NCSU - Accepted
UNC - Denied
Wake Forest - Denied

10/21/2009 9:05:54 PM

NCSU - Accepted
Georgia Tech - Accepted
Illinois Tech - DENIED!

btw AstralAdvent, you might've gotten into more schools had you known to not end a sentence in a preposition.

The thread title should be "To what other schools did you apply?"

[Edited on October 21, 2009 at 9:13 PM. Reason : Yo soy TT diez y aprueban este mensaje]

10/21/2009 9:07:29 PM

State was the only decent engineering school in the state for a power focus in electrical engineering, and out of state tuition was too expensive. Applying anywhere else would have been a waste of $100.

I think UNC Charlotte has a power program now also, but it's not as well known.

10/21/2009 9:19:07 PM

Accepted:
Rutgers
Syracuse
Catholic
Villanova
Southern Cal
George Washington
Boston University
NC State
NYU

WaitListed:
Georgetown
Wake Forest

10/21/2009 9:21:25 PM

this was the only school I applied to

10/21/2009 9:22:26 PM

Brown
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Harvard University
Princeton University
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University
NCSU

I was accepted to all.... full scholarship. Decided just to go to NCSU, so I would feel more comfortable posting on TWW

10/21/2009 9:24:37 PM

^you forgot Duke - Ivy of the South

10/21/2009 9:26:29 PM

haha, remember a few years ago when UNC was begging to become an ivy league?

10/21/2009 9:27:25 PM

accepted:
ncsu
johns hopkins
ecu
elon
VT

waitlisted:
unc (just like every other upper-middle-class white male i knew )

10/21/2009 9:39:29 PM

The only other I applied to was NYU and I fully intended to go there. Had a full financial aid package but my family pointed out that I'd barely be able to afford eating and otherwise living in NYC, so I submitted my NCSU application the day before the deadline and settled for that.

[Edited on October 21, 2009 at 9:53 PM. Reason : worst decision of my life, by the by]

10/21/2009 9:48:36 PM

Let's see:

Wake Forest
NCSU
UNC
Appalachian State
Seton Hall

Accepted everywhere. Originally decided to go to Wake, changed my mind to come to State for engineering only to be out of engineering after a year.

Still don't regret the decision though. I loved going to State.

10/21/2009 9:53:35 PM

In order of preference:

Duke
Tulane
Harvard
Stanford
NC State
Rutgers
Florida State
Furman (in-state safety for me)

Got in everywhere, but it came down to money. I got half-scholarships at all four of the top choices, but that still meant $20K+ a year at all four, so I came to NCSU on the cheap instead.

For grad school round 1, only applied to Cambridge (in England, not Massachusetts).

For grad school round 2, applied to

Princeton
Columbia
MIT (rejected)
Berkeley
RAND
Virginia Tech

10/21/2009 10:04:20 PM

none, only UNC-Asheville

(i assume this means out of HS)

10/21/2009 10:09:05 PM

Yeah I only applied to NCSU for grad school. Got in, though, so it worked out.

10/21/2009 10:09:45 PM

this thread is fucking lame.


one school applied, one school accepted.

10/21/2009 10:11:25 PM

LOL

10/21/2009 10:21:16 PM

applied to GaTech, NCSU, Stanford, UC Berkeley, CalTech, and MIT (just to see if I could get in)

Got into them all but CalTech and MIT, and was gonna go to Stanford, but the whole accident thing happened and I didn't want to be that far away from my folks and my doctors who saved my life. I went to NCSU and don't have many regrets. Ended up finishing two degrees at NCSU, MS and PhD at GaTech, and almost got a job at Stanford.

10/21/2009 10:21:26 PM

Undergrad: UNC, NCSU, and Furman. Got into all, decided on NCSU because it was less pretentious than UNC and was more focused on Ag/plants.

Grad: U of Arizona, NCSU. Just go into NCSU, which was fine, cause I have a house and didn't want to move.

10/21/2009 10:25:21 PM

I applied to 5 because my high school was also like OMG YOU MUST APPLY TO A SHITLOAD OF SCHOOL

- Furman (accepted)
- NCSU (accepted)
- Tulane (accepted)
- Virginia Tech (deferred)
- UC-Berkeley (denied because I was a dumbass and didn't take the SAT 2s in time)

[Edited on October 21, 2009 at 10:29 PM. Reason : r]

10/21/2009 10:26:12 PM

Undergrad: NC State and no one else

Grad: NC State and no one else

10/21/2009 10:32:31 PM

Quote :

"this thread is fucking lame. one school applied, one school accepted."

In the spirit of the pissing contest from page 2, and since it was mildly entertaining...

One school applied, one school accepted is fucking lame when it's as safe as NC State. I had the balls to do it for graduate school at one of the top universities in the entire world, an ocean away.

10/21/2009 10:33:24 PM

^^ i hate arizona with a passion

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

10/21/2009 10:33:36 PM

harvard: accepted

wake tech: denied

10/21/2009 10:39:01 PM

I was just lucky to get into State...long sordid affair. My life is the shittiest of soap operas. And like a shitty soap opera, it just keeps going in its shittiness.

10/21/2009 10:42:36 PM

clown school
app(denied)
state(denied)

10/21/2009 10:42:39 PM

Harvard ACCEPTED
State ACCEPTED

Kidding...


State ACCEPTED
UNC WAITLISTED/THEN WAITLISTED ON THE BETTER WAITLIST/THEN WITHDREW MY NAME FROM WAITLIST

Didn't give a crap about the waitlist tbh. State pwns.

10/21/2009 10:45:08 PM

Yeah I was pretty sure I'd get into NCSU-- I applied to Arizona b/c I love UA and Tucson. At the time I didn't know jack shit about colleges and what's good and what's not in the field I was interested in, and well, I was lazy so when I got into NCSU I didn't bother applying anywhere else. If I go back for my phd, I'll try to find some place more prestigious Only prestigious school w/ plant breeding is probably Berkley tho, and I heard bad things about trying to get in and then find money to pay for it.

10/21/2009 10:46:16 PM

NCSU - Accepted

Had no desire to go out of state, or major in something like poetry at UNC.

Quote :

"Lol at people arguing over who's smarter all that matters is how much money you make There's more millionaire dumbasses than geniuses, by a long shot"

haha, Slave. While money is important, it should never define you. I'm no saint though, I've definitely followed the money just like you and it is nice to have success, despite not having a Masters and/or a PhD yet. In fact, it just motivates me more to get advanced degrees. But I'll go the practical route, as always, and let my company pay for it, while continuing to push the proverbial promotion ceiling as high as I can until it plateaus. Being smart, or smarter, does not mean acquiring as many academic degrees as possible. A piece of paper should never define you either. There are many types of smart and many ways to achieve success in life.

[Edited on October 21, 2009 at 10:58 PM. Reason : -]

10/21/2009 10:55:07 PM

there are other schools?

10/21/2009 11:01:09 PM

truthfully, i applied to 6-7 schools and were rejected from all of them except one, and that's why i went there. Graduated w/3.3 and had a few all A semesters


silly schools that rejected me

10/21/2009 11:05:32 PM

maybe if you had attended a more challenging school, you wouldn't have been able to pull that 3.3.

10/21/2009 11:07:08 PM

i'm sure they're doing just fine w/o you

10/21/2009 11:07:15 PM

yeah son.

never forget you are just a number

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

10/21/2009 11:07:36 PM

Penn State - Accepted
NC State - Accepted
Georgia Tech - Denied
Maryland - Denied (in May, applied October) after many crashes of their website and many deadline extensions

10/21/2009 11:12:40 PM

UNCC and State, accepted to both

10/21/2009 11:22:32 PM

Quote :

"maybe if you had attended a more challenging school, you wouldn't have been able to pull that 3.3."

lol, i didnt go to state for undergrad

im just here working on my PhD

10/21/2009 11:26:21 PM

I didn't say you went to State for undergrad. Maybe if you were able to pull something higher than a 3.3, you would have realized that.

10/21/2009 11:30:16 PM

aaaaahahahaha! i imply that i got better grades than you by degrading your performance! hahaha!

(said in overly dramatic peter pirate voice)

no one asked where you got accepted for all of those who 'volunteered' that info... and really it doesn't matter now.

10/22/2009 12:01:27 AM

i was making a 'state is easy' joke



glad u got it

10/22/2009 12:02:54 AM

^^ It's not like this thread hasn't been done 47 times before, asking any number of variants on the same theme. We're just padding at this point.

^ So are you implying that an easy school was your step up in the world for grad school, or that you settled for an easy school to get your PhD?

10/22/2009 12:04:48 AM

these were my grad school submission-results for the 2007-2008 school year:
Cornell (denied)
Michigan (denied)
Wisconsin (denied)
Indiana (denied)
Berkeley (denied)
Texas (denied)
Rice (denied)
Johns Hopkins (denied)
Illinois (denied)
NYU (denied)

best $600 I ever spent

10/22/2009 12:08:05 AM

sorry dude, that's ill

10/22/2009 12:10:21 AM

Quote :

"^^ It's not like this thread hasn't been done 47 times before, asking any number of variants on the same theme. We're just padding at this point."

true enough

Quote :

"these were my grad school submission-results for the 2007-2008 school year: Cornell (denied) Michigan (denied) Wisconsin (denied) Indiana (denied) Berkeley (denied) Texas (denied) Rice (denied) Johns Hopkins (denied) Illinois (denied) NYU (denied) best $600 I ever spent"

aimed high and missed....

[Edited on October 22, 2009 at 12:14 AM. Reason : s]

10/22/2009 12:10:29 AM

going to grad school is more about what research you want to do rather than the school itself

I was accepted to better schools, but my top 2 were state and U of delaware.

10/22/2009 12:11:57 AM

^^^
thanks....it's all good, I'm at a pretty solid program now...but that really really sucked when it went down

10/22/2009 12:12:15 AM

^^ but getting a job after grad school is also about the school how many important people your committee chair knows

I'm just trolling, you can ignore me.

10/22/2009 12:13:54 AM

^,^^^
as I understand it, the following things are all really fucking important

1. the name on your diploma
2. the reputation of your thesis advisor and committee members
3. current professional interest in your particular branch of your field

10/22/2009 12:23:32 AM

plus it really helps research to have a good adviser. if there are good people at a university ,the place will be renowned

10/22/2009 12:24:21 AM

was getting hounded by Washington University in St. Louis, University of Miami, and Wake through my junior year. Pretty much could've gone to any of those since all the people in admissions at each school knew me.

I ruled them all out due to cost and/or distance, due to the fact that my mom died that year and I didn't want to go too far - in distance or debt.

I decided my senior year - applied to State and got in.

My dad wanted me to apply to ECU because he picked up his masters there - I said "F that."

10/22/2009 12:29:55 AM

Quote :

"i did early admissions to NCSU, submitted the application like 3 weeks into my senior year of HS. i was accepted within a week and since it's really the only place i wanted to go, i didn't bother applying anywhere else."

basically that

the army national guard kept coming to band and trying to steal me. kinda weird. i assume it was because my band director was high up in the guard. kept saying they could use a good sax player in the guard. my response was always i would never make it through boot camp, but thanks.

[Edited on October 22, 2009 at 12:31 AM. Reason : at four years old i knew i was going to be part of the wolfpack]

10/22/2009 12:29:55 AM