@schroscat I don’t think your score will be a significant impediment to your application. I can say that if you are not successful it will not be because of your score, as Harvard states. You seem like a very great person and I hope you’ll fair well! And I know people with much lower scores who were accepted by Harvard. Hey, if they granted me an international interview with my score (which is way lower than yours) then I think you stand a chance too! Good luck to you
@ZAPrez Thank you so much for your input; I honestly really appreciate it! 
I’ve just become really nervous as time passes for decisions, haha.
@simarikcocuk Selam! They will be released (we think) between December 10th/11th.
Ah, Monday: coffee in my hand, I trudge to the school bus stop. “One more Monday remains until decisions are released,” I mutter to myself, “How will I ever endure the next 10 days, 9 hours, and 40 minutes? What are college decisions? We just don’t know!”
Have a great day everyone!
@schroscat I was reading all the Turkish you guys have been throwing around and its interesting how similar some Turkish words are to Japanese! For example black (‘kara’ from karadeniz I’m guessing?) is kuro in Japanese, and the archaic derogatory term for a foreigner (‘yabancı’?) is yabanjin in Japanese
5pm ET is 6am Singapore time on the 11th… I won’t be able to sleep all night (
Idk if it’s just me but I hate chance threads since they get so competitive and such. Can we try to make sure this doesn’t become something similar?
@shubhud2016 Aren’t baseball and tennis in the spring at your school? If so, you wouldn’t have been able to have played one year of Varsity baseball and three years of Varsity tennis. Nice try though!
interesting how @rohind1998 and @shubhud2016 both joined CC today within an hour of each other, with exactly 3 posts each in the Harvard and Penn early threads 
btw,…When you open the Harvard portal with your account, you see ‘Fee Waiver’ and an ‘Application fee waiver’. I can understand the green tick behind Application Fee Waiver but what does a green tick behind ‘Fee Waiver’ means?
Hey guys, I think I’m gonna start learning Spanish to get my mind off my application 
anyone speak Spanish in here??
@cristina1225 Si! Hablo espanol en mi casa porque mis padres son de Ecuador. Tomes clases de espanol en tu escuela?
@karakoram Wow; that is actually pretty awesome! I love looking at the little nuances in each language and comparing similarities. In Farsi, although the alphabet may be completely different from modern Turkish, the pronunciation of many words are similar to those in Turkish. Hosseini’s The Kite Runner really exemplifies those similarities–and honestly, it’s the coolest thing–and it’s interesting that two unrelated languages can have roots like that. The more you know!
@tuty143 We’re all really lucky on this thread; it hasn’t gotten competitive at all (for the most part!) . I agree with you–I hope that we all stay friendly here. Honestly, we don’t need any more stress in out lives pertaining to decisions.
@tuty143 omg Spanish is so easy to understand haha; nope I had only one class in 5th grade. Our schools mostly concentrate on German and French.
@cristina1225 siempre querria aprender frances pero mi escuela no tiene un maestro de frances 
@schroscat
Based on the older calligraphy writings I saw on walls in Istanbul (I took my ACT’s there), there were once many more Persian loanwords in Turkish. It seems that Mustafa Kamal Ataturk removed them from the language.
There are also quite a few Turkish loanwords in Persian.
@cristina1225 I think it should be very easy for speakers of one romance language to learn the other ones. Is that so?
@Soheils yeah, indeed!
@tuty143 yo puedo ensenarte si quieres (lol sorry if wrong, i had to google-translate this one)
@schroscat Definitely! I can spend hours reading about different languages as well, and I’d love to take Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations as a joint concentration or secondary field IF I get in some linguists actually place Turkish and Japanese in the same Altaic language family, with a common ancestor in the Central Asian steppe!
@Soheils I was reading My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk the other day – really fascinating to learn about the extent to which Persia influenced the Ottoman Empire culturally (and vice versa) despite the near-constant state of conflict between the two.
On a totally unrelated note, anyone doing the IB?
Hey guys very interesting conversation going on here lol, lots of Turkish so I just thought I would say hi. (From Northern Cyprus) Cheers!
@karakoram yeah, IB. (i cri evertim)
@karakoram
The Linguists that support that theory generally call it the Macro-Altaic family, and while I can not speak any Altaic language, Korean and Turkish sound very similar to my ears, possibly due to vowel harmony.
I actually think that warring states influence each other more than states with limited contact, though Persian Language and Culture mainly effected Turkish culture during the periods of the Sultanate of Rum and the Seljuk Empire, while the effects of Turkish culture on the Persian one came much later, During the Qajar Period when the Kings of Iran were ethnically Turkish.
One interesting thing we seem to share is the tradition of knocking of wood to distract “evil spirits” when talking about the future.
So I asked my counselor to call in with a few questions this morning. She also confirmed the date. The guy on the phone said it should be 12/10 at 5:00.