You’ll need to purchase performing rights for anything you want to stage. A good place to start to find the rights holder may be dollee.com or the Internet Theatre Bookshop. You’ll also need to obtain a public performance licence for the venue (though many public buildings and church halls already have them.

You need to look intio child protection laws, too – you may need criminal records bureau clearance to work with youngsters.

Once you get going you’ll find some of the kids will take to it and others will disrupt you – that’s kids for you. But the rewards can be tremendous.

Look up your intended school at www.cappex.com. They put a map of unweighted GPA versus SAT scores on one of the pages. Look your scores up and you can estimate your chances of getting admitted.

As for getting your student visa, the school’s international student office takes care of most of the paperwork. And they will guide you through your part if you have been accepted for admission to that school.

Because Universities in Europe and other countries have heavy government subsidies, for a European student to consider a US school, they are in for what we call “sticker shock” The cost of attending a US University for an International student in the US is between US$35,000 to US$65,000 per year.

As well, you have to prove you have this sort of funding available to you from family, a sponsor or student loans that you got from your home country.

You cannot make enough money working in the US while at school there to pay your way either. Your student visa limits you to 20 hours a week of work (40 in the summer). This work must be either an on campus job or an outside job that the school approves as being relevant experience for your degree.

For finance, private US schools may give you a partial scholarship but public schools will give you no aid. My Canadian daughter got $9500 a year from her US undergrad school towards the $33,000 a year cost.

However, in some cases, like for Canadians going to a US school, you may be able to get aid from your native country. In my daughter’s case, the BC and Canadian governments loaned her a total of $10,000 per year.

Beyond the scholarship and loans, her grandmother contributed $4800 Canadian a year and I paid the rest, about US$12,000 a year.

Graduate students can get a GA (Graduate Assistanceship) after their first semester which will pay their tuition and give them a small living allowance if they have an exceptionally good GPA. My Canadian daughter earned one with her 4.0 GPA and because a US government research institute felt her research is important to the USA. Doctoral students, if they get a decent fellowship during grad school in the USA and if their research is considered important enough can get fully funded PhDs.

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Useless Classes

The reason they teach you that stuff that seems useless to you in high school is because the people who run the schools cannot tell the future. They know that 90% will be useless to you. But neither you nor they know which 10% will be gold to you.

Therefore they shovel all of it to you.

Employers do not really care that much about the information you learned, especially high school. They want to see that high school diploma and college degree to prove you can handle BS. Because there is way more BS at work than at school.

Just realize that if you drop out of high school you will have proved to employers you cannot handle the amount of BS high school gives you let alone the way higher amount you will be fed at work.

I am currently a Junior. Freshman year I took 2 standard classes and 3 honors classes (got all As). Sophomore year I took 5 honors classes (got 3 As and 2 89s). Junior year I am currently taking 2 AP courses and 3 honors (currently receiving As in all but one class). Senior year I am planning to take 4 AP courses and 1 honors class. On our school’s 5.0 scale, I have a 4.4 GPA. I am number 11 in my class of 184 students (top 5%).

Aside from grades, I am an active member of Student Council, National Honors Society, and Yearbook club. I am also the secretary of Academic Decathlon. I have been invited to (and joined) the National Society for High School Scholars. I have been a member of the school’s Varsity Track & Field team for the past 3 years (and will be next year).

I recently got my SAT scores (math – 720, writing – 600, critical reading – 530 :[ ) with total score of 1850. (I think with enough prep over the summer I can get that up to a 2000 or close to it at September’s test date.)

Outside of school, I have worked at a local supermarket for about a year. I have also held community service jobs at two local libraries and help out with the Art’s Council’s events over the summer. I have about 100 hours of community service.

My mom is an alumni to the school and finally I’m planning to write an awesome essay!

So if anyone who has any tips would like to give me some advice it would be greatly appreciated! This is basically my dream school. Thanks in advance.

Anything is possible! You should talk to your school Guidance Counselor?

We’re hitting the road to build forts and community with strangers. We’re traveling through the United States, Canada, and Mexico during the months of June, July, and August of 2011. While on the road we have a few specific focuses. One of our focuses is to build forts.

A fort is a creative space that brings people together to ask questions, act on them, empower, and be empowered. It’s a safe space. It’s a space to freely use your imagination and be yourself. Somewhere you can start a conversation that will grow you, and your community into something exceptional. We want to be inspired to live brilliantly, profoundly, and generously by building forts with others.

Another focus is partnering with different organizations and institutions. From art councils, education departments, urban gardens, refugee committees, youth programs, community projects to national parks. We’ll be engaging with them via fort building, but also participating in the incredible things they’re already doing.

I built one of those when I was a kid. We called it a camp or a tree house. What a waste of time for adults to do this.

I am currently a Junior. Freshman year I took 2 standard classes and 3 honors classes (got all As). Sophomore year I took 5 honors classes (got 3 As and 2 89s). Junior year I am currently taking 2 AP courses and 3 honors (currently receiving As in all but one class). Senior year I am planning to take 4 AP courses and 1 honors class. On our school’s 5.0 scale, I have a 4.4 GPA. I am number 11 in my class of 184 students (top 5%).

Aside from grades, I am an active member of Student Council, National Honors Society, and Yearbook club. I am also the secretary of Academic Decathlon. I have been invited to (and joined) the National Society for High School Scholars. I have been a member of the school’s Varsity Track & Field team for the past 3 years (and will be next year).

I recently got my SAT scores (math – 720, writing – 600, critical reading – 530 :[ ) with total score of 1850. (I think with enough prep over the summer I can get that up to a 2000 or close to it at September’s test date.)

Outside of school, I have worked at a local supermarket for about a year. I have also held community service jobs at two local libraries and help out with the Art’s Council’s events over the summer. I have about 100 hours of community service.

My mom is an alumni to the school and finally I’m planning to write an awesome essay!

So if anyone who has any tips would like to give me some advice it would be greatly appreciated! This is basically my dream school. Thanks in advance.

Hello!.. I think you are doing a great job! Wow…. I wish I were as active as you!..
You have a excellent GPA, and being in the top 5% is fantastic. Your SAT scores is great… but… if you plan on retaking it, which I hope you do, the best part (I think) is that you can send the college your highest scores. You know what, go and give it a shot, and take the SAT again, and its okay if you do good or bad. I think it is math that you need to improve (I am terrible at math as well, so i know how that feels). Otherwise, if you take or do not take the SAT.. still go for it. Fill out that application because after reading your post… I have this great feeling that you will be accepted.
here is something that i hope helps you that i found on their website… what they also look at:
"In selecting students, the Committee on Admission looks for demonstrated evidence of academic ability, intellectual curiosity, strength of character, motivation, creativity, energy, and promise for personal growth and development. The Committee also carefully considers recommendations by counselors and teachers, the required personal statement and extracurricular activities. Requests for financial aid do not affect decisions on admission."
So, I wish you the best of luck in your college journey and ahead!..

I am currently a Junior. Freshman year I took 2 standard classes and 3 honors classes (got all As). Sophomore year I took 5 honors classes (got 3 As and 2 89s). Junior year I am currently taking 2 AP courses and 3 honors (currently receiving As in all but one class). Senior year I am planning to take 4 AP courses and 1 honors class. On our school’s 5.0 scale, I have a 4.4 GPA. I am number 11 in my class of 184 students (top 5%).

Aside from grades, I am an active member of Student Council, National Honors Society, and Yearbook club. I am also the secretary of Academic Decathlon. I have been invited to (and joined) the National Society for High School Scholars. I have been a member of the school’s Varsity Track & Field team for the past 3 years (and will be next year).

I recently got my SAT scores (math – 720, writing – 600, critical reading – 530 :[ ) with total score of 1850. (I think with enough prep over the summer I can get that up to a 2000 or close to it at September’s test date.)

Outside of school, I have worked at a local supermarket for about a year. I have also held community service jobs at two local libraries and help out with the Art’s Council’s events over the summer. I have about 100 hours of community service.

My mom is an alumni to the school and finally I’m planning to write an awesome essay!

So if anyone who has any tips would like to give me some advice it would be greatly appreciated! This is basically my dream school. Thanks in advance.

You are an excellent student, but it’s all pretty generic. When you apply for BC, an excellent college, almost everyone will have great grades, great extracurriculars, etc. What makes you so different? Answer me that, and then somehow incorporate it into your application. If you don’t have an answer, I suggest you do something. Organize a blood drive, for example.

Also, your community service is kind of pitiful, sorry. By the time I was 16, I had over 450 hours of community service. Colleges don’t need to see that you can put yourself ahead in life, they want to see that you can better the community.

And yeah, get your SAT score up there (it’s not THAT bad, though– if you improve everything else, you could still definitely get in with that score).

my gpa is about a 2.5
weighted its a 3.1
i didnt take my sats yet so ill have to see what i get on them
i only have ONE year of spanish

12 GRADE: i will be Attending the Long Island High School for the Arts for dramatic studies

Activities: School play (9th,10th,11th)
Voice lessons at Murphy’s music
Competition Dance team at Center Stage Dance Studio
Acting lessons with lisa regina

Clubs : International thespian society
Half tones Women’s choir
Vocal Jazz
Future Educators of America
Key club
Youth to youth teaching
Homecoming Committee
Huntington youth council

Community service : CARE program for gerwin hospital ( voulnteer at a nursing home )
Friendship circle ( go to a kids house who has autism and play with him)

Sports: JV Softball, 1 year
Dance Team, 3 years

Work: Lifegaurd for trident
Nikki’s dressing room
Day camp councilor – The chia center
Various baby sitting jobs

I know my gpa is horrible and im going to have to score really high on the sats to get into a good school but can anyone please tell me some suny schools that would accept me?
and also remember im going to theater so many universitys require an audition and some base the acceptence upon talent

ok so please let me know of some schools! thankssxoxox

Off the top of my head some schools I can come up with are:
SUNY Cortland
SUNY Fredonia (Great music and arts programs)
Buffalo State College (My cousin went here and she had a lower GPA than you)
SUNY Cobleskill
SUNY New Paltz (Also good art programs)
and SUNY Albany

Hope I helped

We took a PSAT and the PLAN test (I think that was what it was called). My composite score, competing with juniors whom the test is actually made for, is a 25 of 32. That’s low because I’m a sophomore and the test is for juniors. I scored well for my grade level, or so my college counselor said. In English, my composite score was 23. Mathematics, 24. Reading, 24. Science, 27. I scored all A’s in the tests. I scored higher than the percentage of students in my school in all subjects except for Science, by 2% (I made a 98%). With the PSAT, I scored higher than 75% of the national percentage of juniors; and 82% higher of the national percentage of sophomores (I averaged all of my scores, 93%, 89%, and 65%)

The composite score was not for ACT, but for SAT. This was weighted from Junior’s scores. I believe that this will rise next year, obviously. They predicted me to make a 26-30 on my ACT. I think I will do better than that.

Next year, I plan to take AP US History, AP Latin IV, AP English, AP Chemistry, Pre-AP Art (half the amount of art pieces required, I am not allowed to take four AP classes.), and Honors Pre Cal. Also, I plan to take AP Biology or Physics senior year. I intend to take English until senior year, on top of Heritage.

At the rate I am going, does anyone think that Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Princeton, or Cornell are options for me?

My History teacher, also my "advisor", actually attended and taught at Cornell. I’m one of the top students in his class, so maybe I can get a good recommendation. I would most prefer to study abroad in England or in Ivy League. I really want to double major in Chemistry and History (or Political Science, or Politics in general, or Government) and minor in an art and English. I know in England that you are only permitted to study one subject though.

Also; I really need an internship on top of the summer courses I’m taking. Any suggestions as to how to get these?

Thanks everyone!

It seems to me that you are on the right track for an Ivy League school, and I suggest that you talk to your history teacher more about this. However, I wonder what you plan on doing with a double major in chemistry and history. There is not a lot of jobs for chemistry historians. Better that you get a masters degree and a PhD than two majors that do not connect. Neither do chemistry and government or political science. What career path do you plan to follow? Talk about this with your history teacher.
If you want to go into politics here in the USA you probably would do better to get your education here rather than England.

It is one thing to want to study a particular set of fields, and something else to actually work in the fields studied, particularly when the student has no experience in the fields and probably has no idea of what actually goes with the jobs in those fields.

Regards,
Dan

I have a 1760 on the SAT. 620 in CR, 550 in Math, 590 in Writing. I know my scores are low!

I have a personal relationship with the president of the university and other friends on staff there. They have all assured me that they will talk to the admissions staff about me.

My sister attended GU and was a super star student there. She passed away before graduation, so I wrote my essay about her. I wrote two essays for them that I worked really hard on. They were well-thought-out, if I do say so myself.

I am president of Beta Club, Vice President of Student Council for four years, and member of National Honor Society. I started another community service club at my school this year. I am also the president of my city’s youth council appointed by the mayor. I have over 100 hours of community service from working at an abused women’s and children’s rehabilitation house.

I am extremely involved in church choir, youth group, and church camps. I am the president of my state’s denomination’s church camp.

Georgetown is my number one. Will I get in?
My interview went perfectly. The interviewer told me that he would give me the highest remarks. He said, " I sincerely hope that you get into Georgetown, and I will do all I can to make that possible!"

Its hard to say with this because GU places a lot of emphasis on the SAT scores, and you know that yours a pretty low, but your GPA is alright, and with your essay I think that it improves your chances. Dont you have to have an interview? How did that go.
I would say yes,
good luck
great school