<p>Just email the US cons. guy, that’s what I did (:</p>
<p>And I live in Perth so metro east, yeah hehe.</p>
<p>Oh, and can I just say…
This made me laugh so hard it hurt (LOL):</p>
<p>YES DULLSVILLE!! So boring!!! nothing to do here except complain and loose footy games. Sigh one of the most isolated cities and the world sucks 
have to fly everywhere to get anywhere… </p>
<p>ROFL XDDD</p>
<p>benny and judd just had to leave us, and freo is well freo it ain’t gonna change any time soon.</p>
<p>kk US cons, did they reply and set it up? or like how did it work?</p>
<p>Just apply for it yourself at collegeboard.com</p>
<p>You’ll sit it at the International School down at City Beach. =)</p>
<p>Hi. Having lurked for quite a while on CC, this is my first post. I’m the parent of a Year 11 student who has dual Australian/US citizenship and is beginning to consider US unis. The question moebius posed yesterday about applying early to MIT - i.e. as a Year 10 or Year 11 student - prompts me to write (so thanks, moebius - and though we don’t live in Perth, we’ve always enjoyed it when we’ve visited). It is my understanding that a number of US unis permit applications from students who, if they were accepted, would not finish high school. If you haven’t been able to determine this from a school’s website or its application, perhaps you should directly contact the admission office to see whether this is permitted. Good luck to each of you.</p>
<p>What the two posters above me said (:</p>
<p>This is gonna sound like a SUPER-STOOPID question (lol) but in US colleges (or any for that matter), there would be leadership opportunites like captains and club presidents? If so, would int’ls be disadvantaged in applying/achieving these positions? I’m just asking 'cause the same thing happened to me this year. I’m used to being head girl/prefect/etc… in my old school (lol) but I transferred to a new school this year and elections and stuff happened when I’d only been there a few months so I hadn’t established myself or even had a huge group of friends or anything back then (lmao) so I didn’t run… I was hoping to throw myself into clubs and stuff again in college and just focus on my academics now but I wanna know if my int’l status is gonna get in the way of that?</p>
<p>Okay… reading that over makes me wanna delete the question and forget about it now >.< hahaha. But I do wanna know so any help is appreciated!! (:</p>
<p>I was told that how they admit int’ls is that they sort you into your country and then compare each applicant to its own countries applicants… And so you are not competing against another country where its school/club culture is different and were there could be more science/maths competitions etc. As this could cause a disadvantage to the applicants from countries who don’t have such opportunities. This was just what i have been told…</p>
<p>Ah yeah… I heard that too but I wasn’t referring to high school XD lol. I meant strictly college societies/activites. (:</p>
<p>If its activities i wouldn’t think so… don’t you usually rise and gain statues to become the president or leader? Not really sure about activities etc</p>
<p>Carpe, that’s what i plan to do too. Since extra curriculars and leadership activities are completely out of reach here for me, i really want to launch into all sorts of clubs and activities whilst in college(while being careful of laundry lists lol) I don’t see any reason why international students would be disadvantaged in anyway in participating in clubs/leadership positions and haven’t read anything to that effect. After all, it is the essence of campus/student life. Pretty sure we’ll be on equal standing just like every other student. :D</p>
<p>this kills the current train of topic, and i guess im overshooting here, since i’ve barely started my aps, but still:
just say we get into an australian uni, can we study there till we get our <em>hopefully</em> positive replies from our american applications? and then can we just drop out of aussie uni and start at our american uni in the fall?
or do we have to be in limbo till april/may and watch our friends go uni while we bumm around? lol… jsut asking.</p>
<p>you can go to the australian university first.
and then, depending on your offer from the us institution, you can drop out.
a friend of mine did that.</p>
<p>yay. hopefully for the future anyway~ =] thankyou.</p>
<p>Thx didn’t know that, i was also curious about it, although i was told you then become a transfer student?</p>
<p>moebius: you serious? no way, that kills everything. TOT
but im pretty sure that if WHEN youre APPLYING youre still in high school its okay?
i heard of a friend of a friend who did that: she was going to uni here, but she got into princeton so she dropped out… but i wanted to confirm… any other experienced people know for sure?</p>
<p>ahhhh okay thanks, but if you’re applying in high school, you cant really here if you need to graduate first, you would’ve finished school and then applied to get the results around march… unless you can apply before you finished school like a year earlier?</p>
<p>a year is a bit much, i think… iunno, see, im from nsw, and we finish in december. i ‘graduate’ next month, but i still have my hsc exams so i have to wait till mid december for my results, so I still apply as a high school student…for the fall enrollemnt. i’ll probably enrol at an australian uni and study till i get the results in march?</p>
<p>It’s been discussed in this thread before…no idea what page though but someone said they just went to Australian uni and once she/he found out the results from US college, they just stopped going(without even telling the uni haha) and just failed every class and chilled out until the fall. The US college won’t know and you certainly wouldn’t be a transfer. I also read that you can drop out before May and won’t be penalised…you would have to confirm that with the school though. Hope that helped.</p>
<p>Okay, that helps heaps, thanks</p>
<p>Question from a total n00b XD: do int’ls send their school reports/transcripts? Is there any point really seeing as the way they grade here is different and a B- could be an A+ over there? :S</p>