<p>Hey everydoby!
I'm Evelyne and I'm French and I'd be very interested in knowing about you if you're French as well, since I don't know many French who are considering going to college in the US.
Or if you're not French, but happen to be reading this, feel free to write as well.</p>
<p>I know some French guys, but I am from Germany.
Where are you applying?</p>
<p>I'm from France.
It's great to see I'm not the only one to plan applying to an american college.
What grade are you in? Where do you want to go?</p>
<p>Me too. I live in Paris. What school/college are you attending? What schools are you all considering?</p>
<p>Hi everyone here!!GOOD to see some French friends here....</p>
<p>Currently I'm in 11th grade in Virginia (I'm an exchange student for this year), trying to get As and 4.0 GPA, trying to become fluent, etc.
I hope to apply to good colleges (maybe Ivies?) in the Fall 2007.
God I miss France.... even though the US are pretty cool!</p>
<p>Going to the US for undergrad is stupid, in my opinion. Not only does it close you a lot of doors back home but it's a complete waste of money if you can get in Sciences Po. or a Grande Ecole... I'm still a college freshman, I have like 7 semesters to become an acceptable applicant. What about you guys? What are your plans?</p>
<p>I just got the internet back so I couldn't talk to you guy earlier. I live in Paris too, zules01, but are you currently in the US or in France?
Anyway, I think staying in France closes a lot of doors. Sure, going to the Us is a lot of money (I'm very privileged my parents can afford it) but if I stay here, it's either I do mathsup and never learn about any litterary subjects ever again or go to sciences po and never do any science again. The French system is stupid for the higher-education; you do two years of prepa where all you work on is math and physics than, if you're lucky you get into a grande </p>
<p>Well, this is from an outsider's perspective: going to the US would open up a much wider field full of opportunities of every kind for you to pursue. The higher educational system is very very flexible in the United States. For one thing, you are never held hostage to one single major during your four years of undergraduate education. At most US colleges, students can easily switch majors (from history to engineering to political science to architecture...), and are free to try out and experience a wide range of subjects. As the Dean of Princeton's office of admissions says every year in his welcome speech, "the college experience is about you being an observer, trying out new challenges in a rich context of knowledge, learning, and society. It's about you falling in love with things you don't even know you don't know." :)</p>
<p>Hey I am French too, currently studying at the University of CHicago :)</p>
<p>Hey I have 2 questions for you guys: how did you study the SATs and what did you get (if U took it)?</p>
<p>How do you like University of Chicago? Are you a freshman?</p>
<p>I studied with books I bought on amazon for the SATs and I got 690CR 720W 800M.</p>
<p>Well if you have the money after all, why not... I was an exchange student in St. Louis, MO last year and loved it. Now I'm a freshman at the Sorbonne. I couldn't agree more about the pr</p>
<p>I'm not French, but I speak it fairly well and I live in a country where a lot of people are and speak french...alors, je voudrais dire que j'espere que tous les francophones seront acceptes a l'universite de leur choix! (I hope that's right - we haven't learned the subjonctif yet and I know you use it with que, so I'm not sure if what I've written is right) :) Bonne chance! lol</p>
<p>What were your grades in high school? DId you get a "mention" or not?</p>
<p>zules01 do you like la Sorbonne? What courses are you studying and where did you go for high school?
I'm not trying out for Sciences Po because I want to work in the computer science field but if I were to do something relating to what you can learn at sciences po I'd definitely go there, it's one of the best deals around: no pr</p>
<p>hey I'm french too...
I'm currently enrolled in a prepa HEC in Paris and even if there is a LOT of work I have to say that what we learn is very,very interesting! And I think that all the work is worthy because after the 2 or 3 years you have access to very good schools...</p>
<p>The Sorbonne is quite... acceptable. I'm an econ. major, I was in a decent Parisian hs, but I hope to go to get the good exchange programs we have at the junior/senior year level so I'm studying hardcore. I'll try out for all the IEP as well... we'll see. So far I just try to get the best grades possible.</p>
<p>What were your grades in high school? DId you get a "mention" or not?
I'm asking again, I really want to know if my grades are in the good range to apply.</p>
<p>I wonder if there are any French students applying to Canadian unis? I have heard that University of Montreal, among others, teach predominantly in French.</p>