UChicago (2022-2023)

[onyx sedge]

Y'all, fuck uChicago, let's all go to Bates instead

Tired of this bs

Gonna withdraw my application

[radiant hawk]

TMI

TMI!!!

[onyx sedge]

I feel this

[vocal eagle]

im going to ball state university

[onyx sedge]

Never too much information

[frigid galleon]

haiii :3

[onyx sedge]

I'm going to fucking (worst University in the states) University

[frigid galleon]

bark

[onyx sedge]

I'm in a bad mood, sorry

Ignore me

[frigid galleon]

i am not a guide dog

[onyx sedge]

Incorrect, you are a guide dog

[frigid galleon]

wh

how

[radiant hawk]

uchicago uchicago uchicago

[cursive grail]

i wonder that about mine too

[frigid galleon]

you can't just not answer the question

[onyx sedge]

I've been in a ball contemplating my life decisions up until now, didn't see you asked a question

[frigid galleon]

ah

yes i asked how

[onyx sedge]

Idk, I just said it

Sometimes I disagree just for the sake of doing so (sarcastically)

[frigid galleon]

oh

[onyx sedge]

Also, I thought it was funny

Autocorrect going crazy tonight

[radiant hawk]

so bored

[radiant hawk]

uchicago does this and screws everyone over with 21st decision date

[onyx sedge]

Lol

I'm gonna kms

:)

The further away this date is, the less sarcastic that becomes

...

[onyx sedge]

Me too Ihso

Me fucking too

[radiant hawk]

i want to suck a banana

[onyx sedge]

Uhh

[radiant hawk]

how fast can one suck a banana

whats the guiness world record for that

[onyx sedge]

Not making the joke

NOT making the joke

[radiant hawk]

kirby joke?

[onyx sedge]

...

No

Don't worry about it

[radiant hawk]

too much jpop for a non anime watcher

[frigid galleon]

this song is "i wanna be a girl" by mafumafu

pretty decent song

mafumafu's voice is great

listen to that piano man

[radiant hawk]

yoasobi yoru ni kakeru is the best japanese song

[frigid galleon]

yoru ni kakeru is pretty good

but i disagree

[radiant hawk]

i disagree with your disagreement

[frigid galleon]

i disagree with your disagreement with my disagreement

[radiant hawk]

my words are supreme so it doesnt work

[frigid galleon]

i have part of the lyrics to this song memorized

[radiant hawk]

hikaru nara is also good

[gritty idol]

goose house

100

who’s ichiko aoba pilled

[frigid galleon]

i'm just gonna randomly switch to a completely differeent genre to discombobulate you

[gritty idol]

UNIVERSE

[radiant hawk]

whos joe hisaishi pilled

i love coldplay

😎

[gritty idol]

para please assimilate bao

[frigid galleon]

fuck

[radiant hawk]

what are you trying to say

[frigid galleon]

genre switch again

get owned

nerd

[radiant hawk]

i like this genre too

get owned

[frigid galleon]

anyway i'm going to bed

good night

[onyx sedge]

In terms of numbers of applications: UVA ED +25% , Williams ED +25%, JMU +30%, UGA +25%

That is still absurd to me

Fucking insane

[warped river]

it’s insane

esp considering this is ed

[onyx sedge]

Yea

RD is gonna be CRAZY

[warped river]

like no shotgunning or anything technically

FR

[onyx sedge]

Maybe we need to just not apply RD

[warped river]

idk this is probs going to be a super hard college app cycle ngl

fr

[onyx sedge]

Go to a local community college

[warped river]

LMAO

[alpine sun]

Uva is becoming more and more of a reach school so irs ed going up makes sense

If anything wouldnt higher ed levels in this range be good for higher reaches like chicago?

Due to less ed’s left

[warped river]

but even santa clara university and uofO have both gotten increases in apps EA i believe

[onyx sedge]

Yea, it all makes sense, just concerns me what uChicago's is gonna look like. This kind of increase would explain why they've been so weird about announcing the date this year

[warped river]

i bet there was a ton of apps

[onyx sedge]

I hope not

[warped river]

idk it’s going to be so much more competitive fs

[onyx sedge]

Don't say that 😭

Aghhh

[warped river]

every year it honestly gets worse 😭

[broken mason]

The thing is yeah college admissions get more and more competitive each year

[alpine sun]

In 4 years it will drop significantly

[warped river]

it’s like inflation ngl 😭

[broken mason]

We’re at the point where the top 10 schools have 5% or under acceptance rates

[warped river]

FR

[radiant hawk]

why is there so much competiiton

[broken mason]

so what’s it gonna be soon

[warped river]

.05%

[radiant hawk]

i should have been born like 4 years earlier

[onyx sedge]

No, I think it is more indicative of the fact that more people straight up are EDing places because they recognize it improves their chances

[warped river]

fr

[alpine sun]

Later*

[warped river]

i would have done so well if i was born a bit earlier

[alpine sun]

2008 had a drop in kids

[broken mason]

Hell no

[alpine sun]

Thats been sustained

[warped river]

nah later is going to be even more comp

[broken mason]

Oh

[alpine sun]

Acceptance rates will most likely increase

[warped river]

there’s middle schoolers doing calculus rn

[broken mason]

Yeah it’s insane

[warped river]

i was born at the wrong time i swear

[onyx sedge]

My sister was doing calc as a middle schooler

She was like 5 years ahead

[warped river]

WHAT

[onyx sedge]

Literally took a year off because she was so far ahead

[warped river]

that’s insane

[onyx sedge]

Yea

[alpine sun]

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/the-highlight/23428166/college-enrollment-population-education-crash

[onyx sedge]

I was similar, like a year ahead, but they wouldn't let me skip anymore, so now I'm stuck in Calc BC

[broken mason]

I’m the opposite

I started as math 2 in high school and climbed my way to multi variable

Made it out the slums

[onyx sedge]

Damnnnnn

The counselors at my school kept telling me that it was literally impossible to do math outside of school and skip a year...

[broken mason]

I’m not sure if I wanna take discrete or differential next semester but tbh I think I’m just gonna chill

[onyx sedge]

Turns out they lied to me because they let a friend of mine go out to Harvard and take Calc to jump a year

I'm pissed

Would've been in Multivariable this year...

[broken mason]

Yeah we don’t offer it at our school so I took it at UNC

Ended with a 92

[onyx sedge]

Ooh nice, we alternate Calc 3/4 every other year at our school

[broken mason]

For reference A is 93

Calc 4??

[onyx sedge]

Yea, idk

I forgot the legit name, but we call it calc 4

[broken mason]

Advanced calculus?

[onyx sedge]

Potentially

[broken mason]

Which is different it’s just proving calculus

[onyx sedge]

I don't think so, but maybe?

[broken mason]

All higher level math classes is just proofs I’ve seen

I have a friend who took multi sophomore year and was doing some stupid shit by junior

he ended up graduating early and is a freshman at Stanford right now

6 days

@slate flume

[onyx sedge]

What about abstract and linear algebra?

Are those proof-based?

[broken mason]

Linear algebra isn’t what I’d call higher level

Like it’s very high level

[onyx sedge]

Check pins

[broken mason]

But by higher level I mean like

Stuff that’s required for math degree

Perhaps even graduate level math

[onyx sedge]

I'm pretty sure linear algebra is

[broken mason]

Well ofc it is but how do I explain

[onyx sedge]

If it exceeds high-school level math (let's say Multivariable for the purposes of this), then I consider it high level

[broken mason]

Math after a certain point isn’t really learning new equations and stuff like we have right now

[radiant hawk]

Wchicago

[broken mason]

that’s fair enough

[daring steeple]

linear and multi are around the same level id say

[onyx sedge]

True

[daring steeple]

diff eq is higher tho

[broken mason]

Linear and multi are around the same level yeah

Linear I’ve been generally told is a tad bit easier

But I wouldn’t know

[daring steeple]

but yeah esp if u look at logic and number theory its lots of proofs

[onyx sedge]

Oh yea, our calc 4 class is diff eq

[broken mason]

oh

That makes sense

Diff Eq is a really important math class

Wait

[onyx sedge]

I bet, wish I could take it

[broken mason]

You said they alternate between 3/4?

[onyx sedge]

Yea

It's weird

[broken mason]

You can’t take diffy without multi

[onyx sedge]

They find a way to do it. I think they teach some of multi to teach diff

I'm not sure on the specifics b/c I'm not in the class

[broken mason]

I see

[onyx sedge]

But they make it work

[broken mason]

Yeah cus @ UNC multi is a prerequisite for diffy

[onyx sedge]

Yea, they don't have enough demand for both Multi and Diff, so I think they worked out a deal with the local comm. College they do DE through so they can make it work every other year

[broken mason]

I see

Yeah my high school is lucky cus UNC is relatively close so we have the option to take classes there

Our school doesn’t actually offer anything higher than BC

[onyx sedge]

That's awesome

Dang

But you get to take UNC classes, so that's cool

[broken mason]

we have a class called Topics which is interesting

But it’s really just AP stat with calc

[onyx sedge]

Oh

[broken mason]

It’s cool until that tuition comes thru 😭

It costed me 1.4K to take multi at unc

[onyx sedge]

Hahaha

BROO

That's absurd

[broken mason]

Yeah its really fucking high for no reason

[onyx sedge]

AP Calc seems like a much better option now

$80 versus $1,400

[broken mason]

My point exactly

My school had severe grade deflation tho in terms of the calc classes

[onyx sedge]

I can imagine

[radiant hawk]

it paid off

[broken mason]

Always the most bullshit questions that i had never seen before ever on the homework or anything close

I’m glad to report that UNC math actually give exams that are similar to the homework level questions

[onyx sedge]

That's how my calc class is being taught rn. They give us questions that we don't know how to solve that are due the next day in class, and then they teach us how to solve them in class the next day

It's weird as hell

[broken mason]

Yeah that’s how it is 😭😭😭😭

For us tho it was like

They teach use the basic concepts

[onyx sedge]

It's fucking weird

[broken mason]

And then throw us a crazy word problem

This was worst in optimization

[radiant hawk]

optimization 💀

[onyx sedge]

Tonight they literally just gave us the homework and a key and made us learn how to take the antiderivative of complex functions on our own

[radiant hawk]

related rates wasnt worse?

[broken mason]

But they’d teach us basics of optimization and then slam us with the calculate amount you need to row your boat, and then walk on land

[broken mason]

Related rates was pretty chill iirc

That shit was just find an equation and then derive with respect to a variable

[radiant hawk]

ig thats true

optimization uses related rates doesnti t

[onyx sedge]

Related rates is not bad at all

[radiant hawk]

i dont even remember ab anymore

[broken mason]

I only know how to do calc 3 optimization now

[radiant hawk]

kekw

[broken mason]

Which is even worse

[onyx sedge]

No but we gonna talk about how I had to teach myself how to take the antiderivative of complex functions

That's bs

[broken mason]

I forgot all my BC shit lol

[radiant hawk]

i forgot all my bc stuff and im not even in calc 3

[broken mason]

Anti derivative of complex functions is a different beast

[radiant hawk]

just doing stats cuz no calc 3 💀

[onyx sedge]

I KNOW

Tonight was not a good night

[broken mason]

I took stat calc physics c csa in the same year and damn near shit myself

That’s that 7 AP workload grindset 🧠

[onyx sedge]

That is only 4?

[broken mason]

That’s 5

[onyx sedge]

Stats, calc, physics, csa?

[radiant hawk]

i did calc, physics c, lang, envsci, and econ last year

[broken mason]

And I also took Lang and Chinese

But Chinese don’t count

[broken mason]

Physics is 2

Mechanics and E&M

It’s 2 classes at my school

[radiant hawk]

oh my school only counts physics as one

😦

[onyx sedge]

I'm doing Calc (AB/BC), Physics c, econ (micro/macro), and DE English

[radiant hawk]

i bombed my e&m ap exam

but uchicago doesnt need to know that

[broken mason]

I went godmode on e&m and sold mechanics

[radiant hawk]

by sold do you mean got a 4 on mech

[broken mason]

Who am I kidding I just got the easy test form

[radiant hawk]

💀

[broken mason]

yeah I got the 4,5 split

[radiant hawk]

thats no sold

💀

[broken mason]

33% 5 rate

[radiant hawk]

your definition of average is a2c standard

[broken mason]

I tried so hard on mechanics

Where’s that link in park song

I tried so hard and got so far

But in the end, it doesn’t even matter

[radiant hawk]

suffered from the junioritis right before the exam

[broken mason]

I can’t even lie I was getting junioritis as well

Cus all my friends were seniors

[radiant hawk]

💀

[broken mason]

Soooo

[onyx sedge]

Me too

[broken mason]

Ok it’s 2AM and I’m gonna catch the sleep of all ever

[onyx sedge]

Okay goodnight

[radiant hawk]

gn

[broken mason]

I expect to wake up to UChicago apologizing for misstating the admission decision date and it being moved up to Friday

🔥💯⁉️

[radiant hawk]

FR

but it doesn’t matter for u

smh

[broken mason]

smh I care too

[radiant hawk]

smh bros literally recruited

[onyx sedge]

What

[onyx sedge]

Got a likely letter?

[onyx sedge]

How

[radiant hawk]

ramen recruited for track

rizzed up the coach fr

[onyx sedge]

Damn

Gave 'em that Gluck Gluck 9000?

[broken mason]

⁉️

I woke from my sleep for that comment

[onyx sedge]

HAHAHA

[radiant hawk]

💀

[onyx sedge]

Ramen doing whatever it takes out here

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS8FkR9CF/

Should I pin that?

[tight nimbus]

ITS BEEN MOVED UP TO DEC 21???? KILL ME NOW ISTG

[autumn hull]

was it earlier last year or smth?

[radiant hawk]

same date as 2020

2021 was earlier

[tight nimbus]

last year it released on the 17th 😭

[buoyant nova]

!UChicago

[ashen wadi]

Amazing

From what I've heard MIT does have a furry group but it seems fairly small

[onyx sedge]

@teal mauve Any way we can get a countdown timer for the release date? Could you set it to Dec. 21st at 4:00 PM CST?

[teal mauve]

Don’t want people to think there’s a full date when there’s not, sorry

[onyx sedge]

But there is?

You mean because of the specific time?

[magic oar]

6 more days

[magic oar]

Isn’t there an exact date now?

[teal mauve]

When I say exact day I mean with time

There’s no time

[magic oar]

Ahhhhh

[teal mauve]

Only day

[magic oar]

mb

[daring steeple]

"Late afternoon"

Not much there

[gentle maple]

Sigh

@teal mauve did you apply there or are you just like discussing with us high school pleebs

Oh Nvmd

Someone pinged her

[bleak hornet]

I’m so ready to get rejected next week

[gentle maple]

NO

Accepted*

[bleak hornet]

But I’m still gonna manifest an acceptance or at least a deferral because I’m obsessed

[radiant hawk]

If we collectively manifest

we can all get in

[onyx sedge]

Me :)

[vocal eagle]

I was just chatting in the college talk thread for like 10 minutes and I thought I was in the uchicago thread

I was like wow there’s lots of new people here

[frigid galleon]

bork :3

[frigid galleon]

everyone is a uchicago applicant

[broken mason]

I was wondering why you were there

anyway

[frigid galleon]

MIT does have a furry group with a telegram and shit but it's pretty small

on the other hand, cal has an entire RSO

[broken mason]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-monkey-banana-eating-sad-gif-6230069

[frigid galleon]

https://twitter.com/berkeleyfurries

they're also a registered 501(c)(3) apparently?

[vocal eagle]

My goofy ass

[frigid galleon]

it's ok biscuit

welcome back home

[vocal eagle]

question is it really that big of a deal to drop my social media to any of you if we get in

Not saying I will but like how bad is that

[frigid galleon]

i don't use social media so

it wouldn't matter to me 💀

[vocal eagle]

Do you use Spotify or anything

[frigid galleon]

yep!

https://open.spotify.com/user/481sw88h51p1dqe37jm9wuexc

[vocal eagle]

the occasional radiohead and pierce the veil is funny hahaha

[hot crag]

bork

[gray geyser]

W taste

[frigid galleon]

i have interesting tastes sometimes

[frigid galleon]

woof ^w^

[frigid galleon]

ty ty

[radiant hawk]

we should follow each other

[frigid galleon]

send me your spotify

[hot crag]

woof woof

[frigid galleon]

bark >w<

hai fizzle

[magic oar]

Hello

Just got done with a bullshit AP lit midterm

Why was every prompt in archaic English

What are y’all’s second choices

[radiant hawk]

umass

[frigid galleon]

chilling after my psych final rn

[frigid galleon]

reach or safety 💀

[frigid galleon]

yeah i took my ap lit final last period lmaoo

[hot crag]

neu

but atp idk

[hot crag]

bonk owo

[frigid galleon]

ruff UwU

[frigid galleon]

if we're speaking reaches, cmu

i don't have high expectations for cmu though

given how bad SCS was in the ED round i seriously doubt i'll make it in ED2 but fuck it

[onyx sedge]

Case Western Reserve University

[frigid galleon]

awoo

[hot crag]

woooo

[frigid galleon]

is duolingo any good or should i just dual enroll to learn

[frigid galleon]

awooooooooooooooooo

[hot crag]

awoooooooo

[frigid galleon]

awoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo >w<

[bleak hornet]

University of Rochester

[warped river]

omg guys you all ready for the uchicago ea application withdrawals today???

[buoyant nova]

😻😻😻

[warped river]

i hope everyone gets into their ED school today!!!

[buoyant nova]

Yeah exactly
I wish them luck

Theoretically it is possible that only 20% of EA applicants will stay

[warped river]

i hope that is what happens tbh

[buoyant nova]

That's good for everyone

[lilac bridge]

manifest for me

[buoyant nova]

Ofc

[junior burrow]

As an EA applicant, this is what I'm hoping for 🙏

[buoyant nova]

I'm an EA applicant too, but I don't have an ED school 😿

Hopefully we have chances

[junior burrow]

But let's say a kid who got accepted EA to UChicago withdraws their application today after they got into their ED. Does UChicago, within the next couple days, give someone else their EA acceptance? Or is there not enough time to do so and they'll just leave that space open for RD applicants?

[buoyant nova]

I hope so
At least we'll get deferred
In any case it's better for us

[gentle maple]

I hope it’ll be better

[buoyant nova]

Is it still saying they're finalizing the results? In the portal

[gentle maple]

They’ll probably give some more spots and it can be in either pool

[gentle maple]

No clue

[buoyant nova]

Or they have tons of applications this season and what to perserve normal acceptence rate

Every year Uchicago gets more and more ED applicants

[gentle maple]

Yes they are still finalizing

They’re trying to help their yield a little bit

Cause accepting those who ED to other places and getting in is pointless

So I think it is overall beneficial for us

[brazen comet]

Where did you ED

[buoyant nova]

Will share the date when it's finilized😪😪
Anyway it won't hurt our chances
The problem is less time for RD

[brazen comet]

the date is already finalized

[buoyant nova]

Yeah so most probably they've finilzed our appreciation decisions

[daring steeple]

I hope everyone got in to their ED today 💓💓💓💓

Speaking from the heart

[warped river]

nowhere bc im instate for cal and ucla and i’d rather go there bc of the price and everything

[hot crag]

ty

[stone cosmos]

i think its this

they r waiting

[warped river]

yeah hopefully

[daring steeple]

I can’t wait to see what this chat looks like in six days

[warped river]

same lmfaoo

[magic oar]

Wait what lol

Oh wait

Yeah hopefully every single EA applicant got into their ED 😁

[lilac bridge]

hoping i get into my ED 😭

[daring steeple]

I’ve been manifesting more for you to get into Columbia than me to get into UChic

[lilac bridge]

if i get into columbia i'm withdrawing my uchi app immediately for you

[daring steeple]

You’re so real for that 😭😭😭

If they want their yield to be super high, they should def admit me

[warped river]

fr

[magic oar]

Me too

juuuuust helping w stats

I’m really hoping that I can get into Rice RD

Is there a big difference between a priority interview applicant and a normal interview applicant

for EA or ED

[warped river]

ngl i think you might be right pandora

or somewhere near

[autumn hull]

sorry I'm late to this but Omg all the vocaloid and jpop n future bass I love

[frigid galleon]

tyty

i also have youtube playlists with songs

https://www.youtube.com/@parabirb/playlists

[autumn hull]

sobs at ur powapowa-p playlist he is my fav voca producer

[hot crag]

W

[frigid galleon]

powapowap is grea

t

[autumn hull]

yeah

also I see the One (1) happy hardcore track in one of ur spotify playlists, it's my fav genre lmk if u want any reccs :3

okay sorry i love music a lot I will stop being off topic now

[broken mason]

For real

[brazen comet]

I think its so that other people withdraw lol

[radiant hawk]

uchicago uchicago uchicago

daddy nondorf

[brazen comet]

who is EA again

EAers are you planning to go ED2?

[gray geyser]

maybe, we’ll have to see

[daring steeple]

im ea

and yes, i plan to ed2 if i dont get into northwestern

[warped river]

i'm ea and im not going to do ed2 tho

[radiant hawk]

gonna whore with ed2

they better see my commitment

[warped river]

LMFAO

bao, ur going to get in ik it

[radiant hawk]

💀 doubt

[frigid galleon]

calm down

[radiant hawk]

I can’t

[hot crag]

same

[frigid galleon]

Upload a letter of continued interest through your UChicago Account or email your regional admissions counselor.. If UChicago remains your first choice, don’t hesitate to let us know! We don’t need a novel...

if i get deferred

i'm just going to write a fucking uchicago fanfic novel

and email it to them

[radiant hawk]

you said you wouldn’t

your mind changes everyday

[frigid galleon]

not me x ao

i'm not shipping myself with the ao.

[radiant hawk]

that would be cool

[frigid galleon]

my stance on shipping with AOs and steamy scenes remains the same: no

also i will not send anything if i get rejected

[radiant hawk]

no point sending anything when you get rejected

[frigid galleon]

exactly

but if you're deferred

you need a LOCI..

[radiant hawk]

I’m writing a love poem if I’m deferred

not necessarily to the AO

[onyx sedge]

I'm writing a journal entry if I get deferred

[radiant hawk]

nothing to lose if I’m deferred

[frigid galleon]

it will be a wholesome family-friendly fanfiction of uchicago and peer schools

[radiant hawk]

boring

[frigid galleon]

you can ship yourself with AOs and write NSFW shit if you want

but i will not

[radiant hawk]

what if I ship the AOs with historical figures

I’m a genius

[frigid galleon]

oh god

if you submit that your AO's gonna start bolting their doors at night 💀

[radiant hawk]

I’ll submit it anonymously

[onyx sedge]

Then how does that help your application lol

"This is for application #1739, but not written by the applicant"

[frigid galleon]

lmaooooo

[frigid galleon]

on second thought if they defer me they don't deserve a novel ❤️

[radiant hawk]

it will make the AOs tremble for deferring me

they missing out on literary prowess

[frigid galleon]

bao's AO after seeing an email titled "[Deferral LOCI] Steamy You x George Washington Fanfic (Must Read) (Published on Wattpad)"

https://tenor.com/JSfl.gif

[radiant hawk]

it will be a normal email

😤

[onyx sedge]

"TOTALLY normal email, nothing suspicious at all. Please read all the way through."

[radiant hawk]

it’s like a historical mashup

[onyx sedge]

If you want to think of it that way

I was gonna say "Romantic Historical Fiction"

I am experiencing true Chicagoan weather rn

'tis fun

[radiant hawk]

I wish

6 degrees C here

and it’s cold enough

[onyx sedge]

Relatable

[radiant hawk]

"relatable"

trex has gone from a dino to a furry

[onyx sedge]

Lmfao, no the shock and awe of seeing furries is what is relatable

[frigid galleon]

and aww

nice wordplay

[onyx sedge]

Thanks?

I'm confused

[frigid galleon]

it's awe

[onyx sedge]

Ohh

[radiant hawk]

shock and aww

[frigid galleon]

shock and awwwwww that's cute

[warped river]

guys we’re on here 🤩🤩🤩🤩

[onyx sedge]

Yayyy

[radiant hawk]

6 days

[frigid galleon]

we're famous!!

[teal mauve]

I have like 5 other schools im supposed to add

But they’re not that large

[radiant hawk]

we gotta be inclusive

[magic oar]

We won

[radiant hawk]

!yale

[onyx sedge]

Yale just got posted

[radiant hawk]

man i wish i was one of those people

[warped river]

omg yay hope a lot of them applied early to uchicago!!

but bro imagine getting accepted to yale

[magic oar]

FR

I bet there’s a lot of overlap

I know someone who applied to UChi and Yale and went to Yale

Hoping there’s about 5000 of those people

[radiant hawk]

FR

[magic oar]

I bet at least 2% of Uchicago EA just got into Yale

For some reason I think that brown and Uchi would have overlap

[gritty idol]

L

[radiant hawk]

FR

[frigid galleon]

bark

[radiant hawk]

we gotta eliminate all the acceptees

[frigid galleon]

haiii :3

[radiant hawk]

bonk

[frigid galleon]

why are you bonking me qwq

[radiant hawk]

furries gotta be bonked and muzzled

[magic oar]

Realistically in this entire thread 3 of us get in

[radiant hawk]

ramen already got in

[magic oar]

So like

[radiant hawk]

so thats one

[frigid galleon]

woof

[magic oar]

2 left

[brazen comet]

You can't EA Uchicago and Yale together

[frigid galleon]

can't catch me

[brazen comet]

so why would it even matter

[magic oar]

Y’all wanna death battle

[radiant hawk]

oh right you cant ea to private institution if u rea

right

[frigid galleon]

isn't there a finaid exception

[magic oar]

If I get deferred

One less person in the RD pool

[warped river]

oh yeah im so stupid forgot ab rea rules

nvm then

[magic oar]

If we get deferred it’ll be easier

[frigid galleon]

there is not

[frigid galleon]

uchicago is a state school sweatie,,,, (slash jay)

[warped river]

💀

[frigid galleon]

uichicago

[gritty idol]

https://tenor.com/view/when-gif-25510152

[radiant hawk]

uchicago is just city university of chicago hyde park

[frigid galleon]

CUC HP

[daring steeple]

real lLOL

[daring steeple]

real

[warped river]

fr its going to be someone who barely talks too who gets in

watch

[daring steeple]

University of Illinois Hyde Park

[radiant hawk]

yea cuz the ones that dont talk are the geniuses

[frigid galleon]

i think i'll get in (not)

[radiant hawk]

💀

[warped river]

yeah theyre the ones who are actually busy

not semi busy to where you still have time to chat

[frigid galleon]

guys what's the most strategic top school to ed2 to

considering cmu but scs admissions are BRUTAL

cmu rejected the smartest kid i know ed

so might not be for me

[frigid galleon]

don't say uchicago

[radiant hawk]

uchicago

[frigid galleon]

i will choke you

[radiant hawk]

try me

uchicago on top

[frigid galleon]

okay i'll bottom no worries

[gentle maple]

actually tho

uchicago

[daring steeple]

Guess who just finished her last fall semester?

[radiant hawk]

me

[magic oar]

Boutta stop talking

[vernal junco]

you guys ready? just 5 days 22 hours 19 minutes and 45 seconds

[magic oar]

Don’t remind me man

[gentle maple]

cmu, emory, pomona, tufts, swathmore, vandy, and washu

[magic oar]

It’s gonna get worse with every decision

[brazen comet]

what about uchicago

[frigid galleon]

vandy has ed2?

[gentle maple]

uhcicago is actually the best

[vernal junco]

is case a bad ed2 if you're already uchicago tier

[gentle maple]

depends on your "tier"

[magic oar]

I might try ED2ing to washu but it depends

[vernal junco]

well I mean would it be reaching too low

idk if it's good or bad

[magic oar]

Is it ur 2nd choice

[gentle maple]

depends on whether or not you really want to go there

[vernal junco]

well I don't like it in a lot of ways but it's basically the one I will likely go to

[gentle maple]

if you do, then ed2 is quite ez

[vernal junco]

since it'll help my career

[magic oar]

What’s ur 2nd choice

[vernal junco]

honestly idk, maybe northwestern but that's too much of a reach for me

[gentle maple]

@vernal junco but i think you should be fine with going RD and still getting in as long as you show passion

[magic oar]

Dude

[vernal junco]

I just worry I shouldn't take the risk or not

[magic oar]

How is Northwestern too much of a reach if ur applying to UChi

[gentle maple]

oh some i forgot to include for ED2: johns hopkins, harvey mudd, northeastern, and NYU

[vernal junco]

well I mean for regular decisions time I don't know if I should take the risk and just not apply to case ED or not, since if I don't get in RD for case I'm fucked

esp if I don't get in to the other reach I want to get into

[gentle maple]

i personally would take that risk

but up to you and your family, also ask your guidance counselor

[vernal junco]

I might, gonna have to talk with my counselor about that

I wish I had applied EA for case tho just so I could know

[gentle maple]

bruh

[vernal junco]

although at the time I was planning to do ED2 so I thought it would be better

[onyx sedge]

My close friend just got into Yale 😲

That's crazy

[vernal junco]

damn gg

[brazen comet]

if u get defered ED1 can you do ED2 technically

[magic oar]

5 days until any of my decisions come back

[vernal junco]

I got into miami today so at least I got my safeties

[magic oar]

Why can’t rolling admission at an 80% school be like 1 day auto admit for me bro I just wanna feel safe

[vernal junco]

what safeties do you have

[magic oar]

Wisconsin, Alabama, like 3 I’m forgetting

[gentle maple]

Ubuffalo, Stony Brook, and Bing

[autumn hull]

me w my 2 safeties 🧍

[magic oar]

Where at

[ocean mortar]

i have schools that are probably safeties for acceptance but not for finaid

it comes down to scholarships

[autumn hull]

unr (state school) and drexel

[vernal junco]

I honestly gotta seriously start applying to scholarships since I'm behind on that

[autumn hull]

felt

[ocean mortar]

lol same once exams r over

[magic oar]

How do you just

Apply to scholarships

[autumn hull]

i've missed so many scholarship deadlines

[ocean mortar]

and my RDs

lol same

[magic oar]

like non-school specific?

[vernal junco]

I got my last exam today

[vernal junco]

scholarships.com is the best option imo

[autumn hull]

i use bold.org to find them and i follow scholarship pages on insta lol

[magic oar]

Ur shitting me

oh

wtf

why did I never know this

[vernal junco]

ye they just have a list of scholarships and how to apply

[ocean mortar]

me neither wtf 💀

[vernal junco]

and they personalize it to you

[magic oar]

Is it safe

[autumn hull]

ofc

[vernal junco]

ye it's the most safe website out there

pretty well vetted

my counselor recommended it to us, and iirc it's pretty popular for getting random scholarships

[magic oar]

How much will it help

[frigid galleon]

fun fact

there's a typo in the uchicago blog post announcing the decision date

[vernal junco]

it'll help a ton with finding them easily

[frigid galleon]

Upload a letter of continued interest through your UChicago Account or email your regional admissions counselor..

two periods

[vernal junco]

could be an ellipse

[frigid galleon]

nope

[radiant hawk]

Ellipse are three

[frigid galleon]

it's only two periods

one is bold

and one is not

so it's probably a formatting error

[vernal junco]

yeah prob

[magic oar]

These scholarships could be the difference between not being able to go to a school and getting to go

[frigid galleon]

uchicago has made very few changes to their ED announcement since last year

EXCEPT

last year, it said this

Worry about meeting us. We do not make decisions based on whether or not a student has visited or engaged with our virtual programming. While we would certainly welcome you to check out a virtual info session or other online event to learn more about us if you still have questions, you are in no way obligated to do so. Following the steps listed above is all that’s needed to indicate your continued interest.

[magic oar]

cause I can’t really get need aid but still can’t really afford

[frigid galleon]

this year, it says this

Worry about meeting us. We do not make decisions based on whether or not a student has visited or engaged with our virtual programming. Following the steps listed above is all that’s needed to indicate your continued interest.

[warped river]

love the new edit ❤️

[radiant hawk]

they don’t want us at their online events anymore

[frigid galleon]

that's basically the only major change

[magic oar]

This shit makes me mad

Cause like

why can’t college just be free bro

[frigid galleon]

other than that it's the same letter except with the dates and years changed

[magic oar]

Do most colleges auto sign you up for merit stuff

[vernal junco]

definitely, although it sucks when they have essays

[magic oar]

Cough cough tulane

[vernal junco]

the big strat is to apply to a lot of smaller scholarships and hope you get a few, since the big ones are like the lottery

[vernal junco]

most do although some don't

[ocean mortar]

this taco bell one looks 🔥 tho even tho it's pretty big (25k)

[vernal junco]

doesn't uchicago cover 100% of demonstrated need?

[ocean mortar]

it's definitely doable for me

[ocean mortar]

keyword demonstrated

[vernal junco]

I gotta start applying to that shit soon

[vernal junco]

ye

[magic oar]

And now they consider the cost of your house in there

[ocean mortar]

but yeah i definitely will bulk up on these little scholarships

[magic oar]

“You can just sell ur house then u can afford our school”

[ocean mortar]

im renting🎉

[magic oar]

Yeah me too

The bulking that is

[ocean mortar]

when harvard asked for my fucking car 💀

[vernal junco]

I don't think you can get rented for the first two years

for uchi

[magic oar]

Do a lot of the scholarships on that website have essays

Or just lottery type stuff

[vernal junco]

some do, you need to check the requirements

[ocean mortar]

bc when it comes to NPCs, i typically get tuition covered and it's just dorms so it'll be like 8-18k expected of me, which my family is willing to pay 10k a yr so i can hopefully get some little scholarships here and there

[magic oar]

Tomorrow is gonna be a scholarship bulk day

[vernal junco]

honestly I wonder if chatGPT would be useful to start mass pumping out scholarship essays

because those are less risk than actual college essays

although there is the worry of plagiarism

[ocean mortar]

i would run it thru a plagiarism checker first

and even then i'd be worried bc it's just a frankenstein piece of text

[vernal junco]

well ye but there are also some bots that can sometimes detect whether a prompt is made by GPT

[ocean mortar]

ah

[gentle maple]

Just don’t lmao

[ocean mortar]

yeah

[magic oar]

I’m praying that I can end up at a good school and can pay for it

[vernal junco]

imo it would be good to get the base down and ideas down and just touch it up yourself

[ocean mortar]

my NPC for brown is 0 i wish i ED'd there

[ocean mortar]

trueee but my style is distinct

[magic oar]

I think my NPC for everywhere is just the average tuition

I have 0 demonstrated need

Unless colleges consider siblings

[vernal junco]

I just hope I don't run out of time for these scholarships since a ton of them have already finished

[gentle maple]

NPC???? What that

[vernal junco]

net price calculator

[warped river]

lmfao i thought of the other npc

[vernal junco]

lmaoo

imagine you just have to ask the uchicago NPC how much you have to pay to get in 💀

[warped river]

LMFAO

[magic oar]

Same

[vernal junco]

like imagine there's just that one NPC that repeatedly blocks you from walking onto campus, and just circles along with you

[warped river]

lmfao thats para

you just gotta buy him a collar and then the npc leaves you alone

[vernal junco]

the guard dog

[warped river]

YEAH

😭

[vernal junco]

btw I never asked, but how tf are you writing 39 essays lmao

how many are you applying to

[warped river]

well i basically maxed out on the common app slots

so more than 20 if we count the UCs

thankfully i’m applying to a bunch of LACs / ones who don’t have app fee

[vernal junco]

is it a good idea to apply to that many schools? I'm only applying to like 7-8 on commonapp

like I'm applying to a bunch of reaches for RD because I don't need safeties rn

[warped river]

nah it’s probably not a good idea. i’m just doing it cause a) idk what type of school i want and b) idk where i’m going to get in

[warped river]

ooo that’s smart. i think i have 2 safeties that cost 0 dollars to apply but i might not apply there if i don’t get to writing their essays

rn cal tech and stanford are the ones who are making that essay count go so high tho

[vernal junco]

honestly I just applied to safeties that have no essays

I don't know much about my safeties tho tbh

[warped river]

that’s smart ngl

[vernal junco]

the only two I know a little about are pitt and OSU

[radiant hawk]

UChicago does???

[vernal junco]

here's my list

[warped river]

l think i have like 5 safeties so i’ll probably kick some out if i get into the one that’s coming out today

[vernal junco]

I haven't started at all on RD but I gotta start tomorrow

[radiant hawk]

I like uchi since it doesn’t ask for house value

[vernal junco]

now that I have break I can do a ton of work on that

[radiant hawk]

[vernal junco]

I don't think I'm going to apply to stanford tho since I don't have essays, and I have no chance of getting in anyways

it used to be my dream school but eh I dropped it since no shot

[radiant hawk]

gonna shotgun so hard for RD

[warped river]

same. my mom is making me apply to stanford so i might apply

idk tho

[vernal junco]

my counselor just told me to apply to harvey mudd even though I don't know what harvey mudd is

[alpine sun]

thats a lot of reaches

[vernal junco]

he tried to get me to apply to a lot of random colleges I had never heard of

[warped river]

my parents think i’m going to get in everywhere just bc i’m at the top of my class. like mom there’s sm more than just grades

[vernal junco]

like pomona, occidental, shit like that

like tf is the accidental college

[warped river]

it’s a pretty good LaC (??) but stem-y

very small of a school

[alpine sun]

pomona is good

[vernal junco]

yeah lol, I don't have too much of a need for safeties and I don't know too many, but I applied to OSU and if I get in that's just my main safety

[radiant hawk]

Amherst college would be a w

[vernal junco]

no point in applying to 30 safeties and 1 reach, it's much more useful to apply to 1 safety and get in and apply to a ton of targets and reaches

[alpine sun]

University of Illinois Hyde Park is my safety

[vernal junco]

based

is UIC good?

I know UIUC is competitive but I don't know too much about either of those schools

[alpine sun]

https://tenor.com/view/jinx-the-cat-jinx-jinx-cat-cat-computer-gif-25786466

[daring steeple]

My strategy exactly

[vernal junco]

I honestly should know more about college admissions lol

half of the time when people talk about universities I don't know whether they're random or prestigious

like I didn't know that upenn was an ivy before lmao

I thought it was just a safety state school

[magic oar]

Idk where

Some school a friend was talking abt

[warped river]

penn state

[vernal junco]

ye I didn't know the difference

also, I thought miami university at oxford was oxford university in miami florida

I didn't know ohio had an oxford lmao

[alpine sun]

!yale

[vernal junco]

yale came out today I think right

[hollow badge]

yeah

[magic oar]

Yeah

[vernal junco]

I just hope I get in uchicago so I don't have to deal with all this RD bull

[daring steeple]

Damn, they dropped it two hours ago while people were still in school. Brutal

[magic oar]

Me too

Well

Actually my top pick is Princeton

But I won’t get in there

[vernal junco]

my top would be stanford, and I was going to REA but my counselor subtly told me it was a bit unrealistic

[alpine sun]

SUNY ithica

[vernal junco]

like I was hyped for stanford since freshman year but eh had to change it

[warped river]

can’t wait till upenn comes out tn!

i was gonna do ed there but chickened out

[vernal junco]

I wish I had known more about college since freshman year since my app would be much better if I did

[warped river]

considering wharton and uchicago econ, i think there may have been some ea overlap

[hollow badge]

i have a friend who applied to penn … praying for him 🙏

[vernal junco]

hope he gets in!

[daring steeple]

I just check Yale’s chat. The place is DEAD

I wonder how long until Columbia dies

[onyx sedge]

Soon

It's only a matter of time

[vernal junco]

yeah lmao

[warped river]

same tbh

[daring steeple]

The rizz ☠️

[warped river]

i don’t have much hope

[vernal junco]

dude my AO needs to clutch up fr

[daring steeple]

Yeah I’m just like it’s whatever

[radiant hawk]

oh phew

[vernal junco]

nah you gotta have hope

[radiant hawk]

there is no hope

only doom

[vernal junco]

(inb4 we all get rejected) lmao

we gotta start pulling when we get to uchicago lmao

[radiant hawk]

rizz up the AO

[vernal junco]

true, that's the way to get into not only uchicago

[radiant hawk]

all the kids who get into ivies are gonna be high school rizz gods soon

I’m saving this

[daring steeple]

What is the absolute worse thing y’all would do to get into UChic

[vernal junco]

Rizz University instead of Rice

[daring steeple]

Yes

[radiant hawk]

rizz up an ao

[daring steeple]

This is exactly what I said ☠️

[radiant hawk]

💀

[broken mason]

I’m just realizing

It must be excruciating to watch other people live your dream while you get deferred or rejected

[radiant hawk]

ramen realizing he is a rizz god

[broken mason]

Feel bad for some of those yale boys

And girls

[broken mason]

This too

[vernal junco]

100% true

[broken mason]

I did indeed just realize that I’m rizzing out all jits 💯💯😼

LOL I have the same photo

[vernal junco]

like you see someone who has just slightly better ECs than you and then feel bad about it for the rest of the week

[broken mason]

My rizz comes from singing the same yeat line

[radiant hawk]

gotta bag an ivy kid

[vernal junco]

I remember worrying after seeing some bay area kid's ECs

[broken mason]

Y’all know the one

[vernal junco]

like I started panicking and trying to work harder

[daring steeple]

For sure. No way I’m talking to y’all after Tuesday haha

[broken mason]

They say yeat you keep evolving, how you so steady with it

[radiant hawk]

I don’t care anymore now

🥹

[vernal junco]

and bro was not helping since he was trying to study for the MCAT

[onyx sedge]

Wednesday*

[radiant hawk]

I can’t ever beat Bay Area

[vernal junco]

there are just some circles who are toxic academically tbh

[broken mason]

At a certain point it’s just

Imma focus on me

And better myself

[vernal junco]

same, I gotta get lifting before I go to uchicago so I'll be efficient when I get there

[broken mason]

Cus I used to get depressed with I see people cure cancer their freshman year and then win all the olympiads or some shit 😭

[radiant hawk]

btw rest of ivies in 5 minutes

hehehehehehehehe

ahahahahaha

I think I’m going insane

[vernal junco]

it was honestly a big worry of mine since I don't have any leadership and very little awards

[vernal junco]

lmao let's see this server implode

[radiant hawk]

UChicago could have been today 🥹

fr

[daring steeple]

Nah, Tuesday. If I don’t get in I’ll be really hard to see all the I got in messages from some of you geniuses

[radiant hawk]

^

unless I get into umass

then I will live

umass is my maginot line rn

[onyx sedge]

That is fair enough

[vernal junco]

let's all mutually agree not to send that we got in and celebrate here, since we don't want to pummel it in for people who may not get in

[broken mason]

Sounds good

[daring steeple]

Sounds perfect

[radiant hawk]

celebration area for the celebration

1 minute for the early birds

[vernal junco]

damn we're about to see #✨-celebration-station implode in a minute

[onyx sedge]

Everyone, put your decisions in the #✨-celebration-station, not in this channel. Let's use this specifically for talking about the process. Let's try to avoid putting decisions in here for those of us that don't make it in.

[daring steeple]

Tbh, looking at the celebration area explode makes me happy we have to wait

It seems chaotic

[hollow badge]

ahahahahaha

[vernal junco]

ye lmao

[radiant hawk]

I wish i was the happy person in celebration area

[hollow badge]

same…

[vernal junco]

same

fuck man it's gonna suck to get rejected

[daring steeple]

Bro these celebrations are making me jealous

[vernal junco]

same

I gotta start shotgunning now lmao

[onyx sedge]

Bro

[radiant hawk]

time to write essays

[daring steeple]

At this point I’m starting my RDs tonight

[onyx sedge]

#✨-celebration-station is popping off rn

[vernal junco]

ye

mad jealous rn

[onyx sedge]

5 Columbia admits?!

[daring steeple]

Right!!

[onyx sedge]

Crazy

[daring steeple]

Wtf

[radiant hawk]

A2C be like

[magic oar]

Wow

[daring steeple]

Who tf got into yale though

[lilac bridge]

so uhm

[onyx sedge]

Like 3 or 4

[daring steeple]

I've heard there's people here but haven't seen any

[lilac bridge]

uchicago i love you please take me

:(

[daring steeple]

Natalie, no

[onyx sedge]

They were at 3:00 PM today so go awhile back in the history. Check the Yale channel too

[lilac bridge]

i got rejected from columbia 😭 i need smth to go my way

[daring steeple]

If I can’t manifest for you, I’m so screwed

Oh ok

[hollow badge]

woah

[daring steeple]

I hope my call to admissions and my 10 mins long convo with that AO, and the constant emails I sent to my AO, and my optional video are seen as strong demonstrated interest 😭

[onyx sedge]

I feel that on so many levels

That's literally me

[vernal junco]

we need a miracle next week

we need to all get in

idc about 5% acceptance, we need to all get in

[daring steeple]

Literally it was me otp panicking about how my school refused to do my school report and stuff and I hope that didn’t affect my application and they said it was fine

We are A2C, the biggest feeder community 😭

crazy how at least 5 ppl here will get into uchicago at least LMAO

Guys I have to get in. I can’t go to UT Austin like the other top 10% of my class 😭

Please UChic, I just don’t want to be basic

sometimes I be thinking it’s not that hard to get into top schools because of this server, but then remember this is only like representative of less than 10% of the applicant pool 💀

[vernal junco]

LET'S HOPE

[broken mason]

It’s crazy how we’re gonna get 100% application acceptance in this chat

Right????

Right????

[vernal junco]

dude the actual tryhards aren't on A2C, they're out here studying even rn

[magic oar]

YEAH

[lilac bridge]

im just gonna do my stats homework and go to bed like i just

wow

[daring steeple]

RL LMAOO

[lilac bridge]

holding out for next week

[daring steeple]

im gonna go to bed late so I can wake up right before decisions LOL

[broken mason]

I need to write 8183828 Christmas cards for my teachers

[daring steeple]

im so scared to open my northwestern decision tmr

[magic oar]

crazy how I might not even go to Uchicago even if I get in cause idek where I’m gonna go

[daring steeple]

Literally going to sob if I get in or don’t

[vernal junco]

bro is going to hibernate for the whole week

[radiant hawk]

manifesting your decision so you can withdraw uchicago

[daring steeple]

Real

[broken mason]

Yeah real talk I’m bouta just hibernate for the next 28372873627727372763 hours and wake up 1 minute before UChicago decisions

[vernal junco]

dude I'm more worried about how my exams went vs uchicago

idk why

[radiant hawk]

idgaf about school

im the opposite

💀

[daring steeple]

Im trying to get into Evanston University and University of Illinois Chicago: Hyde Park Campus 😩😩😩😩

[radiant hawk]

i need uchicago now

[vernal junco]

imo it'd be worse to get accepted and rescinded than to get rejected at all