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[quote=Ecliptic]Eww Sauder.

And why would you apply to only one university? Suppose you don't get admitted to Sauder, then what?[/quote]

My 2nd choice is art. I am pretty god damn sure I'll get in. Haven't heard of ANYONE who got rejected to Arts with 96% avg

Well I applied to SFU too but I wrote the supplemental 30 minutes before the deadline half-asleep

@KiritoSAO: huh? No, there are always tons of Asian in the top schools. If affirmative action wasn't around there would ONLY be Asians there.

[quote=ExitEnter]I only applied to one university: UBC

I get my term 2 report card on Thursday. Then I can self-report my mark. 95.75% admission average.

Arts will be extremely easy to get into.. It's the business faculty that I dream of. Crossing my fingers.[/quote]
Eww Sauder.

And why would you apply to only one university? Suppose you don't get admitted to Sauder, then what?

[quote=Arestelle]This question is going to sound stupid, but I have to ask.
I see everyone getting scholarships to colleges they applied to. How does this work? Do you just fill out your college application
and once you're in the pool, based on your grades and stuff, they'll grant you a scholarship? Or is there a separate financial aid
kind of thing you have to apply for?
Thanks.[/quote]

there is merit-based financial aid (academic-based scholarships and athletic-based scholarships)
there is also need-based financial aid (you need to apply through FAFSA and with the college itself if they offer need-based aid)

merit-based financial aid such as an academic scholarship is awarded primarily on SAT scores and cumulative high school GPA so there's no separate application. but there are other private, categorized scholarships (scholarships for medical school students, scholarships for african-americans, scholarships for biracial people, etc) not sponsored by the school or government that you need to apply separately to.

I got into most of the lower UC's, and then as for the schools I care about, I got into Boston College, Boston University, UCLA, UC Berkeley, RPI, and Purdue. Would have been nice if I got into USC and NYU Stern but meh, it's whatever I'm happy with what I got. Inb4 no ivies, I didn't apply to any top 20 schools except Berkeley.

[quote=Arestelle]This question is going to sound stupid, but I have to ask.
I see everyone getting scholarships to colleges they applied to. How does this work? Do you just fill out your college application
and once you're in the pool, based on your grades and stuff, they'll grant you a scholarship? Or is there a separate financial aid
kind of thing you have to apply for?
Thanks.[/quote]

I think FAFSA for US Citizens and CSS for International Students. This determines need-based eligibility (IDK if it determines merit-based eligibility but my scholarship is only renewable if I fill my FAFSA every year). I don't know if every college accepts CSS...

This question is going to sound stupid, but I have to ask.
I see everyone getting scholarships to colleges they applied to. How does this work? Do you just fill out your college application
and once you're in the pool, based on your grades and stuff, they'll grant you a scholarship? Or is there a separate financial aid
kind of thing you have to apply for?
Thanks.

[quote=Expressive]Accepted:
Stony Brook - 3.5k/year scholarship
Binghamton - no money (k.)
Purdue - 5k/year scholarship (Not even in-state. k.)
Drexel - 36k/year scholarship/grant
NYU - 15k/year scholarship/grant
Northeastern - 22.8k/year scholarship/grant

Denied:
Carnegie Mellon

It's okay if you got denied from those schools. All of those kids will be booking flights to Miami for spring break while you'll already be there[/quote]

Stony Brook yasssssssss

@UAPaladin dayum man
do you have any freetime at all?

I am jealous and happy for you guys. I'm here 2 yrs behind in school lol.

Harvey Mudd : Waitlisted
UCLA: Accepted
UC Berekeley: Accepted
Dartmouth: Waitlisted
Jk I have a long way to go !

[quote=fradddd]@MarshMallows really all they're doing is greatly contributing to the Asian stereotype. Probably all the Basilers who got into those top schools are Asian. I'm not surprised.[/quote]

Affirmative action (aka reverse discrimination) makes it a lot harder for Asians to get into schools of their choice though. If there was no such thing as affirmative action, we'd see a lot more Asians at top schools.

[quote=fradddd]Applied to five, got into three.
University of Denver - rejected
Santa Clara University ('dream school') - rejected
University of Colorado Colorado Springs - accepted
University of Colorado Denver - accepted
Regis University - accepted, 95% sure I'm going there

@MarshMallows really all they're doing is greatly contributing to the Asian stereotype. Probably all the Basilers who got into those top schools are Asian. I'm not surprised.

You guys seem to know a lot about colleges and universities. My school is above average but 90% of them seem to just go to the state schools without considering anything else.[/quote]

I didn't get into any of the top schools, but I'm not Asian. Maybe the fact that I'm the stereotypical white male is why I didn't get into some of these schools

I only applied to one university: UBC

I get my term 2 report card on Thursday. Then I can self-report my mark. 95.75% admission average.

Arts will be extremely easy to get into.. It's the business faculty that I dream of. Crossing my fingers.

Applied to five, got into three.
University of Denver - rejected
Santa Clara University ('dream school') - rejected
University of Colorado Colorado Springs - accepted
University of Colorado Denver - accepted
Regis University - accepted, 95% sure I'm going there

@MarshMallows really all they're doing is greatly contributing to the Asian stereotype. Probably all the Basilers who got into those top schools are Asian. I'm not surprised.

You guys seem to know a lot about colleges and universities. My school is above average but 90% of them seem to just go to the state schools without considering anything else.

Wow tons of smart people on Basil :o
Got denied from Johns Hopkins a few years ago as well ): It's probably because I wrote an essay about aliens. LOL. Thought I was being "unique".
Northeastern was more selective than I thought when I applied - well that, or they didn't want to raise their acceptance rate by accepting someone that was definitely not going to go.

[quote=mechibi]@UAPaladin: exactly you couldnt expect to get into them however most of the schools you applied to are ivy leagues
should have put some safety schools like northeastern, UC's, nyu etc[/quote]

3/10 schools that I applied to were Ivy Leagues, that's not most. I did apply to some safe schools, which were the 3 schools that I got in to.

i got into HARDVAD, yas!
jk

@UAPaladin: exactly you couldnt expect to get into them however most of the schools you applied to are ivy leagues
should have put some safety schools like northeastern, UC's, nyu etc

[quote=mechibi]honestly if you knew you wouldnt get into an ivy league then dont waste an app on it.
university of miami has low standards tbh
but there other schools you should have applied to that are really good but not ivy league standards
just my opinion![/quote]

I never said I knew that I wouldn't get into them; I said that I didn't expect to get into them. I have above average or average stats for every Ivy League school, so I was technically qualified for them. However, their acceptance rates are so low that regardless of how good your grades and such are, you can't really "expect" to get into a school like that.

Harvard University
Princeton University
Duke University
Stanford University

You really thought you had a chance?
Like you kinda saw a small shining light at the end of the tunnel?
I don't think anyone here that visited BM, went to Harvard or Princeton

honestly if you knew you wouldnt get into an ivy league then dont waste an app on it.
university of miami has low standards tbh
but there other schools you should have applied to that are really good but not ivy league standards
just my opinion!

look at all these smart af kids

[quote=yo12345653]What was your ACT and GPA like then?[/quote]

34 ACT, 4.0 UW GPA. I also have pretty good extracurriculars. I've been on our school's varsity tennis teams the past 4 years and went to state sophomore and junior years (probably will go again this senior year), and I have been playing tennis since I was three, playing tournaments since eight, and have won a lot of tournaments. I'm vice-president of the German Club, I've been a member of the Bowling Club for 3 years, and have been on the Recycling Club for all 4 years. I play the piano a lot and I've gotten first place in the state twice for a competition and have placed highly in a couple other piano competitions, which I've been playing in for like 8-10 years. I'm a member of the third degree in the Knights of Columbus. (I'm one of the youngest members in the state.) I have over a hundred hours of service at a non-for-profit food packing organization for the poor in other countries and a bunch of hours for a couple of other, smaller things. I peer tutor at my school too. I'm a member of the NHS, and I have received two awards in consecutive years for achievement in a National German exam and a few other academic achievement awards. There's probably a couple of things missing, but I don't feel like pulling up my resume right now.

@tiesandbowties: UM's fairly selective, but not extremely so. They seem pretty liberal with giving out scholarships too. It seems like I dodged a bullet with Johns Hopkins too then, because I might've wound up going there if I got in, and I would've gone into premed too. I guess everything works out in the end.

My brother went to University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign!

I was accepted to Rutgers University, The College of New Jersey, and Penn State. Just the typical average schools.
Denied from Northeastern University, which surprised me. I also got waitlisted by Emory University. I expected to be rejected from Emory and accepted to Northeastern.

I know exactly what you mean. I'm also surprised you got rejected from Notre Dame given the information that you got into Miami with a 26k/year scholarship.
When I applied to schools a couple years ago, I always thought UMiami was a pretty selective school. Either that's changed or Notre Dame has gotten a lot more selective.

John Hopkins has always been a very selective school but you wouldn't wanna go there anyways, trust me. I have a friend who's pre-med there and hates it and that's the unanimous vibe you get at the school. I dodged a bullet by not going there.

[quote=UAPaladin]No, I kind of figured that I'd be denied from all of the Ivies, Stanford, and Duke. There's nothing that I can do about those extremely low acceptance rates. The reason why I was so surprised with my denial from Notre Dame was because my high school sends one of the largest applicant pools to ND, and we have a website where we can see the stats of all of the previous people who have applied to a bunch of colleges from our school. Since we have such a large applicant pool at Notre Dame, I had a lot of people to compare myself to. There was literally absolutely nobody within my range of ACT/GPA who got denied by them. I also have above the average ACT and GPA for all incoming freshman. Maybe I just wrote sucky essays or something I don't care too much about not getting in because I wanted to go there (I'm fairly certain that I wouldn't have gone there anyways); I'm just annoyed because I don't know why I got denied. I also figured that Johns Hopkins was a 50/50 sort of thing it's not that huge of a deal. I'm happy with going to Miami as it is, so none of this really matters in the end.

@hology: I have all of that, but I realize that a ton of other people had essentially the same sort of stats, which would make it difficult and pretty much random-seeming for who gets in and who doesn't. Hence the hat analogy.

Regardless, I didn't make this thread to argue about this sort of thing; I just wanted people to discuss where they got in and such.[/quote]

What was your ACT and GPA like then?

[quote=Nude]4.68 W GPA. 2370 SAT.
Oh, I forgot to mention I also got denied/wait-listed by Northwestern, MIT, Chicago, and Dartmouth.[/quote]

Darn, that's pretty good. It's weird, it seems like you got into a lot of the harder schools and denied at the easier ones

[quote=UAPaladin]What were your SAT/ACT and grades like?[/quote]

4.68 W GPA. 2370 SAT.
Oh, I forgot to mention I also got denied/wait-listed by Northwestern, MIT, and Chicago

[quote=Nude]Accepted: Princeton, Duke, Cornell, Brown, Johns Hopkins, Berkeley
Waitlisted: Harvard, Yale, Penn
Denied: Columbia[/quote]

What were your SAT/ACT and grades?

Accepted: Princeton, Duke, Cornell, Brown, Johns Hopkins, Berkeley
Waitlisted: Harvard, Yale, Penn
Denied: Columbia

[quote=hyperfire7]Or your expectations were too high.[/quote]

No, I kind of figured that I'd be denied from all of the Ivies, Stanford, and Duke. There's nothing that I can do about those extremely low acceptance rates. The reason why I was so surprised with my denial from Notre Dame was because my high school sends one of the largest applicant pools to ND, and we have a website where we can see the stats of all of the previous people who have applied to a bunch of colleges from our school. Since we have such a large applicant pool at Notre Dame, I had a lot of people to compare myself to. There was literally absolutely nobody within my range of ACT/GPA who got denied by them. I also have above the average ACT and GPA for all incoming freshman. Maybe I just wrote sucky essays or something I don't care too much about not getting in because I wanted to go there (I'm fairly certain that I wouldn't have gone there anyways); I'm just annoyed because I don't know why I got denied. I also figured that Johns Hopkins was a 50/50 sort of thing it's not that huge of a deal. I'm happy with going to Miami as it is, so none of this really matters in the end.

@hology: I have all of that, but I realize that a ton of other people had essentially the same sort of stats, which would make it difficult and pretty much random-seeming for who gets in and who doesn't. Hence the hat analogy.

Regardless, I didn't make this thread to argue about this sort of thing; I just wanted people to discuss where they got in and such.

[quote=hyperfire7]Or your expectations were too high.[/quote]
OP just got burned.
Seriously though, I agree with this. More people are applying with higher-than optimal SAT/ACT scores, GPAs, AP/IB classes, ECs, etc, and it only becomes more applicable as you reach for the top tier unis.

Or your expectations were too high.