<p>I did hear that a student got into Berea. But I suppose that s/he also got into better colleges with good scholarship. So someone else might get lucky :)</p>
<p>jason: all the best for whatever choice you make!! i would be very glad to read your essay do PM me or even e-mail me.. my english is not great … although i’d be most happy to come to the aid of my friend.</p>
<p>to all those who made it: many many congratulations</p>
<p>and for all the others: may god be with you! and best wishes for whatever you chose to do…you all are in my prayers…sincerely…! best wishes once again</p>
<p>kushal: thanks, mate.</p>
<p>i know the two of them who got into trinity- one is toxic, and other is kusalpurie…</p>
<p>and ppl you should definetely consider taking a gap year..i highly recommend it. coz look at the success stories from taking gap years:
one got into gettysburg (ED)
one got into trintiy(ED)
one got into oberline(ED deferred and got in RD)
one got into middlebury
and one into stanford…</p>
<p>if by chance you are going to come to colleges such as caldwell or lee, wait till the spring semester…6 months will not hurt anyone…apply ED carefully by raising your SATs and focus on your essay…essay is very important, it should demonstrate mostly your writing skills and personality…write good recos that displays your personality and apply…if you get into ED that’s great. if you don’t then come at spring…
colleges can make or break you…a good college education is worth investing a lot…it’s highly important which college you attend…and don’t think us education is easy…to earn As is pretty tough and you have to invest…and if you start working, you have no time left over for recreation or working on your transfer application…transferring is a very difficult thing, and it is very very hard to get in…you might end up frustrated and dissatisfied, coz you know that you have the potential to excel even at harvard. well that’s the case here at caldwell…there are a lot of excellent students just frustrated and just want their life to get better…money is a huge aspect, jobs are impossible, and education is somewhat tough(not very much, but you do have to devote your time, and you can’t skip classes as more than 2 abscences will lower your grade significantly)…
if you need advice just ask me…we are atleast 12 sxc students, and 8 bnks students who all applied at good schools but ended up here…caldwell’s ok, but that’s it…you’re going to be average, and if you think you have the potential to become exceptional, i recommend taking a gap year, or six months and reapplying..just ask us for help…we are there to help out…</p>
<p>Good luck for all of you awaiting decisions, and congratulations to all those accepted…</p>
<p>toxic!!! u got into Trinity??? great man :D</p>
<p>toxic-rithhe got into Trinity?? wow!</p>
<p>Oho congratulations.</p>
<p>I absolutely agree with Trans_int 007 when he says that taking a gap year is much better than going to a school below your par … Agreed. But this proposition isn’t without a huge risk. What happens when you take a gap year and still can’t raise your SAT Scores?? Well it actually can happen because while taking a gap year, your study regime gets disrupted badly.. while earlier you’d be flooded with work related to studies, now you don’t have to study except for your SATs or related examinations… this reduces your mental abilities badly…after all it’s all about practice…But more Devastatingly, what happens even after you’ve dedicated a year to this process and still you don’t get into a good school ?? that’s a tough situation which will leave you even more frustrated. My simple urge is to gauge yourself before you take one of these important decisions… But again if you do get in .. your life is made…( Literally though…hehe).. think carefully…</p>
<p>@ MCCCLIII, Dude I absolutely love your idea man … highly enterprising, I feel. If I were only accepted at those awesome and jaw dropping schools, I would have definitely tried your idea…</p>
<p>PPL let us appreciate creativity, regardless of its relevance…</p>
<p>congrats toxic fr getting into trinity. 3 from sxc .great.</p>
<p>vote of thanks to jashon shah for his self retrospection. i personally recommend him to take a year gap. but i am sure that he will get into jacobs. ani if he is planning for engineeiring or logistic major i dont think that jacobs is a bad choice, if one is really aiming to work hard for three years. as per me i would be happy enough to get into jacobs as i wish to major in engineeiring.</p>
<p>About my self analysis:
Bad luck started since first year. 80% mark missed by one mark in consecutive year thus hanging into gpa of 3.75 with just two marks. again not so confident that i would get into great colleges, so opt to go hand in hand taking sat as well as IOE. again bad luck. that **** IOE exam got posponed and my sat 1 for oct and ioe got clashed. posponed my sat to dec. thought got into ioe but had a hectic sedule. sat2 nov3, toefl-nov24, sat 1-dec1. two week prep for sat2, one week -toefl, sat 1 same around. you can guess the result. how bad.
though having good ecs and teachers reco, bad scores hurt man. essay too not so touchy .financing may also be the cause. i was also just slightly higher that you around 3K. so as to me i know what went wrong where. and i am not going to repeat that again if … in my further endeavour.</p>
<p>It seems Trinity doesn’t love BNKS students much.</p>
<p>And yeah, I would rather say not to take a gap year. Almost all of us here have already have had a gap year. We are already older than the students who are going to attend college this fall. If you attend college next fall, your classmates are going to almost 3 years older than your peers. And a gap year is not just a year, you’ll have to wait for 18 more months just to get into college. That will need quite a patience from your side, with almost all your friends gone, life will surely be pretty boring, if not entirely loathsome.</p>
<p>Also, I feel that if you take a gap year, u’ll need some astoundingly solid ECs in your application for them to consider your worth. Our juniors, who applied right in their senior year, got in with relatively low SAT scores, good enough academics and “not-that-good” ECs. As you spend more time out of high school, colleges might want higher SATs for the “wasted” time, better ECs and an extremely good application overall.</p>
<p>Also, the competition for good colleges will surely be much more intense, fiercer next year than it ever was.</p>
<p>The thing someone suggested, about applying ED, and if not accepted, going to a lesser known college in the spring seems to be the best. </p>
<p>Some might say it’s just easy for me to blurt out some disadvantages, seeing that I myself have got into a good one. This is just something I had already decided upon: if I did not get into any good college, I would accept a place at whichever college accepted me, within reasonable financial estimates. Just my two cents..I believe many will differ with my opinions.</p>
<p>I sincerely pray that everyone here will get into somewhere really good; all here are really talented people, we deserve some really good place.</p>
<p>Personally, I support trans_int,…you can wait for some months, apply to Lee and others as safety, and apply ED to a college that matches your traits. ED is a very crucial thing. Some colleges give imporatnce to ECs (wash & Lee) others to recos, and even to your personnel qualities. You just have to find what you look strong on and apply ED to a college.</p>
<p>And, my friends who got into Trinity, Gettysburg (and even me) were not asked in any sort what they did in the blank two years. And the guy who got into dartmouth also had waited for 2 years.What is crucial is that your essay should reflect maturity and your confidence even after these years. It’s not only in ypur classroom that you learn. You learn everywhere if you want. You just have to show this to the adm com. And remember, they are also persons. I wrote personnel statement on why I lost two years and how these two years have shaped me into a mature and responsible guy instead of harming me in any way.</p>
<p>Conclusion : I) You can wait if you want. But have to show why waiting was imp for you.
II) It’s you life, you choice. You have to decide how and when and live it in your own way.</p>
<p>I don’t agree with bocca.
What he said is true to a certain extent, that is, if you spend your gap year doing nothing then there is absolutely no chance that you’ll get in the next year. If you do something useful, like get a job, an internship or volunteer at some organisation, its sure to pay off. And the year off will also help you mature, at least enough for college. It doesn’t matter if you’re a few years older than most of the class. Colleges don’t discriminate on the basis of your age. Its just that if you’re older and have been out of school, they expect you to have done something useful with your time. </p>
<p>I took a year off. Spent a year working for a newspaper and built a huge portfolio. Got a great reco from my boss. Made the portfolio look nice and sent it off. And wrote my essays also on the time I spent working. And results? Three great admissions. Have to pay very less. And one place, dont have to pay at all. </p>
<p>It all depends on what you do with your time. And you need to show that you’ve grown and learned something from your time off. Don’t slack around and be a bum. Do something. Apply yourself doing something you like. And its sure to pay off. Take it from a guy who did exactly the same.</p>
<p>If you think that you actually belong in a great school then take a year off and apply again next year. Just know your limits and your potential. You dont have to go to Harvard or Princeton. Scale yourself according to your level. Don’t settle for something less. Don’t go to a stupid ****ty place just because you didnt get in anywhere. If not America, then there’s always other places. Australia, India and even our very own Nepal. And trust me when I say Kathmandu University is better than the University of central oklahoma. </p>
<p>Anyway, all I wanted to say. If anyone wants to talk, you can always PM me. Good luck people. Hope everyone gets what they want.</p>
<p>i;m sorry it’s actually exist who got into trinity not the other guy..i got confused with their screen names 
…</p>
<p>And here’s my advice:
Taking a gap year is by far the best thing you’ll ever do in your life!!!Period…</p>
<p>Come to a below par college, you’ll be dissatisfied with everything you do. if you are a straight A student or have a 70% or above in ISC then you deserve a great school, even ivies…THE SAT CAN BE BEATEN…raise your points, build your resume(though ECs are not given a great deal of importance anywhere, maybe except the ivies)…all that counts are your academics and to an extent essays…and ED…ED is very crucial, and the guy who into gettysburg was going to come to caldwell with me, but i convinced him to not loose his ED chance…he got into his college, and he is pleased…
getting into a good college is life changing.i can’t stress it enough…atleast apply to BYU where you have a great chance of getting in, and it’s a fantastic, thoroughly excellent school (but be prepared to study a lot as it is not worse than IUB in its expectations from its students)…
and IUB is a brilliant school. almost ivy material, and if you are the studious type, and who can study, IUB is much better than almost all liberal arts college…and IUB has programs with Rice and Carnegie Mellon, where you can go to these schools and study for a semester and don’t have to pay anything except room and board…The Social Science department is highly respected and great. i personally believe it’s better than engineering too, but you’ll have to study…engineering is great at IUB too, very rigorous and highly acclaimed…
if you get into JUB then you’re set for life…It is so well regarded and so rigorous that students from lafayette can take engineering courses at JUB but students form JUB can’t go there, coz they believe that lafayette’s rigor is a par below that of JUB…JUB will perhaps be considered on the ranks of the ivy system pretty soon…the classes are very very rigorous, and i should defientely warn everyone of you…</p>
<p>if you are considering going to a sub par school, i will not recommend it..no way…
go to BYU or IUB or take a gap year, raise your SAT and STATS and apply…a gap year wont hurt you at all…it’s a big investment for a quality education which will help you succeed for the rest of your life…</p>
<p>again, any doubts, plz send me a message on CC…Good Luck :-)</p>
<p>@nepali69, (th)ink and trans_int007</p>
<p>Great posts mates! :)</p>
<p>Trans_int007, From your experiences in the US, how difficult do you think it would be to transfer from a lesser known to a good enough college?</p>
<p>Yea I needed to know the same thing as Bocca.</p>
<p>I am in favor of gap year if u dont get into any colleges this year…i kinda did so …if u would have asked me the question last year where i was going to study i would answer anywhere in Nepal but not abroad so joined IOE finished a year there (did very well)..now have quit IOE ani i am heading to IUB ( jacobs )…</p>
<p>So gap year may be beneficial, it doesn’t mean doing nothing the whole year…if u are so unsure about urself then joining a college here just as safety might be helpful…i 've seen a lot of people who did that last year…from my class of IOE 4 people have already left so that won’t be a problem…and age is no barrier…most of the students accepted this year at IUB is either 18 or 19…I will be 20 when i join but i am HAPPY :D…i will graduate at 23( ?? bad )..i will actually graduate at the same time with my frens of last year who are studying at 4 yrs institutions in US…</p>
<p>And lastly its going to come down to u, no one knows ur goals better than u yourself…but make the best use of it…good luck!!</p>
<p>“And lastly its going to come down to u, no one knows ur goals better than u yourself…but make the best use of it…good luck!!”</p>
<p>I completely agree with extinction. good luck and don’t be frustrated. Calm down and decide.</p>