from the lush green jungles of a faraway land...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>hi, i'm a newbie in this forum, thanks to everyone in advance for helping me out.</p>

<p>i'm applying to these places (all Regular Decision):
amherst
bowdoin
brandeis
colby
harvey mudd
oberlin
washington and lee
middlebury</p>

<p>I'm from Burma (Myanmar) and I really need tons of financial aid.</p>

<p>i'm currently doing 2nd year at a University in the UK (Uni of Strathclyde, Glasgow) but I plan to apply as a freshman for the US for Fall 2005.</p>

<p>i studied in a british system school (O levels, A levels) and my grades are:
O level: 5 As 1 B
A level: 4 As (Economics, Maths, Further Maths, Physics)</p>

<p>i did the SATs:
SAT I : 1400 (740 M, 660 V)
SAT II: Physics-790, Maths IIC-800, Writing-620</p>

<p>TOEFL: 283 CBT</p>

<p>work experience:
- 1 year full time teaching assistant at a school in burma
- tutoring primary school kids part time for about 9 months</p>

<p>ECAs:
- 3 summers volunteering in rural schools in Burma
- hiking, cycling
- 3D graphics programming</p>

<p>awards:
-scholarship for my high school
-scholarship for my current university course in the UK</p>

<p>do i have any chances at all?</p>

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<p>It's tough for me to assess chances...</p>

<p>But I just think you might like Middlebury, because its such an international school and has such a globalist sort of atmosphere :D</p>

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<p>thanks for the reply.</p>

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<p>bump bump....</p>

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<p>please, can somebody give any advice?</p>

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<p>please please please please.....</p>

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<p>I would add Williams, they give out a ton of international aid. You will get into pretty much every school on your list. You might want to bump it up a notch, you have a chance at Ivies as well, although not sure about the aid issue.</p>

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<p>thanks so much for the reply, its really uplifting.</p>

<p>i was just starting to get a little depressed about the whole "going to america" thing.</p>

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<p>First of all, you can't apply as a freshman if you have any university experience after high school. You have to apply as a "Transfer".</p>

<p>If you have not submitted your applications already, you'd better hurry up. Some schools have earlier deadlines for scholarships applications.</p>

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<p>Not if you dont want to use the credit. I know people who dumped credit as high school experience. I think you should add a couple top schools or Ivies, it seems that you like LACs alot, I recommend Williams (as before) and Dartmouth (the Ivy/LAC)</p>

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<p>thanks for the replies.</p>

<p>i'll think about Williams, maybe i can apply if they don't require an additional supplementary essay to the common app, i'm getting sick of having to write so many.</p>

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<p>bump bump bump bump</p>

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<p>Yeah, there's no supplement essay for Williams, so definitely apply.</p>

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<p>Slipper1234: "Not if you dont want to use the credit. I know people who dumped credit as high school experience." Can you really do that? They don't like gaps in your schedule. You would have to tell them in detail what you've done since graduated from HS (e.g., Common Apps- "Describe in detail your activities since last enrolled.") Can you just tell them that you've been taking some courses in college but you don't intend to use the credits...that you're treating it as a gap year?</p>

<p>Sorry to steal the thread... I'm just curious about this.</p>

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<p>i don't think there should be anything wrong with it (well, hopefully), especially for international students. cos they all come from totally different education systems and you can't expect them to all have had a 4 year american high school type thing.</p>

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<p>bump bump bump</p>

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<p>Happens all the time. I had a good friend who was international and did exactly this!</p>