Chance me, please! Stanford #1

Hanajima22
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:21:01 +0000

lorrainemichaels:

Just wondering: what did you put as your intended major?

Double major for Japanese Language and Linguistics.

Thank you to everyone who responded! It’s good to know that my extracurriculars don’t come across as contrived to at least some of you, because I’d rather not have my passions and whatnot be seen as just a way to get into college (sort of devalues them, you know?).

I guess from this point I’ll just assume that I have some kind of small shot and wait for the email.

Oh, as far as the Japanese discussion goes, is the Japanese SAT II score ok, then? It was like in the 30th percentile, but I sort of assumed that colleges would at least take into account that mostly native speakers take that. With the Japanese, I guess I was trying to show that I’m really committed to learning it - the score was a disappointment, but my school doesn’t have AP Japanese and I learned most of it through going to a tutor since 7th grade, so I’m hoping that will show…something. xD I know that a lot of kids take Japanese because it’s “cool” right now, but at least at my school most of them quit pretty early.