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【考上牛津的一点经验】

(2009-08-23 16:00:24) 下一个
 

儿子有个同学,也是个小中,聪明是很聪明,但平时念书不认真,常忘了交作业,写

PAPER什么的也不当回事儿,高中四年下来GPA 不怎么高,估计因为上课稀松,老师对他印象也一般般,课外活动什么的也乏陈可述。按美国大学申请的要求的主要几项:ESSAYGPA,推荐信,课外活动,他都不在前列。

可他有一条优势,会考试,

SAT考的很好,可在美国光SAT成绩好也没用。他父母估计急眼了,急中生智之下想到了欧洲的好大学,据说牛津剑桥的录取只看入学考试,和国内高考似的,加上参照SAT。他结果考英国的考试考的极好,一举被牛津和剑桥双双录取(好像是)

在美国他也报考了一堆学校结果连伯克利都没取,更别提藤校什么的了。

这个经验可以用于有类似背景,明年要报考的孩子,象

GPA什么的已经无法补救了,但申请其它国家的好学校是条好的出路,尤其牛津剑桥一类的,还是很值得的。

正所谓条条大路通罗马,甲之砒霜乙只蜜糖,美国不收自有英国收等等......



College Attending2009 %2006-2008 %
Harvard University             3 2%           14 3%
Princeton University             3 2%             5 1%
Yale University             3 2%             3 1%
Brown University             4 2%             5 1%
Columbia University             1 1%             5 1%
Cornell University             5 3%             8 2%
Dartmouth College             2 1%             2 0%
University of Pennsylvania             4 2%           22 5%
Total Ivy           25  15%           64  14%
Oxford University             1
California Institute of Technology             2 1%             7 2%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology             2 1%           15 3%
Stanford University             9 5%           15 3%
Total Top           13  8%           37  8%
Total Ivy+ Top           39  23%         101  22%
Amerst             2 1%            -   0%
Swarthmore College            -   0%             1 0%
Williams College            -   0%             2 0%
Wellesley College            -   0%             9 2%
Smith College            -   0%             2 0%
Claremont McKenna College            -   0%             1 0%
Harvy Mudd College             1 1%            -   0%
Pomona College             1 1%             1 0%
Prizer College             1 1%            -   0%
Scripps College             2 1%             2 0%
Bryn Mawr             1 1%0%
Occidental College             1 1%             1 0%
College of William and Mary            -   0%             1 0%
Pepperdine             1 1%            -   0%
Total LAC           10  6%           20  4%
Carnegie Mellon University             1 1%           15 3%
Johns Hopkins University             2 1%             4 1%
Duke University             2 1%             2 0%
Georgetown University             2 1%             3 1%
New York University             5 3%             7 2%
Northwestern University             1 1%             4 1%
University of Chicago             1 1%             8 2%
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign            -   0%             3 1%
University of Michigan            -   0%             1 0%
Washington University in St. Louis             4 2%             3 1%
Total Good           18  11%           50  11%
UC Berkeley           19 11%           46 10%
UC Los Angeles             1 1%           14 3%
UC Davis             1 1%           19 4%
UC Irvine             3 2%             8 2%
UC Merced            -   0%             1 0%
UC Riverside            -   0%             4 1%
UC San Diego             8 5%           26 6%
UC Santa Barbara             3 2%             7 2%
UC Santa Cruz             4 2%             5 1%
University of Southern California           26 16%           39 8%
Total UC +USC           65  39%         169  37%
Academy of Art University            -   0%             1 0%
Albion College            -   0%             1 0%
Bentley College             2 1%             2 0%
Boston College             1 1%             1 0%
Boston University             3 2%           16 3%
California College of the Arts            -   0%             1 0%
California Polytechnic State University             4 2%             5 1%
Case Western Reserve University             1 1%             1 0%
Colgate University            -   0%             2 0%
Connecticut College            -   0%             1 0%
Creighton University            -   0%             1 0%
De Anza College             2 1%            -   0%
Eckerd             1 1%            -   0%
Elon             1 1%            -   0%
Embry-Riddle             1 1%            -   0%
Emory University            -   0%             1 0%
FDU College at Florham, Madison, NJ            -   0%             1 0%
Illinois Institute of Technology            -   0%             1 0%
Lehigh University            -   0%             1 0%
Lewis & Clark College            -   0%             1 0%
Loyola Marymount             1 1%            -   0%
Mount Holyoke College             1 1%             2 0%
Northeastern University            -   0%             2 0%
Pacific Union College            -   0%             2 0%
Pennsylvania State University            -   0%             1 0%
Purdue University            -   0%             1 0%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute             3 2%             1 0%
Rice University             1 1%             2 0%
Saint Louis University            -   0%             2 0%
Saint Mary's College of California             1 1%             1 0%
San Francisco State University             1 1%             1 0%
San Jose State University             1 1%             6 1%
Santa Clara University             3 2%           16 3%
Sarah Lawrence College            -   0%             1 0%
School of the Arti Institue of Chicago             1 1%            -   0%
Seattle University            -   0%             2 0%
Sewanee, the University of South             1 1%            -   0%
Sonoma State University            -   0%             2 0%
Southern Methodist University            -   0%             3 1%
The Citadel, the Military College of SC             -   0%             1 0%
The George Washington University             2 1%             3 1%
The University of Texas, Austin            -   0%             1 0%
Tufts University             1 1%             4 1%
Tulane University            -   0%             1 0%
Univ. of Zurich            -   0%             1 0%
University of British Columbia            -   0%             1 0%
University of Connecticut            -   0%             1 0%
University of Portland            -   0%             1 0%
University of Redlands            -   0%             4 1%
University of Rochester            -   0%             4 1%
University of San Diego            -   0%             1 0%
University of San Francisco            -   0%             2 0%
University of the Pacific            -   0%             1 0%
University of Washington            -   0%             1 0%
University of Wisconsin, Madison            -   0%             1 0%
Vassar College            -   0%             4 1%
Villanova             1 1%            -   0%
West Valley College            -   0%             1 0%
Whitman College            -   0%             1 0%
Willamette University            -   0%             1 0%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute            -   0%             2 0%
Total All Others           34  20%         119  26%
Total:         166          459

上面是儿子学校今年的录取详情,学校的分组有我个人主观因素,请大家参考着看

通过我的统计数字可以看出:只要进了前百分之二十,肯定能进藤校一流大学,百分之

40%以上能进好大学加好的LAC,百分之八十以上的,所有好大学加UC都没问题

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淑女司令 回复 悄悄话 thank you everyone for stopping by, have a nice weekend
伊然. 回复 悄悄话 Which school is that? A private school?
LingYuan 回复 悄悄话 看来应该说:路是人想出来的.
很好的经验.值得记住.
later_yh 回复 悄悄话 I am sorry to say that each candidate only allows to apply for one of Oxbridge, either Oxford or Cambridge, NOT both.
chaya 回复 悄悄话 Fees and living cost will be much higher?
歪歪歪 回复 悄悄话 very good info, it sounds like your son goes to Harker?
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