Indeed, this truly is an incredibly long comment. But thanks for bothering to recount all of that, its good to hear a slightly different perspective :D
It's good to know that there are anons out there that will offer such unbiased advice, bothering to offer an opinion while they are not involved at all themselves... :P Really, its flattering. :D
I just wanted to say, first, thank you for explaining the system! I had absolutely no idea how that would work. Second, wow, what a *fantastic* idea. See, here, although *technically* colleges' admission offers are contingent upon 'successful' completion of 12th grade, an offer of admission is almost never, ever withdrawn unless a student were to fail a class (or several). There is almost no incentive for seniors (12th grade students/last year of high school before college) to maintain *high* grades, and there are no cumulative exams that they must score well on at the end measuring learning. The result is the almost-unavoidable "senioritis": they know where they're going next year and just 'mark time' until the year is up. No motivation. Even students who previously had all As or whatever (highest grades) are suddenly happy with 'good enough' Bs for a few months. It makes teaching seniors in the second semester rather dreadful.
Man, what I wouldn't give for their admission offers to *really* be contingent on continued
Re: TangentialaltogetherisiApril 23 2009, 16:56:07 UTC
Yeah, it is possible here for a uni to give you an unconditional offer, so if you put that as your firm your exam results no longer matter, but they are very rare. But no, its odd how in the US there is such a big deal made out of "graduating" high school even though the actual work tends to peter out. Whereas here the work gets harder, but living through it isn't exactly a big deal.
Also, in the US can't you apply to as many places as you want, but you have to pay? Mine cost, like, £7 for admin costs, I think. One of my friends just got into Princeton, so she's sorted. But, our exam scores can be translated into points; for Cardiff I need 280 points, I've already got 290 points before I even do my exams this year. So if I pick them it would put me in a similar situation. So can't really complain :D
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Man, what I wouldn't give for their admission offers to *really* be contingent on continued
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Also, in the US can't you apply to as many places as you want, but you have to pay? Mine cost, like, £7 for admin costs, I think. One of my friends just got into Princeton, so she's sorted. But, our exam scores can be translated into points; for Cardiff I need 280 points, I've already got 290 points before I even do my exams this year. So if I pick them it would put me in a similar situation. So can't really complain :D
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