jimbobuckyTop 100 PosterJoin Date: 2008-06-01
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"Exactly my point
It's a bad excuse"
Are you even reading my posts? |
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Who said anything about ######## He gets to live in California If i got the chance to live in california for 4 years and not go to the beach once i would take that chance and never look back |
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jimbobuckyTop 100 PosterJoin Date: 2008-06-01
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"Bro because you literally just said "dorms aren't the best""
Read my responses to you lmaooooooooooo
#TexasEducation |
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"He gets to live in California If i got the chance to live in california for 4 years and not go to the beach once i would take that chance and never look back"
I can respect that but I would never want to live in California. Too expensive and the only thing that makes it worth it is the climate/weather tbh
"Read my responses to you lmaooooooooooo
#TexasEducation"
Sorry jimbo but don't say something you're later going to contradict
Can we just move on from this crappy argument |
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Here, let me just ask you this question
At Berkeley are the dorms climate-controlled? Can you control the thermostat in your own dorm room? |
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jimbobuckyTop 100 PosterJoin Date: 2008-06-01
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"Sorry jimbo but don't say something you're later going to contradict
Can we just move on from this crappy argument"
Agreed, it's just that it was such a minor comment yet it was the basis for most of your argument
The point I was really trying to make about Berkeley is that the potential is there that I could literally flame out, or be one of the more middling to poor students in the CS department if I make it in (more than 50% of students who apply for CS don't make it in, even if they get into Berkeley. Let that sink in). Davis is more of a sure thing on the other hand.
Again, it's easy to talk about this without even getting in yet. Let's just see if I get in, my opinions would probably change. |
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I promise you no one is not going to go to berkely because of the dorms or any college because there is no like climate control |
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Well, like I said, it's just best to go somewhere that you're guaranteed your major and have a fair shot at making good grades in college. While Honors programs and stuff in college might not matter as much as in high school, relatively speaking, that college transcript is still important.
Just look at R i c k P e r r y, former Governor of Texas and current US Secretary of Energy. Look up his Texas A&M transcript and feel free to laugh at all the C's and D's he made at A&M. Transcripts can get leaked and exposed easily in today's world, with modern advances in technology and all |
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"because there is no like climate control"
It might not matter in California as much but in Texas where the summer temperatures can range from anywhere between 103 on a cooler year to 116 on a hotter year that is a legit dealbreaker. I can accept that |
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hah he got a c in the history of the US |
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""disappointed to find out my "dream school" is cutthroat, classes are curved (lots of smart people means I have a low success rate),"
Where are you going to go in life if you don't challenge yourself? No pain no gain.
"computer science is impacted (must make a "cut-off"),"
Valid reason"
Sir you just contradicted yourself here, lol. If he does not do well in the classes he will not be able to be a CS major. How is 1 valid but not the other?
And no offense but failing 2 years worth of classes Sir is not good you know. If you were to transfer F's don't cut it lol and he'd have to retake all entry level classes he failed in. |
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I suppose I did contradict myself. I completely understand if he wants to go to UC Davis where grading isn't based on curving and he's guaranteed his major, I think I already established this |
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What's incredibly messed up about the CS thing Berkeley does is this:
Not everyone who they accept in CS will graduate as a CS major and possibly in 4 years if they fail courses.
Curves are designed to HAVE people fail the course as they compete against others.
Here is a good article on the 3 different systems btw but it doesn't include a true bell curve (set # of As, Bs, Cs, etc)
psych(dawt)ful
lerton(dawt)edu/mbirnbaum/psych101/gra
ding_methods.htm
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50% of kids are guaranteed non-passing grades per course graded on a curve. |
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jimbobuckyTop 100 PosterJoin Date: 2008-06-01
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@Sir
All UCs have a lot of curved classes. It's just that at Davis, I'm much more likely to be higher on the curve than Berkeley |
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Considering going to the in-state school as a commuter so that I have the means to carry out my revolutionary plans. |
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"50% of kids are guaranteed non-passing grades per course graded on a curve."
"All UCs have a lot of curved classes. It's just that at Davis, I'm much more likely to be higher on the curve than Berkeley"
I mean, life sucks and you have to prepare for it, but that's so harsh... |
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jimbobuckyTop 100 PosterJoin Date: 2008-06-01
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Berkeley comes out on the 30th
other than that, yawn |
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"Considering going to the in-state school as a commuter so that I have the means to carry out my revolutionary plans."
r e f r a i n
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emailed Kutztown Financial Aid Office
they asked my student ID number but I emailed them late in the day so I won't hear from them until the morning probably
figured if I lowered my room and meal plan to the worst ones I'll save ~700
so that'd be 4500
I qualify for a 500 dollar grant that they didn't put on the aid letter that other schools did so that should be 4000
I miss a $1000 dollar scholarship by 10 SAT points
so that's a bummer
still hopeful they take some more off due to need but not going to get my hopes up
I could probably work all summer and save it all to be able to pay for my fall semester but then I'd have to hope to get a job as soon as I get to Kutztown which would be hard to do because it's a small town and I'd be stressed from starting college and I wouldn't have a social life
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My school's meal plan rolls over from first to second semester and then disappears. Literally I'm on the lowest one and I'm going to have a good couple hundred that we can't take back.
Next semester I'll probably just put money onto a card and do it that way, sickening to see it all go to waste lol. |
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Generally the school's lowest meal plan applicable won't get you through a whole school year. It just won't.
If there's one set one, it's likely generous, and it will probably get you through the whole school year |
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They make us pay $2,295 (SF is expensive so that's why some of you may be like o.O that much??) |
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Meal plan is $1,600 at Texas for a school year |
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ObbertJoin Date: 2009-02-21
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signed my NLOI to play school at mizzou |
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