<p>goodness. i'll never go to that college ever.</p>
<p>NASA is (subtly) involved in picking applicants who express interest in space.</p>
<p>false but for the most part true</p>
<p>remember many are just scientists testing stuff for science in earth </p>
<p>Bob jones University is tougher to get into than HYPS(i think it's true because you have be "pure" ;))</p>
<p>False. I can break a commandment and lie about my purity ;)</p>
<p>You have an in-state advantage for private colleges.
^^^I acually don't know the answer to this :confused:</p>
<p>True- definitely at some regional schools like Duke and Emory and slightly less so at schools like Chicago and Stanford. </p>
<p>A long time ago on CC, someone explained that adcoms put double-sided tape on a monkey and then stick him into the room with apps. Once enough apps stick, they have their freshman class. True or false?</p>
<p>True. And for Stanford they just throw up all the apps in the air and select anyone they catch before they hit the floor :rolleyes:</p>
<p>[gasp] "No, they really do that??!!" (My little brothers reaction)</p>
<p>People who get 800s on the SAT must be obsessive compulsive bookworms.</p>
<p>false. some are pure lucky. i know one guy who got 1590 the first time he took it, and a 1380 the second time. thank goodness he didn't send the second score.</p>
<p>adcoms take all the reject applications and pile them up for the next year. they then reject all the ones with the same last name as the previous year.</p>
<p>false..... if it's true.. poor smith's and jones's and...</p>
<p>adcoms hate people calling them 'adcoms'</p>
<p>um... false, I think.</p>
<p>HYPSM and other extremely selective schools should rename their office of admissions as the office of rejections</p>
<p>haha... true :D</p>
<p>adcoms of schools like HYPSM sometimes feel like gods... they have in their hands the power to influence the future of so many lives</p>
<p>Where does "adcom" come from? I mean, I know it's an admissions officer, but where exactly does the term come from? You'd think I'd know by now, but I don't. :o</p>
<p>false</p>
<p>Being deferred is a polite rejection.</p>
<p>mostly true... they ae like using the deferred as safety i guess...if they don't get good applicants in the regular pool, they'll take the deferred ones!</p>
<p>[adcom comes from admission committee i think]</p>
<p>The people who were outright rejected get the same rejection letter as the ones whom the adcoms had a hard time deciding</p>
<p>false. the outright rejected ones comes with an extra note "you suck". :D</p>
<p>There is an unwritten rule that no more than 3 applicants can be accepted consecutively at any one time.</p>
<p>Ah. Thanks, aaron.</p>
<p>I have no idea...tralse it is! :D</p>
<p>A 1600/2400 is a hook.</p>
<p>false</p>
<p>This thread ends right now.</p>
<p>true. :D</p>
<p>adcoms are not graduates of the schools the represent.</p>
<p>sometimes true and sometimes false i think.</p>
<p>Admission decisions are usually made with in 2 days after the application is recieved but colleges send decisions out a couple of weeks later just to add suspense</p>
<p>false... at least not in the top colleges!</p>
<p>when an adcom finds an applicant with the same name as his/hers, he is accepted</p>
<p>im gonna say false.. but if your close i think this might get you in.</p>
<p>App fees of 50 and 55 dollars are just plain excessive</p>
<p>truee.. expensive for just 15 minutes of fame!</p>
<p>ivies make a fortune through college app fees</p>
<p>False. Generally I believe a college lose money purely from applicants/students.</p>
<p>A liberal arts education does not a renaissance man make.</p>