EPTCollege Acceptance Thread '11 - Page 30
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GhostKorean
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random user
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On March 31 2011 11:47 LastPrime wrote: 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. Oh sorry, no I was just commenting in general that the school you went to matters less now. To be clear, I'm referring to a long time ago. I dug out the quote, since I vaguely remembered it. From Fortune in 2003: "For the most part, it takes a degree from an Ivy League school, or MIT, Stanford, CalTech, or Carnegie Mellon--America's top engineering schools--even to get invited to interview. " http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/12/08/355116/index.htm So there you go. Go MIT, and stuff. | ||
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random user
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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. Huh my bad. I didn't realize that. Most/all of my friends won't work at Zynga on purely moral grounds. But I've heard that it's making money hand-over-fist (or whatever that expression is), but maybe the employees can't get in on that action. In which case, it would indeed be a pretty bad place to work. | ||
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sikyon
Canada1045 Posts
On March 31 2011 11:49 Cambium wrote: 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. What basis are you making this on? I have a few friends in the software engineering program at Waterloo, which has a massive employment rate at top companies (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Zynga and of course RIM next door, etc,), the software program at waterloo is a massive recruiting ground for all top employers. Employers don't even bother showing up at their design project fairs (they had like 2 people listening to their presentations), because fat chance trying to get a software engineer there - everyone's already been hired a long time ago. Yet people in the program are going to Zynga, specifically because the culture and company is younger than facebook and google and more opportunity and flexibility is perceived to exist there (while still being on the up and comming). | ||
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Greggle
United States1131 Posts
On March 25 2011 08:06 Zhou wrote: Well, I originally went to Lehman College, but since I've decided on a Geography major, I've changed schools and recently have been accepted to Binghamton University. I've already accepted, seeing as my other option was further north in New York State to Buffalo, so yeah. I'm totally excited. Looking forward to joining their SC2 team, or at least getting to know them! Good choice. I got to Bing and love it. Not only are we slightly less cold than Buffalo but we're the best in the SUNY system  | ||
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sRapers_ValkS
United States644 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? It looks like I might go to Chicago. yay chicago! All my shit isn't as "impressive" as your guys' so for comparisons sake: SATs: 2200 combined SAT 2s: 740 Math2, 650 Lit 4 on AP Physics Mechanics and AP US History 5 on AP English Comp 0 Community Service never had a job =] Accepted: Washington University in St. Louis U Chicago Pitt University of Washington Seattle Penn (engineering) Oberlin Brandeis NYU Rejected: Columbia Brown Tufts Cornell The things I think I did "right" were a) great recommendations b) be a pretty good oboist c) not be fake in the slightest in interviews/essays d) that's all. | ||
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GhostKorean
United States2330 Posts
On March 31 2011 13:41 sRapers_ValkS wrote: It looks like I might go to Chicago. yay chicago! All my shit isn't as "impressive" as your guys' so for comparisons sake: SATs: 2200 combined SAT 2s: 740 Math2, 650 Lit 4 on AP Physics Mechanics and AP US History 5 on AP English Comp 0 Community Service never had a job =] Accepted: Washington University in St. Louis U Chicago Pitt University of Washington Seattle Penn (engineering) Oberlin Brandeis NYU Rejected: Columbia Brown Tufts Cornell The things I think I did "right" were a) great recommendations b) be a pretty good oboist c) not be fake in the slightest in interviews/essays d) that's all. can you email penn and tell them i can have your spot | ||
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sRapers_ValkS
United States644 Posts
On March 31 2011 13:45 GhostKorean wrote: can you email penn and tell them i can have your spot haha i would love to, having a professor for a father definitely helped me out there. | ||
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
On March 31 2011 12:58 sikyon wrote: What basis are you making this on? I have a few friends in the software engineering program at Waterloo, which has a massive employment rate at top companies (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Zynga and of course RIM next door, etc,), the software program at waterloo is a massive recruiting ground for all top employers. Employers don't even bother showing up at their design project fairs (they had like 2 people listening to their presentations), because fat chance trying to get a software engineer there - everyone's already been hired a long time ago. Yet people in the program are going to Zynga, specifically because the culture and company is younger than facebook and google and more opportunity and flexibility is perceived to exist there (while still being on the up and comming). I did Systems Engineering at Waterloo and I worked all of my six co-op terms in CS/software engineering. I'm doing my Master's in CS right now. The first four you listed are "top companies", Zynga and RIM are not. The top employers for CS are, without questions, Google, FB, Amazon, MSFT and maybe Apple. It's funny how you make an assumption that everyone out of a 70 people class is Google material, they are not. You have good people and bad people in a program, and the bad people have to go somewhere too. The good people at Waterloo are exceptional, the rest is very average. | ||
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United States10328 Posts
On March 31 2011 13:41 sRapers_ValkS wrote: It looks like I might go to Chicago. yay chicago! All my shit isn't as "impressive" as your guys' so for comparisons sake: SATs: 2200 combined SAT 2s: 740 Math2, 650 Lit 4 on AP Physics Mechanics and AP US History 5 on AP English Comp 0 Community Service never had a job =] Accepted: Washington University in St. Louis U Chicago Pitt University of Washington Seattle Penn (engineering) Oberlin Brandeis NYU Rejected: Columbia Brown Tufts Cornell The things I think I did "right" were a) great recommendations b) be a pretty good oboist c) not be fake in the slightest in interviews/essays d) that's all. btw Milkis goes to UChicago, as posted in the thread. and for the MIT acceptances--come to CPW and check out the CSL booth! I might be there even though I'm not really part of CSL since I don't play SC2! | ||
Milkis
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Froadac
United States6733 Posts
On March 31 2011 15:19 Milkis wrote: Yay chicago, welcome to hell >:D I shall be applying for Econ. Welcome to not getting in >  | ||
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hiyo_bye
United States737 Posts
If you are going to the University of Pennsylvania or are considering it, feel free to PM me for info, or to train with our CSL team :D | ||
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Karliath
United States2214 Posts
On March 31 2011 15:19 Milkis wrote: Yay chicago, welcome to hell >:D Ya-ha-ha-ha-ha....ha.....ha............ha. T_T What major are you? (sorry if it has been mentioned here already) | ||
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Milkis
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On March 31 2011 15:58 Karliath wrote: Ya-ha-ha-ha-ha....ha.....ha............ha. T_T What major are you? (sorry if it has been mentioned here already) Econ major, and I also took a lot of math/stat classes. Let me know if you need anything. EDIT: also reading this thread makes me go wtf considering I only applied to one school >.>; | ||
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Russian Federation3631 Posts
On March 31 2011 11:36 AlienAlias wrote: Hmm, so I ended up getting accepted to a few nice universities. Carnegie Mellon, Rensselaer Polytech, boston college, boston U, but I really can't justify paying for those lol. I mean, I can see the appeal of going to a private institution and getting a top-notch education, but with total costs ranging from 52 to 57 thousand dollars per year, is that a sort of investment an 18 year old can responsibly make? 200 thousand dollars could buy a house. 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. If you're doing engineering/science (just inferring, correct me if I'm wrong) and intend to pursue a doctorate, I personally don't believe undergrad name value matters that much. Either way ("prestige" school or state school) you'll have to work your ass off. The key is getting exceptional recommendation letters from your research advisor(s). I can't emphasize this enough. There's plenty of people that go in-state for undergrad and go to a "prestige" grad school. Its not rare. In addition, American economy prospects look...pessimistic in the long term so I would advise against accumulating tons of debt early. Others, of course, may disagree. Furthermore, I'm not exactly the greatest authority -- you really should ask people in the field of your choice how much undergrad name value affects job prospects. | ||
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Karliath
United States2214 Posts
On March 31 2011 16:02 Milkis wrote: Econ major, and I also took a lot of math/stat classes. Let me know if you need anything. EDIT: also reading this thread makes me go wtf considering I only applied to one school >.>; Oh cool, I plan on majoring in Econ too. From your experience, do you find the core classes to be appropriate, or somewhat irrelevant to what you 'want to learn?' I don't know how it was back when you applied for universities, but it's definitely the norm now. I mean, I expected to get into Brown and not into UChicago, but it worked the other way around. Which university would I have applied for? Btw, do you know Ben C. Yu? He's the only other SC person I know at UChicago. | ||
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Neon_Monkey
United States270 Posts
Caltech UC Berkeley UCSD UCLA UCI Rejected: Harvey Mudd MIT Stanford SAT: 2130 SATII: 800 math, 760 chemistry GPA: 3.95 AP: 5 5's last year and a 4 in us history Extracurriculars: pretty mediocre I really wanted to go to Mudd and everyone was expecting me to get in since my brother just graduated from there, but I guess it was not meant to be | ||
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Milkis
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On March 31 2011 16:17 Karliath wrote: Oh cool, I plan on majoring in Econ too. From your experience, do you find the core classes to be appropriate, or somewhat irrelevant to what you 'want to learn?' I don't know how it was back when you applied for universities, but it's definitely the norm now. I mean, I expected to get into Brown and not into UChicago, but it worked the other way around. Which university would I have applied for? Btw, do you know Ben C. Yu? He's the only other SC person I know at UChicago. Eh, the only core I think I learned anything from is the sociology core requirement. The exposure you get in that class (especially if you take Power) is very nice, in terms of what you read and the discussions you get. As for the other requirements, it depends on what courses you end up taking. I took world lit for humanities and the only thing it did was give me a good exposure to books but it didn't teach me anything. I also took a music civ class which did not teach me much overall. So in the end it depends a lot on which ones you take. Looking back I'd probably have chosen a different core for hum and civ, and probably went for the greeks or something I don't really know Ben Yu but I've heard him mentioned before, don't remember under what context though since there are too many people with the same names around | ||
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YejinYejin
United States1053 Posts
On March 31 2011 16:27 Milkis wrote: Eh, the only core I think I learned anything from is the sociology core requirement. The exposure you get in that class (especially if you take Power) is very nice, in terms of what you read and the discussions you get. As for the other requirements, it depends on what courses you end up taking. I took world lit for humanities and the only thing it did was give me a good exposure to books but it didn't teach me anything. I also took a music civ class which did not teach me much overall. So in the end it depends a lot on which ones you take. Looking back I'd probably have chosen a different core for hum and civ, and probably went for the greeks or something I don't really know Ben Yu but I've heard him mentioned before, don't remember under what context though since there are too many people with the same names around Holy shit, this Ben C. Yu kid. I don't know him personally, but I'm two degrees removed from him (he's a friend of a friend) in 10 different friend circles. I think we know 3 people in common from NJ, 4 people from the DC area, 1 at UChicago, 2 people for whom I have no idea what the connection is, and now someone on TL mentions a single person they know at UChicago, and it's Ben Yu. WHO IS THIS GUY? | ||
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