<p>I like Goong :) Joo Ji Hoon is so adorable.</p>
<p>Anyway, if there are anyone going to USC, let me know! Never thought I would go to USC, but the full scholarship is just too good to resist :p</p>
<p>UCSD for me!!!!</p>
<p>Nice nice...from CC I think JR and heythatslife are going to cornell...</p>
<p>hello~ I'm korean too!! currently a freshman at princeton ( class of '09!!)
any soon to be korean princetonian here??? :)</p>
<p>nice nice... it'd be nice if I got into Pton... still waiting for the decision. I probably will get rejected though... Ugh... how come Canada gets the mail so late...???</p>
<p>I'm korean probably going to USC! WOOT. I didn't like Goong so much (i didn't like Yoon Eun Hae from the start) I do like the comic book version much better (i'm so happy they made the designs into real clothes! (half dress, hanbok clothes)</p>
<p>i got into harvard, brown and swarthmore and a few others, but those are my top 3 choices. i didn't go to hakwon either.. nothing against it, just chose not to go</p>
<p>I got into Umich, UIUC, and Grinnell so far and got rejected from those stingy private schools maybe because I applied FA I guess? I didn't go to hak won or sth like that at all. no yu hak won, either. </p>
<p>About the soap opera, Goong, well, I just liked the guy only!
He is sooooo adorable!! :D</p>
<p>If you needed to go to hakwon to raise your scores then you weren't gonna get into good schools anyway. If you're a good student and do well at school, then there should be absolutely no need for hakwon.</p>
<p>heythatslife- are you headed for Cornell or is already in cornell, i'm guessing? (ithaca) I didn't go to hakwon and I really don't give a crap. I hate how korean people are always like "OMG IVY LEAGUES! YOU DON"T GET IN AND YOU'LL DIE OF STARVATION! (ok that was overexaggerated..but)" Or some crap like that</p>
<p>i need serious help guyz. does GPA really matter?? my GPA from 9th to 10th was around 3.95 but right now (junior) everything is just ****ed up!!! 2A 5B 1C. will this be critical?ㅠㅠ</p>
<p>What's the GPA right now? THat sucks that you just messed it up right before your senior year... It might be crucial just because you had such a good record going.. (i gave up straight A's soon as i started taking honors and AP math.. cough)</p>
<p>i don't know the GPA right now.. but somewhere like 3.4..i know it's really depressing.. i also got straight A's in my sophmore year but right after i saw my C. downhill............. that was my first semester grade and i hope to get better in the second semester.. (up to now i have like 1 B or somethin'. but have to wait till the end,, )</p>
<p>junior year GPA is pretty important. I know that I got a 3.1 or sth freshmen year but got 3.9s 10th and 11th and i think that saved me. I can only say it'll hurt u. </p>
<p>About the Hakwon thing. Hakwon certainly isn't necessary for u guy who go to international schools, 민사고, 과고, 외고. But for us 일반고 students it's really not a choice. The English subject in 일반고 is a joke and u can never follow anything doign that type of stuff. However, i would say limit hakwon. Like go there to raise ur SAT( most koreans don't have access to any of that stuff) and then quit. I did that and did all the other stuff by myself. Hakwon sometimes can open up doors. I know how many times i felt stupid after my rejection from Daewon but a teacher at one hakwon helped me really improve my english not just SAT and i really tahnk him for that. I am going to Columbia because he really encouraged me to look beyond 수능 and 서울대.</p>
<p>Dude i don't think its going to be 3.4. Sit down and calculate your GPA. Its not hard. (do it from freshman year you know the steps...: 4 for A 3 for b, blah blah) just calc it on your own and come up with the correct number. I got whole bunch of B's and C's from AP chem and AP calc BC and mine managed to be still 3.7-3.8 ish.</p>
<p>I got accepted ED this year, so I'll be there this August.</p>
<p>To be honest, my parents aren't exactly too happy that I settled for Cornell ED and didn't shoot higher. Like I was gonna get in HYP anyway. I'm bit of a country person so no other place suits me better.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, about hakwons, if you want to go to Korean universities then they are helpful, I agree. But if you are aiming for US schools, and you're not in Korea, I'd say you're better off spending that time and money on some other worthwhile ECs.</p>
<p>I go to hakwon for school subjects (calculus and chem) but not for SATs.. I dont even think there's an SAT hakwon here..?
But IF I was living in Korea, and I was aiming for Seoul med or something like that, I'd definetly be attending hakwon everysingle day like all the other students in normal highschools.</p>
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<p>I've seen SAT hakwons in Seoul, and I've heard also in places like LA or Vancouver where there are lots of Koreans. Since they are there, obviously there must be a demand for them too.</p>
<p>uyulove... 3.4 for is only for my junior year.. i think my overall is something like 3.7-3.8ish but college look at the grade separately, don't they? i don't know.. this GPA is killing me/..</p>
<p>etheralkev, ohhh **** congrats. being a korean and living in the same area as you this news brings me vicarious joy :D. i bet your family and church members went nuts haha. brown sounds like a great choice. best of luck at whichever college you decide to go to! i have one question, which one did you apply ED? </p>
<p>amongst the seniors in my school (burnaby north), there is 1 cornell acceptance...1 yale rejection...and that's all i know so far lol
but most koreans are: UT, UBC, SFU :P</p>