<p>haha, i know what you mean.
did you go to the british school in delhi? or from nepal itself?
because the guy i know went from this delhi school.
i have a 740 in CR, and feel the exact same way, except on most days i feel like im not, but on a few rare ones i think MAYBE.</p>
<p>^^
No. I go to Rato Bangala School in Nepal. Currently doing my A-levels.</p>
<p>Just submitted my UC app! Woo! No server crashing here!
Now I just need to submit USC and I’m done until decisions.</p>
<p>First, a nap… Haha…</p>
<p>@ Prussia!</p>
<p>I’ve often considered taking a gap year as well. Not so much if I were accepted to Stanford, but on the off chance that I were not accepted anywhere else.</p>
<p>As a dual Australian/U.S. citizen, I’m thinking about applying to the University of Melbourne where my dad went to school. What’s interesting is that in Australia applications are done in a different time frame, so if I were to apply, I’d apply next winter rather than this one (and if I achieve a certain IB score, I’m almost guaranteed a spot). </p>
<p>If this were to happen, I’d have the a year off before heading to college, a year during which I can travel, perform research, expand in my artistic pursuits, etc.</p>
<p>What’s really nice is that at Unimelb, undergrad is specialized and lasts 3 years. So if I were to apply to med school in the U.S. afterwards, even after having taken that gap year I’d be applying to the same class as my current high school peers. </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>im really considering taking a gap year wherever i go.
i just dont want to burn out in college. not that i wouldnt study and do my work and all that but people get a lot out of their gap years in terms of gaining more passion about their fields and learning about themselves</p>
<p>but doesn’t taking a gap year make it harder to get accepted to college?</p>
<p>i just read that clam fart typo post
all i did was laugh for the last 5 minutes
and i’m in class right now. HAHAHAHAHAHHA
it made my day (: i wish i made a cool typo like that.</p>
<p>and EEEK my friend finds out about stanford tomorrow. curse him and questbridge!</p>
<p>@ Prussia: thanks for the info on gap years, it was enlightening and I hope everything goes well in your life!</p>
<p>Yeah diglett, my friend applied Quest bridge and she finds out tomorrow too, but MIT was top on her list, so if she gets accepted to both, she has to go to MIT.</p>
<p>PS: Clam fart thread was funny.</p>
<p>Btw I’m going to do homework but just to throw this question out there: what are your guys political ideologies? I’m a social moderate and a fiscal conservative overall, but that doesn’t mean I don’t support welfare or programs to help the needy, and I’m pro-all humans should have equal rights no matter what their ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation is.</p>
<p>so who here is in QB and getting their admission results tomorrow? I’m curious</p>
<p>One of my friends is on questbridge and he finds out tomorrow but MIT was on the top of his list too.
@Diivio, I am a socially very liberal and fiscally moderate leaning towards the left a bit.</p>
<p>i dont like labeling myself with overused terms
but if i did, i would fit into the very liberal to ultra liberal category</p>
<p>and gap years dont affect college acceptance.
you inform the college after you are accepted that you plan to defer your admission for a year.
so like <em>if one of us got into stanford</em> you could tell them on december 16th that you want to take a gap year and join the class of 2015. (with appropriate reason)</p>
<p>Socially conservative (yes, I know that’s not the ‘in’ thing to do and is the unpopular ideology at the moment), fiscally…unsure. Anti-Uni Health Care.</p>
<p>@ Prussia!</p>
<p>Ahhh, okay. Well, if you do happen to get accepted, and defer for a year… then as long as I get accepted, we’ll be in the same class! ;)</p>
<p>Gap years in my opinion are good/bad. For me, it could be fairly useful, but not to the point where it would be extremely helpful in “maturing” me. I’ve always been considered precocious by friends and family; plus I just know how to handle myself confidently (although contradictorily to that statement, I do get audience-shy).</p>
<p>By the way, have any of you heard of “Future Business Leaders of America?” It’s a nationwide club/organization that gives those involved a chance to do community service as well as learn about business planning and other miscellaneous information on that level. [etc, etc] Surprisingly, I haven’t seen it mentioned in anyone’s statistics, yet from what I’ve heard it’s fairly well-known throughout the country.</p>
<p>Just submitted my UC application. I’m actually somewhat happy with the way the essays turned out (NOT the case for Stanford), but my brain is completely fried after all that writing.</p>
<p>Prussia, your reasoning for the gap year is totally sound, but I wanted to be Awesome Stanford Buddies. :/</p>
<p>Socially, I am very, very liberal. Fiscally… I personally think that we should leave it to the economists, since it really does take a lot of study and experience to have an informed opinion on the matter. So I don’t claim to actually know what I’m talking about, but I tend to lean liberal anyway. :P</p>
<p>Torcher, good luck functioning as a social conservative on the Stanford campus. :)</p>
<p>Shadow, the teacher that heads our current Business Professionals of America club used to do that Future Business Leaders of America, he said it’s our rival group in the states that do not participate in BPA, so with that information, don’t take this as an offense but, BPA is better! lol jk no hard feelings!</p>
<p>a lot of people know FBLA but at a lot of schools its not really that serious of a committment. at my school people do fairly well, so its a serious commitment (as im sure yours is from the sound of it), but that’s not always the case.
im willing to bet that Key Club (<3) is the #1 activity that colleges see on applications though (maybe aside from NHS)</p>
<p>@torcher: you can try interning at the institute. its the spot of red among a sea of blue on campus 
but seriously i have heard that the faculty is very well-balanced, even if the student body isnt</p>
<p>2600 :)</p>