COSMOS 2012 Waiting Board

<p>Junior (class of 2013)</p>

<p>I’m class of 2012 aka A SENIOR. BE JEALOUS. No more SATs for me! :D</p>

<p>C/O 2014! :slight_smile: Once this week is over, I officially have spring break and in about a month we’ll know if we got in!
@choco Do you remember if you received your acceptance letter before the given date that you were supposed to get it? And do you remember around what time of the day you received your letter? I’m all about the little details…its alright if you do not remember x)</p>

<p>Hehehe we currently have 2 sophomores, 1 freshman, 1 junior, and 1 senior! :D</p>

<p>(compulsively checking my email even though I know the letter won’t come until later…)</p>

<p>On yet ANOTHER side note… do y’all know what colleges you want to go to? :]</p>

<p>I have no idea right now which specific college I want to go to, but my #1 choice of place I want to go to college is California! However, I’ll still apply to non-Californian schools, like MIT and Georgia Tech, and a couple of schools in Indiana like IU or Purdue.</p>

<p>C/O 2014! (Sophomore)</p>

<p>They guarantee the acceptance/rejection letter BY May 1st, but you’ll most likely get it before then, i.e. the last week of April.</p>

<p>I keep picturing the COSMOS email in my inbox and feel the premature anxiety and then end up fearing the actual email. D:</p>

<p>@chocochips Wait, so do they assign final research topics? You said that you “got” a really easy form of alternative energy and that got me wondering. If so, when do they assign the projects and about how long to you end up working on them?</p>

<p>A lot of people on this thread seem to be applying to UCD like I am. In past years’ threads, only some UCD applicants popped up every now and then haha Most were applying to UCSD/UCI.</p>

<p>Email from COSMOS:
Congratulations = acceptance
Thank you for your application = rejection</p>

<p>-_- It would kind of suck to get rejected… and then have to take AP exams the following week.</p>

<p>Wow, so many people online at the same time! XD I am going to apply to Cal, UCSD, UCD, USC, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon (probably the only OOS I’m going for). For some reason, Ivies have never really appealed to me.</p>

<p>The first three I mentioned are really my top choices though. I don’t want to stress out writing so many application essays when the “lowest” universities appeal to me the most. I’ll only go to a private college if I can get over 50% scholarship (although I don’t think it’s quite likely). I don’t mind though, because I’m not really going for prestige until grad school.</p>

<p>I should be writing my Euro paper… but CC is more important ;)</p>

<p>I have wanted to go to Yale for so long, but I’ve realized that it’s pretty much impossible to get in. UC’s are closer to reality, although I really want to go to college OOS. California can get boring, LOL.</p>

<p>@missiris - I feel the same! Yale is kind of a dream school but I know there’s like a 99% chance of me NOT going there…</p>

<p>I’ll probably end up at a UC… UC Berkeley is another dream but my parents keep saying it’s too tough -_-</p>

<p>oh man I kind of forgot about this after I turned in my app! xD hi guys~</p>

<p>I applied for UCSC, video game design and the cryptology cluster. U/W GPA is a 3.90 (because of PE and drama 1st semester last year, sob) and my school doesn’t weight grades :frowning: My extracurriculars are pretty bad, welp.
I’m pretty nervous about it since I applied last year too and didn’t get in, lol. Though I only applied for one cluster last year, which might’ve been the reason. And I feel like my essays this year are a lot better, so hopefully haha /crosses fingers</p>

<p>Annnd… if I don’t get in, I’ll probably do some volunteer work, get a job at the local swimming pool, take physics at the community college, and study for SATs |D oh and i’m a sophomore!
…I think that covers most of the questions I remember from reading through the thread xD (/read entire thread because she is a horrible procrastinator oops)</p>

<p>@vivng6991 The fool I am, I’m still probably going to apply to Yale for the heck of it. ;)</p>

<p>@missiris I’d probably apply too! (If only to say I got in) ;D</p>

<p>My friends think its ridiculous that as a sophomore, I’m already planning my way to college.
In all honesty, I don’t mind going to a less prestigious college. However, my dream colleges are Cornell and Standford. If push comes to shove, I don’t mind attending a UC. I am in looove with UCSD’s campus however, its too close to home. My mom would make me live at home and I really want to live in the dorms for my first year. It’d also be nice to get into Cal or UCI :)</p>

<p>@afourally Really, your friends think you’re ridiculous?! At my school, it’s considered ridiculous if you don’t start thinking about college in middle school. I guess it really depends on where you go to school/who your classmates are. Although my HS is academically known (Newsweek Top 50, although those rankings are skewed), I find it kind strange that people think you’re crazy. :O</p>

<p>2014 sophmore unite :smiley:
speaking of colleges i wana get in…
Stanford is my best choice since it’s not that far…but I’m not gonna get in LOLOLOL
UCLA- I heard they have a huge stem cell bank
Berkeley- not that good for medicine but oh wells</p>

<p>Sophomore as well :slight_smile:
And I don’t really have a single dream college. I’m definitely applying to UCI, UCSD, UCB, and UCLA. Stanford, Dartmouth, Brown. Maybe ASU and UCSB as safeties.</p>

<p>@missiris Yeah…people at my school like to just party and what not. Don’t get me wrong, I like going out too but my priorities lay in my future. My parents always wanted me to go to more prestigious high schools but I just can’t find the heart to leave the kids I’ve been with all my life.</p>

<p>I don’t mind being the nerdy one out of my friends though. I think of it as, “Atleast I have a goal in life.” Though this may sound horrible, community is NOT an option to me. I’d just cry my heart out if that’s where I’d have to go. (Not that community is bad or anything, I suppose.)</p>

<p>@afourally Yeah, I totally understand you. Some people see communities as their backup, but that’s just not even an option. Of course Ivy League would be awesome, but there’s always grad school for that. :]</p>

<p>LOL, and yeah you need to let loose sometimes. Parties are cool. Hahaha.</p>

<p>@afourally I’m visiting colleges this summer and my mom fears I’m going to fall in love with UCSD even more once I see the campus since it’s already in my top 3 college choices for its program. She doesn’t want me going very far and hopes that I will get into COSMOS so I can appreciate Davis better since it’s 20 minutes from home. Which colleges have you visited and how does UCSD compare? Also, is it true housing prices are extremely high in La Jolla?</p>

<p>I want to major in Chemical Engineering and would love to go to Cal, but I heard that I’m going to die from the work… and it would hurt me since I want to go to grad school to earn a master’s in engineering. Do you guys agree with this? There aren’t that many people I can talk to about this subject, sadly… like afourally.</p>

<p>@KenLOL95 That is a lie. Berkeley has a great premed program!</p>

<p>To me, too many people are ambitious and want to go to /extremely/ prestigious schools for undergrad studies. It’s kind of a waste of money and it will be extremely difficult to compete with students there, which will screw you over for grad school admissions. I’d be fine with UCSD or UCD… I’d get much better scholarships too if I resist the urge to go to Stanford/Cal if accepted haha</p>