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Applying to college

Wanted to post an update saying I got accepted to one of the three schools I applied to; the University of Wisconsin: Oshkosh. Still waiting to hear from Steven's Point and Eau Claire, but I'm super excited nonetheless!

So I guess this is a good luck to everyone still waiting to hear from their school of choice, I believe in all of you!
 
If anyone's interested, so far I've heard back from four of the five unis I've applied to: UCL and Warwick have both offered me AAB, Exeter AAA, and I have an interview at Cambridge in the second week of December. Just waiting on Durham, who tend to be late responders so I've heard. Either way, UCL's my second choice and I'm not going to get an offer with lower grades than theirs from Durham, so it's now either UCL or Cambridge. If Cambridge reject me, I'll definitely be going to UCL in other words, since it's the joint lowest grades-wise and you can't choose a backup choice with the same/higher grades as your offer. Just hope I don't fuck up the interview
 
Pastelle said:
Wanted to post an update saying I got accepted to one of the three schools I applied to; the University of Wisconsin: Oshkosh. Still waiting to hear from Steven's Point and Eau Claire, but I'm super excited nonetheless!

So I guess this is a good luck to everyone still waiting to hear from their school of choice, I believe in all of you!
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hi, i go to point and its really good if you are into natural resources. Oshkosh is lame and only go there if you like getting wasted.

Magnemite is a freshmen at eau claire so he can tell you about it
 
Had a college visit at MICA today and it was really hype, the campus is integrated into the city and everything looks so awesome wow
 
Letter of recomendation request from Berkeley....any insights people? Is this for those on the fence? The finalist pool? Rejected kids given a second chance?

They're playing it real smart - applicants with a range of stats have gotten the request, so it's very hard to spot patterns here.
 
Ice-cold Claws said:
Letter of recomendation request from Berkeley....any insights people? Is this for those on the fence? The finalist pool? Rejected kids given a second chance?

They're playing it real smart - applicants with a range of stats have gotten the request, so it's very hard to spot patterns here.
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It means they want to take you, but they aren't convinced that you are who you say you are on your application.
It's quite common in an age where for example tryhards go to like some community shelter for a few weeks and then write about how "lifetime of social service has changed their perspective of life to be holistic and empathic" and shit like that (that example wasn't made up)

It's either that or they want to thin out the field more.


Get a hold of the high school teacher who liked you the best, doesn't matter what subjects he or she taught and just ask them to write an honest assessment, it would marginally help if the teacher was from/could comment on your potential in your applied course.


Just go for it. It's not like you have anything to lose.
 
idk how relevant this is to this thread, but any aussies here get their ATAR's and as such know their uni fates today? I know of a few smogoners who are around my age and live over here, surely some of you got some good news today! As for myself I got the score I needed to get a guarenteed spot at Melbourne uni, which is all that I could of asked for.
 
henry said:
i went to rutgers solely because of price and made a huge mistake..
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So I was just browsing through this because I'm almost done with my college applications, and I saw this post. I applied to Rutgers (though not my top choice). Just wondering, what made it a huge mistake?

henry
 
Asek said:
idk how relevant this is to this thread, but any aussies here get their ATAR's and as such know their uni fates today? I know of a few smogoners who are around my age and live over here, surely some of you got some good news today! As for myself I got the score I needed to get a guarenteed spot at Melbourne uni, which is all that I could of asked for.
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oi what are you planning to study? i'll buy you a beer sometime
 
michael said:
oi what are you planning to study? i'll buy you a beer sometime
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Arts (no bully) for my undergraduate, wanted to do commerce but I didn't do maths methods for the prerequisite subjects. Might try switch across bit I'll see how I enjoy arts, still trying to decide what to major in but leaning towards one of the asian languages on offer. My end goal is to do well enough in my undergraduate to get into the melbourne law school for my graduate course, but thats a fair while away from now so who knows what I'll be thinking when that time comes. How is melbourne as a campus btw? IIRC you were studying something to do with health (my gut says oral health), and I've never gotten a chance to visit the campus (live too far away), mainly going there for its rep as I know practically nothing about the campus atmosphere.

And I'll definitely hit you up for a beer :)
 
Congrats, Asek! Hope that's a big relief for you. :D If Melbourne offers it, I'd suggest taking remedial math, since you're considering switching across; any school that offers remedial math lets it be used as a prerequisite towards units that require high school math pretty much almost all the time. I took remedial math at my old school so I could do a Bachelor of Science, used it as prerequisite for the first-year math unit, then ended up a dual mathematics major lol. Can't hurt too badly to try. And in that spirit I hope your Arts degree works out, there's a lot of possibility in a BA! You could always do a joint degree if you end up wanting to do commerce again, just about everything is offered as a joint degree with a BA these days lol. Good luck at school and getting into law or whatever catches your eye.

Also if you're relocating and haven't done so already, before you go off to enjoy your freedom, def recommend looking into accommodation first, because you should know where you're going now right. Its about this time of year all the year 12 leavers start applying or registering intent to, 'cause they know their ATAR, and then returning students will have locked down their contracts. A lot of schools don't start formal intake until January but might accept applications. My current school just ran out of the non-$$$$$$ accommodation. We live in a rural area and my brother couldnt get student accommodation his first year and had to go live somewhere kinda random with people twice his age because he left it too late. Even if its not on-campus and you plan to just room with students or something.

I already accepted an offer awhile ago 'cause I'm transferring from my old university but I recently got awarded $15k p.a. (i.e. doubling my annual income) in residential scholarships which is pretty rad. Especially since I'll be living in Sydney and need every cent lmao. Just doing paperwork now like getting registered with the disability services, applying for prior recognition learning, accommodation stuff, and getting ready to move.

Props on your hard work and enjoy your holiday \o/
 
Asek said:
Arts (no bully) for my undergraduate, wanted to do commerce but I didn't do maths methods for the prerequisite subjects. Might try switch across bit I'll see how I enjoy arts, still trying to decide what to major in but leaning towards one of the asian languages on offer. My end goal is to do well enough in my undergraduate to get into the melbourne law school for my graduate course, but thats a fair while away from now so who knows what I'll be thinking when that time comes. How is melbourne as a campus btw? IIRC you were studying something to do with health (my gut says oral health), and I've never gotten a chance to visit the campus (live too far away), mainly going there for its rep as I know practically nothing about the campus atmosphere.

And I'll definitely hit you up for a beer :)
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melbourne's a beautiful campus, tons of parks and nice gardens around, a few good cafes and bars, and really close to the city and nice places to go out. i live at home so i can't really comment on accomodation. i really like it but i mostly chose the university because i used to live nearby.

i'm actually a physical chemist, graduated with a bachelor of science with honours yesterday, and got a phd offer with a government scholarship today to start next year. watch out for the student portal though: i'm trying to reenrol in the new degree and it keeps freezing up.
 
jumpluff said:
Congrats, Asek! Hope that's a big relief for you. :D If Melbourne offers it, I'd suggest taking remedial math, since you're considering switching across; any school that offers remedial math lets it be used as a prerequisite towards units that require high school math pretty much almost all the time. I took remedial math at my old school so I could do a Bachelor of Science, used it as prerequisite for the first-year math unit, then ended up a dual mathematics major lol. Can't hurt too badly to try. And in that spirit I hope your Arts degree works out, there's a lot of possibility in a BA! You could always do a joint degree if you end up wanting to do commerce again, just about everything is offered as a joint degree with a BA these days lol. Good luck at school and getting into law or whatever catches your eye.

Also if you're relocating and haven't done so already, before you go off to enjoy your freedom, def recommend looking into accommodation first, because you should know where you're going now right. Its about this time of year all the year 12 leavers start applying or registering intent to, 'cause they know their ATAR, and then returning students will have locked down their contracts. A lot of schools don't start formal intake until January but might accept applications. My current school just ran out of the non-$$$$$$ accommodation. We live in a rural area and my brother couldnt get student accommodation his first year and had to go live somewhere kinda random with people twice his age because he left it too late. Even if its not on-campus and you plan to just room with students or something.

I already accepted an offer awhile ago 'cause I'm transferring from my old university but I recently got awarded $15k p.a. (i.e. doubling my annual income) in residential scholarships which is pretty rad. Especially since I'll be living in Sydney and need every cent lmao. Just doing paperwork now like getting registered with the disability services, applying for prior recognition learning, accommodation stuff, and getting ready to move.

Props on your hard work and enjoy your holiday \o/
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Congrats Jumpluff - that is an awesome scholarship. Which Uni arr you going to?
 
The_Chaser said:
Congrats Jumpluff - that is an awesome scholarship. Which Uni arr you going to?
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Thanks Chaser ^^! Macquarie. I did get offered to UQ if you're wondering but preferred to be in Sydney / wanted the security of not having to wait for December/January to know where I'd be moving. Plus it might be easier to perform to pick where I iike for a Masters/PhD (Brain institute still the goal) at a school that isn't as quite as competitive as UQ in bio

edit: congrats michael, hopefully I'll be catching up to you in a few years. :D
 
michael said:
melbourne's a beautiful campus, tons of parks and nice gardens around, a few good cafes and bars, and really close to the city and nice places to go out. i live at home so i can't really comment on accomodation. i really like it but i mostly chose the university because i used to live nearby.

i'm actually a physical chemist, graduated with a bachelor of science with honours yesterday, and got a phd offer with a government scholarship today to start next year. watch out for the student portal though: i'm trying to reenrol in the new degree and it keeps freezing up.
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hehe my bad, memory failed me. Ripper work on what you've achieved though, thats really something to be proud of, good luck moving further in your studies, getting offered a scholarship is awesome haha. Glad to hear melbournes a nice place as well, i was mainly choosing it for the academic reputation but I was hoping it had a nice campus as well, and it sounds like it does, so thats swell.


Thanks also for the input on accomadation jumpluff (congrats on your scholarship also, 15k scholarship must mean your a pretty top tier student haha). I'm a country boy (live in sorrento / portsea if you've ever heard of it, pretty popular tourist spot over summer), and its a fair whack away from any sort of university. My two choices for accomodation are either staying with my grandparents (who can only speak very very basic english) who are likely a 40~ ish public transport trip from campus (can't put exact time on it very rarely have I used trains and even rarer still trams), or sussing out student accommodation in the area. I don't have any friends going to university (all tradies / tafe), so I can't really try to do one of the shared rooms with people I know, so I'll be in with randoms if I take a shared room option (though who knows, they may be really cool people!), and I highly doubt I can afford a one person room. I'll also have to finance the apartment, and a lot of the leases have contracts that require you to stay for a longer period of time than what my uni season will likely be, which is undesirable as in break I need to labour back home to make some money and catch up with all my mates, not be stuck in the city running out of money!

Weighing it up to stay at my grandparents means I get 'free' (still have to pay for internet + help with some of the bills) stay, and can have reliable cooking, washing etc done whilst im out at the cost of having a much longer time spent on transport each day. On the other hand student accommodation is much closer, but costs much more, and leaves a lot more of the housework kind of stuff burden on me (I do know how to wash, cook, clean etc as i do it for my siblings whilst mums working, but its still a hassle I could always do without). I'll enquire on accommodation early as per your advice, and if I can find something that suits I'll be likely to snag it, but from what I've seen there's nothing thats really doing it for me, and to make matters worse I live too far away and am working full time + weekend work over summer, so I can't even check out these places.

Thanks for the help once again both of you; appreciate it a lot considering this will likely be a huge lifestyle change for me.
 
Asek said:
hehe my bad, memory failed me. Ripper work on what you've achieved though, thats really something to be proud of, good luck moving further in your studies, getting offered a scholarship is awesome haha. Glad to hear melbournes a nice place as well, i was mainly choosing it for the academic reputation but I was hoping it had a nice campus as well, and it sounds like it does, so thats swell.


Thanks also for the input on accomadation jumpluff (congrats on your scholarship also, 15k scholarship must mean your a pretty top tier student haha). I'm a country boy (live in sorrento / portsea if you've ever heard of it, pretty popular tourist spot over summer), and its a fair whack away from any sort of university. My two choices for accomodation are either staying with my grandparents (who can only speak very very basic english) who are likely a 40~ ish public transport trip from campus (can't put exact time on it very rarely have I used trains and even rarer still trams), or sussing out student accommodation in the area. I don't have any friends going to university (all tradies / tafe), so I can't really try to do one of the shared rooms with people I know, so I'll be in with randoms if I take a shared room option (though who knows, they may be really cool people!), and I highly doubt I can afford a one person room. I'll also have to finance the apartment, and a lot of the leases have contracts that require you to stay for a longer period of time than what my uni season will likely be, which is undesirable as in break I need to labour back home to make some money and catch up with all my mates, not be stuck in the city running out of money!

Weighing it up to stay at my grandparents means I get 'free' (still have to pay for internet + help with some of the bills) stay, and can have reliable cooking, washing etc done whilst im out at the cost of having a much longer time spent on transport each day. On the other hand student accommodation is much closer, but costs much more, and leaves a lot more of the housework kind of stuff burden on me (I do know how to wash, cook, clean etc as i do it for my siblings whilst mums working, but its still a hassle I could always do without). I'll enquire on accommodation early as per your advice, and if I can find something that suits I'll be likely to snag it, but from what I've seen there's nothing thats really doing it for me, and to make matters worse I live too far away and am working full time + weekend work over summer, so I can't even check out these places.

Thanks for the help once again both of you; appreciate it a lot considering this will likely be a huge lifestyle change for me.
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going to o-week next week?
 
Guess I'll post my stuff here, too.

I applied to eight schools within a three hour radius of my northern New Jersey home because I wanted to stay fairly close, but not be right in my backyard either. My SAT is 1930 (1290 on the two big sections), I'm around the top quarter of my class, and I've got a fairly good application going all around, I suppose, but nothing too amazing. The eight schools are Monmouth (safety), Ramapo (safety), New Paltz (safety), Delaware (Lerner school - accounting/finance), Connecticut, Rutgers (New Brunswick - Business), Binghamton (school of management - probably accounting), and The College of New Jersey (reach - Accounting/finance).

So far, I haven't been rejected anywhere and I've heard from and been accepted to all of them, bar TCNJ and UConn - the latter of the two I'm sure I'll get into in the next week, too.

My split #1s are Binghamton and TCNJ and I'm already accepted into the former, so I like my odds of ending up there, to be honest. Binghamton's school of management is quite selective and I have family + a bit of history up in Binghamton, so I would love to go there (and it has the best statistics in terms of graduates' future success in comparison to my other schools, so I'm really quite happy there). If I get into TCNJ, I'll probably do more research and continue visiting the school periodically until I decide, but this is pretty much a win-win for me regardless at this point.

If something drastically changes, my #3 and 4 schools, respectively, are Delaware and Rutgers.
 
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