<p>I’m baaaack. Hello <em>waves</em></p>
<p>Emily, I just read back to find how your interview went, I’m so excited for you. And excited that everyone was so nice 
And seriously… GOSSIP GIRL CLUB? OMG. Yale is the best ever.</p>
<p>Dearest Yale, </p>
<p>Would you be so kind of as to upload your supplement to the CommonApp. I, along with a plethora of my fellow prospective Yalies, am beginning to feel, what we might call, a tad bit “antsy.”</p>
<p>Sincerely,
it’s.been.real.</p>
<p>The only reason I log onto the CommonApp website is to check if the supplement is up. Is that bad? </p>
<p>I was listening to the radio, and Jordin Sparks totally stole that silly 80s song “Love is a Battlefield”. She can’t just do that. But I guess she can, silly American Idol.</p>
<p>Yo, so I think provinces trump states any day.</p>
<p>Can you explain the province system? Like…how does the government of Canada work? My friend is going to University of Toronto (she’s from here) and she doesn’t get it…haha</p>
<p>I hate Jordin Sparks 
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<p>AND YES, that is the only reason why I log on too (and then once I’m there I’ll usually answer some stupid other supplement question as long as it doesn’t exert my brain to much and take more than 5 minutes, if it does then I peace out and check back in a few hours…bad habit)</p>
<p>“Yo, so I think provinces trump states any day” - tru dat!!</p>
<p>in canada we have 10 provinces and 3 territories that are kind of your equivalent of “states” i guess, each one has municipalities that deal with stuff like garbage collection, sewage, etc and the provinces all have a capital city too. the provincial govt deals with stuff like educations and healthsystems (arrgh this is giving me a bad social studies flashback) - and things like those differ from province to province, like i moved from one province to another, and the education systems are like soooooooo dfferent. oh ya and alberta doesnt have a provincial sales tax (the only province btw). and with elections, the the winner is determined by the party with the most seats or ridings won (1 riding for every 100,000 ppl i think)…</p>
<p>is it just yale or are the supplements of other unis taking their time to come up on commonapp as wel?</p>
<p>Hahahh I do that toooo! I’ve already filled out all the other parts of my CommonApp…like just the personal info junk so whenever I log on, I immediately click Supplements, Yale, and go DANG IT. and logout. </p>
<p>I don’t know anything about Canada. and it’s like…right up there. Is that bad? Heck, I don’t even know much about the government of Mexico. Hahahah and I want to intern at the UN. What am I thinking. Let’s hope a year in Comparative Politics will help 
I’m really interested in all this stuff…but just haven’t really taken the time to learn it since I just became interested a year ago…which was like the busiest year of my life. </p>
<p>Yayyy portugueseninja!! Where have ya been?</p>
<p>GOOOOD job on the geography lesson itsbeenreal!
“SO, Yale is a school in the city of New Haven in the State of Connecticut in the Country of the USA.”
hahaha that made my brain hurt even though I knew it already.</p>
<p>Waiiiit slow down solittletime. </p>
<p>3 territories. Ok. So how many provinces are in each territory? How do elections work? Like each province gets a number of votes? </p>
<p>Most of my colleges have their supplements up! Except YALLLEEEE, Brown and UPenn. Love the colleges that had them up the first day (July 1). And yes, I’m a complete nerd and signed up for an account the very first day. Even though I was at the beach and by the time I got back, I was sunburnt everywhere. Yet, I still painfully sat down and created a CommonApp account and freaked out because Stanford’s supplement was already up. :)</p>
<p>Hey Smile! I write for a music website so I’ve been at a music festival watching awesome bands and then I came home and wrote reviews of them :)</p>
<p>And I’m absolutely in The ‘I Know Nothing About Canada’ Club</p>
<p>Provinces, here, are pretty much equivalent to states in the US. I can’t think of any major differences, really…</p>
<p>In terms of university, however, it’s really different. Here, there aren’t any private universities, so all are funded by the government, and tuition is almost exactly the same from college to college, within the same degree programs. Aaaand, tuition is significantly smaller here. I think the average for Ontario was $4k per year in 2008? Pretty small… But people here still complain. My research thing is at UToronto, and I was there all day today, and this student accosted me as I was leaving and got me to sign a petition addressed to the provincial government to lower tuition fees, or something like that.</p>
<p>I created mine on the evening of June 31, because it came out early. I fully trump all of you.</p>
<p>Okay, no, territories are essentially like provinces, with some differences. I believe (I’m sort of also in the “I know [virtually] nothing about Canada” club, hahaha) territories have less power and are more influenced by the federal government. They’re all close to the arctic circle, haha, so they don’t have much of a population, so I guess that’s why they’re territories.</p>
<p>Sooo okay elections here are really complicated. I’m making a second post on them because I can’t keep updating this.</p>
<p>PS, Jordin Sparks sucks, and why the hell is there an I in her name.</p>
<p>I din’t even know there were territories and provinces. But I can put that down to being far away.</p>
<p>$4k a year is so cheap! That’s cheaper than here! Ours is about £5k a year, about the equivalent to US community colleges, because we don’t have private universities either. (at least, I don’t think we do…)</p>
<p>lol, “how many provinces are in each territory?” - XD its ok, u don’t live here, i know ppl who do live here and think that there are 2 territories, like omggg</p>
<p>yaaa, the electons are kind of ridiculous, not too fond of it. we have something called the first past the post system, and each RIDING is one SEAT, i’ll leave rocker to explain…</p>
<p>finally i got some decent work done on my essay =D</p>
<p>Okay, elections:</p>
<p>Here, citizens are called upon to vote in three different elections: municipal, provincial, and federal. Municipal elections are fairly simple. You just elect the person you want to lead the city, not a big deal.</p>
<p>Each province has its own government. Since the Canadian government is a parliament, each provincial government contains a set amount of seats. Politicians from various parties compete for each of these seats, and the government that wins the greatest amount of seats becomes the government that is in power. The leader of the party, who also must be elected in his or her own district (which we refer to as “ridings”… this name comes from something about horses and I don’t know) is the leader of the provincial government, or the premier. In order to run in a particular riding, one must live in that riding. Also, in our elections, we rely on a first-past-the-post system (the person with the most votes in the district wins the seat), while there’s been a debate about whether we should switch to a proportional electoral system (in which all votes for the province are taken into account and seats are assigned proportionally based on the total number of votes). England also relies on this system, and I know that certain parties have suffered as a result. (One party, for example, could get 20% of the votes, and no seats at all, simply because they didn’t “beat” any other parties in any districts… make sense?)</p>
<p>Now, the federal government relies on the same system, just the people who run are different. The premier and prime minister can never be the same person, because they operate in different sections of the government. So, above, when I said that the leader of the party with the most seats becomes the premier, I was referring to the leader of the “provincial” part of the party, if that makes sense. </p>
<p>Since, in every parliament, there will be a variety of parties represented, it often happens that they disagree. In the event that everyone seriously, seriously disagrees and nothing can be done, the prime minister (or premier, in the provincial government) has to dissolve the parliament and new elections are held. (Technically, he has to request that the governor general, the Queen’s representative in Canada, dissolve the parliament, but this is a formality and he/she almost always does. The only event in which he/she wouldn’t is if there’s a war or something going on, and an election would be dangerous for the safety of the country.) </p>
<p>I hope at least some of this made sense, haha…</p>
<p>Hahah I THINK I got it now. At least I understand it more than I used to Thanks guys!! I have a feeling Comparative Politics is gonna be a tad confusing at first hahah I can imagine myself getting all the governments mixed up. </p>
<p>4k??? MAN that’s cheap. Even the state university costs more than that (i think)! </p>
<p>portugueseninja-woahhhhhhh. awesome! </p>
<p>YALL it’s raining! and the trees look and grass looks super green. it’s gorgeous! perfect weather to cut down words on an essay (for some reason, i can never cut down words on a sunny day. it’s just too sunny and happy to cut stuff down hahah).</p>
<p>I self-studied the AP class for it, it’s a really cool AP to take. I hope you’ll enjoy it!</p>
<p>I love the rain. In the summer, mostly.</p>
<p>Rocker, if you like rain you should come to England. Do you also like awful TV shows and a poor exchange rate? We have those two. Rule Britannia.</p>
<p>Smile, it was so awesome! I saw Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Avenged Sevenfold, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit… and loads of others :D</p>
<p>portugueseninja - seriousslllyyyy? in concert? in person? omg i’m so jealous! </p>
<p>i’m actually not too fond of the sun, i don’t know why =S rain makes me happy tho!</p>
<p>I’m kind of okay with most weather. Really not a big deal.</p>
<p>You know, kids, I think I will build myself a snow fort in which to live if I don’t get into Yale SCEA. It will have a little hole in the roof so I can watch the stars as I sleep and I will start documenting snowflake configurations in a little notebook, and then pray I get into Yale RD before my fort melts.</p>
<p>Okay, wow, so I went away for a couple hours and we learned 2 things</p>
<p>1) The intricacies of the Canadian political system
2) That either rocker is an idiot, or was trying to be funny and no one noticed.
June 31 does not exist, therefore you trump nobody.
Mad hearts though, dude. </p>
<p>Okay, so I don’t 100% understand your political system, but I got most of that, and it sounds REALLY similar to the US’ political system, which would make sense since we’re also based on England’s parliamentary system…ironically having split from the “mother country” only a few months earlier. But hey, who’s counting… </p>
<p>Do you guys (the two Canadians and the Brit…or I guess any of the Americans too haha) need a US Government 101 lesson? I’d be happy to supply you all with that </p>
<p>$4k is AMAZINGLY cheap, I mean if I, as an international student, were to go to McGill it would cost me $15,000 and I thought THAT was amazing. The the better of the four state universities in Massachusetts is about $35,000/year…so you know, tell all those UToronto kids to suck it up. </p>
<p>(Okay, side note: I just looked down at the “similar threads” page while I was typing and I see “2014 Hopefuls Thread (help from current attendees, or 2013ers)” on the Harvard board, started by someone called Guessimgreat and only has 11 replies. We have 783 (going on 784) replies. HARVARD JUST GOT OWNED.)</p>
<p>I happen to agree that I both love the rain and work better in the rain. </p>
<p>Portugueseninja: take me to England! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. I am a hopeless Anglophile. I have a life-size poster of the quintessential London telephone booth hanging on my bedroom door, an Abbey Road poster on my wall, a MASSIVE British flag that I sewed onto my duvet cover, a little telephone booth keychain, a cookie tin (that I keep chargers and stuff in…lol, NOT cookies, but whatever) with images of London Bridge and the Parliament building and Big Ben on it, various and sundry other British paraphernalia around my room…I was supposed to go to England summer of 2001, but that was right after September 11th and there were suspected terrorist attacks in London and my aunt cancelled the trip and I’ve never been able to go. It is my DREAM. My absolute dream.
In fact, I like…legit buy British food goods that I like when I can get my hands on them (i.e. Flake 99 and McVities biscuits…I prefer the originals, but if they’re sold out I buy HobNobs)…and whenever I go to New York I always go to this Fish and Chips place in the Village called “A Salt and Battery” (good pun) and it’s run by the British kids at NYU and it’s all greasy and good and they sell it in newspaper with malt vinegar and it’s the closest I’ve ever been to actually going to England…okay I’m going to stop, because this is embarrassing, but I just need to impress upon you how much I LOVE England and how I just HAVE to go there. :(</p>
<p>THIS IS SO LONG. IT’S HORRID! I am so mortified by the length of this post…never again, guys…never again.</p>
<p>Oh…hehehehe, ONE more thing:</p>
<p>In case anyone cares, Yale is not the only one who hasn’t put their supp., a lot of colleges haven’t actually. To name a few:
Brown
GW
Skidmore
UMass—Amherst
Vassar
Penn
WashU</p>
<p>So apparently we’ve strayed a bit from the original topic, but interesting nontheless. </p>
<p>In response to supplements, four of my schools haven’t put out their supplements yet, all ivies. It’s really quite annoying considering all the essays I know will be in them! How are you all doing on your essays?</p>