EPTCollege Acceptance Thread '11 - Page 32
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The_LiNk
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Entropic
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:D :D :D There should be a grad school admissions version of this thread imo. | ||
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emperorchampion
Canada9496 Posts
On April 01 2011 15:20 The_LiNk wrote: McGill? No UofT or UBC? Why did you apply to the 3rd rated university in Canada? What an insult! Durham? Isn't that University of Ontario Institute of Technology? More insults! Because he knows that McGill is where it's at! :p | ||
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Entropic
Canada2837 Posts
On April 01 2011 15:20 The_LiNk wrote: McGill? No UofT or UBC? Why did you apply to the 3rd rated university in Canada? What an insult! Durham? Isn't that University of Ontario Institute of Technology? More insults! Queens > Mcgill imo, unless you want to party then Montreal would be better in that case. | ||
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IamBach
United States1059 Posts
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IamBach
United States1059 Posts
On March 31 2011 09:06 LastPrime wrote: Accept: MIT, KAIST Waitlist: Harvard, Princeton Reject: Stanford (international + applied for financial aid so barely any chance in the first place xD), Yale I believe Harvard, Princeton, and Yale don't distinguish international applicants from domestic ones, but MIT and Stanford do. I (as a Korean) am not disadvantaged for KAIST obviously. SAT 2400 SAT II: 800, 800 GPA: Sucky (still around top 3 percent though). Couldn't be helped when I used to play sc 8 hours a day, literally (almost). Took senior math/physics courses as freshman "decent" extracurriculars, nothing too spectacular though. (Though made USAMO this year which is considered good I guess) Wrote crappy CommonApp essays, feel lucky to even have gotten waitlisted at Harvard and Princeton ;p. Isn't a 2400 a perfect? | ||
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fofa2000
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hmmm...
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On March 30 2011 17:19 LilClinkin wrote: I'm confused after reading a few posts from chinese people complaining about not being accepted to schools like Yale even with amazingly good grades. It's amazing to me that such good candidates would be knocked back purely on the basis of their ethnicity. Would this qualify as racism? If this is indeed true, I'm surprised these selection practices aren't subjected to public scrutiny. well there's more to that. but the gist is that, there is a CAP on the number of Asian students Ivy Leagues, Stanford, MIT, etc. have. it's called affirmative action. the reason why it's not illegal is because they are private schools which means they have authority over what their selection process is like. this is why public schools like Berkeley and UCLA don't have a CAP on Asian students since affirmative action was deemed illegal in California through prop # something (don't remember) BUT, in 2012, the UC system is changing their admissions process in order to incorporate more Whites into the process and less Asians without violating the prop _. Search it up if you want to know more about it. I know both this and the affirmative action of private schools is racism when you define racism as using ethnicity/race as a factor in admissions (esp. given that in these schools, despite their public stance that they are doing affirmative action to promote DIVERSITY, we still see a White MAJORITY) but America is still a country with a White majority. And more importantly the top people of the country are White too. So you just have to deal with it and try to stand out even more than other extremely qualified Asians. It sucks but sometimes life is all about beating the ever-so-high odds against you, whether or not it's fair. On a different note, I totally respect CalTech for devoting themselves to admitting only the best academically qualified students. They do not have affirmative action as they simply just want the best mathematical/scientific students; as a result you have more Asians + Minority combined than Whites on campus. Maybe liberal arts schools such as Harvard can publicly state that they value diversity but I feel such a technologically focused school such as CalTech and MIT should try to incorporate the best students as possible in their field. So props to CalTech for sticking to their mission. | ||
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seoulsun
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OpRaider
United States307 Posts
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thisisSSK
United States179 Posts
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WoodenSpider
United States85 Posts
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Blisse
Canada3710 Posts
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b3h47pte
United States1317 Posts
 I'm personally waiting for CMU's priority waitlist which is coming out on May 6th so by then I'll know for sure where I'm going...in the meantime i'm putting my deposit at UC Berkeley. Hehe. | ||
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Dazer
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Mechwarrior
United States76 Posts
Sacred Heart (Amazing Computer Science program) Clark Weight-listed: Goucher Rejected: Princeton Northeastern | ||
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Kamille
Monaco1035 Posts
On April 02 2011 08:11 OpRaider wrote: Accepted to my first choice university so I'm happy: Florida State University Run away while you can. | ||
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Pressure
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Cornell UCLA Macaulay Baruch Waitlisted: Michigan Emory NYU Stern WUSTL Rejected: Dartmouth Northwestern Amherst Williams Virginia Berkeley idk what the hell happened lol | ||
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OpRaider
United States307 Posts
Why? | ||
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fams
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