<p>What knowledge? don't answer. Arjun has said all there needs to be said to u.reconsider journalism bc u can't understand what arjun said simply- u guys need to chill referring to me, u, and HiImAnAlcoholic etc</p>
<p>Arjun, I just said that I wasn't considering it until these LAST FEW DAYS. I'm just upset I didn't even get the choice.</p>
<p>What the hell is a batch-mate? lol</p>
<p>This is just ridiculous the way I'm being judged from an online chat. "You'll be a failure".
Thanks for your input. That was not what I was asking however.</p>
<p>err...a guy who goes with u to the same univerity
i think u guys call it a class-mate
but we here call 'em batch-mates</p>
<p>Paleridden, my guess is that 90% of other applicants had nearly identical scores and ECs to yours. I would venture also to guess that you listed yourself as a member of "Who's Who in American High School Students." If your application was an amalgam of generic ECs meant to buff up your college apps and your essays were interchangeable with most others, no matter how good a writer you are, it doesn't matter what your stats are. It's not that hard to figure out what Cornell wants: they're looking for good students with a bona fide interest in the school, for more reason than prestige, who are unique or exceptional enough that Admissions doesn't forget the student's name by the time they move on to the next application. They probably tagged you as another applicant who thinks the Ivy League is an academic conference.</p>
<p>paleridde, sorry, but its you who's being rediculous.
Saying that your dissapointed is fine...
but when u start blaming it on minorities, the weather and the direction of the winds...u cross the line.</p>
<p>Gotcha. </p>
<p>Cornell judged you on things that you wrote, as well. That's how it works. You can gather information about one's character from the thing one says, be it verbally or via essay. </p>
<p>If you listen to people who you think are unqualified to judge you, then that's your own mistake.</p>
<p>referring to post 44, don't feel like quoting...off to study, pleasure to rain on your poorly-coordinated virtual pity party, so sorry.</p>
<p>Arjun I'm not blaming it on minorities! I am very well aware that there are a lot of minorities wayyyy more qualified than I am. Some however, like the student in my school, is not.</p>
<p>Indeed, some is not.</p>
<p>Who are you to judge who is more or less qualified than you??? As stated before, they must have obviously had somthing that you didn't. Maybe one of htem was a flute player and they needed one for the band, or maybe one of htem was a soccer player and they wanted to beef up the soccer teams. WHO KNOWS? What you can do, however, is stop thinking that you're "more qualified" to get into a school over others. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and be a good sport about it, for goodness sake. You have no righ to say who deserves to get in anywhere... who sets the admissions standards? The Admissions committee. Who picks the students? The Admissions committe. THEY know what they're doing.. different schools look for different things, I don't know why you are going on and on about this. Face that fact that you were not qualified according the adcom's standards for whatever reason that it was. I hate to put it bluntly like that but honestly.</p>
<p>And FYI, adcoms are really random. I got waitlisted at Vanderbilt and Wash U St. Louis but got into Hopkns with a 100k scholarship and Cornell, both of which are supposed to be more selective and whatnot... so it doesn't really make much sense to me either if you want to talk only numbers and ec's. So yeah, jsut because you didn't get into one school and your peers did doesn't really mean anything.. it just means that they had something that stood out to the adcoms that you didn't have... I am sure there are other "more qualified" applicants as you say who got rejected over the schools you got accepted to because htey were lacking in something too. It's all very random and with such competitive schools it's really the luck of the draw.</p>
<p>And ALSO (sorry for the third post), you don't even know if that person claimed minority status on his or her application! I am a minority but I didn't put it on any of my applications.. so saying that minority-status overshadows such a great sat score difference really doesn't hold up because you don't know what that person did on his/her app. I put not applicable on all of mine..</p>
<p>I meant are not. Get over it. Everyone makes mistakes. Big deal.</p>
<p>Fjchowdhury, I found your posts very informative. It's true that AdComs are very 'weird' about the way they select. And yea the student that got admitted did have something I did not but it worked in the other way also so I don't see how that makes a difference.</p>
<p>phew, gotta tell you guys, really enjoyed reading through that thread...keep up the good entertainment!!!</p>
<p>Agreed. I don't make many posts, but this deserves an encore.</p>
<p>umm..i don't know where to begin...well,first i am quite offended by the posts from paleridden...i think they are both ignorant, bitter and hateful and i believe her comments have shown that she is completely intolerant of others and egotistical...i mean she hasn't entertained the possibility that maybe the kids that got in had family or personal situations (i.e. unstable family background, family illness, financial situations) that have prevented them from having extrordinary SAT scores or tons of involvement in ECs...besides numbers and a list of activities don't define the essence of a person or how good or bad they are as a student...it's all based on how you come across as a person through your essays and recs.
As a minority, it saddens me that there are people who think that minorities cannot get into an ivy or top tier school without the help of AA...of course there are some that are helped out by AA, so what? We live in a society that has yet to bridge an exsisting educational and scio-economical gap between races and until that gap is fixed programs like AA will persist...unfortunately, as a program like AA continues we will still have to deal with idiots like paleridden who believe that she has been slighted by minorities and the system...I'm a minority who has been admitted into Cornell and will probably attend and i've very glad that i don't have to encounter paleridden during my time at Cornell</p>
<p>paleridden, i understand your situation completely. i was rejected from brown while one of my classmates was not only accepted but also got PLME. everyone at my school was shocked and many (including his own twin sister) thought this guy was even lying about his acceptance. i know it's not easy to just "get over it," and i don't respect those who tell you to just do that. and btw, adcoms are not infallible, they're human too. i'm sure you got into another great school.</p>
<p>paleridden:</p>
<p>I do understand your position because almost the same thing occurred to me for Brown's 8-year PLME.</p>
<p>Paleridden, the sad truth is that life is not fair, and it really does suck being on the worse end of the deal.</p>
<p>But Alcoholic's statements, while rough in your POV, do contain significant truths (I'm guessing his/her philosophy is to give you a cold, hard slap in the face and wake you up to reality).</p>
<p>My advice: suck it up and go kick some @$$ at whatever school you go to and get into a top-ranked grad program.</p>