 So, it's our last day of the score fair and it kind of feels good to say that at the same time I'm going to be a little sad because I would love to keep doing this but we have had a bunch of great universities so far and today we have three wonderful presentations for you. Today we're starting out with Milwaukee School of Engineering and Samantha Camers is here to tell us a little bit more about MSOE. I got the chance to go visit MSOE not too long ago and we actually put a video up about it very recently and honestly it was an amazing experience greatly exceeded my expectations honestly it's a beautiful campus beautiful buildings modern infrastructure and I'm sure Samantha's going to tell you a whole lot more about it thanks Samantha for taking the time out of your day to talk to us and to you know show us a little bit more about MSOE. Of course so thank you very much for having me I'm very happy to speak on behalf of MSOE today so to get started my name is Samantha Camers I'm the director of non-traditional admissions otherwise known as international admissions at the Milwaukee School of Engineering known as MSOE for short and on this picture here you can see one of our newest academic buildings this is our computer science and software engineering facility and I'll talk a little bit more about this building once we get into the presentation but in this building we do have a supercomputer which is really important for students who are looking to study computer science or software engineering and so with that we will continue on in the presentation so to get started I'm just going to talk a little bit about MSOE some quick facts about the school some of our rankings so we are primarily an undergraduate engineering university in the United States even though we primarily focus on engineering we do have a few other programs as well which I'll talk about later but we are pretty highly ranked in the U.S. so you can see we are ranked number nine for undergraduate engineering across the United States so very highly ranked in the top 10 for engineering and we have some individual programs as well which are pretty highly ranked so we have actuarial science which is ranked as the second program in the country computer engineering electrical engineering civil engineering and mechanical engineering are all ranked in the top 15 as well for individual programs across the United States and even though we have those strong engineering programs we also have a nursing program so our nursing program is also very popular it's very strong in our nursing program when you graduate you have to take a test call the NCLEX and this is what gets you your nursing license and at MSOE we have a 90 percent pass rate on the first attempt for that test so our nursing program is very strong very hands-on as well I did mention on the first slide we have a computer science program this program is actually focused on artificial intelligence and we have that supercomputer on campus for undergraduate students to utilize so the supercomputer is a 10 million dollar GPU powered supercomputer that was fully donated by one of our alumni who is the vice president of nvidia nvidia is a very large computer company organization in california and he is one of our alumni and he donated the supercomputer to our campus so it's very important to our campus and the most important thing for you to know about MSOE is we are an application oriented curriculum so what that means is we are a hands-on university we are putting you in labs we're putting you in classes where you're going to be doing all hands on work with the programs the software the equipment and you're going to develop the skills as an engineer to be successful in your field and to move on to get a really great job after you graduate from MSOE if you're not familiar with where we are located we are located in milwaukee wisconsin wisconsin is in the midwest region of the united states and you can see on the map milwaukee is located on the shores of lake michigan so we have lake michigan um right on the border of wisconsin and we are about 130 kilometers north of chicago so chicago is one of the large metropolitan areas in the united states and it's about a 90-minute drive from milwaukee to chicago milwaukee is the largest city in the state of wisconsin we have 1.6 million people so it is a very large urban metropolitan area and milwaukee is a very beautiful friendly clean safe and fun city so you can see from the photos in the background our campus is located in downtown milwaukee so it's very easy to walk to restaurants to museums to nature trails everything that you could need is right in the downtown area it's very easy to walk there we do have public transportation as well but it's very easy to get around the city there's a lot of stuff to do we have athletics sports teams the milwaukee bucks and the milwaukee brewers which are located in downtown milwaukee as well so there's just a lot to do in the city and it's an urban area where you'll find a lot of fun things to do when we're discussing the campus itself it is a small campus so we are a small school and we do pride ourselves in that small size which i'll discuss on the next few slides we have just under 3000 students in total on campus a hundred of those students are international students and we're always looking to add additional international students to our campus and we have over 30 different countries that are represented through these students we also have some international faculty represented and again we're really just focused on the practical application of what you're learning in the classroom so in the classroom you're going to be learning your theory and then you're going to be applying it directly in the lab and making sure that you're fully understanding those concepts by doing everything in the hands-on way i mentioned that we are an engineering university so you can see here that we have a select number of programs most of which are engineering programs but having this limited amount of programs means that we're able to really pay a lot of attention to the programs that we do have and put a lot of money into the programs that we have and really invest and build the program as much as we can to make sure that you have everything you need to be successful in engineering so we have four different program families the first is building and construction so we have an architectural engineering program and civil engineering is a part of this family and then we have construction management as well then we have computer which is very popular which includes computer engineering software engineering computer science and user experience then we have our main engineering programs so these are the most popular programs on campus and typically the ones that are most well known so that would include biomedical engineering biomolecular engineering also known as chemical engineering electrical engineering industrial engineering and our most popular program which is mechanical engineering this is a very broad program you can do a lot of different things with the mechanical engineering degree so that's why it's very popular on campus and then finally we have math business and nursing so actuarial science is a math program we have a bachelor of business administration and we have a nursing program as well so whichever program you're most interested in when you apply to MSOE you can apply directly to that program and one of the most important reasons why you would want to apply to MSOE is that we are a direct entry school so what this means is when you apply to MSOE you apply to the program that you're interested in in the beginning and if you're admitted to MSOE you are also admitted into that program right away so at some other large universities in the United States they have what's called pre-engineering or pre-nursing and at those universities you typically have to apply to the university and then if you're admitted you have to take sometimes one to two years of general education classes before you actually apply to your program that does not exist at MSOE at MSOE we are direct entry so if you apply to computer science you get admitted to computer science right away and you start taking computer science courses in the very first term this applies to all our different programs across campus so you can apply to any of these programs and start taking those program specific classes right away in the first term we also have a ton of lab time so in the course of four years of study over 600 hours will be spent in the lab so this means you're going to have a lot of hands-on experience you're going to be working directly with the equipment the machines the tools the software that are a part of your program so that way when you leave MSOE and you graduate and you're looking for a job you already have a ton of experience a lot of hands-on experience in your field of study and you're really ready to hit the ground running when you start in your job we also have a year-long senior design project so this takes place over the course of the final year in your fourth year you will create a senior design project with a team of other student engineers to answer a question or solve a problem and sometimes you can even be sponsored by companies in the Milwaukee area who are looking for a team of students to work on their senior design project overall we are a very small school so we have small class sizes a 13 to 1 student to professor ratio and about 20 students per class so this means you're going to get a lot of hands-on attention from your professors you're going to get attention from your other classmates as well and you're not just going to be another number or another seat in your class you're going to get the attention that you deserve in your classes and then we have a four-year graduation guarantee so this means as long as you are completing your classes and you're doing well in your classes and you're staying on your program track you are guaranteed to graduate within four years as well here's a couple more facts about our educational philosophy this deals more with professors on campus so all of our professors are highly qualified and they have an average of seven to ten years of industry experience before they start teaching so of course it's important for your professor to have experience because this means that they have the connections to the industry it means they're an expert in their field and it means that they're willing to help you with the connections to the industry as well our professors are often recommending internships recommending jobs helping make connections with our students so that way they have an easier time finding positions in the field because they're with a professor who actually has that industry experience as well sometimes they're even still working in the industry while they're teaching as well so it gives you an extra leg up because our professors are more than willing to help you find these opportunities all of our professors teach our classes and our labs so all of your classes all of your labs will be taught by these industry professionals who are there and willing to help you make those connections as well at some larger institutions they have what's called teaching assistants and teaching assistants are essentially graduate level students who are teaching your classes this does not exist at MSLE we do not have teaching assistants and all of your classes are taught by those expert professors overall this just leads to a really great professor student interaction so I already described this a little bit where your professors are going to be playing an active role in your academic life making sure you're doing well in your classes giving you advice when it comes to career guidance offering internship and job job examples and connecting you with professors and professionals in the industry will be able to help you make those connections help you find internships help you find jobs they will know what your successes and your challenges are they will know if you're missing from class one day being that we are such a small school and we have so small class sizes our professors really do take that active approach and helping you be successful through your classes this slide just talks a little bit about our accreditation so overall we are accredited by the higher learning commission and then we do have individual accreditations as well so we have our accreditation for engineering through ABET engineering accreditation commission we have our collegiate nursing accreditation for our nursing students and then we also have accreditation for construction education for our construction management students some students might be interested in work and research opportunities so we do have some research opportunities available but a lot of our international students will choose to have on campus jobs so we have many different on campus jobs ranging from campus life to public safety to admissions we have many different opportunities on campus for you to be involved and to work on campus and then I mentioned we do have a few undergraduate research opportunities available these are faculty led research projects and this would be coordinated with the faculty when you actually start at MSUE and then of course we have CPT and OPT work authorization so CPT is for students who pursue an internship during the academic year and then OPT is for students after they graduate who choose to stay in work in the U.S. many of our programs are STEM approved programs so you would get an extra two years of OPT as well one thing that's very important to mention is that internships on our campus are very popular over 80 percent of our students have an internship a paid internship within their second year of study so this is very important for you because it gives you experience in your field it allows you to see if you enjoy working in that field most of the internships are also pretty highly paid and of course it really just gives you good experience on your resume and makes you a really great candidate for when you start to look for a job in your final year a lot of our students on campus get recommendations from their professors on internships and we also have a very large career fair every year where about 350 companies will attend looking for our students specifically this career fair is not open to the public it is only for MSUE students so it really gives you a great opportunity to network and get yourself out there and potentially secure an internship or a job when we're discussing living on campus there's really two different options on where you can live on campus so when you attend MSUE you are required to live on campus for your first two years of study and this is the first option so this is our on-campus apartment this is the groman tower and you can see from the photos it's very nice living arrangement apartment style living so it does have a furnished kitchen and a bathroom all utilities are included so what that means is electricity water heat internet all of that is included in the price to live in this building and this building is actually paid monthly just like if you were to live in an off-campus apartment you have to pay your rent every month if you choose to live in this building this building is optional for meal plan because you have your own full kitchen to cook your own meals the other option is if you choose to live in the residence hall so the residence hall is more of a traditional style living so in a residence hall typically you would share a room with another person and you can see we have three different types of residence halls that students can choose from the first is herman beats tower this is brand new this just opened up this past fall so it's not even a year old yet and you can see the facilities inside of it are very nice so students who choose to live in a residence hall they do have to have a meal plan it is required and the cost for living in a residence hall is added on to your tuition so you would pay it just like you would pay for tuition the second residence hall is margaret lock hall this is another very similar residence hall to herman beats tower it's just a little bit older of a building and then the third residence hall is regions residence hall that's the striped building you see in the picture this residence hall is only open to women at this point and it is more of a suite style living where students will share a room with another person and then in that suite they would share a bathroom with the suite so this residence hall is a little bit different than the other two but of course it's only open to women right now when we're discussing student services on campus we have many things to offer our students and we know this is another really important thing to consider when you're trying to choose a university so the first is the wellness centers the wellness center is our counseling and health services so this is where you can go to talk to a counselor if you're experiencing any mental health challenges if you really need to talk to someone because you're feeling stressed out with school pretty much anything where you would need to talk to a professional this would go under counseling at the wellness center and then health services is our nurse practitioner on campus so if you're feeling ill if you have any type of injuries where you need to see someone on campus this is where you would go for health services we also have a free tutoring program for all of our students so this is very popular at msoe msoe is academically a very challenging school so we provide free tutoring for all of our students in case you need the extra assistance students can have one or more than one tutors depending on how many classes they need help with and 80 of our students use tutoring more as a preventative measure to make sure that you're keeping up in your classes and you understand all the class content this is very important and we always want our students to know this is available for your academic success we also have an athletic and workout facility it's called the Kern Center we do offer varsity sports as well as club and intramural level sports and we do have a full workout facility that is free for all of our students to use our team that is most popular is our ice hockey team but of course you can check our website to see all of the different sports that we offer we also have the career fair which i mentioned earlier where over 350 companies typically attend looking for our students so this is a really great opportunity for you to network with different companies in milwaukee and across the nation and potentially get an interview for an internship or job we also have a very active student life department where over 90 different student organizations and societies exist so these range from volunteer to travel to professional organizations found within your major many students will join these organizations and get involved on campus but of course we have many many different events that are run through student life where students can get involved for example this week is st patrick's week which is very popular at ms lea because st patrick was the patron saint of engineering we really celebrate st patrick's week everything on campus is green we have shamrocks everywhere and we really celebrate this holiday because our students like to get involved and spread the holiday cheer across campus so you may be wondering where do our students work where are our students tired where do they do internships and where are they getting full-time jobs so you can see on this slide some of the very popular companies within milwaukee harley davidson being the largest company that our students are hired at in milwaukee but also rockwell automation foxconn johnson controls ge health care milwaukee tool these are just a few of the companies who really look to hire our students because they know the quality of student and they know the academic challenge that our students have faced you can see amazon tesla google these are all companies across the nation as well which hire our students our students of course like to stay in the midwest in milwaukee but of course they're hired all across the country so we have students in all states across the country getting hired for these big companies now when we're discussing cost information this is something that's usually very important to students you can see our tuition and fees listed are estimated living expenses and mandatory health insurance so that comes to a cost of about sixty one thousand four hundred and forty six dollars per year now this may seem like a very high cost but you must know that all accepted undergraduate international students will receive a twenty five thousand dollar per year scholarship and this is guaranteed so all international students who who are admitted to ms oe received this scholarship and this just means ms oe has a very high return on investment you can see listed here we have our job outcome rate ninety five percent across all of our programs so this means that within six months of graduation you have a ninety five percent chance of getting a job in your field with a starting salary of sixty five thousand dollars or higher of course this can vary depending on which program you complete but this is the average across all of our programs so this just means that even though you are spending a lot in the beginning for your education it's a very high quality education and you will start to return on this investment almost immediately after you graduate discussing admission requirements the very first thing that we need is your application and you can apply for free on ms oe's website which is listed at the bottom of this slide and then the other things that we need first is an official transcript with a minimum three point oh gpa two point eight for business or construction management and of course these gpas are on the us system we need an english proficiency pass so you can pick the TOEFL you can pick the IELTS we also accept the DUO lingo so if you take the DUO lingo you'll have to send the scores officially to ms oe and then we also recommend but do not require your ACT or SAT test so if you have taken this it's great for us to see but we do not require it a good candidate to ms oe has a strong math and science background this will just make you as prepared as you can be for our challenging curriculum and then after you're admitted we do require to see a financial guarantee or financial documents and a copy of your passport you can see at the bottom we do also accept students conditionally who are admissible in all areas except for english proficiency but because the DUO lingo is so easy to take at home we do highly encourage students to take that test if they have not taken the TOEFL or the IELTS and this is my contact information so you can always contact me here if you have additional questions my email address is listed there my whatsapp is listed there if you have any questions at all free feel free feel free to email me but at this time we'll turn it back over and i'll see what additional questions we have again they can be any questions about ms oe or the admissions process yeah feel free to open up the microphones and ask anything you want or put some questions in the chat and we'll get to those too i wanted to maybe ask something just to go in a little more detail about milwaukee because i imagine it's the kind of place that few of our students have seen or you know most people when they visit the us they're going to miami or new york is there anything you could tell us a little bit more about the city maybe some places that you like or things that you like about it yes of course so milwaukee is a very interesting city because it's located in the midwestern part of the united states most students when they think of the united states they're thinking of the east coast or the west coast so new york or california and they don't often think about what's in the middle of the country so milwaukee is located in the midwest and the midwest is a really nice place to consider because the cost of living is a lot lower than california or new york so if you're thinking about the cost of living if you're thinking about the cost of attending school in the united states make sure you consider the midwest because the coasts can be very expensive so living in california living in new york the cost of living there is going to be much higher than if you're in the midwest or the middle part of the united states milwaukee is also a city that experiences all four seasons so this is something you have to consider as well when you're wanting to live in the united states is what type of weather are you looking for what type of climate are you looking for in milwaukee you will experience winter summer spring and fall you will experience all four seasons and it does get pretty cold in milwaukee so make sure you know that too when you're thinking about where you want to live milwaukee is also a large city but it's not an overwhelmingly large city it's not as large as new york it's not as large as chicago or los angeles but it is a large city so you will have that urban feel but you won't feel like you're lost in the city or you're drowning in the city among all the other people milwaukee overall is just a very nice city to live in uh the midwest is a very friendly place a lot of people from the midwest are very friendly and that's kind of the reputation that we have is just being very nice in the midwest um especially in milwaukee and in wisconsin great thank you does anybody got any anything they want to ask i want to ask something i wanted to wait oh sure last coming from behind so you can hear it but i i prefer it over the silence because i have a question i have two questions actually first and i want to know if when is your deadline submission for this year if you can apply if you want full submission for 2022 and also what it's like to be i mean not the first person because you haven't i know with that experience but what is your community of international students i know you have over three countries 30 countries represented but um how is their experience how are they involved in the community i mean you work with them in their application so you must know them in your experience how is their experience yes of course thank you for your questions so to answer your first question we are on a rolling admission so we don't have an application deadline you can continue to apply for fall of 2022 we are accepting applications and our admissions process is pretty quick once we receive all the documents that we need for an admission decision we can usually make a decision within the same day as soon as we receive all those documents that's another benefit of applying to a small school as we're able to tailor our admissions and make sure that we're giving you the information that you need very quickly so as soon as all the documents are received usually within one or two days we can make that decision so i do encourage anyone if you're interested for fall of 2022 but if you're of course if you're interested for fall of 23 i just encourage you to get your application and assume as you can now for the second part of your question on how is the international community on campus so being that we are such a small school we do work really hard to promote diversity and to promote inclusion we have a diversity belonging equity and inclusion office on campus so we make sure that all of our students are involved in events evolved in academics involved in all areas on campus and we do that by creating and promoting events that deal directly with our international students on campus so for example we have a program where each month we focus on a different country and those students from that country get to bring food and music and activities and share it with the campus and make sure that everyone learns about their culture and is involved in their culture because our school is so small our international students are able to have that type of reach across campus and make sure that everyone is involved in learning about their culture and promoting it and just overall our campus just promotes inclusion in every area to make sure that everyone feels comfortable and everyone feels like they can bring their own culture and their own experiences across campus thank you very much if it's okay it looks like we do have a question in the chat and it's about the scholarships so yes if I go back on my slide here we do have a merit scholarship it's a very large merit scholarship and it is guaranteed if you're admitted to MSOE so it's a $25,000 per year scholarship and this is given to all students who are admitted so this does bring the cost down pretty significantly but it is it is still going to leave a cost of about $36,000 per year so the scholarship again is for anyone who's admitted we do have a few other scholarship opportunities for students who have participated in world robotics or vex robotics or first robotics or any type of engineering course in their high school curriculum but this is what makes up a majority of the financial aid at MSOE on the same topic actually real quick but I'm sorry to cut off Daniel's question there in the chat but um are there any other opportunities for students to maybe work um you know maybe work on campus to offset some of their costs or maybe later in their time there become like an RA as an international student to maybe get some discounts on room board or things like that too yes um so a lot of our international students will choose to have on campus jobs um I will be very honest with you though and on campus job is not going to pay for your tuition or your living expenses it really will just function as extra spending money for you so that way you can have um you know personal essentials while you're at school or have a little bit of spending money um so working on campus will not be able to pay your tuition or living expenses but if an international student does have an internship over the summer you can make some substantial money through an internship so typically our internships are paid around 15 to 20 per hour um they are not given through the university so you do have to find internships on your own but there are plenty of opportunities that exist at MSOE because we are such a well-known school because we have such close connections with industry partners and because our students and our faculty have a really collaborative mindset there really isn't a lot of competition at MSOE students are more than willing to help each other faculty wants to help students find internships so as long as you put in the effort to find an internship you will have no problem finding one and then like Andrew mentioned usually within the second year you can choose to apply for a RA position a resident assistant position so you cannot do this within your first year but in your second year you can apply to do this and an RA essentially is in charge of one of the floors of the residence halls and you get a free room and board for doing this so this is another great opportunity for students to save a little bit of money but that can only happen in your second year well thank you yeah so Daniel was asking about the benefits for athletics if there's any um or maybe how someone could be who could get in touch with coaches to be recruited yes so we do have varsity sports we also have club and intramural level sports um so varsity sports would be for somebody who plays a sport plays a sport well wants to continue playing a sport when they go to college so you can always reach out to me and I can connect you with the coach of that team and they can look to see if they want to have you on the team if you're someone for example who likes to play soccer but really only wants to play it for fun then you would qualify for our club or intramural team so this is a little less time commitment than a varsity sport but it's still just as fun the club teams can still be just as competitive but this is another option if you want to be involved in sports but you don't want the time commitment of a varsity sport so all of our sports are listed on our website if you're interested in sports please let me know and I can connect you with the coach yeah the facilities were great when I when I got to check those out it was absolutely beautiful area you guys have there for all your athletics and all the exercise spaces and things it's it's very modern yeah we do have a really nice ice hockey arena so if you're familiar with ice hockey that's the biggest sport we have on campus but then we also have a really large soccer and lacrosse field we have a baseball field a softball field indoor running track basketball court all the sports that we have the facilities we keep them as new and up to date as we can to allow the students to participate fully and he also asked in the chat if there were any scholarships for sports unfortunately no so we are a division three school what division three means is that we do not have scholarships for athletes so there's always some opportunity to discuss the scholarships that we offer but you cannot get them through athletics any other questions I do have a question I would like to know if there if there's any kind of financial aid for people with physical disabilities yes so I'm actually unsure of that I know really the only financial aid we offer is the $25,000 per year scholarship unfortunately international students are not eligible to receive federal aid for the US government and MSUE does not offer need-based aid so really the only scholarship that you can receive the only type of aid you can receive is the $25,000 per year but I can always put you in contact with the financial aid office so they can answer your question fully and see if there's any opportunity for students with disabilities okay thank you so much thank you I wanted to know what kind of clubs do you have are they all sports related music related or do you have kind of different clubs yes so we have many many different clubs on campus so the clubs that we have and the club sports that I mentioned those are actually two different things they just kind of have the same name so club sports is specifically for sports but then we have over 90 other interest clubs on campus so we have volunteer opportunities we have political opportunities we have travel opportunities we specifically have two different groups one of which that goes to Guatemala and then the other one this year went to Honduras and sometimes we go to Africa as well to do different service organization service projects and help the communities there so we have different travel opportunities we also have some long-term study abroad programs we have clubs that are specifically related to your major so we have a nursing club we have an architectural engineering club we have a mechanical engineering club and then we have a lot of clubs that are specific to interest as well so we have a super mileage car club where you have to create a car and then see how many miles you can get on that car we have a unicycling club for people who like to unicycle we have many different opportunities for clubs on campus we also have clubs of diversity as well so we have a Filipino club we have a women in engineering club we have many different opportunities so whatever your interest is likely we have something that matches that thank you some of that and about what you mentioned about the study abroad club oh yes a little bit more about that because I think that lots of our students will be really interested yes so we do have a few study abroad opportunities the most popular would be our exchange program with a university in Germany so this is for a few specific majors on campus I know electrical engineering is involved mechanical engineering is involved and these students will spend a year studying abroad in Germany we also do have a program in Italy as well and a few others but the German one is the most popular okay and you have to do it for a year or can you do it just for a semester the exchange program is for a year but I know we do have some short-term opportunities for semesters as well okay perfect any other questions that's no problem at all is there like anything else you would like to tell us like some advice for or for the future students yes so I would say that a good ms a wheat candidate would be somebody who loves math and science who's interested in engineering or interested in nursing someone who's ready for an academic challenge because it is a little challenging at ms oe but someone who's really looking for the reward and really looking for the outcome of spending all that time putting in their studies at ms oe our students have a really high job outcome rate really high starting salary our students are continually hired by the big companies in the Milwaukee area and across the nation so if you're really looking to put in the investment put in the time and effort ms oe really pays off for students in the end yeah that's great 100 agree actually it's fine I was um after I took my trip I went back to my mom's and I was talking to uh you know her husband about the uh the school that I visited and he was like oh I've heard a lot about the ms oe actually because he works for Ford and he uh went and got a masters at MIT but he's hired a lot of people from ms oe as well to work in Ford and Michigan in that area so just it is a university that has that name recognition that people do know that if you're hiring somebody from ms oe they know what they're doing and that was the same feeling I got when I talked to those students that you introduced me to so I really I can see that on all levels and I think that's why it's a great option and really appreciate you taking some time today to tell us a little bit more about it yes of course thank you so much for having me again students if you have any questions at all please reach out to me um or reach out to Andrew and he'll put you in contact with me and I really just look forward to speaking with some of you and hopefully seeing your applications sounds good all right well thank you so much Samantha for your time today and hopefully we can have you on again sometime it'd be nice to do another round of these so and hopefully we can get some people to apply to ms oe yes of course thank you everyone all right have a good night we'll be back on at seven o'clock with our next guest Hillsdale College so you guys are free to chill out and hang hang around for a little bit and listen to my beautiful pause music or you can come back here at seven and see Hillsdale College we've also got Illinois Tech at 8 p.m so we've got a really good lineup today to close out the fair we'll take a little break and we'll see you back here at seven well I think I'll uh open us up here and yeah let's start bringing people in yeah I'll give you a quick intro here too there we go there's people all right welcome back everybody thank you for your continued participation in the scorefare tonight we have Hillsdale College represented by Alexander Green I got the opportunity to go to Hillsdale not too long ago so it has been more time than it feels like I think after we were talking about that but got to go there and see the campus it's a beautiful campus in rural Michigan and I'm sure that Alexander will tell you a lot more about it very different approach at Hillsdale College I think you'll love hearing about it so Alexander the floor is yours thank you so much Andrew I appreciate it I'm going to share my screen so you can see it I don't think I'm sharing the right thing let me try that again all right can everyone see the presentation great yeah so my name is Alexander Green sorry for the the delay there and getting started but I attended Hillsdale in and graduated in 2019 and I now live in Portland Oregon so I'm on the west coast of the United States very far away from Michigan and I work with students from the Pacific Northwest as well as international students which is how Andrew and I got connected in the first place so here's my contact information feel free to reach out with any questions or inquiries about Hillsdale and if you want to keep up with Hillsdale and get more information feel free to scan that QR code with your phone if you've got it around that's a useful thing to do and you can also just go on our website and request information if that's easier so we are located in south central Michigan Hillsdale Michigan is kind of on the northern part of the United States so it tends to be fairly wintery there so that's something that a lot of students get used to but this photo is taken in the summer which is definitely my favorite part of the year we are a small classical liberal arts college we have about 1500 students or just below that in about more than 70 percent of students are from out of state so you can see those four things at the bottom the private independent Christian and classical liberal arts are some things to know about Hillsdale so I'll explain what those mean as we go along but I just wanted to kind of give you some information about that so I always like to start presentations like this by going back and explaining Hillsdale founding because it helps explain the identity of the school a little bit and just give you some information about that you can see that old timey photo with that old fountain and the central hall building behind it that is the same building that you can see up in the corner of Hillsdale at the logo the top of that building is called central hall or the whole building it's called central hall but that clock tower is part of the logo so we are started back in 1844 by a small group of Christians called free will baptists and they started this college they were abolitionists so what that means is that they wanted the abolition or they wanted slavery to stop in the United States they started a college because they wanted to start accepting all types of people and giving them a great education so they for the first college in the country to have a non-discrimination clause written in the charter so we have never discriminated based on sex or race or religion or country of origin this is near and dear to our hearts we really value good education and giving it to anyone who wants it so we have lots of online classes for free and we host events all over the country and I love working with international students that's always a blast and something that's also interesting you might remember from the previous slide that Hillsdale is an independent college and this is kind of a unique thing in the United States there's only a few colleges like this but it means that we don't accept federal funding so most colleges accept a lot of money from the government to help keep the door to open and keep things going Hillsdale decided several years ago that we were not going to do that because they had they had a start to count students based on sex race religion country of origin which we have never done and never wanted to do so we decided that we were no longer going to take or that we were not going to take federal funding but also we haven't in the past so that was just kind of a reiteration of that but it means that we are able to offer all sorts of students an education that is kind of very Hillsdale specific so we'll talk a little bit more about that in a few slides there but I also want to explain what a classical liberal arts education is this is probably the most difficult part of my job is explaining to students and parents and teachers what this actually means I honestly still struggle with it because I didn't know what it was when I arrived at Hillsdale but I like people who know so Hillsdale is rooted in the the classics so we study a curriculum that is rooted in the western tradition and what I mean by that is that Hillsdale wants students to be flexible and creative problem solvers no matter at the the problem posed to them and we also want to study things that are good and that are true and that are beautiful about the world so it goes back to Athens and Jerusalem trying to understand those things so like what did Aristotle and Plato and Socrates say about the world and up until now what are the new ideas of the world that are being talked about and how do we navigate those in conversation so we think that it is really helpful to have a pretty solid base layer of understanding about the world and so we have students take a ton of different classes in addition to your major so that's this core curriculum it's 18 different classes long and you can see it ranges from things like western theological tradition and western philosophical tradition to biology and chemistry and math and physics you also see some interesting ones in there especially for international students like the US constitution and classical logic and rhetoric and western and american great books these are things that I always ask international students why do you want to come to a place that is studying these things and I love hearing in interviews with students well I want to learn about those ideas and have a richer deeper understanding of western uh thought and tradition and be able to to go into any any job or or citizenship or parenthood or anything after college and be able to navigate these ideas well that's not the only thing we have at hillstone we also have majors so that's kind of an important thing to talk about so we have just over 30 different majors and more minors than that some of the more popular ones and you can see on the screen there are economics english biology financial management history math and politics I was an english major and actually a spanish minor but I hesitate to say that in this group because I'm a little rusty right now so don't quiz me on that please some of the some of the things that I like to talk about with with majors are we have policy that you don't have to choose your major until the end of your sophomore year so I always tell students take some time figure out what you want to do try out all the different classes in the core curriculum and then you can dive deeply into your major after that so maybe front load it with the core curriculum we also have some pre professional tracks so if you're interested in something like law or medicine or engineering you can take this track which means you have a major so if you're doing engineering maybe you do physics and you have an engineering advisor that helps you know what classes to take to prepare for going to maybe grad school and engineering so that you enter the pay the workforce at a higher pay grade and with some more education but we don't necessarily have an engineering school or a law school just because we're we're too small for that I should say and I yeah I did say we have about 1450 students so it's a fairly small school and so that just it means we have to focus on the things that we we have already so you'll see there that we have a 9 to 1 faculty to student ratio which means that there are nine students for every one professor so the average class size is about 15 students really pretty small so you get a lot of interaction with your professors and your fellow students and they're pretty smart professors so they they hold a high standard and they they really help students to get there so there's a high level of academics at Hillsdale you'll see here some more academic opportunities but they also they're out on boats there so it's maybe even a little bit athletic that is our biology research station is about four and a half hours north of Hillsdale Hillsdale owns a little property a big property in rural Michigan where students can go and live for half of the summer and this is usually biology students they're doing research for their their thesis so they're learning all about biology and there's a lab up there so they can do their experiments and their thesis for their senior year we also for those students interested in biology have a cadaver lab that's pretty unique for such a small school so you get some practical experience a genetics research lab for students interested in pre-law Hillsdale has the highest LSAT score in Michigan of students graduating from Hillsdale so we have students in really cool places with law so the best law schools in the country as well as we have had like 11 out of 11 out of the 12 past years we've had students go clerk in the supreme court in the United States which is a huge deal so it prepares students well for those types of things post Hillsdale people always ask you know does a classical liberal arts education really prepare you for life after Hillsdale and we have a 98 placement rate so it's a pretty solid number there I got to study abroad with my time in Hillsdale I studied for a few weeks in Spain with Spanish but you can also go to France or Germany or Argentina or Scotland or England to do a study abroad experience that whip internship is also that's in Washington DC so students especially interested in politics and government and law can go study in DC for a semester and get Hillsdale college credits for that because we have a Hillsdale campus there where students can take classes at the same time I also want to mention graduate placement so like I said we have a 98 placement rate we have 92 92% of students that we surveyed in the last couple of years were happy with what they are doing so it's not just like oh you're flipping burgers somewhere but you're actually maybe flipping burgers is what you want to be doing so it lines up well with what you want to be doing and so we have those are some of the companies and graduate program students are in so it's setting students up well but I also want to just talk about what does it look like to be a student on campus we've talked a little bit about academics and where this will place you so the nitty gritty of it but also this is near and dear to my heart is student life on campus it's a really important part of college and learning and growing and so there are a lot of ways to be involved as a student in Hillsdale it's a pretty rural campus so we're out in the country but the the campus really turns inward to help students to have a lot of ways to be involved as students so some of those things you can see on the screen there's there's Greek life so we have four fraternities and three sororities there's spiritual life Hillsdale's are a Christian college but we're open to students from all over the place we have a lot of clubs for students to to pursue their religion or their faith with I want to touch on this because I think it's helpful we have we have the ninth most faith-filled students in the country which means that was rated by the Princeton Review which means that we though it's not required to be a person of faith or a Christian at Hillsdale and we do have a lot of Christians at Hillsdale and and there's a lot of ways to pursue your faith and make it your own at Hillsdale there's a lot of discussions surrounding those types of things asking big questions and trying to understand how to live well in the world so that's kind of an interesting and helpful thing to talk about if you're a student athlete we also have Division 2 athletics we have 14 Division 2 sports so we have soccer and basketball and American football and swimming and we have a shooting team which is kind of fun shotgun team so that's lots of ways to be involved as a student if you're not quite a varsity athlete like me I did intramural sports which means that you can just get a group of friends together and play sports together we also have 25 volunteer programs called goal programs that go out and build up the city and and people there and you can also have a job on campus so I I actually had a couple different jobs I was a resident assistant in my dorm I managed a coffee shop I love coffee so I also enjoy talking to people so it's a great job for me but residents life so in the dorm I was a RA and then head RA and then a house director and really enjoyed that so all freshmen live on campus you that's something we require students just to kind of help you get connected well on campus and then you can apply to live off campus later on but I really enjoyed the dorm I think that's actually a really good thing about 60 or 70% of students live on campus throughout so people tend to enjoy it it's a great place to be involved as a student um yeah I think that's all for that slide something that I like to talk about that's really a helpful thing that I think helps explain Hillsdale's culture a little bit is this honor code so this is something that all students sign when they arrive at Hillsdale and it says a Hillsdale college student is honorable in conduct honest in word indeed dutiful in study and service and respectful of the rights of others and it says through education the student rises to self-government so the reason we have this is to help kind of set the parameters for student conduct in living well on campus there are some funny videos that you can find about the honor code on Hillsdale's website you can actually follow Hillsdale's Instagram page that it's hcadmissions um and they have some fun videos about this because not every student necessarily remembers it word for word but they remember kind of what it's supposed to be doing it's it's to be living uh and pursuing the good life during your time at Hillsdale and hopefully afterward as well setting setting the trajectory for that so um uh while we're or christian school it's not required of students so this kind of stands in place i i i guess as a uh a faith statement we don't have a faith statement this sort of just helps like guide the culture in the parameters of the students on campus so we value being honest and respectful and self-governing and we believe that education really points students to do that as you're understanding more about the world and wisdom you're also growing in uh sort of the self-governing virtue of uh knowing how to be practically wise in every situation so you can also see some photos of Hillsdale students doing different things like sculpting and playing music and and doing cheerleading and athletics and those types of things i also want to talk about financial aid because that is the elephant in the room with every college you're going to be looking at i know especially with some international students i don't know how peru works but there are some countries where college is paid for by taxes and so students will say that is so much money for our college education so in the united states it is on students to fund their education and that is made up of either paying out of pocket or financial aid or which also includes loans so i just want to explain what this looks like you might be asking you know since you don't accept government funding are you extremely expensive and that would be the obvious question and the answer is actually no comparatively not terribly expensive so Hillsdale's um average or the total billed cost is about half of what similar colleges to Hillsdale cost so it's about 41 000 a year this year it increases just a little bit every year but the average financial aid package is about half of that so about 21-22 000 all students are automatically considered for merit scholarships based on the fact that you apply to Hillsdale so that's one thing to know and then we also have need-based aid both for domestic students but also for international students so we have a international student need-based aid form to fill out so if you're interested in that feel for the email me i'll send it your way but if you're a junior we'll get there when we get there so i would say first apply and then see where that stands because it's a free application but the reason we can keep our costs lower is that we have a ton of people that give money to Hillsdale they they value what we value and they want to help keep our doors open and help us get students to the college so that's why we can give financial aid that ranges some people have more financial aid than others it just depends and then the last way you can get scholarships is those talent-based scholarships you see on the screen and basically what that means is athletics or music or art or theater you can apply for those things specifically through those departments in the college so you could be a student athlete with scholarship or you could be a student musician with scholarship those types of things and then also you could work a job on campus that's a great way to keep costs low one other thing that i want to mention is that about 33% of students graduated with loan debt which means right around 70% graduated debt free from Hillsdale which is quite quite a lot and then of those that had debt the average finance the average debt at graduation was just under one year's cost of Hillsdale so about $30,000 so it's still a lot of money but as far as college colleges go at least in the United States that's a pretty small number so I just wanted to mention that so if any of this has been interesting to you or piqued your interest and you want to learn more I would encourage you to reach out to me or is the campus if you want to you're welcome to do that we also have virtual resistives it's a little too far but some next steps if you're looking to apply for Hillsdale the application will open this summer for you juniors for you seniors the deadline just passed unfortunately so also I don't know if you use junior and senior junior is 11th grade and senior is 12th grade so I just want to mention that the priority merit scholarship deadline is December 1st it's worth applying before then and then if you want to and you're really sold on Hillsdale you can apply November 1st that is a that is the early decision deadline one thing to mention this bottom thing here that says admissions interviews are strongly recommended that's kind of a unique thing to Hillsdale we do admissions interviews for as many students as we can this is something we do over zoom I do these all the time it's usually 30 to 45 minutes where I ask you questions get to know you a little bit and just kind of see who you are you know you can only learn so much about a person based on their their application that comes up on your screen so it's helpful to get to know people a little bit so we love doing those just reach out to me we can schedule one and we're doing those mostly in the fall for applicants but also a little bit later on if if we need to wait so there ends my presentation I'm going to leave this up on the screen here for a minute or two just so if you are interested you can sign up for more information or write down my information but thank you so much for listening to me talk for the last few minutes and yeah we have some time for questions now if anybody is interested to learn more all right great thank you yeah if you guys have any questions you want to open up your mics put something in the chat I was wondering actually maybe if you could tell us a little bit more about Hillsdale itself I know you mentioned kind of a little bit about the location being in Michigan and you know the weather aspects and things but I feel like it's uh you know when it comes to these smaller towns it's always good to hear from someone who's in the town who has I mean I know you're important in these days but you've spent a lot of time in Hillsdale so I don't know if there's anything else you could tell us about Hillsdale itself and maybe what people could expect yeah yeah so Andrew has actually gotten to see the town he came to visit me and shot a video on the youtube channel so if you want to see some shots of the campus that's a helpful way to do it also some videos online but they can't the the town of Hillsdale is a pretty pretty small town it's a fairly agriculturally driven town there's also a couple factories in the area but really quaint midwestern downtown area there's several coffee shops and little restaurants that suits and people from the town enjoy hanging out in one of my favorites was called rough draft I really enjoyed studying there and having some coffee and just getting to know people I actually worked there for a little bit but there's also a lake nearby called Bobby's which is a an old Native American name and so we would swim in there in the summer and skate there in the winter it's a beautiful area that the fall is really a beautiful time where the leaves are changing and it gets very crisp so I have very fond memories of the town it's small but that also means that you get to know people pretty well thank you and he's asking in the chat about different clubs student associations maybe I don't know if there's some you want to highlight yeah so um there are about a hundred plus different clubs in organizations so that includes things like the volunteer programs I mentioned there's 25 of those and the Greek system so fraternities and sororities as far as clubs go there are several that you could be involved in some that are particularly interesting are there's a sailing club that goes over to Lake Michigan which is a massive lake along the side of Michigan and they teach students to sail and they sail and race against other schools we also have a club soccer team we also have things like investment clubs who they manage a portion of Hillsdale's endowment so in the stock market they they there's an application to get into this club because it's kind of an important thing so they get a portion I think it's several thousand dollars to decide what happens to that in the market and so you get practical experience and how that works other things I was in a music honorary so I played music with my with a bunch of other guys and we have little ensembles and things like that so lots of ways to be involved as a student it just kind of depends on your interests we have a film music or film production club and if you have any specific questions about clubs feel free to throw in the chat as well okay great so your title was asking about scholarships and financial aid now you mentioned kind of the general package there that is kind of the typical amount I guess it might be good to expand on that a little more like is there are there any set amounts or maximums maybe like is it possible for someone to expect perhaps like a full ride or a larger portion maybe if they have a really outstanding profile yeah so that's really what it comes down to is one thing is if your application is exceptionally strong then you can qualify for more merit scholarships and think ways to do that are by really honing in your writing and making sure your writing is excellent and doing well in your time in high school so that your grades are strong and pursuing rigor and maybe a little bit more rigorous classes available to you and doing the admissions interview so really trying to make your application as strong as you can other ways to do that are showing need so if you're if your family doesn't have a whole lot of money that you can get scholarships need based aid through that whether it's loans or whether it's just gift aid so if you've given that so it is possible to have a full ride it's not extremely common but we do try to kind of spread that out to students so they're it just cuts the edge so more people are able to do that as far as like specific career scholarships I don't know many of that off the top of my head but occasionally that can happen with specific countries yeah um Miguel was asking about some of the study abroad opportunities too I know you mentioned a few of those countries um maybe you and I was kind of curious about the timing on those like you said for example you could do for instance like a semester in Washington DC but then also you know you did a few weeks in Spain um what's sort of like the length of time they could expect with some of those study abroad opportunities yeah so it tends to be in the summertime uh you can go longer if you really want to uh but yeah we have um three three or four of them are associated with studying a language so um like you could go to France if you're learning spain uh French French uh or you could go to Germany if you're learning German those tend to be through other universities and those transfer back over to Hillsdale um Scotland and England are interesting because you don't have to be studying a specific language for that um Scotland is St Andrews in Scotland there's a university there called St Andrews and then England is Oxford University so you could go to those two you could go to one of those universities and study maybe something in your major um so it tends to be the summer I did mine for one class in the summertime it was three weeks long so I lived with the host family for three weeks um some of these also have a dorm option so you could limit a dorm um so it just depends on what you're looking for all of these are handled through those three language department or uh your department if you're interested in in one of those other two so some really excellent opportunities for that I remember somebody was trying to talk when I was reading that question I was okay sorry I was gonna ask about your experience with international students about the international population in Hillsdale a I absolutely I love you can elaborate a bit about I I think there is a question related in the chat yes yeah I'd be happy to talk about that so uh Hillsdale has about 23 or 24 international students right now so um we have a good contingent we we have 12 or 13 countries represented right now on campus so uh we have an international club that does a really great job of helping students um to to assimilate to the United States and to Hillsdale specifically they have a meeting during orientation that they give out the information of other international students that have been there for a little bit longer so they know the things that students need to to have help with like how do you get a phone plan in the United States and how do you get a job what you need and so there are a couple staff members that also specifically are dedicated to helping international students um for example Rich Mogenberg he's the head of financial aid he he uh put a lot of his personal time into helping students just be welcomed on campus um one other thing that's helpful to know is that only about 30 percent of students are from Michigan and the rest are from all 50 states in 12 other countries so a lot of students are showing up there for the first time and are getting to know people so it's not like everybody in Michigan knows everybody it's just uh everybody's coming from different places and uh and it's getting to know one another and has generally has a pretty genuine interest in getting to know other people so it's a pretty though it's far away it's a pretty warm place to be welcomed into yeah I think that's a good point to make too like it's kind of like if it's your first year in a new high school everybody's new even if some of the people might know each other from previous school experiences like you know you're still starting out of college the majority of people don't know each other so I don't think you have to worry too much about being like the one international person while everybody else already kind of has groups and things formed I imagine you're all going to integrate very well um there's a question from Danielle about the contacting coaches and recruiters and you mentioned sports scholarship so he wanted to know a little bit more about that too yeah absolutely so you can't if you're an athlete and you're interested in pursuing being recruited by our athletics department you can go on to your sports specific website so let's say you play basketball uh you can you can google hillsdale basketball we're the chargers so I think it's hillsdalechargers.com and find your specific sport and usually in the plus tab on the like there's several things and then there's the plus tab there's a drop down menu that says recruit questionnaire that is you can fill that out to say hey I'm interested in being recruited by Hillsdale here and you can submit some of your highlight videos and things like that so they the athletics department pursues scholarships I don't have specific amounts off the top of my head but they do make it possible for international student we have a lot of international athletes so that is a great way to pursue coming to Hillsdale and then I see a question about finding jobs so we have a career services department that helps whoever wants to to find a job or an internship over the summer so they are located on campus they have several different staff members so you can go into them and you can say hey I'm interested in you know working in film or being a doctor or something like that and they they help students research we have a website called handshake which is kind of like linked in but for college students and they vet all of the companies that post internships and jobs on there so we have a relationship with all of those companies so that's a great way just to find some just to do your own research but also to have people that know a lot about different industries help students find different things so like I said it's about a 98% placement rate within six months of graduation so pretty high numbers there students tend to be pretty pretty well prepared for for jobs post Hillsdale any other questions I have a question I know Hillsdale college is a very faith-oriented university but how does it transfer in college life because I mean I am an atheist and I'm already how would I see there that's a great question so we have a wide variety I don't know the numbers off the top of my head we don't we don't count those numbers but I know they're from my experience there's a wide variety of different viewpoints on campus and we really value discussion and I would say if you're uncomfortable talking about the Bible or talking about what you believe you would probably be uncomfortable at Hillsdale but if you're open to talking about yourself and learning from other people and having a genuine curiosity in other people that's a really good thing to have at Hillsdale because that's very common it's just you know genuine curiosity of like what do you believe in why and what do you think are the big answers of you know why are we here and what do we do on earth as human beings like what's the point and some of those more philosophical and potentially spiritual questions come up a lot at Hillsdale just because those are the types of things that Hillsdale students and professors like to talk about so as far as you know what I feel welcome here you know I can't answer that question for everybody but I can say from from what I know of the college it's a place that really values people and really values what people have to say and asking good questions and asking come trying to come up with good answers from history and from philosophy and theology and those types of things so um I think uh yeah I think there's a wide variety that that of people that create a community that tends to be pretty genuine and curious about about other people I kind of um a little bit unrelated but somewhat I've one thing I've noticed about Hillsdale perhaps more than any other university that I've kind of investigated and had contact with is just the immense online presence uh between videos on YouTube courses that you're giving out for free and things there there's a lot of uh just a lot of material and a lot of content from Hillsdale out there and I was wondering if you could kind of share a little bit about that maybe why you guys have dedicated so much effort into that um I'm also a little jealous of your subscriber count on YouTube but like that's a personal issue I'll get over it but I am I am curious to hear about that because I find a lot of other colleges and universities don't put that much stuff out there that's a really good question I think I think it's two things I think the first is that it's a mission-based thing where uh if you look up online part of the mission is that we we really value um giving a what is it a social, moral, academic, and philosophical or spiritual education to all who want it and so they thought you know how are we supposed to do that we're only the small college in Michigan and so they thought well the internet is a great way to do that so we have filmed all these free online courses for not for credit um it's just for personal enrichment so um there's courses courses on Euclidean Geometry and and the U.S. Constitution or the United States or philosophy and these types of things so it turns out that a lot of people just like to learn and so um we just we we produce those that people can find those we also have lots of educational materials I think the other aspect is that because we are not government-tally funded we need the support of people and so uh the president of the college likes to say for the things that we don't charge for uh we're making a killing uh and for the things that we do charge for we're losing our shirts so uh he's basically saying the people that are on board with Hillsdale's mission want to support the things that we care about and so um that's a great way for us to connect with them and though we don't charge for them people are often like they feel led to to give money to the college so it's kind of this interesting duality of uh it's a relationship and we call people uh that donate to the college or that are around the college um friends of the college because and I really think that is a genuine uh sort of connection there so good question I haven't gotten that one before but I think yeah I appreciate that yeah it's just something that stood out to me because even after uh my trip up to visit um I was I came back home and my mom's husband was actually checking out one of the courses from Hillsdale and I was like hey that's just where I was today just a complete coincidence but it's something that got my attention you know it's it's uh I think that's nice though that you know you're putting a lot of information out there free charge and giving people access to those things as well that's cool yeah um we have time for a few more questions I believe anything else you'd like to ask I want to know if there are a in-campus opportunities work for international students yes there are considering the visa limitations and how that works yeah so um students need a social security number which is something governmental that you need to have here uh to work on campus and uh I know international students don't usually have that so uh Rich Mogenberg the man who runs financial aid will often drive students to the nearest city to go register for that so you can have that number and then you can work a job on campus so uh it just takes a little bit of work to make that happen but uh it is worthwhile and definitely a possibility so um all jobs are open to international students just like any other student well anything else we got into the questions pretty quick on this one so we've had a lot of good ideas here yeah this was fun I'll put my information here up at the end so if anyone does want to reach out I'm happy to answer phone calls or emails whatever you'd prefer but thank you all so much for having me I really have enjoyed this opportunity to speak with all of you yeah thank you for being here honestly really appreciate it it's you know for me it's a pleasure to see again and also just to have you here and to share you know different perspective about Hillsdale with everybody here today and thank you to everyone for participating and for all the wonderful questions really appreciate that too um hopefully we can have you back another time love that thank you all right all right well with that we'll wrap this one up we'll be uh getting back on at eight with our last uh presentation for the fair so thank you all for coming and we'll see you later see you at eight bye all right so we'll have Illinois Tech coming on at eight o'clock I'm really looking forward to telling you guys a little bit more about IIT these guys have a full tuition scholarship for international students and if you saw the video that I put out a couple of weeks ago we have uh we did an interview in a campus tour of IIT it's a beautiful campus a lot of modern buildings some great architecture as with everything in the city of Chicago but also the students there I mean we they are students who are getting a lot done in a little bit of time and even though it's a tech school they also do have other kinds of majors like business majors and things and they've got an awesome music school on their campus like there's a lot of different things about IIT that you might not know so we're going to take a little break we'll come back and talk to IIT at eight o'clock nice little crowd here so looks like we can get it started I'll let these people in let's start getting some more in here I'll give you a quick little intro and we'll get going all right welcome back to the fair thank you guys for attending this our last session of our first score fair and we've got the Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Tech IIT however you want to call them they're a fantastic university I've had the chance to finally visit the campus after we Tyler and I here Tyler Hardy is going to be representing IIT and telling you about them tonight but Tyler and I met virtually first and we made a nice episode about IIT back then that a lot of people have checked out and so I had to go see the campus for myself got to go there not too long ago loved it and I think it's got some amazing programs that you're going to be interested in and also some really really good scholarship opportunities as well that I hope we can hear more about because there's some very impressive offers coming from IIT they're located in Chicago which is probably one of my favorite cities I think on the planet honestly love it there so I'm looking forward to hearing more about Illinois Tech hope you are too Tyler take it away okay awesome thank you so much and welcome everyone to this presentation on Illinois Institute of Technology where you're going to learn about how Illinois Tech can elevate your future going forward as was mentioned we are located in the city of Chicago which is the third largest city within the United States we're about I want to say 15 minutes from the main downtown area of Chicago so there's lots to do lots of great restaurants lots of internship opportunities and just areas to hang out with friends during the summer winter fall months during your time in Chicago so as mentioned we are a smaller campus 125 acres and what I mean by that is you can basically wake up I want to say 10 to 15 minutes before your class and get there on time if you rush which I don't recommend at all but we are three miles from the loop or downtown Chicago which again is about I want to say 15 to 20 minutes via the red line and green line train system within the city of Chicago we're also connected to O'Hare international mid airport and midway international airport so there's lots of places to go and especially if you're looking to explore the rest of the United States there's lots of opportunities to do so in terms of where we are located we're located in the historic Bronzeville and Bridgeport area we're right by a U.S. cellular field which is a professional baseball field as well as Chinatown Chinatown is one stop away from us there's lots of great Chinese food throughout the city you're going to find great sort of points near me I live right by Little Vietnam so there's lots of great Vietnamese food as well so you'll find little areas like that all over the city of Chicago now a little bit about what the classroom makeup looks like we are a smaller school so about 3000 undergraduate students with 25% being transfer students so students that maybe started a university and then decide to come over to us that is also possible we have about 3200 graduated law students so that just means there's lots of great opportunities for research and other sort of collaboration with these grad professors and grad students we have a 10 to one student to faculty ratio so for every 10 students there's one faculty member so that's really really small class sizes so you're going to be receiving really really individualized attention during your time in Illinois Tech all 50 states are represented and 37% of the total Illinois Tech population is international so we are a very diverse campus and you'll find students from all over the world and finally we have an 88% retention rate so between the first and second year 88% of students choose to stay with us now a little bit about our colleges so we have five colleges at Illinois Tech to start we have the armor college of engineering this houses programs like mechanical engineering civil engineering architectural engineering and biomedical engineering we have the college of architecture which is a five-year architecture degree what makes this degree special is that after the five years students are able to become certified architects because it's a bachelor of architecture and I want you to remember that much of our campus was actually designed by a famous architect Niez van der Rohe so if you're one of our architecture students you're going to be working in his works of art basically during your time at Illinois Tech next our college of computing houses programs like computer science artificial intelligence a computer engineering and information technology and management after that we have the lewis college of science and letters so we have programs ranging from biology to global studies to astrophysics to biochemistry among many many many others within this program there are a few programs that are a little bit easier to get into such as global studies because we're not looking for those high math scores but in general we are looking for higher math scores which i'll go into in deeper detail in future slides and finally the school of business houses our business administration degree students can minor in business as well and I always like to tell students you look at who's successful nowadays you see Elon Musk you see Jeff Bezos they sort of have that stem and business background so minoring in business will give you that edge going forward and robotics is something that's very huge at Illinois Tech this slide just highlights one of our students who actually designed a robot that was able to fly to the top of trees and gather materials from the top of those trees in order to study it at that time so this just points to how big robotics is at Illinois Tech and there's lots of great research opportunities for robotics as well finding success from an uncertain beginning we have students from all over the world from all different backgrounds and oscar casales was one of our students who had undocumented status so he talks about how he learned his master's degree from the stored school of business and how we supported him going forward from that sort of stature and it solidified his determination to succeed and support others in his community one thing that stands out about us is our accelerated master's degree so all students can complete two or sorry all students are able to complete an accelerated master's degree at Illinois Tech if they so choose so some students can master it normally takes five years six years sorry it normally takes six years to finish a master degree but with us you'd be able to finish it in five years and pay that same undergraduate tuition rate for that fifth year along with your four years of undergraduate tuition so it's a great way to save money get out into the workforce sooner and do what you want to do sooner in life some hallmarks of an Illinois Tech education so what maybe stands out about us first is ITP or introduction to the profession all students take an ITP course during their first semester at Illinois Tech and this exposes you to research and careers within your field so if you're a computer science major you would take an ITP for computer science and this introduces you to various career opportunities and research opportunities to make sure it's the right fit major for you next we have iPro which stands for inter professional projects this is probably what defines an Illinois Tech education all students complete two iPro's during their time at Illinois Tech so what an iPro is basically say you may be a computer science major you'll be placed into a group with an architecture major a business major a physics major and as this diverse group you need to identify a real-world problem then come up with a solution to those problems an example I always like to give is that we're right by the Chicago White Sox baseball stadium and they needed a new way to measure how far home runs were going outside of the stadium so they actually got an Illinois Tech iPro team together they surveyed or researched the stadium and developed this system for this professional sports team that they still use this day which is pretty pretty cool it's it connects students to hands-on experiences as well as sponsored companies through Illinois Tech finally the idea shop is our unique collaborative maker space where you can basically make whatever you want with our state of the art prototyping lab space collaborative teaming areas and it's about 13,000 square foot facilities so it's quite big one of our students actually designed what he calls the X cube um which is kind of a more complex Rubik's cube with another dimension to it because you found that too easy apparently um so he was actually able to design this using Illinois Tech equipment and it now it's sold throughout Barnes and Nobles or a bookstore throughout the United States now a little bit about campus life so though our students I want to say take their academics more seriously than maybe students at a regular school at a regular state college or private school because we are a STEM school um they still like to have fun we have over 150 student organizations 17 NCAA division three sports teams and over 660 student events held on campus each year out of the 150 student organizations we have things ranging from music and radio theater cosplay robotics journalism lgbtq and urban farming among many many others we also have fraternity and sorority life so 10 Greek chapters eight fraternities two sororities and I know for a fact that there are many many international students involved in this Greek life um so it's a great way to make friends uh and sort of see what's possible it's basically a huge house full of friends that you make during your time at university um which is pretty cool um and your real athletics and fitness classes are also popular with flag football ultimate frisbee floor hockey tennis outdoor soccer among many others next Illinois Tech esports that is something that's really growing at Illinois Tech if you look at that top left hand picture that's actually a photograph of our esports lounge at Illinois Tech within the next year or two as well we're supposed to have an esports stadium built near campus so that'll also really really grow Illinois Tech's esports community as well finally the bog is our on-campus hangout and gathering space featuring an eight lane bowling alley our kid games billiards foosball ping pong and performances ranging from karaoke to live bands to stand out comedy so it's a great place to hang out if you're not looking to explore the city of Chicago now as mentioned we have athletics at Illinois Tech too we have pretty much everything besides american football i want to say so baseball basketball cross country lacrosse soccer swimming and diving tennis track and field and volleyball in terms of housing and residence life uh we have dorms right on campus as well most of our first year students end up in McCormick student village which is our traditional communal style living six residence halls in one we also have georgia casick hall which is high rise pod style living so you would have your own room and then a shared space in the middle with other rooms around it and then john and jean row village is suite style living so you would have a roommate a shared room in the middle shared bathroom in the middle then two roommates on the other side and this was actually voted one of the coolest dorms in the nation by us news and world report now let's go into the specifics about admission and financial aid in terms of how to make the cost of education at Illinois Tech affordable so for we have a free application you can apply online through the common app the deadline to apply for fall was march 1st but if anyone wants to apply further they can still do so just reach out to me at the email at the end of this slide right here and we can get you set up with a sort of special application and next for spring admission we have a november 15th deadline for the classes that begin in january so in terms of a first year class profile the middle 50 percent of admitted students so 25 percent scored below this and 25 percent scored above this so we have a range of students the middle 50 percent of admitted students scored the top 10 percent of the graduating class with a weighted GPA between a 4.0 and 4.36 and sat or act scores between this range we do super score but luckily we do not require the sat for applications with us which i'll go into further detail right here admission requirements so we are test optional for fall 2022 so sat or act scores are not required we need at least three years of high school transcripts one letter of recommendation official TOEFL IELTS or dual lingo scores and if you're an architecture student a portfolio is optional but recommended in terms of recommended coursework we're going to be looking primarily at your mathematics grades so looking for a's and b's in major specific courses like the equivalent of calculus uh precalculus and those kinds of courses are what we like to see um or hl math for example um we are also looking at your engineering and science grades social science if you get a c in a history class one year that's not the end of the world um because again we're looking primarily at those math scores now you can see the total cost of attendance on the right side so this includes tuition room and board fees health insurance and this comes out to around 68 000 annually um international students are automatically considered for merit scholarships that range from between 14 000 to 25 000 automatically through the application through the common app so you can deduct that amount from that amount right there we also have a very competitive full tuition scholarship so if you're applying for fall of 2023 you'll need to apply by fall or november 15th 2022 for this scholarship so it's a separate application as well as uh application through the common application um so that's the november 15th deadline that covers full tuition and it's very competitive um i believe last year one of my students from brazil was actually awarded it was it was very excited citing um because in the past we weren't awarding the scholarship to international students but now it's open to international students um so really really make sure you apply for that scholarship if you're looking to start in fall 2023 you can see some of the optional practical training where students end up so where students end up working after illinois tech then includes amazon coca-cola deloitte xpedia google idm visa goldman sachs so lots of different big name companies are looking for illinois tech graduates you can see some of our career outcomes on this page too you can scan that qr code or go to career outcomes dot it dot edu you're able to filter this by major to see what's possible with an illinois tech education so 68 percent of graduates are employed full time within six months for the class of 2020 with a mean salary of around 64 000 annually and you can filter that even more by major um by school by year by internship status as well um so that that's really helpful in determining if illinois tech is the right fit for you i also after going through all that i also want to touch on the opportunity and value of an illinois tech education we have the best roi in our states or the return on investment we're number 42 best value national universities and number two in the nation for overall upward mobility among highly selective private colleges so um our students are very very successful after graduating from illinois tech due to the one-on-one sort of nature um and the hands-on learning experiences that we offer so now i kind of want to touch on something new that's happening at illinois tech it's known as elevate your future which is the new sort of uh mantra and collectivism way of viewing illinois tech going forward so our purpose since 1890 was to lift the collective power of difference to advance technology and progress for all our mission and role is to educate bequare students to be future innovators and tech leaders so how we live up to it this is our elevate promise illinois tech's one of a kind educational initiative basically what makes elevate unique we guarantee experiences um ranging from study abroad to internships to research along with a customized plan with your academic advisor to help you find the right job readiness uh methods going forward and this is what we're guaranteeing for students that start with us at illinois tech so these experiences include internships study away research competition short courses customized plan developed with teams of advisors academic career or alumni and we're guaranteeing career placement within six months of graduation or we're going to be able to offer free master's classes and a sort of upskilling um curriculum for you if you're looking to improve yourself going forward so again if you are not able to get a job within six months of graduation we'll help you take courses at the graduate level and pay for those classes and that's the commitment that we're making to our students going forward so some student outcomes of elevate your future empowered with 21st century skills experience essential for employment 91 of employers look for previous experience they look for internships they look for students that are cultural they look for students that work with people from various backgrounds they like to see that a 90.5 job placement and high starting salaries and low college debt going forward that's the sort of outcomes we are seeing with this elevate your future initiative now your elevate journey if you do start with us we have a first year experience so that's mentorship and introduction to your profession so nothing too extreme uh your two is professional experience one so maybe a career workshop or internship year three is professional experience two so maybe an internship study abroad or research experience and finally year four is i pro so maybe you're going to be working again alongside people from different backgrounds identifying a real world problem then coming up with solutions to those problems so this is could be anyone's elevate journey it doesn't have to go in this exact order but this gives you an idea as to what your experiential learning time will look like at Illinois Tech all right that wraps up my presentation right here again if anyone wants to reach out to us in order to apply for fall 2022 please send an email to i n t l at i i t dot edu um letting us know and we'll be able to set up an application for you going forward um with that being said i'd like to open the floor up for any questions so if anyone has any questions please let me know yeah feel free to open up your mics or in the chat i had one that i wanted to ask you because i actually mentioned this to a couple of our students who were interested in some arts programs and things and i know you have a relationship with the Vander Cook School of Music and i believe that's also one of your like a program in there i don't know if you could tell us a little bit more about your connection with that school or how do you guys work together yeah yeah so we have a music school right on campus Vander Cook School of Music and it's in collaboration with Illinois Tech so students wanted to minor in music we do have a music minor um and we have various classes that are offered through Vander Cook School of Music like choir instrumental classes among the like and it is quite popular with students who like to explore that sort of different background aside from the STEM experience that they're looking for great so yeah if you guys have any questions you'd like to ask or anything else you want to know about it go right ahead i have a question teller uh what you said about students that do not get lend a job and they get some some classes at a master's level how does this work for international students that depend on a visa to stay in the us that's a good question um we we promise some sort of way um in order to help finance it maybe it might not be master's credit classes but maybe a certificate program for example um or just something to help with finding further job placement it doesn't necessarily need to be master's courses um they work with the school to figure out what works best for them in terms of this extra support that they're looking for okay great thank you good question i think in the chat here and he's asking if there's any sports scholarships at it no unfortunately we can't offer sports scholarship we're in nc double three division we're nc double a division three school which means we're not able to give scholarships for sports um but what that means also is that our students um are really focused on their academics but sports aren't something that comes first for them so it's really easy to sort of balance sports life and academic life at Illinois Tech because it's not as strenuous or difficult as maybe an nc double a division one school anything else there we go type in a big one Miguel's asking saying courses after graduation if you are okay still kind of following up on the visa thing saying if you're still enrolled in classes are you still considered a student for visa purposes yes depending on the amount of credits that you have so you may be enrolling in three classes that should be enough for visa purposes i have a question i have a question i think you can also type it yeah i'm having a little microphone issue there getting that feedback yeah if you want to type it out we'll get to you that was good well we're waiting on that i did want to ask also just about um how easy is it for international students to get some work on campus opportunities or maybe opportunities as an r.a later on since that's often a way that you know students use to help finance things when they're studying abroad yeah so it looks like she's asking that question too are there internships on campus um so yes international students can work up to 20 hours per week on campus so we have students that are working in dining in admissions with professors at waiting desks so there's lots of different opportunities and i want to say normally after your first year is when you go looking for those opportunities in terms of internships that's definitely possible um through our elevate platform which i'm going to stop sharing really quick and let me find the link here and i'll put it in the chat box so this is our elevate portal that i just put in the chat box and this houses basically all of our external job and internship opportunities career resources student engagement on campus industry help and communities on campus you're able to look through all the internships that you know maybe are being advertised through illinois tech and then are there any study abroad or exchange programs as an undergrad yes we have various partnerships with schools all over the world primarily in europe i want to say we have a partnership with the university of birmingham as well as the university of vienna um there's but you can also study pretty much anywhere you'd want to go we have lots of different opportunities for study abroad yeah are there any uh countries or universities in particular related to that with the study abroad opportunities maybe some popular destinations i would say the popular destinations include the uk italy um we had a partnership with the school in brazil as well it hasn't been as popular the past few years for obvious reasons uh due to covet but that's what i would say the uk and italy are the big ones uh that are represented by students at our school any other questions out there yes how big is the international population so it's around 37 percent of the total school population let me do some math here really quick and i can let you know how many students that is that's about 2000 students on our campus that are international around 2200 students so yes it is very very diverse a very diverse campus most of our international students are graduate students but we do have a sizable undergraduate population as well and he's asking about student life you mentioned greek life but you were saying maybe outside of that what uh maybe some other things you could talk about student life experiences there yeah in terms of student life we have over 150 student organizations on campus so if you don't find anything that's of interest to you you're able to make basically your own club at illinois tech um and you have to remember we're also in the city of chicago so there's so much to do outside of campus as well just exploring the city going to cultural spots i know there's lala palooza and pitchfork music festival during the summer months is really really fun so i think campus life is intertwined with chicago life at illinois tech because there's so much to do on top of that um and as mentioned we do have the bog which is our on-campus hangout zone on campus so if you're not looking to leave campus you can hang out there um you know play pool with friends or play video games drink if you're of age so it's a really cool place to hang out um and that's just one of the few places that we have on campus a design for student life at illinois tech and i just want to add to that about chicago because i i could never really get enough about chicago and actually kind of just asked about transport i was something else i was going to say it's so easy to get around chicago between metro and trains they've got a lot of really cool trains that go above ground but then they also have a metro system in other parts of the city too it's uh it's just a great city in general and it's also a lot more affordable than other big cities i i find that's always the thing i can't understand when i leave chicago is like i didn't spend that much money while i was there i don't know because you go to a big city you kind of expect okay everything's going to be really expensive but actually it's very affordable in the in the surrounding area even more so yeah yeah no i agree i think the transportation in chicago is really really great i'm all the way on the north side of the city and all i do is take a red line train system straight down and it's about a 40 minute train ride but it's super convenient it's i walk right up to the stop i take it and it's a straight shot to illinois tack um so you'll find areas like that all over the city where it's easy to get around particularly with our bus system um and our cta system that's the one i took is there like any discounts for students sorry is there like any discounts for students for transport yes uh all students get a u pass through their tuition so you're able to travel as much as you want uh using public transit in the city of chicago for a set fee already paid through your tuition so you're already able to you know use it as much as you want travel city using the cta as much as you want perfect any other questions anything else you'd like to know i wanted to also ask a little bit more about the full tuition scholarship but is there any extra requirements for that application if they want to apply to the scholarship or is it also automatically considered if they meet the deadline let me find it really quick and i'll put it in the chat box so this scholarship you have to apply for it separately so you need to submit your common application by november 15th and then apply for this by november 15th um there it is okay so i'm going to put it in the chat box you need to fill out separate um at a separate application for this um so there's a formal essay as well as a nomination form uh that you'll need with a copy of your completed applications then you'll need to do that as well so it's um it's it is a separate application so make sure that you are applying for this by that november 15th deadline on top of your regular application that's the important thing all right good to know i know you told me when we talked about that before that it was pretty competitive that they're only a handful given out each year but it's definitely something that i'd like to encourage some people here to give a you know take a shot at yeah you never know you never know hey well if there are no other questions second like they've been going pretty hard this week i'm sorry like i said you're closing out the last session so maybe get a little sleepy on this yeah but um i really do appreciate you taking the time to talk with us tyler it's uh always appreciated i know you have a busy day on your plate your stay up late to talk to us too so really thank you very much for your time um there is one more all right we'll get one more in here as far as what you're looking for a question yeah go what are you looking for an applicant we like seeing an applicant that loves hands-on experiences that's maybe into robotics or building things or just wants to do things with their hands um we like to see a's and b's specifically in major specific courses so math courses science courses the equivalent of a's and b's if you get a c in a history course one year that's not the end of the world because we're looking at those math and science grades but really someone that loves hands-on experiences and has a knack or is very talented in STEM or tech how do we find talent what would you say maybe if we're to define that idea of someone who's talented in those areas yeah in terms of talent i just mean i think it's more so experience so looking at you giving involved with various opportunities if available if available um at your school so if you have a robotics club at your school or any sort of extracurricular activity really get involved in that and i think that speaks more to talent than just how good an applicant is just seeing how involved they are in various things at their school great well i think with that we'll let you go tyler i think we've managed to address pretty much everything here from most of the people appreciate again you take the time to talk to us and hopefully we can do another session like this you know i'd like to do another round of score fair and bring you guys on board for the next edition so and maybe i like i said maybe i can get up there when it's actually like warm and i can see a lot of students on campus and walk around and get some more student interviews because i had a good time while i came up there and i always love a good excuse to visit chicago so yeah you guys will have me again i'll be back yeah of course of course right well thank you so much you uh would you like to put up your contact info one more time real quick just to make sure everybody can see it real good there before we go it's been a little bit there you go so yeah you guys can get in touch directly with the office at uh the intel at it dot edu tyler hardy's your man and if you need anything of course you can always ask us to if you need help getting in touch so thanks again tyler so much for your participation i thank you everybody for being here thank you thanks for having me everyone and thanks for being so attentive us students oh thank you all right well we'll be in touch have a great night and thanks again for attending the fair awesome have a good night everyone bye guys bye tyler and with that we wrap up the score fair the first edition of the fair is over feels good um yeah hope you enjoyed it hope you learned a little bit about these different universities if you guys need any help applying to any of these universities or you want to learn more about them you can get in touch with us at prepwithscore.com you can leave me a comment here on the channel i can always just get back to you directly that way you got their contact information too from these different universities you can always just hit them up directly uh we're hoping to do another one of these maybe later in the year or maybe we'll just do another one next year we'll see how it goes we're going to evaluate that and keep moving forward but i'm hoping to do another fair that's even bigger and better than this year's edition thank you all for watching and i will see you next week