IAteYourMother
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Originally posted by: rnp614
Definitely give Northwestern a look. I just graduated from there and I have to say it has the best all around experience of the top 10 or 15 schools in the nation...and I believe the year I was admitted ('02) it was ranked #1 by princeton review for academic experience.
With Northwestern you get a great school (obviously), a college in a small town that is directly adjacent to Chicago which allows you to have that small town atmosphere yet experience all the big city stuff with one trip on the elevated train, and finally if you're into collegiate sports since NU is Big 10 you get to see a lot of good teams come in!
I'm the 3rd of 3 kids in my fam to go there for undergrad.
Excellent, a fellow Northwesterner! Yes, definitely look into Northwestern's HPME program (I chose Northwestern over Princeton, Yale, and Duke)
Brainonska511
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You could always go the other big Chicago school with The University of Chicago, remember, it is one of the only schools to be undefeated against Duke.
Just to give an idea of where I applied last year (starting freshman year in September at the University of Chicago):
Northwestern - Rejected early
Johns Hopkins - Accepted
NYU - Accepted
SUNY Binghamton - Accepted
Georgetown University - Waitlisted, Rejected
Boston University - Accepted
University of Chicago - Accepted and Attending
Just to give an idea of where I applied last year (starting freshman year in September at the University of Chicago):
Northwestern - Rejected early
Johns Hopkins - Accepted
NYU - Accepted
SUNY Binghamton - Accepted
Georgetown University - Waitlisted, Rejected
Boston University - Accepted
University of Chicago - Accepted and Attending
Good luck bro! I got into Univ. of Chicago, Penn, and NU among some lesser schools and decided on NU.
Boooo, they're my rival!
.I wouldnt recommend that place, its in a not so great part of the city and the students that go there are nuts. One of my older friends went there and transferred out after a terrible experience. The straw that broke the camels back was his roommate deleted his term paper from his comp and magnetted his diskette with it on there....(he got a confession from a neighbor that knew what went down).
Toastedlightly
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Haha, UofC is a great school (yes, I understand that is treasonous coming from a NUer). However a student has to be especially sure he wants to be there before deciding to attend. You will undoubtedly receive an exceptional education, but at the cost of a limited social life, cutthroat competition, and severe grade deflation. It all depends on what you are looking for.
Eh, I wouldn't really call it deflation.. more like anti-inflation
If you look at schools like UofC and Cal Tech (where kids actually fail out), that's where the real grade deflation is.
I'd say NU and Cornell are comparable in their reputation for grading difficulty.
If you look at schools like UofC and Cal Tech (where kids actually fail out), that's where the real grade deflation is.
I'd say NU and Cornell are comparable in their reputation for grading difficulty.
Umm 2 hrs to write personal statements? Maybe I come from a different world, but in our world we revise revise adn revise like it's our senior thesis or something. Parents demand perfection.
I worked on my MIT app from 9/3 all the way till 4am in the morning when it was due on 11/1. I took that essay worked on it for another month and turned it into my UC application due on 11/30. I worked on that for another 10 days and turned it in for USC and another few days for StanFUrd. At that point I gave up and just copied pasted for my othger private schools.
10 schools is a lot?
I applied to 19 schools. Here, I'll list:
USC, Stanfurd, MIT, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, U Washington, Georgia Tech, Santa Clara Univ., Harvey Mudd, Washington University (WUSTL), Cal Poly, Cal, UCLA, UCSD, blah blah name all the UCs.
That's excessive.
Ok, if you want engineering, here are your top engineering schools: MIT, Caltech, Stanfurd, Cal, UCLA, Georgia Tech, Cornell, CMU. You should be considering those.
If you want the med track, once again you can pick those top schools, but I would also add Northwestern, Johns Hopkins.
You named a whole bunch of grade inflation schools, and like someone before me posted. The real hard schools are like Cal, where I don't know why its fvcking hard compared to a pathetic school like fucla, but bleh.
That's fine. That's like the Asian list--kinda like mine except I'm an engineer so I the only ivy I applied to was Cornell. If you're out of state, those UCs will be looking VERY TOUGH (especially UCLA and Cal), much tougher than getting into Ivy Leagues. I believe the admission for Berkeley is 9% for OOS, but 12% for Harvard. BTW, instate Stanfurd admissions really suck too, especially if you don't live in Palo Alto.
Well, the reason I recommended those schools was because they had both respectable engineering programs and some grade inflation as well to help with med school admissions (perhaps with the exception of BME at JHU and NU). It's difficult to obtain the 3.8+ GPA at schools like MIT/CIT and UC's.
IAteYourMother
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It is top heavy. UCs offer good stuff for a good price, so I'll probably end up going there as the other choices are really difficult to get into. But I live in CA and my scores are good, some decent extracurriculars, so as long as my essays dont suck the big one, I feel confident I'll get into the UCs
Better schools will have better undergraduate research oppertunities to pad the resume. For example, you will defintely have a better shot at being published by working with scientists in a more prestigous environment, which equates to more research funding. At Hopkins, you have outstanding oppertunities to do medical related research as a result of being directly linked to the best hospital in America.
It is not uncommon for Hopkins undergraduates to be accepted/continue as graduate/medical students here. I've had direct contact more than a handful of them.
If you are interested in BME at Hopkins, you will HAVE apply for it when you send in your app. BME is the only restricted major here - it is very difficult to transfer in (bordering on unheard of/impossible).
BME at Hopkins is difficult. My BME class entered with 137 students in the Fall of '03. There are 71 of us remaining as of Fall of '05. You will have to love BME if you want to be Pre-med. Don't come here looking for grade inflation.
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I read the College Confidential UPenn rejected/accepted list
Johns Hopkins is definitely one of my top med choices, and now that I've had some time to think about it I'm going to put it in the "definite application" section. However, I'm not sure if I have the stuff to do BME - my numbers are great, but my extracurriculars could be a little better. I'll still apply for it but I won't hold my breath for it. I don't care much for grade inflation; the lower my grade is, the harder I know I have to work. That's the problem with my high school... it's too easy to slack off, not learn anything, and still get a good grade. Oh well.
I'm most probably not going to apply to any of the UCs. Since I'm out of state and from a non-prestigious area of America (midwest
), I don't have much hope to get in. Fortunately, not too much of any of the UC schools appeal to me very much.Just an FYI as I understand it - you can apply to BME, get rejected, but still be accepted to any other major.
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