Unlike Chinese universities, which are strict in and wide out, American universities adopt the principle of wide entry and strict exit!

That is to say, in the United States, college admission, relatively speaking, is relatively easy, the SAT exam, known as the "American college entrance examination", can be taken 7 times a year, unlike China's college entrance examination, which is only once a year, and if you don't do well, you can only wait for the next year.

The SAT test not only has a large number of tests, but also has no special restrictions on registration, you can take the test by paying money, high school students in the United States who are interested in going to college, starting from the tenth grade, can take the SAT, take the test more than 20 times for three consecutive years, and then choose the best score as the material for applying for college.

However, these are aimed at ordinary people, not geniuses like Lip.

A genius like Lip who can get a perfect score on the SAT test casually doesn't need to take the test again and again, he used to take the test again and again in order to earn extra money as a gunslinger.

However, even a genius like Lip is not an easy task to successfully graduate from college.

A prestigious school like the University of Chicago attaches great importance to its own honor, and would rather not allow students to graduate than allow abuse to fill up the numbers.

In particular, students like Lip who get a full scholarship must meet certain standards in each academic year in order to get a scholarship for the next academic year, and it is impossible to make a living like in those pheasant universities.

Harvard University has a tradition that the lights in the study hall are never turned off before two o'clock in the morning!

In fact, this tradition does not only exist in Harvard University, but also in almost all prestigious universities.

Lip has been fully prepared for his years of college life.

This is also the reason why he solved the custody and house problems before coming to the University of Chicago, because he knew that after he went to college, he would definitely not have extra energy to put it at home.

Although it is not far away, Fiona, Debbie and others have never been to the University of Chicago before, so they don't have the time or the leisure.

In their understanding, they belong to the poor South Side, and the upscale community where the University of Chicago is located, not in the same world.

Even now, the lives of the Gallagher siblings have been lifted out of poverty, food and clothing have been solved, and they have initially entered the middle class, but in Fiona's understanding, there is still an unreachable distance from the rich area.

It may be necessary to wait until Lip graduates from the University of Chicago and finds a stable job before the siblings can live a prosperous life.

With the current economic situation in the United States, it is not easy to find a high-paying job, and a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago is not enough, at least a master's degree must be graduated.

Under normal circumstances, it takes at least six years to get a master's degree!

In the first two years after graduating from college, unless you perform extremely well, it is difficult to get a high salary, and there will be a period of dormancy.

The dormant period is counted as two years, and by the time Lip's income reaches the standard of affluence, it will be seven or eight years later.

In the past seven or eight years, several brothers and sisters have to stay up!

Fiona is still the one who takes the lead.

Fiona and Debbie made such a judgment based on their own cognition, and the path that Lip planned for himself was not like this.

Although he was ready to spend a few years at the University of Chicago, Lip wasn't a nerd who didn't just listen to what was going on outside the window.

Otherwise, the University of Chicago would not have set up a related physical education curriculum in the core teaching part of the first two years of admission, and equated the importance of physical education with other courses.

Lip had a good understanding of the teaching arrangements of the University of Chicago, and he got the textbooks of the 15 core courses he chose to apply for in his freshman and sophomore years in advance, and prepared them in advance.

As for the school requirement that he must be proficient in a foreign language, it is even easier for Lipu, his soul is reborn, in the white skin, he has a yellow-skinned soul, Chinese is his mother tongue, he speaks more slippery than English, and there is no problem with listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Achieving the standard of sports is not a problem for Lip, he has been exercising for nothing in vain, with his current physical condition, and physical condition, any sport, can be quickly started.

Preparing in advance has such an advantage, and the first two years of basic courses have not posed any problems for Lip.

The teaching model of the University of Chicago adopts a quarter system, which divides an academic year into four quarters, September to December in the fall, January to March in the winter, April to June in the spring, and June to August in the summer.

Students can freely arrange their own study plan in the four semesters, they can freely choose a certain number of semesters, study in school, and if they can be ruthless to themselves, they can also choose to fill up the four semesters all year round, so that they can compress the four-year undergraduate course into three years, or even two years.

At the end of each academic quarter, the University of Chicago holds a graduation ceremony, and students can graduate as soon as they meet the graduation requirements.

In the first school year, he arranged three quarters of courses for himself, from September to June next year, nine months, except for the school's statutory holidays, and Zhou, the rest of the time is planned to be spent in study.

Students can take five or six courses in each academic quarter, including three to four core courses, and use four to five academic quarters to complete at least 15 core courses required for the first two academic years, and at the same time get credits for more than a dozen elective courses.

After choosing a major, there are four to five more semesters to complete all the credits required for graduation, which is less than three years apart.

In the fourth year, you can apply to leave school and do your own graduation thesis research.

Every summer, it is still Lip's vacation time, more than two months, which is enough for Lip to be chic.

That's the initial plan, but it's not nailed and can be adjusted at any time according to changes.

Lip himself, is a rather casual person, and he is not very planned.

Therefore, the study plan at the undergraduate level only exists in his mind now, and it is not listed as a formal plan.

Of course, in addition to studying, a variety of extracurricular activities are what Lip must participate in and will definitely participate in, and the good life of the university is more reflected in this aspect.

Although the University of Chicago is known for its rigorous academic style, in order to attract more high-quality talents, the extracurricular activities at the undergraduate level are now much richer than in the early years.