<p>Delete, 10char</p>
<p>[ul]
[<em>]Are you friends with MyHandIsADolphin?
[</em>]Why doesn’t Google correct “Stanfurd”?
[li]How are you today?[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Thanks :]</p>
<p>For the 17’ers, summer holidays are going to get over soon and after that we lose ourselves in the rigorous 12th couRseload. What time frame (for the lack of a better adjective) would you suggest we start our applications. The whole process of collecting forms and papers from here and there and not to mention those essays.
How do you advise we should time ourselves?</p>
<p>I don’t think he’s going to answer, seeing that he accidentally posted this thread. Anyway, you should start the supplements anytime before October. Most people do so in July/August since they are released on the college websites.</p>
<p>[ul]
[li]Be ready with a few essay drafts or ideas by November.</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Organize all your awards/certificates you’d like to mention.</p>[/li]
<p>[li]If you’re applying for financial aid, read about different schools’ policies and what they actually mean. For example, Columbia is need aware for internationals, but did you know that 76% of internationals at CC don’t receive any aid at all?</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Do well in school. You need your teachers to write you good recommendations. By do well, I also mean behavior. Please please please don’t write your own recommendations, it has many downsides including but not limited to defacing your school’s name thereby reducing consideration of your application and the applications of others from your school in the decision process. Please please please give pointers to your teachers on how to write the recommendation since they most probably wouldn’t have any idea, but refrain from seeing it. There’s some really good advice on About.com</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Don’t be obsessed with rankings. You’ll be in for a surprise when they change next year. And the year after that. And the year after that.</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Learn more about the school other than just their USNWR or their so-called “prestige.” You may be in for a surprise later when you find out that Harvard is in fact more famous for /has more prestige for its graduate schools than it’s college. A good and informal place to start knowing more wouldn’t be College Confidential. Try Reddit sub forums. Here are just a few:[/li][list]
[li][Berkeley[/url</a>][/li][li][url=<a href=“http://www.reddit.com/r/Stanford]/r/stanford/[/url”>http://www.reddit.com/r/Stanford]/r/stanford/[/url</a>][/li][li][url=<a href=“http://www.reddit.com/r/Harvard]Harvard![/url”>http://www.reddit.com/r/Harvard]Harvard![/url</a>][/li][li]<a href=“http://www.reddit.com/r/Columbia[/url]”>www.reddit.com/r/Columbia](<a href=“http://www.reddit.com/r/Berkeley]Berkeley[/url”>http://www.reddit.com/r/Berkeley)</a>[/li][li]<a href=“http://www.reddit.com/r/brownu[/url]”>www.reddit.com/r/brownu</a>[/li][li]<a href=“http://www.reddit.com/r/ucla[/url]”>www.reddit.com/r/ucla</a>[/li][/ul]
Look at the links, you’ll get the general idea of how to find the sub reddits of other colleges.</p>
<p>[li]Be nervous, but only to a point. Don’t stress yourself.</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Take the SAT/ACT again if you need to. A 1900<x<2200 won’t automatically invalidate your application at whatever your idea of top schools is. That’s why schools have score ranges, check out the upper and lower quartiles.</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Know that not asking for aid improves your chances. - {HYPM+Amherst+Dartmouth}. Cornell claims to be need blind but their admissions officers have, at various instances answered otherwise to me.</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Spend ample time on the descriptive questions in the application. If you really let yourself be yourself and it shows, it will help a lot :)[/li][/list]</p>
<p>I can’t help but think we had it better. There is such an overload of information in those forums and this one, it almost makes one wish for the old days where you get in wherever you are admitted and go from there…</p>
<p>Twelfth standard isn’t really a burden if you aren’t preparing for JEE/AIEEE.</p>
<p>12th is kind of a burden with ISC coupled with ec’s and such.</p>
<p>^true that north 
@nocensure, would you mind penning down your ECs that you put up for Yale and Princeton, here?
also, what essay did you write on for :
i) Yale and Princeton?
ii) for commonapp?
i wanted to get some specific response by the Y, P accepted/ waitlisted indians.
and no, asking about Y and P not just because of “prestige”.
thanks :)</p>
<p>also, tizil, according to your post, does it mean that even if a schools says it need-blind for FA for int’ students (H,Y,P), it isnt exactly need blind?</p>
<p>^ HYP is need blind in that asking for aid won’t affect your chances of admissions and they promise to meet 100% demonstrated need-based aid. At Cornell, on the other hand, asking for aid won’t affect your chances of getting in, however, they may or may not give you any aid regardless of your admitted status. Many admitted students end up getting little or no aid.</p>
<p>i got a 700/800 in math IC and 660/800 in physics…are they bad scores??? and wat r my chances of getting into a gud university?? im in my senior year… should i give sat 2 again?? or shud i give sat 1 nd go to a midiocre university??</p>
<p>and what are da differences b/w early decision ,early action , regular deadlines??</p>
<p>the above post has been answered to in the TiT 21 by Tizil:
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