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Sunday, July 27th, 2008 * * *
Before I begin, I want to tell of my amazing journey yesterday at about 2 pm on the LDP highway from Bandar Utama to Subang and back. There were a few flyovers along the entire stretch of the LDP highway, and there were bottlenecks (read: traffic jam) on 3 of these flyovers:- Flyover [...]
Right. I’m Going to Berkeley!
Saturday, April 5th, 2008Poll is closed. Thanks for voting!
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I want to thank all of you for voting between Berkeley and Cornell on where I should continue my studies. The poll is now closed. Of course, I did not choose based on your votes, but rather because of my own preferences. But your votes did give some support to [...]
Berkeley vs. Cornell
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008***I realize that Google has directed many of you to my blog when you typed something like “Cornell vs Berkeley”. I was in such a position and I chose Berkeley. Never regretted it. I won’t say anything else because I have not experienced Cornell, but well, given another occasion to choose, I would choose Berkeley [...]
ADMITTED TO CORNELL
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Ern Sheong Lin
No 21 Jalan BU 7/2 Bandar Utama
Petaling Jaya, 47800
MYS
Dear Ern Sheong:
Congratulations on your acceptance into the College of Engineering at Cornell University! We are very pleased to be welcoming you to the Cornell Class of 2012.
Very soon, you will receive a large packet that will contain your official letter of admission [...]
REJECTED BY PRINCETON
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Ern Sheong Lin
December 20, 1988
National Junior College
March 31, 2008
I am sorry to inform you that we were not able to admit you to Princeton this year. We received a record pool of over 21,000 applications, and we were able to admit only a small percentage [...]
Is Berkeley really that good?
Monday, March 31st, 2008I want to thank you guys for all the feedback about Berkeley being a good university for engineering. But I have also heard about other bad stuff about it (undergraduate students not given priority, etc.) so I really need some feedback now. (If you are a Berkeleyian who stumbled on this blog, do give your [...]
REJECTED BY STANFORD
Sunday, March 30th, 2008E-mail came in at 5.11 am on Sunday morning, the day AFTER they were supposed to send out the e-mails.
March 28, 2008
Ern Sheong Lin
No. 21, Jalan BU 7/2
Petaling Jaya, 47800
MALAYSIA
Stanford ID#: 05522867
Dear Ern Sheong,
The Office of Undergraduate Admission regrets to inform you that we are unable to offer you admission to Stanford [...]
Less than 10% admitted to Stanford
Saturday, March 29th, 2008Quoted from MercunyNews.com:
Stanford University announced Thursday that less than one in 10 applicants have been offered admission beginning in the fall for the class of 2012.
A total of 2,400 students were offered admission to Stanford as freshman out of more than 25,000 applicants, the largest number in Stanford’s history.
“The competition for admission to Stanford this [...]
WHERE IS THAT EMAIL???
Saturday, March 29th, 2008All the people I know who have applied to Stanford got rejected…. and I also heard of a few acceptances elsewhere but I don’t know those people…
It is 10.40 am in the morning. E-mails should have been sent by 5.00 am.
BUT WHERE IS THE EMAIL TELLING ME THAT I AM ACCEPTED OR REJECTED??????
I know I [...]
Admitted to UC Berkeley
Friday, March 28th, 2008Congratulations and Welcome from Admissions Director Robinson
March 27, 2008
Dear Ern,
Congratulations! I am pleased to offer you admission to the University of California, Berkeley for fall 2008. You have been admitted to the College of Engineering.
Given the record number and extraordinary quality of our applicants this year, this offer is a great accomplishment. You and your [...]
