urrgghhh... fuck!!! sonovabiaaattcchh...

i was talking to my dad this mornin n found out tt i was accepted by the university of michigan at ann arbor!!!!!

tts like a freakin gd uni... n im wonderin y i was notified of it so late! the decision date's only 2 weeks away, but worst of all, ive submitted all deposits and whatnots to georgia tech already, coz no sch notifies applicants this late!

shit... given the choices, i'll prefer to go there. y is this happenin? to those who dont understand wat the hell im talkin abt, its this; ive been rejected by most of the lower ranked schs, the ones i should not hav probs goin in, but im gettin accepted to those schs tt i didnt expect i'll get into! the really hard ones..

look at the successful ones so far... umich is the 3rd highest ranked of all the unis ive applied to, n then there's USC, then georgia tech and then, the backup uni, which was umass at amherst.

this is weird, confusing. i mean, there r 3 type of schs we hav to pick. 1, the target unis, the one tts hard to get in, but worth a try, coz u never know. 2, the reach schs, the ones tt should b relatively ok, coz ur academic ability is considered average, basically the one tts perfect, and 3. the safety unis, in case pt 1 n 2 should all go wrong, u still hav a place to go, usually v low ranked ones, so obviously ure way above average if u end up in this uni.

so here's the breakdown. the number in the bracket is the overall national university rank. * denotes public unis.

Target
University of California at Berkeley* (21) - Rejected
Carnegie Mellon University (23) - Rejected
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor* (25) - ACCEPTED
University of Southern California (30) - ACCEPTED
University of Wisconsin at Madison* (32) - No News
Georgia Institute of Technology* (37 - ACCEPTED

Reach
University of California at Los Angeles* (26) - Rejected
University of California at San Diego* (32) - Rejected
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign* (40) - Rejected
Pennsylvania State University at University Park* (48) - No News
University of Texas at Austin* (53) - Rejected

Safety
Purdue University at West Lafayette* (58) - Rejected
Marquette University (91) - No News
University of Massachusetts at Amherst* (91) - ACCEPTED

this is crazy... but expected. i knew my british standard credentials would bring problems and it has. juz look at it. ure supposed to get accepted to reach n safety schs.

now i hav a bigger dilemma than USC. coz UMich is gd, v gd. but then, GaTech n UMich seems almost equal. the engineering programs is neck to neck, some UMich r better, some GaTech is better. but always next to eachother. starting salary is almost the same, only diff, is money. by goin to UMich, i'll b payin almost US$11k more. but then, i think its a price worth payin? job offers... GaTech more on computer field.. UMich more on automobile field...

urgghhhh.... y did they hav to notify me so late...!!