<p>Thanks, guys! Really, I can retain my knowledge for 1 year, but it's not the main problem. I will lose my charisma and fervor to study in USA, I'll become the sloth, I know myself.</p>
<p>My parents forbid me to take gap year, it's absolutely unusual in my country, and is accompanied with many difficulties later.</p>
<p>This year I'm applying to Yale, MIT, IIT, U. of Rochester (but I'm not sure about finaid). Trying is not a crime. If I am rejected, the I'll use my plan B, go to Russian safeties and reaches and then transfer to HYPM. In Russia, my academic honors are much more valuable than here in USA. </p>
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<p>I'll do everything I'm able to do, if they don't accept me, I'll try graduate.</p>
<p>Intersting. First of all, it is not so unusual to take a gap year. I know a girl who wants to go to M IT, and ONLY to MIT, so she took a gap year and is preparing for SAT 1; physics, etc. Second, there is quite a nice strategy, which proved to be very successfull. You go to whatever Russian university and after the year there (well, I mean if you can go only to MGY to be satisfied with yourself, then it might be a problem, buit otherwise it should be fine) you apply to wherever you want to apply as a freshman. Because we have only 10 years of school, it doesn't seem to be a big deal with them.
According to the above, you are actually not in any trategy, but in a PERFECT situation. You tried SAT. Did pretty well. And now you have a whole year to reach perfection and get into wherever you want to get in.
What difficulties accompany taking a gap year???</p>
<p>Great! But I think your suggestion about one year in Russian univ. and then applying as a freahman is better than to take gap year. </p>
<p>Difficulties: "menya nikuda ne voz'mut bez trudovoi knizhki, u menya budut problemi s postupleniem (esli ne poluchitsy v USA), oni skazhut, mol, chto eto I celii god delal.</p>
<p>S postyplenijem kyda? V US? Im eto vse ravno. Oni eto dazhe podderzhivajut. V Rossii? Da im vrode tozhe vse ravno, net? Pochemy y tebya dolzhna bit' trydovaja knizhka? Chto-to libo bred, libo ya chego-to ne pojmy. Ob'yasni polych'she.
Edinstvennaja real'naja problema, kotoryju ya vizhy - eto armija. Poetomy lych'she postypit' v kakoj-nibyd' nash yniver. A tak bol'she problemi nikakoj........</p>
<p>Ti prava, chto americancam vse ravno, no I govoru o russkih univerah. Oni uvidyat attestat s godom okonchaniya - 2005, a I budu postupat' v 2006, i skazhut, chto delal celii god, rabotal ili eshe chego-nibud', i dumau, chto otvet "sidel doma" ih osobo ne ustroit. Nu voobshem plevat' na eto.</p>
<p>To est', kak I ponyal, I seichas podau docs, menya nikuda ne berut, I s medal'u postupau v russkii univer (poputaus' v MGY, hot' i bez deneg tuda ne voz'myt), snova podau kak freshman i meny vezde berut. Za god v univere I ne degradiruu, a podnaberus' navikov i znanii, i edu uzhe 17-letnim parnem. Po-moemu vse OK.</p>
<p>Da, armija - eto ser'ezno, esli I ne postuplu v etom godu, oni uzhe uspeut postavit' menya na uchet, i (tochno ne znau) mogut meny ne otpustit' v amerika. Kak? Na nashei rodimoi tamozhne poprosyt razreshenie ot lubimogo voenkomata.</p>
<p>Hey guys! A kuda ty sdaesh Dragon? MIT, naprimer voobshe ne trebuyet nikakogo SAT I. Oni uje znayut chto my provalim verbal i terbuyut SAT II (Math and Science) i TOEFL, i slava Bogu, potomu chto moy SAT I daje huje tvoego, a vot subject tests: 800 Chem, 720 phys, 700 math IIc and 603 Toefl.
Naschet MGU: americancy deystvitelno sprosyat, chto eto ty tem delal celiy god, a yesli uznayut chto ty uchilsya v VUZe poprosyat byt' transfer applicant'om. a eto huje freshman'na.
best regards</p>
<p>Yes, please spare us the effort of putting the correct Cyrillic characters in your texts and running them through an online translator. Non-Russians have the right to participate in this conversation too, you know...</p>
<p>Hey Meder! I polnii durak, chto poslal SAT I v MIT.</p>
<p>I thought my SAT I would be at least 1340 and I sent it to MIT.
My SAT IIs are 750, 760 and TOEFL now is about 600, but I plan to raise it to 630 in one week. I think these my results are not too bad. And does MIT accept January scores. I'll take in January Math II and hope for 800, it can help me.</p>
<p>Will they consider my SAT I, even if I don't write about it?</p>
<p>Manyzhka, ti pisala im, chto uchish'sy v VUZe?</p>
<p>Hi everyone. First a quick English summary of the above: I was telling Dragon that I studied at a Russian university for a year before applying to an American university. Therefore, he is in a very good situation, because he tried SATs, but still has a lot of time.
Now, back to the questions. Meder: first, they do not explicitly ask about that!!! There is no such a question on the aplpication. There is nothing criminal about taing a year off, some schools even encourage to do so. Therefore, it is completely your problem whether to explain or not to explain and how to explain. The only thing - it is not whatsoever a good idea to tell them that you didn't do anything if you in fact studied at MGY (good luck ith admissions if aplpying:)
Dragon:yes i did tell them - why not? you just have to inquire about each university's regulation regarding the admission processes and you'll be fine. </p>
<p>Also, for everyones attention. The citation from the Dartmouth's web-site regarding the policy towards the international transfers:</p>
<p>"International students (non-U.S. citizens, non-permanent residents) currently attending U.S. colleges or universities are eligible to apply for transfer admission. International students attending non-U.S. colleges or universities must apply as International first-year candidates."</p>
<p>Since I saw this, I've always been wondering whether it happens to be a regulation for all Ivies??? But I have never found anyhting similar at other college's web-site; however, I didn't have any troubles applying to Yale and Harvard being a freshaman at a Russian university (the only thing is that Harvard rejected me - but that's another story, which highly doubtfully has anything to do with my freshman status:::)))</p>
<p>Dragon, NOOOOOO. Nothing like that. I am a completely normal person. Moreover, I have MUCH-MUCH fewer school credentials than you do. No olympiades and stuff like that. So, basically I do not have any answer to your question:) (About atoms - my knowledge of sciences approaches zero:) Sorry:)
Moreover, I never ever wanted to get into any Ivy or even top school, as you do. I mean I applied to Yale and H only by some coincidence. Frankly, I even didn't know anything about the existence of the Ivy League and about top schools, etc. I didn't really hope to get admitted anywhere, that was just my little crazy experiment. My knowledge about all the school ranking vastly expandeed after i discovered this forum, but it was after I submitted all my applications:)</p>