What to Do in 9th Grade to get into Harvard

The_Ace_is_Back
Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:51:50 +0000

I dunno, I only had very basic Japanese (about half a GCSE course) but had a great time nevertheless (home stay… although to be fair I was around the others from my school for a lot of the time as well). You pick up a lot on the way simply through being chucked into a foreign environment like that and having to fend for youself… but I guess you know best having been at university there.

Only problem is that they simply cannot talk English to save their life. Apparently they all do quite a bit of reading & writing at school, but hardly any oral whatsoever. Silly. I disagree with their philosophy on education - they need to bring in more Western elements (like trying things out even if you get them wrong… IE SPEAKING ENGLISH) and if they combined it with their current attitudes (discipline, hard work, achieve high grades etc.) they would be awesome. I read an article in the Telegraph the other day (don’t worry, not a regular reader) about them building a school based on Eton over there haha. Have you heard about it? I was wondering if it’s going to be single sex as well, and if they were going to have the same uniforms heh.

Which uni are you at over there?