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<p>Hmmm...you're probally right, but for transfer students? I don't know, my friends got rejected from Tufts but got accepted to UPENN and Cornell respectively.</p>
<p>But I'd say WUSTL is equally the same...they have about a 23% acceptance rate for transfers</p>
<p>I'd agree that colleges are a bit biased if they are giving out high school performance any weight 5 years after the fact...for some, especially males, it takes longer to mature and others enjoy learning independently moreso than they do in the classroom. I know I didn't give a damn about school and didn't find out I was taking the SAT's until an hour before the test started (my mother tricked me into taking them) so should my hopeless behavior effect my life now? Maybe, I understand why the people who have been dedicated to their work since 8th grade should be given an advantage, but at the same time I think its a bit careless for schools to effectively punish the folks for what they did between the ages of 14 and 17</p>
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<p>Yes, I'm into Rice, but I've talked to some students and I don't think it's for me. I'd rather stay at Michigan - I only sent the application as a last second thing during the Ann Arbor winter as I was thinking I might want a little more sun.</p>
<p>I just had my upper-level honors thesis approved, and I'm going to be working under a professor I really like next year if I stay with Michigan. As of right now, a Brown acceptance is the only thing that could tear me away from it (and even that won't be an easy decision).</p>
<p>I would really like to know what you did to get accepted; I was rejected, but that was because of my HS GPA. I am still interested in other ways of improving my application for when I apply for Fall 2006.</p>
<p>UMich 3.93+ GPA (but first summer + semester at satellite campus due to HS grades)
...in tough classes (including economics, high-level math, and grad-level phil and history work - not really any harder per se, but I think it looks impressive seeing A's in "500" level classes for an undergrad). </p>
<p>35 on ACT this year (30 when I took it as JR in HS - never studied and I was partying the night before because I took it the Saturday after the last day of school ;))
Never took Sat I
SAT II 800x3
Jr transfer - 60 credits and change</p>
<p>HS: Private
Hardest curriculum, tons of AP's etc
~3.0 (health problems and a too-cool-to-care thing going on).</p>
<p>No really special clubs/activities.</p>
<p>Philosophy honors club (published once - have another paper up soon)
Pre-law club
Lots of hockey stuff (could walk on to Brown if they're having a down year, but not recruited or anything).
Worked full time (30-40 hr/wk) freshman year of college.</p>
<p>If I had to guess why I got in (and what will make me or break me at Brown) it would have to be their take on my sob-story essay - not that it isn't 100% true. I was in and out of the hospital numerous times (and was sick and absent even more) during HS and I played that up in my essays. I talked about how changed I am now, how I take care of my body to avoid those problems, and I have a renewed interest in academics.</p>
<p>Applied to Cornell, UVA, and W&M and was accepted to all. I already sent my deposit to UVA and am 90% confident that that is where I will go.</p>
<p>It is possible, but you need to do well at your current school (3.5+), and also make a connection with people at the places that you are applying to.</p>
<p>Suprising, I must say, your piece for the journal I found quite impressive...given the backdrop of everthing else, I'm suprised you were not accepted.</p>
<p>Very, very suprising since my ex was accepted at Yale, and she is quite possibly the biggest air-head I've met in my life. Seriously, I still have love for her, but it is absolutely astonding to me that one of the top 10 schools in the world would have done anything other than convert her application into scrap material. It's a shame in alot ways...especially since I remember having dinner with her, my dad saying someting along the lines of "my mother...something something...after she escaped Trablinka...something something"...and then me having to explain to her what the Holocaust was, when it happened, etc. because she hadn't a ghost of clue of what it was...and this was during Sr. year of high school <em>rollseyes</em></p>
<p>Those are some of the folks getting accepted into the top schools. Like I said, it's a shame. However, the way I look at it is like "Who cares?"...if Yale wants to druel over people who've never heard of the Holocaust then so be it...</p>
<p>I actually spoke to two Rice adcoms regarding the basis of my decision, and I would have been admitted had my HS GPA been better. The problem is that my HS GPA is really low (a 2.3), and a 3.82 GPA with 23 hours, even with a decent SAT score, is not enough to rectify the damage.</p>
<p>It was my primary concern when applying to Rice, it is for this reason I think I will be rejected at Georgetown, but I am not disappointed. I am only a freshman, I have one more year to prove that I can do it. </p>
<p>Thanks for the confidence, though:)</p>
<p>Edit: In my own personal ruminations, I feel that the adcoms' decision on this matter was justified. The problem is that the application process really only displays a minute portion of one's character; schools can render the process more subjective by requesting creative material and so forth, but they risk appearing arbitrary and non-objective, so they are in quite a dilemma. Some decent students are rejected, some idiots are admitted, but I cannot blame the admissions committee. I am trying my best to consider this rationally.</p>
<p>I think this is being blown out of proportion; Rice University is odd in rendering their decisions, and nobody should expect an acceptance to Yale. Georgetown could be much different; all I know is that I want to remain realistic, even if that means feeling a little depressed. Being optimistic only creates a situation where you will suffer even more depression if rejected.</p>
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<p>Word...</p>
<p>You definately deserve to be up in the best philosophy (or are you going for Political Theory?) programs. I'm just starting to get into it myself, but I can tell that you love it and that you've been immersed in the material for awhile. You wrote your piece on Hiedigger, no? Anyways, most folks, even at Rice will not have been as experienced with him as you are...<em>see above post</em></p>
<p>You've already proven you can do it, but still, 23 hours...that is not very much...thats what? 6, 7 courses maybe? Just not enough...I'd suggest you do some summer school courses, I did 8 summer school courses last year in 6 weeks...damn near killed myself self but I'm sure that this impressed the schools I applied to in the fall. But yeah, its just a matter of hours...thats all</p>
<p>I am more of an ethics/jurisprudence philosopher. I am interested in cog-sci as well. I actually have a well drawn-out plan for next year that should put me in a position to transfer into excellent schools:)</p>
<p>I will have accumulated 35 hours by this Friday, and will have 50 hours under my belt when applying again.</p>
<p>Absolutely astounding educators. The thing I love so much about Philsophy/Political Theory professors is that they LOVE what they do and more over, they feel that what they are teaching is important</p>
<p>Maybe its my bad luck with some, but alot of Political Science (Comparative Politics, Government, etc) professors treat teaching as though it were a necessary evil</p>
<p>nspeds. dennett is practically my reason for applying to tufts; you actually met him? i envy you completely (not like i idolize the dude, but he's pretty freakin' good). where and how did you meet him?</p>