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We have a thread for law and medicine, but we don't really have a thread for people who want to study engineering in university. In order to keep the majority of the posts about engineering mostly in the same place so that people can find them more easily, I've created this thread to help people out. I'm a second year student in chemical engineering and can help with pretty much any kind of general engineering questions you might have, whether it's what courses to take in the IB, general procedures for applying to universities for engineering, or what to expect in an engineering program once you're there. If you have a school-specific question, such as applying to MIT or …
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Hello to all future Law students, I've been on the forum for a while and I've seen that there are quite a few of you who plan on studying/want to study Law at University. I'm currently a second-year Law student at LSE in the UK and I like to think I have a pretty good idea of what studying Law is about at University and a career beyond. I figured I'd start a thread where all of us can come together and talk about Law, what it actually means to study it, what it's about, what you can expect beyond a vague idea of it being challenging, and such. I'm not saying that I will have all the answers, but I will endeavour to answer as many questions as I can. I'm sure there must be…
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Good day everyone, Now many people face problems once reaching their senior year. Their whole tiime is occupied by IB work, despite the fact that there are other exams to worry about. Time management is not the major topic here, it's the admission tests. Many have probably heard of the common ones (such as the SATs, BMATs..). Anyway, you will find a list of the most important admission tests in many countries and for different majors. Any additional help is greatly appreciated. Menu SAT TOEFL IELTS BMAT UKCAT UMAT GMAT LSAT 1. SATs (Language proficiency and Mathematics) The SAT Reasoning Test is a measure of the critical thinking skills you'…
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I know what a horror it is trying to figure out Uni stuff, general ranks, course ranks.. blah blah blah so I'm putting up this helpful thread with all the useful links I can find about above said topic. World Rankings World Top Universities 2010 Top Universities 2007 PDF World_Best_Unis.pdf Top Universities 2006 PDF THES_worldrankings2006.pdf UK Rankings Times' Good University Guide (UK Universities, 2010) Times Good General Ranking Table (2010), as well as subject ranking (insert the course's name which you want to see the ranking for in the appropriate space provided and just click on search) Guardian Guide (2009) (UK Universities). This is a pretty simple …
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Where and how well is the IB Diploma recognised across the globeIB University recognition information (November 2009).pdf Canadian Universities' IB Recognition policiesCanadian University IB Recognition Policies.pdf
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There are a lot of people who, even in their second year of IB, are directionless in terms of university applications. This post will aim to give you an insight into applying to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom and the United States. Australia Canada Finland New Zealand Singapore United Kingdom United States Standardised tests English Language tests This is a community project, and if anybody has anything to add please feel free to. The section on Canada is particularly lacking since I don't know a lot about studying there and since we do have a lot of Canadian members (or a Canadian invasion rather), someone could oblige in filling it up? Maybe e…
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Finland Why on earth would I apply to Finland? The reason, in a nutshell, is that higher education is completely free of charge to everyone - no matter whether you're Finnish, Dutch or South African. How to apply to, and choose, a university The number of English language undergraduate courses is limited, so you won't have too much choice. All universities offer MSc/MA courses in English, but since this site is concentrated on students who are moving from high school to university, I'll concentrate on that. Basically the only university offering undergraduate courses in English is the Helsinki School of Economics (Aalto University from 1.1.2010). HSE is considered the be…
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Menu Aim of the personal statement Brainstorming and planning Writing the personal statement Small tips to remember and keep in mind Things to NOT put into and avoid in your personal statement Links to sample personal statements Bio-Aqua's Personal Statement Outline Sample statements from IBSurvival members Aim of the personal statement Because not all universities interview their students, the personal statement is a way for you to let the university know more about yourself, other than just what the application form requires - the mudane information such as your grades, etc. If you are applying to a popular university course, and everyone applying is likely to have goo…
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Hello everyone, I was planning on going to Uni in Germany, and in order to do that, IB students have to go to a "Zeugnisanerkennungsstelle" to get their Diploma accepted. My own diploma is not getting accepted because I took an online course (economics SL), and my sister's diploma is not getting accepted because she is taking self-taught German A, as they don't offer German A at our school. This is frustrating, and T just want to make everyone aware that you cannot study in Germany if you take a self-taught course or an online course
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Summary of Acceptances: Aboo University of York Accounting, Business Finance and Management (NN42) 32 points University of St Andrews Financial Economics 34 points University of Bristol Accounting and Finance 34 points, 666 in HL and 6 in English A1 SL chem_kid Chemical Engineering University of Calgary Aboud Queen Mary Medical Engineering MEng 32 points, 66 Maths and Physics and B in A-level Maths University of Reading Biomedical Engineering and Cybernetics BSc 29 points, 7 Maths 6 Physics University of Hull Mechanical and Medical Engineering BEng 24 points and C in A-level Maths Sheffield Biomedical Engineering 31 points, B in A-Level Maths LaurahearsLife Univ…
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I want to go to either University of Toronto or Waterloo Both in Canada.
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Since we want to keep the other thread clean, I guess we can discuss the university offers in this thread? I was just wondering what are typical offers from Warwick and UCL for economics/management?
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Good day everyone, Thought that a thread like this might help around here, taking into consideration the large amounts of IB students around here looking forward to med school. In this thread, you can discuss, ask questions and/or share opinions about application procedures, personal statements and anything regarding going to med school - from the IB of course... Well then, enjoy!! (This post is copied from the same thread on TSR, just to highlight a few things). The Pre-med System (American and some Canadian Universities) Pre-med (as in four year undergraduate study) means that you have to accomplish three things: - You have to have a Bachelor (BS) degree in any fiel…
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So future IB students, or people who are just crazy to hang around *cough* Elsa, Hien, *Graeme *cough*, what are your Uni plans? Or where are you accepted and attending? Right now, it's the Uni of Auckland. My plans are always perceptible to change though, so I dunno if that will, but maybe to Aussie land then. I need 26 points to enter surprisingly, but that's the minimum.
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I plan on majoring in petroleum engineering.
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I plan to major in Meteorology when I go to college. It's always been a lifelong dream for me to be a meteorologist. If that plan fails, I'm going to major in Accounting, then Law School lol. Edit: Sorry about the typo in the title.
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Hello, after looking around, I decided to post my question since I couldn't find any relevant posts. I'm wanting to do my undergraduate studies in psychology in either the USA or Australia. I've lived in America for 11 years, but since Australia seems much cheaper, I'm also interested in it. My question is: does anyone know differences in the undergrad studies in these countries? If I complete the B.A. in either, does the accreditation transfer between the two countries? I am also wanting to do graduate psychology studies after a 3 or 4 year Bachelor's degree... any opinions on where to do this? I figured that if I completed my B.A. in Australia and then moved to the US…
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Hello I first want to introduce myself since this is my first post on this forum. I am a IB student in Italy and next year I going to be a senior and i am going to take all of my IB exams (ouch), I have HL- English A1, Italian B, History and SL- Biology, Math SL, and Spanish. Ok now that that's done I just want to share my thoughts about the competition to enter the world's best universities. Well first we need to see the admission policy of these schools and here is where the problems begin. Lets say you are a average white American in a IB school and you want to get into Harvard. This is what happens: (Just for the sake of simplicity lets say they Harvard only gets 100 …
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Hi. My name is Nikita Arora and I live in Ontario. For my personal project, I am convincing universities from Ontario to give preferences to IBs. If you are in IB, which presuming that you are on this website, you should be =), please take the time to fill this survey out: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB229FLNUSRY6 Thank you.
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Hey everyone! Well, the reason why I created this topic is because its been a question that I've had for a while and I can't really find an answer to it! So, here's my question; Do I have to be good in chemistry or even like chemistry to study and do well in medicine? Of course, biology is a given, but does chemistry play a large role in medicinal studies? Thanks!
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Just curious to know if there is anyone who does not have aspirations to go to university. People so often ask 'which university are you going to?' rather than 'do you want to go to university?' ... just wondered if people have other paths in mind - further courses at college, travelling, apprenticeship. interested to know
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for universities, how important are my school grades? is it possible to go to a good uni with average school grades and good IB grades??
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Moderator notice: Please refrain from chatting and commenting in this thread. Let's try to keep the thread nice and clean so that it'll be easy for people to get an overview of what kinds of offers people have received. Thanks! The thread for all us IBSers who have gotten offers to study in 2009. Post your offer with: the conditions, the predicted grades and the SAT scores (if you're applying to the US) you used to get an offer. I ask the PGs because students for 2010 can get a feel for their unis and see what unis require of them. If you haven't yet received your offers, you can post where you've applied and edit the post as the offers start rollin' in. -deissi Predicted…
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Anyone get uni offers yet from UK, US, etc? Since people are hesitant to post without other people posting theirs first, I may as well put my college list SAT I: CR 690, M 670, W 710 SAT II: Maths II 760, Biology M 750 IB Predicted: 43/45 Applied to: University of Pennsylvania Cornell University Johns Hopkins University Duke University Northwestern University University of Chicago Brandeis University University of British Columbia National University of Singapore If anyone feels like chancing me, please do.
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Because every student forum has this thread Below is a quote from the 2009 thread, so we can follow the same rules:
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As all the IB kids only talk about UK and US for universities and generally have little knowledge on what is outside those two country's. I am asking people to contribute with universities known for having good ENGLISH based education. Most IB kids focus on either going to UK/US or their own country, which often has cources in their native language. So I started this topic to invite people to share their knowledge about universities where you can study in english, both bachelor and master (in many country's there seem to be more master cources in english then bachelor) So i just start with some universities i know, and the cources. Prague, Tjeckien - Medicin, they offer m…
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Hi, So, I live in the United States and I would like to go to a university in the EU (preferably England, Greece, or Cyprus), and I was browsing through some colleges websites. When I was looking at Cambridge's website (I won't get in, but it looks like fun ) some of the requirements were things I had never heard of. Plus I saw this: "Offers are regularly made on the International Baccalaureate, at a level of between 7,6,6 and 7,7,7 in the Higher Level subjects, with overall scores between 38 and 42 points out of 45 . For matriculation purposes, grade 5 or above in the Standard Level of the IB is considered equivalent to GCSE grades A, B or C and grade 5 or above at …
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In lieu of recent events, I have decided to look for Universities out of the S*** hole that is the US,so Canadian and Aussie Unis. What are the best, which are the mediocre, and which should I just avoid. When I start applying I will most likely have a 3.2 unweighted GPA.
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Hey all, I'm really new to the forum but I've been looking about. Here's some background info before I get started: - 16, currently dying in IB year 1 (for courses see my signature) - In Canada, taking SAT-Prep on the side in case I wish to go to the states. - I have connections at a few Ivy League schools if that helps (Family members who are proffs at Brown and Harvard) - I have NOT taken any Physics courses - Marks are either 6s or 7s so far, I have so far always scored over 85%...except in Grade 10...terrible marks last year....so bad I do not wish to discuss them :'( Here's some Universities I have in mind (just a rough idea...I've only done basic research): UK: - Ca…
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From what I currently know, I will go get a job and recharge for a year. 'll just have to hope that I'll still enjoy learning new things once the year is over. So, what about you? All of you seem very determined to just get it all overwith. Understand that.
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Hey, I'm new to this forum so I hope this is the right way to ask questions :/ I'm a 14 year old 8th grader, i've been taking math with 11th and 12th graders for a while now and i just finished the Hl math course, did the exams and got a 6. My question is: If I send a certificate with the grade on it and proof that I'm only 14 turning 15 to MIT, could i get a full scholarship (or any sort of scholarship) to go to MIT after i finish school (perhaps only as long as i get a diploma)? Thanks in advance,
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If so, what university, what grade combination (IB/SAT/ACT/SAT2/TOEFL), what offer, what ECAs?
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Hi guys... I searched IB survival for such a topic but couldnt find it. So I wanted to know from people who are in university and finished IB whether its easier. Or does it depend on university and course... I plan on taking economics. Is it easier? Thanks.
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I am hoping to get accepted to Harvard as for the medical undergradute programme. Does anybody know anythign about - What grades are necessary? - Other required qualifications? - The chances of acceptance for a foreign student? - The significance of a year spent doing something else after IB? - How the admissions are determined? Thanks!
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A little bit of background: I'm an African-American with parents that have a pretty good income, I go to Rufus King IB School which is the best public school in Wisconsin (214th in the US), and I'm a junior. In September 2006, my dad was called up to go to Iraq for 2 and a half years. Although it isn't really a valid excuse and shouldn't have had so much effect on me, this pretty much marked the point where I became very unmotivated, lazy, and pessimistic. I sometimes skipped school completely and once got a truancy notice. I got a 2.239 accum over those two years. The mark period that my dad returned (March of 2008) I got a 3.0, which still wasn't my best. Fast-forward t…
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I want to study medicine, and still looking for unis, it's so complicated, I'm already the last year student, is there any possibility to get to medicine in any uni in the world without any admission tests, only good grade. I would like to point out that it is not possible for me to apply UK university, because I don't belong to UE resident, and most of schools only accept 5-10 International students, moreover, most of them need UKCAT and BMAT, thirdly, for international students the annual fee is between £19,000-32,000 O_o, apparently is too much. Furthermore, I would exclude US, since I will have to take SAT. I would really appreciate any help, because I'm really in t…
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Jus like the topic description says. Is UK more expensive. Not only the fees but also the living costs. Many people tell me that UK is more expensive but I want to know what you guys think. And I also heard UK does not hand out alot of financial aid for international students. Could anyone please give feedback on this. Thank you
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Heya guys I want to do psychology but i'm not sure if it's in the Arts and science section or just the Social science section :/ lol but i want to either be a child psychologist or work for the elderly. I initially wanted to become a vet but i was denied the chance so i have to stick with psychology. The reason is because i love children so much but then again i want to help the elderly because i feel that i didn't take care of my dad when he was still here and so i want to help other elderly people. I'm hoping that that may give me the closure i need. Also because, i like elderly people too lol, they're fun and intriguing Anyways, I thought it would be interesting to…
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Hi all, I'm in the middle of IB and I'll be graduating in May 2009. Right now I have a 4.17 GPA with very decent grades overall. However, I don't take classes that are too difficult: Highers: History, English A2, Dutch A1 , Spanish B Stanards: Environmental Systems, Math studies. I've done AP Spanish Langauge (got a 4/5), AP US History (3/5) and AP Environmental Science (2/5). As you can see I'm not the best in math and science, luckily I have no interest in studying that. One of the colleges I'm looking at (and am interested in) is UCB (University College Dublin). This is its ranking. Is this college right for me? I find it hard to determine which colleges are …
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Hi, I want to apply for medicine in Sweden and I am very interested as to know how exactly. I want to apply to Uppsala, Lund and Karolinska Institutet (First choice). I have checked the KI website and studera.nu but I can't seem to find the ib requirements for the course. Can some Swedish person please help me. I'd be truly grateful. BTW I'm Swedish so I have no problems speaking Swedish.
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I see a lot of people panicking over tuition fees for high status universities, but I don't see why! Most IB students are going into sciences and business. The job market for an Ivy League or Oxbridge graduate is probably decent and besides scholarships, there are various loans that can be paid back a long time after graduation. There's government loans, bank loans and all sorts of international scholarships given to the few admitted to Ivy Leagues and Oxbridge. So why is everybody so worried? My parents clearly don't have the money to pay 200k for an undergrad at an Ivy League, but I still will go if accepted because there are various loans and scholarships that I can ge…
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I talk with my IB coordinator and she told me that when they submitt the UCAS application they are going to log in my predicted grades but.... I can not know them?!? Then how am I suppose to know to which universities to apply... If i think that I'm getting a 38 and I apply to LSE and me coordinator submitts a 37 predicted grade, then I won't be considered. And the worst part is that I can only apply to 5 univs...I want to apply to univs I know are going to consider me this is not fair... Is the IB forbidding teachers to show students their predicted grades? I'm going to be an international student...don't i get special consideration...to apply to more than 5 univs? thank…
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So I am begging to apply for college, and one fo the weak schools I would say, offered me a lot of credits for my HL courses once I receive my Diploma. For those Florida students and those who know, its USF Very weak. I was offered a starting point of Biology and Chemistry II, for medicine, skipping the freshman year. Then, since they are both HL courses, I was offered additional credit and with persistent marks I would be skipped to Bio and Chem III (scores needed to be 6 or 7). Not interested at all in the school, I would call it a waste of time :/ However, it did spark more interest. In other schools I was looking into, the credits gave me simply skipping freshma…
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I'm planning on doing Philosophy at Harvard or Law at Oxford. I have no idea which to pick and I'm divided between the two. My ultimate aim is to become a practising lawyer in the UK, so I thought Oxford Law ftw! but then I spoke to a lot of people in the UK legal profession, including a recruitment representative from a top top law firm, and they were all like, "It doesn't matter..." Oxford is Oxford but Harvard is also Harvard. So now I am totessssss confused. Tbh, I can see myself being super duper happy at either of them, so I thought... ...If given the choice, what would you choose? And why?
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I am senior 2 student studying IBDP. Most of my classmates have the idea of studying in america. it said that UNIVERSITY and COLLEGE are quite different. I would like to know which one is better~ Tell me your opinions.
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hey guys, as you know, one of the primary factor that will affect your future tremendously is your choice on college. so tell me, what college do you want to attend and why. do you prefer private or public? far away from home or vise versa? personally, i would like to attend a private college that is close to home. since i want to be a psychiatrist, the college that i would like to go offers a very good medical program but it is very expensive. what about you? thanks a lot.
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I am a Chinese person, but have only studied Chinese for 2 years. I am now in IB1, doing Chinese B SL. I am getting great marks. But the problem is that my chinese teacher went to a workshop, and there she learned that another Chinese with similar conditions like me (studied Chinese for a limited number of years) was rejected from Columbia (even when he had amazing scores) because they said "You are Chinese yet you study Chinese B" Now I am extremely afraid. I don't want to be rejected by good universities, but if I take A2 SL, I will definitely have a hard time getting even a 4. What should I do? Thanks
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I applied to American universities because I wanted to go to a fancy school, because everyone else at my school is going to a fancy school. Early acceptances off the top of my head: harvard, yale, darmouth, MIT, cornell. that being realized and said, what's sinking in is that I honestly don't care for most of the schools I plan to apply to. though i visited a bunch of schools, the only two I really really really liked and feel like I would fit in well at are Brown and uChicago. If i can't get into them, I'd be quite happy going to Uof Toronto here at home, which I know I will be accepted into. it's not like my undergrad institution will define my life. so the question …
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Okay, after looking around some universities in the States and Canada, credits for a specific score HL subjects are really common. However, do you think it's a good idea to accept it or just start all over again? Considering English is not my native language and I've studied English for only 5 years frankly...
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