One day we hope to replicate Tata Scholarship program’s hard currency support, but for now do our part through internships and volunteer programs (browse through our contributor section to see plenty of examples).  Here is someone we hope to invite to intern with us; for now we invite all our Cornell friends to extend a warm welcome, as we know they will. Hopefully you have followed this whole series, but if not you might want to go back and read Sush’s earlier posts to appreciate this one more:

Sush Krishnamoorthy, a student from New Delhi, is part of “The Choice” class that includes student-bloggers from Nairobi, Kenya; Topeka, Kan.; Seattle; Rogers, Ark.; Las Vegas; New York City; and Hunting Valley, Ohio. Her ninth post is below. — Tanya Abrams

Early in the college application process, I classified colleges as “dream” schools and “reach” schools based on their acceptance rates. It is popular advice to do so. Also, the terms “selectivity” and “acceptance rate” are often used interchangeably, and this indicated to me that the higher the acceptance rate of a college, the easier it is to get in.

I was in for a surprise.

In the third week of March, I received an e-mail from Cornell University stating that I would be offered admission later in the month. This was followed by a package for accepted students in the mail. I have been offered the Tata Scholarship, which makes a Cornell education affordable for me without loans.

Having received a dream acceptance, I have a more logical and less emotional response to my remaining admission notifications.

Read the whole post here.