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**ATOT** College Application Thread!!

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I applied to OSU (Oregon State University) last year with every intention of going there. As a joke I applied to MIT cuase it was the best in the field that I wanted to go into. I sent my application in on the last possible day thinking there was no chance at all. I only had 1340 on sat's but I was validictorian. When I got the letter from them I was so amazed that it was the big envelope and not the little one. All I can say that is that it's definitly worth applying to places you think you have no chance.
 
My school UNCW (wilmington North Carolina) had around 7000 people apply for 1500 open spaces.

I guess a lot of them want the beach school. 🙂
 
YES I've been deferred from MIT!
Bah. Oh well there's always April and the myriad of other schools I'm applying to.
 
Originally posted by: PsychoAndy
This is starting to get depressing real fast. *sigh*
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heh don't worry i'll probably join ya sometime this week or next week when i get my rejection letters from Cornell, UPenn, and Washington & Lee. 🙂

-Ed
 
got into PSU already, actuarial science major...sending in my app to upenn, but i really dont care much of it....not too many good business schools that im actually interested in....1420 sat, 4.3 weighted gpa, about 7 clubs including show choir and yearbook, varsity soccer team captain and hockey plus club sports and a job...too bad there are very few good schools that have good actuarial science programs....plus psu will be much more fun than any of the really great schools

Dave
 
Bah, deffered from Tufts. That's really depressing considering my friends just all got into: UPenn, Cornell, Harvard, Amherst, Yale, Bard, MIT...
 
You guys should look into Oregon Institute of Technology if you're interested in computers or engineering. It rocks! There are several modalities of engineering...electrical, mechanical, computer hardware, computer software, etc...some of my very good friends are getting killer jobs/internships, working for places like Sandia National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, IBM, too many to think of right now. OIT also has one of the only bachelor's degree programs for dental hygiene, vascular ultrasound, and nuclear medicine in the country. Price isn't too shabby either, 'specially for us Webfeet (Oregonians to everyone else).

The down side of OIT: No football team (now that I think about it, that ISN'T a bad thing though), Klamath Falls is a really boring town, and the radio stations stick to the 3 C's: Country, Christian, and Classic Rock. The good side: The scenery, a variety of winter sports activities, and a lot of nerdy people that can help you with your homework. The townsfolk are friendly, for the most part. There isn't a whole lot of diversity in Klamath Falls though, so be warned: if you're not white, straight, and/or Christian, people there are gonna look at you funny at first.

Important facts:

Ratio of churches to bars in Klamath Falls: 2:1
Miles to Crater Lake National Park: ~57
Has: Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Bi-Mart, Fred Meyer, Gottschalks, Emporium, Home Depot, a new ice arena
Does not have: sushi restaurants, a job market, good water
Warning: lots of midges in the spring/summer (disgusting little green bugs that congregate in droves.)
Warning: lots of gamers (tabletop, cards, LAN, etc. They congregate in droves too.)
OIT has a campus radio station: 89.5, KTEC
Website: Oregon Institute of Technology

I am not an OIT recruiter! I just like the place! LOL
 
Instead of bothering to actually finish my thesis at UC Davis (in computer science) I decided to apply to a bunch of Ph.D programs.

UCSD, CSU SD (they have a joint program with UCSD in engineering), NYU, Duke, UCSB, and possibly USC (I called them up, and they said I could turn in my app late. I wouldn't mind going there 😀). Decided against U. Fla and U. Oregon. Didn't make the Georgia Tech deadline.

Sigh. I really want to go to UCSD, but they have so many damn applicants with 800 GREs. Sigh.

But maybe NYU, USC or Duke will work out.

Yeaup. So there you go.
 
Lets keep this thing going....

I'll be applying to Kettering, Clarkson, University of Rochester and PS-Erie (all for Electrical Engineering). Right now at a 2-year state school, so as a transfer student I have plenty of time to apply.

Could anyone tell me how a 3.5-3.7 GPA at college (taking Calc I, Calc-Physics I, Gen Chem I, Data Comm (Cisco CCNA semsester 1) and System Software Management) looks? What are the key factors for a transfer student? I hope they're not looking for a lot of clubs...
 
Bleh...I just got rejected outright from UPenn law 🙁
(also deferred from EA to Regular Decision for Cornell Law)

-Ed
 
i'll be applying to:

Caltech, MIT, Harvey Mudd, UCLA, UC Irvine (safety), UC Berkeley and a few more technical schools. It's still my junior year, but i'm planning ahead.
 
Originally posted by: FrontlineWarrior
i just got accepted to the university of michigan school of medicine.
w00000000t
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wow...congratulations!!! Getting accepted into any med school is an accomplishment, but one of Michigan's caliber is superb! 🙂

-Ed
 
bleh...I just got held at Illinois Law for "further review"...I thought I was in for sure /=P Also got into Indiana-Bloomington Law with $6,000 / year scholarship.

-Ed
 
Originally posted by: BruinEd03
bleh...I just got held at Illinois Law for "further review"...I thought I was in for sure /=P Also got into Indiana-Bloomington Law with $6,000 / year scholarship.

-Ed
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those are good schools, more so if you're planning on relocating out in the midwest....
 
Originally posted by: BruinEd03
anyone else? 🙂

-Ed
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I think you'll get more of a response in April, when regular decisions come out for everywhere.

For those that got into Cornell engineering, I can point you to some people to talk to if you need info (I got in regular decision last year, but decided on Rice instead). Just ask. I applied to a few places Undergrad last year, was accepted to Cornell (with a likely letter of admission a month before the Ivies sent official replies), Rice w/merit scholarship, Johns Hopkins with pre-admittance into master's comp sci (but I want to do Physics, so I screwed that).

Congrats to everyone.

For the Law guy: they have EA/ED for Law as well?
 
Applied to UCSD, UCLA, UCB, UCI, USC. First choice is UCSD(biotech....if i dont get in for biotech hopefully biochem) 2nd choice is USC( premed undergrad program).
 
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