Lots of Questions about Cornell

veregudmen
Wed, 15 Jan 2014 06:55:48 +0000

Wow, I actually did not expect to get all my queries answered. :D
I do have one more, if anyone could help out. From high school to college, how big a jump was it academically? I read all sorts of horror stories about kids who are straight A students all through their life and then suddenly find themselves scraping their asses through Cs and Ds. Does that kind of thing happen a lot?

Petersuu: Haha I did not know that internationals get to bypass the language requirement. I suck at Hindi, even though I am a fluent speaker, so it’s next to pointless for me, but still, it’s nice to know that.
WongTongTong: That’s unfortunate for your friend, hopefully it works out better at the next lab. Hahaha I’m guessing there are lots of Indians in CoE?
Cornellian926:

1. That’s really cool about your friend!

2. You dodged a bullet- our stuff is boring. It’s good to know though, if it’s well regarded.
3)Hang on a sec- India is a competitive country in terms of college apps? That’s odd, it seems no one here but the international school students apply outside India, and when they do, it’s either to small LACs, MIT or the UK. Besides, well, from my own experience, there are barely any applicants to the Ivy League outside of Harvard.

3. Wow, that’s good to know. In India, half the universities don’t have research opportunities at all, and the ones who do actively discourage it. It’s amazing that even undergrads are able to get that kind of work that early, you’d think that’s only for grad students or med students.

4. IB grades, as far as my own research goes, can be roughly converted to A+ (7), A (6) B(5) etc. The thing is, when I find my grades’ mathematical mean, I get a GPA of 3.7, but when I do it through this conversion, I get 3.89. I don’t want to inflate my hopes, but I still want to get an accurate insight. What would you think would be more accurate?

5. That’s good to know. It makes applying to the US much easier to think of, since I don’t think I would want to live there or India after graduation.
Thanks for all your help guys! :D