<p>@Raith
You have to try it. It is so much fun except of the bruises you will get :D</p>
<p>@Sunny
Maybe in university 
Like I am quick and agile… just a big target xP</p>
<p>@Raith
to be tall and quick would actually be in your favour :D</p>
<p>@Sunny
I’m not tall… big… more like a rugby player 
But I am quick and agile that might help :P</p>
<p>I just found this
[TheDartmouth.com:</a> How Dartmouth Should Reject People](<a href=“http://thedartmouth.com/2012/04/27/mirror/rejection]TheDartmouth.com:”>http://thedartmouth.com/2012/04/27/mirror/rejection)</p>
<p>honestly if I get such a rejection, it will make my day :D</p>
<p>@raith, We study the same topics! But in a different order. (I’m in CBSE)</p>
<p>11th - Forces, Mechanics, SHM, Waves, Thermodynamics, (I may be missing something - Any CBSE students to back me up?)</p>
<p>12th - Electricity, Magnetism, Optics, Wave and Particle Nature of Radiation, Atoms and Nuclei, Semiconductors, Communication Devices</p>
<p>@raith @rishav I used the ‘quote’ topic on my Princeton essay too, but it was a quote from a book about walking, so it was kinda weird. :P</p>
<p>@everyone Oh I lovvvvved Chem!! I love Physics and Math too but Chem is my favorite! My great Chem teachers in 11th and 12th complemented my love. My Physics teachers were bad, really bad.</p>
<p>All those, who don’t love Chem, have this very reason: more memorizing! But I don’t agree with it. Every subject requires a lot to remember and Chem is no exception. </p>
<p>You find Physics lovable because it deals mostly with the things you see everyday but in depth. But Chem is not that way. I found Chem interesting because I have been directly involved with industrial chemistry since I was a small child. Chem is fun:)</p>
<p>@himanshu @Raith I loved both 11th and 12th Physics. And I don’t know what is taught in 11th and what is in 12th–the virtue of IIT-JEE coaching!</p>
<p>I am gonna email the UChicago admissions office and complain that people have used Princeton’s essay on UChicago supplement:p</p>
<p>@Himanshu
Exactly the same topics! (though the ones you remembered to include I forgot to xP )</p>
<p>@Hopingforbetter
I had the best math and physics teachers (well I think so I have a tendency to pretty much teach myself things)… Both had their PhD’s and lecture at the nearby university. My chem teacher wasn’t great in my opinion.</p>
<p>I actually preferred Maths and physics since you didn’t have to memorise a thing; you could get 90+% solely by understanding the subject… practice a little of course to keep things instinctive, but no real revising (or at least not for me)
Chem on the other hand for us required memorising almost all the time, unless you were like me and read further and tried to understand everything completely… which actually lead me to put in far more work than anyone else xP but given a question that has never been given before, I can make pretty good educated guesses.</p>
<p>For me physics just makes sense- it is extremely instinctive for me. Wanting to go into engineering (most likely involving fluid dynamics and machinery), physics plays a major role (it actually plays a major role in chemistry too).</p>
<p>haha!! go ahead… it isn’t like it would affect any of our applications now will it?
I just had so much trouble sticking with one essay… and then my grammar was technically wrong whenever I wrote my essays as they were more concerned with description - so I took the whole writer’s freedom sort of thing (until I realised they may just think my grammar is horrendous!) haha</p>
<p>Ha-ha don’t talk about the teachers’ qualifications. Most of my teachers completed their Masters and no one has a PhD. My Chem teachers were awesome, math were good and Phy were stupid. A lot of my Physics knowledge is through self-study. So I’m not as instinctive in Physics as in Chemistry. Ya Physics is everywhere, even in Chemistry in the form of “Physical Chemistry”.</p>
<p>I kinda found physics involved in every part of our chemistry: reactions, trends, physical chemistry, organic reactions (for benzene rings and chains), DNA, electro chemistry… everything Didn’t help me get over 90% though xP</p>
<p>reactions, trends, electro chemistry are parts of physical chemistry:p But I wonder what physics did you find in organic chem???! Hey isn’t DNA related to biology?</p>
<p>Well organic chem follows trends, and once you get the idea of charges and what can happen when other charges or chemicals come nearby you can predict all sorts of things (reagents, catalysts, products, routes…)</p>
<p>Yea, DNA is part of bio… but it is quite an important part of Cambridge A Level chemistry - we have to understand how and why things happen (like the cells forming a potential across their membranes, RNA, how a strand of DNA is replicated, the proteins and all sorts of other stuff… wasn’t my favourite section)</p>
<p>Hey you are such a freak to find that physics in organic Chem. I never observed physics there!! But those involve a lot of electro-negativity, electron affinity, chemical properties. Not all positive and negative species react easily.</p>
<p>Okay I’ve got the word “DNA” a few times in chem while studying proteins and stuff. But that was never discussed in depth.</p>
<p>Have you studied under the Cambridge IGCSE A-levels??</p>
<p>haha, I hate studying, but love learning… so I had to try find it
It wasn’t as simple as just positive and negative… like for instance with benzene rings it was more of a case of where the electrons are (average) and their density… too many or too little will promote a reaction that would level it out - one of the main reasons why catalysts are so prominent in benzene reactions (normal organic chains are unlikely to react by themselves).</p>
<p>Well we didn’t discuss in depth in the same way as in the bio classes (the way the bio students in chem had a field day when DNA came on board! -_- )</p>
<p>Yea, I did Cambridge IGCSEs, then a term of IB while waiting to go to South Africa for my A Levels… and then did the Cambridge A Levels (CIE throughout both Cambridge sets of exams)</p>
<p>Hey Raith, I’ve just observed that you have more posts than I have. When did you defeat me? Or is this the case from the beginning?</p>
<p>I don’t think it was the case since day 1 since you started posting a couple days - month before I joined… and I only really became active after sending in my applications…</p>
<p>Most of my posts come from this thread - trying to keep it alive and build a good friendly community :)</p>
<p>Thinking about that maybe it is time for another update xP</p>
<p>Seems like we can have a nice chat about Chemistry. If I get rejected everywhere, I have no way but to study hard for the JEE. Then I’ll come to you to discuss Chem! I don’t have a nice company for Chem. I have good company for Math and Phy here.</p>