How hard would it to be to go to a good American grad school

>>8585232

The biggest hurdle would be getting admitted as an international student. It's definitely doable, but the bar would be higher.

>>8585232
Apply to oxford or cambridge. As long as good grades probably would be fine; uk unis love international students, oxbridge has in general a low application to place ratio too (e.g. 4/1 for undergrad) and i imagine could be cheaper than usa.

>>8585492
Cheaper then free?

>>8585232
Contact a PI you'd like to work for, ask them to help you with admissions. Just going for a "good school" is the wrong method for choosing a grad school. Some of the PI's that work at ivy league schools are nobodies who'll be nobodies for their entire career, some PI's at mid-range schools are well-known and respected in their field (i.e. they have connections). Don't work for a nobody hoping that by the time you graduate they'll have the same connections - let the Chinese students work for them. Work for someone with grant money, with a lot of papers in the best journals, and who has both academic and industry connections so when you graduate you'll have ample job opportunities.

Source: PhD in Organic Chemistry, got a job in the industry BEFORE I defended my thesis because my PI is a member of the scientific board.

>>8585508
Hmm i see. Well usually for science its easy to get funded, but i dont know how or if that applies internationally, and i think only for phd or 1 + 3 programs.

>>8585508
I would be really surprised if u couldnt get funded internationally actually, for science. In uk you nearly cant get funded for arts lol.

>>8585508
What does PI stand for?

>>8585492
How does Oxbridge calculate GPA for graduate admissions and what would the range be like?

>>8585573
4.0 is a 1:1 and 3.33 is a 2:1 apparently. Every uni in uk asks for 2:1 atleast. But higher the better. I imagine most or alot of applicants have 1:1 or relatively close toward it it when applying to oxford or cambridge.

>>8585567
private investigator