<p>@Fry (really, do you mind my calling you that?): I’m sure you’ll get the result you want in that decision! If I’m not mistaken, are you the Oberlin fan?</p>
<p>@Noldo: So how exactly is our GPA calculated?</p>
<p>I’ll be getting a domain too, but I probably couldn’t host TiT’s page on my dad’s business website, I think :<. So, thanks, I’ll be glad to take you up on the offer, do I have everyone’s approval?</p>
<p>Congrats on 7800, Noldo. </p>
<p>Didn’t someone say something about the activity lowering because decisions are out…?</p>
<p>tetrisfan – I haven’t the foggiest idea, honestly. 
Depends on the university, I expect.</p>
<p>Kriti – yep, I probably couldn’t use my dad’s either. Once I successfully badger my parents into getting me a domain, I’ll let you know.</p>
<p>I don’t mind you calling me Fry, though everyone calls me Kriti, it’s my name :). Don’t call me Curly, though!</p>
<p>Yes, I’m the Oberlin fan, which reminds me, I GOT MY ACCEPTANCE PACKET TODAY LAWL!</p>
<p>I don’t know how they calculate GPA. I don’t even know if they do, maybe they just compare applicants from the previous years and this year. You know, like “xyz got 83%, we accepted him, abc got 72%, we accepted him as well, but he couldn’t cope, so we should accept people who have nearly that percentage with caution.”</p>
<p>Maybe. This is all total total speculation.</p>
<p>Also, colleges can’t look at your 12th marks while deciding on your acceptance, unless you’re applying after a gap year.</p>
<p>I should probably go study informatics, my Boards aren’t over yet.</p>
<p>I dont think they calculate GPA. They have special international admissions fficers who have knolwedge of curriculums used around the world.</p>
<p>@tetris: Don’t worry about GPA calculations. The Adcoms understand the rigours of the ISC/ICSE syllabus as do they that of the CBSE and they are considerate. However, if you’re expecting a 4.00 GPA with a 60% average like some people who pop into this board, you’re sorely mistaken. ;)</p>
<p>@Noldo and Kriti: Great Idea, sort of, enshrining ourselves in immortality and the like? ;):)</p>
<p>(With a Google Bombing campaign, we could even push that website right to the top. :D)</p>
<p>@Noldo: Well then, guess I just have to keep my socks pulled up then. But then, suppose I do (or rather done)…let’s just say not-so-well in a test, but I’ve still topped the class, won’t look so bad will it?</p>
<p>@Kriti (feels a bit more natural calling someone by their name…I’ve never called someone Fry you know:)?): Are you applying to Oberlin for music?</p>
<p>Activity lowering? With people like us around? Never! :D</p>
<p>@Tetris: No it doesn’t look that bad. Class rank will out. :)</p>
<p>Yeah. We shall be forever famous and so very cool and all the little Indian applicants will want our autographs and we will be more awesome than the Beatles, even.</p>
<p>(I call Ringo!)</p>
<p>tetrisfan – Class rank will help a lot. I had lousy grades, but still managed in at Caltech thanks to being second in my class.</p>
<p>@Shrivats: No, no, I’m not a 60% student! 80% would be more like it, with 90% in biology, geography and maths, 80% in pretty much everything else except Hindi.</p>
<p>@inshallah: That’s comforting!</p>
<p>:D You can take him… Me, I’ll just be Shrivats. (Sort of, create a newfound luster to the name and the like, ya? :))</p>
<p>@Tetris: Ah then don’t worry. It’s fine. (You’re in 11th grade now?)</p>
<p>Yes, autographs, sounds nice.</p>
<p>No, I’ve applied to and gotten accepted to Oberlin College of Arts and Sciences for a probable double major in Computer Science and Creative Writing.</p>
<p>Of course, I could go totally off track and end up majoring in Drama and Film Studies, and minoring in Philosophy. Yay liberal arts.</p>
<p>I call Lennon!</p>
<p>Tetris - Where are you looking at applying? Whats your intended major? Have you done your SATs?</p>
<p>So, you’ll write the sequel to: Do Androids Dream…? ;)</p>
<p>Seriously though, I’ll look out for a best-selling publication in the years to come… :D</p>
<p>I got into UCLA with 50s in social science in 10th school exams (I got a 91 in the boards, my teacher sucked.) I got an average of 85 - 89%. You should be fine. Class rank does determine a lot.</p>
<p>Shrivats – I once proposed that we re-name our school’s four houses to ‘Paul’, ‘John’, ‘George’, and ‘Ringo’. 
Just sayin’.</p>
<p>tetrisfan – aaand to follow up on Kriti, I got into Caltech with an average significantly lower than hers. Don’t worry. :D</p>
<p>I’m gonna be Kriti and do it the Shrivats way, I’ll be a celebrity, not step into someone else’s shoes.</p>
<p>Anyway, gotta go study informatics, bye.</p>
<p>@everyone: I’m a tenth-grader (only!), but hey, I feel it’s good to prepare early! Will be doing my ICSE next March. My intended major wuold be somewhere along the lines of biology/molecular biology.</p>
<p>Where am I looking at applyng? Haven’t gone that far in depth yet, but know that I’d love to be at either an Ivy or a top LAC.</p>
<p>I plan to take my SATs in the 11th grade.</p>