<p>@tetrisfan:Well I don’t mean that all people who don’t apply for aid are ■■■■■■■,sorry if I offended you.But a few are.</p>
<p>Some people are ■■■■■■■. Who, exactly - now that’s another question.</p>
<p>^All in favour say “Aye”. :)</p>
<p>Nah, it’s cool.</p>
<p>Aye, some people are definitely ■■■■■■■. That’s a universal truth :D</p>
<p>Lol, maybe that was kind of a silly joke, but anyway… don’t you get it?</p>
<p>I said “Who exactly…”</p>
<p>and you said “I.”</p>
<p>Yeah, I know, stupid pun :D.</p>
<p>It’ll be pretty impossible for me to pay without aid,I guess…its just too much…no other go:(</p>
<p>^Don’t worry, we’re both in the same boat here. I wish Oxford and Cambridge offered undergraduates FA…</p>
<p>@python: I get the joke…NOW!</p>
<p>Hey Python! Where in the UK are you? It worries me that so many internationals are interested in Yale haha… too much competition makes me nervous, and I don’t think my stats are going to be amazing. I guess we’ll see.</p>
<p>Whoever wrote their list that included Carnegie Mellon (I could go back and see who it was but I’m lazy), if financial aid is an issue you should really check all their policies because CM doesn’t give aid to internationals, and if they do it’ll be very limited merit based aid.</p>
<p>I have backups in the UK too but I wanna go to Ameriiicaaaaa <em>whines</em></p>
<p>That was me :). According to my brother, Carnegie Mellon’s great for computer science, which I might end up majoring in; Caltech’s also very good, apparently. I’m checking the FA for every school tonight… heh, the amount of Internet-surfing one has to do in order to prepare for college! </p>
<p>I too have my heart set on an American college, lol. And I’ve started referring to Cambridge and Warwick as “colleges.” I actually live near Warwick… two of my siblings graduated from the Maths department there :).</p>
<p>Warwick’s pretty dandy in it’s own right, with econ and stuff, isn’t it?</p>
<p>Wow, I just used the word ‘dandy’ after god knows how long…</p>
<p>I heard Caltech doesn’t have too many seats for undergrads.</p>
<p>I’m not sure; I know it’s got one of the top Maths departments in the country. But I’d rather go anywhere else than there. Spending 10 years of your life and growing up in the same place can prove a little… repetitive. But it’s a nice university, I suppose, if you like greenery and so forth. And it’s taught me that I might not like a suburban “bubble-type” college.</p>
<p>@smartchap: Excellent! All the more reason to work harder, lol :). No, seriously, the thirty quid I might lose from applying is honestly NBD.</p>
<p>Warwick is nice. But something about the university doesn’t grab me. I recently moved to Manchester, I’d definitely apply there if I don’t get in a US one, it’s a great city. But I think Liverpool will be my top choice.</p>
<p>Python, there sure is a lot of time we have to put in to finding our colleges! I’ve been doing this for about a year now so I think I’m getting quite knowledgable, ask away if you have any questions :)</p>
<p>Also, for computer science check out MIT! They’re need blind for internationals.</p>
<p>done with the boards…now is the time to join the thread…count me on fellas</p>
<p>MIT has a quota of around 100 internationals, lol… so it’ll be the toughest college by far to get into. However, I’m quite good at CS (I’m actually a competent Python programmer - hence my username) so that might give me an edge. I’m not sure.</p>
<p>And I’m not exactly only applying to colleges in cities, I was just pointing out that I might consider the fact that I’d prefer them when I’m making the decisions in one year’s time. Still, thanks for the offer of help :). Expect me to PM you when I want my essays to be written, lol.</p>
<p>@Bamianbuddha: Add ‘and lady’ to that, please. :)</p>
<p>Haha good stuff, I’m a good writer so I’m hoping my essays will make up for my inevitably appalling math score on the SAT.</p>
<p>And even with 100 places, I reckon that’s still easier to get in that any place that is need-aware :S</p>
<p>It depends, although I guess in the current economic situation, need-aware colleges are going to become ever more selective. </p>
<p>The Math section of the SAT isn’t as hard as Maths A-levels, trust me. I’m taking the SAT this June, and I got 780 on the Math a practice paper a while back; I was two completely obvious errors short of an 800. Frustrating, to say the least.</p>
<p>I’m not sure which of us is better at writing… I write fiction for fun, but you’re probably better at things like essays and papers, or you might know something I don’t know about ;). Also, I suppose different things appeal to different admissions officers, so one adcom’s cup of tea may be another guy’s poison.</p>
<p>I am a completely useless at maths, seriously. I cannot begin to explain how bad I am, it just makes NO sense to me. I only did intermediate level at GCSE and even that was five years ago so I’ll be ecstatic if I can break 600 for that section. Going to go for June as well!</p>
<p>I write fiction too! <em>high five</em></p>
<p>You write fiction as well? <em>high-fives back</em> Here’s a story I just came up with…</p>
<p>Once upon a time, there was this guy (I’m assuming you’re a guy) who was taking his SAT in June. He was doing pretty well. So well, in fact, that he was sure he’d done the essay, the sentence-level completion questions, and the reading-paragraph questions perfectly. The sun was shining, and a bee buzzed in through the open window as he smirked smugly at his calculator.</p>
<p>As a new session begun, he turned the next page of the answer book to see a math section. Frowning in annoyance, he turned page after page, but he could not find one question that he could do… Images of Yale, Harvard and Princeton rejection letters floated into his mind.</p>
<p>“NOOOOO!!!” he yelled as he woke up from his nightmare.</p>
<p>Seriously, though, what did you get for your maths GCSE? Unless it was appallingly bad (which sounds unlikely) then you should be fine, provided you work hard. Besides, you can always improve :).</p>