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Common App

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Style+eeze
Posts: 6901 - Karma: 551
To all of you college-bound NSers, good luck with your applications! The Common App is finally out.

I'm going to get started right now.

https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/default.aspx

Also, I'd like to see where all of you guys are applying. I have a rough list of schools, and I'm curious where other NSers want to go.
Aug 1 2010 3:16PM
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Profpimpcain
Posts: 395 - Karma: 62
Thats pretty good. My brother pulled a 6.15 (i think) for his first a three years ago and now he is on his way to the national selection regatta in Princeton.
Aug 2 2010 2:38PM
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no_steeze
Posts: 23992 - Karma: 4,272
how old was he for the 6:15?

6:15 in high school is unreal but for freshman year in college it's pretty good

idk 6:30 at my school is hall of fame, 2 kids went sub 6:30 last year and one is at dartmouth, one at princeton

i pulled a 6:45 a little while ago for my first 2k ever and then dropped 15 seconds in 2 months. we test 1500 at my school so 2k's feel brutal
Aug 2 2010 2:52PM
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low_fidelity
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Im lookin at

Columbia
U San Fran
NYU
George Wash
Boston U
Gonzaga
Washington
Georgetown

PS- to basically erryone on NS since you all wanna go to CU,  all it consists of are MEGA bro's who do lotsa longboarding, smoke lotsa weed, are generally terrible at skiing but think they are good, and wear a lotsa plaid. so if thats what your into go for it. PPS the campus/city is amazing so if you dont care about the people then... sweet, do it. None of that made sense did it?
Aug 2 2010 2:53PM
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Slinger1x1
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ohhhhh fuck you.
my friend, he has blond hair, blue eyes, freckles. but his mom is columbian.... so he gets to put that on his app
also, hes only got like one tenth higher on his GPA than me, but he got a lucky break and got a 34 on the ACT. i got a 31
Aug 2 2010 3:17PM
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no_steeze
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i'm not native american...i wish i was
Aug 2 2010 6:47PM
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2_fadez
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Those are some expensive schools you're looking at there fella
Aug 2 2010 6:54PM
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Squid.
Posts: 1904 - Karma: 23
guys this is a really bad idea. You're just asking to get ripped off. Have your english teachers read your essays, not random dudes on the internet
Aug 2 2010 8:02PM
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Style+eeze
Posts: 6901 - Karma: 551
i dunno if that is supposed to be some sort of patronizing remark about me, or others in the thread or cult... but i don't really appreciate it.

i don't wanna be a dick, but this thread and the cult are for help for others. i've already gotten my main college essay done with (the one for the common app), and read by my english teacher because it was her last assignment of junior year. nobody is going to bop your essay, or anybody else's, but if you don't wanna participate that's fine by me. you will be the one at the loss.
Aug 2 2010 8:06PM
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Squid.
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i don't wanna be a dick, but how naive are you? this is a public forum. It is not a good idea to post an essay you are submitting to college on a public forum.

Admissions guys don't care who really wrote the essay, so if two essays match up, they throw them both out. But I couldn't care less about arguing, post your essay, it'll be less competition for me when you and some douche get your apps thrown out.
Aug 2 2010 10:12PM
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*Dos*Planker*
Posts: 2983 - Karma: 168
damn i should probably do this....
Aug 2 2010 10:20PM
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applejuice.
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this.
Aug 2 2010 10:32PM
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DJ_Pauly_D
Posts: 1043 - Karma: 42
im starting my 5th and last year in high school and i have no fuckin clue about what you guys are talking about but thats probabaly cuz i live in quebec and we have to go to stupid cegep before going to university so ill go to university when im 19
Aug 2 2010 10:33PM
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Style+eeze
Posts: 6901 - Karma: 551
no, i really know exactly what you mean.

i understand, and completely accept that fact... but i dunno

also, people don't have to post their essays, the cult can be used for other questions or concerns about apps
Aug 2 2010 11:49PM
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sack
Posts: 4881 - Karma: 147
that was then... (80s-90s?) now a lot more people are going to college, and the economy is a lot more different. a degree isn't worth as much now as it used to be, and there are fewer jobs anyhow. I would say go to the best school you can get into.
Aug 2 2010 11:51PM
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applejuice.
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that's all i'm trying to say...not knocking community college either. but you're spending all that money to go to school in order to get a degree and a job, don't take the chance of flunking out and then your parents make you come home. the statistic for the amount of students who return to college after their freshman year is scary. if you have the chance to get a degree from a really really good school, why not?
Aug 2 2010 11:59PM
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asapCferg
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im applying to...

colby
bowdoin
bates
dartmouth
middleburry
UVM
St. Mikes
UNE
Aug 3 2010 12:13AM
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sack
Posts: 4881 - Karma: 147
yeah, you can definitely get a good job with a community college degree, depending on what field you're going into.
but if you have the brains to go to a prestigious university, put them to good use!
Aug 3 2010 1:02AM
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family_vacation
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If you post your essay I will get my drivers license, go to your house, and hit you.
Aug 9 2010 2:26AM
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