<p>I shall inform you if I get in on the 20th. I am fluent in Korean, but I am nowhere close to the Koreans at SNU. I am kind of worried about that. But then again, I am going to study engineering. I don’t think it will require too much Korean skills.</p>
<p>I’ve also been informed that it is difficult to transfer majors in Korea. You should do some research and find out exactly what you’re getting yourself into so that you won’t regret making any mistakes. I am not completely sure of how this works as well.</p>
<p>Hey. Well, firstly about the phone interviews. Phone interview was only for Med school i think. Cause one of my other friend who applied to SNU business school got in without an interview.
and about my friends in SNU, she is a first year student right now, so still studying. The reports can be in English. Your application essays too.
Once you graduate from SNU Med you will have no problem with working in Korea. The degree certificate will look the same for 12yr and native Korean students so ppl wont know unless you tell them.
The hard part is actually finishing college and adopting to the Korean culture. So once you finish college successfully you don’t need to worry about discrimination of some sort.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Thanks banglaji.</p>
<p>Do you still have contact with this person studying med at SNU? Is she finding the workload very difficult? Is she facing any discrimination at school? Does she think the education is great? Sorry I’m asking many questions. It’s because if I leave the US for SNU, I can’t come back, even if I don’t like it there. Thanks!</p>
<p>naturalleader</p>
<p>I wanted to give you another information I heard at one of SNU’s live seminars here at LA. They said they choose students based on specs and merit. It doesn’t depend on competition. So let’s say there are 100 students who applied. If all of them are great candidates, SNU will choose all of them. If they all suck, they will choose none that year. I heard that’s how it works. So it basically depends if they like you or not in every way (scores, extracurricular activities, community service, etc).</p>
<p>@Scarlet
[SNU</a> vs Harvard - igoo Lounge](<a href=“http://www.igoo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3256]SNU”>http://www.igoo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3256)</p>
<p>SNU is easy to excel in (on that note, most of Korean universities are easy relatively. They are just hard to get in domestically). As long as there’s no language barrier, I don’t see why you wouldn’t do well there. Education is definitely subpar compared to the top-tier American education institutions (faculty-wise at least). But if you want to work in Korea, it’s the best it can offer. </p>
<p>Oh, but in advanced majors such as medicine and I would imagine engineering, there’s substantially more workload since… well they are training engineers and doctors to work in Korea. </p>
<p>Also, I remember hearing that foreigners in the school usually are in a clique of their own, so interpret that as you will.</p>
<p>@banglaji
I’m pretty sure she had the phone interview because she was admitted primarily based on her admittance to Cambridge medicine. SNU doesn’t conduct interviews (generally) I heard.</p>
<p>Hmm, I see. Yeah, I’m just wondering how Korean companies like Samsung can do so well if they did not have brilliant Korean engineers. Especially since Korea is very advanced in the field of IT. I hope there is enough workload so I can reach my true potential. I don’t want to be overwhelmed like at Harvard, but I don’t want a walk at the park.
I plan to work in Korea for a good portion of my life, so I was thinking SNU would be a great choice. Also a good opportunity to master Korean and become truly bilingual.</p>
<p>And yes, you are right. They normally don’t conduct interviews/tests unless you are majoring in fine arts or physical education.</p>
<p>Tbh, if you want to be a truly competent, one the best engineers in Korea, you should have applied to KAIST or POSTECH. They are the true linchpins in educating top-tier engineers in Korea.</p>
<p>Yes, I was considering going to KAIST. Unfortunately, I’ve missed the date to apply.
I’ve checked the rankings for engineering, and SNU is right behind KAIST and POSTECH, so it shouldn’t be that bad. Also, all my relatives live in Seoul, so SNU would be the only school in which I can live with a family.</p>
<p>Does anyone here know about transferring from SNU to places like KAIST? Is it even possible?</p>
<p>Transfer is possible but extremely competitive. And I think SNU Eng is not bad, you will still get a job anywhere in korea because of SNU’s name value.</p>
<p>Thanks. Is engineering as competetive as medical or business at SNU?</p>
<p>No, but my friend’s dad is an engineering professor at SNU, and he says that all of the foreign/12 year admissions pple in the dpt. are highly competent with almost no one below 2150 SAT scores…</p>
<p>btw there are koreans who are sour about the 12 year admissions process and will lie that SNU admissions for guys like u r easy… don’t believe them lol it’s definitely easier than going into it through sooneung but it’s now insane. i might want to apply to safety schools like yonsei if i were u</p>
<p>@kim1g428
I dont think pple who go to Yonsei will like to hear that their school is a safety school. It is by no doubt the second best college in Korea.
But I do get what you are trying to say. Yonsei is indeed easier to get into than SNU. </p>
<p>@ScarletCrush
Yes I am still in touch with the person i talked about. In fact we are having dinner together tonight. Well she told me that Math is really hard for her and she finds it even harder because other native Koreans think it is really easy.
I also tried to solve some Korean High School Math questions myself, but it was really hard for me too even though i tooK AP Calc AB and got a 5 on the test.</p>
<p>Yonsei accepts 1800 SAT applicants… who have had all 12 years of education abroad or are foreign citizens. It is no where near the standards of SNU, although yonsei pple sometimes like to say that they are actually higher than SNU. Do u go to yonsei banglaji?
Also u should’ve taken AP Calc BC, not AB if u want to even try to compete with korean math.</p>
<p>@banglaji: If it’s not bothersome, could you ask your friend what the standard of int’l students at SNU med is (for example, are they all as impressive enough to be shortlisted for Cambridge medicine like her)? Also, what her thoughts/opinions on the med department there.</p>
<p>No kim1g428 i dont go to Yonsei.
Did you get rejected to Yonsei? or does your arch rival from high school go to Yonsei?
It looks like you have bad feelings toward yonsei.
Anyways, what I am trying to say is that Yonsei is a good school. But like you have said
SNU>Yonsei.
Also ,I dont think even Calc BC can compete with Korean math.</p>
<p>Yeah all of my 12 year friends who got rejected from SNU got into yonsei, and they were definitely not studious students. I don’t harbor negative emotions towards yonsei university, but towards the students who didnt study in high school at all but are accepted and treated the same way as the students who got all 1 deung gup in sooneung. I’m pretty sure the yonsei students who got in through their sweat and blood would not appreciate these other guys. btw where do u attend univ?</p>
<p>@banglaji I second kim1g428. 서울대 is no longer that easy to get into even for foreigners, while Yonsei’s quality has quite frankly been deteriorating.</p>