It's the Season of the College Rejction Process!
Well, the college rejection process is upon us! It's great fun listening to all of the people getting rejected to their Ivy League schools despite their 4.0 gpas, 1500+ SATs, and multitude of AP credits. Actually, it's only fun until one realizes that one must inevitably go through it. Apparently, Sophie Johnson got into Yale though. And then there are the lesser Ivy League schools which people seem to be able to get into. And apparently Catherine knows someone who got a full ride to Princeton (he goes to Jesuit and is in Calculus 5 though). And you know what else annoys me? According to Dan, there are 8 Harvards and 8 Yales at Lincoln. That's just disgusting. The only reason that that could possibly occur is because they go to Lincoln... no other good reason. Simply secondary school preference, or the fact that their parents are alumni. All this at a school that does not even offer calculus. Instead of calculus, Lincoln has "IB Math", which is apparently a total joke. I guess they're trying to promote IB or something. So much for a program that "tears the @#%$" out of you academically in order to get a full IB diploma. I say just take a bunch of APs. But let's consider Dan's friend Matt as a case in point. He finished Calculus 2 as a sophomore, spent his junior year in France, takes only 1 class at Wilson (simply to maintain enrollment, I guess) and takes the rest of his classes at Reed College, and he plays music. Being the kind of person that he is, he only applied to Ivy League schools and got waitlisted to all of them (the schools be Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and his "backup" Brown). Erin didn't even get waitlisted to any of them. So, I've concluded that unless you go to a certain group of secondary schools (mostly concentrated on the East Coast), have taken 5 years of calculus, or have received national fame for academics, then there is no way the Ivy League will accept you. Not that you'd want to go there anyway because of their putrid elitism, and the fact that it doesn't make that big of a difference in terms of one's undergraduate education. I'm setting my sights on MIT specifically, but there's probably the same problem there. Which means that I'd set my sights on Caltech, but their acceptance rate is even lower. Which means I'd set my sights on Stanford, but it's equally impossible to get accepted there. Which means... hmm... There's always UC Berkeley. Now that wouldn't be bad. Still very difficult to get in for out of state, but a little more managable I'd say. Or there's Dan's Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. But considering some of the stories he's told me, I'd have to think some more. I'd better go study for the US History AP... ah, the irony.
UC-Berkeley's not a bad fallback. I like what Tedford has done there. Aaron Rodgers should be one of the best QBs in the conference next year and Marshawn Lynch will be a heck of a running back by the time you're there.
Berkeley has way too many... how should I say? Yellow people. I talked to Matt on Saturday, and apparently a woman from Yale called and said they didn't receive his second teacher recommendation form. Even though he sent it. Even though it's marked on their website as being sent. Duh?
So he would've gotten in if it wasn't for that. Anyways, I'd stay away from all ivy leagues. Caltech and MIT are both incredible schools, but both require SAT 2's. As far as men:women ratios go, MIT is 60:40, Caltech is 70:30, and RHIT is 82:18... LOL.
Furthermore, it's 93% white... I dunno what to think. We'll keep in contact, of course, and if it's as good as I think it could be, I want you there!
Dan, you moron. You're Japanese, and yet you insist on making these endless racial slurs against asian. I think that what-her-face's--the chinese girl from Lincoln--statement about Japanese not being Asian is getting into your head. Or perhaps this is some form of retribution for her (cough!) (GAGH!) winning 1st place at debate, and your 3rd place finish? (Not that I should be talking, considering that I came in 6th) Nevertheless, I'm sure you'll crush her and her partner (who I really find to be rather obnoxious: he made fun of my extemp files, despite the fact that neither he nor she have any. Apparently they had around 4 bins last year, but left them at a tournament... absent-minded losers) at state. I suppose that's the way political correctness goes these days.
Furthermore, MIT's acceptance rate is 23%, Caltech's is 18%, UC Berkeley's is 27% (but theoretical physics is one of their strongest programs! And it seems that there have been a decent number of people from Wilson who've gone there in the past), RHIT's is 74% (although it does have the only undergraduate program in applied optics in the nation). For now, I'm sticking with muddling through next year, which will be painful. Since I'm taking AP Physics next year, maybe I can take some fun college-level physics class at PCC, PSU, or Reed when I'm a senior. Regardless, these next two years are going to by like this one times 3 or 4, assuming I survive.
You want to know something scary. I just looked this up. Harvard's acceptance rate is 12%... 12%.
You want to know something scary. I just looked this up. Harvard's acceptance rate is 12%... 12%.
I think Brown's is lower than Harvard's. Oh yeah, Zaraza's not going to be there third period, so Feller's bringing her stuff down to her room. See you there third period. I also have some post-third-period courting to do over at Mr. Boly's class... teehee. She's a cutey.
Just looked it up. Brown's acceptance rate is a paltry 17%. I mean, come on, that's weak! But it still makes me hate Mrs. Feller, because I don't know how someone so stupid and obnoxious could get in there. But that was in the 70s, so things might have been different then.
Curse this! it always posts the same entry twice!
There's always the U of O, Adam. Come on!
1-800-BE-A-DUCK!
I kid. I'm probably not going there myself.