<p>@ freshie123:
i'd hardly call it a debate, lol. it was rather one-sided in terms of proper arguments, teehee. my points were weak without much examples .. hm, mpicz on the other hand, you should join a debate club! i'm not kidding, you really should. there's talent somewhere there, you know. </p>
<p>& yeah, FA is extremely important. some small schools, must be great, too, but without large endowments to support them, it's not an option for lots of people. eh.</p>
<p>wheeeee. MORE KOREAN THREADS. YAY.</p>
<p>south koreans will go ANYWHERE if accepted. they are pretty grateful, cz most of them are those who attend public schools. they will go to anywhere</p>
<p>^ if you're from a public school, you will go. it sounds EXTREMELY glorious with public school kids, and is the best piece of "gossip" (rather, "bragging") for mothers to discuss amongst their peers. since practically all of koreans live in apartments, word of mouth spreads pretty fast. and if you attend a boarding school, you become a step above other public school kids in your neighborhood. your family becomes prestigious just by having their kid attend a boarding school. i kind of ran in every direction back there, hopefully people understand.</p>
<p>but in international schools, especially the better known ones, going to a place like nmh is nothing. i'm not trying to offend nmh'ers btw, it's a good school. but what int'l school kids look at are the tsao, mainly. loomis and hill are safeties in this case, btw. and we include groton and maybe middlesex. that's it. </p>
<p>and the reason why schools don't give out much FA to international kids (mainly east asians) is not because EVERYONE in korea can afford the tuition, but because only the ones who can afford them apply in the first place. </p>
<p>feel free to argue but no flames please (:</p>
<p>ahaha, lol, it's interesting how perspective changes..
all my mom's chinese friends are all 'OMG, BOARDING SCHOOL? WHERE DID SHE GO WRONG?'</p>
<p>it's as if they think it's a reformitory (sp?) school of some sort. = =
meh. maybe that's why not so many chinese people apply.. it's insane, how many koreans are applying though, haha. in the Yale thread, there's like, a huge mob of chinese/indians/koreans so i guess it eventually evens out :P</p>
<p>true. a lot of the chinese students actually come from hong kong. a few from beijing and shanghai i guess but i noticed hong kong is right after korea in int'l :D</p>
<p>This tuft effect that GemmaV mentioned...</p>
<p>I totally agree. In the Middlesex candidate statement they very specifically ask for the schools you are also applying to. I found this unusual as there were only 8 short answer questions on the application. During my interview, Middlesex, again questioned what schools I hoped to apply to.</p>
<p>When I had my Brooks interview, the admission officer after viewing my preliminary application asked what other schools I was interested in. When I mentioned Governor's she asked me why I wanted to attend Governor's. Aften slithering out of that question she again asked me for more schools. I mentioned Exeter. I was careful to tell her that I preffered Brooks, but she didn't seem to believe me.</p>
<p>This tuft effect is to say the least incredibly bothersome. I do not consider myself E/A quality neccesarily, but I do think that I would be accepted to a lower tier school like Brooks. I am almost "running in the middle of the road," if you know what I mean...</p>
<p>How can I avoid safety schools from protecting their admission from me and from top tier schools simply rejecting me. I am pretty middle of the road... mid 80's SSAT good EC's and all...</p>
<p>benevolent: It doesn't <em>exactly</em> work that way. Any school that REALLY wants you will admit you and go after you, even if that means fighting a "top tier" school for you. That is why the re-visit programs in April are very important--time for the schools to roll out the red carpet for their admitted students. We know that while you may have "top choice" schools right now--after reading through catalogs, visiting websites, and going on tours and interviews--but we also know that the order of preference of schools changes as soon as you step foot on our campuses again in April. And if we like you, we're going to convince you to come. Trust me, there is a student in my dorm who applied to six BS and my school was DEAD LAST on her list (she hated her tour in the fall). She wasn't even going to come to our revisit program after going to the other schools' revisit days, but her mom insisted that she attend. She was matched up w/ a great kid and absolutely loved it (and obviously is here now).</p>
<p>mention schools in the same "league" as them, always mention something positive about your school afterwards. LIKE let's say you were at loomis, proud of how laid back it is (don't flame me... the interviewer told me this too LOL and we talked about how relaxing it is because of it) but you suddenly thought of exeter because that was your next interview.
what other schools are you applying to?
you can be perfectly honest when you mention this ("I'm applying here here here here here here here and here") or you can mention a few to save the interviewer's head from popping. try mentioning less competitive schools first, say blahblahblah and then if you want to be honest mention a top tier school you're applying to. talk about how it seems trhe education at both schools are both good (which they ARE) but loomis has a stronger arts program and that's what i'm really thinking about. something like that. you don't lie, but you don't give out a bad impression.</p>