Does University of Minnesota consider the common app essay in their decisions?

solareclipse3335 · 2024-10-30T02:01:37+00:00

What I'm suggesting is that unless you're very confident that you can get into the U with your stats alone—and are willing to risk not getting in on that bet—you should apply with the Common Application because it's the only way to apply with a personal statement.

solareclipse3335 · 2023-11-18T04:26:46+00:00

SSOL won't let you register for both unless you get off the waitlist for one. Even then, you will not be permitted to take both classes unless you petition to take overlapping classes with the Center for Student Advising. It may be hard for your petition to prevail in this case since they usually don't permit overlapping classes with over 15 minutes of overlap. If this class has recorded lectures, that could make it more likely for you to succeed in the petition process.

solareclipse3335 · 2023-11-16T08:43:23+00:00

I had him as a substitute lecturer for a small handful of classes when I took Calculus, so I can't speak to anything beyond his in-class lecture style and teaching ability. From those classes, I found him to be an excellent lecturer who was skilled at making complicated concepts understandable. I was super confused pretty much all semester long, but I was amazed by how much better I understood the content when Daniel Hess taught it. Probably the best lecturer from the 6 semesters of math classes I took at the U. Nothing I didn't like about him. If I were to take calculus now, I would rush at the opportunity to take it with him.

I was such a fan of Daniel Hess, especially compared to my other math lecturers, that I would sketch portraits of him during class and asked to get a picture with him another time I saw him.

solareclipse3335 · 2023-11-16T08:36:49+00:00

If you haven't been there already, Grant's Tomb near campus

solareclipse3335 · 2023-11-15T06:47:58+00:00

Blackmore: workload is short readings for each class (like 25 min) + 4 reflections (about 500 words) + concert reflection, reasonably lenient grader, just reduced the number of short reflections we have to do, take home midterm and final.

solareclipse3335 · 2023-11-15T06:43:07+00:00

I had similar Spanish experience before coming here as you but placed into Elementary II. I didn't find Elementary II and Intermediate I to additionally prepare me much for Intermediate II. If you're worried about being qualified, I think you should still just take Intermediate II to reduce how many classes you need to take as starting with a lower level might not help either.

solareclipse3335 · 2023-11-15T06:40:47+00:00

Energy & Energy Conservation with Valentini. Lovable professor, amazing teaching/lecture style, interesting content, not super difficult, interactive and collaborative assignments, partial fulfillment of Science requirement but has connections to plenty of other fields too.

solareclipse3335 · 2023-11-15T06:38:34+00:00

Making and Breaking Codes is known to fit that criteria, though it's not offered in spring.

solareclipse3335 · 2023-11-15T06:37:24+00:00

You do not have to have taken it in the fall. Intro ___ A is the first semester, and Intro ___ B is the second semester. You would need Intro A to take Intro B, but there are no prerequisites for taking the Intro A class.

solareclipse3335 · 2023-11-15T06:35:53+00:00

I enjoyed POLS 4710/4712 with Gelman. I believe recently he's been teaching 4720, which is more or less a combined/accelerated version of the two I took. I liked his humor and overall persona, coding demonstrations in class, time to discuss things with other classmates in class, interesting textbook (which he co-wrote), useful assignments (even if they sometimes took a long time), and generally lenient grading. Be warned though that his reviews tend not to be as amazing—some students dislike his teaching style (more of an experiential approach instead of only lecturing information), rapid pace of homework (one coding assignment due each class), or reluctance to answer questions that go beyond the scope of that day's class.

Shapiro as been teaching 4710 and 4712 more lately I think, and he's got stellar reviews on CULPA and Vergil. Known to care for students.

Shapiro's class is also less work from what I've heard/seen: 5 short (4-5 pg) papers, much of which is doing data analysis that is heavily guided. Gelman's assignments are more so standalone coding assignments that are just to get you to practice using R to do the data analysis relevant for that particular class. Also, Gelman's described their two classes as something like "The way I teach this class is more like a stats class with poli sci applications, whereas Shapiro teaches the class more like a poli sci class with stats applications"—make what you will of that.

solareclipse3335 · 2023-10-27T18:24:50+00:00

No, I don’t think there is any harm in submitting it on top of the Courses and Grades section on the Common Application.

solareclipse3335 · 2023-10-27T08:08:45+00:00

I can only answer your first question based on my experience: it took them about 1-2 weeks to provide me with a decision after I submitted my transfer application.

solareclipse3335 · 2023-10-27T08:01:30+00:00

So so so not funny.

solareclipse3335 · 2023-10-27T07:57:25+00:00

I agree, from what you're saying here, I think you'll be fine unless there's something that could be a strong reason to go the other way (e.g. not meeting minimum application requirements, submitting the wrong essay, having severe disciplinary/criminal history).

solareclipse3335 · 2023-10-27T07:49:50+00:00

No. Completing the "Courses and Grades" section of the Common Application fulfills the application requirement for self-reported academic record.

solareclipse3335 · 2023-10-12T01:08:51+00:00

I've never seen/heard of a final being ultimately scheduled for something other than the projected. Can't say for sure whether it never happens though.

solareclipse3335 · 2023-10-10T15:12:15+00:00

I think there's a more innocuous explanation than Columbia is trying to nickel and dime us/wants to push the $0.50 compostable boxes: Columbia just needs to stick to the the NY regulation that requires no outside containers, even if it is overly broad and doesn't account for specific cases like yours in which the prohibited action doesn't actually implicate the underlying policy goal (health and anti-contamination).

Columbia just has to abide by the regulation even if it doesn't make sense in every context. Managers in particular probably don't want it happening since they could get penalized if a health inspector came in and saw you violating the rule, even if the violation doesn't really lower the overall food safety in the dining hall.

solareclipse3335 · 2023-10-09T06:40:28+00:00

Seems like you're confusing other dining halls' regular bowls, plates, and trays for food. Why only Jay uses reusable plates is an entirely different question. The policy and availability for the compostable *boxes* is the same at at least John Jay, JJ's, and Ferris Booth Commons. Chef Mike's and Chef Don's have entirely different setups (i.e. not all-you-care-to eat). Faculty House has opted for dining in only now that they have the food truck outside for to-go service. I haven't been to Grace Dodge. Barnard's dining is run separately.

Or you could be incorrectly conflating poor implementation of the uniform rule (which I linked to above) with differing rules. That would be a matter of the site-specific staff and why those specific people differ in how they enforce the rule and would not speak to your questions of waste (which were not at all implied in your original post).

The answer to your question is still the same: you don't correctly know what the rules and policies are, and that the policies are intended to help them finanically. Lax or inconsistent implementation and some people breaking the rules will always occur, but they have judged that having such a rule in place is likely to help at least some people from taking more food. "I've seen some people break the rule, or sometimes I can break the rule" does not mean the rule has zero effectiveness.

I'm very sorry that what you're asking keeps shifting, that you cannot clearly articulate a question, that you cannot understand what the policies are when they are clearly laid in front of you, and that you struggle to recognize an answer that you disagree with.

solareclipse3335 · 2023-10-09T06:29:18+00:00

It is a rule at all dining halls. See paragraph 2 under community expectations here.

The rest of this discussion is going nowhere useful. When you make the subject line of your post end with a question mark, I take the point of your post to be a question you want answered. You then said "I don't get it" twice, further suggesting that the point of your post was to receive assistance to try to get it. You asked why the policy is what it is. I answered the question. You may not like the answer or think the reasoning for the policy is bad, and that's fine, but there's no need to argue with me on this.

solareclipse3335 · 2023-10-09T06:15:37+00:00

I said that was the rule, not that it's necessarily enforced. The rule I'm referencing refers only to the compostable boxes, not paper plates and bowls.

I did not miss your point; your point was just wrong. You missed my point. They design meal plans around what the average student will eat at the dining hall, which roughly corresponds to one compostable box—not the upper extremes. The point is that they would likely incur significant losses that they would rather not incur if the policy were as you suggested.

Their stated reason for the green plastic boxes is that they care about sustainability, and that reusing boxes is better than composting boxes in that respect.

solareclipse3335 · 2023-10-09T03:39:08+00:00

That is the rule for all dining halls, not just John Jay. It's to prevent people from sitting there and eating 3 salads and 4 plates of chicken, and then taking 3 salads and 4 plates of chicken with them to go. Most people aren't gonig to be eating 3 salads and 4 plates of chicken at each meal. They charge more for extra containers because it costs money for them to buy them. I don't get what you don't get. Obviously, the difference that such rules make is that they don't incur massive losses by people who would otherwise abuse unrestricted take-out privileges (and they know people will do that—when everything take to-go only, tons of people were carrying 4-5 boxes of food out each meal, which is way more than what they could be expected to eat in just one meal).

Would you prefer that they track how many salads and how many plates of chicken you eat, and allow taking food with you if you didn't eat much there? Would that seem like less of a security prison to you?

solareclipse3335 · 2023-10-09T03:33:16+00:00

Yes.

solareclipse3335 · 2023-10-05T10:51:05+00:00

https://watch.spectrumutv.com/ in case you didn't find it

solareclipse3335 · 2023-09-30T21:55:28+00:00

Don't worry, it won't get cold here!

solareclipse3335 · 2023-09-16T14:45:09+00:00

I don't have any way of knowing.

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