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Post by neveralone on Sept 21, 2008 15:49:16 GMT -5
I'm still a senior in high school. Yay! Almost done with that part. Pilleriin, your choices of majors are pretty broad/popular. Many/most colleges in the US have at least one of the things you want to study. You won't be like me trying to find a college with Journalism and French majors (I'd love to spend a year in France!)! I live in a city where the cost of living is much cheaper than most of the other major cities in the country, and has somewhere near 30 colleges. I won't have to go far from home if I don't want to. I took the SAT last year (junior year is when they tell you to take them so you won't be freaking out about it senior year), but to get into the journalism program to one of the colleges I will be applying to my scores need to be 90 points higher, so I may be taking them again. You can find when to take when and when to register here: www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/calenfees.htmlI'm still not sure about what I'm going to do. I may be going to the community college to get some prerequisites over with, but I have Bethany College, Ohio University, and Point Park University on the list of places I'm definitely going to apply to, but that's subject to change.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2008 13:18:34 GMT -5
What is the difference between university and college? Because when translated into finnish they just use the same word. And on Gilmore girs Dean was applying to junior college, so what is that?
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Post by xororygilmorexo on Sept 23, 2008 16:16:46 GMT -5
I'm a sophmore in high school so I haven't hit too much stress yet but the classes I'm taking are pretty hard because I go to a school like Chilton, minus the uniforms and the hugeness.
But I'm 13, so it's definately weird. [/color]
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Post by Halie on Sept 23, 2008 19:59:36 GMT -5
What is the difference between university and college? Because when translated into finnish they just use the same word. And on Gilmore girs Dean was applying to junior college, so what is that? Americans like to use "college" and "university" interchangeably, but there is a difference. A college is smaller, for example a liberal arts college, and a university is much larger, and may be made up of many colleges that focus on certain things ("the college of medicine", "the college of arts and letters", etc.). A junior college is where someone, who may not have done well in high school, goes for about 2 years, taking classes and getting prerequisites out of the way. Then, they apply as a transfer to a regular 4-year college. Lots of people do this because it's cheaper, or because they had bad test scores/they never studied in high school. It's a great idea because it gives people a second chance -- they can still go to college even if they screwed up once. xororygilmorexo -- That's intense! Have you skipped grades? My school is not like Chilton (it's public and big) but it's pretty competitive and almost everyone takes lots of AP's. Kind of stressful.
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Post by Carma on Sept 24, 2008 8:39:19 GMT -5
I use college as in 'hogeschool'. The school system in Holland has 3 types of school after highschool, highschool contains of 3 big sections. Theres: MAVO (4 years), HAVO (5 years), VWO (6 years). It depends on how well you can study, MAVO not so good, VWO is for the smart ones, HAVO is in between. After highschool there's MBO which is practical, you can do graphic designs, cooking, administration (secretaries etc), something with plants, technical things and woodsmith kind of things. MBO is when you've done MAVO. After HAVO you can go to MBO or HBO (which I call college) and after VWO you can go to university. University is really about the theorie, and HBO is more about learning in practice. so a lot of people that have done VWO choose to do HBO after highschool, just because they feel they'll be better prepared for real life.
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Post by Bina on Sept 24, 2008 8:51:12 GMT -5
I go to university in Düsseldorf, I´m an English major and I´m starting my last year in october. But I want to do the master degree after that. University really is all theory!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2008 11:58:44 GMT -5
ok, thanks for the explanation!
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Post by xororygilmorexo on Sept 25, 2008 19:30:29 GMT -5
Yeahh :]
Yeah, I know what that's like. What AP's are you taking?
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Post by Halie on Sept 26, 2008 0:30:17 GMT -5
Yeahh :] Yeah, I know what that's like. What AP's are you taking? US History and French this year, European History last year, and World History, Gov and either Language or Lit next year. What about you?
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Post by xororygilmorexo on Oct 1, 2008 16:28:12 GMT -5
Yeahh :] Yeah, I know what that's like. What AP's are you taking? US History and French this year, European History last year, and World History, Gov and either Language or Lit next year. What about you? US History and Music Theory this year, and AP Euro and hopefully Calc next year.
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Post by Kristie on Nov 16, 2008 14:18:30 GMT -5
I am in my third year (a junior) of a four year plan to get my BS (Bachelor of Science) in AYA (Adolescent-Young Adult) Education-Integrated Social Studies. Basically I will be a junior or senior high social studies teacher. I can teach history, geography, government, pop culture, economics, sociology, etc.
I have to take a test called the Praxis II in April! It's for course content, so I have a lot of crap I need to remember. I can take it multiple times, but since it's about $150 to take, I don't want to take it more than once
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Post by Kristie on Nov 16, 2008 14:22:47 GMT -5
I'm still in high school so I don't know anything about colleges and universities. I wanted to say that Russian and Chinese are both really difficult languages. I've learned Russian for 3 years (Estonia is next to Russia, so it's good to now the language) and I'm basicly nowhere. Also I wanted to ask about the school system in USA, I was thinking about maybe someday apply to some US college (I want to study English, Literature or History), but I don't know anything about it. Is getting into a public college as hard as getting into some private school? Can foreign students even apply to a US college? Actually I have a lot more quetions, but I can't think of any right now. At least for my school, it is quite easy for foreign students to get in. They even get a discounted price. Public colleges have varying criteria for getting accepted, but it is not very hard--just expensive. Public colleges are beginning to cost more and more because more and more students are opting for online schools. You could probably get a college degree, Pilleriin, at a US college without having to leave Estonia! Private schools are harder to get into and much more expensive than public schools. But that might be easier for you, like with public schools, because you're a foreign student.
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Post by Halie on Nov 16, 2008 21:20:04 GMT -5
Private schools are harder to get into and much more expensive than public schools. Unless you want to go to a UC. Or UMich.
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Post by Paige on Nov 16, 2008 21:54:19 GMT -5
I'm about halfway through my third year of college. Hopefully I'll only have one more year after this as long as everything goes as planned. At the moment, I'm working toward a BSE (Bachelor of Science in Education) in English; but I'm having second thoughts. I'm not 100% sure I want to be a teacher, but I'm sure I'll go ahead and finish. I've really been considering being a copy editor or an acquisitions editor, but we'll see I guess...
My college is suppose to be one of the best teacher colleges in the nation, but I'm starting to think that's just for elementary education majors. I don't have to take very many education classes, and so far I feel very unprepared for my student teaching. I think they focus more on us knowing our content area than on how to actually teach it. It's kind of frustrating.
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Post by sylviaplath on Nov 16, 2008 23:22:04 GMT -5
Currently I'm a junior in high school. I go to a public school, but I'm in a magnet program -- so it basically has the feel of a private school during my classes. I'm taking 4 AP's this year (Latin, US History, English, and Chemistry) so my plate is pretty full. I've been looking at colleges for about a year now, and have pretty much settled on a biology major, possibly classics minor. I definitely want to go to a small, liberal-arts college, preferably in the New England area (for some reason this area of the United States seems so much more collegiate to me than any other, perhaps just because most of the schools I'm interested in are in this general area). After college I'm planning on going to medical school to become a surgeon, possibly neonatal. I'm glad it's only a year and a half away. I'm definitely ready to be out of high school.
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