<p>JUB decisions???</p>
<p>haha, i’m sorry for causing all the confusion…</p>
<p>and there are ppl who are severely against taking gap years-you’ll learn a little bit early,you’ll graduate earlier…etc…
Here’s my story:
I came to caldwell and I thought it was a good school. 21,400 and NY lured me in…then you start registering for classes and all the classes are filled with idiots who don’t know who the secretary of state of the US is(and these are college students taking a advanced political science class)…physics, they will spend 2 semester teaching you significant figures and these courses don’t transfer anywhere..they are college physics, and what you want to learn is university physics which is much more difficult…and chemistry, my first semester, i learnt what are symbols, hund’s rule, and basic grade9-10 stuff, biology was a little difficult, but becoz of the tests, too many tricky questions, and same goes for other subjects- the bare minimum is taught here…
and transferring is very hectic…the deadlines are on march, for most of them…you’ve to know professors, and fill out reports, the ISFAA and stuff, write stellar essays…and above all that you’ve to study as well…and if you live off-campus, you’ve to commute, make dinner,and work as well…so there’s a chance that you will not even start the transfer application process coz it’s takes too much time…and chances are the colleges will not accept you…</p>
<p>BUT, there’s a catch…IF YOU HAVE A RELATIVE THAT"S IN THE US WHO HAS A GREEN CARD OR IS A PERMANENT CITIZEN, YOU CAN HAVE THEM CO-SIGN A LOAN..YOU TAKE OUT A LOAN AND THEN APPLY TO COLLEGES.THE MORE YOU ARE WILLING TO PAY THE HIGHER YOUR CHANCES ARE…
YOU CAN STUDY AT GOOD STATE-UNIS, OR GET INTO TOP COLLEGES IF YOU HAVE OTHER FACTORS…THIS IS IMP. SO IF ANYONE WANTS TO BE CLEAR ABOUT THIS LOAN THING JUST PM ME…</p>
<p>Thank you guys for your really useful and informative posts. They are really encouraging to many of dejected and rejected of us.
Karki, all of my decisions r over, i was waitlisted at trincoll.
Good luck for your jub decision. Good luck to borde too and all of u guys who r waiting for jub decisions.
Please continue this discussion and keep posting.</p>
<p>Waitlisted at Williams. I so hate the word “waitlist” right now that I haven’t even been able to accept a spot in Carleton’s and William’s waitlist.
First Amherst, then Grinnell and Colby, then Carleton, and now Williams.:(</p>
<p>its crazy for most of us, skunk. Don’t lose hope, man. 
Zangokar said, in his post, that one student, in the past, had got accepted to Tufts and Northeastern through waitlist.</p>
<p>I guess last year…a student from BNKs got into Williams after a waitlist and another one to trincoll too…</p>
<p>skunk: colby is tufts syndroming you…you will get in for sure!</p>
<p>I’d posted a comment on the Colby admissions blog regarding their waitlisting, and I got this email:
Dear *,
First, let me apologize for the delay in responding to your comment on my blog posting about the wait list. I was away for several days and was unable to check my e-mail which alerts me to blog comments.
But more importantly, let me address your personal concerns. As you might know, I was previously a high school counselor before working at Colby, and it seemed that every year I had a student or two who was waitlisted everywhere. It always reminded me of the Roman Catholic concept of Purgatory: neither heaven nor hell. I am very sorry to hear that you are experiencing this. Since I am not responsible for reading the applications from Nepal, I pulled your file a few minutes ago so I could get a better sense of your application. I want to let you know that you did a fine job on your application: it’s not that there were any major failings. It is simply that the competition for places is stiffer than ever, and I am certain that this is the case with the other colleges to which you also applied.
As for what to do now, I’m afraid that there is no set course. At this point, no college knows whether it will need to utilize its wait list since accepted students still have four weeks to notify us of their plans. Once we have an idea of the number of students who have accepted our offers of admission, we will analyze a variety of factors including geographic and gender balance, our financial aid budget, academic and extracurricular interests, etc. Then we will try to fill any “holes” that we can identify.
As for you personally, *, you are clearly a bright and hard-working student. I understand your sense of profound disappointment over this turn of events, but I also know that despite your situation, you have not lost your intelligence, curiosity, or work ethic. I encourage you to consider alternative routes to your goals, one of which would be to study locally as an undergraduate and then to apply to graduate school in the U.S., the U.K., Australia, or wherever you wish.
Finally, thank you for reading my blog. I am glad to know that on some level it is helpful to you, even if only as an opportunity to vent your disappointment and frustration. I wish you all the best, and please feel free to be in touch with me if I can be of help to you.
Sincerely,
Dory Streett</p>
<p>Jason shah, I know u must have been going through a tough time but still work on colleges that have waitlisted you…send them more recos…share your work experiences(make it up if u don’t haven’t done anything significant)
show them that u r really interested…couple of my friend did that last year and a few of them were lucky enough… …Oh, regarding where I am studying, it doesn’t matter so much…I live in ny metro…
@purushottam…u can’t feel that way…u should be happoy…I compare trinity U with stanford…its a very good university in south, and in the nation too..specially if u r interested in engineering, u can do even better…cheer up, u got into a good university…a good student can excel in any university…</p>
<p>Admission Rates from some LACs (2008)</p>
<p>Davidson- 27.9 %
Claremont -19 %
Amherst- 12 %
WLU- 15.16 %
Williams 17 %
Swarthmore 15 %
Bates 26-27 %
Bowdoin 17 %</p>
<p>taking a gap year </p>
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<p>regarding tranferring from a relatively lowered ranked colleges to big schools is too difficult.it rarely happens..its not so practical unless u have someone in US who can co-sign or co-borrow for you. yet, I suggest you not to take a gap year…even I sometimes feel I would have got into top notch colleges had I waited for one more year; however, when I weigh experiences I have gained and what I have cumulatively learned, I feel I have gained much more than what I would have gained had I stayed back in Nepal. I understand that it may not apply to everyone, so I am just sharing what I was told by guys who opted to take a gap year. I read the post by intltrans_007 and I partly agree with him. However, what I want to point out is that the success rate of acceptence after a year is really low. the stats is pretty disguised. only 5-6( max 10-12) guys getting good colleges and that appears good to some of you. To tell you guys, the international transfer rate appears higher than that. </p>
<p>Things might be different for some of you..Some guys may have been rejected just because they were unlucky…might be they screwed up the sat or a simple test or didn’t prepare well for the essays…obviously, there are guys who deserve stanfords and mits who have been rejected..its good for them to wait..but what about the rest ??? 8-10% of them might be deserving..but what abt the 90%???they shouldn’t be so optimistic about getting into good colleges after a year…they should be realistic and should not be misguided to take a gap year(don’t take it harsh). come on, one year is a lot..that can really affect your mental abilites…</p>
<p>THe most important thing is that..if you come early, you get to know things early…you can plan your career well ahead if u r in states than from Nepal. there are hundreds of other universties that will give u good education in an affordable price…you can work and earn around 8000…at minimum…(conditions apply: u cannot afford to sleep 12 hrs or spend your money in buying liquours or dining in fancy restaurants out of laziness.). there are so many state universties that will allow u to pay in-state tuition…Public unversites might not give scholarships at first but they have a lot of scholarship for continuing students.. u can go to a college that will offer u co-ops or internships as part of the curriculum like northeastern…and universtiy of cincinatti…u make make 15000 on average to pay for ur expenses in co-ops…u can also apply to liberal arts colleges from here…one of my friends got into bates and other into brown…I can give u a lot of options…u can go to a community college first, make some money and later go to a university. there are so many options. u cannot afford to think stereotype…ivys and other private LAC’s aren’t the only good collges. every one cannot get into harvard or yale or stanford..be realistic..90% of nepalese students want full scholarship, and that is the reason why they rot in third-tier colleges…come on, u’ve got to be courageous enough to take the challenge and rise upto it. Trust me, you will get whatever u want if u are motivated to get it. and don’t feel sad if u have to struggle in undergraduate years because u will learn a lot lot lot lot about life more than a guy who attend princeton on a full ride…grasp the time…don’t consfuse yourself thinking what you might get and lose your time…get ahead, set your aspirations…plan for it…work for it…and u will be successful…U don’t have to go to MIT to be successful in life.</p>
<p>guys, don’t mind…for I have posted this article again…actually, I want to help those who are in a dilemma right now…and I know there are a lot of them. so I want my opinions to reach to wider audiences…sorry for that…and do feel free to ask any questions if you have…I would be always ready to help you with what I know…and I respect TRANSINTL_007’s opinions but I think it applies to very few students and I fear that others might get misguided…</p>
<p>hey imshrestha</p>
<p>good words of wisdom but honestly how to find the match? the example that u gave was good ppl instantly apply to LAC but seriously i think i too havent’ been able to figure out the match thing. </p>
<p>guys could anybody shed some light here.</p>
<p>what do u want to study and what’s ur stats???I can give u options but since I dont know u personally, it ur job to figure out which one suits u the best</p>
<p>what do u want to study and what’s ur stats???people can give u options but since only u know yourself the most, it would be ur job to figure out which one suits u the best…and u should research on colleges to find out which one suits u the most..u can identify patterns from previous year’s acceptances what kind of students the college typically wants…u cannot apply to reed and not mention that u love to read and u can handle almost any amount of reading…u cannot apply to mit and say u hate calculus…if u r applying to connecticut college, u’ve got to prove yourself a leader…for oberlin, u’ve got to be fearless, u’ve got to be a non-conformist, u got to have challenged the convention…and the list continues…research on those things that apparently look minor but reveal a lot about the college…read the essays that have worked…ask questions to students( preferably a nepalese or an international) who are studying in that college about the kind of students that college wants… this does not apply to some colleges that seek diverse students…for columbia college there is no typical type of student…everyone is different…good application requires a good research, good academics…good standardized test scores…there was a guy named prajanya who is in stanford right now…I had an oppurtunity to read his essays…they were so good in a way that it gave the admission officer a sense that he really knew a lot about the college and where they were located…for a college that was located in an urban area…he wrote that he was sick of living in rural settings and wanted a more heterogenous and vibrant environment…however, for another college that was in a rural setting he wrote just the opposite…what most people do is (on the deadline) copy and paste same essays and send them to every college they r applying…that may not work well…specially for colleges such as st. lawrence that are so undpredictable that there has been incidents when it has rejected students who have scored 2290 in sat(2 years back), wonderful gpa, ec’s and gpa’s and had accepted a guy who had a mere score of around 1800 and a pretty good academics…the guy who was rejected got into a very good LAC later one..so I am saying …that there are things’s that should be considered…I dont know how much u guys worked for your application …I am writing all this crap just to let u know…because a year back …I was in ur shoes and I knew very few people who could advise me well.</p>
<p>Whatever guys, never end up going to Kathmandu University, it’s a living hell in the ****ing face of this earth ? Just an advice from a person who committed many blunders.
I guess someone was mentioning about it earlier.</p>
<p>Technically speaking, everything there is now taught by passouts, just passed bachelor’s and started teaching undergrads. Practically a joke on anyone who studies there.Trust me , whatever people say, it’s a mess, i’ve stayed there. Good night guys</p>
<p>With all this talk about a gap year
What about the option of going to study in India and applying for graduate studies later on to the US?
After all they have good institutions too.
Places like IIT IIM and sorts.
Anybody any idea on how these institutions operate in relation to
foreign applicants?</p>
<p>Anybody yet to receive Wabash’s decision?</p>
<p>Hey,
After reading the message you got from an admission officer of Colby, I am optimistic that you may get accepted from the waitlist. I am in regular contact with other international students who have got into Colby. Some of them have been accepted to many good colleges and have still not decided whether to attend Colby or not. Some of them even say that they may not attend COlby because of the extreme climate of Maine.
Therefore, continue your correspondence with the admission officer and try to convince him that you will suerly go to COlby if you are offered admission. This way you can increase your chances of getting admission into COlby.</p>
<p>@karkip
i havent recieved wabash decision too. what about you</p>
<p>regarding your mentioning of IIT and IIM it is not easy man. as per IIT it is hardest. there will be around 5 lakhs best brains of india to compete for 4000 around seats to get into IIT and to get pass marks in the entrance is also very hard. and mind you it is not giving sat 2. you really have to be genius to crack physics and math question. But again if you get into IIT then you have already created your life man with yerly salary above 20 lakhs that too india. though you may earn after you undergraduate 50-60k in usa but after the living cost it is far less.</p>
<p>Personally i feel getting into IIT and IIM is harder than getting into harvards and MIT.</p>
<p>But if opting for indian route ,the best route will be indian embassy. take the embassy exam this april 26. if you come in top rank under 10. you will get placement in best NIT. and NIT is also not bad. It will be much easier to get into IIM from there. and once you have an MBA from IIM you need not worry about US. who cares when you will be earning 5-10 lakhs indian rupee per month that to india where living lost merely exceeds 1 lakhs per year for single.</p>
<p>lastly…
YOU KNOW WHERE TO GO. YOU NEVER HESITATE TO TRY DIFFERENT ROUTE. FINALLY CHOOSE THE THE BEST FROM THE BEST. EVEN YOU DIDNT GET BEST, CHOOSE THE BEST FROM REST.</p>