International Chances for Penn ED, Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, NYU

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Haha I am comforted (well sort of). But people in my school have even more fantastic CVs than me: one guy has 4 National Olympiad Gold Medals in Math, Physics, Chem and Informatics, for example =p, which would place him in the Top 5 in the country (at our age-level) for all those subjects. That is quite hard to beat =p. Meanwhile, other people in my school went to RSI @ MIT, got 2400s on their SAT Is, all very very competitive...</p>

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<p>frankchn, ur stats are amazing, they should have accepted u right away....this college admissions process is really random at times....i saw other kids whose stats are not as good as yours get into M&T...</p>

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<p>even if you DONT get in, it'll be the schools' loss, not your's :-)</p>

<p>good luck!</p>

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<p>Since this thread has gotten bumped by mariak89, here is an update on my current application results:</p>

<ul>
<li>Accepted by CMU/Tepper and CMU Engineering (ECE)</li>
<li>Accepted by NYU/Stern</li>
<li>Rejected by MIT (not surprising)</li>
</ul>

<p>Getting nervous about the rest of my schools... Well we shall all know about our results soon =p.</p>

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<p>i'm singaporean as well (although i moved to the states a while back)
do you by any chance happen to be attending RJC?</p>

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<p>@iX3demosthenes:</p>

<p>I was from Hwa Chong, part of the first batch of IP students.</p>

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<p>Hey, I did THIMUN-Singapore there. :)</p>

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<p>Wow, your pretty amazing.</p>

<p>How is your rejection from MIT not suprising?
Although I know the process tends to be random on some fronts, what were you lacking?</p>

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<p>For complete-ness sakes, here is my final results from all the schools. From my results, I think you can agree that the college admissions process is quite random sometimes:</p>

<p>Accepted:
CMU Tepper / CMU ECE
Stanford
Columbia Fu Fdn (Offered Davis Scholarship)
NYU/Stern</p>

<p>Waitlisted:
Cornell University Arts & Science (decline place on waitlist)</p>

<p>Rejected:
Harvard
MIT
Penn M&T (2nd choice: Wharton)</p>

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<p>how did u get 800 on the critical reading SAT? English is my first language and i cant get that good, how can u learn english that well in singapore?</p>

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<p>oh wow, two of my cousins attended hwa chong a couple years ago, and now are in their final year of NS. </p>

<p>@john5170, pretty much all instruction in singapore is in english, unless it's a foreign language</p>

<p>major props on stanford and columbia, btw, they're AMAZING
i, on the other hand, got into cornell</p>

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<p>major congrats on stanford and columbia!! such wonderful schs..</p>

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<p>Whoohoooo CONGRATS</p>

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<p>Thanks guys! Best wishes to you people as well =)</p>

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<p>Wow unbelievable that MIT would deny someone like you...</p>

<p>Congratulations on your admission to Stanford but still... I think you deserve MIT too.</p>

<p>Can I read your essays? you can send it to <a href="mailto:durmstrangs@hotmail.com">durmstrangs@hotmail.com</a></p>

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<p>HeWhoDreams, btw do you think MIT will take me?</p>

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<p>Haha, my essays are nothing to write home about really. It is just standard stuff about me overcoming my fear of public speaking and getting inspired by a demonstration of a Faraday cage in our local Science Centre.</p>

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<p>Wow finally get to see your stats! You are CS right? You interviewed me for this year’s BBI ;)</p>

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<p>^ Yep, I am. I did? This year?</p>