<p>and sonicyouth,
yea, i know... we ga applicants...
oh well... ::sigh::
i have a friend that goes to dunwoody high school who got in ED...</p>
<p>ouch...
oh well. yes, I have a college that I think I will like: MIT.
I am visiting for the first time this weekend (first time to MIT, first time to Boston, first time visiting any college at all officially which is a little weird, but I just never got around to it. i think i saved a bunch of money that way, assuming that I enjoy my time this weekend).</p>
<p>So, my situation:
GA Tech: Accepted, basically Free b/c of HOPE scholarship.
UGA: see above.
Emory: accepted, waiting on fin.aid decision.
Tufts: accepted, waiting on fin.aid decision as well (apparently they are still missing some forms)
UChicago: accepted, with fin.aid I have to pay about $19,000
Upenn: rejected
Yale: rejected
Princeton: rejected
MIT: accepted, with fin.aid I have to pay about $13,000</p>
<p>so... the winner is...</p>
<p>Hao! Noooo! Dangit! I was really really really hoping you would get in :( But hey, make no mistake about it: we (and just like legend said, this "we" is the happy posters of the Princeton board, not Princeton itself) will come to visit you in Ithaca and see you at games and everything. You're a really cool, and nice to boot. You'll have a great time at Cornell and stick your tongue out at Princeton a year from now for having rejected you.</p>
<p>And soany, I didn't really know you on the board, but everyone else seems to love you, so I'm sad you didn't get in either :( Best of luck wherever you are!</p>
<p>go to University of Chicago, unless you've got a math-science bent (I guess then MIT would be well worth the extra funds). A friend of mine goes there--it's an excellent, "invigorating" learning atmosphere. There are small, intimate classes, good professor-student interaction, and a BEAUTIFUL campus. look at their admissions video on uchicago.edu. I almost applied to transfer there.</p>
<p>can i ask where you almost transfered from?</p>
<p>oh, and phil,
thanks for the well-wishes. :) good luck to you as well at pton!
i was a lurker for a LONG time... but i ... (wanting to say came out of the closet... bad?) started posting a lot more recently in the anticipation of decisions...</p>
<p>Hao</p>
<p>if I can take three of those letters, let me just say, whoa. There's really no rhyme or reason to this process. You got into two great schools that many of my friends were rejected from, but I can understand your surprise with the number of waitlists you got! I think you're an awesome/amazingly smart person and I know you'll do great in Ithaca.</p>
<p>Thanks Phil and Enco and everyone else again for all the wonderful messages. I absolutely want to meet every single one of you next year, even more so than I want to go to college! I'm not quite giving up on my four lovely waitlists so maybe I'll be closer than I think. And if not, that's okay too. I feel so privileged to have gotten to know this special Princeton CC group and if no one keeps in touch, I WILL make the ardurous journey from Ithaca to track people down. Beware, I read your xangas!!! :)</p>
<p>Trust me, she will indeed read your Xangas. She read through mine hardcore-style.</p>
<p>LOL! I only skimmed through your survey...the white on black hurt my eyes. >.<</p>
<p>Yeah I apologize :X Would you prefer hot pink and red?</p>
<p>Yeah, she found mine too. Then again, she has the ability to grill me every day at school...</p>
<p>Sillymon...you have a link to it in your AIM Buddy Profile.</p>
<p>lol yeah, i guess i do...</p>
<p>Rejected. </p>
<p>the dream was nice while it lasted</p>
<p>*Decision: Rejected :( *</p>
<p>Stats:[ /b][ list]
[<em>] SAT: V790, M760
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800, 760, 680
[<em>] GPA: 3.9
[</em>] Rank: ~1/75
[li] Other stats: 7 As in IGCSE @ age 15</p>[/li]
<p>[/list]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Not amazing
[</em>] Teacher Recs: They really liked me... :)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Knew him very well, he was always impressed with me.
[</em>] Hook (if any): Missionary Kid in Africa
[/ul]Location/Person:**[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Singapore/Kenya/Zambia
[</em>] School Type: Mission boarding school
[<em>] Ethnicity:Singaporean Chinese
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] major strength/weakness: Maybe I was younger? (15..)
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: No clue... only I know compared 2 others, my application was nothing..</p>
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:</p>
<p>[ size=+1][ color=Orange][ b]Decision: ACCEPTED![ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT: 1540 (740 m, 800 v)
[ *] SAT IIs: 800, 790, 760, 730
[ *] GPA: 3.97
[ *] Rank: 2/502
[ *] Other stats:
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays: Really the best I could do in expressing myself
[ *] Teacher Recs: No idea but probably good
[ *] Counselor Rec: Awesome (I read it)
[ *] Hook (if any): Captain of soccer team, president of literary magazine, summer college courses for creative writing, worked in a restaurant for four years
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: CT
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] major strength/weakness: Strength = Essay
[ *] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Great stats, good essay...?
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b] Waitlisted Harvard and Yale so Princeton is probably where I'm going to end up</p>
<p>Probably will be Princeton '09</p>
<p>Decision: <em>Waitlisted</em>________</p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT: 1500 (760 V, 740 M)
[ *] SAT IIs: 800 Writing, 780 Bio E, 760 Math 2C
[ *] GPA: 3.744 UW
[ *] Rank: N/A
[ *] Other stats: AP 5: Euro, Bio, Eng Lang ; AP 4: US Hist ; AP ?: Eng Lit, BC Calc
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays: Alright - one about band/music, short about student gov., one on why I shaved my head, one about skiing, had a typo in one of them haha
[ *] Teacher Recs: one awesome, one pretty good
[ *] Counselor Rec: pretty good
[ *] Hook (if any): clarinet (Bb/Eb) - sent CD
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: Hong Kong
[ *] School Type: Private Day
[ *] Ethnicity: Chinese
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] major strength/weakness: A LOT of ECs for school (consistent), low GPA and ok SATs
[ *] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: low GPA
[ /list][ b]Other Factors: campus visit [ /b]</p>
<p>Why did the html not work?</p>
<p>u have to delete the space after the [ =P</p>
<p>Celton - you need to remove the space after the opening square bracket. So [ *] would be typed without the initial space after the '['</p>