<p>Does anyone have a link to that NY Times editorial from last spring? It's also pretty frank about how college decisions, all in all, don't mean that much.</p>
<p>i want Regular decisions acceptance letters</p>
<p>Someone: I need help! I was waitlisted at my absolute dream school, Columbia College but accepted to brown (the ivies were hard on me)! No disrespect to brown, i'm sure that i would most definitely love it there but columbia is my one and only love. I know, practically polar opposite as far as schools, but i love both for different reasons. I know about the letter that should be sent to waitlist schools to woo them into accepting you but i was wondering: what is the true secret for getting off the list? How do those few select kids manage to do it every year? Or is it a total crapshoot and I am fooling myself? HELP!</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1460 (700 V, 760 M)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 780 Wr, 800 IIc, 760 Phy
[<em>] GPA: 4.00 uw
[</em>] Rank: 3/400
[<em>] Other stats: Canadian Mathematical Olympiad qualifier, COMC provincial medallist, provincial champion in fermat contest, provincial winner in euclid contest, AIME qualifier (2 years), UBC Physics Olympics champion, Western Canadian Physics Olympiad qualifier, National recognition from math league
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: adequate
[<em>] Teacher Recs: didn't read
[</em>] Counselor Rec:didn't read
[<em>] Hook (if any): math/science
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Canada
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender:Male
[</em>] major strength/weakness: strength - math/science, interview. weakness - low sat I, history.
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I guess I was lucky...[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>cherry coke, hate to break it to you but there is no secret</p>
<p>clay is right. grow up, and go to brown.</p>
<p>I disagree with ap. Obviously, continue maturing like everyone else...uhhhh, but to me, part of growing up is never giving up. So who cares that there is no formula. Give the Columbia wait list all you've got, at least you won't regret it later in life. so, grow up, and go to Columbia, if that is where you want to go. Don't worry about the chances of getting off the wait list. What a horrible way to live life.</p>
<p>I agree, what's the worst that could happen? You don't go to columbia? Nothing bad can come out of it, only good. You don't know what'll happen if you never try, but at the same time, stay realistic</p>
<p>Ha... one of my friends got into Columbia and was waitlisted at Brown... Brown was by far his first choice.</p>
<p>what I meant by that is that there's no magic switch to push, no specific thing to do that will get you off the list. There just isnt'. But that doesn't by any means mean you shouldn't pursue the waitlist. Send in additional recs, write a letter explaining why you want so badly to go to columbia and why you would be a good student for them, send in anything you can think of that they haven't already seen, etc. Call regularly, talk to your admin counselor if you can. Those are the avenues. But none of them are secrets. See what I mean?</p>
<p>Ap, don't crush people's hopes and dreams let alone call them immature for being dissapointed in not getting what they hoped for, especially when an avenue remains through which to pursue it. </p>
<p>Nevertheless, if you don't get into columbia, you can a. transfer, or b. go to brown, because its fabulous. I'm DYING to get in (i'm a transfer student. I was waitlisted last year)</p>
<p>Don't tell other people what to do.</p>
<p>Umm... So many people would give their everything to be in cherry's situation... I think she should be thankful for all she has gotten.</p>
<p>Never be satisfied</p>
<p>This may be a stupid question, but I have done very well in the 3rd quater, and I have just been offered an internship, which is extreemly hard to get (actually, only one person gets it), so I was wondering if, based off of new information, can you appeal a decision.</p>
<p>I know that most people say "Well, if you don't want me, then screw you." But for some reason, I still love Brown. I think the rejection letter was written with class, and I just love the place. I feel totally different then when I was rejected from Columbia, I guess Coumbia is not the place for me. Anyways, I will work my ass of at whatever college I go to, and try to transfer. My sister transfered after her first year, and she said it was great... no problems re-adjusting a new school (she transfered to Case from OU).</p>
<p>funkyspoon, here's a link to the NYTimes Op-Ed when it was posted in the forum:</p>
<p>yeah carrera, I think you can appeal. I heard Brown has a similar policy to JHU, and if you visit the JHU forum you should find some more info.</p>
<p>Thanks, kbpe. I find the article serious and uplifting (which is why everyone should read it) but also depressing (it's very anticlimatic to learn that you have to look forward to more anticlimaxes. lol).</p>
<p>That article annoys me. Of course you can do well in life whatever college you go to. It's the college experience itself that most, or at least I, care about</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted
SAT: 1470 (780M, 690V)
SAT II: 710MathIIC/780Wri/700Bio-M
ACT: 34
GPA: 3.7 UW
Location: Southern California
School: Urban public school
Rank: 131/949</p>
<p>AP US History: 3
AP Biology: 4
AP English Language: 4
AP European History: 3
AP English Literature: Pending
AP Calculus AB: Pending
AP Computer Science A: Pending
AP Psychology: Pending</p>
<p>Clinical Biomedical Research: I interned/volunteered/studied with doctors at a major medical center doing unpaid gruntwork, exploring the human genome and trying to cure heart disease among a specific test sample. UC credit and research experience earned.</p>
<p>Essay: Excellent
Teacher Recs: One excellent ("The best [she's] ever written!"), one very good.</p>
<p>Race: Hispanic
Gender: Male
Extracurriculars: None. The extracurricular advantage is a myth.</p>
<p>Strengths: Letters of recommendation, essays, test scores.</p>
<p>Weaknessnes: GPA (Especially sophomore year).</p>
<p>Accepted: UCLA, Berkeley, Pitzer, Occidental, Tufts, Lewis and Clark
Wait-Listed: Pomona, Columbia
Denied: Stanford</p>
<p>after reading through these pages, i realized it took the efforts of one being (amor) to stop the hate/love/anything. Intellectual apathy is the best route i dare say.</p>
<p>btw, i was rejected from brown. just any old applicant though, ur usual stats.
location: li, ny
gender: male--indian</p>
<p>i love that this college thing is over though
good luck to all 09 brownies..mmm i love brownies, think ill have one</p>
<p>So far I've gotten into puget sound and vassar </p>
<p>Eclipsed, how did you find out already about Brown? Mail?</p>