<p>Hmmm I do have till january don't i? but i might need january to retake the the SAT II for world history, since I havent been in school for a while. I'm 22 btw. I finished school in 2003, in England, and we didn't do world history, we did nazi germany, communist russia, and two revolutions, the french and the English Civil war. So my knowledge of Asia is extremely lacking (although I did a private study on the opium war and fall of the manchu dynasty). I don't know much about Africa either. But I am a quick learner, maybe that'll be enough?</p>
<p>He's a sci fi writer, one of the first in the field... but I dunno if he'd appreciate me telling the world as he's kind of a private person. I had dinner with him and another mate of his at a japanese restaurant. really cool guy!</p>
<p>ummm no, only one sis has ever gone to university (BU) out of 6 of us, and she complained the whole time! My father made her, but then ironically didnt bother encouraging the rest of us.</p>
<p>Me? I CARE for my family and I would never leave them and run away. Idk about you, but thats all part of my values and culture. I am behind my family 100%.</p>
<p>huh? I still keep in touch with them... It's not like i'm estranged or anything. I just really wanted to study and not be an olive farmer quite frankly lol. it palls after a while, and who ever heard of an olive farming poet? </p>
<p>Oh i'm sorry were you asking me if family is less than princeton? or whatever > means? didnt you read the other post?? I got 410 in mathematics hehe... i dunno, I want to go to Princeton to help my family, what does that tell you? that family = princeton? or vice versa?</p>
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Oh i'm sorry were you asking me if family is less than princeton? or whatever > means? didnt you read the other post?? I got 410 in mathematics hehe... i dunno, I want to go to Princeton to help my family, what does that tell you? that family = princeton? or vice versa?
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<p>Right. No need for drama. I'd never run away from my family even if we lived in the desert. Good luck getting into Pton :)</p>
<p>merci, and i'm applying to harvard also hehe. Good luck to you too! If i do well on my SAT II WH I'll retake the SAT I in january, i mean i'm obviously good at the CR and W component, it's maths which gives me the shivers intellectually.</p>
<p>Yeah, thanks. Hope everything goes as planned. If you think working in an olive farm is bad, I wonder what you'd do in my shoes during my times of hardships. </p>
<p>Anyways, good luck on your SATs. Did you see the Hall of Bulls cave paintings at Lascaux?</p>
<p>yes, on the way to England as a matter of fact. beautiful... there was nothing particularly refined about them, but just their sheer age and method of being painted makes them encompass an aspect of beauty. But perhaps I'm not the best judge, as I find shar-peis and old people beautiful lol... i see beauty in a lot of things.</p>
<p>what are your hardships? would you care to PM me? maybe we can compare notes? :)</p>
<p>Well, poverty WAS a major hardship for the family. But we're fine now i guess. We lived in a community of millionaires, but my dad had no money at all! It was a mess, but i dont think details are needed.</p>
<p>business_freak, there's no need to judge arioch. experiencing and having experienced harship in your life (and, let's face it, we all do at some point) does not necessarily mean that you are able to understand the hardships everyone else went through.</p>
<p>arioch, i think there's nothing wrong with being an olive farming poet... however, i think you have the right to want a good education. i wish you the best of luck.</p>
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<p>Sure, I can. Anybody can have opinion on other people's experiences. My point is that i'd never run away whatever the condition may be. I never said what Arioch did was wrong. I emphasized its something I wouldnt personally do.</p>
<p>thanks crimson, I hope i get in too, and maybe make some "deep" friendships. </p>
<p>It wasn't just the olive farming, we had grapes also, and i was a trifle ostracised from most of my peers, as I was an American and therefor to be viewed with suspicion/disgust. As a farmer you work so hard creativity becomes somewhat stifled. Poems about the ache in your bones soon get trite lol. Also my mother took pity on me, and assisted in my flight from there.</p>
<p>I wouldnt trade my experiences for anything else in the world. they have influenced me a lot. I'm a totally different person to the American boy who left at 14...</p>
<p>Do you have any interesting experiences, crimson, or are they somewhere in this thread?</p>
<p>we all have interesting experiences, arioch... i suppose u could say that I have also experienced some hardships... but as i mentioned previously, we all do at one point or another. as u said, i wouldnt trade my experiences for the world. i think i might have mentioned something in this thread...</p>
<p>my personal close friend goes to the same high school I do, Stuyvesant HS in NYC, New York, and has an average close to my 92.1, his is 91.9. this average isn't classified as low, given the school's top-rated rigor. nationwide, it probably ranks as the top public HS. Now, he differs greatly from me in that he is a South Asian American (Indo-Pak heritage) whose parents (dad, mom) have a GED, and overseas Associate Degree, respectively. He also has a major financial edge in that his family lives in New York City on complete governmental (federal disability-endowed Social Security) financial aid, summing up to just a little shy of $20,000 per annum, on account of his parents' inability to work. If any one knows how expensive NYC can be, they'll know that 65k is good for a basic comfort lifestyle. So, with the diversity/uneducated immigrant/financial need cards in his deck, does he have enough hooks for harvard? he's also into medicine, has great ec's, hasn't taken SAT yet but projects a score of 2250. what do you guys think? id love for him to be accepted there, right now he's a hardworking junior, and i really think given his family background, that he is a deserving candidate.</p>
<p>my schools: (funny, im not a 2400 scorer or a blueblooded wasp legacy)</p>
<p>reach: harvard/yale/columbia/princeton (differing order, usual acceptance and elitist rate)
target: brown, dartmouth, upenn, cornell (order of acceptance rate)
match: dartmouth, cornell ALS, columbia engineering (my hs is feeder)
safety: nyu, cornell</p>
<p>in either way, im guaranteed a spot in the ivy league, even if it's at cornell (31% acceptance rate). then again, i could just go to a state university til matriculation, get an easy 4.0 gpa, ace mcats, and hop off to harvard medical. but, thats too cheap, not liberal-artsy, and not fun.</p>