Yale (2022-2023)

[remote laurel]

i feel like yale should’ve sent me my likely by now

[steady edge]

W take

[crystal iron]

for real

it just got lost in the mail dw

[sly fossil]

too much rizz to handle fr

[tight hull]

W Rizz orz

[queen glade]

i wouldn’t get hopes high tho

MIT yield is 80+%

[eternal needle]

my mate got deferred from Yale REA and got in RD (idk if yall were talking about Yale but yeah)

[crystal iron]

I know

But like it’s a similarly arbitrarily low chance

As like

The rest of hypsm rd

[eternal needle]

Maybe.... idk I stressed too much about this process last year. This year my goal is to be extremely chill w the process (well as chill as I can be)

still look at sub-reddits etc lol

[crystal iron]

Well

What college r u at now

[eternal needle]

Gap year

[crystal iron]

Oh ok

How r apps going

[eternal needle]

Still waiting from the U.S., U.K. and Aus pretty good hbu

[short turtle]

Oh shit hydro got rizz

[sly fossil]

its not that difficult to find someone😭

helps a bit being bi

[short turtle]

oh lmfao nice

[slim wing]

Bro stop w portal astrology y'all lmao

It's 2 weeks

[short turtle]

But they aren’t going to waste time waiting for AOs to get back to them with final class members. They might not create fin aid for, say, the files that get thrown on initial review, but they certainly do work on creating fin aid packages for applicants while they wait for Yale AOs to make their decisions

it’s probably true that, as hydro said, AOs make sure that admitted students will have their fin aid packages ready by the day they need to release

[slim wing]

Bro, either we get in or we don’t, and if the universe wants us to suffer longer, we are waitlisted

No clue

[short turtle]

I honestly believe based off what I know that fin aid works p much independently of admissions until maybe the week before decisions release. i could be slightly wrong which I acknowledge above but I don’t think I am

[spring ravine]

check your portal, it's personalized

[short turtle]

a good take

[sly fossil]

it's not particularly clear when they start aligning, but they definitely do at some point

[visual bobcat]

I want to go to ducking yale yoo

[olive topaz]

same, but as i didnt get an interview im def a reject

didnt get an interview for MIT and also got rejected

[crystal spear]

omg hi jyn

nice seeing you here

[fluid frost]

hello!

[lost gorge]

Doesn’t mean anything

[fluid frost]

I could recognize that orange anywhere

[lost gorge]

I got mit interview and still reject

[crystal spear]

LMAO

join the cult pls

[olive topaz]

probably my ECs lmao

[fluid frost]

perhapz

[olive topaz]

they so bad

[fluid frost]

where do I get that pic

[crystal spear]

ask in the discord i’m sure someone has it

i might also have it somewhere

[olive topaz]

it was a nice application season ig

[fluid frost]

okiee

could be an availability thing

[olive topaz]

i got into my target school but i wish i went further

idk why i would be a clear reject my stats are pretty decent

a few clubs

internship

thats basically it ngl

yeah ik

didnt know that until later

too late to reflect ig

at least i got into a t30 school

i can work with it

best school in the state anyways so im saving money

[spring ravine]

lol the only interview I got was pton

[blissful pivot]

samesies

i really tried pulling up my gpa after a mediocre first year b it idk if that’s enough for these schools

[olive topaz]

honestly COA should be a big factor for people

people can transfer to an ivy during grad

[blissful pivot]

ye

[olive topaz]

especially if they undergrad at a well-known school

[blissful pivot]

i’ll probably just go to ut austin and try to maintain good grades there

lighter on my family’s wallet too

[olive topaz]

UT Austin is great

what major?

[blissful pivot]

business

[olive topaz]

pretty good ngl

[blissful pivot]

mccombs is pretty good ye

how bout u

[olive topaz]

UVA

for CS

[blissful pivot]

yoo thats also pretty dope

state schools represent 💪

[olive topaz]

planning on a double major with CS and Stats

since UVA Stats has machine learning

pretty lit ngl

[olive topaz]

fr

[blissful pivot]

i’ll probably do business with a possible pre law pathway in mind

[olive topaz]

state schools are underrated

and sometimes better communities for people

[blissful pivot]

ya

[olive topaz]

they usually are bigger

and less sweat

[blissful pivot]

uts literally the size of a medium sized town

like 50k

[olive topaz]

yeah its insane lmao

[short turtle]

See the big is my problem though

[olive topaz]

UVA is only 15k but thats chill

[blissful pivot]

that is also true but i’m really looking forward to branching out

maybe i’ll come to regret it later tho lmao

[olive topaz]

exercise

i prefer big tbh

[short turtle]

Other than that. Debt is disgusting if I get more than two or three acceptances I’ll pick mostly via fin aid

[blissful pivot]

ye this

[olive topaz]

UVA is big

[short turtle]

I can walk a big campus I just don’t want to have huge classes I don’t think I can learn optimally like that

[olive topaz]

they arent huge classes necessarily

and depending on the type of class bigger could be better

[blissful pivot]

they get smaller with seniority i hear

[short turtle]

no I’ve spent 4 years with classrooms in sizes of 10. I know myself.

[short turtle]

I do hear this but gotta have that sweet sweet gpa for med school

anyway state school not an option for me so lmfao

[blissful pivot]

ya fair to each their own path

my family’s basically begging me to take the ut acceptance but i’m still just like

“but what if”

[short turtle]

Wait till you get everything back

At least you have the acceptance, assurance that you’ll go somewhere

Sounds like you’re not his friend

[blissful pivot]

tho only yale admit from our school (public) last year was a really cracked and connected kid tho so uhh

lol

[short turtle]

idk most the Yale admits at my school are fairly cracked

oh I see my bad for assuming then

[olive topaz]

it couldve just been a glitch

i dont think its tied with anything

[short turtle]

Yeah me neither

[olive topaz]

i got the same thing and i acknowledge my rejection

but like i dont think this has anything to do with accept vs deny when it was really early

[twin oar]

how do u guys iust like casually know yale admits etc at your school

i think like 3 people in my schools history have even appllied

[blissful pivot]

i go to semi tryhard school

[olive topaz]

well it depends on the region

[olive topaz]

this

[twin oar]

lu cky

[blissful pivot]

also if ur a yale admit you’ll probably be famous enough anyway lol

[olive topaz]

not lucky lmao

[blissful pivot]

yeah no not lucky

so much toxicity

[olive topaz]

asian kids dominating the top of the class

[short turtle]

School is try hard as fuck

[twin oar]

im a firstgen living rurally and have no opportunities sso i would really have liked options growing up

but

[blissful pivot]

i think having that drive already tho is really strong despite limited resources

[twin oar]

hope they see that

[short turtle]

Yea you’ll be looked on favorably in ur context

[olive topaz]

yeah

[blissful pivot]

mad respect for ppl who overcome difficult circumstances

[short turtle]

yea

[olive topaz]

being in a competitive environment hinders anyones chances

[short turtle]

i dunno the path I took was rly experimental for my family

I hope it works out

i hope I get good results on Ivy day

[olive topaz]

everyone looks at my county as entitled even though im basically first-gen american

[short turtle]

Otherwise what was it all for

[olive topaz]

stereotypes kinda dominate the admissions process

[blissful pivot]

i’m a bit of a late bloomer to the ivy culture in my school in general and some of the stuff they do to keep themselves there can sometimes be downright shady

[short turtle]

Ah, if anyone on this discord knew what school I went to I’d probably be torn into

idk the truth of the matter is it’s so hard esp from my position

I didn’t know anything. I wish I could do it over

[olive topaz]

yeah true

[blissful pivot]

same

[short turtle]

This is also incredibly true. People are so crazy

[olive topaz]

people hoard leadership at all the clubs in my school

[short turtle]

leadership is so cutthroat

[olive topaz]

its so obvious these people do it not for fun

[short turtle]

nobody carries through on a single club

[olive topaz]

one kid at my school is regional president of FBLA

[grim agate]

UT and UVA are not underrated 😭

[short turtle]

somebody went around collecting gpas from the entire year

[blissful pivot]

it was pretty crazy seeing friend groups literally fracture when leadership roles were decided end of jr year

[twin oar]

bruh

[olive topaz]

cant wait to go to uni tbh

[short turtle]

People lied about where they were applying early

[blissful pivot]

definitely

[twin oar]

im valedictorian and we be sharing homework answers all the time etc everyone in the top 10

[short turtle]

i don’t know I’m so exhausted

[olive topaz]

at least the people in the rest of the state wont be as cutthroat as nova

an actual environment

[short turtle]

i dunno tho

[grim agate]

speak of the devil UT just emailed me asking to know my plans 😈 I’m not telling y’all shit you can wait til March 30

[blissful pivot]

congrats (to the first part? lmao)

[short turtle]

since I know ppl from my school are going to Yale

or like other schools

[olive topaz]

what schools u got?

[short turtle]

it’s kinda changed how much i wanna go

[twin oar]

thank youuu

[short turtle]

Once you’ve been admitted schools are so relentless

[blissful pivot]

well damn same lol

[olive topaz]

i only applied to yale of the ivies for rd

[remote flame]

bro yale pls accept me you're scaring me by not updating my slate in so long

[short turtle]

UMich you can get back to me on that scholarship before getting me to commit

[remote flame]

FR

[twin oar]

i also got that UT email

[short turtle]

Grats on Val Char

[twin oar]

tyyyy😁

my onlt flex

[olive topaz]

how many in ur class?

[grim agate]

Yesss thank you for your good work 🙌 I copied this worksheet off my friend who was val (idk if he still is) it was much appreciated

[twin oar]

374

[olive topaz]

sheesh

welp

[twin oar]

not competitive at all though imo

[blissful pivot]

600 something for ours i believe

[grim agate]

Yale and Penn

[twin oar]

as in i havent been like shot dead

[olive topaz]

my uw is 3.99 out of 4.0 and im not even top 10

if that gives you any clues

[twin oar]

idk other ppls gpas in my class so i guess i dont have a good gauge for hwo competitive we r

[grim agate]

Princeton gave me the ick and all the others I just didn’t care abt/didn’t want to write the essays

[short turtle]

idk I know I’m slightly above 50th percentile in my class

[twin oar]

ppl offered to tell me theirs and i just said no becaus i do not want that energy

[olive topaz]

my school district makes A+ a 4.3 uw so its kinda stupid

[short turtle]

But the admit rates are crazy and I have p good ECs so

Maybe ivies will gimme something

[olive topaz]

the only way they can actually differentiate students

[short turtle]

Or swarthmore

[grim agate]

They only rank the top 10% here and I am not ranked 🥹

[olive topaz]

gl

[blissful pivot]

i heard a nearby school district just gives everyone above a certain gpa number val so there’ll just be anywhere from 10-20 vals in any given year

[grim agate]

Thankfully UT came through with no auto but my ego took a mild hit

[blissful pivot]

so jealous tbh

[grim agate]

Now I just don’t care

[regal relic]

that is crazy inflated

[olive topaz]

same

[blissful pivot]

eyy fellow non-auto admit

[blissful pivot]

yup

[regal relic]

good thing most places don’t take rank into account

[twin oar]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[blissful pivot]

meanwhile the top 10 here have to battle it out for their 0.002 GPA difference

as a senior i’m pretty glad i just don’t care about rank anymore

[twin oar]

same

[olive topaz]

rank is good but also bad

[regal relic]

i was 0.0002 behind val last year

[twin oar]

bruh

[short turtle]

That’s crazy

[blissful pivot]

uy

[olive topaz]

rank doesnt consider how sweaty the school is

[short turtle]

For our early cum .05 points was diff between not making it

[regal relic]

now i’m 0.06 behind because he got a gpa boost for some reason

[blissful pivot]

i’d crumble in that pressure

[twin oar]

idk the sals gpa by choice but we havent like wavered at all so im assuming he isnt too close to me

[regal relic]

still sal

0.2 above 3rd

[blissful pivot]

trying to get consist perfects on all of my grades

[short turtle]

Yea fair

[grim agate]

I wasn’t even auto to A&M. I had a 4.264 which was fine but I needed a 4.3+ to get there

[blissful pivot]

congrats nonetheless

[regal relic]

thank you

i’m at 4.737? i think rn

[blissful pivot]

this is the ut/texas thread now 🤠

[grim agate]

The scattergram is not scattergraming for ivy which is my biggest problem aside from generally not being cracked

[olive topaz]

I mean yale is a desert anyways

[regal relic]

you are cracked

don’t you have yale and penn

like

you HAVE ivies already

[olive topaz]

ur chillin

[grim agate]

I applied I haven’t gotten in 😭

[twin oar]

bruh

LOL

[olive topaz]

you got GT tho

[twin oar]

i was about to go off

[olive topaz]

and like other schools

[regal relic]

didn’t you get yale likely?

[grim agate]

nah that was some other person

[blissful pivot]

yale likely is pretty insane i can’t imagine anyone i know irl getting it tbh

[twin oar]

it was me (it was not me)

[grim agate]

Maybe you’re thinking of richael

[twin oar]

richael crazy bro

[olive topaz]

did anyone else get that verify for household info from feb in fin aid

[short turtle]

idk I wish I’d gotten in early

I don’t want this stress

Yes I did lyric

I feel like everyone got it I think it doesn’t mean anything

[twin oar]

biggest rsn i wanted to get in early

[blissful pivot]

ed to rice got deferred

[olive topaz]

i ed princeton got rejected

[short turtle]

rea’d Yale deferred

[twin oar]

ed penn rejected

[olive topaz]

so things were never looking good from the start

[short turtle]

idfk Yale what does deferral MEAN

[blissful pivot]

i have no high hopes for rice tbh

i never found the motivation to write a loci LOL

[short turtle]

Oh lmfao

[blissful pivot]

demonstrated interest goin thru the roof for me

[grim agate]

This is the reason I didn’t rea anywhere

[short turtle]

Only put in for Yale

[twin oar]

i did a chanceme like 6 months ago and someone JUST commented “Good stats and ECs, and I think you’ll get into at least one reach.”
please be right 🙏

gonna delete chanceme now

crnge

[blissful pivot]

oh pretty nice tho the one yale admit from our school last year was deferred then accepted

[grim agate]

Besides the whole restriction thing because I wanted to apply early to NEU 🤭 if I was getting rejected I didn’t want to know early and I knew getting deferred would make me insane

[twin oar]

i think our schools most prestigious admit was last yr someone going to UNC

[olive topaz]

i didnt do one cuz i knew i had no shot lmao

[twin oar]

i did get pummeled in my DMs i remember

“Maybe UT!” (im auto)

LOL

[olive topaz]

LOL

chanceme users are pretentious

[grim agate]

I’m glad I’m out of my collegeresults era

Much healthier than chanceme but it was not very productive

[twin oar]

the chanceme to collegeresults to depression pipeline

[short turtle]

i didn’t look at chance me ever

I looked at collegeresults. But like not stats only the results

[blissful pivot]

i’d probably do a collegeresults ngl

the journey has been p interesting to me so far

even if it’ll just be ut austin lol

[crystal iron]

I would but

I’ve literally gotten

One final decision

💀💀💀

[twin oar]

i will do a collegeresults if i do well

❤️

and then i’ll get comments like

“Hooks carry”

“Wow as a junior this really boosts my confidence for next year”

“You must be such a good essay writer!”

[olive topaz]

yeah tbh

[robust bear]

LOL

the best one

[crystal iron]

💀

I mean it depends what ur hooks r

If you’re legacy then yeah you deserve to be knocked down

[spring ravine]

@vivid viper You hear that?

[vivid viper]

haters.

[short turtle]

I will get these comments too aaa

I’m gonna do a college results

[crystal iron]

💀

[crystal iron]

i mean i wasnt directly calling you out

[short turtle]

I mean legacy advantage is kinda bullshit

we are happy for you though

Ofc everyone who gets in deserves it

[vivid viper]

no it is definitely

idk what helped me more between being legacy and being URM

one is way less fair though

[crystal iron]

i think legacy is a bigger boost

looking at some of the legacy admits ive seen

[fluid frost]

i was gonna call you dumb and say that its also xyz

but that's a bit too doxxable

[crystal iron]

whereas plenty of my very qualified urm friends get slaughtered in admissions

[vivid viper]

so true

[crystal iron]

pff i wouldnt say his doxxable thing is that insane

ik a literal white house advisor kid

[vivid viper]

I have a lot of xyzs I know what you’re referring too though

[crystal iron]

who was deferred from harvard

so like

[vivid viper]

yeah but mine is like

[crystal iron]

nothing is really

that definitive

[vivid viper]

a little more unique

as far as doxxing goes

[fluid frost]

just slightly

[crystal iron]

oh we're thinking of

different doxxable things

💀

[blissful pivot]

damn how doxx-able really are y’all lol

you’ll have to look hard to find me on the internet even with my full name

[sly fossil]

i have sent selfies of myself to this server i could not give a shit

[blissful pivot]

slay

[sly fossil]

some people just don't care yknow?

[blissful pivot]

tho i meant more like

how present are yall in news articles and other searchable stuff on google

[sly fossil]

oh nvm

im fairly doxxable

[frosty jay]

I used to be extremely doxxable

But I managed my social media stuff a little so now I’m just slightly doxxable

[short turtle]

not doxxable at all

someone could probably figure out my school rly easily tho

jeez I figured out what school someone went to by their Reddit post the other week, people are rly careless

[silent aspen]

this consensus or notion of the lack of an interview indicating an "auto-rejection" or "auto-acceptance" is just pure conjecture lol

solely for those they need more information from

[night plank]

i used to be super doxxable too but then over quarantine one of my ex friends doxxed someone to hell and back and i was like nope 💀 so i tried to clean up

now i’m pretty good at false flagging soooo not too worried unless it’s someone with actual technical knowledge

[tame rapids]

I have the most common name in the country of 1.5 billion people, I could give someone my name + date of birth and they still wont find me amongst the 8928740 people i share my name with

[night plank]

ahhh lucky

[short turtle]

false flagging?

[short turtle]

nice

idk I think too much about how easy it is to narrow me down by details I share about myself

[night plank]

btw you linked to your youtube channel under your real name you should probbbbally delete that

[night plank]

doxxers use tiny bits of personal information to connect your accounts until they have your real identity so i slip in stuff that could seem real but isn’t so it would take someone without much to go on a longer time to find the real stuff

[short turtle]

oh

I’ve done that awhile too

[night plank]

yeah ^.^ it’s nice to feel a little safer

[spring ravine]

what the hell LMAOOOOOOOOOOO

y'all rlly paranoid huh

[night plank]

i also don’t post images to two different profiles

[night plank]

i’ve seen how easy it is 😭😭

[short turtle]

dude

You have no idea

I don’t share passwords for professional/nonprofessional stuff

I don’t share emails

Being on this server scares me

Bc it puts me in a rly specific age range

i nearly changed my pfp and I haven’t done that in years

[night plank]

i mean whatttt

[short turtle]

lmfao in the end it doesn’t actually matter cuz anyone with tech know how can find my IP

If I really wanted to be secure I’d get a VPN

Something I want to prioritize when I have my own money

[night plank]

yeah definitelyyyy

also IW you should go through your messages you’ve got sm personal info on here 😭😭

[spring ravine]

I don't think I do?

Oh hahaha that's fine that's not really personal info I feel

like 90% of the server shares that kinda stuff

but thanks for letting me know ig

[tame rapids]

oh, i prolly forgot to take it down, thanks

[spring ravine]

I thought you were aboutta snipe a message I dropped my address in or something LMAO

[night plank]

nahhhh you’re better than most people that took me like ten minutes 💀

you’re probably fine i’m just very paranoid

[short turtle]

I’m glad I’m not alone about this

[spring ravine]

Haha why so? Why are you so deathly afraid of getting doxed here lol

[short turtle]

idfk it’s scary id like to keep my privacy

we’re all going to college next year i don’t want anyone finding me that i didn’t tell

i don’t actually have any way to confirm who any of y’all are either

[night plank]

honestly i was lazy and i haven’t changed my account in a while so anyone i’ve interacted with over the last five years (i have many many people who don’t particularly like me) could fr snipe me in here 💀💀

it’s not my FAULT i get heated on twt its not my FAULT

[short turtle]

mewl facepalm

get off Twitter

Most nasty site on the internet

[night plank]

i did i deleted it 😭😭

dark time in my life over covid

[spring ravine]

I mean I'm probably gonna delete all my messages in this server and leave after I to go college, the only reason I'm here is bc I can get updates about colleges and stuff much faster lol

[short turtle]

gj

[short turtle]

yea real

might stay friended to some ppl here tho

idk I came here bc I think about college apps 100% of the time and I needed to be able to be conversational w ppl

[frosty jay]

Just my real name alone would completely dox me lol

[twin oar]

same

[exotic reef]

yale im in love w you

🫶🏻

[short turtle]

YALE BELOVED

TAKE ME

[crystal iron]

brah

at 11:43pm on a wednesday??

[short turtle]

At any time

Any day

[spring galleon]

is true that yale is looking for more stem applicants?

ive heard this from a few ppl but is this true or just a rumour lol

[spring ravine]

I mean their STEM field is probably the weakest out of all their "peer" schools

but it's still good

[spring galleon]

hmmm

[spring ravine]

but like if you're USAMO it's prob a bigger impact for yale than the rest of HYPSM

for example

[spring galleon]

right right

yea i just heard that yale is pivoting to recruit more good stem majors

i just didnt know if it was true lol

[lost gorge]

yes i know the dean who oversees that

[junior dock]

i think so

they have their YES scholars thing

[lost gorge]

he’s trying to boost the likely letter system

[spring galleon]

oh ok lol

[junior dock]

that idt any other HYPSM have

[lost gorge]

yeah that one

now everyone who gets in through that has guaranteed research funding

they wanna boost yield rate from their likeliest from 30% —> above 50%

[spring galleon]

im so confused coz like my ibo teammate who has two silver medals and got into mit got rejected by yale in the ea round

[crystal iron]

i mean

this doesnt mean

theyll accept every good stem kid

or their essays couldve sucked

[spring galleon]

lmfao

yea ig

[crystal iron]

its not like

a binary system

[lost gorge]

MIT looking for more olympiad, yale wants research i think

generalization obv

but i think that’s the case

[spring galleon]

atp its just so random

[lost gorge]

yes

[junior dock]

that might be bc intl

[spring ravine]

yeah I heard about this, my friend last year was a YES scholar who got a likely last year

[spring galleon]

welp hope not coz i didnt do research i just have oly

[edgy marsh]

Will I get into yale

[junior dock]

i think like hyps prefers research and mit prefers oly

[lost gorge]

intl is definitely much tougher 💀

[junior dock]

just from ljke anecdotal observation and what i’ve heard

[lost gorge]

nah if ur strong tho i think u definitely still have a great chance

[spring galleon]

lmao im an oly medallist but mit still rejected me lol

but yea mit is def obsessed with olys

[lost gorge]

ur rejected friend might’ve had a red flag or smth, OR the AO just had a bad day 💀💀💀

[spring galleon]

ye

[short turtle]

Ughhhh I haven’t done any research aaaa

[spring galleon]

decision season is so depressing ong

[short turtle]

yea that’s true ig

[short turtle]

fr

[lost gorge]

i’m applying astro and music is my strongest EC

[short turtle]

true

[lost gorge]

multiple ECs

💀

[spring ravine]

bro 💀

[short turtle]

My religious EC is probably my strongest, then theater

[spring galleon]

i just wanna sleep for 2 weeks and wake up on ivy day ://////

[junior dock]

research is filled w nepotism

[junior dock]

so true me too

[lost gorge]

💀

astro is 2nd strongest yes but it’s pretty far off

[spring galleon]

lol i tried to do research but my city had covid restrictions

😭

[spring ravine]

nah I just meant like

EVERYONE HERE IS ASTRO

[junior dock]

everyone at my school does research p much

[lost gorge]

oh LOL

astro gang 👍👍

[knotty oracle]

lol yeah y is astro so popular

I had no idea

[lost gorge]

we’re just like that 😎

[spring galleon]

space simps

[junior dock]

i’ve like met 1 astro person irl

[lost gorge]

(now if only i could get into HYPSM)

[spring ravine]

I applied aero/astro depending on school lol

[junior dock]

but sm on a2c

[sterile sky]

I did computer vision research

[spring galleon]

im a dinosaur simp thats why i did bio 😎

[knotty oracle]

I've met none 💀

[lost gorge]

nice

[knotty oracle]

but on a2c astro is like cs 2.0

[spring galleon]

dinosaurs >>>>> space

[sterile sky]

Applied statistics and data science

[short turtle]

idk I think a decent amt of ppl at my school do some research

[lost gorge]

r u international @spring ravine

[edgy marsh]

Person below me is getting accepted into Yale

[junior dock]

omg

[spring ravine]

No I'm domestic

[edgy marsh]

Congrats

[knotty oracle]

competitive school?

[lost gorge]

okok good to hear

lol

[short turtle]

Yea some ppl do rly impressive research too

[knotty oracle]

congrats 🤩

[spring ravine]

wbu?

[junior dock]

i go to a p competitive school and like vast majority of kids applying to like ivies do research

[knotty oracle]

jeez

I go to a competitive school and almost no one does research

sat avg is like 1400 so i'd assume that's competitive?

[short turtle]

idk I don’t know too much abt what ppl at my school do for outside ECs

[edgy marsh]

1400 average sat is insane

[lost gorge]

yeah also

[spring ravine]

Nice, hope we both hear good news on the 30th

[short turtle]

My parents heard freshman year that our college counseling office doesn’t allow ppl w below 1520s to apply to ivies

[spring ravine]

I'm a YPSM shotgunner 🫡

[short turtle]

Didn’t end up being true

[knotty oracle]

bruh is this fr 💀

ok

[short turtle]

Nah

[junior dock]

damn

[spring galleon]

based

[short turtle]

I’m a CHYP shotgunner

[edgy marsh]

I applied yps

[junior dock]

i’ve heard from like friends at rich private schools that their counselors will like ban kids from applying to certain places

[short turtle]

SWARTHMORE LET ME IN

PLEASE LET ME SEE MY ACCEPTANCE LETTER

[gentle ruin]

Average SAT at my school is 1200 and imo that's pretty high for a public school lol

[knotty oracle]

did u shotgun liberals arts too?

[short turtle]

No I didn’t

[junior dock]

i go to a public w like an avg of like 1430 i think

[knotty oracle]

ah

I just applied to harvey mudd and pomona

[short turtle]

Mmm no but our college counseling has rly bad relationships with some schools

Like JHU Stanford and NEU? Said to be impossible from our school

[knotty oracle]

crazy, is that bay area?

[junior dock]

nah but like also very asian, very competitive area

[short turtle]

I applied swarthmore, Bryn Mawr

[knotty oracle]

makes sense

[junior dock]

so scary 🥲

[knotty oracle]

nice bryn mawr is where they hold mathily

[junior dock]

yale kids seem so happy and joyous

pls

i wanna be u

[short turtle]

i wanna be a Yale kid with my friends

Yale kid home again

Yale kids. I wanna be oneeee

Yale kids. Where do they come from???

[junior dock]

the yale holiday ball😍

[gentle ruin]

Cus people broke agreements?

[short turtle]

no!!! Don’t bring up cool Yale traditions

[gentle ruin]

I've heard of entire schools beging blacklisted because a lot of people breaking the ED agreements

[short turtle]

I need admitted first

[spring ravine]

Someone from my school a couple years ago threw our school under the bus to get into stanford lol

it was so scummy

[knotty oracle]

what did they do?

smh

[short turtle]

idk, our counselors would withdraw apps first. they threatened to expel people for not being honest with college counseling on the early round report form

[short turtle]

Fuck them

[junior dock]

ik of a school that got blacklisted bc of cheating

[lost gorge]

i’m a chymp shotgunner 🌚

[junior dock]

like kids from that school got caught for cheating in some ivy

and they got blacklisted

[spring ravine]

It was a hispanic student who wrote his personal statement about navigating our school's "racist" environment and like being resilient bc of it even though we're vvvvvv diverse and are very mindful of this sort of thing

[knotty oracle]

:/

[lost gorge]

should get rescinded

[gentle ruin]

It just sounds so draconian/petty to blacklist an entire school

[junior dock]

ah yeah ik someone who wrote abt being a minority on the debate team and facing racism even though she’s asian and the debate team is unironically 100% asian

[knotty oracle]

yeah this too

[gentle ruin]

Did it work

[crystal iron]

BRO WHAT

[spring ravine]

Yeah, he goes there now lol

[junior dock]

yeah but also like w the amount of applicants they have if it’s just easier for them

[lost gorge]

from their perspective it makes sense tho no?

[crystal iron]

NO WAY ...

[junior dock]

i’ve literally told u abt this

[crystal iron]

LMFAO DUDE

[gentle ruin]

He got the bag, full respect

[crystal iron]

you have not

[junior dock]

MY SCHOOLS ALL TRYHARDS BRO

[spring ravine]

full respect? he just fucked over our entire school's reputation just to get into stanford lol

[crystal iron]

bro you were just harvard simping 20 min ago

choose a struggle

[short turtle]

Nah

[gentle ruin]

That's the sigma grindset

[junior dock]

speak for urself mr. do i choose harvard or mit

[short turtle]

They need to choose Sunny first

[junior dock]

yeah😭😭😭

[edgy marsh]

I’m getting into yale

[crystal iron]

AS OF NOW I CANT CHOOSE EITHER OK

[junior dock]

i’m simping for whoever simps for me 💯💯

[crystal iron]

theyre still

thinkin

cookin

[crystal iron]

uw

[spring ravine]

let them cook

[crystal iron]

🥰

they want u sooo bad

[junior dock]

oakland

[crystal iron]

LMFAOAOAO

[junior dock]

yale i look so good in blue

[short turtle]

idk I want. aaa Lehigh swarthmore

Yale I will buy an entire blue wardrobe

I will forsake everything I have said about Blue the past four years

[junior dock]

i will adopt a bulldog if yale accepts me

[lost gorge]

same.

i’m going to bed bye guys

[short turtle]

gn

[gentle ruin]

Watch this video every night before sleep to manifest admission to Yale

https://youtu.be/KXLREps3blw

[spring ravine]

The only reason I did not get a likely to yale is bc my regional AO was so flustered by my hot n sexy app that they tripped over a cord on the ground in arousal while throwing my app in the likely basket and it missed and landed in the admitted basket

SLAY I WILL GET INTO YAAAALE

[short turtle]

Nah I can’t watch this

[exotic reef]

you’re more real bestie

[crystal iron]

I’m more real bestie

[crystal iron]

It’s kinda silly tho

I appreciate schools that just have a letter tbh

It’s kinda like

Just get to the point 💀

Like

No more clicks

[thick bough]

Swarthmore
Their rejection was like 2 sentences 💀💀

It hurt, but at least they didn’t try and pander to make us feel about how they’re “very sorry..” and whatnot

[rugged crow]

UT Austin

[crystal iron]

LMFAO

THE PERIOD IS SO 💀

[thick bough]

So real for this

[crystal iron]

although mit was a bit too harsh

I told everyone I got rejected

[tight hull]

They should spend less time on their ~quirky~ emails

[crystal iron]

Then I realized I got

Waitlisted

But the intro was like a rejection

[thick bough]

Tbh I just want one word responses

[tight hull]

Same thing

😭

[crystal iron]

😔

[tight hull]

Nah that’d be brutal

[thick bough]

And like another few for scholarship stuff if needed

[crystal iron]

RIGHT

just

Accepted

Waitlisted

Rejected

Like Oxford

[thick bough]

“Accepted.

Also accepted with deans scholarship and accelerated research program.

Thank you.”

Kinda works

[short turtle]

Well I wish the rejection letters weren’t three paragraphs long

Like why is this so much effort?

Love it when the acceptance letters are long and personalized tho

Idk I like the way Columbia does it

[frosty jay]

Is anyone else applying for a philosophy major

[tame rapids]

might minor

[frosty jay]

Niceee

I’m probably gonna double major cs + philosophy

Or do a minor in one of them

[exotic reef]

so true

[crystal iron]

fake humanities kid

[frosty jay]

💀

[prime grotto]

UIUC was one word

[frosty jay]

It’s more likely I’ll minor cs than philosophy

[rugged crow]

Yeah ik (I withdrew my app btw)

[prime grotto]

why?

[rugged crow]

They do not give aid to intl

[prime grotto]

ah

[short turtle]

Goddamn

[short turtle]

YALE LET ME IN

[crystal iron]

ill let them know you said this!

[short turtle]

tyty

[exotic reef]

for me too please :(

[idle meadow]

hey @fluid frost could you tell me about a form

I am little confused

[fluid frost]

shoot

[idle meadow]

Do you know anything about this form? "Yale Application for Undergraduate Financial Aid"

Did you have to fill it?

[fluid frost]

i dont recall so

[idle meadow]

thank you

[glad dagger]

I googled it and it says it's for continuing students

[queen glade]

I am writing this email to inform you that after our initial review of your application, you have been designated as an unlikely candidate for admission.

Please do not take this as an indication of your abilities or of your potential, as we are sure you will go on to achieve many great things in your life. Every year, our admissions office reaches out to approximately half of our applicant pool around 2 weeks before the decision date to inform them early of their decision as having been rejected. We do so to allow them to take the maximum time to decide on what to do for their undergraduate studies. You will see this as an update to your portal on March 30th, when we release all of our undergraduate decisions

I would like to once again thank you for your interest in Yale College, as well as for the time you put into your application. Let this decision not be a reflection of your merits as an applicant, but rather of the quality of our applicant pool this year.

We wish you the very best.

damn

[idle meadow]

Ya that's why I asked nvm dw

[queen glade]

LOL

[short turtle]

abhi please stop

😭😭😭

[gentle ruin]

Bro got a unlikely letter

[remote flame]

do you guys upload your updates to the portal or email them to admissions

[crimson estuary]

portal

they don’t have an emial

email*

[crimson idol]

they do

but portal is easier

[crimson estuary]

what’s the email?

[crimson idol]

its personalized

you access it via your yale admissions portal

[robust bear]

chad

[steel imp]

did anyone get an email from Yale about Likely?

[remote flame]

nope did you?

[edgy marsh]

Yale gave out likelies like a month ago

[elfin pendant]

Isnt it a little late to send updates

[thorn pulsar]

never hurts to try

worst case they just don’t read it

[crimson estuary]

no, ppl are still getting interviews

[prisma fern]

guys so my teacher/LOR writer was emailed recently by yale asking to verify some info about me

that’s not like a bad sign right💀

[short turtle]

Not bad but wouldn’t read too deep

[prisma fern]

early february

yesterday

[stable current]

they contact the teacher whaaa

[prisma fern]

hm ok

thanks!

im not gonna read much into it

[thick bough]

Did your teacher tell you?

[trail arch]

me when no interview

[floral surge]

REAL

feel like an auto reject stop

[grim agate]

also me when no interview

[sand sphinx]

same 😅

also the household verification form thing doesn’t mean anything right

[lost gorge]

nah it shouldnt

[sand sphinx]

kk

it scared me a little!

[idle meadow]

!ivyday

[eternal needle]

https://tenor.com/view/its-happening-again-nathan-escape-room-tournament-of-champions-its-here-again-repeat-gif-22364651

[rugged crow]

[short turtle]

I hope not

That sounds like a really bad situation to be in

[lost gorge]

yale ✨

[wind cipher]

Yale isn’t a real school

you’re all delusional

[fluid frost]

shhhh

you weren't supposed to say that

report to my office at 9

[vivid viper]

me lol

I don't qualify for fin aid but I just clicked yes 😭

[lost gorge]

(can u get me in)

(handsome cash prize available)

[dense nimbus]

Speak to the admissions office about this

depending on how handsome handsome is

are you uh

from malta

sorry for responding to something that is over half a month old

oh you arent

[lost gorge]

a million iranian rials? 😏

[short turtle]

Yale

Yale buddy

You were always my number 1

I love you

Please don’t abandon me

[dense nimbus]

[knotty oracle]

Don’t u say that about every school 💀

[short turtle]

i don’t lmfao

i praise Princeton Yale and Corpse-Flower-Arboretum

[tame rapids]

isnt that abhi

[short turtle]

for the others I just say please accept me I love you (which is true, my heart is huge)

[short turtle]

No I think it’s someone else

[tame rapids]

oh no, i was just saying abhi calls every school his top choice

[tiny crest]

yale

[short turtle]

oh yeah 💀

[sly fossil]

no

from the uk

I will update the chat with this fire tofu I just had

[dense nimbus]

I will never find another person from Malta applying to US colleges

ever

[sly fossil]

there's definitely some

i imagine most maltese study abroad

[hearty cipher]

most maltese prob go to the UK considering it’s a former UK colony

and lots of international schools

ok

[shadow sentinel]

mans did a kamikaze attack

[dense nimbus]

Uh

definitely not most

lol

having lived there

[sly fossil]

bro 😭

[robust bear]

lmfao

[sly fossil]

its not i promise

[dense nimbus]

most people either go to UMalta, MCAST or just work

[sly fossil]

shit is from a hole-in-the-wall in SF Chinatown

Definitionally fire

[fluid frost]

oo nice

love hole in the wall places

[robust bear]

i want yale

mi amor

[short turtle]

Ur name is Dan it’s perfect

pleaseeeeee Yale

You are my hope

My first

And my last

I love you

Accept me

[robust bear]

i know

i wrote abt that

in the why yale

[fluid frost]

he is the handsome dan

[robust bear]

i be bein handsome ngl

i have some sort of false hope for yale

compared to other ivies

bc i heard they are recruiting more STEM

and i hope my app conveys a good balance of cs + philosophy interest

[frosty jay]

Fellow cs + philosophy enjoyer

[robust bear]

chad

may we both get into yale

[frosty jay]

What are you reading lately mate

Personally I appealed my cs + philosophy ness by talking about Baudrillard a lot

[robust bear]

did you reconcile the two

or just like 2 separate interests

[steel imp]

isn’t Yale trying to expand their Data Science department?

[frosty jay]

Definitely very connected

I’m really into a lot of the 20th and 21st century philosophers who talked about digital media

Plus there’s a lot of philosophy related to AI and natural language

[robust bear]

ah i didn't rly connect

[frosty jay]

What philosophy are you interested in?

[robust bear]

mainly religion/epistemology

[frosty jay]

Oh nice

That’s pretty niche

I lost interest cause Aquinas was too hard to read for me :/

Respect

[robust bear]

lmao

[frosty jay]

When I’m in a unstructured esoteric rambling competition and my opponent is medieval Christian philosophers

[robust bear]

it's gg

most chad yale major by far

is "physics and philosophy"

[frosty jay]

I couldn’t do it cause I’m bad at physics

[robust bear]

i'm quite dog too

[frosty jay]

Literally studied for USAPHO for like 3 months and couldn’t even pass the semifinal

Biggest waste of time and money in my high school career

Do you know if philosophy major is hare to get into for Yale

Relative to other majors

[robust bear]

rip

wait by semifinal do you mean

F=ma

[frosty jay]

Yeah

[robust bear]

and did u do any other olys?

[frosty jay]

AIME for 4 years

USACO gold

[robust bear]

oh bet

i'm silver

also aime

[frosty jay]

I only got gold cause I lucked out in an easy year

[robust bear]

we probably have similar application but u j more cracked version

[frosty jay]

Naw my application is mid af

[robust bear]

mid afternoon 😰

[robust bear]

what contest?

[frosty jay]

I think the December for 2021

[robust bear]

closest cow wins

[frosty jay]

Lmao

[robust bear]

that one?

[frosty jay]

It was the one with the coordinate plane

And cows go their direction

And if they collide it’s bad

The silver number three was the same as bronze number three except N was much bigger

But I had the same solution work for both lol

Lucked out

[robust bear]

wtf

rectangular pasture that contest?

[frosty jay]

Yeah I think so

[robust bear]

did you solve that one in contest?

or probably like

p1 + p3 + partials on p2

[frosty jay]

?

Oh I solved all

[robust bear]

shiet

u smart

[frosty jay]

I think p2 was super easy

So it was mostly just p3

Naw it was 100% luck

If I were to do USACO again I’ll get bronze

[robust bear]

p2 was very difficult imo

[frosty jay]

Wait are you also Asian male

[robust bear]

nah white

jewish particularly

[frosty jay]

http://usaco.org/index.php?page=viewproblem2&cpid=1064 this one

Ah okay

At least our demographics don’t match

Hopeful we both get it

[robust bear]

pray

i think u have good shot

based on what you've described

seem like a smart fellow

[frosty jay]

Thanks

[robust bear]

can b friends if both maek to yale 😈

[frosty jay]

You too

💪

[robust bear]

i'm so pissed i didn't pass last silver contest

i should have like

i solved p1 + p3 + partials p2

however

my binary search bounds on p1 were a bit off

so i got 581 instead of what woulda been 800+

[frosty jay]

Ooooof

That sucks

Hate it when I silly on p1

[robust bear]

hopefully i can get gold this contesto

or freshman year of college works too

[frosty jay]

Yeah gl

I’m not doing USACO again lol

Tired of competition coding

[robust bear]

my code for this is huge

i was also like

1 line of code away from solving it in contest

tiny error

[frosty jay]

Dang

I had so little time left as well

During bronze

Cause I used the same solution for that

And I was like wtf

Bronze is so hard

But I just copy pasted it for silver lol

[robust bear]

noice

[tiny crest]

i didn’t do any olympiads besides usnco lol

but didn’t put it on my app

[robust bear]

i wish i had put more time into USACO :saj:

p much never did any sort of consistent grinding once i made silver

[edgy marsh]

SAME

[robust bear]

so im j like on the border between silver and gold

[edgy marsh]

idk why but

I just refused to prep for usaco

I absolutely hated it

[robust bear]

last contest was the only time i ever shoulda actally passed tho

[edgy marsh]

I rmb soph year

[robust bear]

like one line of code away from 800+

💀

[edgy marsh]

I was 1 test case from good

Good

Gold

And I didn’t make it

And I just quit

Because it was just so demoralizing and I hated usaco and anything Olympiad related

[robust bear]

usaco ❤️

[edgy marsh]

it just felt like

[dense nimbus]

meanwhile I am doing computer science and my entire programming experience is self studying for the AP Comp Sci A exam in 1 week and then never touching coding since

[edgy marsh]

All my work and learning was not validated unless I qualified

[dense nimbus]

💀

[edgy marsh]

I don’t like Olympiad’s in general

but I think that’s just bc I am not smart enough for them

[edgy marsh]

I don’t think most cs majors have too much experience to be fair

They don’t expect u to know anything why else would they teach from the ground up

[frosty jay]

USACO programming was relevant to my project programming exactly 1 time in my entire life

[robust bear]

lmao

usaco fun tho

i like comp programming way more than actual cs

[frosty jay]

Totally opposite for me

Web development ftw

[queen glade]

i need

ivy day t clutch up

[hushed rain]

Yale you're so cool and hot though the senior that interviewed me wasn't

[short turtle]

Weird did you get Swat W?

I forget in the haze of mourning

But anyways yale clutch yale clutch yale clutch??? Bulldog material fr?

[hushed rain]

Nah

I just got waitlisted by Colby and Bowdoin yesterday

Rest were rejections

[short turtle]

Fuck

Fuck this application process

Swat L

[hushed rain]

Yeah🤝🏼

[short turtle]

Anyways yale will come thru

We’ll be classmates it’ll be cute

What tradition do you most wanna try at Yale?

[hushed rain]

The tyng cup?

[short turtle]

That one gives such a Hogwarts vibe

[twin oar]

naked

[hushed rain]

The sports competition between residential colleges

It's the only one I care about (and know about)

[short turtle]

I love Yale’s residential college system to bits,,, I love the spirit and college pride it inspires

Idk dorm life matters to me a lot it makes me rly sad that dorms styled like Yale’s are rare

[hushed rain]

Oh they have a naked running tradition too?

[hushed rain]

Yeah I hate it when most people live off campus after sophomore year

[hushed rain]

Oh wait I thought you were talking about seniors

Didn't see the edit

[short turtle]

No I agree with what you said earlier

[short turtle]

This must feel like campus just empties

I’ll definitely RA if I have to to stay on campus.

[willow flame]

Guys I need some input