Admission ICU?

[gotluck]

Hi I'll get straight to the point but recently, I've been thinking of applying to a university located in Japan.
I'm Japanese, but I've been basically living in the US my whole life. ( 14 years?)
Though I can speak japanese relatively well, (small conversations) I fail at writing and reading miserably.
I'm in my senior year now, and I'm thinking of applying to a university in Japan to develop my bilingual skills as well as to major in some kind of us-japan relation education.
What I was going to ask was how hard it is to get into ICU. I've heard really great things about it. I will probably be a regular student in September if I get accepted, but I can't really find any topics online that say what the admission scores are. (gpa, sat, act, etc)
I've read that the average act score was 25.( I have 31) But I haven't seen anything relating to GPA. Since my GPA is on the low side, I'm a little worried about getting in
Thanks a lot.

 

[Elizabeth]

Hi I'll get straight to the point but recently, I've been thinking of applying to a university located in Japan.
I'm Japanese, but I've been basically living in the US my whole life. ( 14 years?)
Though I can speak japanese relatively well, (small conversations) I fail at writing and reading miserably.
I'm in my senior year now, and I'm thinking of applying to a university in Japan to develop my bilingual skills as well as to major in some kind of us-japan relation education.
What I was going to ask was how hard it is to get into ICU. I've heard really great things about it. I will probably be a regular student in September if I get accepted, but I can't really find any topics online that say what the admission scores are. (gpa, sat, act, etc)
I've read that the average act score was 25.( I have 31) But I haven't seen anything relating to GPA. Since my GPA is on the low side, I'm a little worried about getting in
Thanks a lot.

Why don't you contact the admissions dept. directly ? If there isn't a listing on their website it probably means there isn't a minimum requirement. Although most study abroad programs don't go much below a 3.0.


Think about the Japanese summer program as a way to make yourself more competitive. It's tough to get in but I've thought of that myself knowing a family that homestays for it. How cool if that was the assignment. They do it for Temple students, too, if ICU doesn't work out...

 

[epigene]

This page shows the requirements for ICU. Although the data may not be current, it should serve as reference.

http://subsite.icu.ac.jp/ieeo/SeptAdm/faq_admission.html