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Darland High School,
Wrexham, Wales

Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA

FIU, the largest Hispanic college in the US, but im still a white non-Spanish speaking Jew *shrug*

I am no longer in school

But I did have the time of my life (ok. one of the times of my life then.... ) studying at University in the 4th biggest town of Holland (Utrecht) with the largest university of this miniature country. Later I went on at Amsterdam University, and finally got my degree in Utrecht again.

Mind you, even the biggest and most well-known of our cities - Amsterdam- does not even have > 1 million inhabitants, including students......but the 4 largest towns here are so close together (each within a 30 minutes distance of each other) that together they do form one big area...

Turn that frown upside-down!

Turn that frown upside-down!

(let's discuss it again over 10 years from now, and let me know how you think about it by then...... )

Right now,

Lampang College of Commerce and Technology
Lampang, Thailand

Next Year

Mahidol University International College
Bangkok, Thailand

Cypress High School
Cypress, CA

Hey thats actually pretty close to my school. I go to Valencia High School in Placentia. I remember on Freshman Baseball your team beat us all three times.

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

Haukilahti High School

Finland, Espoo

Sorry for going off topic, but those who live in CA, how hard is it to get in to Stanford. One of the options if I get really lucky (money and other stuff needed). Just curious..

Daniel Wright Junior High

Sorry for going off topic, but those who live in CA, how hard is it to get in to Stanford. One of the options if I get really lucky (money and other stuff needed). Just curious..

Stanford is extremely hard to get into. I live 2 minutes from the place and have experienced firsthand the massive rat-race to be accepted there. For starters, you must be at or very near the top of your class, have excellent standardized testing scores, and do at least a few significant extracurricular activities a year. If you come from a rich family the importance of those things diminishes a bit. Many of my high school classmates got an easy ride into Stanford that way; one has a building named after her family. It will get even harder in the future - there has been growing cynicism about the East Coast Ivy League schools but it has not fixated on Stanford, so Stanford is now apparently like the default great school to apply to.

A couple of random things: you coming from a foreign country may play to your advantage a bit; of the 6 students from my high school admitted Early Action to Stanford, none did not have at least one parent that had gone there, which shows how fucked up the admission process can be in addition to money having such weight; I applied there as a transfer this year and although transferring is a lot harder, Stanford took 20 out of 1,400 students, which was insane.

My friends at Stanford seem to enjoy it a lot, however. If you are interested in California universities I would also look at USC or UCLA, particularly USC if you're interested in engineering, cinema, music, or art, which are better there than at Stanford (not sure about engineering); UCLA is pretty good all around from what I can tell.

As for me: last year, USC; starting this fall, University of Chicago.

Thank you, but seeing as science interests me the most, Stanford would be the "best" option. I guess.. Requires still a lot of hard work.

Edited by w33maniac, 13 June 2007 - 07:07 AM.

If you are interested in science I would check out Caltech and Harvey Mudd both of which have great reputations in the science/engineering field.

chapelz, whatcha studyin?

International education school (high-school), McMasterVille, Quebec.

VIVE LE QUÉBEC UNI!

Physics for now. Eventually Architecture, I think.

Armstrong Atlantic State University
Savannah, Georgia

University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Computer Engineering