my masterpiece

<p>The essay I just wrote for Yale kicked the ass of the one I sent to Harvard. Hm.</p>

<p>Were you the one who wrote about seeing the names of the dead in Memorial Hall or Church or whatever?</p>

<p>nope. mine has not been made public. you never know who's watching. if i get in it will be tho.</p>

<p>idk, applying to place like harvard / yale, they accept less than 50 out of 1000 applications, the odds just aren't there, better off buying urself a shirt</p>

<p>i feel the same way with columbia, but it has been a dream, and i have something that really makes me stand out, so i wouldn't be surprised if i got in</p>

<p>You wouldn't be surprised if you got into Columbia? I want some of whatever you're on...what could make a person stand out that much, out of curiosity? You must have, like, found the cure for cancer or something...</p>

<p>um, no, actually, i have this very select scholarship research award at my school (which happens to be an ivy league, and there are only 50 of us per each class year, and there are thousdands of students at this school</p>

<p>haha i wrote about the names of teh harvard men who died in WWI/II. That wasn't for why harvard, that was just for "which book has meant something to you" and it tied in with the bahagavad gita.</p>

<p>Yeah. I have turned this process in a play agains odds. Excluding Cornell, I am competing for...
55-75H
25-35Y
70-80S
5-10MIT ...spots</p>

<p>So the percentage is about 4.3055555555555555555555555555555555555.
Ultimately I'd have competed it it were for one spot.</p>

<p>P.S. my Yale application is very pretty :D</p>

<p>martini, basically cornell's is ur "safety," u r really cutting yourself thin, not to be harsh, ur chances at acceptnace at H, Y, S, MIT are less than 10 percent for each one. Cornell Arts/Sciences for transfers is 15 percent, good luck!</p>

<p>have you seen her stats, bball? martini reminds me of a girl in high school whose saftey was georgetown. she got in everywhere she applied-- harvard, yale, princeton, brown and georgetown.</p>

<p>martini post your stats man! im curious</p>

<p>I know my chances are slim, but I am applying only where I really want to go. If I am to stay in Madison, then I will try and maintain my GPA, after which it should be relatively easy to get into a good med school. Also if i stay in Madison, I can graduate in 1.5 years.
First semester sophoomore
HS 4.00 UW
College: 4.00 (39 credits in 1 year)
SAT: 1410 didn't care to retake
Currently taking:
Linear Alg (Honors)
Calc III
O-chem II (Honors)
Physics II with Calc (Honors)
Ranked #1 in all sci and math classes and it should say so in my recs.
Nominated for school award in physics (decision pending)
National math awards
Biochem research (paid)
Took a break after HS
Moved by myself to the US from Eastern Europe after graduation</p>

<p>Bball, being that you already go to Cornell, I would assume that you are also applying to more selective schools than Cornell and unless you are a legacy, you are also facing a 10% chance. 10% is pretty good, I think. I calculated a standard unweighted probability of 4.3055%. However, I if you take people with similar statistics that applied and the number of the acceped ones, divide the second by the first and multiply by a hundred, I believe that you would get somewhere around 25%to 33% except for MIT, where you would probably get 5 and Cornell where you'd get 66. So given that I really like my Yale essay to the point where I do refer to it as my masterpiece, and the fact that Yale firmly stands behind their assertion that they are looking for stellar accademics, recommendations and essays, I give myself 50% at Yale. Harvard is at most 20% since I wrote my essays the evening before.</p>

<p>Her? Elizabeth, I am not a girl... :P</p>

<p>I hope you did not come off as nearly as conceited as you came off on your posts.</p>

<p>GL to both of us.</p>

<p>i believe in you martinibluex. i have a feeling you'll get into one of those schools.</p>

<p>oh, i don't know why i thought you were.... i believe too, though.</p>

<p>thanks to everyone for the morale boost.
as far as the conceited part: in my harvard app i might have slipped in a sentence or two but still it is not clear whether it is passion, vanity, or egocentrism. however simply applying to harvard implies conceitedness by itself.</p>

<p>martin, i am applying to columbia, penn, and brown as my top 3,</p>

<p>the other 3 are ones i got into last year (so i consider them "safeties," chicgao, northwestern, rice)</p>