<p>^yeah this and SSP are scheduled to release everything at about the same time this year, so all the waitlist stuff will be taken care of pretty quickly</p>
<p>Uh, sh-t.</p>
<p>I was reading over my Clark essay to see if I could reuse it for some other program (I couldn’t, and what’s worse, I had procrastinated for four hours hoping I could :P) and found two typos. One was a minor consistency detail that I hope no one noticed and the other was a subject-verb disagreement that stood out a tad more.</p>
<p>This is coming from the person who wrote about being nitpicky about grammar and spelling in his essay.</p>
<p>How much do they weigh typos, again? ■■■.</p>
<p>chase, I’m pretty sure typos =/= passion or smarts, so you’re fine :)</p>
<p>wow khan academy is my savior</p>
<p>browndbaternerd, thanks :).</p>
<p>meganfoxftw, yes, totally. Also see [Carnegie</a> Mellon’s OLI](<a href=“http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/]Carnegie”>http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/) and the [Saylor</a> Foundation’s collection of courses](<a href=“http://saylor.org/]Saylor”>http://saylor.org/), both excellent and free way to learn. And better than my sometimes-useless teachers.</p>
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<p>Seriously? Typos? I cringe in agony every time I read my Clark essay, and you’re worried about typos?</p>
<p>^ I changed an adjective at the last minute, so there’s an “an comprehensive” somewhere in my essay. Whoops.</p>
<p>proletariat2, I also didn’t properly cite two quotes I used. (I mentioned the respective authors in each sentence, but I didn’t know if they wanted a “real” citation.) That’s kinda freaking me out, because some of my teachers think that’s bad and some think inline attribution is fine.</p>
<p>Who is sending in their SAT scores? I asked Ms. Durham about it to confirm if this update would be okay and am waiting for a reply.</p>
<p>I did.</p>
<p>I was going to update her with my AIME/ACS scores and other math stuff, and then SAT scores came out, so I thought I might as well. It’s kind of just an attachment to my other updates. I wouldn’t do it if I’m updating only SAT though.</p>
<p>batfan, let us know if she wants an update, because i’m curious too! even though i won’t be sending SAT scores</p>
<p>My SAT score was less than stellar, so guess I’m not sending that in.</p>
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I got a 2260, absolutely pitiful IMO, considering one of my friends got a 2400 and I’m as “smart” as she is. I would have been content with anything above a 2280, considering my PSAT score was 228. Ugh, now I have to take it again and it was boring-er than the ACT last time.
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<p>I was told not to send anything now unless asked for…Anyone else?</p>
<p>oooh 
darn i kinda wanted to send an update. oh well thanks for letting us know… UNLESS SHE ACTUALLY TOLD YOU TO SEND ONE AND YOU’RE TRYING TO SABOTAGE OUR CHANCES!
lawlzz… i think i should be worried that such a thought even occurred to me. also i should probably go to bed</p>
<p>Well, because there are soooo many applicants this year, I think Dr. San Fran is quite swamped with reading them. So don’t worry - decisions are nowhere near done and it’d pointless to speculate on your chances.</p>
<p>No, haha, I promise it’s not sabotage. 
Even last week I thought updates were okay but it looks like now we can’t.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I think this is probably it. This year’s applicants are going more than a bit overboard on all this update stuff. I don’t think anybody from my year really cared that much. It didn’t even occur to me to update after I got a 36 on my ACT. I understand that things are more competitive now, but don’t freak out, guys!</p>
<p>^ How much detail should go into the research area topics ?</p>
<p>Sum12345, the deadline for applications is over…</p>
<p>For reference, the answer is always “the length of a proper girls’ skirt”. That means it should be short enough to keep it interesting but long enough to cover the topic.</p>
<p>(That wasn’t an original analogy, by the way.)</p>