EPTCaltech
Carnegie Mellon
Cornell
Dartmouth
Davidson
Harvey Mudd
Rice
Swarthmore
William and Mary
Williams
Stanford
Some of them added to my list by parents. -_-
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catplanetcatplanet
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Caltech Carnegie Mellon Cornell Dartmouth Davidson Harvey Mudd Rice Swarthmore William and Mary Williams Stanford Some of them added to my list by parents. -_- | ||
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packrat386
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Cam Connor
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3FFA
United States3931 Posts
The bad: $$$$$$$ Tuition is really high there. If he hadn't gotten a job as soon as he did who knows what could've happened. The unique: I now am one of the proud owners of an iKiltie t-shirt.  | ||
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n.DieJokes
United States3443 Posts
Brown Columbia UPenn UMich Rutgers Duke NYU I can't stand the waiting -.- | ||
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Chocolate
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catplanetcatplanet
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My dad added stanford. Rice, HMC and davidson also made it onto the list in large part thanks to my parents. I like most of the schools on my list though. | ||
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MtlGuitarist97
United States1539 Posts
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Chocolate
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From what I've been able to ascertain in my last minute binge on admissions videos that show actual officers making decisions, selective schools really look at your essays to see a lot of things about you including how interested you are in the school, if you had any extenuating circumstances that may have affected your life (parental problems, poverty), and to try to understand your personality (or at least an aspect of your personality that you are able to communicate through an essay, which could be patently false). So, in these last 2.5 days of frantic application writing, I'm putting a lot of effort into these goddamn essays. On December 31 2013 01:05 catplanetcatplanet wrote: wait I didn't get an 800 on us history, i got a 730. wat am i saying My dad added stanford. Rice, HMC and davidson also made it onto the list in large part thanks to my parents. I like most of the schools on my list though. Ha, those are all nice schools, though! My dad is kind of funny about colleges too. If he hears that I get in to any school he first congratulates me, then he checks the school's ranking on US News, and then he gives me his "actual" congratulations. I'm thinking about just telling Stanford that I don't want to send them every single ACT sitting that I've taken. Seriously, ACT and SAT are milking me dry as is and I don't want to pay $24 extra bucks just to send my scores from first semesters of sophomore and junior years. And Stanford's application fee is outrageous, to boot. | ||
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LockeTazeline
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catplanetcatplanet
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On December 31 2013 01:24 MtlGuitarist97 wrote: If you guys could also post your location, it would be a huge help to juniors (like myself) who are looking to maybe see what schools people are getting into with what kind of grades and extracurricular. And if you feel comfortable posting it, it would help if you guys added your ethnicity. I'm in northern VA On December 31 2013 06:58 Chocolate wrote: From what I've been able to ascertain in my last minute binge on admissions videos that show actual officers making decisions, selective schools really look at your essays to see a lot of things about you including how interested you are in the school, if you had any extenuating circumstances that may have affected your life (parental problems, poverty), and to try to understand your personality (or at least an aspect of your personality that you are able to communicate through an essay, which could be patently false). pls yes, i want caltech to like me | ||
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MtlGuitarist97
United States1539 Posts
On December 31 2013 06:58 Chocolate wrote: If I posted my location you could probably figure out my identity. I don't know about anybody else, but I don't want my actual person linked to what I spew forth on the internet. I am white, though. Fair enough. I have no intentions of trying to find out where you guys live, but certain areas tend to be somewhat biased against in terms of college acceptances. For instance I know Asians in the Bay Area tend to have a harder time because (and I hate to sound like I'm generalizing) but there's a lot of them and they all do relatively well. It can be the same with rich Catholics/Jews from Long Island (where I'm from). Thanks for the info though, I appreciate it. Trying to at least get a somewhat reasonable idea of what colleges people are getting into and applying to. Good luck to all of you though. | ||
]343[
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States44391 Posts
On December 31 2013 09:58 ]343[ wrote: lol, I've been helping my brother with his college essays for my entire break :| I wrote my brothers' college essays. And yes, brothers' is possessive and plural. + Show Spoiler + Both of my brothers got into their first choice schools ::flexes:: On December 27 2013 14:31 n.DieJokes wrote: I applied to some schools for OR and CS Theory PhD's Brown Columbia UPenn UMich Rutgers Duke NYU I can't stand the waiting -.- R. U. Rah Rah | ||
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[UoN]Sentinel
United States11320 Posts
Early Action: Rutgers UNC Chapel Hill Regular Decision: UC Berkeley USC Rice Carnegie Mellon all for Computer Science Rutgers said yes, nobody else has said a word so far. I'll probably go to Rutgers unless someone else gives me a nice pile of merit pay. | ||
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Chocolate
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]343[
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On December 31 2013 11:08 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: I wrote my brothers' college essays. And yes, brothers' is possessive and plural. + Show Spoiler + Both of my brothers got into their first choice schools ::flexes:: I prefer to think of my brother as capable of doing his own work of course, he still has like 4 or 5 apps left so... ... | ||
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catplanetcatplanet
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
On January 01 2014 14:34 catplanetcatplanet wrote: Missed the passing of midnight because my dad was lecturing me on how my interests aren't as diverse as his were at my age. >_> happy new year everyone you should tell your dad to give it a rest. The apple often falls a good ways from the tree. | ||
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n.DieJokes
United States3443 Posts
:D I really hope I get in to Rutgers. Its not my top choice but I've taken classes with like half the grad committee, it'd really sting to get rejected >< | ||
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