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I am glad you could comprehend. I kept it short to fit your attention span. :)</p>
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<p>Aw, that’s so nice of you to look out for me like that! </p>
<p>Unfortunately, I do have a short attention span for BS. :(</p>
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That’s the least I could do for being so diplomatic. :)</p>
<p>Hahah, Tipu, you’re awesome. :)</p>
<p>whoopty-doo-dah!</p>
<p>^^ No joke btw. :)</p>
<p>[Just thought I should make that clear in case I was mis-interpreted again lol.]</p>
<p>PD is generally one misunderstood little boy.
But then… PD you don’t generally make an effort to make yourself understood. <em>shrugs</em></p>
<p>I actually have to remind myself that you don’t mean to offend whenever I read most of your posts before interpreting what you meant. I realize that you mean to help, but it doesn’t come across like that a lot of times. :/</p>
<p>PD is smart, eloquent and fully aware of the tone he uses. I don’t think it is fair to put the onus on the reader to interpret his statements as well intentioned when they are blatantly condescending or put-downs. I have said enough.</p>
<p>Perfectpixie, for the sake of PD’s short attention span, I’ll defend myself by saying that I can read OP’s one lined question…and I do read twice before posting my replies. You are misinterpreting my posts, and I only used that “self-centered” person as an example…not to imply that it represented the OP. I solely used it to make the OP feel less stressed in the case where he happens to not win at IOL or whatever. </p>
<p>OP, this entire decade, only one single individual from India has actually won at the IOL, and that is Aakanksha Sarda. Given the circumstance as such, you should try your very best to get to the IOL and win, but don’t think it’s not prestigious if you don’t win. </p>
<p>Here is a link of Sarda’s story: [Mumbai</a> girl wins International Physics Olympiad](<a href=“http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/mumbai-girl-wins-international-physics-olympiad-40263]Mumbai”>Mumbai girl wins International Physics Olympiad)
Obviously, it wasn’t just the linguistics Olympiad that got her placed into MIT. She practically made history in her country by being a female champ in physics, and puting herself on the top by placing 18 in the boards. So just to add onto Tippu’s helpful comment, india has been under international radar after Sarda’s win. If you are able to do well, it will be a great feat. However, it is not guaranteed that you will get into schools like MIT, as Sarda’s case was different.</p>
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<p>I would, but… I honestly couldn’t care less. </p>
<p>I don’t have the energy to apologize to people who are just looking for reasons to be offended.</p>
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<p>I use quite a bit of self-deprecating humor as well btw.
Also, I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before, but talking my peers makes me often question whether I got into S on merit, or simply because I was a full-paying applicant…</p>
<p>pixie, you condone or make excuses for PD’s behavior and unnecessarily jump all over Liveulife. What happened to your objectivity? You’re on a bully pulpit now?</p>
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<p>I fully understand how you feel. I know several who have been in your shoes before. Just hang in there till the first mid-term and let your performance speak for itself.</p>
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<p>What the? I don’t think she’s ever made ‘excuses’ for anything I’ve said lol. </p>
<p>And her posts are still fairly objective. I really don’t see how she ‘jumped all over liveulife’. :|</p>
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is something anyone would love to hear right? Or is not obvious that I’m telling him to check his post content?
Anyway, I see what my mistake was.
I didn’t agree with some of what he posted. You got a problem with that? 
So, how do you expect to gain the liking/respect of any of us? I would say majority of those who read many of your posts would be offended by the content a lot of times.
And if you don’t care about that either, then why waste your time posting in a forum with people you don’t respect enough to follow general courtesy at the pretext of ‘helping’ them? :/</p>
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<p>I felt this was unnecessary and triggered subsequent exchange. I agree Liveulife went beyond what OP sought but did’t you think it was useful advice for the general audience?</p>
<p>Anyway, I will be happy to clarify this and other matters offline if you are interested. 
Sorry, didn’t mean to offend you.</p>
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<p>First of all, I don’t. Lol, this fills up part of my time between mindless Excel formatting, i.e. the most over-rated internship experience ever. I don’t friend people from CC or the studentroom lol, so I don’t expect to gain your “liking”.
Second, honestly there were like 4 users who were ‘offended’. And most of what they said was fairly offensive too. Aside from that, mostly through PMs, everyone’s pretty much agreed with my opinions on international admissions. </p>
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<p>Um, lol I pretty much respect all of you, honestly. Happy?
In terms of ‘helping people’, well, I just wish someone could’ve told me the things I know now last year. I don’t want applicants to believe something that is pretty much false.</p>
<p>wow, is everyone here on a debate frenzy here? If you guys seriously cared about helping ppl…you would actually help the OP with his question. I went beyond what he asked b/c his question was quite philosophical (plz read it over again before replying back to me as if i’m incompetent). I assumed what I inferred from his question and statements. I didn’t want to be like “calm down it’s no big deal” and be done with that little advice. If that was so, the OP could have gone over to his neighbor and shared his concern or even gone to the IO website or whatever…</p>
<p>and PD, I think you’re getting admissions completely wrong. As I’ve said before, financial need is seperate unless the college states that it isn’t. You wouldn’t have gotten into S if you hadn’t written a good essay and hadn’t had the satisfying grades. Don’t mislead yourself and others to think that there is some need aware policy that is examined simultaneously with judging an international student application during admissions when it isn’t actually announced by the college.</p>
<p>Liveulife, i think u are wrong about international admission @ Stanford. </p>
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<p>[International</a> Applicants : Stanford University](<a href=“http://stanford.edu/dept/uga/application/international/index.html]International”>http://stanford.edu/dept/uga/application/international/index.html)</p>
<p>Maxxwell, I stand corrected. For me, the experience with private unis has not been like the stated policy above. Never applied to S, so I decided to infer. I guess east coast is a bit different in contrast to west for aid. Next time I will check the facts.</p>
<p>^Apart from Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth and Amherst, that’s the policy for internationals asking for Fin Aid for every single private or public college/university. Internationals who pay their way get placed in a separate pool from those who’re asking for aid. It’s a well known fact. East coast/west coast, no difference. Don’t mislead yourself and the others to think that there’s a same policy for everyone because that’s a misconception a lot of internationals are under. Liveulife, u indian? You’re not international, and all your posts are in the india forum…and you’re a new member, yet your posts… <em>shrugs</em> weirddd
Oh, yes, how could I forget about that internal button of yours? The one which lets you develop a different/more rude/arrogant personality on an anonymous forum as compared
to your ‘real life’ one?? The one which suddenly converts you into a wonderful person as soon as you log off CC? Hm…I wonder where my button is.
You seriously expect us to believe that you’re a different person offline?!
And by liking I didn’t mean for us to want to friend you on facebook. General liking, that you would have for any common acquaintance. Do you think your opinions would hold any weight if everyone hated you…no matter how pertinent and helpful they actually are?
Really? I didn’t mean just the India forum. When I’d initially gotten my acceptances, I spent some time on the Penn forum too, and your posts weren’t taken too kindly there either. What were you doing going to the penn forum and just happily blasting their school, and then later expecting everything to become ‘fine’ just by saying something along the lines of ‘oh just so you know…while I just spent my last ~10 posts *****ing about penn to the ultimate, I’m considering it for transfer’? And then you come to the harvard forum and say you “technically rejected” harvard by not applying, conveniently assuming that you’d get accepted to all the schools you applied to.
And while you might blast the social hierarchy at penn what with all its “wannabe” secret societies, and wharton domination, aren’t you the same person who thinks Princeton is the ultimate heaven? Hello?! I rejected Princeton because of the social segregation amongst the student body because of the stupid eating club culture that differentiates between those who participate in eating clubs and those who don’t . I’d have probably bickered to get into the best club possible (I forget its name, but I don’t care so yeah) but I just didn’t approve of how it created the worst social hierarchy possible. And similar to penn, Harvard has finals clubs, and yale has secret societies. Every school has something exclusive…but none as bad as Princeton.<br>
Let’s all just start preaching philosophical knowledge unasked randomly all over the forums.
His/her unnecessary post (and darthspawnus’s off track post) triggered my unnecessary post.
Forget it! All I meant was that if I had opened a thread wondering, just simply wondering, if my state level prize in declamation was worth putting on the application when all the national and international debaters would be applying too, I would hate it if someone launched into huge posts preaching about why the experience is more important than the frickin award (as if I don’t know already) that too…when I haven’t even asked about it.
I liked Liveulife’s post on ILOVEFEDERER’s thread, but I found these unnecessary and out of the way and therefore silly.</p>
<p>Perfectpixie, I’m aware that you can pay your way through the process…but that is unethical to revolve admissions to mainly this criteria. Don’t assume that admissions is a sham, it is not. I am an international student at UVA (living in us but not in virginia), and I have not paid myself through at all. I have very few of my own money to pay for college, but I am going to uni under a scholarship that I worked hard for… So it can be possible to earn your place respectfully in top unis. I only visit this website because it allows me to give tips to internationals/american-indian citizens in us…or even perhaps in india since hardship of admissions is the same for all internationals regardless of the place they live (unless I apply to my state unis, which will give me reduction of tuition). You have never noted that I don’t give advice for Jee and other indian system stuff on these forums, solely because I am not part of that world.
^ that was uncalled for since I have all my answers about my uni taken cared by directly talking with admissions (much more concise and less controversial than these forums turn out to be). And yes, I am Indian…do you have any problem? I don’t really understand where you are getting at with your inclusion of […]. Even though I’m a newcomer on this website, I am not a newcomer to admissions. I would rather prefer that you focus on the OP’s question than direct criticism towards me…when I have actually shared useful information.</p>
<p>Sorry to be so blunt, but you are a bit of a hipocrite. This is not my opinion, but true fact based on your recent post. How? Well you continue to reprimand me for going off track and sharing no useful information, but you yourself are doing just that.
I will say no more…
I agree with that sentiment pixie, it would annoy the heck out of me as well. However, I mentioned that little speech because I assumed (in fact I believe strongly) that the OP has not made internationals yet. Otherwise, he would not be thinking so depricatingly about not winning an awards at the international lvl. You and I know exactly how many spots there are in a national team for the Olympiad, so realistically thinking…I was trying to make my speech realistic as well.</p>