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i'm a sophomore and i'm destined for some puny little community college. yes, i'm one of those dumb asians. dumb dumb dumb >;[
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... notice the tone of discouragements and lack of selfconfidence, "im one of those dumb asians" come on, do you want a person to think that?
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mangos, if you reply this thread, you will end up at a top tier school.
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haha yes! no community-college-future student visits CC!
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translation: if you come to CC, that means that you care about college, and if you care about college, then you will work hard in highschool, and if you work hard in highschool, then u'll end up somewhere you deserve, and there will be no need for that tone... so further encouragements... come on, i mean it in a nice way... why u gotta skew everything out of proportion... i said ONE sentence.. did i say COMMUNITY COLLEGES are BAD? </p>
<p>NOOO i just said the poster shouldn't say "im one of those dumb ones that will end up in community college"</p>
<p>haha... sorry tangsdaily... i cant help it... it helps me reduce ap stress i gues... but then it also wastes my studying time... *sighs... i cant stop procrastinating</p>
<p>i was accepted to Babson which is 2 mile walk from wellesley. Although babson and wellesley can cross registrate, i just couldn't choose babson after visiting it. Babson appears to be a preppy boarding school, and its campus culture seems monotonous to me that business(entrepreneurship mostly) is the only thing. But Wellesley is awsome I enjoyed visiting that college; Wellesley so far gave me the best campus tour comparing to other top schools in America, only awkward thing was that the tour guide girl felt little nervous to see a guy visiting the school alone, too bad it's not coed. And Wellesley gave me a free shuttle bus ride to the heart of MIT, where I embarked another journey.
Boston looks more fun than st.louis. however, i only have two options either washu or babson. Washu itself has diversified school culture and well-rounded academics, and let me apply need based f.a. in the middle of college in case my family bankrupted.....too bad no more merit based stuff to apply second year</p>
<p>Good for you tangsdaily! I'm glad you chose wash u, and it's really nice that they let you apply for fin aid, too. I hope you enjoy your four years there :)
p.s. That Wellesley story gave me a good laugh!</p>
<p>hey, did any of you experience those college office bureaucracy? In which you are given an office phone number(usually admission office), later you make a call, and it always starts with the first person transfer you to a specific office; then person in the specific office transfers you to a representative, and the representative is not there and lets you leave a message or transfer you into another office which will also transfer you to somewhere in the galaxy far far away if you want to hold on to the phone to talk to a person. I had such clumsy experienced at bigger universities, sometimes lac's too. They drive me nuts, it's usually long-distance calls, and their bureaucracy is wasting millions..................sigh.......... there are other forms of bureaucracies too in a college, in which one official tells you to consult another official and that repeats cycly.</p>
<p>I'd definitely encountered such irresponsible staff who excersied bureaucracy to such an extreme extent that I almost gave up the thought of attending that college...lol... That literally drove me nuts considering that I was calling from across the Pacific... Then I was frantically counting the minutes passed and trying to figure out how many dollars I'd wasted in making one stupid frustrating phone call. Applying to colleges can be a big investment considering how much time and money you're gonna waste in this whole stupid process. Despite its stupidity, everyone has to go through it to reach where you wanna be.</p>
<p>i think so, right? don't they usually say 'check all that apply'?
rhomtyr, are you starting your college apps now? great idea, waiting 'till the last minute really backfires.</p>
<p>i knew bow is going to say that, actually
just left that part blank, save you some time to chat im, appetite to eat general tsao chicken, and ink to draw mustache on britney spears.
those admission officers(which I was ****ed about in my last post: a good number of them still lack the knowledge of admissions, you will find out if you ask or phone them some specific questions), anyway, those admission officers will eventually know you are asian(assume everyone's chinese on this thread), not simply through your last name, but also your international student status from some asian country, parents economic circumstance(if with financail aid app), teachers' recommendations saying you are the most oustanding international/asian/chinese student he/she has seen........ that whole racial survey thing can be discarded. you might feel bad to fill that survey knowing that you can be easily brushed off by affirmative actions at top schools when outcrying to them that you are chinese which is the ethnic group with average 1500 sat, 5ap, 4.5gpa.... nothing against affirmtive actions here, it has postive and negative impact</p>
<p>my plane leaves new york june 7th... can't wait.... *sighs... i wonder what i should do for the next two weeks... all my friends will be gone by then everyone's so eager to leave. i was thinking about working again for 2 weeks, so i can buy a load of clothe in china, but then, i mite get too lazy... SUGGESTIONS????</p>