<p>What do you reckon the likelihood of you going to Duke is, then, Shrivats? (And for that matter, are you and Kaushik planning on going to college together?)</p>
<p>Ignore me if you want, of course. ;)</p>
<p>Yeah, Duke’s page is very nice. I know everything about JHU anyway so, it doesn’t really matter. :D</p>
<p>Really, what’s the point of taking so many SAT 2s? 
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<p>Two should be sufficient for most colleges, 3 if you’re applying to Princeton. I’d rather keep my money than donate it to Collegeboard.</p>
<p>I think 3’s sufficient as well. But, if you have the money and can do the others, why not?</p>
<p>The Point? Well I badly, badly needed a hook. And I thought, ah how I thought :), that 5x800 would be one. :D</p>
<p>I suppose I’ll never know if it was though…</p>
<p>Noldo: Pretty high probability really. If I get rejected from Rice, Cornell, Penn and HYPS, then Duke’s my top choice. :D</p>
<p>@Twins and Lakshya: Did you guys apply for BME at JHU?</p>
<p>Caltech doesn’t even have an admitted students page. This is unfair! :p</p>
<p>On the plus side, its homepage links to [fun</a> science articles](<a href=“http://pr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR12959.html]fun”>http://pr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR12959.html), joy.</p>
<p>@Noldo: I’d never ignore you… :p</p>
<p>Seriously though, I don’t know… I like the poem I’ve written for my Duke Bio though. (I’m in a bit of a poetic mood right now)
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<p>@fuzzy: Yes, I did. (K didn’t, but he thought he did, turns out, he didn’t :))</p>
<p>Don’t know if I’m into it though. :)</p>
<p>@fuzzylogic: No, I didn’t. Would’ve gotten in still I guess. My bro’s BME at JHU. But I didn’t really want to do it.</p>
<p>Oh, that’s awesome, Shrivats. (Shan’t make meter comments. :p) And yes, hang on to your towel, it’s a very important object. 
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<p>A friend of mine and I are composing a poem for my impending Princeton rejection (and yes, it involves 'well, I was rejected, but I don’t give a heck/I’m off to Pasadena, ‘cos I’m going to Caltech’.). Check back tomorrow, you’ll probably meet it in all its g(l)ory.</p>
<p>@Shrivats: Neat poem! :D</p>
<p>@Noldo: Seriously though. I like Duke quite a lot really. More than Penn or Cornell. But at the moment, this is what my decision making process is:</p>
<p>If:</p>
<p>I get into HYP: I go there (As they’re need blind, I’ve applied for aid there, follow the money…:))</p>
<p>If not,</p>
<p>Then:
If into S: I go.</p>
<p>Not,
then:
If into Penn M&T:</p>
<p>I go.</p>
<p>If not:
then,
If into Cornell/Penn (non M&T)/Rice:</p>
<p>I’m stuck between these and Duke</p>
<p>Northwestern comes way down the list then comes Mich and then CMU.</p>
<p>I’ve always hated meter in poetry… At least when writing it. It’s soo… Restrictive.</p>
<p>Iambic Pentameter. Forsooth!</p>
<p>I’d personally pick Duke over Penn, but I suppose that’s moot since I applied to neither. :p</p>
<p>And I like meter in rhyming poetry, mostly because I’ve been exposed to some incredibly painful attempts at rhyme, and have developed a sort of allergic meter-demanding reaction as self-defence. :D</p>
<p>I hope that wasn’t as bad though… 
(more a doggerel than a poem really)</p>
<p>I know what you mean about painful attempts though. ;)</p>
<p>One of my friends/acquaintances once showed me one of her poems. *gasp.</p>
<p>I’ve never quite recovered really and have since treated all amateur poetry with utmost suspicion. (including my own :))</p>
<p>Nah, it wasn’t as bad. 
(Of course, if you’d seen the sort of stuff I have, you wouldn’t be much comforted by that, but I shall desist.) </p>
<p>Most amateur poetry scares me. (Fear not, I shall keep all mine at a safe distance. Though I should have thought of that before putting it on college apps, come to think of it.)</p>
<p>Though as it has got you into Caltech, I think we can safely call it professional poetry, or at least prf poetry. (Pre-frosh, y’know)</p>
<p>Making terrible puns seems to be my doom, doesn’t it?</p>
<p>@Lakshya: I wasn’t doubting your admission. I was just curious because BME at JHU is so popular.</p>
<p>Caltech isn’t exactly admitting on literary merit, here. 
(Oh God, I just had visions of a Grand Unified Theory of Everything phrased in Dickensian language. I think I’m going to be ill. :p)</p>
<p>A punishing doom, at that.</p>