<p>I had never heard about that Berkeley- Peking thing, but if you guys back to China now, they definitely will tread you like foreiners since you guys speak poor Chinese(I can tell).</p>
<p>whew, it's been a while since I've tried writing pin yin...and not having accents don't work too well, haha.</p>
<p>guys, watch out for the english language requirement on this board....</p>
<p>Anyway, my own chinese composition skill is deteriorating.... :D</p>
<p>hi, i'm from chongqing but currently studying in singapore on a scholarship. have applied to tons of schools, including stanford, NU, vanderbilt, etc.already admitted at U of Miami through EA.
stats:SAT(1520,720M,790V), top in school ranking, ok ECs.
waiting for finaid.argh!!!</p>
<p>I am from ChongQing too, but i only have 1400(800M, 600V)
and crapy SAT IIs
but i don't really need fin.aid
GPA is 4ish
and ECs are fairly good (1 of the top in my school)</p>
<p>A 1400 isn't bad at all. If I were in China, I'd be very happy with your score.
bowtoserenity, your words have come true, very promptly too...</p>
<p>Just to compile the list:</p>
<p>yy071: Beijing (US); Yale, Princeton, MIT, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Caltech, UPenn, Duke</p>
<p>penumbra: Shanghai (US); U Chicago (accepted EA), Swarthmore (accepted ED)</p>
<p>lilianphoebs:Beijing (US); Princeton and Yale</p>
<p>matheholic: NanJing (US); MIT, Caltech, WUSTL, Johns Hopkins, Boston</p>
<p>zhou: high school in china; Got in Emory,UIUC,WashU,Tulane, currently in Tulane</p>
<p>manchu_princess: TianJin; RD U Penn, Yale, ???</p>
<p>Sam Lee: HongKong; Got into CMU/WashU but transferred to Northwestern </p>
<p>realistknight: Taiwan (Spain); Currently a junior. Yeah!</p>
<p>y21cbe6b: HongKong; Applying to Northwestern</p>
<p>Newbyreborn: Chongqing (Canada); penn, dartmouth, cornell, St.Louis and Amherst</p>
<p>sugarplumfairy: Taiwan;Wash U (ED accepted)</p>
<p>darkling: (USA); Princeton,Columbia,Stanford,WashU,Cal,UCLA, Pomona</p>
<p>Fallinwater0328:
currently a sophomore; interested in architecture (Cornell,Wellesley,Rice,USC, Harvard)</p>
<p>vanillaice: ChongQing (Singapore); stanford, NU, vanderbilt, U of Miami (accepted EA)</p>
<p>And there are also quite a lot of chinese (Canadia1,haosquared) hijacking the "Applied to Penn for the heck of it" thread... <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=22831%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=22831</a> ;)</p>
<p>yy071: Beijing (US); Yale, Princeton, MIT, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Caltech, UPenn, Duke</p>
<p>penumbra: Shanghai (US); U Chicago (accepted EA), Swarthmore (accepted ED)</p>
<p>lilianphoebs:Beijing (US); Princeton and Yale</p>
<p>matheholic: NanJing (US); MIT, Caltech, WUSTL, Johns Hopkins, Boston</p>
<p>zhou: high school in china; Got in Emory,UIUC,WashU,Tulane, currently in Tulane</p>
<p>manchu_princess: Tianjin (US); RD MIT, UPenn, Yale, Hopkins</p>
<p>Sam Lee: HongKong; Got into CMU/WashU but transferred to Northwestern </p>
<p>realistknight: Taiwan (Spain); Currently a junior. Yeah!</p>
<p>y21cbe6b: HongKong; Applying to Northwestern</p>
<p>Newbyreborn: Chongqing (Canada); penn, dartmouth, cornell, St.Louis and Amherst</p>
<p>sugarplumfairy: Taiwan;Wash U (ED accepted)</p>
<p>darkling: (USA); Princeton,Columbia,Stanford,WashU,Cal,UCLA, Pomona</p>
<p>Fallinwater0328:
currently a sophomore; interested in architecture (Cornell,Wellesley,Rice,USC, Harvard)</p>
<p>vanillaice: ChongQing (Singapore); stanford, NU, vanderbilt, U of Miami (accepted EA)</p>
<p>lol yeah join us in that Penn Chinese takeover thread. We talked alot about Chinese dramas/music stuff a few pages before.</p>
<p>唉，我真笨！我上不了大学啦。</p>
<p>tangsdaily: Princeton, Columbia, Stanford, Swarthmore, WashU, NYU, Emory, NYU, Babson, Carleton, Reed, Grinell,
rejected by Wharton for ED</p>
<p>besides college list, I'm very low profile compare to you playas.</p>
<p>went to a dungen school in California for two years. english skills had scarce improvement over there.
currently in d.c.</p>
<p>1440sat (780m/660v), 1960 sat2 total, 3.3 gpa weighted. taken AP calBC, Ap Human Geography, had b's and c's on transcript but got 5 on the exam for both. currently refailing AP physics C, and failing AP econ.</p>
<p>ea: running an underground organization in school, running a birthday greeting program, too small to play varsity football and basketball, no math olympiad, mock trial, debate team(not good at debate anyway) offered at school. </p>
<p>ordinary recoms: too hard to find a teacher to write, since a lot of teachers prejudice communist kids.</p>
<p>had no alumni relationship with the current school, nor donated money, and especially with communist background; thus failed to be appointed with an official leadership position.</p>
<p>got made fun of at many classes for being a communist.
rejected by over 20 girls at every dance party;</p>
<p>continue my stats:</p>
<p>carrying boombox to go to class once a while.
shaved mowhawk during last day of a school year, and scolded by school administration.
abandoned by girls on AIM, no chat with girls can last more than 2 min on average.</p>
<p>lowest gpa asian at school, rarely complete homework assignment.
the only book read through without cliffnotes this year is Esquire magzine.</p>
<p>What do you mean by communist background?Did you declare yourself communist?Anyway,your stats are good...Don't lose hope...You will go to college anyway.Keep some faith in yourself.</p>
<p>You've gotta be kidding me, tangsdaily.
Your life sounds so...um...uncommon.
A bit of sarcasm on the Asian stereotype, perhaps?</p>
<p>yy071: Beijing (US); Yale, Princeton, MIT, Cornell, Caltech, UT Austin</p>
<p>penumbra: Shanghai (US); U Chicago (accepted EA), Swarthmore (accepted ED)</p>
<p>lilianphoebs:Beijing (US); Princeton and Yale</p>
<p>matheholic: NanJing (US); MIT, Caltech, WUSTL, Johns Hopkins, Boston</p>
<p>zhou: high school in china; Got in Emory,UIUC,WashU,Tulane, currently in Tulane</p>
<p>manchu_princess: Tianjin (US); RD MIT, UPenn, Yale, Hopkins</p>
<p>Sam Lee: HongKong; Got into CMU/WashU but transferred to Northwestern </p>
<p>realistknight: Taiwan (Spain); Currently a junior. Yeah!</p>
<p>y21cbe6b: HongKong; Applying to Northwestern</p>
<p>Newbyreborn: Chongqing (Canada); penn, dartmouth, cornell, St.Louis and Amherst</p>
<p>sugarplumfairy: Taiwan;Wash U (ED accepted)</p>
<p>darkling: (USA); Princeton,Columbia,Stanford,WashU,Cal,UCLA, Pomona</p>
<p>Fallinwater0328:
currently a sophomore; interested in architecture (Cornell,Wellesley,Rice,USC, Harvard)</p>
<p>vanillaice: ChongQing (Singapore); stanford, NU, vanderbilt, U of Miami (accepted EA)</p>
<p>tangsdaily: (Cal, US) Princeton, Columbia, Stanford, Swarthmore, WashU, NYU, Emory, NYU, Babson, Carleton, Reed, Grinell,</p>
<p>i currently go to a conservative old boarding school in virginia, it's a lot different out here, the school is used to be stuffed with republicans</p>
<p>I love this thread. It's good to know there are lots of other Chinese people going through the process. :D</p>
<p>to zhou: hey i came from shenzhen as well, 5 months ago.. i just admitted by WUSTL...let's meet..hei hei</p>
<p>but the way.. if you are a chinese student, plz check out this site (chinese undergraduates at US) <a href="http://www.cuus.cn%5B/url%5D">www.cuus.cn</a></p>
<p>How hard is it to get WUSTL's merit scholarships?
I applied to a few but heard it's extremely competitive, it this true?</p>
<p>man... scholarship at WUSTL is extremly hard~~~that's why ppl in china call it "iron chicken". ..(translate it into chinese.) c if u understand..haha</p>