<p>Today is the day that we hit 200th page…(I declare it as our INDEPENDENCE DAY…anyone seen that movie?..that dialogue was my fav. when I was in IXth)…</p>
<p>"thought i’d pass this on:<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...d.php?t=302699[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...d.php?t=302699</a>
Disclaimer: It’s a bit vulgar… "</p>
<p>what an awesome link…
MORE PLEASE!</p>
<p>Fuzzylogic’s name is not George. That was a humorous reference to Curious George (you’d be very photogenic if you were Curious George, for sure :P). What country are you a citizen of, Fuzzy?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t have revealed my name, people kept saying it was too tiresome to type TheOneCurlyFry. I love my name, but it feels weird to be called Kriti by some people and CurlyFry or other things by others :<.</p>
<p>@issac, long ago: I read Five Point Someone, didn’t really like it. but my friend looooooooooooooooooooooooved it, got all emotional over it, and he’s a guy. <em>sigh</em>. I also read one night @ the call centre, didn’t like that either. Big deal, he’s an Indian author who writes in simple English, swears and writes about sex.</p>
<p>The US, which is why I’m at an advantage.</p>
<p>I just got a really really nice email from Oberlin from the person who read my application first telling me how much they enjoyed reading my application, so I’m VERY VERY VERY HAPPY! 
:D</p>
<p>fuzzy, I hate you.</p>
<p>ah, well I’m used to it and to incite some more flaming posts…I got a Berkeley Regents’ invitation. :D</p>
<p>Ok, I’m done now.</p>
<p>I’ve got my Princeton Interview. (Dances around, well not really, but you get my drift :D) Finally!</p>
<p>@ Kriti, didn’t like One Night or Five Point either. It’s a very mediocre style of writing in my opinion, only famous because of the topic, and the fact that no one’s written about it before.</p>
<p>@ fuzzy: We don’t all hate you, really. We’re just all very very tense.</p>
<p>you, k_twin and Noldo have nothing to worry about. Kriti already has an offer…so there’s really no reason to be tense.</p>
<p>Ah well, even if our worry be baseless, we still worry. (Threads on CC with titles about getting rejected from every school only add to it)</p>
<p>Seriously though, I suppose we are worrying a bit too much, but as there’s nothing else besides the boards and this for the next month, well we’ll continue to worry, if only because it’s something to do.</p>
<p>I don’t have an OFFER. For all I know, they send these out to everyone. However the admissions officer told me about specific details she liked, so I’m very very thrilled :). It’s something, after all! Even if it’s just an email “to connect”. :)!</p>
<p>That sounds promising, Kriti! I do know an Indian girl who’s Oberlin '10, actually, and she was intelligent but not CC-scary (actually, I think you beat her SAT score by some 40 points, and her ECs weren’t all that stellar; all she had going for her was her lovely writing style), so you should do fine. :)</p>
<p>Fuzzy – yeah, I don’t really hate you either, but it is in my nature to be a terrible worrywart. </p>
<p>I will share (since ‘omg look at this university that thinks I am of awesome!’ seems to be the order of the day) that U. New South Wales (you know, in Australia) just offered me a full ride. So I suppose I do have a safety school! Not as cool as you lot and your Columbias and your Oberlins, I guess, but it’s a good school and I’m pleased. </p>
<p>And yes, Five Point Someone was written in a very dull and mediocre manner. Which is my gripe with a lot of Indian authors in English; I won’t blanket-dismiss them, because there are some fabulous ones (Vikram Seth comes to mind, and there’s a less-known book by a Ruchir Joshi called ‘The Last Jet-Engine Laugh’ wot I recommend to just about anyone), but most of them seem to be either not particularly skilled writers, or very gifted people writing about dull topics. (I mean, seriously. Enough with the warm-hearted explorations of the Indian ethos. It gets rather tiring!)</p>
<p>Thanks a lot, Noldo.</p>
<p>fuzzy, it should be obvious I don’t really hate you :). Congratulations!</p>
<p>I read The Inheritance of Loss as well. I didn’t like that much as well, but maybe I’m just dumb. It won the Booker, after all.</p>
<p>In my experience, prize-winning and lauded books aren’t always enjoyable reads. 
I rather disliked ‘The God of Small Things’, and didn’t make it all the way through ‘The Inheritance of Loss’; then again, that might be my inherent immaturity and love of genre fiction (hello, sci-fi!) kicking in. </p>
<p>I did read and love ‘Soul Mountain’ (a Nobel-winning book), though, so apparently my rule of thumb doesn’t hold even for me. Not sure what that implies.</p>
<p>I didn’t quite like the Inheritance of Loss either. I couldn’t figure out why it got the booker… </p>
<p>abt five point someone- it was like watching a bollywood movie…</p>
<p>btw, does anyone know of a cure for the ellipses syndrome?
also btw, do you know if any internationals get likely letters? I want one… NOW!</p>
<p>I know this is out of the blue, but when you wrote your SAT essays, did you write personal experiences or just three factual examples?</p>
<p>I used factual examples but I don’t think they care too much about content. The essay just tests your grammar and writing style. Just make sure it’s long.</p>
<p>I can do that, but if only personal examples are used, wouldn’t they think that you are making it up?</p>
<p>‘Make sure it’s long’ is the single most useful piece of SAT essay advice ever. Mine was grammatically correct and reasonably well-written (at least, by the ‘high-schooler writing essay about dry topic in twenty minutes’ standard), but short, and I ended up with 8.</p>
<p>spacepirate – I want one as well. So not happening, though.</p>
<p>edit: naidu90 – they don’t care. The SAT only tests grammar and ability to write to a topic in a given time, not your memory for historical detail, your literary references, or your honesty (at least with respect to personal experience).</p>
<p>its ok if we are making it up… we just have to make it convincing…</p>
<p>i used purely personal experiences, but had it nice and long…</p>
<p>ok good, 'cause on my practice tests I can get 800’s on Math and CR (on a good day), it is only the writing in which I can’t get an 800 on (partly due to unpredictable writing curve)</p>