兒子有個同學,也是個小中,聰明是很聰明,但平時念書不認真,常忘了交作業,寫 PAPER什麽的也不當回事兒,高中四年下來GPA 不怎麽高,估計因為上課稀鬆,老師對他印象也一般般,課外活動什麽的也乏陳可述。按美國大學申請的要求的主要幾項:ESSAY,GPA,推薦信,課外活動,他都不在前列。 可他有一條優勢,會考試, SAT考的很好,可在美國光SAT成績好也沒用。他父母估計急眼了,急中生智之下想到了歐洲的好大學,據說牛津劍橋的錄取隻看入學考試,和國內高考似的,加上參照SAT。他結果考英國的考試考的極好,一舉被牛津和劍橋雙雙錄取(好像是)。 在美國他也報考了一堆學校結果連伯克利都沒取,更別提藤校什麽的了。 這個經驗可以用於有類似背景,明年要報考的孩子,象 GPA什麽的已經無法補救了,但申請其它國家的好學校是條好的出路,尤其象牛津劍橋一類的,還是很值得的。
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College Attending | 2009 | | % | | 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 | | |
上麵是兒子學校今年的錄取詳情,學校的分組有我個人主觀因素,請大家參考著看 通過我的統計數字可以看出:隻要進了前百分之二十,肯定能進藤校一流大學,百分之
40%以上能進好大學加好的LAC,百分之八十以上的,所有好大學加UC都沒問題 ============================================================================ |