<p>Hey, guys! People who got into SHP - what do you think you're going to be studying this year? (Just trying to get a feel for who else is going to the program and who's interested in what. ^_^ )</p>
<p>congratulations everyone =) im so excited..my preference would be mathematics, but if there isn't any that can catch my interest, im probably going to take physics or chemistry...</p>
<p>anyone interested in psych? that's what i'll be doing.</p>
<p>and btw, the letter is very manipulative. you do not actually have to pay. columbia can dig into its sixth-largest-endowment-in-america, you don't have to check anything</p>
<p>Be prepared for the most brutually, suffocatingly, boring 2.5 hours of your life.</p>
<p>do you mind telling us which classes you've taken?</p>
<p>Astronomy
Relativity & Quantum Theory</p>
<p>The latter of the two is much more interesting but unfortunately it goes so deep so fast it quickly becomes impossible to follow.</p>
<p>I was in SHP for 2006-2007.</p>
<p>Human Physiology was pretty much 2.5 painful hours of lecture.</p>
<p>Into to Psych was actually very enjoyable (provided, of course, that you paid attention and participated). There was a lot of class participation in the lecture, and not just regurgitating information we had learned five minutes earlier.</p>
<p>I'm sure that the quality of the class is determined by the qualities of the teachers and the students, like everything else. (i.e., they can't all be that bad!)</p>
<p>Oh, and I just noticed - i didn't even say what I want to study!</p>
<p>I want to take a class in either computer science or geology/planetary sciences, if possible.</p>
<p>My daughter got in too. We feel so happy for her. We will pay full even we are not rich at all.</p>
<p>for those who have gone in the past, what is considered "satisfactory attendance" (as stated in the letter).? How many classes did each person miss on average? I know that i'll be busy for about 2-3 Saturdays during the school year, so I was wondering if that would be okay or not.</p>
<p>I have some questions:
If you get in once, do you have to keep re-applying?
Once you send in that form giving general information, when should you expect a reply from them?</p>
<p>Thanks, and I'm excited!</p>
<p>no, it seems that you dont have to keep re-applying once you're in unless you have a significant number of absences to kick you out.</p>
<p>how and when do you decide on which classes you want to take?
and i would also like to know how many absences you're allowed, because i'm definitely busy on a couple saturdays :/</p>
<p>If I couldn't get in does this mean I have no chance at Columbia/Princeton/Brown?</p>
<p>to collegehopeful78: no, i don't think so... a friend of mine got rejected this year, but he went to NJ gov school in engineering this summer... lol and I was accepted to Columbia SHP, but I'm only a finalist for the NJ gov sch in the sciences...:( I don't know if engineering is easier to get in than the sciences, but yea..that def. tells you a lot about the nature of all these programs as well as college admissions. "u never know"</p>
<p>is there anyone from NJ btw?? haha.</p>
<p>eff SHP</p>
<p>10 char</p>
<p>hell yea! i'm from NJ :)</p>
<p>Yep, my son - from NJ</p>
<p>bump</p>
<p>i’m sure SOMEONE knows the answer to the amount of classes we’re allowed to miss if we go to this program.</p>