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On March 26 2011 11:40 The_LiNk wrote:Show nested quote +On March 26 2011 11:27 JitnikoVi wrote:applied to mcmaster - life sci - waiting mcmaster - environmental and earth sciences I - accepted western - health sci - accepted york - life sci - accepted guelph - life sci - accepted carlton - life sci - accepted u of t - life sci - waiting average is 87%, volunteer at hospital and senior home (over 100 hours combined), i recieved the queen elizabeth the II scholarship and waiting on mcdonalds scholarship (i work there  ) ive decided that im ganan go to mcmaster, right now for environ and earth sci, but if i get accepted to life sci then i might change my mind and go there isntead but mcmaster in hamilton either way  Why McMaster's? All my friends that applied to McMaster's are using it as their backup, most people are going to Western or UofT for health/life sciences.
I'm assuming an Undergrad degree in Life Sciences is being referred to here? (B.Sc?)
I did mine at York, and after I got over the stigma of the fact that apparently if you can hold a fork you cna go to York, I realized it was a decent school. I got to live at home during my undergrad and save up for when I really need the money.
Essentially it doesn't matter at all where you do your undergrad degree when it comes to a basic B.Sc unless there's something special about the program (McMaster I believe has a pre-Med stream or something, for example.)
I would say factor in cost, location, and what kind of a school it is before making your decision, don't base it on whather it's a 'good' school or not. All of the undergrad degrees in life sciences in the province of Ontario are weighed equally in terms of postgraduate positions/work.
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On March 26 2011 07:24 101toss wrote:Show nested quote +On March 26 2011 06:59 Milkis wrote:On March 25 2011 12:43 Mailing wrote:
My question is...
Is it worth it to go to a super top tier University?
Sure places like Mudd have a high "graduate income", but you can get a good career making good money at almost any University if you put the work and time in... is 90k-120k a year as opposed to 50-60k a year worth throwing your entire age 15-30 experience away?
Not only that, but you basically HAVE to succeed in these schools, or you get out with massive dept and loans (over hundreds of thousands of dollars)?
I rank colleges/units as low/medium/high/top. I am 3 years into Uni at a mid level institution and am doing fine without massive stress or anything that I hear a lot of top uni students get.. It's worth it if you're getting a job. It's less important if you're going to grad school Of course, it's easier to get into, say, stanford grad school if you went to stanford.
Honestly depends on the school and the program. UChicago Math does not accept any Uchicago undergrads for example.
If you know that you want to go to grad school it's probably just as important to go to a top university. As someone who is in grad school now, and has seen many people go through the application process, I can say that students from top schools have a huge advantage when it comes to grad admissions at other top schools.
Of course top schools do have an advantage, but I don't think it's as huge as you think it is. Most people who end up going to grad schools stand out no matter where they go into. If you make the most out of the school you attended you should have no problems getting into a good grad school, although "most out of the school" varies quite a bit.
I honestly don't think undergrad institution matters as much -- it could "look" that way quite easily since "smarter" people go to "better" universities over all.
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We should make a "graduation 2015" thread and see who makes it.
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OH NOES
No one has been accepted to Columbia. I hope all of you guys get off the waiting list (well, all the BW players anyway). Then you can come to Columbia and we can play. There's one dude who used to be C-, but he switched over to SC2. I can't find anyone else here who plays BW at all, much less plays it somewhat seriously. I'm a C- Terran, and I only get to play BW with random people on iCCup that I don't know.
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Oxford, Magdalen College - Rejected
Imperial College - Accepted (in my final year~)
UCL - Accepted
Durham - Accepted
All for the Physics MSci course. I was pretty gutted when I was rejected by Magdalen but Imperial has been more than awesome for me. Also, the Oxford interview process was pretty unique and I'm happy I got to experience it.
edit: Oops, didn't read the '11 part in the title ^^;; my bad.
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On March 25 2011 07:26 blagoonga123 wrote:
The girl who voiced Jade in Jackie Chan Adventures went to my high school/
lmao that show was awesome
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my final list
UGA - accepted
GA State - accepted
uga bound ^^
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On March 26 2011 21:42 HudsonK wrote:my final list UGA - accepted GA State - accepted uga bound ^^
Strange colleges to apply to if you're in China. Congrats!
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GPA: 4.6 (unweighted)
SAT: 2400
Volunteer hours: 10000
5's on 10 AP tests
Age: 13
Bench press: 400 Lbs.
Starcraft rank: number 1 in masters
APM: 350 (no spam)
President or captain of : The football team, the wrestling team, track and field, the school, my class, the chess club, the honors society, the gay-strait alliance and my local MENSA chapter.
I once took a test bigger than my face!
I helped poor people in Africa become president of USA!
Rejected:
UW
WSU
Western
Arizona State
Green River Community College
User was warned for this post
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On March 26 2011 11:40 The_LiNk wrote:Show nested quote +On March 26 2011 11:27 JitnikoVi wrote:applied to mcmaster - life sci - waiting mcmaster - environmental and earth sciences I - accepted western - health sci - accepted york - life sci - accepted guelph - life sci - accepted carlton - life sci - accepted u of t - life sci - waiting average is 87%, volunteer at hospital and senior home (over 100 hours combined), i recieved the queen elizabeth the II scholarship and waiting on mcdonalds scholarship (i work there ) ive decided that im ganan go to mcmaster, right now for environ and earth sci, but if i get accepted to life sci then i might change my mind and go there isntead but mcmaster in hamilton either way Why McMaster's? All my friends that applied to McMaster's are using it as their backup, most people are going to Western or UofT for health/life sciences.
McMaster excels in Life Science if anything. The school pretty much revolves around the health sciences and they can be ridiculously hard to get into.
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Stats: 84.5 avg, a good range of extracurriculars, IB taking Higher Level Math and Chemistry
Unis:
Carleton: Accepted
Guelph: Accepted
McMasters: Accepted
Uoft: Pending
Queens: Pending
Waterloo: Pending
all engineering
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On March 27 2011 02:41 Sharp-eYe wrote:
Stats: 84.5 avg, a good range of extracurriculars, IB taking Higher Level Math and Chemistry
Unis:
Carleton: Accepted
Guelph: Accepted
McMasters: Accepted
Uoft: Pending
Queens: Pending
Waterloo: Pending
all engineering
Any idea of what you are going to pick? My brother went to Carleton, it is amazing there, campus is awesome, and Ottawa is really sick too : )
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Hi all. Thought I'd post my results. I applied to schools in both the US and the UK.
US
UC Berkeley- Accepted
UCLA - rejected
University of Washington- Accepted
University of Wisconsin- Accepted
Rice University- Rejected
UChicago- Waitlisted (same as rejected? I don't know)
UK (Scandinavian Studies and History)
University of Edinburgh- Unconditional
University of Aberdeen- Unconditional
UCL- phone interview next week, I have 3 AP's at 5 (US History, Euro History, Eng Lang) and I'm taking 4 others with predicted 5's, so I'm hoping for an offer of one 4.
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On March 27 2011 05:37 fams wrote:Show nested quote +On March 27 2011 02:41 Sharp-eYe wrote:
Stats: 84.5 avg, a good range of extracurriculars, IB taking Higher Level Math and Chemistry
Unis:
Carleton: Accepted
Guelph: Accepted
McMasters: Accepted
Uoft: Pending
Queens: Pending
Waterloo: Pending
all engineering Any idea of what you are going to pick? My brother went to Carleton, it is amazing there, campus is awesome, and Ottawa is really sick too : )
yeah I heard from others that Carleton is pretty sick. Too bad it gets so much sht from people in my area (only because Carleton tries harder to get people in their uni, cuz waterloo/mcmaster/uoft take the best students from where I am from). im going to end up going to uoft (if I get accepted there). if not then guelph. if neither of the above then heres my order: mc master, waterloo, carleton, queens. I hate queens because of their stupid user system. where are you going to ?
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Hey guys! I'll post my stats too :D
2370 SAT
3.866 unweighted GPA (School doesnt weight, so idk really)
770 SAT2 Chem 800 MATH2
APs: Chem, psych, stats, enviro sci all 5
Colleges:
Columbia - Accepted (ED)
All other colleges - rejected (didnt want to pay money to send test scores in)
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On March 27 2011 07:30 Sharp-eYe wrote:Show nested quote +On March 27 2011 05:37 fams wrote:On March 27 2011 02:41 Sharp-eYe wrote:
Stats: 84.5 avg, a good range of extracurriculars, IB taking Higher Level Math and Chemistry
Unis:
Carleton: Accepted
Guelph: Accepted
McMasters: Accepted
Uoft: Pending
Queens: Pending
Waterloo: Pending
all engineering Any idea of what you are going to pick? My brother went to Carleton, it is amazing there, campus is awesome, and Ottawa is really sick too : ) yeah I heard from others that Carleton is pretty sick. Too bad it gets so much sht from people in my area (only because Carleton tries harder to get people in their uni, cuz waterloo/mcmaster/uoft take the best students from where I am from). im going to end up going to uoft (if I get accepted there). if not then guelph. if neither of the above then heres my order: mc master, waterloo, carleton, queens. I hate queens because of their stupid user system. where are you going to ?
I go to Cambrian College right now, I'm almost done, then I'm going to university in China : )
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Accepted to Laurier, Brock, and Ryerson so far for computer science. Waiting on Carleton still.
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I just got accepted into the I/O MA program at The University of Akron. Woo!
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3.85/4.22 UW/W GPA
2040 SAT 740/720 SATII's
Accepted
UC Berkeley
UC Davis
UC Santa Cruz
UC Irvine
UC Merced
UC San Diego
UC Santa Barbara
Cal Poly SLO
Rejected
UCLA
USC
Pending
Stanford(probably rejection but my dream college was Berkeley anyways)
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On March 27 2011 07:30 Sharp-eYe wrote:Show nested quote +On March 27 2011 05:37 fams wrote:On March 27 2011 02:41 Sharp-eYe wrote:
Stats: 84.5 avg, a good range of extracurriculars, IB taking Higher Level Math and Chemistry
Unis:
Carleton: Accepted
Guelph: Accepted
McMasters: Accepted
Uoft: Pending
Queens: Pending
Waterloo: Pending
all engineering Any idea of what you are going to pick? My brother went to Carleton, it is amazing there, campus is awesome, and Ottawa is really sick too : ) yeah I heard from others that Carleton is pretty sick. Too bad it gets so much sht from people in my area (only because Carleton tries harder to get people in their uni, cuz waterloo/mcmaster/uoft take the best students from where I am from). im going to end up going to uoft (if I get accepted there). if not then guelph. if neither of the above then heres my order: mc master, waterloo, carleton, queens. I hate queens because of their stupid user system. where are you going to ?
Yeeaaah! UofT! I had a few friends that got into UofT engineering, so admissions are rolling out already.
I'm the stray dog in my school, I only applied to local universities because my parents don't want me to go out. Though, even if I go to UofT, I'm going to move out.
I don't know anybody in my school that applied to Carleton, it's got a pretty bad reputation as an ez mode uni. My school's all about getting into hard mode(relatively speaking) because we're masochists like that.
On March 26 2011 18:03 WaveofShadow wrote:
I'm assuming an Undergrad degree in Life Sciences is being referred to here? (B.Sc?)
I did mine at York, and after I got over the stigma of the fact that apparently if you can hold a fork you cna go to York, I realized it was a decent school. I got to live at home during my undergrad and save up for when I really need the money.
Essentially it doesn't matter at all where you do your undergrad degree when it comes to a basic B.Sc unless there's something special about the program (McMaster I believe has a pre-Med stream or something, for example.)
I would say factor in cost, location, and what kind of a school it is before making your decision, don't base it on whather it's a 'good' school or not. All of the undergrad degrees in life sciences in the province of Ontario are weighed equally in terms of postgraduate positions/work.
My english teacher who went to UofT says the unofficial student moto of UofT is "Friends don't let friends go to York."
Though in terms of business, I really respect York for its Schulich BBA program, its damn good. They got this international variant where you have to learn a language to graduate and you have to go study abroad. It's too bad my marks were just slightly too low to get into.
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