<p>is it true that you have to get your entire education outside of Korea if you're a Korean citizen applying to SNU for undergrad? It doesn't make any sense though...why wouldn't Korea's top university want to accept locals?</p>
<p>Also, how hard is it to get into SNU? is it harder than Korea University and Yonsei University?</p>
<p>WHat about Ewha University? I know it's a women's university, but does it have an equally prestigious reputation on par with that of the "SKY" schools? Thanks!</p>
<p>hello? any koreans out there? :D</p>
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<p>Haha.</p>
<p>Um.. no.. obviously not.</p>
<p>can someone please give me a real answer? thanks</p>
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<p>Ok I am not sure of the numbers, but usually the valedictorian gets accepted to SNU. If the school is extmreely lucky, so will the salutorian. But usually, 0 people get accepted to SNU from each highschool. The thing is, you gotta take this test that summarizes up your whole entire highschool career in terms of education.. this test is called 수능.
They have cut off points. If you make it within the criteria of the specific university, you get in. If you dont, you cant get in.
The university takes other things into account, such as school grades, school rank and the interview (and this is NOT the average US college interview. Much more formal - lots of questions on current events and general knowledge). Actually, I would say those are the only things that they factor in, to their admin process, as well as the above mentioned test.</p>
<p>SNU is considered the place where the smartest of the smart students go. SNU medical is considered the place where the absolute geniuses, or the top 1% (or less) of the korean student population, go.</p>
<p>However, if you are a US citizen, the process is slightly different. You have to take a test, but it's slightly different to that above test - TEENY bit easier - to accomodate the Korean kids that were born or grew up in the US for the majority of thier lives. The test comprises of difficult math, korean literature (many poems!), korean history and couple of other things. However, there's this university that doesnt require this to be tkaen (either Yonsei or Ewha). It requires an essay writing test instead and couple of other minor things. However, the very formal interview is still required by the universities (dont know about ewha). Also, the universities have allocated, limited spaces for "internationals" for medical school. You have to think, why would they want to recruit 'internationals' for medical school when they already have the brighter students here in Korea? It is a myth that it's easier to get into SNU med from outside Korea, than inside. This only applies to uni's like Yonsei arts, languages, social sciences and humanities prgrams - where the 'internationals' are ON AVERAGE much brighter than the korean students in these areas, mostly due to the billingual, trillingual qualities that these students posses.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if the info I gave you is 100% correct, as I did research on this couple of years ago.. I was looking into applying to some of those aforementioned schools. My friend who's 1 year older actually got into Yonsei for English literature or something, from here (she lived in the US for 2 years and came here for 4 years). She took the test and went through the interview process in Korea. She was an above average student - but not spectacular, top 20% of school, took CIE. However, she was extremely fluent in Korean, new heaps on Korean culture, history, etc.. , and I heard that she scored very high on the test :)</p>
<p>Thanks NoFX!! Finally, someone's giving me some repsonse! :D</p>
<p>wait.... so you don't have to get your entire education outside of Korea if you're a Korean citizen applying to SNU for undergrad? cos' this is what i read from the SNU website....</p>
<p>and btw, is SNU supposed to be superior to Yonsei and Korea U?
What about Ewha? is it equally prestigious despite the fact that it's a women's university? :o</p>
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<p>Sorry I dont know much about Ewha.. Only yonsei and snu and 1 other university (i cant remeber the name..).
Yes, SNU > Yonsei > Ewha.</p>
<p>"wait.... so you don't have to get your entire education outside of Korea if you're a Korean citizen applying to SNU for undergrad? cos' this is what i read from the SNU website...."
I'm assuming that you mean the korean citizens that are currently studyng abroad..?
I really dont think that is the case. I mean, my friend is a prime example of that.. Plus, I qualified as an international applicant to SNU, even though I studied 1 year of elementary school in Korea.</p>
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<p>I heard that SNU stopped this, but it used to be til last year that only Koreans who studied abroad for 12 years (basically 1st-12th grade) received special privileges in admissions; 11 years and below didn't cut, and they had to go through the regular process. I don't know what's happening right now, but I did hear that Korean citizens studying abroad still get some privileges. I just know that previously, if you're not a 12-year study-abroad kid, you were competing with the genius Koreans who dare apply to this school. </p>
<p>I think that Yonsei and other top schools still give special privileges to students who studied abroad for 12 years. I dunno what process students with 11 years or less will go through.. I honestly think its hard for them to be with the regular pool of applicants in Korea because, if I'm not mistaken, location (having a quota of acceptances in every province, city, etc) takes some part in the admissions decisions by Korean colleges. I hope I'm not slow with the news.... hehe.
I'm a 12-year, and I used to have some interest in these things, but now I'm hoping that I get into an American college. The only Korean college I applied to is KAIST, which does not care about how long you studied abroad (every foreign educated student are treated equally).</p>
<p>Once again, I'm not 100% sure of accuracy in some things, just telling you what I heard from the word of mouth and also giving some of my two-cents. heh.</p>
<p>thanks undesputed! can someone tell me more about SNU, korea U, Yonsei U and Ewha U?
Thanks~ :)</p>
<p>What do you mean, 'more'?</p>
<p>I actually heard that they are going to be changing thier educaiton system soon - so theirs will be like of the ones in the US.
Like, 4 year undergraduate school, then grad school, etc... instead of, going straight into Law, medicine, etc..
Or maybe they've already changed it?</p>
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<p>HIII. is this the hangook saram topic? haha :)</p>
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<p>so if the geniuses of the geniuses are accepted to SNU, why don't these genius just go to oxford or harvard?</p>
<p>so does SNU teach in korea? actually do all major universities around the world teach in english? they should because english is lingua franca.</p>
<p>doesn't students in yonsei play alot?</p>
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