Recent content by doncorleone

You are a pessimist, aren't you? If I would have to decide right now, I wouldn't even bother applying after reading your message, it is THAT much pessimistic. When I met a guy who runs Google in our country and who went to MIT college and Harvard Business School, he had a lot more...

I didn't want to get into details as this topic wasn't about admissions, but it seems like I gave a wrong impression. Firstly I would like to state that I am nowhere near being from a privileged background; in fact, I was technically homeless for 2 years, my father was an abusive drunk and...

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Hello folks. I am a European student applying to MIT, Harvard, Princeton and Cambridge in the UK this fall. I have a strong passion for mathematics, I have self-studied for past two years, I went through 20 textbooks – 4 pure, 5 mechanics, 5 statistics, 3 further pure and 3 decision maths. I...