can you suggest some more safeties to me? @ozzieaussie
@sahil123 even i am applying forcornell this year although my grades are no where near urs but i expect a perfect sat score in oct test …jst to tell u tata education fund give scholarship to those who are indian and are selected in cornell worth 1.5 crore and only thing that can give me a boost is research paper
Best of luck
Yeah I know about the Tata Scholarship. The ylthing is that I also need a research paper.
Please help me. @Insitium
I’ll be also applying to Cornell this year! I’m a senior in high school @sahil123 . I took the May SAT and I’m hoping to score 1470+. I got my subject tests tomorrow. 
(Phy and Math II) . I’ve also done research with a mechanical engineering professor.
can you also suggest me some professor @arpitswriting . I am in dire need of a research paper to increase my chnaces. Please help me.
@sahil123 Try contacting professors in your city… Your school teachers must also have got some relations to them si. Moreover professors publish papers almost every month. Even helping them out in researching material, indexing the pages and such small stuff should contribute to it. Establishing contacts is the hard part, conducting the research isn’t. Your professors at school or if you have any sibling who are in college, this might be the time to ask them for help 
A research paper will have better influence when it is done by applicant himslf/herslf
@sahil123 btw do give me some tips for tomorrow’s test. I wanna score 800 on math really badly. I’ve done barron’s and Mc Graw hill’s completely. Any kind of help will be much appreciated
Sahil do u have any idea on what u want to write research paper it is not so easy believe me i trying
Just be cool man. Maths section is extremely easy especially for Indians.
Just try to eliminate the wrong ones @arpitswriting
@Insitium Yes, what you say is definitely right. But one needs to put years into it that way. Since it’s not possible this way (given short time) It’s better to do it under a professor. What actually counts is your curiosity and hunger for ‘knowledge’. Doesn’t matter what way you do it.
@arpitswriting i started to collect ideas 6 months ago and now i am gonna write it within 2 months
@arpitswriting what is the title of ur novel and mechanical prof’s university where he/she teaches and what is ur research paper about
@Insitium
The title of my novel is “Far from Pretension”, It’s under publication and will be out by October '16.
As for the name of the professor I don’t deem it fit to share all that for privacy issues.
Although the paper is gonna be out on jotres( Journal of Technical Reports in Engineering and Applied Sciences -JOTRES).
Hope you don’t mind.
@arpitswriting u can tell what ur research is about
@Insitium OPTIMIZATION OF MILLING OPERATION PARAMETER BY HYBRID METHOD
There you go
Can you guys suggest me some other ecs for strengthening my profile. @Insitium @arpitswriting
@sahil123 what major are your opting for?
Physics @arpitswriting
And i need financial aid badly
I can’t afford spending a crore bucks for 4 years.
@sahil123 I would have suggested AP Physics, that would’ve helped a lot and given how good your scores are you could have scored a 5 and saved some money on credits. Although some work out of academics is necessary. Try competing in college tech fests (Programming competitions, robot competitions or something with aeronautics). You can also go with some of your hobbies like writing (like I did-got my book published) make some music. Just explore your passion and keep in mind whatever you do should be quite top notch at least of some achievement level. You wanna show the colleges that you mean business in whatever you do. Although the Aqua regia thing helps you a lot.