chances, girl, engineering

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>What up, I’m a junior at a public high school in the bangin’est town in nj. First off, no antagonism, yeah? I’m know I’m gonna get into college, I know I’ll be fine, and I also know that almost all of us here are kids who don’t know s h i t about admissions - but still! I’m curious what you guys think.</p>

<p>4.0 unweighted as of now, 4.66 weighted
This year: APs: Calc BC, Physics C, US1; English 11 HH, Art 3 H, gym & Latin IV. Next year I’ll have run out of math to take, so calc 3 (multivariable) @the local univ.and the following awesome classes: AP: chem, econ, language&comp, US2, Latin. Besides those, see if I can squeeze in architecture or art.
(Aw man this is getting long. Sorry!)
SAT: 2400! Took it this past november. Thank god that’s done, I have a 720 Bio and I think I’m just gonna do math iic and modern hebrew. Oh also 104 on AMC12 and 3 on AIME.</p>

<p>Which brings me to the next thing - I spent my sophomore year in Israel w/my Israeli mom who missed “the home country”, haha. It was AWESOME and my hebrew is now officially beast… THis wasn’t on some wack jewish youth program, I had to do everything in hebrew in a public israeli high school. How can I talk about my amazing amazing amazing experience without coming off as really… jewish? Israel is a huge part of my identity, but I was born into it - no jew or zionist pride at all, really.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: Most focused on art, environment and kids. Soccer and track as a frosh, soccer soph, nothing now… All I wanna do is math and art and math and art. TWO STEADY JOBS: one as what I would call a “governess”: babysitting TO THE NEXT LEVEL, and teaching math at a tutoring center. I do everything art because I love it with all my heart, am working on a ridiculous semiautobiographical comic book novel. I have some community service going on too, and my only 2 clubs are the art and lit mag at school which I’m passionately devoted to and the latin club… also national honor society, math league.</p>

<p>The bottom line is. I want to do ENGINEERING, I’m thinking civil, and then do architecture for grad school.If it wasn’t clear I’m a turkish-israeli girl who loves math science and art. What places might be good for me? I’m pretty social if… slightly, uh, offbeat? Note: I DON’T want a liberal arts school and I would NOT describe myself as “quirky”. What do you think about MIT and Rice for me? I loved MIT when I visited but I gotta have a ton more options. Any other ideas?</p>

<p>THANKS IN ADVANCE CC SUPERHEROES</p>

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<p>come on guys!!</p>

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<p>You loved MIT when you visited, but you don’t want a quirky school? I would consider MIT very quirky. </p>

<p>You have a good chance anywhere. Make sure you have safeties. Perhaps U of Michigan?</p>

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<p>You obviously have the brainpower (grades and test scores) to go anywhere. However, if you are truly interested in engineering, your ECs really don’t reflect that. How do you know that you want to be an engineer?</p>

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<p>I’m interested in engineering. Those looked a lot like my EC’s in high school. I go to MIT. I major in rocket science. One’s academic interests need not match one’s hobbies. Especially one’s hobbies in high school when the means are rare and motivation rarer.</p>

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<p>re: kidsdad - good point. I sat and thought for a long time about what I love and what I’m good at, and basically concluded that I like problem solving and being creative and designing things. That’s really what I’m good at, and I figured that since I’m good at math and science engineering might be a good fit for me. I don’t know for certain, and most kids change their minds about majors a couple of times at least, but I think I could really love it. Last summer I interned at a museum exhibit design firm in the city… for this summer, got into NJ gov school for engineering&tech, so that should clear a few things up for me.</p>

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<p>haha thanks pebbles, I love your life@mit thread. re:chocolateluvr88, I was jokingly referring to all the threads about quirkiness I keep coming across. I’m definitely not looking for a really rah-rah, “normal” college experience… “kind of weird, but happy” is probably more what I want.</p>

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<p>MIT-reach
Rice-match/slight reach (?)</p>

<p>Rice’s acceptance rate is higher out of state. Set yourself apart in your MIT apps.</p>

<p>I’m no expert though, good luck.</p>

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<p>anyone else?</p>

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<p>haha i have to get used to writing “bump”</p>

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<p>girl you can go to any school you want. 2400 wow!!!</p>

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<p>haha i’ve gathered it doesn’t EXACTLY work like that, madamebovary… but yeah i guess i have a lot of choices - which is why it’d be nice if some more people responded!</p>

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<p>Take the LIRR out to Great Neck and take the bus or a cab to Kings Point. You might love it or you might hate it. But it the marine engineering program is the best in the country. My son loves it there. It is academically more rigorous than the other US Service Academies, but the Regiment is more enlightened.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.usmma.edu%5B/url%5D”>www.usmma.edu</a></p>

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<p>I dont really have much advice…u seem set with your 2400 and MIT seemed nice and is great for engineering…</p>

<p>Its good to see another Israeli on CC (well I dont know if u would call me one exactly…my dad is Israeli but I live and have always lived in the US, but I try to visit my huge family there every summer)… where were u in Israel??</p>

<p>Its great u have that experience and will probably ace the SATII… talk about your experience!!! dont hide it</p>

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<p>qiryat tivon, near emeq yizrael, about 25 min on the bus to haifa and like 30 maybe to natzeret! you?</p>

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<p>oh, so you were up north more…my family is in Rishon</p>

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<p>Take a look at the US News rankings for undergrad engineering.</p>

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<p>no one else?</p>

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<p>Another thought might be Smith.</p>

<p>They are have developed probably the best science and engineering program of all of the Seven Sisters and have a good record of getting their alumnae into prestigous grad schools like MIT and Cal Tech.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Engin/[/url]”>http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Engin/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>lol yeah the 'Tute is definately quirky. Look at everything about it, the Beaver Call, the Brass Rat, the hacks… My dad was Course 2, Beta Theta Pi, class of '82, he still remembers the hack where Delta Kappa Epsilon dug a hole on the 50 yardline of the Harvard stadium put in a giant weather balloon with DKE written all over it, and burried it a week before the game. During the game, or halftime was it?, they hit the kill switch and a massive balloon with MIT and DKE written all over it exploded out of the ground. Wish I coulda seen that.</p>