On March 17 2010 18:58 R04R wrote: Fall of 2010 Acceptances BEGINS HERE.
UC Berkeley - Waiting UCLA - Denied UCSD - Denied UCSB - Waiting UCI - Waiting UCSC - Accepted! Cal Poly Slo - Accepted! Cal Poly Pomona - Accepted! San Diego State - Accepted! San Jose State - Accepted! CSU Long Beach - Accepted! Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute - Waitlisted?! Colorado School of Mines - Denied University of the Pacific - Accepted! Hofstra University - Accepted! Drexel University - Accepted!
All were applied to under Computer Engineering except for CSU Long Beach for Audio Engineering
3.42 unweighted 3.61 weighted 1890 SAT 750 Math II, 690 Bio 30 ACT Composite, 36 Math average extra-curriculars
Seems like Cal Poly Slo is too big of an opportunity for me to pass up on Computer Engineering. Employers grasp the concept that Slo is very hands on in their teaching, which translates into better work experience.
ugh, most decisions are out april 1st, day of dread >< Berkeley: early acceptance with Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship UCLA: accepted UCI and UC davis: auto-accepted with ELC Stanford:Reject waiting on the ivies
4.37 weighted GPA 2310 SAT 800 math II 800 Physics 790 Chemistry 760 US history
3 clubs with leadership positions, 2 jobs, 3 community service activities 3 internships no sports, but 3 non-athletic varsity positions
AP's: Chemistry-->4 European History-->5 Calculus AB-->5 Physics C E&M-->5 Physics C M-->5 Environmental Science-->5 Calculus BC-->5 Statistics-->5 US History-->5 Art History, World History, Biology, Government in progress
On March 17 2010 20:01 Chen wrote: ugh, most decisions are out april 1st, day of dread >< Berkeley: early acceptance with Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship UCLA: accepted UCI and UC davis: auto-accepted with ELC waiting on the ivies
4.37 weighted GPA 2310 SAT 800 math II 800 Physics 790 Chemistry 760 US history
3 clubs with leadership positions, 2 jobs, 3 community service activities 3 internships no sports, but 3 non-athletic varsity positions
Jeez man, you're making pretty much everyone look like a slacker. Impressive stuff.
On March 17 2010 20:01 Chen wrote: ugh, most decisions are out april 1st, day of dread >< Berkeley: early acceptance with Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship UCLA: accepted UCI and UC davis: auto-accepted with ELC waiting on the ivies
4.37 weighted GPA 2310 SAT 800 math II 800 Physics 790 Chemistry 760 US history
3 clubs with leadership positions, 2 jobs, 3 community service activities 3 internships no sports, but 3 non-athletic varsity positions
did you apply to stanford if so whats your iccup rank
On March 17 2010 20:01 Chen wrote: ugh, most decisions are out april 1st, day of dread >< Berkeley: early acceptance with Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship UCLA: accepted UCI and UC davis: auto-accepted with ELC waiting on the ivies
4.37 weighted GPA 2310 SAT 800 math II 800 Physics 790 Chemistry 760 US history
3 clubs with leadership positions, 2 jobs, 3 community service activities 3 internships no sports, but 3 non-athletic varsity positions
Me thinks you have nothing to dread. Pop the champagne and let the fat envelopes flow in.
Princeton accepted with teaching assistant associateship Carnegie Mellon accepted without money Berkeley denied
CSE/Math bachelors at ohio state university Double honors Overall GPA 3.58, CSE only 3.88, Math only 3.2~ (Almost) no research experience Grading position for 2 quarters 800 math 540 english 5.0 essay GRE, no special GRE's taken
Actually, if it cheers anyone up, graduate schools don't look at your list of extracurricular activities almost at all. The whole hype about doing a lot of them in high school is mostly because there aren't real ways to distinguish yourself in high school, since the highest you could do is just have good grades/AP exams/standard tests, but getting good grades in those has two problems: - the upper plank isnt all that high - different places have totally different grading scales.
When applying to masters or PhD they'll mostly look at the classes you've taken and where you've taken them... that's usually enough information for them
On March 17 2010 20:01 Chen wrote: ugh, most decisions are out april 1st, day of dread >< Berkeley: early acceptance with Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship UCLA: accepted UCI and UC davis: auto-accepted with ELC waiting on the ivies
4.37 weighted GPA 2310 SAT 800 math II 800 Physics 790 Chemistry 760 US history
3 clubs with leadership positions, 2 jobs, 3 community service activities 3 internships no sports, but 3 non-athletic varsity positions
4.1 - 4.2 weighted 2050 SAT 790 math, 670 writing, 590 reading = 2050 SAT 780 math II 640 U.S :[ 0 club with leaderships 1 job 1 major community service, 100hours or so of others combined 0 internships marching band for a year?
Can I ask how much it costs to apply to schools in the states? In Canada it was minimal, but in Japan it can be 1-2-400 dollars per university. Some of you guys apply to a lot of places ><
On March 17 2010 23:32 superbabosheki wrote: UCI: Accepted UCSD : DENIED UCLA : DENIED UCR : ACCEPTED CALSTATEFULLERTON: ACCEPTED UC:BERKELY: WAITING, but probably DENIED
4.1 - 4.2 weighted 2050 SAT 790 math, 670 writing, 590 reading = 2050 SAT 780 math II 640 U.S :[ 0 club with leaderships 1 job 1 major community service, 100hours or so of others combined 0 internships marching band for a year?
Chen raped me.
This is a pretty solid resume, right? How the hell did oyu get denied to UCLA??
Chen's.... jeez man. Ain't got nothin to worry about.
Hopefully I can post here soon about getting into a good law school wooooo
Most apps are between $35 for cheap up to $100 for an app. Nothing over that unless you're a special condition art student or something. Most are around $50 to $70 range.
On March 17 2010 23:35 Manifesto7 wrote: Can I ask how much it costs to apply to schools in the states? In Canada it was minimal, but in Japan it can be 1-2-400 dollars per university. Some of you guys apply to a lot of places ><
It really depends on school. Mostly between $30~$70 USD if I remember correctly, it's been a while.
On March 17 2010 23:35 Manifesto7 wrote: Can I ask how much it costs to apply to schools in the states? In Canada it was minimal, but in Japan it can be 1-2-400 dollars per university. Some of you guys apply to a lot of places ><
Its just an application fee that ranges from school to school, it can be anywhere from 20-60ish bucks. At least for undergrad because the HS will send out everything else. Now applying to Graduate programs becomes worse because you have to spend extra money on 100 transcripts to send out heh.
On March 17 2010 23:32 superbabosheki wrote: UCI: Accepted UCSD : DENIED UCLA : DENIED UCR : ACCEPTED CALSTATEFULLERTON: ACCEPTED UC:BERKELY: WAITING, but probably DENIED
4.1 - 4.2 weighted 2050 SAT 790 math, 670 writing, 590 reading = 2050 SAT 780 math II 640 U.S :[ 0 club with leaderships 1 job 1 major community service, 100hours or so of others combined 0 internships marching band for a year?
Chen raped me.
Oh man I feel bad for you
I got accepted UCSD 2 years ago with like 4.1 GPA, 1990 SAT, 710 MATH 2, 790 Bio, zero community service, but a bunch of sports/music.
On March 17 2010 20:01 Chen wrote: ugh, most decisions are out april 1st, day of dread >< Berkeley: early acceptance with Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship UCLA: accepted UCI and UC davis: auto-accepted with ELC waiting on the ivies
4.37 weighted GPA 2310 SAT 800 math II 800 Physics 790 Chemistry 760 US history
3 clubs with leadership positions, 2 jobs, 3 community service activities 3 internships no sports, but 3 non-athletic varsity positions
Jesus christ, your scores are almost near perfection. What is your secret?
On March 17 2010 23:35 Manifesto7 wrote: Can I ask how much it costs to apply to schools in the states? In Canada it was minimal, but in Japan it can be 1-2-400 dollars per university. Some of you guys apply to a lot of places ><
I think its like $50 but it varies anywhere from like $20 to $100+ I'm guessing on the prestige of the school?
My high school I went to paid for the first 4 or 5 college applications and we were on our own after that.
NOTE: Prospective grad student here, finishing undergrad now.
UIUC: Accepted into Ph.D. program, three-year fellowship covers tuition, stipend reduces from $17k to $8k after first year. Also optional 10 hour TA job on top of that. Research assistantship (RA) yet to materialize. UCSD: Accepted into Ph.D. program, one-year fellowship covers tuition and $21k stipend. Two profs agreed to co-advise my research. (excited!) Clemson: Accepted into Ph.D. program, fellowships and RA (from current advisor) cover tuition and maybe $30k more the first year, then $20k afterwards. MIT: Reject. Stanford: Reject.
Undergrad electrical engineering at Clemson, communications focus (applied to same area everywhere). GPA: 4.0, but we don't give out A- grades, and classes are not that rigorous here... GRE: 800 Math, 710 Verbal, 5.0 Writing, no subject GRE. Research 2-3 years experience with 1 crappy conference paper published in slightly-related field. I probably will have another conference paper submission by the end of the semester. Recommendations: I had worked on projects/research for all profs writing letters. Coursework: slightly ahead of most students in some areas but with weakish math background. Awards: Goldwater Scholarship (undergrad award), National Merit Scholarship (from HS) Also + Show Spoiler +
my research advisor now is a big name in the field, and he has very strong ties to both UIUC and UCSD. I'm sure his recommendation has a big part to play in my offers at those institutions, and that they don't really reflect on my ability or aptitude as much, lol.
Honestly I have a feeling that the 2nd major in math played a bigger role for me than anything from CSE. One of the professors here upon finding out that I have a math major immediately offered me a research associateship should I go to OSU. Getting a full ride + 20k a year stipend for a teaching assistant associateship as a Masters only student is very rare too, I heard.
is there a college connections thread out there for freshmen TL'ers to talk to upperclassmen already in college? probably won't apply to me since my school is almost a backwater compared to better-known schools like the ivies or UCLA or something, but i figure it's a good idea.
On March 17 2010 23:35 Manifesto7 wrote: Can I ask how much it costs to apply to schools in the states? In Canada it was minimal, but in Japan it can be 1-2-400 dollars per university. Some of you guys apply to a lot of places ><
For me it was like 40$ per school, and I got accepted into BGSU ^^, school I wanted so I'm happy.
On March 17 2010 20:01 Chen wrote: ugh, most decisions are out april 1st, day of dread >< Berkeley: early acceptance with Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship UCLA: accepted UCI and UC davis: auto-accepted with ELC waiting on the ivies
4.37 weighted GPA 2310 SAT 800 math II 800 Physics 790 Chemistry 760 US history
3 clubs with leadership positions, 2 jobs, 3 community service activities 3 internships no sports, but 3 non-athletic varsity positions
Jesus christ, your scores are almost near perfection. What is your secret?
UMich: Rejected (Library Info Science Masters) UPitt: Accepted (Health Info Science Masters) UMCP: Waiting but not really anymore (Library Info Science Masters) UNC: Waiting to see if they'll accept/give me money (Health Info Science Masters)
Undergrad English Literature @ University of St. Andrews GPA: NA (have no idea how Scottish grading scales) GRE: like 750/600 yes I fail at my major Research: Nothing but my dissertation! Recommendations: One was my dissertation professor who gave me like near-perfect marks, the other was a prof I had in my last semester; no idea what he thought of me, but I tended to be stuck giving solo presentations (failgroups) so I thought I'd left at least some sort of good impression, third recommendation was a combined rec from both my bosses at my current place of employment; they want me to part-time over the school year no matter where I go, and they have a standing offer after I graduate, so that's probably a really good rec. Coursework: Pretty average, except for my dissertation. Awards: Nada Work experience: Probably the big one; I'm already working in the field I'm wanting a Masters for; my goal for getting a Masters is really just for paperwork, particularly as many related vacancies legally require this Masters (~1.5 years' schoolwork needed).
UPitt has the #1 HIS in the US, so that was an unexpected acceptance. But a happy one, because it strengthens my qualifications for when applying to HIS jobs at biopharmaceutical companies etc. So this is like a /brag post that no one will get :p
On March 18 2010 00:12 Myrmidon wrote: NOTE: Prospective grad student here, finishing undergrad now.
UIUC: Accepted into Ph.D. program, three-year fellowship covers tuition, stipend reduces from $17k to $8k after first year. Also optional 10 hour TA job on top of that. Research assistantship (RA) yet to materialize. UCSD: Accepted into Ph.D. program, one-year fellowship covers tuition and $21k stipend. Two profs agreed to co-advise my research. (excited!) Clemson: Accepted into Ph.D. program, fellowships and RA (from current advisor) cover tuition and maybe $30k more the first year, then $20k afterwards. MIT: Reject. Stanford: Reject.
Undergrad electrical engineering at Clemson, communications focus (applied to same area everywhere). GPA: 4.0, but we don't give out A- grades, and classes are not that rigorous here... GRE: 800 Math, 710 Verbal, 5.0 Writing, no subject GRE. Research 2-3 years experience with 1 crappy conference paper published in slightly-related field. I probably will have another conference paper submission by the end of the semester. Recommendations: I had worked on projects/research for all profs writing letters. Coursework: slightly ahead of most students in some areas but with weakish math background. Awards: Goldwater Scholarship (undergrad award), National Merit Scholarship (from HS) Also + Show Spoiler +
my research advisor now is a big name in the field, and he has very strong ties to both UIUC and UCSD. I'm sure his recommendation has a big part to play in my offers at those institutions, and that they don't really reflect on my ability or aptitude as much, lol.
Grad school for me too. Going for my Ph.D in Physics.
Columbia: Still waiting UCLA: Accepted UCI: Accepted Berkeley: Still waiting (they said by March 15th...) UCSB: Still waiting Rice: Accepted University of Washington: Accepted Purdue: Accepted
Undergrad Physics BS with Math minor from UCLA GPA: 3.65 GRE: 800 Math/550 Verbal/4.5 Writing Physics GRE: 750 Coursework: Standard physics coursework and way too much pure math. Letters: Two from professors in my group that I've been working with for 2+ years, one from a professor I was an undergrad TA for. Research Experience: A year and a half as an undergrad working on some simulations. During my year "off" I traveled to Italy to do research twice including taking a month and a half shift. No publications of any kind.
I'm positive the whole going to Italy thing was a huge boost. Last year I applied to basically the same schools (only Socal schools though) and I didn't get into ANY. This year all of the schools that rejected me last year are accepting me (despite tuition hikes in the UC system also).
UK Queen's University of Belfast- Nothing Yet (no idea)
Vital Statistics
89.0% Avg. Alberta Diploma
SAT 2060 710 Math, 700 Reading, 650 Writing 730 Chem, 550 Math IIC (XD Alberta Diplomas != American SATs, I got 91% and 97%, respectively on my diplomas)
Quite a bit of volunteer experience, lots of work experience
I'm just so god damn excited to get out of this shitty province and town.
On March 17 2010 20:01 Chen wrote: ugh, most decisions are out april 1st, day of dread >< Berkeley: early acceptance with Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship UCLA: accepted UCI and UC davis: auto-accepted with ELC waiting on the ivies
4.37 weighted GPA 2310 SAT 800 math II 800 Physics 790 Chemistry 760 US history
3 clubs with leadership positions, 2 jobs, 3 community service activities 3 internships no sports, but 3 non-athletic varsity positions
Jesus christ, your scores are almost near perfection. What is your secret?
4.37 is not that good for wgpa
That's arguable. Depends on what school he's from and consequently how many weighted classes that school offers. Nonetheless, it's above average.
On March 18 2010 01:32 ArC_man wrote: Grad school for me too. Going for my Ph.D in Physics.
Columbia: Still waiting UCLA: Accepted UCI: Accepted Berkeley: Still waiting (they said by March 15th...) UCSB: Still waiting Rice: Accepted University of Washington: Accepted Purdue: Accepted
On March 18 2010 01:32 ArC_man wrote: Grad school for me too. Going for my Ph.D in Physics.
Columbia: Still waiting UCLA: Accepted UCI: Accepted Berkeley: Still waiting (they said by March 15th...) UCSB: Still waiting Rice: Accepted University of Washington: Accepted Purdue: Accepted
Nice! Congrats on all the acceptances.
Thanks =). Looks like I'm gonna be in LA for another 5 years >_<
On March 18 2010 01:32 ArC_man wrote: Grad school for me too. Going for my Ph.D in Physics.
Columbia: Still waiting UCLA: Accepted UCI: Accepted Berkeley: Still waiting (they said by March 15th...) UCSB: Still waiting Rice: Accepted University of Washington: Accepted Purdue: Accepted
Nice! Congrats on all the acceptances.
Thanks =). Looks like I'm gonna be in LA for another 5 years >_<
congratulations, that's awesome. if you don't mind, what school did you go for undergrad and what was your GPA?
On March 17 2010 20:01 Chen wrote: ugh, most decisions are out april 1st, day of dread >< Berkeley: early acceptance with Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship UCLA: accepted UCI and UC davis: auto-accepted with ELC waiting on the ivies
4.37 weighted GPA 2310 SAT 800 math II 800 Physics 790 Chemistry 760 US history
3 clubs with leadership positions, 2 jobs, 3 community service activities 3 internships no sports, but 3 non-athletic varsity positions
did you apply to stanford if so whats your iccup rank
I see what you did there. I was about to ask him the same thing haha
If I can offer a word of advice, your senior year grades DO matter.
I got accepted to the University of Michigan and I didn't apply to any other schools(since that was all I wanted to go to). A few weeks before I go, I find out that they are reconsidering my admission because of poor senior year grades. I had to write in to explain why this was.
I did in fact have a good reason, but if you write in saying that you played too much SC I don't think they will receive that very nicely. So yeah, just a word of advice.
Going from an undergrad in Psychology to a PhD in Business. This year was more like a test run, so I only took a shot at the big ones
Harvard: Rejected Stanford: Rejected Yale: Shortlisted then rejected Chicago: Rejected Cornell: Waiting... (not too optimistic)
GRE: 800 Quantitative, 680 Verbal, 5.5 Analytical GPA: No idea how SA conversions work. 84.5% average. Best mark in the honours year of about 100.
Research: Nothing academic yet. Got eight educational books published though. Recommendations: The one lecturer I worked with the most didn't hand in any recommendations even after she promised to. Still pissed off about that. Other than that, got an author I worked with to do one, and the head of our research department who I've worked with a bit. Coursework: No math background, no economics background either.
Plan: Didn't really expect to get in this year, I gave myself like a 35% chance of getting accepted by someone, and it doesn't seem like it will happen. So my goal is to get some research published and do an M this year while starting a course or two in statistics. Basically work on where I have some holes in my CV. Next application I'll apply for a few slightly smaller ones as well, this year was just to test the water a bit Still, frustrating!
On March 17 2010 20:01 Chen wrote: ugh, most decisions are out april 1st, day of dread >< Berkeley: early acceptance with Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship UCLA: accepted UCI and UC davis: auto-accepted with ELC waiting on the ivies
4.37 weighted GPA 2310 SAT 800 math II 800 Physics 790 Chemistry 760 US history
3 clubs with leadership positions, 2 jobs, 3 community service activities 3 internships no sports, but 3 non-athletic varsity positions
Jesus christ, your scores are almost near perfection. What is your secret?
cram hard =). prep books are nice, esp with practice tests. I did ~15 SAT1 practice tests in the month before the exam just cause i could BS school and ~1-2 of the subject tests for practice.
On March 17 2010 20:01 Chen wrote: ugh, most decisions are out april 1st, day of dread >< Berkeley: early acceptance with Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship UCLA: accepted UCI and UC davis: auto-accepted with ELC waiting on the ivies
4.37 weighted GPA 2310 SAT 800 math II 800 Physics 790 Chemistry 760 US history
3 clubs with leadership positions, 2 jobs, 3 community service activities 3 internships no sports, but 3 non-athletic varsity positions
Jesus christ, your scores are almost near perfection. What is your secret?
4.37 is not that good for wgpa
its really not ><. my class is fricken insane lol, my 4.37 is like 17th. (out of 600) last year it woulda been top-10 ez. 6 AP's as junior and 13 overall for 17th.
On March 18 2010 01:48 emperorchampion wrote: I'm just so god damn excited to get out of this shitty province and town.
Aww... Alberta's a decent place, although I did go elsewhere for university....
I'm surprised at all of you guys applying to so many places though. I only applied to University of Calgary and University of Waterloo. I got into both, and since my brother and a couple other friends were all in UW, I decided on being a UW homeskillet.
On March 18 2010 01:48 emperorchampion wrote: I'm just so god damn excited to get out of this shitty province and town.
Aww... Alberta's a decent place, although I did go elsewhere for university....
I'm surprised at all of you guys applying to so many places though. I only applied to University of Calgary and University of Waterloo. I got into both, and since my brother and a couple other friends were all in UW, I decided on being a UW homeskillet.
Alberta is... alright, I suppose. It's more the small town that gets me, but honestly Calgary and Edmonton are not a whole lot better.
There is a decent chance I will join you as a UW homeskillet
On another note, I have a question for any McGill students. I know McGill is an English school, but it is in Montreal- how much of a deterrent would it be if you could, theoretically, speak very little French?
So far: Rutgers: Accepted. Honors program, new Brunswick engineering and a/s. 10k Scholarship >.< TCNJ- Accepted. 30k Scholarship Duke- April 1st, double legacy March 30th Edit- Rejected T.T Cornell- April 1st U Mich- Still waiting, double legacy (3/18 Update) Accepted! Princeton- ... lol feels dishonest to say I'm still waiting
Living in San Jose, applied to west coastish schools.
UCs UCB - Waiting...(probably denied) UCD - Waiting UCSD - Denied (I heard they used some ridiculous point based system to determine whether or not you got in) UCSB - Waiting
Da rest (all of them are pretty averageish schools, so not really surprising I was accepted into most) UofArizona - Accepted Central WA Univ - Accepted Whitworth Univ - Accepted St. Mary's Coll - Accepted Occidental Coll - Waiting (probably denied since I didn't really try on the application) SDSU - Accepted
Reason for strange selection of schools is that I'm majoring in technical theatre + looking for decentish liberal arts schools.
GPA: 3.7 Weighted SAT/ACT: 1930/33 Extracurricular: Theatre...and pretty much only theatre lol Not much, but I hope my essays can be my saving merits for the UCs. I wrote about how I was originally planning to do the whole generic Asian route of studying science or whatever but then was introduced to theatre my junior year and fell in love with it. I've been one of the hardest working techies in our schools theatre program since the day I started D:
On March 18 2010 08:54 Humbug wrote: Living in San Jose, applied to west coastish schools.
UCs UCB - Waiting...(probably denied) UCD - Waiting UCSD - Denied (I heard they used some ridiculous point based system to determine whether or not you got in) UCSB - Waiting
Da rest (all of them are pretty averageish schools, so not really surprising I was accepted into most) UofArizona - Accepted Central WA Univ - Accepted Whitworth Univ - Accepted St. Mary's Coll - Accepted Occidental Coll - Waiting (probably denied since I didn't really try on the application) SDSU - Accepted
Reason for strange selection of schools is that I'm majoring in technical theatre + looking for decentish liberal arts schools.
GPA: 3.7 Weighted SAT/ACT: 1930/33 Extracurricular: Theatre...and pretty much only theatre lol Not much, but I hope my essays can be my saving merits for the UCs. I wrote about how I was originally planning to do the whole generic Asian route of studying science or whatever but then was introduced to theatre my junior year and fell in love with it. I've been one of the hardest working techies in our schools theatre program since the day I started D:
A. why central WA just curious? Also how the heck have u heard of whitworth? Thats the smaller college from my hometown and am always curious how people find out about it.
CWU has a B.F.A. in technical theatre, and I heard of Whitworth from my college counselor. Anything I should know about either of those two colleges? :O
Someone come to Case so we can buff up our starcraft (next year it'll be SC2!) lineup Congrats to everyone on their acceptances and I hope everything goes well. Definitely a stressful time.
Being from the Illinois I only applied to schools in the region.
~5.3 weighted (we have a strange scale ~3.65 unweighted 33 ACT Composite, 36 Reading, 35 Math, 35 Science, 29-30 English ~2K SAT (no idea why I took it) Extracurricular: 2 clubs, one with leadership + NHS + a fair amount of volunteer work Full time job over the summer
University of Iowa - Accepted Purdue University - Accepted University of Illinois - Accepted Computer engineering at all 3
99% sure I'm headed to Illinois in the fall, a top 5 engineering school in-state in kinda a no brainer.
On March 17 2010 23:32 superbabosheki wrote: UCI: Accepted UCSD : DENIED UCLA : DENIED UCR : ACCEPTED CALSTATEFULLERTON: ACCEPTED UC:BERKELY: WAITING, but probably DENIED
4.1 - 4.2 weighted 2050 SAT 790 math, 670 writing, 590 reading = 2050 SAT 780 math II 640 U.S :[ 0 club with leaderships 1 job 1 major community service, 100hours or so of others combined 0 internships marching band for a year?
Chen raped me.
Oh man I feel bad for you
I got accepted UCSD 2 years ago with like 4.1 GPA, 1990 SAT, 710 MATH 2, 790 Bio, zero community service, but a bunch of sports/music.
Luckily my goal was Irvine, I have no interest in SD because I am a failure at all science related courses, and UCLA seemed a bit far fetched for my resume. The average GPA for UCSD applicants this year was 4.04 according to my rejection letter, and I think it was about 3000 acceptances to 48000 applicants.
4.5-4.6 GPA (our scale is pretty IMBA) 3.4-3.5 GPA unweighted IB Diploma program. HL Math A2Lit Biology French SL Physics History AP: Taken and "passed" BC calc, AB clac, AP eng/cop, APUS, AP Euro. Going to take: Lit, Physics B, Biology. 30 ACT composite Extracurriculars: 5-7ish clubs. Section Leader: Marching band, Orchestra, Concert band. Lots of volunteering. NHS. Internship with Northwestern Medical. Lots of church work.
U of Illinois-accepted Casewestern-accepted Ohio State- accepted UMich-accepted Oxford fo Emory-Accepted Calvin- accepted UChicago-nope WashU-Waitlisted Grinnell-accepted Northwestenrn-nope Emory-nope
Eh, I feel bad thatthis is going to sound like I'm bragging....which I guess it is to an extent
Undergrad- applied for engineering Georgia Tech: Accepted in early decision Virginia Tech: Hwaiting (I assume I'm getting accepted though) MIT: waitlisted (deferred from early decision, then waitlisted)
4.480 weighted GPA (my school has A+ on the scale so it's slightly inflated more than other schools with a 4.0 scale) Class rank: 1/332 2180 SAT (math 790) 790 math II 760 chemistry 740 U.S. history 4 AP exams already taken- 5s on World History, U.S. History, Calc BC, and Chemistry 4 APs my senior year (AP physics is my math/science one; I'm also in multivariable) athletics: did cross country all 4 years (captain senior year), soccer 1 year, track 3 years clubs- I have plenty of clubs, but in reality the clubs didn't really do anything; looks good enough on application though competition clubs- Academic team 3 years (captain junior and senior year) community service- not much; minimal amounts 0 jobs 0 club leadership
I was a bit bummed about MIT; I expected to get waitlisted, but I was more bummed when someone else from my school got in (who is a good student yes, but MIT strikes me as little more than taking "good" student).
University of Kentucky- Accepted University of Louisville- Accepted Saint Louis University- Accepted Southern Illinois University- Accepted University of Miami- Accepted Syracuse University- Accepted Emory University- Waiting Rice University- Waiting
YAY, I'm probably going to end up going instate though, too expensive even though my EFC was 0 on my FAFSA ><
On March 18 2010 09:51 N.geNuity wrote: Eh, I feel bad thatthis is going to sound like I'm bragging....which I guess it is to an extent
Undergrad- applied for engineering Georgia Tech: Accepted in early decision Virginia Tech: Hwaiting (I assume I'm getting accepted though) MIT: waitlisted (deferred from early decision, then waitlisted)
4.480 weighted GPA (my school has A+ on the scale so it's slightly inflated more than other schools with a 4.0 scale) Class rank: 1/332 2180 SAT (math 790) 790 math II 760 chemistry 740 U.S. history 4 AP exams already taken- 5s on World History, U.S. History, Calc BC, and Chemistry 4 APs my senior year (AP physics is my math/science one; I'm also in multivariable) athletics: did cross country all 4 years (captain senior year), soccer 1 year, track 3 years clubs- I have plenty of clubs, but in reality the clubs didn't really do anything; looks good enough on application though competition clubs- Academic team 3 years (captain junior and senior year) community service- not much; minimal amounts 0 jobs 0 club leadership
I was a bit bummed about MIT; I expected to get waitlisted, but I was more bummed when someone else from my school got in (who is a good student yes, but MIT strikes me as little more than taking "good" student).
I'd say it's about 98% Georgia Tech for me.
GT's not a bad settle. Are you from in state? Cause if you are, the Hope scholarship is sick for public schools in Georgia. If not, GT's school a great school nonetheless, just a tad more expensive.
PS: Fuck Emory. Hope is useless for private schools, and Emory's financial aid blows.
Ha, GT isn't a settle at all . It was the very first school I looked at and applied to.
I'm out of state, but I applied for nuclear engineering and that can get out-of-state tuition waved since the major is so rare and no schools in my state offer it.
But even if I don't stick with nuclear engineering, GT is a fantastic engineering school. Money isn't really an issue for my family.
Undergrad - Psychology (BS) University of Texas at Austin - Accepted Liberal Arts Honors Program - Accepted
3.6 GPA (unweighted pretty sure) Top 10% of class 1940 SAT 630 Critical Reading 720 Math 590 Writing
Yeah, only applied to one school haha. Applying is pretty expensive. Plus my girlfriend is already going there and I get automatic acceptance by being top 10% in-state. FAFSA isn't giving me anything, so that kinda sucks. Gotta hit up some more scholarships.
On March 18 2010 10:19 N.geNuity wrote: Ha, GT isn't a settle at all . It was the very first school I looked at and applied to.
I'm out of state, but I applied for nuclear engineering and that can get out-of-state tuition waved since the major is so rare and no schools in my state offer it.
But even if I don't stick with nuclear engineering, GT is a fantastic engineering school. Money isn't really an issue for my family.
PM me when you get in, it's always nice to meet another TLer
On March 18 2010 10:19 N.geNuity wrote: Ha, GT isn't a settle at all . It was the very first school I looked at and applied to.
I'm out of state, but I applied for nuclear engineering and that can get out-of-state tuition waved since the major is so rare and no schools in my state offer it.
But even if I don't stick with nuclear engineering, GT is a fantastic engineering school. Money isn't really an issue for my family.
Great school. You'll enjoy it there. Took a few classes over at Tech during my senior year of High School and have visited friends there on numerous occasions. Atmosphere is great and it's hella good for Engineering. You better get to love your Tech sports and the Ramblin Wreck. Good stuff. =D
Although I have heard from numerous people that Tech is quite hard. Pretty high dropout rate as well. But it's to be expected.
Don't mean this in a mean way, but why did you apply to all those Cal State schools? With the exception of Cal Poly for impacted majors, they're auto acceptance. You could have simply applied to Cal Poly and one other state school and saved the app fees...
For anybody planning on applying to a PhD program, you need to read PhDComics...
I returned to school last year (good thing I decided to simply get my Masters) and feel STUPID for choosing to leave my job. I'm not worried about finding another job; it's just that I rather be working than at school...
UChicago - early action, accepted Caltech - early action, accepted MIT - regular decision, accepted [top choice I think? since I'm looking to be a math major and I know a lot of MIT students... but financial aid = sadddddd day]
On March 18 2010 11:49 ]343[ wrote: applying for undergrad:
UChicago - early action, accepted Caltech - early action, accepted MIT - regular decision, accepted [top choice I think? since I'm looking to be a math major and I know a lot of MIT students... but financial aid = sadddddd day]
waiting on Harvard, Princeton, Duke...
Wow! Impressive. I would say you're a shoe-in for Duke then really, although obviously the other two are a different story.
Do you mind sharing some of your stats/extras? I assume you made USAMO at least once .
On March 18 2010 09:16 Deux wrote: Being from the Illinois I only applied to schools in the region.
~5.3 weighted (we have a strange scale ~3.65 unweighted 33 ACT Composite, 36 Reading, 35 Math, 35 Science, 29-30 English ~2K SAT (no idea why I took it) Extracurricular: 2 clubs, one with leadership + NHS + a fair amount of volunteer work Full time job over the summer
University of Iowa - Accepted Purdue University - Accepted University of Illinois - Accepted Computer engineering at all 3
99% sure I'm headed to Illinois in the fall, a top 5 engineering school in-state in kinda a no brainer.
GL to everyone still waiting
Why not Iowa State? Iowa is shit engineering school ISU is great engineering school, I go there for construction engineering
On March 18 2010 12:03 DarkOptik wrote: Do you mind sharing some of your stats/extras? I assume you made USAMO at least once .
I highly doubt this. Only a top few students make it to the USAMO. I could see someone scoring a few points on the AIME, but I haven't met many people who made it to the USAMO.
In any case, with any top school it's a crapshoot. Nothing can help.
On March 18 2010 11:49 ]343[ wrote: applying for undergrad:
UChicago - early action, accepted Caltech - early action, accepted MIT - regular decision, accepted [top choice I think? since I'm looking to be a math major and I know a lot of MIT students... but financial aid = sadddddd day]
waiting on Harvard, Princeton, Duke...
Wow! Impressive. I would say you're a shoe-in for Duke then really, although obviously the other two are a different story.
Do you mind sharing some of your stats/extras? I assume you made USAMO at least once .
haha yeah I hope I can get into Duke seeing as I live in NC...
stats - 9th/10th grade no GPA (straight As?) 11th/12th grade my school has weird weird weighted GPA but 5.38/6.0 I think? ("normal" classes are 5.0, "honors"-ish are 5.5 and "college-level" are 6.0... heh.)
3x Math Olympiad Summer Program qualifier RSI 2010 participant, Siemens regional finalist, Intel semifinalist
unfortunately I have to randomly improve a lot if I want to make IMO this year, unlike some certain other people on this forum who are shoo-ins... but that's another story.
4-year varsity swimmer (really 6, since I went to a K12 school back then, but whatever) 9-year clarinet player
~270? service hours
oh and also >= 1 hour/day spent on TL looooool this is why my math skills are nosediving
I say that for a number of reasons. Going into MIT as a math major without any "connections" is, I would say, one hardest possible admissions feats possible. My best friend, who was valedictorian of my class, was in USAMO his junior and senior years, won one of the distinctions in it for fully completing one of the six problems, and got rejected from MIT. He made AIME all four years of his high school career. He goes to Princeton right now, after being accepted into every other school he applied to, including Caltech, Duke, etc.
I would say that getting admitted Math at MIT is far and away among the most difficult things to get into.
As for any top school being a crapshoot, I disagree and agree. However, in this context, I think that anyone who gets into MIT, UChicago, Caltech, has an almost for sure chance to get into Duke. Duke honestly isn't really that hard compared to the other top 10, and I'm not saying that because I'm biased or like to bash on it. I go there myself.
On March 18 2010 12:03 DarkOptik wrote: Do you mind sharing some of your stats/extras? I assume you made USAMO at least once .
I highly doubt this. Only a top few students make it to the USAMO. I could see someone scoring a few points on the AIME, but I haven't met many people who made it to the USAMO.
In any case, with any top school it's a crapshoot. Nothing can help.
i had a friend who was in USAMO and was deferred EA to MIT. got accepted normally though.
On March 18 2010 12:16 DarkOptik wrote: @Empyrean:
I say that for a number of reasons. Going into MIT as a math major without any "connections" is, I would say, one hardest possible admissions feats possible
[...]
I would say that getting admitted Math at MIT is far and away among the most difficult things to get into.
You don't apply to a specific program/major when you apply to MIT... most undergrads don't even declare their major until sophomore year. I'm a math major here and I didn't have any "connections", nor do I have any outstanding math-y accomplishments.
Then props to you . There's a reason I prefaced everything I said with "I would say". Just my useless opinion.
EDIT: As for applying as Math to MIT: I thought there was something you put down, although I guess I remember incorrectly. I am sure, however, that if you use the Common App to apply to any of the other top Ivies that you basically have to put down your expected concentration/major.
On March 17 2010 19:27 lilsusie wrote: Good luck everyone!!! I know US colleges are really difficult to get into because they look at so many different things! <3
Canada here (lol no SATs, too stupid/lazy) Waterloo (civil eng. and compsci)- accepted/accepted Carleton (aerospace eng.) - accepted Toronto (eng. sciences) - hwaiting!! <<<---- WHEN DO THEY HAND OUT ACCEPTANCE LETTERZ T.T
Anyways, 93 avg from semester 1 and gr12 courses i took in gr11 but doing very well in compsci and calc
UC Santa Cruz - Accepted UC Berkeley - Waiting UC L.A. - Accepted UC San Diego - Denied (Don't care, sure wasn't gonna go here after what's happened recently) San Francisco State U. - Accepted Cal Poly Pomona - Accepted University of S.F. - Accepted
I'm getting told by everyone that I should go to UCLA cause it's so good, but I was always thinking of goin to Santa Cruz. Im torn.
On March 18 2010 12:40 Hamster1800 wrote: Undergrad:
MIT - accepted early
Not waiting on any other schools.
hmm how many times have you made IOI? also how do you do combinatorics and number theory? also how are you so good at computation (like I always wuss out when I have to coordinate bash and stuff).
Shit I probably need to start applying for Economics masters pretty soon..
I put barely any effort into my undergraduate application process and kinda just picked my school whimsically, almost all of the posters in this thread really have their shit together managed to obtain some really impressive credentials for just the first 18 years of their lives. I had no idea what I was doing until almost the end of my senior year of high school. My high school really didn't give a shit about preparing students for college, they were barely scraping by on standardized testing. Good work guys!
On March 18 2010 12:16 DarkOptik wrote: @Empyrean:
I say that for a number of reasons. Going into MIT as a math major without any "connections" is, I would say, one hardest possible admissions feats possible. My best friend, who was valedictorian of my class, was in USAMO his junior and senior years, won one of the distinctions in it for fully completing one of the six problems, and got rejected from MIT. He made AIME all four years of his high school career. He goes to Princeton right now, after being accepted into every other school he applied to, including Caltech, Duke, etc.
I would say that getting admitted Math at MIT is far and away among the most difficult things to get into.
As for any top school being a crapshoot, I disagree and agree. However, in this context, I think that anyone who gets into MIT, UChicago, Caltech, has an almost for sure chance to get into Duke. Duke honestly isn't really that hard compared to the other top 10, and I'm not saying that because I'm biased or like to bash on it. I go there myself.
EDIT: People post fast.
I agree that a person getting into MIT without connections has a good chance at Duke, but there is no such thing as an almost for sure when it comes to colleges. I am sure you have seen many surprises amongst your friends and college admissions as well. You just don't know. UChicago and Duke are peer schools so getting into UChic doesn't mean anything in terms of chances with Duke.
Having said that, I can't see ]343[ not getting into Duke. Impressive resume.
On March 17 2010 19:27 lilsusie wrote: Good luck everyone!!! I know US colleges are really difficult to get into because they look at so many different things! <3
Korean Colleges are harder.
Lol you clearly don't know what you are talking about.
On March 18 2010 12:40 Hamster1800 wrote: Undergrad:
MIT - accepted early
Not waiting on any other schools.
hmm how many times have you made IOI? also how do you do combinatorics and number theory? also how are you so good at computation (like I always wuss out when I have to coordinate bash and stuff).
Nerd convo!
Congrats and good luck to all the high school seniors. Anyway. If gets into Yale (or got in early), feel free to PM me if you wanna talk! I'd be happy to host. Also, you should come to Yale for SC! We just beat Princeton!
On March 18 2010 12:40 Hamster1800 wrote: Undergrad:
MIT - accepted early
Not waiting on any other schools.
Hmm... I recognize this name from WOOT, lol. And I think ]343[ was in it too. There are some really smart cookies on TL, my god.
despite hamster's failure at FPL, he is quite a smart cookie in real life
I still have a ways to go
edit: @oneother: thanks I might end up at duke purely because of money (plus I currently go to school within walking distance from east campus. and you know some kids who graduated from my school ;o)
George Washington U. Ba/md: rejected Case Wester Reserve Ba/md: rejected USC Ba/md: rejected Northwestern HPME: rejected Brown PLME (ed): deferred Wustl Ba/md: rejected ^ world of hurt
UCLA: accepted UCD: elc, autoaccepted washington st. louis: accepted USC: accepted UCSD: accepted Case Western Reserve: accepted + 22.5k
Gpa: 4.65 Sat I: 2300 math II: 800, u.s. history: 780, chem: 760, bio: 760 AP U.S.History: 5, Calc BC: 5, Chem: 4 , Lang Comp:5, European History: 5, Biology: 5, Calc AB: 5 + stats, us gov, microecon, literature, physics b, and psychology on the way
4 clubs, 1 with leadership 1 varsity sport 2 instruments + orchestra (first violin & Europe tour) + awards = I sent a CD 1 graphics art team 1 internship at UCLA neuro lab 1 job 3 years @ leadership camp (served last year as an actual counselor) 3 main volunteer experiences 4th place at California State Science fair + various other awards and activities [Link Crew, Web Design, Ensemble etc.]
I didn't apply to any ivies except Brown, I just don't find them that appealing :\. And I think my 4 on the chem ap test and relatively low sat scores for the application pool screwed me in the straight-med programs. Now I am just waiting on a couple more meds, Brown, and Stanford..
Chen, gratz on the regents O.o, was hoping to get that myself
On March 18 2010 12:40 Hamster1800 wrote: Undergrad:
MIT - accepted early
Not waiting on any other schools.
hmm how many times have you made IOI? also how do you do combinatorics and number theory? also how are you so good at computation (like I always wuss out when I have to coordinate bash and stuff).
congrats! there's a decent sized underground sc scene here. be prepared to get buttraped by school though.
On March 17 2010 19:27 lilsusie wrote: Good luck everyone!!! I know US colleges are really difficult to get into because they look at so many different things! <3
Korean Colleges are harder.
Lol you clearly don't know what you are talking about.
Lol you clearly don't know what YOU are talking about
George Washington U. Ba/md: rejected Case Wester Reserve Ba/md: rejected USC Ba/md: rejected Northwestern HPME: rejected Brown PLME (ed): deferred Wustl Ba/md: rejected ^ world of hurt
UCLA: accepted UCD: elc, autoaccepted washington st. louis: accepted USC: accepted UCSD: accepted Case Western Reserve: accepted + 22.5k
Gpa: 4.65 Sat I: 2300 math II: 800, u.s. history: 780, chem: 760, bio: 760 AP U.S.History: 5, Calc BC: 5, Chem: 4 , Lang Comp:5, European History: 5, Biology: 5, Calc AB: 5 + stats, us gov, microecon, literature, physics b, and psychology on the way
4 clubs, 1 with leadership 1 varsity sport 2 instruments + orchestra (first violin & Europe tour) + awards = I sent a CD 1 graphics art team 1 internship at UCLA neuro lab 1 job 3 years @ leadership camp (served last year as an actual counselor) 3 main volunteer experiences 4th place at California State Science fair + various other awards and activities [Link Crew, Web Design, Ensemble etc.]
I didn't apply to any ivies except Brown, I just don't find them that appealing :\. And I think my 4 on the chem ap test and relatively low sat scores for the application pool screwed me in the straight-med programs. Now I am just waiting on a couple more meds, Brown, and Stanford..
Chen, gratz on the regents O.o, was hoping to get that myself
Wow, you asian kids really put everyone else to shame. I would need to have 50 hours in a day in order to do so much :|
On March 18 2010 12:36 Neos wrote: I'm getting told by everyone that I should go to UCLA cause it's so good, but I was always thinking of goin to Santa Cruz. Im torn.
On March 17 2010 19:27 lilsusie wrote: Good luck everyone!!! I know US colleges are really difficult to get into because they look at so many different things! <3
Korean Colleges are harder.
Lol you clearly don't know what you are talking about.
Lol you clearly don't know what YOU are talking about
On March 18 2010 12:36 Neos wrote: I'm getting told by everyone that I should go to UCLA cause it's so good, but I was always thinking of goin to Santa Cruz. Im torn.
If it's for engineering, go to UCLA over UCSC...
If it's for anything, go to UCLA over UCSC rofl...
On March 17 2010 19:27 lilsusie wrote: Good luck everyone!!! I know US colleges are really difficult to get into because they look at so many different things! <3
Korean Colleges are harder.
Lol you clearly don't know what you are talking about.
Lol you clearly don't know what YOU are talking about
Lol okay then go ahead and prove yourself. As a Korean-American college student in the U.S. with both parents who attended Korean colleges, I am pretty sure I have a better understanding of the college entrance system in the U.S. and Korea than you do. (Assuming you are a high school student in Canada?) Who knows, feel free to prove me wrong.
It obviously depends on what colleges we are talking about, but I have no idea how one can just claim that Korean colleges are harder to get into than U.S. colleges. I mean yeah, it takes more talent and intelligence to get into Seoul National University than an easy going U.S. state school. It's an impossible, uphill battle to prove that Korean colleges are harder to get into than U.S. colleges (which is not the case anyway, it depends on various factors and what the person is good at.) e.g. a very *large* portion of admittance is depended on the annual entrance exam in Korea. not the case in U.S.
On March 17 2010 19:27 lilsusie wrote: Good luck everyone!!! I know US colleges are really difficult to get into because they look at so many different things! <3
Korean Colleges are harder.
Lol you clearly don't know what you are talking about.
Lol you clearly don't know what YOU are talking about
Lol okay then go ahead and prove yourself. As a Korean-American college student in the U.S. with both parents who attended Korean colleges, I am pretty sure I have a better understanding of the college entrance system in the U.S. and Korea than you do.
I dont think both of you are actually qualified to talk about it. Unless someone here is currently trying to apply for both korean and american universities its hard to say. Im pretty sure a lot has changed while your parents were in college oneother. I lived in korea and have went to korean public schools and have friends who are in 12th grade right now studying for the 수능 and even i feel im not qualified to talk about it.
It's arguable that the top korean colleges are harder to get into. The attitudes are different too. If you don't get into an Ivy league here its usually ok as long as you get into a ' top program or school ' although in Korea there's like Seoul, Yonsei and a few others and if you don't get into those you will never really be viewed by anyone or future employers as really ' smart '.
Also generation gap is much different in Korean colleges than American. Harvard has pretty much always been harvard etc.
On March 18 2010 15:05 Ilikestarcraft wrote: I dont think both of you are actually qualified to talk about it. Unless someone here is currently trying to apply for both korean and american universities its hard to say. Im pretty sure a lot has changed while your parents were in college oneother. I lived in korea and have went to korean public schools and have friends who are in 12th grade right now studying for the 수능 and even i feel im not qualified to talk about it.
heh you are right, i am not and never said i was. i am not claiming i know a lot about korean college education but rather just saying that it's pretty ridiculous to make a statement as bold as "korean colleges are harder to get into than u.s. colleges." i have also went to korean public school and have a lot of friends and cousins in korea who go through the same process. it's just that it's ridiculous to say it's "easier" one way or another because they are just *different*
anyway, sorry for derailing the thread. back on topic!
On March 18 2010 02:35 akevin wrote: Grad School - PhD in Chemistry/Chemical Biology
University of Toronto: Accepted Scripps Research Institute: Accepted MIT: Accepted Caltech: Accepted Harvard: Accepted Stanford: Rejected
lol @ the rejection after all those acceptances, where did you go for undergrad/masters and what are your credentials like? That's impressive stuff
I did my undergrad at York University (Canada) GRE: Math: 790, Verbal: 630, Writing: 4.5, Chemistry: 860 GPA: 9.0 scale lol (8.98) 2 summers FT research, 1 year PT research, 1 year honors thesis (PT research)
oh and for MIT/caltech people, I suck at sc, sorry
On March 18 2010 20:51 Daigomi wrote: I have a question. At what age do most people start with their PhD in the US, and does it differ for normal unis and Ivy leagues?
on average you start your phd around 24-26, and nothing in particular differs between them but i imagine at better universities you have better facilities for research and alot more money
Wow the list of credentials some of these applicants have are amazing. I mean, I thought mine were pretty decent but wow! I hope you guys make it into the schools you want!
On March 18 2010 20:51 Daigomi wrote: I have a question. At what age do most people start with their PhD in the US, and does it differ for normal unis and Ivy leagues?
on average you start your phd around 24-26, and nothing in particular differs between them but i imagine at better universities you have better facilities for research and alot more money
PhDs are very heavily dependent on field. For example, in biostatistics, the University of Wisconsin at Madison has an internationally recognized department. It's up there with other biostat powerhouses like Harvard, UNC, and Johns Hopkins.
Also, a lot of what you get out of the program has to do with your advisor and your own personal interests. If you go to the "best" graduate program but have an uninterested advisor and don't really care much about getting anything out of it, you're probably just going to be wasting your time.
Back when I was applying for college, I had a 2400, Straight 5s on all AP exams, triple 800 SAT IIs, 4.0 GPA, and tons of extracurrics + a varsity sport.
Couldn't even get a waitlist at Stanford
Edit: Hate affirmative action. If only I were black... Edit: Or hispanic... or some not-over-represented minority.
On March 19 2010 03:39 love1another wrote: People are getting so impressive these days.
Back when I was applying for college, I had a 2400, Straight 5s on all AP exams, triple 800 SAT IIs, 4.0 GPA, and tons of extracurrics + a varsity sport.
Couldn't even get a waitlist at Stanford
Edit: Hate affirmative action. If only I were black... Edit: Or hispanic... or some not-over-represented minority.
I'm both confused and very very worried. Where do/did you go?
On March 19 2010 03:39 love1another wrote: People are getting so impressive these days.
Back when I was applying for college, I had a 2400, Straight 5s on all AP exams, triple 800 SAT IIs, 4.0 GPA, and tons of extracurrics + a varsity sport.
Couldn't even get a waitlist at Stanford
Edit: Hate affirmative action. If only I were black... Edit: Or hispanic... or some not-over-represented minority.
I'm both confused and very very worried. Where do/did you go?
On March 18 2010 20:51 Daigomi wrote: I have a question. At what age do most people start with their PhD in the US, and does it differ for normal unis and Ivy leagues?
It's more important who you work for and what work you do than it is the university you come from. That being said, there are some schools who are notorious for being powerhouses in each field. It's not as simple as "Ivy leagues" vs. "normal unis" though, because some schools are super specialized. Getting an engineering degree from Harvard, for example, is kinda shitty (no offense).
Edit: actually, yes offense. Fuck you Harvard engineering!
I was mostly wondering if the average age at which you do a PhD differs from Ivy to normal. It's very difficult, coming from SA, to know what exactly is expected of you etc. Like the age thing, I wasn't sure if the unis focus on picking young people who show promise, or if they take people who have proven themselves a bit more. But I'm glad to hear that people generally start their PhD at 24+, I was a bit worried that with each year you wait, your chances get smaller of being picked.
deferred from: Pomona College (3rd choice) Brown University (1st choice)
waiting to hear back from: Berkeley University Duke University University of Chicago (2nd choice) Northwestern NYU Rice University (4th) Amherst College
numbers n shit: 2300 SAT 800, 780, 780 SAT IIs 4.3 GPA debate captain + won/finalist at a bunch of national tournaments 5, 5, 5 AP tests 3 brothers; lots of community service and one job tutoring. was published by 2 books and 2 newspapers. national merit scholarship finalist
On March 19 2010 05:12 cunninglinguists wrote: accepted by: UCLA UC Irvine UC San Diego
deferred from: Pomona College (3rd choice) Brown University (1st choice)
waiting to hear back from: Berkeley University Duke University University of Chicago (2nd choice) Northwestern NYU Rice University (4th) Amherst College
numbers n shit: 2300 SAT 800, 780, 780 SAT IIs 4.3 GPA debate captain + won/finalist at a bunch of national tournaments 5, 5, 5 AP tests 3 brothers; lots of community service and one job tutoring. was published by 2 books and 2 newspapers. national merit scholarship finalist
wtf whys it so hard to get into college now? getting finalist at national tournaments is hard and impressive as shit
Applying to medical school this summer so clearly on a completely different schedule than most everyone else here.
B.S. in Biochemistry will be completed by the time I matriculate
Science GPA: 4.0 Cumulative GPA: 3.4 (will be 3.6 when I apply, recovering from a year of 1.8 GPA back in 2001 that involved two F's)
No MCAT yet, getting 30-35 on practice tests.
0 research experience 2 quarters of paid chemistry tutoring, 1 of volunteer tutoring for chem dept. 1 quarter teaching supplemental general chemistry lecture to science major freshmen. ~50 hours of shadowing/volunteering at hospitals so far.
I doubt my resume is good enough to get into most UC medical schools, but I will try anyway. Need to do some serious consideration about where to apply (CA resident).
On March 17 2010 19:27 lilsusie wrote: Good luck everyone!!! I know US colleges are really difficult to get into because they look at so many different things! <3
Korean Colleges are harder.
Korean colleges are harder? Please refer to this...
deferred from: Pomona College (3rd choice) Brown University (1st choice)
waiting to hear back from: Berkeley University Duke University University of Chicago (2nd choice) Northwestern NYU Rice University (4th) Amherst College
numbers n shit: 2300 SAT 800, 780, 780 SAT IIs 4.3 GPA debate captain + won/finalist at a bunch of national tournaments 5, 5, 5 AP tests 3 brothers; lots of community service and one job tutoring. was published by 2 books and 2 newspapers. national merit scholarship finalist
ugh, most decisions are out april 1st, day of dread >< Berkeley: early acceptance with Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship UCLA: accepted UCI and UC davis: auto-accepted with ELC waiting on the ivies
4.37 weighted GPA 2310 SAT 800 math II 800 Physics 790 Chemistry 760 US history
3 clubs with leadership positions, 2 jobs, 3 community service activities 3 internships no sports, but 3 non-athletic varsity positions
AP's: Chemistry-->4 European History-->5 Calculus AB-->5 Physics C E&M-->5 Physics C M-->5 Environmental Science-->5 Calculus BC-->5 Statistics-->5 US History-->5 Art History, World History, Biology, Government in progress
Some of you guys are doing well... especially Chen wtf?! what colleges are you still waiting on for April 1st??
but.. COME TO PRINCETON!!! =D
though I'm not part of this anymore, April 1st... god what a scary day -_-
FYI my info might help you if any of you are waiting on Ivy school replies (or other such annoying schools)... in the spoiler below!
Accepted: Duke Northwestern NYU Stern Dartmouth Brown Cornell Columbia Wharton Business - UPenn Princeton (1st choice)!!!
High School GPA 4.0/4.0 (what the heck is weighted gpa lol, how do u get over 4.0?) SAT scores: second try 2400 SAT 2's: Math 2c (800), Chem (800), Physics (800) APs: Chemistry-->5 Calculus AB/BC-->5 Macroecon -->5 Microecon -->5 Psychology -->5 Physics B -->5 Human Geography -->5 English Lit -->4 (sigh) US History -->2 OH YEAH. lol it was taken after I got my acceptances, can you blame me? but my professor was also my college advisor so I felt pretty bad haha
Varsity Sports: 5 teams Leadership roles: 4 or 5ish
Btw kids here's three interesting things I've learned from this: 1. Interviews matter jack, I got raped in my Princeton interview and had the best possible Yale interview, and had a bad Wharton interview. 2. Don't always trust your surface feelings when picking your university. Often, your feelings are incredibly wrong because you don't know enough about your university. Pick your university only when you KNOW it's the right one, when weighing everything; opportunities, atmosphere, college life, happiness of students, name value, etc. Btw, although some people think name value is useless, they're idiots, no offense. Name value attracts smart students, monetary investment from outside sources, interest from companies, possible internships, etc. In sum, STUDY ABOUT YOUR UNIVERSITIES. Study like it's your life, more than you have ever done for any test, because this is, IMO, one of the biggest decisions of your life.
DONT GO TO WHARTON... unless you worship business and money above all else. No offense Wharton kids, but you know its true =) haha jk
If you asked me what university I would have gone to except Princeton, I would have said Stanford. The kids there are happy and the education is incredible, and plus, kids there have tons of fun.
Lol I don't know why I wrote so damn much. I guess I wanted to get it all off my chest?
On March 17 2010 19:27 lilsusie wrote: Good luck everyone!!! I know US colleges are really difficult to get into because they look at so many different things! <3
Korean Colleges are harder.
Korean colleges are harder? Please refer to this...
...1 Korean school in the top 50, check the US schools and get back to me.
I think that they mean that it's more difficult to get into the best schools in Korea because the competition is so fierce. In America, even if you go to a community college, you can still go to a top graduate school and get a great job. Grades and standardized tests are more important than school reputation. However, in Korea, the school that you attend seems to define you and your rank in society. If you go to Seoul University, your life is pretty much set, whereas going to Harvard does not guarantee anything, although it is very useful no doubt. Certainly the top schools in America are better than the top schools in Korea. The competition just happens to be more fierce in Korea since there are fewer top colleges.
On March 18 2010 20:51 Daigomi wrote: I have a question. At what age do most people start with their PhD in the US, and does it differ for normal unis and Ivy leagues?
It's more important who you work for and what work you do than it is the university you come from. That being said, there are some schools who are notorious for being powerhouses in each field. It's not as simple as "Ivy leagues" vs. "normal unis" though, because some schools are super specialized. Getting an engineering degree from Harvard, for example, is kinda shitty (no offense).
Edit: actually, yes offense. Fuck you Harvard engineering!
I was mostly wondering if the average age at which you do a PhD differs from Ivy to normal. It's very difficult, coming from SA, to know what exactly is expected of you etc. Like the age thing, I wasn't sure if the unis focus on picking young people who show promise, or if they take people who have proven themselves a bit more. But I'm glad to hear that people generally start their PhD at 24+, I was a bit worried that with each year you wait, your chances get smaller of being picked.
I believe that the age doesn't matter that much. For example, the average age for students accepted to med school is about 24~25, with students usually graduating from college when they are 22 or so. I think that it's not the age you are at, but what you have done between college and applying to a graduate school that matters. For example, if you have spent your two or so years doing some research in a laboratory, that will be looked upon favorably by graduate schools.
On March 19 2010 05:40 Neverborn wrote: Applying to medical school this summer so clearly on a completely different schedule than most everyone else here.
B.S. in Biochemistry will be completed by the time I matriculate
Science GPA: 4.0 Cumulative GPA: 3.4 (will be 3.6 when I apply, recovering from a year of 1.8 GPA back in 2001 that involved two F's)
No MCAT yet, getting 30-35 on practice tests.
0 research experience 2 quarters of paid chemistry tutoring, 1 of volunteer tutoring for chem dept. 1 quarter teaching supplemental general chemistry lecture to science major freshmen. ~50 hours of shadowing/volunteering at hospitals so far.
I doubt my resume is good enough to get into most UC medical schools, but I will try anyway. Need to do some serious consideration about where to apply (CA resident).
If you want to strengthen your application, you could look into post-bac programs. If you can show that you can handle 4 or so science courses beyond the scope of an undergraduate program and that you can excel, medical schools will look more favorably upon your application. Another possibility would be to try to get some research, whether at a university or at a hospital. Delaying the application for a year could do much for your application if you do something worthwhile if you can show medical schools your interest and your ability. It could also give you something to talk about in your interview, especially if your work is published.
On March 19 2010 05:40 Neverborn wrote: Applying to medical school this summer so clearly on a completely different schedule than most everyone else here.
B.S. in Biochemistry will be completed by the time I matriculate
Science GPA: 4.0 Cumulative GPA: 3.4 (will be 3.6 when I apply, recovering from a year of 1.8 GPA back in 2001 that involved two F's)
No MCAT yet, getting 30-35 on practice tests.
0 research experience 2 quarters of paid chemistry tutoring, 1 of volunteer tutoring for chem dept. 1 quarter teaching supplemental general chemistry lecture to science major freshmen. ~50 hours of shadowing/volunteering at hospitals so far.
I doubt my resume is good enough to get into most UC medical schools, but I will try anyway. Need to do some serious consideration about where to apply (CA resident).
On March 19 2010 06:35 Manifesto7 wrote: Jeez, doesn't anyone here go to community college?
I'm sure quite a few people go to community college, but in a thread that screams "Brag about your grades", I don't think many comm. college students would ever think about posting.
Definitely didn't phrase that as well as I had hoped to.
On March 17 2010 19:27 lilsusie wrote: Good luck everyone!!! I know US colleges are really difficult to get into because they look at so many different things! <3
Korean Colleges are harder.
Korean colleges are harder? Please refer to this...
On March 19 2010 06:35 Manifesto7 wrote: Jeez, doesn't anyone here go to community college?
I'm sure quite a few people go to community college, but in a thread that screams "Brag about your grades", I don't think many comm. college students would ever think about posting.
Definitely didn't phrase that as well as I had hoped to.
On March 19 2010 06:35 Manifesto7 wrote: Jeez, doesn't anyone here go to community college?
I'm sure quite a few people go to community college, but in a thread that screams "Brag about your grades", I don't think many comm. college students would ever think about posting.
Definitely didn't phrase that as well as I had hoped to.
I guess I am just feeling inadequate amongst the math junkies.
On March 18 2010 00:12 Myrmidon wrote: Undergrad electrical engineering GPA: 4.0
there should be a jaw dropping emoticon
I just needed to say wow to this before reading the rest of the thread.
You guys are all really smart. Smarter than me :/ . My guidance counselor gave me some advice on being a big fish in a small pond. I wish I could've taken it. Darn honors college, high tuition fees, and etc...
But yeah, the only place I see more numbers like these are in the collegeconfidential threads... and even then -_- maybe only in the MIT/Caltech/Stanford/"Your school so you don't yell at me" acceptance thread.
On March 17 2010 19:27 lilsusie wrote: Good luck everyone!!! I know US colleges are really difficult to get into because they look at so many different things! <3
Korean Colleges are harder.
Korean colleges are harder? Please refer to this...
On March 19 2010 06:35 Manifesto7 wrote: Jeez, doesn't anyone here go to community college?
I'm sure quite a few people go to community college, but in a thread that screams "Brag about your grades", I don't think many comm. college students would ever think about posting.
Definitely didn't phrase that as well as I had hoped to.
I guess I am just feeling inadequate amongst the math junkies.
Camosun College class of '03! Woo!
You should know by now that in these types people are just showing off their "e-penis".
As for me: -High school GPA 2.5 --SAT score 1280ish (fell asleep half way through) -Comm. College GPA 3.01 -Currently a Senior @ UPitt (won't list GPA you search for it on TL if you want)
... according to the USNews UPitt is ranked 114 in the world something I didn't know. Take that and your 4.0s assholes!
I'm currently a junior. I took the SAT once with minimal practice, got a 2060 (meh). I'm in AP English, Ap Calc BC, and taking AP Physics, Stats, and Psych next year. I do cross country/track (unlikely to make varsity though). Also got a 760 on the Chem SAT II.
Does anybody have any recommendations for colleges I can put on my radar or any tips for how I can increase my chances with getting into a high tier college?
Jesus Christ, how do you people do so well at the SATs and SAT IIs? And are the SAT IIs harder than the AP exams? Ugh... >_< I'm gonna HATE next year...
I think the SAT IIs were really really easy. I actually didn't study at all for any of my SAT IIs (which explains some of those low scores :< ), and I didn't really study for SATs aside from a small class my school offered which was like $20.
The SAT II US History was definitely much easier than the AP US History exam, and you can take it right before the AP US History exam as well. I took it after the AP US History exam, and got a 750 with 0 studying (5 on AP US)
SAT IIs are definitely easier than the AP exams, but the difference is with the AP Exams you only need like a 60-70% for a max score, whereas it's a lot easier to tell if you screwed up on an SAT II. Usually only 1-2 problems curve for 800. I think Math II and Physics are like 4-5 problems though.
Oh and it's really funny taking the Chinese SAT II, cause if you get anything less than a 800 you're like 10th percentile since it's all Chinese people taking it ROFL, same with AP Chinese.
hmm SAT IIs generally require (slightly?) more breadth but less depth/understanding. And there's usually less margin for error on SAT IIs because they're easier... it took me significant studying to get 800s on chem/world history, and not so much for math/Chinese. The same held for AP Chem (self-studied)/APUSH vs. AP Calc/Chinese though, I guess. [Incidentally, I got 800 on SAT II math level 2 but failed to get 800 on SAT Reasoning math the first time... rather ironic.]
also the curve for AP Physics is ridiculous. I think I got about 60% multiple choice and 40% short answer and somehow got 5s... I think the US is just generally poor at physics D: [limiting physics courses to juniors/seniors in most places is not really a good recipe for strong physics students?]
On March 19 2010 11:15 G0dly wrote: I'm currently a junior. I took the SAT once with minimal practice, got a 2060 (meh). I'm in AP English, Ap Calc BC, and taking AP Physics, Stats, and Psych next year. I do cross country/track (unlikely to make varsity though). Also got a 760 on the Chem SAT II.
Does anybody have any recommendations for colleges I can put on my radar or any tips for how I can increase my chances with getting into a high tier college?
Dunno if this is the thread to talk about this, but...
There are a lot of different things you can do, although even then, you might be a bit behind, depending on where you go to. A lot of people have different ideas on what a high tier college is really.
As a general blanket statement, try to find something that you really excel at/are really passionate about, and then actually show it. whether it's through competitions, service projects, or whatever
For example, you have all the math geniuses above me who did the math competition stuff to show that they're really fucking good at math. If you're really good at science, try doing a competition or a science fair project. Enter a writing competition or something of the sort if literature is your thing.
Of course, raising your SAT score/GPA is generally a good way to get into any school outside of the top 20. I know many students/friends that have gotten into UC Berkeley and UCLA based solely on academics.
If you're looking for more input, you should probably make a blog or something with more detailed questions.
Accepted to Virginia Tech Engineering (unsure of what kind yet)
GPA - 4.28 (Weighted) SAT - 1420 ACT - 32
Like 7 AP classes with both Calculus's, Physics C, World History, American History, US Gov., Economics. Aced those fuckers with mostly 5's.
Yeah I'm aware I could have probably gotten into a slightly more prestigious school with those numbers, but I can't really afford out of state and VTech has one of the better engineering programs in the country, so it's hard to beat as far as value/dollar.
On March 19 2010 12:48 sith wrote: Accepted to Virginia Tech Engineering (unsure of what kind yet) ... Yeah I'm aware I could have probably gotten into a slightly more prestigious school with those numbers, but I can't really afford out of state and VTech has one of the better engineering programs in the country, so it's hard to beat as far as value/dollar.
Yeah, instate tuition FTW, and VT is pretty good anyhow. I would recommend most anyone (particularly those planning technical majors and possibly considering graduate or professional school such that their undergrad won't be their last degree) to attend a decent instate uni rather than a top tier institution. It's not only cheaper, but it gives you more flexibility.
You can ease back a little and have a good time, or you can put in the extra hours if you want and stand out from your peers. It's easier to get to know professors because you may be better than the average student, and you won't have the pressure of classes crushing your soul at all moments. For the most part, what you get out of college depends on what you put in and not where you are. Also, it's easier to switch majors without switching institutions at a larger public school that offers more programs.
On March 19 2010 12:48 sith wrote: Accepted to Virginia Tech Engineering (unsure of what kind yet) ... Yeah I'm aware I could have probably gotten into a slightly more prestigious school with those numbers, but I can't really afford out of state and VTech has one of the better engineering programs in the country, so it's hard to beat as far as value/dollar.
You can ease back a little and have a good time, or you can put in the extra hours if you want and stand out from your peers. It's easier to get to know professors because you may be better than the average student, and you won't have the pressure of classes crushing your soul at all moments. For the most part, what you get out of college depends on what you put in and not where you are. Also, it's easier to switch majors without switching institutions at a larger public school that offers more programs.
Yeah that's actually one of the reason's I would like to go there in addition to the in-state tuition and so on. I got accepted into the engineering program, but I'm not dead set on that. I may switch to either pure math or pure physics depending on how I like my courses and stuff. I've been told that if you have the credentials to get into the engineering school there then you can pretty much switch majors to math/physics/anything or back again very easily.
And also obviously if I choose to I can slack off a bit, which I'll probably want to do at some point. Whats the point of going to college if you're not going to enjoy it?
On March 19 2010 03:39 love1another wrote: People are getting so impressive these days.
Back when I was applying for college, I had a 2400, Straight 5s on all AP exams, triple 800 SAT IIs, 4.0 GPA, and tons of extracurrics + a varsity sport.
Couldn't even get a waitlist at Stanford
Edit: Hate affirmative action. If only I were black... Edit: Or hispanic... or some not-over-represented minority.
seriously, black guy barely makes AIME and scores a 2 or just decent score on AMC 12, MIT auto-accept. Asian guy gets USAMO, he needs great grades and test scores with alot of EC's and even then hes very questionable.
deferred from: Pomona College (3rd choice) Brown University (1st choice)
waiting to hear back from: Berkeley University Duke University University of Chicago (2nd choice) Northwestern NYU Rice University (4th) Amherst College
numbers n shit: 2300 SAT 800, 780, 780 SAT IIs 4.3 GPA debate captain + won/finalist at a bunch of national tournaments 5, 5, 5 AP tests 3 brothers; lots of community service and one job tutoring. was published by 2 books and 2 newspapers. national merit scholarship finalist
ugh, most decisions are out april 1st, day of dread >< Berkeley: early acceptance with Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship UCLA: accepted UCI and UC davis: auto-accepted with ELC waiting on the ivies
4.37 weighted GPA 2310 SAT 800 math II 800 Physics 790 Chemistry 760 US history
3 clubs with leadership positions, 2 jobs, 3 community service activities 3 internships no sports, but 3 non-athletic varsity positions
AP's: Chemistry-->4 European History-->5 Calculus AB-->5 Physics C E&M-->5 Physics C M-->5 Environmental Science-->5 Calculus BC-->5 Statistics-->5 US History-->5 Art History, World History, Biology, Government in progress
Some of you guys are doing well... especially Chen wtf?! what colleges are you still waiting on for April 1st??
but.. COME TO PRINCETON!!! =D
High School GPA 4.0/4.0 (what the heck is weighted gpa lol, how do u get over 4.0?)
Lol I don't know why I wrote so damn much. I guess I wanted to get it all off my chest?
Different schools do it differently, but i think the convention is normal class A=4, B=3 etc, AP class is 1 point boost where A=5.0, B=4.0, etc. and ALL ivies+stanford release on April 1st
On March 19 2010 11:22 ghrur wrote: Jesus Christ, how do you people do so well at the SATs and SAT IIs? And are the SAT IIs harder than the AP exams? Ugh... >_< I'm gonna HATE next year...
SAT 800>>>>AP 5. 5 on an AP test is ~60% correct, 800 on SAT is >95% on the harder ones id say ~700 SAT=5 on AP test.
The SAT ll's aren't harder, they just have smaller bins so the difference's between students is more defined. Like 18% of AP test takers get 5's, if the SAT II is on a true bell curve 18% is like 650-800 (Right? Like 1.5 SD?). Also the SAT II's reward prep way more than any of the other standardized tests since most people either haven't covered all the material in class or are a few months removed from the material going in
"The University of Michigan used a 150-point scale to rank applicants, with 100 points needed to guarantee admission. The University gave underrepresented ethnic groups, including African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans, an automatic 20-point bonus on this scale, while a perfect SAT score was worth 12 points. " anyone else think this is complete bullshit? being black>2400 on the SAT >.> Fuck affirmative action guy from a really destitute community with no chance at getting a decent high school education i understand, giving hand-outs to every person who is black, native american, or hispanic just cause of who there parents was is such crap.
I think I learned this the hard way. Luckily I still have a family that loves me on the other side of the country and even a friend or two, so it's all good!
Seeing as how every university is able to portray there campus as a beacon of all things good in the universe via brochure/virtual tour, campus visits are crucial. It's the place you will be spending all of your time for the next four years. How do you like the culture there? Are there things to do? Can you picture yourself living there? Ask yourself those questions and see if you think you fit in.
On March 19 2010 12:48 sith wrote: Accepted to Virginia Tech Engineering (unsure of what kind yet)
GPA - 4.28 (Weighted) SAT - 1420 ACT - 32
Like 7 AP classes with both Calculus's, Physics C, World History, American History, US Gov., Economics. Aced those fuckers with mostly 5's.
Yeah I'm aware I could have probably gotten into a slightly more prestigious school with those numbers, but I can't really afford out of state and VTech has one of the better engineering programs in the country, so it's hard to beat as far as value/dollar.
On March 19 2010 13:48 Chen wrote: "The University of Michigan used a 150-point scale to rank applicants, with 100 points needed to guarantee admission. The University gave underrepresented ethnic groups, including African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans, an automatic 20-point bonus on this scale, while a perfect SAT score was worth 12 points. " anyone else think this is complete bullshit? being black>2400 on the SAT >.> Fuck affirmative action guy from a really destitute community with no chance at getting a decent high school education i understand, giving hand-outs to every person who is black, native american, or hispanic just cause of who there parents was is such crap.
hmm you realize this (point systems in general for college admissions [and also quotas]) was declared illegal many years ago? Of course affirmative action still exists and all, but just a nitpick (oh good memories from debate camp.)
Yes, affirmative action sucks. but at least the aim is "noble" in a way. If there isn't affirmative action, the "underprivileged" (unfortunately it might not always be the underprivileged who benefit, but at least in theory they do...) are stuck in this vicious cycle of ... dare I say "inferiority"? Possibly too strong a word, but I'm kinda sleepy and don't want to think of synonyms XD
Everyone claims to want "equality for all." But of course everyone puts their own good in front of this (hmm reminds me of my economics teacher informing the class that we did not actually want equal distribution of income). So the system is trying to impose itself to create this "equality," and sometimes lets in "less qualified" (at the moment?) applicants. It's a gamble that in the future, these "less qualified" applicants, who had fewer opportunities before yet still made it to a high level, can take advantage of their new resources and possibly exceed those who were slightly more qualified before.
That being said, I am not really a fan of affirmative action myself, since it hurts me. But its intentions are well-meaning... in a way.
Maybe this is a good analogy? Math contests have no affirmative action [quantitative measure woo]. Invariably, it ends up that white and Asian males comprise most of the competitors AND most of the top competitors. This is undesirable because the culture/tradition/whatever further strengthens this lopsidedness and perhaps prevents potentially awesome girls/minorities/etc. from competing.
We could even pull starcraft into this... but ok that's going pretty far.
Maybe this is a good analogy? Math contests have no affirmative action [quantitative measure woo]. Invariably, it ends up that white and Asian males comprise most of the competitors AND most of the top competitors. This is undesirable because the culture/tradition/whatever further strengthens this lopsidedness and perhaps prevents potentially awesome girls/minorities/etc. from competing.
We could even pull starcraft into this... but ok that's going pretty far.
Why would that be undesirable? Whoever's best gets the recognition. Seems very desirable to me.
Maybe this is a good analogy? Math contests have no affirmative action [quantitative measure woo]. Invariably, it ends up that white and Asian males comprise most of the competitors AND most of the top competitors. This is undesirable because the culture/tradition/whatever further strengthens this lopsidedness and perhaps prevents potentially awesome girls/minorities/etc. from competing.
We could even pull starcraft into this... but ok that's going pretty far.
Why would that be undesirable? Whoever's best gets the recognition. Seems very desirable to me.
Definitely. There are women who do well in the top math competitions.
Maybe this is a good analogy? Math contests have no affirmative action [quantitative measure woo]. Invariably, it ends up that white and Asian males comprise most of the competitors AND most of the top competitors. This is undesirable because the culture/tradition/whatever further strengthens this lopsidedness and perhaps prevents potentially awesome girls/minorities/etc. from competing.
We could even pull starcraft into this... but ok that's going pretty far.
Why would that be undesirable? Whoever's best gets the recognition. Seems very desirable to me.
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.
edit: @ empyrean: yes. melanie wood, alison miller, and sherry gong. but ... that is not really many.
denied from ucla and ucsd (fml) got in davis, irvine waiting for berkeley, cmu, ivies
i was pretty depressed when i didn't get into ucsd because i definitely thought of it as a safety school hopefully i can get into berkeley cause thats my number 1 if i can get into an ivy that would be super cool but i'm not counting on it
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
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
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?
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?
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).
guys don't worry too much if you don't look like some of the other people here. college and high school are pretty different and you can do great shit coming from a state school or anywhere. the field that's right for you might not have even been available at your school.
Affirmative action is a mess. Just take it for "they want to make your school more diverse." Afaik, UofT and Caltech do not take part in Affirmative Action. No thread derail, more acceptances!
On March 22 2010 13:04 FragKrag wrote: UC Santa Barbara decisions come out tomorrow. I hope I get in :|
If you do get into UCSB, I HIGHLY recommend going there. It's a great school, is in a beautiful area, has gorgeous women and has parties like no other. I seriously can't say enough good things about that university.
On March 19 2010 14:59 johnnyspazz wrote: gpa 3.82 uw sat 2160 act 33 sat ii 800 790
denied from ucla and ucsd (fml) got in davis, irvine waiting for berkeley, cmu, ivies
i was pretty depressed when i didn't get into ucsd because i definitely thought of it as a safety school hopefully i can get into berkeley cause thats my number 1 if i can get into an ivy that would be super cool but i'm not counting on it
Not getting into SD with that, oh my fucking god. Appeal that shit, you're way above the UCSD standards. The best excuse they can give you is prob "Not enough extra curriculars"
If you end up going to Irvine, I"ll personally give you the most non homo bear hug in the world.
On March 19 2010 14:59 johnnyspazz wrote: gpa 3.82 uw sat 2160 act 33 sat ii 800 790
denied from ucla and ucsd (fml) got in davis, irvine waiting for berkeley, cmu, ivies
i was pretty depressed when i didn't get into ucsd because i definitely thought of it as a safety school hopefully i can get into berkeley cause thats my number 1 if i can get into an ivy that would be super cool but i'm not counting on it
Not getting into SD with that, oh my fucking god.
no extracurriculars = you're not going anywhere.
On March 19 2010 14:12 ImBackSuckas wrote: @Humbug
Seeing as how every university is able to portray there campus as a beacon of all things good in the universe via brochure/virtual tour, campus visits are crucial. It's the place you will be spending all of your time for the next four years. How do you like the culture there? Are there things to do? Can you picture yourself living there? Ask yourself those questions and see if you think you fit in.
sorry, have to disagree with this. When you visit, you get to meet like a total of 10 students there, perhaps spend the night with them? You drop in on a couple classes, get bombarded by some guide with the usual info. You get to see a very small sample of what the campus has to offer. Visits don't do jack.
Extra curriculars are stupid. I could have lied on mine, and I know a lot of people who lied about theirs, and the UC's have no way of finding out. When you apply on their site, they just have you list what you've done, how many hours, and provide a really short description.
On March 22 2010 13:04 FragKrag wrote: UC Santa Barbara decisions come out tomorrow. I hope I get in :|
If you do get into UCSB, I HIGHLY recommend going there. It's a great school, is in a beautiful area, has gorgeous women and has parties like no other. I seriously can't say enough good things about that university.
Goodluck!
Seconded. If anyone is considering going there and has any questions, feel free to PM me.
On March 22 2010 13:04 FragKrag wrote: UC Santa Barbara decisions come out tomorrow. I hope I get in :|
If you do get into UCSB, I HIGHLY recommend going there. It's a great school, is in a beautiful area, has gorgeous women and has parties like no other. I seriously can't say enough good things about that university.
Goodluck!
Seconded. If anyone is considering going there and has any questions, feel free to PM me.
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.
Bad neighborhood, nonexistent campus culture, depressing as fuck.
OK, I heard about the crime-rate problem. I don't see how non-existent campus culture is bad, though. I mean, do you WANT to have partying and loud music playing all the time while you are trying to study?
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.
Bad neighborhood, nonexistent campus culture, depressing as fuck.
OK, I heard about the crime-rate problem. I don't see how non-existent campus culture is bad, though. I mean, do you WANT to have partying and loud music playing all the time while you are trying to study?
Trust me, it's better than not having the option. There are always quiet places you can go to study.
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.
Bad neighborhood, nonexistent campus culture, depressing as fuck.
OK, I heard about the crime-rate problem. I don't see how non-existent campus culture is bad, though. I mean, do you WANT to have partying and loud music playing all the time while you are trying to study?
Trust me, it's better than not having the option. There are always quiet places you can go to study.
Well, I am more bothered by the crime rate. I may apply for JHU next year, but I won't do it if going to JHU places me in the middle of gang wars and gun violences. Afterall, Baltimore has the highest rate of homocide in the states.
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.
Bad neighborhood, nonexistent campus culture, depressing as fuck.
OK, I heard about the crime-rate problem. I don't see how non-existent campus culture is bad, though. I mean, do you WANT to have partying and loud music playing all the time while you are trying to study?
Trust me, it's better than not having the option. There are always quiet places you can go to study.
Well, I am more bothered by the crime rate. I may apply for JHU next year, but I won't do it if going to JHU places me in the middle of gang wars and gun violences. Afterall, Baltimore has the highest rate of homocide in the states.
Johns Hopkins has quite the reputation, along with UChicago to a lesser extent. Terrible neighborhood, right smack dab in the middle of where you don't want to be.
Oh so it isn't true that if you step outside campus, you might get shot? Just a running myth that spreads around everywhere. Figured since it was smack dab right in Baltimore, with the notorious crime rate in the area it was just a given.
But it's nice to hear schools stepping up the security. Shit, I wouldn't ever want to go to a school that has apathetic security.
On March 23 2010 01:21 Roffles wrote: Oh so it isn't true that if you step outside campus, you might get shot? Just a running myth that spreads around everywhere. Figured since it was smack dab right in Baltimore, with the notorious crime rate in the area it was just a given.
But it's nice to hear schools stepping up the security. Shit, I wouldn't ever want to go to a school that has apathetic security.
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 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.
Don't troll. None of the Ivies have released decisions yet. If you want to troll, do it better.
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
Why'd you apply to so many UCs? With those scores LA and Berkley would be enough probably :p.
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.
i am graduating from hopkins this year. and i second everything this man is saying. it is a great place for pre-meds though academically.
So after getting rejected by UCSD last year, I goofed around a bit and decided to apply again as a transfer student to their Neuroscience major, which apparently is ranked top 10 in the nation, and yay I just got my acceptance email
GPA: 4.2 SAT 2270 (800r 700m 770w) 9 AP Classes US History and Lit SAT2 (790 and 760 respectively) In at Rutgers (full ride) Out from Berkeley Waiting on UVa, Johns Hopkins and Columbia(lol)
GPA: 3.9 ACT: 35 5- Ap bio 5- Ap world history sat II bio 800 sat II math II 780 sat II chemistry 760
Weekly volunteer work, Varsity soccer and baseball, student council president, math and science club co-founder and president, couple other little things.
UK, Yale- Accepted MIT- rejected,
Waiting on- Princeton, Harvard, Cornell, UVA, Washington and Lee, Vanderbilt
On March 18 2010 01:39 -fj. wrote: Beliot College: accepted The Evergreen State College: probably accepted, don't know yet New College of Florida: accepted Hampsire College: waiting
ACT: 31 GPA: N/A (homeschooled)
Oh cool I'm in the CS program at Evergreen. Good luck!
On March 26 2010 11:06 nbaker wrote: GPA: 4.2 SAT 2270 (800r 700m 770w) 9 AP Classes US History and Lit SAT2 (790 and 760 respectively) In at Rutgers (full ride) Out from Berkeley Waiting on UVa, Johns Hopkins and Columbia(lol)
i never went to an american high school so im not really sure how it works but how do you have a gpa higher then 4.0? I thought 4.0 was the highest you can get.
On March 26 2010 11:06 nbaker wrote: GPA: 4.2 SAT 2270 (800r 700m 770w) 9 AP Classes US History and Lit SAT2 (790 and 760 respectively) In at Rutgers (full ride) Out from Berkeley Waiting on UVa, Johns Hopkins and Columbia(lol)
i never went to an american high school so im not really sure how it works but how do you have a gpa higher then 4.0? I thought 4.0 was the highest you can get.
you can have a higher *weighted* gpa than 4.0 because an As in AP or IB classes are given 5.0 instead of 4.0. maximum *unweighted* gpa is 4.0
On March 26 2010 11:14 WoodenSpider wrote: Its like college confidential all over again.
GPA: 3.9 ACT: 35 5- Ap bio 5- Ap world history sat II bio 800 sat II math II 780 sat II chemistry 760
Weekly volunteer work, Varsity soccer and baseball, student council president, math and science club co-founder and president, couple other little things.
UK, Yale- Accepted MIT- rejected,
Waiting on- Princeton, Harvard, Cornell, UVA, Washington and Lee, Vanderbilt
I always wanted to ask with your accomplishments this because your effort is extraordinary. The clubs you started (math/science), were they semi-bullshit clubs with less than 10 - 20 regulars in them or were they clubs that actually did stuff? Sorry if it's a demeaning question.
On March 19 2010 05:12 cunninglinguists wrote: accepted by: UCLA UC Irvine UC San Diego
deferred from: Pomona College (3rd choice) Brown University (1st choice)
waiting to hear back from: Berkeley University Duke University University of Chicago (2nd choice) Northwestern NYU Rice University (4th) Amherst College
numbers n shit: 2300 SAT 800, 780, 780 SAT IIs 4.3 GPA debate captain + won/finalist at a bunch of national tournaments 5, 5, 5 AP tests 3 brothers; lots of community service and one job tutoring. was published by 2 books and 2 newspapers. national merit scholarship finalist
you can definitely get into nyu. are you interested in business or fine arts/film?
On March 25 2010 14:08 Mystlord wrote:Why'd you apply to so many UCs? With those scores LA and Berkley would be enough probably :p.
Wanted to be safe. Plus, for engineering, I figure both Davis and SB are amazingly good so I had no real issues applying to them both, though I should have applied to just Davis. At the time, I had no idea which of the two I wanted as my safety, but honestly, I could have put those $60 to better use.
Update: UC Berkeley: Accepted, but no Regents Scholarship =( Harvey Mudd: Accepted
On March 26 2010 11:06 nbaker wrote: GPA: 4.2 SAT 2270 (800r 700m 770w) 9 AP Classes US History and Lit SAT2 (790 and 760 respectively) In at Rutgers (full ride) Out from Berkeley Waiting on UVa, Johns Hopkins and Columbia(lol)
No Berkley D:!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Damn, my stats are going to end up being pretty similar next year.
Berkeley came out today, rest of them in 1 week.... $1000 lol DX, regents' hates me. guess 1 unemployed parent doesnt qualify for anything but honorary aid
btw: to the guy below, Regents' depends on financial "need". my friend got $10K from Berkeley. $1000 is the minimum awarded to people that they like alot, but apparently dont need money
On March 26 2010 12:45 Chen wrote: Berkeley came out today, rest of them in 1 week.... $1000 lol DX, regents' hates me. guess 1 unemployed parent doesnt qualify for anything but honorary aid
So did you get regents? Cause regents only gives $1000 for berkeley to everyone who gets it.
Looking at everyone else's, I feel like crap going into Senior year next year.
GPA: 4.2 (somewhere around there) Weighted, 3.85 Unweighted AFJROTC 3 Years going for a 4th SAT I: 1930 (First Try) Haven't taken AP tests yet. Taking: APUSH Calc AB English 3AP
Vice President of high school Starcraft Club! Commander of Unarmed Drill Team On School Paper Applying to UCLA, Berkeley, UCSD, Davis, Santa Clara, and some other schools. Hopefully majoring to go to law school. Tell me if it sounds like I won't be getting in, because from what I've seen of my friends, I'm not going to college. Lol.
Get a 2100+ SAT score and I don't see why you wouldn't be in Davis or UCSD. Don't you have like a mock trial type of activity at your school? That would look good imo.
Uhh, I wanted to break 2000 on my first try, but I fell short. We have a mock trial, but it's kind of a joke. I'm also on the school "Debate team." I really think of SD and Davis as back up schools. I'm really pressured to get into LA and Cal. Although, LA is tougher to get into, I'd rather go to Cal. Things don't look good for me right now. Lol. Damnnnn it.
LA has more applicants usually, which is why it's tougher. It isn't necessarily better. @ xmShake See what I mean? It looks like I'm not going to Cal or LA. LOL. T-T @ OneOther I saw the stats for last year; LA has a lower percentage of admission than Cal. (At least, that's what that pamphlet said.)
On March 26 2010 13:43 Sonikhawk121 wrote: LA has more applicants usually, which is why it's tougher. It isn't necessarily better. @ xmShake See what I mean? It looks like I'm not going to Cal or LA. LOL. T-T
Has more applicants that are not as qualified as those at Cal
On March 26 2010 13:40 FragKrag wrote: I'm not sure if LA is harder than Cal because it seems like they are fairly evenly matched most of the time :o
Cal is definitely harder to get into than UCLA...I have no idea since when UCLA was considered better/harder than Cal
Last year the senior class at my school had a lot more accepted into berk than la, and most applied for both, this year's the opposite sooo take what you will out of that
I never said it was better... If you look back at my post, I thought I made that clear. I just know that more people apply to UCLA, so the odds get slimmer. I know more people that got into Cal than LA too. I'm still a junior, so I'm hoping to use my extracurriculars to make myself look good, but from what I see, I don't think I'm getting into Cal or LA.
3.2-3.3 GPA (lol mb) 2190 SAT (2nd try... I could probably get 2300+ if I studied for it) international schooling 1-2 clubs with leadership some volunteering Physics 5 Stats 5 Taking AP Calc, AP Chem, AP Euro, APES, AP Lit this year (wtf was I thinking?) 4 year Varsity Swimmer+MVP senior year JV Track 9, 10 JV X-Country 12
Carnegie-waiting Middlebury-waiting U of Washington in St. Louis-I forgot to pay or something so my app was discarded U of Chicago-DENIED Northwestern-DENIED
I only bothered applied to reach schools because I have two more years to reapply (so I don't expect any acceptances). I have to go to the army for two years after I graduate from HS. I'll probably be back next year applying to UCs, SCU, USC, USF, UBC, McGill, and Queens (basically Cali and Canada).
On March 26 2010 14:00 Sonikhawk121 wrote: I never said it was better... If you look back at my post, I thought I made that clear. I just know that more people apply to UCLA, so the odds get slimmer. I know more people that got into Cal than LA too. I'm still a junior, so I'm hoping to use my extracurriculars to make myself look good, but from what I see, I don't think I'm getting into Cal or LA.
That depends on what you mean by "harder to get into." Yes the admittance percentage is lower for UCLA than CAL because more people apply to UCLA, but the difficulty of getting in depends on other applicants' qualifications. My point is that Cal applicants are often times more qualified than UCLA ones. You knowing more people who got into Cal than UCLA doesn't mean anything. I am just saying that you can't say one schools is harder to get into than another purely based on admission percentages. Best of luck though, it's too early to give up
Yeah, a bit tentative going into Senior year too.....
GPA: 4.2-3 weighted....3.80 unweighted me thinks. SAT: LOL, haven't taken SAT yet AP Bio, AP Computer Sci, AP Calculus, APUSH
5 on AP Bio, the other three APs I haven't taken the test yet. SAT Bio I got a 680 though....grrr.
-Advanced level piano player (don't know how to phrase it correctly) -former drum major of band (not high school unfortunately, but I was better than the rest) -Captain of the Tennis Team (was) -Volunteer at a Senior Residence Home -Participant on the school "Speech and Debate" team. I was ranked 16th at last year's national tournament in Extemporaneous Speaking (meaning I know my politics ) -Won an Optimist Competition for $1500 in Scholarship funds...? (I know, not a lot)
On March 27 2010 09:38 Faronel wrote: Holy shit rejected from NW.
2350 SAT 3.9 GPA Vars swim team Eagle Scout local math + science competitions political debate club
bunch of volunteering
Really? These stats impress me, I don't know why they would reject you.
i don't think you understand how much of a crapshoot college apps are these days.
jesus. I was waitlisted from NW, and my stats weren't as good as these. scary shit. sorry to hear about the rejection though. where did you get into?
Yeah... things like this.
Yet it makes me think: Korean students (and the media) react greatly to even the slightest admission process change of the top universities, and the entire private sector moves along with it.
I'm no expert on the matter, but it only makes me sad about the education situation in Korea.
Boston University for Masters of Music in Composition. Still waiting for word from Texas at Austin, but I'd rather go to BU anyway. Rejected from UMKC because of missing the deadline.
Sorry for the offtopic. Im not from the States so i wonder if anyone could explain me what does it mean GPA and SAT. And how are the acceptance going on so early. Here in Europe it is somewhere in July
On March 31 2010 13:29 DivinO wrote: Accepted- Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Drexel Rejected- Stanford, University of Chicago, MIT, Caltech Awaiting- UPenn, Yale, Columbia
On April 01 2010 02:57 Art.FeeL wrote: Sorry for the offtopic. Im not from the States so i wonder if anyone could explain me what does it mean GPA and SAT. And how are the acceptance going on so early. Here in Europe it is somewhere in July
Your GPA is is your grade point average; in the states your letter grade it a class corresponds with various numbers; the better your grades the higher that number, Basically is the gauge of how well you do in school. The SAT is a standardized test for college bound high school students split into three categories, reading, writing, and math (even though a decent number of colleges couldn't give two shits about the writing section). In each section you can earn anywhere from 200 to 800 points with 500 being the hypothetical apex of the bell curve. It's the measure of how well you stack up against other students across the nation. We get our acceptances so early because we're fucking stupid and like dividing senior year into two parts: one thats very stressful and difficult and the other that's a waste of time that one gives a fuck about because they're already in college. I suppose the real reason is people want to feel settled by the end of there senior year or some shit but really it's I have no idea. Hope that helps.
Nice job at DivinO and University! You've gotten into some great schools, so don't worry too much about the ones you didn't get into (they don't know what they're missing >.>)
On a more umph note... >.> April Fool's day in the US is tomorrow... Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and UPenn all release tomorrow (the latter half of my school list...) Good luck to all those who applied!
Accepted into Johns hopkins and Columbia. 6/6 thus far (university of chicago, columbia, johns hopkins, boston college, fordham, and georgetown). Still awaiting responses from the big three.
Good luck to all Columbia applicants - I know that the Ivy admissions are going out today. If any of you seniors have any questions about the school, let me know. I would love to see some TL faces on campus.
On April 02 2010 08:12 University wrote: Good luck to all Columbia applicants - I know that the Ivy admissions are going out today. If any of you seniors have any questions about the school, let me know. I would love to see some TL faces on campus.
you can ask me too i'm in the engineering school (aren't we all) so i'd be happy to answer any questions. Though I'll be graduating this year so I won't be seeing any of you
On March 17 2010 20:01 Chen wrote: ugh, most decisions are out april 1st, day of dread >< Berkeley: early acceptance with Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship UCLA: accepted UCI and UC davis: auto-accepted with ELC Stanford:Reject waiting on the ivies
4.37 weighted GPA 2310 SAT 800 math II 800 Physics 790 Chemistry 760 US history
3 clubs with leadership positions, 2 jobs, 3 community service activities 3 internships no sports, but 3 non-athletic varsity positions
AP's: Chemistry-->4 European History-->5 Calculus AB-->5 Physics C E&M-->5 Physics C M-->5 Environmental Science-->5 Calculus BC-->5 Statistics-->5 US History-->5 Art History, World History, Biology, Government in progress
GPA: 3.67 (UC GPA: 4.16) SAT I: 2280 SAT II's: Math II (800) / Lit (750) / Bio (740)
Probably gonna attend UCSD, but seeing as how bioengineering and all biology majors there are impacted, I have no idea how difficult it will be to transfer into a major I want when I declare.
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.
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.
George Washington U. Ba/md: rejected Case Wester Reserve Ba/md: rejected USC Ba/md: rejected Northwestern HPME: rejected Brown PLME (ed): deferred Wustl Ba/md: rejected ^ world of hurt
UCLA: accepted UCD: elc, autoaccepted washington st. louis: accepted USC: accepted UCSD: accepted Case Western Reserve: accepted + 22.5k
Gpa: 4.65 Sat I: 2300 math II: 800, u.s. history: 780, chem: 760, bio: 760 AP U.S.History: 5, Calc BC: 5, Chem: 4 , Lang Comp:5, European History: 5, Biology: 5, Calc AB: 5 + stats, us gov, microecon, literature, physics b, and psychology on the way
4 clubs, 1 with leadership 1 varsity sport 2 instruments + orchestra (first violin & Europe tour) + awards = I sent a CD 1 graphics art team 1 internship at UCLA neuro lab 1 job 3 years @ leadership camp (served last year as an actual counselor) 3 main volunteer experiences 4th place at California State Science fair + various other awards and activities [Link Crew, Web Design, Ensemble etc.]
I didn't apply to any ivies except Brown, I just don't find them that appealing :\. And I think my 4 on the chem ap test and relatively low sat scores for the application pool screwed me in the straight-med programs. Now I am just waiting on a couple more meds, Brown, and Stanford..
Chen, gratz on the regents O.o, was hoping to get that myself
On March 19 2010 05:12 cunninglinguists wrote: accepted by: UCLA UC Irvine UC San Diego
deferred from: Pomona College (3rd choice) Brown University (1st choice)
waiting to hear back from: Berkeley University Duke University University of Chicago (2nd choice) Northwestern NYU Rice University (4th) Amherst College
numbers n shit: 2300 SAT 800, 780, 780 SAT IIs 4.3 GPA debate captain + won/finalist at a bunch of national tournaments 5, 5, 5 AP tests 3 brothers; lots of community service and one job tutoring. was published by 2 books and 2 newspapers. national merit scholarship finalist
UCLA - Accepted UC Berkeley - Accepted UCI - Accepted UCSD - Accepted UCD - Accepted Pomona College - Rejected (ridiculous 6% acceptance rate this year vs 16% last year) Duke University - Rejected Northwestern - Waitlisted Amherst College - Waitlisted (no hope for this one. 21 people out of 500 on the waiting list get in =\ ) University of Chicago - Waitlisted NYU - Accepted Boston U - Accepted with $20,000/yr Merit Scholarship money :D Rice - Accepted with $15,800/yr Merit Scholarship money :D
Looks like I'll be heading to Rice unless UChig accepts me and offers finanaid. Anyone who goes there can tell me what its like? I'm visiting next month to check it out.
UCLA: Accept UCBerkeley: Accept USC: Accept MIT: Deferred -> Reject Northwestern: Accept Vanderbilt: Accept Washington University in St. Louis: Accept UChicago: Accept Harvard: Reject (I don't do community service~) Princeton: Reject
Overall I'm happy . Not like I put enough effort into HS to get drafted by a top Ivy anyway
I know there's probably no one who cares yet still hasn't checked his email, but a belated good luck to those hoping for good news from Harvard. I hear the CSL team is always looking for more players.
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.
4.37 weighted is pretty bad. It means more Bs than As...
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.
4.37 weighted is pretty bad. It means more Bs than As...
Depends, some state school systems have different amounts of weight classes. If he only took a few weighted classes then he still had mostly A's.
If he did get mostly B's then, given his test scores, most colleges will assume he's incredibly bright and good at tests but only has a moderate ethic when it comes to projects/papers and other non-test scores(which is bad if they favor fields where you publish things or do long-duration experiments).
That's why I only got into a top state college with like a 4.6 (aaaah padding my stats with five semesters of french) and 33 on an ACT. (sadly my state is Alabama, but atleast UA has great psych and med schools).
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.
4.37 weighted is pretty bad. It means more Bs than As...
no it doesnt. i have like 2 B's total. every school does it differently, my school AP's are 4.5, 2 quarters of AP(5.0) and 2 quarters of honors (4.0) there are 3 classes that actually give 5.0's to your GPA, Calc BC, APES, and Physics C cause those are 1/2 year classes. highest GPA ever attained at my school is like a low 4.5
College acceptances are just arbitrary, plain and simple. Whatever, Chen, it's all good man, you'll be successful in life. It's not what school you go to, it's what you make of your own education. Plus, Warren Buffet got REJECTED from Harvard and now look? =)
On March 17 2010 20:01 Chen wrote: ugh, most decisions are out april 1st, day of dread >< Berkeley: early acceptance with Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship UCLA: accepted UCI and UC davis: auto-accepted with ELC Stanford:Reject waiting on the ivies
4.37 weighted GPA 2310 SAT 800 math II 800 Physics 790 Chemistry 760 US history
3 clubs with leadership positions, 2 jobs, 3 community service activities 3 internships no sports, but 3 non-athletic varsity positions
AP's: Chemistry-->4 European History-->5 Calculus AB-->5 Physics C E&M-->5 Physics C M-->5 Environmental Science-->5 Calculus BC-->5 Statistics-->5 US History-->5 Art History, World History, Biology, Government in progress
On March 17 2010 20:01 Chen wrote: ugh, most decisions are out april 1st, day of dread >< Berkeley: early acceptance with Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship UCLA: accepted UCI and UC davis: auto-accepted with ELC Stanford:Reject waiting on the ivies
4.37 weighted GPA 2310 SAT 800 math II 800 Physics 790 Chemistry 760 US history
3 clubs with leadership positions, 2 jobs, 3 community service activities 3 internships no sports, but 3 non-athletic varsity positions
AP's: Chemistry-->4 European History-->5 Calculus AB-->5 Physics C E&M-->5 Physics C M-->5 Environmental Science-->5 Calculus BC-->5 Statistics-->5 US History-->5 Art History, World History, Biology, Government in progress
holy shit are u serious? that's ridiculously harsh... unbelievable, they must have not liked your common app essay or sth =(
Are *you* serious? This IS the college admissions process, after all. And there are plenty of people with applications just as good, if not better. And plenty of them get the same results. + Show Spoiler +
On April 02 2010 12:39 Saracen wrote: Are *you* serious? This IS the college admissions process, after all. And there are plenty of people with applications just as good, if not better. And plenty of them get the same results. + Show Spoiler +
This year's ivys were bithces, Most of the good students that I know have been shot down by every one of them. Only person who got in to a lot of them, the SMOB of mcps schools :/
On April 02 2010 12:46 Monkeyboi2k3 wrote: This year's ivys were bithces, Most of the good students that I know have been shot down by every one of them. Only person who got in to a lot of them, the SMOB of mcps schools :/
I have a friend who is essentially the same as me academically, same extra curriculars as me except he plays tennis and I don't. His only acceptances were UCLA, UCBerkeley, and Northwestern. Waitlisted/Denied at every Ivy, Duke, MIT, etc.
This year was so weird in terms of college apps. Every single college is saying "RECORD # OF APPLICATIONS", and the numbers reflect that :/
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 -___-;;
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
I am absolutely shocked at the number of rejections coming from the Ivies this year. Last year, one other person from my school and I applied to Cornell and we both got in. This year, 5 people from my high school applied to Cornell (many of whom I feel are much better qualified than myself) and only one got in. Vanderbilt also gave out a lot of rejections.
Anyway, congratulations to everyone! College will be great, no matter where you go
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 -___-;;
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)
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.
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 -___-;;
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 :/
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 -___-;;
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
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 -___-;;
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, and Cornell's science-related programs (engineering, comp-sci, etc) are leagues ahead of HYP.
The only rankings that matter is by specific major/schools :S
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 -___-;;
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)
There are a lot of us like that. I have the same statistics as Tyrio, if you swap the match competitions for an assload of community service and Boy Scouts (summer camp counselor/area director). Unfortunately for us '10 seniors, this had to be the year that everybody applied to a million colleges at once. I can't remember the source, but it was like 22% of applicants applied to 7 colleges or more?
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 -___-;;
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)
There are a lot of us like that. I have the same statistics as Tyrio, if you swap the match competitions for an assload of community service and Boy Scouts (summer camp counselor/area director). Unfortunately for us '10 seniors, this had to be the year that everybody applied to a million colleges at once. I can't remember the source, but it was like 22% of applicants applied to 7 colleges or more?
Every year is the new "worst year" for college applicants. College apps have only gone up, never down, along with everyone's credentials. So yeah :\
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 -___-;;
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.
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
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
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 -___-;;
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.
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.
Personal anecdotes don't really mean anything if they haven't experience, in this case, HYP. It's not like they have an accurate frame of reference for comparison.
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
college admissions are always weird with lots of odd rejections my friend
Remember, as long as you do well at the college you go to and take advantages of what opportunities you have, you'll be doing your best. For those of you planning on grad school, undergrad doesn't matter much (and like I said, most of the ivies don't care about UG...)
You're all still wonderful people, and it's just a shame that the coins didn't flip right this year :D
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
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
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 -___-;;
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.
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.
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 -___-;;
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.
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
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.
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.
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)
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.
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 -___-;;
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 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?
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.
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
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
I a question regarding McGill, if any current students or graduates would be so kind enough as to answer it. How much of a handy cap would it be if you only knew limited French? I know McGill is an English school, but it is in Quebec- I assuming from a school perspective it would be ok to just know English, but what about the community, partying, ect. Would that be happered by just speaking English?
Ya, I'm pretty happy about McGill, as it is my number one realistic choice. Maybe I'll see some of you there in September.
I a question regarding McGill, if any current students or graduates would be so kind enough as to answer it. How much of a handy cap would it be if you only knew limited French? I know McGill is an English school, but it is in Quebec- I assuming from a school perspective it would be ok to just know English, but what about the community, partying, ect. Would that be happered by just speaking English?
Ya, I'm pretty happy about McGill, as it is my number one realistic choice. Maybe I'll see some of you there in September.
Everyone speaks english anyways, it's pretty hard to find someone in quebec that speaks soley french as it is. So no it has no impairment on anything.
Though it's a good chance to improve on another language!
i applied to uc berk, uc davis, cal poly slo, san jose state and sf state, but i only got into san jose state and sf state. I am interested in computer engineering so i will probably go to san jose state. I was hopping to go to one of the uc's, but too much sc kept my gpa down =P
I just want to say consider the financial aspect while picking a college to attend. Some degrees aren't worth the money and time putting in, at least in this economy.
WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE lol. Jesus multiple people just sporting the array of ivey accepteds. I really wish my school had some weighted gpa or something. I wanna know what your guys' secret was. I got waitlisted at 6 schools and got into only cornell. How in gods name did you guys manage to get into multiple of the top schools. I got into cornell but waitlisted at Umich ann arbor which made no sense to me.
also waitlisted at: harvey mudd, claremont, berkley, ucla,
I a question regarding McGill, if any current students or graduates would be so kind enough as to answer it. How much of a handy cap would it be if you only knew limited French? I know McGill is an English school, but it is in Quebec- I assuming from a school perspective it would be ok to just know English, but what about the community, partying, ect. Would that be happered by just speaking English?
Ya, I'm pretty happy about McGill, as it is my number one realistic choice. Maybe I'll see some of you there in September.
Sweet, thanks.
Everyone speaks english anyways, it's pretty hard to find someone in quebec that speaks soley french as it is. So no it has no impairment on anything.
Though it's a good chance to improve on another language!
On April 04 2010 18:55 lightrise wrote: WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE lol. Jesus multiple people just sporting the array of ivey accepteds. I really wish my school had some weighted gpa or something. I wanna know what your guys' secret was. I got waitlisted at 6 schools and got into only cornell. How in gods name did you guys manage to get into multiple of the top schools. I got into cornell but waitlisted at Umich ann arbor which made no sense to me.
also waitlisted at: harvey mudd, claremont, berkley, ucla,
There're probably a lot of Asian-Americans, since this is a website about video games.
Nice job with Cornell. I got into Umich and HMC. I take it you're in California?
- 2210 SAT - 800 Math II, 800 Bio-E, 790 Chem - 3.941 GPA - USAMO qualifier freshman year (not close since; I was lucky the first time) - National Merit Finalist - assorted competition placings, national included - assorted club involvement, but unfortunately not outstanding - not great volunteering (the kind that you look to see that they did it, but it doesn't help) - decent essays (you never really know how good they are, but they were neither exceptional nor bland, so meh)
- Asian male from Texas applying for chemical engineering everywhere, I applied to Princeton/Rice for ChemE just because I had essays laid out for the other schools, and I didn't want to change much due to laziness -_-
T____T didn't get into any reaches, but then again I wasn't particularly hard-working during the admissions process, so I probably deserved it. Rice CSL here I come hahaha ^_^v
Congrats to everyone who got in where they wanted!
I'm only a junior in high school, so I haven't applied yet, but every senior at my high school who applied to MIT and Stanford got denied except one, who scored perfect on sat, act, and psat lol. So many other people with like 2200 - 2300 sat got denied, dunno why its so hard to get in this year.
On April 04 2010 18:55 lightrise wrote: WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE lol. Jesus multiple people just sporting the array of ivey accepteds. I really wish my school had some weighted gpa or something. I wanna know what your guys' secret was. I got waitlisted at 6 schools and got into only cornell. How in gods name did you guys manage to get into multiple of the top schools. I got into cornell but waitlisted at Umich ann arbor which made no sense to me.
also waitlisted at: harvey mudd, claremont, berkley, ucla,
There're probably a lot of Asian-Americans, since this is a website about video games.
Nice job with Cornell. I got into Umich and HMC. I take it you're in California?
It might be where you're from. If you're from California like Babel guessed you're going to have an easier time getting into UCs than out of states (like Michigan). Supposedly Berkley's a bitch to get into if you're out of state, harder than Stanford.
On April 06 2010 14:22 Newguy wrote: I'm only a junior in high school, so I haven't applied yet, but every senior at my high school who applied to MIT and Stanford got denied except one, who scored perfect on sat, act, and psat lol. So many other people with like 2200 - 2300 sat got denied, dunno why its so hard to get in this year.
Because you are competing against a horde of Asians with perfect SAT and all the other standardized tests you can name. I feel, more and more, SAT is becoming an idiot bar. It's really your ECs and SOPs that pull you through.
And of course, the fact that more and more people apply to UG and graduate schools don't work in your favour either.
SATs aren't everything. I guy in my school with a 2400 SAT is going to his safety school (U Michigan I think) because he didn't get into any of the ivies. He does have a completely full scholarship at U Mich though...
On April 04 2010 18:55 lightrise wrote: WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE lol. Jesus multiple people just sporting the array of ivey accepteds. I really wish my school had some weighted gpa or something. I wanna know what your guys' secret was. I got waitlisted at 6 schools and got into only cornell. How in gods name did you guys manage to get into multiple of the top schools. I got into cornell but waitlisted at Umich ann arbor which made no sense to me.
also waitlisted at: harvey mudd, claremont, berkley, ucla,
There're probably a lot of Asian-Americans, since this is a website about video games.
Nice job with Cornell. I got into Umich and HMC. I take it you're in California?
It might be where you're from. If you're from California like Babel guessed you're going to have an easier time getting into UCs than out of states (like Michigan). Supposedly Berkley's a bitch to get into if you're out of state, harder than Stanford.
probably in the past but not anymore. the UCs are broke so they're accepting more OOS applicants than before (since they pay in full w/o finaid)
Stats: 2100 SAT (fuck you SAT) 750 on Math II and Chemistry; 720 on World History 4.62 weighted GPA, weighted class rank 6 Buncha 5s on AP tests, except 4s in Physics Mechanics and World History Good bit of extracurriculars: Orchestra, Track, NHS, SHF, etc.
Accepted:
Carnegie Mellon University University of Virginia University of Maryland: College Park (University Honors, Dean's Scholarship) University of Michigan Georgia Tech
Waitlisted:
Rice University
Rejected:
Duke University UC Berkeley Johns Hopkins University
Hopkins seemed to have a terrible turnout in my county. My school's valedictorian and another school's valedictorian were waitlisted and a whole lot of other pretty damn good students I know were rejected. One girl from my school was accepted though. She's not that smart and doesn't have that many extracurriclars, but she had a fairly high SAT (2300), father works there, did early decision, and I think some internship there as well, so I wasn't too surprised.
P.S. Good job to all of you on your acceptances! If you're going to Carnegie of College Park, I'll probably be going to one of those two places.
On April 06 2010 14:22 Newguy wrote: I'm only a junior in high school, so I haven't applied yet, but every senior at my high school who applied to MIT and Stanford got denied except one, who scored perfect on sat, act, and psat lol. So many other people with like 2200 - 2300 sat got denied, dunno why its so hard to get in this year.
Apply early if you're doing any schools like that. My older brother got a 2400 on his SAT but didn't do the interview for MIT and he got waitlisted; it also didn't help that he did all of his applications at the last minute (although verything for him would be grammatically correct, there wasn't a "wow" factor).
SAT scores are overrated once you get to a certain range.
On March 18 2010 11:49 ]343[ wrote: applying for undergrad:
UChicago - early action, accepted Caltech - early action, accepted MIT - regular decision, accepted [top choice I think? since I'm looking to be a math major and I know a lot of MIT students... but financial aid = sadddddd day]
waiting on Harvard, Princeton, Duke...
hmm I got WLed at harvard but into princeton and duke
also today i got some kind of full tuition thing to duke for a math contest... except i want to go to MIT. except I have 0 finaid. -_________-
Hey guys, I'm going to be applying to some of these schools next year, I just started visiting several on the east coast. Was wondering how much your 9th grade gpa counts... because I got fucked by 9th grade real hard. Was wondering how my chances of getting into decent colleges are. I know UC schools don't require your 9th, would you recommend I apply there? Numbrz below:
GPA: 9th: 1.59 10th: 3.34 11th: 3.7(seems this way)
SAT: 2100
Extra Curricular activities:
Community Service: Two and a half week trip to Guatemala building houses
Two and a half week trip to Bulgaria renovating an orphanage
45 Hrs working at a children center for underprivileged kids.
Theater: Worked on several of my HS productions working sound/lighting/set design
Freshman year counts for almost nothing, as far as I know, especially with your upward trend. I think if you keep up that trend, colleges won't even bat an eye.
I agree ... if you keep up the GPA you probably have some interesting stories to tell the admissions ppl.
In reality the school you go to doesn't play as much a factor as you (as an Asian American senior about to enter college) thinks it does. Companies, for the most part, want the most talented and hard working graduates ... and frankly, you'll discover that a lot of top notch schools actually have lazy undergrads, even if they were valedictorians in HS.
Hmm, I dunno. Freshman isn't as important, but I disagree that it counts for nothing. Colleges like to see improvement, though, so you have that going for you. I think if you write about badass stories from your impressive community service trips and continue to improve senior year you have a shot at some good schools. Also, if your gpa has been brought down by one or two subjects but you are exemplary in one or two other subjects, make sure to specify a major that plays to your strengths (this helped put me ahead of more rounded students with better gpas than me), you can always change it later if you decide you don't like it.
National Merit Honorable Mention 2 sports: one for 3 yrs, one for 4 years no clubs ~60 hours volunteering total ~56 hours a job teaching kids how to swim
that's it, lol
Undergrad engineering
Carnegie Mellon University: waitlisted for ECE but offered a spot for any other engineering major Northwestern: waitlist Cornell: waitlist
University of the Pacific: Accepted into the 5-year PharmD program
I'm deciding between Cal for ChemE and UCSD for Bioeng: Biotech. If I go to UCSD I'll take premed classes and try to get into med school. At Cal I would try to get a joint major, Chemical and Materials engineering.
I attended UCSD's admit day, and i will attend Cal Day on Saturday.
On April 16 2010 15:07 KermitTheFro wrote: My girlfriend just got into UC Santa Barbara and USC's for a geology PhD. Tough year for applications in general it seems...
My dad actually got his PhD of Geography (and his masters) from UCSB. He currently works for ESRI.
On March 18 2010 11:49 ]343[ wrote: applying for undergrad:
UChicago - early action, accepted Caltech - early action, accepted MIT - regular decision, accepted [top choice I think? since I'm looking to be a math major and I know a lot of MIT students... but financial aid = sadddddd day]
waiting on Harvard, Princeton, Duke...
hmm I got WLed at harvard but into princeton and duke
also today i got some kind of full tuition thing to duke for a math contest... except i want to go to MIT. except I have 0 finaid. -_________-
come to princeton . we own csl (literally) :D:D:D. And pu gives pretty good fin aid ^^ math here is pretty intense.
On April 03 2010 00:55 WoodenSpider wrote: 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....
PrincetonPrincetonPrinceton.
On April 02 2010 10:59 Itsraiiningpaper wrote: ahhhhhhhh INTO PRINCETON!!!!
other acceptances:
dartmouth cornell amherst duke UCLA, UC berk, UCI all with regents scholarship
happiest day of my life!
come =]
On April 02 2010 07:29 LucasWoJ wrote: Accepted Harvard and Yale. Waitlisted Princeton.
Get off the waitlist and come to Princeton ^^.
On April 02 2010 10:38 gngfn wrote: I know there's probably no one who cares yet still hasn't checked his email, but a belated good luck to those hoping for good news from Harvard. I hear the CSL team is always looking for more players.
I think they'll agree that their team could use some help . They didn't do too hot this season =[.
On April 02 2010 10:22 Mystlord wrote: Well now that the process is over:
UCLA: Accept UCBerkeley: Accept USC: Accept MIT: Deferred -> Reject Northwestern: Accept Vanderbilt: Accept Washington University in St. Louis: Accept UChicago: Accept Harvard: Reject (I don't do community service~) Princeton: Reject
Overall I'm happy . Not like I put enough effort into HS to get drafted by a top Ivy anyway
nuuu. woulda been cool to have you here at Princeton
On April 02 2010 12:46 Monkeyboi2k3 wrote: This year's ivys were bithces, Most of the good students that I know have been shot down by every one of them. Only person who got in to a lot of them, the SMOB of mcps schools :/
I have a friend who is essentially the same as me academically, same extra curriculars as me except he plays tennis and I don't. His only acceptances were UCLA, UCBerkeley, and Northwestern. Waitlisted/Denied at every Ivy, Duke, MIT, etc.
This year was so weird in terms of college apps. Every single college is saying "RECORD # OF APPLICATIONS", and the numbers reflect that :/
They said that last year too . Could be true though.
On March 18 2010 12:40 Hamster1800 wrote: Undergrad:
MIT - accepted early
Not waiting on any other schools.
hmm how many times have you made IOI? also how do you do combinatorics and number theory? also how are you so good at computation (like I always wuss out when I have to coordinate bash and stuff).
Nerd convo!
Congrats and good luck to all the high school seniors. Anyway. If gets into Yale (or got in early), feel free to PM me if you wanna talk! I'd be happy to host. Also, you should come to Yale for SC! We just beat Princeton!
Grudge rematch? >.>. We won't send out that nub that lost to a 10 hatch again. lol.
Any princeton prefrosh kids on TL here/coming for preview ? WHERE IS YOU ALL. =[.
On April 16 2010 15:22 haruharu wrote: HypnoShroom you should definitely go to UCSD! I doubt Berkeley has as nice a campus as SD!
I was definitely impressed by the weather at UCSD, and I liked how there are so many new buildings. The beach is just a short walk away. I liked the atmosphere a lot. really good vibes
On April 16 2010 17:41 Punk wrote: College is overrated.
troll, if not silver spoon detected.
I might hit up this thread in the (un)likely event I get my GED. Wont be anything special to announce I'll be attending a CC but it's the only thing I can afford with finds and my overall educational merit.
I could of attended a state university, instead I decided to to take a few art classes, and work on my video game art portfolio on my own. Degrees are overrated and don't guarantee you a job (which a lot of people seem to think), plus I'd rather not be in 40k debt. Trade schools are actually a better option for a lot of people, you will probably get payed more right out of school, and you're a lot more likely to find a job, plus they are shorter and cheaper.
I just hate the current education system basically says "after high school you have to go to college or you will be working at McDonald's."
4.57 GPA 2010 SAT (1520 was my 2-score. essay was super fail!) 800 Math II, 740 Bio 5's on the following APs: World History, US History, Spanish, Biology No leaderships in clubs but was in a good bit (NHS, beta club, key club..etc). 4 years of varsity soccer and wrestling.
On March 18 2010 11:49 ]343[ wrote: applying for undergrad:
UChicago - early action, accepted Caltech - early action, accepted MIT - regular decision, accepted [top choice I think? since I'm looking to be a math major and I know a lot of MIT students... but financial aid = sadddddd day]
waiting on Harvard, Princeton, Duke...
hmm I got WLed at harvard but into princeton and duke
also today i got some kind of full tuition thing to duke for a math contest... except i want to go to MIT. except I have 0 finaid. -_________-
come to princeton . we own csl (literally) :D:D:D. And pu gives pretty good fin aid ^^ math here is pretty intense.
On April 03 2010 00:55 WoodenSpider wrote: 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....
On April 02 2010 10:38 gngfn wrote: I know there's probably no one who cares yet still hasn't checked his email, but a belated good luck to those hoping for good news from Harvard. I hear the CSL team is always looking for more players.
I think they'll agree that their team could use some help . They didn't do too hot this season =[.
On April 02 2010 10:22 Mystlord wrote: Well now that the process is over:
UCLA: Accept UCBerkeley: Accept USC: Accept MIT: Deferred -> Reject Northwestern: Accept Vanderbilt: Accept Washington University in St. Louis: Accept UChicago: Accept Harvard: Reject (I don't do community service~) Princeton: Reject
Overall I'm happy . Not like I put enough effort into HS to get drafted by a top Ivy anyway
nuuu. woulda been cool to have you here at Princeton
On April 02 2010 12:46 Monkeyboi2k3 wrote: This year's ivys were bithces, Most of the good students that I know have been shot down by every one of them. Only person who got in to a lot of them, the SMOB of mcps schools :/
I have a friend who is essentially the same as me academically, same extra curriculars as me except he plays tennis and I don't. His only acceptances were UCLA, UCBerkeley, and Northwestern. Waitlisted/Denied at every Ivy, Duke, MIT, etc.
This year was so weird in terms of college apps. Every single college is saying "RECORD # OF APPLICATIONS", and the numbers reflect that :/
They said that last year too . Could be true though.
On March 18 2010 12:40 Hamster1800 wrote: Undergrad:
MIT - accepted early
Not waiting on any other schools.
hmm how many times have you made IOI? also how do you do combinatorics and number theory? also how are you so good at computation (like I always wuss out when I have to coordinate bash and stuff).
Nerd convo!
Congrats and good luck to all the high school seniors. Anyway. If gets into Yale (or got in early), feel free to PM me if you wanna talk! I'd be happy to host. Also, you should come to Yale for SC! We just beat Princeton!
Grudge rematch? >.>. We won't send out that nub that lost to a 10 hatch again. lol.
Any princeton prefrosh kids on TL here/coming for preview ? WHERE IS YOU ALL. =[.
On March 18 2010 11:49 ]343[ wrote: applying for undergrad:
UChicago - early action, accepted Caltech - early action, accepted MIT - regular decision, accepted [top choice I think? since I'm looking to be a math major and I know a lot of MIT students... but financial aid = sadddddd day]
waiting on Harvard, Princeton, Duke...
hmm I got WLed at harvard but into princeton and duke
also today i got some kind of full tuition thing to duke for a math contest... except i want to go to MIT. except I have 0 finaid. -_________-
come to princeton . we own csl (literally) :D:D:D. And pu gives pretty good fin aid ^^ math here is pretty intense.
On April 03 2010 00:55 WoodenSpider wrote: 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....
PrincetonPrincetonPrinceton.
On April 02 2010 10:59 Itsraiiningpaper wrote: ahhhhhhhh INTO PRINCETON!!!!
other acceptances:
dartmouth cornell amherst duke UCLA, UC berk, UCI all with regents scholarship
happiest day of my life!
come =]
On April 02 2010 07:29 LucasWoJ wrote: Accepted Harvard and Yale. Waitlisted Princeton.
Get off the waitlist and come to Princeton ^^.
On April 02 2010 10:38 gngfn wrote: I know there's probably no one who cares yet still hasn't checked his email, but a belated good luck to those hoping for good news from Harvard. I hear the CSL team is always looking for more players.
I think they'll agree that their team could use some help . They didn't do too hot this season =[.
On April 02 2010 10:22 Mystlord wrote: Well now that the process is over:
UCLA: Accept UCBerkeley: Accept USC: Accept MIT: Deferred -> Reject Northwestern: Accept Vanderbilt: Accept Washington University in St. Louis: Accept UChicago: Accept Harvard: Reject (I don't do community service~) Princeton: Reject
Overall I'm happy . Not like I put enough effort into HS to get drafted by a top Ivy anyway
nuuu. woulda been cool to have you here at Princeton
On April 02 2010 13:02 Mystlord wrote:
On April 02 2010 12:46 Monkeyboi2k3 wrote: This year's ivys were bithces, Most of the good students that I know have been shot down by every one of them. Only person who got in to a lot of them, the SMOB of mcps schools :/
I have a friend who is essentially the same as me academically, same extra curriculars as me except he plays tennis and I don't. His only acceptances were UCLA, UCBerkeley, and Northwestern. Waitlisted/Denied at every Ivy, Duke, MIT, etc.
This year was so weird in terms of college apps. Every single college is saying "RECORD # OF APPLICATIONS", and the numbers reflect that :/
They said that last year too . Could be true though.
On March 18 2010 13:11 xhuwin wrote:
On March 18 2010 12:41 ]343[ wrote:
On March 18 2010 12:40 Hamster1800 wrote: Undergrad:
MIT - accepted early
Not waiting on any other schools.
hmm how many times have you made IOI? also how do you do combinatorics and number theory? also how are you so good at computation (like I always wuss out when I have to coordinate bash and stuff).
Nerd convo!
Congrats and good luck to all the high school seniors. Anyway. If gets into Yale (or got in early), feel free to PM me if you wanna talk! I'd be happy to host. Also, you should come to Yale for SC! We just beat Princeton!
Grudge rematch? >.>. We won't send out that nub that lost to a 10 hatch again. lol.
Any princeton prefrosh kids on TL here/coming for preview ? WHERE IS YOU ALL. =[.
Shameless self plugs? haha
why not? princeton needs more sc ppl ^^. too many people here don't enjoy sc enough, they're all "casual" gamers who play with one hand and don't come to practice >.>
On April 18 2010 19:58 thedeadhaji wrote: lol things surely have changed a bit since the times when I was literally the only TL.netter @ princeton. (there's what, about 20 now??)
God I'm old
haha. maybe something like 10 tops that I know of. And none of us are really all that active so =P. Also, why don't I know you? ^^
On April 18 2010 22:19 thedeadhaji wrote: I was accepted to the EE Masters program but went to Cambridge instead :O Actually, I still get the Princeton graduate school emails hahahahahaha.
lol ;p
On April 18 2010 22:34 Jathin wrote: Princeton is for fags who wear bowties
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'm thinking about going to UBC in 2012 (stupid singaporean army thing) for the following reasons:
1. fairly decent school 2. good campus 3. near whistler (i'll just go snowboarding all winter) 4. not that hard to get in 5. both my sisters got into columbia but i can't get in there... british columbia is close enough
i decided i'm not going to go to some super academic school like u of chicago and go somewhere like UBC where i'll actually be able to really enjoy my four years of college.
Stats: 2100 SAT (fuck you SAT) 750 on Math II and Chemistry; 720 on World History 4.62 weighted GPA, weighted class rank 6 Buncha 5s on AP tests, except 4s in Physics Mechanics and World History Good bit of extracurriculars: Orchestra, Track, NHS, SHF, etc.
Accepted:
Carnegie Mellon University University of Virginia University of Maryland: College Park (University Honors, Dean's Scholarship) University of Michigan Georgia Tech
Waitlisted:
Rice University
Rejected:
Duke University UC Berkeley Johns Hopkins University
Hopkins seemed to have a terrible turnout in my county. My school's valedictorian and another school's valedictorian were waitlisted and a whole lot of other pretty damn good students I know were rejected. One girl from my school was accepted though. She's not that smart and doesn't have that many extracurriclars, but she had a fairly high SAT (2300), father works there, did early decision, and I think some internship there as well, so I wasn't too surprised.
P.S. Good job to all of you on your acceptances! If you're going to Carnegie of College Park, I'll probably be going to one of those two places.
Come to College Park! It's not bad over here (except our football team lately).
On April 02 2010 12:46 Monkeyboi2k3 wrote: This year's ivys were bithces, Most of the good students that I know have been shot down by every one of them. Only person who got in to a lot of them, the SMOB of mcps schools :/
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
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?
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
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. =(
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).
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 ='(
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
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 22:34 Jathin wrote: Princeton is for fags who wear bowties
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
Wow some of you guys are really really smart, how do you do it? I know some people who are just smart, and some who just have good work ethics. I was really smart as a kid and I kind of just plateaued as I got older. Maybe I should start playing with Lego's and putting together jigsaw puzzles again...
Doing communication studies at University of Vermont. If any of you guys go there, let's meet up some time, as I'll be a lonely exchange student over there. Arriving sometime around 24th August. I'm a cool person, I promise!
On May 10 2010 01:11 Issorlol wrote: 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.
Someone contacted me about starting up a CSL team at UMBC, not sure if he has a TL id though. If he does, it'll probably be this: msjx2000
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!
Anyone going to college this year or the next, come to UBC! We could use some more SC players. Maybe if I was in applied science/comp sci faculty I would find more SC players haha.
[QUOTE]On May 10 2010 11:35 Dknight wrote: [QUOTE]On May 10 2010 04:25 TS-Rupbar wrote: Doing communication studies at University of Vermont. If any of you guys go there, let's meet up some time, as I'll be a lonely exchange student over there. Arriving sometime around 24th August. I'm a cool person, I promise![/QUOTE]
While I don't go to UVM, I do visit the campus about twice a year. I'll be up in Burlington during the fall visiting! I (along with friends) always go to away games in Hockey East for UMass Lowell. So if you like hockey, beer, and fun times, I'll hit you up the next time we go.
My only advice to you guys would be to go to a cheaper school or a school where you get a scholarship from.
Taking on a load of debt, unless you can get your parents to pay for it, isn't worth it compared to most state schools or schools you can get a scholarship at. Unless you plan on applying to a top professional school, in which case you may have some money issues regardless, it's just not worth the expense because you'll be paying off A LOT of debt well into your late 20s.
I thought I would ask this here since it's a pretty simple question and somewhat relevant.
The apartment rents during summer around college is cheaper because many move out right? Would it be cheap until the year begins? Do they make you sign long contracts for the cheap price? I'm thinking about moving to San Diego some time before the term starts for maybe about a month.
I've found the price remains the same throughout the year but then again, I do live in a rebounding industrial city of about 100,000 plus. Plenty of college kids live in apartments here throughout the year and I've found the better apartments/landlords will make you sign a year lease. I recommend it since it protects you as well as them.
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?
Don't do it. I know a friend who rejected it saying the courses were bullshit and a friend taking it right now isn't too happy. Stick with CAS
GPA: 3.1 something, don't remember the exact number Mind you, I worked full time [yeah, yeah... excuses I'm a lazy ass ]
Achievements: 13th Place Chemistry National Olympics (2006 in Peru) Xth Place Math National Olympics (2004 in Peru) [didn't stay to wait for the results cuz I knew I hadn't done nearly as good as I expected)
Clubs with Leaderships: Treasurer Club Leo Tacna H-2 District 2005-2006 administration (Peru)
More random junk: Went on a Mission for a month to some God forsaken place to build shit (2005 in Peru) Junior Achievement 200% Profit (LOL)
On May 12 2010 15:49 Cr4zyH0r5e wrote: (Transfering from CC as a Junior)
UCSC: Accepted UC Berkeley: Denied =[
GPA: 3.1 something, don't remember the exact number Mind you, I worked full time [yeah, yeah... excuses I'm a lazy ass ]
Achievements: 13th Place Chemistry National Olympics (2006 in Peru) Xth Place Math National Olympics (2004 in Peru) [didn't stay to wait for the results cuz I knew I hadn't done nearly as good as I expected)
Clubs with Leaderships: Treasurer Club Leo Tacna H-2 District 2005-2006 administration (Peru)
More random junk: Went on a Mission for a month to some God forsaken place to build shit (2005 in Peru) Junior Achievement 200% Profit (LOL)
Been living in the U.S. for 3 years >_>
Don't worry about it Berkeley is probably harder to get into than Stanford for international students.
Everyone should come to the University of Michigan! Great campus, atmosphere and academics. Just make sure some snow and cold weather doesn't bother you (below 30 for at least 4 straight months during the year).
Maybe should have worked a little harder on those private school apps... not that I could afford to go there anyway. Looking at some pretty good financial aid from the UC's, so it's all good.
3.8 unweighted GPA 2150 SAT 33 ACT SAT II's: Korean with Listening 740 lolol, Biology 710, Math II 790 AP'S: World History 5, English Language 5, Spanish Language 4 >.>, Statistics 5, Biology 5 [Calculus BC, Chemistry, Spanish Literature in progress]
3 clubs with leadership positions 800+? hrs community service 1 job
[QUOTE]On May 10 2010 11:35 Dknight wrote: [QUOTE]On May 10 2010 11:35 Dknight wrote: [QUOTE]On May 10 2010 04:25 TS-Rupbar wrote: Doing communication studies at University of Vermont. If any of you guys go there, let's meet up some time, as I'll be a lonely exchange student over there. Arriving sometime around 24th August. I'm a cool person, I promise![/QUOTE]
While I don't go to UVM, I do visit the campus about twice a year. I'll be up in Burlington during the fall visiting! I (along with friends) always go to away games in Hockey East for UMass Lowell. So if you like hockey, beer, and fun times, I'll hit you up the next time we go.[/QUOTE]
Awesome!
I can't say I'm a big hockey fan, but live games are always fun. Please don't forget about me! : D
Too bad you won't be in Burlington next month Rupbar. Me and a few friends are heading up there for Magic Hat Brewery and the Vermont Lake Monsters (minor league baseball). Burlington is an awesome city but the only down side - middle of nowhere. But still, you should have a blast!
Sorry for bump but wow guys these are impressive stats. I would kill to have stuff like these. Man I want to go to Cal State Long Beach, but I f'ed up freshman and sophomore year, I'm working my butt of junior year, got to make up classes during the summer, etc.
How do you guys get a fantastic SAT score? I can barely get 1600...lol and you guys play SC like mad which should disturb you from your studies XD
But yeah, good job, if any one could answer a few questions that would be great and appreciated.
1.)Do CSU look at freshman year grades? (I messed up on my biology and Spanish I during freshman year, and those are what I'm going to be making up during summer) 2.) Are AP classes important in your CSU transcripts? 3.) You think I can make Cal State Long Beach with a 3.1 (hopefully I can achieve that by the end of my junior year)(3.3 weighted) with a SAT of 1610 (math-640, reading- 490, writing-480)
Thanks for your time to answer...oh and one more thing, I heard CSU primarily look at your math scores and critical reading, is this true?
I wouldn't bother sending applications to Santa Barbara or San Diego schools unless you're from there, most employers would rather hire from serious colleges than party schools. A lot of my friends are learning that the hard way :/
On May 12 2010 15:49 Cr4zyH0r5e wrote: (Transfering from CC as a Junior)
UCSC: Accepted UC Berkeley: Denied =[
GPA: 3.1 something, don't remember the exact number Mind you, I worked full time [yeah, yeah... excuses I'm a lazy ass ]
Achievements: 13th Place Chemistry National Olympics (2006 in Peru) Xth Place Math National Olympics (2004 in Peru) [didn't stay to wait for the results cuz I knew I hadn't done nearly as good as I expected)
Clubs with Leaderships: Treasurer Club Leo Tacna H-2 District 2005-2006 administration (Peru)
More random junk: Went on a Mission for a month to some God forsaken place to build shit (2005 in Peru) Junior Achievement 200% Profit (LOL)
Been living in the U.S. for 3 years >_>
Don't worry about it Berkeley is probably harder to get into than Stanford for international students.
lol this is actually true, which i personally find funny. im going back to china this summer and all my relatives there are like OMFGWTF BERKELEY?!?!?! when i tell them that i got rejected from all the ivies they are like huh? there are schools not named harvard that are better than berkeley? no way... its really really amusing how little the rest of the world knows about us. although it works quite well in reverse too...
On May 12 2010 15:49 Cr4zyH0r5e wrote: (Transfering from CC as a Junior)
UCSC: Accepted UC Berkeley: Denied =[
GPA: 3.1 something, don't remember the exact number Mind you, I worked full time [yeah, yeah... excuses I'm a lazy ass ]
Achievements: 13th Place Chemistry National Olympics (2006 in Peru) Xth Place Math National Olympics (2004 in Peru) [didn't stay to wait for the results cuz I knew I hadn't done nearly as good as I expected)
Clubs with Leaderships: Treasurer Club Leo Tacna H-2 District 2005-2006 administration (Peru)
More random junk: Went on a Mission for a month to some God forsaken place to build shit (2005 in Peru) Junior Achievement 200% Profit (LOL)
Been living in the U.S. for 3 years >_>
Don't worry about it Berkeley is probably harder to get into than Stanford for international students.
lol this is actually true, which i personally find funny. im going back to china this summer and all my relatives there are like OMFGWTF BERKELEY?!?!?! when i tell them that i got rejected from all the ivies they are like huh? there are schools not named harvard that are better than berkeley? no way... its really really amusing how little the rest of the world knows about us. although it works quite well in reverse too...
Berkeley is a really great school, but you're right, there are a lot of schools that are on the same level as Berkeley but are probably easier to get into. For many big schools, it has become more or a popularity contest. Take USC for example...
On June 04 2010 08:05 Gino- wrote: Sorry for bump but wow guys these are impressive stats. I would kill to have stuff like these. Man I want to go to Cal State Long Beach, but I f'ed up freshman and sophomore year, I'm working my butt of junior year, got to make up classes during the summer, etc.
How do you guys get a fantastic SAT score? I can barely get 1600...lol and you guys play SC like mad which should disturb you from your studies XD
But yeah, good job, if any one could answer a few questions that would be great and appreciated.
1.)Do CSU look at freshman year grades? (I messed up on my biology and Spanish I during freshman year, and those are what I'm going to be making up during summer) 2.) Are AP classes important in your CSU transcripts? 3.) You think I can make Cal State Long Beach with a 3.1 (hopefully I can achieve that by the end of my junior year)(3.3 weighted) with a SAT of 1610 (math-640, reading- 490, writing-480)
Thanks for your time to answer...oh and one more thing, I heard CSU primarily look at your math scores and critical reading, is this true?
with anything above a 3.0 you are guaranteed admission into a UC. i would imagine that you would have no problem getting into Long Beach although i would recommend retaking your SAT
I'm not entirely sure but I think freshman grades are not counted
I wouldn't bother sending applications to Santa Barbara or San Diego schools unless you're from there, most employers would rather hire from serious colleges than party schools. A lot of my friends are learning that the hard way :/
UCSD is anything but a party school lmao.
I chose UCLA over Berkeley, anyone else do something like that?
I wouldn't bother sending applications to Santa Barbara or San Diego schools unless you're from there, most employers would rather hire from serious colleges than party schools. A lot of my friends are learning that the hard way :/
UCSD is anything but a party school lmao.
I chose UCLA over Berkeley, anyone else do something like that?
On May 12 2010 15:49 Cr4zyH0r5e wrote: (Transfering from CC as a Junior)
UCSC: Accepted UC Berkeley: Denied =[
GPA: 3.1 something, don't remember the exact number Mind you, I worked full time [yeah, yeah... excuses I'm a lazy ass ]
Achievements: 13th Place Chemistry National Olympics (2006 in Peru) Xth Place Math National Olympics (2004 in Peru) [didn't stay to wait for the results cuz I knew I hadn't done nearly as good as I expected)
Clubs with Leaderships: Treasurer Club Leo Tacna H-2 District 2005-2006 administration (Peru)
More random junk: Went on a Mission for a month to some God forsaken place to build shit (2005 in Peru) Junior Achievement 200% Profit (LOL)
Been living in the U.S. for 3 years >_>
Don't worry about it Berkeley is probably harder to get into than Stanford for international students.
lol this is actually true, which i personally find funny. im going back to china this summer and all my relatives there are like OMFGWTF BERKELEY?!?!?! when i tell them that i got rejected from all the ivies they are like huh? there are schools not named harvard that are better than berkeley? no way... its really really amusing how little the rest of the world knows about us. although it works quite well in reverse too...
Berkeley is a really great school, but you're right, there are a lot of schools that are on the same level as Berkeley but are probably easier to get into. For many big schools, it has become more or a popularity contest. Take USC for example...
I was wondering why everybody was putting "100 hours of community service" and the likes on their resume. Took a while before I realized it was the voluntary kind and not the state mandatory one
I wouldn't bother sending applications to Santa Barbara or San Diego schools unless you're from there, most employers would rather hire from serious colleges than party schools. A lot of my friends are learning that the hard way :/
UCSD is anything but a party school lmao.
I chose UCLA over Berkeley, anyone else do something like that?
yep, I did, I'm an engineer major too
nice, i'm an applied math major but i want a ma/phd in engineering to make myself useful
I applied to Cal State Northridge, UC Santa Barbara, and UCLA.
Got into all of em, I start UCLA late Sept as a Philosophy major. I hope to make the leap to Princeton for graduate school.
EDIT: I'm a junior-level transfer with like 6 years on-off attendance at my local community college and maybe a 3.3 gpa. How I got into UCLA, I have no idea.
EDIT2: Grats to everyone who's gone and who's going
On June 09 2010 15:47 neohero9 wrote: Oh hey, a thread I can contribute to.
I applied to Cal State Northridge, UC Santa Barbara, and UCLA.
Got into all of em, I start UCLA late Sept as a Philosophy major. I hope to make the leap to Princeton for graduate school.
EDIT: I'm a junior-level transfer with like 6 years on-off attendance at my local community college and maybe a 3.3 gpa. How I got into UCLA, I have no idea.
EDIT2: Grats to everyone who's gone and who's going
Good luck with Philosophy grad school. That's a tough road. I was a Phil major at Northwestern. My friend, also from NU, wanted to go for a Ph.D. program in Phil, but the acceptance rate is less that 4% of applicants. She ended up in a really good master's program tho, so only time will tell.
I got into Boston University for a masters in economics off a 3.55 and a 1380 gre. I dont have any real plans beyond that. Maybe PhD, maybe working, whatever presents itself.
I graduated with honors but I didnt do any honor societies, fraternities, extra-curriculars etc although I did apply to start a mahjong club to try and get a free trip to Japan. Then I had to study for the GRE, and instead of wasting my time playing mahjong I wasted my time watching movies lol.
Do we have a list on this thread of who's going where, perhaps organized by school? With BNet's retarded buddy system, it might need a little help to foster community.
Besides, it'd be nice to be able to ride a mile or two and slap the guy who proxied me to death... and then buy him a beer, of course.
[QUOTE]On June 09 2010 15:28 jalstar wrote: [quote]I wouldn't bother sending applications to Santa Barbara or San Diego schools unless you're from there, most employers would rather hire from serious colleges than party schools. A lot of my friends are learning that the hard way :/[/quote]
LOL UCSD is not a party school -_- if you consider competitive science and math programs and BS writing programs than i guess that's a party
On May 12 2010 15:49 Cr4zyH0r5e wrote: (Transfering from CC as a Junior)
UCSC: Accepted UC Berkeley: Denied =[
GPA: 3.1 something, don't remember the exact number Mind you, I worked full time [yeah, yeah... excuses I'm a lazy ass ]
Achievements: 13th Place Chemistry National Olympics (2006 in Peru) Xth Place Math National Olympics (2004 in Peru) [didn't stay to wait for the results cuz I knew I hadn't done nearly as good as I expected)
Clubs with Leaderships: Treasurer Club Leo Tacna H-2 District 2005-2006 administration (Peru)
More random junk: Went on a Mission for a month to some God forsaken place to build shit (2005 in Peru) Junior Achievement 200% Profit (LOL)
Been living in the U.S. for 3 years >_>
Don't worry about it Berkeley is probably harder to get into than Stanford for international students.
lol this is actually true, which i personally find funny. im going back to china this summer and all my relatives there are like OMFGWTF BERKELEY?!?!?! when i tell them that i got rejected from all the ivies they are like huh? there are schools not named harvard that are better than berkeley? no way... its really really amusing how little the rest of the world knows about us. although it works quite well in reverse too...
Berkeley is a really great school, but you're right, there are a lot of schools that are on the same level as Berkeley but are probably easier to get into. For many big schools, it has become more or a popularity contest. Take USC for example...
hmm?
There are easier schools to get into than USC with equally credible reputations. Of course, it depends on what his major is.
On May 12 2010 15:49 Cr4zyH0r5e wrote: (Transfering from CC as a Junior)
UCSC: Accepted UC Berkeley: Denied =[
GPA: 3.1 something, don't remember the exact number Mind you, I worked full time [yeah, yeah... excuses I'm a lazy ass ]
Achievements: 13th Place Chemistry National Olympics (2006 in Peru) Xth Place Math National Olympics (2004 in Peru) [didn't stay to wait for the results cuz I knew I hadn't done nearly as good as I expected)
Clubs with Leaderships: Treasurer Club Leo Tacna H-2 District 2005-2006 administration (Peru)
More random junk: Went on a Mission for a month to some God forsaken place to build shit (2005 in Peru) Junior Achievement 200% Profit (LOL)
Been living in the U.S. for 3 years >_>
Don't worry about it Berkeley is probably harder to get into than Stanford for international students.
lol this is actually true, which i personally find funny. im going back to china this summer and all my relatives there are like OMFGWTF BERKELEY?!?!?! when i tell them that i got rejected from all the ivies they are like huh? there are schools not named harvard that are better than berkeley? no way... its really really amusing how little the rest of the world knows about us. although it works quite well in reverse too...
Berkeley is a really great school, but you're right, there are a lot of schools that are on the same level as Berkeley but are probably easier to get into. For many big schools, it has become more or a popularity contest. Take USC for example...
hmm?
And more people apply to USC than almost any other school in the nation. It's extremely popular and therefore very hard to get in to, which I'm sure you're perfectly aware of. I would guess luck had nothing to do with your acceptance
On March 18 2010 15:05 Ilikestarcraft wrote: I dont think both of you are actually qualified to talk about it. Unless someone here is currently trying to apply for both korean and american universities its hard to say. Im pretty sure a lot has changed while your parents were in college oneother. I lived in korea and have went to korean public schools and have friends who are in 12th grade right now studying for the 수능 and even i feel im not qualified to talk about it.
Just got super bored from studying my linear algebra (which I will be taking in 8 hours ) and will comment briefly on this overdated post (lol, I'm such a bad procastrinator).
I've applied to both worlds, got raped in the U.S. admissions (ivies, uchicago, et al) but got into Yonsei and Sogang univ (best private univ and 3rd best private univ respectively).
But this doesn't mean US schools are harder to get in general, but for a non-u.s. citizen who asks for full financial aid (like I did), it is much harder (from a holistic point of view) to get into ives than into korean univs. Obviously the issue is different for american citizens, since they don't face such discrimination in admissions.
I admit though, it's hard to really compare U.S. and Korean admissions. One evaluates applications "holistically", the other by pure academic scores. So it doesnt mean a guy who got into harvard can get into Yonsei or vice versa.
Damn, is it me or does college apps get harder each year? I'm looking at ya'lls SAT and GPAs, and I can't help but think to myself there's no way I would've gotten into the colleges I did now, if you guys got rejected by them...
Like this guy .. would've gotten into all his rejected schools (except maybe Duke) no problem when I applied (2001): + Show Spoiler +
On May 06 2010 20:27 MuffinDude wrote: Man I feel so unqualified.
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) SAT I: 2130. Reading 680. Math 790. Writing 660. <- English is my worst subject at school =(. SAT 2: MATH 800, JAPANESE 800
On April 16 2010 07:42 Wineandbread wrote: Aight, here's the final tally:
2100 SAT (fuck you SAT) 750 on Math II and Chemistry; 720 on World History 4.62 weighted GPA, weighted class rank 6 Buncha 5s on AP tests, except 4s in Physics Mechanics and World History Good bit of extracurriculars: Orchestra, Track, NHS, SHF, etc.
Accepted:
Carnegie Mellon University University of Virginia University of Maryland: College Park (University Honors, Dean's Scholarship) University of Michigan Georgia Tech
Waitlisted:
Rice University
Rejected:
Duke University UC Berkeley Johns Hopkins University
I'm actually a wee bit concerned about my acceptance... So, yeah, I'm a bit late on joining this thread, but whatever. Anyways, I applied to UCSD and RPI mainly for admittance, the other schools I applied to were mainly for the parents. The University of California application doesn't accept transcripts from out of state, which is weird, so I had to put in my own grades, and of course, I did a bit of... exaggerating, to say the least. Let me put it this way. I do not, in fact, have straight A's. Regardless, they accepted me, and as my school year ended, they actually requested my final transcript. Yeah.... Shit..... Will they reject me if they find out that I exaggerated on my grades? Or does it not really matter at this point, as I've already deposited large sums of money for housing and general contracts?
Also, I got waitlisted at RPI. My dad's an alumnus though, so I'm not terribly concerned.
Pretty sure bad shit will happen because you "exaggerated" your grades =/; I've heard bad stories about similar things. All you can do is cross your fingers.
On June 27 2010 15:33 Satallgeese wrote: I'm actually a wee bit concerned about my acceptance... So, yeah, I'm a bit late on joining this thread, but whatever. Anyways, I applied to UCSD and RPI mainly for admittance, the other schools I applied to were mainly for the parents. The University of California application doesn't accept transcripts from out of state, which is weird, so I had to put in my own grades, and of course, I did a bit of... exaggerating, to say the least. Let me put it this way. I do not, in fact, have straight A's. Regardless, they accepted me, and as my school year ended, they actually requested my final transcript. Yeah.... Shit..... Will they reject me if they find out that I exaggerated on my grades? Or does it not really matter at this point, as I've already deposited large sums of money for housing and general contracts?
Also, I got waitlisted at RPI. My dad's an alumnus though, so I'm not terribly concerned.
Uh, that is a really stupid thing to do to be honest lol. I'd say good luck but I don't really want to because you kind of deserve it
On March 17 2010 23:32 superbabosheki wrote: UCI: Accepted UCSD : DENIED UCLA : DENIED UCR : ACCEPTED CALSTATEFULLERTON: ACCEPTED UC:BERKELY: WAITING, but probably DENIED
4.1 - 4.2 weighted 2050 SAT 790 math, 670 writing, 590 reading = 2050 SAT 780 math II 640 U.S :[ 0 club with leaderships 1 job 1 major community service, 100hours or so of others combined 0 internships marching band for a year?
Chen raped me.
oh you applied to csuf? if you did then you live near that area? I have to commute to csuf cuz any other school is too expensive for me. >< but yea berkely accepts weird ppl sometimes like my friend didn't do well in school and sat's but he wrote a very "unique" essay and they accepted him..
On June 27 2010 17:35 ikbreek wrote: LOL @ all you 16 year old kids thinking you're smart. USA's education has allways been terrible, your grades don't mean shit.
your 6 years @ highschool = first 2 years of mine
Nice first post. Trolling your way through the internet is not equivalent to being educated. Keep stroking your ego and we'll see how far you end up in life.
On June 27 2010 17:35 ikbreek wrote: LOL @ all you 16 year old kids thinking you're smart. USA's education has allways been terrible, your grades don't mean shit.
your 6 years @ highschool = first 2 years of mine
Nice first post. Trolling your way through the internet is not equivalent to being educated. Keep stroking your ego and we'll see how far you end up in life.
Ye we'll see lol. I'm already way ahead of you mate, does university ring any bells? +4.0 avg @ university is worth alot more than 300 post @ TL.net
LOL @ all you 16 year old kids thinking you're smart. USA's education has allways been terrible, your grades don't mean shit.
your 6 years @ highschool = first 2 years of mine
wtf is your problem. stop fucking thinking your better than every one. and the US has great universities are you high?
I dont think im better than everyone else, just 99% of the people on this forum. Sure USA has great universities, you only need to drop 100k per year (ROFL) vs 5k per year in Europe for the exact same quality.
On June 17 2010 01:00 Happy.fairytail wrote: Damn, is it me or does college apps get harder each year? I'm looking at ya'lls SAT and GPAs, and I can't help but think to myself there's no way I would've gotten into the colleges I did now, if you guys got rejected by them...
Like this guy .. would've gotten into all his rejected schools (except maybe Duke) no problem when I applied (2001): + Show Spoiler +
On May 06 2010 20:27 MuffinDude wrote: Man I feel so unqualified.
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) SAT I: 2130. Reading 680. Math 790. Writing 660. <- English is my worst subject at school =(. SAT 2: MATH 800, JAPANESE 800
On April 16 2010 07:42 Wineandbread wrote: Aight, here's the final tally:
2100 SAT (fuck you SAT) 750 on Math II and Chemistry; 720 on World History 4.62 weighted GPA, weighted class rank 6 Buncha 5s on AP tests, except 4s in Physics Mechanics and World History Good bit of extracurriculars: Orchestra, Track, NHS, SHF, etc.
Accepted:
Carnegie Mellon University University of Virginia University of Maryland: College Park (University Honors, Dean's Scholarship) University of Michigan Georgia Tech
Waitlisted:
Rice University
Rejected:
Duke University UC Berkeley Johns Hopkins University
Ya'll are overqualified in my eyes...
I think more people have learned how to work the system and universities realize that, so they're putting greater emphasis on things like essays and interviews.
LOL @ all you 16 year old kids thinking you're smart. USA's education has allways been terrible, your grades don't mean shit.
your 6 years @ highschool = first 2 years of mine
wtf is your problem. stop fucking thinking your better than every one. and the US has great universities are you high?
I dont think im better than everyone else, just 99% of the people on this forum. Sure USA has great universities, you only need to drop 100k per year (ROFL) vs 5k per year in Europe for the exact same quality.
Too bad your education didn't teach you any interpersonal skills :/
Actually, if it cheers anyone up, graduate schools don't look at your list of extracurricular activities almost at all. The whole hype about doing a lot of them in high school is mostly because there aren't real ways to distinguish yourself in high school, since the highest you could do is just have good grades/AP exams/standard tests, but getting good grades in those has two problems: - the upper plank isnt all that high - different places have totally different grading scales.
When applying to masters or PhD they'll mostly look at the classes you've taken and where you've taken them... that's usually enough information for them
I got denied for mine (PhD in CS @ top American Unis), though to be fair despite my excellent grades / CV I didn't have a clear research topic that I was interested in pursuing. I'll be back at it when I do
Can anyone tell me if University of North Texas or University of Tennessee are any good for comp.sci and maths? I'm English and i can study abroad for a semester in one of those universities and i was wondering what they are like as im totally ignorant about which unis in America are good, would be especially helpfully if anyone on tl actually attends one of these.
On June 28 2010 21:31 UdderChaos wrote: Can anyone tell me if University of North Texas or University of Tennessee are any good for comp.sci and maths? I'm English and i can study abroad for a semester in one of those universities and i was wondering what they are like as im totally ignorant about which unis in America are good, would be especially helpfully if anyone on tl actually attends one of these.
Majors at a particular school are precisely as awesome as the effort you are willing to put in. Sure, some schools with massive computer labs make a CS major's life a little easier, but there's nothing you can't accomplish with a little sweat and tears! Go where your heart (or pocketbook) takes you and never look back
On June 28 2010 21:31 UdderChaos wrote: Can anyone tell me if University of North Texas or University of Tennessee are any good for comp.sci and maths? I'm English and i can study abroad for a semester in one of those universities and i was wondering what they are like as im totally ignorant about which unis in America are good, would be especially helpfully if anyone on tl actually attends one of these.
UNT (Univ. North Texas) is known more for its music program than science, though I'm speaking completely from hearsay. It also finds itself at the butt of jokes because of its high acceptance rate (something like 70%). I had a friend that did some comp sci college hours at UNT before graduating from high school and he liked it alright. Ultimately though you get what you put into it, so if you're self-motivated either school will likely be fine. The only way one would truly be better is if you have any particular comp sci or math interests that mesh with one school particularly well.
On June 28 2010 21:31 UdderChaos wrote: Can anyone tell me if University of North Texas or University of Tennessee are any good for comp.sci and maths? I'm English and i can study abroad for a semester in one of those universities and i was wondering what they are like as im totally ignorant about which unis in America are good, would be especially helpfully if anyone on tl actually attends one of these.
UNT (Univ. North Texas) is known more for its music program than science, though I'm speaking completely from hearsay. It also finds itself at the butt of jokes because of its high acceptance rate (something like 70%). I had a friend that did some comp sci college hours at UNT before graduating from high school and he liked it alright. Ultimately though you get what you put into it, so if you're self-motivated either school will likely be fine. The only way one would truly be better is if you have any particular comp sci or math interests that mesh with one school particularly well.
Ah, so somewhat of a step down then, my Uni is roughly between 6-8th for maths in the country, any ideas what Tennessee is like?
On June 28 2010 21:31 UdderChaos wrote: Can anyone tell me if University of North Texas or University of Tennessee are any good for comp.sci and maths? I'm English and i can study abroad for a semester in one of those universities and i was wondering what they are like as im totally ignorant about which unis in America are good, would be especially helpfully if anyone on tl actually attends one of these.
UNT (Univ. North Texas) is known more for its music program than science, though I'm speaking completely from hearsay. It also finds itself at the butt of jokes because of its high acceptance rate (something like 70%). I had a friend that did some comp sci college hours at UNT before graduating from high school and he liked it alright. Ultimately though you get what you put into it, so if you're self-motivated either school will likely be fine. The only way one would truly be better is if you have any particular comp sci or math interests that mesh with one school particularly well.
Ah, so somewhat of a step down then, my Uni is roughly between 6-8th for maths in the country, any ideas what Tennessee is like?
Unfortunately not. Univ. of Texas at Austin has a top CS program and a strong math program (not sure how strict your limitation to UNT/UTenn is).
I was accepted two years ago in a Computer Science faculty and I failed the second year and now have to do it all over again. Man I feel like such a looser to you guys with your fancy universities.
Bumping this, seeing as Danes (maybe more?) got their acceptance letters today.
I'll be spending the next 5 years of my life at Copenhagen Business School, studying International Business and Politics, my first priority. I applied with 11.4 weighted/10.6 unweighted (11 is A-, so we're hovering around that area). We're graded a little tougher than other countries AFAIK, due to absolute grading: you need 92+/100 points to get the top grade, 12, in math for instance.
No SATs, community service or any of that. In Denmark it's just your GPA (unless you apply via quota 2, but don't get me started on that). Only real problem in Denmark is the lack of real competition for the very bright (those with an unweighted average of above 11,5) as no course in Denmark requires more than 10,9 as it is now. Furthermore, if you apply within 2 years of finishing high school you can multiply your GPA by 1.08, hence the terms weighted and unweighted. This meant that I could essentially get in anywhere in Denmark, which meant that I was very lazy throughout most of high-school.
Chances are good I'll spending a year overseas, since CBS has excellent contacts over there as far as I know. A buddy of mine spent a year at Boston for free, something I'd like to do as well.
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