<p>Wow... How much did you have loaned?</p>
<p>those sat scores arent brilliant. you didnt mention any ECs or anything - I have a hunch that you had some outstanding ECs, or some hook. </p>
<p>It is very very difficult to get into wharton. last year, my school, the best in singapore, wharton ED 2/9, but RD 0/26. 5 ppl in yale, 12 ppl stanford, but wharton-all rejected. why??</p>
<p>are u sure wharton places finaid in seperate category?</p>
<p>..i forgot, MARTINIBLUEX... "opinion", not "oppinion", sweety.</p>
<p>ahluwaila.. i know my scores aren't brilliant.. in italy we don't have such thing as EC or Ap, we have a standard curriculum, and getting what you guys call an "A", (meaning a 10, since the scale here is from 1 to 10) is mainly impossible. I have all 8s and 9s since my freshman year though. But I spent one year abroad as a foreign exchange student though, I graduated from a regular public high school, got all A's, 4.01 GPA, ranked 72/555, so maybe that could have helped.. I am in my "13th" grade over here, we have 1 year more than you.. So mainly I have 2 diplomas...</p>
<p>Believe me I don't know exactly why I got in..
I guess I just had very good RECOMMENDATIONS..<br>
No hooks at all, I have been living in Italy since I was born... </p>
<p>And yes, if u apply to Wharton and get accepted but they can't give you a scolarship or any kind of financial aid, then u'll get rejected. Stupid policy, I know...</p>
<p>no hooks at all, I have been living in Italy since I was born...</p>
<p>woah lotti, sorry i didnt mean it that way that your scores aren't brilliant.
what I am saying is theyre not outstanding-superduper-high. And since thats all you put, I assumed you have some other hook. The scores are good enough - if theres one thing I've learned in my months of living in thinking-about-college world, Sat scores don't mean A LOT. yes you should be in the ballpark, but they're a variable. it is only because of the convenience factor and the fact that its standardised and easy to compare that everybody makes a big deal about it. i doubt colleges do. 50 points do not maketh the acceptance.</p>
<p>Also, I guess I am hoping the places I am applying to DO have a seperate pile for non-finaid applicants..</p>
<p>Lotti, ur SAT scores and the admission decision u have received, shows that u have something great...which maybe even u dont know about urself...but the adcoms saw...ur school record is good too...ur study abroad thing might have helped u too... Congrats again! Rock the world friend :)</p>
<p>thanks ronty... thanks... :)</p>
<p>Carlotta.</p>
<p>ahluwalia don't worry... i am the first one to say that i am not an amazing SAT-tester...</p>
<p>try to find a college that has a need-blind policy, for the financial aid issue..</p>
<p>Well, I do know what it is to be international because I AM ONE. I also know incredible people, more erudite than you can ever imagine, who had 1600 on the sat, and 800 on their sat 2s, who got rejected so little girls like you can whine how hard it is to be international. Ironically, one of the guys was from Itally. Very sharp kid. It is probably because he wasn't ready to pay, but I cannot be sure what went on there since so many of the ivies proclaim themselves to be need-blind. He is now in Oxford. Top of his class. What is your rank btw?
Now dear girl, of course it upsets me to see someone like you up there while so many smart kids stay home each year.
I can also afford to drink because I am the top (#1) student in 75% of my classes with class size between 300 and 400 people.
I thought that my apology was going to be enough, but no - you had to come back and nag about it.
A piece of advice - better yourself. You had been given an incredible chance. Please don't stay mediocre. Go on the collegeboard website and see that a large percent of the test scorers score higher than you esp on math 2c. What was your percentile? 60?
Think about that. And please - spelling IS important and you DO hate me.</p>
<p>Martini I simply replied to your post, with the exact some tone.
See the difference between me and you?
I definetely am not the perfect student, I am not ranked # 1 in anything, since we don't have a rank.. I just do my best and I don't BRAG ABOUT IT. I don't need to show to the world how good I am in order to "win" a stupid argument on a blog.
I am just telling you what I think about YOUR offensive post, since you were the first one to attack all the international for no reason. What were you expecting, that I just would stare at the screen and smile?</p>
<p>Congratulations for your amazing performance in college.</p>
<p>By the way, where are you from?</p>
<p>Carlotta.</p>
<p>I forgot... Again... </p>
<p>Merry Christmas..!</p>
<p>Shellzie,
Your Chinese friend may score triple-800's in SAT II math and sciences, given that she's been educated in China and interested in engineering. She will probably score 800 in SAT-m too. If she can score 500-600 in CR, she should be fine given that she is from China and English is not her first language. I'd be more concern about her GPA at your school. I presume she is a junior?</p>
<p>actually very few Chinese students get 800 in New SAT-math. Most are below 750, including those top students from top high schools.</p>
<p>And why's that? It wasn't that uncommon to get 800 in the old SAT-m. Have they moved the curve?</p>
<p>i've noticed that too. appatrently they slip about four questions that seem really easy and they are but the distractions from the correct answer are better done than the ones on the old one. If you are conscious and self-critical you should be able to find them tho. I think it's nice that they did that, it emphasizes the curve</p>
<p>Hey guys, thanks for your input. I will add that Juliet has a current GPA of about 3.33 at her high school here in MN (competitive private, she's taken 2 APs-chem and calc-and 3 soph/junior classes for art/hist/english) and, although we don't know her TOEFL scores yet, her practice test scores have been in the 250 range (CBT). She is a junior and has one year of school left in China, but she is thinking of applying to some schools this year to see if she can get financial aid and possibly change her visa classification. Also, does anyone think it will be a problem that she doesn't have any ECs, given the fact that she is from China, where there aren't many opportunities for activities outside of school?</p>
<p>for how long is she stayin in MN? if she's in an US high school for over a year, i think the colleges will expect some sorta EC, at least one. btw i believe some Chinese schools in larger cities do offer decent ECs...it's just the students are prob. way 2 occupied w/ schoolwork already.</p>
<p>toefl 250 = SAT 550 - 600 just study hard lol chinese ppl can cram everything x) and gl</p>
<p>Thanks, toothpickforest, she is staying here for one academic year. She does have two ECs- International club and a service project involving teaching 2nd grade students Chinese at a local Elementary school, but neither requires a lot of time (Int'l club: 1 hr a week, 2wks/mo;service: 1-2 hrs wk/ 3 wks/mo). Although she is from a large city in China, she was one of those preoccupied with studying.</p>
<p>I'm not Chinese - I'm Korean actually, but I got into a good school with terrible SATs. A lot depends on the interview, how you dress, things you say. They were really interested in my sob store on how I came to this country - also the interviewer was a white guy...I think whities think we're exotic or somethin</p>