<p>Hey Quasi, bio has a pretty decent curve (at least that’s what my classmate told me). Hang in there.</p>
<p>YOU HAVE TWO SIBLINGS!!!</p>
<p><em>gapes</em> Crikey, I married you without knowing ANYTHING about your family, apart from the fact that your mommy’s supportive. Tell me more! What’s everyone like? How old are your sibs? And your sister’s so pretty!!!</p>
<p>And thanks tetris, your support is mucho appreciated. I love you, even though we’re divorced now and you keep making naggy grumpy faces at me. :)</p>
<p>BACK TO SPARKNOTES, YO.</p>
<p>I have a sibling! Brownie points (pun unintended)?</p>
<p>We’re the estranged lovers who still have feelings for each other. We’re the Casey and Cappy of this thread.</p>
<p>You get Brownie points for the Greek reference, even though you totally knew you would.</p>
<p>No brownie points for the sibling because I didn’t know about him until we got married. Also, you gave him float instead of me.</p>
<p>I have 1 sibling. And two parents who don’t understand anything of applying in the US.</p>
<p>What am I then, the Evan of this thread? Ew. </p>
<p>Anyway, yeah my brother is the kind that has lots of friends, and little interest in studies. We used to be closer, but … yeah. </p>
<p>My sister is the pretty one who is good at studies but couldn’t care less kinda thing. Her main passion is shopping and boys. She is pretty good at both.</p>
<p>EDIT : My parents have no idea about applying to the US. They keep saying "but we don’t have to fill out the tax form until April 2010. How to do it now? Cannot.
(We are self employed though so it is harder)</p>
<p>Is anyone else worried they might get in but with insufficient aid?</p>
<p>Yeah, my parents have no clue (as has my school) and they keep delaying filling in their part of finaid forms! I have actually lied to them and convinced them the deadline for applying for finaid is Februari first, so they won’t delay it to the last second. </p>
<p>I have bombarded them with pictures of all the schools, though. They were very hesitant about letting me apply to Columbia, Penn and Chicago (didn’t apply to the last two in the end), and they absolutely forbid Johns Hopkins because they thought it would be dangerous.
In their defense, we just watched a documentary about gang shootings in Philadelphia when my Penn viewbook arrived. Yeah. Nice. Luckily I convinced them it’s not dangerous at all! They are rooting for Amherst though! Haha! That’s all they know at this point. </p>
<p>I am a bit afraid about aid too! I guess my parents can pay to a certain extent, and when I would stay at home, I would accumulate a little debt too, so I guess I can live with that! But what if, say, Harvard or Princeton sends you a fat envelope with a P.S. Can you pay 50.000 a year?</p>
<p>I would die.</p>
<p>Longest post ever!</p>
<p>EDIT: I just found this document about number of students at Harvard college per country. The Netherlands are seriously overrepresented. Uh oh. <a href=“http://www.hio.harvard.edu/abouthio/statistics/pdf/StudentsbyWorldRegion09-10.pdf[/url]”>http://www.hio.harvard.edu/abouthio/statistics/pdf/StudentsbyWorldRegion09-10.pdf</a></p>
<p>My parents didn’t let me apply to Columbia. 
It used to be my first choice.</p>
<p>I worry about it too, gappy. Hang in there, all we can do now is bug our parents and hope things work out. And your sister sounds like fun. (And you are NOT the Evan, you’re more like the vunderful person Casey hasn’t met yet, OKAY?!) </p>
<p>Kittykat, shh. Let’s worry about that stuff after we stop worrying about everything else! And HAHA YOUR PARENTS HAVE AMAZING TASTE I <33333 THEM. Lying is actually a good strategy in some cases. :p</p>
<p>On a slightly more positive note, Brown has the * cutest * here’s-your-application-information email EVER.</p>
<p>^ I too have said the deadline is Feb 1st! I mean some stuff must go in before then so I’m not completely lying. </p>
<p>I too can pay till a certain extent but I’m very hesitant about loans because coming back here to work would mean little money to earn (starting salary I think about $600 for a college graduate once you convert) so I’m not sure I can pay back the loan.</p>
<p><em>crosses fingers for Amherst and its no-loan policies</em></p>
<p>Oh and my mom didn’t want me to apply to Columbia cause its in NYC. At the end, I decided not to either cause I realise I prefer a suburban environment. Not quite rural, but not quite cityish. Like a college town. That’s nice. </p>
<p>Amherst please Amherst. I just described you. :D</p>
<p>Isn’t the deadline for most schools Feb 1st for real?</p>
<p>@Quasi : I just got that email too. 
Quasi, why was your first choice Columbia? Core v. open curriculum, what a world of difference. Haha. Sorry, the core was the reason I decided not to apply to Columbia and Chicago.</p>
<p>@GB - I’m almost afraid to look at that.</p>
<p>Everybody wants to be a genius; you’re not the only one.</p>
<p>Ooh hahah, do look at it! It’s not that bad. Not the acceptance rates, just the total number of students from [insert country]. </p>
<p>Wait, what? What should be send in before Februari 1?!</p>
<p>EDIT: I am a genius. Why? </p>
<p>EDIT II: The core is absolutely brilliant! Don’t insult the core curriculum! How cool would it be to be actually forced to read all these cool books? And all the others are reading the same, so you have like a 1000 member book club!</p>
<p>I loved the core. The main reason I applied to Columbia.</p>
<p>I’m getting bored of The Killers.</p>
<p>I kind of liked the idea of the core, you know? Philosophically, it fits me. But in practice, because of my complete inability to do anything mathematical, I’m made for an Open Curriculum, so I should be glad I didn’t apply to Columbia.</p>
<p>It would be funnn if we ended up at Amherst!!!</p>
<p>Bilgy, weren’t you supposed to have cut your Internet?</p>
<p>ah, sh it. harvard has already two mongolians in its college? That totally ruins my chances. uuugh. bad day.</p>
<p>@GB - I’m not insulting the Core, its just NOT for me. I’ve had the “core” for as long as I remember in high school and the result is that most people I know hated what they were studying or they were apathetic. It did not make for a good environment. I felt much less suffocated and stifled when I started doing my A-Levels because almost everyone there loved what they were doing or at least had some interest in it. With the exception of physics of course. I was neutral with that but many of my classmates hated Physics.</p>
<p>or should I say ‘bad night’.</p>
<p>Genius is such an awesome song. Awesome^2</p>
<p>Qasi, I did but I accidentally picked up my phone from floor. Aaagh. Help the poor test taker control himself.</p>
<p>Its crazy how Malaysia is so small but they already have 10 in the college. I’m so screwed.</p>
<p>yeah, that is true. My school’s curriculum is basically one big core. You are allowed to swap some courses in 10th grade, but yeah. But it’s just that I really like the courses offered at Columbia, and plus, I’d like the idea of a somewhat renaissance-ish education.</p>
<p>Bilgy: Yeah, there are 7 Dutch students at Harvard College… That’s bad too… Good news though, is that they on average take two dutch applicants a year then! So that makes the admit rate closer to… well yeah. 10 percent. If I’m lucky.</p>