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Is it super uncommon for people to get accepted after being rejected once? I got rejected for the fall intake and I’m planning on improving my application and applying for the spring intake but I’m not sure if people who take this route are often successful or not. Is it reasonable to try?

Also, I thought that every applicant got an interview but i’ve heard from some people that you only get an interview if you pass the documents round. I got an interview for the fall intake before I was rejected. If I give a better interview this time, do I have a solid shot, assuming getting an interview slot means my documents were decent?

Hello. I’m punjabi from pakistan and there is a sikh temple near my house in the usa. my reason for wanting to volunteer is a little bit selfish to be completely honest. my grandma raised me and passed when i was 16. elderly sikh grandmas remind me more of my own than other pakistani grandmas both in the way they dress and most of all in the way they speak. most pakistani elders i meet here in the usa speak urdu mostly but my grandmother spoke punjabi. i really just miss hearing my grandmother speak in punjabi around me and i feel homesick in a way. when i hear all the old sikh people speaking in punjabi near the sikh temple that’s the only time i feel like how i used to growing up. i just feel happy seeing all the punjabi grandparents with their families and i thought it would be nice to volunteer there but i don’t want to be weird. i just feel homesick in a way. i’m 19 now i just miss having my grandparents around me speaking in punjabi and i can feel myself forgetting the language too without anybody speaking it around me and it makes me upset to forget such a big part of my loved ones

For the first three years of high school I had mostly all A+s and As. I got a little bit of senioritis during my last year and I have all A-‘s and a B or B+ in calculus. Will this harm my chances of getting in for the spring semester? And I plan on applying for ISED, will my calculus grade be a significant factor? My weighted GPA is around a 4.25 and I have a 1550 SAT.

I am not a GKS applicant but this seemed like the best place to ask as people here seem very informed on the Korean university admissions process. I applied normally to a Korean university and was unfortunately rejected. I have had some extreme circumstances come up in a very short period of time that have made it so that if I am unable to attend this university, I won’t be able to attend any university anywhere in the world for another year. If I write a very polite and respectful email to them asking them to reconsider my application, do you think they’d even read it? Or at the very least, will they not count it against me if I reapply for the next semester? I understand that the chances of them actually overturning their decision are slim to none.

I’m from the USA btw and applying for undergrad.

Hello. I am an international student who applied to a Korean University for the upcoming semester. I thought this would be a good place to ask my question since people here are very informed about the application process within korean universities. Unfortunately, I was rejected. Normally, I would have accepted the result and moved on but I have had some very sudden circumstances come up and I can’t go into detail about the specific circumstances here but basically if I don’t get to go to this university for this semester, I’m going to have to wait an entire extra year before I can go to university anywhere in the world. It’s hard to explain but it’s related to familial finances and relocation.

If it’s a very extreme situation like mine, do you think they’d at even read or consider an appeal letter even if the chances of them actually accepting me are slim?

Obviously I’m searching it up myself too but I wanted to ask here in case there’s anything I’m missing because so far it looks like there are none.

Good luck to everyone love u all!! ❤️❤️

I’ve been told that it doesn’t have the same level of SKY prestige as the other colleges under Yonsei University but is it still considered a fairly good school? Like, if a Korean student attended UIC, would it be something for their parents to be proud of or boast about or not so much? Is it true that other Yonsei students don’t really like UIC students or look down on them?

Sorry for all of the negative questions, i just wanted to get some worries out of the way 😓

I felt like mine went well and the interviewers were really kind and friendly even though my biggest fear going into the interview was the possibility of the interviewers being really cold and intimidating. I was super nervous but they seemed really understanding. I want to take it as a sign that I have a decent chance at getting accepted but I wanted to see if maybe everyone feels like their interview went well, or if previously rejected students also felt like their interview went well and that post-interview feelings maybe aren’t the best indicators.

There no official number released by the school itself but I’ve seen people online giving estimates anywhere between 0.5% and virtually 100%, neither of which I think are accurate but does anybody have an idea of what the actual number is? Does it vary depending on which country you apply from? For example it seems that there are a lot more applications from Vietnam than, say, Spain for example so would this make it more competitive for a Vietnamese applicant as opposed to a Spanish applicant?

Does bioconvergence get a lot of applicants?

idk. i’m american and i have a 4.25 gpa but i didn’t take that many ap classes (only chem during my senior year) and my extracurriculars are pretty mid because i had an illness for all of high school that kind of limited what i did. i had an exec position on premed club, was a full time caretaker for two elderly family members for grades 9-11 and i am a nationally registered emergency medical technician but i haven’t been able to actually work as an emt as it would endanger other people if i were to do so before i was healthy/strong enough. i completed the 200 hours of training and passed the national exam but i don’t want to put other people in danger by working before i’m at my healthiest. i have a 740 english sat and 660 sat. i wanted to get a higher math score but i didn’t have time to study because my condition makes it hard for me to stay awake long enough to do much besides schoolwork. i feel like my application talked about my condition too much even though i meant it in a positive way. i also got held back a year in 9th grade but it didn’t affect my gpa since it was because i was sick. i wrote my essay on how my difficulties getting diagnosed and treated made me when to major in bioconvergence and study diagnostic processes and biotechnology but i’m afraid my application will look lame like i have nothing else going for myself besides a sob story even though i tried to paint everything in a positive light.

like will they rescind me over this i’m scared because i usually get more As and A+s