<p>@sarbaraj It may seem illogical for sentence completion, but what about the passages? I mean they’re packed with weird words, aren’t they? And unless you have a good vocab, how can we tackle them?</p>
<p>^^I was talking about the paragraph and the words,
@sarbaraj101,I personally think that ultimately its your habit that helps you tackle those words. Because at least once, you must have seen almost all of those words if u have a habit of reading a lot of things in English…isnt it bro??</p>
<p>since i didn’t really have a good reading habit … for the vocab, what i did was noted down all the words that frequently occurred in the classics… and for me… they were more than enough… <em>except for a few sentence completions</em></p>
<p>Regarding the GPA for +2ers. Do colleges convert our % to GPA? Cause ive come across the following table for conversion of % to GPA:
80% + : GPA 4
75-80%: GPA 3.75
70-75%: GPA 3.5</p>
<p>Also, i’ve heard that they dont convert the % to GPA, the just check out our %. Can someone please enlighten me?</p>
<p>according to that conversion; 75%=79.9%…do you think that’s fair? 4% is not a joke dude. Just send them your % and they’ll work it out I guess. I sent them my transcript’s copy, SLC and HSEB. and it was fine.</p>
<p>^^ Just do as sixstringsrocker says…you can pm him…he knows a lot about that topic…whether or not to put the GPA yourself and blah blah…sometimes if you keep the GPA by yourself, it might be really <a href=“mailto:helpful..@sixstringsrocker…do”>helpful…@sixstringsrocker…do</a> u remember that guy from Malpi who had a ‘B’ in GP and still his transcript had a GPA of 4.0?</p>
<p>^ that is because Malpi just considers your best three A Level subjects for calculating the GPA… g.p. doesnt matter at all for the GPA (as its just As level)…
and as for this GPA thing, what i understand is that different schools, boards etc etc. have different methods of mark comparisons, scaling etc. how about sending colleges whatever you have and letting them evaluate it (provided the ‘school profile’ tells the adcoms sth abt ur grading system) ? i sent my ‘Malpi’ style GPA to some colleges (which was a 4.0…ok this is no show off…n its fairly easy to get a 4.0 at malpi considering its only three a level subjects minus gp we’re talking about)and when i checked the portal, my Gpa was like 3.8 or sth…meaning to say…jus send them whatever you have…the evaluating part is something that adcoms will do…so i dont think this %, gpa thing should be a headache… jus my two cents though…correct me if i am wrong…</p>
<p>^Well, I was just trying to recall that thing from Malpi. I thought it helped him although he had a ‘B’. But I think, after what u have told, it was not so!
But GP, and As level everything counts, isnt it? Otherwise why are we just fooling ourselves by taking a course that is not going to help us in the admission process? (though there may be the compulsion by the MOE)</p>
<p>just like sikthsick says, send them whatever you have, adcoms will do the evaluating thing. I sent them a slightly different format for internal scores (i sent direct percentage for board exams). I converted it into grades 'cause grades would have been better for me.</p>
<p>But then, isnt that a little far away? Its just April and most of the class of 2015 wouldnt even have appeared the board exams. You can just send your board transcripts as it is, i think. correct me if i’m wrong…</p>
<p>^^ Yeah, it is quite far away, but i was hoping that if the conversion scales were true, even if i’d get like a 53% this time, my gpa would still be 3!</p>
<p>Jacobs University joins commonapp.org
As for the whole conversion thing I sent my agg. % as it was rather than converting it into a 4.0 scale.</p>
<p>yeah as the guys said…it isnt our prob that we r differentiated on %…it just happens to be with us n conversion isnt really necessary</p>
<p>i have 1 qn that is really bugging me these days …is there a difference in admission chances if we apply in ed (or ea or scea or etc) in a college and applying the same colz in rd ( or similar ) ??? do we get better chances in early actions???
( in betw yuppi , my 50th post)</p>
<p>I think there is. Applying ED shows that the particular college is your top choice and you are interested in them. that matters to the college.</p>
<p>It is irrelevant to consider an “artificial” GPA as an international candidate. Most schools have their international students’ grades converted using some idiosyncratic algorithm. Very few, if any, would look at what your high school sends, provided that you do not hail from an institution that is entirely AP based / US System Based.</p>
<p>Hey guys, can I file ISFAA with different informations to different colleges? Like if I apply to a need blind institution, why would I say that I can pay 5k, when they are BLIND! I think it will be seriously illegal to do so, but, still wanted to conform.</p>
<p>@Prasadian
I think I answered this question earlier too.
Actually, when the thing called “ED” was created, it was meant to be limited within an elite group of students! Many students had no idea about ED. Later, ED became so famous that now almost everyone does ED! Though ED might have moved from the elite group into everyone, the colleges still want the most talented student! And the trend is, usually a student EDs into a college where his stats are met. That creates a lot more chance and the student might even get admitted. Thats all with ED.</p>
<p>Its like: you have selected a college–> the average stats it shows are met by you–> you apply in ED–> there are few but strong students with commitment and best possible stats –>you have good chances and might even get an offer!</p>
<p>And, In most of the colleges, the ED acceptance rate in ED is way more then what is in RD. Remember, there are some colleges where ED acceptance rate is less than half of their RD acceptance. This usually happened last year and probably this year too, due to the financial crisis. Let me give you a small example, Bucknell University had acceptance rate of 27% for RD candidates in the year 2009(Class of 2013), the very year it had ED acceptance rate of 65%! Now you can see the difference.
Another example, Reed, had 35% acceptance in RD the same year. Guess what, their ED acceptance rate was 0 (ZERO). No one got admitted! I remember one of the seniors from BNKS saying, even the worse student from our school gets Reed. I felt like slapping him the very moment because of his arrogance. He himself didn’t get Reed and went to St. Peter’s. And, Reed is no more home to BNKS people. Reed is getting really very tight in admission policies. There was an article posted by ccprofile, you must have read it. That article also puts some light over the admission procedure and helps you visualize the actual scenario!</p>
<p>@confidential2015
yes … i did read the post from ccprofile n found it rather ordinary ( from the colz)…nonetheless it was help full…
thnxs for ur tips…any other words about chances?</p>
<p>Reed has become a lot lot tighter these days…damn !!!</p>
<p>The admissions rate for internationals seeking aid at Reed is ~10%–“easy” by no standards–and accepts around only 20 internationals every year with FA.
[College</a> in Need Closes a Door to Needy Students](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/business/economy/10reed.html]College”>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/business/economy/10reed.html)–This is an article from last year and I doubt much has changed since then.</p>
<p>@prasadian: EA won’t increase your chances and as for SCEA, I highly doubt it. In ED, however, it’s really difficult to tell. All you can do is apply and hope for the best.</p>
<p>@confidential: Well you “could” do that with ISFAA. However, as you said, it wouldn’t be right and will be completely unethical.</p>