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<p>AWESOME! I visited GT yesterday and on Sunday... OMG! It was effing awesome! It's like a school of 16,000 mes. Plus, I love the 70:30 male-female ratio, haha. Very nice. </p>

<p>Also, the CRC makes me want to exercise. It's 250,000 sq ft of fun! Two pools (one with a REAL water slide, not imitation, and a REAL Olympic, not merely "Olympic-sized", swimming pool), the exercising equipment has LCD TVs in them so you can work out, watch TV, listen to music, etc. all at the same time; the campus is HUGE, it has a "community" environment and a college-town feel, yet when you look up, it has a beautiful view the downtown Atlanta skyline. We viewed the supercomputers (soooo awesome), and each room will have about a gigabit of bandwidth. So, I feel like I'm getting a good deal for my money :-). Basically, I'm in love with school again :-)</p>

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<p>you are so lucky. You're leaving this fall arent you? I'm aiming for UGA though, although we'll be visiting GT later this summer.</p>

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<p>Ja, I shall be a rambling wreck from GA Tech (and a hell of an engineer ;) ).</p>

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<p>what colleges did you turn down for GT?</p>

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<p>Emory, UC Berkeley, UGA, Cornell. I got waitlisted at Stanford, but didn't take a possition in line because I knew that I belong at Tech.</p>

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<p>Okay, I'm going for a bikeride (at 10:20, haha). I'll talk to you later!</p>

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<p>Wov! Turned down Cornell -- must've been some pretty good college that you're going into instead.
<em>googling GT</em></p>

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<p>Geogia Institute of technology</p>

<p>Everything works for you if you are instate and go to a college in Ga. HOPE covers tuition</p>

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<p>Yeppers. Not to mention I fell in love with it, hehe. I haven't been this spirited about school in a long time. My high school sucked at academics and sports (except basketball... we were good this year). Now, I get to go to the 4th best engineering school in the US and a school with great sports teams.</p>

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<p>did you get any other scholarships?</p>

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<p>Yeppers. I'm supposed to get the STAR scholarship (they still haven't sent me my form, though), and I applied for a few others. Also, I got some good gov grants.</p>

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<p>Okay. Now that I look at it, all the stuff you say has (what should I call it) "plot holes"</p>

<p>First you say:

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<a href="http://www.neuroscience.uconn.edu/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.neuroscience.uconn.edu/&lt;/a>
Go here for the staff.

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<p>Then you say,</p>

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This is the different list because this is th teacher program, she is on the former fellows list, She's on the chair for Uconn Health Center which is the place where graduates take their 2-3 years working as a student there for experience. My mom is Wei Wei Li.

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<p>That's weird. Why would you even show us the first list if her name wasn't even there? I'm sure you would have looked at the list before you posted the link, no? And to top it all off, I got a pm from someone who says, </p>

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He said she comes home late every night but shes not actually a neurosurgeon. She said she doesn't have a degree, which is funny because "Wei Wei Li (Ph.D., 2000) Physiology and Neurobiology". Now, he says shes on the board here: <a href="http://www.uchc.edu/bod/bod.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.uchc.edu/bod/bod.html&lt;/a> If i'm not mistaken, there is no Wei Wei Li. A search on <a href="http://www11.uchc.edu/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www11.uchc.edu/&lt;/a> (The directory) comes up empty for Wei Wei Li.

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<p>I personally think, that after Masterus was pressed for a name, he had to lead us somewhere where the faculty couldn't be found. Huh, that's pretty strange, even my local hospital has a listing for all their staff members.</p>

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<p>Masterus doesn't seem to know much about college admissions either:</p>

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I have a higher chance of getting inthan you.
I'm Minority, I'm Legacy, I'm First Generation.
My grades are always A+ and I have a more rigorous course.</p>

<p>Soon my EC's will rise.
No, My dad wasn't born here, I wasn't either. My dad re-took school and studied into Harvard. back then, there were few extracurriculars.

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<p>~Judging from your mother's name, you are Asian. Asians aren't given an advantage in admissions because they are not URM (under represented minorities) which include blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans. They are basically counted as "white", becuase there is quite a good reason why Asians make up a lot of high-profile jobs and take up 30% of MIT's student body. </p>

<p>~I don't think you have the definition of first generation down right, either. First generation doesn't mean being the son of immigrants, it usually means someone who is the first generation in their family to go to college. A father who went to Harvard and a mother with a PhD would NOT count as first generation because they obviously went to college.</p>

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Everything works for you if you are instate and go to a college in Ga. HOPE covers tuition

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Practically same here, in Washington: University of Washington should cover at a least a big amount of cheap cost. I, however, always thought that big colleges allow themselves to afford more financial aid because of their bigger financial position. I guess it's not true :)</p>

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Practically same here, in Washington: University of Washington should cover at a least a big amount of cheap cost. I, however, always thought that big colleges allow themselves to afford more financial aid because of their bigger financial position. I guess it's not true

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<p>We have a similar thing here in Florida, called Florida Bright Futures.
3.5 GPA/1270 SAT or 28 ACT = Full tuition/Book money
3.0 GPA/970 SAT or 20 ACT = 75% Tuition</p>

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<p>That makes no sense. Self esteem cannot be brilliant. And if it's self esteem, then it's esteem towards yourself not towards admission to Harvard. That sentence is so awkward..my English teacher would have a stroke.</p>

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<p>GreenDayFan, I think your humble knowledge of English is not comparable with that of Masterus.</p>

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<p>self esteem is associated with confidence, I wrote it purposely like that and note that self is in the phrase "self-esteem" so it be my confidence on the admission.</p>

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<p>You don't understand, my mom earned her PHD Degree in China. That's how it works.</p>

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<p>Do your schools do the 90-100 is 4.0 or the 96-100 is 4.0 and 93-96 is 3.8?</p>