<p>Only 3 more days til classes start!</p>
<p>My department made all of the physics freshers take a maths test during fresher’s week. I have now realised I’ve joined a very evil school.</p>
<p>Awesome. :D</p>
<p>Good luck with that Spriteling.</p>
<p>gyyy2807, I too sadly do not know what a AEA is. However, I do know that at the top schools (say HYPMS) they tend to have a very wide knowledge of international awards. At the level below that, it is more touch and go. However, most schools will allow you to explain what an award is and why it is significant.</p>
<p>AEA = Advanced Extension Award. Basically a harder test than a regular A-level exam. I believe it may cover extra material as well; I cannot remember. You can get either Distinction, Merit, or Fail.</p>
<p>Becky- regarding applying to the UCs in California:</p>
<p>UC Riverside is not by a river 
Many/most of the UCs are near the ocean, UCR is not, it is 1-2 hours from the beach (it all depends on traffic to Orange County and the traffic can be horrid) It is inland and hot and deserty. UCR is a less popular UC option as it is not near the beach. People seem to prefer the beach or the mountains, so a kid in a CA high school would not be impressed by UCR.</p>
<p>Any UC school tends to have a better reputation than a Cal State school, except Cal Poly San Luis Obispo which is technically a Cal State but has an excellent reputation. Check them out online, they do have business, they are near the beach and it is a beautiful college town.</p>
<p>I have not checked lately to see which UCs have business degrees, when I was a kid (in the 1970s) no UCs had bachelor’s degrees i business.</p>
<p>In general, by reputation and difficulty of admissions, UCLA & Berkeley are the top two schools, the next tier would be San Diego (beach town), Irvine (by Newport Beach), Santa Barbara (beach town) and David (inland), then UC Santa Cruz (beach town, but a unique school so not as popular) and then Riverside and Merced.</p>
<p>USC would be an amazing experience, my DD got in there, but we could not afford it. Though it is likely to have a similar cost to an out of state fee for a UC so it may be a good choice for you. It is in a lousy area of LA, but it is it’s own culture.</p>
<p>I do have kids who have attended one of the top and one of the middle tier Ucs and also one at St Andrews ;)</p>
<p>You might check out Santa Clara in NorCal, Chapman University in SoCal for business. Chapman is a small private, they give some SAT based merit aid I believe, and they have a strong business programme. My nephew attends their business and is very happy. You would get a great deal of personal attention at a small school like this versus a big UC.</p>
<p>Obviously Marshall Business at USC would be amazing, especially if you either want to stay in CA or want to work with a company which does business in CA too as the networking at USC is famous.</p>
<p>I have a family member who is a prof at UC Riverside, his child attended Chapman ;)</p>
<p>Feel free to PM me if you have any CA specific questions</p>
<p>Hi guys - thought I’d check in and see how my golem is getting along.</p>
<p>Hi rors! <em>waves</em></p>
<p>Howdy, tetris - I see your post count is still on the up!</p>
<p>Haha yeah :p</p>
<p>Hi guys,</p>
<p>I’m a British student applying for entry in Fall 2010. I won’t go into some long stats post but a quick summary is:</p>
<p>SAT: 2270, 800CR 700M 770W
SAT IIs: just took them, hoping for 700+ in Lit, Bio & French w/ Listening
A/S: 4A, all above 90% UMS, two at 100% UMS
A-level (predicted): 4A*
Essays: I’ve given my teachers supposedly outstanding Harvard essays and they say mine are better, but I’m not so sure. Anyway they’re very good at least
ECs: I obviously haven’t been drilled like US students have but I do a lot more than most at my top grammar school. Don’t wanna go into details because I’m paranoid, but I definitely don’t have huge lists of awards and academic extracurriculars like lots of CCers seem to</p>
<p>What chances do I stand at the places I’m applying to? My first choice by far is Yale, and I would love Columbia or Harvard, since I’ve visited their campuses. I’m also applying to Princeton, Chicago, Amherst and Williams, all of which look great. I’m going for financial aid by the way.</p>
<p>Any help would be much appreciated! The usual chance threads and even the pledged decisions threads are giving me no information at all on how to gauge whether I am a competitive applicant or not, since no internationals (or at least European ones) seem to be posting there.</p>
<p>Hey - I wanted to put this in context with one of your earlier posts:</p>
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<p>…this is completely wrong. Please don’t go into the US admissions cycle with this impression - Ivy League colleges evaluate very different things to Oxbridge, and the applications reflect this. There are several students at Harvard I know who were rejected from Oxbridge, and certainly weren’t straight-A students. </p>
<p>It is very hard to gauge anyone’s chances. I would say that your chances at some of the smaller schools you’re applying to are quite strong - Williams, etc. It is harder to say for the Ivies, because it simply becomes a lottery. Certainly worth a shot, anyway! Your academics look good, but so will maybe 30% of the applicant pool for Harvard or Yale. Without knowing more about you or your ECs it’s very hard to say.</p>
<p>anybody still here applying from the UK for the class of 2014?</p>
<p>^ Yes, I am. Impatiently waiting for April 1st.</p>
<p>haha me too…are you from england? where have you applied to?</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m from England. I’ve applied to a few Liberal Arts Colleges and a few Ivies. How about you? Where abouts are you from? Have you applied to British universities too?</p>
<p>Me too! <em>waves</em></p>
<p>Ruuuule Britannia! etc etc etc</p>
<p>i only applied to ivies (and got rejected by Stanford EA), because I’d rather stay in England than go to the other american ones. yeah, i applied to the british ones, got accepted into LSE but i don’t really want to go…which ones did you apply to?
i’m from south london…how about you?</p>
<p>Gloucester here. I applied to Princeton, Yale, Brown, UChicago, Johns Hopkins, Oberlin, Grinnell, Mount Holyoke, Colgate, and Vassar. And in the UK Cardiff, Manchester, Nottingham, Swansea and Reading - rejected at Manch and Notts, will attend Cardiff if no US acceptances.</p>
<p>Congratulations on LSE!! Where else in the UK did you apply?</p>
<p>For me it’s all about America <3</p>
<p>I applied to Birtish Unviersities and I was accepted to my top choices, but now I can’t make up my mind. Initialy I wanted to study journalism, but than I realised that finding a job in this field could be difficult in a few years so I also applied to media and communication. Business is also a passion and studying it with communication is a good option, but I don’t know how good the particular programe is.</p>
<p>What should I choose between:
Cardiff- Journalism, Media and Cultural studies
Birmingham- Business Managemet with Communication
Loghborough- Media and Communication</p>
<p>How is LSE viewed in the US (compared to the likes of Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, etc)?</p>
<p>@portugueseninja
i applied to Cambridge, LSE, UCL, Warwick and Bristol…Offers from all but Cambridge, after a disastrous interview based mainly on log functions…(this was an econ interview)</p>
<p>but yeah i’ve also been set on the states for a while now. i guess i just like the change and all.
@mihaelautza
i would probably choose cardiff, but that is purely subjective and in no way at all based on how good the course is. at loughborough, i think there are some things it is really good for, but most courses aren’t actually that good…
and i hate birmingham as a city.
cardiff is nice, and also a good uni.</p>