<p>@Raith - Our final reports are received only after the decisions!! Which means… it really doesn’t matter!!
Anyway - all the top applicants would’ve done well!! :)</p>
<p>And thanks!!</p>
<p>Actually even Drexel is too damn costly!! 60k USD per year(with living,etc.)!! These pvt. universities make a killing out of it!!</p>
<p>@Rishav
Yea, I think they are about the same cost!
The letter I received said that it was still conditional on my performance on the rest of my academic pursuits - I suppose they didn’t realise I was out of uni? haha weird…</p>
<p>I still think you will get a lot of acceptances… and hopefully most will come with aid</p>
<p>hey guys…(especially Raith) Nice to see this thread alive and kicking…though I may have to go off this thread if D doesn’t respond soon…But until then…:D</p>
<p>@Rishav…So they screwed the **** out of you guys in Math…but don’t these count for our Mains exam???Wonder how they are going to normalize this then…
Oh and Hi Krishna!!Nice to see another Indian…(especially a Bangalorean)…All the best to you!!
@Raith …looks like some spare time to have a bit of fun right!!!
Boards start on 1st…with English…lol…Not going to hit my books till tomorrow morning!!</p>
<p>@Quiver
Hey, I am trying Actually had to ride my bike to the phone store 3 times cause the first 2 I forgot my ID number haha… so now I have a 3G internet dongle (kinda more so I can skype this one girl… amazing what good motivation they are hey) :D</p>
<p>Well that will be for Friday night hopefully - one of the pubs here maybe Otherwise said girl’s birthday party in March :P</p>
<p>Haha, I assume English isn’t much of a worry for you then? :P</p>
<p>@Raith - Haha!! 
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<p>And I think Quiver has CBSE English - which is quite easy!! :)</p>
<p>@Quiver - It does count for JEE. Maths didn’t **** as such - just that most will probably get 3-4 marks below their expectations!!</p>
<p>Nah…only for my parents and teachers…
Oh and Guys I got selected for Robogames 2013…supposed to be the Intl robotics olympiad…and I am the only high school senior…the min. qualifications to compete(if you aren’t me;)) is is 2years in Engineering from college…yay :D</p>
<p>@Quiver
Well done! I’d love to take part in one of those competitions And now with what I have been learning I feel I finally can help xP haha</p>
<p>@Raith
Congrats! I think you will get accepted to other universities too but at least you end up somewhere and can transfer! 
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<p>@krishna
Welcome :)</p>
<p>Btw, how much will a bad recommendation hurt? :/</p>
<p>Hello people! Though i am quite late to be joining this thread now, but here is another Indian applicant from Kolkata! :P</p>
<p>@Sunny
Thanks, I really do hope so! :D</p>
<p>I think recs are very important… I don’t know how much a bad rec would hurt, but I’m sure not enough to really throw your chances away</p>
<p>@Saharsh
Welcome welcome! We really are getting loads of Indians aren’t we :P</p>
<p>What is your intended area of study and do you have any ECs that you do a lot and have fun with? :)</p>
<p>@Raith
Thanks, that’s disappointing that they are very important :/</p>
<p>So, I think March 28 or April 1 (decision day) is going to be a really disappointing day for me. At least it’s eastern and I will have a lot of chocolate </p>
<p>@quiver
Congrats! Any chance to see your robot somewhere on the internet? :)</p>
<p>@Sunny
I think it does depend on the university though, hopefully not important enough that you don’t get acceptances and financial aid :)</p>
<p>Chocolate is good! ;)</p>
<p>@quiver - WOah!! Congrats!! </p>
<p>@Sunny - A bad rec?? It actually might hurt you ~ depends on the university & what the letter actually says!
But 2 questions - How do you know the rec was bad?? And if you knew it was going to be bad, you couldn’t you have gotten one from someone else??</p>
<p>BTW… I LOVE CHOCOLATE!! :D</p>
<p>Sunny… once you are part of the Indian team…you build a robot on spot for the competition and compete against other’ robots…More or less like Real steel(watched it today afternoon…)</p>
<p>Oh and thanks guys…I am soo gonna love this(hope the adcoms do too!!;))</p>
<p>@quiver - I watched real steel this afternoon too!! :D</p>
<p>And I just looked up the website - It looks like anyone(above the age limit) can register!! :O</p>
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<p>I was just stirring the pot. So, which frat are you thinking of pledging?</p>
<p>@perrazziman - Ahh! </p>
<p>Right now my mind hasn’t really gone past thinking about the decisions!! If & when I get accepted, other thoughts will follow!! :p</p>
<p>But mostly I don’t think I’ll join a frat… cause from what I’ve heard - you can have a colorful social life, even without joining a frat!! :D</p>
<p>@Raith - OMG Yaayy Congratsss Youre going to Uni hahahahah :P</p>
<p>Thank god Ive got a gap year, seeing you guys fret over the boards and the decisions makes me feel Im lucky I didnt have to manage the two! :)</p>
<p>Also, this post seems to have been hijacked by us Indians haha.</p>
<p>Welcome Krishna! Youre pretty competitive man, Im sure youll end up with loads of acceptances.</p>
<p>@Rishav
Aww come on, no frat?! If we both get in and go we have to ok? haha. Nah, obviously frats don’t control every aspect of social life - I still think it adds to it though :P</p>
<p>@Blue
Haha thanks bro - it is quite a relief. I also agree with how you feel about not having to juggle the two.</p>