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Vestige
Profile Joined November 2009
United States303 Posts
March 24 2011 23:11 GMT
#41
Got into University of Georgia - looking for a roommate soo...if anyone else is going there pm me :D
"You'd wish it were hell"
rogzardo
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
610 Posts
March 24 2011 23:12 GMT
#42
To hell with all of you. I drank my way through a state college and have been rejected by 3 of 4 grad schools so far this year. Damn you and your hard work and ambition making me look bad.
awu25
Profile Joined April 2010
United States2003 Posts
March 24 2011 23:12 GMT
#43
On March 25 2011 08:03 wizard944 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 25 2011 07:45 Cambium wrote:
On March 25 2011 07:42 chenchen wrote:
On March 25 2011 07:39 Cambium wrote:
On March 25 2011 07:26 b3h47pte wrote:
On March 25 2011 07:19 drag_ wrote:
You got rejected from Stanford?!
As far as I can tell you're pretty much the ideal student, did they give you some reason why or was it just bad luck


Naw they didn't give me a reason but I assume it has something to do with me being Chinese :\

On March 25 2011 07:21 Tiegrr wrote:
Did you have any extracurriculars?


Kind of. Extracurricular as in sports..no not really aside from doing varsity swimming for 3 years. I was kind of banking on my indie game programming to get me in but oh well XD


Being Chinese (or Asian in general, maybe) sucks when it comes to admissions. We rack up good numbers and have a more than solid application, but there are just too many of us =.=


I have two white friends who were both around 2300, 790+ on SAT II's, 14-15 5's on APs, and solid extracurriculars (sciency, programmy stuff), who didn't really get into anywhere competitive (MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Penn).

So no, it's just that Stanford is rape hard to get into.


For every white friend of yours, I can name at least five (I originally typed ten, but that might be pushing it) Asian friends with equal or better stats, what's your point? I never said it was easy for "white".

This is a well-known issue, called affirmative action.

I don't blame them, diversity is important.

Anyway, this is derailing the thread. Good luck to everyone.


So I have a friend who got rejected by yale. He had a 98 GPA, a 2400 on this SAT, he's been principal clarinetist in the local youth orchestra for the past 3 years (I'll finally get a chance next year!), he has 16 5's on APs, he was a finalist in the international clarinet highschool competition, he's on varsity tennis, and he's captain of the math team, and he's the regional champion in chess.

However, he's chinese...so gets rejected by yale and MIT...at least he got into REMS which is awesome!

I knew someone who was chinese and probably had about the same amount of 5's on APs, valedictorian of our high school, and probably really high SAT. He got into MIT. Your friend should've gotten in, but he probably didn't have a strong essay or something. It's not just because he was chinese
Z3kk
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
4099 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-24 23:16:59
March 24 2011 23:13 GMT
#44
What the hell I knew there was a bias against East Asians, but this is ridiculous =______=

Edit: some kind seniors should open a thread to give advice as to how to improve one's chances of getting into the colleges of one's dreams. College Confidential is obviously really good because it's a forum whose purpose is general admissions counseling, but more often than not, there are very few replies, and the replies that are made are often not of a particularly high quality/are slow to come/aren't made at all, even though the posters are very knowledgeable...
Failure is not falling down over and over again. Failure is refusing to get back up.
adeezy
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1428 Posts
March 24 2011 23:13 GMT
#45
Damn what's with all these smart people on Teamliquid, I was an underachiever in my HS days. =/. I got into UCSD, UCI, UCD, rejected by berkeley and LA. Didn't even bother trying for any kind of IVYs or private schools. TL sure is a smart bunch
I asked my friend how the ratio at a party was, he replied. "Let's just say for every guy there was two dudes."
wizard944
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
194 Posts
March 24 2011 23:14 GMT
#46
On March 25 2011 08:12 awu25 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 25 2011 08:03 wizard944 wrote:
On March 25 2011 07:45 Cambium wrote:
On March 25 2011 07:42 chenchen wrote:
On March 25 2011 07:39 Cambium wrote:
On March 25 2011 07:26 b3h47pte wrote:
On March 25 2011 07:19 drag_ wrote:
You got rejected from Stanford?!
As far as I can tell you're pretty much the ideal student, did they give you some reason why or was it just bad luck


Naw they didn't give me a reason but I assume it has something to do with me being Chinese :\

On March 25 2011 07:21 Tiegrr wrote:
Did you have any extracurriculars?


Kind of. Extracurricular as in sports..no not really aside from doing varsity swimming for 3 years. I was kind of banking on my indie game programming to get me in but oh well XD


Being Chinese (or Asian in general, maybe) sucks when it comes to admissions. We rack up good numbers and have a more than solid application, but there are just too many of us =.=


I have two white friends who were both around 2300, 790+ on SAT II's, 14-15 5's on APs, and solid extracurriculars (sciency, programmy stuff), who didn't really get into anywhere competitive (MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Penn).

So no, it's just that Stanford is rape hard to get into.


For every white friend of yours, I can name at least five (I originally typed ten, but that might be pushing it) Asian friends with equal or better stats, what's your point? I never said it was easy for "white".

This is a well-known issue, called affirmative action.

I don't blame them, diversity is important.

Anyway, this is derailing the thread. Good luck to everyone.


So I have a friend who got rejected by yale. He had a 98 GPA, a 2400 on this SAT, he's been principal clarinetist in the local youth orchestra for the past 3 years (I'll finally get a chance next year!), he has 16 5's on APs, he was a finalist in the international clarinet highschool competition, he's on varsity tennis, and he's captain of the math team, and he's the regional champion in chess.

However, he's chinese...so gets rejected by yale and MIT...at least he got into REMS which is awesome!

I knew someone who was chinese and probably had about the same amount of 5's on APs, valedictorian of our high school, and probably really high SAT. He got into MIT. Your friend should've gotten in, but he probably didn't have a strong essay or something. It's not just because he was chinese

I think it's partly because our school is ridiculous and there are three other people with almost identical achievements. Therefore, he didn't quite stand out as much as he would have liked, but ya I guess there must have been something else like what you mentioned.
Kassar DeTemplari
unsniped
Profile Joined November 2009
United States241 Posts
March 24 2011 23:14 GMT
#47
Accepted:
Clemson
Auburn
Ga Tech
Rejected:
MIT

Anyone else going to Ga tech?
CaptnAsia
Profile Joined August 2010
United States61 Posts
March 24 2011 23:18 GMT
#48
I basically applied to these six UCs and a couple privates. I got rejected from pretty much all the privates and the UC's went like this.

Accepted:
UC Riverside
UC Santa Cruz
UC San Diego

Rejected:
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC Santa Barbara

I'm kind of amazed I got into San Diego, but still grateful ^^
DarthXX
Profile Joined September 2010
Australia998 Posts
March 24 2011 23:20 GMT
#49
Do Australian universities count? I got accepted in January but this is still my first year.

I got accepted into University of Queensland for a Law degree with an Overall Position (OP) score of 1 and an entry rank score of 99 (99th percentile, top 1%)

Happy camper
adeezy
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1428 Posts
March 24 2011 23:20 GMT
#50
Weird that you got rejected by Davis and irvine but into san diego, you should definitely definitely go there....
I asked my friend how the ratio at a party was, he replied. "Let's just say for every guy there was two dudes."
refmac_cys.cys
Profile Joined June 2010
United States177 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-27 02:05:21
March 24 2011 23:23 GMT
#51
Accepted - IU...
Rejected - Caltech, Oxford
Waitlist - UChicago.
Waiting - Swarthmore, Yale.

(EDIT) Made it in to Carleton (College, that is)!

Stats - 2300 SAT
800 Math 2
800 US History
800 Physics
my helicopter example is less stupid than your helicopter example - Liquid'Drone
]343[
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States10328 Posts
March 24 2011 23:25 GMT
#52
Hmm, it's unfortunate that there's a lot of high-test-scoring kids on here who aren't getting into top schools :/ Probably due to extracurriculars/awards/recs/essays...

But it's ok! Life doesn't end if you don't get in! Just pwn face at wherever you go. It's probably better to be a big fish in a little pond than a little fish in a big pond.
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CaptnAsia
Profile Joined August 2010
United States61 Posts
March 24 2011 23:26 GMT
#53
On March 25 2011 08:20 adeezy wrote:
Weird that you got rejected by Davis and irvine but into san diego, you should definitely definitely go there....


haha yeah I"m pretty much 100% set on going to UCSD
trackd00r
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Chile284 Posts
March 24 2011 23:26 GMT
#54
On March 25 2011 07:24 Junbugger wrote:
Stanford is a huge athletic school, so generally, athletes who are smart get in


Can someone else confirm this? I'm actually interested on this fact.
''They put signs, but I can't read''
Wire
Profile Joined July 2009
United States494 Posts
March 24 2011 23:29 GMT
#55
On March 25 2011 08:05 cerka wrote:
Acceptances:
University of Michigan
California Pyrotechnical Institute: San Luis Obispo
Southern Methodist University
UCSB
UCI

Rejected:
Washington University in Saint Louis
UCLA
UCSD

Waiting to hear back from:
Berkeley
Cornell University
Lehigh University
Vanderbilt University
Wesleyan University

Stats:
4.72 weighted HS GPA (Freshmen through Junior year)
2260 SAT
SAT II:
800 Math II
770 US History
740 English
And a ton of extra curricular activities, leadership, etc.


Damn you didn't make WashU? I'm there right now and my GPA is below yours lol 4.21. SAT better tho 2300. GL on Berkeley. I've always been a strong believer of the LA/Berkeley Tradeoff. If LA rejected you you just might get Berkeley
"You sacced your ovie, which is great, but then you didn't watch it die, which is bad :("
nish827
Profile Joined March 2010
17 Posts
March 24 2011 23:30 GMT
#56
Sarah Lawrence College - Accepted through binding early decision II with a $40k aid package.

I also applied to Bard, St. John's (Annapolis), St. John's (Minnesota), and Oberlin.

GPA: 3.75 unweighted.
7 APs (4 or 5 on the four I've taken)
4.0 in philosophy 101 at SUNY Buffalo.

(SLC disregards SAT)

Soccer team
Philosophy club president

~150 hours of service (Jesuit high school)

My essay used Nietzsche's idea that "there is no such thing as a miraculous education" to explain my experiences with philosophical literature.

My acceptance letter had a handwritten comment: "Your dedication to intellectual inquiry will serve you well at Sarah Lawrence."

I'll probably end up as a writer that hates the world

LosingID8
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
CA10828 Posts
March 24 2011 23:30 GMT
#57
On March 25 2011 08:26 trackd00r wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 25 2011 07:24 Junbugger wrote:
Stanford is a huge athletic school, so generally, athletes who are smart get in


Can someone else confirm this? I'm actually interested on this fact.

it's true but not a 100% guarantee. my white female friend had 2390, IB diploma, 3.9+ uw gpa, top 10 cross-country in state, and got rejected from stanford.

she ended up at USC with me on a full ride, ran D-1 cross country and track for the university and is getting her phd in EE/CS at UCSD.
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Froadac
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States6733 Posts
March 24 2011 23:30 GMT
#58
On March 25 2011 08:29 Wire wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 25 2011 08:05 cerka wrote:
Acceptances:
University of Michigan
California Pyrotechnical Institute: San Luis Obispo
Southern Methodist University
UCSB
UCI

Rejected:
Washington University in Saint Louis
UCLA
UCSD

Waiting to hear back from:
Berkeley
Cornell University
Lehigh University
Vanderbilt University
Wesleyan University

Stats:
4.72 weighted HS GPA (Freshmen through Junior year)
2260 SAT
SAT II:
800 Math II
770 US History
740 English
And a ton of extra curricular activities, leadership, etc.


Damn you didn't make WashU? I'm there right now and my GPA is below yours lol 4.21. SAT better tho 2300. GL on Berkeley. I've always been a strong believer of the LA/Berkeley Tradeoff. If LA rejected you you just might get Berkeley

There is something you aren't telling us. You'd get into washington U if you really had all this leadership stuff, etc.
GhostKorean
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States2330 Posts
March 24 2011 23:32 GMT
#59
Waiting for the rest of my colleges, then I'll post mine
So far I got into UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and UC LA ^_^
brain_
Profile Joined June 2010
United States812 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-24 23:37:06
March 24 2011 23:32 GMT
#60
Good luck to everyone in here. That said, don't pump college up too much - unrealistic expectations don't help anything. My first year would be a total bummer if it weren't for the eSports club here. Ultimately it is just another part of your life, and unless you're a Comm major you need to keep working hard. Don't be sucked in by the rich and/or stupid kids who are partying it up and pissing away their parent's investment.

Also try not to get mad when you meet some of the imbecile athletes who are getting better scholarships than you. I still fail at this sometimes.
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