Yale (2022-2023)

[spring ravine]

yeah this seems extreme

[lost gorge]

there goes my plan to get a 3 on english paper 2

[night plank]

i was so excited to play on the ap tests this year😬

was gonna just fill in the bubble sheets

[short turtle]

Yes I was horrified

I just got. A B in physics on mid year actually

So I nearly. Yeah I was rly horrified

Wondering if Yale deferred me to see if my grades stayed where they were and they very much Did Not

Wondering if I might get an interview call as I go from admit to WL

[lost gorge]

😭

my master plan

was just to not try and then get a 5

cuz my IO is a 6 and that’s like 30% of the grade

then if i got a 5 on paper 1, 3 on paper 2, that averages to like 4.7 or smth and that’s a 5 LMAO

💀

[short turtle]

Yeahhhh

[uncut hazel]

does that yale verification of household income thing mean anything or is it all portal astrology baloney?

i don't have it ^^ but my friend who got an AO interview did so i was just wondering

[night plank]

honestly probably just means the admissions/fin aid office are at a different phases of reviewing your application ^.^ doesn’t mean anything

don’t worry about it!

[uncut hazel]

ooo okie! i saw on the website that the verification thingie was for admitted as well as prospective students so it could go either way

though big up my friend for the ao interview since that's a good sign ofc

hopefully we both live out our golden girls arc there hahaha

[night plank]

tbh ur friend is probably getting in with an ao interview but i have the household thing as well and i didn’t get one

[uncut hazel]

ah fairs

[night plank]

so it’s really just whatever disorganization is going on up there 😭

[uncut hazel]

they are very very spiky? is that the right word

like

[night plank]

oh defff

[uncut hazel]

they're going for econ and have a ton of really cool hedge fund internships

and apparently the ao in the interview just grilled them a crap ton about every single one

[night plank]

oh my god 😭😭😭

that sounds so scary

[uncut hazel]

yeah he was spooked lmao

[night plank]

good for them though

[regal relic]

that was me with dartmouth

[uncut hazel]

he joined the zoom and they immediately started asking questions= no hi no hello lol

[night plank]

yikeeesss i wouldn’t be able to do that

[uncut hazel]

eek

[night plank]

kudos to him for surviving 💀

[uncut hazel]

but he's cracked at his internships so he got through, i think he's finna be a yalie

hopefully i can join him 😔 my ECs are lowkey mid

i have one good thing but it's a bit random and not linked to my intended major(s)

[night plank]

let’s all cross our fingers and pray 😞😭

[uncut hazel]

alTHOUGH thinking very very optimistically it's a very easily verifiable one? so maybe that's why i didn't get an ao interview about it okay no this is a cope icl 😭

let me INNNNNNNN

manifesting the auto-admit w/o interview pathway for me

[rare jacinth]

praying that’s a reason i didn’t get an ao interview cause i have two things that aren’t easily verifiable but my lors are from the people who lead the two things😭

[uncut hazel]

can't lie

if i get in

ao interviews don't mean anything to me

but

it's just that it's a really good indicative sign yk?

[rare jacinth]

yeah fr i would be so happy to get one

[uncut hazel]

pain

let's hope

for a last last minute one

apparently yale does that for borderlines

[rare jacinth]

my likely just got lost in the mail😍

[uncut hazel]

ong no cap

[remote flame]

is the household verification form only for ppl applying for aid

bc im not applying for aid and i was deferred and it popped up in my portal a while ago and disappeared soon after...

[regal relic]

disappeared for everyone soon after

[remote flame]

don't some ppl have it rn?

[wheat oar]

i was gonna ask abt the form when i called them earlier but they just ended the call after answering my first question

[remote flame]

yeah bc im not sure if its only for ppl applying for aid or not

[spring ravine]

oh was that you?

[queen glade]

the yale portal is so trash

if i get accepted into yale i’ll redesign it

[crimson estuary]

i still have it but i didn’t apply ea

[rare jacinth]

if i get into yale i do the opm routine everyday for all the time im at yale 😭

[edgy marsh]

What’s wrong wit ur

It

[spring ravine]

any portal that has an "update application" button >>>>>

[remote flame]

i don't have it and i applied ea it just disappeared a while ago but i think it might be bc i didn't apply for aid?

[crimson estuary]

yea it’s only for ppl who apply for aid i think

[vivid viper]

The hell

☠☠☠☠

[wet jacinth]

which is why im positive the verification statement astrology is bs

[remote flame]

im wondering if all deferred ppl make it to full committee or not

[remote flame]

college confidential got me thinking it means something 💀

[wet jacinth]

can't say

[wet jacinth]

did you upload it to your idoc for a different school?

[remote flame]

i didn't even fill out the css or idoc LMAO

[wet jacinth]

interesting

[eternal needle]

Yale be glitch cheesing

[remote flame]

yeah i should've applied for aid (i still don't think i'll qualify) so i only filled out the fafsa

[wet jacinth]

meh. im guessing it showed up on the checklists of all those who'd submitted the form for a different school already

[glad dagger]

yeah that's my case cuz duke asked for it

[wet jacinth]

u got the vanderbilt scholarship my guy 😭

[wet jacinth]

bingo

might fuck around and upload the form to my idoc and see if it shows up on my yale checklist

that'd dispel (or confirm) the theories lol

[glad dagger]

if Yale's the one to ask for it then MAYBE but even then I think it's a huge reach

[wet jacinth]

yeah and a lot of people seem to have it

might be selection bias but

it's still a sizable number

don't know if they specifically requested the form from some people

ive heard they did

but for most folks im guessing it showed up automatically because they had uploaded it to their idoc for a different school

[short turtle]

it was so eerie for me

it appeared in portal (no other school request)

then disappeared

assumed it was glitch and had no clue what it was anyway so left it

then another school req’d it from IDOC and then after I submitted it reappeared with check

[remote flame]

HAHAHA ik but it was merit so like yeah

[sly fossil]

i probably won't host

[remote flame]

when yale spells "reminder" wrong

[languid magnet]

💀

[edgy marsh]

ReMidner

[remote flame]

(yale if you're seeing this, that was a joke and i love you sm, so please don't take offense to this and pls accept me)

[short turtle]

Reminder that you are mid

[languid magnet]

📸 too late buckaroo

[short turtle]

And will be WL’d to rejected in 22 days

[remote flame]

NO STOP IT WAS IMPULSIVE

[short turtle]

damn can’t even simp for Yale consistently

[languid magnet]

Too late. We didn't want your ass anyways.

[remote flame]

ah that defer hurt sm alr

[onyx kelp]

and this is why Harvard is better than Yale

We can actually spell things correctly

wait, can you only go to bulldog days if you commit? @sly fossil

Or is it for all admitted ppl

[spring ravine]

It’s all admitted people

[onyx kelp]

Ok

I will vandalize Yale’s campus

if I’m admitted

[spring ravine]

You have to get in first bestie

[onyx kelp]

True

😔

Please accept me yale

[short turtle]

We got deferred for a reason: we are good enough to be Yalies fs!!! Just need to edge out the RDs

[spring ravine]

Imagine applying REA to HYPS

Couldn’t be me

[sly fossil]

I didn't even notice 😭

[sly fossil]

all admits

its normally straight after harvards too

[twin oar]

please

[remote flame]

YESSSS I PRAY THAT'S THE CASE

[tight hull]

Slay

[onyx kelp]

oh nice, I’ll show up in full harvard merch then

[sly fossil]

i mean if u wanna get socially outcasted, sure lmao

[queen glade]

nothing but harvard portalcsolos

if i get in here it’s my first choice

[spring ravine]

💀

[eager hollow]

jobless

too jobless

[short turtle]

Abhi begging in every channel is not demonstrated interest 😂

[twin oar]

hes onto something

if i get in here it’s my first choice

[short turtle]

no he’s not 😭😭😭 the more you demonstrate your interest to ivies the more weaponry they have to crush you with on Ivy Day (aka doomsday)

[twin oar]

if i get in here it’s my first choice

[queen glade]

yes it is

[hasty canopy]

😭😭

[tight hull]

Slay

Yale so slay

[rugged crow]

[tight hull]

Would kiss my interviewer 10/10

Sadly Yale didn't see fit to give me an interview

[rugged crow]

I wish I had one

[tight hull]

us

[rugged crow]

🥲

[tight hull]

Ahhhhh

[rugged crow]

Did anyone here read Ninth House?

[tight hull]

Nope but it's on my to read list

will read after boards

[rugged crow]

You're from India?

[tight hull]

Yes

I assume you are too? Asia role?

[rugged crow]

Ahh cool!

Yes

[tight hull]

nicee

[zenith olive]

I'm with you too

[uncut hazel]

any other intls just had the fafsa thing appear in their portal?

i’m not a us citizen nor resident so i’m confused

[glad dagger]

nope

[uncut hazel]

extra context it shows up as being there since yesterday but i just checked today

and here’s what it shows for me

can anyone else check if they’re intl and see if it arrived/appeared

i sent my aid really late lol

[glad dagger]

They want u so much they made u a US citizen

[uncut hazel]

let’s freakin go

finna get all the internships now without that 20 hour part time limit 😤😤😤😤

the portal astrology thing with income verification is interesting but i can’t really get in on it because as my checklist shows i sent my materials so late 😭

all other intls pls check and lemme know if a fafsa thing appeared ^^ curious

[hushed rain]

I don't have it but I have the verification form

[uncut hazel]

:O that’s interesting

did you get an AO interview?

yale is on a mad one this year with all these docs

[hushed rain]

No just a senior on March 3rd

Did u?

[uncut hazel]

nope, no interviews at all from yale in fact

though apparently that seems to be pretty common in the uk, no clue why tbh since i think we’d have many alumni and equally some interesting profiles

[glad dagger]

where'd you get interviews from?

[uncut hazel]

all the other ones

wait

sorry i was thinking about the threads i was in fuzzy brain

i got interviews for harvard, princeton, mit, stanford, and columbia

they went pretty well which i’m happy about, but equally the interview system works weird for uk intls

[frail ferry]

No interview isn’t a bad indicator is it?

[glad dagger]

nice

[uncut hazel]

nope, tons of people get in without an interview to yale; just means they have enough information to make a decision already

[glad dagger]

I didn't get one from Stanny 😭

[onyx kelp]

I’m gonna say no but I’ve heard mixed opinions on this

if you’re intl no interview is kinda bad imo

[uncut hazel]

tbh we had so few interviewers in the uk that i had one from canada lmao

[onyx kelp]

unless yale is availability based for intl

[glad dagger]

yeah the portal already said like

[uncut hazel]

nah but there’s yale auto admits and stuff

[glad dagger]

there's no interviewers nearby so your app will be considered complete wo one

but still they could've arranged a virtual one if they wanted to

[uncut hazel]

that was the rationale my stannie interviewer used

but i got my interview way later than other uk peeps ik of

[hushed rain]

Me with MIT😭😭😭😭😭

And Harvard

But MIT😭😭😭😭

[glad dagger]

I didn't get one from Duke and Stanny

But Duke I applied like weeks after the priority deadline so it's fine

[uncut hazel]

bump ^^ should show up as coming up on the 8th of march!! (tho if it doesn’t lemme know too haha)

[rugged crow]

You should call them ig

[uncut hazel]

lemme look up uk-usa phone rates unironically

[short turtle]

Praying I’m Yale autoadmit

[uncut hazel]

i wonder if i could whatsapp yale

[short turtle]

Surely that’s why i haven’t received an interview yet

[glad dagger]

they decided to pull an uno reverse card and colonize the UK

[short turtle]

Surely

[glad dagger]

you are now american

[uncut hazel]

like hey i’m broke buuuuut :) help pls

[uncut hazel]

i’m in america now fr

lmao imagine

not complaining if it means i can do CPT in my first year though

[tame rapids]

idk, i dont have it

[uncut hazel]

given your username i absolutely love this

but hmm

which countries are y’all from?

[tame rapids]

the usual intl place

[uncut hazel]

maybe the uk’s just weird (source: lives there and is weird)

[uncut hazel]

india?! big up india

[tame rapids]

yeah

[uncut hazel]

and high five bc i’m from kerala hehehe

i’m rolling with the narrative that this is foreshadowing yale invading the united kingdom

[tame rapids]

im rolling with the narrative that i got tossed first read

[uncut hazel]

tbh reading over all my essays

[short turtle]

my Yale essays were my worst

They were overly micromanaged

And I wrote them first 😭😭😭

[uncut hazel]

yale is by far the weakest (don’t tell them) because i couldn’t actually think of anything to say about why i wanted to go there (really don’t tell them because if they admit me i don’t want to feel weird)

[tame rapids]

my yale essays were my favorites and i still have 0 hopes

[short turtle]

oh I mean I think my why Yale was quite strong actually it’s my short takes that were weak

[uncut hazel]

like i just checked out some random reasons for yale bc i had no idea what to say for it 😭😭 all my other schools i found cool stuff for

[short turtle]

Ironically probably my best supplementals were Harvard

[uncut hazel]

my short takes were fire but my why yale was terrible icl

[short turtle]

Anyways I refuse to look back at them

[glad dagger]

I loved the short takes

[short turtle]

Oh I hated them

[uncut hazel]

they were so fun

[short turtle]

The only cute answer I managed to give was

[uncut hazel]

i hated why yale

[short turtle]

Seasons of Love for the fave song

[tame rapids]

i love every bit of college supp < 50-60 words

[glad dagger]

In what inspires you I said empanadas 😭

December me was so cringe

[short turtle]

Other than that if the supp is less than 50 words it’s actually the worst

[short turtle]

That’s cute

[glad dagger]

I liked Princeton's short takes more tho

But don't tell Yale that

[zenith olive]

I had a writer's block and procrastinated for 2 months 💀

[short turtle]

Oh full agree

My Princeton supps were so much cleaner

Except the “difficult conversation” rip

[prime grotto]

i am conflicted between wether I like yale's or USC's short takes

essay wise the best prompts were princeton, caltech, MIT

can't pick between the three though

[short turtle]

Oh me too but I started thinking abt it on Aug 1 so 2 months procrastinating meant I spent a month JUST writing Yale/UMich

[prime grotto]

my essay for that is so cringe

I thing either it might be what admits me or what rejects me

no in between

cuz the essay is cringe but all my friends say its last paragraph is a good closing

[short turtle]

ugh that post I saw today abt someone getting rejected from UIUC over an essay terrified me

[prime grotto]

I think its my reason for rejection tho

[tame rapids]

i'm glad i wrote that early on, literally recycled it for every school's diversity supp

[short turtle]

you’ll see how it goes vijit

And you have an acceptance to fall back on

[glad dagger]

how'd they know it was cuz of that

did they tell them?

[prime grotto]

Its 100% false hope from my friends. The essay feels so cringe 😭

[prime grotto]

my acceptance is a school with 96% acc. rate...

[short turtle]

I think I used my diversity supp on “enhancing a community to which you feel connected”

[prime grotto]

look at the fucking analogies I used

what was I thinking submitting this

😭

This is what happens when you write your essays in 5 hours without re-reviewing them at all - since you are in a rush due to exams

(Fuck you preboards)

[short turtle]

Oh that’s kind of cringe but the essay topic is really clever

[short turtle]

Yeah

[prime grotto]

I couldn't think of anything else at all 😭

lets see on 31st march lol

(before you ask, time zones)

[short turtle]

Me neither so I wrote an essay about cooperation in leadership

[prime grotto]

I think this essay was decent (Although Im not sure about the last line. It might come off egoistic instead of more of a quote I live my life by. I didn't set its tone apropriately)

That line is still fine in the princeton essay. In the caltech essay it is 100% looking slightly egoistic 💀

I shall stop spamming essays now

[short turtle]

Oh, I think my response for this essay was really good

[tame rapids]

damn, thats such a sophisticated response,
i blabbed about using comedy to address conflicts (unironically titled it "punchline")

[short turtle]

I ended up writing about my experience in the theater

Yours looks strong though that’s a really eloquent way to put the point about tutoring

I hope to tutor more in college, it’s a rly fulfilling expefience

[prime grotto]

fr

[prime grotto]

thank you!

[short turtle]

You maybe should delete the messages with your essays

[prime grotto]

ty

[short turtle]

So you don’t get plagiarized

[prime grotto]

just up here temporarily until you guys are done reading

gonna delete them in a few

[short turtle]

okay nice

[prime grotto]

punchline

[short turtle]

I’m not gonna lie to you the last line of your last essay has me sobbing

[prime grotto]

interesting, what was the exact thing you talked about

[prime grotto]

cuz of how cringe it is

ik

I fucked up 💀

[short turtle]

yeah ;-; but rest of essay rly good

[prime grotto]

I wanted to put it like "a qoute I live by"

but it came off egoistic in the context of the essay

I love when I fuck up my tones in essays

[prime grotto]

ty but 😭

[tame rapids]

i swear it seemed a good idea back then

[prime grotto]

the last line is like ruining it

[prime grotto]

haha

nah they need some humor too

"other than that however"

felt too risky to leave it at a joke

so I combined a joke and the actual answer

this is too dringe as well in retrospect

Imma stop reading my essays

[short turtle]

Wrote about my path to feeling comfortable showcasing my own identity in performance and how that ended up relating to civil rights activism

[prime grotto]

All I will do is cringe

if I read them

[tame rapids]

me applying to princeton was already a joke

[prime grotto]

my life is already a joke :D

[short turtle]

So don’t just smile in denial

[prime grotto]

lmfao

just deleted the essays

(from discord, not my pc)

[uncut hazel]

lmao whoever put princeton acceptance letter as what brings you joy you’re great

[rare jacinth]

i wish i was funny in mine 😭

[prime grotto]

me :D

xD

[short turtle]

It was a clever response!!

[prime grotto]

I cropped it out earlier. I also wrote more below “acceptance letter”

I still wrote what else brings me joy

[short turtle]

I wrote that one about… hm, reading with my sibling during pandemic

[prime grotto]

since it felt like just a joke is too much, I need both a joke and a serious response

[tame rapids]

bro translated kms 😭

[prime grotto]

had to

[short turtle]

yeah it’s rly rly good

[prime grotto]

you all are americans

🙄

you love your imperial system

[uncut hazel]

what a g

what college is that for?

[prime grotto]

😎

[prime grotto]

yeah my "princeton letter brings me joy" is definitely for harvard

its for princeton ofc

[uncut hazel]

i can’t remember which college has the joy prompt-

ohhhh okay

[prime grotto]

multiple

I think

I remember I typed it twice

[charred cedar]

princeton

[tame rapids]

princeton thread is so dead we have to talk about it over yale's

[prime grotto]

yeah columbia too

[prime grotto]

lmfaooo

[charred cedar]

dude thats like the forbidden response

[tame rapids]

i included columbia's admissions website at the end of my "other outlets" list

[prime grotto]

lmfaooo

[short turtle]

I forgot that Columbia had a short take

[short turtle]

Clever!!!

Lmfao my first two Columbia essays are so dead

[prime grotto]

Only like 4 of these shows are actually what come to mind now, the rest were just what I was watching at that time.

I dont get these two questions tho

like what are they looking for here

[short turtle]

The book one and the outlets are so. Yikes

Oh you know I should’ve listed TED

[short turtle]

Just to see what kind of content you consume

[prime grotto]

This one is just so.... cliché of an essay

[short turtle]

To see if you are an engaged global citizen

[prime grotto]

if you saw mine, what would you think

"Micheal Reeves" 💀

I wonder if one of my readers knows who micheal reeves is

gonna be funny asf

[short turtle]

I feel like I remember Columbia having multiple why Columbia essays

Oh no I just wrote all of my essays as a collective why Columbia

[prime grotto]

yup they did

I used the second essay as a way to talk about my robotics project instead

[short turtle]

Overworked gen Zer in an existential crisis

[glad dagger]

Love the latino rep there

[prime grotto]

(Keep in mind my common app essay also is kinda CS related, hence why I didn't talk that much about it and jumped to my project instead)

[prime grotto]

existential crisis?

why

[rare jacinth]

i wanna minor in spanish lit 😭 love spanish and russian lit more than anything else

[prime grotto]

eclectic peer body

sounds like someone googled some synonyms to make their essay sound fancier

[tame rapids]

nah i use eclectic a lot
prolly spammed it 4 times in english boards

[prime grotto]

lmfao

[glad dagger]

I love that this became the everything-but-Yale thread lmao

[prime grotto]

similar thing with me

I just have these 10 high ass words in my vocab

that I spam alot in exams

[prime grotto]

lmfaooo

[tame rapids]

considering the astounding number of a2c posts being dedicated to kissing their yale interviewers i'd say its an upgrade

[glad dagger]

Did y'all not kiss yours!?

[rare jacinth]

french kiss

[tame rapids]

a little inconvinient given that they didnt exist

[uncut hazel]

lmao true

that’s a bangin’ essay

[rare jacinth]

short essays were so fun to right the only very enjoyable part of the process

[tame rapids]

aye thats cool

[uncut hazel]

honestly

[glad dagger]

Mine were so random 😭

[rare jacinth]

write

[uncut hazel]

imagine if all college apps were like ten short takes i’d acc enjoy that

[rare jacinth]

THATD BE SO FUN

[uncut hazel]

who needs long coherent stories and anecdotes when you have fun bite sized bits of awesome

[rare jacinth]

science historical moments>

[tame rapids]

frfr

[uncut hazel]

so true king

i picked the wright brothers for that one i think

mainly bc it would’ve been funny

see the lil hop then a plonk

inspirational plonk

[glad dagger]

I chose one of the world fairs and talked about how it was the first time people tried ketchup and bananas and it would've been funny to watch 😭

[uncut hazel]

that’s hilarious 😭

i do hope they didn’t try those two together hahaha

[glad dagger]

lmao

[uncut hazel]

oh that’s perfect

[tame rapids]

brilliant + funny = cool essay

[glad dagger]

lmao thank you 😭

most of my essays r so random

[charred cedar]

I think no interview = clear decision

For Yale at least

[hushed rain]

Same tbh

[tame rapids]

or they didnt have any availability

[charred cedar]

nah

They have availability

[tame rapids]

...my closest yale alum is 560 kms away but nvm

[charred cedar]

Where do u live lol

[tame rapids]

intl

[charred cedar]

Surely

I mean zoom exists

[tame rapids]

95% of this year's interviews on a2c were in person idk why

(yep, im jobless enough to count)

[charred cedar]

That’s so not true

[glad dagger]

I think that availability plays a factor to an extent

cuz yeah like supernova said it can be via zoom

[charred cedar]

Yale is a little diff

[glad dagger]

so idk

[charred cedar]

I got deferred and still no interview

[tame rapids]

maybe an observation bias,
data collected solely by me is bound to be inaccurate to some degree🤷‍♂️

[prime grotto]

my closest MIT alumn is on the opposite side of the country

so they did an online one

I think availability means more like – someone who is from your region and understands your context

as long as they aren't busy with irl interviews arleady though

[tame rapids]

mit does a great job interviewing fr
(also your app is orz)

[prime grotto]

not sure, just speculation

[charred cedar]

Nah ctx doesn’t matter

[prime grotto]

orz?

MIT is my only US interview so far T_T

and wdym they do a great job at interviewing

[tame rapids]

like they make sure most applicants get it

[prime grotto]

oh

🤡 me thinking it has a slight chance of being selective due to lack of interviewers in my area

[tame rapids]

in a country like india, to some degree it always will be

[prime grotto]

guess I can loose all hope now

[prime grotto]

nah let me loose my hope

dont give it back to me

or I won't be able to handle my rejection

[tame rapids]

any other way would be logistically inappropriate

[prime grotto]

loosing hope = good

cuz no expectations

[radiant oyster]

wait did you EA MIT ? if yes was this interview before or after ea decision

[prime grotto]

after EA

[radiant oyster]

thats a good sign

[prime grotto]

My interviewer held it on 12 feb or so, but he did mention during the interview he had my name since 22nd december and just couldn't get to me cuz he was busy with some stuff that is [censored since its too personal to him I suppose and I dont wana leak it]

[radiant oyster]

when was mit decisions ?

[prime grotto]

EA?

17th december

the interesting thing is, my name was forwarded right after this email. Coincidence or not?

"Visit" 😭

[tame tree]

visit 😭

[prime grotto]

If they reject me

imma be like

ya all named me incorrectly

imma put this on twitter and sue u if you dont admit me

gimme the admission, gimme gimme

(for legal and admission purposes this is a joke)

[tight hull]

sus visit

https://www.instagram.com/p/CpiWMiQORWO/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

uchicagoadmissions

Modeled after the medieval collegiate chapels of Europe, The Rockefeller Chapel has been open to celebrations of all traditions since 1928 👀 Look at the details 🔍

Likes

822

Instagram

like bro

fuck you for posting this just before rd decisions

[wary marlin]

is there anyone international got fafsa in checklist?

[glad dagger]

yeah @uncut hazel asked about it a bit ago

[wary marlin]

interesting

[uncut hazel]

ello ello!

[wary marlin]

ey

[uncut hazel]

which country are you from? so far we've got uk, uae, and hong kong represented :o

@wary marlin

[wary marlin]

I'm from Japan

[uncut hazel]

ayyy swaggy

we're totally not portal astrology-ing but it seems like just,, a thing that's happening

[tight hull]

i didnt

[hollow kite]

I applied dual citizen idk if that counts but I applied with czech

[wary marlin]

did you get fafsa?

[crystal iron]

Guys I love being like “is this email my Yale likely” when it’s just my panera order confirmation

[rare jacinth]

thats how i was last night when i got my order confirmation from etsy 💀

[crystal iron]

I love being delusional

So glad there are other delulus out there

[glad dagger]

me checking my email more than my socials knowing I'm not getting a likely

[sly fossil]

we have very similar music tastes

i love acloudyskye and glaive

never thought id see a fan on this server lmao

[sly fossil]

have u seen the MIT chapel

[tight hull]

no

[tight hull]

bland asf

[sly fossil]

it's very cool inside but definitely not saarinen's best work at all

[sly fossil]

(the correct answer to what is his best work is obviously the TWA flight centre)

[mystic crescent]

Same im intl student too

[prime grotto]

a c l o u d y s k y e ?

A C L O U D Y S K Y E ?

Y O ?

AND G L A I V E ?

TWO ARTISTS PEOPLE RARELY KNOW THE NAME OF?

(espescially acloudyskye and more importantly a COMBO of that?)

[wary marlin]

check your dm please

[prime grotto]

recently NF has also moved onto the top of my list btw

also, this warants a need from me to instantly send you a friend request.

https://tenor.com/view/rogue-one-k2so-please-do-not-resist-dont-resist-star-wars-gif-22411289

[sly fossil]

yessir

[sly fossil]

oh i saw him live

[sly fossil]

yes and glaive

[prime grotto]

motto or hope

or both

lol

[prime grotto]

ong

my fav os 2009

*is

idek why

I just like it too much lmao

[sly fossil]

im gonna be honest i was more of a therapy session / perception kid lmao

i stopped listening around the time The Search came out

[prime grotto]

fair

[sly fossil]

and then went and saw him during the search tour so knew like half the songs lmao

[prime grotto]

he has become more movie-ish like

in his songs

[prime grotto]

oh dang

top NF song

drop it rn

When I grow up and just like you over here 🔫

[uncut hazel]

nice, which country?

[prime grotto]

(Currently I am listening to hope on repeat but thats prolly cuz it just dropped. when I grow up might come back on top soon)

[sly fossil]

i like think u right and slam my head agains the wall tbh

[prime grotto]

those are bangers as well ngl

[tight hull]

oooh

[sly fossil]

intro 3

[prime grotto]

you mean think right?

whats think u

*thinking

[sly fossil]

https://open.spotify.com/track/5qfUdVpFVW6fU7GiVCIolX?si=8d435ab6de084d90

[prime grotto]

oh glaivee

[sly fossil]

if u wanna be more jealous im also going to a few festivals during spring break

[prime grotto]

not 100% accurate to my ratings, but I listen to whats on the top the most

[sly fossil]

ultra miami (all three days) and brownies and lemonade

[prime grotto]

so in a sense its almost like which ones I like the most

[prime grotto]

oh damn boi

[prime grotto]

💀

[sly fossil]

look at that lineup

[prime grotto]

I have a playlist for like 60 artists

I have a playlist problem

[prime grotto]

cant zoom

desktop

lazy to open in browser

[sly fossil]

headliners only

[idle meadow]

anyone got fafsa as an intl ?

[sly fossil]

seems like it

[idle meadow]

hey it's okay don't cry

you will get into a good college

[sly fossil]

BnL

san holo gonna hit

[prime grotto]

h o l y

[sly fossil]

yeah its pretty cracked

[prime grotto]

damn

ur making me jelly

and I mean jealous

I am not edible

[uncut hazel]

hope so ;-;

[uncut hazel]

woo which country?

[mystic crescent]

I dont think location is key point

Seem like everyone got this

[glad dagger]

nah I didn't

but it's probably just a glitch

too many ppl got it for it to mean something

[mystic crescent]

Same thought

[crystal iron]

guys drop the ivy day open orders

im thinking harv columbia brown dartmouth upenn duke yale princeton

but like with all the tabs and portals open so ill just speedrun the rejections

[uncut hazel]

probs yeah

[rare jacinth]

im opening 8 to 1 just the order that came to me notbing ab favorites cause penn and cornell are my top ivys

[lost spire]

gl!!

[rare jacinth]

goodluck ti you too🫡

[short turtle]

I already picked an order

But I don’t want a rejection to be my last decision,,,

Like I don’t want to end the season on a sour note

Maybe I’ll open from least cared about to most cared about

[crystal iron]

WHAT

WHY PRINCETON FIRST

the disrespect

[short turtle]

It’s not ordered by faves

[rare jacinth]

no princeton last

[regal relic]

duel

duke

💀

[rare jacinth]

duke first because i don’t care about duke much

[muted grotto]

i think i’ll do

1. brown
2. harvard
3. yale
4. cornell

[crystal iron]

bro what

c * rn * ll last

[muted grotto]

yes i like cornell and feel like maybe perhaps i have a chance 💔💔

[regal relic]

ur forgetting

duke isn’t an ivy

[rare jacinth]

im taking all the schools i like early and when i’m sad because of a rejection i’m gonna hope for a magic acceptance of a school im not getting in

ik

[cunning portal]

Why are the two shitty dorms at the top

[rare jacinth]

but they come out in ivy day typically

[crystal iron]

i read this as doms

i was like

brown is not a dom

[regal relic]

💀💀💀💀

[crystal iron]

like no way ...

providence?

💀

absolutely not

[cunning portal]

Provmidence

[hollow kite]

No I’m applying no aid

[mystic crescent]

Vietnam😬

[sly fossil]

so true

how do u feel abt EDEN

[prime grotto]

very cool artist

but tbh I have only heard some tracks that I listen to on repeat sometimes

idk much about most of his tracks

[spring ravine]

that's a ballsy answer 💀

[tight hull]

imma do:
Dartmouth
Brown
Columbia
Cornell
Princeton
Yale
Harvard

[prime grotto]

thats my personality lmao

better reject me than admit a fake persona

🤷‍♂️

[edgy marsh]

i can’t speak for you but I feel like saying acceptance letters bring u joy is not your actual answer

but I guess if u mean by u wanna be funny like that then sure

[prime grotto]

i meant ballsy

ballsy is my personality

Also read the entire answer, I made the joke but also typed the actual response one line below it 😔

I am ballsy but not so ballsy to just leave it a joke, gotta combine it with an actual answer too

if only I had the guts to actually truly meme it lol

[edgy marsh]

Icic

[prime grotto]

how is ur day going btw

been a while since I saw u in a thread and actually bothered to talk to u

mister firestar

(or miss, or mx, idk)

[edgy marsh]

Good

Apes test went pretty good

[prime grotto]

nice

Ay

ggs

[regal relic]

💀💀💀 a princeton acceptance letter

[edgy marsh]

My friend told me he will send an emag progress check (bc I’m self studying is not have ap classroom)

so that’s good

and I got my llama back

[spring ravine]

have you seen the tufts one

[edgy marsh]

Next to my friends penguins (“fatasses”)

[regal relic]

doge llama bunny

[edgy marsh]

Where is dogs

It was supposed to be llama bunny

But doge llama bunny is valid too

I don’t see doge though

[regal relic]

the face kinda

[prime grotto]

lmfao

[prime grotto]

whats emag

[prime grotto]

llama?

[prime grotto]

?

[edgy marsh]

Electricity and magnetism

[prime grotto]

didn’t apply

[prime grotto]

ah

we just call it e and m

On the ap server

[edgy marsh]

I’m pretty sure ap server also says emag

[prime grotto]

Hope this helps

wait fuck I sent them out of order

ignore it

imma send it again in order

[edgy marsh]

thank u

[spring ravine]

there was a tufts prompt that was something like "if there was something you could do and not be able to fail at it, what would it be?"
and the dude wrote in the response "Well, I'd apply to Princeton REA of course."

[edgy marsh]

I wil use them

[prime grotto]

some topics are unecessary from ap point of view since my education system teaches us way more content (like displacement current)

so u might have to filter through that urself

[prime grotto]

also in dielectrics between capacitors, the second derivation on the second sheet is done assuming the dielectric is the size of capacitor, the first is assuming a variable size

hence why it seems odd

I hope there aren’t any mistakes but no promises I didn’t make some either

so ye

anyways these are my “derivation sheets” that I made to revise physics (we also have modern physics btw lol, I only just sent the e and m topics)

[regal relic]

e&m is very cool

[prime grotto]

huh I could be wrong ig

[edgy marsh]

I like mech more, it makes sense to me

[regal relic]

i haven’t taken a ton of it because i can’t find anywhere that offers it around here

i like mech

[edgy marsh]

I can’t really conceptualize emag

[prime grotto]

lmfaoo

[edgy marsh]

but mech makes a lot of sense

logically

and mathematically

[edgy marsh]

Maybe bc my only learning source is apdv videos so far lol

[prime grotto]

e and m and mech are both the same logically

but mechanics can be explained visually since we encounter it in day to day. Hence its easier to make patterns which seem like logic (or as I like to call it, pseudo logical reasoning)

e and m logic is more of something we don’t observe often hence the difficulty for visual / observational learners

[prime grotto]

join my volunteer peer tutoring sessions that imma host again once exams end lol

😎

[regal relic]

maybe

i might just self study but i’ll probably encounter it in college anyway

[prime grotto]

Cool

imma sleep now

peace nerds

[tight hull]

No like it doesn’t make sense

It would if the question asked what would bring u joy

Idk

[prime grotto]

how many times do I say

my personality in this context

is not the answer

but the fact the answer is ballsy

oh wait

I misunderstood what you typed

sorry

[prime grotto]

it brings me joy imagining it

🫠

then I wake up

[tight hull]

Loll

[short turtle]

Dreamed that URoch decisions were releasing

[spring ravine]

have they announced a decision date

[short turtle]

No

[crystal iron]

guys I got a call from Yale bc I’m missing finaid documents

They want me so bad 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵

[eternal needle]

Lmao

[crystal iron]

Literally Rory Gilmore

[eternal needle]

Strange they called you tho

[crystal iron]

No they called me back bc I called first

[eternal needle]

Ahhh

[crystal iron]

Still funny tho😭

[hearty cipher]

so true

[junior dock]

yale rn

[crystal iron]

This is us trying to write college essays as pre laws who suck at reading

[junior dock]

speak for urself i am the literatest person of all time

[crystal iron]

Why don’t you collaborate this literary with others a bit 🥰

[eternal needle]

I do

weird ash

[uncut hazel]

lessgoooo

[eternal needle]

I reckon it's just a glitch

should be gone soon

[zenith olive]

anyone here got FAFSA in the checklist as an intl student?

mine appeared hours ago

[wheat oar]

My checklist hasn’t changed once since January 🥲

Since before the verification thing

[short turtle]

Earlier yeah

Others got it not me

[wary marlin]

please check your dm

[spring ravine]

Stop

@tame rapids

[spring ravine]

You realize I get notifications right

You’re not safe!

[tame rapids]

..... do they mention who pinged you?

[spring ravine]

Yes lol

And what they said, and what channel it was in

[tame rapids]

......didnt know that

[spring ravine]

How do you think I kept sniping u

lol

[tame rapids]

i just thought you were really quick and chronically online

[spring ravine]

💀

Mf thinks I’m hovering over discord waiting for his pings

[tame rapids]

lol sorry, was just messing

[spring ravine]

Also what country are you from

Since you’re intl

[tame rapids]

take a guess

[spring ravine]

India

[tame rapids]

yeah

[spring ravine]

Oh I see Asia role

Well India is Southeast Asia so

[spring ravine]

Oh wow

I just shot in the dark

Wasn’t expecting that lol

[tame rapids]

statistically it was the most likely answer anyways

[spring ravine]

Wdym

China has a higher population

[tame rapids]

we overtook them recently

also, per capita intl apps is higher

[spring ravine]

Ah

Applying from India is crazy though

Doesn’t HYPSM only take like oly kids from there

[tame rapids]

Mit does

HYPS take a lot more non oly

[spring ravine]

Makes sense

Are you applying to Indian schools as well

I’ve heard a lot about IIT being like the HYPSM of India

[rugged crow]

Yep it is

or the top IITs atleast

[knotty oracle]

Yeah my friend who's much much better than me who barely missed the india imo team and got putnam honorable mention this year as a freshman is going to a T50. Imagine what an indian hypsm admit looks like jfc

[dense nimbus]

tbf

there is an insane amount of rng

[spring galleon]

being american is the most cracked ec possible frfr

[junior dock]

https://tenor.com/view/granger-smith-earl-dibbles-america-gif-13831121

[spring galleon]

🗿

[eternal needle]

Yeah it means nothing

[prime grotto]

this

[wary marlin]

hey guys

do you still have missing fafsa?

[vivid viper]

No

Do you?

[regal relic]

no email yale asap

[rugged crow]

Ig it was a messup by Yale.

Their admissions office has done a lot of weird things this year!!

[radiant oyster]

too busy recording podcast lol

[rugged crow]

🙃

[sly fossil]

so true

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1051701741047005225/1083607713323433984/N0Bqtd6kfFuQT8NDr5erRW4qKQxbWbvHnUeab4eiNJ0ntQkTfZo8LZqIopZ9tS9HKETI1yexcvFJU32ywAv1M4qO-UESLFI7M2qWToZVJ1nwGHPVdDR4CD4Y6iJb.jpg

[eternal needle]

Lmao

[wind cipher]

what in tarnation is that

[manic cypress]

I just did a reverse image search on that pic, please tell me you're some type of photoshop god, because I don't see this anywhere on the internet

[short turtle]

it could be a photo of themself

Or a friend

[eternal needle]

https://tenor.com/view/he-is-a-legend-mufc-wayne-rooney-football-legendary-gif-17138456

[night plank]

can you not post the pics i sent to you in our private snap conversations…my mom told me i should die for getting this tattoo ☹️☹️💔

i have a yale tramp stamp too btw im committed

they’ll know what it means

[crystal iron]

💀

[short turtle]

Memorized Yale waitlist letter

[frigid mauve]

When does Yale come out?

[short turtle]

March 30, 19 days from now

[frigid mauve]

Long time huh

Alright

[short turtle]

Yuh

So settle in and wait

[frigid mauve]

I have some decisions before then so we'll see what happens

might fr drop everything to become an architect if Macaulay accepts me

[short turtle]

Me as well

A week from now, the flood begins

[frigid mauve]

For me it's march 15 🤣

[short turtle]

Maybe three decisions next week on the 17, then on the 21 tufts, then on 25 BU, then Ivy day on 30

[frigid mauve]

ngl not sure what's gonna happen but even then if my friend gets in (she got an interview) I'll be super stoked

[short turtle]

yeah!!! We’ll get through

I don’t know what’s going on currently cuz just got rejected from in state flagship but was accepted to public school OOS

[frigid mauve]

What state school?

[short turtle]

Don’t wanna share for reject for privacy reasons, accept is UMich

Acceptance rate is p high tho (for flagship)

[frigid mauve]

Right

Not gonna lie

The only non-in-state schools I applied to are all t50s 💀

maybe even t-20s tbh

[short turtle]

oh I was quite pretentious with my list

my match school is like. U Roch which is T50

[frigid mauve]

I was like hey let's do all the state and city unis cause it cost me $65 total to apply to 11 🤣

[frigid mauve]

I applied to URoch but did nothing supplemental

No interview no peer rec no nothing

[short turtle]

Applied a bunch of T30s, ivies, swarthmore

[frigid mauve]

couldn't care enough

[short turtle]

Oh I did the interview but not the peer rec

[short turtle]

Oh wow that’s nice

[frigid mauve]

Were u able to request an interview?

[frigid mauve]

lemme pull my list

[short turtle]

I did, it was my nicest one

[frigid mauve]

I didn't see an option so I didn't!!! Also the timezones would've guaranteed screwed me up

here btw:
Columbia University (SEAS) REJECTED
Cornell University (CAS)
CUNY Baruch ACCEPTED
CUNY Brooklyn ACCEPTED
CUNY City
CUNY Hunter ACCEPTED
CUNY John Jay ACCEPTED
CUNY Macaulay Honors College
CUNY Queens ACCEPTED
Duke University
Fordham University ACCEPTED
Harvard University
Hofstra University ACCEPTED
New York University
St. John's University didn't send sat but haven't withdrawn yet
SUNY Binghamton ACCEPTED
SUNY Stonybrook REJECTED
SUNY Albany ACCEPTED
SUNY Purchase College ACCEPTED but i didn't finish financial aid
SUNY Buffalo ACCEPTED
University of Chicago REJECTED
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
University of Rochester
Yale University

Stony Brook is a rejection for CS but I could go for AsAm studies if I want

Interesting but not ultimately useful

[short turtle]

wow

[short turtle]

Hmm I see

To share more about my list

I also applied to BU, Tufts, Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Swarthmore, URoch, UMich, Lehigh, Drexel

plus in state flagship

[frigid mauve]

Yeah, they were like maybe not CS but u can choose some non-engineering college majors

[frigid mauve]

Why is everyone applying to Drexel

What's so appealing

[short turtle]

Cuz 80% accept rate

And coop program

Oh yeah I applied NEU too

I got demonstrated disinterest tho rip

[frigid mauve]

Right

What's its national ranking?

[frigid mauve]

I did NEU last minute cause I was like meh what's another 80 at this point, I should have at least 1 uni right in boston

apart from Harvard obv

[short turtle]

105 per usnews

[short turtle]

Me too

[frigid mauve]

Oh, that's not bad

my top acceptance as of far is 8X? if not stony

[short turtle]

Yeah it’s rly good as safeties go

Stony’s 77 apparently

So that’s ur top

[frigid mauve]

That's for CS tho i think

like that's the CS experience

anyhow, the two ivies i'm rlly interested in are yale/penn

both reasonably close to home unlike boston

[short turtle]

This is according to usnews so idk

I rly like Yale Princeton Swarthmore

Those are my top three choices

[frigid mauve]

Mm, what major for yale?

[short turtle]

Science Medicine and Public Health

[frigid mauve]

Ooo

I did cs-econ

yale is also interesting cause whoopdeedoo they have Indonesian studies!

i'm indonesian-american fyi lol

[short turtle]

oooo

[short turtle]

Ohhh I see

[frigid mauve]

there's not even 20 unis with it lol

[short turtle]

Wow that’s a rly rare program

Are you hoping to minor?

Or ig Yale doesn’t rly do minors or majors, right? Concentrations and..: smthg else

but will you take classes in it? Seems like a good way to connect w ur culture

[frigid mauve]

fs

[frigid mauve]

If i get in, absolutely

imma be the driving force of the uni's indo club ffs 😆

so much culture to share

oh btw

The Consortium for the Teaching of Indonesian (COTI) includes those U.S. universities which provide regular instruction in Indonesian language: _Arizona State University; Cornell University; Johns Hopkins University; Northern Illinois University; Ohio University; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Los Angeles; University of Hawai’i; University of Michigan; University of Washington; University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Yale University. _

V little (in the northeast US at least)

[short turtle]

Wow

Oh I wish any college provided my native language as a class

[frigid mauve]

What is your native language?

[short turtle]

sorry, I also don’t feel comfortable sharing that

It’s difficult to remain connected with the culture here

I’m really excited for you if you get into Yale and are able to study Indonesian

[short turtle]

!! For sure for sure

I’ll also do this for any affinity spaces appropriate

[frigid mauve]

ahh ok that makes sense

[frigid mauve]

gonna be hosting all the potlucks 😋

[frigid mauve]

Amen, amen

[short turtle]

Wow, can you cook?

[frigid mauve]

No but I know how stuff is supposed to taste (been livin in Bali for HS)

so it's just a matter of trial and error

[short turtle]

I can only really cook Western-style food

[short turtle]

Yeah okay fair

Begging my parents for lessons this summer

[frigid mauve]

Mm, I'm hoping to do some touristy things this summer

lived here for 4 years but haven't been much of a tourist

[short turtle]

oh right you live in NYC

Must be a ton of good stuff to do there

[frigid mauve]

No

Rn i'm in bali indonesia

my permanent address is in NYC

born & raised till end of ms

[short turtle]

I’m hoping to volunteer at a hospital or get my CPR certification

[frigid mauve]

lit!!

[short turtle]

Oh wow!!! Oh okay you’re US abroad

[frigid mauve]

Mhm

[short turtle]

That must be really cool

Oh then you must speak Indonesian pretty well too

[frigid mauve]

Yaa bisa lah

boso jowo yo iso (i can also speak javanese)

[short turtle]

that’s a really good skill to have

[frigid mauve]

but my language proficiencies are like this:

English > Indonesian > Javanese/Spanish

[short turtle]

I need to keep on my French and Arabic, I’ve let them degrade

[short turtle]

Makes sense

[frigid mauve]

Lots of people here know the two, but perhaps not to my level

like my english proficiency is their indonesian and vice versa

[short turtle]

Right yeah

Well you can still communicate, though

[frigid mauve]

Oh jelas

ofc i can lol

if i couldn't i wouldn't be as much into my identity as I am tbh

[short turtle]

Really?

[rare jacinth]

handsome dan

[frigid mauve]

Definitely

from what I've seen, language is the largest barrier in terms of cultural assimilation among Indonesian Americans

[short turtle]

Makes sense

For me it was more like

Seeing how much more I could reach out to

Made me want to learn

[frigid mauve]

Right right

Well, that's a part of language right

can't reach out to a culture whose language you don't speak

[short turtle]

Exactly

I’ve been teaching myself for that reason

But it’s hard