EPTWait-list: George Washington University
Rejected: Columbia, Princeton ( =[ )
GPA: terribad =(
SAT: superscore: 2150 =(
individual: 2110 =(
SAT II: 760 (Math IIC), 720( Physics), 730 (Chem)
College Acceptance Thread '11 - Page 29
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blahman3344
United States2015 Posts
Wait-list: George Washington University Rejected: Columbia, Princeton ( =[ ) GPA: terribad =( SAT: superscore: 2150 =( individual: 2110 =( SAT II: 760 (Math IIC), 720( Physics), 730 (Chem) | ||
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TehPwntif
United States25 Posts
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China13814 Posts
Waitlist: Caltech, Case Western (LOL), Tufts Reject: Columbia, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, MIT Haven't checked Columbia yet, but I don't think I need to XD GPA: 3.73 SAT: superscore 2330, individual 2280 SATII: 800 Math(IIC), 760 Physics, 790 Chem | ||
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Uhh Negative
United States1090 Posts
I feel like a 3.63 is a pretty good GPA for college. It feels like one or two B's and your GPA plummets haha. It's definitely harder to get good grades than high school but there's less overall work, in my experiences so far. If you pick up concepts fairly easy and have good test taking skills college will be pretty easy for you. | ||
Kinky
United States4126 Posts
On March 28 2011 13:42 l10f wrote: Alright, I'm getting on these waitlists >____> But it seems like I'll have to settle for NYU.. Sheep needs company :D | ||
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Karliath
United States2214 Posts
Major: Economics Accepted: The University of Chicago Cornell University Northwestern University UC Berkeley UC Los Angeles UC San Diego UC Irvine Wait-listed: Dartmouth College Rejected: The University of Pennsylvania Brown University GPA: 4+ (weighted) SAT: 2270 SAT II's: Bio - 800, Chinese - 800, World History - 770, Math 2 - 740 AP Tests: Bio - 5, European History - 5 Summer Studies: Micro-economics: A, European Art History: A- (UPenn, College credit) Volunteer Hours: 75 (Hours are not shown on my HS transcript) Major Accomplishments: Qualified for state in Speech/Debate, won karate sparring tournaments with minimal years of training, Treasurer for Academic Decathlon. I realized too late how much I wanted to get into UPenn. For the most part of my HS career, I lived the life of a gamer, simply getting by with some "small smarts," as they call it in Chinese. Oh well, UChicago it is then. The only time I'm worried about is that the people might be too nerdy. I want sports, frats, and parties! Does anyone on TeamLiquid go to UChicago, or live in the Chicago region? | ||
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raheelp
United States54 Posts
On March 30 2011 14:41 Loser777 wrote: College may be fun, but the college application and admissions experience is far from it. that and the cost + crummy job outlook. great experience for sure though. smart hot women... beer... classes... | ||
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Froadac
United States6733 Posts
On March 31 2011 10:12 Karliath wrote: Decision: The University of Chicago Major: Economics Accepted: The University of Chicago Cornell University Northwestern University UC Berkeley UC Los Angeles UC San Diego UC Irvine Wait-listed: Dartmouth College Rejected: The University of Pennsylvania Brown University GPA: 4+ (weighted) SAT: 2270 SAT II's: Bio - 800, Chinese - 800, World History - 770, Math 2 - 740 AP Tests: Bio - 5, European History - 5 Summer Studies: Micro-economics: A, European Art History: A- (UPenn, College credit) Volunteer Hours: 75 (Hours are not shown on my HS transcript) Major Accomplishments: Qualified for state in Speech/Debate, won karate sparring tournaments with minimal years of training, Treasurer for Academic Decathlon. I realized too late how much I wanted to get into UPenn. For the most part of my HS career, I lived the life of a gamer, simply getting by with some "small smarts," as they call it in Chinese. Oh well, UChicago it is then. The only time I'm worried about is that the people might be too nerdy. I want sports, frats, and parties! Does anyone on TeamLiquid go to UChicago, or live in the Chicago region? Do you mind PMing GPA? I know you don't want to be a jerk, which is reasonable, but my stats are fairly similar, and I"m just curious how GPAs compare. | ||
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Loser777
1931 Posts
On March 31 2011 10:30 Froadac wrote: Do you mind PMing GPA? I know you don't want to be a jerk, which is reasonable, but my stats are fairly similar, and I"m just curious how GPAs compare. If there's anything I learned through the college application process, it's you can't compare stats accurately beyond a certain threshold. I would call that the 4.0+ GPA 2200+ SAT mark where you just can't predict where you're going to be accepted relative to someone else. People who are "less qualified" scores and grades wise may get in, but that says pretty much nothing about your chances. | ||
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Froadac
United States6733 Posts
On March 31 2011 10:33 Loser777 wrote: If there's anything I learned through the college application process, it's you can't compare stats accurately beyond a certain threshold. I would call that the 4.0+ GPA 2200+ SAT mark where you just can't predict where you're going to be accepted relative to someone else. People who are "less qualified" scores and grades wise may get in, but that says pretty much nothing about your chances. Meh. I know that in my brain. However my lack of common sense wants to know >.> | ||
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Loser777
1931 Posts
On March 31 2011 10:36 Froadac wrote: Meh. I know that in my brain. However my lack of common sense wants to know >.> I would recommend you stop asking around (especially with friends) about their GPAs/Scores/Extracurrics. In the end it does nothing to help you if you're already so motivated and it'll just lead to more tension come decision time. Trying not think why you didn't get in when you know someone else had a lower X, Y and less Zs is not fun at all--especially during the time of senior year when you're supposed to be enjoying yourself. | ||
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random user
85 Posts
First of all, Stanford is pretty much unparalleled in athletics, if you consider athletics to be more than football and basketball (which it's still sometimes competitive in). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NACDA_Directors'_Cup The NACDA Learfield Sports Directors' Cup is an award given annually by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics to the colleges and universities with the most success in collegiate athletics... The University of North Carolina won the award for best Division I collegiate athletics program in its inaugural year. Since then, Stanford University has won it sixteen straight years, winning sixteen out of the seventeen years it has been offered. Second, in regards to who the people are like, you will find the gamut of people, from people who you think, "How the hell did they get in here," to "Umm.. this person is going to win the Nobel Prize someday." Most people are pretty normal skewing a little geeky. When I graduated from Stanford (this was quite a while ago, I'm class of '94 so things may have changed), I didn't think being from Stanford made that much of a difference. Looking back, though, it made a huge difference. I got my first job because I went to Stanford. I got my most recent job because of a friend from Stanford. For a while Google pretty much tossed out your resume if you didn't go to one of the better Ivy Leagues or Stanford. Here is a pretty interesting read: http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/brown-and-cornell-are-second-tier/27565 Looking back, it wasn't about what the place taught, but who you met, and I didn't appreciate that at the time. 15 years later, though, most of my Stanford friends are making 6 figure salaries and have 1 million dollar + homes. Of course, we all live in the silicon valley, so that's not really actually that big of a deal. If I were to look for a new job, either a friend or a friend of a friend can help out and give me an "in" at many companies since I have so many friends pretty high up at many different companies. When I graduated, of course, I appreciated none of that. And that's not to say that you can't do well without a top-tier school name, but I think it's certainly easier when you have a network from school. As to getting into a top tier college, I know things have gotten harder, but my gut feeling is that what it takes to get in is to be unique in some way. Getting straight A's is a great accomplishment, but not unusual let alone unique. It's not about marking off all the checkboxes the colleges are looking for.. it's about convincing them that YOU have something unique to offer THEM. Maybe that unique thing is growing up in an LA slum and making it out while having to work and go to school at the same time while you were homeless for a couple years and thats why you don't have a lot of extra curriculars. You have a unique perspective to offer your classmates. Maybe you sailed around the world when you were 16 and visited remote indigenous tribes. That's pretty unusual. Maybe you just come from a small state. Sometimes that's enough. Maybe you're just a really nice or interesting person. Sometimes that's enough. You think I'm joking don't you? Well I'm not. You have to get multiple recommendations and write an essay. I had the luck to go to school in the year the courts ruled that student's had a right to view their admission records. Before this ruling, most universities kept admission material instead of shredding them. After this ruling, most universities starting shredding the material after it was no longer needed (I think). But to comply with the law, universities had to give students a chance to see the existing admissions materials before destroying them. So I got a chance to see what got me in. It was my essay and to a lesser extent my recommendations. Two of the three people who reviewed my application specifically wrote that they thought I would be a good fit at Stanford from the essay I wrote. I used that same essay at 6 other schools: Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Penn, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis. I got into all of them, and I'm pretty sure my essay had a lot to do with it. With that said, there is still a lot of luck involved. I had a friend get into Harvard but not Yale. I had another friend who got into Yale but not Harvard. You have only a couple people reviewing your application, and it all depends on whether those individuals like or dislike what you have to say. I really dislike what it takes to get into college these days. And I'm sad that my sons probably won't be able to enjoy high school as I did. But maybe they can coast into Stanford because their dad went there! (OK, just kidding on that part... well mostly at least.) | ||
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LastPrime
United States109 Posts
On March 31 2011 10:48 random user wrote: For a while Google pretty much tossed out your resume if you didn't go to one of the better Ivy Leagues or Stanford. Er, is MIT included too? (I'm probably going there) | ||
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China13814 Posts
On March 31 2011 11:23 LastPrime wrote: Er, is MIT included too? (I'm probably going there) I'm sure MIT / Caltech fit the bill. | ||
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Disregard
China10252 Posts
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AlienAlias
United States324 Posts
Meanwhile, my state school, which is still a very good education, has a total cost of 18 grand per year, and has a guaranteed in-state scholarship to pay for most of the tuition. All along, my parents have been telling me that they are going to pay for me either room and board, or 10 thousand a year, whichever is higher. While I appreciate this, the private institutions that pay for 'all demonstrated need' find a different number for what my parents should be paying, and the difference is pure debt for me. Again, is it really responsible for an 18 year old to be diving into debt so young? Can you justify getting the same degree for thousands of dollars more simply for an unmeasurable quantity of 'better education'? I suppose I'm ranting and this is probably something everyone here has already thought about and decided for themselves at some point in time. | ||
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random user
85 Posts
On March 31 2011 11:23 LastPrime wrote: Er, is MIT included too? (I'm probably going there) Depended on for the position. At some point they pretty much tossed you if you didn't have a PhD. Times have changed though. They want to hire 6000 people this year, and there just aren't enough people who are both qualified and interested out of that small pool of schools. On top of that Google used to be the "IT" place. It's still highly coveted, but the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, etc (all of which have yet to go public) have taken a toll on the Google prestige factor. The combination of all those factors means that Google is casting a wider net these days. | ||
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random user
85 Posts
http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-02-20/news/17142684_1_stanford-s-endowment-tuition-financial-aid suggests that you get free tuition to Stanford if your parents make less than 100k/yr. I don't know how accurate that article is, or how many caveats there are. I know that Harvard, Yale, and Princeton have similar policies. But, I don't have any first hand knowledge, so maybe someone who got into one of the schools with a new policy can shed some light on how legit it is. | ||
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LastPrime
United States109 Posts
On March 31 2011 11:39 random user wrote: Depended on for the position. At some point they pretty much tossed you if you didn't have a PhD. Times have changed though. They want to hire 6000 people this year, and there just aren't enough people who are both qualified and interested out of that small pool of schools. On top of that Google used to be the "IT" place. It's still highly coveted, but the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, etc (all of which have yet to go public) have taken a toll on the Google prestige factor. The combination of all those factors means that Google is casting a wider net these days. I hope you aren't saying MIT falls under the "wider net" (implying it is in a lower class than top ivies or Stanford) ;p. In fact, MIT should be even MORE prestigious considering the technological expertise working for Google and other IT places requires. | ||
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
On March 31 2011 11:39 random user wrote: Depended on for the position. At some point they pretty much tossed you if you didn't have a PhD. Times have changed though. They want to hire 6000 people this year, and there just aren't enough people who are both qualified and interested out of that small pool of schools. On top of that Google used to be the "IT" place. It's still highly coveted, but the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, etc (all of which have yet to go public) have taken a toll on the Google prestige factor. The combination of all those factors means that Google is casting a wider net these days. Zynga is ridiculously easy to get in, no one would consider it if they got offers from Google or Facebook. It's not on the same scale. | ||
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