EPTCollege Acceptance Thread '13 - Page 15
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For those top students who are disappointed by rejections and probably experiencing academic "failure" for the first time, just keep a few things in mind: 1. Assuming you applied smartly (ie not just HYPSM) you will likely gain admittance to one of the top universities in the country. 2. Your college doesn't define you, it's what you make out of your opportunities, and believe me they are endless at any top school. 3. Even if you feel like you're "settling" by going to a "lesser" school than whatever your dream school was, chances are that you'll find a ton of people at that school that are more driven, more talented, and more intelligent than you. Don't underestimate the caliber of students at any of the top schools or else you'll suddenly find yourself an average or below average student. 4. Once you decide on a school to attend, forget about the rejections or other schools you turned down. Don't wallow in misery and bitterness that you aren't attending your dream school. If you give your school a fair chance, you'll probably end up loving wherever you attend. | ||
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Aerisky
United States12129 Posts
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darthfoley
United States8004 Posts
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julianto
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On March 29 2013 04:51 Peix wrote: Wow Columbia with the 6.59% admissions rate. Crazy. And the admissions rate for top universities get smaller and smaller every year. huehuehuehuehue EHEHEHEHEHEHE | ||
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darthfoley
United States8004 Posts
On March 28 2013 04:17 Pokebunny wrote: Accepted: NYU Poly, RIT, Stevens, SUNY Binghamton, City College of NY Rejected: Carnegie Mellon TBD: Columbia (tomorrow, 99% rejection!) Depending on finances, it'll probably be NYU Poly or RIT, leaning RIT. Stats SAT - 2300 (790M, 760CR, 750W) SAT II - 760 Math2, 720 Physics Grades - 88 average (3.3), but my school is pretty much the top in NYC and doesn't calculate class ranks or GPAs. I wish I went to an average school, woulda been easy 4.0 :/ (it's Hunter College High School for those who know of it). No real achievements/accomplishments other than my SC2 career, which accounted for most of my extracurricular activity, between coaching, streaming, competing, casting, and writing. Planned CS major (got 5 on AP last year), or IT major if I go to RIT. CSL teams of schools I got into, please recruit me! :D You wouldn't happen to know Jasper Bingham, would you? | ||
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China13814 Posts
On March 29 2013 04:51 Peix wrote: Wow Columbia with the 6.59% admissions rate. Crazy. Honestly that's more due to the fact that everyone in the NYC area applies there, I don't think it's harder to get into than the other Ivies. | ||
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Brotatolol
United States1742 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + On March 17 2013 13:06 Brotatolol wrote: Was wondering when I would see this thread pop up, thanks for making it, OP. Anyway, here are my results thus far: Accepted: -Brown (Likely Letter) -Safeties Rejected: Caltech (applied EA) MIT (deferred EA into rejection) Waiting: Other Ivies, Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley Some stats of mine: 2260 SAT I (790 math, 750 CR, 720 writing) SAT II's: 760 math II, 740 physics GPA (weighted, 100 scale): 101.7 Rank: 3/~240 Several ECs relevant to my interests with decent positions in them. Work experience beyond your "average teenager job." White male Intended major: CS There you have it. Best of luck to everyone else waiting to hear back from schools. Congrats to those who already know what school they will be attending.  Accepted: -Cornell -Brown (expected due to the likely letter) Waitlisted: -Penn -Carnegie Mellon Rejected: -Harvard (expected) -Yale (expected) -Princeton (expected) -Columbia -Dartmouth -Berkeley (wasn't really expecting a rejection to be honest) Despite receiving all of these rejections within like five minutes, I'm SO happy right now. I'm definitely leaning toward attending Cornell at the moment, though its too soon to decide for sure given the waitlisted schools. | ||
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ampson
United States2355 Posts
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Alryk
United States2718 Posts
Also, any future aggies: we have an active and growing SC2 scene. PM me or find our TL community thread ^.^ | ||
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Aerisky
United States12129 Posts
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Pokebunny
United States10654 Posts
On March 29 2013 06:17 darthfoley wrote: You wouldn't happen to know Jasper Bingham, would you? Yes, I know Jasper. Nope from Columbia as expected. | ||
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
On March 29 2013 00:43 Pokebunny wrote: Alright, well I don't have any stats to back anything up, but Hunter/Stuyvesant are pretty much the big names as far as I know :p I heard Stuy isn't actually uber hard (from a handful of kids who go there), but it just has crazy name recognition. :< Dammit y u kiddies no apply to Emory. Its k you'll realize that there was that one acceptance letter to that random school among all the rejections from HYPS and company (I hope). EDIT: Holy poop, my high school is doing well. 5 or 6 Ivies, not including a girl who got Yale and another who got Harvard. | ||
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Ellibereth
United States66 Posts
Any peoplez who gets into princeton come to preview. and come to the activities fair and come to the starcraft booth and then to come club later. that is all | ||
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Abominous
Croatia1625 Posts
Taking many courses on coursera and hoping to have 90%+ on most of them, which might help my CV and up my first year grades which were terrible, but now that second year has come, with more programming related subjects, I upped the ante. (Judge yourself if the phrase was correctly used ) Anyways, thanks in advance. EDIT: Any info on abroad Masters in the field of Computer science is relevant. I'm totally clueless as to the whole applying, evaluation, housing and was hoping to learn it by asking around and taking things one step at a time... Copy pasting this from programming thread. Hope it's not forbidden. | ||
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ViZe
United States1513 Posts
If anyone has any questions concerning my school, RPI, feel free to PM me. Good luck with your decisions everyone! | ||
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ForgottenMemory
United States13 Posts
Sorry for the reverse discrimination white and asian males (asian male here). Some reflections on college: - If you are motivated, undergrad classes are pretty much useless (speaking for MIT / CMU here, skipped pretty much everything that wasn't required attendance). Psets at elite schools generally feel even more like a waste of time. - Make awesome friends and learn from them and on your own. Do work with professors and companies in the area. - Projects and endeavors you undertake matter way more to employers (and in life in general) than what classes you took. - Most of us engineers couldn't care less what school you went to - in fact I find non-HYPMS people oftentimes more hungry and industry-ready (not to mention less elitist!). Best of luck to everyone! | ||
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n.DieJokes
United States3443 Posts
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China13814 Posts
On March 29 2013 12:43 n.DieJokes wrote: So which of you NJ kids got massacred today and are coming to Rutgers? Haha Rutgers isn't even bad. I know a lot of kids from high school who struggled and would kill to go to Rutgers. | ||
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madnessman
United States1581 Posts
On March 29 2013 08:09 Pokebunny wrote: Yes, I know Jasper. Nope from Columbia as expected. I literally just found out that I was rejected from Carnegie Mellon and Columbia as well  I'll be going to either Santa Clara or Pepperdine (leaning towards Santa Clara) which isn't ideal. It feels like shit to read two rejection letters back to back. | ||
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jWavA
United States73 Posts
Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science(Extremely prestigious program, I still cannot believe it!!) URochester, WPI, RPI, UMass Amherst, University of Washington, Tufts Rejected: Harvard, Cornell, MIT (expected) Waitlisted at WashU St. Louis CMU SCS '17! I'll keep my stats to myself(don't really feel comfortable flaunting GPAs or SAT scores, because honestly they don't really make or break your application once you get into the top tier schools), but I still feel extremely lucky that I could get into even one reach school. Good luck to all of TL! EDIT: Added tufts decision | ||
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China13814 Posts
On March 29 2013 19:37 jWavA wrote: Accepted: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science(Extremely prestigious program, I still cannot believe it!!) URochester, WPI, RPI, UMass Amherst, University of Washington Rejected: Harvard, Cornell, MIT (expected) Waitlisted at WashU St. Louis Tufts technically comes out today, but I think the only school that I would have gone to for Computer Science beyond CMU would probably have been Cornell, and even then probably not. Soooo CMU SCS '17! I'll keep my stats to myself(don't really feel comfortable flaunting GPAs or SAT scores, because honestly they don't really make or break your application once you get into the top tier schools), but I still feel extremely lucky that I could get into even one reach school. Good luck to all of TL! welcome to cmu! | ||
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