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Sunday 27 May 2012

• every time they send you bank details the account number is different even though the rest of the info is the same, this way they know when you have payed certain things
• when wiring money abroad it costs you money--Barclays charged me £25 every time I wanted to send money, regardless of the amount 
• try to over estimate the exchange rate, the rate you see on the internet may not be the rate they use, always pay a little bit extra so that you don't have to come back to the bank and be charged another £25 because you under paid by 50p
• photocopy of your last educational certificate (Degree/Diploma/transcript)
• photocopy of your passport
• and if you haven't gotten a Visa yet, but intend to get one, you need to send them either: a sponsorship letter from a working Korean national-this is to prove that they will be financially responsible for you should things go wrong or a bank statement that shows you have over $3,000 in your account
• you still need to send an application but you don't need to resend your documents and rewrite your application essay since you have already been accepted.
• explain to Bang-Wool that you are going to be applying for more and she should be able to send you a bank account number to pay for the other terms in one go, rather than paying the bank charges each time you want to send individual payments.
• once that's sorted the visa pack that is sent to you should have all the terms you are staying for included and the visa people can give you one long visa instead of having to top it up each term.

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Hi! I am interested in applying to Yonsei, the department for preliminary medicine. Could you give me some advice on that? I can't seem to find the application on the website, and I'm not sure if I'm supposed to do it online or mail it over. I would really appreciate it if you could help! Thanks! :)

Is the essay the same topic(why you want to study Korean at Yonsei) when applying for the Summer KLI Program? On my application all that is shown is: "Essay" with no explanation whatsoever about what it should be about...

I live in korea as an alien and i have took primary and secondary school here. Is it possible fir me to sign up?

I'm planing to study at KLI soon, hopfuly get right in class/level 4 (seems the most suitable for me) The thing is...i'm having a hard time guessing wheter I should write the essay inKorean or English. Any chance you can help me out here?

i'm so glad i found your post !!! you helped me a lot

Me too! I will be going next Fall of 2016 and the website did not say anything about what the essay was to be about.

Me too , i will be going next spring of 2016 ... I need to know about what should i write on the essay ...

Hello. Im going at next spring to.The essay also was a little messy to me. I began presenting myself, I wrote my academic background, and then I explained them why I want to study in Yonsei KLI. If you are still stuck in it I can send you mine one to get a reference.

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how long should the essay be? There was no word count stated

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The Best College Is One Where You Don’t Fit In

By Michael S. Roth

Mr. Roth is the president of Wesleyan University.

This time of year, college campuses like the one where I live fill up with high school seniors preparing to make what feels like a momentous choice. The first imperative is to find a school that they can afford, but beyond that, many students have been advised to find one where they can see themselves. Too often, they take this to mean finding a place with students like them, even students who look like them — a place where they will feel comfortable. I can’t tell you how many families have described driving many hours to a campus somewhere and having their daughter or son say something like: “We don’t need to get out. I can tell already this isn’t for me.”

“How about the info session?” the patient parent asks.

Choosing a college based on where you feel comfortable is a mistake. The most rewarding forms of education make you feel very uncomfortable, not least because they force you to recognize your own ignorance. Students should hope to encounter ideas and experience cultural forms that push them beyond their current opinions and tastes. Sure, revulsion is possible (and one can learn from that), but so is the discovery that your filtered ways of taking in the world had blocked out things in which you now delight. One learns from that, too.

Either way, a college education should enable you to discover capabilities you didn’t even know you had while deepening those that provide you with meaning and direction. To discover these capabilities is to practice freedom, the opposite of trying to figure out how to conform to the world as it is. Tomorrow the world will be different anyway. Education should help you find ways of shaping change, not just ways of coping with it.

These days, the first thing that campus visitors may notice are protests over the war in Gaza. These will be attractive to some who see in them an admirable commitment to principle and off-putting to those who see evidence of groupthink or intimidation. Any campus should be a “ safe enough space ,” one free of harassment and intimidation, but not one where identities and beliefs are just reinforced. That’s why it’s profoundly disturbing to hear of Jewish students afraid to move about because of the threat of verbal and physical abuse. And that’s why it’s inspiring to see Muslim and Jewish students camped out together to protest a war they think is unjust.

Refusing to conform can mean being rebellious, but it can also mean just going against the grain, like being unabashedly religious in a very secular institution or being the conservative or libertarian voice in classes filled with progressives. I recently asked one such student if he perceived any faculty bias. “Don’t worry about me,” he replied. “My professors find me fascinating.” Some of the military veterans who’ve attended my liberal arts university have disrupted the easy prejudices of their progressive peers while finding themselves working in areas they’d never expected to be interested in.

Over the years, I’ve found nonconformists to be the most interesting people to have in my classes; I’ve also found that they often turn out to be the people who add the greatest value to the organizations in which they work. I’m thinking of Kendall, a computer science major I had in a philosophy class whom I saw on campus recently because she was directing an ambitious musical. When I expressed my admiration at her unlikely combination of interests, she was almost insulted by my surprise and enthusiasm. Had I really stereotyped her as someone not interested in the arts just because she excels in science?

Or take the student activist (please!) who a couple of years after leading a demonstration to the president’s office made an appointment to meet with me. I was worried about new political demands, but she had something else in mind: getting a recommendation for law school. I could, she reminded me with a smile, write about her leadership abilities on campus. And I did.

Of course, even students who refuse to fall in with the herd should learn how to listen and speak to it and to various groups different from their own. That’s an increasingly valuable capacity, and it will help them make their way in the world, whatever school they attend, whatever their major.

Side by side, students should learn how to be full human beings, not mere appendages, and this means continually questioning what they are doing and learning from one another. “Truly speaking,” Ralph Waldo Emerson said about a century ago, “it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul.” That’s why the colleges — large public institutions or small faith-based colleges or anything in between — that nurture and respond to the energies of their students are the ones that feel most intellectually alive.

So, what makes a school the right one? It’s not the prestige of a name or the campus amenities. First and foremost, it’s the teachers. Great teachers help make a college great because they themselves are never done being students. Sure, there are plenty of schools filled with faculty members who think alike, who relish the bubble of fellowship in received opinion. A college can make being weird or radical into adolescent orthodoxy. These places should be avoided. By contrast, there are colleges with great teachers who practice freedom by activating wonder, a capacity for appreciation and a taste for inquiry — and who do so because they themselves seek out these broadening experiences. You can feel their own nonconformity as they try to provoke their students away from the various forms of received opinion.

Finding the right college will often mean finding these kinds of people — classmates and mentors, perpetual students who seek open-ended learning that brings joy and meaning. That’s what young people checking out schools should really be looking for: not a place merely to fit in but a place to practice freedom in good company.

Michael S. Roth is the president of Wesleyan University. His most recent books are “ The Student: A Short History” and “ Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist’s Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses.”

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