100 years after Triangle fire, horror resonates

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Caliga

#60
March 23, 2011, 09:12:42 AM
Quote from: DGuller on March 23, 2011, 08:51:47 AM
I would be inclined to agree that SAT scores don't matter in the big picture, if I didn't get a really good one.  :)
:huh:

I got in to Columbia, Boston University, Rutgers, Virginia Tech, NYU, Fordham, Penn State, and a shit school or two in Pennsylvania as backups. :cool:
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DGuller

#61
March 23, 2011, 09:15:24 AM
Quote from: Caliga on March 23, 2011, 09:12:42 AM
Quote from: DGuller on March 23, 2011, 08:51:47 AM
I would be inclined to agree that SAT scores don't matter in the big picture, if I didn't get a really good one.  :)
:huh:

I got in to Columbia, Boston University, Rutgers, Virginia Tech, NYU, Fordham, Penn State, and a shit school or two in Pennsylvania as backups. :cool:
As I said, getting admitted is one thing, getting a financial package is another.  I would've been admitted to my school of choice with a score considerably lower than what I had;  however, I wouldn't have gotten a scholarship.  Not having to worry about college debts has been a big boost to my quality of life after graduating, compared to my peers.

Caliga

#62
March 23, 2011, 09:16:27 AM
 :hmm:

Now that you mention it, Columbia wouldn't give me any money which is why I went to BU instead.  If Cal had studied for the SAT would Cal have been a... New Yorker! :)

P.S. I have no college debt either. :cool:
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garbon

#63
March 23, 2011, 09:16:53 AM
Quote from: DGuller on March 23, 2011, 09:15:24 AM
Quote from: Caliga on March 23, 2011, 09:12:42 AM
Quote from: DGuller on March 23, 2011, 08:51:47 AM
I would be inclined to agree that SAT scores don't matter in the big picture, if I didn't get a really good one.  :)
:huh:

I got in to Columbia, Boston University, Rutgers, Virginia Tech, NYU, Fordham, Penn State, and a shit school or two in Pennsylvania as backups. :cool:
As I said, getting admitted is one thing, getting a financial package is another.  I would've been admitted to my school of choice with a score considerably lower than what I had;  however, I wouldn't have gotten a scholarship.  Not having to worry about college debts has been a big boost to my quality of life after graduating, compared to my peers.

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Berkut

#64
March 23, 2011, 09:29:57 AM
Quote from: DGuller on March 23, 2011, 08:51:47 AM
I would be inclined to agree that SAT scores don't matter in the big picture, if I didn't get a really good one.  :)

With a few exceptions, I am guessing just about everyone on languish got or would get a much higher than average SAT/ACT score.

I never took the SAT though - it was all about ACT in the midwest.
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Caliga

#65
March 23, 2011, 09:36:55 AM
Princesca had to take both the SAT and ACT, but until I met her I never even heard of the ACT. :blush:
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Admiral Yi

#66
March 23, 2011, 05:50:08 PM
Quote from: DGuller on March 23, 2011, 07:24:09 AM
Well, at some point, there is such a thing as too much of a score.  After about 1460, it's obvious that you're very smart, and anything higher is just classless showing off.

:P

Razgovory

#67
March 23, 2011, 05:57:25 PM
Quote from: Caliga on March 23, 2011, 09:36:55 AM
Princesca had to take both the SAT and ACT, but until I met her I never even heard of the ACT. :blush:

I took one.  I don't remember which.  I hope it was the hard one because I got like "30" right.  God, that was a fucking embarrassment. :blush:  I did go to college though, bust mostly at some crap schools.
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garbon

#68
March 23, 2011, 05:58:54 PM
Quote from: Caliga on March 23, 2011, 09:16:27 AM
:hmm:

Now that you mention it, Columbia wouldn't give me any money which is why I went to BU instead.  If Cal had studied for the SAT would Cal have been a... New Yorker! :)

P.S. I have no college debt either. :cool:

Actually to counter DGul's point, many top schools don't offer merit-based aid. Looked and that's the case at Columbia and Stanford.  Only merit based stuff you could get is from outside scholarships.
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Caliga

#69
March 23, 2011, 06:36:45 PM
Well maybe that was the problem, as I didn't qualify for financial aid based on need.  But BU gave me a merit-based scholarship.
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dps

#70
March 23, 2011, 06:55:06 PM
Quote from: Berkut on March 23, 2011, 09:29:57 AM
Quote from: DGuller on March 23, 2011, 08:51:47 AM
I would be inclined to agree that SAT scores don't matter in the big picture, if I didn't get a really good one.  :)

With a few exceptions, I am guessing just about everyone on languish got or would get a much higher than average SAT/ACT score.

I never took the SAT though - it was all about ACT in the midwest.

Yeah.

Quote from: Caliga, as I didn't qualify for financial aid based on need.

Didn't realize that you were that well off.  I mean, I know that you've done well for yourself, but I didn't know that you came from a family that's well-off enough that you didn't qualify for need-based FA from Columbia.

Admiral Yi

#71
March 23, 2011, 06:56:49 PM
Cal's pop is/was some mighty mucky-muck at Pepsi or Taco Bell or Popeyes or something.

MadImmortalMan

#72
March 23, 2011, 07:11:43 PM
I qualified for every goddamn help under the sun.  :P
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Ed Anger

#73
March 23, 2011, 07:15:29 PM
I couldn't get jack shit. The Indian students grabbed every scholarship except for the ones where your pops was a UAW worker or a vet.

And I wasn't going to put myself into massive debt to do the required classes. ART CLASSES, OHIO STATE? REALLY? FUCK YOU.
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Caliga

#74
March 24, 2011, 04:20:56 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 23, 2011, 06:56:49 PM
Cal's pop is/was some mighty mucky-muck at Pepsi or Taco Bell or Popeyes or something.
Nope, he worked for Denny's first, then GMRI/Darden (Red Lobster, Olive Garden), and finally Prandium (Chi Chi's).

Also my mom is a school psychologist, and the teachers' union is very powerful in Pennsylvania. :blush:
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