<p>noo, my grandmother died a couple of years ago, and apparently in her will she left all her money to her grandchildren for college(she was quite rich). Now I can pay the whole ride. Im so thankful for that. You? Random question: is it normal to see your heart beating. So the place where your heart is goes up and down slightly?</p>
<p>You’re really lucky there then! That takes away a lot of the worries! I am applying for financial aid, but I probably won’t qualify for too much 
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<p>… Your heart beating? I am not sure? You are supposed to see it bumping yeah…? hahaha, why?! You thought you were having a heart attack?</p>
<p>Edit: Not lucky that your grandmother died obviously, I am sorry!</p>
<p>Ooh that sucks… Why won’t you qualify for too much? I dont really know how it works.</p>
<p>Because I am a total hypochondriac. I am one of those people that self-diagnoses on the interweb. I had swollen lymph nodes, so I checked on the internet what that could be. Then I thought I might have leukemia (all of the sudden I have shortness of breath, palpitations(hartkloppingen), etc etc) Turned out I am completely healthy, but yeah, im a hyperchondriac:P</p>
<p>Because my parents possibly earn too much, I am not really sure. </p>
<p>Hahaha, yeah its funny how you can make all symptoms apply to yourself! Always when I watch things like ER or Grey’s Anatomy I think I have the most random diseases in the world, like, when I have a cold, I think my brains might be dissolving, because it happened to someone in Grey’s Anatomy… Your thing is really funny though! “Oh NO! I have leukemia because you can see my heart beat!”</p>
<p>hahaah yeah right. I just looked it up on the internet. Im a cyberchondriac. Someone that over self-diagnoses on the internet. (Can I hear you say irony, self diagnosed myself on the internet as someone who self diagnoses on the internet)
I once thought I had this disease, dont remember the name. So i went to my doctor. When I told him my concerns he started laughing. Turned out that disease only occurs in women:p</p>
<p>Hahaha, that is brilliant! That is too ironic indeed! I didn’t know they actually gave self-diagnosing a name! You almost sound like my grandmother though, everytime there’s something about a “scary” disease (like mexican flu) in the news, she calls us all up and fatalistically states that she will tragically pass away within hours… And then she calls back a little later: “Oops! False alarm!”… Pretty funny actually.</p>
<p>o right, do we get studiefinanciering when going to college in the US(or england in your case)</p>
<p>Yeah we do actually! When your college is acknowledged by the IB you’ll get an uitwonende beurs?! so something like 400 euros a month. I guess all the schools we’ve applied to will count as one ;)</p>
<p>hahaha, good to know im not allone. I will form an alliance or a club with your grandma. Cyberchondriac4LIFaaah</p>
<p>ah great! Its so little though compared to the amounts we have to pay in the us. Isnt england even more expensive, like 60000 pounds a year?</p>
<p>Trust me, you don’t want to be in any club my grandmother is a member of. She is completely insane and evil. </p>
<p>No it isn’t actually! For EU students the same fees count as for British students, so something like 8000 pounds a year, all inclusive, so that is actually pretty good (board and everything), for any UK university. Students outside the EU pay upwards to 35.000 pounds a year though, which is pretty unfair.</p>
<p>wow yeah thats pretty expensive. What universities did you apply to in england?</p>
<p>for eu outsiders i meant, for you its okay:P</p>
<p>To York, Oxford, LSE, University College London and Warwick. I have yet to hear from most of them though! Should be somewhere around the 15th of January.</p>
<p>A friend of mine just got accepted to oxford! Thats also such a great schools, I dont know the rest of them, but thats probably me. I just got an email from pton that my application is complete and “that they look forward to reviewing it”(yeah right) Do you get any advantage if you submit it before the 15th(which I did)?</p>
<p>I think its mostly benificial for scheduling interviews! And supposedly they review your application earlier, so they look at it freshly, not after having read 4000 essays.
I don’t think it matters too much though, they just don’t want having to file everything (30.000 apps?!) at once, I guess! But the biggest advantage is, is that you have a Christmas break now, haha!</p>
<p>haha yay, except I have to make my profielwerkstuk:P, but mostly yaaaay</p>
<p>Oh yeah! Profielwerkstuk horror! 30 pages to go for me! I have to go now, since I am forced by the same iceskate friends to watch a huge Pride and Prejudice marathon (12 hours yes!)… Ugh. I’ll be back later though! Probably won’t be getting any sleep since my personal statements aren’t REALLY taking the shape of an essay yet, but look more like a mix of loose sentences a psychopath would write down in his diary and horrible clich</p>
<p>can u reject ur ED school if u get accepted by some european uni?</p>
<p>I suppose so. I doubt that ED involves non-american schools.</p>