<p>Does that even count as a separate game? I thought it was just a WC3 mod. I’m Korean but none of my friends have ever mentioned DOTA as a game they play.</p>
<p>dude DOTA is mad popular.. im in a school which is like 60% korean and that is all they play along with WC3, SC, CS</p>
<p>AEM is hard? I’ve taken some of their undergrad courses for an econ major and the kids in it were dumb as rocks comparatively (mostly AEM students).</p>
<p>AEM is easy. I could sleep through all four years and still graduate with a great GPA (that’s what one my friend is doing =\ [while I work my ass off]).</p>
<p>I’m in ILR, and trust me, it is NOT the business major.</p>
<p>The business major is AEM, and it is supposed to be a relatively “easy” major.</p>
<p>If you’re interested in business and/or finance and have a friendly personality, I suggest that you apply to the Hotel School. Do well in the interview, and you could be set. Hotelies, as the Hotel School students are called, get good job offers upon graduation. I have a Hotelie friend, and the students tend to be more competitive than other Cornellians. Oh, and you have to wear formal business attire every Friday, so you might have to invest a few good suits.</p>
<p>According to my impression, business major is relatively easy whichever school you attend. Getting in is hard; the rest ain’t so bad.</p>
<p>Btw, why do you keep on saying “ei mihi, a poor asian”? I find that couplet rather distasteful. Your specs look great. Have confidence in you and your heritage.</p>
<p>^ i like to point and laugh at the hotelies every friday</p>
<p>SAT II Bio for CALS - AEM or no?
I think the site said Bio is recommended, but if I’m going for AEM, which isn’t really bio-related, is it still recommended then?</p>
<p>Well, on average his chance may be 21.3%, but on the individual level, chances are that he deviates slightly from the mean. Nonetheless, that is a good estimate. So your chances are very nearly 21.3% unless you are exceptional, and by exceptional I mean 2 or 3 standard deviations above or below, which your stats do not demonstrate. But remember that a 21.3% in the cornell applicant pool is much different from a 21.3% at a “third-tier” college because of the difference in the quality of applicants. It also doesn’t help that you are asian and poor. College admissions like to marvel at the wide “diversity” of colored faces on their brochures and websites (but the bad news for you is that they already used too much yellow ink). They also want people who will pay the full price of tuition. With this in mind, I wish you luck.</p>
<p>^^I find the above comment regarding diversity crude and offensive. Cornell is need blind, so it is also bad information.</p>
<p>that was an extremely racist comment. while im sure colleges want diversity, they wont turn someone away because he’s asian. that’s very stupid and uninformed.</p>
<p>i said i was a poor asian, because i am. my parent’s income is very close to poverty. but its not like my parents are uneducated or lazy. they are neither of the two. my dad has a bachelor’s and a masters, and he was close to a PhD, but had to drop the program last minute (family reasons). my mom also has a bachelors, hers is in accounting from the University of Tulsa.</p>
<p>my dad and mom are really really involved in the Christian ministry–this explains our lack of financial assets…but who is willing to blame them for their choice in life? I don’t. You have to be pretty low to insult someone who lives his or her life in humble sacrifice.</p>
<p>johnlee, I know pleeeeenty of people in AEM who never had an official internship in high school. For that matter, I know plenty of people double-majoring in Bio and AEM who plan on using AEM as a “backup” if they don’t get into/can’t afford med school.</p>
<p>For that matter, who said AEM is hard? AEM is eaaaaasy. One AEM girl I know said it was “easier than high school.”</p>
<p>"It also doesn’t help that you are asian and poor. College admissions like to marvel at the wide “diversity” of colored faces on their brochures and websites (but the bad news for you is that they already used too much yellow ink). "</p>
<p>You’re a disgusting person. I really hope you are not a student at Cornell. And if you are and I go to this school, I really really hope I never meet you. Colleges are open to anyone with the desire to learn, especially those with open minds. How are you in college? Or are you a pathedic human being giving worthless advice to nervous prospectives? Do the world a favor and learn some ethics, you racist pig.</p>
<p>Although theslowclap’s comments seem racist, I’d like to say its true simply because of affirmative action. Being Asian does not improve your chances of getting in. Did he say anything that is wrong?</p>
<p>While I do disagree with the money comment tho.</p>
<p>Outside of being politically incorrect, theslowclap is right. Colleges and grad schools love to not only have diversity but to show it off. Go to med schools’ websites and you’ll see picture after picture of URM’s plastered on their website despite the fact that only 10% of the graduating class is actually URM. Diversity is a big deal. Colleges do use their websites and brochures to show it off. Being Asian is not going to help you in college or grad school admissions in that regard.</p>
<p>I’m an asian myself. Call me skeptical or cynical if you will, but I hardly believe that the claim to need- and race- blind admissions is as it is flaunted by colleges. As I see it, most of the admission decisions made are behind close doors, so to speak - when the cardinals congregate to elect the next pope, no one knows what goes on except for the color of the smoke from the Sistine Chapel. Though institutions may try avidly to increase their minority percentages, there probably are points of limitation. The fact that asian americans often constitute the highest percentage of minorities helps very little.</p>
<p>Sorry if I offended anyone. My style of writing can get rude sometimes, especially when I’m irritated about the subject I’m writing about. I could have said, “affirmative action will hurt you,” but that doesn’t really paint a good picture of what’s actually happening (in my opinion). About the money issue, I admit I was misinformed. The reason I brought that up was because I remember reading a few articles about colleges giving preferential treatment to people in the middle and upper class because they didn’t want to give out financial aid. Maybe this doesn’t happen at Cornell, and I’d be thrilled if it doesn’t, but do any of you really know what happens behind those closed doors?</p>
<p>hraghuvir: I suggest you look up the word “racist” in the dictionary.</p>
<p>grantortue: I suggest you stop making ad homiem attacks and building a straw man argument. I also suggest you look up the word “racist” and “pathetic.” Something you will learn in college (or not) is that a TRUELY open mind will question accepted social conventions and procedures. It is no longer like high school where you question everything, for example, from the capitalist, Western, world-view. I suggest YOU go to college and have an open mind. And who ever said I wanted to meet you in person? Please stay away, that’s just creepy.</p>
<p>Anyway, this is really not a big issue in comparison to preferential treatment for athletes, sons and daughters of rich/powerful families, famous people, and legacies.</p>
<p>But back to the OP’s question: yes, you do have a chance, and I know that even against all these odds many students get accepted every year. I’m just saying your chances are near average (most likely less) mostly due to your low gpa and race.</p>
<p>to each their own</p>