by Warren » May 10, 2003 @ 5:53pm
^-- I've talked to so many big company recruiters (Dow Chemical, GE, GM, and Bayer), and they all say that, because of the slow economy, they are EXTREMELY picky about who they hire, and they ALL said that there are only 3 schools in the US that I can go to, MIT, Georgia Tech, and CalTech, any others, they said, wouldn't be pointless because they would refuse to hire me. They said, that even if I get a 4.0 (100%) at Tufts University, that because it's not MIT, they'll just tear up my application, and they ALL said this!! So Arizona State...sorry, but they say they're a 3rd tier school.
Jaybot, Arizona State actually has an exchange program with Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, perhaps you can (if you go to Arizona State, which I'm assuming) get some info on INP.
As for language, my average for French 1 was a 99%, French 2 was 99%, and so far in French 3 it's a disappointing 97% (for me, anyone else would love that grade). I love languages, so I don't think I'd have a problem, because I want to go there to learn it, though I would rather learn German...(I'll take classes in it). INP is a 3 year school, then the next 2 years is for a masters (which I would do), and I can stay at INP, or go somewhere else. I was looking at ETH Zurich, but they're site is all in German, so I don't know anything about them.
My absolute main concern about going to France for college, is the textbooks. I just want to know if I can get textbooks in English, because even if I can't fully comprehend lectures at first, I'm sure the professeurs speak English, so I can ask them (it's a small school too, 3000 (4000 with grads), so one-on-one with teachers is good). But if all the textbooks are only in French....that would be a major problem for me.