College Acceptance Thread '10 - Page 13

On March 23 2010 09:45 FragKrag wrote:
Woot got in UCSB :D

Probably going there unless I get accepted into Berkeley and my sister forces me to go!

On March 25 2010 12:10 vysis wrote:
UPenn: Accepted
Queens: Accepted
McGill: Accepted
Harvard: Accepted
Toronto: Accepted
MIT: Accepted
Princeton: Accepted
Yale: Accepted (with full scholarship)
Oxford: Accepted (They gave me a car)
Cambridge: Accepted (nothing =/)

Lakehead: Reject.

On March 25 2010 12:10 vysis wrote:
UPenn: Accepted
Queens: Accepted
McGill: Accepted
Harvard: Accepted
Toronto: Accepted
MIT: Accepted
Princeton: Accepted
Yale: Accepted (with full scholarship)
Oxford: Accepted (They gave me a car)
Cambridge: Accepted (nothing =/)

Lakehead: Reject.

On March 25 2010 12:10 vysis wrote:
UPenn: Accepted
Queens: Accepted
McGill: Accepted
Harvard: Accepted
Toronto: Accepted
MIT: Accepted
Princeton: Accepted
Yale: Accepted (with full scholarship)
Oxford: Accepted (They gave me a car)
Cambridge: Accepted (nothing =/)

Lakehead: Reject.

On March 25 2010 12:10 vysis wrote:
UPenn: Accepted
Queens: Accepted
McGill: Accepted
Harvard: Accepted
Toronto: Accepted
MIT: Accepted
Princeton: Accepted
Yale: Accepted (with full scholarship)
Oxford: Accepted (They gave me a car)
Cambridge: Accepted (nothing =/)

Lakehead: Reject.

On March 25 2010 12:40 growl wrote:
GPA: 4.3 weighted
sat: 2290
sat 2: 800 math 2, 800 chem, 800 us history
UCSB: Accepted
UC Davis: Accepted
UCLA: Accepted with Regents
UC Berkeley: Apparently I'm a Regents candidate, but I have no idea if that guarantees me to major I want. Accepted though.
MIT: Rejected
Caltech: Rejected
UChicago: Accepted
Harvey Mudd: Waiting
Columbia: Waiting

On March 25 2010 14:15 MrHoon wrote:
this is a bit late but I transferred to yonsei univ
woohooo

On March 19 2010 12:45 Jathin wrote:



Okay, this is not true. Baltimore is a unique city in that it's VERY patchwork. There are some neighborhoods that are phenomenal, and some that are dogshit. Charles Village, where the JHU undergrad campus is, is beautiful and safe. One thing JH does very well is security. They know everyone's afraid of Baltimore, so as an institution they invest more money in security than any other school I've seen.

Safety is NOT why you will be miserable at JH. You'll be miserable at JH because the culture is malignant. It's a huge pre-med school, and consists of obnoxious cut-throat premeds. Out of all the people who graduated JH undergrad in my program, there's only one that reflected on it positively (and he was not a standard pre-med major). As for the rest, the best answer I get is, "It was OK," or "It wasn't so bad."

No, sorry. You need to talk to people who are ECSTATIC about their undergrad experience. I had a fucking blast at my undergrad and would never rate it as, "OK." Great social life and performing well in school are not mutually exclusive. People in H.S. tend to be in two categories: the ones who are thinking, "I want to get a good degree and land a good professional track," and the ones who want to party. You can do BOTH. To say "I don't care about the culture," qualifies for only a minority of people (by minority of people, I mean people with pathologic antisocial disorder). Culture is HUGE, and I'm not just talking about partying. This includes academic culture.

If you want the best education you can get, do not go to JH. The best education comes from the best academic culture (don't make the mistake of thinking locking yourself in a room alone with a book will give you the best education). Other schools on the same caliber of JH foster better learning.

For the sake of your own social development, do not go to JH. Social growth is magnitudes more important than academic growth. JH is absolutely miserable (I repeat, absolutely miserable) for social growth. If you want to go far in life, you NEED social skills. While some people have that knack for social scenarios, most others have to learn it. You need the appropriate environment to be able to do this (read: NOT JH)

That being said, JH graduate programs are great and I'd encourage you to apply to their graduate programs after undergrad.

On March 25 2010 12:10 vysis wrote:
UPenn: Accepted
Queens: Accepted
McGill: Accepted
Harvard: Accepted
Toronto: Accepted
MIT: Accepted
Princeton: Accepted
Yale: Accepted (with full scholarship)
Oxford: Accepted (They gave me a car)
Cambridge: Accepted (nothing =/)

Lakehead: Reject.

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TL: Rejected.