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I got in!! Alhumdulilah!!!

(No financial aid. Thankfully abba can pay)

Best of luck to everyone

Cant wait to start

Enough with the glaze , I love lums with my heart body and soul but I need someone to knock some sense into me and remind me that every place has disadvantages or undesirable situations/conditions. So can present and past lums students please blatantly lmk things that you didn't like, that made u feel uneasy or mad so that I can burst my bubble and make this decision with clarity 😂 thanks

Hi everyone! I’m an international student from Pakistan preparing for the October SAT. I’m starting my preparation now and I’m trying to build a proper study plan instead of using random resources.
I’m especially looking for advice from students who have recently taken the Digital SAT, particularly international students.

1. What resources did you use to learn the concepts from the basics?

2. What did you use for Math and Reading & Writing?

3. Did you use Khan Academy? If yes, did you complete the whole course?

4. Which YouTube teachers/channels actually helped you?

5. How did you use the College Board Question Bank?

6. Which practice tests did you use?

7. Did you use Desmos? If yes, where did you learn it?

8. What resources would you avoid?

If you were starting again with about 6 weeks, what would your exact preparation order be?
My goal is to properly understand the concepts first and then move heavily into practice. I’d really appreciate advice from people who have actually taken the current Digital SAT.

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got into ACF (1st list) in nust (fee paid and applied for hostel) made plans, friends and thora familiar bhi hoge thi Islamabad sy. All this while Lums put me in waitlist after waiting for a long while. my LCAT went somewhat okay (i don't even know ky acha giya ya bura cause i didn't even study for it, siraf parents ky liye diya tha).

Now, nust ki classes 7sep sy start and Lums just offered me admission (I applied in Economics and Economics, data and computer science).

Lums is a great opportunity but im not sure.

admission ky baad bhi ill be stressed ky gharwalo ky itny paisay lag rhy hain (im from upper middle class)

and on top of that im not even sure if ill fit in or not.

ive heard many negative things ab lums ky logo ky bary mai, them calling fsc waly bachy "M-kids" and consistently putting them down.

Got in back in june but got bcc a levels and didnt meet condition, should i get it to bbc in oct and reapply to lums next year (4A* 4A and 1400 Sat) Also hoping to improve sat a bit

GONNA HIT LUMS LIKE A TRAINNNNNNN 🗣️🗣️🗣️😛😛☝️☝️✨✨✨✨✨✨✨🗣️🗣️🫵🫵😛😛😛

It's in maths is there no chance of admission

o levels : 2 A*’s, 2 A’s, 4 B’s
A levels : 3bs
sat: 1550
very strong extracurriculars

I have an Omnibook X Flip 16 (Intel 200 series Ultra 5 with 16 RAM). Should I buy an iPad A16 even if it disrupts my budget? Like, what are the pros and cons?

itne lamby intezaar ky baad finally i got in. nust ki fee krwa de thi but still. lums made me wait for like forever.

itna hate kiya lums ko reddit pr phir bhi 🥰. waitlisted to admission offered

tysm for everything guys. unlikely turnover signing off

Hey everybody!
Waitlisted and rejected from LUMS. Now confused what to do next because applied only to LUMS and most of the universities admissions are closed.

My stats are:
Fsc(part 1):89%
Matric:93%
And went to cadet college so have alot of ec’s.

Now I have two options. Want opinion of you guys.

Option 1: Take a gap year. Increase my Fsc marks and improve sat score (which was 1300 on first attempt). I think it’s easy for me to get 1450+ SAT score with 1-2 months preparation. And again apply to LUMS next year.

Option 2: Don’t take a gap year and start law from UoL(through Tmuc). I want to attempt CSS either after LUMS economics or law. In the option 2 no year will be wasted plus the law degree will be completed in 3 years so will have a year extra for css preparation compared to LUMS economics.

Anyone who can give me your opinion would really be helpful.

Everything's falling apart. I could rant for days. I wanted lums more than anything. After today I would probably not getting in. still waitlisted. no call. Noone knows the time I went through. The entire gap year spent in loneliness and a hope. From getting a 1490 to helping so many people with sat. Then being the most active person here. This subreddit became my home. Saw so many people getting accepted and being happy for them. Hoping for others. Trying to crack their admissions system 24/7. Coming up with new theories. Meeting so many amazing people here.

It's all coming to an end and I'm the loser. The only uni I got into is giki where I don't wanna go at all. I don't want to leave Lahore, don't wanna leave my home. I manifested lums all the time. Prayed a 1000 times. Saved idk how many reels of lums which I liked. Stalked my friends' highlights from lums. Seeing people hoping for my acceptance all the time. It's coming to an end and I don't know what to do. Don't know how to cope. Don't know how to move on. I can't see it all go away in a single second. Something I spent 3 years imagining. I'm off. Tysm everyone. ily guys

After 5 months of wait finally got the rejection but honestly I think Allah has a better plan for me where LUMS isnt necesary so bye lums and i hate u for the misery u offered but I learned alot from this entire process. If something is not given to u by allah to whom u made prayers crying at night , during ramadan , In his holy mosque then there is something ten times better waitng for me

I'm multani . I'm not sure whether to go LSE or bzu Multan . I m financially stable . I don't know whether hostel life suits me and I'm lazy every work of mine my mother do . Some relative are saying go bzu luxury your own . Some are saying LSE Lahore bUsienss great uni . So what I do I don't able to decide whether hostel life suits me or not . In Multan there are my friends . I don't know whether I could be set in Lahore for four year . If I go to LSE and there is no way backup . My cousin got into fccu last year he go back to Multan because in hostel no ac . I'm in a confused situation

Lately, I’ve been seeing so many waitlisted candidates getting rejected, and honestly, it’s really unfortunate. It’s been more than half a year since many of them applied, and some students are only now finding out that they’ve been rejected. I genuinely don’t understand what takes so long with the application process. Maybe LUMS needs to employ more people or improve the process somehow, because making students wait this long is incredibly stressful.

I personally got accepted in late June, and I was losing my mind throughout the whole process. I couldn’t properly focus on my A-Levels because I was so stressed about whether I would get in. It honestly affected my exams a lot. I’m a straight-A student and had gotten straight As throughout my O-Levels and in AS, but because of all the stress surrounding my application, I was unable to study properly in my A-Levels and ended up with Bs. Thankfully, I still met my LUMS condition, which was all I cared about in the end. But I was genuinely terrified that I wouldn’t.

And then I think about all the people who didn’t get in, especially gap-year students who applied for the second time and still got rejected. I genuinely cannot imagine how devastating that must feel. Waiting for months, putting so much hope into one university, and then getting a rejection at the very end must hurt like hell.

But honestly, I really believe that sometimes something simply isn’t meant for you. And that doesn’t mean there isn’t something better waiting for you. There absolutely is, even if you can’t see it right now.

A few years from now, you might look back at this and genuinely think, “Thank God I didn’t end up there.” Maybe God has completely different plans for you, and this rejection is just redirecting you towards something you would never have found otherwise.

You can excel from anywhere. A university can give you opportunities, but your potential, your hard work, and the spark you carry with you are what ultimately matter. So wherever you end up, don’t lose that spark. Keep going, keep working, and keep shining.

To everyone who got rejected: I know it probably feels like the end of the world right now. I can’t even pretend I know how it feels because I was absolutely terrified of being in your position. But it genuinely isn’t the end. It’s the beginning of a different journey, and hopefully, one that turns out to be far better than the one you had planned for yourself ❤️

Since i see a lot of juniors asking about how to get admission, what does and does not matter, I thought to make guidance post

What matters(priority-wise):

1. O levels

2. SAT

3. A levels(AS/A1 Internals)

4. EC's and P.S

Straight A's in O levels is always preferred over a student with some B's and a better SAT

for SAT, if your O lvls is good, you need just a 1400+ for SSE, if its not that good, then ofc the higher the SAT, the better the chances

A1 internals/AS matters, and then ofc you need a min of BBC, so I'd say A levels is still above EC's and P.S

EC's and P.S only matter if your grades and SAT are not good enough and that too will only get you accepted earlier, its not the deciding factor in most cases

Having said that with recent increase in students applying its always better to write a good p.s for which if you go to a college ask your counselor to guide you and if you dont use AI + youtube and PLEASE DONT WRITE A GENERIC ESSAY about your achievements, tell your life's story

A good guide my teacher gave me is start from a tragedy(of your childhood, can be financial/health crisis) then tell how you overcame it and then talk about how lums will help you succeed, make it sound personal, add references to professors and their research work

For ec's if you dont wanna put in work or you're too poor to afford many, its very easy to make small things sound huge, maybe help out your teacher at school get certificate for that kind of stuff or make up an ngo(just a page on insta) and say that you started this ngo blah blah blah

If you have an uncle with successful companies that do hire interns, do a little work there(or no work) and get a certificate

The thing is you ABSOLUTELY DON'T need any private/paid counseling or help

Just put in a little work, Pray to Allah (S.W.T) and InShaAllah you'll make it

Plus even if you dont trust me, it's LUMS not Harvard!!

This is a guide based on my personal experience ofc there can be unique rare situations that dont follow my priority list

Waitlisted and denied twice genuinely just don't waitlist someone when u just gonna shove up da seats up ur ahh. Ts admission committee ugh