<p>Wonder? We can change early decision.</p>
<p>I don’t think anything can be done after you’ve sent your application. Try emailing the college. (Yeah but it will be odd telling them-" You’re not my first love anymore, I love some one else." But on the other hand she hasn’t accepted the proposal.)
My suggestion email the college and try not to marry someone you don’t love for 4 years.</p>
<p>@GandalfGrey: what exactly do you think was the reason not to get admitted?
I am also in a second gap year and i think my sat’s were pretty poor.</p>
<p>second gap year? wowwww. i hope things work out for you buddy. personally, i don’t think it’s worth it. i’d rather go somewhere else, maybe india.</p>
<p>@HD0CRANZ3:
Mine was financial aid and poor SATs as well. Do not worry mate. Second gap year is not the problem. If we get into good colleges this experience counts so much. Most graduate applicants take 2 gap years in the US before they apply because the grad schools require students to find themselves before they specialize their masters (so I have have heard). </p>
<p>@Horcruxes:
I got my name at Thapathali. Decided against it because most students who study here or in India lack research for the subject I am studying when they study undergrad which matters highly for grad school. Thus, after a lot of thinking and a lot of calculation I decided to apply again.
Last year I got into Earlham for COA of 10k but could not go because of my financial stature. MY friends had better SATs who went to full ride colleges that provide full ride for certain SAT scores (Math and Cr scores). So,my point is it is not wrong to take 2 gap years because unlike others I have spent most of my gap year with involvement in yielding activities and will do so this year as well. Maybe we can compensate this by taking extra credit courses or summer classes while we are in college.</p>
<p>@HD0CRANZ3:
The main reason is the SAT if I was not clear the first time. Whatever they say about holistic admission policy is bull. They have to like our application (as told by my friend who worked at admissions at Hamilton) . To like our application they have to like our SATs and if they are poor whatever we might write in our essays, they will have doubts. Second thing is money. Most colleges have need aware policy and I am sure that we are asking more money than a Pakistani or Indian student who applies there. (This is from the thread of Pakistan that I read.) So, comparing our gives us a disadvantage as well. Needless to say our need is also compared with high paying school students of Nepal (not pointing to RBS or BNKS or Lincoln or British School :P).
Third, it is a trick. They did not reject us last time. They rejected our application and it is a big difference. Do not be upset and rework you application. I have been taking suggestions from successful applicants and trying to understand their ways. Maybe what they did might not work for me but it does not hurt learning does it. So take a breather first and then plan calmly. I know that you can succeed.</p>
<p>lol dude i know some people at both RBS and BNKS and trust me, they’re far from “high paying”. most of those people who got into <em>good</em> schools are paying like 1k to 10k. idk about lincoln and british school but i guess they generally dont even need aid.</p>
<p>and “liking” our application has everything to do with holistic admission - recos essays grades test scores - everything is considered. so i don’t understand how it is “bull”? i think what you’re forgetting is that the process is competitive. not just about you - pretty sure you are weighed against other kids and SAT is just one factor. so who do they “like” the most? 
lol (on the hamilton thing, the dude who got in last year did not really have a “wow” sat score - far from it)</p>
<p>and yeah, graduate school admission is a very very different process from undergraduate admission. my cousin sister went to bryn mawr and took a year off to decide whether she wanted to do her PhD in nuclear or quantum physics. in that time, she worked at research labs and did cutting-edge work with distinguished professors and ultimately decided that nuclear was far more interesting for her. at undergrad, we generally have little idea about what we want to do. that’s why they have liberal arts – to help us discover what we like. gap years, though useful for figuring out our interests, are kind of useless because we are given two years simply just to do that in college while gaining valuable skills. the only sensible reason to take more than one gap year as a high school grad would be if you were applying to a major at an indian or british college where there is no liberal arts.</p>
<p>and idk about big universities but very few liberal arts colleges have summer classes bro.</p>
<p>anyway, good luck! hope your second gap year is all worth it.</p>
<p>Why don’t you take AP if you are determined to get credits. Physics, Chemistry and Bio are almost the same. Calculus BC is a bit advanced. But it’ll cost you a lot,. I think $130 per subject.
I don’t think Lincoln school’s students have any financial problems, unless they are studying there in scholarship. Just the cost of high school is $20,000 per year.</p>
<p>You need to notify Lincoln school early to take AP. I thought of taking AP physics last year, it was too late for registration. See the deadline for home schooled children or something like that in college board’s website.
But I think there are placement exams that let you skip some courses in college too. Just check that with your college to see your investment in AP exams is worth the money.</p>
<p>CC post has helped me realize grammatical errors in my writing. Maybe I’ll do better in my SAT writing section.</p>
<p>@GandalfGrey: thanks mate. Seems like we have a lot in common. I too got admitted in earlham with coa of 10.5k. This year test scores need to be significantly improved. And i think one more important factor is ED. students tend to get a lot of aid in ED. So, the college you are applying- you need to think a lot about it. </p>
<p>@androbot: don’t know much about AP. But i think my A-levels grades are good enough to credit in most of the colleges. anyway, thanks for the suggestion.</p>
<p>@Horcruxes:</p>
<p>Everybody is not rich, I do acknowledge that but most students in those schools can afford to pay a lot compared to students of other schools. About the PHD and Masters thing, some take long gaps and some don’t but I was just mentioning people that some do take gaps after undergrad.
Well, likability means SAT, Recommendations, grades ,Essay or in simple words the whole package. Regarding the SAT score of my friend then I can say that it was consistent with his grades. Maybe that is how he got in. There are lot other factors as well.
I would not recommend Nepal or India to anyone because of the fact that there are more frustrated students who eye to go to US after Undergrad. When they do so I have seen them have more than 2 or 3 years gap (most). So, I decided to take another gap year and give it a try. Maybe I will try for spring too. I don’t know. The possibilities are endless. But trust me when people say that they have bigger chances getting into Master’s, they don’t know much. It is much harder.</p>
<p>Wow, sounds like going to America is everything for you. Is it absolutely important that you go to America to finish at least one degree or something? Do you have to reside there? Is that the goal? </p>
<p>Although I too am somewhat against studying here (due to several not-so-flattering reviews I have heard of KU, the “best” school in Nepal), lots of schools in India are absolutely fine to go to for college and it’s ultimately about the individual. There was in fact a very nice article on quora about a student who went to a university in Peru with questionable academics and got into a top physics grad program over lots of kids from MIT and other top schools. Even though it was a single case (although I doubt it’s the only one), that really did convince me that it’s about the student. You should read it.</p>
<p>PS: “Echo”.</p>
<p>@Phantasmagoria:
Education is important to me and yeah tried and tested everywhere and seems as if most of the things that I want come from an american educational institution. (I have a huge list of requirements.)
Regarding settling, I have no idea of a home. I don’t know where I might end up the next day. But my plans do not include settling. For masters I have other set of requirements which US does not fulfill. ;)</p>
<p>PS “NOT THAT GUY”</p>
<p>@Phantasmagoria18:
Regarding the Peru thing, I found something like that too. I gave the certain exams here in Nepal because I believed I could be like that but sounds like most of the students here are depressed and even the ones successful here had a hard time achieving that. </p>
<p>Regarding India, the country is good but it does not offer some key elements that I am looking for. Consulting with peers who went to India (top tier universities like IIT-Jee) told me that India is good but their dream and my dream was different. They wanted good jobs, good money and settle in the US. Most who study here have similar dreams (I said most not everyone). As much as I know you from the discussions at CC, dreams matter much more t. If dreams need their infrastructures to be laid upon a firm foundation, then shouldn’t we build one in a strong foundation? I think you get my point.
Don’t let them tell you anything if you are fixed at something! (A friend told me this once!) Wondering you could be that friend? ;)</p>
<p>OKAY, but good luck to you! Hope the two years lost will not have been in vain :)</p>
<p>What are planning to major in?</p>
<p>I am planning to major in Physics. You?
The year has not gone in vain, trust me. Done a lot.</p>
<p>Haha I knew you’d say that (the vain thing), but trust me, if you study some economics, you will think differently. #whatever</p>
<p>I am mostly undecided. But subjects I want to study are french, psychology, international studies, development economics, anthropology, biology, applied math, neuroscience and gothic literature.</p>
<p>@ Phantasmagoria18</p>
<p>If you decide to study all that (in a university course), I think you’ll have to study rest of your life and will cost you a fortune.
@ Everyone
I found this documentary in YouTube. Thank God we don’t get to take college loans. It explains why college education is so expensive in the U.S. .
[College</a> Conspiracy Scam in USA [HD] Full Version - Google search: ‘John Taylor Gatto’ - YouTube](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>androbot,</p>
<p>That is ridiculous. I hope you’re not applying to liberal arts colleges because we’re supposed to take a wide range of courses that interest us in those places. I never said I want to major in all of them – just implied that I want to explore them. I can certainly do that (it is the point of liberal arts, after all). And at most American colleges you’re REQUIRED to do that because of the distribution requirements and the core requirements. Also yes, I’m absolutely confident that I will end up in a liberal arts college (won’t say why or how, but I need not worry about that).</p>