Next year I'll be applying to Ole Miss, Alabama, LSU, and basically any other school any dumb ass can get into without a lick of effort.
Well, I remember you talking about being a cop. And any teen with a 4.0 and all IB courses would not talk about becoming a cop. Just saying. And it went well.
I have 3.3 - 3.6...maybe. I haven't exactly crunched the numbers. What does being a cop have to do with it? Smart people can't be cops? What are you trying to say?
I'm saying, there is very little money in being a cop if you have a high GPA and you could go to a school, that when you leave you can make 6 figure salaries. That's what I'm saying. I don't think you're stupid, but if you talked about being a cop, I didn't think you had a 4.0.
3.6 is a very good GPA. But, I laughed because of how he said he had a 4.0 with all IB courses and he was talking about being a cop. I just think if he had that, he would want to do something better. But that's just me. I don't care what he does with his life.
I'm applying for UC's. My targets are UC Davis and UCSB. Not sure if I can get in though. Most likely UC Irvine...
There's a good chance he isn't going to any Ivy League school. He's Asian. A 4.0 Asian is no lock to even get into one Ivy League, let alone one of the big kahunas like Princeton/yale. I think he's from New Jersey too, which fucks him even more, since everyone from those states apply for the Ivy Leagues. And if he's chinese, and that's why he's a Nets fan, then as an international student he's fucked even more. That's not to say that he can't get in, but being an Asian (or Indian) is a major disadvantage in the college accepting procress.
You need to get your facts straight because I'm from Canada. Just because I've got a picture of Yi Jianlian doesn't mean I live in NJ.
Then like I said, being an international student, you're fucked even more than if you were from New Jersey.
Several of my friends from Canada went to MIT, Harvard, and CalTech. I'm guessing my gold medal from CMO, top scores in Gauss, Pascal, Cayley, Fermat, Euclid Math contests, and commended Commonwealth Essay is gonna fuck me up, huh? Not to mention I'm getting 6 and 7's in: IB English HL IB Mandarin SL IB Psychology HL IB Biology SL IB Chemistry HL IB Math HL TOK Universities recognize International Baccalaureate, but those that take 4 HL courses (much more rigorous), are immediately placed at a higher standing if the score is respectable.
I don't think they really take into account what you get on IB tests in the admissions process. And since when is Chemistry and Psychology higher levels? History, Biology, Math, English, and the foreign languages were the only higher levels I remember. And none of those awards will hurt you. I don't even know what most of them are, but they all look like academic related awards, which aren't really going to help you at all, since everyone who is applying is likely to have similar awards. The way these universities do it, you will be competing with the other 4.0's. They like to accept people with some lower GPA's too, but you will be competing with the other 4.0's, and those kids might be national champions in some individual sport, or cured some disease, and that type of stuff. Especially as an international, doing the old applying to Ivy League plus MIT, CIT, Stanford just isn't a really good idea, and could easily leave you with no acceptances. Applying to some lesser, but still really good schools like Northwestern, Duke, North Carolina, Virginia, UW-Madison, etc. would be a good idea.
