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12-14-2006, 01:14 PM
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#1 | | New Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 17
| Anyone from France?
Hey everydoby!
I'm Evelyne and I'm French and I'd be very interested in knowing about you if you're French as well, since I don't know many French who are considering going to college in the US.
Or if you're not French, but happen to be reading this, feel free to write as well. | 
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12-15-2006, 05:33 AM
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#2 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 411
| I know some French guys, but I am from Germany.
Where are you applying? | |
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12-15-2006, 11:08 AM
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#3 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Paris, France
Posts: 41
| I'm from France.
It's great to see I'm not the only one to plan applying to an american college.
What grade are you in? Where do you want to go? | |
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12-16-2006, 01:10 PM
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#4 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 289
| Me too. I live in Paris. What school/college are you attending? What schools are you all considering? | |
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12-16-2006, 01:21 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: The world of Fantasy
Posts: 2,949
| Hi everyone here!!GOOD to see some French friends here.... | |
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12-16-2006, 04:47 PM
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#6 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Paris, France
Posts: 41
| Currently I'm in 11th grade in Virginia (I'm an exchange student for this year), trying to get As and 4.0 GPA, trying to become fluent, etc.
I hope to apply to good colleges (maybe Ivies?) in the Fall 2007.
God I miss France.... even though the US are pretty cool! | |
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12-17-2006, 11:26 AM
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#7 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 289
| Going to the US for undergrad is stupid, in my opinion. Not only does it close you a lot of doors back home but it's a complete waste of money if you can get in Sciences Po. or a Grande Ecole... I'm still a college freshman, I have like 7 semesters to become an acceptable applicant. What about you guys? What are your plans? | |
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12-17-2006, 02:46 PM
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#8 | | New Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 17
| I just got the internet back so I couldn't talk to you guy earlier. I live in Paris too, zules01, but are you currently in the US or in France?
Anyway, I think staying in France closes a lot of doors. Sure, going to the Us is a lot of money (I'm very privileged my parents can afford it) but if I stay here, it's either I do mathsup and never learn about any litterary subjects ever again or go to sciences po and never do any science again. The French system is stupid for the higher-education; you do two years of prepa where all you work on is math and physics than, if you're lucky you get into a grande école and start learning a little about other subjects, but not much and finally you end up working for an insurance company. It's ridiculous! + a lot of people are pushed into this system and realize four years later that it doesn't even come close to what they really want to do but it's too late to do anything about it. | |
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12-17-2006, 03:45 PM
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#9 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Economics @ JHU
Posts: 1,000
| Well, this is from an outsider's perspective: going to the US would open up a much wider field full of opportunities of every kind for you to pursue. The higher educational system is very very flexible in the United States. For one thing, you are never held hostage to one single major during your four years of undergraduate education. At most US colleges, students can easily switch majors (from history to engineering to political science to architecture...), and are free to try out and experience a wide range of subjects. As the Dean of Princeton's office of admissions says every year in his welcome speech, "the college experience is about you being an observer, trying out new challenges in a rich context of knowledge, learning, and society. It's about you falling in love with things you don't even know you don't know."  | |
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12-17-2006, 07:31 PM
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#10 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 23
| Hey I am French too, currently studying at the University of CHicago | |
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12-17-2006, 09:01 PM
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#11 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Paris, France
Posts: 41
| Hey I have 2 questions for you guys: how did you study the SATs and what did you get (if U took it)? | |
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12-18-2006, 02:27 AM
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#12 | | New Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 17
| How do you like University of Chicago? Are you a freshman?
I studied with books I bought on amazon for the SATs and I got 690CR 720W 800M. | |
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12-19-2006, 05:28 AM
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#13 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 289
| Well if you have the money after all, why not... I was an exchange student in St. Louis, MO last year and loved it. Now I'm a freshman at the Sorbonne. I couldn't agree more about the prépa because I refused to enter one... Good luck to ya for Sciences Po. though, I might try out in a couple of years. Big up on the SAT stats too... I never took the ACT but I don't think I could have gone higher than a 29... poop. | |
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12-19-2006, 08:23 AM
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#14 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 75
| I'm not French, but I speak it fairly well and I live in a country where a lot of people are and speak french...alors, je voudrais dire que j'espere que tous les francophones seront acceptes a l'universite de leur choix! (I hope that's right - we haven't learned the subjonctif yet and I know you use it with que, so I'm not sure if what I've written is right) Bonne chance! lol | |
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12-19-2006, 10:35 AM
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#15 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Paris, France
Posts: 41
| What were your grades in high school? DId you get a "mention" or not? | |
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