<p>I feel sorry for the guidance counselor to have to put up with somebody like him. My guidance counsellor would be like "Oh well. Have a nice day."</p>
<p>"1st of all thats a diss to U of Phoenix dont stoop to that level"</p>
<p>dayumm, so yer telling aaminor not to stoop down to YOUR level?</p>
<p>my guidance counselor thought i was a horrendous womanizer and would tell girls to avoid me. lol....... i really wish i would have known this BEFORE i had her write my letters of rec.</p>
<p>btw its cuz of a stupid rumor than my first gf started when i broke up with her. ive only actually kissed 2 girls in my life >_></p>
<p>a 90 weighted isn't good either if your trying to get into top schools.</p>
<p>there are probably thousands of applicants from hard schools trying to get into those top schools who have a higher GPA than you, what went wrong is your attitude</p>
<p>oh and yes I won't stoop down to your level any more, I mean, saying the south is living in the 18th century, and saying that duke is a 2nd rate school is soooo much better than "dissing" the university of phoenix... <em>rolls eyes</em></p>
<p>meh well duke is by no means a 2nd rank school, but even if it were it probably wouldnt accept a 3rd rate applicant.</p>
<p>"meh well duke is by no means a 2nd rank school, but even if it were it probably wouldnt accept a 3rd rate applicant."</p>
<p>agreed, I'm from North Carolina and it annoys me that this person thinks Duke is a 2nd rate school when people from my school are dying to get in and deserve it 5000000 times more</p>
<p>I just want to hear what other schools deny him. He is stupid for only applying to those schools. Even if you are 100% sure you'll get in, which nobody is unless they get recruited for sports, you always apply to at least one safety school so that you have somewhere to go when you graduate.</p>
<p>By the way, I LOVE DUKE =]. One of my top picks for college.</p>
<p>duke rocks.</p>
<p>Redbirdz,</p>
<p>Look, I'm not all that great myself. 97.1 GPA, 2260 on my SATs, some decent ECs, whatever... But please, your comments before that spawned this 12 page tirade of stupidity have got to stop. Let's just face the facts here: you have been waitlisted from possibly the most prestigious (not best) engineering university in the country. Your GPA does not reflect your abundant 800s, obviously your attitude could use a tune up, and your responses to the questions about your ECs have been vague and hostile. What the people were telling you earlier was correct: admissions people will see you either as a wannabe or a genius. Listen, we both share that 800 Physics SAT II score in common, but I don't rampage on test scores and consider schools like MIT as "safety schools."</p>
<p>What I am trying to say is, forget about your waitlisting. Focus on becoming less hostile and becoming more friendly. Elsewise, you might get ****ed the heck up after this summer. I truly hope there are other colleges into which you got accepted. Consider those a "start to a new you."</p>
<p>i never meant to diss duke sorry guys</p>
<p>by the looks of it i will probly be in that class - duke class of 2011</p>
<p>unless princeton accepts me, new first choice</p>
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<p>That's the problem with admissions -- it's impossible to have things all planned out. Impossible. Admissions is relatively random, especially given subjective factors like recs, essays, etc. The only kid who got accepted to MIT from my magnet program was one of the worst students in the program. (and she got accepted over some really smart people)</p>
<p>Besides, MIT gets lots of applicants every year, and the moment they see</p>
<p>Application 1: 83 GPA, 2400 SAT, 11 AIME
Application 2: 100 GPA, 2400 SAT, 11 AIME</p>
<p>guess whose application they end up picking?</p>
<p>But condolences for your loss -- at least you still have the other schools to wait on.</p>
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<p>To the others: Discounting an 11 on the AIME by attributing it to "good test-taking skills" is dissing those good test-takers who came home with 2s (like me). There's something to be said for 13 5s on AP exams and moderate success in multiple Olympiads. It's not just test-taking ability -- this guy seems to know his material quite well, which is really all a person needs out of an education. Perhaps the low GPA's just a result of his school assigning a ton of busywork. (It does happen.)</p>
<p>well, I hope you get into some of the schools you applied to. Good luck on your college stuff.</p>
<p>And Duke is a great school, you should be happy to go there. NC is a great state and there is so much to do. Maybe go to duke as a freshman, raise your GPA way up, get some more EC's and apply to the ivies and MIT next year</p>
<p>love ya fizix thats some hot reply</p>
<p>and duke is growing on me - ima blue devil!</p>
<p>I think Duke is better than most of the Ivies...once you're at Duke, you can do pretty much whatever you want, so don't transfer.</p>
<p>i might transfer if i dont make princeton</p>
<p>o and i realize completely duke is a good school and i completely plan on taking advantage of all cutting edge research opportunities accorded to me</p>
<p>its just a shame i got waitlisted MIT, but i hear it has tougher admissions requirements than the ivies, so i am FAR from worried</p>
<p>Another thing, if you are really passionate about learning and you get accepted into Duke, the professers actually teach you. My old neighbors had twin sons one went to Harvard, the other went to Princeton, they said if you're lucky the professor actually teaches you normally teacher assistants teach b/c the professor is off doing some kinda scholarly thing.</p>
<p>and besides... my great uncle was a professor at Duke :D</p>
<p>Red, can u do me a favor and critique this person:</p>
<p>I just wanna hear your reaction to her MIT reaction.</p>
<p>that IS surprising</p>
<p>wow i read that thread... it's even weirder than this one...</p>
<p>sweet jesus, i read that post. sigh um i have to say that redbirdz is much more mature than she was.</p>