Class of '06 - Where Are You Applying

[Amanda Morrison]

Many of the colleges here offer FIRST scholarships - and FIRST has had several scholarships in the past that were not awarded due to lack of entries.

Go to http://www.collegiatefirst.org and find out if your school of choice has a scholarship or not. You can also look and see if your team is affiliated with FIRST (and if so, what teams). Research your options before you make a decision-- although all of you are smart enough to do so, I thought I'd throw in this friendly reminder.

[Yan Wang]

Originally Posted by nehalita

Colleges --
Early Action:
MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech

Whaaa? I know that at least this year, Stanford's early action required you to sign a form (and your guidance counselor) stating that you are only applying to one early action school. Harvard was anal in this manner too. Hence why I applied to MIT/Caltech early action instead - the tech schools don't care whether you apply to more

[Meredith Rice]

Originally Posted by nehalita

Colleges --
Early Action:
MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech

if i don't get into any, i'll do...
Regular:
Cornell, Duke, John Hopkins U, Carnegie Mellon U, U of Florida (safety)
[cornell, duke, jhu, and cmu are all on the common app so it'll be easier]

Just a head's up, just because those 4 schools you listed are on the Common App doesnt mean they won't each hit you with a bunch of extra essays. I thought the Cornell app was too long and since I was on the fence about applying there in the first place, I decided to bag it just 'cause it was too many essays and I had bigger fish to fry. Since you are applying to alot of schools, make sure you figure out ALL of the essays you will need to write and start them early!! I thought I was off the hook when alot of my schools used the Common App, but most of my schools asked for an additional essay.

FYI, I go to the University of Delaware for ChemEng. I chose UD over Carnegie Mellon (which was, ultimately, my second choice school). It was a great decision, so if you are thinking of ChemEng or those two schools in particular, feel free to hit me up!

Originally Posted by Eugenia Gabrielov

Purdue University

Originally Posted by CourtneyB

Purdue

Originally Posted by DanielBCR

Purdue

Originally Posted by David Hoff

Purdue University

Originally Posted by Bridgette

Purdue

Score!

I really like seeing that all of these people are showing an interest in Purdue, its a great school for all sorts of majors and it is pretty well recognized by employers nationally (one of the advantages that some private schools cant give you).

Like Amanda said above, there is plenty of scholarships available through FIRST, so be sure to apply for the Purdue FIRST Scholarship next year.

[tiffany34990]

i hope the class of 06 gets into their school of their dream....so i feel a lil stupid that i never put down any of the schools you all mentioned but that's okay...i'm headed to college so tis all good...right?!?!

great schools ya'll picked though

well good luck....enjoy the college essay writing (i managed to not have to do a single essay for any colleges..only 1 essay for a scholarship )...read over them carefully... grammer and spelling always fun to check...

don't forget about those back up schools...they could be the school you end up at...and if you really don't know where to go stay in state and save your rents and yourself some money...

and do all the scholorships you can... find them and ask your guidence department....

recommendations...ask right away...your teachers have enough work to deal with...and make copies so you have it for other applications...

DEADLINES...ooo those are annoying but important.... set up a calender and star the due dates...paying extra application fees or missing you deadline for early action or whatever isn't very fun....

that's just my 2 cents in about this...but yeah like i said GOOD LUCK!!!!! ENJOY YOUR SENIOR YEAR!!! (i sorta forgot to do that a bit at times..... i never got senioritis...) and congrats for making it this far...only a bit longer...time flies for sure...

[Lisa Perez]

Going along with what Tiff said, MAKE SURE you start and turn in those applications as soon as possible. If you do so, you will more than likely finish most of your applications before school starts, which is definitely a good thing. I remember how stressed a few of my friends were during the school year because they had all these - you don't want that to happen to you.

[Fiona]

Applying to:
Stanford (early action)
Caltech
MIT
Princeton
Washington University in St. Louis
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Purdue

and I wanna go into aerospace engineering

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

Updated List:

Yale: Single Choice Early Action

Regular:
MIT, CMU, Stanford

Rolling:
U Mich, Purdue

[nehalita]

Updated (as of...Sept.3):
Early Action: MIT, Caltech, GTech
Regular Action: Duke/Cornell/CMU/JHU (via commonapp), Stanford, Berkeley, debating on BU (any comments on BU? PM me)

I still can't decide what field I want to go to... either
a) EECS (elect eng and comp sci)
b) MechE
c) BioMed/BioInfo E (wetzel's gotten me very excited about BioInformatics -- ask him about it!)

I deviate between these three -- I was set on BioMed until the summer and now I'm just stumped. I just don't want to get bored, I want to get into something hands-on and I want to go into a fresh field -- I plan to get my doctorate eventually and since I'm going to dedicate so much of my time to a field, I want it to be one I love. If anyone has any opinions or advice for me, PM ME, I'd love to get feedback.

So what am I doing?: Finished all of MIT app (minus two optional essays), Did most of CommonApp (minus one or two essays...) but still have to do the additionals, Need to look at Gtech and Caltech's app, studying for SAT and retaking SAT2 (phys and chem) in nov.
What is everyone else doing? How far have you gotten?

[greencactus3]

im applying to u of mich engineering first. and if that goes well im done. if not then ill scramble to apply to Rose-Hulman and michigan tech and more if i really need it. i was hoping to send these out during next week... still working on my essays. and gotta talk to my counselor. who is too busy looking after the freshman. i think she should be looking at the seniors before bothering with the freshman tho. pisses me off.

[Corey Balint]

I made a quick list for my dad before, so we could start getting things in order. I took out some of my "Reach" schools(UC Berk, USoCal) and just kept all my safe bets.

1. Michigan
2. Purdue
3, Boston Univ.
4. Rochester Inst of Tech
5. Univ. of South Carolina(actually moving up fast in my book, possibly #3)
6. Northeastern
7. Waterloo
8. Clarkson
9. Univ. of Delaware
10. Univ. of New Hampshire
11. Worcester Poly Inst
12. Rutgers
13. Stevens

Ill apply to the schools mostly for engineering, but i have the feeling ill switch into a Business Management type deal soon. My major goal in life is Sports Management, either General Manager of a team, Coach, Scout, or Agent.
So all the Heavy based engineering schools are dropping down fast, and the schools that tend to be split withtheir majors, are rising fast.

[koala79]

Good looking schools, all. Is anyone applying to NC State?

[dubious elise]

I am applying to .....
Notre Dame (let's go i-rish!)
Harvard
Columbia College
University of Wisconsin - Madison (safety)
St. Mary's College (out-of-state-with-lots-of-scholarships-and-ND-football safety)

I'm still looking at Stanford and Yale. I love the fact that they both have strong research programs (even though neither holds a candle to Madison in terms of Genetics) but I am nonplussed by their lengthy applications. Call me lazy, but I simply have too many classes and activities outside of school right now to be concerned with essays up the wazoo.

We'll see though. Aside from essays, I have completed nearly all of my applications. I just don't have any blazingly good ideas off the top of my head right now.

[Joe Matt]

Just to throw it out, make sure to check out all the available FIRST scholarships!

http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2005...hipsummary.htm

If anyone here is interested in the University of Dayton and they want to stop by, I'll be more than happy to show you around and let you sit in a class or two with me.

[sciguy125]

I'd like to note that it would probably be best to stay out of the California public school system (UC and CSU) if possible. The budget problem is getting pretty bad. I've heard that the UC system is fairing better than CSU though. UC Berkeley is UC's flagship school, so they're probably doing alright. There was some talk awhile back about San Fransisco State cutting their entire engineering program. I don't know what happened though.

I go to San Jose State and it's not pretty. The place is becoming seriously overcrowded. I need to get to school before 8 just so that I can find parking. Less money, however, means fewer classes. More students and fewer classes is a bad combination. I have to be there before 8, but I couldn't get any early morning classes, so I sit around for a few hours. Two semesters ago, they even cut some of the smaller majors (ie Russian and some other languages, not a big loss I guess). Some of my professors stopped handing out syllabuses (syllabi?) and handouts because their paper budget was cut back. After doing teacher evaulations, a lot of them would make a big deal about getting all their pencils back. One of my physics professors made a comment about needing to get some lab equipment calibrated, but not having the money to do it. Through all of this, tuition is still on the rise. Not that I'm complaining, it's still pretty cheap.