Comments by "HKim0072" (@HKim0072) on "South Korea's education fever to get into good universities | Undercover Korea" video.

Thank god I grew up in the States and not Korea. So many good schools in the US with lowish requirements. I didn't prep for the SATs at all and got a bit under 1200 (good math, bad verbal). Any reasonable SAT score and B grades will get usually get you into a decent state school.
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@alfredhitchcock45 lol, equality / diversity laws have nothing to do with state residents getting into state schools. State taxes subsidize state colleges.
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@Crystalbomb321 I went to U of MD College Park with those scores. It's the best public school in MD. Other states have more competitive top tier schools ie the Cal system. UMCP is still a top 50 school in the US. Not sure if it's the same now, but the in-state threshold for scores / grades was lower for state residents. But, you could get a 800 on the SATs and still get into a good state school via the backdoor (and time / effort).
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@stephet3683 Every State in the US has their "upper" tier public school. Sounds silly, but it's usually University of "xxx" State, but there are a lot of exceptions + different campuses. I grew up in Maryland. University of Maryland is the good school with lowish requirements. It accepts about 45% of the applicants. UNC Chapel Hill, U of Michigan Ann Arbor, UT Austin are all great schools with acceptance rates of 20% (UT is a bit higher). There is a trick though. If you do terrible in high school and get your act together. Go to a state junior college and get all As. Doesn't negate bad test scores, but wipes your high school grades clean. (from the internet) I transferred with a lousy high school record. I went back to school at Alamance Community College NC which had a transfer program to UNC-Greensboro. However, after research, I found a list of courses that transferred to Chapel Hill. I took these courses and received grades from the community college and the UNC at Greensboro. Pretty cool. I then applied to UNC-CH and received part time status. After another year and a couple of battles with the deans (who were excellent folks) I was accepted full time. I was a high school drop out with a GED. I am now a published archaeologist. Poor but happy.
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