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My friend Flor, the 4.4 GPA friend, has turned down Harvard, Oxford, and for what may I ask??!!! For St. John's???????!!!!!! Please hatrackers, help her see reality.
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you can get an extra point averaged in for an Advanced Placement class, (and here, a half point for honors classes). My school just did this my senior year, so it didn't help my class much.
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She doesn't really. I think she's maing her decisions more on what others think and not what she wants.
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I mean, seriously, who DOESN'T want in on Harvard or Oxford? She used to talk so much about Oxford and ho much she wanted to go. She thinks its cool because she has always wanted to go to England. Its not just that though.
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Iāve heard of this above a 4.0 thing before. Something with A+ I guess is the usual trend. That way when you have so many with a perfect 4.0 they can average in to get the winner. Sort of a tie breaker. Whatās wrong with St. Johnās? Itās a Big East school. So youāll get some great basketball games. A good education. And maybe itās just where she wants to go. I know I only applied for West Virginia University. I grew up working the home football games and wanted to be part of it all. Sure a degree from Harvard or Oxford would get you a great job easier, but the same degree and GPA from St. Johns wonāt be all that far behind. And after your first job they donāt look at that but so much. Plus itās more important for her to do what she thinks will make her happy. Better to be happy at St. Johnās then miserable at Harvard.
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Flor has always wanted to go t Oxford. I understand why she may be turning it down, but I do not understand why she would want to go to St. Johns instead.
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If she doesn't think she'll be happy, chances are she won't be happy. I probably wouldn't accept Harvard but I would accept Oxford .
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I dont think theres anything wrong with St. Johns, but I do think that Oxford would make her happier. She gets all exctatic when I put up my british accent act, Imagine how happy she would feel to be around all those "real english" persons. Heck, she even writes "colour" instead of "color" and says "shall" instead of "will"...
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Maybe she thinks sheād be happier being a road scholar instead of a regular student there. Best of both worlds!
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She's planning on attending a whole bunch of Universities. Even Cambrige, I just hope she gets accepted.......or not. If she isn't, Princeton Rejected her(bastards!) and so did berkley. If she is rejected, then she will go to oxford then.
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So now you're talking about Monty Python? Anyway, I still can't believe she's not going for Oxford.
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yea, oxford all the way, at any rate I think the best plotty monty python movie (of the two) is Life of Brian
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Oxford? Bahhhhā¦. Who wouldnāt want to go to West Virginia University.
Where greatness is learned and couches are burned. Not to mention the #1 party school multiple years. One year they didnāt rank WVU with the others because they said they donāt put professionals in with amateurs. Cool. And the sports are getting better all the time.
Oh yeah, the academics arenāt bad either.
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St. John's looks so cool...I'd've gone to St. John's if the money had been there.
Jen
(But not over Oxford.) (Also, after having read Expecting Adam, I would never, never, never go to Harvard.)
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There may be some reasons for her decision that she's not telling you...
I didn't even apply to Ivy League schools, 'cause I knew I couldn't afford them, and my stepmother made sure I knew that I wouldn't be getting any financial help. So I'm at DePauw, but with a full ride. Iām happy.
Besides, if youāre planning to go to grad school, where you go for undergrad doesnāt matter very muchā¦
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Fyfe, thank you for letting me know my sociology 101 class a few years ago wasn't the only group of people on Earth to have read Expecting Adam. I fell in love with that book and have been trying to both find other people who have read it and get other people who haven't to give it a try. My day just got infinitely better. Posts: 378 | Registered: Aug 2004
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Alt--The woman in Expecting Adam (incidentally one of the best books I have ever read--everyone should read it!) went to Harvard, and she was constantly trying to be smart enough, and she always felt inadequate, and she faked knowledge of things she didn't know about, which apparently everyone there does. It just sounded like not very much fun. I'd rather go to Oxford. At least Oxford has the advantage of Oscar Wilde having gone there.
quote:I mean, seriously, who DOESN'T want in on Harvard or Oxford?
After my husband visited the campus of Harvard, he withdrew his application. (He didn't like their chemistry labs.)
Harvard is great for the prestige, and it is a good school, great location. One of the disadvantages of Harvard, compared to other Ivies, is that a lot of the undergraduate classes are taught by TA's.
Nothing wrong with St. John's if that's where she thinks she'll be happy.
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We have reached a compromise. She hadn't been able to go to an interview for Oxford becaue it was in NYC, so now that she will be attending St. John's, it will be easier for her to go to the interview this time, she wants to transfer after her freshmen year to Oxford.
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