The Indian Thread #20 (a)

[HCaulfield]

<p>@phr34k</p>

<p>Congratulations mate!</p>

[Tizil7]

<p>Congratulations Phr34k</p>

[p25india]

<p>congrates phr34k!</p>

[TheEcnegilletni]

<p>Niceee! Congratulations freak! :P</p>

[perfectpixie]

<p>Just popped in to wish everyone the best! Good luck for the boards and college decisions everyone! From the past few posts I see that the decisions have already started coming! Eeep, this is so exciting!!</p>

<p>I sincerely hope that your hard work pays off and that you all get into good colleges of your choice with good scholarships (for those who need them)! :)</p>

[phr34k]

<p>Thanks everyone :)</p>

<p>So I guess I’ll be leaving my college for sure! :D</p>

[HCaulfield]

<p>@pixie</p>

<p>Thanks for wishing :)</p>

[IRBCobalt]

<p>@Pixie- thanks a lot!
@Ph34k- CONGO!
@Ascaris- I looove english Notemaking isn’t so bad, it’s like you have permission to write in SMS language B)

• too many wide grins * :P</p>

[phr34k]

<p>^Thanks :)</p>

<p>And yeah, All the best people, whoever’s writing their boards </p>

<p>Kill them :D</p>

[9jagurl96]

<p>@phr34k congrats! Did you apply to any other schools?</p>

[p25india]

<p>All the Best to all of those who has Board exams.</p>

[HCaulfield]

<p>I hope you aren’t writing your English exam on the morrow P25, cause it’ll take some time to correct Pronoun-Plurality disagreement :P</p>

[Tizil7]

<p>^ Haw
Anyways how was it everyone?!
All my friends are spamming Facebook with how easy the exam was and how they all finished in 2 hours :p</p>

[HCaulfield]

<p>I belong to a state board.</p>

<p>And have my first exam day after i.e. March 3</p>

[Ascaris]

<p>I didn’t finish it in two hours but I did spend an awful lot of time between each question staring blankly at the wall.</p>

[phr34k]

<p>@9jagurl96- Yep, loads actually… But more than half of those are all safeties…</p>

[Tizil7]

<p>

@Roger&lt;em&gt;Dooley&lt;/em&gt;the&lt;em&gt;super&lt;/em&gt;moderator&lt;em&gt;O&lt;/em&gt;O

When the Wall Street Journal interviewed Dee Leopold, head of admissions at Harvard Business School, they asked her about recommendations. One insight she shared was,

The best recommendations have a lot of verbs. They say, “She did this,” versus adjectives that simply describe you.

This advice applies far beyond HBS - it’s true for every recommendation letter that undergrad applicants submit. I think it applies to self-descriptions in most cases, too.</p>

<p>Think about it: which tells a school more about an applicant:</p>

<p>“Katy is dedicated, hard-working, team-oriented, helpful, and highly creative.”
or
“Katy organized a team of fellow students, worked the entire Thanksgiving weekend, created a website, and printed flyers for a band fundraising project. This raised enough money to pay for ten new drums.”</p>

<p>Obviously, not every recommendation can feature some phenomenal accomplishment. But if your recommender can’t come up with a concrete example or two of why you are smart, hard-working, creative, brilliant, dogged, cooperative, etc., maybe you have the wrong recommender.</p>

<p>In these days of high student loads and lots of time demands on counselors and teachers, be sure to help your recommender recall specific examples of your accomplishments so that he/she doesn’t have to fall back on generic praise, however delightful that may be.

'17ers, '18ers, '19ers, … 'ners. This advice is for you.</p>

[ENVY94]

<p>Another para about stress, and article about the importance of sports.
CBSE is boringly predictable.</p>

[IRBCobalt]

<p>English was okay, I guess It totally is predictable xD
<em>Shudder</em> Physics next and a TON of stuff to study in very less time :’(
ALL THE BEST people! :D</p>

[idream17]

<p>Thanks Tizil. I’ll give it to my teachers to read. :)</p>