<p>Actually when I wrote that about the bright young American students, I was talking about the talented bunch that have got their act together, who have made to colleges from among their own very competitive lot and they definitely are not the reflection of that society as a whole.</p>
<p>^yes, I realize that…I was just giving the others a perspective of the other side. And maybe trying to tell them of things that they should be aware of. As even good students have known to falter in college. But you are right…as many as the ones that fall on the wayside, there is always the ones that shine…and are over and beyond.</p>
<p>After lot of deliberations to choose one out 6 admissions my “D” sent her confirmation and deposit to WPI today. She will be pursuing Bio Tech with a good scholarship.
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As a parent I can feel whatever anialways had posted!!!</p>
<p>@manrosh - congratulations to your daughter. WPI is a great school, I would encourage her to start connecting with the international students there. Getting scholarship is really good news.</p>
<p>Hey guys, been a while again…First of all, in response to those posts from 10 pages ago:</p>
<p>@phr34k- no, i didnt apply for aid at uchicago. after some considerable stalking on these forums, i figured it would really screw my chances. not that im very rich, but my parents can manage to cover the costs, and are willing to take out some amount in loans, if its a great college. there are other colleges i did ask for aid at though, mostly smaller LACs that were not my top choices. </p>
<p>@canhazphysics- im a dudette :D</p>
<p>oh and i meant to post this for Cobalt: ive been rejected by wellesley and vassar too…both places where i applied for aid. but judging from previous threads, aid is the main reason internationals get rejected anyway…so dont take it as a reflection of your worth. if you look at last years indian decision threads from this page onwards, youll see what i mean about wellesley atleast… <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/india/1101195-india-class-2015-results-thread-rd-7.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/india/1101195-india-class-2015-results-thread-rd-7.html</a><br>
dont let it get you down, ok? :)</p>
<p>manrosh</p>
<p>Congratulations to your Daughter and you too.
What a proud feeling for a parent.</p>
<p>New England is one of the most beautiful places I have seen in my life. The foliage during Fall is mind blowing. It is like watching a masterpiece in progress.</p>
<p>Wishing her the very best for now and always.</p>
<p>Who’s staying up tonight?</p>
<p>For me, decision time is 11PM tonight. </p>
<p><em>can’t find an appropriate smiley to represent the solemn nervousness I’m feeling</em></p>
<p>@manrosh- That’s great! Congrats :D</p>
<p>I too had applied to WPI and sent them ISFAA. I got waitlisted and my friend pointed out that WPI needed the applicants to show funding of minimum 15 thousand.</p>
<p>What do you think, could I have been waitlisted because of this discrepancy?</p>
<p>Just few thoughts on the part of returning to India after finishing under graduation (UG) in US.
- Towards the end of UG, high probability of having sizable loans and clearing the same will take time. To clear the same, will it not make us to commit to stay further study/work in US? Means, it would just not be 4 years, but mostly may be quiet longer than that. This means financial commitment to US.</p>
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<li><p>It may be very difficult to leave the materialistically comfortable life in US and coming back to India. While this may not be impossible, but it may not be something one can do it easily, as well. Meaning leaving/sticking to lifestyle luxuries [hey, I am Okay with this:-)]. </p></li>
<li><p>4 Years of life US will enhance our community, friendship, relations and acquaintances that make us to like US more than what we lived in India for so many years. This may mean social binding.</p></li>
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<p>Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Oh Tizil </p>
<p>I am going to share my story here of decision time in our house, just to indulge you, engage you, build up the excitement and create a drama and maybe help you calm your nerves, it may work otherwise too. But it is all good.</p>
<p>The waiting game can be such a roller coaster ride. There is excitement, apprehensions, confusion, expectations, and the mind is racing… one moment you tell yourself I am not going to make but I am going to stay up and wait anyway. So the possibility of a ‘yes’ keeps you going.</p>
<p>When my D got rejected from Wharton she was kind of in the mood ‘I am no good’ and there was a lot of self doubt and her pride had taken a beating. And so for Stern,NYU, she was sort if it happens ok if it does not ‘No big Deal’. </p>
<p>Wharton she applied to please her Father and Wharton is even more demanding than Stern in terms of academics, they get DPS kind of crowd there and she likes to balance between work and fun (right now more fun and so having a hard time) so I was worried before her Wharton decision because I am thinking ‘what if’ she gets in, she is attitude wise not cut out for it. Not that Stern is not demanding but it offers much more to her Personality type.</p>
<p>Always a big city girl. She would be a ‘misfit’ there and I as a parent knew that very well. Closed campus would have made her claustrophobic and the location would be depressing for her. Last minute addition to the list in November on her father’s insistence, how fathers are, the prestige attached to Wharton and all. That rejection was the best thing that happened to her.</p>
<p>So come D-day, and she and a friend decide to stay awake, time for decisions 3 am, both with laptops, in bed , chatting, trying to keep each other awake. We are off to sleep and 3:30 am I wake up all of a sudden, shake my H from his deep slumber, run to my Computer and check and there is single line on screen, Decision -Accepted. Click Y to confirm Enrollment.</p>
<p>So I am jumping around and the house is in complete silence, and we walk into our Ds room and she is sound asleep. And I shake her, and she wakes up scared thinking what kind of crisis has me waking her up at that God forsaken hour. </p>
<p>So even though I know the outcome I don’t want to spoil her surprise, so, I tell her ‘Check your result, they are out.’ And she is like ‘ma what is the hurry, we will do it in the morning’ And I am insistent ‘No Do it Now’ and can’t describe the chaos and exhilaration and celebration that followed at 4 am in the morning. And the whole family and friends got notified in the next 15 minutes. Ha what a day/night that was. In class 11 she made a chart of her college list and Stern,NYU was number 1 on that list and I still have that saved.</p>
<p>I hope you also have a wonderful story of your own to share with all of us and also all others here who are looking forward to their decisions tonight. Wishing all of you the very best and whatever it is , it is going to be all good.</p>
<p>My Ivy League decisions come out at 12 midnight, and Berkeley in the early morning. No sleep tonight :D</p>
<p>All the best for the decisions, hope all the 16’ers here get into their top choices. 
After you all, it is our turn :D</p>
<p>@anialways- Thanks a lot for sharing that exciting story!</p>
<p>Although I won’t be having any good story to tell, I literally have no hopes for tonight…</p>
<p>phr34k</p>
<p>All the Best for your decisions tonight. Don’t stress too much. You will do well wherever you go.</p>
<p>You will go where you are meant to go and not what right now seems to be should be the calculated outcome. Life does not work like that. Having said that our ‘karma’ is important and that is what we should focus on rest everything has a way of falling in place and that is what will make us happy in the long run.</p>
<p>UC Berkeley DECSISINS out at 4 pm PST</p>
<p>And thanks all of you :D</p>
<p>pratyush</p>
<p>You will have to come out of the bathroom to check that at 4 PST at least.</p>
<p>Hi, I’m a bit new here. Anyways, I’m from Bangalore. Applied to HYP, Columbia, UChic, UPenn and Duke. Got rejected by UChicago. Super anxious for the rest of the decisions tonight. Less than 10 hours to GO!</p>
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Yesterday, I spent three hours trying to convince many of my friends form this forum that the opportunity ot remaking that money would be better in India rather than the US. Especially because of the current job market scenario in the US and also because of many other economic indicators. I’ve been following the news and trying to correlate it with my studies of economics. I’m sure the parent contributors here will be able to tell us more about it. I don’t want everyone to get heated here, but that’s what I plan to do, come back, immediately after my UG.</p>
<p>Anialways! That is just an exhilarating story! It made me smile around the part when you decided not tell your D about the decision and let it check herself 
My previous decision days have gone as following:</p>
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<p>Of my three acceptances till now, the only one that inspired excitement was Georgia Tech, because I didn’t know what would happen. The UCLA likely killed the fun for me, to be honest 
And I was expecting UCSD’s acceptance. Tonight, I might just die of the excitement. It is going to be so random. :D</p>
<p>@ anialways</p>
<p>I won’t be in the bathroom at that time. Prolly jumping around like crazy or sitting quietly, depending on Ivy decisions ;-P</p>