<p>I noticed that many Asian applicants "mourn" the fact they have so many of their peers applying as well, thus making them somewhat over-represented.</p>
<p>Is there an official approach to this at some places? </p>
<p>What I'm looking at is the fact my country sends a relatively small amount of students to the USA (3,000 a year, the majority of which are grad students), in comparison to Japan/India/China/Korea/Taiwan who send them in the tens of thousands, and how that will effect my admissions chances. </p>
<p>I'm not sure...I applied ED Princeton as a norwegian citizen (I'm ethnically indian though) and got rejected. There were no other norwegian ED Princeton applicants...so I'm not sure how much this diversity stuff really helps. You might have an edge though. Ask your GC or college rep visiting Israel. They'll have better answers :)</p>
<p>One of the cool things about our education system is the fact GC's only know the bad students, the ones who throw chairs around the classroom. I actually had my principal write a letter explaining the fact we have absolutely no awards, no GC contact or any school organized EC's.</p>
<p>As a whole, I'm a sea of diversity: I was born in the USSR, have also lived in Hungary for a substantial amount of time and am 22 right now, after 3 years of military service in Israel.</p>
<p>I just hope that those little things set me apart from the 15,000 Chinese applicants to Harvard, because they probably have better stats. :)</p>
<p>15,000? Are you kidding? I think 300 at most.
Yale has only 200 applicants from mainland of China last year. So it's easy to make a guess on Harvard.</p>
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As a whole, I'm a sea of diversity: I was born in the USSR, have also lived in Hungary for a substantial amount of time and am 22 right now, after 3 years of military service in Israel.
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in that case i'd like you to meet a dear friend of mine, Izzy.</p>
<p>"15,000? Are you kidding? I think 300 at most.
Yale has only 200 applicants from mainland of China last year. So it's easy to make a guess on Harvard."</p>
<p>Ofcourse I'm kidding, it was a joke. Israel supplies a dozen, at best (with a handful being accepted usually, so it's not bad, really).</p>
<p>And as for the stats - I'm not over-rating your countrymen, I know my own worth (and there's a thread as of 2 hours ago displaying my numbers). I have no doubt in my mind that even if I luck out and be at your location in a year's time - it will not be because of my scores.</p>
<p>BTW:
I think it would be a curious - however pointless - exercise to see how many international students this forum supplies to the top tier US Unis/Colleges (odds are it's been done before).</p>
<p>Me, B? Or another Izzy? Cause my sister's boyfriend's sister is also called "Izzy". Yeah...weird.</p>
<p><em>wave</em> Hey, leyser. I haven't served in the army, that's cool and scary. I know an Israeli girl who's also applying to college for 2006 intake and still in the army. But she's visiting us here, so that's sweet.</p>
<p>Romania's my first European "home", actually. Can't wait to see if I can get myself used to winter before heading to the U.S. But I do miss seafood... :(</p>
<p>Born in Malaysia, lived in New York, K.L, Pekanbaru (Indonesia), Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City (both in Vietnam) and right now, here.</p>
<p>Edit: Sorry, this sounds like quite a bragging post.</p>
<p>3 years of compulsory national service (95% of the options are in the army, somce are in the police and hospitals, but they're reserved for those who have religious reservations), yes.</p>
<p>"compulsory in other countries, and here we have youngsters complaining about serving 3 months."</p>
<p>No one is ever happy, perspective is something you cannot get from looking at others' "suffering". Running next to a tank in a battalion drill was just as "exhausting" for me as marching in line was for some kid in finland, who does 2 months of it and goes home.</p>