<p>Hey, I’m from Australia!</p>
<p>Any other Aussies applying to Dartmouth?</p>
<p>I don’t think I have a major chance at all, but thought I might as well give it a go!</p>
<p>Lets see what happens :)</p>
<p>@Rishav
Yea 50 yards should be fine… but I have seen a couple people struggle with 25 m :s so you never really know unfortunately :/</p>
<p>Both my Maths and Physics were 750+… and my SAT maths was 750+… my CR and W cost me 
my writing was worst all because of my essay! I almost got everything right and yet thanks to my writing skills not being what they want, I got a bad mark for the writing
I find that that is where some of us International students are at a loss… if our schools don’t send many people to the US, or haven’t offered help to people going to the US, learning the correct approach to writing the essay for the writing and some of the skills that help with all the SAT exams, we could end up with relatively bad scores (and yet relatively good for our area)…</p>
<p>Lets all hope that March/April wont be the end or obstacle for our dreams to come true. We should all try stay positive right?
I’d probably try transfer if I didn’t get into any of my top unis… unless I find that I REALLY enjoy where I am…</p>
<p>@Aus
FINALLY we get an Aussie!! Welcome! :)</p>
<p>So far no other Australians have revealed themselves to us over here, but maybe having one will get them flooding in hey :P</p>
<p>So what Major do you think you’ll pursue?
And what are your hobbies that you plan to take part in at Dartmouth, or any of the unis if you get in?</p>
<p>oh mate I’m a huge sports fanatic, love my cricket, but most schools don’t have cricket programs haha</p>
<p>Will definitely get involved with any sport as much as I can especially baseball. Otherwise will try and make the most of the entrepreneurship/business/finance and community service clubs where possible…</p>
<p>But first I need to be accepted!
I would be over the moon if I was accepted to the schools I am applying to.</p>
<p>@Aus
Haha, you’ll fit right in. A few of the Indians and I have jokingly discussed starting cricket if our other sporting endeavours fail. What sort of positions do you do best at?</p>
<p>We all need to be accepted first 
but it lightens the 2-3 month wait from now having fun joking about what we will get up to once we get to uni :D</p>
<p>oh no doubt, you should be hopeful but you can’t do much once you send in your apps.</p>
<p>I’m an offie and bat… played some decent level cricket so I will definitely miss it it I head over to the states.</p>
<p>In baseball I field at short stop or centre field…
Even if no sports are available for me, I will definitely get involved and try to make the most of the 4 years at uni including partying hard haha :)</p>
<p>Nice! I used to wikkie and bat, then went bowler and bat… now mostly batting and sometimes I play slip or gully (but lost what I had as wikkie).</p>
<p>Never played baseball - our school did do rounders haha!
I’m sure you’ll find sports over in the US… maybe try rugby or start an Aussie rules league?! I’ve looked over the sports teams and they aren’t particularly short on sports</p>
<p>@Raith: Haha - what striking similarities. I got 72/74 on my writing subscore and I scored a 8 on my essay!! Ironically – I won the best essay award at school and have been regarded as a good writer by all my english teachers in high school!! So I don’t know how/why I screwed up SAT writing!! CR is a totally different story – took SAT the 2nd time to get my CR just into the mid 50 percentile!!</p>
<p>I can do 3 laps in a 25m pool. After that I can’t swim anymore!!
I can stay afloat for ages though!! :D</p>
<p>@ishfromaus - Welcome!! I guess there are cricket clubs at Dartmouth at the intramural level ~ I know UPenn has them and I think I saw it on D’s website too!!</p>
<p>@Rishav
Ok, well I didn’t do THAT well on my writing… I got 5 wrong and a 7 for my essay… My first sitting I got an 8 for my essay but I think 8 wrong… I improved by 90 points between my first and second sittings. My CR still isn’t great - never has been… languages really hasn’t been my strong suit in any way. After all, I have lived in a different country almost my whole life and people still think I have a hectic South African or British accent - depending on how they consider them anyway.</p>
<p>My CR is in the mid 50 (I think) for most of my unis… math upper end, W lower end, otherwise lower than the mid 50s. Not making excuses - but probably due to me not reading.</p>
<p>haha! 3 laps Did my first proper training session last night… warm up was 3x300m so 36 laps as a warm up ;P</p>
<p>^ Haha – I am not a swimmer and I will never claim to be one!! 
But I know enough to survive in water for ages together and I kind of like wading around in water than swimming! </p>
<p>I just get bored towards the end in the CR section and my mind stops working!! Is English widely used in Mauritius?
Ohh and I’ve always wondered - Is Mauritius located in the Indian Ocean or the Arabian Sea?? :p</p>
<p>I actually can’t stand just wading around give me some surf, or deep water - I will always do something more than just chilling (unless talking to friends anyway)</p>
<p>I don’t get bored, I just don’t pick up exactly what they are trying to get across - I get the gist of it, but not always enough to pick the right answer (got a 690 
wanted just above 700) oh well… maybe I’ll be able to get those sorts of things across in my interviews?..
Mauritius’s official language is English… the laws are in French… and most people speak a hybrid language - Mauritian Creole. English is widely used, but French is what a lot more people understand as Creole has a lot in common with French compared to English. The least educated people speak Creole (and the older generations).</p>
<p>Mauritius is in the Indian ocean! Same time zone as Dubai. On a map, if you take the furthest east point of Oman, we are below that and in line with about the middle of Madagascar.</p>
<p>@ishfromaus - Welcome mate! Whats your prospective major?
D’s gonna have a pretty cool Cricket Club soon 
:p</p>
<p>Also, guys, is it weird that my application status still says “We are processing your application” 
Is it just me? 
Time to email the admissions office perhaps?</p>
<p>MRU93 - This thread has just become perhaps the most popular Ivy League thread . haha.
Also, you gotta teach me how to swim man :p</p>
<p>
HAHAHAHA. That one made me chuckle 
xD</p>
<p>@Blue
Yea I think you should email their admissions… mine said that for a while, but about a week or so ago it changed saying that all the required material had been processed. (which I suppose means they now have put everything into a file… not actually read any of it hahah!) I say give it till Feb 1st, then email them… after all - a couple thousand people, multiple pages for each, info being sent in by mail, fax, email and through common app… I don’t think it can be completed quite that quickly…</p>
<p>Haha, hopefully the admissions board takes notice? Jokes Just a chilled group of people helping each other out right? :)</p>
<p>It would be my pleasure… we’ll start with my favourite stroke… BUTTERFLY!! hahaha! Maybe backstroke or breast stroke would be best - the more relaxing strokes.</p>
<p>Turns out quite a lot of people don’t know where Mauritius is! Such a beautiful country and its ignored… on the bright side… come world wars, alien invasion… we will be relatively safe who wants a piece of rock in the middle of the ocean with no natural resources, no major strategic importance, difficult climate to deal with and a populace who are very lazy when it comes to work? Not many people I’d assume :P</p>
<p>Nah – if you see Google maps, Mauritius is almost at the intersection of the Arabian Sea & the Indian Ocean. I knew that is was on the east coast of Africa, but never really understood the oceanic boundaries - so always had that doubt!! :p</p>
<p>@Raith - Come global warming in its full swing and Mauritius will be another Atlantis!!
Ohh I managed a 700!! Haha- just scraped through!!</p>
<p>@guyinblue - Yup, wait till Feb 1st as Raith said. Mine changed only last Friday, so they are STILL processing!! :)</p>
<p>@Rishav
Is that really the intersection? Like the Seychelles and Maldives are further north and yet aren’t they Indian Ocean too? Its not really East coast… Its like a 2-3 hour flight to the coast of Africa But its definitely not the west coast haha! :D</p>
<p>Well it depends on how high the sea level rises! if its only a few metres most of it will be under water, but we also have a couple “mountains” that should be high enough… a lot of people will die though if they don’t get off the island I suppose though.</p>
<p>Well done on the 700! I really do think that I will be penalised for my lower than “average” score Hopefully my A Levels can pull me through!! And my swimming and guitar… and now diving? (if that all counts)</p>
<p>Agreed, as I said - I knew roughly where Seychelles, Mauritius are, but always thought whether it was identified as being situated in the Indian Ocean or the Arabian Sea. I knew that Maldives is in the Indian Ocean, but then again -it is further east!! :)</p>
<p>690 & 700 are the same. At least you have good grades to pin your hopes on!! My school internal grades - are horrible!! And my ECs are good, passionate but lack achievement!! </p>
<p>But all that is history now!! Can’t change any of it, so no use worrying about it!! :p</p>
<p>You never know what the colleges are looking for!! They are trying to build a class and not just accept all the 2400s & the 4.0s. So while the adcom at one college might be impressed by your passion for swimming/diving - the adcom at another might not!! Its a big gamble!! :D</p>
<p>I think its time i joint this conversation:P</p>
<p>@Rishav
Ah ok, I see what you meant… for some reason I was under the impression you thought something different… my bad :P</p>
<p>True, not really worrying about any of it, just kinda wish I had done more… you know? 
Luckily they don’t take only the 2400’s and 4.0’s!! True, true… On the bright side, I’ve got lots to do in the mean time to keep my mind off of all this application stuff :P</p>
<p>@Quiver
Come on, join in! How are you feeling about your marks and EC’s - for at Dartmouth in Particular?</p>
<p>@Raith - I’ve got my Council Exams spread over the next two months ~ so I won’t be doing anything other than studying!! :(</p>
<p>And they actually reject 2400s & 4.0s sometimes ~ to show that they have <em>Holistic</em> admissions!!
Everyone wishes they had done more. I got thinking about applying to USA only last summer ~ so I really didn’t do much of what US universities like to see!! :/</p>