It’s good to hear that my hopefully-will-be-attending university SNU is extending its admissions to students based on more than the infamous national test. I am a firm believer that although scholastic grades and scores do work pretty well in differentiating students, other factors can unearth diamonds-in-the-rough. While they had already started this policy somewhat, they are going to expand the hand-picked students to 39% of admitted students starting in 2011.
Source: JoongAng Daily
This is my first post in the education category (yeah!) which I hope I will be able to fill with good news. I just want to get the ball rolling on my progress in actually getting to Korea since that’s the name of this blog. After what has seemed an eternity of preparation, I’ve finally finished everything and turned in my Seoul National University (SNU/서울대학교) Engineering Exchange application to my adviser at the University of Utah. I can’t even express how happy I am to be at this point. I’ve jumped through most of the hurdles and now I just sit and wait. Hopefully I’ll start working with the international office in about two weeks and then I’ll probably hear back from SNU some time in the next few months.
Anyways, I just wanted to share my joy with all of you. I’ll make sure to update y’all along the way with what happens, for better or for worse.
