BF2S Forums Which sounds best? For college apps

don't want to sound too fanciful unicorn, now do we

Sleight of Hand Club makes you sound like a petty thief and pickpocket.

Prestidigitation Club is the win.

Why don't you say it's a:

Prestidigitation Legerdemain Society

Order of Magi tbh

Just call it what it is, a Magic Club. Try using too many big words and they'll think you don't have any substance to impress them with, so you rely on multi-syllabic words. These people are skimming over apps anyway, they don't want to be hung up on any long, annoying words. They skim over Magic Club, and they get it right away with minimal thought, which is better than them skimming over something real quick and not recognizing it right away so they just discard it altogether.

What kind of schools are you looking at anyway? To be honest, extracurricular activities don't really matter much, at least in my experience. I got into a great school, and I didn't have any clubs, any extracurricular stuff, the bare minimum community service hours, and a weighted 4.0 (most everyone else had an unweighted 4.0), also I only took 3 AP classes and passed 2 of those (compared to people who took between 5 and 9 APs in their high school career). Heck, my SAT scores weren't very impressive at all (aside from my perfect math score on SAT II), and I kind of just winged my personal essay without putting much thought or proof-reading into it. Maybe they accepted me because they needed to let some stupid people in since they needed someone to fill up their quota on C's and B's (and D's and F's)? Or maybe I got lucky that the person reading my app was a no-nonsense, down-to-earth, cut-the-bullshit person like me

mtb0minime wrote:

Just call it what it is, a Magic Club. Try using too many big words and they'll think you don't have any substance to impress them with, so you rely on multi-syllabic words. These people are skimming over apps anyway, they don't want to be hung up on any long, annoying words. They skim over Magic Club, and they get it right away with minimal thought, which is better than them skimming over something real quick and not recognizing it right away so they just discard it altogether.

What kind of schools are you looking at anyway? To be honest, extracurricular activities don't really matter much, at least in my experience. I got into a great school, and I didn't have any clubs, any extracurricular stuff, the bare minimum community service hours, and a weighted 4.0 (most everyone else had an unweighted 4.0), also I only took 3 AP classes and passed 2 of those (compared to people who took between 5 and 9 APs in their high school career). Heck, my SAT scores weren't very impressive at all (aside from my perfect math score on SAT II), and I kind of just winged my personal essay without putting much thought or proof-reading into it. Maybe they accepted me because they needed to let some stupid people in since they needed someone to fill up their quota on C's and B's (and D's and F's)? Or maybe I got lucky that the person reading my app was a no-nonsense, down-to-earth, cut-the-bullshit person like me

All the schools I've visited have said they care at least somewhat about extracurriculars.

And what FM said.

Good job man. I'm considering UC Riverside and Merced (lol) as safeties, simply cause I know I can get in them and I also believe that for the 08 (or maybe it was 07) school year, 25% of UCLA's transfer admissions came from UCM. So if I want to transfer to a more prestigious school, UCLA or possibly UCB wouldn't be out of the question.

As for ECs, I might as well put them down. It can't hurt can it?

Also, what's lulzy is going to that site "College Confidential" and looking at people worry that they won't get into Harvard or Yale or MIT with:

2300+ SAT
4.0 unweighted GPA
Amazing SAT IIs
Perfect APs, having taken the max amount and hardest AP courses since freshman year
Amazing community service / work experience

I'd rather be dumb but recognize I can only get into so many places than be ultra-gifted but cry to sleep each night wondering whether or not I'd get in to Harvard.

Last edited by Hurricane2k9 (2008-11-02 19:57:36)

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

Hurricane2k9 wrote:

Good job man. I'm considering UC Riverside and Merced (lol) as safeties, simply cause I know I can get in them and I also believe that for the 08 (or maybe it was 07) school year, 25% of UCLA's transfer admissions came from UCM. So if I want to transfer to a more prestigious school, UCLA or possibly UCB wouldn't be out of the question.

As for ECs, I might as well put them down. It can't hurt can it?

It does if it makes it look like you're desperate.

I sort of agree with both sides here.

Sure it can't hurt, but if you reach the point where you're scraping for ideas and clever ways to word a particular club, that's not good.

And you've got it right: don't cry yourself to sleep worrying if you'll get that full-ride scholarship to MIT. Those people are ridiculous and have too stressful lives to even enjoy the school they're going to. I didn't lose a second of sleep from worrying about college apps or what school I'm going to. That's not to say you shouldn't spend time on it, but it's not a life-or-death situation like some people treat it.

Also, going to community college (or any other school) and then transferring is a great idea; I sometimes wish I did that myself. You save tons of money, and also probably learn the material better. At these big UC schools, the lower-division undergrad classes are massive and the professors suck. I hardly learned anything in my lower-div courses. You don't realize how good a school is until you start taking the classes in your major, where things are narrowed down, and the professors actually care about the students, and even associate their research and work-experience with course material. One side note about CC's: all those easy A's you get don't count towards your GPA at the school you transfer to, so it's not exactly a simple GPA-booster.

That sounds about right to me. CC's are meant to be a starting point and you're only there for 2 years. But if you transfer from a 4-year university, it might seem to them that you really can't stay in one place, or that you flip-flop around too much and don't have a plan for your education.

Crap and I meant to include this in my previous post, but:

Good luck to the both of you, I'm sure you'll get into great schools! There's nothing to worry about, really. We're all lucky to even have these choices of places to go, and be excellent choices at that.

Last edited by mtb0minime (2008-11-02 20:11:07)

If you sound like you have your thumb up your ass and a thesaurus in the other hand, colleges will know.

I'd say "Magician's Club." Magic Club is ambiguous, and Magician's doesn't try to 'euphamise' it to hell.

Edit: For the elusive K.

Last edited by Defiance (2008-11-02 20:46:22)

sorcery guild

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Last edited by Kimmmmmmmmmmmm (2008-11-02 21:11:44)