<p>I know I’m not included in this sordid little girl/gay best friend partnership you guys have going but everyone needs a token English girl in their friendship group. So I’m adding to this, I have YPB and Vassar also.</p>
<p>WOOT we totally want you with us of course. A rawkstar would add sooo much to our group.</p>
<p>Lol!! Quasi, are you applying to any other Ivies? Those were the only Ivies I liked which is a weird coincidence. </p>
<p>I guess with 17 schools, you cant go wrong. I dunno, it seems to me I should be applying to more schools. But I don’t have the energy. </p>
<p>portugeseninja - You are totally included. I love British accents (I know you prob get a lot of this but its true.)</p>
<p>Nope, they’re the only Ivies I’m applying to as well. :D</p>
<p>Nah, I think it’s pretty abnormal to apply to 17. I got made fun of quite a bit at school the day we were sending stuff off.</p>
<p>Haha I do get a lot of that from foreigners yes. But it’s all good. I like the stereotypical Indian accent a la Raj from the Big Bang Theory. Accents in general are just funny really. for some reason I imagine Quasi with a proper English accent.</p>
<p>And Quasi - DAMN RIGHT. Everyone needs a rawkstar. Or at least… a pretty much unknown indie pop singer.</p>
<p>Haha even 12 I get made fun of.</p>
<p>But I mean half my list is crapshoots. I sound like a prestige whore but I’m applying to HYPSBD. See? Crazy. I’e heard Dartmouth is not truly need blind to intls. Interesting huh?</p>
<p>Are all you guys in international schools designed to send people off to US?</p>
<p>portugeseninja - you’re an indie pop singer? Damn it I so wanna join the Glee club. I love singing but I su*k tremendously. Oh did you take the A Levels btw?</p>
<p>They’re not need blind but they do give need BASED aid, I think? For Dartmouth that is.</p>
<p>I’m not a prestige whore, I’m just an America whore.</p>
<p>DINNER. Please don’t post too much while I’m gone.</p>
<p>Haha, thats funny. So many of my friends are in England. Bath, Bristol etc. </p>
<p>Dartmouth CLAIMS its need blind to intls but I’ve heard its shoddy</p>
<p>Lmao you imagine me with a proper English accent? I don’t really have an accent. It’s slightly American at times but otherwise it’s like…okay, hard to explain.</p>
<p>I love singing too! I’ve been singing to myself all day because my speakers are broken and I don’t have any music.</p>
<p>Most of my list is crapshooty too but I do have some safeties. I’m NOT staying here, thank you very much.</p>
<p>EDIT: I’m an America hoar too.</p>
<p>Dude, everyone’s applying to HYPDB! And Williams/Am/Midd on the side. HIGH FIVE, people.</p>
<p>(This is just like TiT. The conversation moves too fast for me to catch up to <em>sighs</em>)</p>
<p>Random token information about India and gay rights, because I am passionate on both topics: I feel this issue, like everything else in India, lives in extreme extremes. You have all the youth and the urban kids and the well educated ones (massive overgeneralizations here though, sorry) who’re, on an average, extremely cool with it. And everyone else is a fanatic against. And the most ridiculous part is that 80% of our country is Hindu, and Hinduism is one of the most tolerant religions towards homosexuality. Wierd, huh?</p>
<p>…sorry. Once I get started on this I don’t stop.</p>
<p>Haha. Quasi, would you mind sharing your safeties. I was under the impression that intls needing aid dont have safeties. F&M? I’m applying to Lake Forest College and a state u. Thats as safety as I’e got.</p>
<p>No. The well educated ones are not nearly as cool about it as they should be. I go to a school that’s supposedly one of the most enlightened/advanced/whatever ones in the nation and we’ve got a disproportionate share of homophobics.</p>
<p>And the rural ones are practically clueless about homosexuality. At least the ones I know are.</p>
<p>Okay, yes, let me rephrase: not safeties, but as safe as an international needing aid can get. I guess I’m talking about schools with SAT-score ranges in the 400s.</p>
<p>If I don’t get in anywhere I will stay here, do something drastic and then apply again. We’ll both be gap year students then. :D</p>
<p>i Know ! I’m Hindu too, and I just hate it. But you have to admit that anything that makes people uncomfortable…</p>
<p>We should all join forces. I’m already dreaming of working in the LGBT rights division of Human Rights Watch. I read an article where they tried to help gay Iraqis and grant them asylum. Apparently, <em>avert your eyes, the squeamish</em> some of them get their anuses glued shut till they explode. I was in tears after reading that article. At least I don’t have it that bad, for which I am grateful.</p>
<p>Oh…wow. WOW. That’s all I can say.</p>
<p>Oh, you’re Malaysian, no? I feel horrible for all the LGBT discrimination that goes on everywhere, even in the developed world. I was Malaysia in my last MUN, and our topic was LGBT rights. I nearly cried. First MUN I didn’t win. Just…couldn’t put my heart into the barbaric defenses to homosexual torture/imprisonment I had to justify. </p>
<p>@Quas Where are you applying to as “safeties”? Dad wants me to add a few to my list.</p>
<p>Anyone interested… <a href=“http://nymag.com/news/features/59695/[/url]”>http://nymag.com/news/features/59695/</a></p>
<p>Its not for the faint-hearted so I’m warning you.</p>
<p>I shan’t tell you, megmeg.</p>
<p>Also, 
I guess I’m just speaking about a Delhi demographic, then. Most of the urban people around here seem totally cool with it, atleast all the school going kids my age I know. I was surprised to find that out, but it was cool. But you’re right about most people in rural areas being totally clueless.</p>