<p>Yes either change your name or wear a loin-cloth and face paint to your interview. That'll show 'em.</p>
<p>Haha yeah it is from Rule of Four. And it's where I got my inspiration for my song "The Battle Hymn of Cell Respiration" that I used to study for my bio midterm...</p>
<ol>
<li>(Intro)
My eyes have seen the glory of the electron-transport chain
In every mitochondria intrinsic to membranes
Proteins organized to help us to attain
A cross-membrane voltage...</li>
</ol>
<p>Chorus:</p>
<p>Glory, glory respiration
It gives us energy for perspiration
And it leads to the creation
Of 36 to 38 A-T-P.</p>
<ol>
<li>
But before we get there first we start glycolysis
Glucose becomes 2 pyruvate and makes 4 ATP in this.
Reducing 2 NAD+ to 2 NADH is bliss,
Because now we can move on...</li>
</ol>
<p>Next is the Citric Acid Cycle which uses acetyl coA
Converted from pyruvate in membranes of mitonchdri"ay"
One cycle only produces one ATP to display,
But it makes electron shuttles...</p>
<p>Those electron shuttles are things like FADH2
When it gets to the ETC it donates an electron or two,
On one side of the membrane protons will accrue,
To spin the ATP synthase...</p>
<p>The last step of the process is oxidative phosphorylation
It is quite important because it makes a new formation
From ADP and phosphate groups we get an ATP congregation,
To be used for cellular work...</p>
<p>Glory, glory respiration
It gives us energy for perspiration
Aaand it leads to the creation
Of 36 to 38 A-T-P.</p>
<p>I totally deserve to get into Princeton just for writing this song (p.s. I didn't write the first 2 lines).</p>
<p>"I great warrioress, from fertile hunting ground of Montana!" Somehow I can't see that working....face paint is tempting, though. :P</p>
<p>The native american admissions boost is disheartening to me.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think it can be disheartening if you look at it from the perspective of "someone not as qualified taking my spot." </p>
<p>But on the off chance that you do want to look at it from a different perspective, read Sherman Alexie.</p>
<p>Calm down guys, this is America, they were here first. </p>
<p>Hopefully those Native American applicants who are accepted are just as qualified as everybody else.</p>
<p>Otherwise, it's payback for that whole trail of tears fiasco.</p>
<p>I don't mind someone less qualified taking my spot if they really were disadvantaged, but someone who is only a FRACTION Native American and hasn't grown up with any kind of stigmas because of it shouldn't be benefiting.</p>
<p>"There was a student in my school last year who was only half native american and got into Dartmouth. She was ranked 6th, and the 3,4,5 ranked students went to state schools. It had nothing to do with finances either. And it was not really fair, she was one of the richest kids in our school and definitely had no disadvantages in any way."</p>
<p>Half Native American is huge! There's actually very few pure Native Americans left, so that fraction is actually a lot.</p>
<p>I believe you have to be a certain percentage N.A. (1/8? not sure) to qualify as one, though, as well as have a tribal ID, so there really aren't a lot that can make it. So la montagne, don't worry, a Native American's admission will likely have very little, if any, effect on your own.</p>
<p>Do you really think Admissions has the time to check your percentage of African, Indian...? I don't think so! I see nothing wrong with going the extra mile to search out and find the poor, extremely special, talanted kids (no matter what race) in the impoverished areas. That is why, in my opinion, the transcript and teacher/school recommendations should always rule over the SAT.</p>
<p>Yes, someone who's the great great great great great great grandchild of a Native American forced off his soil should definitely receive a reward for the injustice done to a person who he shares two drops of blood, and absolutely no spiritual, emotional, or physical ties to. Even if that person only found out the night before college apps were due that he is 1/8th Cherokee, or whatever ridiculously tiny minimum is set for him to qualify as Native American. Seriously, 1/8th means great grandparents. Most people's great grandparents die before they're even born! He can enrich the Princeton community so much by being Native American, since he's certainly been discriminated against all his life (have you ever heard of discrimination against native americans in the 80s and 90s, outside of reservation legal squabbles?)</p>
<p>^^ Too Funny!!</p>
<p>Oh great, another AA war</p>
<p>@ceebee - Brilliant :D</p>
<p>What I don't understand is how people who try to game the system by using their 1/8 or less native american status are given a better chance at schools. People who go out of their way to put down 1/8 native american are almost always consciously trying to trick the admissions staff by being something they are not. I have a friend who applied to an ivy league this year who has a generic anglo saxon name but is only 1/8 NA. Rather then putting mixed, he just left it as Native american with no tribe ID #.</p>
<p>Are you telling me I could have used the fact I actually AM 1/8 Cherokee to my advantage and I didn't?!?!</p>
<p>Having that little tiny sliver in me and knowing how insignificant it is, it's unbelievable to me to think anyone in my position could actually check Native American as their race.</p>
<p>I'm the palest person you'll ever meet. The rest of my family is British, for the most part. :)</p>
<p>Thanks!!! :)</p>
<p>Does anyone know how well Native Americans do on tests (SAT's. AP's) compared to caucasians?</p>
<p>'he applied regular decision and got in right away w/o being deffered' Is this for real, you really do not sound like you know what you are talking about</p>
<p>I love how everyone tries to figure out the formula to get into princeton. Just apply and see what happens. I did i got in</p>
<p>Just how does one prove that they are 1/8, does 1/16th count also?</p>