<p>emerys, are you international or OOS?</p>
<p>Alum of Cal</p>
<p>Other schools, to which I applied:</p>
<p>UCs: UCLA, UCD, UCSD, UCSB, UCI
USC</p>
<p>why has everybody applied to Cali schools only???</p>
<p>^I don’t know about everyone else but I only applied to public CA schools b/c they’re the only ones I can afford.</p>
<p>ditto (10char)</p>
<p>seriously…it’s kind of expensive to go to oos schools unless you get a gnarly scholarship.</p>
<p>Cal, Davis, and SC. I got rejected from UCLA, most likely because I never turned in the Nursing supplemental cos I didn’t care much about it. Only applied to UCs because I got fee waivers and I couldn’t afford anything else. I always wanted to go to Cal though, cos California is awesome, the Bay Area is awesome, my home is awesome, so YAY :D.</p>
<p>Applied: UChicago (EA), MIT (EA), HYPS, Dartmouth, Columbia, UPenn, UCB, LA, Davis, and SD.</p>
<p>Accepted: UChicago (EA) + UC’s
Waitlisted @ Harvard and Columbia =/</p>
<p>And now I attend Cal.</p>
<p>Accepted: UCB, UCLA, UCD all with regents; Rice, Cornell
Waitlisted: Harvard, Columbia, Duke, JHU
Rejected: Penn, Princeton, Yale, Stanford</p>
<p>probably would have gone to cal even if i had gotten into duke/jhu/columbia/penn</p>
<p>i like cal a lot but it’s kicking my ass right now.</p>
<p>I kinda wish I had applied to JHU or Penn…moreover, i wish i had worked on my apps really.</p>
<p>Applied: UCB, UCLA, UCD, UCSB, UCSC, Amherst, Williams, Sarah Lawrence, Bowdoin, Haverford, Bard, Reed, Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, San Francisco State, San Jose State</p>
<p>Accepted: UCB, UCLA, UCD, UCSC, Sarah Lawrence, Harvard, Yale, Columbia (School of GS), Cornell (College of ILR), San Francisco State, San Jose State</p>
<p>Rejected: UCSB, Amherst, Williams, Bowdoin, Haverford, Bard, Reed, Dartmouth, Brown</p>
<p>Attending: UCB (until Tuesday… then I graduate).</p>
<p>Still wondering about UCSB… W T F?</p>
<p>Blueducky, I remember you from the Harvard Waitlist thread back in the early summer. </p>
<p>I like Cal too, but yeah, it’s kicking my ass. I feel really stupid in my chemistry class. Physics and math, please have mercy on my soul.</p>
<p>Darn… Forgot about that little school down the peninsula… applied… rejected… not to worry, we retained the axe.</p>
<p>why didn’t you go to Harvard?</p>
<p>For my major (British History) it was a toss-up between the two (Harvard - Cal). Harvard has an ensemble cast (Ferguson, Armitage, et al.), but Cal has the Center for British Studies (and Vernon, Laqueur and Shagan). In the end, I was more interested in studying under Vernon. I’m looking at the Ph.D. program at Harvard (as well as Cal), but will take the year off to write my Rhodes (and other) applications. I got the Haas Scholar’s Grant at Cal this year, so I spent all summer in Europe conducting research for my honors thesis… so I didn’t have time to study for the GREs. Interested in Irish history… R.F. Foster teaches at Oxford… also, Joe Lee teaches at NYU, so there are a few other possibilities… Hopefully they pan out.</p>
<p>lol i read your pre-edited version as well. i was wondering how the train of thought ended up being about what you are doing right now/for grad school. </p>
<p>looks like cal has been good for you! people who can handle the workload and get a good gpa do well beyond undergrad… people like me on the other hand… heh</p>
<p>lol… had to edit… too much Ale this evening (was out celebrating the completion of my honors thesis (50 pages of pure joy) and my 20 page seminar paper (which I turn in on Tuesday… at the same time I turn in my 10 page term paper for my Irish Lit class)… I’m just glad to be done… finally! :)</p>
<p>You’ve still got time for the GPA… I’m a transfer student… I got a 2.0 in HS. It’s all about focus… (unless you’re COE… then your just screwed) LOL</p>
<p>Accepted: Cal, UCLA, UCSD, UCI, UCD, Occidental, Denison, CSU Fresno</p>
<p>Waitlisted: Pomona, Amherst</p>
<p>Rejected: Stanford</p>
<p>Attending: Cal, fourth year</p>
<p>The best thing that ever happened to me was not getting into Stanford, since I know I would have gone had I gotten in and I’ve come to realize now that Cal is a much better fit for me than Stanford would have been. It’s amazing that we make these decisions as 17- and 18-year-olds.</p>
<p>I heard about Pomona twice this week. Both times it was compared to a top school, why is it so hush hush?</p>