EPTMIT-Rejected
Berkley- Rejected
well....I applied to some in Canada....but i have a feeling they are going to end up the same way....
College Acceptance Thread '09 - Page 9
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aaronl3e7
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MIT-Rejected Berkley- Rejected well....I applied to some in Canada....but i have a feeling they are going to end up the same way.... | ||
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neutralstate
Singapore51 Posts
On March 13 2009 11:15 gzealot wrote: mann i hope i can! California sounds warm.. but CMU has already accepted my ED, so sucks to me =/ Hey gzealot, I PM-ed you. Check out your Inbox! | ||
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Sunhay
Canada303 Posts
On March 18 2009 09:28 aaronl3e7 wrote: Harvard- Rejected MIT-Rejected Berkley- Rejected well....I applied to some in Canada....but i have a feeling they are going to end up the same way.... hrmmm, i am having a tough time believing this. | ||
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LaughingTulkas
United States1107 Posts
On March 17 2009 09:11 Last Romantic wrote: ha bitch I DON'T ;p though your sponeg is pretty cool I got into MIT back in the day (8 years ago) but decided not to go, just didn't fit me very well. I was much happier going to Notre Dame. | ||
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
On March 18 2009 10:21 Sunhay wrote: hrmmm, i am having a tough time believing this. Why so skeptical? Besides the fact that Harvard eliminated their early admissions a few years ago, and usually comes out with all the other Ivies on the same date in early April. | ||
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gzealot
Singapore238 Posts
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gzealot
Singapore238 Posts
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jpavel
United States9 Posts
Within reason, it doesn't matter much where you go for your undergrad years, whether your aim be industry or academia. If you are ambitious, view college as a chance to prove yourself and to find what excites you intellectually; rather than a challenge that you must overcome in order to get a token of approval. In this information age, records of your extracuricular achievements can be broadcast to the world, and they matter a lot: I haven't a doubt that Dries Buytaert (who developed Drupal while in college) would find any problem at all with employment upon graduation, whatever his grades or school might have been. It is only if you do nothing significant outside of class, that your record becomes critical. And if you want to continue into academics or research, undergraduate by itself means quite little. Wherever you go, find a professor whose field interests you, and offer your help--which at the beginning may be not much more than a pair of hands and eyes--on her research. Her recommendation when you graduate, and the tangible achievements, perhaps papers, then accompanying your resume, will help tremendously in finding a sponsering graduate-school professor. And having a professor on your side when you apply to top graduate schools will do more than you might imagine in getting in. After all, the reputation of schools turns on the quality of the research they produce, not on having a lot of "good grade" students. In summary, you will rise or fall to where your effort and ability combined place you in the echelon of things, wheresoever you start that first insignificant year of your first school. My own background comprises MIT BS and MEng in CS, and while I have no complaints about how things turned out for me afterwards, I see now, looking back, that I could have gotten so much more out of the time I had. In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Pirsig writes that students who are in college for the first time will never appreciate it; and ironically, or prophetically, I read that book my freshman year there, and yet still didn't appreciate it. The chant of the old: "If I could only do it again..." So do just accept it as it comes, and relax by pwning some n00b like me in BW. | ||
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bludragen88
United States527 Posts
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oxidized
United States324 Posts
On March 13 2009 11:49 IzzyCraft wrote: Wonder if anyone from tl goes to caltech it's very rare to get accepted to there. 7 pages too late, but nosliw and I go to Caltech. Some others from here also visit this site but don't have accounts (har har I don't even post much on TL). On March 14 2009 04:44 bludragen88 wrote: And that's totally not cool. I believe the banner read "The ONLY Institute of Technology" ... but good luck tomorrow hearing back from them, if you get in you should come. Actually "That other institute of technology" is correct. >  Some caltech students went over to MIT and did a bunch of pranks and one of the pranks was that banner. MIT was quick to respond though and replaced the banner with "the only institute of technology." You would do well in caltech, klizzer :p edit: To jpavel's post. Yeah I actually agree with this alot. Going to such a top school like caltech will just make you work really hard and you could get close to the same end results if you work just as hard at another school and find good profs etc. imo going to someplace like caltech or MIT will only really put you ahead when you have a huge amount of ambition for your future (then again, someone with so much ambition could probably do well without having to attend top schools). | ||
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ItchReliever
2489 Posts
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il0seonpurpose
Korea (South)5638 Posts
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21248 Posts
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il0seonpurpose
Korea (South)5638 Posts
On March 18 2009 11:41 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: CalTech was ridiculously easy to get into this year compared to MIT. When did the letter come in? | ||
OneOther
United States10774 Posts
On March 18 2009 11:41 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: CalTech was ridiculously easy to get into this year compared to MIT. why do you say that? nobody from our school made it to cal tech, but several to MIT. | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21248 Posts
MIT released decisions on Pi Day, CalTech a few days earlier. | ||
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OneOther
United States10774 Posts
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oxidized
United States324 Posts
On March 18 2009 10:42 gzealot wrote: sorry for the double post, but where AREZ the SC playas in CMU?! man. both existing and potential undergrads? CMU has a CSL team so you could contact their team leader or whatever. Damn, nosliw might be leaving caltech for CMU grad school making us loose one of our best players to CMU  Heh, I guess proleague teams occasionally loose their players to other teams too (forGG).On March 18 2009 11:38 ItchReliever wrote: to the guys above, the whole point of going to a good school is that you are more likely to work hard because of the better environment. Very True. If I didn't go to caltech I would probably be a lazy ass playing SC all day and not doing any work. It sounds like fun though. :p | ||
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Vin{MBL}
5185 Posts
On March 18 2009 11:49 OneOther wrote: why do you say that? nobody from our school made it to cal tech, but several to MIT. I think it's just because caltech admissions are alot more straight forward than MIT admissions. There are ALOT of people at MIT that would never get into caltech, and alot of people at caltech that would never get into MIT. That's why you should apply to MIT and caltech simultaneously. | ||
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miNi
Korea (South)2010 Posts
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