<p>This is probably going to sound a bit cocky, but I need to post away anyway.</p>
<p>I’ve always been in the top 5-10% of my class, but now that I’m so close to leaving high school, I just feel guilty for some reason, for never full filing my academic potential.</p>
<p>I’m an Intl. student, and my curriculum is really tough, but there’s a LOT of rote learning involved, and because of that, I never really liked the education I was getting. I mean, it’s tough, and most people say it’s good in the long run, but I somehow never really studied as hard as the class toppers did. I could’ve spent hours cramming up stuff that I didn’t, which was probably what cost me a top 1% place, but well …</p>
<p>Anyway, I’ve applied to quite a few colleges in the States now, with the hope that the education there will be a lot more application based, and that I won’t have to cram stuff up for every test; and that my professors won’t try to discourage me from pursuing my ECs like they did here. I’ve lost count of the number of times I was told to “stop worrying about quizzing. go study math”.</p>
<p>Sorry. Just had to get that out of my system.</p>
<p>Sigh.</p>
<p>The fact that you are intl is very apparent by ur style of english. anyway, I can understand what you are talking about. Well, you’ll still have to study quite a bit too…like actually reading through a book (for science courses particularly) So, don’t have the feeling u can come and relax. But def. u don’t need ur professors to “encourage” or “discourage” u from pursuing ur ECs. COllege is all what u can make out of it. it is YOU who’ll decide what ECs, Courses, Majors, etc. etc. u wanna take. And definitely u won’t face quite that much adversity when pursuing ur ECs at the US as u’d in ur country.</p>
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<p>How? If he (or she?) hadn’t said that he/she was an international student, how would you have figured it out?</p>
<p>international aint tight bra.</p>
<p>Okay, this is what I think. First of all, he is good in English. Like his/her overall language usage. If you see, you’ll to realize that he doesn’t quite use formal/informal “american” style of English (he is kinda in between formal and informal in style though which gave me a better sense) and then this particular sentences like: I’ve lost count of the number of times I was told to “stop worrying about quizzing. go study math”: emm…it is definitely said in a different style than one would usu say this sentence. I am taking a really random chance and would also want to say that English is his/her second language, again, it’s what I think, not necessarily true.</p>