Who here is in college? I'm in my last year in high school and am looking at colleges. My top choices have been: St. John's, Syracuse, and UConn. I've been thinking about California and UCLA also. I've also been thinking about Brown since my brother went there. I've been thinking about Columbia a little bit but it's kind of too close to home. I kinda want the "college experience" and I won't living like 5 blocks away.
If you want to play basketball go to UConn. Syracuse is close to where you live right? UCLA and Califronia are a couple of hours aways from me, but I'm a freshman so I don't know too much about them. If I had to pick one of those colleges it would be UCLA or UConn. Maybe even California.
Well, I'm not good enough to play ball at a ranked D1 college basketball team. I'm going to college for the education.
Well, there's a huge gap academically between St. John's/Cuse/UConn and UCLA/Berkeley, and seeing how those are both state schools, they're almost impossible for out-of-state applicants to get into. If you're planning on going there, you might as well try your hand at some Ivy's. Anyway, I'm at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. I applied to tons of schools (grandparents put up the app. $), and was accepted at Colgate, Dartmouth, North Carolina, Northwestern, Penn, Vanderbilt, Wash. U in STL, and Wisconsin, as well as a bunch of safeties, and the only school which rejected me was Notre Dame - their loss - those elitist bastards. If you have any questions about college or the admissions process, MrJ, hit me up at Quixoticelixer07. I know a lot about the process having just gone through it about a year ago.
Put it this way: 44Thrilla often holds it down on or near the Brown campus. That should make your decision a little easier.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Voodoo Child:</div><div class="quote_post">Well, there's a huge gap academically between St. John's/Cuse/UConn and UCLA/Berkeley, and seeing how those are both state schools, they're almost impossible for out-of-state applicants to get into. If you're planning on going there, you might as well try your hand at some Ivy's. Anyway, I'm at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. I applied to tons of schools (grandparents put up the app. $), and was accepted at Colgate, Dartmouth, North Carolina, Northwestern, Penn, Vanderbilt, Wash. U in STL, and Wisconsin, as well as a bunch of safeties, and the only school which rejected me was Notre Dame - their loss - those elitist bastards. If you have any questions about college or the admissions process, MrJ, hit me up at Quixoticelixer07. I know a lot about the process having just gone through it about a year ago.</div> No doubt VC, thanks for the help. <div class="quote_poster">Quoting 44Thrilla:</div><div class="quote_post">Put it this way: 44Thrilla often holds it down on or near the Brown campus. That should make your decision a little easier.</div> Yeah, I've heard about that dude 44.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> Who here is in college? I'm in my last year in high school and am looking at colleges. My top choices have been: St. John's, Syracuse, and UConn. I've been thinking about California and UCLA also. I've also been thinking about Brown since my brother went there. I've been thinking about Columbia a little bit but it's kind of too close to home. I kinda want the "college experience" and I won't living like 5 blocks away.</div> Berkeley, Columbia, and Brown are great schools, academically they're supposedly much better than St. Johns, Syracuse, and UConn, so if you're looking for the education, those three are probably where you want to go. Personally, I'm still waiting for my SAT score before really thinking about which to apply to, but at this point, some choices are Penn, Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia, and NYU. Damn VC, did you have insane grades in high school or something? Alot of those colleges you listed are top notch.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting AznxBaller:</div><div class="quote_post">Berkeley, Columbia, and Brown are great schools, academically they're supposedly much better than St. Johns, Syracuse, and UConn, so if you're looking for the education, those three are probably where you want to go. Personally, I'm still waiting for my SAT score before really thinking about which to apply to, but at this point, some choices are Penn, Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia, and NYU. Damn VC, did you have insane grades in high school or something? Alot of those colleges you listed are top notch.</div> Yeah I know, but if I get into St. John's, I go in for free. Syrcause and UConn were two schools I had my eyes on for a little while. I've always liked Columbia and living around the area my whole life it's kinda like home for me.
Good luck getting into Cal, that school is absurdly hard to get into. Here's some stats on the average freshman class of last year: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admi...ofiles_ucb.html Average GPA coming out of high school: 4.17, which probably isn't as hard as it sounds since I got a 3.78 last semester and I'm nothing special but you've also got to be involved in a ton of extracurricular activities, be president of a school or important clubs, etc. Not to mention that their acceptance rate is 23% and 88% of students accepted are from California. If you can get in though you should really consider it (unless you dont like left wing extremists, then go to Stanford). Of course getting into St. John's for free is pretty awesome especially if your family can't afford college or you have to pay for all or most of it after you get out (like me ). If you want to go to a very good academic school there are a ton of colleges that you or I have probably never heard about that are very good academically but get no exposure. You just have to look for them or ask someone who would know (teacher, counselor, etc.). You don't have to go to an Ivy League School or a Cal/Stanford to get a top notch education, there's alot of VERY good schools out there.
Hey what do you guys think about about colleges like UC Irvine and Cal State San Marcos? I'm just being reasonable here, considering all the stuff you have to do to get into schools like UCLA, I doubt I will be able to make it. My most reasonable goal is probably UC Irvine. Can someone tell me if this is a good college to be aiming for?
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">If you can get in though you should really consider it (unless you dont like left wing extremists, then go to Stanford). </div> Ooh, yeah, I'm really thinking hard about going to Stanford. Just wondering BJM, would you happen to know if they're as hard to get into as UCLA?
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Voodoo Child:</div><div class="quote_post">Well, there's a huge gap academically between St. John's/Cuse/UConn and UCLA/Berkeley, and seeing how those are both state schools, they're almost impossible for out-of-state applicants to get into. If you're planning on going there, you might as well try your hand at some Ivy's. Anyway, I'm at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. I applied to tons of schools (grandparents put up the app. $), and was accepted at Colgate, Dartmouth, North Carolina, Northwestern, Penn, Vanderbilt, Wash. U in STL, and Wisconsin, as well as a bunch of safeties, and the only school which rejected me was Notre Dame - their loss - those elitist bastards. If you have any questions about college or the admissions process, MrJ, hit me up at Quixoticelixer07. I know a lot about the process having just gone through it about a year ago.</div> Woah man! you applied to a lot of colleges. I am gonna be a senior this year, and am only applied to the U of M lol. Hopefully i'll be accepted within the next few weeks. I dont really want to go anywhere else, since chicago didnt have a great college vibe as a city, and i love minneapolis. I havent been to enough places to just want to go to college in cali or anything, plus its hella expensive. I already have my backup school too since i am taking classes at a community college already for FREE!!!. I suggest any of you younger kids to do this, i am gonna have a whole year of college free.
Since I'm lost on all the American colleges/Universities, I thought I'd open a topic regarding Canadian schools in this same thread. To any Canadians on this board, what schools do you go to/are planning to go to? I'm actually aiming for York or perhaps Ryerson, but it depends what path I want to go. I'm not sure what to take as an undergraduate before applying to law school, and that is my biggest problem. However, York offers things like Psychology, Social & Political Thought, Creative Writing, and Professional Writing as undergraduates, so I might venture into one of those. However, to any one going into law in this thread...would you reccomend taking a law course as an undergraduate? Cause York offers a "Law & Society" course as well with an undergraduate, and it transfers to a bachelors in Law (which you can obtain through Law school). However, I'm not sure because I have been told that I am quite a good writer and writing should definetly be one of my priorities...but I'm really not sure.
All I got to say is getting into an out of state college will cost you more money, and its probably harder to get accepted as well.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Junoon:</div><div class="quote_post">Since I'm lost on all the American colleges/Universities, I thought I'd open a topic regarding Canadian schools in this same thread. To any Canadians on this board, what schools do you go to/are planning to go to? I'm actually aiming for York or perhaps Ryerson, but it depends what path I want to go. I'm not sure what to take as an undergraduate before applying to law school, and that is my biggest problem. However, York offers things like Psychology, Social & Political Thought, Creative Writing, and Professional Writing as undergraduates, so I might venture into one of those. However, to any one going into law in this thread...would you reccomend taking a law course as an undergraduate? Cause York offers a "Law & Society" course as well with an undergraduate, and it transfers to a bachelors in Law (which you can obtain through Law school). However, I'm not sure because I have been told that I am quite a good writer and writing should definetly be one of my priorities...but I'm really not sure.</div> Yea, I'm in the 2nd year of what you're planning to do. I'm finishing a bachelor's degree (majoring in Political Science, minoring in Philosophy/Religion) before I take the LSAT and apply for law school. Honestly, you gotta take what you're interested in and what you think you can do best in. From the people I've talked to, law schools want high marks (more concerned with GPA than what courses you take), but they balance it out pretty evenly with LSAT scores and extra-curricular activities (community service, job experiece, etc.). I'm not sure how the system works in York, etc., but in UofT you choose what you're majoring in, in your 2nd year. I suggest just taking a wide variety of courses and just getting a feel for what you're good at/enjoy more, because the subjects are completely different in uni than they were in high school (eg: coming out of HS, I thought I might do an English degree, but now I hope I never have to take another English course again.). On another note, I have a cousin from BC that made it into Berkeley, and she said it's a bitch to make it in there.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting AznxBaller:</div><div class="quote_post">Ooh, yeah, I'm really thinking hard about going to Stanford. Just wondering BJM, would you happen to know if they're as hard to get into as UCLA?</div> I really don't know to be honest. I would actually assume Stanford is harder to get into, its probably a smaller school and I think (not sure though) it's better academically than UCLA. I know a bit more about Cal because I know more people who applied there and I've heard alot of stories from teachers at my high school of kids who went to Cal and how hard it is to get in. As my English teacher says about once a week if you or your parents have dreamt of you going to Stanford, Cal, Princeton, Yale, etc. you can forget it now because chances of getting in there are very slim. Schools like those are literally the best and brightest of the U.S. as well as alot of the smartest in the world, unless you're that good just forget about it now. You can still apply there since the standard system of applying to colleges is to apply to 1 or 2 colleges that are probably out of your league, then 3-4 that you can realistically get into then a "safetie school" if everything goes wrong and you don't get accepted to any of those other colleges. Like I said my GPA (weighted) is a 3.8 and I accept the fact that I have no chance of getting into Cal, Stanford, etc. Not saying I'm smarter than you or anything but it's like the chances of you or I getting into the NBA. Oh and by the way it lessens your chances even more that you're not from California and probably that you're asian (I assume based on your name) because, believe it or not, they are the maority in alot of palces around here (especially in colleges).
if ur grades are good enough to get you into columbia you should go, i plan on going to rutgers adn getting a perfect grade in pre-med then go to colombia medical school (i live like a hour away from rutgers i think ima stay home though)
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> Yea, I'm in the 2nd year of what you're planning to do. I'm finishing a bachelor's degree (majoring in Political Science, minoring in Philosophy/Religion) before I take the LSAT and apply for law school. </div> How well are you doing so far, if you don't mind me asking? Apperently, you have to have an average of 85 or so to even consider applying at Law school (I don't know what the GPA translation to that is exactly). As far as the majoring/minoring thing, in UofT, you have to drop your minor studies in the 2nd year and just pick one thing to major in? Sorry, I'm full of questions about Universities and stuff, as I'm still unsure about a lot of aspects and also cause I'm quite anxious about my life out of high school.
