<p>Here’s an interesting link: <a href=“http://www.wonderfulinfo.com/amazing/skyscrap.htm[/url]”>http://www.wonderfulinfo.com/amazing/skyscrap.htm</a></p>
<p>The second last one in Dubai looks really out of place.</p>
<p>omg look at the last and the second last one :O</p>
<ol>
<li>I’m 5’ 8-9’’ 
(I don’t really remember)</li>
<li>cornucopia</li>
<li>“I will make him an offer he cannot refuse.”</li>
<li>Why I wanted to go to Yale. </li>
<li>See fuzzy’s answer.</li>
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<p>I see the second last one almost everyday. :D</p>
<p>Likewise, it’s on my way to school :)</p>
<p>To answer my own questions.</p>
<ol>
<li>I’m 5’0". I look approximately ten years old. When I tell people I’m in 12th grade, they audibly gasp and / or look extremely shocked, and then quickly try to cover it up.</li>
</ol>
<p>I filled all my Princeton stuff at the last minute, so… um, I don’t remember my Princeton stuff, except my favourite word was “snarky” and my favourite movie line, I didn’t ahev one, so I IMDB’d The Hitchhiker’s Guide and put some random quote.</p>
<p>I KNOW the 50 word essay was about why you wanted to go to Yale. What did you write in it? I wrote about the balance between ECs and great academics, and how I could swing foam swords at random bystanders even while majoring in CS and Psych.</p>
<p>For my revisions, see fuzzy’s and Lakshya’s answers. I reaffirm that the twins are crazy, though :)</p>
<p>me too, people think I am 12</p>
<p>can’t answer other questions cause I am still a junior</p>
<p>I have the opposite problem. Some guy I saw the other day thought i was doing my master’s. I’m only 16. I guess it’s because I haven’t shaved in like 2 weeks and look like a yeti. :D</p>
<p>hahahahaha</p>
<p>1) I’m170 cm…about 5’8 i think
2) Didn’t need to do that for any app but mine would be ‘yagshemesh’
3) Didn’t need to do that for any app
4) Didn’t apply to Yale…
5) Finished my A - Level modulars on the 25th of Jan and haven’t opened my books since…</p>
<p>What are modulars?</p>
<p>sorry ajayc, dad came.</p>
<p>What did I write? Well I waffled a bit about ‘renaissance engineers and a balance between engineering and the liberal arts’ 
Not much you can write in 50 words, is there?</p>
<p>*** <a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPA_in_India[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPA_in_India</a> is this applicable? DAMN I HAVE GPA 4.0 then!</p>
<p>That is just about right. Though, I must add, it is not applicable for universities which do not convert the percentages into GPA. They mostly compare you with people from your school, country and system of education.</p>
<p>Large state universities, however, do use a grading similar to the one on wiki.</p>
<p>@lakshya - modulars are part examinations that students under the British system take. Consider them as exams on “units” or parts of the full course. </p>
<p>A level subjects are divided up normally into three units, we take one unit in January and the remaining two in June/July. </p>
<p>@others - GPA conversion is funny, with a couple of B’s, being in the British system I can still get a perfect 4.0 GPA! </p>
<p>All A’s = 4.0 GPA
and an A in the British system is given to people with 70% and above (this is how the Americans view it!)
However in some exams 80% is required for an A for Brit’s to recognize it as an A</p>
<p>The top universities (read top 20 privates) on the other hand would be more likely to actually look at your marks; with the number of excellent students from India who apply there, they’d be more likely ('tis evident) to value a 90 %er than an 80 %er even if according to official conversions the two have the same GPA.</p>
<p>Regardless of how you spin it; mark differences still mean something.</p>
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<p>My 800th Post!!</p>
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<p>How rad am I? :D</p>
<p>wow you can do tht on CC ^^^^ ? nice.</p>
<p>Re: Grade Conversion.</p>
<p>If the university converts everyone’s grades/marks/percentages to a 4.0 scale. Then for Indian students a grading system similar to the one mentioned above is used. The one’s that don’t convert - *don’t convert.
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Out of the top universities, I know of only Stanford that does this. So yeah, if Stanford uses a conversion chart similar to this. We’re in luck. :)</p>