<p>I have nowhere to go. (except in a university in our country)</p>
<p>Now, who here shares my fate?</p>
<p>Which colleges did you apply to?
Did you not consider any safety/match schools that were a sure bet?</p>
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Now, who here shares my fate?
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I do.</p>
<p>Me either, got accepted to safeties with hugh aid, but..
Try again next time, will you? :)
I will, no matter what it would cost.</p>
<p>Same here for the US....prolly going to UK and applying ED princeton. there's always a way out (hopefully)!</p>
<p>if you got into UP Diliman, LaSalle, Ateneo or even UA&P, you'll still have a very secure future over there. My classmate and friend actually turned down Wesleyan's full, four-year, extremely generous Asian Freeman Scholarship just to go to Ateneo (merit scholar nga rin lang. lol).</p>
<p>if you really plan on migrating here though, that could be a problem, but not a major one. my bro, after graduating from UC Irvine, had to go back there and go to med school at UST, but he's still doing amazingly well here now anyway.</p>
<p>I don't know what to do. I'm wondering if I should take a gap year, or proceed to college and apply as freshman/transfer. (Depending on the terms. Harvard says that if I'm not on a liberal arts track, I should apply as frosh).</p>
<p>Sucharita's college admissions life is like a fairy tale. <em>Sigh</em></p>
<p>^I'm probably heading to Ateneo(unless some miracle occurs) this year. Yes, I know ADMU's pretty OK and such, but it's nothing compared to HYPM.</p>
<p>I'm also from the province, so MAnila is like hell. I don't want to live here. (BTW, how'd you know I'm from the Philippines?)</p>
<p>And besides, those nobel laureates! Those seminars! Overwhelming classmates!</p>
<p>Blah. I hate this.</p>
<p>vaib,
I didn't consider those colleges, since my folks would not allow me to go if I'd be attending a "no-name" college.</p>
<p>yeah my college admissions story IS like a fairy tale :)</p>
<p>i saw some of your other posts while looking around the site. :)</p>
<p>you know, a lot of these colleges aren't "no-name" colleges over here in the states, though they may be unknown back home. and if you plan on coming back there, ANY college from ANYWHERE ABROAD gives you a great advantage. Like my dad has this former employee that got into a really good job for one of the big families back there (ayala, lopez - forgot which) edging topnotch UP, Ateneo and La Salle grads just because she came from a college in Germany. They knew nothing about the college (for all they knew, it could have been some community college) but just for the fact it was from a first-world country got the execs' colonial mentality going.</p>
<p>So if you can end up transfering to a 1st-tier, non-Ivy school, or even a second tier school like most of my cousins did, you'd still have a SET FUTURE back home.</p>
<p>Don't worry, you have company. Accepted to all UK colleges I applied to and rejected by all those in the USA. Ugh. I would give all 6 places in the UK for one spot in the latter. ;) (Not just any college, of course)</p>
<p><em>sigh</em> What can I say? I am a consistent performer. </p>
<p>callthecops: they sure haven't been kind to country-hoppers this years.</p>