EPTCollege Acceptance Thread '11 - Page 14
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red4ce
United States7313 Posts
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Froadac
United States6733 Posts
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fatalities
United States91 Posts
On March 25 2011 23:59 Froadac wrote: What the heck is HMPSY? Harvard MIT (guess) Princeton Stanford Yale | ||
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0cz3c
United States564 Posts
Good luck everyone =O | ||
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ChrisXIV
Austria3553 Posts
Getting into a university/college in the USA seems really hard. If I understand it correctly, you need to have the best grades, do extremely well on some test and have extra-curricular stuff...and even then you're not guaranteed to go to top universities? :| Good luck everyone. | ||
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dave333
United States915 Posts
Anyone applied to Middlebury College? ^Yes getting into top universities can be amazingly difficult, it is such a huge coinflip actually. There are just so many students with very high grades, great test scores, and fantastic achievements that get rejected by many of the top schools. Still, there are significant tipping factors like being an athlete, a minority, or having a connection to the school that can make it relatively easy to get in as well. | ||
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pikagrue
79 Posts
UCB (regents rejected) UCLA (regents) UCSD UCI UCD RPI Rejected: MIT Caltech Waiting: Harvey Mudd (should be coming any day now) Duke Columbia 4.46 weighted GPA 2400 SAT 800 SAT Physics 800 SAT Math 2 790 SAT Chem AIME Qualifier, 6th place at Stanford Math Tournament, other competitive math stuff FBLA Awards, etc Tech Museum Tech Challenge participant Some volunteer work Guitar, etc Meh, didn't expect to get into MIT or Caltech, i really lack anything spectacular (MOPer, US Physics Team, Intel Semi, etc) oh well. | ||
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dave333
United States915 Posts
GL with the other three. I think you have a solid shot with Harvey Mudd. Columbia/Duke are pretty tough tough; I think you can definitely get Duke, Columbia far more iffy unless you did columbia engineering. | ||
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CecilSunkure
United States2829 Posts
Accepted to: DigiPen I am a man with focus xD I could have applied to other schools, but I just knew where I wanted to attend  | ||
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Moody
United States750 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://images1.memegenerator.net/ImageMacro/4382996/Challenge-Accepted.jpg?imageSize=Medium&generatorName=Challenge-Accepted-HD-1) I've applied to several law schools in the south east, I will post when I hear something back... should be any day now... really nervous. | ||
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Cudaflu
33 Posts
UF: Accepted FSU: Accepted UCF: Never replied? Applied in October and never heard since. I have no interest in going anyway, just applied as a backup for the backup. Have wanted to go to UF since I was a little kid, so I was pretty fucking stoked when I got in. GL to everyone that has yet to hear from the first choice school! | ||
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b3h47pte
United States1317 Posts
On March 25 2011 11:11 hypno_toad wrote: Looking towards the programming end of it, seeing as I've never been the greatest artist :x.. I might dual major with Game Design as well because when I was looking at the classes you take for Development and Design, they both had a lot of the same classes. Taking AP CS and am not finding it too difficult atm, and once I start in college I'll start taking my classes very seriously. oh and Development = programming/////Design = Art Eh. Same thing xP Hehe good luck. | ||
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prochobo
United States232 Posts
Even though I'm at a state university in a non-engineering major (CIS), I make more than alumni as a student with a career job. Depending on the field you plan on going into, experience will get you much further than college ever will. | ||
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feanor1
United States1899 Posts
On March 26 2011 00:31 ChrisXIV wrote: After reading through this thread, there is one thing I have to say: Holy shit. Getting into a university/college in the USA seems really hard. If I understand it correctly, you need to have the best grades, do extremely well on some test and have extra-curricular stuff...and even then you're not guaranteed to go to top universities? :| Good luck everyone. The people posting in this thread are attempting to get in the top 1% of schools. Plenty of mid tier and lower level schools to attend if you aren't a 4.0 student. all of the schools being listed here are pretty much world class schools, and unbelievably expensive unless you are instate for University of Cali or U of Michigan. | ||
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tube
United States1475 Posts
2270, 4.52 gpa - rank 3 out of like 700 okay ec's, essays, recs, etc | ||
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ScrubS
Netherlands436 Posts
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Kal_rA1
160 Posts
On March 26 2011 06:20 ScrubS wrote: Can anyone tell me what the diffrence is between college and university? In Europe, ppl go to University (if ur smart) or some other, lower specialized education (such as becoming a elementary school teacher) i THINK that university is looked at as a 4 year place to study. College is only 2 years (i could be totally wrong lol). However, University is also loosely refereed to as College (very very oftern), but never the other way... | ||
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ThumperSD
United States333 Posts
3.71 transferable GPA | ||
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fams
Canada731 Posts
In high school we have two types of classes: Academic (University credits) and Applied (College/nothing credits) Universities in Canada require you to have Academic credits in order to be accepted. College's will accept Academic AND Applied credits. Now...Colleges are usually diploma or certificate programs. By these I mean, any trade (welding, electrician, mechanic, etc.) or you can take a diploma program, things such as business or whatever. You DO NOT get a degree from a College, only a diploma, certificate, etc. Universities on the other hand, are where you can get your Bachelors, MBAs, PHDs, etc. Some people (like me currently) have to go to College first, receive my diploma, and then go to University, since in high school, I did not have Academic classes. However, many Colleges have what we call "articulation agreements" with Universities, where, if we completed our College courses and received our diploma, we can jump into the last two years of a 4 year degree. (note: Articulation agreements are school specific, and are something you should look into before you go to College, hoping to go to University.) I think that covers how the Canadian system works. Lemme know if you have questions or if someone from Canada wants to add anything to this : ) | ||
Kipsate
Netherlands45349 Posts
On March 26 2011 06:20 ScrubS wrote: Can anyone tell me what the diffrence is between college and university? In Europe, ppl go to University (if ur smart) or some other, lower specialized education (such as becoming a elementary school teacher) I believe the terms are interchangable, however some public universities I believe are more of the level of ''HBO'' in our country. Either way, I was wondering what does regents accepted/rejected or regents mean? | ||
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