<p>Btw, I’ve never seen anyone this confident about his essay:</p>
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<p>Maybe we can all learn something from you ;)</p>
<p>Source: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/northeastern-university/656845-already-2.html#post1061896044[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/northeastern-university/656845-already-2.html#post1061896044</a></p>
<p>3 Yale ( 2 KGS + 1 Aitchison)
1 Brown (LAS)
1 Cornell (LAS)
2 Penn/Wharton ( 2 KGS)
1 Gettysburg (theGame)
1 University of Rochester (greenboy)
2 WPI (Roots)
1 University of Richmond (Roots)
1 Wabash College (AVC)
2 NYU (1 Roots + 1 AVC)
1 Case Western (super_leader, The City School)
1 Colgate university (free)
1 Northeastern (waleed1) no aid
1 USC (waleed1) no aid</p>
<p>who’s in at Colgate? theGame…i applied there RD</p>
<p>3 Yale ( 2 KGS + 1 Aitchison)
1 Brown (LAS)
1 Cornell (LAS)
2 Penn/Wharton ( 2 KGS)
1 Gettysburg (theGame)
1 University of Rochester (greenboy)
2 WPI (Roots)
1 University of Richmond (Roots)
1 Wabash College (AVC)
2 NYU (1 Roots + 1 AVC)
1 Case Western (super_leader, The City School)
1 Colgate university (free)
1 Northeastern (waleed1) no aid
1 USC (waleed1) no aid
1 Furman University (Roots) no aid</p>
<p>nope, its not me. 
A friend of mine…</p>
<p>Furman, who got in talha? You did?</p>
<p>@khan91: His nick on CC is ‘free’. You can PM him if you like.</p>
<p>@Flibb:
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<p>oh, thanks Game…I thought Talha was answering khan’s question :)</p>
<p>Furman did the most stupid thing.</p>
<p>Accpeted - SAT 1900 (CR630/M700/W570) O level 6 A’s & A level 2 A’s</p>
<p>Rejected - SAT 2150 (CR720/M720/W710) O level St. A’s and A level St. A’s</p>
<p>Both these applicants are from my school. Notice here that Furman doesn’t require any school-specific essays. The guy who got rejected had a better essay as well. So, we just couldn’t understand WHY??</p>
<p>MIT Rejectee here,…WOOHOO! My first rejection!</p>
<p>^ I’m sure there will be a long list of THAT!</p>
<p>yeh…add me to that list</p>
<p>Rejectedd!</p>
<p>@talha_adnan: Lets call the acceptee A while the rejectee B. Here we go:
[ul]
[<em>]B applied for financial aid while A did not
[</em>]A is/is going to be a US National/Green card holder while B is not
[<em>]B gave the impression of a nerd and Furman needed a non-nerd for a change. Or: They had already selected too many nerds from South Asia and wanted a reprieve 
[</em>]B had genuinely good ECs e.g. few but showing sustained interest
[<em>]B applied after the deadline or applied after A
[</em>]Furman’s avg SAT score range is 1230-1380 while its avg GPA is 3.68. Who are we kidding here? Maybe the adcoms were satisfied of their position in the league tables and did not want to manipulate it
[<em>]Essays are entirely subjective. So while you may have not liked A’s, but an adcom may have been touched by it
[</em>]A had great and specific RECs for Furman i.e. they mentioned the university name and a faculty member or two while B’s did not
[<em>]B emailed/called the adcoms and asked stupid questions or offended them through inane remarks 
[</em>]A’s name had a real light buzz to it while, B’s, unfortunately, sounded more like Laden or Chemical Ali
[<em>]A used a courier service while B sent through local mail owing to which all the documents were either not received or they were received late
[</em>]A’s birthday was the same as one of the adcom’s; or better, the university’s
[li]The adcoms were enjoying ice cream when they read A’s application but arguing over their wives (and husbands) when they reviewed B’s[/li]<a href=“puff…huff”>*</a> I have run out of ideas…</p>
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<p>^ LOL at the last ones. :D</p>
<p>Well, *B applied for financial aid while A did not * - No! Both applied for financial aid, where B showed more financial contribution as compared to A.</p>
<p>A is/is going to be a US National/Green card holder while B is not - No! Both of them are just Pakistani citizens.</p>
<p>3 & 4 - That could be the reason!</p>
<p>B applied after the deadline or applied after A - Both of them were in the same post office on the same date, and the same time.</p>
<p>6 & 7 - I guess that could be the reason as well. :D</p>
<p>A had great and specific RECs for Furman - No! I remember, we were all sitting in the school resource room on the last day, editting A’s RECs. :D</p>
<p>9 & 10 - Could be, B’s second name is Kiyani. They might have thought that he has some military links, perhaps! :D</p>
<p>… rest of them are just hilarious! :)</p>
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<p>Oops…! This should have said A. I guess you did understand I meant A, didn’t you? A lot of ECs are rubbish, unless they show sustained interest.</p>
<p>@everyone: Maybe y’all can add a few more reasons. C’mon, now. It’s the best way to chill while dating your decisions.</p>
<p>If i had applied for aid, my chances of getting into any tier 1 university in the states would’ve been slim. Apart from USC and Northeastern, i applied to UMichigan, Dartmouth, Lehigh, Vanderbilt, Wisconsin-Madison, UT Austin, Texas A&M, Michigan State Uni, and Umass Amherst. Still waiting for the rest to reply. Im confident about my essay because people who read it said it was one of the most brilliant college essays they’ve read so far. My stats arent great. How else would you explain the USC engineering acceptance? Must’ve done something right. Ohh and btw im from froebel’s, islamabad.</p>
<p>3 Yale ( 2 KGS + 1 Aitchison)
1 Brown (LAS)
1 Cornell (LAS)
2 Penn/Wharton ( 2 KGS)
1 Gettysburg (theGame)
1 University of Rochester (greenboy)
2 WPI (Roots)
1 University of Richmond (Roots)
1 Wabash College (AVC)
2 NYU (1 Roots + 1 AVC)
1 Case Western (super_leader, The City School)
1 Colgate university (free)
1 Northeastern (waleed1, froebel’s) no aid
1 USC (waleed1, froebel’s) no aid
1 Furman University (Roots) no aid</p>
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<p>Have you visited Lahore America School (LAS)? They do conduct APs, but I am not sure whether an ‘outsider’ can just come in and take them. I met someone recently who was apparently willing to fly to the Middle east to take APs because he couldn’t find here in Pakistan.</p>
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<p>Wharton, UPenn
Boston U
Georgia State University
Pennsylvania State University
UIllinois at Urbana-Champaign
Temple University
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Central Florida
llinois State University
Florida State University</p>