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Post by soufflé on Aug 31, 2015 14:18:31 GMT -5
For reals though, sophie are you coming to the St andrews open day? They have one coming up...? Nah I'm probably only going to visit if I get in because time/money
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Post by B. on Aug 31, 2015 15:17:21 GMT -5
For reals though, sophie are you coming to the St andrews open day? They have one coming up...? Nah I'm probably only going to visit if I get in because time/money Tbh if you are applying places like Harvard and Yale you should have no problem getting into St Andrews. Let me know when you do and maybe we can work something out
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Post by Esmé's meme is meh on Aug 31, 2015 16:11:51 GMT -5
It scares me all the applying for a university thing. Luckily here you only have to go to the university you like once you finish high school and tell the lady there "hi I wanna attend to your university" and register and that's it. And it's free. And generally it's pretty good. What happens if a million people turn up at the same university? If it's a public, national university, it's the State duty to make a bigger building or to get a new one so everyone can study there. Anyway, here is very rare for people to move to another city just to attend a particular university, since every city has at least a public university and at least three or four private ones, so even when sometimes you have to attend to crowded classes there's always enough space. University prestige is not a thing here luckily, and public and free universities are in general way better and more exigent than the private and expensive ones. Some universities have an exam or a whole year of general subjects you have to take and approve in order to get to what you wanna study, but is not usual/too restrictive.
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Post by penne on Aug 31, 2015 16:29:39 GMT -5
What happens if a million people turn up at the same university? If it's a public, national university, it's the State duty to make a bigger building or to get a new one so everyone can study there. basically where brazil failed. we have some excellent public universities as well, but when the issue hermes mentioned was encountered, instead of investing in education and creating more great unis, our government decided to create ridiculously difficult exams to limit admissions. it's bullsalsa and really potato ing stressful, as a student.
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Post by Hermes on Sept 1, 2015 11:36:51 GMT -5
What happens if a million people turn up at the same university? If it's a public, national university, it's the State duty to make a bigger building or to get a new one so everyone can study there. It's not just buildings, though; it would have an impact on teaching. I wouldn't be able to give my students the attention they deserve if there were a million of them. Ah, OK. Here going away to university is a big thing - less so perhaps, as students become poorer, but still, the idea that that's when one learns independent living has a powerful hold.
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Post by Esmé's meme is meh on Sept 1, 2015 12:41:15 GMT -5
If it's a public, national university, it's the State duty to make a bigger building or to get a new one so everyone can study there. It's not just buildings, though; it would have an impact on teaching. I wouldn't be able to give my students the attention they deserve if there were a million of them. Well I don't know how the classes are there. Here we usually have two classes per subject, sometimes three. You have a lecture (the crowded classes, where you only listen to the teacher and take notes and maybe ask a question or two), and then you have a practical class where you usually apply what you've seen during the lectures. Practical classes usually offer three different options to attend: one in the morning, another one in the afternoon and a last one in the night, but that depends of how popular the class is. Sometimes there's only one option because nobody takes that class, sometimes there are six or seven because everyone need that class. Is in the practical classes where teachers need to interact and pay attention to the students, that's why the groups are always small and at least in my classes there are two teachers and one, two or even three TAs. Also, the attendance to the lectures is not mandatory to approve a subject, but you have to attend to the 75% of the practical classes. During the semester you have to do three papers on the practical classes and two written tests in the lectures you need to approve in order to do the final test, that's usually oral.
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Post by Hermes on Sept 1, 2015 14:14:57 GMT -5
It's not just buildings, though; it would have an impact on teaching. I wouldn't be able to give my students the attention they deserve if there were a million of them. Well I don't know how the classes are there. Here we usually have two classes per subject, sometimes three. You have a lecture (the crowded classes, where you only listen to the teacher and take notes and maybe ask a question or two), and then you have a practical class where you usually apply what you've seen during the lectures. Practical classes usually offer three different options to attend: one in the morning, another one in the afternoon and a last one in the night, but that depends of how popular the class is. Sometimes there's only one option because nobody takes that class, sometimes there are six or seven because everyone need that class. Is in the practical classes where teachers need to interact and pay attention to the students, that's why the groups are always small and at least in my classes there are two teachers and one, two or even three TAs. But to be able to plan that, they must know how many students there are going to be. Which I guess they can do, if everyone in the neighbourhood is a student, but it still strikes me as rather fragile.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2015 15:40:41 GMT -5
Uni is so different in Aus.
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Post by soufflé on Sept 1, 2015 16:16:50 GMT -5
bee which ones are you applying to?
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Post by Cafe SalMONAlla on Sept 1, 2015 19:16:36 GMT -5
I have a place in monash for next year.
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Post by Esmé's meme is meh on Sept 1, 2015 19:37:58 GMT -5
But to be able to plan that, they must know how many students there are going to be. Which I guess they can do, if everyone in the neighbourhood is a student, but it still strikes me as rather fragile. I think it has to do with the fact that the whole academic system is different (really different when it comes to classes, subjects, finals, etc. I didn't even dig the surface), so we never had that kind of problems. Since people don't move to another city or county to attend to a university just because it's prestigious/better/more expensive, the number of freshmen every year is easy to calculate.
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Post by B. on Sept 2, 2015 8:57:58 GMT -5
bee which ones are you applying to? Cambridge, Strathclyde, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and either Glasgow/St Andrews. My physics teacher went to St Andrews and she made me really want to apply, but they only do my course as an MPhys and I'm not sure if I want to go there for 5 years.
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Post by penne on Sept 2, 2015 19:36:24 GMT -5
googled some of these and it's insaaane how old they are! must be wild to study in an institution with that much tradition and history. like, cambridge is older than the discovery of brazil by the portuguese, that blows my mind
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Post by Charles Vane on Sept 3, 2015 2:17:49 GMT -5
bee which ones are you applying to? Cambridge, Strathclyde, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and either Glasgow/St Andrews. My physics teacher went to St Andrews and she made me really want to apply, but they only do my course as an MPhys and I'm not sure if I want to go there for 5 years. YOU HAVE TO GO TO CAMBRIDGE JUST BC YOULL MEET PPL WHO HAVE MET MULAN.
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Post by B. on Sept 3, 2015 12:55:26 GMT -5
Cambridge, Strathclyde, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and either Glasgow/St Andrews. My physics teacher went to St Andrews and she made me really want to apply, but they only do my course as an MPhys and I'm not sure if I want to go there for 5 years. YOU HAVE TO GO TO CAMBRIDGE JUST BC YOULL MEET PPL WHO HAVE MET MULAN. I'm pretty sure they'll all have left by now, unless they teach there or somehow do 10 year PHDs.
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