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It’s called the GREs :D</p>
<p>hah i cant take that or?</p>
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Sallie Mae, one of the leading student loan providers, charges between 2.5% and 10.875% plus LIBOR rate. The LIBOR is currently less than 1% because of the economic depression, but it’s been as high as 10% in the past 20 years. 5% seems like a good long-term estimate, which would make for loans with an average yearly interest rate between 7.5% and 15.875%.</p>
<p>I have the impression that your co-signer would not be terribly credit worthy. That means that you are looking at very high interest rates, if you get a loan at all. Suppose you ended up with a 15% interest rate (LIBOR plus 10%). In order to pay back that loan over 20 years, you would need to make monthly payments of over $1,300. If you default, your cosigner would be responsible. That’s a very big commitment to make on part of the cosigner.</p>
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Sure you can. I don’t know how much it would help, but another set of test scores certainly won’t hurt? (Actually, some universities explicitly suggest that international undergraduate applicants take the GREs if they are living in a country with limited access to SAT test centers. It seems that they would at least look at GRE scores?)</p>
<p>hm interesting. i dont nothing about gre tests… and how much would that influence my impression.</p>
<p>anyway… i was thinking of sending emails to various schools asking if i can apply as freshman… ?</p>
<p>bar!um: what about graduate school applications: how much they view where did you earn your undergrad, your gpa, GRE ? …</p>
<p>also, sorry to ask this but not to open another thread: is it possible to earn somewhere B.A./B.S. in 1 or 2 yrs, taking only exams, not tranditional route… and is the diploma accepted at all?</p>
<p>from Harvard tranfer info:
.Students are eligible to transfer only from a liberal arts curriculum that is similar to Harvard’s. Candidates whose education has been in a vocational, professional, technical or performance program will not ordinarily qualify for transfer admission</p>
<p>does this mean i should apply as freshmen? i am not in a liberal arts college, i am directly in medicine school, professional, no core subjects like language or mathematics.
but we have core courses like physical chem, biochem, organic chem, physics etc.</p>
<p>You may not be eligible to apply for admission to Harvard at all at this point.</p>
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If they won’t let you relinquish credits to apply for transfer admissions, I have a feeling that they also won’t let you ignore your previous background to apply as a freshman. It doesn’t hurt to ask though.</p>
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Grad schools care primarily about three things: a strong academic record (that includes the rigor and relevance of your undergraduate coursework as well as your grades), past research experience (if aiming for a PhD) and, maybe most importantly, strong letters of recommendation. That’s for the more academically-inclined fields. Professional degree programs (e.g. MBAs) might care a lot about relevant work experience.</p>
<p>Completing your undergraduate education in your home country, maybe with a semester abroad at an American university, won’t prevent you from gaining admission to American graduate programs. It’s not rare for graduate programs to recruit 30%-50% of their students from overseas. Attending an American college with weak academics (e.g. for financial reasons) will hurt your grad school applications though.</p>
<p>GRE scores are not particularly relevant for most programs. Noticeably low scores can keep you out of a program, but strong scores won’t get you accepted. It’s helpful to keep in mind that grad school admission decisions are made directly by the department rather than the university - that is, by the people who will have to work with you. That means that they will be paying close attention to your letters of recommendation to see if you are the kind of candidate that they want to accept.</p>
<p>Again, this is for the academic fields. A few fields have their own admission tests (e.g. LSAT for law school, MCAT for med school, etc) which sometimes do carry a lot of weight.</p>
<p>well my med school is of “grad school” level, with M.D. title. But I cant finish it…
I doubt that it means i cant apply at all, that would mean nobody can transfer to Harvard from Europe because universities/colleges in Europe arent like liberal arts at all. I sent them email just in case.</p>
<p>this is curriculum i’ve taken so far, well, a bit more, but this is main, and it will all go to waste :(:(:(</p>
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<p>Complete Curriculum</p>
<p>Year 1: Physics 1 (Basi and Biophysic ), Medical and Molecular Biology, Anatomy and Clinical Anatomy, Social Medicine and Introduction to Medicine, History of Medicine, First Aid, Introduction to Medical Terminology, English Language, Medical Chemistry & Biochemistry 1, Physical and Organic Chemistry, Introduction to Medical Statistics, Basics of Medical Informatics , Principles of Evidence Based Medicine.</p>
<p>Year 2: Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry 2, Histology & Embriology, Physiology, Immunology, Fundamentals of Neuroscience, Medical Sociology, Psychological Medicine, English Language.</p>
<p>so i was thinking of applying to EWSP on Yale. I think chances there are better than 1:100000 because 6% gets in :D</p>
<p>anyway… thing is, i was thinking of taking courses at my University, in different subjects, to show I can get all As and to raise my GPA. </p>
<p>BUT</p>
<p>My university will probably not count my courses (except my med courses) in my GPA… i will get listed all courses i took, i was thinking like math,physics, economics,some languages, psychology and like… BUT BUT they will not do GPA.</p>
<p>so in form when i am applying can i write my GPA i converted myself or ???</p>
<p>sillliness, the Eli Whitman program is very focused on what impact you, as a person, can bring to a community. You already have taken a lot of intellectually demanding classes, and done well. Now may be a time to do volunteer work, to tutor young people – to do anything which shows you to be an engaged, active member of a community who makes a difference. I believe that will greatly increase your odds of getting into this program.</p>
<p>** added: ** did you see the requirement that you have to have had at least a 5 YEAR break from your education? </p>
<p>“To be eligible for the Eli Whitney program, you must hold a high school or GED diploma and have taken at least a five-year break from your education”</p>
<p>yeah i saw that and i contact them and they said i should apply for EWSP and not traditional transfer because i a older than 22, traditional age. despite not having 5 yr break. actually they often accept younger from what i figured, like last yr some girl who’s 23 and dropped out of college after 1,5 year. so around 20, she’s been out max 3 yrs i guess</p>
<p>Though someone told me that I dont have any chances without listening any courses in US universities because they dont know what having an A means in Eastern Europe.
The fact that community colleges arent comparable to Med School, in difficulty, is irrelevant, it seems. I mean every second collegeconfidential member has 3.9 in community college, 1% of med students in my school have 3.9, which tells you a lot about cc vs. med school in eeastern europe.</p>
<p>about community service, yeaah i know, actually this is why i am attracted the most to that, leaderships, initiating changes, thinking outside the box. one of the main reasons i wanna leave my country is because such things are more welcome in the US, and thats is what I <em>live</em> for. I am not the book type, I want real changes in the real world.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/international-students/270749-international-transfer-pakistan.html#post1065412970[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/international-students/270749-international-transfer-pakistan.html#post1065412970</a></p>
<p>Rolleyes to all people in the thread who said chances of transferring are 1:100(0000). Arrogant.</p>
<p>well good for you. let us know when you have secured that transfer scholarship :)</p>
<p>Omg, dont you see it’s not [just] about ME?</p>
<p>I might not get, but you can never know, and obviously some others could and did.
I am pretty sure if my GPA was 3.9 or something I would, why not? I am very high potential, it doesnt make sense that ALL schools would turn me down just bc I already finished 2 yrs somewhere [and probably would anyway need to spend 3yrs wherever I go].</p>
<p>so like i said: post back here when you’ve secured that transfer scholarship :)</p>
<p>huh? you said in your first posts in this thread that transfer scholarship is non-existent DESPITE GPA. and it clearly isnt so bc there are even people on this forum who got it! !
this is the only thing i am proving, simply because i feel responsibility not to spread misinformations and stop someone from even trying (someone who will maybe got it like pakistan girl i linked you). Its funny you dont feel that responsibility.</p>
<p>And fyi, I probably wont even try, decided to switch to psychology from this year (year starts in October here) and hopefully finish it in 2 yrs and then go to grad school in USA. It’s painful that more than 2 yrs of credits will almost all go to waste, but c’est la vie</p>