<p>dont worry soysauce, you're not the only one! i was shopping and was looking at heavy coats, and i was like hmmm.. do i need these next year? and boots?? and scarves? and mittens?? (i live in san diego)</p>
<p>and im staying up for the uc app too... why couldn't they be due after Penn ED is posted?? ackk so unmotivated.</p>
<p>I'm on the east coast. I used to stay up really late last year, like 3:30 was no big deal to me. For Senior year, I sleep a bit earlier and longer, so 3:31am is pretty late for me. But I'm determined to finish at least one essay ugh. </p>
<p>I don't think i can be too passionate for any college except for Penn(cuz I lived there for three years so the school just became really personal to me.) But for other schools, I mean every school has lots of opportunities and I think it just depends on how I make of my experience there. And I didn't get a chance to visit many schools that I'm applying so I just can't connect with them that much. On the contrary, I'm good with observing stuff so I know a lot about myself and my friends.</p>
<p>dbsklove, yeah...it's really painful lol. I'm just using one essay from my common app and debating on whether I should just tweak another essay or write a new one.</p>
<p>@ dbsklove & soysauce56: I'm in the exact same shoe as you are...from the west coast, too. So which college(s) are you two applying to at Berkeley?</p>
<p>Good question...I'm still debating on that haha.I'm from the east coast, so the reason I want to apply to several uc's is that the weather is so nice in Cali!!! I planned to apply to engineering school at ucb but it's so hard to get in, especially for outer state people and I just found out that uc only wants sat scores from ONE setting?? I got 790 on math, 640 on cr, and 620 on writing the first time I took it. For the second time, I got 680 for math(I didn't think it mattered so I didn't try...) and 700 for cr, and 740 for writing. So if I apply for engineering school, I need a high math score, but my highest score from one setting is the one with 680 on math. And my SAT II math score is only 760. So I'm really stuck. I might apply to L&S now since I got 800 on chem. Even now, I'm not sure which scores I want to send. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>lol the chinese don't know any schools besides HAHVAHD, princeton, columbia, MIT, stanford, and probably yale.</p>
<p>^Penn and Berkeley are quite well-reputed among the Chinese community as well.</p>
<p>well if they're well informed...cornell's pretty well known too...so is Penn, but darty and brown...not so much i guess. but then as soon as u tell 'em that they're ivy leagues, they're like, "ooooooooooooooh okay"...kinda annoying i must say.</p>
<p>Lol I get what you mean...yeah Cornell is well know, too, for having accepted Hu Shi in the early 1900's I think.</p>
<p>lol who's Hu Shi?</p>
<p>better yet... hu is shi?</p>
<p>wow.........</p>
<p>..........</p>
<p>aw c'mon guys...english in another language is kinda iffy to me...lmao okay now i feel stupid</p>
<p>hmmm so many chinks ;D! but i wonder if thats gonna hurt our chances...seems like every asian is applying to UCB too. hahaha the 30% of its student body is asians!</p>
<p>If accepted i would run around like a retard and wouldnt have to worry about my borderline grades.</p>
<p>if denied/deferred- i have finals on that week...i would be screwd regardless</p>
<p>i'm not applyin to berkeley. it's on the other side of america! plus, my parents think 3-4 hour away is too far...i can't imagine if i mention berkeley to 'em</p>
<p>I didn't really mention Berkeley or other UC's that much..maybe just once when they weren't paying attention. I'm just applying regardless lol. They can't really stop me when if I dont' get in any other good schools except the ones on the west coast ;)</p>
<p>haha wow. so many chinese people!
are ya'll bananas or fobs or internationals?
i myself am a rotten banana. i'll fit right in in west philly.</p>
<p>born in china, moved to jersey when i was 9. can we do an ethnic background count on this board? lol</p>
<p>hahaha, so much for Penn having the most diversity.</p>
<p>hahaha! let's do this ethnic background thing. </p>
<p>born in china, moved to WEST PHILLY when i was 7 because my dad got a job at PENN. haha.
i no longer live in west philly though, but i hope to move back into that neighborhood (i lived like..two blocks away from penn) next fall!!!</p>