After being rejected to UCSB/UCLA/UCB, admitted to Caltech!

Transfer Students
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<p>I am really very happy now!</p>

<p>These months were nightmare to me. I'm rejected by UCSB in middle March, by UCLA,UCB these days, with UCI, UCSD pending. </p>

<p>UC Davis is the only UC admitted me (to CSE major).</p>

<p>This is my first year in the US and a CCC. I don't satisfy the minimum requirements to UCs. But I really want to thank UCD, which gave me a chance and made me feel better. Really Thank you!</p>

<p>I just received the admissions letter from Caltech in a small envelope. (scared me again!) Good luck everyone! Don't lose hope!</p>

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<p>Wow, congrats dude! What are your stats?</p>

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<p>Damn you....i envy you...j/k...congrats !! :) ...thatz as good as it can get.</p>

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<p>i should have applied to caltech, especially when a girl i secretly admired for years decided to go there. (thought she would have to gone to Stanford)</p>

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<p>Heh, you should fax or mail a copy of that letter to every school that rejected you.</p>

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<p>"Heh, you should fax or mail a copy of that letter to every school that rejected you."</p>

<p>VERY original, I am gonna do it.</p>

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<p>Congrats -- it's nice to hear about things working out for someone like this! :)</p>

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<p>OMG, congrats! Good for you! :)</p>

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<p>im CSE major too...i feel i should have gone up there to Pasadena and took that test....</p>

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<p>Congratulations bro! What country are you from if you don't mind me asking? You are really going to love Caltech (pass by there everyday on my way to PCC beautiful campus) You lucked out.</p>

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<p>It's rejected "from", accepted "to".....no wonder you were rejected. ;-)</p>

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<p>:)</p>

<p>BTW, I did write something down here:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=784972#post784972%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=784972#post784972&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>That's all I can tell. Please don't reply this thread any more, and I won't either.</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

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<p>"It's rejected "from", accepted "to".....no wonder you were rejected. ;-)"</p>

<p>Damn, Michelle, you need to lay off of people. First, I don't know what you major in, but you should understand that English is not the end-all-be-all in evaluating someone's intelligence. This is an international transfer student, it was a small mistake... so STOP NITPICKING, PULL THE STICK FROM YOUR BUM, AND MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIFE! </p>

<p>-A</p>

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<p>I know Michelle was probably trying to crack a joke, but it's not funny when you crack joke about an English learner's skill, just like homosexuals tend to dislike gay joke.</p>

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<p>I don't think Michelle's joke was in that bad taste, considering the context. This guy just heard that he got into what is probably the top school out of everywhere he applied. A "no wonder you didn't get in!" joke probably isn't going to hurt his feelings too much. If you apply to 10 schools, are rejected from 9, but get into your top choice, then that's just as good as getting into all of them for all it matters for the rest of your life. </p>

<p>As someone who is bi with a lot of gay friends: often the only time a gay joke is appropriate is in a situation like this... you can crack a gay joke when your gay friend, for instance, just came out to his parents and received a positive reaction.</p>

<p>wy: CONGRATULATIONS!!!</p>

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<p>Whether or not it was the top school he applied to, how are we to determine if that did or did not hurt his feelings? It was completely out of line, regardless of his response to it.</p>

<p>BruinMichelle, I don't know you. I can tell by your posts that you are intelligent and that you've worked hard to be admitted to the schools you applied to. I can't judge you as a person -- you may be a very nice, considerate girl in real life. I know it is in you; I've seen you display some of that on these boards.</p>

<p>But I think this is about the 3rd or 4th time that I've witnessed you make some catty or insensitive remark to someone which is obviously intended as a put-down. </p>

<p>You attacked all of the people in the "Rejected from UCLA" thread. Just the other day I found myself responding to post of yours on the "May 1st is here and still no answer from the UC" thread that was not only rude but completely unwarranted. You told us that you thought it all "ludicrous and a little demented" that we felt the UCs were "conspiring against" us -- which was a total mispresentation of what anyone on that thread had said. You couched it then, as now, with LOLs and smiley faces, which actually made it more insulting. Immediately following this, you lectured another poster about karma. </p>

<p>I just read a post of yours in the "UC Applicants - Come Join" thread: "Lately, when I state the obvious, I've been typecast a jerk."</p>

<p>Being nasty to a bunch of people who have just been rejected from a school you got into and taking their frustration at that school personally so you can attack them and escalate the situation, insinuating that people who are frustrated at not hearing from schools (which you had already heard back from) are paranoid and that you find it demented, and lecturing a student who clearly stated in his post that he came to the US a year ago on grammar -- telling him "no wonder you were rejected." ;-) IS NOT stating the obvious. </p>

<p>It's being argumentative, insensitive and flat-out rude.</p>

<p>That whole paragraph was a gigantic run-on sentence, and I don't care.</p>

<p>It is just unnecessary to be that way on these boards. We are supposed to be here as a support to one another and to be positive -- not to tear each other down with subversive remarks at every turn.</p>

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<p>"It is just unnecessary to be that way on these boards. We are supposed to be here as a support to one another and to be positive "</p>

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<p>Blackdream, you are right. That would apply to me as well.
Point taken.</p>