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What did you plan on majoring in? A bunch of my friends with 1900ish SATs got into UCSD for like economics and poli sci, but all of my friends with like 2100+ who wanted engineering got backhanded T_T
budget cuts > UC zzz
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FragKrag
United States11552 Posts
What did you plan on majoring in? A bunch of my friends with 1900ish SATs got into UCSD for like economics and poli sci, but all of my friends with like 2100+ who wanted engineering got backhanded T_T budget cuts > UC zzz | ||
Mystlord
United States10264 Posts
And the Michigan point system thing was overruled: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratz_v_bollinger Just pointing that out. | ||
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johnnyspazz
Taiwan1470 Posts
On March 19 2010 15:02 FragKrag wrote: Wow that sucks johnnyspazz What did you plan on majoring in? A bunch of my friends with 1900ish SATs got into UCSD for like economics and poli sci, but all of my friends with like 2100+ who wanted engineering got backhanded T_T budget cuts > UC zzz yeah i wanted to get in for engineering. i probably should've applied for economics :p | ||
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FragKrag
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LosingID8
CA10828 Posts
i'm actually 100% serious about this | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
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On March 19 2010 14:55 ]343[ wrote: mm yes I was planning on putting that ("undesirable") in quotes, but I think it is "politically correct" to say that having equal representation in such things is desirable. For example, there have been only 3 girls to make the US International Math Olympiad team (in ~30 years, with 6 people on the team every year.) ~60 times more boys than girls... is that really representative (i.e. are boys 60 times better at math than girls)? Plus there are far fewer female mathematicians. A lot of this is cultural, and I think affirmative action attempts to break that cultural preference/stigma/darn I can't think of the word. I really hate this kind of thinking. There's no rule that says you need to have equal representation Some people are better at some things, but everyone sees this as a gross social injustice. We might as well say that we should shave two seconds off everyone Asian's 100m dash speed at the Olympics to rectify the gross injustice of no Asians ever having won it, no? | ||
]343[
United States10328 Posts
On March 19 2010 15:42 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: I really hate this kind of thinking. There's no rule that says you need to have equal representation Some people are better at some things, but everyone sees this as a gross social injustice. We might as well say that we should shave two seconds off everyone Asian's 100m dash speed at the Olympics to rectify the gross injustice of no Asians ever having won it, no? haha this I think is again a cultural thing (plus people outside this group have succeeded before)... but I will stop arguing because I'm not really a super-affirmative-action supporter anyways  (I'm just trying to explain what I perceive as the reasoning behind it). | ||
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[AhunGrY]MelOn
United States357 Posts
uchicago - deferred early, waiting on regular waiting on harvard and princeton | ||
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]343[
United States10328 Posts
On March 19 2010 15:50 [AhunGrY]MelOn wrote: for undergrad: uchicago - deferred early, waiting on regular waiting on harvard and princeton i think you applied to more than 3 schools? also post stats gogo | ||
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johnnyspazz
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o[twist]
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obesechicken13
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LucasWoJ
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eatmyshorts5
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FragKrag
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OmgIRok
Taiwan2699 Posts
On March 19 2010 15:41 LosingID8 wrote: ez solution: get a high GPA and good P/SAT/II scores, go to USC and don't worry about budget cuts! i'm actually 100% serious about this Don't u need $$$ for that? or is there financial aid or something ?_? | ||
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FragKrag
United States11552 Posts
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illu
Canada2531 Posts
On March 19 2010 12:45 Jathin wrote: Don't go to Johns Hopkins for undergrad, it's fucking miserable. Seriously. You will hate your life. Why is JHU bad? Elabourate please? I want to know. | ||
Empyrean
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On March 22 2010 13:34 illu wrote: Why is JHU bad? Elabourate please? I want to know. Bad neighborhood, nonexistent campus culture, depressing as fuck. | ||
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Chen
United States6344 Posts
On March 22 2010 13:06 OmgIRok wrote: Don't u need $$$ for that? or is there financial aid or something ?_? my friend got a full ride to USC, fits the above description pretty well | ||
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