<p>yea, i was surprised canadianftw didn’t even get into 1 school. He said it was the low SAT score that held him back when I talked to him. </p>
<p>Kinda sad how our education in Canada is probably more standardized (lets forget about all that quebec stuff for now) than the education system in the US. </p>
<p>Like APs and stuff, the weighted, unweighted…like ours is so much better. Straight up percent and IB scored for ppl who took that.</p>
<p>@kelloggs, after you get ur acceptances, fill out the Canadian calss of '14 thread.same with everyone else. i’m sure us CC canadians will do well. And hopefully I and other '15s can continue the success next year!</p>
<p>oh and kelloggs, how did you contact your research mentor/adviser? how did you get involved in it? should i talk to my guidance counc. or just contact UWindsor and figure out what opportunities they have?</p>
<p>2200 would be competitive for the lower ivies (just not HYP). IB scores are also work in his favor. I don’t think he applied to any of the lower ivies though.</p>
<p>wouldn’t luck have kind of a big factor in admissions too?
the adcom is made up of ppl, after all, and they may just take a liking to your profile (yay! =D) or not…(T-T)
i’ve been stalking the brown forum like crazy, and the admission thread is really odd if you put the results in a spreadsheet (k i didn’t do that, but if i diddd =D), there would be a bunch of spectacular applicants with not only beautiful stats but also wonderful ecs and interesting-sounding essays get rejected, and then some unhooked, low stat-ed, boring sounding ones get accepted (two of my friends comb through the stanford ones on daily basis, and from what i hear it’s the same over there) …so doesn’t a big part of it come off as luck?</p>
<p>also, those that are applying to yale, why are you applying?
i like the sound of yale but i haven’t done any heavy duty research, does anyone wanna condense their reasoning for wanting to go there?</p>
<p>i want to go to yale because i think it suits what i want to do.</p>
<p>i wanna have a foundation in biology and , later, med. i also want to take advantage of the ivies and go into law/politics kinda thing. so, i decided to major in something like medical policy or health policy kind of thing. yale is the best at combining med and law, thats all basically.</p>
<p>@viggy.
i got hooked up with my prof through a research competition. try to get into some of the competitions. if u do get accepted into one, u can usually find a prof to mentor u. its hard to just come out of the blue with no context and expect a prof to accept u into their lab, especially if u start off with no experience at all.</p>
<p>no doubt the luck aspect has a lot to do with ivy league admissions, but i cannot help but feel, especially for brown, that essays are VERY important: a medicore essay from a stellar applicant will get rejected, but a moderate applicant with stellar essays will get accepted.</p>
<p>kelloggss, you are extremely mistaken with your assertion that 2220 is barely enough to get in Cornell, let alone Harvard. SAT is just ONE measure of a student’s capability. I can almost gaurentee (not harvard admission officer so I cannot be sure) that Candianftw didnt get in for some other reason other than his SAT. Either his essay, or his ECs, or his recs were simply not good enough. OR maybe that year, there were extremely qualified applicants from his province. I scored a 2150 on the SATs (2200 superscored… by your standards this is a bad score… but I did manage to get into 1 top 10 school and 2 top 20 schools in the US… admittedly, I did not apply to Ivy Leagues and I probably would not have gotten in… but, being an international, I think the outcome was rather favourable for me ). I have a friend who got a 2130 and got into Yale… have another friend who got 2320 and got into Yale… have one friend who got 2200 and got deffered from Yale. Ivy League admissions are simply unpredictable. Your ECs have to be stellar… otherwise, amazing grades ( 44 out of 45 IB points like Canadianftw had) are not enough. Once again, SAT is just one part of the process and does not (unless you did really poorly) automatically disqualify an otherwise talented person from HYP admission. Canadian ftw (numbers wise) is more qualified than many people who gain admission to HYP… but it all depends on what HYP are looking for… if these schools ONLY selected students based on numbers, 100% of the people accepted would have 2300 + SAT, 4.0 etc. but it isn’t like that. Its important to have good SAT scores and good grades, but remember that this will NOT gaurentee you admission. For an unhooked applicant (im assuming all of you are), uniqueness is extremely important. Maybe Harvard thought Canadianftw’s stats and ECs were similar to many other typical asian students’… that’s my two cents.</p>
<p>does taking IB help a lot? I don’t have IB at my school, and the nearest one that does it like 30min. or more away and theres no way my parents would drive there daily, back and forth (no bussing). </p>
<p>Also, would an INdian dude playing in a sick as hell baseball league help in admissions :P…i think this would be pretty rare lmao.</p>
<p>@kelloggss, man, how do you do research on your own? My school has the worst facilities and stuff. Also, do you have an example of such a competition? something i could google for more info. maybe?</p>
<p>of course i realize other factors play into admissions than just scores. ecs, essays and recs are arguably more important than scores once u get to a point.</p>
<p>keep in mind that canadianftw’s ib scores came in the summer of grade 12, so they couldnt have possibly been considered.</p>
<p>also, we shouldnt just look at individuals ( afriend with 2130 got into yale, etc…) there are gonna be rare cases. but please look at the general trend in admissions. most of the people in yale had over 2250…</p>
<p>IB is just another measure of your ability. It’s standerdized so it’s easier to compare to American students. A 41/45 is the same here as it is in the States whereas an 80 here is nothing like an 80 there. (FYI, I have friends that bus 30 mins a day to get to my school. But I would never do it myself). A 44/45 is impressive when a diploma is granted at 24/45 and the average is like 33/45. I believe there are only ~200 students worldwide (according to my coordinator) who have a 45/45. </p>
<p>Unless you’re recruited, sports won’t be a defining factor. You can talk about it in your essays but it won’t be a sureshot thing. A friend’s friend got recruited by Harvard for hockey this year with 100% FA too…</p>
<p>Competitions such as ISEF (I believe there was a Canadian team sent last year) are research based. You also have COMC, the Waterloo contests (SIN, Chem 13, Bio, Euclid) which will also be pretty impressive on your app (if you do well in them).</p>
<p>actually yale’s entering SAT average is around a 2230… my point is … if they wanted, they could make that entering average 2350… but they don’t because scores are just one factor, although an important one.</p>
<p>he lives in Alberta, if I am not mistaken. </p>
<p>And I guess you will be one of those 2-3 this year lol. Yea, if there was a school like that near me, I’d probably travel that far too. Too bad there really isn’t. There’s one IB school like 30 min. away, but I didn’t think it would be worth it…it wasn’t like a renowned school or anything.</p>
<p>woahhh kelloggss! That’s crazyyyy!
My parents drive me back and forth, about 1 hr/round trip…but my school isn’t even anything special, it doesn’t have any APs or IBs etc…it’s just “nicer” than the school in my area, which is kinda sketchy, so my parents thought that by moving me to the school I’m in right now, they’d decrease the chance of me becoming a delinquent. =D</p>