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05-07-2008, 10:37 PM
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#31 | | Senior Member
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| "It's a whole reality show waiting to happen, all we need is a Tyra Banks or a Padma Lakshmi."
LOL indeed. That's just twisted, unalove. It's probably just as well that the writer's strike is over or it would be on. | 
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05-07-2008, 11:39 PM
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#32 | | Junior Member
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| i got off from NYU.. I hope i get off from Chicago cuz i will def. go then. | |
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05-08-2008, 06:31 AM
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#33 | | Senior Member
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| Good luck, Jcubed! | |
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05-08-2008, 08:26 AM
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| There already has been a college admissions reality show. Entitled something like "The Scholar"? The Columbia admissions officer who did our info session there was one of the judges. | |
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05-08-2008, 11:13 AM
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#35 | | Junior Member
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| "As the stomach churns", would be a good name for the reality show. | |
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05-08-2008, 11:26 AM
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#36 | | Senior Member
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There already has been a college admissions reality show. Entitled something like "The Scholar"? The Columbia admissions officer who did our info session there was one of the judges.
| YES. I saw this show (my friend's mom thought it would be a good show for our self-edification or something like that) and the same dude from Columbia gave my info session too! She should have told us to like, read a book or something instead.
But as much as I'd be amused to see college admissions as narrated by Padma (or how about Gordon Ramsay? or the Big Brother hostess?) I think it's important to call attention to how arbitrary things like this are and how very few decisions are clear-cut. (Unless you're the mean person that casting put there for the sake of more drama!) And just like every viewer has favorite models/singers/chefs, I'm sure every adcom has a few applicants that they're stoked about and a few they are just bummed about not being able to admit. | |
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05-08-2008, 01:10 PM
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#37 | | Junior Member
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| Thank you Ohio_mom!
I watched a show from Azn channel ( they don't exist anymore) called Ivy Dreams. It was last year's seniors, they featured four people (asians  ) who applied to Ivy schools. two got in, and two did not. I thought it was a good show. anyone else watched it ? | |
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05-09-2008, 12:30 PM
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#39 | | Senior Member
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| The Scholar, huh. So much for my knowledge of popular culture! | |
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05-09-2008, 01:02 PM
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#40 | | New Member
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| new news! my college conseulor called and said chicago will not be going to the WL this year but will be keeping a shortlist (i assume this means an extended waitlist). i dont think, however, that we (students personally) should barrage the admissions office with phone calls. anybody know exactly what a shortlist is? good luck, fellow waiters. | |
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05-09-2008, 01:05 PM
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| vickious, thanks for the news. but do they only call to inform those who are still on the extended waitlist? so if we don't receive a call we can assume that we have been rejected? also when did you get your call? | |
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05-09-2008, 01:18 PM
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#42 | | Senior Member
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| I believe what this may imply is that enough said yes so as to not require going to the WL, but they will keep some (fewer) on a list in anticipation of any "melt off" from those getting off WLs elsewhere. | |
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05-09-2008, 01:29 PM
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#43 | | New Member
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| o my counseulor just answered my question: a shortlist "is a smaller pool that the admission office will go to first prior to reviewing a waitlist." schweet. | |
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05-09-2008, 01:33 PM
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#44 | | New Member
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| hm on second thought, what he told me sounds like they'll still keep the whole wait list just in case. i didn't receive any calls; another counselor at my school told me he'd call, and my counseulor emailed me to tell me i was on the shortlist but that that's not a definite shoe-in. i have no idea how long this shortlist is. | |
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05-09-2008, 04:01 PM
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#45 | | Junior Member
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| well there goes my hopes and dreams | |
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