What college do you go now

[GoSharks]

Originally posted by: lager

Originally posted by: UCSDHappyAsian
too private to share.. but read my name

Is San Diego better then Irvine??

in general, yes. SD is 3rd behind B and LA.

im a freshie at Johns Hopkins right now, Biomedical Engineering major, was my first choice

 

[BornStar]

Originally posted by: jhbball

Originally posted by: BornStar18
Purdue University, 1270, 3.7

My first choice was U of M (only because I'm from Michigan) and I didn't get in. I wonder why...

you're an idiot.

You know, that was actually my first thought. And then I considered it some more and decided that probably wasn't it.

edit: forgot a "t"

 

[StayPuff]

Originally posted by: gflores

Originally posted by: BChico
Lehigh University
SAT 1350
GPA 4.0
Major CSE

Cool, I was thinking of going there... I'm sure you've heard of Bucknell University. My brother goes there. Currently go to Grand Valley State University, because most of my friends go there, and it's a great school for your buck (It got like Best Buy 7 years in a row).

Cool to see a Laker on here -- my wife went there and got a teaching degree. I went to Michigan State in the early 90s (4.0 HS GPA, and 27 ACT) and was the only school I applied for. I had a dual major -- Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering (Final GPA was something like 2.7 -- I drank alot back then). I'm in the software biz now -- working with the same company now for 9 years.

 

Originally posted by: MaxFusion16

Originally posted by: lager

Originally posted by: Hubris
Currently in my junior year at Cornell. SAT: 1270. Also got into Penn, BU, Northeastern and VT.

How the fvck did you get into Cornell with 1270?

affirmative action?

pWn3d!

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Originally posted by: UCSDHappyAsian
too private to share.. but read my name

wtf name is that... 😕

<---- UCSD, electrical engineering major

had 3.8 in high school, 4.1 weighted GPA, (pssh right now i have lower than a 3.0 gpa in college lol phok!)
1330 in SAT...(got 500 on verbal..i suck @ verbal...but a 730 on math!? ...WTF...i took SAT's, and my best score happens to be when my math score is the lowest...yes my verbal was REALLY BAD B4..think 400..as you can tell from my grammer, i suck at english...ENGLISH MUTHAFSCKER..DO YOU SPEAK IT?!?!)

510 SAT II writing 🙁
740 SAT II mathIIsomething..
720 SAT II Bio
err what else..

yes, w/ insanely bad english scores, u can go to a cool school like UCSd


oh UCSD and UCLA were my top choices...but UCLA made it super easy for me to choose after they rejected me lol

 

[DuffmanOhYeah]

All your SAT scores is suck!

 

[miniMUNCH]

Carnegie-Mellon Univ. studying/researching for PhD in ChemE...research bridges CS, applied math, and ChemE

As an aside, I think the guy who choose Univ. Washington over MIT et al did the right thing...get your undergrad degree for peanuts, have fun, and then go to grad school on the university's ticket. Chances are the actual education is better at UW than it is at MIT or Stanford.

When you choose a school, you can't just look at the reputation of the school -- U.S. News and World Report rankings are a pile of crap, Fiske's Guide is a little better. Look at the average class size, professor office hour requirements (i.e. will you be talking to a prof or a 1st year grad student when you have questions), dedicated computing facilities, quality of undergrad lab equipment, undergrad summer research opportunites, etc...that tells you a lot about how geared the school is to undergrad education.

I get paid to study/research for my PhD and almost everyone in our department is the same...research grants pay their bills. My entire undergrad education, including books, was about $10,000 at Cal Poly Pomona... a little Cal State school east of L.A.

Anyhow...

and Univ. of Wisconsin rocks...I applied to their ChemE PhD program too but didn't get accepted.