Shoyz

Haha, I meant. Need-blind schools don't care about my money anyway, so I got chucked out straight away. Need-sensitive schools see me and go "Oh hey...look! No aid!"

Thing about UCLA, is that they offer no aid at all to OoS/International sooo....

And I'm on a year off heh. I was at Law/Engineering at UWA but left when I got my offer. Now when I consider the financials involved...I dunno. Might be better to save that money for graduate school instead.

st.g.i.dragons

lol yeah go to ivy league graduate school. thats hopefully what i end up doing

Shoyz

Ha, that would be the best end result, wouldn't it? =P

Shoyz

Ack, too late to edit.

Just wondering. For all of you non-US citizens who are going over, what are your plans after graduation?

st.g.i.dragons

are you asking to those whos going for this fall? or future years?
cuz then the question should be what have you been doing since graduation lol
if thats not what you're asking ignore this post lol

Shoyz

Oh, I mean after graduating from college in the US haha. My bad!

st.g.i.dragons

haha soz. it was a bit vague
im gonna go graduate school. kinda a requirement in my major (IR)

Shoyz

Haha, it was a bit vague. Sorry.

Ah, IR seems terribly interesting. So I'll see you at Harvard in a few years then, eh? =) *cough*

theGame

I'll be waiting for you at Stanford. Maybe you'd pass Palo Alto sometime

st.g.i.dragons

haha harvard or stanford ill take either of them
any ivy league + few more will do me

now just to own 4 years of uni...

Shoyz

Haha, I randomly just threw Harvard out there.

I'd much prefer Stanford myself, to be honest. =D

I'm guessing theGame got into NYU? Or Columbia?! Sorry, I haven't been paying much attention for the last 10 or so pages =P

st.g.i.dragons

gettysburg i think he was (soz about the spelling)

beeish

So looks like me and shoyz (potentially) may be on the only ones on the west coast... but thats all good cause the west coast is AWESOME and in southern california we don't have this thing called winter... which makes it even better!

iggu_spotter

hey everyone
I attend a selective school in sydney so obviously my rankings are not as they would be had i attended a normal school.
My question is, do colleges take the selectivity of the school into account?

beeish

Hey iggu_spotter. I don't think you've been around here before so HI! I actually went to a selective school in Sydney too and I got in just fine so I would say yes they do take into consideration the selectivity of the school. BUT you need to get your school to write a letter, or they may have one already, outlining what a selective school is. Um if you have any specific questions feel free to PM me, as everyone here knows I like to talk/rant. Also most schools will have a January 1 deadline, which means you will get your HSC results and I guess now your ATAR by the time you apply which gives you a statewide ranking, so like my in-school ranking was 45/160 or somewhere around there but my UAI placed me in the top 2% of the state, so they would take that into consideration definetly. They would also take into consideration what subjects you are taking, because especially if you are applying to big schools (and definetly if you are applying to HPYSM etc.) they have tons of international applicants and they for sure will have had one from Australia before. Safe to say as much as we like to think it we are not special or individual. So they do know our system. They generally have Admission officers for each region of the world, not so much in the smaller liberal artsy schools but DEFINETLEY in the big schools. Anyways yes before I get teased for ranting again, feel free to PM me and I can rant away from scrutiny haha.