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Short version:
Open University or other university?
Long version:
- Hello. Name is Andrew, I'm 19 years old I was born in Bucharest, Romania. I have a strong interest in Physics (I know, you were taken by surprise :p).
- I'm in my last year of high-school (12), here, I study Romanian, History, Geography and the like, and some theology.
- I did a little bit of Physics and Math, and I got about 9 out of ten. At least I think i did :). The rest of my grades are evenly spread from 5-10 (scale is 1 to 10, and 4 is fail and 5 is pass), and I have no interesting extracurricular - except, maybe, for the fact that I play in our Church's brass band (I don't get why people think it's ironical :P).
- The standardized test for college admissions in Romania is the Romanian bacalaureat. I would have to take tests for Romanian, History and Geography, which I... more or less abhor. Even if I pass the tests (they are quite difficult) I would get... disappointing grades. With that said, I would like to study at an university with good tutoring (there's no point in asking for prestige :D), after all, if I don't meet good teachers, aren't I better off studying by my self (I seem to be pretty good at it)?
- Out of the other, college admission tests, I noticed that I can take the SAT test, which looks really easy. Of course, if I got accepted to a university I would have to wait for about a year (right?). That would give me ample time to prepare, but I would miss that year (not being enrolled). And if I wouldn't get accepted in a decent university, I would've wasted a year. Even worst :D, what if I get accepted into a university and it turns out to just suck all the excitement out of physics. (I've seen it done. It's possible :) )
- The alternative would be to enroll at the Open University. I saw a cute course (the one with the rainbow. It wasn't really informative, but I liked it :) from OU and I think it would be enjoyable to learn from courses what are as well structured and designed at that was. (I'm only worried that there might be disadvantages to distance learning. I want to do research, don't I need experience to get accepted in a research program for a PhD?)) (I just noticed that I nested the parentheses :). I guess I'm better off writing code than plain English :) )
So, to sum up the long version :D.
I have an unimpressive "academic" record (I got plenty of excuses for that, but does anyone really care.. :) ) and I can't write an essay (yes, I know you know that). Would it be a risk to take a gap year and submit applications to universities (which?), or should I go for OU?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Hase_mit_Ostereiern_%282%29.jpg" thinks that helping me would would be awesome :)
Sorry: for the English up there ^, that my writing is hard to follow, that I only skimmed the forum rules
Open University or other university?
Long version:
- Hello. Name is Andrew, I'm 19 years old I was born in Bucharest, Romania. I have a strong interest in Physics (I know, you were taken by surprise :p).
- I'm in my last year of high-school (12), here, I study Romanian, History, Geography and the like, and some theology.
- I did a little bit of Physics and Math, and I got about 9 out of ten. At least I think i did :). The rest of my grades are evenly spread from 5-10 (scale is 1 to 10, and 4 is fail and 5 is pass), and I have no interesting extracurricular - except, maybe, for the fact that I play in our Church's brass band (I don't get why people think it's ironical :P).
- The standardized test for college admissions in Romania is the Romanian bacalaureat. I would have to take tests for Romanian, History and Geography, which I... more or less abhor. Even if I pass the tests (they are quite difficult) I would get... disappointing grades. With that said, I would like to study at an university with good tutoring (there's no point in asking for prestige :D), after all, if I don't meet good teachers, aren't I better off studying by my self (I seem to be pretty good at it)?
- Out of the other, college admission tests, I noticed that I can take the SAT test, which looks really easy. Of course, if I got accepted to a university I would have to wait for about a year (right?). That would give me ample time to prepare, but I would miss that year (not being enrolled). And if I wouldn't get accepted in a decent university, I would've wasted a year. Even worst :D, what if I get accepted into a university and it turns out to just suck all the excitement out of physics. (I've seen it done. It's possible :) )
- The alternative would be to enroll at the Open University. I saw a cute course (the one with the rainbow. It wasn't really informative, but I liked it :) from OU and I think it would be enjoyable to learn from courses what are as well structured and designed at that was. (I'm only worried that there might be disadvantages to distance learning. I want to do research, don't I need experience to get accepted in a research program for a PhD?)) (I just noticed that I nested the parentheses :). I guess I'm better off writing code than plain English :) )
So, to sum up the long version :D.
I have an unimpressive "academic" record (I got plenty of excuses for that, but does anyone really care.. :) ) and I can't write an essay (yes, I know you know that). Would it be a risk to take a gap year and submit applications to universities (which?), or should I go for OU?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Hase_mit_Ostereiern_%282%29.jpg" thinks that helping me would would be awesome :)
Sorry: for the English up there ^, that my writing is hard to follow, that I only skimmed the forum rules
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