<p>All the best Abhijit... You have as good a chance as the rest of them :)</p>
<p>@Abhijit: Your stats are good, but all the stuff from 2001 etc and the inter-house stuff won't really make your application stronger.</p>
<p>Oh yeah. I wanted to say that too. Most of the colleges you mentioned, ask only for stuff from grade 9 onwards.</p>
<p>To Abhijit:</p>
<p>Your's is the mother of all EC lists. I would like to ask what you do in your spare time, but I think I already know the answer. </p>
<p>P.S. awesome SAT score. How about the subject tests?</p>
<p>His subject scores are mentioned in his post.</p>
<p>He is a great candidate for sure, and not to put him down or anything (it's not my place), but to be honest a lot of his EC's are, for lack of a better term, not "useful".</p>
<p>Oh wait, I missed it the first time around. No need to repost your 2400 SAT subjects score. For what it's worth, I had a greater SAT score and Caltech rejected me too. My ECs are nowhere near your's though. Makes one wonder: what DOES it take to be a techer? It's not just the scores (otherwise I'd have gotten in) and it's not just the EC (otherwise Abhijit wouldn't have been rejected). </p>
<p>Must be the admissions essays and the short questions that are really important.</p>
<p>My EC's are all the sci-tech, geeky sort though...
nt much of sport or debate etc..
hvnt doing netn much in d last two years....dts wher d problem is..
tnx 2 everyone tho..
any acceptncs yet??</p>
<p>^ That's the mistake most applicants make. They assume that MIT and Caltech being tech schools like reading "geeky" essays. But on the contrary, your "tech" side is shown enough by your grades and test scores. Leave your essay for something definitely not science related.</p>
<p>nah..my essays had ntn to do with any of this...
jst that my ECs are a bit 'lop-sided'</p>
<p>My essays had everything to do with it. I wrote about segregation, which is a really sensitive topic. Not only that, but I got carried away and ended up writing more about the topic rather than how it relates to me. Those are the two most important things NOT to do when writing an admissions essay. What was I thinking?</p>
<p>I'm a little scared bcos ma ECs r probably fewer than ma fingers n ma scores-well, they were ok but not that super. I didn't go for Caltech but on Saturday, MIT will give me their decision. Is anyone in the same soup. At least I'll feel better that way.</p>
<p>Every1 hus applyng to mit...regardless of sat scores/ec's is in the same soup...</p>
<p>Well... HI everyone... chance me too... am Indian</p>
<p>Sat 1 - 1910 m-770,cr-580,wr-560(essay-10)
SAT2- m2-770, ph-770, chem-730</p>
<p>TOEFL- 112/120 ibt (gr8 , i guess.. for MIT)</p>
<p>Boards(cbse) class 10- 90%
11th - 85
12th -- hoping for an 80.. maybe 90...chem was good.. phy nt so good.. eng was good..</p>
<ul>
<li>Head boy of mah skul (12th) (about 3500 students)</li>
<li>vice head boy (11th)</li>
<li>adviser comp club-- photography and quiz head</li>
<li>NSO ranks (ALL india).. 8,122,191,373,475</li>
<li>NCO 40,313</li>
<li>ZIO(zonal informatics) .. gt selected 1st round... kicked in the second.. c++ prog event</li>
<li>Intel sci exhibition(got inventions... both are .. kewl.. plan to patent one of em)</li>
<li>Many sci exhibitions.. fairs.. presentations.. symposiums...etc etc</li>
<li>Quiz.. competitions..(computer and sci)</li>
<li>Debates
-INMUN... 2.. haiti.. fed. st. of Micronesia... so dun expect victory...lol
-Photography is a recent thing... B/w stills..
-Basket ball ..captain of mah team... and gt selected ..district team
-Badminton.. community championship...1st
-painting.... international.. level cash prize... and many competitions..face painting
-Play rhythm guitar.(learning lead..)..had a band.. bt dint have time... die hard metallica, led zepp fan...
-I mentioned the invention... 1'st comp based(hardware and some c programmin.. d progrmin is hell tough)... and pretty noble.. and the other is agricultural based...
-JOB-- asst. magazine designer..for a health magazine
-Scholar for 4 yrs....
-Gt mr.<my school=""> ... and voted mr.Congeniality...by mah sculs 11ees
-Survey -- teen smoking and alcoholism... 150 ppl..
-Fund raisers... AIDS/Cancer aid
-Helpage india volunteer
-Made an R/C aircraft.. frm scratch.. in about 20$ /van de grff gen..
(R/c if you dun hav an idea... its a big deal)</my></li>
<li>RECS are good... i guess..hop so... gt em frm mah fav teachers.. </li>
</ul>
<p>Plan to major in Aerospace engg...
if not then MechE/cs... </p>
<p>I need fin aid.. and a lot of it</p>
<p>Coll applied...
Caltech- Rejected (sniff sniff)
MIT
Columbia
Cornell
Stanford
Princeton</p>
<p>yup thats it......
be nice to me..... jk</p>
<p>Thnx....</p>
<p>This is not a chances thread. Make a new thread kranzz.</p>
<p>Abhijit: Those are geeky? You might want to have a look at my stats :p</p>
<p>Appeal : Please try and post in proper English! It gets really hard to read chat speak :)</p>
<p>well..... send me a link or smthing... ur stats... n u cn chance me here... big deal..</p>
<p>@kranzz: Did you post as K5 in my blog btw? And I think it would be much better if you can rewrite that a little more coherently ;) </p>
<p>But as far as it goes, you SAT Reasoning is somewhat low, for CR. Though your SAT II is pretty good. And your EC's are good too. So, I'd say its as much a reach for you as it is for all of us. Just go back a few pages in this thread, you can find my stats thread.</p>
<p>Yup that was me... well sorry... it happens after 2 straight hours on indefinite int. , well.. I saw your post... gr8 ... uve done alot.. do you have any idea.. of the other shruti who got in caltech.. her ecs? </p>
<p>well... are my ec's rounded off??? , detailed chances.. lol (am awfully worried.. after the Caltech rejection)...</p>
<p>I gave the SATs twice and I could never raise my essay score beyond 8 (got a 2290 otherwise) and my friend turned techer got an essay score of 9. How come everyone from India manages to get essay scores like 10 and 12, that are so inconsistent with the rest of their SAT scores? Is there some secret to scoring brownie points on the essay?</p>
<p>Yes, there is a certain format and certain kinds of examples that the scorers like to see. Its easily possible to raise one's essay score by using these tactics.</p>