Colleges

[Pure]

I'm not sure if this has been done before, but what colleges are you in/ going to next year. NYU here.

[Firebird]

I will be a freshman at Iowa State University.

Go Cyclones!

[AGT-King]

Colorado Northwestern Community College pride baby! :D

[DeadPool]

drexel university

[CerberusWG]

Undecided as of now. Still hoping I can somehow get into Notre Dame. If that fails, I'll most likely be heading off to Indiana University. Got something in the mail from Rochester Institute of Technology, though. After doing some research, that college is a bit of a joke. :)

[RebbeL]

I'm a senior at Texas A&M University at College Station.

Majoring in Agricultural Engineering/Minoring in Business

[primer]

University of Texas, Austin...3rd year damn im old :(


represent

[Lord-Hobo]

Junior at Baylor University here

Sic em Bears!

[FryGuy]

4th year junior at california state university: sacramento

[Confusion]

freshman at a small school called Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont. got accepted to both University of Vermont and Champlain, but chose to go to the smaller school that was focused more on the computer fields.

[astralCow]

Junior at Michigan State University.

[Stiffy]

San Diego State University

Go Aztecs!!!

[Hellz-Angel01]

deciding between michigan state, indiana. and purdue... this year senior in high school, ike a year from now ill be going to one of these tho

[Lanx0r]

I will be a Junior at Marietta College (Marietta, Ohio - not Georgia).

My younger brother, Jub, will begin his freshman year at DeVry in Columbus, Ohio.

[One Winged Angel]

University of California at Santa Barbara

[evo]

Freshmen at University of Wisconsin Madison ( Badgers > all )

[Palmy]

Freshman at West Virginia University.

[Chinchilla-BSU]

Freshman at the University of California at Santa Barbara (whooooo One Winged Angel :D )

[Chow-Wagon]

Just finished at University of Texas at Austin, enjoy college while you can.

[Edmund]

Sophmore @ North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC

[dice]

camden county college in jersey

[Vr_]

this is going to be my 3th year at harvard law. im pretty close to my 52 elective credits. just need some taxation classes and constitutional law classes (easy) and im well on my way.

[Streetwolf]

Freshman @ Brandeis University

[saut]

Penn State University

[Hica]

Originally posted by CSI_CrackBRain
i bleed scarlet and gray.

Ohio State?

[CerberusWG]

Originally posted by Dahak
wtf, what's wrong w/ Rochester Inst. of Tech? I'm entering my 3rd year there.

Well, it's nothing compared to ND or IU.

[dice]

this is going to be my 3th year at harvard law

lol

[Milosenpotion]

UCLA

[demonchild]

My brother goes to ucdavis right now. Im looking at university of arizona. Anyone know like how the dorms and campus are there?

[Kaneda]

Was at Indiana Univ of PA

Now taking 1 semester at a community college then transfering to West Chester University in PA

You know - home of the Jackass guys :P

[BlueFire]

The University of Texas at Austin.

Hook em.

[LostCause]

Pace University in NY

[Solitude]

I will be a Junior at the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

Yeah, i know...we make overalls :P

[PyleS]

hoping either MSU or FSU for hockey in a few years :O

[agent_ze]

Universities over there aren't free right?

[Pimpmaster 5000]

Start grad school at Georgetown on Monday (the 11th)

...so far doesn't look that great, theres a good chance that people there are as dumb as those at VA Tech

Pimpmaster 5000

[polarity]

Freshman at University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point

[Quiksilver]

Junior @ University of Washington, Seattle

[SadbutTrue]

UC Berkeley

[One Winged Angel]

Originally posted by Chinchilla-BSU
Freshman at the University of California at Santa Barbara (whooooo One Winged Angel :D )
What dorm did you apply for?

[Tripwire]

NAU, going back and graduating this december :)

[LuTze]

soph at RPI

[Rayze]

Going into Loyola College in Maryland.

[Fivestar]

Fresh at University of South Carolina - Columbia.

[luxor]

MiT

[Pure]

lol lux

[agent_ze]

Originally posted by strizzle
correct, unless you get a full scholarship or daddykins has deep pockets.


Pathetic why do you pay taxes.

[Unnamed]

I am in the military but when I get out, I want to go to Columbia University or Fordham University.

[Jon]

Freshman at University of Texas - Arlington.



Gohan

[agent_ze]

Originally posted by foreveR
[B]Its funny that other countries pay for people to go to college for free


It's not like everyone can go, there's national contests, each course requires a minimum average grade rating for you to get in.




For all the college graduates I imagine some countries to have, they don't appear to be putting those sheep skins to any use other than maybe wiping their asses.

I didn't quite get that part but are you trying to say that countries with free education suck? Some do some don't. Everyone knows that the EU is incomensurably superior to the USA tough.


...


We have free doctors too isn't that cool.

[agent_ze]

Oh shit I forgot an "M".


I bow to you.

[agent_ze]

We don't have many technologicall breaktroughs cause usually american companies buy our scientists. Not that it matters since for example Canada has a higher standard of living than the USA and little that is new comes from there.

--

So because something is free it has to suck. I always knew western Europe was 3rd world.

--

Yeah of course you'll pay for it. Im sure that everyone who could pay for it would.



It's not like I have a huge problem with universities not being free over there, but I have to admit I feel it's frightening that everything is business there.

[choco]

http://www.thefinalscore.tv/ArticlePics/WSU_Logo.JPG

[agent_ze]

! If all the chinese would piss at the same time I bet they'd drown the whole NYC, how Superpowerish is that.

[Michman]

i go to NC State with blah edmund and nny
I'll be a Junior.
:p

[DeadPool]

Originally posted by dice
camden county college in jersey

oh yea? a ton of my friends are going there.

[SenSai]

Freshman at Georgia Institute of Technology...otherwise known as Georgia Tech

[mulisha]

Freshmen at UCSD...University of California - San Diego

[Stryder]

washburn my first year, then transferring to kansas state.

thats the plan anyways.....i wouldnt be surprised if the plans change though, and i actually hope they do.

[Moniker]

So how many freshmen in this thread do you think will fail out? 15%? 20?

[hello]

UC is University of California, not Cal State

[One Winged Angel]

Berkeley is comonly refered to as Cal. Dunno about Cal State though.

[SadbutTrue]

UC Berkeley = Cal
Cal State = seperate line of state funded universities in california (UC, University of California, being the other).

Cal States are more geared at the average student who wants a 4 year education instead of a commmunity college, they are cheaper, get less funding in general, and do not offer the same level of education. But for those who go there, it does what it has to.

The UC system is the best public school system in the country. Although there was a recent fee hike, UC Berkeley, UCLA and soon UCSD are/will all be considered top 25 schools in the US, and of those schools (almost all the rest are private) they are the cheapest. I pay about 18k/year total (though I'm doing ROTC and that will slice it dramatically). UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine also offer impressive academic oppurtunities. The collegiate education in California is one of the few things that goes right politically and with our budget the way it is.

My recent question was whether I should go to UCLA or UC Berkeley. I couldn't get into MIT (1410 SAT/4.6+ weighted GPA/tons of extracurriculars still wouldn't have gotten me into contention). I like the west coast better anyways though.

GL btw Chicken, i remember you messaging me in irc about college. Best of luck, and I'm sure you'll do fine.

[stas]

Texas A&M 4th year senior. im older than primer.

and ze, if we payed as much in taxes as you, we probably could have free universities. but we dont.

[CerberusWG]

Originally posted by FOOFY
texas A&M corpus christi (islanders)


on a side note, what is everyone's tution?

At Indiana Univeristy it's 6 for in-staters, Notre Dame is 36.

[Nardy]

wee am i the frist canadian?

I'm heading into my first year at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

on a side note, what is everyone's tution?

I'm paying $4,669.83 (canadian) for tuition. That comes out to 3,384.73 american.

[AbhiHojo.mT]

i wanna go to UT-Austin but itll probably be hard to get in, mostly since im from out of state. i think im applying to there and baylor. i wanna be somewhere in texas. :)

[Moniker]

You're doing ROTC at Berkeley? Good luck, I hear a lot of their students hate the ROTC detachments because of the DoD's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, and the recent war in Iraq. I dunno if you would receive a lot of flak for it (get it? flak? army? nevermind....), but still, GL.

[Freak]

Will be sophomore at Princeton. GFreakin' ugly New Jersey.

Also, I've known several TFC'ers from RIT, all of whom I considered pretty smart. If you ever talked to DG or Iceman, you'd know what I mean. Iceman used to own the physics and micro-engineering.

[NukeleaR]

Originally posted by SenSai
Freshman at Georgia Institute of Technology...otherwise known as Georgia Tech

Mmm fresh meat. What dorm you staying in? (I went there for two years, going back this winter semester)

[relentless]

Freshman at the University of Miami. Leaving in 8 days :D

[stas]

Originally posted by AbhiHojo.mT
i wanna go to UT-Austin but itll probably be hard to get in, mostly since im from out of state. i think im applying to there and baylor. i wanna be somewhere in texas. :)

if you want to be in texas, TU and A&M are the only good schools (public for sure, probably even better than most private). baylor and tech are a joke, along with cougar high and the various other public schools. course, it also depends on what you want to major in, but thats the general rule of thumb for texas kids. if you dont make TU or A&M, most texas kids go to tech, baylors for rich (somewhat snobby) kids. however rice is good, dont know much about smu or tcu. also depends on if you want to be at a religiously affiliated school or not (smu, tcu, and baylor are all such schools).

[Craven]

at least West Chester is better than IUP Kaneda ;)

still no Shippensburg though, senior year

[stas]

Originally posted by foreveR
Your asses are ours this year at Lane Stadium. HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKKKKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEE EEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

not even you being in PF will save yall this year ;P

bring it. franchone > vt

[ethEreal]

Miami > VT

[relentless]

roger that!

[bayz]

I *think* UC Berkeley is the #1 public college in the US... not totally sure though (heard it from somewhere...)

[Cyberdemon]

Freshman at Arizona State. Moving in next Wednesday, starting classes on the 25th.

[Lord-Hobo]

Originally posted by stas
if you want to be in texas, TU and A&M are the only good schools (public for sure, probably even better than most private). baylor and tech are a joke(... baylors for rich (somewhat snobby) kids.(...)also depends on if you want to be at a religiously affiliated school or not (smu, tcu, and baylor are all such schools).

Baylor is now for rich or somewhat snobby Kids. Nice generalization there kiddo. Last time I checked, you just covered a small spectrum that makes up my fine school. I know plenty of people in my Major, as well as others who are friends outside my major, that are not rich. I myself am not rich nor have I ever been accused of being snobby. If you want a snobby or stuck up person, I'll direct you towards UT or SMU any day.


As for a Joke, like Tech, we have mandatory attendance, I don't know if If they have that at UT or A&M, but it does insure that if you don't go to class for eight days, you are SOL. You fail end of story. I've never heard that happening at UT or A&M, just if you make the tests and aren't caught cheating, you're cool. But that's what I've heard from mouths of those who go there. No disrespect to those of you that attend UT or A&M and don't fit those molds.

As for religious affiliated, yup Baylor's got that, but I don't mind it. I'm allowed to worship how I please, and sure there are some over zealous Baptists, but alot of places have that.

Just my two cents..

[RebbeL]

Originally posted by Lord-Hobo
Baylor is now for rich or somewhat snobby Kids. Nice generalization there kiddo. Last time I checked, you just covered a small spectrum that makes up my fine school. I know plenty of people in my Major, as well as others who are friends outside my major, that are not rich. I myself am not rich nor have I ever been accused of being snobby. If you want a snobby or stuck up person, I'll direct you towards UT or SMU any day.


As for a Joke, like Tech, we have mandatory attendance, I don't know if If they have that at UT or A&M, but it does insure that if you don't go to class for eight days, you are SOL. You fail end of story. I've never heard that happening at UT or A&M, just if you make the tests and aren't caught cheating, you're cool. But that's what I've heard from mouths of those who go there. No disrespect to those of you that attend UT or A&M and don't fit those molds.

As for religious affiliated, yup Baylor's got that, but I don't mind it. I'm allowed to worship how I please, and sure there are some over zealous Baptists, but alot of places have that.

Just my two cents..

Some classes take attendance, some don't -

usually the classes that do, your attendance makes up like 10-20% of your overall grade.

And yeah, the classes that don't - if you want, just show up for tests and that's all you gotta do. Most of the time that's the case in the classes with 400+ students in them and you are nothing but a number.


And forever - the A&M VT game is gonna be good. I'm just really looking forward to this football season to see if A&M can actually hang with the big boys again :p

[BlueFire]

Originally posted by Lord-Hobo
Baylor is now for rich or somewhat snobby Kids. Nice generalization there kiddo. Last time I checked, you just covered a small spectrum that makes up my fine school. I know plenty of people in my Major, as well as others who are friends outside my major, that are not rich. I myself am not rich nor have I ever been accused of being snobby. If you want a snobby or stuck up person, I'll direct you towards UT or SMU any day.


As for a Joke, like Tech, we have mandatory attendance, I don't know if If they have that at UT or A&M, but it does insure that if you don't go to class for eight days, you are SOL. You fail end of story. I've never heard that happening at UT or A&M, just if you make the tests and aren't caught cheating, you're cool. But that's what I've heard from mouths of those who go there. No disrespect to those of you that attend UT or A&M and don't fit those molds.

As for religious affiliated, yup Baylor's got that, but I don't mind it. I'm allowed to worship how I please, and sure there are some over zealous Baptists, but alot of places have that.

Just my two cents..

Just about everyone that I've been in contact with at UT are laid back and nice guys. If you think that being happy that you are at a university such as UT (which has many top-10 programs in the country) is "snobby" or "stuck-up", you are wrong. No one that I've ever met has ever been mean to someone because of a lack of money, intelligence, or otherwise. It is a very liberal university, so generally everyone is accepted here.

As far as attendence goes, attendence policies have nothing to do with the quality of education at a University. The facutly, staff, and environment is what matters. Its a student's choice to learn, the Univeristy isn't mandating it, but if a student decides to learn, then the quality of education comes into play. Attdenence policies only serve to force students to do things against their own will (ie learn).

[Glacier]

Louisiana State University
along with Macros, Havok, Bigcaesar, BootheBearwiththeShotguns, Shaggy, _Xin, and I think that's it

[[FDG]Sundae]

Cornell University


~Sundae

[Drinks With Evil]

santa clara university

[[FDG]Sundae]

Originally posted by chase
how do you get into college? answer honestly. my mind is feeble, young, and fragile.


What exactly are you asking? Admissions process? Things to put on college resumé? Who we bribed? Or are you talking transportation? :)


~Sundae

[HolyNinjaBatman]

SAT scores and GPA/Classrank

[BlueFire]

Chase, it depends heavily on the college.

Some colleges could care less about activities, and they'll just look at your academic status.

You need to talk to that college and see what they emphasize in selecting their students.

Make sure you visit colleges to get an idea ahead of time before deciding if they are your #1, #2, etc. Usually the summer between your junior and senior year is a perfect time to do this.

Some of the stuff that UT looked at for admissions:
- Class Rank (they used this heavily)
- GPA
- SAT
- Any extra-curricular activities, volunteer jobs, or paid jobs
- Recommendation Letters
- Awards

While my SAT scores and GPA were average for UT (1250 on SAT, 4.0 weighted GPA), I had near extra-curricular stuff such as band and other clubs, NHS, Tri-M, and over 200 volunteer hours put in. This is what seperated me from everyone else and is why I got in, even though I was out-of-state.

[[FDG]Sundae]

Yeah - it varies from college to college - find people who go to the one you're looking at and ask them.

For my year (class 2005) at Cornell we needed, for admissions, average SAT was 1440, big thing was math score had to be good tho - some people got in with 1250-1300 b/c they also had 800 math scores.

Grades in HS need to be, at least for junior/senior year, straight A's. Average HS gpa for CL 2005 was 3.989.

Sports/other activities/community service = VERY VERY VERY VERY important. I know someone with a 1600 SAT who was rejected b/c she did no community service/extracurricular activities.

Transportation: You are required to live on campus freshman year. Many colleges do that.


Financial Aid: Very good financial aid if you're poor. If you're middle class, you're f**ked. This goes for almost all private colleges.

Who to bribe: Always bribe someone with an image to lose. Never anyone minor, b/c they can pocket the money and ignore you, and nobody will care how much you howl.



~Sundae

[demonchild]

I have 1280 and a 2.95 gpa I hope your right with getting in anywhere lol.

[Freak]

It really depends where you go. My friend had a 1600, but didn't get into like any upper Ivy Leagues schools cause he was boring as hell in his interview and did boring extracurriculars. There were tons of asians just like him that applied there, so why would they take him? I only had a 1480 and got into Princeton and Harvard and some other places he didn't because I did activities that were interesting and that were more than just things to bad an application, they were things I liked doing. He also had a 4.0 and I had like a 3.85. So it's not all scores/grades, for a lot of schools it's what is unique that you can bring to them. The range of grades/scores is pretty big, so like BlueFire said, it's what you have that sets you apart that will help you out.

[Streetwolf]

Definitely depends where you go. Can't stress enough that you have to DO things during high school; be a well-rounded student. Join clubs, go out for sports.. even if you only make JV it's better than nothing. VOLUNTEER!!! Colleges love it when you give something back to your community (after taking so much away from it perhaps :p). A job is nice too, plus you get paid :D. Don't forget about academics, though, because that is, without a doubt, the most important part of school, at least for the better colleges. You could have amazing SAT scores but you won't get anywhere decent with a shitty GPA. I had 4.82 after junior year, weighted, with 1480 SAT (800 math, 680 verbal). Rank 10 / 210.

So to sum it up, be active in a lot of things. Colleges like to see that you've been doing things as well as keeping up with your studies.

[ethEreal]

Hey Cornell guys, what are your thoughts on the Hotel school? Any insight you can give me? I'm heavily considering Cornell, any addtitional info would be greatly appreciated.

[scopes]

...planning on attending the honors college at Ohio University (haven't seen anyone say OU yet). 30 ACT so they give me half tuition (mind you, not room and board).. I'm also considering Oberlin. :P But I'll probably go to OU (major in journalism).

[agent_ze]

Originally posted by [FDG]Sundae



Sports/other activities/community service = VERY VERY VERY VERY important. I know someone with a 1600 SAT who was rejected b/c she did no community service/extracurricular activities.




Why is that?

[Nifty]

Alot of Ivy League schools like diversity. The admissions want to bring in people from interesting backgrounds. Those schools know that they'll be getting the smartest people to apply to their schools. It's just a matter of selecting students who are the most interesting and colourful while intelligent to add to their repertoire.

Which reminds me... a friend of mine applied to Harvard and everyone thought for sure he would get in. Extremely bright and I think he did extremely well on his SAT's. All the teachers love him and he is a really easy-going guy. In addition, he is also a pilot license (air cadet) which looks great on your portfolio. However, he did not get accepted because I feel that myself, his teachers, and most of our classmates who were aware that he didn't get in because he was of Middle Eastern background.

[[FDG]Sundae]

Originally posted by ethEreal
Hey Cornell guys, what are your thoughts on the Hotel school? Any insight you can give me? I'm heavily considering Cornell, any addtitional info would be greatly appreciated.


Statistics on the Hotel School:

Class Statistics (http://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/about/statistics/)

Career Placement (http://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/about/statistics/career.html)

Academic Programs (http://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/about/academics/)


From students' perspective:

Hotel School is considered the "joke" or "party" school at Cornell by the other students. However, a lot of that has to do with the # of science/engineering/math students at Cornell who get completely overloaded with work. According to Hotel Students I've spoken to, while the workload during the year isn't particularly hard, they have an additional requirement that makes up for that - mainly that they are required to obtain internships at hotel-related industries during the summer months. I don't know if this is true or not, but I've heard it from others, as well as from "Hotellies".


~Sundae

[PointMan]

University of Rochester

[Sharpsh00t3r]

OSU bitches.

[ethEreal]

Hotel School is considered the "joke" or "party" school at Cornell by the other students. However, a lot of that has to do with the # of science/engineering/math students at Cornell who get completely overloaded with work. According to Hotel Students I've spoken to, while the workload during the year isn't particularly hard, they have an additional requirement that makes up for that - mainly that they are required to obtain internships at hotel-related industries during the summer months. I don't know if this is true or not, but I've heard it from others, as well as from "Hotellies".

At first, I believed the Hotel school was totally inconsequential to what I wanted to do. But a few weeks ago, I received an information packet outlining several parts of the school. Law, real estate, communications are all essential parts to the program. The program really appeals to me now, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna apply - can't hurt having legacy and being Hispanic.

Thanks for the info, greatly appreciated.

[MistarJosho]

4th semester @ DeVry University

yay for private school

oh yeah: we dont have a mascot, sports department, or music department.

and if you want to go to college to party or meet chicks, dont go to devry(cuz the parties suck :( and there arent any good lookin chicks.)

fortunately my gf is going to uc santa cruz, so i get to party there :)

[illskillz]

what campus do you go to mistorjosho

[MistarJosho]

Fremont

[Koron]

Just got down to VT.

[Shadow?]

Koron is gay

University of Alabama, Roll tide!

[violent1]

junior at gonzaga