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st.g.i.dragons · 06-13-2009, 09:03 AM

i didnt even know half the vocab. hence my low sat marks

theGame · 06-13-2009, 04:39 PM

Wait till college, Shoyz. You'll find out how useful it can be.

Shoyz · 06-13-2009, 10:43 PM

Really?

I figured most people would just use simpler words with the same meaning =P

I don't know, most of the SAT vocab are just needlessly hard words you don't see in everyday conversational english.

Ah well, we'll see haha.

nzrower · 06-15-2009, 05:38 AM

Hi i'm from New Zealand i posted on this board last year at some point.
I'm going on a year long exchange next year to Switzerland which could be handy as NZ has very few test centers although it could make things harder and rather annoying in the way of applications grades and extra-curricular.
how do US colleges see exchanges?
also where's everyone applying to?
and where do you buy your SAT guides?

st.g.i.dragons · 06-15-2009, 08:27 AM

exchange students - nothing special in my opinion as long as you make the experience some sort of an essay topic, or use it as an opportunity to improve your langauge skills and show for it through SAT subject tests or something. But just my thoughts, ask the schools your applying to and get the official views of each school.

SAT guides - I got mine from big book stores in korea. but in places like swiss or nz i'd recommed the internet. amazon.com or something.
good luck

beeish · 06-16-2009, 03:19 AM

I did an exchange... but I used it as my essay topic, on like how I became more independant and confident, also mine might have helped I think cause I self-organised it. Like it wasn't through a program, so it showed iniative and yadda yadda yadda.

I think exchange does help cause it shows that you're willing to put yourself in a brand new situation at a school where you know no one, and after all isn't that what college is?

nzrower · 06-16-2009, 04:41 AM

yea now i just have to work out what to do about my education and all while over there.
like i go to school over there but i am unsure of how much of that i will actually understand.

st.g.i.dragons · 06-16-2009, 09:56 AM

what part of swiss are you going to? theres like 4 different languages spoken depending on the area i believe lol french, italian, german and swiss dilect or something. lol
im sure it will be heaps interesting and cool.

Shoyz · 06-17-2009, 03:30 AM

Oh, as promised from oh so long ago. Stats. Haha.

GPA: 3.96 (98.9 TER - English Lit, French, Calculus, Applicable Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics)
SAT: 2110 (750 Maths, 700 CR, 660 Writing - I had NO idea how to do all that crap. Honestly.)
ACT: 35/36 (34 English, 34 Writing, 35 Maths, 36 Science - Do this! Really. It's much better for us...unless you like learning SAT vocab, of course)
SAT II: 800 Physics, 800 Maths IIC, 760 Chemistry

ECs: - Golf (Club)
- Soccer (Club)
- 100m Sprinter (Inter-school)
- Volunteer at RMH
- Pilot's License

Clubs: Vice-President of Student Senate
Maths Club Tutor

Work Experience: Croupier at a Casino for 6 months
Law Clerk (Yes. All you ever do is admin jobs. Ugh. I did go to court once though!)
Maths/Science Tutor

Essay: Crap. Really.
Recommendations: Didn't see one, one was really short. Counselor's was quite nice, I think.

Accepted to: UCLA, JHU
Rejected: HYPSM and Berkeley.

How depressing writing this out again haha. Anyway, there you go. x.x

theGame · 06-17-2009, 03:54 AM

Wow man! You rock!!
See you in Baltimore

theGame · 06-17-2009, 03:56 AM

I really liked this part:

Quote:

Croupier at a Casino for 6 month

Nice

st.g.i.dragons · 06-17-2009, 04:16 AM

from HYPSM i get the rest except M. whats that one

Aininor · 06-17-2009, 04:26 AM

M is MIT I believe? Correct me if I'm wrong. And Shoyz, did you request for fin. aid if so did you get any?

Shoyz · 06-17-2009, 05:05 AM

Ha! I didn't choose JHU. The weather scared me away as well as other things. Will I regret it, probably. Haha. But Beeish is going to be in LA with me!...if I go.

Second guessing myself now. Not sure if it's worth the cost anymore =[ Le sigh, the complications of life.

M does stand for MIT. =) In any case, my family doesn't qualify for fin. aid. so none for me. Which makes me wonder if the schools that accepted me did so because they wanted my money. Hmm. Need-sensitive schools accepted me, I got waitlisted at Wharton which is need-sensitive for internationals (oops, forgot this), and all the need-blind schools rejected me.

Interesting. Haha.

st.g.i.dragons · 06-17-2009, 09:52 AM

well if your family didnt qualify fin aid then being need-sensative or need-blind shouldnt matter to your application should it?
and what do you mean IF you go. are you doing a year off atm or uni in aust
so i guess you didnt get any/much aid from UCLA either?

and oh yeah i didnt think about MIT lol my bad