UChicago (2022-2023)

[prisma burrow]

ik but compare that to instate Berkeley

[vocal eagle]

Does northwestern have an ed2 option?

Okay nevermind no they don’t

[onyx sedge]

Yea, NU has very basic application options

[radiant hawk]

aaa

[gentle maple]

wowow cmu and caltech earlies came out today

[warped river]

i hope uchicago becomes quirky and releases the results tomorrow

with no warning or anything

[gentle maple]

wholeheartedly agree

[vocal eagle]

Checking my application portal on every single break at work is a vibe

[radiant hawk]

my mind is portal astrologying

is this what desperation feels like

[gentle maple]

How come you’re checking the app portal so often? Shouldn’t we just wait for their announcement?

[vocal eagle]

Yeahhhh in just nervous LMAO

Im*

My Loyola portal randomly changed my requirements one day after not changing for 2 months so now I’m nervous

[onyx sedge]

Assert their dominance to their applicants by proving their quirkiness

[onyx sedge]

My uChciago portal did that awhile ago. I opened it and had a bunch of fin. aid docs to upload

[gentle maple]

Guys the anxiousness is settling in

[onyx sedge]

I just used the rejection sim to help with that

[radiant hawk]

for real

I hope we all get accepted though 🥹

[onyx sedge]

https://ivyhub.org/rejection-simulators/

[onyx sedge]

"hope"

Each day that erodes a little more

[radiant hawk]

we shall know within the week

[onyx sedge]

AGH

Scary

[radiant hawk]

I gotta get my essay writing mind ready for ivy regular decisions if I get reject

[onyx sedge]

Yea, I've gotta start prepping because I'm out of the state when all the apps deadlines are happening so I've got to get them done early

[radiant hawk]

😖

[frigid galleon]

haiiii :3

[dusk holly]

hi

gg its over

[frigid galleon]

praying for a miracle on dec 16

[dusk holly]

my friend said its 19

how do you know its announced 13

[onyx sedge]

We don't know when it is. Most of us are just speculating

[frigid galleon]

yea it's speculation

[onyx sedge]

One person on here knows someone at the admissions office, and they said it will be the 16th or 19th (Friday or Monday) based on when they get it done though.

[frigid galleon]

i think it'll be 16 given previous patterns but we don't really know

[frigid galleon]

yeah i saw on the uc hicago reddit megathread that they intend to release on the 16th

anyway good luck t-rex

[onyx sedge]

One of the two

[frigid galleon]

are you ED?

[onyx sedge]

Yes

[frigid galleon]

same same

what major?

[onyx sedge]

😭

Molecular Engineering

[gentle maple]

HOW MANY MORE COLLEGES YALL GOT TO APPLY TO

[frigid galleon]

goddamn okaay

smartass 🙄

[onyx sedge]

What do you mean?

[frigid galleon]

i'm joking

[onyx sedge]

It's just another major

What are you?

[frigid galleon]

cs

[onyx sedge]

have you seen chatGPT?

[frigid galleon]

yes

[onyx sedge]

Might want to reconsider that major lmfao

[frigid galleon]

i'm doing cs because i like it lol

[onyx sedge]

Or get really good at writing ML and AI

[frigid galleon]

idrc about the job market

[onyx sedge]

LMFAO valid

[frigid galleon]

i plan on pursuing a JD after undergrad

not even going into CS for a career unless i manage to do something cryptography-related or in academia

the job market for CS is too oversaturated it just isn't my thing

[gentle maple]

CS and JD…

[frigid galleon]

idk what i'm gonna do after undergrad tbh but i know i probably won't be pursuing a job in cs

i would love to get a jd though

i think that's most probable

[onyx sedge]

I'm planning to do research (not sure whether academic, commercial, or governmental) as well. I wish you luck

Cryptography is fun

What is a jd?

[frigid galleon]

juris doctor

law degree

[onyx sedge]

Oh, sweet

Are you looking to become a lawyer, or just get your jd so you can do law-related stuff?

[frigid galleon]

lawyer

[frigid galleon]

chatgpt is nothing new and AI/ML as a field is cool but oversaturated and can be somewhat boring

but molecular engineering damn you must be smart

[onyx sedge]

Yea, my only point is that with the way things are going we're going to see AI that is 10x as good at chatGPT or related software within the next 5 years.

[frigid galleon]

applied cryptography is a very fun field

[frigid galleon]

ehhh i wouldn't be that hopeful

[onyx sedge]

Okay, maybe 10

5 is a little bullish

[frigid galleon]

people have been saying we'll have AI replace humans for decades now

gpt et al won't be able to replace most categories of workers anyway

[onyx sedge]

Anyways, all I'm saying is that I'm scared for my friends that are going into CS and SE

[frigid galleon]

oh yeah

well

CS was a shit field for jobs even before the AI renaissance that's going on rn

too oversaturated

everyone and their mom is going into CS

imo there's more people than there is demand

[onyx sedge]

Thinking about how easy it is for chatGPT to manipulate and work with code (and all do it nearly instantly) and how this is only going to get far better as time goes on.

[frigid galleon]

language models are shit at writing code

[onyx sedge]

Agreed

[frigid galleon]

they often plagiarize too

not safe to use them that often

[onyx sedge]

Who cares if they plagiarize if it works?

[frigid galleon]

we do have software (see: github copilot) that assists humans in writing code

[frigid galleon]

copyright lawyers :KEKW:

oh i can't use emojis anymore bc i'm not a booster

fml

[onyx sedge]

Hahaha, that's fair, but I don't think we've seen many plagiarizing issues with chatGPT as of yet.

[frigid galleon]

chatgpt is literally just gpt with a thin veneer over it

[onyx sedge]

It's relatively good at writing code by itself

I am aware

[frigid galleon]

and we have seen plagiarism with gpt

many

many times

[onyx sedge]

Okay, but that was mostly writing correct?

[frigid galleon]

code

[onyx sedge]

Okay

[frigid galleon]

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2021/07/08/github-copilot-and-the-copyright-around-ai/

github copilot (based on gpt-3) often repeats code verbatim

can it write code? yeah, i suppose

[onyx sedge]

I feel like "often" may be overstating what the article was saying. It sounds like it relatively infrequent, though frequent enough to spark serious ethical questions.

[frigid galleon]

is it any good? sometimes, but often not really

[onyx sedge]

It's pretty good especially because it is capable of tweaking it's code with feedback

You can go through rounds of revision with it

[frigid galleon]

i personally do not use copilot

and i never will

i like writing my code myself

[onyx sedge]

That's not copilot, thats chatGPT

I've messed around with it.

[frigid galleon]

oh you're talking about chatgpt

chatgpt is eh

i haven't seen anything particularly special

[onyx sedge]

https://youtu.be/Luz82RG5PqA?t=3925

I would take a look at that Wan show episode

It talks a decent bit about it

[frigid galleon]

okaay i'm skimming

this isn't chatgpt

this is regular instructgpt

probably davinci

okay so he gets to chatgpt around 46:00

[onyx sedge]

I mean yes, but no

[frigid galleon]

okay i skipped to the part where he starts using chatgpt

[onyx sedge]

I updated the link so it connects to a part at 1:05:40

You might be more interested in that

[frigid galleon]

okay that is pretty cool

the results are somewhat impressive but it really isn't that surprising for openai and gpt-3 is already known to be pretty good at its job

oh wait that reminds me

i have like 20hrs of gpu credits with an rtx a4000 on this one platform

what should i do

[onyx sedge]

Dude, but imagine where it'll be in a few years. Not even actually. Imagine where it is right now, and we just don't know about it because they haven't shown us how much it's improved since 2020/2021

[frigid galleon]

i tried stable diffusion and gpt-2 (w/ koboldai) on it and it was okay

[frigid galleon]

i mean it's impressive but i seriously doubt the field of cs is in very much danger

[onyx sedge]

Do some ml in your spare time

Idk, render some stuff?

[frigid galleon]

nah lol

[frigid galleon]

i could

i've tried stable diffusion (furry art finetunes) and it was all ass

honestly didn't show much promise

then tried gpt-neo finetunes for fanfic generation (writer friend who writes fanfics was curious)

those were

surprisingly okay

like it outputs convincing fanfiction at times

and it's pretty decent

[onyx sedge]

My drumline friends were messing with it and it created an action-adventure with them in it. It was surprisingly convincing and fun, except for like one plot hole

[frigid galleon]

chatgpt or gpt-neo

[frigid galleon]

like they roleplayed with the AI?

[onyx sedge]

I'm not sure. They found some randomass website that creates them using probably some sort of gpt api

[onyx sedge]

Nah, it created a story. Like a short-form novel

[frigid galleon]

oh there are lots of those

[onyx sedge]

I'm aware. It's crazy

[frigid galleon]

i have personally messed around with gpt models tailored to writing stories

they can be pretty damn good

https://github.com/KoboldAI/KoboldAI-Client

[onyx sedge]

They have moments of brilliance and absolute absurd stupidity

[frigid galleon]

the TPU models are absolutely fucking massive

and decently fast to their credit

but i don't have a TPU and colab TPUs are kinda annoying to secure so recently i've just been messing with the GPU models

[onyx sedge]

Haven't had a chance to do anything with TPUs or GPUs :'(

How did you get the catboy role?

[frigid galleon]

nitro boost

[frigid galleon]

google colab

[onyx sedge]

Oh

I'll look into it

I'm gonna go eat dinner. Nice talking to ya

[frigid galleon]

nice talking to you as well

enjoy your dinner

[warped river]

guys im lowk getting stressed ab uchicago now

realistically theres like a .01% chance of me even getting in but still. this is my first actual decision (w the exception of my 2 huge safeties) so the rejection is going to hurt so much

[radiant hawk]

^

gonna make me insecure about all the rd and other earlies

[teal mauve]

One way I’ve heard of thinking about it is 10 10 10

Considering most of you are rational thinkers I’d hope your answers will be okay for this

But basically:

• how will this affect me in 10 minutes?
• 10 months?
• 10 years?

The first one may hurt

But as you go through the answers it should get better

Yeah

[radiant hawk]

uchicago is for irrational thinkers 🤓

[celest path]

10 min probs rough
10 months maybe regret maybe not but since then youve likely learned a lot
10 yrs probs dont care

[radiant hawk]

10 min sad not because of rejection because now i gotta do my regular dec essays
10 months too busy dying from college work to care
10 yrs what's uchicago again

[teal mauve]

Excluding college think about where you’ll be in 10 years

You’ll be able to drink
You’ll be able to rent a car without young driver fees
You’ll have progressed past undergrad
You’ll almost be 30

[radiant hawk]

"you'll be out of college"

people doing premed be like

💀

[teal mauve]

Well undergrad

[versed salmon]

phd candidates be like

[teal mauve]

Ok I’ll take it out jshsivdis

[daring steeple]

"you'll have a job" debatable 💀

[celest path]

My thing is i have a few other schools on my list id love as much as my ed

[teal mauve]

Ok better

[celest path]

So im holding out hope for rd

[versed salmon]

i love all the school’s i applied to but obviously some more than others

BUT i don’t obsess

[celest path]

Yess

[versed salmon]

i think the big thing is not obsessing

[radiant hawk]

gotta apply to corny cornell after

[daring steeple]

Thankfully I love one of my safeties so

[celest path]

Knowing both pros and cons is a very good thing

[versed salmon]

cause once u start obsessing ur done

[celest path]

Every school has a downside

Or something that doenst fit for u

[versed salmon]

what sucks about cornell is that all their state schools are very specific

like bro i don’t wanna go to cornell for hotel management

[celest path]

Cas is very open tho

[versed salmon]

but i also don’t wanna pay 2x as much

[radiant hawk]

also

[versed salmon]

It’s 40k vs 20k

[radiant hawk]

ithaca

💀

[celest path]

Oh

My cornell upside is ivy and majors i like and ppl i know and instate

Downside is ithaca and cornell

Ignore how cornell itself is a downside

[daring steeple]

The campus is pretty tho

[radiant hawk]

downside is ivy because i hate ivies

[celest path]

Its hard to see pretty with 5 layers of fog

Another upside my dad works for weill school

🤩

[versed salmon]

employee discount?

[celest path]

Cornell employee discount is 12k per yr to any school

I believe

[daring steeple]

Only 12k hmm

[celest path]

Any school tho

🥵

[daring steeple]

Wait like any university

[celest path]

Columbia is like fullride but only to columbia

Yea

[daring steeple]

Oh wtf

W

[radiant hawk]

wait what

damn

[celest path]

Lmao imagine i go to a school like 20k per year

[radiant hawk]

does that work for janitors too

[celest path]

Idk

[daring steeple]

5k-12k they pay you 7k

Just gotta find a low tuition school

[celest path]

Check w ur parents

I have a decent college fund too

College savings account

For tuition

[daring steeple]

Rich girl 😭

[celest path]

My parents made it when i was younger idk

It has a shitload of money rn 😭 probs cuz my mom makes us live like our income isnt 300k per year

We live like lower to actual middle class

Even though we’re comfortably upper mid

Its just the constant pennysaving

Lower westchester

Suburbs

If we lived in nyc i doubt we’d retain upper mid class

Nyc $$$$

[daring steeple]

300k 😭

[daring steeple]

Apartment prices there 💀

[celest path]

Its all my dad

[daring steeple]

I thought 300 was like upper not even upper mid 😭

[celest path]

Cuz physician plus published researcher plus assistant professor plus assistant professor in europe too

My mom makes like 15k on government salary as a teacher LMAO

Rest is breadwinner

Lmao nice

[daring steeple]

I think our combined is like 110

And my efc is 25k which everyone says is high

[radiant hawk]

im gonna make one for my children

[celest path]

I find it funny that when inputting my parent info on commonapp my dad only graduated from two separate universities whereas my mom went to like 6

[radiant hawk]

generational wealth ⭐

[radiant hawk]

"only"

[celest path]

Cuz physician

[dim nexus]

6?????

[celest path]

Undergrad and med

[radiant hawk]

my parents both graduated from one and their degrees are absolutely useless in the us

[celest path]

I mostly only said only cuz compared to 6 two is small

[daring steeple]

LMAO my dad's med license is useless here

[radiant hawk]

at least he has a med license

my parents majored in english 💀

they are at least somewhat related

[daring steeple]

so i'm guessing there's still no announced decision date

[ocean mortar]

yeah i havent heard anything

[celest path]

Is it just me or is uchicago marketing over the top

[dusk holly]

kaggle

[frigid galleon]

tf is kaggle

[dusk holly]

https://www.kaggle.com/competitions

you dont need custom gpus for their playground competitions

[frigid galleon]

i'm not

[teal mauve]

That’s why I said most

[dusk holly]

but youd be at a severe disadvantage if you're just using their P100s

[frigid galleon]

i was joking carly >:(

[dusk holly]

yo also whered u get a4000s

colab only offers p/v/a 100s?

[frigid galleon]

https://runpod.io

[dusk holly]

well theres also T4s but those are kinda bad

[frigid galleon]

i rent my GPUs

[dusk holly]

oh I c

[frigid galleon]

RTX A4000 seems to have the best price point to performance ratio

[dusk holly]

dont u have to set up a vm for those

[frigid galleon]

really fast and pretty cheap

[prisma burrow]

uchicago gotta stop sending me mail and postcards days before decision releases. it’s literally a waste of money on their part

[frigid galleon]

nope

it does it for you

plus there are templates

so like it takes a few secs to get stable diffusion running

[dusk holly]

yeah I heard jarvisAI is really cheap

[celest path]

Iton man

[frigid galleon]

i use runpod as my coworker knows the owner and it also happens to be cheap enough for my needs

[celest path]

Iron

[dusk holly]

idk I still have pro+ because its easy to use

jae r u also UC hicago early

[celest path]

Rd

Video and 750 essay was too much for me to do by ea deadline

😭

[frigid galleon]

i didn't do the video

[lilac bridge]

this actually seems rlly helpful

[frigid galleon]

im gonna eat bye nerds

oh yea i participated in a secret santa w the furry community at my local state school

fun time

[dusk holly]

pro+ is still cheaper than runpod

but idk ur preference

Um ig if u want a4000s specifically then yeah

[frigid galleon]

i already paid for runpod credits sooooo

[dusk holly]

sorry but how do a4000s compare

to uh

p/v/a 100s

[frigid galleon]

no idea

i don't do ai/ml

they're prob better though

[dusk holly]

wait then why r u buying gpu credits

[lilac bridge]

10 min: a denial from uchi def will hurt a lot, esp if it comes right after a denial from columbia
10 months: i'd like to think i'll be in a place that im happy
10 years: doubt itd even matter much ngl

[frigid galleon]

ai/ml

[dusk holly]

w0t

[frigid galleon]

okaay

not often

[dusk holly]

as in like

[frigid galleon]

im generating fanfic and furry art with this shit man

[dusk holly]

ur just trying to run stuff?

[frigid galleon]

yes

[dusk holly]

oh i c

how was base colab for ya?

[frigid galleon]

colab was good

i mostly did text synthesis with koboldai

[dusk holly]

so basically like

openqa seq2seq?

[celest path]

Our college counseling team is demanding we do it cuz its recommended

😭

[frigid galleon]

i think idk

[dusk holly]

me and my friend half assed ours

compared to the ones u find on yt

mine is actually bad

[celest path]

Tbh when the rep visited my school she was like

It can even just be abt ur favorite place to be

Its just a replacement interview type thing

[dusk holly]

i did my vid in 2 hours

[celest path]

How long does it have to be

[dusk holly]

or like an hour

[celest path]

Lmao

[dusk holly]

its 2 mins

[celest path]

Pls

😭

[dusk holly]

but I literally filmed myself cooking

[celest path]

valid tho

[dusk holly]

i mean u realize that uchicago is one of the schools that if u do literally anything they can call it quirky

or u can pass it off as quirky

[celest path]

Idk where to film my video cuz my home life is bad and its embarrassing at school

[dusk holly]

and I didnt care enough to put that much effort

[celest path]

Imagine i just record while walking my dog

😭😭

[dusk holly]

i had my dad hold my phone while I was cooking on the stove

[celest path]

Ill probably do mine in astudy room at school

Theyre a nice backdrop

Is there a prompt

[prisma burrow]

lol i didn’t do it either 😭

[celest path]

Or is it fr just submit a video

[dusk holly]

no

[prisma burrow]

i regret not doing it now but oh well

[celest path]

Shoot me

[dusk holly]

submit a video

[celest path]

Lmao

[dusk holly]

i mean I can send u mine if u want but its like so dogshit

[celest path]

Submit a 2 minute video. (recommended)

[dusk holly]

and maybe I send after decisions so I dont feel so bad

[celest path]

I think my friend asked for my help recording part of theirs

It was them throwing a book onto a chair.

.

[dusk holly]

idk some people do a quirky skit with their friend group and that takes too much effort

[prisma burrow]

has anyone gotten into uchicago without the video part?

[celest path]

Probably

But our counselors were demanding we do it cuz it hasnt been “recommended” till now

Or something

[prisma burrow]

ohh

[dusk holly]

jae u know uchicago rd is kinda impossible

or like that acc rates are omega deflated

or smt

[prisma burrow]

i mean tbf everything but ed is impossible

for uchicago

[dusk holly]

yes

i mean honestly I dont really care about getting in UC hicago

[prisma burrow]

which sucks but uchicago loves uchicago simps

[dusk holly]

cuz me and friends realized berkeley is better

[prisma burrow]

LMAO FR

i want to get in bc i applied solely bc my friend got in last year and i had a bet w her but we’ll see

[dusk holly]

@celest path are you fgli by any chance

because uchicago actually pays you out the ass if you are

[celest path]

Its not in my top 6 schools

And no

Im def not first gen and def not low income

I dont even have fafsa forms LOL

[frigid galleon]

i didn't do my video supp tbh

didn't have much to say on top my of my essays

and no means to record

[dusk holly]

no I think u could have gotten away with some some really stupid stuff

as long as you were confident in saying it

[frigid galleon]

no like

i had nothing to record with

[sage crow]

many people have lol, a video is just an option if you have something else you want to tell them that can't be told through your application

[frigid galleon]

no webcam and no phone camera

i was considering recording in vr but i was pretty sure i already talked about human-computer interaction in my app

so i didn't

[prisma burrow]

me too lmao

or mine were literally blurry beyond repair

[daring steeple]

Quirky

[onyx sedge]

Me too, but it's a hard target. I'm so scared to hear back from that one

[gentle maple]

Hehe I like this

[onyx sedge]

My parent's created a trust for my two sisters, and then... just forgot about me?

[gentle maple]

L parents

[onyx sedge]

Literally

I'm so pissed

[gentle maple]

Sexism

[onyx sedge]

I have no money for college cause they're stupid

Do you like my pfp?

[celest path]

Tf 😭😭

[gentle maple]

Is that a calc graph

[onyx sedge]

Hint: it was made in MS Paint lmfao

It is a T-Rex

[gentle maple]

o-

[onyx sedge]

My friend made it at like 3:00 AM as a joke

[gentle maple]

Interesting

[onyx sedge]

Yea. Not related to uChicago at all. I just wanted to share that

[gusty wind]

Hi

[dusk holly]

no phone camera?

[frigid galleon]

no man this phone costed $90

the camera is ass

[onyx sedge]

Hi

[daring steeple]

Grinnell is v fun :)))))

I love it here

[prisma burrow]

has anyone ever gotten a uchicago likely letter? apparently it’s a thing

[radiant hawk]

don’t think that’s a thing for ED

[vocal eagle]

Not to be a hater but I think we should dial down telling ppl it’s impossible to get in if they applied rd because it kinda incites anxiety and we’re all already really nervous lmfao

Literally all I can think about are these damn results, I feel like my result is genuinely going to be SUCH a toss up

[teal mauve]

I will send funny old a2c screenshots then to calm your nerves

[radiant hawk]

💀

[onyx sedge]

Thank you Carly. Just what we needed in this moment of desperation.

I want to know if those people got into uChicago because it would be more funny if they were all there now and their quirkiness was an indicator

[teal mauve]

UChicago?

More like

But no I don’t believe any go there

[onyx sedge]

Dang

[teal mauve]

I think first is at UMN, second isn’t in college, third is at Pomona, fourth idk

If they reject you remember they once decided to create this and this isn’t quirky enough

Why would you need to go to a school that had this as their number one faq question

[daring steeple]

now this was funny

[gentle maple]

lol quirkiness at its finest

[daring steeple]

Lowkey super scared atp

i feel like they're gonna surprise us because they still haven't released a date and we're 4 days out

actually, nvm

last year they posted a notification like 4 days before the release date

[teal mauve]

Or I could send you this where they say tuition is $22k a year

[daring steeple]

Why does this sound rude to me?

[daring steeple]

they are attacking dartmouth🤣

[teal mauve]

Dartmouth’s site actually looked okay tho

[daring steeple]

im talking about the way they said beer swilling throwback at some college campuses

[teal mauve]

Yeah ik

[gentle maple]

LMAO

[onyx sedge]

Last year they posted the date 2 days before their ED II deadline

[warped river]

hope they just post the decision already

they already probably have the info ready anyway sooo

wait guys we should do dares that we’ll do if we get in

[onyx sedge]

Two years ago, they posted their ED II date a day before releasing hahahaha 😅

[onyx sedge]

That is a horrible idea. I love it

[daring steeple]

Yeahh I'm just gonna wait for that confirmation and try not to stress then 💀

LOL I just got an email from uchicago and thought they actually released the date for a sec

[onyx sedge]

OMG

AND IT DIDN'T HAVE A SUBJECT LINE

I was so scared

[daring steeple]

right

[warped river]

OMG PLS

[warped river]

give me some outlandish dares pls

[radiant hawk]

didnt get any email from uchicago

😦

[warped river]

i keep getting spam from cornell 😭

[onyx sedge]

Cornell is crazy with their emails

[warped river]

frr

i need this to be replaced w a decision finally

idec that much ab uchicago but the anticipation is crazy

[onyx sedge]

Did you ED?

[warped river]

nah

EA

[onyx sedge]

Ahh, ok

[warped river]

you did ed right?

[onyx sedge]

I did

[warped river]

i love it when colleges stop sending you spam emails after you applied LOL bc now i get none from like santa clara university but I used to get sm

[warped river]

ooo i hope youll get in!!

[onyx sedge]

Me too!

Hoping, praying, and shitting my pants all simultaneously

[radiant hawk]

^

is this what superposition is

[warped river]

is anyone else applying to uchicago partially bc of makayla macgregor's youtube videos or is that just me lmao

[gentle maple]

Nah

Other people’s ones

Chloe tan and Steph ran

[warped river]

i swear they all make uchicago look so cool sometimes

[gentle maple]

Personally I think makayla’s are mid

[warped river]

blocked

jk theyre the ones that got me semi interested in uchicago

[onyx sedge]

I have seen some videos, but I'm applying because of Molecular Engineering and their awesome level of academic freedom for engineering students as well as their overall appreciation of liberal arts

[warped river]

oooo

lowk me too sort of

im like stem adjacent w econ

[gentle maple]

Academic weapons

If I get in

I’m making videos

[warped river]

can't wait to live vicariously through you

unless i also get in

which will be lovely

[onyx sedge]

Econ is not at all like ME (Molecular Engineering) lmfao

[warped river]

ofc

[gentle maple]

WE ALL GET IN LMAO

DUBS

[warped river]

i meant the intersection of liberal arts and stem LOL at uchicago

that would be fun

[gentle maple]

Marooners

[onyx sedge]

Gotcha. That makes a lot more sense

[warped river]

yeah you are crazy smart for doing ME tho

could never

if even 1/3 of us gets in that will be crazy

[gentle maple]

I don’t even know what molecular engineers do

Huh which one lol

[warped river]

wait im curious, did everyone who got the email do ed?

[warped river]

did u do ed or ea

[onyx sedge]

That's what I hear a lot. I don't think it is as hard as y'all think.

I did ED and got the email

[gentle maple]

ED

[warped river]

im just going to stick with my small graphs and pretend i understand humanity

[onyx sedge]

I don't think it's because we ED'd

[warped river]

oh nvm then

my theory is wrong

[gentle maple]

I did ED, which email did you get

Wtf

@onyx sedge WHAT EMAIL

[onyx sedge]

Yea, you do that. Predict what happens and then be wrong inevitably

[gentle maple]

IM FREAKING OUT HERE

[warped river]

lmao fr

[gentle maple]

No I did EX

ED*

[warped river]

maybe theyre sending it to ppl they're going to accept

oh the spam email

sorta

[gentle maple]

Why’d you delete the pic

[onyx sedge]

I may or may not have doxxed myself

[gentle maple]

Oh we don’t care lmao

[onyx sedge]

I know, but I do

[radiant hawk]

i only knew about uchicago through chicago school of econ

[onyx sedge]

Their school of econ is top notch

[radiant hawk]

ironically though im not doing anything econ for major

[onyx sedge]

Imagine being so prestigious that you have your own school of thought/approach to economics

[radiant hawk]

fr

[warped river]

i wonder who gets accepted to that school tbh

you gotta be crazy good

[radiant hawk]

got hooked on milton friedman before being hooked on keynes

[gentle maple]

@onyx sedge when’d you get the email

Wtf

[onyx sedge]

Like an hour ago

[gentle maple]

Why didn’t I get one

😡

[radiant hawk]

^

😠

[onyx sedge]

Not getting accepted, idk?

[gentle maple]

😮

@radiant hawk did you get one

[radiant hawk]

no

😦

[gentle maple]

Did you ED

[radiant hawk]

yea

[gentle maple]

OH. I

O NOOOO

[onyx sedge]

I was joking

[gentle maple]

You better be

[warped river]

no u might be right

we'll see

[gentle maple]

😡😡

[radiant hawk]

what was the email about

[gentle maple]

Something quirky and random

@onyx sedge send it again and cross out anything personal

[onyx sedge]

Writer's block

[gentle maple]

You self doxxer 😡

[onyx sedge]

It literally was just about how to get started writing essays

[gentle maple]

🤧

[onyx sedge]

You good?

[radiant hawk]

why would they send that

💀

[onyx sedge]

It was related to college applications

[radiant hawk]

is it to prepare us for regular decisions essays

😭

[onyx sedge]

OH NO

MAYBE THEYRE TELLING ME TO START WRITING MY RD ESSAYS

[radiant hawk]

I THINK SO

😭

[onyx sedge]

Oh no

Y'all lucky you didn't get it

[radiant hawk]

💀

[onyx sedge]

I know

I'm mostly messing around

[radiant hawk]

everything minute is like a sign of the gods to me right now

im that desperate

[onyx sedge]

Relax, it's going to be okay @radiant hawk

We got this. You put everything into your application. They'll see that

You got this

[radiant hawk]

panic

[gentle maple]

LMAO

GLAD I DIDNT GRT IT

🤓

[onyx sedge]

Lol

Did y'all apply for Financial Aid? It's from the fin aid office, so that could be why.

[radiant hawk]

I applied finaid

[onyx sedge]

Nvm

[gentle maple]

I did not

[radiant hawk]

im a broke mf

damn

[onyx sedge]

Me too

[gentle maple]

“Need blind” liars

[radiant hawk]

and ur pretty high income

[gentle maple]

How you know

[radiant hawk]

how rich u gotta be to be not requiring aid

[onyx sedge]

I need so much money, I hope they don't deny cause I seem too poor

I'm technically "high income," but my parents are divorced, so I'm really more like average

[gentle maple]

What is high income

What level is that

[radiant hawk]

im average if i put my parents together

[onyx sedge]

110K plus is what I consider it

[radiant hawk]

anything over six figures looks high income to me

[onyx sedge]

That's just because that is the upper limit for a lot of fin aid calculators and stuff

[gentle maple]

Yeah me not getting any financial aid

[onyx sedge]

Columbia emailing me, thinking I'll mutiny to them 💀

[radiant hawk]

lmao i just got that email

[onyx sedge]

Have y'all considered Columbia?

[gentle maple]

They didn’t email me- they don’t want meeee 😭😭

[radiant hawk]

no

i hate ivies 💀

[onyx sedge]

It's not that deep

[gentle maple]

I live in NY

[gentle maple]

Joking LOL

I go into the city twice or three time a month

[radiant hawk]

long islander

[onyx sedge]

I'm sorry for your loss

[gentle maple]

AAMEEE

WAIT are you a LIier or are you not

[onyx sedge]

What?

[radiant hawk]

sometimes i think northwestern is better for the part of chicago its in

intrusive thoughts

[onyx sedge]

Evanston is literally just a bunch of rich, old, white people

[gentle maple]

@radiant hawk are you a LI person

[onyx sedge]

Not a better part of Chicago

[radiant hawk]

im a oregon person

[gentle maple]

Oh

[radiant hawk]

literally no one lives here

[gentle maple]

NVMD GUYS I JUST GOT THE COLUMBIA EMAIL

[onyx sedge]

I was going to say. How does it feel to be the one person in the whole state applying?

[radiant hawk]

naaaa that’s gotta be only in wyoming

[onyx sedge]

Okay, maybe 2

3

[gentle maple]

Uchicago ED

[onyx sedge]

But still

[gentle maple]

U?

[radiant hawk]

his name says it all

[gentle maple]

oh…

Oopsies

[onyx sedge]

Lmfao

I feel like my name is misleading

[radiant hawk]

uchicago 27

[onyx sedge]

Maybe I need to add a ?

[radiant hawk]

probably got hooked by the dinosaur email a year before

[onyx sedge]

lmao

[gentle maple]

Dinosaur?

[onyx sedge]

Got hooked by a list of "the most rigorous universities" and uChicago was like 2 or 3

[gentle maple]

What does that mean

[onyx sedge]

No, that's why I feel like the name may be misleading

[radiant hawk]

uchicago sent an email about dinosaurs a year ago

they send it every year to juniors

[warped river]

lol imagine having to change it in a week 💀

[gentle maple]

🦖

[onyx sedge]

I remember that

[radiant hawk]

search for it

[gentle maple]

DAMN

[onyx sedge]

Good point

[warped river]

no actually youre doing it right

positive manifestation

wait have you guys gotten in anywhere yet

[gentle maple]

DOUND IT

[warped river]

LMAO

[warped river]

omg i remember that one

[gentle maple]

I’ve gotten into state safeties so far

[warped river]

so quirky of them

[onyx sedge]

The U of Minnesota, that's about it lol

[warped river]

same

[onyx sedge]

So, nothing serious

[gentle maple]

Stony brook and U Buffalo

🦾

[onyx sedge]

GG

Waiting of CWRU and uChicago rn

[radiant hawk]

got into umn too

[gentle maple]

What’s cwru

[onyx sedge]

Then, based on where I get in I'm applying RD

[gentle maple]

Is that case

[hollow badge]

case western

[gentle maple]

Okok

[radiant hawk]

gonna cost me 20k per year after scholarships and etc (oos)

[gentle maple]

Rippp

[onyx sedge]

That's not TOO bad, especially given that they're a pretty good school

[radiant hawk]

yea

[onyx sedge]

But yea, not great

Well, I guess it depends on what you can afford

[radiant hawk]

minnesota is the worst midwest state though

[onyx sedge]

Iowa?

[radiant hawk]

ok 2nd worst

[gentle maple]

LMAO

[onyx sedge]

Missouri?

[radiant hawk]

is missouri even midwest

i thought that was just south

[onyx sedge]

Yes, it is

What about kansas?

[hollow badge]

yes

[hollow badge]

when ohio exists ??

[onyx sedge]

MN is definitely not great, but better than some

[radiant hawk]

my definition of midwest in my brain is just the states in the northwest ordinance

oh wait mn wasn’t even in that either huh

[onyx sedge]

Carleton and Macalester are both great

[radiant hawk]

missouri is misery

[onyx sedge]

Missouri is pretty rough, ngl

[radiant hawk]

i like ohio

[hollow badge]

😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[radiant hawk]

illinois on top though

wisconsin next

[hollow badge]

wisco on top

[onyx sedge]

Michigan 3rd

Ohio and Indiana tied for 4th

Mn 6th

[radiant hawk]

so true

[hollow badge]

mn > ohio > indiana

[lilac bridge]

ohio > indiana > mn

[onyx sedge]

Wait, I actually agree

[radiant hawk]

minnesota doesn’t have columbus

[onyx sedge]

Natalie, you're wrong

[hollow badge]

minnesota has great hiking and lakes

[lilac bridge]

illinois best midwest state

[onyx sedge]

Ohio has only CWRU and OSU

[radiant hawk]

“great hiking and lakes”

[hollow badge]

hey i’m a midwest kid

[radiant hawk]

midwest mfs don’t know anything about hiking

[onyx sedge]

Take that back before you regret it

[hollow badge]

😒😒😒

[lilac bridge]

fr

[radiant hawk]

cascades >>>

west coast has the best mountain ranges sorry

[onyx sedge]

https://www.ci.columbus.mn.us/

[radiant hawk]

midwest is just FLAT

[hollow badge]

we straight up don’t have mountains .

[radiant hawk]

💀

[hollow badge]

well . we do

[onyx sedge]

WE HAVE COLUMBUS lmfao

[hollow badge]

wisco has us madison

UW

[onyx sedge]

I'm mostly just fucking around, but techinically we do

[radiant hawk]

that’s why wisco #2

[onyx sedge]

The twin cities is > Madison

Madison is okay

[radiant hawk]

madison > twin cities

[dusk holly]

@teal mauve do u recommend cooking in college

[hollow badge]

madison > twin cities

[dusk holly]

or like only eating dining halls

[radiant hawk]

milwaukee sounds so much cleaner than minneapolis

[hollow badge]

we have cheese curds

[onyx sedge]

From what I know, it can be hard to find time and the equipment/space to. It's also hard to afford it. That being said, the people that I've talked to that cook in college generally enjoy it

[radiant hawk]

though minneapolis does have the best airport

[onyx sedge]

That's all Wisconsin has

The only thing Wisconsin has that Minnesota doesn't have, but better, is cheese

[radiant hawk]

praying uchicago food is good

this is also why i want to go to umass instead but

[onyx sedge]

I hear it's pretty good

[radiant hawk]

i can suck it up for four years

[hollow badge]

door county and washington island and . whatever up north means

[radiant hawk]

wisconsin has moose’

[ocean mortar]

i have a feeling that that email is just a standard random one

[onyx sedge]

Lake superior has some great sailings spots up near duluth...

[onyx sedge]

It is, we're just being overreactive for fun.

[hollow badge]

we also have bears crawling around town

[onyx sedge]

That is a solid con

[radiant hawk]

that is an instant downvote

[onyx sedge]

Yea, no

How is that a flex?

[hollow badge]

i was kidding

[onyx sedge]

Oh, ok

Anyways...

We are the #3 college ED/EA thread for activity

[hollow badge]

wooooo

only cornell above

as expected

[onyx sedge]

Cornell is at 5.5 K messages omg

[radiant hawk]

erm

dartmouth is #2

[hollow badge]

:0

[onyx sedge]

Dang

I missed that

I'm sorry. I failed you all

[warped river]

slayy

we're doing pretty well

[onyx sedge]

Yea, idk if a high level of Discord activity is a good or bad thing, but ya know, it's a thing we're good at

[radiant hawk]

so quirky

[onyx sedge]

lol

[warped river]

so uchicago

[radiant hawk]

you can’t have fun in uchicago

[onyx sedge]

Our high level of anxiety qualifies us 🤩

[radiant hawk]

i bet they use slack there instead

[onyx sedge]

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised

[warped river]

slack is literally like writing an essay through one of those bots that just takes info from other ppls essays

[radiant hawk]

💀

chatgpt

[onyx sedge]

Have y'all used it?

I had it write a resume for me

Pretty decent actually

[hollow badge]

nah but it actually looks half decent

from posts i’ve seen

[warped river]

ik an irl who used it

[onyx sedge]

It's super cool that it can do revisions to it's work

I'm going to try and use it on to write some stuff for a homework assignment soon and see if it works

[radiant hawk]

my essay writing skills pale in comparison

[onyx sedge]

lol

[radiant hawk]

so i will never use it to keep my self esteem up

or any shred of it

[onyx sedge]

bao, I don't know if that bodes well for your applications

[warped river]

LMAO

[onyx sedge]

It's a computer 😭

[radiant hawk]

im being outdone by a computer

[onyx sedge]

That's tough

I can help you get better at writing. I'm halfway decent

My english teacher thinks I write well, so that's a plus

Do y'all think your teachers are genuine when they compliment you, or they just say it to be nicee?

[radiant hawk]

they are doing it to be nice

[onyx sedge]

pog

[warped river]

just nice

but maybe they might be genuine in a way

lmao fr

[vocal eagle]

Steph ran is the goat

I watch all her videos

[onyx sedge]

!yale

[delicate bone]

Yale Decision Date

Yale's decision date is <t:1671141600> in your local timezone
3 days, 23 hours and 1 minute until the decision date

[onyx sedge]

!uchicago

[gentle maple]

L

[onyx sedge]

!chicago

Lame

!universityofchicago

I am beyond disappointed

[gusty wind]

yaLe

[gentle maple]

LITERALLY

[radiant hawk]

!uchicago

[onyx sedge]

Does anyone here know anything about the PME program at uChicago?

[radiant hawk]

!harvard

[onyx sedge]

!yale

[delicate bone]

Yale Decision Date

Yale's decision date is <t:1671141600> in your local timezone
3 days, 22 hours and 54 minutes until the decision date

[radiant hawk]

only yale

!cmu

[onyx sedge]

!berkeley

!princeton

[radiant hawk]

!uiuc

[gentle maple]

stop!

Uchicago best school

[radiant hawk]

what if they reject you

then its the worst school

[gentle maple]

True!

[onyx sedge]

False?

Means they're more prestigious because they won't take someone as stupid as me :'(

[gentle maple]

Other way around

[onyx sedge]

I'm joking, but also kind of not

[warped river]

day 1 of begging uchicago to post its decisions

🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏

[gentle maple]

TRUE!!

[warped river]

IM BEGGING U CHICAGO

see what i did there 😼

[gentle maple]

😶‍🌫️

[onyx sedge]

That was quirky

[warped river]

so quirky

[onyx sedge]

Yea, overflowing

[radiant hawk]

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS UUUU(Chicago)

[warped river]

LMAO FRR

[onyx sedge]

Someone pin that

[onyx sedge]

@celest path You should pin that

Y'all stop spamming emotes

[gentle maple]

Never

[warped river]

ok if i get accepted or deferred from uchicago, i'll write my yale short takes as the most cringe quriky things ever

if not, i'll take them more seriously

[gentle maple]

lol

[radiant hawk]

are you EA

[warped river]

yeah

[radiant hawk]

that makes more sense

[warped river]

this is my way of taking my future apps seriously

idek why im on this thread sm as an EA applicant but oh well

[radiant hawk]

if i got accepted to uchicago i would have just thrown out everything else

(mostly why i ed'd)

[warped river]

i envy you ed ppl bc of that lol

i wouldnt have gotten enough fin aid to be able to ed ngl

[radiant hawk]

i just hate ivies 😭

[warped river]

LOLL

valid

[radiant hawk]

wha

uchicago is good for finaid tho

unlless int'l

[gentle maple]

Why ivy hate

[warped river]

yeah but like im in that weird slot where it would be enough technically but not enough in the sense that I would feel ok letting my parents pay sm of it. if i was the only one paying it, i'd be fine

[warped river]

bc theyre gonna reject me jkjk

[radiant hawk]

eastern seaboard is just

wack

[gentle maple]

LMAO

[radiant hawk]

it gives rich people

[warped river]

yk my life would be so great rn if i was a legacy kid

imagine being a legacy to an ivy or smth

[radiant hawk]

i gotta manifest that for posterity

but i hate ivies so i hope it wont happen and i just go to uchicago

[warped river]

fingers crossed for u <33

[vocal eagle]

what are yalls second choices if you get rejected this week?

[radiant hawk]

uiuc

uw madison comes out earlier tho

[hollow badge]

madison

[gentle maple]

Duck man

[steady flame]

aa I'm literally so worried for UChicago EA even though I'm pretty sure I'm gonna get rejected lol

[gentle maple]

If I don’t get into Uchicago ED my best chances are at Cornell UMICH or ucla

[steady flame]

Oh nice nice I also applied to UMich : )

[ocean mortar]

washu scholarships

i applied EA to macalester, UMich, and UW-Madison too so i look forward to those

may apply RD to UIUC

[onyx sedge]

You can withdraw from an ED acceptance if you don't get enough fin aid, or you can haggle the price and say you need more to be able to go.

[lilac bridge]

same

[onyx sedge]

Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland

[lilac bridge]

technically uchi is my second choice but my third is barnard

[onyx sedge]

Madison is like my 3rd backup 😭

[ocean mortar]

yes but there's no rule saying they have to help you out lol

[gentle maple]

What’s your first?

[lilac bridge]

columbia, i EDed there

[gentle maple]

Ohhh. Cool

[onyx sedge]

There is no rule, but from what I know once they accept you they are usually pretty willing to try to make it work

[sage crow]

I would not ED to a place you can't afford in hopes they'll lower the price ^^;

[onyx sedge]

Obviously, they won't give you free tuition, but I would imagine they'd be flexible enough to cut off a few K

[gentle maple]

OMG CAN THEY JUST RELEASE THEIR DECISIONS

I EITHER NEED URGENCY TO DO THE RD ONES OR A NICE RELIEVER

[warped river]

RIGHT

LIKE JUST RELEASE PLS

[gentle maple]

frrrr

[daring steeple]

EA

I figured lol

Seems like stuff they just send on normal mailing lists

Has anyone here done any summer scholarship programs with them

[warped river]

lowk think they kicked me off their mailing lists after i submitted my app to them LMAO

cause ive gotten no emails since

[daring steeple]

maybe it's going into spam or something

[warped river]

nah only cornell lives in my spam

[onyx sedge]

Where they belong lol

[warped river]

LMAO

[celest path]

hi

i have a question

why can i put a minor as a first choice academic focus on CommonApp for UChicago ?

cuz im looking at health and society

and its a minor

[radiant hawk]

they dont really matter

since they dont admit by major

[celest path]

ISEE

thank u

lots

[warped river]

recommendation: never read your essays after you submitted them

[radiant hawk]

i agree

[warped river]

because what was I on when i wrote uchicago's why us essay

"which will allow me to study patterns other than my isolation and assimilation within this male-dominated field." girlie what

[radiant hawk]

imagine your AO is male 💀

[warped river]

BRO

gonna cry

my ecs and LORs and stats better save me