originally posted march 24, 1999

the college search: epilogue

The Admissions Game
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	Early Action: Deferred	Rejected 03/18
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA	School of Computer Science	Selected 03/20
	Humanities & Social Sciences	Accepted 03/13
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY		Accepted 03/15
Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY		Accepted 02/25
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA		Accepted 03/24

On Saturday, March 20, I sent in my deposit to Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, officially reporting to them that I intend to go there in the fall. CMU's computer science program is still ranked tops in the world, so it's not a total loss for me. ;)

I chose CMU because it was the top school I got into (not to mention a good school in its own right). However, RIT offered me a $28,000 total scholarship, RPI offered me a "state-of-the-art" laptop computer, and a couple other universities I didn't even apply to have made equally generous offers. I chose the university that I hope will give me the best overall hope of landing a highly successful career. The hardest part might be maintaining that precious 2.0.

Am I bitter at MIT for having rejected me? No. I realize that the field of applicants was extremely selective, and that the school was my "reach" school right from the start. I extend my congratulations to those who will be going there in the fall, and I only regret I won't be there as well.

Back to March 1999, or to the year 1999.

Where am I?

This is Weill Aspects, the official news archive of Jason Weill Web Productions. All articles posted to the front page end up here. This page was generated automatically by a series of Perl scripts.

Articles in Weill Aspects are organized solely by date. You may find the Google search in the left column to be useful if you are looking for an article but do not know the date on which it was posted.

Weill Aspects is composed of static web pages generated as appropriate when a new article is posted. It was developed in May 2001 as a way of managing the content on this site. I also used it extensively while in Japan, during which time I did not have continuous access to the Internet. I was able to write daily updates during July and August 2002, pack the files onto a CD-R or memory device, and upload them from the Internet-connected computers at school.

These scripts are all hacked together in less than elegant fashion, and I don't plan to release them. Some of the design that went into Aspects also was used to develop Livestat, a suite of Perl scripts to process statistics for academic competition tournaments. Livestat is available freely.