<p>" [Dr</a>. Michio Kaku America Has A Secret Weapon - YouTube](<a href=“Dr. Michio Kaku America Has A Secret Weapon - YouTube”>Dr. Michio Kaku America Has A Secret Weapon - YouTube) "
Here is Michio Kaku saying something about foreign students in United States ! Watch it !</p>
<p>Top Comment, "To be successful in this country simply follow these proven steps:</p>
<p>1 Be hot.</p>
<p>2 Record a sex video and “accidently” leak it out.</p>
<p>3 Sign up for a “reality” TV show (soon after your leaked video is posted on the web, offers will pour in!).</p>
<p>4 Launch some sort of clothing or cosmetic line.</p>
<p>And for amplified results, simply date or marry someone famous. Marinate relationship for about 6 months to 1 year, then breakup or divorce. Let China or India take care of that pesky science thing-a-ma-jig."</p>
<p>Hahaha. Made me laugh so hard. Couldn’t hear what he was saying though, there’s so much noise in the school, and the tablet’s speaker fails.</p>
<p>It makes you think of the irony… we’re going to the US for our undergrad… and yet how it’ll benefit our country (in my case at least) instead.</p>
<p>Look out for a mandatory work-in-the-USA law for internationals soon enough ;)</p>
<p>How are you folks mailing the application support materials (Letters, transcripts)? I am thinking of getting each individual letter and transcript in separate small envelopes and then put all those small envelopes in a biggger packet and mail that bigger packet. Is that OK? That way, the college will get all my application support materials together. </p>
<p>Or, should I get each individual envelope containing letter/transcript mailed directly to the college?</p>
<p>@VictoryCoorg- Just put the sealed transcripts&letters in a sealed envelope and mail them directly to the college. Repeat this for all the colleges.</p>
<p>And, goluhaque- Hahaha, same here! Commonapp school forms ftw!</p>
<p>I am a student of class 12 in Chandigarh, India.
I am really keen to get into NUS.
However, rigorous IIT preperation has left me with no time to prepare for an SAT.
Can I still make it to NUS without really having to take an SAT?</p>
<p>Just wanted to share with all of you. USNWR 2012 Rankings are out.</p>
<p>USNWR – Rankings – Expanded Edition Free</p>
<p>The direct link is here. <a href=“http://www.usnews.com/usnews/store/college_compass_google_deal.htm[/url]”>http://www.usnews.com/usnews/store/college_compass_google_deal.htm</a></p>
<p>As you may be aware – USNWR provides the basic ranking information for free, and then charges for the expanded data.</p>
<p>What is the expanded service?</p>
<p>A lot of the individual school data is ‘locked’ unless you are a subscriber. Basically, if you subscribe, wind up with the admissions stats on a lot of places. Saves a few bucks getting it for free .</p>
<p>Google is trying to promote Google Apps to colleges. You have until 9/16 to sign up for the 1 year free access.</p>
<p>WOWOWOWOWOW.</p>
<p>Thank You so much for that link! I am soo happy :D</p>
<p>For all who are writing college essays here is something from parent’s forum posted by one of the parents.</p>
<p>"Last night, I heard from Asst. Deans of Admission from Rice and Brown that:</p>
<p>“Students should not tell us anything in their essays that they have not already told their parents or best friends. It is awkward when we read about unresolved issues you might have . . .”</p>
<p>and “students should show their essays to their parents or English teachers for topic choice and proof reading. There is a difference between “there” and “their.” We know you know the difference, so if you write one and mean the other, all you are telling us is that you did not take the time to proof read. Parents, when you are done proof reading, there had better be an 18-year-old in that essay. We have read a lot of essays, we know the ones the parents write and we ignore them.”</p>
<p>and “throw the thesaurus aside. Write the way you speak. We want to know who you are, and if you are not normally funny, don’t try to be funny. We read a lot of these essays early in the morning or late at night - funny doesn’t always work.” </p>
<p>Thread is "Parents of the high school class of 2012 " Post number 8681.</p>
<p>Here is another piece of discussion that you guys will find extremely useful. I am quoting texaspg here from parent’s forum same thread as above . ("Parents of the high school class of 2012 ").Please also read post 8647 and 8650 to put all this in perspective, this is post 8670. Makes for a very interesting read as an insight into how adcoms work. Sorry I don’t know how to put it in a box so I using quotations.</p>
<p>texaspg wrote, </p>
<p>Tufts review of selection process.</p>
<p>Tufts exercise - 6 candidates</p>
<p>GPA SAT CR SATM SAT TOT SAT WR
connor 3.07 780 760 1540 630 boarding school, long island
Gillian 3.67 740 750 1490 750 suburban high, 100% go to 4yr col
Hannah 3.19 700 650 1350 800 California Independent
Ethan 3.88 770 670 1440 800 Urban Magnet
Julie 3.96 780 660 1440 700 Sprawling public
Sharon 3.73 790 760 1550 750 Small Jesuit</p>
<p>These are the academics of six real candidates from 2015 applicant pool. We were given additional information about recommendations, ECs, what their essays were about and input from alumni interviews.</p>
<p>"I attended a Tufts program that describes how selection of students happens by adcoms. Their student profile is supposedly comparable to Cornell and Rice and they listed a bunch of top 20 schools which mirror 25-75 percentile numbers that are very clustered. They showed how pieces of information change the perception of the candidate and proved it by making the audience go through the process themselves (which amazingly was the same consensus of the adcoms). In the end it did come out that although the academics usually line up, some of ECs, LORs seem to have a greater impact in the outcome.</p>
<p>The one page resume is recommended in the additional information section to add anything not fitting in the EC section. He said 3-4 page resume is definitely out because adcoms ignore it. I know people doing auditions etc. feel strongly about this and only thing I can think of is to contact each school directly to see what they suggest.</p>
<p>I don’t know how others feel but I would advise not to break the grammar rules. We may have Mark Twains in the family but not all adcoms might get it and assume you were not careful enough with the essay.</p>
<p>They have other tags they go in with - admit/waitlist committee discussion needed, waitlist, waitlist/deny, deny (there was one more I think). So the person reading the file makes a judgement and then has to present. </p>
<p>They did layering of the voting process with 4 levels of voting. First GPA and scores were introduced and we voted on who to choose. Next ECs were introduced and we voted again based on the additional info. Next we voted based on LORs and essays (impression of adcoms on the essays -Tufts has an extensive supplement with additional essays supposedly). The last vote was based after Alum feedback. The votes kept changing from those with best GPAs/scores to Julie being dropped by the end despite her 3.96 GPA. I think she got dropped when her main EC turned out to be treasurer of drama club. Sharon was in the running until the comments from her GC and teacher were revealed (one GC in the crowd was offended that a GC would write something like that)."</p>
<p>Continuation of above</p>
<p>“If you can believe it, the entire room voted for Hanna and Ethan based on additional information. Turned out, the entire room was correct. In addition, the last candidates were rejected and Connor was actually waitlisted by Tufts.”</p>
<p>@perfectpixie- Congrats and have fun at (as I msged earlier) “The Other School up the River”!! What concentration(s) do you plan to take?</p>
<p>Anyone applying to to MIT? I am sure lots of them, but I meant who are applying not for the sake of getting the MIT tag but those who are genuinely interested and find the culture of MIT actually pretty cool?</p>
<p>MIT is need blind for International students upto a certain number of students. So a student from India does not know the culture of MIT, they know it is free if they get in.</p>
<p>Hey ppl, tum log I mean like u ppl lol when are u guys doing the supplements fo rall of you’re colleges? Now or in December? Coz Schools started and Life’s pretty messed up to do it now!</p>
<p>@texaspg- MIT offers aid to everyone unlike Williams or UChicago irrespective of how many international students apply… And another thing I feel is that apart from all the scores, intellect MIT’s looking for people who fit within its culture and make the full use of everything. take a look at their blogs. you’ll come to know what i am talking about…</p>
<p>MIT actually admits a limited number of internationals (you can read the MIT FAQ and answers by MIT Chris thread on CC) that seem to be around 100 knowing that whoever they admit will require FA.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/13073309-post171.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/13073309-post171.html</a></p>
<p>Btw the post below - RPI supplement has no essays. So if you complete common-app, you are as good as done.</p>
<p>@prinki94- best option is to do it now. december with all those pre boards cramming sessions starting you won’t have time. finish with you’re essays (at least make drafts and get inputs) as well… trust me you wont’ have time. I had a friend who applied to all the top universities like Caltech and MIT and could make it in. But he completed his application in december and was left with no time. Those colleges even gave him an extension, still he couldn’t complete. But he was pretty smart so he got a scholarship at RPI. What I am telling is complete ur app now and keep reviewing it once in a while.</p>
<p>@texaspg- What I meant was that the adcoms don’t look at your application and check whether have you applied for aid and then make the decision. MIT considers all the applicants equally and doesn’t consider if he/she has applied for aid. MIT accepts a limited number of international students but this is due to some quota they have and not because they applied for aid. Once accepted aid is available to everyone…</p>
<p>You do have the commonapp essay right even if RPI has no supplement…</p>
<p>Common App is just one essay. Some of the other schools including MIT have so many essays that make common app requirement a walk in the park.</p>
<p>Have you seen MIT’s application before? Instead of writing huge essays you have to write small ones with some 100 word limit. Its certainly better than one essay. Here you are asked about various things unlike those commonapp essays where you have to try to fit whatever information you can in those 500 words…</p>