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On March 31 2011 16:37 DTK-m2 wrote:Show nested quote +On March 31 2011 16:27 Milkis wrote:On March 31 2011 16:17 Karliath wrote:On March 31 2011 16:02 Milkis wrote:On March 31 2011 15:58 Karliath wrote: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) 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. 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?
LOL. I don't mean to creep now, but: http://www.facebook.com/yu.c.ben
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Accepted : Duke, Cornell, UCLA, UCB, UCSD
Waiting : Brown (technical difficulties, no confidence though)
Rejected/waitlisted : all dem other private universities
Probably going to Duke; still thinking.
GPA unweighted: 4.0
SAT: 2290
SAT IIs = 800s
I had nothing that gave me a REAL edge though, had plenty of volunteer hours and did choir / guitar, but was not national level or any of that sort in anything. Thus I'm super happy I got into where I did... UCs were brutal this year though, from what I witnessed with my friends. Any other Duke bound people in here? :p
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On March 31 2011 14:51 Cambium wrote:Show nested quote +On March 31 2011 12:58 sikyon wrote:On March 31 2011 11:49 Cambium wrote:On March 31 2011 11:39 random user wrote:On March 31 2011 11:23 LastPrime wrote: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) 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. 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.
Hmmm, perhaps I just have sampling bias!
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Going to Stern School of Business.
Which is fine I guess.
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I just got my sole acceptance letter yesterday.
I was accepted into Hampshire college but I have yet to hear back from Wayne state university or Oakland university (both in Michigan).
I'm actually kind of shocked I got in anywhere, my grades have always been mediocre at best and I have switched high schools a great deal so I don't exactly have great extracurriculars (almost none).
My GPA holds at around 2.4
Luckily I'm a pretty good tester with a 5 on the AP us history test (I got an F in the class itself) and a 27 on the ACTs.
I'm really concerned about college, Im really bad at working on things that I'm not intensely devoted to and my entire academic career has been mediocre or worse. I hope I can finid my calling before I start failing...
Here's to hoping for a new beginning.
Also im really excited to meet people who play starcraft in massachusettes!
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On March 31 2011 16:56 Karliath wrote:Show nested quote +On March 31 2011 16:37 DTK-m2 wrote:On March 31 2011 16:27 Milkis wrote:On March 31 2011 16:17 Karliath wrote:On March 31 2011 16:02 Milkis wrote:On March 31 2011 15:58 Karliath wrote: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) 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. 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? LOL. I don't mean to creep now, but: http://www.facebook.com/yu.c.ben
Hehe. I actually know him personally and am friends with him on facebook. xD
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On April 01 2011 04:12 b3h47pte wrote:Show nested quote +On March 31 2011 16:56 Karliath wrote:On March 31 2011 16:37 DTK-m2 wrote:On March 31 2011 16:27 Milkis wrote:On March 31 2011 16:17 Karliath wrote:On March 31 2011 16:02 Milkis wrote:On March 31 2011 15:58 Karliath wrote: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) 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. 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? LOL. I don't mean to creep now, but: http://www.facebook.com/yu.c.ben Hehe. I actually know him personally and am friends with him on facebook. xD
Omg this guy knows EVERYBODY!!!!!!
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On March 26 2011 14:40 Etra wrote:
Harvey Mudd College - Accepted.
Yay!
Only person in this thread that got accepted to HMC T________T
why is HMC so mean these days =/
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If there are any Princeton prefrosh out there, come to Frist 206 on Friday, either of the weekends  and BYOC.
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I'm going to Dartmouth College!!!!
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On March 25 2011 07:42 chenchen wrote:Show nested quote +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.
How the hell do you have 14-15 AP's... taken. Dude, I'm taking the most AP's you can in my school and it's not even possible to take 15? What the hell?
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lol i doubt colleges care that much about random AP's.. Just probably care (only a little bit) about the core subjects like calc, bio, physics, and chem.
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In unrelated news got back SAT scores. Didn't beat my 2310, but managed to get an 800 in writing (Ow at 730 math, 740 crit read.)
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On April 01 2011 08:04 Froadac wrote:In unrelated news got back SAT scores. Didn't beat my 2310, but managed to get an 800 in writing (Ow at 730 math, 740 crit read.)
A 2310 is fine for SAT scores >> I doubt colleges will care much about the difference between a 2310 and a 2400.
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On April 01 2011 08:09 b3h47pte wrote:Show nested quote +On April 01 2011 08:04 Froadac wrote:In unrelated news got back SAT scores. Didn't beat my 2310, but managed to get an 800 in writing (Ow at 730 math, 740 crit read.) A 2310 is fine for SAT scores >> I doubt colleges will care much about the difference between a 2310 and a 2400.
Am aware. Just retook it for the hell of it.
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On April 01 2011 08:36 Froadac wrote:Show nested quote +On April 01 2011 08:09 b3h47pte wrote:On April 01 2011 08:04 Froadac wrote:In unrelated news got back SAT scores. Didn't beat my 2310, but managed to get an 800 in writing (Ow at 730 math, 740 crit read.) A 2310 is fine for SAT scores >> I doubt colleges will care much about the difference between a 2310 and a 2400. Am aware. Just retook it for the hell of it.
Haha. As long as you know :p
I probably should've taken my SAT's again and actually tried to study but I was just way too lazy to sit through another 4 hours test...Blah.
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So is everyone pretty much decided on where they want to go? I sent in an appeal so it's another month of the worst kind of waiting possible -.-;
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On April 01 2011 00:29 Zergneedsfood wrote:Going to Stern School of Business. Which is fine I guess.
yo worrrd. hoping to join you next year, but it's iffy whether I can get in or not lol
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Accepted: Cornell, Mcgill, CMU, Imperial College London, Umass Amherst (honors college), Durham, Bristol, St. Andrews
Waitlisted: Caltech, HMC
Rejected: Cambridge, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Bown, Princeton, MIT, Columbia
SAT: 2280 (740M, 740 CR, 800 W)
SATII: 800 French, 790 Math2, 740 Chem
GPA: 4.4ish weighted, top 5 percent of graduating class
AP: Chem 5 French 5 Bio 5 EnviroSci 5
EC's, 2 Instruments, 10 and 8 years
Science Olympiad, many medals over time, got 5 gold medals senior year, went twice to nationals
JETS top 10 in nation
Science bowl did well in state
Ocean bowl did well in state
Envirothon did well state
Did extra Physics classes at Harvard and MIT
various other science-related activities
Awards:
8th in the nation on National Italian exam
3 gold medals on National Latin exam
National Merit Commended
Lots of success at science competitions (see above)
some other stuff
Other I am European, living in U.S. since elementary school, know 4 languages, wrote decent but not great essays. Probably going to Cornell or Imperial
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