From wikipedia: Ectomorphic body type -- The physique of an ectomorph is centered around the brain and nerves. These people are slim and possibly underweight, and will often have a hard time gaining weight and building muscle mass (in our modern times, with the emphasis on physical fitness and muscularity, this has given rise to the notion of the "hardgainer" and "hardgainer" training methodologies which do have anecdotal evidence that the physiology responds to different training but can be overcome. Stereotype: the ectomorphic person is likely to have a cerebrotonic temperament and could be described as artistic, sensitive, apprehensive, introverted, socially restrained, and highly self-aware. Examples of ectomorphs would be marathon runners, fencers swimmers, some basketball players, and fashion models.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=559267&forum_id=2#7371647)

this explains it....for those of us with just a history major things are a little different

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=559267&forum_id=2#7369254)

Didn't apply seriously to Columbia (applied, but didn't get forms in on time, etc.).

Chicago asked me to write an additional essay, but I didn't do it and subsequently got rejected.

Harvard waitlisted me and asked for an additional essay on why I would like to go to Harvard. I didn't write it and then didn't make it off the waitlist.

Yale flat out rejected me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=559267&forum_id=2#7369891)

(I'm not on the investment banking side. I'm on the trading side. I would say that to work on the trading side of Wall Street these days without knowing how to program is pretty tough going. All the quantitative groups use computers to crunch the numbers and run back tests, etc. People aren't exactly phoning their orders in like they used to back in the 20th century.)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=559267&forum_id=2#7371687)

Any more questions?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=559267&forum_id=2#7369338)

where did you get your comp sci degree? TTT?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=559267&forum_id=2#7369757)

any words of wisdom? i will be leaving biglaw money soon after this and making much less for the next 2 yrs if i do this

any advice?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=559267&forum_id=2#7369825)

i dont pay tuition at UVA (i have a full tuition fellowship that covers up to the amt of my out of state tuition).

i have job options there that pay a lot less but can pay living expenses and some spending money.

i'm 26. i've paid off some student loans but still have a bunch (but can make the monthly payments while i'm at UVA).

i have a JD and i'll have a PhD when i'm finished. when i'm finished i'll be able to get jobs paying biglaw-like money, but that won't be for a few yrs (as noted previously)

i anticipate some psychological "what ifs" if i ding the McDermott offer... like, when i'm working hard at UVA and writing lengthy complex papers instead of doing doc review and writing memos, i will be thinknig to myself, why did i leave BigLaw money on the table...

another factor: although i went to an HYP u/g, my JD was from a 2nd tier TTT and i consider myself lucky with my law firm experience (1 yr at a V10 and now a lateral offer at McDermott in a corporate department). so, if i ding McDermott to go to school i will feel that i "made it" (getting the offer) and then walked away form it

in the long run, it willb e good but any hints on dealing with regrets? or did you totally know you would be fine?

how did u handle that?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=559267&forum_id=2#7369975)

any hints on the handling of psychological results of ding-ing my offer at a Vault rated firm to go to school for at least 2-3 more yrs? (keeping in mind the work will be fairly difficult even if its less routine)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=559267&forum_id=2#7370049)

if you'd been able to get into harvard or yale would you have gone?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=559267&forum_id=2#7369760)

and a 770 is only 87th percentile so it isn't spectacular, i'm very glad they didn't have anything more advanced than geometry though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=559267&forum_id=2#7369839)

i also got only a 650 verbal reasoning... weird bc my SAT I verbal was 800 and i read voraciously (i was a 2L when i took it)

my 650 was 91st percentile and the 800 quant was only 92nd percentile. weird.

also got a 6.0 and it was around the 90th %tile also

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=559267&forum_id=2#7369917)

You people are pathetic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=559267&forum_id=2#7370313)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=559267&forum_id=2#7371081)

I did feel like I was preening a bit, but I didn't question it much. I was glad that I had had that job, though, because it gave me an excuse to mention the whole LSAT thing. It would have looked a little more lame if I had just mentioned my LSAT score completely out of the blue.

It never crossed my mind that the person reading my resume would get jealous. The guys in my group are ridiculously smart and they all scored in the 99th percentile of whatever tests they have taken in life. I was trying to prove I was in their league, not lord it over them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=559267&forum_id=2#7371748)