College Acceptances and such

[WillJ]

After getting a scholarship worth full tuition plus $2000 a year to Vanderbilt, I know where I'll be going.

 

[Syterion]

Congrats on Cornell, Syterion. I've got friends who went and they loved the place. The campus is absolutely beautiful, as well. Do you know what you're going to major in?

I'm going to be doing Mechanical Engineering. I think I want to do alternative energy type stuff, so I might minor in Chemical Engineering or something else I don't know completely.

 

[Serutan]

Congrats to all you smart guys! It's obvious I'm the dumbarse athlete around here since I went to Univ. of Arizona to play baseball. To think I'm engaged to a Berkeley/Columbia grad. Go figure.

Doesn't have to be a smart/dumb thing. A lot of other things factor in, too.
I went to University of Ky partly for financial reasons, partly because at
the time I didn't want to be *too* far from home.

 

[Steph]

I believe the closest thing the French system has to these acceptances is for "classes prepa", the two-year classes you take to prepare for the entrance exams - but they count towards your type of diploma, meaning if you do the two years and then three years of college you'll be considered to have 5 years of college education.

make it three years...

 

[Truronian]

Want an international flavour?

Four years ago I applied to study Natural Sciences at (in preference order):
Cambridge
Durham
Birmingham
Bath
UEA
Lancaster

Only seven universities in the UK offer NatSci, as far as I could find. Queen Mary, Uni of London didn't even have a web site when I was applying, so it was a simple list of who do I like best (you're only allowed to apply to six, and only one of Cambridge and Oxford). Cambridge turned me down, Durham wanted three A's, Bham wanted AAB, Bath ditto, UEA BBB and offered me a scholarship, Lancaster ditto. Since I got AABB, I went to Bham.

I have a friend at Cambridge doing NatSci, and it sounds like hell. 60 hour weeks... lectures on a Saturday... being a tab... would be too much for me.

 

[Abaddon]

I applied to 6 unis, and got offers from all

3 of those unis even lowered their entry requirements for me

 

[Whomp]

Doesn't have to be a smart/dumb thing. A lot of other things factor in, too.
I went to University of Ky partly for financial reasons, partly because at
the time I didn't want to be *too* far from home.

True that. I think there were a number of things that helped me going to school there that I wouldn't have benefited from going to Indiana or Illinois.

• I recognized very early baseball was not going to be my career.
• Being 2000 miles from home meant all of us out of staters had to stick together during the holidays. Those bonds and networks with my mates are so solid to this day
• Exploring the west coast and Mexico the way we did was absolutely awesome. Road trip!
• Over the last two years my tuition was less than $500 I think.
• Bartending at Ventana Canyon probably prepared me for my career more than my finance degree.
• Girls. 'Nuff said.

 

[plarq]

For graduate application, related experience and skill is almost a must. Unlike high school students who only has to be "excellent".

I'm confident of myself being "excellent" in courses and examinations. But now I wonder, how will a graduate institution review applicants' profiles. I have yet to see my vulnerability, but I'm feeling quite uncertain about my future in my possible fields.

 

[Mischief]

I`ve just one more month of school left and then, once I have taken the last verbal tests and gotten my final report, I want to apply to the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena to study law; according to what I found out, Jena is said to have one of the best Law Faculties in Germany.

Public German universities don`t generally make you take entrance exams or anything similar when you want to study law, instead they make the first one or two years hard enough to make those who can`t make it drop out (if you think about it, telling them they could not start studying it in the first place would be more fair, IMO).
I`m pretty sure I can handle that, though

For a while I thought about going to a private university, since my Abitur would have been good enough to apply to them, but decided to save the money:
Apart from apparently being a good university, the city and campus in Jena are said to be fairly pretty (I`m driving there with friends for a weekend to look at the city myself soon) and I know people who go there and like it. Also, Jena being in East Germany, the cost of living there is cheap enough that I will be able to afford a small (read: tiny) apartment of my own and escape living in a student hostel.

Even though I`ve enjoyed these last years of school and irresponsibility and will probably miss them in the beginning, I look forward to living on my own, meeting new people and studying a subject I`m interested in