<p>You too, meghna! :D</p>
<p>What’s that, freaking top 0.5%!?</p>
<p>Stanford is apparently very very reluctant to give aid. they take a decent amount of ppl, but hardly give aid</p>
<p>How much did y’all get?</p>
<p>could you guys help me on this one?
I m a science student intending to major in CS or sumthin like that. Does it make sense to apply to LAC’s( i mean my list has 6 top national univs and 4 LAC’s)? I’m also applying to them coz i heard that need-aware LAC’s like middlebury, swarthmore and the like are easier to get aid as compared to the need-aware ivy’s. is this true?</p>
<p>@Anurag Me and Quasi got 800s in Literature. :D</p>
<p>@achiever Hmm, I know that Williams and Amherst (and I think Middlebury, though Swarthmore is apparently stingy) are need blind to Internationals, meaning if you get in, they’re committed to giving you as much FA as you need. Because they are (by a very small margin) relatively lesser known than the need aware Ivies, that aid might come readily, too. But keep in mind they’re still very competitive institutions and getting into them is very difficult. Once you get in, though, most probably you’ll get a fitting aid package. Atleast, that’s what they claim.</p>
<p>@Meghna : WHAT?!!! I didn’t think that actually happened!!!</p>
<p>I’m convinced the scantron was on pot or something because I had to pee towards the last 10 minutes (I have this terrible tendency during exams :/) and I subsequently had a headache, but if the collegeboard people say 800, I say okay. :D</p>
<p>You know, during my SAT, my friend told me something pretty…scandalous during one of the breaks (bah. Why did she do that?), and that played on my mind for the remaining 3-4 sections. I was so sure that that was gonna be my undoing. But I guess strange things happen!</p>
<p>OMG NO FREAKING WAY. I almost died from holding in my pee towards the last 10 minutes of the exam and my head hurt like heck. We have the secret to Lit 800s, people - drink lots of water before it!!!</p>
<p>I’ll pass on the advice to any juniors who ask me ;)</p>
<p>There are more Delhi-ites than Kolkatans here now. How sad.</p>
<p>Oh, and tetris - haha! Do you have any SAT Reasoning tips (and no, begging for scandalous gossip during breaks will not count)?</p>
<p>OMG QUASI REALLY?! Maybe there’s some research to be unconvered here about links between the bladder and the brain. Hmm.</p>
<p>Going to give the reasoning in December?</p>
<p>@Quasi: Practice makes (near) perfect. That’s it! And hey, scandalous gossip may just see you through like it saw me through. You never know ;)</p>
<p>For starters, bladders tend to inhibit sleep inducing chemicals.</p>
<p>Ummm gary, taking your last sentence entirely in its current context, that implies that none of us should everrrrrrrr sleep :P</p>
<p>gary come to fb…'</p>
<p>So Akshay Kumar was at the mall 10 minutes away from my tuition centre DURING MY TUITIONS. We asked sir if we could go. In the middle of class.</p>
<p>…he agreed.</p>
<p>But THEN, we reached 10 minutes late and he disappeared into the lounge or something. And we waited an HOUR and he didn’t come out. So we went back to tuitions, sir called us fools and the whole class lol’d.</p>
<p>■■■. But it was an adventure, heh.</p>
<p>REALLY? Which mall!?</p>