<p>Hey guys, sorry I’ve been off this weekend! Been missing this crowd! (Just no internet at home, only at work… and my phone is just a pain) haha.</p>
<p>The G** is God - I put the asterixes when I think it could be offensive to some people :P</p>
<p>@Rishav
So glad you finally got your Pton interview organised! </p>
<p>@Hopingforbetter
I didn’t get any question similar to what you said, apart from what I am wanting to get out of Pton. There are no set questions that they are supposed to ask, they get an email basically just telling them to ask questions, find out about the person, and then write a 500 word report (give or take). Well according to my interviewer.</p>
<p>Best of luck to all the Indians in their Maths on Tuesday and English on Thursday! best of luck.</p>
<p>I also got quite a lot of VIP applications; Drexel, UKentucky, and a couple others… I didn’t apply to any of them though.</p>
<p>Hope everyone is doing well and not dying completely from all the stress of exams and results :P</p>
<p>Don’t know if I have missed anyone out… but here is the update guys :)</p>
<p> ** <strong><em>Update</em></strong> ** </p>
<p>MRU – Mauritius/South Africa/UK
Blue – India
Miller – Kenya/Tanzania
MeIsHM – UK
PO – UK/Oman
Canadian2013 – Canada
Keya – India
Iboss – South Korea
Rishav – India
Lemming101 – UK
Sunny – Germany
Quiverfox – India
Lefty - India
French - France
Ishfromaus – Australia
GoingToDart – Belgium
Penny – Italy
Konspace - Georgia
Caribgurl – Caribbean
NockNock – Caribbean
Jawad – Pakistan
KD – Canada
Prosper – Uganda
Rew – India
dbtocollege – UK
Hopingforbetter – India
Betterhope - India</p>
<p>[ul][<em>]27 people who have written in about themselves
[</em>]18 Countries represented
[li]3 people accepted ED[/ul]</p>[/li]
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<p>Guys I need some serious advise…
Should I call admissions Dartmouth…or should I wait for a response for my mail…
Their deadline is Feb 28…and I don’t know How I can submit school transcripts again…Is it part of the school report…or something else!!!
Help…Im am a little worried now:(</p>
<p>Wait, are you talking about a “school profile” or are you talking about your “High School Transcripts” ???</p>
<p>If it is your high school transcripts, then ask your counselor/principal/whoever to recheck whether he/she submitted the Secondary school report & the International supplement to it. Usually, as it is with the commonapp - there is a “save” button and a “submit” button - my counselor had saved it and let it go, but I asked her to recheck after my Penn portal showed “not received” long back!! :)</p>
<p>If you’re counselor/principal has submitted it and Dartmouth hasn’t got it - CALL them up ASAP or ask your counselor/principal to call them up ASAP. Mostly they’ll ask you to the mail the documents again! :)</p>
<p>If it’s the “school profile” - then it’s another headache altogether!! But that doesn’t count in the admission process!! :)</p>
<p>@Rishav
Yea, still basically shadowing, but I am actually doing a lot of the work not just watching so trying to work out ways of taking out and fixing hard to reach spots.
Right now we are taking apart the front wheel lock system. I did watch one of the electrical engineers change about 10 or so wires from a broken port/housing to a better one which was kinda cool.</p>
<p>The pilots license will take about 3 months bro I have to get about 40 hours flying as well as study the book and pass all the exams xP it will take a while.</p>
<p>Ahh, yeah - forgot about the hours you need to have to get a pilots license!! And actually 40 hrs seems a bit low!! </p>
<p>That’s cool man!! It’s one thing sitting there and watching people do stuff, but it is so much more interesting when you get to talk about it and do it on your own!! :D</p>
<p>@Rishav
40 hrs is the minimum anyway but it is quite a lot. It would be between 35 - 55 flights I’ve or take depending on ho long the flights are and what type of flights.</p>
<p>It definitely is a lot more fun not just watching! Like nothing has been particularly difficult or requiring much thinking, but it is still very good practice, I also get to see all the cables and shafts in the planes, whic is pretty cool :)</p>
<p>Quick question to all you Indians/Pakistanis
I met many Indian/Pakistani applicants in person and on CC and it seems like ALL of you guys are applying to engineering/CS/Physics…
Can I ask you guys why?
Do your respective nations encourage you guys to pursue education in those fields?</p>
<p>Sorry if this sounds racist/hostile/whatever, but curious!
I know India and Pakistan are up-and-coming IT nations so maybe that’s why?</p>
<p>@Iboss1223 - Well, in India (Don’t know about Pakistan), a lot of students choose engineering just because the pay & job opportunities are better after college!! Other “majors” such as journalism, sciences, etc are prevalent but less frequently chosen just because in India there aren’t many GREAT colleges for these fields and you don’t get guaranteed work after those degrees!! And MOST people can’t afford to waste 1-2 yrs of their life & certainly can’t afford quality education!! So in general, lot of students lean towards conventional - engineering/medicine/finance & business courses for a better life…</p>
<p>As far as for applicants applying abroad - I guess it is just a happy coincidence!! For example - one of the major reasons of my applying abroad is that - I’d like to do something related with Environmental engineering & Electrical Engineering… but in India - there is nothing such as environmental engineering & there’s no scope after college!! </p>
<p>@lboss - Im applying for Economics with a minor in Political Science/Government.
And Im Indian :P</p>
<p>But yes a majority go for STEM related fields just because the pay is better.
Youd be surprised at the number of people who study Engineering only to go ahead and study in a B School. Half the population (NO OFFENCE) sees it as a way to get rich : Engg + MBA = Moolah.</p>
<p>Iboss, the other reason is that socially and artistically each society is different, so what is learned here does not always apply back home. Science and Engineering are uniformly more universal, so what you learn here applies equally well back home easily. More importantly, what you learn there in science and math applies more universally to what you do in school here. So, in science one is better prepared to succeed here. </p>
<p>The other reason is the immigrant fear of discrimination. When there are five applicants for a job and all are equally qualified, the immigrant fears that the job will go to the local white guys. So, they prepare for jobs in fields that have high objective barriers to entry. In other words, jobs where an objective high level of math is needed rather than subjective skill sets acquired in a frat or on the golf course or in a bar. :)</p>
<p>@Quiverfox - Have you tried <a href=“mailto:admissions.office@dartmouth.edu”>admissions.office@dartmouth.edu</a>?
They usually take 2-3 days to reply. So Id say wait for a while if youve already mailed them.</p>
<p>@perraziman - I think that’s less of a concern nowadays(if there is any at all) - “white man getting the job”. </p>
<p>I think the main factors are money/stability, lack of opportunity in other fields(in India) and the lack of awareness among the mjaority of students about other prospective academic fields.</p>
<p>@quiver - try <a href=“mailto:admissions.office@dartmouth.edu”>admissions.office@dartmouth.edu</a> !! In the past week, I sent them 2 mails - each of which they replied back to within 2 days!! :D</p>
<p>@quiver - At what time have you been calling?? They usually answer calls from 9pm (IST) to 4am (IST)!!</p>
<p>Also with the emails - try this trick, email them at sometime between 9-10pm (IST), that is when the offices open & they check their inboxes from first to last. If you send an email in the non-working hours, it will get buried under a pile of emails!!</p>
<p>I am from India
Name: krishna
:
Hobbies/ECs:Oracle Thinkquest Web Application Development Under-17 3rd place in the world (switchcase.info), Varsity Basketball, Point Guard - MVP DPS Sharjah’s Basketball Tournament(30 PPG) and MVP 8th Emily Emmanuel Tournament(21 PPG, Infosys Catch Them Young Program 2009, 9th-10th grades,Best Delegate in VIMUN and COMUN (Colombo) and also Director General TISBMUN II, Community Service Volunteer, Junior Red Cross Hyderabad - Provided medicines to pharmaceutical zonal offices Participated in counseling in blood donation camps Visited government schools to do blood grouping, 9th-12th grades, Community Service Volunteer, For UNICEF Children as Media Producers, I documented the impacts of an upcoming school on the education of underprivileged children and submitted it to UNICEF,• World Robot Olympiad – 12th
I was chosen to represent India along with my team at the World Robot Olympiad 2012, Malaysia. My team was chosen after we scored a perfect 200 in Nationals, • Received 14 principal’s commendations for academics and contributions to school – 11th and 12th. </p>
<p>And if you want… intended major:Computer Science for most of the schools,
Cognitive Science & Computers for 3 schools
Electrical Engg. in 1 school.</p>
<p>Admissions so far received from: UIUC: Computer Science & James scholar
UT/Austin: Turing Scholar in CS & also in Electrical
Engineering</p>
<p>Wish you good luck and all the best my friends,</p>
it is my holiday and I am basically working a full day