EPTHow did you choose your college? - Page 2
| Blogs > Jonoman92 |
|
Titusmaster6
United States5937 Posts
| ||
|
Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
On September 11 2008 13:12 DukE_ss wrote: Isn't Emory an all girls school? Maybe I'm just thinking of spelling. Nope, Emory's not an all girls school. It's one of the better private schools down south, and has a really great med program. Emory's financial aid however for me was absolutely -_- | ||
|
DarkOptik
452 Posts
Despite your high GPA, I think you may have difficulty getting into schools in the top 20. Having an ACT score of 32 just barely gets you into the "range" required for schools in around 10-20. My brother got a perfect score on the ACT, 4.5 GPA, but was rejected from 5/6 top 10 schools he applied to. Also, college admissions are becoming far less about simply having the grades or the scores, but there's a heavy emphasis on extracurriculars, the essays, and basically everything else. | ||
|
clazziquai
6685 Posts
Engineering program isnt that bad either. | ||
|
ahrara_
Afghanistan1715 Posts
however, it is the best fucking experience ever. | ||
|
Caller
Poland8075 Posts
On September 11 2008 13:01 kpcrew wrote: tucker max says that uchicago is NOT the place to go apparently the girls are hideous, unlike girls at places like vanderbilt and duke where people are just as smart, but better looking tucker went to uchicago clearly something is good with the school if it produces people like tucker max | ||
|
EtherealDeath
United States8366 Posts
2370 SAT UNC Chapel Hill Free Tuition wootwoot (thank you lovely NC School of Science and Math) and cheap as hell in state too, pretty good school as well. | ||
|
Superiorwolf
United States5509 Posts
and to get a 5.0 you need straight A's in all weighted classes. | ||
|
Kami
United States127 Posts
| ||
|
Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
On September 11 2008 14:01 EtherealDeath wrote: 5.something GPA 2370 SAT UNC Chapel Hill Free Tuition wootwoot (thank you lovely NC School of Science and Math) and cheap as hell in state too, pretty good school as well. Fucking UNC Chapel Hill is ridiculously easy to get into in state, but HELL out of state. You need to be like 1337 to get into Chapel Hill from outta state. Anyways, financial aid blows if your parents make over 100k unless you go to like the Ivies, who have really generous financial aid. Anyways, I chose Northwestern over my instate Georgia schools because I seriously felt like I needed to get outta this hell hole. Plus, Emory and Tech aren't suited for me. Not interested in Med or Engineering. | ||
|
Caller
Poland8075 Posts
On September 11 2008 14:07 Roffles wrote: Fucking UNC Chapel Hill is ridiculously easy to get into in state, but HELL out of state. You need to be like 1337 to get into Chapel Hill from outta state. Anyways, financial aid blows if your parents make over 100k unless you go to like the Ivies, who have really generous financial aid. Anyways, I chose Northwestern over my instate Georgia schools because I seriously felt like I needed to get outta this hell hole. Plus, Emory and Tech aren't suited for me. Not interested in Med or Engineering. Financial aid is something we can only wish for haha i got zippo hurray for being like the only kid not getting financial aid in my town where the average income is like 250k if you dont like science, you might wanna go for lib arts. Unless you want to do econ, in which case ring me up and I'll take you for a visit... lol edit: going to northwestern? hmm... you may know some kids I know. | ||
|
Xeris
Iran17695 Posts
On September 11 2008 14:05 Kami wrote: I chose my school based on national rankings. I'm going to be a college freshman this fall at UCSD. My SAT score is the same as yours, 1940. UCSD is ranked around #10 in engineering. UC Berkeley is better though. UCSD ftw ! =D I chose my college because on the last day UC apps were due I was like "FUCK IT LETS APPLY TO UC's" - and I got into UCSD and UCLA and I said "fuck I dont want to go to school 20 mins from home (UCLA).. I'll go to UCSD! my GPA was bad in hs (3.3) and I only got a 1980 SAT... but my CC GPA was ballin, and I had very neat extracurriculars and shit - published a book of poetry when I was 15 years old, so that probably helped. | ||
|
Luddite
United States2315 Posts
On September 11 2008 12:48 Jonoman92 wrote: The title says it all pretty much. I'm a senior and I'm confident I could get into all but the very most selective school. Although for an expensive private school I would probably need financial aid to be able to go. I have a 4.5GPA(weighted) and a 32 on the ACT. (I got a 1940 on the SAT but meh that's not that good but i don't wanna retake it.) How did you guys choose what college to go to? I don't want to go to the local state college, Kansas University, because I feel like I need a different experience and I want to be further than 45 minutes away. Woah Where are you from? You sound a lot like where I was. I had really good test scores and didn't want to go to KU (my hometown), but I ended up going there anyway because, in spite of my scores, all the hard-to-get-in-to universities rejected me. But it worked out OK because KU turned out to really awesome for me. And university is really different from high school even if you're not far away, and it's nice to be able to visit enough. Anyway don't feel like you have to go to some top ranked school or you're a failure. You can get a good education at a big state university like KU and have an awesome time as well. Actually one of my friends who did his bachelor's there was accepted at every single one of the elite grad schools he applied to, with fellowships and everything. | ||
|
Ozarugold
2716 Posts
| ||
|
SaveYourSavior
United States1071 Posts
If you got a 32 on ACT, there is no need to retake your SAT unless you thinkyou can do better than roughly 2120`. Good enough unless you apply to a strange school that doesnt accept ACT. | ||
|
Centric
United States1989 Posts
| ||
|
jellyfish
United States149 Posts
Money is a good idea, though I can't say I followed the money... = T For me the most important concern was getting a good foundation for whatever I was going to do later, and since I wasn't sure with my major, I gave up two major scholarships at two other colleges to go for a solid, all-around school...it wasn't omg outstanding at anything, but I figured that was safer than going to a humanities school or a science school and then realizing I didn't like the track I was on...but being unable to do anything about it. Another advantage of going to a well-rounded school rather than a specialized one is that the student body will be more diverse, in terms of interests and views and such. My school is full of a lot of engineers, english majors, history majors, republicans, liberals, etc, and it's really interesting to go to a seminar and see all the different kinds of people there are. If I had ended up going to a liberal arts college I would be missing out on talking with all the engineers and scientists, so I'm thankful I chose a well-rounded school over the money... | ||
|
Xeris
Iran17695 Posts
| ||
|
ShadowDrgn
United States2497 Posts
I went to law school at Santa Clara because it had a great IP program and a great location. Unfortunately, it wasn't free.  I think extracurriculars are mostly worthless. If you're applying to Harvard, MIT, et al, you need some national or even international awards, unique experiences, or something like that. Joining a few clubs that everyone else is in doesn't distinguish you. For "good" schools, grades and scores are enough. Those are listed on university rankings; "number of students that were on the high school cross country team" isn't. | ||
|
EtherealDeath
United States8366 Posts
On September 11 2008 14:03 Superiorwolf wrote: you cant get over a 5.0??? and to get a 5.0 you need straight A's in all weighted classes. A's in the top classes at NCSSM were 6.0 Don't ask me why, they just did it. And all the colleges went along with it. *Shrug* www.ncssm.edu | ||
| ||
