<p>@Answered. I highly doubt you transferred from Duke, let alone ever stepped foot in it. Look at your post from a month ago. You flirted in hallways? I would bet you are in high school, not college (let alone a university like Duke).
Your post:
" There’s this guy who flirted seriously with me all of last year. He would tap my desk, wink/smile/wave, flirt in the hallway, and make witty remarks. As far as I could tell, I was the only girl he flirted like that with. Basically, this guy led me on and I fell hard. But nothing ever went beyond that.</p>
<p>Anyway, near the end of the school year, I heard he’s asking someone else to prom, which basically made me realize he was just a player. So I proceeded to ignore him. (I don’t think he even noticed, since I never tend to flirt back with guys anyway.)</p>
<p>THEN this year, even though we share the same classes, he makes a point of ignoring me. He makes faces and scoffs whenever I speak (not to him…we haven’t had a conversation since last year, actually). Once our desks were right next to each other for a test, and he made a point of saying hi to the people behind me but gave me the cold shoulder. When he’s talking with his friends across the room, he would turn his head so it’s facing me, but he never greets me. And sometimes he snickers with his friends when I pass in the hallway.</p>
<p>Ok, so I shouldn’t have ignored him out of the blue last year, but I thought a player like that wouldn’t mind. Also, what he’s doing is kind of hurtful. What exactly should I do?</p>
<p>** this is not a ■■■■■ board, by the way. I want to hide my real identity xD because this is a sort of embarrassing question’</p>
<p>Yeah, I wanted to call ■■■■■ too, but I held back. I already knew the description of that post was very generic and somewhat random. It’s like they were essentially saying: “The Asians at Duke are very stereotypical”. I’m kind of like:“So are they not that way everywhere else”. Point is, she (I assume it’s a she, I hope I don’t make an a** out of myself lol) stated “great”(sarcasm) reasons for not going to Duke that were just completely irrelevant. I’d much rather stick to a “follow the financial aid” than “don’t go there, the Asians are lame, and I’d know because I’m Asian”</p>
<p>As somebody who’s sat on any number of PhD admissions committees at more than one school, I would contend that you’d better present with a strong GPA, particularly from a strong school, to stand a decent chance of getting in. My department, which is nationally ranked, formal algorithim which is heavily weighted towards grades and quality of undergrad institution. You’re trying to assess the odds that somebody will be able to become a productive,creative scholar, and, short of the occaisional eccentric genius who wanders by, grades are still the best predictor of that.</p>
<p>We went through college application not very long ago. Duke is slow on financial aid first. When we called them, they said we missed some paper work. We did not miss anything! They just found an excuse for the delay since they sent us the financial aid later without requesting any additional paper work. Of course as usually, the financial aid is not very generous comparing to similar schools especialy from Vandy. In contrast, Vandy did an excellent work guiding through the whole process of application by following up on every step (application, updates, financial aid). This tells a lot about these two schools. Though Duke ranked slightly higher but the difference does not justify the difference in financial aid and in the attention these two schools put to their perspective students. If you visit this website you will see almost everybody visited Vandy likes it very much.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’ve heard that about Duke fin. aid. Many of my friends here who were accepted could not attend b/c it wasn’t good enough. Needless to say, when Emory gave them a fairly large fin. aid package considering their EFC, they got over it. I’m sure you guys aren’t the only at Vandy to have experienced that when cross-admitted to Duke. Duke can easily win w/more wealthy students, but they have to work for those in the middle due to the fin. aid.</p>
<p>Don’t drive yourself into debt or put a huge strain on yourself or your parents to go to a school just because its 10 spots higher on some rankings done by some magazine. You’ve been given an opportunity at Vandy that so few people in the world get! A top private education in an amazing city for free! Take it.</p>
<p>And btw I’m not a vandy or duke student. I would just think you’d be crazy not to take this opportunity.</p>