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  Should you apply during the 12th or in Gap Year?  College application is a time-consuming and exhausting procedure for Nepali and international students. For domestic applicants, the admission process usually begins in ninth grade, when they have already been admitted to a college preparatory program. These are the schools whose main goal is to align their students with their ideal colleges. However, in our country, Nepal, most students do not consider applying until they are in or after the 12th grade. As a result, in terms of planning, we are well behind our domestic counterparts.  Despite the fact domestic students are way ahead of us in the application process, International students are accessed only within their region, country, or high school.  Returning to the main subject, is it worthwhile to apply during 12th grade, or will it have an effect on my academics? There are only a few schools in Nepal where the majority of students apply during the 12th grade ...

Some Terms You Must Know Before Applying To Universities EA It is an option where an applicant is allowed to submit his applicants before the regular deadlines. This also means that the applicant will receive his decision earlier. Usually, the deadline for EA is November 1. Some colleges that offer EA are MIT, University of Michigan, Georgia-tech, UChicago. This is not binding as ED ED It is an option to submit an application to your first-choice college before the regular deadline. However, this is binding which means if you get into your ED choice college, you are obligated to accept that offer and could not attend another college unless your financial need is not met. The deadline for ED is around November 1. Some colleges also offer ED2 which is ED but at a later date. Usually, the deadline for it is January 1. Some colleges that offer ED are Upenn, Cornell, UChicago, NYU, Dartmouth, Amherst, etc.   REA REA refers to Restricted Early Action. It limits you from applying to any o...

  US University application Procedure For Nepali applicant Hello Aspirants, I am a high school graduate of the Class of 2020 and an incoming freshman at NYUAD. I took a gap year and applied for Fall of 2021 and luckily got acceptance in some colleges and my dream college(where I will be going this fall). Although this year turned out to be dark for many applicants, I feel lucky to get that amazing acceptance alongside meeting my full need.  As writing played a vital role in my acceptance, I came up with the idea of sharing my knowledge and information about International Admissions with you guys through this medium. Here you could see the list of the contents, I will be writing blogs on. I plan to finish writing all those blogs within August of 2021. Any sort of comments and suggestions would be helpful for the blogs and eventually the aspirants.  I have divided the procedure into four steps. The final two things are something that could also be beneficial for other aspir...

  Data Breach: Hidden Crime     What is data? It can be anything from as large as countries' internal database to as small as the last message you sent. To explain the term data theoretically, It is a collection of facts, such as numbers, words, measurements, observations. However, the theft we are talking about is related to Technological data or in common terms known as Computer Data.     In this new technological universe, Data has been the alternate to nuclear weapons and the military. The organization with the most abundant data which is directly related to the number of consumers are the ones leading the tech industries. Let's take an example of Facebook; you know there are over 2 billion users on Facebook that's more than a third of the population. Also, the value of Facebook aka (all 2 billion users) is nearly 600 billion dollars. How has the money that we even do not know is ours has helped Zuckerberg took his income to 100 billion dollars.  ...

 Gaura: A festival of  happiness               Gaura is one of the festivals celebrated by Hindu people, especially from the Far western and western region of Nepal. It is usually celebrated in the month of August/September. In this festival, Women worship the goddess Parbati (Wife of Shiva) praying for their husbands' health and prosperity. The festival starts with Biruda Panchami. On this day women submerse five different kinds of cereals. Also, they use the same cereals as a way of blessing for their husband and children and for worshipping in a temple.      Deuda dance and songs are another major part of this festival. People sing and synchronize it with dance. There is a specific dance for man, woman, and also for both. They circle around and coordinate their legs front and back. It is played in a way of competition where two groups sing the Deuda song back and fort. Also, traditional instruments are also another part of t...

  An overview of Brawl in RatoMachindranath Jatra     There is nothing yet left to be hit by this COVID-19 pandemic. In Nepal, my home country, where most regions including Kathmandu Valley is under prohibitory order for controlling rapid rate of COVID-19 cases and people are allowed to move only for buying important household  and medical things. Crowd of people is not enjoyed by the government and are given punishment by the security persons.   Now let's come to main incident. Recently there was a huge brawl between security officials and the group of people who were celebrating RatoMachindranath Jatra which occurred in Lalitpur Nepal. The video of a traffic police getting beaten in that brawl is all over the Internet and each Nepali is giving their opinion. There are two main things that people talk about regarding this event. One is about the cultural importance of the festival and second is that Was the condition suitable for the ...