Oct 25 2013, 07:58 PM
QUOTE(mumeichan @ Oct 25 2013, 07:26 AM)
Actually, most people graduate from US high schools knowing much more than the average A-Level student. Since they have the freedom to choose their subjects in high school, it's common for them to take Advance Placement or even university level classes while in high school. Personally I did math for my first two years so I did see freshman who had already taken 2 years worth of university level math in high school already.
So actually a determined student can complete their degree in two years if they wanted to. I switched majors in my 3rd year and actually took about 1 year to complete all the necessary classes for my new major.
Why do people spend 4 years there? They don't overload classes and do research, summer internships, community work, attend conferences or company presentations.
Hence a graduate there would already have 2 years of internships if he was on a career path and 3-4 years of research experience if he was on a research path.
It's also no unusual for them to take 1-2 years break after college. Some build up their credentials, some do Peace Corps, Teach for America etc.
It's very different there. They care about what you have done and can achieve rather than nonsense people here care about like how you look like(no one attaches pictures in their resume, job or college applications), your major (you can be a philosophy major and join an investment firm), your age(I've never seen an age limit in a job application there).
Hey there it's me again with more questions, hope you don't mind answering ...So actually a determined student can complete their degree in two years if they wanted to. I switched majors in my 3rd year and actually took about 1 year to complete all the necessary classes for my new major.
Why do people spend 4 years there? They don't overload classes and do research, summer internships, community work, attend conferences or company presentations.
Hence a graduate there would already have 2 years of internships if he was on a career path and 3-4 years of research experience if he was on a research path.
It's also no unusual for them to take 1-2 years break after college. Some build up their credentials, some do Peace Corps, Teach for America etc.
It's very different there. They care about what you have done and can achieve rather than nonsense people here care about like how you look like(no one attaches pictures in their resume, job or college applications), your major (you can be a philosophy major and join an investment firm), your age(I've never seen an age limit in a job application there).
Currently I have a decent SAT score(slightly >2000), and haven't take SAT II yet, I considered applying for EA / ED however more of those schools who have these offers are on CommonApp and typically the deadline for application is Nov 1 ... Any recommendation for me if I don't wanna do SAT II at all? Can I still get into one of the good unis ?
In another thread I didn't list what's my major gonna be, erm it's actually Economics
I really admire people like Robert Schiller / Paul Krugman / Joseph Stiglitz reading their work and from reading many other titles written by economics journalist I find this subject way more deeper and interesting than what I learn in A-level currently. The thing is most good unis(Yale, UChicago) are private ones and they are so expensive to attend
To begin with I don't have any scholarships yet, and my budget is likely to be around 350k for the entire study. I've been thinking about cheaper ways to go to US - 1) Go to a community college and transfer 2) Go to public unis (Wisconsin-Madison or Minnesota Twins) either directly or via transfer from another public u - and try to finish the study within 3 years if I cannot secure any scholarship next year. Any suggestions for me who wants to save n' still go into a nice econs school? Also is A-level grades generally available for credit transfer in universities, try looking it up but to no avail.(Kinda regret doing A-levels instead of ADTP
) Next thing of course is how to look for a scholarship when public unis are relatively more stingy than their private counterparts? My friend is trying Stanford's ED and he requested no financial aid, presumably to have a higher chance of getting in, but is it advisable to place such a huge bet, since there's a legal bind on his admission ?
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