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C. Do PR with college admission office, admission counsellors, current students, alumni, etc. That is the most under-rated tactic of the whole admission process
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BANG on target!!!</p>
<p>:mad: :mad: :mad:</p>
<p>why are u so angry????? :confused:</p>
<p>to class of 2010 (add to this list)</p>
<p>A. Apply to as many schools as you possibly can. 15-20-25, just apply coz they cant offer you admission, if you dont apply</p>
<p>B. Dont apply for financial aid unless you need it or more than you need it</p>
<p>C. Do PR with college admission office, admission counsellors, current students, alumni, etc. That is the most under-rated tactic of the whole admission process.</p>
<p>D. Start your essays the summer of senior year becse you are not goign to get time to do them properly after it. </p>
<p>E. Even if you apply to 10-15 colleges ( ideal number i would say ) be sure to apply to some good safeties as well no matter how good your stats are not everyone gets into hymps. You are sure to get a quality education as well as lots of scholarships </p>
<p>F. If you have the finances be sure to apply Ea/ Ed to your favorite schools.</p>
<p>G. visit the Indian thread from time to time ! Somewhere in those pages you will find awesome information !</p>
<p>btw guys - i passed :) what a relief...</p>
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wats that??? :confused:
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<p>PR = public relations. like making sure that the adcoms have heard about you and know you before they sit down to review your file. it could be through genuine emails with questions, phone calls for acknowledgement of certain thing, thank you notes, etc. etc.</p>
<p>did u all engage in PR?? wat kinda stuff did u all tallk abt?? i am collectin info for juniors....... duh........... :p</p>
<p>hey ppl..</p>
<p>hehe..well..ya i wud be mailign int he admissions lady quit eoften..but i ditn have to make up excuses..i always had soem query...and if nothign else i always sent a thank you mail for any help given...so that way i talked with the admission aldy very often...</p>
<p>as for my suggestion..well they semt o be up most of them..i can think of...except one wich i shall put up now..n may beput u more later if i can think of ne more...</p>
<p>to class of 2010 (add to this list)</p>
<p>A. Apply to as many schools as you possibly can. 15-20-25, just apply coz they cant offer you admission, if you dont apply</p>
<p>B. Dont apply for financial aid unless you need it or more than you need it</p>
<p>C. Do PR with college admission office, admission counsellors, current students, alumni, etc. That is the most under-rated tactic of the whole admission process.</p>
<p>D. Start your essays the summer of senior year becse you are not goign to get time to do them properly after it. </p>
<p>E. Even if you apply to 10-15 colleges ( ideal number i would say ) be sure to apply to some good safeties as well no matter how good your stats are not everyone gets into hymps. You are sure to get a quality education as well as lots of scholarships </p>
<p>F. If you have the finances be sure to apply Ea/ Ed to your favorite schools.</p>
<p>G. visit the Indian thread from time to time ! Somewhere in those pages you will find awesome information !</p>
<p>H. ALWAYS BE OPTIMISTIC!!!!This is more for during the processing and when results are going to be declared but still..an important tip i think....NEVER LOSE HOPE!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>I passed!!!i passed!!! not only did i pass...i freakin kickedass on the f u c k a l l HSC exam!!!wooooooooooohoooooooooooo (well kickedass relative to the amount of effort i put in that is...haha)</p>
<p><em>applause dies down</em></p>
<p>victory speech- "i would like to thank my countless tuition teachers, and their wonderful coaching classes- 3 out of 4 which i walked out off, becuase they were so crappy, and i would like to thank the Education ministry of maharashtra for not cancelling the exam altogether, like their counterparts in Tamil Nadu, and last and the least i'd like to thank the wonderful book worms in my college who slogged their asses for 2 years and got AN AMZING INCREDIBLE MIND BOGGLING absolutely worthless (because this exam doesnt count for any admissions) 10% more than me
im ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah</p>
<p>and yes to the class of 2010-</p>
<p>dont apply to Wharton unless your very well connected.
essays are the key.
STAY IN TOUCH WITH ADMISSIONS OFFICERS!!! CONSTANTLY EMAIL THEM!!!i sent 200 emails to 18 admissions officers over a span of 5 months... </p>
<p>best of luck everyone</p>
<p>thanks for the tips for the class of 2010.</p>
<p>and apply to 15-20-25 colleges? 25? isn't 25 too much?</p>
<p>hey and can you guyz tell us what part of your application do you think made you irresistible to the AOs? (the more specific the better :D)</p>
<p>ahem...can someone tell me..whose i'llbeback ....<em>embarassed</em>...i have been away for a while n dotn seem to place him...</p>
<p>btw such...
wen u comign bak...coz i plan to have a gathering kinda thign n will only hav it once u come bak...</p>
<p>n aaron..good question...iw ould love to hear these specific answers myself;)</p>
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can someone tell me..whose i'llbeback
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flamethrower</p>
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25? isn't 25 too much?
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depends...i applied to 25 and plan to attend the uni. which was the 25th that i heard back from. if i were to do it all over again, i'd still apply to 25</p>
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what part of your application do you think made you irresistible
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my photo :p j/k i think it was consistency of depicting myself. my essays, ecs, etc. reinforced what my teachers wrote in the recos</p>
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i freakin kickedass on the f u c k a l l HSC exam!!!
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congrats buddy. same here..ranked for PCM :eek:...my dad wont let me come back home coz he thinks tht i am a fckin 'kalank' on the family for getting such high scores :p</p>
<p>thanx adi...</p>
<p>but watever happened to flamethrowers own id...??....</p>
<p>aaron i too think tht my recoz played a major role in my admission...it really matters wat ur teachers got to say about u...</p>
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depends...i applied to 25 and plan to attend the uni. which was the 25th that i heard back from. if i were to do it all over again, i'd still apply to 25
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<p>u mean Princeton was the 25th and the only one u heard from? or did u hear from all 25? because if you have the "insert suitable word here" to get into all 25 colleges, why apply to 25?</p>
<p>thanks for the answers and keep them coming...and like i said, the more specific the better ;)</p>
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why are u so angry?????
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<p>oh...nothing...</p>
<p>i heard from all 25 but coz my mail was lost in the mail, i didnt hear from pton until i had heard from every other college. My tally was like 12/25 or something.</p>
<p>as far as your question about why 25, rather than retyping the whole thing, i m pasting an extract from a chapter that i wrote for the book that all of us :mad: were going to write on college app (ritz, astrix - u read this???)</p>
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<p>The good things </p>
<p>a. Applying to 25 schools: as ridiculous as it sounds, it was the best thing I ever did. I just pulled out an old sheet of paper with a list of 10 schools that I was planning to apply to and this is what it looked like.</p>
<p>3 safeties (UIUC, NYU, UNC) 4 matches (Chicago, Georgetown, UMich, GeorgiaTech) and 3 reaches (MIT, Caltech, Brown)</p>
<p>If I were to apply to only 10 schools, I would have not applied to Princeton or Duke and might have ended up paying $190k (dont know how, but would have had to figure out a way or not go to the US at all) for my education at Chicago or UMich. Yes, the whole application process was tedious and I spent over $2000 on applications alone, but it is still a whole lot better than paying $190k or going to a second tier school (when I can go to the top tier school)</p>
<p>Also, from what I have noticed, very few international students get into more than 1 ivy league so by not applying to more schools, one might be missing out on the one that would have accepted him/her.
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<p>accepted to all 25? tht's ubercool.
u probably underestimated and put down matches as your reaches. :D.
there's no way my coll counselor will allow me to apply to 25! thanks for the suggestion though. i don't think i will be applying to ivies though. least of all HYPS. my stats are not very good. i'll be applying to about 12 colleges i guess or probably 15. :(</p>
<p>no, no, no...didnt get into 25...got into something like 12 (dont even remember anymore)</p>
<p>also all my reaches WERE reaches...ne1 on this board can attest to it.</p>
<p>for safeties/matches/reaches i had selected based on the probability of </p>
<p>safety = >66% probability of getting accepted
matches = >33% probability of getting accepted
reaches = <5% probabilty of getting accepted</p>
<p>end result was to have enough probabilty to get into atleast 3 schools. (yeah, i like to play poker - hence the probabilistic viewpoint :D)</p>
<p>post # 200 :p</p>