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Olin College provides a tuition scholarship! [5]
Prompt: Given what you know about Olin College, please tell us why you want to attend Olin, and why you think Olin is a good fit for you.
I have researched innumerable colleges to find the perfect college for me. And without doubt, I firmly believe that Olin College is the best college for me.
The first thing I consider in choosing a college is its tuition. Coming from a low-income family, I had to always to seek for scholarships available for students. There are a lot of scholarships opened to citizens, but not many to international students. Unlike other colleges, Olin College provides a tuition scholarship (valued at more than $85,000 over four years) for every enrolled student. This opportunity is unique not because it gives scholarships to every enrolled student, but because it gives scholarships to students including international students! Public schools like UC Berkeley or GIT do not offer any sort of scholarships to international students. In addition, their tuitions are considerably high especially for the international students. Private schools do offer limited scholarships and financial aids to international students. However, they are not guaranteed. According to the chancellor for Admissions of one private university, the tuition scholarships are competitive and are not guaranteed even to those who are in need of financial support. Olin College, however, offers a unique opportunity cannot be found in anywhere else.
Olin College is a newly built university that is thriving its way to become the best engineering institution. To be honest, I never heard of Olin until I had recently researched universities in Massachusetts. Researching Olin, I found out that it runs a program called SCOPE (Senior Capstone Program in Engineering), which motivates students to have more innovative thoughts and to invent revolutionizing technologies. This program has caught my mind, because I want to be like Elon Musk. Though Elon Musk graduated from University of Pennsylvania, I'm confident that through SCOPE program I will be able to become an innovative thinker, inventor and entrepreneur like him. I have actually visited Olin College last summer. I toured the whole Olin campus, and it was probably the best campus I have ever visited. Unlike other universities that were either cramped in a city or isolated in a vast area of dust, Olin College was the mediocre of the two conditions. Although it wasn't a big campus like Texas A&M, it was definitely spatial enough for me to wander around to feel the nature. The modern styled buildings attracted me to think 'I have to attend this college.' After touring the campus, I went into the building fascinated to see what the students were doing. However, they were doing an important project so they didn't let anyone in. Though I wasn't able to see what the students were working on, I had the chance to talk to one of the students involved in the programs in Olin College. They told me that there are more programs other than SCOPE and assured me that Olin is the best college for engineering.
Olin's satisfying tuition, amazing programs, and stunning buildings gave me a firm belief that Olin is a perfect college for me.
