#upenn (2022-2023)

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covert shoal
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Yeah, because then you can go deep into it

void kiln
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yeah it just needs depth yk

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i will always stay away from family

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u just need someone who. ucan discuss at length

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and know good stuff abt

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😭

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as long as its detailed ur fine

covert shoal
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My bf wrote about how he wasn’t good at math and always felt insecure about it but his freshman math teacher showed him that he was actually good at it and it was a matter of having good support systems and an inclusive environment, then he ended up falling in love with math and looks up to him and wants to follow his footsteps and also teach kids from low income rural schools

void kiln
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"Most people star their most essential emails; I have just three. Yours is one of them." - cold bar btw

oblique jasper
covert shoal
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I think best friends are the easiest imo

void kiln
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NOOOOoooooo

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u are not supposed to reflect on the experience in the essay

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thats after

covert shoal
void kiln
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the upenn website said u do not talk abt reflecting on the essay

void kiln
covert shoal
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Yeah, it can be hard for some but if you have a bff you knew for a long ass time it can be easy to think of moments

covert shoal
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❤️

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Misclick LMAO

void kiln
urban charm
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Can i do a place or it has to be a person :0

void kiln
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yes very confusing istg

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thats just an afterthought

covert shoal
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That’s a suggestion

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You don’t need to

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I did, other people that got accepted didn’t

void kiln
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so. u talked abt reflecting in it?

covert shoal
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Mine was a tiny blurb

void kiln
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idt it mattersmuch tbh

covert shoal
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It doesn’t

void kiln
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they worded it so horribly

covert shoal
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Because it even says if you can

covert shoal
# urban charm Can i do a place or it has to be a person :0

I would do person, it kinda leads you to think it needs to be a human. I would also try to do somebody alive, but that’s just me. The thing in the parenthesis leads me to think it should be a person alive, but again, that part is just a suggestion so you don’t need to do somebody alive

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💀💀💀💀

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You don’t need to do 200 words but 67?!???

void kiln
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67 is yeah short

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how long was the reflection?

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ih

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oh

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i did no reflection coz its basically optional i felt

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confusing ahh prompt

urban charm
void kiln
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i mean i like it tbh

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that seems like a nice moment

covert shoal
void kiln
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i genuinely enjoyed writing the letter

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i use that word a lot 💯

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he also made me use random ahh vocab so it would stand out to him

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now im deleting it

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i liked it, idt it has much affect on admission whatsoever

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the other 2 are the big daddy essays

covert shoal
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Do you want my genuine opinion?

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The letter part wasn’t really what they’re looking for I don’t think. Second half had a lot of fluff.

oak edge
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whats the 25th and 75th SAT percentile for Penn

covert shoal
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I can show you mine if you want

covert shoal
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Oh

oak edge
covert shoal
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You said sat

oak edge
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yes

covert shoal
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Look it up idk

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Look up UPenn cds

urban charm
void kiln
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@covert shoal can i dm u mine

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pls check

covert shoal
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Short aka 200 words

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That’s why it says 200 words

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It can be less

oak edge
covert shoal
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But I wouldn’t go below 1/2 of the word count

urban charm
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Nah they wanted u to lie

covert shoal
covert shoal
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You got in right?

oak edge
covert shoal
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Sure

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I love the thank you notes

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I can send mine for a bit but then I’ll delete since the deadline hasn’t passed

oak edge
urban charm
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Wanna go over mine if they give me an extension?

covert shoal
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Imo you weren’t very introspective

urban charm
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Ima start working on my essays now then 💀

covert shoal
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Well you were but you didn’t show, you told

urban charm
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Thank you note was just added this year bruh

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I was tryna look up if anyone had gotten in with a note to multiple ppl

tired sable
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a kid in our school wrote it to his homestay family and got in

urban charm
tired sable
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yeh

urban charm
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Ok sick im doing mine for a group too then

tired sable
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ig just do the one you are the most thankful and grateful for

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someone also did jesus

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in my school

urban charm
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Jesus upenn feeder school??

covert shoal
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Not what I meant, but sure

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This is the one that got me in

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Wrote all 3 supps in one hour

tawny loom
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I wrote a thank you note to a friend that I'm not super super close to, but we had some really valuable experiences together

oak edge
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cuteeee

tawny loom
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It's one of my fav essays I wrote. No reflection

oak edge
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thats really sweet man

covert shoal
oak edge
tawny loom
oak edge
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even my reflection was a rather fancy-ish reflection

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not a true reflection

covert shoal
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Reflect doesn’t mean introspect

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It just means tell us about the experience

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And how you felt

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You don’t gotta go philosophical or therapy style

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But ye I gotta delete cuz deadline didn’t end

tawny loom
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really funny thing happened to me today

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so during my princeton interview i was talking about the same experience i described in my thank you note to my interviewer bc it was pertinent to the conversation

suddenly she asks, "yb, is this friend's name [...]?"

turns out she interviewed him last year 😭

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no

covert shoal
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Wait

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Did any of you guys have an interviewer named Kimberly

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Her

native rivet
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bro💀

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I wrote my thank you note to Christopher Nolan

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because his movies influenced a lot of things in my life

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was easy to describe given how beautiful his movies are

covert shoal
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That’s so cute !!

oak edge
tired sable
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and i sent him my note

covert shoal
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LMAO that’s adorable af

native rivet
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tell us if you get a reply

covert shoal
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“You looked cute as fuck when you were on the field, thanks for giving it your all during the Cup baby xoxo”

native rivet
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"that goal made me hard bro"

covert shoal
cerulean lagoon
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ayo

tired sable
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🥵

covert shoal
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Should have wrote the thank you to him

tired sable
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i like him just bc i like ninja turtle

pallid estuary
mint fossil
covert shoal
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Damn lemme know if you get her

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I can give you some info

mint fossil
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kk

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what area are you from?

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im from michigan so if ur not close i doubt i would get her

native rivet
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Any huntsman applicants here?

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i desperately need to talk to one😭

cerulean lagoon
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from ohio and the only interview i've gotten so far is MIT

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kinda big sad

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my first interview is gonna be for my #1 school v scary

tired sable
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thats ok

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my first interview was northwestern

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and the interviewer was my doctor

faint basin
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Not ok, that's insane!
I would only wish for an MIT interview

cerulean lagoon
native rivet
cerulean lagoon
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in their eval of you they're gonna go into your medical history too

native rivet
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Isn’t that a conflict of interest

cerulean lagoon
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funny af

native rivet
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Since you probably pay him for the doctor services💀

tired sable
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well i was deferred

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so ig not lol

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we were talking about poker

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and he know i play online poker tournament using my dad's card

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💀

native rivet
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oh wow

mint fossil
glass minnow
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u speak so passive aggressively w a sprinkle of superiority

proud storm
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i wrote my note to my grandpa who's pretty much been the only person in my family to ever support me

cerulean lagoon
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i wrote mine to gorg washingter

glass minnow
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mines was initially to my sisters but i decided to change it because it was disingenuous a bit so i decided to make it abt my mom

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it felt more sincere writing that anyway

proud storm
glass minnow
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i just rambled on the little things my mom does i take for granted

native rivet
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LOL that's so cute

proud storm
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awww

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i feel like bc it's year 1 of the note we have a lot of leeway with what we write & who to

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they don't really have rules for it yet

native rivet
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i wrote about the ✨ realism and other-wordly nature of dreams in Inception ✨

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(wrote to christopher nolan lol)

glass minnow
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no it wasnt that comment it was just generally

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something i pciked up on just reading the convo

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dw tho

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just an observation

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we ball

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u dont have to explain urself its ok girl

void kiln
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not red flag but

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not. good idea

tired sable
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did u write kanye west

tired sable
steep geyser
void kiln
tired sable
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i go to a Catholic school

void kiln
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no I wrote to my English teacher

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but yeah I think I saw on a2c someone said allah

tired sable
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he help serves mass every single day

void kiln
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everyone was apprehensive

tired sable
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it would've been a fire essay if u wrote to kanye

void kiln
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I think if u can't find someone besides a religious figure

tired sable
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he definitely would reply to you

void kiln
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then idk if that's bad ?

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idk

steep geyser
void kiln
tired sable
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sheesh

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i want him to follow me too

void kiln
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no only me

native rivet
oblique jasper
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btw what's up w upenn's change of policy regarding legacy

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?

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is it true??

void kiln
native rivet
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UM

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WHAT

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THE

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FUCK

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SHANYE

void kiln
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he stopped watching my close friends story

native rivet
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FUCK

void kiln
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what

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did I do sum

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why did u have a meltdown

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LOL he went into shock coz he checked my ig follower list and saw Kanye 😭😭😭

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covered my name but u can see it right there 🤷‍♂️

tired sable
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i love prodbyzaqq

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💀

void kiln
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he didn't follow back 😔

native rivet
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lmfao i got muted for saying fuck 2x

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💀

oak edge
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so cute

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xd

blissful ridge
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hey did you get your portal yet?

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why have i not received my portal yet 😭

steep geyser
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i received it within a day

blissful ridge
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should i email them

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is it possible that they didn't accept my submission despite having downloaded it :/

oak edge
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i'd say wait for a while

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give it another day

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and then email them

urban charm
cerulean lagoon
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i still haven’t been able to set up my portal it just gives me an error

fallow mulch
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Works for me now

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That's weird

cerulean lagoon
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oh it worked now

tired sable
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is penn ditching me

blissful ridge
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i got mine

tired sable
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i'll prolly email them today

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anyone know penn's email

shrewd snow
tired sable
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thank you

bitter violet
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was penn extended

oblique jasper
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@clever palm It shows all my stuff as received now, I guess it just takes a while to process

clever palm
amber hound
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bump

clever palm
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it sounds like you have some sort of sketchy illegal software that can uncover the blacked out info ngl 😳

amber hound
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a copy and paste of the email with all identifying info deleted would work too

clever palm
# amber hound a copy and paste of the email with all identifying info deleted would work too

Dear [First Name],

We are excited that you have decided to apply to the University of Pennsylvania. We invite you to set up your Penn Applicant Portal, where you will be able to access the most current information regarding your application.

Username: [my email]
Temporary PIN: [a number]

Log in to create your password.

We look forward to getting to know more about you through your application.
Sincerely,
Penn Admissions

amber hound
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thanks

clever palm
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np

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If it matters, the subject of the email was:

Welcome to the Penn Application Portal

urban charm
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STOP

clever palm
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STOP

urban charm
clever palm
urban charm
clever palm
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too bad

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i want all 3

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or well, 4

urban charm
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There is 4 there

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💀

clever palm
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i have one already

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so i need the other 3

urban charm
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Exactly u dont need more

clever palm
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No

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I do

urban charm
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Mf you are not thanos

clever palm
urban charm
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These are not the infinity stones

clever palm
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I need to collect them all

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for my company

urban charm
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What company??

clever palm
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The one that I’m creating with a few other people

urban charm
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Whats the service idea, or like industry sector if u dont wanna share ur business idea lol

clever palm
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nah jk

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it’s like a consulting type of thing

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it’s still planning

urban charm
clever palm
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this company doesn’t need funding to start

urban charm
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Im just interested bc i wanna start a company once i get to college

clever palm
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it’s made up of volunteers

urban charm
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Volunteer consultants 😳

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Sounds very interesting

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Just find some other super smart kids at Harvard and there u go ur all set

clever palm
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I have a columbia and yale/harvard kid

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atm

urban charm
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How are you finding volunteers?

clever palm
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LinkedIn

urban charm
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Damn ur already networking 😭😭

clever palm
clever palm
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it’s a team effort

urban charm
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Lmk how things go, maybe i could join up in a couple years 🫣

clever palm
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only "recruiting" hypsm for the most part

urban charm
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Im getting into stanny trust

clever palm
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ok

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ill message you when you do

urban charm
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Sounds good to me ;)

oblique jasper
clever palm
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other than the person from columbia we already have, no

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idk yet

oblique jasper
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where do u go?

urban charm
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How many ppl do u have

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Hes admitted to harvard 😳

clever palm
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3 but we only want ~5 our first year

clever palm
oblique jasper
urban charm
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Wdym duke bruh

oblique jasper
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😞

clever palm
oblique jasper
urban charm
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I love how everyone on this server is so different. Like on one end theres cc kids (nothing against them or anything dont misunderstand) then on the other end we have hypsm kids

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But at the end of the day we’re all on discord

clever palm
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mhm

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and then we have college grads in here too doing

oblique jasper
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/jk

urban charm
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Do i start dropshipping or try a different business idea 🤔

oblique jasper
urban charm
oblique jasper
urban charm
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Thats why im hyped for college, if i get into one of my reaches i wont be working 30hrs a week and ill be able to focus on these cool other things i wanna do

oblique jasper
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ohhhh

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best of luck then

urban charm
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Upenn is giving me an extension 😎😎

south bison
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ed rejection = bad omen for ea/rd?

void kiln
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no

frosty trail
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no

tired sable
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im fucked

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my questbridge application is

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so shit

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💀

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why are they reviewing both

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i only submitted my common app

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can i ask them to remove ky questbridge application

urban charm
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Why are they so short with their emails 😭

tired sable
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should i aks them to only use my common app application

stable rivet
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like, 0 humanity in their texts, which is ironic considering their first essay task is about thanking someone

urban charm
frosty trail
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well i mean

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thank you so much implies the question has been answered

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i dont blame them for not responding

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they have much more important things to do than spam "you're welcome" all the time

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although i must say UNC was pretty nice in their emails

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as well as USC

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exceptions though cause the rest of the schools i emailed either didnt respond or had like 2 line answers

stable rivet
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Meanwhile UChicago, they let fun come to die HOWEVER they still send emails with decency lol.

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frosty trail
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awww

wild orchid
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that's probably not their intention but it's just so short it's unsettling

tired sable
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fr

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i didn't even submit my questbridge application

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they cant do this to me💀

formal trellis
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did anyone else get an interview yet? i just got my invite and im scared shitless cause its my first 💀

tired sable
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my gf did

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she got one last night

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and the interview is tonight

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💀

formal trellis
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💀

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thats a bit soon 💀

tired sable
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apparently you need a resume

formal trellis
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my options are jan 20 or 27

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oh really?

tired sable
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it they asked for a resume

wild orchid
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that's barely enough time to prepare

tawny loom
tired sable
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idk

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my gf's interviewer asked for one

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💀

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i hoep they will remove my questbridge apps

tawny loom
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just got my interview

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submitted 12/28

mint fossil
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havent gotten any interview for penn

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just dartmouth

fallow mulch
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That's a fast turn around

formal trellis
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how did it go

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do you have any advice mines in a week and a half 😭

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oh wow bro was invested

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oo thats good

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this is my first interview so i dont know what to expect

tired sable
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expect some common questions

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and if u mention penn make sure to like

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show you really did some research on it

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and im pretty sure it should just be a conversation

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it will get off topic a lot

bronze valley
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This is my 1st online interview.. is it weird not being in person?

tired sable
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nah

clever palm
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Does anyone else not have a Penn ID yet?

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steep geyser
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penn says they havent gotten my css yet but all other schools have...worth emiling over? anyone else getting same problem?

stable rivet
shrewd snow
stable rivet
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happened with me too initially

clever palm
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can’t even view penn portal on my phone, just shows that an application was submitted

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amazing job, penn

tired sable
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penn didn't fucking reply to my email, they can's just use my Questbridge Application💀 i didn't even submit it

blissful ridge
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just got to know penn considers demonstrated interest

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signing up for all virtual tours clicking emails following da admissions office 😔

urban charm
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Penn considers demonstrated interest??

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Penn state?

blissful ridge
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upenn

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dartmouth does too

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very shocked ngl

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  • interview is important for penn 😨
tired sable
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idt penn track di

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one of the AO said they dont track them

blissful ridge
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says they consider it

tired sable
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i think thats ed or rd

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but idk

blissful ridge
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huh

tired sable
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like whether u applied through ed or rd

blissful ridge
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um yeah maybe

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signed up for a few virtual tours just in case 😭

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they're all at like 5am in my local time :(((

solar sail
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“you’d be pretty good at penn” - my interviewer

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slay

oblique jasper
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I recently sent an email to Penn and I keep thinking it's Friday 🥲

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Big brain moment

fallow mulch
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It's gotta be so marginal where it could help you

oblique jasper
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🙏

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I really want it to be Friday today.

copper hill
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So did some people already have their Interview?

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Or has Penn not started yet

proud storm
glass minnow
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guys we have to submit our finanical aid documents separately on the portal?

clever palm
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I don’t think you submit them on the portal at all

oblique jasper
glass minnow
oblique jasper
glass minnow
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when is it due

oblique jasper
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Everything is due February 1, but it takes on average 3-4 days to process, so they should prob complete it by Jan 20 if possible

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(there are different pfas documents depending on citizenship, there's a link on the financial aid checklist where they can access the form that is relevant to them)

glass minnow
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bet

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thank u

oblique jasper
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yeah ofc!

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yah idoc is pretty extensive and penn demands quite a bit of info in particular... i think only harvard beats them in terms of the time it takes to get everything completed lol

urban charm
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what upenn school should i apply to

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wharton or a&s for econ

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i mean whartons obviously better but its also more competitive to get in right

misty quest
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Econ, just go to A&S. Unless you think you're super likely to get in

urban charm
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no im definitely not

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lmao

misty quest
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You'd rather get admitted and go to A&S than apply for Wharton and get rejected

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Unless you want to work in finance specifically

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Then go for Wharton ig

urban charm
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i wanna do ib i think

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but ill also probably end up switching majors bc im not 100% set on econ

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so i think a&s is the way to go

misty quest
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Oof that's tough. Wharton is #1 for IB but non-wharton Penn is still a top school for finance

native rivet
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i'm p sure you'll get to take quite a few wharton classes

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plus all the resources on campus like RSOs aren't limited to wharton students

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they're free for everyone

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so recruiting shouldn't be a prob that way

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but yes, wharton degrees may be considered a notch better by recruiters

misty quest
native rivet
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yeah easier from wharton

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but no, imo even elite IB firms will hire CAS students as well

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it's probably PE who wont hire CAS

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since PE wants ppl with a highly developed finance skillset

misty quest
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It's certainly possible. Because non-wharton is still on the same level as Dartmouth or Columbia

native rivet
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and PE directly out of undergrad is 💀

native rivet
misty quest
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Best path is to suffer through a few years of IB maybe. Then get an MBA or exit for pe/vc

native rivet
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yeh that's what most ppl do

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my sister's also doing that rn loool

misty quest
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But I don't really know much I'm just a highschooler lmao

eager bough
urban charm
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theyre giving em out like candy

prime moon
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Yea I applied to an alternate major at Engineering instead of Wharton even tho my main major was at Wharton

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Due to its competitiveness

tired sable
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can someone tell me

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what does this mean

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are they not using my Questbridge Application then

quiet dragon
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yes

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since QB finished they’ll focus on what you put on common app

tired sable
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thanks

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i didn't even submitted tho💀

formal trellis
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how much info do interviewers get?

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if they don’t get ec stuff, i should probably brag a bit right?

frosty trail
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depends on school

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idk for penn

native rivet
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they don't get EC stuff

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my interviewer asked me about my ECs

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so i elaborated a bit on all the main ones

native rivet
prime moon
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their report overall will mainly focus on your fit for the school. It’s not your interviewer you need to impress with your ec’s

formal trellis
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ok thanks guys!

native rivet
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i personally emphasized on my social side rather than my ECs

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and my interviewer himself said that'd fit in well with penn

oak edge
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thankss

earnest shale
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did everyone get a upenn interview

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i still havent gotten any

eager bough
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i haven’t

native rivet
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dw y’all

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mine was earlier because dual degree applicants get assigned one earlier

humble orbit
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yea i did

tawny loom
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i got mine

earnest shale
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lol

bronze valley
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I got one

formal trellis
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i got one

opal onyx
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i got one

rigid cypress
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i didn't get one

copper hill
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Do you get emailed if they offer you an interview?

prime moon
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yes

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the interview reaches out to you through their own email

void kiln
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I get nothint

native rivet
blissful ridge
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i haven't gotten a single interview so far :(((

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is it my country or what

atomic ember
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i wouldn’t worry i haven’t gotten one either and i’m literally in the area

tawny loom
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Penn is only doing virtual interviews this year tho

opal onyx
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I got from penn, but I'm not sure I'll take it

native rivet
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do you not want to attend penn?

shrewd snow
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i hate upenn

opal onyx
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my major would be mechanical engineering but I want aerospace engineering. I only applied because i wanna know what I could do by myself. In my country you don't apply to college but you just go, and it's public and free. But i wanted to see my chances

chrome ginkgo
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How competitive is UPenn mathematics

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donno anyone who applied for Upenn math from whereI am lol

bronze valley
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Interview tonight 😎

blissful ridge
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good luck!!

clever palm
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good luck

glass minnow
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guys for the penn fin aid

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my father doesnt have a w2 form so should i email the financial aid office to get it waived

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also until when will penn be giving out interviews

bronze valley
oak edge
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man

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penn interview here

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im shit scared

native rivet
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itll be chill

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mine was also chill af

oak edge
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i hope so

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my guy is an indian

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and was in my board till 10th grade

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so that should be good

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but im applying SEAS, he graduated letter and science, so would he be able to help me much with the SEAS questions I have?

native rivet
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dw

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ask him wtv qs u have

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if he can't answer he'll say so

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doesn't hurt to ask

oak edge
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i see

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sounds great

sleek galleon
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The interview is just about me and my interests right

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I don't want to answer conflict resolution questions

bronze valley
sleek galleon
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I can end world hunger I just can't resolve conflicts

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Like I just never get into any conflicts

bronze valley
sleek galleon
bronze valley
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As much as I needed.. there wasn’t really a time limit but I obviously wouldn’t bombard the guy with 50 questions. I asked 3-4 and it took maybe 10-15min

sleek galleon
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Ok, thanks! Mine is tomorrow so just getting as much info as possible

bronze valley
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Yeah, don’t worry. It’s an easy conversation. Is this your first interview?

sleek galleon
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Nah I had an alumni interview for Cornell when I applied ED, but it was shorter

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Interviewer talked about himself for like 15 minutes and then left me with like 15 minutes to ask questions

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I got deferred though 💀

autumn dagger
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just got my interview email

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timeslots they gave me are all after feb 1 so hopefully i end up cancelling the interview bc of cmu 🙏

plush geyser
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ou finally got mine as well

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was a bit confused as to why i didnt since theres an insane penn alumni network in my community

void kiln
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no

chrome ginkgo
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Imo chance me is not constructive

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…

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My friends in school always ask me to chance them and I just give a rough number cuz no one can predict

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Unless they have big awards 💀 and even that is not enough sometimes

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Didn’t the national poet girl from Oregon got deferred from Harvard

faint basin
#

guys any advice for upenn interviews?

devout scarab
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At least from what I know unless you have major national awards, every t20 is pretty much a crapshot

solar sail
devout scarab
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Eh I mean if u have a 4.0 and 1550 and shotgun ur probably gonna get a t20 if u shotgun, but there’s no guaranteeing a specific t20

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I think

frosty trail
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t20 for your major sure

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but i dont think t20 overall makes sense

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like if youre 4.0/1550

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and CS

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youll probably get like wisconsin madison and maryland

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maybe something like ucsd is pretty acheivable maybe

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all t20s for cs

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overall t20 is a diff ballgame tho

fallow mulch
#

The stats are right, but for overall T20 you'll need to have done a lot more

frosty trail
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yess

fallow mulch
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Outside of school

frosty trail
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if youre 4.0/1550 that might correlate to stronger ECs and essays

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but thats also a different point than the once youre making

solar sail
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u don’t have to kill ur self, get the best awards, perfect GPA, and perfect SAT to get into a top 20

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in a much more holistic college admissions era what matters more is ur ECs, essays, and ur willingness to try hard even if ur not always perfect

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obviously if u want to go to harvard u cant have a 1.5 GPA but u don’t have to be perfect or near to it

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no one expects high school students to be perfect

devout scarab
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well by 4.0/1550 I also meant avg ecs for a t20 applicant

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like a few leadership positions, varsity sport, research, etc.

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also I think the stuff on college results isn't too representative of admissions as a whole--like people who get unusually disappointing results are probably more inclined to post

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like for example that one guy who got into usamo but ended up at ucsd

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but every usamo qual ik irl got into a t10 at least, and most a t5

autumn dagger
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all the usamo quals ik are mit/harvard

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💀

chrome ginkgo
devout scarab
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^^

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I hope I'm not that one guy who ends up at UMass Amherst...

chrome ginkgo
#

^^

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Lmfao I feel like I ain’t grinded for nothing for a usamo bronze medal 💀

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It will be sad if I become that guy 💀

chrome ginkgo
eager bough
pallid estuary
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so its not guaranteed

prime moon
#

that smells a lot like yield protection 🐽

chrome ginkgo
#

^

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I know usamo people get rejected from like UC Irvine lmao

pallid estuary
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cuz its highly ranked

autumn dagger
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iirc from the mit channel

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youre not only a double usamo qual but double perfects too?

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like damn

chrome ginkgo
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bro idk as Canadian applicant things can get sus

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I didnt apply for aid to most US unis

chrome ginkgo
#

RD much better tho, idk if i should've applied to a less competitive school early round...

devout scarab
#

Hmm yeah I regret not doing MIT + UChicago EA

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I go to a uchicago feeder school and a lot of ppl get in early

devout scarab
#

I looked at the oxford math admissions test and it wasn't bad at all...

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the cambridge one looks like hell though

chrome ginkgo
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i dont want to be confined to one major lol

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they dont allow u change major at all

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Cuz rn i donno what to do in college in terms of concentration

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so i think it would be the best for me to go to lib arts system

devout scarab
#

fair

chrome ginkgo
#

i applied to RD schools as a math x history major

devout scarab
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😮 nice

chrome ginkgo
#

🥶

chrome ginkgo
chrome ginkgo
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lol

devout scarab
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yeah

chrome ginkgo
#

their interview is hard asf it seems like...

devout scarab
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dang

chrome ginkgo
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Did u eventually do UChicagi

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i did it lol, cuz i wrote uncommon a long time ago

devout scarab
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nah, didn't think essay was worth it for the 1% acceptance rate...

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nice

chrome ginkgo
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lmao yeah

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1% rate be like

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💀

devout scarab
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T_T

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so sad bc it was one of my top choices. uchicago math is up there

chrome ginkgo
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someone in my school got in ED as intl without the video portfolio

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🛌

devout scarab
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😮 cracked

chrome ginkgo
#

lmao his ECs arent strong, grades good but not like perfect scores and stuff

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essays must be very good

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they really look into uncommon lmao

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cuz other essays could be c+p

devout scarab
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yeah makes sense

chrome ginkgo
#

i think core is ok

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i dont mind

devout scarab
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to an extent? didn't apply to columbia bc I don't wana read a hundred pages a night, but generally i'm indifferent

chrome ginkgo
#

lol

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my cousin went to columbia and she was talking about it lol

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i applied there cuz apparently less intls apply cuz their need aware admissions.

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expensive asf

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did u do pure math everywhere??

devout scarab
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my friend who wants to major in philosophy goes to columbia and warned my about the core. it's a lot even for humanities students

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scary

chrome ginkgo
chrome ginkgo
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and ofc meet more people from other disciplines

dusty carbon
#

is it a bad sign if i havent been contacted about an interview

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or if they would when would they reach out

eager bough
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i haven’t either and i applied like 2 weeks ago

bronze valley
low yacht
#

not a bad sign

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you may not have gotten it yet

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and if you never get it at all, thats ok too!

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it means nothing about your strength as a candidate.

low yacht
oblique jasper
#

yea its definitely not

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my friend who applied to seas got in without interview

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so dont worry

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my other friend who got in ED had his interview in the very beginning of december

dusty carbon
#

ok that’s reassuring

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thanks

eager bough
#

interesting

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penn is a long shot but i love seas

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maybe for grad school tho

tawny loom
#

interviewed yesterday. interviewer didn't go to my HS, but her twin brother did, she grew up in my hometown, and she's a multi gen legacy (to my HS, not to Penn) 💀💀💀

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overall great experience, she was really nice and I'm nowhere near as awkward as i was before

dusty carbon
#

yay that’s good!!

dusty carbon
lunar shale
opal onyx
#

Did someone had an interview with Morgan Friedman?

steep geyser
#

for the intl fin aid doc upload for penn's portal
do i convert currency? (ik css converts currency by itself but penn's form is considerably more....manual, got me wondering if it does that)

wanton veldt
lunar shale
lunar shale
# wanton veldt How was your interview

i think it wasn't that bad, the guy was p chill and interesting

he only asked me about myself What stood about upenn to me How can what stood out for me help me
Any questions I had
Anything I havent had a chance to mention

covert shoal
#

Guys, NEVER CALL UPENN FIN AID

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THEY ARE HORRIBLE

covert shoal
#

be yourself and talk abt ur interests and u will be fine

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I didnt feel like mine went amazingly yet here I am

glass minnow
covert shoal
sleek galleon
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there is context

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i won't get into it though

covert shoal
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like when they bring up a controversial topic?

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Why would they ask u that

sleek galleon
#

no like how would you resolve a conflict between two parties

covert shoal
#

Ohh

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Mine didnt ask that

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Mine was an hour long cuz we went over time, it was a few basic things

sleek galleon
#

yeah they asked me about what makes me happy and a conflict i conquered

covert shoal
#

for what school????

sleek galleon
#

i had yesterday

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arts and sciences

covert shoal
#

wait for Penn???

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tf

sleek galleon
#

yeah

covert shoal
#

they didnt ask me that

sleek galleon
#

yeah they really blindsided me

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but i think it went fine

pale osprey
#

@covert shoal would it be ok if i dm’d and asked you a couple things if not i get it you probably get asked a million times 😭

covert shoal
#
  1. Tell me about yourself and your home life (I talked about my difficult family situation, but you can talk about anything to give them a context into your life. It’s just a conversation starter)
  2. What do you want to do in your future/after you graduate college?
  3. Who do you think was your biggest guide during the college admissions process? Why?
  4. What does your class schedule look like, more or less?
  5. What is your favorite class right now? What are you doing in that class right now? (I talked about English class, so she asked me a lot about the books we were reading etc)
  6. Who do you think is your biggest mentor in life? Who do you look up to?
  7. What would that mentor say are your most positive qualities? What would they say are your most negative ones? (this was so fucking hard for me to answer)
  8. Why Penn? Have you done any research into the school?
  9. Do you have any questions for me?
  10. Is there anything else you would like the admissions committee to know? (they right down whatever you answer to this question for them to read)
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main questions she asked me, the rest were clarifying questions about things I said or very specific questions that had to do with things I said

covert shoal
pale osprey
#

Okok thank you so much

covert shoal
#

I thought my interview went dogshit because my lady graduated in '86 and was soooo hard to read

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just be yourself, at the end of the day if they dont like you for you then they dont deserve you anyway

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also interviews are one of the least important parts of ur app anyway

low yacht
#

try calling them every day for months

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it is hell

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the fucking

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shitty ass music they play when they hold u

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is chemically ingrained in my brain cursedmoon

covert shoal
#

they hung up on me mid conversation twice in a row

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Tufts was bad too, I was on hold for forty minutes and when she picked up she sounded like she wanted to die

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kept sighing and was so monotone and sounded depressed

oak edge
proud storm
#

FUCK i missed the financial aid deadline

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oh my god i got so behind on all my fin aid stuff

eager bough
#

me too

tired sable
#

i got no time

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to fill everything repeatedly

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💀

eager bough
#

it’s so time consuming to upload documents

feral hornet
#

so nervous for my interview for penn

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i really hope they don’t ask me to speak in another language bc even tho i applied for huntsman i rly am gonna screw up speaking in the target language if i get asked to do it when i’m stressed 💀

proud storm
#

are penn interviews based on availability

lunar shale
feral hornet
#

hopefully that’s the case tysm!!

feral hornet
lunar shale
#

altho i do think my interviewer was an alumni in something international related

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still didnt ask me anything bout it

proud storm
feral hornet
bronze valley
#

Does it mean anything that penn reports the interview as “important” in the common data set rather than just “considered” for a lot of schools?

void kiln
#

yes

faint basin
#

What in general

covert shoal
#

you dont need to talk abt anything if you dont want to

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I talked about some family beliefs growing up and how my beliefs dont align with it

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and we had a pretty long convo abt it

faint basin
#

Ahh alr thanks

surreal rock
#

UPenn extended their deadline till the 20th

faint basin
#

Whaaaa

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Why

oak edge
#

cheating

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thats just lessening our chances😭😭

surreal rock
#

Lmao

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It’s on the CA

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I was so shocked

oak edge
#

unfair as fuck

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why did they rush me then

surreal rock
#

Maybe not enough ppl had it in

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So they extended it

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I was rushed w Yale too

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I feel the pain

oak edge
#

cuz that means

surreal rock
oak edge
#

less than usual ppl applied

surreal rock
#

Probably yeah lol well I’m going to give Penn a crack

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But not much competition here😂😭

oak edge
#

oh lmao

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i went with Penn cuz im doing CS

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and since wharton's a bloodbath, SEAS should be a tad bit easier

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other ivies have a bloodbath for CS as well so if i had to try, it'd be penn

steep geyser
#

schools just want to pump up app submissions to pad up acceptance rates, and hence their rankings
also, detailed review of most apps hasn't begun yet so it comes as no surprise that they're willing to let ppl apply

eager bough
feral hornet
#

i’m crying

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this is gonna decrease my already non existent chance even more

oblique jasper
#

bruh

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59,000 applications

eager bough
#

where did you see that

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im crying

oblique jasper
#

they released it

frosty trail
#

Lmfao

eager bough
#

yea i’m prolly an auto reject 🤡

shell nacelle
feral hornet
#

no bc i need penn to accept me

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the huntsman program is literally THE dream

proud storm
feral hornet
#

fr

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wish i did ed

pale osprey
eager bough
#

same here

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and i’m applying to seas🤡🤡🤡

oblique jasper
misty quest
#

Wtf

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That's gonna be like a 6% overall acceptance rate

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So maybe 3-4% RD

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And like 2% for wharton

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😢

feral hornet
misty quest
#

It's ridiculous that these schools do not expand their class size

feral hornet
#

yeah like i get small lacs but come on y’all are well known ivies

eager bough
#

fr like build more housing or whatever

formal trellis
#

ivies playing the rank game 😔

pale osprey
urban charm
feral hornet
#

is it harder to get into the dual degrees or wharton?

low yacht
#

But

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That being said

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You can still do a dual degree once ur here if u get rejected from the coordinated programs

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You just wouldn’t be part of huntsman etc etc

low yacht
feral hornet
pale osprey
blissful ridge
oak edge
wanton veldt
tawny loom
# eager bough fr like build more housing or whatever

... and more classrooms... and more dining halls... and hire more professors... it's not as easy as it sounds. when Yale tried expanding by ~1000 in 2017 people went crazy protesting, in fact it took nearly a decade

low yacht
#

It makes sense though

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Penn’s expansions require tearing down existing buildings unfortunately

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They’re located in a large city.

low yacht
#

Penn is already getting backlash for displacing Philadelphia residents

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And rightfully so honestly

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Being in such a densely populated Urban space means that expansion is extremely difficult if not impossible

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They’re doing renovations which I feel is probably the only way they could possibly add seats

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This isn’t a penn problem either, same can be said for Columbia in NYC

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And Yale in New Haven—Yale owns so much of New Haven it’s crazy.

eager bough
#

yea ik this isn’t a penn problem i was partly joking

low yacht
#

Yeye but yk

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I get wanting more seats

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Logistics is eek

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Tho penn is already pretty dang large

eager bough
#

like there’s only so many spots they can do without running into problems

low yacht
#

And I don’t think undergrads are their priority when it comes to expansion

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There’s already like 24k

eager bough
#

yea i toured and shit was huge

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doesn’t penn have a larger grad school population than undergrad

low yacht
#

No

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It’s like

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5000 grad students across the graduate schools

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Wait no

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Shir you’re right

#

Misread some numbers

#

It’s about an even split

eager bough
#

undergrad is like 10k grad is 12k

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oh yea

low yacht
#

Between grad school and undergrad

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Yeah

tawny loom
low yacht
#

But undergrad is only 4 colleges n grad school is like 8? I think

low yacht
#

Idk much about those schools though

eager bough
#

yea grad school has like 8 colleges

tawny loom
#

Princeton's new dorms are ugly asf tho

low yacht
#

I hate modern architecture

eager bough
#

harvard has 7k undergrad and like 14k grad it’s insane

low yacht
#

I need the beauty of older architecture but the plumbing of new architecture

tawny loom
low yacht
#

Maybe I do have a shot for grad school

tawny loom
#

even outside of the gentrification/fucking up the city issue, when it came to Yale basically the school was already so overcrowded (classroom/faculty wise) that the place was on track for getting fully fucked up if they added extra housing and did nothing else

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Berkeley type beat

low yacht
#

Honestly I do feel conflicted as a penn student

eager bough
#

oh yea yale owns so much of new haven it’s insane

low yacht
#

I’m benefiting from the same sort of gentrification that hurt my own community

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Columbias gentrification of Harlem

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Feels yikes

eager bough
#

also the history of the ivies is um….

low yacht
#

Oh for sure awful

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But like

tawny loom
#

history can't be changed, what i care about is what they're doing to fix that

low yacht
#

Then it’s like how far back are we gonna go

tawny loom
#

also that

low yacht
#

The entire US is built on slavery yanno

#

So I focus on the present and what the current actions universities are taking

eager bough
#

yea ik history can’t be changed but like acknowledging it

tawny loom
low yacht
#

As well as the immediate past

eager bough
#

also captialism

low yacht
tawny loom
low yacht
#

Yeppp but

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Idk it’s just awful to moderate

tawny loom
#

yeah that's fair

low yacht
#

I feel bad for the UPenn RD admits

eager bough
#

yea i wish i did ed🤡

low yacht
#

Y’all can’t pose with the love statue and college hall for your Instagram announcement

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There’s scaffolding around them until Jan 2025 💀

tawny loom
#

doing that at my school would get you crucified LMAO

low yacht
#

Bc I announced williams

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And

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I felt bad

shrewd snow
eager bough
#

nah ppl would make fun of you for announcing it like that

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unless you’re an athlete

low yacht
#

Idk man depends where ur from ig

tawny loom
#

everyone here just sneaks it into their bio, then the public "announcement" is college sweatshirt day

low yacht
#

Questbridge too tbh

shrewd snow
#

ppl here post their college acceptance all the time

tawny loom
#

because if you do a full on post here people will just think you're an asshole

low yacht
#

Mm

shrewd snow
#

my school is a tamu feeder so ppl just pose with their acceptance letter

low yacht
#

Interesting culture

eager bough
#

yea ppl think ur pretentious if you post your college acceptance on insta or something unless it’s college t-shirt day

low yacht
#

My hs varies

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This one girl

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Who got off Cornell waitlist

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Made it her entire personality

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It’s actually very sad to see bc prior to it she used to be interesting

eager bough
#

i go to a northeastern feeder

low yacht
#

She was in so many clubs and shir and was super talented and whatnot and now all she does is post “haha cs at Cornell moment” “go big red!”

eager bough
#

and i run my grades decisions account and the amount of northeastern posts i’ve gotten is insane🫠

tawny loom
# low yacht Interesting culture

i think it's just that when there's 220 people in your grade and 175 of them are gunning for T20s you end up being really sensitive to these things lol

tawny loom
low yacht
eager bough
#

i made one like mid junior year

low yacht
#

My high school is about 170 kids per grade and everyone’s either gunning for top schools or sticking with in state safeties for the AA degree transfer

eager bough
#

i was legit determined to make one because the design for last year was hideous

low yacht
#

No one is really insecure about it though

#

Our school doesn’t have ivy grind culture

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So everyone’s super nice generallt about college acceptances

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Except a few outliers ofc

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Idk I don’t feel bad when people I dislike get into good colleges

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One of my exes got into a really competitive bsmd programs and I felt really happy for him weirdly

eager bough
#

my school overall doesn’t have ivy grind culture but there a subset of people who are obsessed with t20’s/ivy league

tawny loom
low yacht
#

Ah yikes

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Thankfully all the weirdos didn’t go very far up lol

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In my hs I mean