ALL UC MEGATHREAD 🐻🐮🐴🐻🐱🐶🔱🤠🐌 (2022-2023)

[pallid ermine]

better than sekiro for first timers

[cyan aspen]

Ok then well imma do in May then cause my laptop rn has intel hd graphics which obvi cannot run it.

[pallid ermine]

sekiro has one philosophy- hesitation is death

elden ring also has one philosophy- Let us learn together and move forward

id pick the latter

lmao

[vestal turret]

same

ive always wanted to play

but i know im not that ype of guy

to play these games

ive always tried getting into them

never succeeded

[cyan aspen]

I've been stuck with intel hd for like 10 years till now

[vestal turret]

im more of a comp/pvp guy

[cyan aspen]

Gonna buy a laptop in us this may for both college and gaming

[pallid ermine]

souls is uni directional
elden ring and sekiro are more open and hence better

[cyan aspen]

And play games up until august

[cyan aspen]

Yea same. I only really played open world games and like csgo

[pallid ermine]

then elden ring

is

literally perfect for you

just give it a shot after may

[cyan aspen]

Yea. Gonna buy a zephyrus g14 in us. Perfect for both gaming and college since it's small and light

Gonna play shit ton of games like mafia definitive elden ring red dead 2 and sorts

[pallid ermine]

yup

alright

gn

[cyan aspen]

Gn

[bitter zephyr]

I bought a MacBook Air

[cyan aspen]

Yea that's good for college. Thing is
I wanna game
I hate apple

So yea this makes sense for ke

Me

[calm atlas]

which uc are u going to lol

i dont think wanting to game is a realistic idea

🤣

[cyan aspen]

Probably none xd. I just applied cause free application

[cyan aspen]

That's fair

[calm atlas]

bruh

[rotund socket]

💀 🔫

[calm atlas]

Nacho still going

Poor dude

[regal grove]

Yeah

Im gonna eat him for lunch

To prevent him from suffering

[rotund socket]

💀 🔫

Bro some kid at my school with a slightly lower GPA got waitlisted cs at ucsc

Dude made a fucking ai

[regal grove]

🤸‍♂️

                       🦽🏌️‍♂️

[eager violet]

You are

[crude flint]

Chase Atlantic

[regal grove]

🤸‍♂️

                       🦽🏌️‍♂️

[rotund socket]

Every cs person got waitlisted at my school

From ucsc

[zealous sinew]

so did I. They don't care what you did, but rather its impact

[rotund socket]

True

[vestal turret]

mhm?

[rotund socket]

Ucsc acceptance rate is gonna be half of last years

Newsom abt to rage

Told ucs to up acceptance rates in state

And they low af

[crude flint]

👍

[crude flint]

Fav song?

[vestal turret]

oooooooo

hmm

idk man

[rotund socket]

College acceptances rates are almost as low as my will to live

💀 🔫

[vestal turret]

this is gonna surprise u

but paradise

the song

not the p

ep*

i love it sm

[haughty canyon]

You only applied to 2 schools?

[calm atlas]

yes in the USA

UC Berkeley and UCLA

basically 1 school lol

[haughty canyon]

Do you have a backup plan? Not to say you won’t get in, but there’s a fair amount of luck involved

[calm atlas]

thats why im coping so hard

[calm atlas]

I have a UofT offer

I’m intl

[haughty canyon]

Oh nice

[vestal turret]

same im intl

archangel were the same

we're*

[tough jolt]

im so confused everyone is saying ucla/sd/irvine r out tmr but its not confirmed like anywhere ??

[vestal turret]

all of this +duke and uchicago but i got rejected :/

last one isnt school

[calm atlas]

u will get NYU

[limber magnet]

It’s all speculation

[calm atlas]

at least

[vestal turret]

i hope i get th eones i want

[calm atlas]

surely NYU isnt that hard

[vestal turret]

ucs and nwu

NYU IS HARD THO

[calm atlas]

not when compared to UCLA

lol

5% admit rate

[vestal turret]

true but still idk

[calm atlas]

bro

why 5%

[vestal turret]

we're internationals

rip

[calm atlas]

dont they want my $$$

[vestal turret]

frfr im not doing no financial aid

accept me pls

[calm atlas]

you cant do financial aid

lol

[vestal turret]

LMAO FR?

[calm atlas]

its a public school

[vestal turret]

i dont need it tbh

[calm atlas]

no aid

[vestal turret]

oh yeah true

[calm atlas]

even if u want

[vestal turret]

we got this

[calm atlas]

i will be releved

if they dont release decisions tomr

[vestal turret]

id be so fucking mad

[sharp orchid]

I need the rejection / acceptance asap lmao

[calm atlas]

but at the same time more ancious

[vestal turret]

same man

[sharp orchid]

but if they

fucking

waitlist me

them just bruh

just bruh is all I would say then

[calm atlas]

can ppl even get off waitlist

intls

[sharp orchid]

well in UCDavis and UCSD its common

[hardy edge]

bruh

[sharp orchid]

@tender elm is the prime example

rest idk

[vestal turret]

very similar

[sharp orchid]

rest I don’t know anyone here who got off waitlists

[hardy edge]

fr

[calm atlas]

how cracked is amherst

i see it everywhere

lol

[hardy edge]

t20~ cs?

[calm atlas]

nice

[tender elm]

🙂

[calm atlas]

some mf has a gun at my school rn… maybe dont gotta worry about the ucs tomm 🫣

[sharp orchid]

hello benz!

Soup

[tender elm]

Sup

[hardy edge]

bro what 😭

[limber magnet]

What website is that lol

[sharp orchid]

how’s ur day going mah man

[sharp orchid]

💀

[hardy edge]

its just bookmarks

[tender elm]

Staying busy

Week 10

[sharp orchid]

week 10 of wut

[limber magnet]

Oh 💀

[gilded scroll]

Copycat

[calm atlas]

lmao

gg

[tender elm]

Wk 10 of the quarter

Next week is finals

[gilded scroll]

Ur not even doing it right smh

[hardy edge]

quarter system sounds annoying asl

[tender elm]

Too fast

[hardy edge]

yeah

[sharp orchid]

oh SD is on quarter system too?

all the best homie

[tender elm]

All the UCs

Except UCB

[sharp orchid]

man thats one thing about Davis thats gonna suck now that I think of it

[sharp orchid]

I thought UCB and UCLA were sem

[sharp orchid]

oh not UCLA either?

[tender elm]

No they are quarter

[sharp orchid]

idk about the other places I didn’t apply to

*5

but of the 4 places I did, I thought 2 were sem lol

[calm atlas]

ucb is sem

ucla quarter

[sharp orchid]

oof

quarter sounds tuff tho

[calm atlas]

tbh i prefer quarter

more focused grind

no need to retain shit for an entire sem

exam then forget

esp GE courses

[sharp orchid]

but aint that means finals too often, making focusing on interneships etc. more annoying

[calm atlas]

i dont want nor need internships

so

[sharp orchid]

but at the same time courses get over quicker ig

[calm atlas]

anyways the academic year is the same

length

[sharp orchid]

yeah

but more frequent finals tho 😔

[calm atlas]

i just like to get shit over quick

i can cram shit nicely

in a short time

[sharp orchid]

different perspectives and preferences eh

[calm atlas]

rentention is annoying for me

esp if i dont care

like 90% of the GE courses lol

can someone ping me

when ucla results are available

tomr

[sharp orchid]

same

[sly sluice]

what UC gpa is good for berk and ucla? is 4.31 for OOS high enough?

[calm atlas]

how do u even get >4

A is capped at 4

[haughty canyon]

AP Classes

[calm atlas]

I have an avg of 4 lol

[calm atlas]

how about IB?

[haughty canyon]

Yeah probably

I did AP so idk about the other things

[calm atlas]

ohh

I have UC GPA of like 4.5 then

cool

[tropic jungle]

@calm atlas OMFG

DUDE

I JUST REALIZED ID ID THE SAME THING AS YOU

180 HOURS EACH YEAR FOR 4 YEARS

OMFG

[gilded scroll]

whast wrong with this

[calm atlas]

there's nothing wrong with that

[tropic jungle]

ISNT 720 HOURS UNREALISTIC?

[gilded scroll]

no?

[tropic jungle]

WHAAATTT

ok nvm im goofy

[gilded scroll]

💀

[rotund socket]

Bro i did wrestling

[gilded scroll]

also lets be real

[rotund socket]

That was 12.5hrs a week

36 weeks

[gilded scroll]

no one gnona care abt the time commitment

[rotund socket]

True

[grizzled stirrup]

yea my sport was 9 hours per week too

[rotund socket]

Unless it's a job

Cuz u get paid by the hour

[grizzled stirrup]

30 weeks 4 years

[sharp orchid]

he put 180 each week not total

[calm atlas]

nacho 😭

What's ur name 😭

[gilded scroll]

yea 180 per week is

[calm atlas]

You will get in 😭

[gilded scroll]

more than the # of hours in a week

..

[grizzled stirrup]

he meant per year ig

[gilded scroll]

💀 💀 💀

[grizzled stirrup]

720 over 2 hours

[sharp orchid]

exactly 😭

[calm atlas]

My biggest time thing was 600 for a summer internship

[sharp orchid]

Homie got that extra hour a day DLC

from god

[rotund socket]

I should've done internships

[grizzled stirrup]

I had 15 hours/ week from 2 sports in the ninth grade

[calm atlas]

does UC Santa Cruz yield protect?

[sharp orchid]

whish I could buy that DLC

*wish

[rotund socket]

I had that stanford class

[calm atlas]

Does Harvard yield protect?

[rotund socket]

Over summer

[grizzled stirrup]

had to drop one cuz it got insane

[sharp orchid]

idk about harvard but MIT def. yield protected me

[calm atlas]

there is a difference between harvard and UCSC buddy

nacho I love your college app

You did a lot

[rotund socket]

Ucsc could realistically do that and not say it.

[sharp orchid]

aint gotten my Harvard decision yet

[calm atlas]

UCs don't yield protect buddy

[sharp orchid]

MIT yield protection ftw

[calm atlas]

They have enough applicants

[rotund socket]

But ucsc prob didn't do yield protect

[calm atlas]

ok buddy, thank you

np buddy

[rotund socket]

Guys I actually got yield protected from stanford

[grizzled stirrup]

Does any university openly say that they yield protect?

[rotund socket]

😱

[stray apex]

if u applied cs and u get rejected

or waitlisted

tbf

[rotund socket]

Lmao ofc not

[stray apex]

its a competitive major

[sharp orchid]

MIT and Caltech both buddy

🫂 they knew we are too good for them

[rotund socket]

Why would a uni say they yield protect

[stray apex]

Tmrw we will see whos worth

me or the ucs

[rotund socket]

It basically saying their school isn't good

[gilded scroll]

Idt they ever explicitly say

It’s just pretty obvious sometimes

[rotund socket]

Like ucsd

[calm atlas]

only school that yield protect is Tulane

[rotund socket]

Ucsc*

[calm atlas]

Cuz they rejected me

[grizzled stirrup]

people are adamant that the UCs can't yield protect because "they say so"

anyways

why tf does it even matter

[calm atlas]

The UCs don't yield protect bc common sense

[sharp orchid]

MIT doesn’t want to admit I was too good for them, so they claim it was a rejection when it was yield protection

[rotund socket]

UCS technically state they yield protect

But on a different sense

They reserve a certain amount of spots for oos

And int

That technically is yield protection

But not the type that most ppl thinking abt

[grizzled stirrup]

Decisions come soon

that's it

[gilded scroll]

How is that yield protection

[calm atlas]

Facts

[grizzled stirrup]

👍

[calm atlas]

T minus 26 hours

[rotund socket]

Limiting the amount of in state students who can get in

In favor of oos students

[calm atlas]

Omg Nico and Nacho!

[rotund socket]

Who would likely go to their school

Not rly yield protection

[calm atlas]

UCs love oos for cash

and intl

[rotund socket]

But at the same time it kinda is

Yeah

Oos and intl are cash cows

[calm atlas]

but I'm p sure they accepting more in state as of recent

[rotund socket]

Maybe that's why ucsc waitlisted me

[calm atlas]

no they just hate you

[rotund socket]

They saw how little I'd be able to pay and they were like nah

We don't want broke ppl on our campus

[calm atlas]

they saw you got into Santa Clara uni

[rotund socket]

I cant afford it tho

I thought davis was a safety for me

But it isnt

[mighty rover]

do ygs know what time irvine and sd come out

[sharp orchid]

Bro I was so fucking anxious with no offers other than conditionals and safety (Utah)

[calm atlas]

Dog u in cs

[sharp orchid]

then Davis hit

:D

[calm atlas]

There is one safety school for cs

It's called community college

[rotund socket]

I didn't think cs would be THAT hard to get into

[calm atlas]

Nah I'm exaggerating

[rotund socket]

Merced

[calm atlas]

UCD is not a safety tho for any major honestly

[rotund socket]

I got wairlisted ucsc

For cs

So did a lot of high stat ppl

[sharp orchid]

💀 bro even le me in CS predicted I would be accepted into Irvine, Purdue, Davis, Utah (Utah and Davis are true, Irvine is yet to come out – but I forgot UC is test blind while predicting so I don’t expect much now, and Purdue was a rejection lmfaooo(

[rotund socket]

It ain't a safety

[calm atlas]

Yeah CS @ucsc is still pretty hard

[sharp orchid]

I was too over confident with my predictions lmao

[rotund socket]

Sane

[sharp orchid]

especially as an Int’l 💀

[rotund socket]

Same*

[sharp orchid]

oof

[calm atlas]

I wanna see if my predictions come true

That I made at the beginning of the decision process

[stray apex]

i just hope my class this year isn’t competitive

[rotund socket]

Mines are 0/5

0/6

Cuz notre dame

[sharp orchid]

I love how wrong and confident I was

not even “accepted / rejected” but “accepted”

[calm atlas]

for Friday I think good case I'll go 3/6

[sharp orchid]

only to be rejected

[sharp orchid]

(First column is results, second is predictions)

[calm atlas]

actually wait I'm stupid case Western is on Saturday

[rotund socket]

I'm going 0/6 guys

Pls help

[calm atlas]

I'll go 2/5

[hardy edge]

same literally

[sharp orchid]

any safeties 😭

[rotund socket]

What I thought were safeties were not in fact safetieis

My only safety now is scu

[calm atlas]

Prediction:
A UCSD A UCI R/Wl UCLA R JHU R Swarthmore

[sharp orchid]

whats scu

[calm atlas]

for Friday

[sharp orchid]

prediction: everything reject except UCLA and UCIrvine where its both accept / reject mix (either)

UCLA is like highly unlikely though, relative to UCI

UCI sounds like UTI 💀

[rotund socket]

Santa clara uni

[sharp orchid]

urinary tract infection

https://tenor.com/view/urine-urinary-tract-urinary-tract-infection-gif-19723212

[calm atlas]

🔫

[rotund socket]

🔫

💀 🔫

[sharp orchid]

https://tenor.com/view/uci-ucirvine-gif-23588776

[rotund socket]

🔫

[sharp orchid]

bro

I wish you all the best

keep me posted on where you get in

[rotund socket]

4.5 gpa for nothing

[calm atlas]

facts

[rotund socket]

:((((

[limber magnet]

Literally nothing anyone can do to help

[sharp orchid]

you remind me of myself from a while ago

except I still had a safety

[calm atlas]

We can send him money

[sharp orchid]

and a few conditionals (that I wouldn’t meet but still)

[frank ridge]

I was yield protected from stanford

😎

[sharp orchid]

does monoply notes work?

[calm atlas]

hor hot hot

[sharp orchid]

same from MIT

bro L MIT

[frank ridge]

after all, they are a junior university

not ready to handle big boys like me

[sharp orchid]

I used to simp for them since 9th grade

literally all my app. advice comes from their blogs, that I read not that often but still once every 2 months or so

fuck them >:(

only admitting Oly kids from India

int’l is hard mannnn

only a few int’l friendly uni.s in the US

[calm atlas]

just go to iit

[frank ridge]

not me who did our year-long college research assignment on MIT and then proceeded to not apply to MIT because I knew I would never get in

[rotund socket]

I got a likely for McDonald's

[sharp orchid]

I would rather commit suicide

[frank ridge]

it's that easy™️

[calm atlas]

🤓

[frank ridge]

just go to IIT

[sharp orchid]

I can’t get into the IITs if I tried

without suiciding

[frank ridge]

just ace the JEE

[sharp orchid]

lol

[frank ridge]

it's that easy

/s

[calm atlas]

Skill issue.

[sharp orchid]

nah but to be fair I never even aimed for JEE

my chances might be different if I was preparing for it fr

[frank ridge]

JEE requires 6 hrs of studying every day for a year at least lol

[sharp orchid]

but my goal was US since 9th grade so meh

[sharp orchid]

exactly my point

[sharp orchid]

if my goal was JEE then idk maybe I would be able to do it, maybe not

idk since I never aimed for it

[frank ridge]

even then

all india rank !== IIT admission

[sharp orchid]

but for a person who never aimed for JEE, ofc I stand no chance lol

like I dont even remember any chem from 11th grade

26

[rotund socket]

I hope I get into mech engineering at least

[sharp orchid]

https://vijitdua.notion.site/0bc6f875fe7c4ea4936f9a8e0c76c70c?v=7cb2f17df258468197a5cc167fc97307

[rotund socket]

I'd do thar

[sharp orchid]

just copy pasting previous essays and modifying them

[frank ridge]

based

[sharp orchid]

nah like

no cap

maybe this is because my essays are shit

but i feel like you guys exxagerate how much effort it takes

[sharp orchid]

keep in mind, before judging my statement, that my essays are probs shit lol

[robust laurel]

no im the same i literally tried reusing columbia essays for brown and those r wildly diff schools. still an essay tho!

[sharp orchid]

ig this is why I aint getting any good offers, cuz I wrote all my essays like easily without troubles

[calm atlas]

I tried on my essays

but there's one particular one that I've been able to reuse

But it took me a while to perfect

[eager violet]

David top 1 uc

[calm atlas]

Top 1 stank

[sharp orchid]

Oh no ofc, I meant I didn’t get any good offers until 7 rejections.

Read my UC essays btw ur gonna laugh at the first one https://vijitdua.notion.site/b6edc60c7e3149fb87e43579786e4673

I was able to think of the essay topic for 3/4 essays, but the 4th one I couldn’t do shit - so I just wrote it on YOUTUBE LOL

(the 4th one in this context, being the first one in the UC essay prompts that I answered in that notion)

[rotund socket]

Some r well written

But ar least from what I scanned over on ur ucs

[sharp orchid]

and some are equally bullshit

lol

[rotund socket]

Too much focus on ur major

[sharp orchid]

basically an essay is well written if it was used for 3+ universities previously and has gone through multiple revisions

[sharp orchid]

yeah

me dum ass didn’t know how holistic holistic really means

[rotund socket]

Doesn't feel holistic like the ucs want

[robust laurel]

oh wow ur hella organized

[rotund socket]

Yeah

[sharp orchid]

exactly what I mean with my essays lmfao

[robust laurel]

i used to have a loose google drive folder until i gave up and just entered keywords into the search bar every time i needed smth

[sharp orchid]

lmfao

[rotund socket]

Fr

[sharp orchid]

nah this is just a public stats page

[rotund socket]

My code is always hella unorganized

[sharp orchid]

my actual shit is in google drive

[rotund socket]

And then I have to organize it after

I always name stuff as stupid shit like amogus

[sharp orchid]

the only thing on notion I actually use (thats not just a stats page) is the application tracker, to keep track of where I have been rejected / accepted

[robust laurel]

me censoring the names of the schools so it's even harder to find them... like did i type y@le or yal3 ?

[sharp orchid]

bro

when I was learning programming for the first time

[rare carbon]

How did you rank ur activities list 😭

[sharp orchid]

dis was me

My brother like forced me to write an insertion sorting algorithm with no prior experience or even seeing the code - just knowing what it does.

And like in an hour I did make it

but he fucking shat on me

for so long

for my variable names

instead of
for x in range
i wrote for peepeepoopoo in range

what was wrong with the 12 year old me

I cringe so hard when I find old snippets of code on my old laptops

I understand why my brother hated me

lmfao I made a better video for Caltech and they don’t even ask for it

and (relatively) shat on the UChicago video

which is why I got rejected from both ig lol

[sharp orchid]

wdym

[rare carbon]

Idk like I feel like u just slapped all the awards on top and then the tutoring thing was only a little time commitment compared to like your yt editing

[sharp orchid]

oh 💀

[rare carbon]

And it’s just a weird order

[sharp orchid]

yeah it was annoying cuz the change order button didn’t work

so i just gave up

I was like

let honors be on top

[rare carbon]

Oh yeah 😭😭 I remember that

[sharp orchid]

and activities on bottom

[rare carbon]

I literally had to delete my whole list like 3 times

[sharp orchid]

and then when I ran out of copy pasting common app

[rare carbon]

To get it in the order I wanted

[sharp orchid]

I just wrote two activities aka youtube and music

which i never thought Id mention on a fucking college app lmfao

[rare carbon]

Makes you seem like a human being tho

[sharp orchid]

true lol

ig

in my defense youtube was during covid mostly

tutoring was so close to mid terms 😭

[rare carbon]

[snow creek]

davis is def not a safety for anyone 😭 it has a 33% AR

i’d say it’s more of a target

[sharp orchid]

isn’t davis like 49%

tf

I mean ik davis aint a safety

and for CS its SHIT hard

but overrall its 45-50% something I thought

[snow creek]

no

that’s old

[sharp orchid]

da fuq

wait

[snow creek]

it was 37% last year

[sharp orchid]

lemme check whats the thing in google heading thingy

to confirm

[snow creek]

and it’s 33% apparently this year

[late zinc]

whats ucsb rate?

[snow creek]

25

[late zinc]

shit

[snow creek]

as of 2022

[snow creek]

that ones old

[sharp orchid]

I am surprised they went from that to 37 in a year tho

goddamn

whats it gonna be this year

[covert sorrel]

yall quick q: is the ucsc dean's award competitive?

anyone know where i can find info on who generally is awarded

[snow creek]

yah that’s old

[tropic jungle]

someone just got it you can ask the @covert sorrel

[snow creek]

some ppl said it’s probably 33

[tropic jungle]

#✨-celebration-station

[sharp orchid]

goddamn

they really lowering them rates eh

[rotund socket]

Newsom gonna rage at ucs

[snow creek]

yea sadly

[rotund socket]

Dude told em to increase in state acceptances

[snow creek]

i hope it’s not the same for other UCs

[rotund socket]

And they just said fuck u

And lowered that shit

[late zinc]

looks like ill just commit to ucr with these low of rates 💀

[tropic jungle]

REAL

[sharp orchid]

bro

at this point

[tropic jungle]

i wouldnt doubt if ucr becomes competitive inth enext 4 years

[sharp orchid]

I dont even care if I don’t get a better offer

I just want them to give my offer

to nacho

(my future offers, not UCD offer)

[late zinc]

trueee

[late zinc]

lol what if you could trade acceptances

[sharp orchid]

then I would 100% give him one of my offers (if I get more than just UC Davis)

no cap

though Id probably give him the offer thats lower on my list than higher lmao

[calm atlas]

Poor nacho

[sharp orchid]

like if I got into UC Berk, Id give him Davis instead of Berk ofc

fr T_T

[late zinc]

what happened to nacho

[sharp orchid]

like I feel him

cuz I had no acceptances till 5 days ago either

[sharp orchid]

0A

[late zinc]

rip

sdsu is kinda pissing me off still no decision

[rotund socket]

My cars ac is broken too

Fuck this week

[snow creek]

sdsu is an L school anyway

so dw

[rare carbon]

Question

Would y’all rather go to cal poly/Irvine/ucsd for cs

[calm atlas]

Irvine

[stray apex]

Sd

has best cs

[snow creek]

ucsd

[rare carbon]

They are all pretty good so I was wondering

[stray apex]

irvine has best campus

I would prefer uc over any csu

[tropic jungle]

irvine

yea uc over any csu

actually

ucsd

i live too close to irvine that i would commute and im tryna dpi

dip

[sharp orchid]

whats a csu

💀

I know so much pointless stuff about where I applied, and nothing else about other places

[flat harbor]

Cal state school

Like cal poly slo or sdsu

[tropic jungle]

cal state university

[cosmic mantle]

When does sdsu come out

[sharp orchid]

ohhh

[late zinc]

your waiting too? lol

[cosmic mantle]

I thought it was mid March lmao

[late zinc]

yeah i havent gotten mine yet

[stray apex]

wait sdsu isn’t out yet?

[late zinc]

nope

[sterile horizon]

Only for some I think

[vivid shell]

Yea I got mine from sdsu today

[stray apex]

o

[lethal vine]

bro put less work into ur college application showoff page and code an actual portfolio site for the future 😭

[fresh sigil]

man i hope UCSD comes out today

[calm atlas]

huh

Today? Shouldn’t it be tomorrow

[surreal fulcrum]

just people being anxious

[calm atlas]

Oh Okok

are we ready for tomorrow

[fresh sigil]

i hope ucsd releases today

idk why

i wanna wake up to an acceptance

[haughty kiln]

it wont doe

[calm atlas]

lets relax

Girlypop it’s not plz cope

[twin root]

Atp idc if i get rejected i just wanna know the decision already

[calm atlas]

get thru ur school days tomorrow

i wonder which one will come at 3

[cosmic mantle]

i think uci comes first?

[calm atlas]

Yep, probably

[calm atlas]

its always been like that?

none release in the morning right

[cosmic mantle]

i think they start at 3ish

[calm atlas]

hell no

[late zinc]

i remember last year ucsd decisions came out and 3/4 of the seniors got in

i felt so bad for the 1 senior that didnt in my class

[calm atlas]

I’m oos and have a below average gpa
i’m fucked

[tired oar]

Still waiting for my UCR

[calm atlas]

if there's 3 college releases does that mean they separate it by like an hour interval

[limber magnet]

Me too 😑

[limber magnet]

I don’t think they’ll coordinate they’ll just release whenever they want

[calm atlas]

right but in previous years have some of them done it at the same time?

[limber magnet]

No clue u could prob find the data but like what’s the point doesn’t rly change anything

[tired oar]

Is UCI releasing tomorrow..?

[limber magnet]

It is speculated that yes

[tired oar]

ooo

[worthy tangle]

What’s below average

[calm atlas]

perfect 3.7 uw 4.07 w

I only got like 1/2 b’s sophomore year cuz some potentially extenuating circumstances

[worthy tangle]

I have straight As in all my classes except Spanish. I have one C in Spanish

[worthy tangle]

Still good for like half the ucs right?

[calm atlas]

i’m going for sd and la 😦

[haughty kiln]

Do UCs calculate their GPA based on percentage or letter grade

[worthy tangle]

Prob get in sd

Are you AP?

[haughty kiln]

I do IB

according to this website: https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/ my gpa is a 5.0 which is DEFINITELY not

[worthy tangle]

IB is a micro aggression (I do ib)

[calm atlas]

metric shitton of dual enrollment 3 comp sci and 1 comp engineering + 5 other classes

[haughty kiln]

What does that mean

[worthy tangle]

I don’t like IB

Are yo doing the diploma

[haughty kiln]

Yee

[worthy tangle]

Samee

[haughty kiln]

Who does lmaoo

[frigid grotto]

24 hours remaining now

[worthy tangle]

I did the same thing. But i don’t even know if it counts because of the uc transferrable bs

[calm atlas]

welp

we shall see

[young shale]

20 dual enrollment classes for me they better fucking transfer

💀💀

[calm atlas]

where can you even check?

[worthy tangle]

Ppl transfer from my CC to UC schools but idk if that means that the CC is considered uc transferrable

With credits transferred

[young shale]

I think u can use assist.org to check

[tired oar]

LMAOO SAME

[young shale]

no lifer gang💪

Stuck in 3 hour lecture everyday

[worthy tangle]

Isn’t that only for instate ones?

[young shale]

idk maybe you should check just in case

but unfortunately I think most don't transfer for oos😭

[worthy tangle]

20 is like two years worth wut

[calm atlas]

well that fucking sucks

[regal torrent]

it's crazy that it's tomorrow like wtf

[young shale]

igetc 😻

[regal torrent]

i feel like i applied centuries ago

[calm atlas]

you only have HLs?

why do you have 6 HLs

r u even allowed

bruh mans insane

HLs count for 5 and regular SL count for 4 just a btw.

[worthy tangle]

SL is given weight as well

[calm atlas]

nah

[worthy tangle]

What

[calm atlas]

not by UC

[worthy tangle]

Oh shit

[calm atlas]

only HL

[worthy tangle]

Uhh

[calm atlas]

how many HLs do u have

[worthy tangle]

Oh so that’s why a kid at my school took 6 HLs

[calm atlas]

HLs are 5. SLs are 4. Considering you have a score of 6 or 7.

[calm atlas]

literally a waste of time

[quiet night]

Tf is going on at uc davis lmao

Heard people were smashing windows or someth

[calm atlas]

UCs care more about ECs at that point lmfao

who tf takes 6 HLs

🧐

[haughty kiln]

in the calculator, you can only input # of honor classes

[quiet night]

Honestly I really want to go there but idk if stuff like that will affect me

[calm atlas]

yeah. SL are not honor.

[quiet night]

Not sure what caused it tho

[haughty kiln]

and all IB classes are honors

[calm atlas]

Only HLs are honor

nah not SLs

[haughty kiln]

Are you sure

[worthy tangle]

Yeah all IB classes are honors

[calm atlas]

look at UC guidelines

no. Honors are transferrable credits

you dont get credits for SL at UC

[worthy tangle]

Honors courses are Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate Higher Level (IB HL) and designated Standard Level (IB SL) courses, UC-transferable college courses and UC-certified honors courses that appear on your school's course list.

[calm atlas]

designated SL

thats like nothing now

[pure leaf]

can someone lie to me and say ima get into ucla

[worthy tangle]

Tf does that mean

[calm atlas]

no courses

[haughty kiln]

That's for IB credit only

[calm atlas]

only HL are honors

[haughty kiln]

I read this too

And that's how I submitted my app

[calm atlas]

wait so if I took courses at my states flagship school would they transfer?

[calm atlas]

‘Designated Standard Level’

[worthy tangle]

Discriminating against IB schools fr

[calm atlas]

when you submit your app they mostly look at IB1 grades I think

cuz I kinda put those on my course and grades section

and they know its for IB

[worthy tangle]

OH WAIT

[calm atlas]

but like

[worthy tangle]

THAT WAs only for cali residents

[calm atlas]

why do you have 6 HLs @haughty kiln

[worthy tangle]

Nonresidents:

UC will grant honors weight for AP or IB courses and transferable college courses only, but not for school-designated honors courses. The weight is given to letter grades of A, B, or C.

Less goooo

[haughty kiln]

I don't

[calm atlas]

aight but tf is transferrable

[calm atlas]

How many HLs do you have?

[haughty kiln]

3

[calm atlas]

and whats your core point out of 42

[haughty kiln]

39

[calm atlas]

ye you have 4.5 same as me I think

[haughty kiln]

Oh lol

[calm atlas]

I have 40/42

apparently 6 and 7 are the same for UC

[haughty kiln]

This dont make no sense

I'm worried now

[worthy tangle]

Are you instate

[calm atlas]

some chick in my school is doing 4HLs 7 subjects

[haughty kiln]

No international

[calm atlas]

her grades are tanking lmfao

[haughty kiln]

I put 'IB' in "honors" when submitting my application

[worthy tangle]

Then you don’t abide by the no SL weight given rule

[haughty kiln]

Am I fucked

[calm atlas]

it doesnt matter

they check it anyways

[haughty kiln]

Ok yea I thought so LOL

That's what my counsellor told me to do

[calm atlas]

yeah its fine

what did u apply to

which major

[haughty kiln]

CS

[calm atlas]

YIKES

UCLA/UCB?

[haughty kiln]

Yup

EECS

[calm atlas]

you better have some good ECs man

[gilded scroll]

Me too!!!!

[haughty kiln]

https://tenor.com/view/mohamed-baby-yes-yey-cute-gif-15857559

[haughty kiln]

Got rejected from my ED school bro 😭

[calm atlas]

why did u apply cs beuh

literally do data science

[haughty kiln]

Actually no I was deferred

[calm atlas]

or something

[haughty kiln]

Rejected from one of my dream schools

RIPP

[worthy tangle]

Do they actually look at ECs? Or just skim for a couple of seconds

[calm atlas]

its quite hollistic. For intls theres no way they only admit based off of grades since everyone is >40/42

[haughty kiln]

Singaporeans

[calm atlas]

but bc they admit so many ppl its not ss random as other ppl

[haughty kiln]

😐

[calm atlas]

not singapore

european

[haughty kiln]

Singapore has like 50% of 45 scorers lol

[worthy tangle]

They are the curve

[haughty kiln]

Haha

[calm atlas]

Theres only a total of 100 45s thats going to be given out this summer

for the may session

returning to 2019 distributions

[haughty kiln]

Yup

[calm atlas]

why does it have to be this year lol

[gilded scroll]

From where

[calm atlas]

which dubjects do you have 6s fron

For those wondering, here is a full list of ‘transferrable courses’ for UCLA. Any courses aside from these are not honors courses. https://admission.ucla.edu/admitted-students/ib-credit-the-college

[worthy tangle]

Do you guys think that the AOs will look at my algorithm source code that I have available at my app

Ik they are not programmers but it looks professional iykwim

[calm atlas]

did u dump that shit into an essay?

[worthy tangle]

Hell no

[calm atlas]

how did u put it

[worthy tangle]

But on an EC I linked my deployed app

Domain name

[calm atlas]

i got no clue

[worthy tangle]

Like a link

[calm atlas]

but for UCs i dont think they care about the actual app but more about how you engaged with it

and learnt from it

[rotund socket]

Rejected notre dame

[calm atlas]

u applied cs?

[rotund socket]

1/2/3

Rn

[calm atlas]

theyre yield protecting. keep your head up

[rotund socket]

Fr

Stanford yield protected

[worthy tangle]

Yeah I used it for one of my essays. But a couple months ago I think they did go on it cause I got pinged multiple unique ip log one

[calm atlas]

🗿

[haughty kiln]

Cornell

[calm atlas]

ucla basically being confirmed tomorrow this is getting REAL

[calm atlas]

CS?

[haughty kiln]

The humanities lmaoo

[calm atlas]

thats only 1 subject + eng

[worthy tangle]

Unfortunately. Letters of science tho

[haughty kiln]

STEM 4 life 😎

[calm atlas]

u do IB?

[worthy tangle]

Yep

Unfortunately

[calm atlas]

whats ur core

[haughty kiln]

Second lang

[calm atlas]

out of 42

[worthy tangle]

Uhh…what?

[haughty kiln]

Why do they not count bonus broo

[calm atlas]

lmao. as long ss u have 7/7/7 HL it should be nice

[calm atlas]

what is ur grade out of 42 in IB

[haughty kiln]

EE and TOK for what

[calm atlas]

so without TOK/EE

[worthy tangle]

I don’t even know what they gave me on my extended essay bro

Oh

[haughty kiln]

not even considered for most unis

Bonus actually useless 😭

[worthy tangle]

I’ve only tested on class tho?

[calm atlas]

yes

but like

ur predicted

and transcripts

[worthy tangle]

My school doesn’t do that

[calm atlas]

did u not upload geades

to UC

[worthy tangle]

Never been talked abt

Yeah

I did

[calm atlas]

what geades did u upload

did u upload IB1 grades

did you predict grades for the IB exam

because if you didnt. you are fucked

[worthy tangle]

What

I was not told to do this

[calm atlas]

did you not upload grades

[worthy tangle]

Where do you put predicted grades

I did

[calm atlas]

in your application

[worthy tangle]

Star

[calm atlas]

what were ur grades?

[haughty kiln]

UCs don't take predicteds

[worthy tangle]

Srar

[haughty kiln]

They take transcript grades

[calm atlas]

they do

[worthy tangle]

A in all class except Spanish

[calm atlas]

you cant submit without predicting ib finals

[worthy tangle]

But it wasn’t ib Spanish

[gilded scroll]

Oh ):

[calm atlas]

you dont have IB grading out of 7?

[worthy tangle]

So I think I’m gucci

[worthy tangle]

No man

[calm atlas]

wtf

r u intl

[haughty kiln]

Yee sucks

[worthy tangle]

We quirky like that

No domestic

[calm atlas]

oh

ye that makes more sense

[worthy tangle]

Yeye

[calm atlas]

cuz intl we get ib grades out of 7

my HLs are clean

7/7/7

[worthy tangle]

What Hls

Subject

[calm atlas]

math aa, cs, physics

ez

[worthy tangle]

Nicee

Wish my school had cs

Rural ass school

[calm atlas]

you applied cs 💀

[wet sandal]

how is it confirmed

[mellow iris]

bros in hl physics

[wet sandal]

i havent seen anything yet

[mellow iris]

he really hates himself

[calm atlas]

hl physics so ez

just plug into equations

[worthy tangle]

The magnetism and field unit was kinda tuff tho

[mellow iris]

ig

what was your optional topic

[haughty kiln]

Agreed

[calm atlas]

you don’t need to understand it

[haughty kiln]

Ch. 11 bro

[calm atlas]

i just memorize lmfao

can’t be bothered

[calm atlas]

astro

[mellow iris]

Right hand rule carry

[calm atlas]

easiest topic

[wet sandal]

I was high when i chose my majors ngl

[worthy tangle]

Bros treating physics like bio 💀

[calm atlas]

i dont lole bio

too much writing during exams

[mellow iris]

bio is fire ong

[haughty kiln]

HAHhahahahaha

[calm atlas]

how do u even do the ias lol

got bio

[wet sandal]

eecs as backup at berkeley is crazy

[mellow iris]

trying to get rejected

[worthy tangle]

No alternates + EECS backup

Wtf

[mellow iris]

same energy as picking biomedical engineering (me)

[calm atlas]

how comp is pure math

im begging ucla that pure math isnt too competitive

and they let me carry the putnam team

🙏

[calm atlas]

how do u engineer bio stuff

like

you cant exactly engineer a plant

meh

just do pure math

[gilded scroll]

I got deferred from Carnegie Mellon so I was just asking

Trust in RD!!

[calm atlas]

which major

sont tell me CS

[gilded scroll]

Computer Science

💀

[calm atlas]

BRUH

[haughty kiln]

I feel you man

[worthy tangle]

Applied math cs > pure math

[haughty kiln]

Hopefully RD bless 🙏

[gilded scroll]

Yes

Pray

[calm atlas]

pure math >> STEM >> humanities

[mellow iris]

prosthetics

[gilded scroll]

Is math not the m in stem

[calm atlas]

math is not pure math

most schools do fucking applied math

[mellow iris]

imaging with computers

[calm atlas]

or math with econ

[graceful bay]

did ucsc dean scholarship come out

[calm atlas]

which is 🤡 imo

[graceful bay]

i got an email about it

[gilded scroll]

I didn’t get it ):

[calm atlas]

why is everyone CS here

you guys asking to be killed

[worthy tangle]

I deadass got an internship overseas before I got into my colleges for cs

Deferred so much wtf

[graceful bay]

is it hard

to get in

[calm atlas]

to get in. yes. actual major. not rly the hardest.

[worthy tangle]

Especially this year with all the gap year mofos

[regal grove]

shut up umich acceptance and cmu deferred guy

[graceful bay]

i got in for CS but as well as Dean's and campus merit scholarsihp

so like is this a good sign for other UCs?

[gilded scroll]

Why would I be happy about being deferred!!!

[gilded scroll]

No it means you’ll be rejected

[graceful bay]

bruh

why did i ask

[calm atlas]

which uc

[gilded scroll]

Lol

[graceful bay]

say like UC san diego

[calm atlas]

did u actually

[graceful bay]

uc berkely reach for sure but i rly like UC san diego

[calm atlas]

if u got into UCSD CS u defo have a shot at berkeley

esp if u have the scholarship

[sterile horizon]

Ucla is nerve racking tmr

[graceful bay]

no i got in UCSC

with Dean's + Campus Merit which is 38k

[sterile horizon]

Tbh if I don’t get in it’s going to break me

[graceful bay]

UCSD didn't come out yet

[sterile horizon]

Sheesh

[regal grove]

was it in the portal or email

[calm atlas]

r u intl or out of state

[regal grove]

the scholarship

[graceful bay]

out of state

[steady lichen]

I just got deans too

[sterile horizon]

I got no scholorship 😢

[calm atlas]

youll most likely get ucsd unless the AOs are on crack imo

UCLA and UCB CS are a cointoss man