<p>Everyone is from Delhi on this forum lol</p>
<p>Bluebox my bad I thought that counselors/adcoms from different universities came to visit! :|</p>
<p>Night everyone.</p>
<p>Delhi FTW! 
Anirrudh I get what you feel. Sometimes I stare at my computer screen and am tempted to burst into tears/punch my screen/both. Writer’s block is possibly the worst affliction during College App season, about 10 times more deadly than the seasonal flu. I should know -.-
And which college has 2 supplementary essays?! Do you mean 2 not including the Common App one? Christ o_O
I totally understand your pressure to get good grades in the boards (so lucky you get over soon and graduate early, I have to wait 2 more months after you 
). Our Christmas exams in less than a month account for 25% percent of our GPA, and it’s the same month as my SAT 2s and ACT. Not to mention the countless IA’s and Final Language Orals lined up one after the other after Christmas. The whole sorry sequence will only end in May with the IB exams, with around 2 papers every day (one in the morning and one in the afternoon). I hope that offers some consolation the next time you freak out.</p>
<p>"Bubbles, what did you mean by “they were scaring you”?</p>
<p>They usually sugar-coat everything they say so that they get more applicants!"</p>
<p>My counselor was scaring us, she is no longer an adcom. And on another note,
I was talking to a Duke counselor a week ago, and he was BLUNT! </p>
<p>I wouldn’t be surprised if people didn’t want to go there after talking to him! And it’s not even like I was asking what my chances were at Duke or anything along those lines!!</p>
<p>If I become a college adcom, I would be the nicest adcom ever.</p>
<p>Rsaxena: Chirec.</p>
<p>That’s harsh, arunemo! I feel MUCH better now :D</p>
<p>Bubbles, blunt as in? :/</p>
<p>Come to think of it, I think I’d be very happy at a school like UMich - Ann Arbor.</p>
<p>There are so many Indians there! 
And it’s a competitive school, but the students there also know how to chill.</p>
<p>Being a counselor is such an awesome feeling! You feel so powerful. In your hands you have the applications of tens of hundreds of anxious CC-members (among other applicants), who’ve spent more than 24 hours a day searching, researching, analyzing, and over-analyzing the college-admissions’ process over a period of one or two years. YOU seal the fate of these nervous kids. (Not in actuality, though. I’m sure there are more than just one adcom making the decision, a decision-making committee, if you will.)</p>
<p>Powerful, indeed. </p>
<p>If I don’t become an engineer/consultant/business analyst/journalist/editor of a local newspaper/RJ/reality TV show participant, I’m TOTALLY going to become an adcom.</p>
<p>^ Word, bro.
If I don’t become a psychiatrist/doctor/university professor/medical scientist, I WANT to be an adcom. </p>
<p>I guess you can say college admissions is somewhat of a passion of mine.</p>
<p>Berkeley grad becomes Mahrashtra’s CM. :)</p>
<p>A step in the right direction?</p>
<p>What are the best prep books for SAT Chem? I’m taking it in Jan. I’m super duper nervous!</p>
<p>Arunemo - Applicants for Engineering have to write another essay in addition to the college supplementary one explaining why they chose engg. Brown has one making me explain ‘why physics/chem/geology’ in addition to the Brown “what don’t you know” essay prompt. So, yeah, two supp essays in addition to the commonapp regular are quite common.</p>
<p>Bubbles - I would suggest you start with PR. Barrons has a lot of information overload but I found the lab info quite enlightening. However, I would rate it on the whole as quite superfluous and its tests aren’t on the spot either. Finish off with sparknotes tests and official tests. I wouldn’t say that any of these books would make your basics strong actually. They are only of use for test taking. The concepts imo have to be down pat before you take the test because some small unknown thing or the other that isn’t covered in these books(which only provide data pertaining to common questions) can always crop up. Hope this helped. :)</p>
<p>Oh and sparknotes chem theory is a laugh, don’t do it. Also, I can’t comment on Kaplan but when I looked through the tests, they were very easy and the theory covered only the basics already covered in PR. Then again, I don’t think you’ll get any very useful theory in the books, I took the test without looking at the theory for the second time.</p>
<p>itsmylife - 1) How does it matter where he graduated from as long as he does a good job? 2)You want to become a Reality TV Show Participant???</p>
<p>Some good advice there on test preparation.^</p>
<p>And it does matter where you graduate from, at least psychologically. Take for example Sachin Pilot. Whenever there’s an article about him in the newspaper, it usually starts with, “MP and Wharton graduate, Pilot…”. The fact the Obama is a Columbia and Harvard alumnus, does add glitter to his profile. That’s the reason why politicians and other bigshots “tailor” the profile of their kids by sending them to the top schools and other awesome places. Fair enough. Credentials do matter. But what is sad is the fact that if Prithviraj Chavan was not from Berkeley, and was actually a graduate from University of Chicago or from Northwestern, (Both schools ranked way higher than Berkeley in terms on national university rankings) would he have gotten the same acclaim, the same headlines? I don’t think so. :(</p>
<p>And no, I don’t want to become a reality TV show participant. Sarcasm doesn’t translate well on the internet. I was trying to show the dearth of priority being an adcom has for me.</p>
<p>Sachin Pilot is from my school. I recently interviewed him for our school magazine. 
Sure, but his having graduated from anywhere doesn’t guarantee his becoming a good leader/politician. IIT Grads are many a time worse teachers than non IIT grads.</p>
<p>UChic is yummy.</p>
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<p>YES YES YES YES YES =D =D =D =D =D
Prithviraj Chavan seems promising!</p>
<p>Anyway guys, education is one of the few things which cannot be taken away from you no matter what… And it’s a part of your persona… Just saying… It’s not like it doesn’t matter</p>
<p>I slept for 4 hrs on the study table. Mom came and woke me up.</p>
<p>Thank you, Physics.</p>
<p>It is 4.30 pm here and I have the lights on in my house due to the general lack of natural light. 4 freaking 30 pm.
Belgian weather makes me weep.</p>
<p>I want to visit Brussels man.</p>
<p>If you ever plan to, for the sake of your general well-being visit anytime between June-July when the sun actually bothers to make an appearance on a daily basis.
Trust me, after moving here I’ve come to loathe rain with a passion.</p>