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On April 02 2010 15:33 FragKrag wrote:
2010 seems like a very weird year to me. Lots of odd rejections. Nobody from my school even got accepted to Stanford, and Cupertino High is pretty high in high overachieving kids. Some girl who got into both MIT and Caltech was rejected by Stanford/Harvard/Princeton and waitlisted at Chicago (T_T)?
Though I got into my 2nd choice though, so I'm happy :D
Hey you go to Cupertino High? I'm a junior at Harker. whee small world
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On April 02 2010 15:34 XinRan wrote:Might as well post. College admissions </3 Harvard: rejected Yale: rejected Princeton: rejected Stanford: rejected MIT: rejected University of Pennsylvania: rejected Brown: wait list Duke: wait list University of Chicago: wait list Caltech: wait list Amherst: accepted Dartmouth: accepted University of Michigan: accepted Show nested quote +On April 02 2010 15:25 Empyrean wrote:On April 02 2010 15:21 phosphorylation wrote:On April 02 2010 13:25 Tyrio wrote:
Through some incredible combination of stupidity, laziness and arrogance I only applied to 3 schools. Didn't even apply to my state university as a back up -___-;;
Stanford: Rejected
Carnegie Mellon: Wait-listed
Georgia Tech: Accepted
Numbers:
2380 SAT
800 Math SAT II
730 Physics SAT II
8 AP Tests (6 5s, 2 4s)
5.8/6.0 GPA (3.98/4.00)
National Merit Finalist
Ton of extracurricular through Math Club/Competitions, placed several times in state competitions
A decent amount of community service
No jobs though man, i can't believe you seiously only applied to three with those stats you could have gotten at least into a low ivy (cornell, possibly columbia etc) I can't believe you consider Columbia a "low ivy." That just screams misplaced condescension :/ Well, it's certainly low compared to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. In fact, I've heard from two former classmates of mine at Columbia say that Columbia's academics isn't that strong.
As a student at Columbia, I can tell you that the academics are in fact, very strong. If you want classes to be easy, take easy classes. If you want them to be hard, take hard classes. Low floor, high ceiling. It's not like everyone at Columbia (or any college for that matter) has the same experience. As students in college, we actually all have radically different experiences depending on our interests and majors. To say that academics "aren't that strong" at Columbia is kind of a massive oversimplification of one of the most complex universities in the world.
I could just as easily say that any other school's "academics" (what does that even mean?) "aren't that strong." That statement doesn't really mean anything. To say that some Ivies are "low" and others are "high" is just disregarding the value of a college experience entirely.
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damn chen, i wish you the best of luck since UC Berkeley is such a shitty school that i would never want to go to...
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United States4796 Posts
On April 02 2010 15:17 thundertoss wrote:
current cmu. what is your major divinO?
Materials Engineering. :3
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MURICA15980 Posts
On April 02 2010 15:24 flamewheel91 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2010 09:41 Chen wrote:On April 02 2010 09:37 ammeL wrote:
How you were rejected from all those places, Chen, I do not know... well, at least that's the proof that college acceptances are heavily arbitrary. Asian male from a middle class family thats not first in the family to attend college. Same story here man. Being an Asian male in the middle brackets, second generation really sucks. I feel for you. And like you, I'm probably going to be ending up at my state flagship school. Really don't want to shell out 42k per year for Duke.
I just want to say that I think its worth it.
On April 02 2010 15:32 flamewheel91 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2010 15:30 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:On April 02 2010 15:27 phosphorylation wrote:On April 02 2010 15:25 Empyrean wrote:On April 02 2010 15:21 phosphorylation wrote:On April 02 2010 13:25 Tyrio wrote:
Through some incredible combination of stupidity, laziness and arrogance I only applied to 3 schools. Didn't even apply to my state university as a back up -___-;;
Stanford: Rejected
Carnegie Mellon: Wait-listed
Georgia Tech: Accepted
Numbers:
2380 SAT
800 Math SAT II
730 Physics SAT II
8 AP Tests (6 5s, 2 4s)
5.8/6.0 GPA (3.98/4.00)
National Merit Finalist
Ton of extracurricular through Math Club/Competitions, placed several times in state competitions
A decent amount of community service
No jobs though man, i can't believe you seiously only applied to three with those stats you could have gotten at least into a low ivy (cornell, possibly columbia etc) I can't believe you consider Columbia a "low ivy." That just screams misplaced condescension :/ well it is "lower" than harvard princeton yale edit: you guys know what i am talking about; i admit the usage is bit lazy Holistic rankings of schools are stupid anyways, it really only matters what department. Columbia's undergraduate engineering school is probably better than HYP. The only rankings that matter is by specific major/schools :S And this is right: A lot of "lesser" colleges, such as Notre Dame, UVA, or UNC-Chapel Hill have a better business department for undergrad than the HPY. (I'm probably doing business. Mlah.) Other than UPenn, actually, a lot of the ivies don't really focus on undergrad stuff much.
In terms of business tho, if you wanna work at Wall St, there are TONS of recruiters who go to the Ivies that do not have dedicated business programs to recruit and recruit heavily from there. All my friends in Penn's Wharton School always meet guys from Harvard, Yale, etc when interviewing at banks, hedge funds, etc in NYC. Having said that, if you want to do finance, there's absolutely no better place to go than Penn. I try to say that with as little bias as possible.
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Got into Harvard, Yale, Columbia (John Jay Scholar), Brown, UPenn, Georgetown, Fordham (Presidential Scholar), BC.
Waitlisted at Princeton.
Really, really, really, really happy. Waiting for financial aid, which will be the ultimate decider, methinks.
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Accepted; Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Vanderbilt, U of Virginia, Washigton and Lee U., Uk
Waitlisted: Cornell
Rejected: MIT
Super happy, but how the heck am I supposed to decide between HY and P??? all gave me full Financial aid too....
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Baa?21245 Posts
On April 02 2010 22:47 Klogon wrote:
Having said that, if you want to do finance, there's absolutely no better place to go than Penn. I try to say that with as little bias as possible.
NYU's program is just as good, or at least runs a close second, which is more than made up by the location and convenience IMO. Easier/more convenient internships during college =P
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On April 03 2010 01:31 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2010 22:47 Klogon wrote:
Having said that, if you want to do finance, there's absolutely no better place to go than Penn. I try to say that with as little bias as possible.
NYU's program is just as good, or at least runs a close second, which is more than made up by the location and convenience IMO. Easier/more convenient internships during college =P
Do you go to NYU? I can't seem to access the housing page and I want to know if it is guaranteeed, price, etc.
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On April 02 2010 22:34 DivinO wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2010 15:17 thundertoss wrote:
current cmu. what is your major divinO? Materials Engineering. :3
Welcome to CMU, you'll love it here.
(SCS '13 myself)
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Baa?21245 Posts
On April 03 2010 01:43 Wala.Revolution wrote:Show nested quote +On April 03 2010 01:31 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:On April 02 2010 22:47 Klogon wrote:
Having said that, if you want to do finance, there's absolutely no better place to go than Penn. I try to say that with as little bias as possible.
NYU's program is just as good, or at least runs a close second, which is more than made up by the location and convenience IMO. Easier/more convenient internships during college =P Do you go to NYU? I can't seem to access the housing page and I want to know if it is guaranteeed, price, etc.
Yep I'm at NYU Stern. Housing is guaranteed if you fill out all the forms/meet the deadlines/pay the fees. As for quality, I can say that freshman housing definitely leaves a lot to be desired, but startnig from year 2, the price remains the same bu the quality increases dramatically, and you would pay less than you would pay for a comparable apartment out of NYU.
NYU does carry a pretty steep price tag, but it's about on par with most private universities. Depends on your aid I guess. NYU has a reputation of being stingy, but I'm fairly satisfied with my financial aid considering my background (20k/year for a upper middle class standard suburban Asian family), but I also know a lot of people who're fairly unsatisfied with their aid. Wait and see I guess.
What school are you in? I know Stern tends to give better aid than other schools.
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thedeadhaji
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On April 02 2010 15:33 FragKrag wrote:
2010 seems like a very weird year to me. Lots of odd rejections. Nobody from my school even got accepted to Stanford, and Cupertino High is pretty high in high overachieving kids. Some girl who got into both MIT and Caltech was rejected by Stanford/Harvard/Princeton and waitlisted at Chicago (T_T)?
Though I got into my 2nd choice though, so I'm happy :D
It's comparatively much easier for a girl to get into MIT / Caltech than a male counterpart due to social pressures in balancing the gender gap so it's not too surprising that she was rejected from other top tier schools but got accepted to these 2 institutions (I'm sure she's very hard working and intelligent, but college admissions are a bit of a crapshoot, so having higher odds of getting in at tech schools would definitely lean her towards these results)
2c
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I'm happy for you all but reading all of these makes me depressed 
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FREEAGLELAND26782 Posts
On April 02 2010 22:47 Klogon wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2010 15:24 flamewheel91 wrote:On April 02 2010 09:41 Chen wrote:On April 02 2010 09:37 ammeL wrote:
How you were rejected from all those places, Chen, I do not know... well, at least that's the proof that college acceptances are heavily arbitrary. Asian male from a middle class family thats not first in the family to attend college. Same story here man. Being an Asian male in the middle brackets, second generation really sucks. I feel for you. And like you, I'm probably going to be ending up at my state flagship school. Really don't want to shell out 42k per year for Duke. I just want to say that I think its worth it. Show nested quote +On April 02 2010 15:32 flamewheel91 wrote:On April 02 2010 15:30 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:On April 02 2010 15:27 phosphorylation wrote:On April 02 2010 15:25 Empyrean wrote:On April 02 2010 15:21 phosphorylation wrote:On April 02 2010 13:25 Tyrio wrote:
Through some incredible combination of stupidity, laziness and arrogance I only applied to 3 schools. Didn't even apply to my state university as a back up -___-;;
Stanford: Rejected
Carnegie Mellon: Wait-listed
Georgia Tech: Accepted
Numbers:
2380 SAT
800 Math SAT II
730 Physics SAT II
8 AP Tests (6 5s, 2 4s)
5.8/6.0 GPA (3.98/4.00)
National Merit Finalist
Ton of extracurricular through Math Club/Competitions, placed several times in state competitions
A decent amount of community service
No jobs though man, i can't believe you seiously only applied to three with those stats you could have gotten at least into a low ivy (cornell, possibly columbia etc) I can't believe you consider Columbia a "low ivy." That just screams misplaced condescension :/ well it is "lower" than harvard princeton yale edit: you guys know what i am talking about; i admit the usage is bit lazy Holistic rankings of schools are stupid anyways, it really only matters what department. Columbia's undergraduate engineering school is probably better than HYP. The only rankings that matter is by specific major/schools :S And this is right: A lot of "lesser" colleges, such as Notre Dame, UVA, or UNC-Chapel Hill have a better business department for undergrad than the HPY. (I'm probably doing business. Mlah.) Other than UPenn, actually, a lot of the ivies don't really focus on undergrad stuff much. In terms of business tho, if you wanna work at Wall St, there are TONS of recruiters who go to the Ivies that do not have dedicated business programs to recruit and recruit heavily from there. All my friends in Penn's Wharton School always meet guys from Harvard, Yale, etc when interviewing at banks, hedge funds, etc in NYC. Having said that, if you want to do finance, there's absolutely no better place to go than Penn. I try to say that with as little bias as possible.
Well, 42k would constitute nearly half of my family's income... just a bit pricey.
And yeah, that's how America works. Ivies get jobs, but besides Penn they don't have focus on business. But since I didn't get into Penn, I think the point is moot^^
On April 03 2010 02:02 thedeadhaji wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2010 15:33 FragKrag wrote:
2010 seems like a very weird year to me. Lots of odd rejections. Nobody from my school even got accepted to Stanford, and Cupertino High is pretty high in high overachieving kids. Some girl who got into both MIT and Caltech was rejected by Stanford/Harvard/Princeton and waitlisted at Chicago (T_T)?
Though I got into my 2nd choice though, so I'm happy :D It's comparatively much easier for a girl to get into MIT / Caltech than a male counterpart due to social pressures in balancing the gender gap so it's not too surprising that she was rejected from other top tier schools but got accepted to these 2 institutions (I'm sure she's very hard working and intelligent, but college admissions are a bit of a crapshoot, so having higher odds of getting in at tech schools would definitely lean her towards these results) 2c
The joke at my school this year (I go to a math and science magnet school?) was that Asian females got into college, but predominantly tech schools. One girl I know got MIT and Caltech easily when lots of qualified people were flat-out rejected, but didn't do so hot on ivies. Then again, she didn't care because she's going to MIT anyway. Very unbalanced guy-girl ratios for the win?
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On April 03 2010 01:57 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:Show nested quote +On April 03 2010 01:43 Wala.Revolution wrote:On April 03 2010 01:31 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:On April 02 2010 22:47 Klogon wrote:
Having said that, if you want to do finance, there's absolutely no better place to go than Penn. I try to say that with as little bias as possible.
NYU's program is just as good, or at least runs a close second, which is more than made up by the location and convenience IMO. Easier/more convenient internships during college =P Do you go to NYU? I can't seem to access the housing page and I want to know if it is guaranteeed, price, etc. Yep I'm at NYU Stern. Housing is guaranteed if you fill out all the forms/meet the deadlines/pay the fees. As for quality, I can say that freshman housing definitely leaves a lot to be desired, but startnig from year 2, the price remains the same bu the quality increases dramatically, and you would pay less than you would pay for a comparable apartment out of NYU. NYU does carry a pretty steep price tag, but it's about on par with most private universities. Depends on your aid I guess. NYU has a reputation of being stingy, but I'm fairly satisfied with my financial aid considering my background (20k/year for a upper middle class standard suburban Asian family), but I also know a lot of people who're fairly unsatisfied with their aid. Wait and see I guess. What school are you in? I know Stern tends to give better aid than other schools.
Arts and Sciences. I got accepted into the Global Liberal Studies Program but I am having doubts about whether this is what I want to do.
Anyone familiar with the GLSP?
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On March 18 2010 08:05 n.DieJokes wrote:
So far:
Rutgers: Accepted.10k Scholarship >.<
TCNJ- Accepted. 30k Scholarship
Duke- April 1st, double legacy; Rejected T.T
Cornell- Rejected
U Mich- Accepted
Princeton- ... lol feels dishonest to say I'm still waiting- Super Rejected
GPA- 4.3 Weighted
SAT- 760/750/710 r/m/w 2220
Math II- 800
Biology- 720 ( >.< )
Certified EMT
Misc. Math team/ NHS/ Science team/ Baseball/ Track/ Hospital Volunteering/ Latin Club ect.
Edit- (Lurker ^.^)
Well fuck me sideways. I guess Umich if I find some money and TCNJ or Rutgers if I can't. Sorry to the guy above me (lol, I was reading page 18 at the time); I'm surprised you got waitlisted at CMU. You're scores are amazing regardless
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