<p>luluzg > “is it true that only sat 2 will be obligatory for the class of 2014?”</p>
<p>Where is that comin from ?</p>
<p>So, what’s everyone’s favourite college?</p>
<p>Mine is currently Harvard.</p>
<p>Mine’s Yale :D</p>
<p>Cool! If we both get into our favourite colleges, in two years’ time we can heckle each other from across the playing field at Harvard-Yale games (j/k :D)</p>
<p>Hope we’ll do :s</p>
<p>Princeton…I think?</p>
<p>hi, can you please chance me?
I’m an international student currently studying in Singapore</p>
<p>Achievements & activities:
- Silver Singapore Maths Olympiad
- Bronze Singapore Chemistry Olympiad
- Third Prize Shanghai Maths Cup competition
- Third Prize Singapore Media Award (a video making competition for schools)
- I’m a Executive committee member of my audio+video club (ava club)
- 2 work-attachments (1 at a marketing firm, 1 at a bank)
- some community work</p>
<p>academic
-I jz took SAT a few weeks ago but I guess i did badly (expected: CR <550, Maths 800, 650<WR<700)
-SAT2 gonna take in June (expected: Maths1 800, Maths2 750, Chem 750)
-Secondary score (O level): Maths A, Chem A, Physics A, combined humanities A, English B, Literature C
-Expected score for Alevel: Maths A, Chem A, Physics A, Economics B, English C</p>
<p>major intend to take in future: Econs/Banking</p>
<p>Family contribution: <8k</p>
<p>other schools i also intend to apply to:
dream: carleton, middlebury, vassar, swarthmore
reach: macalester, bard, conncoll, dickinson, gettysburg, kenyon, franklin&marshall
safety: kalamazoo, hendrix, wittenberg, hampshire</p>
<p>I choose these schools because i’ve heard these are quite generous in terms of aid to foreign students.
I’m most concerned with 2 problems: my low critical reading score and my high financial need.
so what do you think?
thanks :)</p>
<p>@hbrad8002:</p>
<p>You might want to ask here:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/</a></p>
<p>Good luck! :)</p>
<p>Do you really want me to tell you which my favourite college is? :p</p>
<p>I alr posted the same thread there… but it seems like there’s alot of thread with that common name…
also, ppl there seem more interested in chancing some ivy or top school aimers than chancing a dumbass like me…
also, we’re all international students here, so you guys can share some things/opinions :)</p>
<p>Just be yourself, do the best you can, and tell the truth on your application (at least, that’s what I’ve gleaned from reading lots of CC threads on how to craft a good application). Cliche, but true, IMO.</p>
<p>As for getting replies to your thread, the key is in the title. Call it something like “Don’t Worry, I’m Not Applying To Your Favourite College - Chance Me Please?”. Use a title that will really stand out. After using titles like “The Best/Worst SAT Essay Ever”, I ended up getting loads of advice :D.</p>
<p>@tetrisfan: I think I already have a fairly good idea :)</p>
<p>Hehe I thought as much. So, as a homeschooler, are your requirements different from ours?</p>
<p>They’re mostly the same… I mean, for some colleges, I can ask “non-standard” teachers for my recommendations, but I want to use the same recommenders for each college anyway. I do have a very “unorthodox” curriculum, though - it’ll be interesting to see what the adcoms make of it :).</p>
<p>Ah OK, I’m sure you’ll be just fine though :)</p>
<p>So…does anyone play a sport? I play a whole bunch of 'em…tennis, football and basketball.</p>
<p>I play loads too…
In the order of preference:
Tennis,Football,Cricket,Table Tennis…and others rarely</p>
<p>I play football, basketball,handball,t.t.,cricket,volleyball,tae-kwondo,karate,badminton,hockey,snooker,billiards,chess,carrom,chinesecheckers,snakes and ladders,dominoes,sometimes GTA. I want to learn golf,american football,baseball and tennis in future.</p>
<p>Ah I also play table tennis and badminton. Not very regularly, but well enough to win stuff in school :)</p>
<p>I wanna learn Golf too…</p>
<p>(Gurung,is Snakes and Ladders a sport?..lol :p)</p>
<p>I don’t wanna learn golf. Boring ‘sport’!</p>