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On April 01 2009 19:11 xhuwin wrote:Show nested quote +On April 01 2009 15:29 OneOther wrote:
god i wonder what the fuck else colleges like yale want from me though, honestly lol. not saying i am super qualified or anything but i just wanna know the reason for their decision. bleh
/bitter Basically what I learned last year is that college applications are maddeningly arbitrary - there are always the people you see and think "HE got in THERE?!" and you it doesn't make sense at all to you and it feels unfair. Basically, you just have to apply to enough colleges so that statistically you'll get into at least one decent one. I'm thankful that my results turned out okay, though I didn't get into my first choice. The lack of an explanation is what makes thinking back on it a nightmare. What if I had done better in that one class? Would that change in my GPA make the difference? What if I had changed this word in this essay? The fact that you'll never know makes it completely open ended. I remember realizing though, if they did give me reasons, I probably would have just disagreed with their reasons mentally. Think about it this way: if you DESERVE to be in, but didn't get in, then sooner or later you'll accomplish the same things anyway, because it's just part of who you are.
and it also helps to not be asian O_O
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On April 01 2009 22:24 Saracen wrote:Show nested quote +On April 01 2009 19:11 xhuwin wrote:On April 01 2009 15:29 OneOther wrote:
god i wonder what the fuck else colleges like yale want from me though, honestly lol. not saying i am super qualified or anything but i just wanna know the reason for their decision. bleh
/bitter Basically what I learned last year is that college applications are maddeningly arbitrary - there are always the people you see and think "HE got in THERE?!" and you it doesn't make sense at all to you and it feels unfair. Basically, you just have to apply to enough colleges so that statistically you'll get into at least one decent one. I'm thankful that my results turned out okay, though I didn't get into my first choice. The lack of an explanation is what makes thinking back on it a nightmare. What if I had done better in that one class? Would that change in my GPA make the difference? What if I had changed this word in this essay? The fact that you'll never know makes it completely open ended. I remember realizing though, if they did give me reasons, I probably would have just disagreed with their reasons mentally. Think about it this way: if you DESERVE to be in, but didn't get in, then sooner or later you'll accomplish the same things anyway, because it's just part of who you are. and it also helps to not be asian O_O
Yeah tell me about that. Asian male applying to MIT for engineering.
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Asian male applying to schools is one giant FML tbh.
I went to school today, learned of the people who got into various Ivies, and sobbed.
FML.
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On April 01 2009 09:34 Carefree Me wrote:
Well, here are my final stats:
University of Washington - Accepted
University of Southern California - Accepted
Northwestern University - Accepted
University of Chicago - Accepted
Harvard University - Rejected
MIT - Rejected
Princeton University - Rejected
Yale University - Rejected
Stanford University - Rejected
Columbia University - Rejected
4/10
come to that school
i will get you so drunk
well thats a complete lie
but you'll work so hard you'll feel hammered every day XD
also please tell me ur prospie visiting
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my friend got in every school (including harvard) but got owned by Stanford lol
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On April 02 2009 07:19 Caller wrote:
well thats a complete lie
but you'll work so hard you'll feel hammered every day XD
UChicago - Where fun goes to die.
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On April 02 2009 16:31 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2009 07:19 Caller wrote:
well thats a complete lie
but you'll work so hard you'll feel hammered every day XD
UChicago - Where fun goes to die.
hahah.
so where is everyone going? made your decisions yet?
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bridge connecting Cambridge(MIT) and Boston
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hahah thats funny ^
but everyone says college is tough like hell, just spending all your time studying. Sounds kinda boring =/
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Ahh, UC San Diego accepts all 47k prospective students. What a great mistake that was.
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On April 02 2009 07:22 Exteray wrote:
my friend got in every school (including harvard) but got owned by Stanford lol
I've heard the same thing from a people as well. Stanford's acceptance rate must be lower than usual.
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On April 02 2009 17:04 gzealot wrote:
hahah thats funny ^
but everyone says college is tough like hell, just spending all your time studying. Sounds kinda boring =/
everyone i know that have said college is a LOT more studying, have also said college is the best 4 years of your life.
go figure
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On April 02 2009 16:31 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2009 07:19 Caller wrote:
well thats a complete lie
but you'll work so hard you'll feel hammered every day XD
UChicago - Where fun goes to die.
Uchicago- Where the only thing going down on you is your GPA
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On April 01 2009 15:24 Last Romantic wrote:
UCSD epic fail 47k admit emails
haha! got so worried when they said 29k were accepted by accident, thankfully I was actually admitted.
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I'm definitely not paying full tuition for UC's , plus i got rejected from the one i wanted to go to  so im gonna go in state
currently picking between UT austin and texas tech, for the money, friends, etc.
i like texas tech more because of a robotics competition that was hosted there... it was pretty
and it was snowing, etc. community seemed really nice
and UT austin has better credentials
I was gonna post this a couple months ago but u guys are so intimidating with your
Harvard MIT Princeton Yale Stanford Columbia D:
UT austin- accepted
Texas Tech- accepted
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On April 02 2009 07:19 Caller wrote:Show nested quote +On April 01 2009 09:34 Carefree Me wrote:
Well, here are my final stats:
University of Washington - Accepted
University of Southern California - Accepted
Northwestern University - Accepted
University of Chicago - Accepted
Harvard University - Rejected
MIT - Rejected
Princeton University - Rejected
Yale University - Rejected
Stanford University - Rejected
Columbia University - Rejected
4/10 come to that school i will get you so drunk well thats a complete lie but you'll work so hard you'll feel hammered every day XD also please tell me ur prospie visiting
I'm staying overnight next Wednesday. :D
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BUMP
Accepted at Okanagan College Kelowna campus, BC.
^_^
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On March 31 2009 17:59 gzealot wrote:
Hmm.. Anyone heard of how the Computer Science program is like in Carnegie Mellon? I heard its tons tough =/ so I'm hoping someone here has some prior experience, heh.
Just found this thread cus of bumps I guess. I'm doing CS @ CMU and it's pretty hard. It's very theory-heavy and requires a good deal of work, which I'm not too used to. I just finished up my freshman year and got my first C ever. It's a good environment though, and I'm glad I came here. A smaller campus means that you have much better opportunities to meet people and network. CS is also very prestigious here, so companies know that when they hire people.
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buuuump, yay. got my acceptance's at waterloo maybe a week ago, decided i'm going there now =),
just need to decide between mathematics or computer science now =)
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