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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:23 PM Author: Ruby thriller house philosopher-king It's okay, we're all friends here.
Accept: Duke, Penn, Georgetown EA, William & Mary, Macalester (MN) Reject: Harvard EA, Yale, Stanford, Brown |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:28 PM Author: Racy Meetinghouse Foreskin Accept: local staTTTe U, RIT, WPI
Reject: Carnegie Mellon, UIUC, Cornell |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 12:23 AM Author: big rusted weed whacker Why weren't you able to get accepted to UIUC? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5867514) |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 4:58 PM Author: Racy Meetinghouse Foreskin I applied to their highly competitive computer science program at the height of the tech boom. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5870020) |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 7:04 PM Author: big rusted weed whacker Did you end up majoring in computer science during UG? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5870681) |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 3:37 PM Author: Racy Meetinghouse Foreskin Initially, yes. But then I discovered that I liked all of the theoretical courses and hated programming, so I ended up majoring in math. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5874648) |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 1:04 AM Author: ebony lay kitty Accept: Rice (att.), SMU, UT, UH Reject: None
I didn't want to move out-of-state for personal reasons at the time. That changed roughly a year or so afterwards, but I was quite happy with where I was at, so I stayed.
My high school stats are nothing impressive: I was 5th out of 200 at a HTown public magnet school and I didn't study one bit for the SAT (except for reading through one practice test the night before so I was familiar with the format) and got a 1300 (650 M/650 V). I've forgotten my SAT II score; it's been ages ago there. |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 8:19 PM Author: Flushed tripping corner indirect expression accept: umichigan, uchicago, georgetown
i didn't apply anywhere else because i knew i wouldn't be able to afford it. i'm at michigan now...at least i'll graduate with no debt. valedictorian (honestly don't remember gpa, plus the system changed my senior year which screwed with everyone)/1550 sat/35 act |
Date: May 26th, 2006 1:28 PM Author: henna adulterous tanning salon nowag Accepted: Dartmouth ED (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5858981) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:34 PM Author: Pontificating curious cuck accept: UVA (out of state), UNC (out of state), CU-Boulder, UCLA, UCSB, UCSD
denied: USC--but that's b/c their admissions office is FUCKED UP. They had some problem with my transcript, and instead of trying to rectify it (and me trying a million times to see what was going on), they just dinged me.. and I'm a legacy there; UC Berkeley |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:40 PM Author: Ruby thriller house philosopher-king Accepted out-of-state to UVA and UNC but rejected at Berkeley? WTF? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859065) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:43 PM Author: Pontificating curious cuck Yeah, it's fucked. But I think sometimes if you get into one of them they deny you the other and vice versa. A couple of friends my year wanted to go to UCLA and they only got into Berkeley. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859097) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:35 PM Author: Flatulent motley travel guidebook bbw I applied to my TTT community college and a really crappy state school for freshman year, was accepted by both.
Applied to two Midwestern liberal arts schools when transferring, was accepted by both.
edit: high school stats, as requested--I think my GPA was 3.57ish, and we didn't have weighted grades at my school though I did have all honors classes. 29 on ACT, didn't take the SAT |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:36 PM Author: Dead Newt Parlor Accept: Harvard EA, Yale, Dartmouth, Penn, NU
No rejections, bitches!!
EDIT: Yes, I peaked at 17. |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:37 PM Author: Pontificating curious cuck What turned you off of Princeton? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859041) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:43 PM Author: Dead Newt Parlor it seemed so sterile when i visited, like they painted the flowers red and the students white. incidentally, i got the same feeling when i visited UVA Law. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859099) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:46 PM Author: Ruby thriller house philosopher-king Holy shit, 180. I didn't know anyone else felt this way about these two. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859125) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:00 PM Author: sick pungent stage cuckold I felt that way about UVA when I visited before undergrad. I feel like I'm one of the only people who doesn't like UVA.
I'm surprised that you like Duke and not Princeton though, aren't the campuses virtually identical? Was it just the people that made the difference? |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:02 PM Author: Ruby thriller house philosopher-king I think the lack of old-money feel at Duke made it acceptable to me. People dress and often act the same, but it didn't have the haughty feel. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859262) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:05 PM Author: sick pungent stage cuckold Yeah that makes sense. I didn't visit Princeton before I applied and once I visited, I didn't like it at all. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859274) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:11 PM Author: Pontificating curious cuck really cute guys at UVA, though (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859319) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:13 PM Author: chocolate aphrodisiac gaming laptop step-uncle's house Oh that reminds me. I remember going to the ASW at UVA, I went to a step show run by the black frats. I remember distinctly the Omegas came out wearing g-strings and combat boots covered in baby oil to do their routine. I still jerk off to that image. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859334) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:38 PM Author: chocolate aphrodisiac gaming laptop step-uncle's house Man you beat me.
IN:Cornell, Columbia, Chicago, Wesleyan, UVA (out of state), UNC (same), a bunch of SUNY schools (in-state, you applied to all of them at once).
Out:Yale (bastards, even asked me for extra information, first semester grades, which rocked.) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:40 PM Author: Frozen ticket booth Where did you go? Im assuming Columbia (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859072) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:43 PM Author: chocolate aphrodisiac gaming laptop step-uncle's house No strangely I went to Cornell. Don't ask. I didn't want to go to school five minutes from my mom and have her pop in on me all the time. I was stupid at 17. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859092) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:06 PM Author: shaky tantric senate thats not stupid. i can totally understand that. and ithaca is a pretty fun place. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859281) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:09 PM Author: Dead Newt Parlor agreed. i probably would have chosen dartmouth over yale... seemed like more fun. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859303) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:12 PM Author: shaky tantric senate yale was pretty damn fun. i think we partied more than many if not most of the ivies. i assume you went to harvard? |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:14 PM Author: Dead Newt Parlor yeah. nothing against yale at all. i actually really liked it. i just thought dartmouth seemed like a fucking blast. to be honest, similar reasons are drawing me to mich. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859339) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:20 PM Author: shaky tantric senate wait so did you end up going to dartmouth over H&Y? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859367) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:25 PM Author: Dead Newt Parlor no, i went to H. couldn't bring myself to turn it down. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859402) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 3:28 PM Author: shaky tantric senate to choose D over H would be stupid, imho. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859855) |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 6:59 PM Author: laughsome whorehouse dysfunction No way. Dartmouth > Harvard for social life and quality of teaching. Harvard's slightly better name can't make up for that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5875365) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:12 PM Author: chocolate aphrodisiac gaming laptop step-uncle's house It was a pretty fun place for a kid fresh out of high school. I had a lot of fun and met a boy or two while I was there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859325) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:21 PM Author: shaky tantric senate besides, the practical value of the prestige jump from cornell to columbia is pretty negligible. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859377) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:23 PM Author: chocolate aphrodisiac gaming laptop step-uncle's house Pretty much. If I had gotten into Yale I would have gone there in a second. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859389) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:42 PM Author: shaky tantric senate > EDIT: Yes, I peaked at 17. i hear ya. but at least we're going to a good law school. |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:43 PM Author: chocolate aphrodisiac gaming laptop step-uncle's house I peaked at 21 when I was editor of my college daily newspaper and had an expense account and could buy cute college boys beer with it. Good times. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859103) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:47 PM Author: shaky tantric senate you really lived it up in those hills, huh? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859140) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:48 PM Author: chocolate aphrodisiac gaming laptop step-uncle's house Oh hell yeah. I had my own office, I smoked cigars and put my foot on the desk and flirted with the freshmen, it was divine. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859153) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:53 PM Author: shaky tantric senate haha i have a feeling we'll have fun partying it up sometimes in A2. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859197) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:58 PM Author: chocolate aphrodisiac gaming laptop step-uncle's house I'm good for that. Trust. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859233) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:07 PM Author: shaky tantric senate shit, i just saw your emails...sorry i never check that address. sorry. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859287) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:09 PM Author: chocolate aphrodisiac gaming laptop step-uncle's house Not a problem. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859308) |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 12:33 AM Author: big rusted weed whacker Did you have a job? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5867585) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:46 PM Author: Dead Newt Parlor how true. this board is making me really psyched for LS. does this mean i'm socially inept? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859123) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:48 PM Author: shaky tantric senate if you spend as much or more time 'socializing' here as/than IRL...i think that makes the diagnosis. but i have to say i, too, am excited for the chance to pwn academics again. |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:11 PM Author: Dead Newt Parlor i think i still socialize *slightly* more often IRL. i do get excited when i make "friends" here, though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859316) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:59 PM Author: chocolate aphrodisiac gaming laptop step-uncle's house Man, I know I'm socially inept, when you see my Xbox 360 collection you'll realize this as well. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859240) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:39 PM Author: Territorial hyperactive office i was actively against ivies as a hser.
i applied to ut and a&m and two historically black colleges and got into all of them. i also was offered full scholarships at all of them but one. i attended one of the hbcus. |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:40 PM Author: Frozen ticket booth didn't you say you live in NYC though? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859063) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:42 PM Author: Territorial hyperactive office a school in the nyc area. and i transferred. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859085) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:41 PM Author: shaky tantric senate i feel like a major tool doing this: IN: yale, brown, penn (wharton), georgetown, columbia, northwestern, umich, amherst, calvin, two others that escape my memory right now...(edit: maybe uchicago? and maybe dartmouth...i vaguely remember having someone do that peer recommendation) WL: harvard |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:43 PM Author: Frozen ticket booth Wow, what were you HS stats? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859093) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:45 PM Author: shaky tantric senate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859118) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:42 PM Author: Insecure razzmatazz stock car Let's just say I was 1-1
EDIT: Fine, applied Univ of MO. My HS stats were a 4.2 GPA (something like that) and a 33 ACT |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:00 PM Author: shaky tantric senate why? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859249) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:13 PM Author: Insecure razzmatazz stock car why what? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859333) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:16 PM Author: shaky tantric senate with those stats whyd you only apply to univ of mo? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859343) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:17 PM Author: Insecure razzmatazz stock car Several reasons, the biggest one was thinking i couldn't get in anywhere else. I was very, very naive about college admittances, and our college app help at the high school was TTT^TTT. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859355) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:25 PM Author: shaky tantric senate yeah i hear that. i remember the moment my life changed--when i opened up that 'best 365 colleges' book in a bookstore and decided i was going to work my ass off to get into columbia. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859394) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:30 PM Author: chocolate aphrodisiac gaming laptop step-uncle's house Heh! Well you surpassed Columbia. When I started getting letters from Columbia, Cornell, etc. after taking SATs I realized that maybe I could get into a decent school. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859430) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 5:29 PM Author: shaky tantric senate i only 'surpassed' columbia because when i visited that school i was unimpressed. and id fallen in love with yale the night before. it was no contest. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5860529) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:34 PM Author: Insecure razzmatazz stock car Some days, I wish I would have done the same, but I graduated with no debt so I really can't complain too much. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859463) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 5:25 PM Author: shaky tantric senate yeah well i still have UG debt and am about to rack up a whole lot more (frankly, enough to make the UG debt seem insignificant) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5860501) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:43 PM Author: sick pungent stage cuckold (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859096) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:46 PM Author: Ruby thriller house philosopher-king Brown can eat a dick.
I knew you were smart, but damn. |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:47 PM Author: sick pungent stage cuckold I'm kinda old, I think it was easier back then. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859141) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:52 PM Author: Ruby thriller house philosopher-king You can't be that old. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859184) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:57 PM Author: sick pungent stage cuckold Well I'm also "diverse", that probably had something to do with it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859225) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:03 PM Author: Ruby thriller house philosopher-king Ehh. Short of you saying you bribed the admissions offices, I'm still going to be impressed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859264) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:07 PM Author: sick pungent stage cuckold Aww shucks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859288) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:47 PM Author: Frozen ticket booth Damn. What were your high school stats? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859145) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:57 PM Author: sick pungent stage cuckold (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859220) |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 12:34 AM Author: big rusted weed whacker What'd she say? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5867596) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:48 PM Author: excitant self-centered brunch they suck balls anyway (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859154) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:43 PM Author: Frozen ticket booth List your high school stats too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859098) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:43 PM Author: sinister menage applied to wustl ED. got into wustl. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859104) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:44 PM Author: Heady goal in life school cafeteria UT-Austin, full ride Emory, accepted(off wl) Hofstra, accepted USC, accepted UMiami, accepted New School for Social Research, accepted UHouston-Honors College, full ride
Barnard,rejected UCLA, rejected Georgetown, rejected Bryn Mawr College, rejected
I had a 2.5 h.s. gpa, but a very solid SAT(1400s), was a debate champ and had and lots of "5" AP scores. I actually had to attend night school to graduate on time, because I dropped out of hs twice for extended periods. Frankly, I'm amazed anyone took me --I was a legitimate ghetto-ass fuck-up.
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:04 PM Author: Territorial hyperactive office did u allude to ur experiences in ur essays? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859272) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 5:25 PM Author: Brass Property Degenerate Is this Julia? Where's Northwestern? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5860500) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 10:09 PM Author: Heady goal in life school cafeteria I transferred in as a soph/junior (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5862028) |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 12:30 AM Author: big rusted weed whacker Why'd you apply to the New School For Social Research? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5867559) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 1:50 PM Author: glassy shrine fortuitous meteor accepted: Harvard, Georgetown, Howard. Rejected: None HS Stats: SAT 1: 1560, GPA was pretty bad but top 25% i think, bunch of IB tests that I don't remember.
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:07 PM Author: ultramarine ceo garrison Accepted: Boston U, Brandeis, Geneseo, Binghamton
Rejected: Cornell, waitlisted at BC (then told to fuck off)
I'm pretty TTT. |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:07 PM Author: shimmering hominid generalized bond In: Vanderbilt, Duke, UNC, U South Carolina (Honors)
Out: Yale (EA)
SAT in 1300's (this was before the re-adjusting so this would probably be in the 1400's now), first in high school class at a terrible high school. |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:09 PM Author: electric nofapping goyim cruise ship 1 for 1. University of Washington. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859305) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:12 PM Author: Brass Property Degenerate In: Columbia, Northwestern, Chicago, Brown, State University (full tutition), Local Private LAC (full tuition), Nextdoor Neighbor State University (75% tuition).
DING!: Harvard, Stanford.
Stats: valedictorian, 4.0 GPA (no A+ and no weighting at my school), 1400s SAT, 33 ACT. |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:15 PM Author: Trip nursing home chad Accepted: Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, PEnn Waitlisted: Harvard, Princeton Rejected: Yale
HLS for law school. Preftigious. |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 5:45 PM Author: Topaz Diverse Idea He Suggested Puppy applying to all 8 ivies is prestigious (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5860644) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:17 PM Author: cheese-eating background story roommate 98.6 average (my school did number grades), 1540 SAT
Stanford ED: defer, reject Yale: waitlist, reject Duke: accept UT: accept (basically wrote my name on an application and sent in a pre-written essay that didn't fit the prompt) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:21 PM Author: Ruby thriller house philosopher-king "UT: accept (basically wrote my name on an application and sent in a pre-written essay that didn't fit the prompt)"
Haha, cocky bastard.
What day are you getting here? |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 7:05 PM Author: big rusted weed whacker You went to Duke or UT? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5870694) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 2:28 PM Author: Cordovan violent stead Up until 2 weeks before school started I had only applied to and been accepted to a local TTTTTTTT state college (that was practically a CC). When I realised my mistake, I applied to the stttate's 'flagship' school, was accepted immediately, and enrolled in my classes a week before school started.
29 ACT and crappy GPA. |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 3:11 PM Author: dark beady-eyed field 4.0uw/4.8w, 1440, 6/450+, decents ECs
Accepted: Emory, Vandy, Florida, Miami
Rejected: Johns Hopkins, Duke, Rice, Chicago, Northwestern, Brown (I didn't finish the app), and maybe a couple others that I'm forgetting.
Blah, I should have applied ED/EA.
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Date: May 26th, 2006 5:13 PM Author: Brass Property Degenerate There was something wrong with you. You should have gotten into at least a couple of the ones that rejected you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5860428) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 5:23 PM Author: dark beady-eyed field I wish I had something to blame. I had "best student I ever had" recs and submitted extra stuff like an essay for which I had won the statewide grand prize.
Checking the Asian box probably didn't help my case though. I guess its just bad karma for being pro-AA. That or I just suck at life.
Edit - I did get a full ride to three of the four schools I was accepted to (through scholarships and such). So it worked out fine in the end. |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 3:20 PM Author: bespoke zippy home boiling water #2@HS...applied to H/Y/Michigan. Accepted to Y/Michigan. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5859800) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 4:42 PM Author: domesticated address antidepressant drug In: Binghamton, Arizona (Honors w/ merit money), Lafayette, Vassar Out: Oberlin, Chicago
I wish I had applied to a couple Ivies at least...back in high school I didn't know what Ivies were :( |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 4:43 PM Author: chocolate aphrodisiac gaming laptop step-uncle's house You applied to Binghmaton and didn't apply to Cornell? That's rare, heh. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5860218) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 4:55 PM Author: domesticated address antidepressant drug I regret not applying to Cornell, actually. I think I could've had a fighting chance. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5860305) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 5:05 PM Author: chocolate aphrodisiac gaming laptop step-uncle's house If you got into Vassar I'd say you did. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5860364) |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 3:40 PM Author: Demanding Public Bath Associate Subject: Credited. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5874652) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 5:04 PM Author: Self-absorbed boistinker In: Yale, Stanford, Chicago, Berkeley, Duke, USC, Johns Hopkins, Arizona
Guess which one I picked ... |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 5:08 PM Author: domesticated address antidepressant drug Arizona? ;) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5860382) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 5:13 PM Author: Self-absorbed boistinker ding ding ding! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5860424) |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 12:28 AM Author: big rusted weed whacker Why? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5867547) |
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Date: June 1st, 2006 5:35 PM Author: Self-absorbed boistinker $$$$ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5889378) |
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Date: June 1st, 2006 5:45 PM Author: frum onyx scourge upon the earth almost went that route myself...they offered me a full scholarship (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5889433) |
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Date: June 1st, 2006 5:51 PM Author: Self-absorbed boistinker i got a full ride (including living expenses), money for travel abroad and a $15k/yr. stipend. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5889467) |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 1:22 AM Author: Twisted alcoholic resort love of her life What were your numbers? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5867868) |
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Date: June 1st, 2006 5:35 PM Author: Self-absorbed boistinker 4.something, 1550+ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5889381) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 5:10 PM Author: Crusty Church Building you all make me sick.
in: ucla, ucsd, michigan, ucsb, uci, ucd out: berkeley
1380/3.5. i was ranked like 150/500. |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 5:20 PM Author: Odious Azure Milk In: Delaware (in-state), UVA, W&M, Duke, Carolina, Richmond, Boston U, Rensselaer...I think that's it.
Not: Princeton
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Date: May 26th, 2006 5:25 PM Author: histrionic bright legend In: Chicago, Michigan, Cornell. Unsolicited full rides at a bunch of TTTs.
Out: Harvard, Rice (which was even more disappointing than Harvard, since I thought I was a shoo-in and I really wanted to go there) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 5:58 PM Author: vibrant free-loading internal respiration mental disorder Accepted: Brown ED, Pitt full tuition
but, I might not go, lol |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 6:24 PM Author: misanthropic crackhouse Harvard - Accepted Early Action
Stanford - Accepted
Those were the only 2 I applied to. |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 7:38 PM Author: low-t chest-beating bawdyhouse Accepted: Brown (ED) Stats: Valedictorian, 100+ gpa (I think it was like 102.something), 1560 SAT, lots of sports, academic teams, music stuff, etc. |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 7:41 PM Author: internet-worthy codepig depressive In: UIUC Out: MIT, Stanford, Berkeley EECS OOS
PhD EE: In: Stanford, UIUC, Princeton Out: MIT, Berkeley, Caltech |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 7:50 PM Author: low-t chest-beating bawdyhouse Does that sting to be rejected by the same schools twice? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5861292) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 7:53 PM Author: internet-worthy codepig depressive It'll probably be a third time when I apply for faculty positions. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5861313) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 8:05 PM Author: domesticated address antidepressant drug Heh, yeah. I was rejected by Chicago once for UG, once for PhD. I will be applying to their LS this fall (three times charm, eh?). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5861394) |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 12:25 AM Author: big rusted weed whacker Which Ph.D department did you apply to? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5867529) |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 1:18 AM Author: domesticated address antidepressant drug Computer Science. I was rejected because they didn't have the funds to support me, and I asked to be dinged if they couldn't offer me financial assistance. They sent me an e-mail guaranteeing admissions to some Toyota Technical Institute program (affiliated with them); I ended up not taking up that offer because, well, you know. Who wants a degree from Toyota the car maker? Bleh. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5867841) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 7:45 PM Author: 180 box office IN: Vanderbilt, Rochester, Syracuse, Maryland, Rutgers, Boston University
Waitlisted: WUSTL
Don't ask. I don't know what the fuck I was thinking. I still kick myself everyday. |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 7:51 PM Author: High-end sweet tailpipe sanctuary Accepted: Yale, Princeton, Naval Academy, NYU, Dook Rejected: 1 -- any guesses? Matriculated to Yale |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 9:52 PM Author: laughsome whorehouse dysfunction My guess (as to your rejection) is the mediocre (by T25 standards) undergrad that lower-middle-class strivers elevate to an exalted status because of the associated university; such people can't tell the difference between "university" and "college".
Am I right? |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 1:19 AM Author: High-end sweet tailpipe sanctuary I couldn't have put it better myself.
The funny part? Half of my HS classmates (and a few of my distant relatives) think I went there. |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 7:59 PM Author: Saffron stage Accepted: Columbia University, University of Chicago
Rejected: Yale, Princeton.
I was only interested in 4 schools. |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 9:42 PM Author: laughsome whorehouse dysfunction 1510, 2/205 at an above-average public school. 70th percentile (w/r/t top college applicant pools) for service/leadership activities and 99th for overall ECs (MOP, USAMO 4x, writing awards).
In: Carleton, Chicago
Out: Harvard, but only on a technicality. My application literally hurri-pwn'd their admissions office, but I was deferred EA because I hadn't shown enough interest and Byerly didn't understand my high school's grading system (which is not that fucking hard). I got pissed off over the deferral (I'd gone to fucking MOP) and blew off the interview.
(Okay, the truth is that my application didn't so much "hurri-pwn" Byerly as it was in the lower nine-tenths of the top 1% of applications submitted, but I like to exaggerate.) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 9:54 PM Author: exhilarant striped hyena site Why didn't you go to Chicago? It seems to fit better with your uber-geek persona better than Carleton. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5861924) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 9:59 PM Author: laughsome whorehouse dysfunction Chicago/Carleton was an extremely close decision; I'd heard better things about Carleton from some teachers in HS, and also I wanted a rural setting.
My original choice ordering (sophomore year) was Princeton, Chicago, MIT, Carleton, Harvard. Princeton tumbled to last place after I visited, MIT fell only because I wanted a more well-rounded education. Harvard fell almost out of consideration after my visit (which sucked even more than my P visit) but I applied because I wanted to get in. Carleton made a really positive impression post-visit and rose to parity with Chicago, making the choice really difficult. (My Chicago visit was so-so but I still really liked the place.) |
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Date: May 27th, 2006 2:28 PM Author: exhilarant striped hyena site You should've gone to Chicago. I know tons of Carleton grads, and I can say with confidence that they do not get the recognition that they deserve. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5864360) |
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Date: May 27th, 2006 9:33 PM Author: laughsome whorehouse dysfunction Chicago is also a ridiculously underrated school. Without question, it belongs in the top 10.
I was pretty iconoclastic as a kid, and wonder if part of what attracted me to Carleton and Chicago was that most people expected that the "smart kid" would go to Harvard or Princeton... but I visited those schools and they didn't feel right for me. |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 1:13 AM Author: big rusted weed whacker MOP is the round after USAMO? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5867804) |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 4:54 PM Author: laughsome whorehouse dysfunction Yep. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5869996) |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 1:15 AM Author: Painfully honest mischievous pocket flask locus You can't say anything about "what ifs" for Harvard or Princeton, though, since you were never accepted. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5867814) |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 5:03 PM Author: laughsome whorehouse dysfunction Princeton: A professor offered me in when I was in 10th grade. This counts as being accepted. At the undergrad level, one favorable professor is an auto-admit. (This isn't true at the graduate level, where admissions are done by the department rather than an adcom and a professor is just one vote.) You lose; I win.
Harvard: I would've had a damn good chance if I hadn't blown off the interview. Anyway, this doesn't matter because it's obvious that I was more than good enough to get in; in high school, my application was nukular and almost certainly Byerly Hall felt it. I was rejected because I "failed to show sufficient interest" and because Byerly Hall couldn't figure out my high school's grading system (which was not that fucking complicated). |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 7:50 PM Author: talking pisswyrm factory reset button Rationalize much? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5870945) |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 8:18 PM Author: laughsome whorehouse dysfunction The rational has measure zero. Reality is irrational almost everywhere. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5871072) |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 1:11 PM Author: Dead Newt Parlor "I was rejected because I 'failed to show sufficient interest' and because Byerly Hall couldn't figure out my high school's grading system."
This is truly pathetic. First, H UG doesn't YP because 95% of admitted students enroll. Second, how do you know they couldn't understand your school's grading system? 4+ years after UG admissions, I'm amazed that you would cling to this sad series of rationalizations. Carleton over H/P? Who are you kidding? |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 3:52 PM Author: laughsome whorehouse dysfunction "First, H UG doesn't YP because 95% of admitted students enroll."
The number is closer to 75-80%, and their yield is impressive (B) *because* they are the best at yield-protection in the country (A). To infer from A -> B that B -> ~A is lunacy.
"Second, how do you know they couldn't understand your school's grading system?"
Inside info obtained through semi-questionable means. They thought our grades were out of 114 because AP classes get a 1.14 bump. (I had around a 102.) Even though I was 2nd in the class, they took this to be around an A- average... even though most classes weren't bumped at all and the max possible GPA was somewhere around 105.
"Carleton over H/P? Who are you kidding?"'
I sensed a negative energy at both Princeton and Harvard when I visited those places in my early teens. Whether my perception was accurate is up for debate, but that was my "gut feeling" at the time and I did not really want to go to those places.
Also, there were a number of people at Carleton who chose it over Harvard and Princeton, upsetting the traditional rankings. Believe it or not, some people care more about the qualitative factors of their educations than about some "prestige ordering" taken as gold-standard by strivers but not respected above that stratum.
Also, the differences in student quality are not substantial among the T25; the competition is pretty comparable at that level. I was around the 96th percentile, GPA-wise, at Carleton, which means that I would've been well into the top 10% at HYP as well. (96.0 Carleton ~ 93.9 Harvard/94.6 Princeton.) Indeed, most successful students at Carleton would've done very well at HYP as well. |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 6:22 PM Author: Dead Newt Parlor stop saying that you would have been admitted at H or P when you were not. stop telling us what you "would have" achieved had you actually gained admission.
people who practice at 172 rarely break 170. just keep that in mind. |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 7:11 PM Author: laughsome whorehouse dysfunction "stop saying that you would have been admitted at H or P when you were not."
Stop being an idiot unable to grasp complex concepts. Offered in by prof. = accepted, excluding that sub-1% oddity where the admissions office has it in for that particular professor. You lose.
"stop telling us what you 'would have' achieved had you actually gained admission."
I said: "96.0 Carleton ~ 93.9 Harvard/94.6 Princeton." If you wish, you can perform this conversion yourself for any two reasonably good schools. Convert your standing at school A into a z-score (using a ND table; here: http://www.math.unb.ca/~knight/utility/NormTble.htm ). Then take the difference between school A and school B's SAT medians and divide by the std-dev of the test (202, on the 1600 scale) and multiply by the correlation factor (0.4-0.5) of the test for predicting academic success. Call this X. If school A's SAT median is higher than school B's, add X to your z-score; otherwise, subtract it. Then look that z-score up on the ND table to see what percentile you would have achieved at school B.
The one thing this fails to capture, I should note, is the role of work ethic; some schools are harder not because they're tough to get in but because people at them work harder... this is tough to measure and I didn't include it in my computation. If I did, it would've been more to my advantage since students at Carleton generally work harder than students at Ivies. Again, you lose.
"people who practice at 172 rarely break 170."
It's a good thing that we're not talking about LSATs then, isn't it?
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Date: June 1st, 2006 6:09 AM Author: big rusted weed whacker How do you know your percentile at Carleton? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5887061) |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 1:05 PM Author: Painfully honest mischievous pocket flask locus "A professor offered me in when I was in 10th grade." -You never applied, so this point is totally moot. Unless you have the admission letter in hand, this doesn't count for more than pure speculation.
"I would've had a damn good chance if I hadn't blown off the interview." -Again, you don't know this. Ivy admissions (especially at the HYP level) is a crapshoot. Also, if you were truly a stunning candidate, your slightly poor interview would not have barred you from getting admitted. |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 3:33 PM Author: laughsome whorehouse dysfunction "Unless you have the admission letter in hand, this doesn't count for more than pure speculation."
Sorry, but you're an idiot. For example, most of us know at least a few millionaires. Now, they don't happen to have $1,000,000 US cash in their basement; they have numbers in accounts at various places. But they're still considered millionaires; they have assets that are given $1M of credit. Similarly, someone who is offered in by a professor, at the undergraduate level, has an asset (a prof's favor) that can be exchanged for admission to that college and is thus, de facto, admitted.
"Also, if you were truly a stunning candidate, your slightly poor interview would not have barred you from getting admitted."
It wasn't a "slightly poor" interview. I told the interviewer that I didn't want to go; that's an F, even for a top-notch applicant. No college is going to waste an admit on someone who will just end up being a mark against its yield. |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 3:45 PM Author: Painfully honest mischievous pocket flask locus Your analogy with the millionaires and spreading out money across various bank accounts doesn't apply to your situation; it's a bad analogy.
A better analogy would be that of someone who had a promise (not even written down) from a person affiliated with a bank that he would be given $1M. This person may or may not have the ability to keep his promise. Thus this guy wouldn't be a millionaire until the promise was kept and he was actually given the money. What you're doing is saying that you could've been a millionaire (with 100% probability), even though 1) the reliability of the person making the promise to you is in question, and 2) you never took up the offer anyway, so there is no way to find out whether your assertion is correct.
As to your "I don't want to go to Harvard" comment during your Byerly interview, that pretty much reeks of fear of rejection. You didn't want to get rejected, so you fucked up the interview on purpose. It's the whole "I didn't try so I didn't fail" argument.
Judging from the amount of trolling you do with regards to prestige, Ivy league universities, and all these "what if" scenarios, you sound like a sore loser. Get your head out of the past and let it go. Do something with yourself from now on that will make you truly prestigious. |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 4:07 PM Author: laughsome whorehouse dysfunction "A better analogy would be that of someone who had a promise (not even written down) from a person affiliated with a bank that he would be given $1M."
No, that's an awful analogy. (My point was that someone can have an asset, in effect, by having equivalent information in one's favor, much in the way that a large bank account is standing information in one's favor even if it is not physical cash.)
If a professor offers a student in to a college, he does so because he desires to see that student there and there is almost no incentive for him to renege on his offer. It doesn't cost him much to make a trip to the admissions office on a slow afternoon. Therefore, there's a 99+% chance that he will deliver, and since it's undergrad we're talking about, there's also a 99+% chance that he'll be successful in getting the student admitted. So we have a 98% chance of pull-through even by the most pessimistic estimates.
In your example, I'm likely not to believe the person. If someone promises me $1M, just for being a precocious high school student, I'm going to doubt him severely. He has, after all, a $1M incentive to renege on his offer. The cost involved for the offerer is much greater, here, than a 5-minute walk across campus.
"As to your 'I don't want to go to Harvard' comment during your Byerly interview, that pretty much reeks of fear of rejection. You didn't want to get rejected, so you fucked up the interview on purpose."
Well, sort-of. I applied EA and was deferred. I later found out that there were two reasons for my deferral: 1. I hadn't visited or interviewed yet; 2. They were still figuring out my HS's grading system (even though we had sent a student the year immediately before; go figure). My application was nukular and I knew it was, and therefore I was (understandably) irate about being deferred. So I blew off the interview, because at that point the place had pissed me off enough that I didn't want to go.
If I'd been accepted EA, I'd probably have attended the interview anyway just to learn about the place, and could have possibly been sold (I was 17 and impressionable, s there was a remote chance of it). However, I knew my app was too good to get deferred, and while I shouldn't have taken it personally-- it had more to do with my lack of evident interest than anything else-- I was young and got pissed off by it, so I blew off the interview.
"Judging from the amount of trolling you do with regards to prestige, Ivy league universities, and all these 'what if' scenarios, you sound like a sore loser."
I don't troll for Ivies; you're confusing me with some other posters. El Greco was big on that, back in 2004. Shotgun Ned claims to be "double Ivy" but he's an idiot and no one cares about him. Pensive is not an Ivy-troll but a pure prestige troll. True prestige comes from within. |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 4:17 PM Author: Painfully honest mischievous pocket flask locus "Therefore, there's a 99+% chance that he will deliver, and since it's undergrad we're talking about, there's also a 99+% chance that he'll be successful in getting the student admitted. So we have a 98% chance of pull-through even by the most pessimistic estimates."
Having worked in an admission office before, I can tell you that a professor "offering you a spot" does NOT guarantee you admission. It can be a big boost, for sure, but the decision ultimately rests on the adcomm vote (and finally, the dean of admissions). I have seen candidates with recommendations from current faculty get dinged before; it is not impossible. A "likely letter" from an Athletic team coach is a more reliable signal that you will be admitted. Also, if you did not get this promise (from the professor) in writing, it's not binding.
"However, I knew my app was too good to get deferred, and while I shouldn't have taken it personally-- it had more to do with my lack of evident interest than anything else-- I was young and got pissed off by it, so I blew off the interview." Many kids think their applications are "nukular," and get extremely pissed when they are deferred EA from places like Harvard or Yale. There are MANY applicants with spectacular applications and credentials; deferral is likely for even the most well-qualified applicants. In fact, Harvard could fill its class three to four times over with people of your caliber (or even better).
"I don't troll for Ivies; you're confusing me with some other posters." You're right. I worded that part badly. What I meant was your constant "I could have gone to an Ivy but I didn't want to" trolling. |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 4:37 PM Author: laughsome whorehouse dysfunction "Having worked in an admission office before, I can tell you that a professor 'offering you a spot' does NOT guarantee you admission."
Again, go back to your small penis schtick. Admissions offices only red-light professors' favorites when they have a personal grudge against that professor. In this case, I deem that very unlikely (though, I'll admit, remotely possible.) Otherwise, at least at the Ivies, a professor's thumbs-up constitutes an auto-admit. (I should, however, clarify that by "professor" I mean tenured; I wouldn't expect an adjunct prof to have very much clout at all.)
"Also, if you did not get this promise (from the professor) in writing, it's not binding."
It wouldn't be "binding" in any case; you can't sue someone for declining an offer-in any more than you can sue (successfully) over a bad grade. However, a professor would have no incentive to renege on an offer-in excluding catastrophic cases where the student turns out to be a plagiarist or a terrorist.
"Many kids think their applications are 'nukular,' and get extremely pissed when they are deferred EA from places like Harvard or Yale."
Mine actually was. I won't list my awards-- I've done so in the past-- but you can find and verify them if you'd like.
"In fact, Harvard could fill its class three to four times over with people of your caliber (or even better)."
You're completely wrong, at least in in the relevant context. According to the definition of "academic merit" applied at the high school level, I was well within the top 500 of my year, much less 1600. Again, you can look up my high school awards if you wish. (I would certainly not place myself among the 1600 smartest or "best" of my year, but then again, I would not place the majority of students at Harvard there either.) Also, your claim is irrelevant because the top 1600 students don't all apply to Harvard anyway; I'd guess that less than 20% of them end up going there. |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 4:43 PM Author: Painfully honest mischievous pocket flask locus Judging from your defensiveness, I can tell that you are a) clearly delusional and b) extremely insecure about not having gone to an Ivy league college.
You need psychiatric help, dood. Quit focusing on my small wang and get some treatment. |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 4:55 PM Author: laughsome whorehouse dysfunction A. No, not delusional. I understand how the system works.
B. Again, not really. Harvard just pisses me off because I'm extremely competitive and I'm incensed at being "beaten" at some game, even a really stupid one where I didn't want the prize, by people not one-third as smart as I am. There are some great students at H, but the average Harvard undergrad is not terribly bright and lacks a true work ethic (worked hard in HS so he wouldn't have to work hard in college or at life).
"Quit focusing on my small wang"
I wouldn't care, think, or even know about it at all except for the fact that you dedicated a schtick and a moniker to it. |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 5:11 PM Author: Painfully honest mischievous pocket flask locus Striking similarities between you and the kid mentioned in:
http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=424076&forum_id=2#5868317
http://www.counselingthegifted.com/articles/underachieve.html
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Date: May 29th, 2006 7:00 PM Author: laughsome whorehouse dysfunction Not really. Of course there are some similarities, but not many and they aren't "striking". Anyway, I'm not really an underachiever. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5875367) |
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Date: June 1st, 2006 6:04 AM Author: big rusted weed whacker Not neessarily. If someone is a strong applicant to a Ph.D program and the applicant has a favorable professor in the department he or she applies to, wouldn't the applicant have a very good chance of acceptance?
Similarly to schools where the students are primarily interested in engineering and science, doesn't Harvard give AA to girls who are interested in engineering or math? There are math majors at Harvard College who never got beyond the AIME.
Do most of the applicants who get accepted to the top math Ph.D programs place well in the Putnam Competition? |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 7:07 PM Author: Indecent abnormal area Subject: crap "Out: Harvard, but only on a technicality. My application literally hurri-pwn'd their admissions office, but I was deferred EA because I hadn't shown enough interest and Byerly didn't understand my high school's grading system (which is not that fucking hard). I got pissed off over the deferral (I'd gone to fucking MOP) and blew off the interview."
Dude, this is crap. I've seen you say this before. Stop it already. There is no way you could possibly know this. That you feel compelled to say this about your H rejection speaks volumes. Just let it go, man!
I picked Carleton over Harvard. As well as over Williams and Brown. I sometimes wonder about what would have happened had I matriculated at H, but I'm proud of having gone to Carleton, and - with the exception of name recognition - it has done me well.
Don't make excuses. You didn't get it. So what. H makes mistakes, you know. |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 8:17 PM Author: laughsome whorehouse dysfunction What year were you?
I had gone to MOP. This means that, officially speaking, my application was nukular. There is no way Harvard would have rejected me, for undergrad, if they had suspected even a 10% chance that I would go there.
I wouldn't have gone to Harvard; I didn't really want to go and I'm an asshole for applying (trophy hunting). However, seeing as Harvard undergrad is about as selective as Cooley, I know have a Cooley-ding hanging over my life. |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 12:00 PM Author: Indecent abnormal area I don't want to say what year I was... suffice it to say, in the 90's.
I don't know what MOP is.
To be honest, it's not really you in particular that I'm criticising; I guess I hate the idea that we all feel compelled to provide an excuse for why we didn't get in at certain places. I was waitlisted at Yale and got nothing at Princeton. Even though I got in at Harvard, Princeton folks always slightly intimidate me. Like they're somehow smarter... It bugs me that I feel that way. Your story for how H was yield protecting in rejecting you strikes me as similar. It smells like weakness, if you know what I mean.
The princeton story about a professor offering you admission in 10th grade is also questionable. here I can speak with some authority, having worked in admissions. In undergrad, as opposed to grad admissions, the faculty typically have minimal involvement. I never heard of a faculty member telling a dean of admissions to admit someone. (Having a trustee or a high-ranking administrator do the same is a different story.) Anyway, again the explanation is a bit of "bad air." Avoid it. You can prove yourself prestigious in other ways. |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 4:09 PM Author: laughsome whorehouse dysfunction "In undergrad, as opposed to grad admissions, the faculty typically have minimal involvement. I never heard of a faculty member telling a dean of admissions to admit someone."
At the Ivies, it's fairly common. |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 1:46 PM Author: Painfully honest mischievous pocket flask locus In pensive's case, they made a good judgment call, I think. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5874252) |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 4:10 PM Author: laughsome whorehouse dysfunction You should go back to your "small penis" schtick. It had more potential. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5874737) |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 4:25 PM Author: Painfully honest mischievous pocket flask locus It's not a schtick. I do have a small penis.
Life's a lot easier when you don't have to be unnecessarily defensive, i.e. "I could've gotten into Harvard and Princeton but I 'chose' not to." |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 4:40 PM Author: laughsome whorehouse dysfunction Eh, admittedly there was some idiocy on my part. I should've gone to my Harvard interview on-time and played nice "like a good little boy", just to get an acceptance letter from a school I didn't like, but I didn't do things that way. Oh well. I'm only "unnecessarily defensive" on this board. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5874866) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 9:45 PM Author: hairraiser cumskin round eye Accepted: UVA, Notre Dame, William & Mary and Richmond.
Those were the only schools I applied to. |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 9:57 PM Author: purple talented sneaky criminal gas station 1st Round:
Accepted: Macalester, Reed, UTexas, Boston University, WUSTL
Waitlisted: Carleton
2nd Round:
Accepted: NYU, BU
3rd Round:
Rejected: UTexas, McGill, UToronto
4th Round:
Accepted: UHouston
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Date: May 27th, 2006 6:30 PM Author: exhilarant striped hyena site What are these "rounds" that you speak of? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5865502) |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 3:34 PM Author: purple talented sneaky criminal gas station 1st round was me applying from high school.
2nd round was me applying to transfer from Macalester (I got in to both my transfer schools, but I dropped out of Macalester before I got my acceptances. I wound up going to community college to pass the time.
3rd and 4th rounds were me applying from community college to transfer. |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 4:27 PM Author: charcoal idiot institution NYU and BU rescinded their offers? Why did you tell them you dropped out? Did you end up getting a degree from UHouston? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5874810) |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 4:45 PM Author: purple talented sneaky criminal gas station They didn't rescind, I had just applied to them before a lot of shit happened and I lost interest in college pretty much all together. I assumed they would have rescinded their offers anyway.
And no, I guess I dropped out of U of H for all intents and purposes. |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 9:59 PM Author: Multi-colored People Who Are Hurt Accepted: UDEL (honors + full ride), Rutgers, Villanova, Georgetown, Boston College, Michigan, Penn, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5861956) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 10:08 PM Author: Emerald adventurous genital piercing azn IN: University of Texas at Austin.
only school i applied to, hth. \m/ |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 10:11 PM Author: fear-inspiring wonderful trailer park I'll tell you this:
University of Chicago: IN
OBERLIN: REJECTED. |
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Date: May 27th, 2006 9:55 PM Author: lascivious principal's office shitlib liberalartscollegepwn3d! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5866612) |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 12:36 AM Author: fear-inspiring wonderful trailer park shame on me for applying. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5867607) |
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Date: May 26th, 2006 10:27 PM Author: carnelian razzle-dazzle point accepted: all TTT state UCs rejected: H and S (ED, deferred-->rejected). |
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Date: May 27th, 2006 7:13 PM Author: olive charismatic hospital In: Dartmouth, Brown, Wesleyan, Brandeis, Tufts
Out: None |
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Date: May 27th, 2006 7:16 PM Author: dull violent range Got into my first choice EA/ED. It's nice knowing you're all set in December. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5865694) |
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Date: May 27th, 2006 9:03 PM Author: swashbuckling queen of the night In: Yale, Stanford, Brown, Amherst, Cornell, Michigan, USC, Emory
Out: Dartmouth, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, UC-San Diego
Waitlist: Harvard |
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Date: May 27th, 2006 9:34 PM Author: dull violent range why no princeton? you a jew or something?
that's a fucked up list btw. you not in cali? |
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Date: May 27th, 2006 9:50 PM Author: vibrant free-loading internal respiration mental disorder could be a minority (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5866580) |
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Date: May 27th, 2006 9:44 PM Author: Slap-happy wagecucks corn cake ah, this brings back memories...
in: cornell, columbia, dartmouth, northwestern, bowdoin waitlist (then in): mit ding: princeton
gpa: 95.5 (my school only gave numerical grades) sat: 1410 (before re-centering) |
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Date: May 27th, 2006 9:47 PM Author: Translucent soul-stirring fat ankles In: Stanford, UCLA, Pomona
Out: Caltech, MIT, Harvard. |
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Date: May 27th, 2006 9:54 PM Author: silver hyperventilating digit ratio As HS senior: Accepted: TTT I currently attend Rejected: TTT that required interview I didn't do
As UG sophomore, for transfer in junior year: Accepted: Cornell (declined--probably a mistake) Rejected: Harvard Why didn't I try for a Dartmouth or Columbia, I regularly ask myself? |
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Date: May 27th, 2006 9:56 PM Author: lascivious principal's office shitlib I got in everywhere I applied! I didn't apply anywhere that didn't take the common app, or that wanted an interview. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5866620) |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 12:39 AM Author: floppy library incel accepted everywhere (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5867618) |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 1:18 AM Author: Twisted alcoholic resort love of her life 4.0, 34 ACT, 1500
I've got you all beat: I went to an open-enrollment ultra-TTT out of high school, transferred (way) up, and will end up at SLS. Otherwise, I applied to and received full-rides from Kansas State and Kansas. |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 4:26 PM Author: duck-like giraffe twinkling uncleanness Accepted: University of Chicago, University of Minnesota, and the school I went to.
Rejected: Dartmouth, Swarthmore |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 4:29 PM Author: snowy dilemma gunner accept: UCSB, UCLA, Cal, Georgetown (ea).
no rejects or wl's. going to Cal. |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 4:39 PM Author: Concupiscible embarrassed to the bone abode In: Columbia (early decision)
Only had to complete 1 application fortunately...not the case for law school (15 apps). |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 4:42 PM Author: Citrine federal spot 1/268, 31 ACT, great ECs
Accepted: Marquette, UW-Madison, Carleton
Rejected: N/A |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 7:06 PM Author: big rusted weed whacker Don't say you selected Marquette. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5870706) |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 3:20 PM Author: Citrine federal spot Sure did... Carleton was too expensive and UW-Madison is garbage for undergrad. I have never regretted it once. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5874604) |
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Date: June 1st, 2006 5:19 PM Author: Poppy razzle indian lodge Marquette sucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5889285) |
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Date: May 28th, 2006 7:28 PM Author: flickering temple feces Applied and accepted: only two top liberal arts colleges.
No rejections.
I wanted a smaller community.
I didn't know what I was doing, and followed the advice of a coach. Ended up very happy with my choice.
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Date: May 28th, 2006 7:36 PM Author: copper plaza We had some kind of 12 point GPA system in HS, and I don't remember what I had. But I know that I was definitely in the top 10 percent of the class. Maybe around 15-20 out of 220. 28 on ACT. No SAT.
I applied to two large state U's and got into both. I went to one of them. No one ever told me to do anything else. I wish that they had, though. |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 2:24 PM Author: Gay Cracking Stain Vitals: 3.2, 1400, AP Scholar, went to a somewhat prestigious high school called Indian Springs (http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/highest_sat_scores.php)
Accepted: Alabama (Honors)
Rejected: Yale, Columbia, Northwestern (Medill), Georgetown, and Notre Dame.
My mom said that I was going to Yale if I got accepted (my brother was a 2L there at the time), or I'd go to Alabama. Nevertheless, I applied to the other schools, although I could have salvaged some pride had I not have done so.
Getting all of those rejection letters was a learning experience, and I'm glad I learned my lesson before it was too late (I grossly underachieved in high school).
At any rate, I wouldn't trade my experience at BAMA for anything in the world. It's been a blast thus far.
By the way, I'm from Birmingham and my parents and brother went their for undergrad (parents got graduate degrees there as well), so going to Alabama wasn't random. |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 3:25 PM Author: Demanding Public Bath Associate Subject: In: Caltech Stanford Cornell UWash UTEP; out: none. Plus Deep Springs wanted me to write yet *another* letter, since I lived in the middle of nowhere and they couldn't interview me.
At that point I'd already heard from Caltech, so I told DS to go peddle their papers...
I guess that counts as a "withdrew."
EDIT: Okay, I see that you want stats. Presidential Scholar, NMScholar, 1578 SAT, 1/393, 3.9 (no weighting, and gym/driver ed counted), prez of NHS (big deal at the time), not much else. Working-class public HS, majority-minority, guessing ~15-20% eventually went to some kind of college. |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 3:47 PM Author: Nudist theater stage Accepted: Yale early.
My sister applied RD to all her schools, and if I remember correctly it was something like this:
Accepted: Williams (legacy) Amherst, Cornell, Dartmouth, Davidson.
WL: Princeton
Rejected: Bowdoin.
Everyone thought the Bowdoin rejection was peculiar. She ended up at Williams, her first choice the entire time.
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Date: June 1st, 2006 1:42 PM Author: High-end sweet tailpipe sanctuary When were you at Y? Why are you listing your sister's schools? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5888347) |
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Date: May 29th, 2006 4:12 PM Author: sexy irradiated university Subject: I only applied to Texas, and I was rejected I was rejected from the only college I applied to =( (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=423218&forum_id=2#5874745) |
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Date: June 1st, 2006 6:17 AM Author: Drunken provocative gaping stag film In: Syracuse, school I went to.
Out: nowhere. |
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Date: June 1st, 2006 1:23 PM Author: hateful organic girlfriend 84 average (low B) 1470 SAT
Accepted: Carnegie Mellon, SUNY Stony Brook Waitlist/Accept: Boston U Waitlist/Withdrew: Boston C Rejected: SUNY Binghamton
i didnt' know what i was doing in HS |
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Date: June 1st, 2006 5:30 PM Author: Dashing therapy center Accepted: local TTT, UPenn, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Cornell, Caltech (deferred EA, then accepted)
Rejected: Princeton, MIT (deferred EA then rejected)
I got research/merit scholarships at Penn, Northwestern, and Cornell. Local TTT gave me full ride. Went to Cornell. |
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Date: June 1st, 2006 5:40 PM Author: grizzly kitchen elastic band Accepted: Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, URochester, BU
Rejected: UPenn |
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Date: June 1st, 2006 6:30 PM Author: coral trust fund here's the most random application list ever:
IN: umich (out of state), indiana (honors, $$), mu-ohio ($$), usc, wash and lee (sports), richmond
WL: northwestern, uw-madison (mind blowing)
CYA: uiuc (i think my hs administration nearly firebombed their adcomm when they dealt with our school in the following fashion- 40 applied early on, 38 in, 50 middle of the road 25 in, 30 late, 0 in. needless to say, i picked the wrong wave), bc (really fantastic rejection letter though, seriously!), gtown, UVA (i didnt deserve it, but it was my top choice by far) |
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Date: June 1st, 2006 6:32 PM Author: Marvelous business firm accept: u wash, western wa, university of miami, st. johns.
reject: nyu, yale, rice. |