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[ompa]

Now that all the college crap is coming in, where did you guys get into (applies for high school seniors obviously)?

Order in my email:

rejected
rejected
rejected
rejected
accepted
rejected

Then two more rejected.

I'm going East Coast though, I'll make sure to be fully supportive of the East Coast cause so I don't have VACC trying to kill me.

John Hopkins, here I come!

~ompa

[crackshot]

Ompa:
I study at Johns Hopkins over the summer (neuroscience). It's a great campus. Are you going there?
I thought you're already in college. Confused...
-cs

[ompa]

Nope, I'm definately a high school senior.

More than likely I'm going to Hopkins.

~ompa

[Sixo]

I'm a high school senior as well. I'll be heading off to BC next year, although I've known this for a while because I was accepted early action and, as such, made no effort to apply anywhere else-


-Sixo


*EDIT* My bad, congrats ompa haha

Edited by Sixo, 30 March 2006 - 08:38 PM.

[J cobbers]

Well as a fellow Wisconsinite, I can tell you that UW is a great place to spend four years of your life. I know you want to get out of Wisconsin, but really Madison is a great town and the campus is great. I mean how many schools can you go sit on the lap of Abe Lincoln at?

[Jabs]

Congrats ompa! One of my friends just got accepted to JH today. Small world. -Jabs

[boltsniper]

I can tell you that UW is a great place to spend four years of your life.

Yeah, if he wants to be drunk off his ass 24/7 for four years.

[GeneralPrimevil]

Yeah, if he wants to be drunk off his ass 24/7 for four years.

Umm...what state university does that not describe?

Edit: Hopkins be a good place to go to. Mmm...med school...

Every time I hear "John Hopkins" I think of Patriot Games by Tom Clancy...

Edited by GeneralPrimevil, 30 March 2006 - 08:46 PM.

[VeggieBoy 3000]

You totally are gonna go to school 45 minutes from me!

TIGHT!

And congrats too, Johns Hopkins is a freakin legit college. Now that you have nothing to worry about, have fun slacking off the rest of senior year! Seriously, don't feel bad about not doing any work either, you've earned it. Working hard for 11 3/4 years to get into college is totally worth the 1/4 year of partying your senior year!

[LordoftheRing434]

I'm going to be staying within Minnesota. I've been accepted to both U of M - Twin Cities, and UM - Duluth. I haven't applied to any other colleges because I'm almost positive I'll be going to the Twin Cities.

Luckily for me, I've had the opportunity to take College-in-the-Schools courses, so I'll have almost all of my freshman year done. I'm taking that time to "get in touch with my inner self". Not to mention how much it's going to save me as far as the pocket book goes...I received these credits free of charge.

That's really cool that you're headed out East though. I considered it a while back, but it'd be difficult for me to get into a school out there. And then to afford it...oh snap. I'm content to stick fairly close to home. Still, I'll be 2 1/2 hours from home.

ompa, do you have any idea of what you might major in? I know we still have a while to make a decision, but I'm just curious. I'm likely going toward Physical Therapy. Of course, then there's political science...that plagued our boards a while back though, so I'm not going to go there again.

~Rings

[ompa]

Being Asian, probably premed.

~ompa

[Sixo]

haha you're asian too ompa? What ethnicity are you?

-Sixo

[Rambo]

3D, where do you live in Taiwan? I believe I'm going back for a family visit in a few months.

Sure, his family could live in a non-native country, but maybe it's his country.

[nerfer34]

OMpa you got rejected that many times?

[ompa]

Applied to 10 colleges.

~ompa

[Deaths Avatar]

OMpa you got rejected that many times?

ass

Anyway, Congrats on the John Hopkins Ompa. I was accepted to Northwestern University early decision, so that is where I'm off too next year. Fun stuff.

-DA

Edited by Death's Avatar, 30 March 2006 - 10:17 PM.

[Carrtoon]

I've been accepted to Winona State here in Minnesota, North Dakota State, and the Milwaukee School of Engineering and am looking into Michigan Tech. I'm going for Mechanical or Composites Engineering.

[One Man Clan]

Hey, if you go to Hopkins, you can make the DCNO's. I can even pick up up, b/c I usually stay in baltimore with my gf who lives like a mile from Johns Hopkins.

FYI:
Colleges for me (5 years ago)
Loyola College - Waitlisted
Towson University - accepted (where i ended up going for my first semester)
Roger Williams University - accepted
Emerson - accepted
TCNJ - REJECTED HARD!

Then, I ended up transferring to Ramapo College and finished my career there last year.

Edited by One Man Clan, 31 March 2006 - 07:07 AM.

[Kuhlschrank]

Last year, I was accepted to:

Lafayette College(my eventual decision)
Northeastern University
Virginia Tech
Rutgers(Safety School, was never really planning on going there)

Then I received the Ivy Bitchslap when I was shot down by Cornell

[ompa]

Not gonna lie, I saw "Accepted to Hopkins" and I thought East Coast nerf wars.

Shame I use Micro Stefans.

~ompa

[VeggieBoy 3000]

Then I received the Ivy Bitchslap when I was shot down by Cornell

Ha, I got waitlisted by cornell last year too... those bitches. I didn't even bother filling out the wait-list application though because I was already into ND and Navy... oh well.

[nerfer34]

OMpa you got rejected that many times?

ass

Anyway, Congrats on the John Hopkins Ompa. I was accepted to Northwestern University early decision, so that is where I'm off too next year. Fun stuff.

-DA

Um I didn't mean it in a bad way..... I have never applied to a college , so I don't know if he got rejected or what. I didn't know if that was an example Ompa gave us or what.
So STOP assuming things!

Edited by nerfer34, 31 March 2006 - 08:23 PM.

[MAC]

Congrats on JH!

I somehow got accepted to Cornell. Its gonna be real cold next year...

[PissBacon]

Grats Ompa, I hope you're happy and successful with the college you chose.

I was wondering how people are paying for their colleges, especially out of state. Out of state tuition (both public and private) for college seems close to $30,000 a year, which for me is no small sum. I'd gladly go out of state if it weren't for this cost issue. Are people getting scholarships? Loans? Jobs? Since I'm likely to do a double major, finding a job during the school year would seem to defeat the purpose of affording college for me. Places like Stanford and MIT have very strong financial aid programs, but you still leave college with big loans to pay off, which is something that worries me. Maybe this is just the way college goes.

[VeggieBoy 3000]

Since everyone's on the topic of Cornell, here's a fun fact: Cornell has the highest suicide rate out of any school in the country.


Interesting, no? But the reason behind it is not that it's that much harder, it is the same as any other ivy league college difficulty-wise. But there are all kinds of beautiful gorges and crevasses in ithaca which are great for sightseeing and hiking along, but also grat for jumping off! So its simply a matter of convenience.