<p>Lol Obstinate! Ha. The days are long. It’s as though the next day takes longer to one and go. I’m just so anxious it’s long to me I guess. I don’t know. Well I hope when the time ones it’s good news for all of us. :))) I will be sure to let you guys know. Ad about the admissions paper. I sent the acceptance letter I got in the mail. I guess if the point gets across that you’ve been accepted thn it should work. Just call Gates and ask them. Better safe then sorry.</p>
<p>I’m as occupied as can be. If you just keep busy and don’t notice the time flying by, like, say, by doing a ton of scholarships, it will absolutely fly by. I can’t remember where the past year went! It’s a nice feeling actually.</p>
<p>As long as the email/letter says “Congratulations! You’ve been accepted to…” You’ll be perfectly fine. </p>
<p>Where’s everyone from, ethnicity, and what schools did y’all apply to, and get accepted to? </p>
<p>I’m from Carson, CA (best known for either soccet at the Home Depot Center, or highly disfunctional city council meetings such as the following: [YouTube</a> - Lady overreacts to smack on head](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvxrE3DTXA]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvxrE3DTXA)), black male, and I applied to the following:
Columbia
Brown
Harvard
Yale
Vassar
Oberlin (Accepted via early write, faxed this letter to Gates)
Swarthmore (Accepted via early write)
Northeastern
Drexel (for kicks, accepted)</p>
<p>I’m from Upstate New York. Black male (and Native American, but I didn’t list that).
I applied to:
NYU
Northeastern (accepted EA)
Loyola MD (accepted EA)
Fordham (accepted EA)
Siena (accepted EA)
Columbia
Syracuse (accepted RD)
SUNY Binghamton
RPI (accepted RD)
Harvard
Boston U
Boston C</p>
<p>I am from Amarillo, Texas. I am a Hispanic male. I applied to:</p>
<p>Baylor University (Accepted)</p>
<p>Haha. Baylor is really the only school I wanted to go to and I was acceded in December. I didn’t apply to other schools because Baylor University is the school for me. It’s a private christian university and I love everything about it. </p>
<p>My school is 45,000 a year. Can you guys tell me like how much Harvard and Yale and Columbia costs. They seems like great schools and I wish I had applied there too.</p>
<p>Where we supposed to send in the acceptance letter with the financial aid the school gave?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Nice idea, I’m in San Antonio, Tx. Hispanic female (specifically, mexican-american, even more specific tejana). Accepted to Baylor (hey, Jeruda, I like the school too but they didn’t give enough financial aid for some reason and my EFC is 0 so that was odd but maybe, I’m still deciding, if we both go we have to go have a gatesparty there 'kay?), Our Lady of the Lake, UT (the acceptance letter I sent) and Rensselaer (which I need to memorize how to spell if I go). Also waiting to hear back from Cornell, Carnegie Mellon (my top choice maybe, between that and RPI and really I don’t know), and Harvey Mudd.</p>
<p>I constantly felt like I should’ve applied to more school but I’ve gotten into RPI so woot either way. Besides I’m engineering major and UT would be fine also. Bah, this scholarship finalist deal has made me more nervous than anything. Before I was just “eh, not getting it in this universe so no worry, just applying to say I tried” but now that I have more of a chance it’s kinda scary. I figured I had a better chance of getting into MIT than getting this scholarship.</p>
<p>Lucky2010, heck yes we can have a Gates Party! Woot woot. But I just got off of the phone with a Gates Representative and she asked me how I was with my documentsthat I had to send it. I told her that I mailed them and she said it would take 10-14 days to process my information. I’m so nervous. And to make life even better my unsuccessful older brother literally hit the phone out of my hand while I was on the phone with the GR. I cried for about half an hour. DUDE. HE RUINED THE CALL OF MY LIFETIME. -_- Im still sad. My mom is super ****ed at him. Like je ruins everything. I need some comfort you guys. Everything will be okay right? I’m just blah right now. It seriously sucks. Baylor gave my 25000 in Financial Aid, not including the loans. It’s 30000 with the loans. But I think it’s an okay amount. It still means I have to pay about 20000 a year (80000 total for my undergraduate degree). How much did they give you?</p>
<p>I just sent the acceptance letter. No numbers attatched. :)</p>
<p>So if a Gates Rep called you to ask you about your stuff, could you tell me exactly what they told you? Thanks. I’ll really appreciate it.</p>
<p>I still haven’t gotten a call, though I have some missed but when I tried back on two it was some out of service or machine. That was a day or two ago, odd but I’m so terrible with my phone. Eh. My stuff was mailed yesterday and I have copied in case I need to fax. No numbers either so it’s all out of my hands!</p>
<p>Your brother sounds like mine, except he’d feel like crud about it after and all that, but he did just throw water at me this morning so maybe not. </p>
<p>I have $11000 in loans so I guess it’s not that bad and it’s those low pay, subsidized or unsubsidized loans. The rest is grants and scholarship and some work study, it’s not that bad but I was kinda expecting it all covered from Baylor. I think UT might give more in financial aid and RPI nearly paid for everything so far but I’m gonna repeal for more.</p>
<p>I literally have no savings for college, heh. And my parents are like “no loans or you can’t go!” so that’s why the $11000 from Baylor hurts me. It took me a year to explain how a grant wasn’t a loan or how “yes, in fact, people and organizations do just give you money to go to college”. </p>
<p>HEY! Just thought of something: ya’lls parents didn’t go to college right? Isn’t that one of the qualifications for this, to be “first generation” or something?</p>
<p>Who here has something ridiculous parents did in oblivious to the college applying process deal? Like my mom, while driving me to my SAT test, asked “do you really need this? ugh, why do I have to wake up early on a saturday for this ‘test’?” and I was like “yeeeeess…it’s kinda important”.</p>
<p>11000 in loans! Wow, that’s a lot. Well heh, my brother ruined it and I will NEVER forgive him. Like EVER! My dad, don’t know em’, but he only went to middle school and he was an immigrant from Mexico. My mom graduated from high school and that was it. She worked and stuff. Like. Life is hard. But oh well. My mom. Hmm. Way does she do. She does understand the importance of everything I do. With Student Council, Leadership, National Honor Society; she is about as involved as I am. And Grants are awesome. So you should choose Baylor. Cause it’s awesome.</p>
<p>Umm… I just got a “We regret to inform you” letter and I swear I didn’t even apply… I made an account and thought I couldn’t apply because my unweighted GPA wasn’t 3.3 (turns out it was a 3.5 but my pre-IB Spanish I, II, and III classes were left out of my GPA calculation). I didn’t fill anything out other than the address details before I saw the requirements. Oh and they referred to me as “Ms ___ Smith” too… My name is clearly not a girls name. I think they did that crap on purpose. </p>
<p>Anyway, I guess I should have actually applied since a girl with a the bare minimum GPA and an SAT score lower than mine (she got a 1950) is now a finalist.</p>
<p>Ouch. That sucks.</p>
<p>I received a call earlier today, 2nd one. Not sure what it was for, since they didn’t leave a message. For some reason, they tend to call around 1 PM-ish here, and I’m usually at school and no one’s home. </p>
<p>Oh well, call back tomorrow.</p>
<p>Anyone else receive one from UNCF?</p>
<p>1st “We r3gret to inform you…”
Then “We ENCOURAGE you to…”
Ending “We wIsh you continued success in …” —> H*ll nO, thAnks !!
iM dOne !</p>
<p>There’s really is anoTher rEasOn to hATe this world !!
LIAR if you are those wHo …saYs what go3s aRRound coMes arroUnd
…and beLieVes in faIth </p>
<p>to Freud, Zimbardo, Woolf, Hemingway, … I agree</p>
<p>That’s the 2nd time I hear of gates mixing genders. </p>
<p>@ nonidpri, lolwhtu? </p>
<p>I just got a call like, a moment ago. The guy was nice, man I hope I get it.</p>
<p>@Jrueda92, What do you mean you sent the acceptance letter, “no numbers attached”? and the same goes for lucky2010. </p>
<p>I’m a bit confused about what the person who called me was saying (yeah and I sorta sounded like an idiot so I didn’t say “huh, can you speak up!!” lmao).</p>
<p>So basically I didn’t know what she was saying to me half of the time, but she said something about financial office and my college (the college acceptance I sent in). So I’m kind of assuming that I need to send in a financial component of my acceptance. Did anyone have a conversation like this? Is that what you guys meant by no numbers? Someone please confirm whether or not we have to send financial aid info.</p>
<p>Oh, someone was asking about an identification number. I asked the guy if there was anything I needed to put on it but he said I just needed my name on the envelope of course. I already sent it out yesterday. If there’s a number I haven’t heard about it yet and didn’t use it. I think they’d mention it at some point if it were important.</p>
<p>You have to send the Student Aid Report you get from FAFSA. That’s kinda on the letter they give and I don’t know about sending anything else.</p>
<p>Has anyone sent in all 5 parts of the finalist application?</p>
<p>I haven’t. I only sent in two of the documents because I cant get my transcript/profile and gpa form until spring break is over</p>