和这里的父母分享只为咱们华人孩子上好学校总结经验、窍门和捷径，别无它意。
儿子有个同学，也是个小中，聪明是很聪明，但平时念书不认真，常忘了交作业，写
PAPER什么的也不当回事儿，高中四年下来GPA 不怎么高，估计因为上课稀松，老师对他印象也一般般，课外活动什么的也乏陈可述。按美国大学申请的要求的主要几项：ESSAY，GPA，推荐信，课外活动，他都不在前列。可他有一条优势，会考试，
SAT考的很好，可在美国光SAT成绩好也没用。他父母一急之下想到了欧洲的好大学，据说牛津剑桥的录取只看入学考试，和国内高考似的，加上参照SAT。他结果考英国的考试考的极好，一举被牛津和剑桥双双录取(好像是)。在美国他也报考了一堆学校结果连伯克利都没取，更别提藤校什么的了。
这个经验可以用于有类似背景，明年要报考的孩子，象
GPA什么的已经无法补救了，但申请其它国家的好学校是条好的出路，尤其想牛津剑桥一类的，还是很值得的。下面是儿子学校今年的录取详情，学校的分组有我个人主观因素，请大家别介意
| College Attending | 2009 | % | 2006-2008 | % | |||
| Harvard University | 3 | 2% | 14 | 3% | |||
| Princeton University | 3 | 2% | 5 | 1% | |||
| Yale University | 3 | 2% | 3 | 1% | |||
| Brown University | 4 | 2% | 5 | 1% | |||
| Columbia University | 1 | 1% | 5 | 1% | |||
| Cornell University | 5 | 3% | 8 | 2% | |||
| Dartmouth College | 2 | 1% | 2 | 0% | |||
| University of Pennsylvania | 4 | 2% | 22 | 5% | |||
| Total Ivy | 25 | 15% | 64 | 14% | |||
| Oxford University | 1 | ||||||
| California Institute of Technology | 2 | 1% | 7 | 2% | |||
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2 | 1% | 15 | 3% | |||
| Stanford University | 9 | 5% | 15 | 3% | |||
| Total Top | 13 | 8% | 37 | 8% | |||
| Total Ivy+ Top | 39 | 23% | 101 | 22% | |||
| Amerst | 2 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
| Swarthmore College | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Williams College | - | 0% | 2 | 0% | |||
| Wellesley College | - | 0% | 9 | 2% | |||
| Smith College | - | 0% | 2 | 0% | |||
| Claremont McKenna College | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Harvy Mudd College | 1 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
| Pomona College | 1 | 1% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Prizer College | 1 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
| Scripps College | 2 | 1% | 2 | 0% | |||
| Bryn Mawr | 1 | 1% | 0% | ||||
| Occidental College | 1 | 1% | 1 | 0% | |||
| College of William and Mary | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Pepperdine | 1 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
| Total LAC | 10 | 6% | 20 | 4% | |||
| Carnegie Mellon University | 1 | 1% | 15 | 3% | |||
| Johns Hopkins University | 2 | 1% | 4 | 1% | |||
| Duke University | 2 | 1% | 2 | 0% | |||
| Georgetown University | 2 | 1% | 3 | 1% | |||
| New York University | 5 | 3% | 7 | 2% | |||
| Northwestern University | 1 | 1% | 4 | 1% | |||
| University of Chicago | 1 | 1% | 8 | 2% | |||
| University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | - | 0% | 3 | 1% | |||
| University of Michigan | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Washington University in St. Louis | 4 | 2% | 3 | 1% | |||
| Total Good | 18 | 11% | 50 | 11% | |||
| UC Berkeley | 19 | 11% | 46 | 10% | |||
| UC Los Angeles | 1 | 1% | 14 | 3% | |||
| UC Davis | 1 | 1% | 19 | 4% | |||
| UC Irvine | 3 | 2% | 8 | 2% | |||
| UC Merced | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| UC Riverside | - | 0% | 4 | 1% | |||
| UC San Diego | 8 | 5% | 26 | 6% | |||
| UC Santa Barbara | 3 | 2% | 7 | 2% | |||
| UC Santa Cruz | 4 | 2% | 5 | 1% | |||
| University of Southern California | 26 | 16% | 39 | 8% | |||
| Total UC +USC | 65 | 39% | 169 | 37% | |||
| Academy of Art University | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Albion College | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Bentley College | 2 | 1% | 2 | 0% | |||
| Boston College | 1 | 1% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Boston University | 3 | 2% | 16 | 3% | |||
| California College of the Arts | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| California Polytechnic State University | 4 | 2% | 5 | 1% | |||
| Case Western Reserve University | 1 | 1% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Colgate University | - | 0% | 2 | 0% | |||
| Connecticut College | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Creighton University | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| De Anza College | 2 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
| Eckerd | 1 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
| Elon | 1 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
| Embry-Riddle | 1 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
| Emory University | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| FDU College at Florham, Madison, NJ | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Illinois Institute of Technology | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Lehigh University | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Lewis & Clark College | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Loyola Marymount | 1 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
| Mount Holyoke College | 1 | 1% | 2 | 0% | |||
| Northeastern University | - | 0% | 2 | 0% | |||
| Pacific Union College | - | 0% | 2 | 0% | |||
| Pennsylvania State University | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Purdue University | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 3 | 2% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Rice University | 1 | 1% | 2 | 0% | |||
| Saint Louis University | - | 0% | 2 | 0% | |||
| Saint Mary's College of California | 1 | 1% | 1 | 0% | |||
| San Francisco State University | 1 | 1% | 1 | 0% | |||
| San Jose State University | 1 | 1% | 6 | 1% | |||
| Santa Clara University | 3 | 2% | 16 | 3% | |||
| Sarah Lawrence College | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| School of the Arti Institue of Chicago | 1 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
| Seattle University | - | 0% | 2 | 0% | |||
| Sewanee, the University of South | 1 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
| Sonoma State University | - | 0% | 2 | 0% | |||
| Southern Methodist University | - | 0% | 3 | 1% | |||
| The Citadel, the Military College of SC | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| The George Washington University | 2 | 1% | 3 | 1% | |||
| The University of Texas, Austin | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Tufts University | 1 | 1% | 4 | 1% | |||
| Tulane University | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Univ. of Zurich | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| University of British Columbia | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| University of Connecticut | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| University of Portland | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| University of Redlands | - | 0% | 4 | 1% | |||
| University of Rochester | - | 0% | 4 | 1% | |||
| University of San Diego | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| University of San Francisco | - | 0% | 2 | 0% | |||
| University of the Pacific | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| University of Washington | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| University of Wisconsin, Madison | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Vassar College | - | 0% | 4 | 1% | |||
| Villanova | 1 | 1% | - | 0% | |||
| West Valley College | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Whitman College | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Willamette University | - | 0% | 1 | 0% | |||
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - | 0% | 2 | 0% | |||
| Total All Others | 34 | 20% | 119 | 26% | |||
| Total: | 166 | 459 |
