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07-13-2006, 09:31 PM
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#1 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 15
| Study Abroad vs. Valedictorian
I am looking into studying abroad in my junior year (I am a rising sophomore) and considering applying to Rotary's program. However, my current academic plan for junior year is that I will be taking about 5 APs. Right now I am number 1 in my class and as long as I maintain straight As next year I will continue to be there. However, if during my junior year I do decide to study abroad I will forgo my number 1 spot (most likely). In the end the decision will be a personal one of course (and having my parents agree to it will be a big factor, too), but just out of curiosity, which do you think colleges would look upon more favorably? (Although, for the record, if I am accepted and my parents agree, I will definitely go abroad. Plus, if I give up having a block off each day in my senior year I could theoretically make up the deficit. Still, not sure I would want to do that.) | 
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07-13-2006, 09:40 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2006 Location: VAN down by the RIVER!
Posts: 1,497
| Study abroad is better. Valedictorian status is overrated. | |
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07-13-2006, 10:19 PM
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#3 | | New Member
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 23
| Study abroad by all means. Hell I just heard a stat that 70% of the valadectorians that apply to the University of Pennslyvania get rejected. | |
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07-13-2006, 10:35 PM
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#4 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: it is 98 outside, and we say "oh, its kinda nice"
Posts: 391
| study abroad woild be my choice (and it actually was as a matter of fact)
Go to a country like Russia, Ukraine, or Belarus  a life-changing experience, for an american at least | |
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07-13-2006, 10:43 PM
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#5 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Canada - UBC
Posts: 718
| Study abroad for sure. The experience could change your life, and being val... well... won't. | |
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07-13-2006, 10:47 PM
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 2,540
| A few spots don't matter that much when it comes down to it. If you have good grades then you are fine. Studying abroad is a life changing experience...by all means do it.
O man I studyed Belarus soooo much with the revolution that they are attempting. My senior project was on revolutions such as that one, the velvet rev,the orange rev, the rose rev, etc... | |
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07-13-2006, 10:53 PM
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#7 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: it is 98 outside, and we say "oh, its kinda nice"
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| damn crazy stupid nationalist westerners screwed up the country ... hate them  | |
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07-13-2006, 11:00 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 2,540
| Wo calm down. You can't say that you didn't like the fact that Ukraine got freed from the overbearing and repressive remnants of the communist regime. That was the only rev that I followed in real time from start to end and I found it very inspirational. Yes the West is very pretentious and single-minded...but I think it was more positive than negative. | |
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07-13-2006, 11:03 PM
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#9 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: MD -----> Carleton 2012
Posts: 59
| study abroad most definetly. if i had the chance to, i would. if you're overly concerned with college admissions and stuff, your experience could be an interesting essay, plus you'll get to see other cultures and learn many things that being valedictorian could never give you. | |
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07-13-2006, 11:14 PM
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#10 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: it is 98 outside, and we say "oh, its kinda nice"
Posts: 391
| Figgy
i was there. not in kiev, but in 2nd largest city, kharkiv. we were mostly pro-yanukovitch, even though there was a bunch of oranges there. i was offered $3 an hour to stand all night on the square with a flag while it was like -20 C outside. the sad thing is that a lot of my friends agreed, sold out. this is not freeing, the situation was much more complicated then the american and european media have described. either way the country was going to get screwed over no matter who won. there was a whole bunch of other things your journalists did not talk about, but i dont think this is the right time and place to discuss them. | |
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07-13-2006, 11:20 PM
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#11 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 2,540
| pm me then. This was my senior project (well the velvet revolution was my main one) so I am very interested in this. Please lets discuss it. | |
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07-13-2006, 11:23 PM
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#12 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2006 Location: VAN down by the RIVER!
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Wo calm down. You can't say that you didn't like the fact that Ukraine got freed from the overbearing and repressive remnants of the communist regime. That was the only rev that I followed in real time from start to end and I found it very inspirational. Yes the West is very pretentious and single-minded...but I think it was more positive than negative.
| Trust me, it's one more point to "Why we don't need war in Iraq? I have friends and relatives in Ukraine, all they are doing is swearing on this revolution.
How is that going, - Democracy is when everyone does what a big democrat thinks they should do. | |
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07-13-2006, 11:44 PM
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#13 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 938
| Definitely study abroad. No doubt about it. | |
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07-14-2006, 12:03 AM
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#14 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 2,540
| Wait you mean ur relatives were against it? Well it isn't too suprising since there still were a lot of people on the other side...
p.s. I hate Bush so I'm not one...of those people lol. | |
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07-14-2006, 12:04 AM
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#15 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 309
| Stay home. You can study abroad in college, when it will benefit you more. For now, enjoy your time at home, as it will soon be over. | |
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