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For those of you that aren't on my FB friends list,
I've decide to matriculate to Cornell University in upstate New York as a computer science major. My stats:
Race: Asian (heavily discriminated against already, not to mention that I'm a guy with long hair)
Grades: I took a total of 28 classes in my school, and 5 college classes, and got 6 Bs, giving me a GPA of 3.89 unweighted and somewhere around 4.6 weighted. I know, I'm a nerd. All of my lower marks are in the humanities.
SAT of 2370: perfect on math and reading, and one question wrong on the writing section.
8 APs, 7 of which I received scores of 5 and Statistics, which I got a 4.
Extracurriculars:
Math club 4 years, de facto head of math team
Robotics team 3 years (never really got anywhere; I quit mostly out of frustration
Work as a manager in a startup during senior year, and a gap job of being a web designer right before then but after quitting robotics.
I didn't really write any convincing essays.
I got rejected from UCLA, USC, the other ivies, and MIT, and got accepted into Carnegie Mellon for math, UC Berkeley for computer science, and the University of Illinois for computer engineering and chose Cornell for the academic balance.
I have short hair for now, but it'll get at least mid back before I get my degree =)
This goes to prove, at least for the younger members of the board or the parents, that just because you have long hair does not mean you are automatically destined to become a second class citizen. All it takes is a lot of mettle and an unwavering determination to succeed.
I'll post a picture of myself once my free t shirt comes in the mail -- in a few days.
Gotta say, that's a pretty impressive list, although I'm going into the IT field myself I don't think I could imagine being tht intellectual. Ii've been trying to dabble with programming but I'm not as fortunate with the results, always handy though.
You could sy one of the reasons why that was my choice was because of the fact they don't discriminate in regards to head/facial hair (trimming the beard never hurts anybody though). Never though about it untill I made the rather spontaneous decision to go into the aforementioned field (networking if you wanna get technical)and it's pretty relieving how many companies in the field are lax about it up untill you reach management position or maybe you become a field technician.
Looking forward to the picture man, the more the merrier!
Looks like there are so many computer guys and geeks among us :)
I'm also getting a bachelor's degree in computer engineering this year. Thinking about master's now :)
Hope you'll have all the chances to grow hair the way you wish it to in recent years. Univercities (especially technical ones) usually have a great atmosphere of free-thinking.
Good luck to you :)
Serge.