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11-18-2007, 11:12 AM
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#256 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Jacobs University Bremen '11 Gender: Male
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| most state universities have deadlines later than private colleges (march april)...and if u want to go to state uni why go consultancy and waste money apply urself.. | 
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11-18-2007, 02:04 PM
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#257 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
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| consultancies suck big time. u guys know much more than the consellor at the consultancy. they know nothing about US schools and application process. go ask them the names of IVY league school. all they know is Harvard. I have tried visiting them. they do nothing but demoralise you. except for the likes of Universal and others, dont waste your money on them. | |
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11-18-2007, 08:09 PM
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#258 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
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| Ayush its rs.
Tosin..... I do not completely agree with you. You cannot call ivy a safety. So ignorance about them is not a problem. These consultants have some knowledge on state universities that award good merit based scholarship. But it is also true that they are expensive. What i recommend is that we should wait for our ed 1 and 2 result mean while searching safeties. If we fail to do both we should contact those expensive consultants. (well dont i sound a wise guy.........lol) | |
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11-18-2007, 09:14 PM
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#259 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Kathmandu, Nepal -->Amherst '12 Gender: Male
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| I've heard that the Trinity in CT is a preppy college for rich pompous whites. Any truth in that? | |
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11-19-2007, 05:53 AM
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#260 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: The world of Fantasy
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| Exist: Let me clear you a thing, ToUSin is experienced enough to not to call IVIES as ''safeties''...And you should be a bit more confident about your choices, you can at least try for better 2nd or 1st tier colleges... | |
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11-19-2007, 07:50 AM
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#261 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Colgate '12 Gender: Male
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| skunk: every bit of that is true. and the town around the college is crime-filled. | |
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11-19-2007, 09:42 AM
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#262 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Harvard'12
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| Whyat about the Connecticut? is it the same? anyone can tell me about wofford? | |
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11-19-2007, 09:46 AM
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#263 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Harvard'12
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| *what
And how are the colleges we are applying supposed to know about the academic rigorousness of the courses that we have taken? I mean if the counsellor sends only school report and transcripts but no information about the school? | |
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11-19-2007, 10:02 AM
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#264 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
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| exist: you got me wrong here. I am not out of my mind to call an ivy league school a safety. what i meant was ppl in the consultancies dont even know that IVY league schools exist. having worked at a famous consultancy in nepal, i know the ground reality.
anyway, i dont think anyone of you from CC will have to visit such consultancies as all of you will certainly end up in a fairly decent school. goodluck | |
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11-19-2007, 10:11 AM
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#265 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
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| rena-itsme: such things as the rigourousness of the courses u took in high school should be mentioned in the recos and the teacher evaluation. if u look at the teacher evaluation form, there is this section where it asks your teacher to list the courses you took with him/her and the difficulty of the course. so that should help | |
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11-19-2007, 11:09 AM
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#266 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
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| mates
will i have enough time after all my decisions come to apply to these cheap state U s. when is there application deadline | |
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11-20-2007, 09:38 AM
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#267 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
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| Tousin...... Perhaps you took me too literally. I know that every cc members are well known about competition in ivys. What i meant to say is that since we are talking about safe colleges, it is useless to discuss if somebody knows about ivys or not. my friends with sat score in the range of 1200 have safely landed in state universities with full scholarship (thanks to the consultancy). You cannot expect every cc visitors and members to get into 1st or 2nd tier colleges. At least i cannot because i could not do so: this is my 2nd gap year. While applying to competative colleges a student should also look for safeties. state universities are better option than small colleges like lee, caldwel or saintpeters. So while looking for safeties, if a consultancy claims to provide ful scholarship in good state unis one should put some faith on them. | |
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11-20-2007, 10:03 AM
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#268 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
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| Issacnewton, i cannot show confidence in my college list because i have seen 1540 scorer rejected by every colleges he aplied to and a 1450 scorer friend dumping his dream of going to top tier colleges by getting admitted in lee university(999th tier college) Therefore my college list will contain comparatively descent safeties along with reaches and matches from the very begining. | |
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11-20-2007, 10:15 AM
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#269 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Harvard'12
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| oh exist , it sounds so discouraging! But truth is bitter anyway. It is your second gap year so you are so worried about the thing. Anyways, all we can do is hope for the best. the application thing is very unpredictable, you never know!
My heart beat is increasing now! 1540 with full rejection! But there are still people with 1340 getting into Yale and dartmouth. But I am afraid they were not Nepalese. | |
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11-20-2007, 10:40 AM
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#270 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
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| SAT score is nt everything, other things count a lot, especially ur transcript and recos | |
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