Financial Aid Paper Checking and others

All financial aid paper will have final check tomorrow at 8 am in the morning.

I have already finalized common app essay CONCEPT for Noor, Tahsin, Akash, Samira, Maisha, and Tahmina. All of you have given multiple drafts. I will want to finalize the common apps by tomorrow noon. If you have started writing your research paper then send me a rough draft immediately.

You will have to take confirmation of your remaining items from my place before we start sending from 5th January. Noor, Adit, Sajid, Saad - speak to me immediately.

US is currently under snow and we shall use this time to give further strength to our work.

Mamun

Bates Student Visits Us

Tasnia from Bates was here today. She sends all applications best of luck.

Extremely Important Notice

This is to inform everyone that I intend to send the packets wither on 5th of January or 6th.

Any query regarding this should be made in person.

Those who are working on research papers should be prepared to send it around the end of the next week.

Saad, Tahsin, Maisha, Samira, Humaira - all of you have been sent an important notification - please respond to the matter immediately.

Tahmina meets me at around 8.15 and 8.30 in the morning. The others should sms me about their intended time to come. I will stay at the AnglophileS till 5 in the evening - or even more if needed.

I will also be giving ideas for common apps to some of you.

Noor is Down with Disease

Everyone careful. This is one of the thing that I have always dreaded. Don't pray for him. Amen. NO sympathy for the irresponsible.

I am waiting for the following people to respond QUICK

1. Humaira
2. Tanzim
3. Noor
4. Itrat
5. Tahsin

Short Responses

Just an afterthought. It is the small itsy-bitsy answers that the colleges use to judge you. So, you must also send me your responses along with the Questions and the number of lines or number of characters that you can use at the maximum.

Send me Supplementary Essays. Do it. Follow the rules already posted earlier.

Work Pace

Almost nobody is here today. So, THANKS. Everyone MUST be present tomorrow at 10 a.m. with all the printed forms and loads and loads of supplementary items. I am positive that everything is going fine in spite of extremely POOR output in writing volume and intellectual content. If all of us work round the clock we can finish within deadline.

During this pre-Christmas period most of non-Anglophilites send their applications and this creates a psychological pommeling. Well, I never get perturbed.

But, in the end it is actually the number of REJECTED essays that seals your fate. In other words, it is the prolific method of writing that can bring you the BEST things.

Extremely Important

I will be in my place from 10 am onwards - you are kindly requested to send your Intended Discussion Items beforehand.

I will expect you to stay for whole day. Those who have laptops are requested to bring their machines.

MOST IMP: I am expecting that you will also bring a good number of essays - both Why and other Supplementary.

Please also discuss possible title of your Graded/Research Paper.

READ THE LAST 6 POSTS AND ACT ACCORDINGLY. DON'T MAKE ME SCREAM BECAUSE OF YOUR INEFFICIENCY.

Task for Saturday

I am still undecided who I shall sit with tomorrow. I am eagerly waiting for the Essay-submissions. I will be in my den from 10.30 am to 2 pm. In all probability I shall meet you one by on Sunday from 10.00 am to 5 pm - except for Raisa who will meet me at 8.00 am.

I am going to send the recommendations of everyone - starting from tomorrow at 11 am. Please notify me of any other demands through emails.

Please make sure that you send me all the answers to the SHORT questions of every college/univ. You must PRINT OUT all the supplements and when you MEET me I will want to see all these. Please carry a clear bag/file for the purpose.

Start sending me the Research/Graded Papers - even if those are preliminary.

Those who are planning of sending art portfolio should send me your individual suggestions immediately.

Thanks for Healthy Response

I am a bit relieved to see a few essays sent in the last hour. I am sure that everything can go fine - even after initially going wrong - if, only if - you keep bombarding me with essays.

Important Day Tomorrow

Tomorrow I am going to sit with the whole team at 9.00 am. Kashef [Northwestern Freshman 2010] will be with us to advice you over your MAIN task -- essay-writing.

The 5 of you who write a few essay ideas - MUST send me the full writings by tonight.

I am sure you all understand that I am fast losing my sanity.

Humaira, I gave you a complete essay idea, you should send it tonight.

If the essays ...

If the essays do not start pouring in in the next 10 hours - disaster may strike. I am NOT going to spare anyone from threats of the WORST kind.

Shahidul Mamun

Humaira - Samira - Maisha - Tahsin

You are requested to be present in my place between 8.30 and 12.00 - we have to finalize your college/university name.

Essays Essays Essays

Where are the essays - I want the essays. You are losing precious time.

A Fair Look at What is Exceptional at Rochester Univ

The Renaissance Scholarship

The Renaissance & Global Scholars are an exceptional group of more than 60 students who come to the University of Rochester from all around the world.  They are not only academic all-stars, but they also have unique backgrounds that add to the diversity of our student body.  These students become leaders in their academic fields and campus organizations.  The Renaissance Scholars are a difficult group to characterize as they bring so many different experiences to campus. However the following are some of their extraordinary accomplishments.

• Spoken at National Leadership Forums
• Helped resettle refugees and immigrants
• Advised local boards on social and environmental issues
• Are multilingual; some have served as translators
• Are accomplished musicians
• Assisted people with special needs
• Served in leadership roles in a variety of clubs and organizations, such as Class President, National Youth Leadership Forum, KEY Club, Latin Club and the National Honor Society.
• Internationally competitive dancers
• Accomplished multi sport athletes
• Organized marches to stop violence in their community
• Accomplished authors

Tomorrow's session

Dear Everyone,

I know that many of you have been trying to reach me today. I could not take the calls because my set was left in Mirpur.

Please note that tomorrow I will be available from 10 am till 4 pm. You MUST see me at any time. I will take long hours before I release you.

Bring Common App, Tax Paper and ECA papers if possible.

This must be heard as a Mayday Call

I am yet to receive good number of essays. Unless there are essays - I can not proceed. If things are taken to the extreme - everyone shall pay price.

Prolific writing and essays on many different issues should reach me every minute here on my end. I have lost patience.

সবাই মেইল করো

আমি কিছুক্ষন আগে একটা পোস্ট করেছি। এই মূহুর্তে যদি তোমাদের সবার পেন্ডিং কাজের একটা লিস্ট পাঠাও তবে খুব ভালো হয়।  পেন্ডিং মানে আমার কাছে যা পড়ে আছে।

তাড়াতাড়ি।

Extremely Urgent

I am waiting for a good number of essays. You must start working on the following

• Common App full page essay.
• Why essay based on our previous discussion
• 150 essay on significant ECA 
• Fill up the entire 15 page Common App and MUST submit tomorrow
• Collect tax paper of 2008-09 and bring photocopy tomorrow

Our class tomorrow is at 3 pm and shall continue till 8 pm.

Everyone must come with an average 3 hours in hand. 

Application Sessions for Tomorrow

I will busy working on the Recommendations today. So, we start sitting from tomorrow. Everyone is requested to be at Anglophiles at 8.00 am.

Those who can make it, please make sure that you come with GOOD ideas to share.

Three types of Responses

I have 3 types of responses for your essays - Dead, Drafts, Cold Shelf.

Dead: Never work on it again
Draft: Go for further draft
Cold Shelf: The essay remains dormant for some time. [In real terms it is a kind of Dead essay]

Appointments on Monday

I want to sit with the following students at the appointed times. Please confirm through e-mails.

Morning time - 

08.00 - Anik, Adit, Saad

10.00 - Akash, Sajid

Evening - 

04.00 - Tahsin, Samira, Maisha, Humaira, Utsho

5.00 - Itrat

Former Anglophiles Student in Barkleys Capital - High offices of Capitalism

Here is a video clip of Safwan Shabab, former Anglophiles Application Process participant -

http://offices.colgate.edu/SeniorProfiles/Feature_profile.asp?StudentID=90675829

We will have individual meetings on Monday

This is to inform that I will have meeting with you in person starting from Monday morning. I will mail you / call you over the phone for confirming the time. Please do mail me if you have any question regarding timing. I am desperately working on some Urgent application documents. Those whom I have already assigned Books and Topics for research papers - are hereby requested to send me your preliminary response on the items - this would greatly enhance my planning.

For ECA - please send me suggestions - if you have not done it already.

Additionally, Tanzim and Aayman should call me immediately in the morning between 9 and 10.

I am waiting for the App Studs to Arrive by 9.30 AM Today

I am in my den.

I was thinking that this year you people will be applying to the following universities/colleges. I do have in mind that the SAT-II scores are not that flashy this year - but notwithstanding.

Oberlin
Macalaster
Connecticut
Sewanee [Does NOT offer Need-Based Aid - but has a very unique Intl Grant system that covers all expenses.]
Trinity College (Connecticut)
Washington Univ at St. Louis [Has a strong Merit-based Scholarship Policy]

And of course the all time Greats -

Harvard, Yale, MIT, Cornell, Princeton, CalTech, Stanford, UPenn, JHU.

Emergency Meeting Today Monday at 4.00 pm

Very important meeting - all MUST be present.

My GOD!

"An eel always dreams to become a whale when it grows up." - A German Proverb.

I am really surprised to see that almost all of you want to apply to ALL of the TOP National Universities. You must understand that it is an almost impossible task to apply all these in one given season. There are so many essays to be written!

Well, first - you must visit the relevant websites and join the mailing list. YOU MUST open account with the COMMONAPP and keep in touch with the Supplement Essay page and DEADLINES.

I will be there in my room - and day after tomorrow - on Tuesday - we shall have a MOCK. Be prepared.

Registering on the Common App Website

Everyone is advised to register FREE on the CommonApp website. You will be asked for school Address. For the Mastermind the address is following: 


Mastermind, House-5, Road-12 (new), 31(old), Dhanmondi Residential Area, Dhaka-1209.
The Counselor's name should be spelled as Syed Fakhruddin Ahmed.
You are also requested to respond to the immediate past mail.

Very Important Notice

As you will know by this time - I have asked you to apply to most of the TOP universities (with maybe - Harvard as an EXCEPTION).

Now MIT is already assigning students with the interview dates. Those who want to apply to MIT should check the MIT website and start working immediately. Also NOTE that Cornell, Princeton, Yale and CalTech is also HIGH on my shopping list.

Those who wish to apply to these - Harvard, Yale, MIT, Cornell, Princeton, CalTech, Stanford, UPenn, JHU - should immediately send me mails to check your compatibility for the particular institution.


You MUST understand that all these are National Universities and require very good academic performance along with FINEST quality application essays.

You can also send me SMS to my cell - just in case you don't have internet. I MUST fix the who case by today.

Some Queries Answered

Raisa,

I hope everything is going fine. I know you are tensed - but every year I see that my young students are tensed and worried. So, I am not really too worried - except for one thing when this WORRY starts to hamper their working speed [not the Quality].

So, here are answers to your questions. 

1. For research papers I prefer to use recently published books on either Literature/History/Philosophy. You have one advantage here. You can use any of your literature/economics/extended essay/TOK assignments as the research paper for the colleges which ask for either a "Graded Paper", or "any other supplementary material". 

2. You MUST start writing why essays and look for the guidelines in the Application Blog. I have already been sent a few Y essays by others and I see that this year the essays are good.

3. Although you should send me the 150 essays ASAP, dont take it for granted that I will approve. So, dont spend too much time in perfecting it. Rather send me a few ideas from which I can choose the best writing item for 150 essay. Remember that 150 essay was NEVER 150 - it had always been much longer.

4. For common app Main Essay - go for anything - take cue from the BLOG for how to GATHER ideas for essay - Writing comes later.

5. Hope to see fast response.

6. I am also posting this mail in the App Processing BLOG for others to see.

Why Essay - Common App Essay Ideas - Fin Aid Papers

WHY Essays

1.       Why essays are the most important essays.

2.       Do not make things up while writing your Why essays; be honest.

3.       You have to show to the admissions committee that you know their colleges/universities more than they do.

4.       Why essays have to be well researched.

5.       Before writing the Why essay of a particular college/university, you must consult their online websites and examine their-

·         Programs

·         Faculties

·         Research Papers

·         Student Blogs (You must access the quality blogs, blogs that are well maintained. You cannot  waste your precious time reading poor blogs, blogs that lack passion, academics and trashed with too much personal stuff)

6.       You have to choose your Why essay topic by not looking at the length. The quality of the topic must be your first priority.

7.       While writing the Why essays, you have to show them that you have a clear knowledge about their academic programs.

8.      You have to mention your involvement in the areas of your activities.

9.      Mention student names (if possible).

10.   Mention the names of their academic programs and tell them how unique it is for your academic policy.

11.   You must use technical and academic language in your Why essays.

12.   Your Why essays must have a literally presence.

13.   As starters, your first entry point should be the MIT and Cambridge website.

14.   Why essays should be pretentiously academic in tome and content.                   

15.   Common 'Dirty Elements' in Why essays-

·         When you start talking about your childhood fascination about a discipline, it all becomes bland and mundane.

·         Talking about ones’ O and A level grades.

·         Praising a particular discipline in general makes the entire Why essay clichéd.

Common App Essays

1.       Where do you get your essay ideas from?

-          From your own reading items (Except for Cummings Study Guide)

2.       Few important websites are-

·         Granta

·         Red room

·         ***Guardian Unlimited. Access their Leisure, Culture and Life and Style tabs.

3.       Pick up phrases from the essays as you read through and try to amalgamate them with your own sense of perception and generate essay topics.

4.       Use good words while writing your essays. Don’t thesaurise.
5.       “Magic Realism,” get used to terms like these.
6.        Write a State of Mind Essay - no narration.
7.       Experiment with Sentences and Punctuation marks.
8.       Make a Helix model of your essay.
9.       Length is no barrier.

ECA

1.       Send a list of activities that you have done, thought of doing, planning to do and currently doing.

Others

1.       Ask your parents about the Tax Papers (2008 2009). PS: These are the latest.

2.       Consult two universities, Pomona College and Berea. Make a note of their deadlines and requirements.

3.       Works that have to be done before 20^th Nov-

·         Write 5 different Why essays (each can be up to 3 pages maximum)

·         Write at least three 150 word essays (Provided in the ECA section of the Common Apps )

·         Send a list of activities that you have done, thought of doing, planning to do and currently doing.

·         You must choose a book or a concept for your research paper (choose any book that is published AFTER 2005)

·         Don’t buy the book before I ask you to do so; tell me the name first

·         Books can be bought from the following markets-

-          Prothoma, Aziz Super Market, Shahbagh

-          Friends Book Store, Nilkheth (Above Midnight Sun Chinese Restaurant).

For our class tomorrow

1.       Send me a Why Essay of any college or university of your liking.

2.       Make a printout of the Certification of Finance (2 pg) along with the 4 pg financial aid paper.

3.       Print out all your selected colleges and universities supplement.

4.       Keep a notebook with you to jot down ideas and plans.

5.       Carry all the above listed items in a clear bag. If you are unable to do so, don’t enter the class.

6.       Send me a Why Essay of any college or university.

Essay Writing Tips

These are the 2 important links for checking the essay writing tips. It's not necessarily that I will follow all these guidelines - but YOU will. I will make necessary changes when required.

http://www.acm.edu/uploads/cms/documents/acm-college-guide-writing-essay.pdf
http://www.edcc.edu/lsc/Handouts/documents/Personal_Statement--Overview_and_Online_Resources.pdf

I have just one advice - "When you are Writing, don't be your Editor; when it's time to edit, be Merciless."

Start Writing Essays

Everyone is requested to work on the essays that the colleges and universities require. Remember, that your first draft is simply a way of telling me how you would approach the subject.

There is a statistics here - in the last 5 years there had been at best total of 8 to 10 essays that were based on the ideas of students themselves. All the rest of the essays - about 1200 of them - were planned and written by the students themselves but with borrowed ideas.

So, do NOT try to perfect your essays and WASTE time in the process - Be Prolific - send me as many essays as possible.

Do not send me separate mails - rather in a single mail try to accommodate as many essay as attachments.

I am waiting for your responses.

Those who have started to send me essays - they will be given responses tomorrow in person.

Things You Should be Doing

Dear AP Students,

I have so far received a few PS - so, some of you have not sent me yours. I have most of the Grids. The choices of the colleges look quite 'defensive' at the first look. I want to see the list a little more ambitious this year - there is ample time, the US economy is strong and I feel that the pre-app SAT classes went the way I wanted.

Those who gave the exam today - have been given specific instructions regarding the next steps.

Some instructions -

1. Don't be apologetic for your late submissions.
2. Send me all your essays in word attachments.
3. The qualities of the essays should be one of the finest specimens that you have read as part of your SAT reading items.
4. Be prolific.
5. Send me mails whenever you need to send one - BUT please write something in the Subject Box of your mail.
6. The time has already started ticking - don't sit around.

Demand for PS

Those of you did not send me the PS are REQUESTED [I am howling] to send me TONIGHT. Please try to figure what kind of additional things you wish to send to the universities.

I plan to send at least 5 applications each to Stanford and MIT. The 2 universities I have always eyed with suspicion are - Yale and Harvard. But somebody might be audacious enough.

This blog has been created exclusively for the App Processing studs. DO NOT let others know of this blog.

Most of you have failed to understand the CONTENT element of the PS. It is an Autobiographical Essay - it's everything about you. Talk of your life, your academics, your family, your friends, the ideas that attract you, ideas that repel, things you plan to do, you do not want to see any more - - the books that shaped you, the cinemas that influenced you, your views of life, and cosmos --- in one word --- the PS will tell me everything about YOU. Don't follow any Recipe for the PS --- write anything and I will accept it. One rule - nothing less than 10 pages with Times New Roman 12 font. [By this standard Anik's essay has fallen short!]

Send it quick.

Start Application Process

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