that together with a lot of their classmates so we brought 50 students to that game we also are known as the educational partner the official educational partner of the Buffalo Sabres ice hockey team so we always take students to ice hockey game professional ice hockey games each year as well and then now that our border is open we have traditionally opened our students up to the opportunity to travel to Toronto for professional baseball games to see the Toronto Blue Jays as well so we're about an hour and a half south of Toronto so which isn't too far Toronto, Ontario, Canada and then the cities that students most often travel to are is of course primarily Buffalo, New York which is about a half an hour south Toronto, Ontario, Canada which is about an hour and a half north New York City so this picture here is from my trip to New York City my freshman year with my friends they traditionally do a trip for all the freshmen and sophomores each year our first year and second year students each year and that's about a six hour drive away and then we've typically done a trip to Boston either junior or senior year which is about an eight hour drive away so we typically have done bus trips and weekend trips and things like that so if you're hoping to explore more of the northeast you can definitely experience that as well and then of course I had to toss in a view of one of our games that we went to as a group here at NU so that's kind of the student experience and I'll move on to the application process so if anyone has questions about student experience or anything like that you can definitely pop that in the chat box for me and I'll definitely touch on that as well for our application process we are rolling admission this means that we review all of our applications as they come in so as soon as you submit all of your necessary materials you're placed in a queue and then the students who submit all their materials soonest are moved to the top of that as well we are SAT test option but if you plan to come to the U.S. sometimes visa officers are asking you to submit SAT scores so I would say it's a good idea to at least take the test so you have some sort of score to present to maybe outside scholarships or private scholarships or your visa officer or additional things you take the test if you're not proud of your scores and you don't want me to see them great I was a really high achieving student in secondary school and I took the SAT and I bombed it like when I say I bombed it like it was not good at all I was not proud of it so I totally understand if you don't think it's an accurate representation of your abilities or anything like that I do not see test optional applications as anything less than application with test scores so that's up to you to consider they do have an impact on scholarship which I'll touch on in a minute and then our remaining required materials so we're there's two ways that you can apply to Niagara University and both are free so even if you're a little bit interested and you're already working on the Common App you can always just toss us on the Common App is my recommendation for you guys because it allows you to apply to a lot of different types of universities in just one click but if you are specifically interested in Niagara University you can visit nagger.edu slash apply and then select the international student application we'll need your official transcripts and leading leaving certificates sent by your school so they can email those to our admissions office at admissions at nagger.edu we do need the official ones for review letters of recommendation are super important as well I would say two to three is best and then we'd also like to see a personal essay that's about one page in mind now depending on how you were taught if you were meeting medium of instruction was English for every single one of the classes that you have taken throughout all four years of your secondary school that's great I'll be able to wave that requirement for you if I get an official letter from your school but we prefer to see your English proficiency examination scores presented either as an IELTS a TOEFL or the Duolingo exam I personally recommend the Duolingo exam it's a lot more affordable and it's a lot more flexible you can do it in the comfort of your own home but some universities are a lot more selective so IELTS is the most popular that I see then probably close second would be Duolingo and then TOEFL I see every once in a while as well it's my job to assist you through the application process so if you have any questions reservations things like that you can always reach out to me directly and I'm always happy to help you rise so scholarships I know this is what we are most excited about I love giving these out so our scholarships for international students are currently merit based they are incredibly generous they right now they range from 12,000 to 24,000 dollars a year guaranteed all four years there's nothing extra that you would need to do all you need to do is apply to our university and we take your transcripts and your SAT score if you submit your SAT score we have a fancy chart that we use to calculate which merit based scholarship basically it's a reward for your efforts in secondary school so if you are a high achiever obviously we're going to give you a higher award if you're not sure if you should apply your SAT score to your application you can always send it over to me and I can give you a quick opinion I can't make any specific recommendations but sometimes students don't double check with me and I love doing this and I always double check the calculations in our merit scholarships I want to make sure that I'm giving you the best deal possible because I was a student just like you so if there's a game changer in your application obviously I'm going to present you with that opportunity so so you apply with your SAT marks and your SAT marks are just in there and it's kind of like mine and they're not they don't line up or they're not better than whatever your marks were in secondary school you and I have been in tight communication I recognize your name on your trend on your application I'm like oh my gosh so excited to see that they apply oh no they submitted their SAT scores that bumps them down in scholarships so what I'm going to do is I'm going to pick up my phone I'm going to give you a call and I'll say hey Valentina how's it going this is Bridget from edu I'm looking at your application and I could maybe give you three thousand more dollars or six thousand more dollars a year if you wanted to switch to test optional would you be interested in that and then you say no and then you hang up because you don't want more money no no no no no of course you're going to want more money so I'm going to offer you that opportunity all that I need would need of you would be to email me and say I would like to switch my application to test optional and then I can edit your merit based scholarship I want to make sure and give me the best deal possible and then if you are currently in your final year of secondary school right now this scholarship is still available so there's an eagle experience scholarship that international students qualify for all that you need to do is schedule a one-on-one virtual meeting with me or attend one of our virtual visits and apply by November 20th and then I give you five thousand dollars spread across four years super super easy to do as long as you meet that deadline submit the application I don't need your transcripts or anything like that on top of that if you apply and you visit us virtually before that deadline yay you just earned yourself five thousand dollars super easy to do and then I always like do a little plug so sometimes I do I do a lot of the talking but you might want to hear from someone who's living and learning in our community right now so I do have a student assistant her name is Ella and she's from Arisaba, Ethiopia and she loves connecting with you guys so she put some of our information in here to kind of help you get to know her but she does have her own Zoom link times available if you want to meet with her it's the same link as mine but she has times right now on Mondays and Tuesdays if you want to sit and chat with her virtually as well so that's all I have does anyone have any questions for me before we go to that I just wanted to chip in one more thing with regards to that student support while I was on campus I also got to meet a guy named Aleep who I thought was just an absolutely wonderful person he takes care of all the international affairs over there right if I'm not mistaken that was his his role there at the international office and just has a ton of care and concern for international students very involved in their kind their situation their activities their needs so you definitely have a really good support system at the university here too and I think that's also even more true when you're dealing with smaller universities like Niagara where they can actually get to know you and care about you on an individual level it's a little harder to do when you know there's 50,000 people running around so yeah definitely something to keep in mind yeah for sure and that's so true like Dulip is super approachable and he might have Vice President in his title but man is he so eager to be there and and communicating with with you guys and all of our current students and things like that so he is a super great resource for international students on campus and then top of that additional support we actually have peer mentors right in our bread and center and international relations office so their current international students who kind of have the expertise in helping you adjust to your time in the United States so academic culture is like a whole separate form of culture there's the social culture there's the academic culture and then there's professional culture so they are kind of if you need additional help with classes or things like that tutoring their role is pretty much to help you and assist you through the academic transition to the U.S. standards and things like that so that's a really really great opportunity in our international office for students to take advantage of so it looks like I do have oh sorry go ahead oh did someone uh yeah if somebody's saying I do have one question should we go for it about reward do you consider all secondary school period or only last year so it's a good question so I like to see your marks if you're in the 12-year track I like to see marks from 9, 10, and 11 and then you would be applying during year 12 so I don't need your 12 marks just yet but I would need your final transcript should you choose to become a purple equal and then we would just validate that but I would need 9, 10, and 11 marks and then I have to see that you've taken an English course a history course a science course and a math course as well so I like to see that at least spread across all four years ideally if you've taken one of those each of the years that's great but as long as you have those core liberal arts courses in there that's important it's a good question so you want to have anything else I actually kind of had a question on behalf of some of our people here we get a lot of interest you know in medicine in general and I think a lot of international students sometimes don't realize how difficult it can be to actually like carry a medicine you know study program all the way to the end and actually do a residency due to fees of challenges and things of that nature and a lot of times I've encouraged people to look at nursing programs as a possible alternative because that can get you kind of established I thought maybe you could tell them a little bit more about that kind of situation like what is involved in becoming maybe an actual doctor in the U.S. especially from an international students perspective and like maybe why to consider a nursing program and I know you have a very good one there at Niagara too we really do okay so to be a doctor there's it's a long process I'll put it that way so it takes about eight years of study to become a doctor in the United States so you would get your undergraduate degree probably in like biology biochemistry and this is a pretty much the same across every university then once you arrive at university you declare the pre-med track this is kind of a second advisor on top of your academic advisor to make sure that you have all the tools that you need to succeed and things like that in and be on track from medical school then once you graduate from undergraduate I believe you have to take forget what the test is called but there's a test that you have to take in order to get into medical school and then you apply for medical school it's kind of like starting university all over again then there's courses that you need to take there's foundational courses then you choose what track you want then you complete a residency where you start shadowing doctors and things like that and then you get officially get your P your your MD or whichever finalized path for you to take it's complicated and it's long I always recommend if you're interested in becoming a doctor do your undergraduate in whatever part of the world you want and then do your medical school wherever whatever country you want to practice because there will be different like values there will be different instruments there will be different medications different blah blah blah wars even that you would need to master might be kind of tough to do your medical school in one country then hop to another and say oh this is completely different it's like you would have to go back to school it's super competitive to enter into medical school in the United States I believe only 10 universities in the United States except international students into their medical school so that's just something to consider it is competitive but it's doable if you are impressive and you put your heart and soul into it and that's something that's really important to you it's definitely possible if you want a lot more flexibility in terms of what you want to do there's kind of two options that you want there's a physician's assistant which has a lot of the same roles as a doctor it just you're in school for probably only five or six years instead of eight and then it's just like usually a two one or two year postgraduate program that you can take and then there's nursing which is kind of our bread and butter here at NU as well so in our nursing program our students are directly admitted so in some schools you apply to the nursing program and you take your your general education courses and then you apply to the nursing program kind of like a second time and then you might get accepted into it later but then what happens if you don't get accepted into it you kind of hit this crossroads where you're like do I stay with my friends and have a foundation that I have here change the entire path of my life or do I leave where I am and go someplace completely new in order to pursue what I want to do so that's something to consider but with our nursing program you get started in those classes right away and we start putting you in the labs I believe starting the second semester of your freshman year these simulation labs are super cool they the moms give birth babies choke they code do you have to do CPR and all that stuff it's kind of practice panicking before you're working on real people that's basically what sim lab is all about and then we put you into the real hospitals right now we have a new dean so this might change but we're putting you into the real hospitals working with real patients usually the second semester of your second year which is really cool so your fifth semester no fourth semester with us you're entering into the hospitals we've all had nurses probably who hate their jobs we do not want to create nurses like that so if you have any doubt as to if you're not sure if you want to be a nurse and you need a lot more of those experiential hands-on learning opportunities will be a great fit for you as well so with the nursing program there's a lot of different things that you can do with it you can be OB you can be in the NICU you can be in the burn unit you can be in the ER you can be pediatrics there's a lot more flexibility to kind of move and meld and fit your nursing path into as well I guess very good question Andrew you get that a lot yeah I do have one more whoops sorry go ahead no I said thanks for the great explanation and then we have Niagara University and some rating that's one of the best universities in the US so since we're a smaller university we don't have a big national ranking because those are more for like the big name type universities but for us we are actually valued we were rated the best value university in New York State and that means that our students aren't paying a lot to come here that means that we're making sure that we're giving them the best financial aid opportunities possible as well so when you apply you'll be presented with your acceptance letter and your merit-based scholarship that'll range between 12 and 24 thousand dollars and it's okay to ask us for more money so we have a process that students go through they write a letter they submit a CSS profile then if we're super tight I write a letter about you as well and say hey they were class president and they did this volunteer opportunity they were awesome I think they'll contribute XYZ to our university and you can go through that process as well it may not be not much additional aid we don't have too much that we can give on top but that as well but affordability I know isn't super important in a lot of your decisions so that is something that we are very proud of here and that's all the questions I have in my queue right now is anyone else have any other questions? If you want and if I can add my usual just quick minute rant about rankings in the United States because I think it's important to contextualize like the ranking systems are very heavily favoring universities that are larger because larger universities can output a greater volume of research right because research is one of the things that moves you the most in the rankings there's other factors but if you compare those other factors right things like employability you know debt student faculty ratio then you see a small university competes just as well if not better in a lot of cases than some of the big universities but because of the weight given to research then naturally the university with the most professors doing more research is going to move up higher in those rankings and so I think that's something important to point out that like even I mean you could have good research opportunities at a small university but just because of that sheer difference in the number you know a larger institution is going to have a higher position and I often feel like that's not necessarily the most important factor for an undergraduate student especially you know you want to get that hands on experience and get ready to work so something to think about I think when we evaluate places based on rankings it's important to think about what those are actually measuring has a really good explanation I always say rankings are great to take a peek at to start your search but you want to make sure that you're going to a university that has the resources there that will help you to succeed so kind of you can if rankings are super important to you you can start your search that way and then kind of narrow down your list and if you're realizing oh I really need an individualized support these are already universities this may not be kind of the foundation of my decision you can kind of work towards and kind of adjust your search and things like that too but be sure to not choose a university based on it being number one or number two or number eight make sure that you know that they have the resources that you need to succeed because it's easy to get lost at university so it's good to see figure out what you need for to help you succeed academically and everything like that as well and I'm going to put a link in the chat I want to give you guys credit for chatting with me so if you want to learn more about my university you can click that link I'm going to if it doesn't work let me know and I can fix it you can click that link and put your information in the click form and click submit and then I'll reach out to you guys and be sure that we communicate some additional information about my university team guys too I got one more here and my cue asking about needing IB international baccalaureate to apply pretty sure that won't be necessary but I might be curious if you have any like I don't know consideration for IB diplomas or any scores that you look for yeah so we for IB I favor IB I'll put it that I'm going to say it blank I favor IB applications because I have done a lot of learning and I know how vigorous the IB curriculum is so if you go through it that's amazing so proud of you you did it so that I always love seeing IB applications and things like that too I believe we also give like university credit to some courses and things like that as well but obviously I'm in charge of the whole world so there's a lot of different curriculums that we're looking into but if you have really great IB IB marks and experience in that curriculum that looks really really good on a college application yeah we're seeing a large number of diploma candidates down here in Peru Peru is actually becoming one of the I think it's one of the largest countries now in the world in terms of number of IB candidates so it's it's booming pretty big here we love to see that yeah yeah that's what I tell a lot of people even though it's not necessarily a requirement to apply in the U.S. since you know most admissions officers are familiar with different systems from all over the world and you can apply just with Peruvian grades it's definitely I think perceived as a more rigorous system that's going to prepare you more for university and so that's always a plus for sure like if I see like a couple week marks on an IB IB transcript I'm like I know the classes are super hard so it's easier for me to say okay they were just challenged in that course did they make up for it in their English class oh yeah they did they rocked their English course so and when I review applications I'm never finding reasons to deny people I'm always trying to find reasons to accept because I don't want to block any opportunities from you guys so you may have heard universities say holistic review and holistic review means that obviously you guys will have questions about transcripts and what kind of curriculum you're following the reason why we ask for that additional information is maybe your marks aren't as strong but you wrote a really great essay and you have a really really strong resume and your letters of recommendation make me feel like oh my gosh it would be a mistake for me to not have you at my university so if there's a weakness in your application I usually try to fill it with something else to find a strength because if I do need to send you to a second or maybe third round or review I have to say listen I know that their score in math and in 2021 was bleh but they made up for it because they were involved in this presentation and they presented and won this award or related to math or something like that too to kind of make up for it I don't know but I really do advocate for every single one of you so if you have something that you really value and things like that and you want to add it to your application that's great just make sure that you keep it during your secondary time so in grades 9, 10, 11 the more information I have on you the better and the easier it is for me to advocate for you in about two minutes left it looks like so if anyone has any other questions feel free to pop it in the chat there as well all right well if not we got that link in the chat that Bridget sent over if you have any you know questions or you want to get in touch with her directly you can do that you can also reach out to us if you need any help getting in touch with Niagara University or working on your application if you're already working with us you can just talk to your counselor and say hey like I want to apply to Niagara now and we can totally make that happen but yeah thank you so much Bridget for taking some time out of your evening to talk with us today of course thank you so much for having me Andrew and thank you guys all for coming to learn more about us yeah great having you all right we'll be in touch bye thank you we have one more presentation tonight we've got the University of New Mexico coming up at eight so please stick around and we'll see you there for that last presentation of the day Bridget he visited you while he was down first of all I'd like to just take a quick moment to give you an introduction this is Mary Phibbs she's from the University of New Mexico I actually got the pleasure of being at the campus for three full days during the International Association for College and Mission Counseling conference it's such a long title but we had a really good time on campus also my partner Gustavo was able to be there as well so we had a really good time getting to know you and I'm that closely we you know that was actually probably more time than I've spent on almost any other campus actually besides my alma mater so it was a really great experience for us to get to see UNM's very unique campus very interesting university and they've got some very good programs and scholarship opportunities as well for international students that I think you're going to like so yeah Mary you have the floor the show is yours and we've got it set up so that people could make questions in the chat here or also we can have them raise hands and open up their microphones later on too okay that's perfect and if everyone anyone hasn't seen it Andrew made the coolest video while he was at UNM if you have not seen that you got to go find it because it's fantastic and so we loved having you and we got to host everyone for the ACAC conference so welcome I am Mary please raise your hand if you have questions can everyone see my screen okay and hear me okay all right all right so we are from New Mexico so we are in the United States we are right between Arizona and Texas so we were founded our university was founded in 1889 so we're a fairly old campus beautiful 700 acre campus with a high desert climate so it is very hot and very dry during the summer but then it gets very cold during the winter we have over 30,000 about 30,000 students on our campus at any given time and about 1500 of those are going to be international students student faculty ratio of 20 to 1 and 40 percent of our campus have fewer than 20 students so we do have a lot of opportunity for interaction with your professors and there's often a lot of times that professors will reach out and ask for assistance from students and we have over 215 undergraduate and graduate degree programs we have business education engineering all of the things that you would normally think of on campus but we also some unique things we're the only university in the United States that offers a degree in flamenco dance and we also have an indigenous studies program which is amazing so we have a bunch of different schools so we have the school of management architecture and planning arts and sciences education engineering fine arts nursing and law and pharmacy so we are the only our one university in the state of new mexico for any students who are interested in stem fields there are a lot of national labs in new mexico so we're very close to sandia national labs is in albuquerque and then there's los albamos national labs which is just about an hours drive away so number four university international arrival experience in the U.S. number six overall university international academic experience we're number one engineering in the U.S. and 85 for physics um one of the interesting things is I think we're recently in our lab the last ratings were like number eight for film and photography and albuquerque right now with Netflix is filming a lot of things here so we're considered the number one city in the U.S. for filmmakers to live and work is it mariel do you have a question no I was just excited about the Netflix thing that you just mentioned perfect awesome yeah it's amazing sounds awesome all right so we've got some links here so if you want all these I can put them in the chatter I can send you this these slides when we're done so we do have an office of graduate studies where you can get more information about all of the graduate degrees um so we also have a graduate and professional student association where a lot of students go to get job experience there's I think for like about the sick past six years we have a president and a vice president of our graduate and professional student association for about the past six years those have all been international students and we have what we call lobo friends so if you're an international student we can pair you up with a domestic student to show you around as you get used to campus and life in the U.S. it really helps to kind of have that cultural mentor we have a lot of cultural workshops about how to work while you're in the U.S. things to go see while you're in New Mexico and actually right now we are having international education week so this is a week where the U.S. celebrates everything that's international education just yesterday we hosted a mini world cup where we had 16 different soccer teams who all competed we had teams from the U.K. and Wales and Spain and Mexico so I think Ghana ended up winning our little mini world cup we have sightseeing trips over the weekends about twice every semester our campus has over 400 student clubs and organization and there's also Albuquerque is a very unique and culturally diverse city to live in so there's always a lot to do so if you are interested in completing your application for admission you can click on this link go to international.unm.edu in order to apply we will need your original transcripts and your degree certificates most countries are going to need to provide an English language exams so we do take the TOEFL IELTS, Duolingo, Pearsons for graduate programs a lot of the graduate programs do require the GRE but that depends on each department and depending on what graduate department you're looking at they may have their own requirements so if you have a knot looked into the GRE or anything like that you can look at the general information about taking the GRE exam if it's required by a department that you're interested in applying to and if you reach out to us we can give you some information too so application deadlines for the spring semester for spring of 2023 our application deadline just passed for fall semester of 2023 our application deadline is May 1st although our deadlines are always a little bit flexible our main concern is that we get you admitted in time to be able to do all the visa processes that you may need to do on your end so if you can't make it by the May 1st deadline there's always some flexibility so each academic department for the graduate application has a different deadline it's usually close to these but they're slightly different so what we do when we get applications so you'll submit your application for undergraduate we just need your English exam and your official transcripts for a graduate program we would need your English exam and unofficial transcripts until you're offered admission we'll review your admission and scholarship eligibility usually for graduate students the department the department will offer you admission and decide what scholarships you're available for once you accept accepted admission at UNM then there's the process of issuing immigration documents so for graduate admission you would need a bachelor's degree with a 3.0 GPA some graduate departments have their own requirements the English proficiency results but if you haven't taken one year of U.S. college classes we can waive that English exam results requirements so one important thing to consider our financial aid and scholarship so we do offer the international amigo scholarship so this is an amazing scholarship that provides international students in state tuition so you are paying the same tuition as students from New Mexico and sometimes you can get extra scholarships at the graduate if you're a graduate student by having an assistantship so with the assistantship you have teaching or research experience they sometimes come with a stipend and they cover your tuition so those are two great options for international students to get some financial aid and scholarships so my boss was supposed to be here but he couldn't be here tonight so his name is Pablo his name is Pablo Torres here is his email address but this is also my email address so you can contact me here and I'll put this in the chat in a minute and if you want to you can take a photo of this of this screen and just any questions you may have you can always WhatsApp us you can make a Calendly appointment for Zoom meeting or email us so that's kind of the end of my presentation that I have do you guys have any questions? I hope you have questions yeah we've got uh we can make the questions and we let me unmute there yeah we can make questions in the chat here if you like or if anybody has any questions I'd like to ask out loud just raise your hand and we'll get to them yeah the Netflix stuff I think is really interesting I know that they uh opened up that studio basically right across from your well I can't remember I think probably the Knack flow studio came first and then you opened up or moved the offices right over there I'm not 100% sure which which came first there but um yeah it sounds interesting I think especially considering how many things have been shot in Albuquerque if anyone's a fan of Breaking Bad for example that's kind of like I have to imagine that's been a huge boost to tourism in the area it has been so if any of you guys know the show Breaking Bad it was all filmed in New Mexico in Albuquerque so that was kind of the beginning and then more and more TV shows and Netflix Netflix things started being film tarant so we really become a hub for filmmaking and it's really great because we do have the Netflix studio so it's great for film students to be able to get that experience all right so international students who get a job so you have a couple of options if you're an international student so if you are in the U.S. on an F1 visa technically you're allowed to work 20 hours a week on campus so there are a ton of on-campus jobs available for international students in fact just in our department I think we end up hiring about 20 international students a semester and then but you can also find jobs within the department that you are studying with so that you're able to get some real-world job experience maybe help with some research things like that and there's also another department in our in the international office that helps students work on work the CPT and all the applications to be able to work on campus for up to 30 hours a week so there are lots of options and there's also a lot of options if you're a graduate student to get an assistantship assistantships are great because they often pay your full tuition and pay you somewhat of a stipend but it's great to be able to help professors either teaching a class or helping with research things like that so there are a lot of options for international students to be able to work while you're in New Mexico were there any other questions so does anyone have an idea of like what degrees you're interested in if you do have specific questions about specific departments specific degree areas if you've now decided that you want to come to New Mexico and be a filmmaker I am going to do psychology program is actually amazing so you can we kind of have two ways you can go about this depending on what your interest in psychology is so we do have the psychology program which does offer a bachelor's a master's and a phd program so that gives you a great opportunity to be able to to do research like just today I saw a couple emails go out with professors who are looking to publish papers who are looking for students bachelor students to help with that so that's a great great opportunity but we also have a counseling program through the education school so you can do either counseling or school counseling so there's a couple different ways to go in psychology so it's kind of depending on what your area of interest ends up being what do we look for in a student so what we look for first and foremost is going to be proficiency in English language the last thing we want you to do is to arrive in the U.S. and not have the English proficiency to be able to succeed well the next thing we look for is just we base a lot on your high school and previous college GPA so we like to see a GPA above 2.5 for a bachelor's program above 3.0 for a post degree and then just we love having well-rounded students we really look to see that you are going to contribute to our culture and contribute positively to our campus I know we also get a lot of interest just in general in business degrees especially I think from international students and maybe some highlights of that would also be good dimension as well absolutely so we do have a business school so it's the Anderson School of Management so they have about five kind of different degree tracks that you can major in I think the most interesting one so there's cybersecurity and business analytics marketing accounting management I think the most interesting one is there is like a 4-1 program with your MBA so there's the option to get an MBA in less than six years which is the normal time for an MBA we have one of the so our the School of Management is also AACSB accredited so that's the highest accreditation for business schools so it's a really really great school clubs of extracurriculars so we have a ton of different extracurricular activities so like I said we just have the soccer tournament so there's a bunch of like intramural soccer clubs I'm currently working with the coach for the rugby coach so if anyone's interested in intramural rugby they're really starting to try to get that off the ground but we also have esports clubs I know there's a couple different esports clubs and there's also there's kind of everything so that's the great thing is you can come on campus and if there's not what we have you can create it so I know a lot of the a lot of the students from certain countries have started their own clubs so we have like an Indian student club a Pakistani student club I think there's a student club for students from Peru I'm pretty sure so there's lots of options there's also like I think there's along with that I want to say there's clubs based on like service where there's we also have so a service core where you spend a couple weekends during the semester just going out into the community and volunteering so that one's really cool so pretty much with 400 clubs there's definitely something that you could get involved with is there something in particular you're looking for? No? Annie? Oh yeah, absolutely and actually that's an interesting point is we do on our campus so we do have a bunch of different communities and service centers so we do have an LGTBIQ service center on campus and they do a lot of activities they provide support homework support but we also on campus have the Afro Afro service student services and what we call El Centro de la Raza for Hispanic identifying individuals or for Black students we have the Afro student services so we do have a lot of those and most of those have their own clubs associated with them Yeah and I think I would just chime in and point out that from my time in Albuquerque as well it's a very open very diverse area all kinds of people from all different walks of life are accepted I think even to the point where you might walk around and think like oh people look a little bit weird here but people are very free to express themselves right I think it's kind of that good weird That is definitely true I want to say especially when I travel other places I think Albuquerque is one of the most accepting accepting places that I've ever been people don't really care who you are they just want to really get to know you and they love the diversity they love when you're from somewhere else and they're really interested to hear your point of view to hear and to include you in I know a lot of the a lot of the local students what they love doing is with students who are international or from a different culture they love taking them home for Thanksgiving dinner and showing them showing them that that aspect because we have such a diverse culture in New Mexico that no one no one really feels like their group is number one or so it really is such a multicultural state that everyone's just used to sharing their culture with everyone else are there any other questions feel free to put anything in the chat absolutely put anything in the chat if you have questions but I am also going to put my email address in the chat so if you guys end up thinking of any questions later or you're like oh my gosh I would love to meet with Mary one on one for Zoom to ask questions we can totally set that up thank you so much guys it's been so amazing to talk to you guys and absolutely please reach out to me I would love to meet you one on one if you have other questions or if you want me to send you my presentation I can totally do that yeah that'd be great we're going to have a recording of this up too on our channel so people can tune into it if they weren't able to make it for this session as well so we'll be sure to spread that around too since we know sometimes schedule conflicts happen you know but yeah really appreciate you taking some time to talk to us tonight absolutely it's been great talking to everyone I've had so much fun and please feel free to reach out to me all right we'll do well then you have Mary's information there if you need to get in touch with her or you can talk to us as well if you need any help reaching out to any of the universities we've talked to today or if you need help with their applications too you can contact us as well fantastic thank you guys all right thank you thank you so much thank you have a great night you guys have a great night too bye Mary thank you bye bye I think that'll wrap it up for tonight so thanks to everybody who's been in attendance today I really appreciate it tomorrow we've got another four institutions to check out so we'll be back here at 5 p.m. tomorrow until then yeah I'll see you tomorrow have a great night