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<p>Um, yeah. Lol I don’t live in London, I am only working here. Let’s see, I’ve done an internship at Bain & Co. (consulting firm), managed my theatre company to produce a few shows, auditioned for a couple of parts in tv shows (rejected from all of them so far btw, total fail lol :(), travelled a little bit and volunteered at an orphanage that my sisters and I have supporting for the past few years. I am planning on organizing some international shows after Christmas.</p>
<p>You’re really talented, I must say.</p>
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<p>Why, thank you. I am sure you are too. :)</p>
<p>Aniruddh-No not necessarily. I meant it more from a personal POV; if I had such great scores, I would’ve felt better prepared for the admissions process and wouldn’t have bothered retaking and such. Standardized testing is what gets me down-everything else I can handle.
Although it is true that the ED pool usually has a higher percentage of highly qualified candidates than RD. With RD, you get a lot of people just throwing their application at the school just to take a chance. The binding nature of ED makes people seriously consider their chances and qualifications, which lends to the above.</p>
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but with ed you’ll have a higher chance of getting admitted. Take Dickinson for example, its average acceptance is 49%, but for ED, its 75%.
IMO, for RD, nothing’s sure, its like winning a lottery.</p>
<p>Oh you are ridiculously talented. Managing a theater show? What I wouldn’t give to have such an off the wall and cool job like that.
I think I’m slowly coming to a point where I’m going to rebel against my family and take a Gap Year, whether they like it or not.</p>
<p>Very true Led. Still, I didn’t apply to any Unis ED because I didn’t think I was a qualified enough applicant. I basically wanted to get my grades up, and I thought I was going to get rejected anyway. It’s more of a lottery for me now, but I also have more time to prepare. This is just me though, I know people who’ve applied ED and I can see the obvious benefits.</p>
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<p>Hmm, human tendency to be curious?! When you read some interesting posts by people you want to see more posts. You’re making me come across as a creep. 
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<p>Well I took the SAT twice and best score is 2020. I honestly don’t think I have the slightest shot at Hamilton, but hey, it doesn’t hurt to apply! Who knows, some admission officer might have a slip of fingers :P</p>
<p>IMO, whatever the score, we should apply ED.</p>
<p>Hey PrincetonDreams! Well, applications are fun sometimes, but mostly distressing. As deadlines are approaching, my tendencies to sleep, watch HIMYM, and just sit there and vegetate have undergone a gargantuan increase.
Currently, I’m trying to focus all my energy into my Berkeley app. >.<</p>
<p>LedZep, your scores are well into Hamilton’s range so I really don’t think you should worry so much about your SAT. Your Junior year percentage is a bit iffy though, and I can’t really advise you on that because I don’t know if Hamilton recognizes the rigor of CBSE/ICSE. Perhaps someone else here will know. You should stop underestimating yourself so much though, there are people with worse scores than you who are applying to Ivies.
Bon Jovi-You watch HIMYM? Hells yes! Wasn’t the latest episode a-freaking-mazing? Lost and HIMYM is such a divine partnership. It really shouldn’t work, but does (Further discussion of this should be taken to TiT # 18)
Anyone watch The Big Bang Theory? It’s one of my all time favs.</p>
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<p>Nickname? Hmmm. This is hard. I actually spent 10 minutes thinking about one… Couldn’t come up with a good one. Plus, I can’t really use my real nickname. Additionally, it’s really stupid to assign a nickname to yourself; you let others do that, right? :p</p>
<p>My college list mostly includes the big names – Ivy schools, UChicago, NU and couple of good engineering schools (UMich and G’tech.) What about you?</p>
<p>Is Bon Jovi my new nickname? :S </p>
<p>I thought I said, I <em>didn’t</em> like Bon Jovi. The horror. </p>
<p>Led, I’m on you with this. If you <em>can</em> financially support yourself, you should totally apply ED if its your 1st pref. regardless of your SAT score. ED is mostly really advantageous. Schools like Cornell admit 1/3rd of their freshman class with ED admits.</p>
<p>Soz, I was too lazy to type out itsmylife. I won’t call you that anymore, no worries :p</p>
<p>I need like a TON of aid. I cant finance even a year of studies. Plus the advantage with ED is that if u get accepted, you can bargain for aid, coz its binding. We’ll already have withdrawn our apps from other colleges, so they’re bound to give aid.</p>
<p>Led, you can withdraw from the ED agreement if they refuse to give you decent aid. So, don’t think that the bargain will be successful.</p>
<p>Yeah, but most of the college, if accepted for ED, will make you pay less than 5k. So i suppose it is a good deal. Last year, people accepted ED didnt have to pay much.</p>
<p>[Rankings</a> - Physics - Graduate Schools - Education - US News](<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-physics-schools/rankings]Rankings”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-physics-schools/rankings)</p>
<p>Princeton is pretty good for physics, as you can see.</p>
<p>What about undergraduate?</p>
<p>I have watched ALL EPISODES of HIMYM, BBT, Modern Family, Entourage and Two and a Half Men. :)</p>