international student percentages!

b_r_um
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:17:51 +0000

How does a kid not living in the US spend his/her time outside of school (provided school doesn’t last until 6 pm)? Even intls should spend their time in a reasonable way. They may hold a part-time job, play a sport or an instrument, take care of their siblings. The only kind of student that top colleges do not want is the kid watching TV all day.

Don’t forget that this forum is not quite the best representation of the American high school student body. At the US school I attended for a year, hardly anyone (if anyone at all) had an EC list of the kind you see here on CC all the time. What you see here is the cream of the crop. And when I just look at my German high school in comparison, certainly fewer students do have “ECs” at all. But there are a couple of students that are doing things that are quite impressive as well (one just went to Hungary for a week to play the percussion, a girl has started and now coaches the first female football team in the region, I got a prize at a national math competition) - and none of those oppotunities were handed to them/us on a silver platter.