<p>@RipCity14, Awesome! My cousin played ukulele and I saw her and I was just like, I want one! So I saved up and bought a good quality one to actually learn it properly (that is when I make time!) because, you know, when you play the piano, it’s great for singing along, but it’s not so great for taking on camp or wherever with you and playing late at night… A ukulele seemed a good solution, especially cos it’s meant to be so easy :)</p>
<p>@lalalarae, I know, I had a while when I was just so obsessed with the movement and the colleges themselves, and for example I LOVED Pearson, but then I checked subjects and they’d stopped the ones I wanted It’s definitely important. But then again, if I got a place I think I would just adapt because it would probably be worth it!</p>
<p>@lalalarae, yes I do. I play the flute and I also play the piano. @smelltheroses91, I had braces for two years. I got them half a year after I started flute. But I carried on and here I am now. I know my playing sounded very airy back then but I loved playing the flute so much that I never for a minute wanted to give it up. It was painful sometimes but that didn’t matter to me. :)</p>
<p>For me biology and chemistry are the most important subjects and as far as I know they offer them at every college. If I were sent to a college where I can’t carry on studying french I would be a bit sad but then I would start a new langugae and continue french on my own. The more languages I speak the better I can communicate with others.</p>
<p>@MediDuet, Honestly, I would prefer to just keep going with what I’m learning now because I already have a lot of languages. I speak English and French fluently, and a bit of arabic. I’m also learning Spanish at school, and I want to get my Spanish to a fairly high level; I’m hoping to do it at HL.</p>
<p>@pashay
wow you guys seem really into the whole languages thing! I honestly cannot speak anything other than english-- although i pick up languages really well. When i went back to Pakistan i picked up urdu, pashto fluently … but as fast as i picked them up i lost them … sigh it sucks.
I’m going to try to learn french this summer. Integrate myself into a soley french environment and let it happen!
Oh and can someone send me a link for Pearson courses? For some reason i can’t find them!!!</p>
<p>@smelltheroses91 go on to the pearson uwc website, search “academic” click on international baccalaureate, and there is a pdf file or something there! sorry for no link!</p>
<p>@smelltheroses, well to be honest I didn’t have much choice I grew up speaking English but when we went abroad I went to French school so just had to learn French… Arabic I picked up from living in Tunisia. Spanish is the only one I actually feel like I’ve ‘learnt’! But it’s great that you can pick languages up easily. All you have to do then is just keep them up by reading or speaking. :)</p>
<p>Do you guys know if you can self-teach an extra language? I am a latin student and none of the UWCs teach it… It obviously isn’t my first language, but could I take it as a third language and have seven classes?</p>
<p>So I read a little bit of the beginning of this thread but what are your all’s thoughts about applying for extra years after high school? I’m a junior now so if I got in/went it would definitely be adding onto a gap year type of experience. I want to apply so badly though; it seems incredible! Just wish I had known of it sooner.</p>
<p>I speak Dutch (a useless international language ). I can speak French, but not well, I can talk a little bit German but I’m better at understanding it. I obviously also know English and I’m learning myself some Spanish. I hope I can go to the USA or Costa Rica so I can follow real Spanish lessons. I don’t really know if they teach it somewhere else?</p>
<p>@lalalarae I think you can self-teach if they don’t have the language in the school</p>
<p>@Nnormal I’m 16 now, so I’m a year older. But I really want to apply to UWC because I don’t see it as a lost year. This year is the hardest schoolyear in Belgium, so if I got accepted for UWC, I’ve had a hard year with alot to study so I think I would be better prepared. I think because UWC is an exchange program with IB, it won’t really be a lost year, because you get a great diplom! That isn’t with some other organisations.</p>
<p>@ripcity but the thing is, scholarships aren’t merit based, so your family income has to be below a certain range or the means-testing has to show that you actually can’t afford to pay that much (although I assume not very many people can actually pay the full amount).</p>
<p>@awkwardbirdie918, that might be better actually, because if it was merit based… lol. On paper I might not be the best applicant (looking at marks and stuff).</p>
<p>I know! I really need a full scholarship So even if I get a place, if I don’t get a scholarship I’ll have to either fundraise or not go </p>
<p>@lalalarae, For languages, you might be able to self teach, but it’s more the issue of a seventh subject… My current school does IB and they said next year if I stayed there I could do French as a 7th subject (because Im fluent)without the lessons, but if it’s just as an additional language you want to continue, they might not agree because of the already really packed schedule :)</p>
It’s definitely important. But then again, if I got a place I think I would just adapt because it would probably be worth it!</p>
I grew up speaking English but when we went abroad I went to French school so just had to learn French… Arabic I picked up from living in Tunisia. Spanish is the only one I actually feel like I’ve ‘learnt’! But it’s great that you can pick languages up easily. All you have to do then is just keep them up by reading or speaking. :)</p>
UK is so lucky, getting to know if you are accepted so early.</p>
). I can speak French, but not well, I can talk a little bit German but I’m better at understanding it. I obviously also know English and I’m learning myself some Spanish. I hope I can go to the USA or Costa Rica so I can follow real Spanish lessons. I don’t really know if they teach it somewhere else?</p>
So even if I get a place, if I don’t get a scholarship I’ll have to either fundraise or not go