narrrrrr.
Initial warning, have been munching larathia's gift of chocolate liquor bottles (which are excellent, thank you!) and sipped two shots of bushmill's through a viewing of Ocean's Eleven, so my linguistic ability may not be completely up to par.
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. . mmmn, not quite? In many cases 'good' schools are having to demand better and better GPAs, better scores on entrance exams, to try to whittle down their enormous applicant pool. Yes, there's a lot of noise about how the standardized tests are being made simpler, but in practice most kinds of higher learning are having to become ever more demanding, because there are so very many students. Far, far more than any school could accomodate.
Which says something about how good the public school system is, in some senses. There really are that many people capable of working in the american university system.
Unfortunately, american politicians haven't quite worked out that there are that many people involved (not even counting the international students!), and so kids who don't learn as well through the public school system don't do as well on tests, and then the school's standing falls, so they get even less money . . .
There are some very nasty natural cycles in the school system.
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the majority of colleges in the states are relatively simple to get into. I mean, french schools require thenearly impossible french bac, UK schools require high GPAs and most require you to do the FULL IB diploma, which you may not be familiar with, but its a bitch.
i mean, getting into schools in the states is a comparative cakewalk to how the rest of europe is doing it. I mean, i studied hardly at all for SATs, i slacked off and im not sure how I did on my exams yet, and I STILL got into some amazing schools and the ones I didnt get into were either really big reaches or else really selective.
my point is, i guess, that from a broader viewpoint american schools offer the best variety, quality and experience than most other schools, and they are comparatively simple to get in to.
I suppose iw as exaggerating with easier and easier to get into, but its a pretty low baseline for the high end, non-ivy league schools.
cheers ~_^
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