<p>bneg how's your PF [portfolio coming on]?</p>
<p>this could be a very tricky business. jcro you have 13 pieces, so far. washU specifies 8-12. Cornell, meanwhile, wants 15-20. </p>
<p>but i guess it's quality over quantity. i really hope that we all get into our first and second choice schools and that all our effort would be worth it. yeah.</p>
<p>i'm going for twenty. i thought i could be a little extravagant and go beyond that, but now i'm just glad that i don't have to work on it anymore...</p>
<p>i thought i would have a good time writing essays too~~ silly me..</p>
<p>yeah. i'm not having more than 15/16. that's enough, really. cos i'm tired.</p>
<p>no, not at all. yale's EA program isn't binding.</p>
<p>jrock, did you do an interview for AAP last year?</p>
<p>yeah, but not an oral or live interview. owing to my location, they sent me a sheaf of papers and i have five interview questions to answer in 3 pages. that was essentially a written interview. would you like to see the questions.</p>
<p>hey bneg, could i ask a question. should i write my essay in american english or british?</p>
<p>how interesting....i suppose british could show off diversity and personality...i think it'll be cool as long as it's not stale~</p>
<p>i wish i could get a written one too....do you remember what they asked?</p>
<p>pm for you~~</p>
<p>jrock, i have some weird questions for you....when you send recommendation letters, can you get them from your teachers and send them yourself along with other stuff? it's way too inconvenient to give everyone an envelope and stuff...how did you do it last year?</p>
<p>and also, when you send SAT scores they send all previous ones at no extra charge right? if so...i'm going to wait 'til december</p>
<p>yo jcro2006. tu t'es bien marre! merci pour le compliment. mais je crois je n'ai pas offense les etudiants du USC...lol :D</p>
<p>yeah bneg. i did just the same last year. i got the recs from them and mailed them with the other stuff. but they sealed and signed across the flaps of the envelopes. before i left my normal country of residence, i collected the evaluations forms from them to mail myself. just make everything look neat. that's all.</p>
<p>yeah and collegeboard sends a cumulative score so you can wait till november.</p>
<p>sorry bneg my internet connection was choppy over the past 6 hours. </p>
<p>thanks. i'll email you now.</p>
<p>hi, jcro2006, have you seen jimminy's portfolio yet? what do you think?</p>
<p>hi, jcro2006, have you seen jimminy's portfolio yet? what do you think? </p>
<p>what foreign lang class do you take? i'm assuming it's french... or is it spanish.</p>
<p>'i sort of have a portfolio, i just need to find out if its good or if i should do more work on it.'</p>
<p>i think you should just work on it to your satisfaction, barring all external influence. like bneg said, it's YOU, they want to see. don't worry, i'm sure it's gonna bowl me over...</p>
<p>thank you for clarifying the scores and rec's. i was getting very worried about the money~~</p>
<p>I'm sure it is excellent, but check on accreditation issues.</p>
<p>thanks SRmom3. i was reading over your reality check post on page 7 yesterday and was wondering where you were. it's really great advice and they are as real as ever. at least, i know what to expect.</p>
<p>could you please comment on the arch program at Univ of Hawaii, Manoa.</p>
<p>also, which is better - a 5yr or 4+2/3 program?</p>
<p>sorry bneg, i can't find the cornell interview questions post, but there are about 30 questions under 5 headings. i'll list the 5 headings now, and email the detail later:</p>
<p>1 YOUR INTEREST IN ARCHITECTURE AND HOW IT HAS DEVELOPED
2 CREATIVE EXPERIENCE
3 BACKGROUND
4 OTHER THINGS THAT INTEREST YOU
5 AMBITION.</p>
<p>thanks for the email. i'll respond. yeah, ok, british english. i really hope my app would be interesting...thanks</p>
<p>I know next to nothing about Hawaii except I think I recall that they are the only program that requires biology instead of physics. I did have a neighbor who attended there a million years ago and ended up as a grocery store manager but I would attribute that to him not the program. One guess is that it suffers the same fate as other schools in "glorious" (my 2 college childrens' current favorite adjective) locations. Their graduates don't want to leave so there is a glut of architects and the resultant higher-fire cycle in offices with a comensurate low pay scale.</p>
<p>i think cal poly also requires bio...i wonder why?</p>
<p>and thank you jrock for the interview headings...that's odd, i thought those would be the most important things and i tried to stuff them in my essays as much as i can! i think they focus on the interview more than the essays, right??</p>