<p>At my overly competitive school Rutgers is basically synonymous to community college, a fate worse than death.</p>
<p>college3231… I guess it is too. I have those dreams of “prestige”, but the debt (and high-school headache) doesn’t seem worth it sometimes… we shall see! </p>
<p>jersey13, that sounds like my indian/asian friends’ parents. YOU WILL NOT BE A SUCCESS IN LIFE UNLESS YOU GO TO IVY LEAGUE.</p>
<p>I like the saying “what do you call the last-ranked graduate at the lowest-ranked medical school in the country? Doctor!”
Yeah, yeah, residencies but it gets the point across… rutgers undergrad and a good med school is the same as stanford undergrad and a good med, except in the wallet haha… and those schools would make a nice four years… eh.</p>
<p>/rambling post</p>
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<p>Hear, hear.</p>
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<li>Decided not to apply to TASP.</li>
<li>Made college list</li>
<li>Had to redo senior schedule…again</li>
<li>How about I have to do a long internship and I contacted many local people and one “reach” person in the state capital, a little over an hour away, and the reach person has been the only one to contact me in 2 weeks?</li>
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<p>@ mj rothlan:
What a coincidence, I was thinking the exact same thing! I mean, about getting a full scholarship or something to Rutgers (:</p>
<p>I’ve been trying to do more research about colleges, but it’s so hard when I don’t know what I want to major in. :(</p>
<p>I have a personal dislike for Rutgers so I would be unhappy going there</p>
<p>Class of '10 OWNS YOU</p>
<p>I CONCUR!!!11!1!!!1one!11!1</p>
<p>So I heard Class of <code>10 is one of the toughest HS classes in terms of college admissions, one of several reasons why</code>11 is #1 (twice).</p>
<p>^ The number of US high school students will drop slightly in coming years. However, top school apps may continue to go up as students hedge their bets by applying to many schools. Also, international apps will continue to increase, as will the competitive nature of our society.</p>
<p>I read that as “As a representative of the Class of 2010, I humbly accept defeat to the far more superior Class of 2011” :)</p>
<p>My GPA is down 4 points (97 –> 93) from Sophomore year. I’ve lost all motivation to do homework or study for my midterms next week…</p>
<p>2011 can’t come any faster.</p>
<p>My GPA is up ~1.5. My upward trend is the fuel for my junior year.</p>
<p>My Chem grade just dropped after I got a 4 (out of 7) in my last test. Fail.</p>
<p>So very odd, this year is much easier. I’m possibly going to get a 5.0 this term (which is the highest anyone usually gets overall), so I am very happy. Though EC’s may kill me, between sci fair, swimming, sci oly, and robotics. Oh well, it’s fine.</p>
<p>SAT’s in roughly 2 weeks, a bit nervous.</p>
<p>I solved a Putnam problem today, on my own, no calculator. I’m not even that good at math! =) This makes me very happy lol</p>
<p>My rank dropped. I’m actually sad but I’m covering it up with fake nonchalance, trying to convince myself that it’s better now than in college and that’s it no big deal, and it isn’t.</p>
<p>Yep.</p>
<p>I found a book of IMO questions from the last 50 years yesterday in the UCLA bookstore.</p>
<p>Also Terry Tao’s Analysis</p>