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On April 20 2010 16:53 spkim1 wrote:Show nested quote +On March 17 2010 19:55 abomi.nation wrote:
(Canadian Universities)
As of now, accepted: McGill, UofT, UBC
Waiting: Queens, Waterloo UBC FTW definitely. Strongly recommend. Beautiful campus, close to downtown, and just by the beaches !! Queens and Waterloo slightly fall in relative world ranking. I've heard UofT has bad reputation for undergrad student services. McGill is good too!
i chose queen;'s over UBC
i agree UBC is very beautiful, the main reason i chose queen's is because i want to get out of the west and see the east. Too asian here in the west lol.
also the applied science program at queen's is very good i enjoy it a lot
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On April 21 2010 05:22 Dragonman777 wrote:
UCSD! =D
what college? O:
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On March 18 2010 08:17 jalstar wrote:
UCSD - accepted
UCSB, UCLA, Cal - waiting
I'm gonna be a junior next year, transferring from community college to "real college". GPA is 3.5 ish, and they don't look at SAT scores.
UCSB, UCLA, Cal - accepted
I'm only seriously considering UCLA and Cal at the moment. Major is applied math.
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On April 30 2010 14:07 G3CKO wrote:Show nested quote +On April 20 2010 16:53 spkim1 wrote:On March 17 2010 19:55 abomi.nation wrote:
(Canadian Universities)
As of now, accepted: McGill, UofT, UBC
Waiting: Queens, Waterloo UBC FTW definitely. Strongly recommend. Beautiful campus, close to downtown, and just by the beaches !! Queens and Waterloo slightly fall in relative world ranking. I've heard UofT has bad reputation for undergrad student services. McGill is good too! i chose queen;'s over UBC i agree UBC is very beautiful, the main reason i chose queen's is because i want to get out of the west and see the east. Too asian here in the west lol. also the applied science program at queen's is very good i enjoy it a lot
Probably going with McGill after everything is said and done.. any TL'ers there?
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On April 30 2010 14:07 G3CKO wrote:Show nested quote +On April 20 2010 16:53 spkim1 wrote:On March 17 2010 19:55 abomi.nation wrote:
(Canadian Universities)
As of now, accepted: McGill, UofT, UBC
Waiting: Queens, Waterloo UBC FTW definitely. Strongly recommend. Beautiful campus, close to downtown, and just by the beaches !! Queens and Waterloo slightly fall in relative world ranking. I've heard UofT has bad reputation for undergrad student services. McGill is good too! i chose queen;'s over UBC i agree UBC is very beautiful, the main reason i chose queen's is because i want to get out of the west and see the east. Too asian here in the west lol. also the applied science program at queen's is very good i enjoy it a lot
it is seriously not an over generalization when people say ubc stands for university of a billion chinese, you'd think we were a part of asia
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Going to UofT Bachelor of Arts, can't wait~! :D
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Man I feel so unqualified.
Rejections from: Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Northwestern.
Late Rejection (waitlist): Rice
Accepted: ALL THE MOTHA FUCKING UCs!!! WHOO~ PUBLIC SCHOOLS LOVE ME!!!
I wanted to go to Rice =(.
UC GPA 4.2 (No freshman year or 1st semester senior year, and only 8 semesters of AP/honor class count towards weighted GPA)
Total weighted GPA: 4.22 (This includes freshman year, 1st semester senior year, and no weighted cap)
Around 22 semester of Honor/AP/college classes.
Around 50 semester worth of class.
SAT I: 2130. Reading 680. Math 790. Writing 660. <- English is my worst subject at school =(.
SAT 2: MATH 800, JAPANESE 800
3000+ hours of sports, clubs, volunteering, camp, research.
AP tests, colleges don't care but I got 5 on all 3 I got.
i feel so unqualified when compared to the 5 people who got into harvard from my school. With the 13 MIT, 6 stanford, etc etc... ARGHHH. Why is my school such an overachieving school. =(
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UMBC - Accepted!
Applied late and didn't apply anywhere else, go me!
SAT - 2070
didn't take subject tests or act olol
I think my individual scores were 710 reading, 690 english, 670 math. best for each was the same, except math which was 680.
GPA - not sure what it is on a 4.0 scale since I don't care, but it's like a 77% or something like that. maybe a few points lower without AP curve.
so that's like a 2.0 or something?
AP tests:
USH - 3
CS A - 5
CS AB - 5
Physics B - 4
GOPO - 3
just took stats (predicting 4), calc (predicting 5) and lit & comp (predicting 5).
zero extracurricular activities whatsoever.
as you can tell i'm a real overachiever.
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On May 01 2010 12:25 Divinek wrote:Show nested quote +On April 30 2010 14:07 G3CKO wrote:On April 20 2010 16:53 spkim1 wrote:On March 17 2010 19:55 abomi.nation wrote:
(Canadian Universities)
As of now, accepted: McGill, UofT, UBC
Waiting: Queens, Waterloo UBC FTW definitely. Strongly recommend. Beautiful campus, close to downtown, and just by the beaches !! Queens and Waterloo slightly fall in relative world ranking. I've heard UofT has bad reputation for undergrad student services. McGill is good too! i chose queen;'s over UBC i agree UBC is very beautiful, the main reason i chose queen's is because i want to get out of the west and see the east. Too asian here in the west lol. also the applied science program at queen's is very good i enjoy it a lot it is seriously not an over generalization when people say ubc stands for university of a billion chinese, you'd think we were a part of asia
as a student who's taken classes in UBC (during high school) and now is in the east coast... I absolutely miss the gorgeous mountains and sea ='(
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going to HMC, which Day[9] went to coincidentally.
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Man ... it must be damn difficult to get a perfect score in SAT I nowadays. It used to be fairly doable to get a 1600 in the old version.
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got into Georgetown. Woot.
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+ Show Spoiler +Congratulations to everyone, and more congratulations to people who got into schools in the Washington DC area, more LAN's? :D lol + Show Spoiler +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 I went to boarding school near Princeton, even though I would have gone to Monta Vista and that doesn't seem odd at all. I'd explain the whole admission process that schools like Princeton would take for large californian public schools. Even though they consider monta vista and cupertino like, top 100 public high schools in the nation that doesn't mean mutch, its such a crapshoot from that far away. I think the worst thing about randomness is the UC schools though. They're so freaking full of themselves at admissions there. I had a friend in high school who was a good student probably sported a 3.7 or so unweighted, ethnically African American and had pretty good athletic records, took some engineering/math based routes in terms of his classes while in high school, and only received one rejection letter. The schools he got accepted to: Stanford (where he ended up going) UC Berkeley Princeton Harvard UPenn Johns Hopkins Duke Columbia His one rejection? UCLA......yep the funny thing is you can't say that he's overqualified to go to UCLA which is why they rejected him, since his SAT scores, gpa, extracurriculars, etc. would probably be dwarfed to many who go to UCLA. Go figure. I don't really have much faith in the UC system to be honest, they look at your application for 15 seconds and decide. And clearly that last case is just another girl who's good at math lol. Stanford and Princeton and even a bit of Harvard are much more preppy schools that take some specification to get in to. MIT Caltech are one trick pony's and U Chicago is like the great math school that people want to go to if they don't want to sound TOO nerdy for going to MIT or CalTech. To ramble a bit on past posts that I can't find to quote, GPA is one of the more useless things just because of grade inflation in different areas. Its funny all throughout middle school I had gotten straight A's 4.0 (no A+'s at my school) etc. The people who's grades and stuff I compared to would get good grades around 3.9-4.0 unweighted in public high school, whereas I went to a boarding school and got my ass handed to me and exited with I think a 2.9 unweighted. But when schools saw that I had 800 SAT II's in Physics and Math and an 800 in the SAT Math section and a 2100 overall, obviously something different occurred. GPA really depends on where you went to school which is why they can look at things like 1) name of your school, if its recognized 2) type of school (public, private, catholic, boarding, home schooled) and 3) your class ranking On April 02 2010 12:32 Monkeyboi2k3 wrote:UMichigan Ann Arbor: Accepted UMaryland CP: Accepted w/ Presidents Scholarhsip Babson: Accepted Georgetown: Rejected UCLA: Rejected JHU: Rejected UVA: Rejected NYU: Waiting -> Not home to check my mail  Cornell: Rejected UPenn: Rejected GW: Accepted I couldn't say I'm properly biased if I didn't say that GW is a great school, not sure what you're majoring in though but its very nice here and that maybe you should consider it along with your other choice ;o
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If anyone has questions about UCLA they can shoot me a PM. General advise would be to just not be too set in your major for your first 2 years and feel free to change it, a 17 year old in high school doesn't know what the hell he wants to major in. I really hate that its even part of the application process.
On April 18 2010 23:37 Myxomatosis wrote:This
Bowties are pimp. Ivies are for people who want to pay out of their ass. Unless they are looking for business contacts in later life, in which case it's for soulless businessmen.
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Queens Nursing (#1 choice) - Decision Pending
Queens Science - Decision Pending
Queens Arts - You have been made an offer of admission
Finally heard back from Queens,
On a side note, anyone here attend queens (Kingston, Canada)?
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On May 06 2010 20:27 MuffinDude wrote:
Man I feel so unqualified.
Rejections from: Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Northwestern.
Late Rejection (waitlist): Rice
Accepted: ALL THE MOTHA FUCKING UCs!!! WHOO~ PUBLIC SCHOOLS LOVE ME!!!
I wanted to go to Rice =(.
UC GPA 4.2 (No freshman year or 1st semester senior year, and only 8 semesters of AP/honor class count towards weighted GPA)
Total weighted GPA: 4.22 (This includes freshman year, 1st semester senior year, and no weighted cap)
Around 22 semester of Honor/AP/college classes.
Around 50 semester worth of class.
SAT I: 2130. Reading 680. Math 790. Writing 660. <- English is my worst subject at school =(.
SAT 2: MATH 800, JAPANESE 800
3000+ hours of sports, clubs, volunteering, camp, research.
AP tests, colleges don't care but I got 5 on all 3 I got.
i feel so unqualified when compared to the 5 people who got into harvard from my school. With the 13 MIT, 6 stanford, etc etc... ARGHHH. Why is my school such an overachieving school. =(
Hey man,
Don't be so hard on yourself, those are some impressive stats and many people are envious of those scores. These scores show that you are smart and a hard worker and you are your own harshest critic. These are qualities that will allow you to be successful no matter what school you go to. Public school does have its advantages, usually a lot cheaper and you have the same access to the broad number of majors/minors/disciplines offered at the most elite schools. So may argue that elite schools have better teachers and environment. However, college is what you make of it. If your goal is grad school, you can easily make an elite school of your choice by not hanging your head and focusing on your studies (use it as motivation).
I cannot stress how important it is to not get down on yourself. Many of my friends spent the first years of college moping/complaining/trying to transfer and end up realizing they were just wasting the time. Its time to move forward and excel in college and move on to the next phase of your life.
If you are interested in sciences I would suggest getting into a lab asap and learn as much as you can. It will allow you to secure a terrific letter of recommendation and if you are lucky, a publication. This will really boost your resume and set you apart from your peers, even those that went to elite schools. It is all about application of knowledge now, an elite diploma may get in through the door, but it is getting less and less prestigious. Someone that excelled at a public school (remember since its a state school there will still be name recognition) and spent their undergrad years trying to apply what they learn in classroom in a real research lab with a publication will be priceless.
Good luck, everything works out, you will meet lifelong frames and have a blast!
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On May 08 2010 03:29 Elegance wrote:
Queens Nursing (#1 choice) - Decision Pending
Queens Science - Decision Pending
Queens Arts - You have been made an offer of admission
Finally heard back from Queens,
On a side note, anyone here attend queens (Kingston, Canada)?
I don't, but I go to RMC, which is just down the road. Give me a shout when you get to the area and we can try to find other TL'ers and get something going! I know Chill said he was coming back for homecoming at some point, but I have no idea when that will be.
On a related subject, anyone at Queens/St Lawrence (lol) who wants to organize some SC get together should definitely let me know.
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On May 09 2010 05:08 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:Show nested quote +On May 08 2010 03:29 Elegance wrote:
Queens Nursing (#1 choice) - Decision Pending
Queens Science - Decision Pending
Queens Arts - You have been made an offer of admission
Finally heard back from Queens,
On a side note, anyone here attend queens (Kingston, Canada)? I don't, but I go to RMC, which is just down the road. Give me a shout when you get to the area and we can try to find other TL'ers and get something going! I know Chill said he was coming back for homecoming at some point, but I have no idea when that will be. On a related subject, anyone at Queens/St Lawrence (lol) who wants to organize some SC get together should definitely let me know.
Oh i already live in kingston (and have for about 5 years) but yeah, getting together with TLers in kingston at some point would be sick
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Having read through this thread, I know there are a few people at College Park, but is anyone at UMBC? Want to know whether or not I'm the only TL.netter here.
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