<p>Just paid my admission deposit for uw madison. Anyone attending there this fall?</p>
<p>Major: Computer Science
Accepted: Purdue, Penn State, Boston University, Umass Amherst ( 8k scholarship)
Rejected: Georgia Tech, UIUC, NYU(CAS not poly), UW-Madison</p>
<p>@sanjay1023 im mostly attending Wisconsin, really like the uni, though im still confused between that and university of washington</p>
<p>accepted
Drexel -15 k scholarship
temple -27 k scholarship
Colorado Boulder
wait listed
case Western reserve
rejected
MIT
Stanford
Penn
Brown
Columbia
Harvard
Cornell
Princeton
Yale
Olin
Lafayette ( they had no funds )
Lehigh ( same problem)
didn’t apply to much safety college , as I needed a full ride, income just 5 k USD annual</p>
<p>accepted
Drexel -15 k scholarship
temple -27 k scholarship
Colorado Boulder
wait listed
case Western reserve
rejected
MIT
Stanford
Penn
Brown
Columbia
Harvard
Cornell
Princeton
Yale
Olin
Lafayette ( they had no funds )</p>
<p>didn’t apply to much safety college , as I needed a full ride, income just 5 k USD annual</p>
<p>sorry for posting twice </p>
<p>Hi,
Got accepted at UCLA, UIUC, Purdue, UCSD, UCD. Wait listed from GA Tech. All for Electrical Engineering. </p>
<p>Now, difficult decision to make. Zeroing down on UCLA or UIUC. Suggestions?</p>
<p>accepted Cal Poly SLO,UCSB,UCD,UCI,Univ of washington,UCR
Rejected UCLA,UCSD
I’ll choose Cal Poly SLO</p>
<p>@jobuddy
I am mostly applying to Lafayette next year too.
Did they explicitly admit that you were rejected only coz of your high need? </p>
<p>I am kind of surprised with your college list.</p>
<p>I don’t think Drexel offers a full ride ( Presidential Scholarship is full tuition), but I am not sure.
Temple offers freshmen upto full tuition scholarships.
Case Western Reserve- Only 5 undergraduates are on aid ( averages out to 1 per year)
Lehigh- Does not offer a full ride either.</p>
<p>@hezekiel
I got an email from the admission dean. he said that I was academically and otherwise fully qualified for attending Lafayette. but unfortunately they do not have sufficient funds to meet my need. thus they won’t be able to admit me.
I know , the list is unusual. I am sure of engineering , and few lac have their own engineering curriculum. others don’t have guaranteed admission to the 3-2 program.
then there is really no safety for aid seeking international.
my friend got a full ride at Drexel- global scholar and aj Drexel scholar.
case Western reserve and temple were just done at whim - no fees , no supplements </p>
<p>@jobuddy
Well, the Lafayette decision is shocking.
I guess you did not win a Marquis Fellowship, and Lafayette has difficulty in giving a full ride from their college funds ( other than those of Lafayette Fellowship, and Scholarship).
I don’t know if I should even apply there for a full ride. </p>
<p>ok here’s where I am right now </p>
<p>accepted : reed , Emory university .
wait listed : Haverford
rolling : purdue ( I haven’t heard from them yet )</p>
<p>so I’m having an existential crisis as I have figure out if I go to reed and do the 3-2 engineering program with Caltech or Columbia ( this has guaranteed admission and finish their pre recs if you get more than 3.3 G.PA )</p>
<p>or go to Emory and attend goizueta business school </p>
<p>coz I want to work at a consulting firm after I graduate college </p>
<p>can anyone help me here </p>
<p>@savemylife
You might get better replies if you post this in the College Admissions or College Search and Selection or Reed/Emory pages.</p>
<p>I got accepted at UCI too !
@taehunchoi</p>
<p>@savemylife
I think you should not be too pre professional in college and refrain from attending Business schools (even if it’s Wharton) and focus on gaining knowledge in areas that interest you, If you want to work in consulting (they sure pay better) you have go to grad school for MBA, there’s no need to waste your undergrad years studying business which is not even required and which would rarely get you a job. I’d say that you go to Reed, they really really have great academics (esp in Biology) and I’m not saying it with the backdoor entry for Columbia and Caltech in mind.
To sum it all up, if you’re sure that you want to work in finance and consulting, you neither need engineering nor business as undergrad majors, so explore other possible majors and for that a LAC like Reed would be best.</p>
<p>@jobuddy almost identical decisions here!</p>
<p>drexel - 15k (global scholarship rejected)
iit - 25k
penn state
nyu poly</p>
<p>Any advice on where I should go? I’ve narrowed down to Drexel or IIT, because I need atleast some sort of financial support. But IIT’s cost of attendance is much lesser than Drexel’s, and Drexel is giving me a lesser FA as well. BUT Drexel has a higher ranking than IIT, and has a pretty good co-op thing going on as well. I’m really confused; the question is between affordability and quality, and I honestly don’t know what to do. Help?</p>
<p>@suryalash
The real question is where do you want to work after graudation, USA or India? </p>
<p>After graduation I might work for maybe a year or two. I wanna get an MBA from an esteemed institution in USA only. So yes, if I’m working, its going to be in the US.</p>
<p>Go to IIT, better name brand and less costly. Drexel will get you a job neither in US (plenty of Indians from MIT and Princeton) nor in India (no one knows Drexel here). However everyone knows IIT, whether it’s India or abroad. However, try landing a job for service oriented companies like Accenture or Banking (Citi, Standard Chartered etc) and maybe they’ll place you abroad and after working for a few years, you can go to HBS easily. </p>