<p>Anxious?
I mean we are finally applying this year..no more dreaming or trying after decisions come out. I know that's still a long time away..but anyone else feeling a bit scareeed? All my schools are reach schools and I'd feel really embarrassed if I get rejected everywhere. All that SAT preparing..essay writing..stressing over teacher recs..would be for nothing. The only good thing would be that it pushed me to be more involved. Lately I feel like I'm always wasting my time on CC..and I don't even know if I'm gonna be happy with a Canadian school anymore.</p>
<p>I am cool with going to a Canadian university. Going to an American university is definitely conducive to my personal development, but going to a Canadian university can’t prevent me from wanting to succeed. </p>
<p>There’s nothing to feel embarrassed about if you don’t get accepted. Why would you feel embarrassed if you are stretching yourself, pushing yourself to go well beyond what your peers are doing? Also, who says that all the preparing is going to nothingness? Don’t you think that your essay writing skills have improved significantly, and your vocabulary database has expanded immensely? No journey is not worth experiencing, unless it is associated with immorality. </p>
<p>I think you need to adjust yourself to the harsh reality a little bit. I know someone with 2380 SATI and amazing ECs got rejected from every single school he applied.</p>
<p>One suggestion: It’s beneficial for you to look for at least one Canadian university program that you desire. McMaster Health Science program receives more than 1,000 applicants, but only accepts 160. What’s the acceptance rate? At most 16%–lower than the acceptance rates of UPenn, Cornell, Duke, Northwestern, John Hopkins… the list is endless.</p>
<p>@fatum: I hear you, dude/dudette!
No Earlies for you? I am dreading December 15 as well. I am just taking one day at a time and try not to think of bad senarios. lol</p>
<p>I feel exactly the same way! This week in particular I have been very stressed because next week is the week of my musical performances and I think I am getting sick haha. I am driving myself crazy trying to keep up with homework, SAT and friends etc. I feel like I have completely lost my mind. It is awful. But after december 4 (the last SAT date), the SAT and the musical will be over and I will have my life back. Then I just have to get all of my essays and short answers done!! AHHHHHHHHH. But, as much as I am freaking out, I have become increasingly interested in McGill, and I would be more than happy to study there. The fact that I could probably get into McGill makes me feels loads better about everything. Hang in there!! (thats what I keep telling myself…GAHHHH)</p>
<p>Does this story help? Good friend and coauthor of mine. Son gets into MIT and a host of other Canadian and US schools (he wants to go into engineering). </p>
<p>Parents would not qualify for fin. aid (they are professors). Son ends up going to Queen’s engineering over MIT, and saves his parents close to $200,000 in the process. They weren’t worried- they said go to MIT for grad school. So he did just that. After Queen’s, he did his PhD at MIT, and is now working at a famous high tech company. </p>
<p>I have ENDLESS stories like this. Most of which are about dual Canadian-US kids whose parents are faculty members in Canada. We’re in the industry, we’ve done numerous degrees and taught at top US schools. We know what tuition really pays for and what it is not worth (just for undergrad). But then we would not qualify for fin aid in our income bracket, and we have confidence most of our kids will go to professional or graduate school after undergrad (so for us, at least, it isn’t worthwhile to waste $ on American priced tuition). </p>
<p>But my main point is that there are many many many paths to success. Endless stories that show thsi is true, and empirical studies that prove it as well. So aim for your ‘dream school’ but if that does not work out, don’t sweat it. You will honest-to-god be just as happy and just as successful by going to a whole lot of different schools.</p>
<p>I am so stressed out, it’s not even funny. We have to work twice as hard (if not more) than students who are only applying to one country. It’s hard to hear people complaining about apply to just the US or just Canada because we have to do both-but I guess we’re the ones who chose to do this, so we have no excuses.</p>
<p>Everyone list the schools you’re applying to for both Canada & the US!!</p>
<p>I’ll start. </p>
<p>CANADA: McGill, UofT, Queen’s, McMaster. Possibly Western and Waterloo.
US: Brown, JHU, Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, Stanford. The whole shebang :)</p>
<p>^Yes! Doing both kinds of apps is rly stressful…I’ve had almost EVERYONE I KNOW (even my teachers) asking me why I am torturing myself with chemistry and other hard courses if I’m going into business. No school in Canada is as selective and unpredicatable as some of the US schools so people don’t really understand my stresss.
“you are gonna be fine!” <- sigh</p>
<p>I agree! Like my one friend complains when she gets homework because she works a 4 hour shift at her job once a week and claims that she “doesn’t have time to study”. It makes me so mad! It is not even worth explaining how easy her situation is compared to mine haha, so I just sit there in silence and let my annoyance fizzle. </p>
<p>I am applying to:</p>
<p>Canada: UBC, McGill, Maybe Queens, And the University of Saskatchewan, which as already offered me a 3000 scholarship without me even applying (too bad I don’t want to go there)</p>
<p>U.S: Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Maybe U of Chicago, Maybe Northwestern, Maybe Stanford</p>
<p>CANADA: McGill, Toronto, Alberta, Calgary, UBC, Queens
USA: Duke (ED), Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Washington at St. Louis, John Hopkins, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell</p>
<p>@Nosike, I’m pretty sure URM status applied for internationals too. IDK if you found out yet. There’s a CC’er that went to H from Canada (username is Mustapha or something like that) who put that down as a hook under a decisions thread so I’m assuming he knew it would be one. So, I think you’re in at Duke because your stats are solid enough as is and when you toss in the URM hook you’re in solid shape. </p>
<p>hey Nosike, I’m applying to a lot of the same school as you! good luck to both of us hahaha</p>
<p>Yeah I know, it’s SO frustrating when my friends or classmates complain about having no time to study for an upcoming test. They just don’t understand how the Common App system works. I also agree that Canadian schools aren’t nearly as selective as some US schools can be-but that is not to say that they are worse.</p>
<p>@ViggyRam, that sounds freaking awesome! But I don’t wanna count my chickens before they hatch lol. </p>
<p>@RainbowSprinkles. I totally agree. Everyone gets so stressed out about Canadian applications, without realizing that US Applications are SO much more work. Not only that, but in Canada if you have the right grades you’re in, American schools expect so much more (ECs, SAT, Leadership, awards, community service, etc).</p>
<p>I don’t tell people where I’m applying though even if they ask me. That way if I don’t get in, it doesn’t look bad lol.</p>
<p>You guys are applying to Columbia? The school is not need blind for canadian PRs so I don’t rly want to apply…(already wasted 20$ on the free SAT reports sent to Columbia b4 I decided that I wasn’t gonna apply - -)</p>
<p>I feel the same way, Nosike! Sometimes I just simply tell them I’m applying to Wharton because they usually don’t know what it is.</p>
<p>Have you guys submitted any regular decision apps yet? I just submitted my USC app. I think I must have written 10 different versions of my essay. SO much work. Here’s where I’m applying:</p>
<p>US: USC, Brown, Vassar, Fordham, Boston U, Barnard
Canada: UBC, Ryerson, Concordia</p>
<p>I know! Exactly! To get into a good Canadian school, you basically need above 90% average and you’re in (unless you have zero ECs). </p>
<p>Schools in the states want to whole package-you’re so right.</p>
<p>lol it’s a bit too late for me not to tell anyone. I think a lot of people know… if I get rejected at every single school, I’ll probably cry and curl into the fetal position.</p>
<p>Nope, I am not applying to Columbia. It’s too big and impersonal for me. I like smaller schools (but not too small) or medium-sized ones, like Brown!</p>
<p>haha now I wish I’d never told anyone… oh well, I can’t keep my mouth shut when it comes to these thing. I just HAVE to complain to my friends about it hehe</p>