<p>About the financial crisis:</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2w4apm">http://tinyurl.com/2w4apm</a>]</p>
<p>Breaks the monotony of waiting around for the admission decision.</p>
<p>Good post. Definitely worth watching. You’ve heard some of it before, but still worth three and a half minutes.</p>
<p>Yeah, I don’t know why some people don’t like that presenter.</p>
<p>excellent video i found it really informative!</p>
<p>agreed.
i found a good follow up</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://■■■■■■■.com/colleges-and-the-economy”>http://■■■■■■■.com/colleges-and-the-economy</a>]</p>
<p>pay close attention at 2:29</p>
<p>Wow, very informational.</p>
<p>How come I can’t see the link?! 
I keep seeing corny youtube videos from the 60’s…</p>
<p>pskate, I don’t know what you’re talking about. The link works fine for me. I don’t see any corny videos.</p>
<p>fyi, ■■■■■■■.com = rick rolld</p>
<p>comrade… sorry about hijacking your thread but since you are posting useful videos… I have one that some of you may already have seen… it’s a rare inside view of the admissions panel at Berkeley and even though they are reviewing freshman apps in this video, i found it very interesting as a transfer student as they discuss student’s personal statements, EC’s & work experience…etc…you need real player to view this</p>
<p>[frontline:</a> secrets of the sat: inside an admissions screening session](<a href=“http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/sats/etc/inside.html]frontline:”>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/sats/etc/inside.html)</p>
<p>^
Well, i haven’t watched it yet, but thanks for the link.</p>
<p>Great, two people will read my corny essay!</p>
<p>uh, i’m already depressed, especially after this editorial in the la times about riverside:</p>
<p>[California’s</a> Inland Empire - Los Angeles Times](<a href=“http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-straight8-2009mar08,0,2834388.story]California’s”>California's Inland Empire)</p>
<p>it doesn’t have the cartoon from the newspaper which shows a car on cinderblocks, rats, a burning house, and a bunch of houses w/ broken windows, and a big “Welcome to Riverside” message across the top.</p>
<p>yay! I’m probably going to school there. . .</p>
<p>Well, its REAL WORLD experience.</p>
<p>r u sure they weren’t talking about U$C ?? lol,lol…just kidding</p>
<p>USC is in one ghetto neighborhood</p>
<p>my friend parked his car in that neighborhood and when he came back his BMW logo was gone from the hood of his car. coulda been worse, but still.</p>
<p>well realplayer apparently doesn’t work on my pc, oh well, i like reading as long as its not rick astley, you just have to see the video if its him.</p>
<p>Also, these guys are high school students. Darn, my grades were better than all those guys in HS, except i never took the s.a.t., as i figured i’d just bomb it anyway. Also senior year was especially harsh. My community college grades aren’t bad, but not stellar.</p>
<p>well, my essay was a lot like #3, except my major focus is quite the opposite of what this lad is interested in, and i was all like “damn, he’s not gonna get in,” and then it said he got in! </p>
<p>I thought it was really absurd the admissions officer said the student (#3) didn’t do enough after school, as he had 7 extracurriculars !</p>
<h1>2 had around 20 EC’s, which seems to imply either very little involvement in each EC, or just plain old application padding.</h1>
<p>Also, i am quite peeved they admit 8,500 but only 3,500 attend. I hope thats factored in, and that they can only truly handle 3,000-4,000 students, and not close to 8,000!</p>
<p>organic…lol…r u serious…are they still doing that? i mean it’s not funny that happened to your friend but what I find humorous is that in the 80’s that was really popular to steal car emblems from the hood and then wear them around their neck on a chain… </p>
<p>comrade… yeah…i also found it interesting when they were talking about how the race & other specifics were blacked out so that they were not able to see it when reviewing the apps, however there was other ways in which the students were able to let them know what their ethnicity or background was. It reminded me of both my essay and then a year later my husband’s essay had in them. We both are Berkeley students now, but we put things in our essay to let them know about our background as student parents, mixed race marriage, disadvantage backgrounds, etc. So I think they do look for clues as to what the student is all about.</p>