International Studies major?

fraire
Sat, 23 Jul 2011 01:56:34 +0000

I applied for it and got rejected. This past year 150 kids applied and 75 got it.
I was really surprised at not getting it though. My GPA was decent (3.4 first semester, 3.3 second semester), was a French major as well with 2/5ths of the major done already (4 300 level courses), took beginner’s italian with A’s in both semesters, expressed interest in learning more foreign languages, had high school extracurriculars as president and vice president of French club, travelled rather extensively growing up (6 countries, including France 4 times), wrote about the impact of living in a bilingual household (and only understanding one of the languages) for my application essay, and got accepted to become an International Assistant for the 2011-12 school year. Not to mention having a YouTube account where I post videos in French (which I get paid for by Google), and interact with about 1,000 French, Belgian, and Quebeckers…

And I got rejected. So you better be super qualified or an honors kid, the only people I know that got it were in honors.