Brown University (2023-2024)

[radiant ledge]

my school was haunted too

[gusty bane]

*to go to brown

who doesn’t wanna live in a haunted house

[radiant ledge]

ikrrr???

[gilded haven]

🤣

[little snow]

No portal astrology

[hidden heart]

See someone actually gets what I mean

Y'all missing the joke

[obsidian nova]

!ivyday

[rugged karma]

Ivy Day Decision Date

Ivy Day decisions come out <t:1711666800:F> in your local time
14 days, 18 hours and 38 minutes until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[earnest heron]

has anyone gotten a brown likely

or knows when they come out

[neon yoke]

someone on reddit

[vestal lava]

my brother

[gilded haven]

ong

[tired shadow]

ive never heard of a person whos gotten a likely from anyone here

so dont stress at all

they prob send those to the mega nerds and u dont wanna be one of those

[hidden heart]

I GOT INTO MITTT

[rich mist]

why in the brown chat 😭

oh i should prob change my name thingie

[hidden heart]

Columbia likely is crazy

[hidden heart]

why not smh

[rich mist]

got lucky

[hidden heart]

wanted to tell my friends here

[rich mist]

hey me too 😼

[hidden heart]

Didn't see a single likely letter last year

[hidden heart]

OMG REALLY

CLASS OF 28

[rich mist]

yep

[rich mist]

good chance tbh

only school's i'd consider that im still in the running for are stanford and yale (harvard scares me)

stanford interview was a complete bust

[hidden heart]

why tf you waiting for any other schools

mit >>>>>>

change your name to mit '28

[rich mist]

i still like the humanities a little bit

[rich mist]

pensive question mark for safety

[hidden heart]

you can take classes at harvard

pretty sure

[rich mist]

prob will do that

[hidden heart]

yeah

mit >>>

[timid zenith]

wasssup fellow brown applicants

[hidden heart]

wassup

[timid zenith]

so what are you guys majoring in

[arctic palm]

neuroscience!!

[hidden heart]

wrong

[arctic palm]

i ❤️ brown

[hidden heart]

concentration

[timid zenith]

pre med?

[hidden heart]

rule #1 of brown

[timid zenith]

i forgor

😭

im cooked

[arctic palm]

not as of now

[timid zenith]

but you want to?

or just wanna do

[hidden heart]

major = reject

[timid zenith]

research

[arctic palm]

i’m more interested in research

wbu?

[timid zenith]

pre med

i applied plme

[arctic palm]

omg cool goodluck i hope you get in!?

[timid zenith]

same bro same

i like research but i like helping people more

[arctic palm]

brown plme is so hard

i’ve heard

[timid zenith]

thats why you gotta pray

[arctic palm]

lol try

true

[timid zenith]

gonna need to take a miracle for it to come true

[arctic palm]

is brown ur top choice?

[timid zenith]

yessir

if i get into plme

[arctic palm]

it’s also my top

i love brown

my hs is one of those grind or sink schools

where no one’s happy

i wanna go to brown

[timid zenith]

same

[arctic palm]

and like actually enjoy learning again

[timid zenith]

whats your stats

[arctic palm]

34 act 3.9 uw 4.3 w,

[timid zenith]

whats 34 act to sat

[arctic palm]

yours?

1500

ish

[timid zenith]

1530 sat superscore 3.8 uw 4.4 w

[arctic palm]

so like mid for brown 😭😭

[timid zenith]

i hope my extraciriculars and essays get me in

[arctic palm]

i’m bad at standardized test

[timid zenith]

i legit cooked

for my plme stuff

[arctic palm]

LMAO

the mid message was for my act

not ur stats

!!!

[timid zenith]

dw

even with 1600 and 4.8 its not easy getting in lmaol

[arctic palm]

lmao that looks so mean i swear im just insecure abt my act

[timid zenith]

dw bro

you are fine

[arctic palm]

kk

idk yea hoping my essays

carried

tbh proud of my video

[timid zenith]

i didn't do it

im cooked

[arctic palm]

…

nahhh people still get in without it

[timid zenith]

my friend told me his friend got into plme without the video or even sat score

so i got hope

[arctic palm]

woah damn yea

they prolly had cracked ecs and essays

[timid zenith]

is 1k+ hours as clinical helper cracked?

[arctic palm]

what other schools do you like

[timid zenith]

georgetown

[arctic palm]

1k hours

bro how do you have the time

did you start in elementary school

[mortal iris]

me neither LOL

[timid zenith]

4 hours per week for 3 years isn't that hard

well

no it is hard

i'm just no life

[arctic palm]

isn’t that like

600 hours

[timid zenith]

mb

that was 1 internship of a clinic

i did a dual thing

so its 1k

@arctic palm whats your ec's?

[arctic palm]

uhhh

yearbook editor, co-founder of scientific review club & editor of neuroscience section, environmental research, environmental activism, volunteering, 3 vars sports

womp womp

[timid zenith]

Nice

[arctic palm]

eh

in my essays

i tried to like

connect neuroscience and environmentalism yk

share urs

if you want

🫶🫶🙌

[timid zenith]

Ehh too personal imo

Though I can share my plme ones

Wait can i?

[arctic palm]

it’s up to you

[timid zenith]

No but like

I won't get like yoinked

Agaisnt the server rules or brown rules?

[arctic palm]

for sharing ecs?

[hidden heart]

standardized don't matter after a certain level

[hidden heart]

dont think we get active management here even

[timid zenith]

Wdym?

[arctic palm]

if you look at the harvard case you see that beyond a threshold ~1500, the score doesn’t particularly matter

[timid zenith]

Yea but I'm doing plme

The council of admission officers are old doctors who only have the sat as a baseline

As their substitute for the mcat

[neon yoke]

env sci

[timid zenith]

Nice

[hidden heart]

People all know at this point that there's no big difference between 1530 and 1600

SAT used to be seen as IQ test basically

It was designed that way

But since nowadays there's so much you can do to practice it

[tired shadow]

ur transferring?

[timid zenith]

Well I mean

Has to be

For plme applicants

Lucky ne 1530 is average

For competitive applicant

[hidden heart]

YES

MIT MIT MIT

BYEBYE

[small parrot]

Based on Slyvia‘s previous record we can never tell if that’s a joke🤭 But a cong should do

[hidden heart]

Hmmmmmm

[timid zenith]

Brown plme 😭

[hidden heart]

Eh you're gonna be fine

[granite pasture]

hii

[timid zenith]

Wassup

[vestal lava]

I GOT A LIKELY !!!🐻🐻🐻

🧸

[sacred nest]

congrats!

[solar orchid]

congratsss!

brown does likelies!?

[mortal iris]

y’all r silly 😭

[tacit obsidian]

yeah ive never heard of brown giving out likelies

i will believe it when i see it

[little snow]

[scenic oriole]

????

[hidden heart]

ME TOO

[timid zenith]

i think as long as i get a waitlist

for plme

im good

[mortal iris]

I GOT FULL MERIT RIDE TO ALL OF THE IVIES + LIKELY 🦅

[small parrot]

can anybody tell me what's going on in this thread

[timid zenith]

we talk about our worries

getting into brown

[scenic oriole]

No pictures no proof

[timid zenith]

i hope everyone here gets in

🙏

[small parrot]

I only hope everyone there are doing well… mentally. cuz it doesn't seem so🫢

[timid zenith]

you apply to brown?

[small parrot]

yep

[timid zenith]

what major?

[small parrot]

Slyvia is gonna say: no majors but concentrations

[timid zenith]

which concentration

[small parrot]

but im modern culture & media anyway, music approach

[timid zenith]

🙏

nice

you thikn you have a good shot?:

[small parrot]

I mean I wouldn't bother applying if I don't think I'm a good fit

Brown is like one of the few I applied that is not a LAC

[timid zenith]

lac?

[small parrot]

Liberal arts college

[timid zenith]

ah

i hope you get in

for me

im cooked 💀

[small parrot]

The ones with their own ranking 🤭

You just can't tell. I got rejected by NEU yesterday but received the highest scholarship from an LAC today

[timid zenith]

🙏

[small parrot]

Two weeks to go and we’re good

[timid zenith]

bro i got a 1% chance

i am worse than people who applied to MIT

[tacit obsidian]

on god

[gusty bane]

guys i just got a restraining order from brown, is this a good sign?

[fallow vapor]

OMG Congratulations

[alpine lotus]

yeah bro they're playing hard to get but they really want you

[valid magnet]

I'm probably cooked but I loved my brown supps regardless ❤️ hope everyone gets innnnn!

[hidden heart]

GOOD JOB

Yall have 2 weeks left

Enjoy life

[gusty bane]

🙏

[small parrot]

feel the same. I thought my first set of supps was good by 11.1 but it was nothing compared to my brown set

[hidden heart]

brown >>

[tired shadow]

rahhhhh bye!!!

[gusty bane]

👀

took dwon the top dawg

[rich mist]

Damn

Sub 500 team beating a top 30 team in the country

[tired shadow]

everyone ehre is freaking out over it

someone said profs are cancelling class lmfao

[gusty bane]

🔥

that sounds insanelyt cool

[foggy kindle]

how did princeton lose 😭

xaivian lee 😭

[iron leaf]

Just realized need to upload 2 min intro video to brown app portal.

Is it too late now?

[mortal iris]

Yes

Dw i didn’t do the video either

[iron leaf]

Ok, i won't do then.

[tired shadow]

yes lol

u were supposed to send it 1 week after receiving ur portal

its ok u can def get in without it

[iron leaf]

Thanks, my chance is low now😭

[brazen ferry]

Lmao same

Applied to brown for the plot

[tired shadow]

it honestly depends on the strength of ur app

a good video can make an application

but if the rest of ur application is perfect then its not required

[brazen ferry]

Not doing the video = turning down an interview

[tired shadow]

no lol

that is not what it is

[brazen ferry]

Thats what ive been told

[tired shadow]

as a brown student im telling you that is not what it is

[brazen ferry]

The video was a replacement for the interview

According to browns website

[tired shadow]

it is

[brazen ferry]

So how is it not the same

[tired shadow]

but not doing the video is not equivalent to rejecting an interview

[tired shadow]

the video is genuinely 100% optional. you do not need it. an interview is often a very important part of any application and turning it down is indicative that you don't care enough. not doing the brown video does not necessarily indicate that a student doesnt care.

[scenic oriole]

doing a video -> replacing an interview

if you did not do a video, then it will not replace an interview

Conditional statement
F -> F = T
Validity of argument is true

sorry guys, just felt the urge to do some philosophy logic

[tired shadow]

💀

go ahead

[brazen ferry]

It depends on whether the interview is evaluative or non evaluative

Most schools claim the interview is completely optional as well

Imo nothing is acc optional in college admissions

Like nyu has an ‘optional’ supp

Same with test optional

[worldly shale]

Oh that’s a good one

[tired shadow]

im so happy i was in the brown test optional era

if i had to report my 1300 i would have been rejected

well actually idk

[scenic oriole]

Is it like completely test-optional?

[tired shadow]

brown is switching to mandatory reporting

for class of 2028

[worldly shale]

29*

[scenic oriole]

huh,

[tired shadow]

oh yeah

[scenic oriole]

yea 29

[tired shadow]

sorry

class of 2029

[scenic oriole]

lol almost placed me in a heart attack

[tired shadow]

haha no thats my bad

[tired shadow]

for my year it was

[scenic oriole]

oooh so like no one should share their standardized scores?

[tired shadow]

i think a good standardized examination score can help mitigate poor school grades, and vice versa

i had perfect grades so i didnt need an SAT

also i was international

[worldly shale]

No you share if you want

And don’t if you don’t

[scenic oriole]

Eeh idk if a college will accept a 1400 SAT because they found out that person was underresourced knowing that the person would be dragging the average SAT of the school

[tired shadow]

you should always report an above average score

[worldly shale]

Usually if it falls in between middle 50% it’s okay to share

Or above

[tired shadow]

but in the future, students likely wont have a choice, given that most schools are moving back to mandatory SAT/ACT

[scenic oriole]

Aaah I hope its forever T/O

[worldly shale]

Although some schools are okay with APs or A levels instead

[tired shadow]

me too, but its not looking like that

[worldly shale]

Which is good for some internationals

[tired shadow]

most schools are moving back to requiring SAT/ACT

even for international students

not all of them, of course, but most

[worldly shale]

In terms of ivies

[tired shadow]

because of the recent evidence 'showing' that students who report standardized testing scores do better in college

[worldly shale]

For Yale and Dartmouth A levels can be used as a substitute for SAT/ACT

[tired shadow]

i said they are currently moving

not that they've moved already

[worldly shale]

No even next year

[tired shadow]

no lol

i know

[worldly shale]

When they start requiring tests again

[iron leaf]

Did you upload video? Or you had interview?

[tired shadow]

these decisions usually take 2-3 years

[tired shadow]

brown doesn't do interviews

and i uploaded a video

[worldly shale]

Didn’t they used to?

[tired shadow]

yes, they used to

[iron leaf]

They did early round, my classmate had

[tired shadow]

https://alumni-friends.brown.edu/volunteer/opportunities/alumni-interviewing-program

i dont know what your friend did because to my knowledge brown does not do interviews

its literally written on the website

[iron leaf]

Ed, last Nov i guess

[tired shadow]

i think you're thinking of the wrong school

[worldly shale]

How hard is it to balance a minor at brown

[tired shadow]

brown doesn't have minors

[worldly shale]

Oh then dual concentration

[tired shadow]

like at all other schools, it depends on both the majors you're taking, how much effort you're willing to put in, and whether or not you can handle it

[timid zenith]

Is plme joever without a video?

[tired shadow]

okay well

[timid zenith]

Bro said well

[tired shadow]

i think it's always more difficult to get into plme considering its acceptance rate

so in all honesty, maybe

but if the rest of your application is extremely good, you might not need it

remember even if you get rejected from plme you can still get into brown and do pre-med

[timid zenith]

Nah I'm mid dude

[tired shadow]

oh well

probably then

[timid zenith]

Well

Idk if 1530 and 1k+ hours of clinic

[worldly shale]

This just almost made me had a heart attack cuz I thought I wrote about minors in my essay. Luckily I didn’t.

[timid zenith]

Is mid

[scenic oriole]

https://tenor.com/view/rest-in-peace-gif-15129564399657727155

[tired shadow]

idk man im not pre-med

[timid zenith]

I'm cooked

My essays are gonna clutch me

But damn

[tired shadow]

the plme acceptance rate is 1-2%

[tired shadow]

in all honesty

i dont think you can get into plme if any part of your application is mid

unless you cured some rare disease or another part of your application is exceptional

but maybe you'll prove me wrong

i wont sell you any dreams

[timid zenith]

Ehh I got a backup

Georgetown a good fit

But thats if I get in

[tired shadow]

georgetown as a backup lol

u must be confident

[timid zenith]

I already got into ucla

Might as well

[tired shadow]

confidence is good!

[tired shadow]

also congrats, ucla is nice

[timid zenith]

sucks for pre med

But close to home

[tired shadow]

oh lol

idk then

[tired shadow]

and im glad u didnt!

would have been awks

[timid zenith]

I said major in brown

Well I did say concentration specifically

[digital dew]

pulling the brown card on brown i hope it works out

[tired shadow]

i think this is ok

[digital dew]

my friend told me ill get in just bc im brown i dont think its actually looking good guys

[tired shadow]

i really really dont want to sound morbid but i remember when i was applying a girl said the exact same thing as you maybe word for word (she didnt get in)

[timid zenith]

On gang!

[digital dew]

ok i know its not looking good on the application front but this just told me my humor is common i need to level up in that way at least

i know the large thing for brown is open curriculum but is there a doc showing how common certain brown concentrations are

[tired shadow]

u never know, im sure ur application is fine

[tired shadow]

and no, not to my knowledge

do you have any specific concentrations in mind? i can give estimates

[digital dew]

social analysis and research !!

[tired shadow]

i didnt even know this was a concentration here

and i dont think ive ever met someone whos doing it

so i would say uncommon

[timid zenith]

How open is the open curriculum

[digital dew]

oh my god im quirky

[tired shadow]

what do you mean

[timid zenith]

I only really focused on my science classes lol

Like I know it gives flexibility

[digital dew]

haha thank u tho!!

[timid zenith]

But I honestly don't really still fully get it

[tired shadow]

what do you not get im confused

isnt there stuff about it online

no way you applied to plme without knowing what the open curriculum is

its over

[timid zenith]

I did

It's called forgetting

[vagrant widget]

plme appliact?

[timid zenith]

Ye

[vagrant widget]

dang

[timid zenith]

I'm screwed

[vagrant widget]

ima apply next yr

[tired shadow]

ok well

[vagrant widget]

whyy

[timid zenith]

🙏

What's your ststs

Big man

[vagrant widget]

ever person ive seen get into plme has completely diff stats than ppl who sweat their asses off

[timid zenith]

Ec's matter

[tired shadow]

the open curriculum means you can take any class you want given that you've taken the requirements for it

[vagrant widget]

yuh

[digital dew]

i just checked and it said 4 people graduated with the concentration i genuinely thought it was more popular

[timid zenith]

What you doing rn

[vagrant widget]

my academics probably the strongest for me

[timid zenith]

Dm if you wanna

[vagrant widget]

i still need some wetlab and shadowing hours tho

[timid zenith]

Or just say it here

[timid zenith]

Shadowing and clinical work is big

I got 1k+ hours

[vagrant widget]

36, 4.7 smthng, hard courseload

[vagrant widget]

yea i heard

i need to lock in over summer

get those done

[timid zenith]

!!!!

[vagrant widget]

but ima have like 7-8 months so ill be fine

[timid zenith]

Don't ed plme btw

That's stupid

[vagrant widget]

yea i aint 💀

[tired shadow]

why is it stupid

[vagrant widget]

i dont got the money to be commiting to brown 💀

[vagrant widget]

cuz u bind to brown

even if u get rejected

[timid zenith]

1. Price 2. Hours for ec's

[tired shadow]

oh i see

[vagrant widget]

and on the brown website it lit says they dc if u apply ed or rd

it doesnt make a difference

[timid zenith]

Ehh

Plme legit doesn't matter lol

[tired shadow]

i dont think thats true im gonna be real

[vagrant widget]

nah its from a brown ao

[timid zenith]

Well plme doesn't increase tho lol

[tired shadow]

i know it is

[vagrant widget]

well tbh

[tired shadow]

also you can beg them for aid

[vagrant widget]

idrc that much ed rd

[tired shadow]

my friend got 40k+ more than his initial offer

[vagrant widget]

yea but i got a undergrad program in state

[tired shadow]

all he did was ask

[vagrant widget]

fully paid

which is better

than brown

[tired shadow]

oh then

why are u applying

💀

[vagrant widget]

cuz its not a bsmd

id rather go bsmd than traditional bachelors then med school

[tired shadow]

ok then why are u bringing up ur undergrad program

im confused

[digital dew]

@tired shadow i never asked!! whats your prospective concentration ?

[vagrant widget]

if i dont get into plme then i dont wanna go to brown

if i get rejected from plme but get into brown then im gonna go instate

[tired shadow]

im philosophy lit arts

[digital dew]

that's so cool!!

[vagrant widget]

if i did ed then id get screwed over if i get rejected from plme but accepted into brown

[timid zenith]

If you mess up bsmd there's still eap

[tired shadow]

i thought about triple majoring but idk if im bothered

[timid zenith]

For some colleges

[timid zenith]

💀💀

[tired shadow]

thanks! the thing u want to do sounds sick as well

i wish i could provide u more info on it

but ive genuinely never heard about it

[vagrant widget]

wym

whats eap

early action?

[timid zenith]

Yes

But

[tired shadow]

and ok that makes more sense

[timid zenith]

For med school

[digital dew]

im trying to combine data sci and history/soc sci and the concentration does it quite well so if i get in id b so happy

[timid zenith]

Some colleges have it

[vagrant widget]

yea ig

[timid zenith]

And you don't need

Mcat

If you get in

[vagrant widget]

but like if i dont go through brown bsmd whats the point of doing brown med school

[timid zenith]

Thats why georgetoen is my #2 pick

[vagrant widget]

might as well shoot higher

[tired shadow]

wowowow

very cool

[timid zenith]

Med school doesn't matter

Also brown doesn't have eap

[vagrant widget]

yea ik but the connections be bussin

[tired shadow]

are u thinking about any other major? @digital dew or just one

[timid zenith]

Again

Eap means no mcat

Mcat is eternally hard

[vagrant widget]

nah like networking

after med school

cwru got that juicy cleveland clinic connection

gonna apply there for funsies

[digital dew]

im unsure tbh its a ScB but because its such a small cohort each year i dont know how favourably private firms might look at it

might take another concentration thats more technical

[tired shadow]

are you prelaw?

wdym by private firms

[timid zenith]

Okay but

Eap is based

Since no mcat

[digital dew]

bc data science is genuinely abundant ig any company can make space for it (?) i want to work in private/corporate to make enough money and then work in government in pakistan

try to enrich welfare systems using data tools

[vagrant widget]

yea

idk

[digital dew]

for better resource allocation

[vagrant widget]

we'll figure it out

[tired shadow]

ah i understand

sorry when i see the word firm my mind jumps to law firms

(i'm prelaw)

[tired shadow]

and thats cool! sounds like very important work

[iron leaf]

All ives do interview?

[digital dew]

omg my sister was prelaw too!! she JUST got into oxford

[tired shadow]

oxford undergrad?

[digital dew]

not brown

[iron leaf]

Upenn?

[tired shadow]

we have gone over this lmfao

also its literally on the college's website

u can google it

its free

[iron leaf]

I applied, didn't get interview

[digital dew]

she got into mphil law and bachelor in civil law but shes leaning towards the bachelors so she can be a barrister

but she graduated from nyuad in legal studies

[tired shadow]

oh my gosh wow

thats incredible

wait so she wants to practice in england?

[iron leaf]

Cornell, Clunmbia, didn't get any interview

[little snow]

columbia doesnt do interviews

[tired shadow]

and civil/criminal law >

[little snow]

cornell interviews dont matter

[digital dew]

yeahh but she was gearing up to take the lsat earlier, however she changed her mind and went the oxbridge route and got accepted by both

[iron leaf]

Ok, thanks guys🙏

I feel better now

[tired shadow]

interesting

[digital dew]

genuinely the first person in our family to get into a prestigious university

[tired shadow]

i didnt know you could apply to both oxford and cambridge law school given that you can only apply to one and not the other for undergraduate

[tired shadow]

aw :))) im really happy for her!

[digital dew]

yeah i guess graduate school is different

[tired shadow]

hopefully you'll be next!

im looking to take a semester abroad at oxbridge during my time at brown

[digital dew]

if you decide to go that route feel free to message me and ill put you in contact w her !!

[tired shadow]

im international from the UK so i'd love to see my friends again

[tired shadow]

oh wow that would be insane, thank you so much thats really kind of you

[digital dew]

haha hopefully ive gotten into my safeties but i dont know how good its looking for my remaining unis

[digital dew]

ahh thats so nice!!

[tired shadow]

hey man ur going somewhere rahhh

[tired shadow]

also if you want, you could share your stats here or to me in private and i could give you an honest rundown

but idk if you want that kind of stress right now

or if it would be helpful

[digital dew]

yess the reassurance was amazing haha

[digital dew]

the thing is my profile is quite weird so i think it totallt depends on how the AO looks at it

my grades are average or subpar because im disabled but ive got pretty decent ECs

[timid zenith]

@tired shadow does brown got a lot of trees?

[gusty bane]

hello brownies

[tired shadow]

i understand

[tired shadow]

okay well i dont think you'll be penalized for your grades then

at all

i'd like to think brown AOs are very understanding

[tired shadow]

it's all relative, i think there's a lot of green space and trees nearby but its not surrounded by forest in the same way cornell is

brown's greens are gorgeous, when its sunny everyone (i mean hundreds of people) sit outside and blow bubbles, have picnics, dance

i love brown so much

perfect school, for me at least

[gusty bane]

brown megathread W

[lilac pollen]

Brown my favorite ivy

Let me in please

[digital dew]

i want to show you some of my ECs tho!! brb

[gusty bane]

😨 we are wary about showing off ECs too much becauseof doxxing, be careful!

[digital dew]

ah ofc! i'll be vague

[tired shadow]

so valid and so real

oh gosh this is insane

[gusty bane]

😔 we do not allow this i fear

feel free to exchange in DMs though!

[digital dew]

oh sorry! i will dm it

[tired shadow]

well i saw it manny and you look like a very accomplished student

seems like you've done a lot

i think the play stuff is really really cool

[digital dew]

ahh thank u !!

[lilac pollen]

Now it’s probably my first choice after getting rejected from mit

[tired shadow]

what do u like about brown?

[lilac pollen]

The vibes, campus, cs program, open curriculum, community

[tired shadow]

real asf

brown community goes crazy

[granite pasture]

same

[granite pasture]

nah u still need it but a low score like low 500s

[timid zenith]

No?

Eap for gtown waives it

[granite pasture]

i heard there were some caveats

btw did u apply bsmd John

[timid zenith]

Only brown

Yea

Did u?

[granite pasture]

nah

too lazy to do them

[timid zenith]

Damn

[granite pasture]

also i prob wouldnt have gotten in so yea

premed tho

dont matter too much

wehre u go ug

[timid zenith]

Yea

True

[granite pasture]

just tryna go to a grade inflated school tho so ivies work 😂

[timid zenith]

Did you apply gtown?

[granite pasture]

No im not catholic

but is it good for pre-med?

[timid zenith]

You dont need to be

To go lmao

[timid zenith]

Yea

[granite pasture]

yeah my parents didnt allow tho

oh damn :/

[timid zenith]

Ain't no way

That's insane

[granite pasture]

does it have a lot of grade inflation

[granite pasture]

yeah

[timid zenith]

Man that's sad

I hope you do well though

Where ever you go

[granite pasture]

you too man

[timid zenith]

Undergrad doesn't mean a thing if you don't get a good mcat score

[granite pasture]

pre-med is hard but we got it

damn fr

[timid zenith]

Or good extra curricular

[granite pasture]

is 510+ good?

[timid zenith]

Idk

I dont plan on taking it

[granite pasture]

fr?

u got bsmd

[timid zenith]

I pray I get into gtown to do eap

If I get rejected from brown bsmd

[granite pasture]

oh gl man

what is eap?

[timid zenith]

Same to you man

[granite pasture]

is that an internal UG program

[timid zenith]

Yes

Basically bsmd

But for the sophmores

In gtown

[granite pasture]

ohh ok

nice nice

yeah im just trying to do psychiatry in the future

so have to grind

[timid zenith]

Hope you cure people

[granite pasture]

haha thanks 😅

[hidden heart]

goodbye

of course once those two are back the chat is alive lmfao

[timid zenith]

[small parrot]

wait what. Slyvia is really leaving!?

may I wonder y mit? thought you were doing philo/lit stuff

[small parrot]

gl in mit!

[vestal lava]

theyre gonna get rolled by yale tomorrow

[steel pine]

Will Brown have looked at my video if I submitted it way late?

[little snow]

maybe, maybe not

[gusty bane]

maybe this is a ablesssing in disguise

jkjkjkjk

but still

[steep wasp]

ngl i was probably rejected from uchicago because of my video

so not doing the video isn't necessarily a bad thing

[small parrot]

how comes

[late stag]

!ivyday

[steep wasp]

they said don't edit it and stuff and i over edited💀

[steep wasp]

damn uchicago?

Congrats

[small parrot]

oops… I think for brown it’s gonna be fine. Plenty of overedited ones got accepted on YouTube

[steep wasp]

yeah but we don't know if they got in because of the video or despite

[small parrot]

true. Still I think it's an interesting option to have. I def gained more pleasure in making it than sending it to brown.

[steep wasp]

real

[steel pine]

brown video was so stressful bc I wanted to make stuff as good as the shit on youtube but in the end I just made a video collage of pictures I took on iMovie bc it just needed to get done 😭

[valid magnet]

real

[arctic palm]

meow

[hidden heart]

horrendous choke

mit would never

[arctic palm]

@hidden heart i thhought you were a brown freshman ngl

[vestal lava]

holy shit

🔥

[tacit obsidian]

this is so sad

[vestal lava]

no its good

[tacit obsidian]

any win for yale is a loss for society

[vestal lava]

thats true but at least brown didnt win either

buzzer shot too for the clutch

https://twitter.com/MarchMadnessMBB/status/1769425138515124373

NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) on X

YALE WINS THE IVY LEAGUE TITLE AT THE BUZZER 🤯 @YaleMBasketball

🎥: ESPN

Twitter · Mar 17, 2024, 6:06 PM

[timid zenith]

Man Imma love

If I go to brown

Classes canceled for games I don't even care for

Truly a W

[foggy kindle]

fumble of the year

[rich mist]

weak ass defense

#15 😭

[granite pasture]

fr they just let him score

no d played

[rich mist]

layup for conference championship 🤣

[hoary fog]

did anyone's checklist disappear on their portal?

[hidden heart]

it was horrendous

[hidden heart]

i am

[rich mist]

no

gg u got into brown!!!

[hoary fog]

no my checklist is still there 😭 but i heard some peoples disappeared

[stray osprey]

where did u hear

[steel pine]

why does it matter

[stray osprey]

it's portal astrology that doesn't benefit anyone

[steel pine]

portal astrology is stupid

[rich mist]

we are rejected homie 😄

[stray osprey]

giga are u canadian

[rich mist]

yes

[stray osprey]

we have one mutual

patrick

[steel pine]

I didn't know portal astrology was a thing till I joined this server

[rich mist]

how do u know him

[stray osprey]

shad

[rich mist]

ah

[stray osprey]

how do yk him

[rich mist]

cool guy

school

[stray osprey]

oh cool

[rich mist]

u frm gta?

[stray osprey]

dms

[hidden heart]

oh wow y’all are from canada?

which province

[stray osprey]

o

[hoary fog]

british columbia

[hidden heart]

nvm

[hidden heart]

oh nice

vancouver?

[hoary fog]

yea

[stray osprey]

are u also canadian sylvia

[hidden heart]

nova scotia 💀

well

[hoary fog]

so many canadians here wow

[stray osprey]

WOAH

[hidden heart]

i went to high school in halifax

so i might as well be considered Canadian

[stray osprey]

of all places... halifax ❤️‍🔥

[hidden heart]

have you been to halifax

it’s great for tourism

but in terms of living it’s so boring

[stray osprey]

haven't been to the maritimes

on the bucketlist

[hidden heart]

not much goes on there

[rich mist]

bro theres nothing to do there

its just fish

[hidden heart]

i want to visit bc

[rich mist]

and water

[stray osprey]

water is so pretty

[hidden heart]

world juniors

[stray osprey]

i love water

[hidden heart]

that’s about it

[rich mist]

is the hockey culture fun at brown

like r they good

[hidden heart]

i lived like 2 km away from the atlantic

[hidden heart]

i’m on the club team

but no our varsity isn’t good

you can always go watch boston college play they’re such a hockey school

northeastern and bu too

[rich mist]

oh shit thats cool asf

so u j crossed the border on the weeknds n shi?

[hidden heart]

which border

state border?

boston is like an hour train ride away and brown students (and other schools in ri) often just go to boston for a day on weekends

new england is tiny

[valid magnet]

real ion even live in boston and brown is like 1 hour away from my house lol

[hidden heart]

oh wow where are you

[valid magnet]

lowell

[hidden heart]

oh yeah that’s close

some people go home every few weekends

[valid magnet]

hopefully this will be me if i get accepted lol

[hidden heart]

it’s a decent enough distance that you won’t want to go home all the time but also you can whenever you feel like it

[hidden heart]

good luck!

(i am convinced mass people have a higher chance of getting in than other places)

[vestal lava]

yeah

they sold

they missed 3/4 free throws

and gave yale 8 pts in the last 22 seconds

[rich mist]

scripted

bro ong ive cooked a player from yale before

[vestal lava]

brown hasn’t made made ncaa since 1986 😄

[rich mist]

his name trevor something

[vestal lava]

i think yale is now like 27-6 against brown in basketball since 2009 with their win today

😵‍💫

honestly surprised they even beat pton lol, luck ig

[rich mist]

is princeton gone from march madness

bracket dropping in a bit

[steel pine]

I hope so

My school almost never sends people to Ivies

but ik two alumni who went to Brown

[arctic palm]

i’m from mass as well

my school never sends poeple to ivies

😅😅😅

except me (i hope)

[steel pine]

my school seems to send a kid every few years

My classmate got into UPenn this year

idk how bc his essays and overall app were so mid 💀

[foggy kindle]

lol lots of essays that i see ppl calling mid are actually quite good

lots of ppl call simple and genuine writing mid when in reality its better than the fake boring stuff >90% of applicants write

[steel pine]

wanna read them?

I showed them to others with permission and they agreed they were bad/mid lol

[foggy kindle]

yeah sure if u have permission

[mortal iris]

I feel like the converse is true too

[foggy kindle]

yeah i think people tend to think complex braggy language is the best approach to essays when in reality it isnt

[small parrot]

I‘m gonna share all my profile after this no matter if I got in. always find it intriguing to peer review

[ebon moth]

I did a lot of editing for my video…

But it’s such bad editing lmao

[rich mist]

I didn’t submit one I was too lazy

[steel pine]

SO REAL

[steel pine]

I was busy and procrastinated and then just bit the bullet and submitted one 1-2 months late (no one is ever gonna see it 💀)

[rich mist]

Yeah ur fucked 🤣

U should’ve emailed comittee

[steel pine]

I emailed

No response

[valid magnet]

maybe they saw the potential? there are some things we think are mid but the aos like lol

[steel pine]

@foggy kindle what would you say about it?

[small parrot]

we should define mid. and we cannot do so.

[foggy kindle]

genuine and personable but nothing blew me away

[hidden heart]

FREE STUFF:

I will be giving away five copies of my reading homework if anyone wants to do them for me. They are about 120 pages long and might not help you academically at all. Please DM for more information.

[steel pine]

It wasn’t genuine it was edited ChatGPT BS 😭

[hidden heart]

They could've used Perplexity or Gemini at least smh

[foggy kindle]

yeah thats true but you can't tell for sure

[steel pine]

I thought their supplementals were borderline if not outright bad

[hidden heart]

can i read and judge

[steel pine]

They told me

[foggy kindle]

no ik but I couldn't really tell

except for their caps

[steep wasp]

Omg slay

[steel pine]

It’s proof people are getting into T20s with edited ChatGPT essays

[valid magnet]

That's kinda sad tho 😕

Like if you have to use chatgpt to write you're essays you're already cooked atp

[steel pine]

I mean I used ChatGPT with my first drafts ngl but it was shit so I stopped

Pretty much all my RD stuff was completely original

Honestly prob worse off bc of it 💀

[steep wasp]

Chatgpt essays are horrible

[steel pine]

Eh

They can be a good base

And can be decent after editing

And they can supplement someone’s writing skills

[steep wasp]

They're personal essays

How can anything apart from your own written work be a personal essay that reflects you?

[hidden heart]

Chatgpt essays 👎
Gemini essays 👍

[steep wasp]

What's Gemini

[hidden heart]

Google gemini

I have been baffled by its ability to write essays compared to ChatGPT

It's not perfect, but it's pretty good for language models (especially with analysis)

[timid zenith]

wassup

[hidden heart]

Personal essays probably not though

I just use AI to ask them to analyze my own poetry

[hidden heart]

Brb I'll ask an AI to write an analysis about my character for an essay

[steep wasp]

yes please

[steel pine]

You tell ChatGPT write to write about, so you just ak it to write about you or stuff related to you (Pro tip: it works with any topic so you save a lot of time)

[steel pine]

last time I tried Gemini it was worse than ChatGPT 3.5

maybe it's better at specific things

[small parrot]

Gemini pro is out now. And now we have claude-3 series as well.

If you know a thin book called Exercices de Style - language models are really good at generating stuff in different styles around the same content. Sometimes I find it intriguing to see how my opinions can be expressed differently

[hidden heart]

Yup, Gemini advanced is better than GPT 4 at creative tasks

[small parrot]

GPT4 appears to be dumber recently😂

[small parrot]

I guess as long as ur not expecting it to write for you but more of like respond an existing draft from a perspective of peer review or “pretending to be an AO” it might work. Just like asking it to analyse your poems etc.

[hidden heart]

It does review things quite well

I haven't tested Chinese but for English it does quite well

[small parrot]

Never actually worked with language models in languages other than English as well. I only used Claude 3 recently to bulk-translate my Chinese personal writing into English after feeding it my own English materials and asked it to imitate my language.

[small parrot]

yeah more of like an interactive process in which we work together instead of simply command-output

[hidden heart]

It's a good collaborative partner

Not a good generator

[small parrot]

Exactly

the conversation in this thread is so wholesome compared to the argument in the NYU one. ngl that's hilarious.

[rugged karma]

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[hidden heart]

what is bot on about

[hidden heart]

what's happening in NYU

[small parrot]

maybe gpt stuff😂

[small parrot]

people arguing about ed/rd/aid/decision/etc.

[hidden heart]

I went and saw

I think they're loser

i play guitar instead

[small parrot]

Direct enough😂

[hidden heart]

People who freak out too much over college apps ON OTHERS are despicable

Bunch of selfish idiotrs

[small parrot]

Maybe kindly check out my guitar cover album on Spotify (called Picking Up) 🤭 Don't know if I can send a link here. Last time I sent a ytb link and got removed by bots/mods.

[small parrot]

if only people can simply mind their own business

[hidden heart]

OH WOW YOU ARE GUITAR??

I'm your fan now

If you get into brown we must jam

[hidden heart]

Eh, the internet is full of people who take their frustration out on others

[small parrot]

Realizing I‘ll have two performances next week and haven't rehearsed terrifies me

[hidden heart]

Where is iot

I'll send some friends over

[small parrot]

For sure. I‘m thinking of the music approach in modern culture & media concentration when applying to Brown. Hope I have a shot.

[small parrot]

That's so nice of you. Will dm🥹

[hidden heart]

Sounds like a great choice for concentration and honestly in a Chinese pool that maximizes your chances

[meager raven]

woah

my discord was up like 20 mins ago

[hidden heart]

woah

[meager raven]

and i started to type, responding to something that i thought had just happened

but then it bumped me down here

so now i can't make my comment ;

:(

[hidden heart]

what's your comment :(

[meager raven]

it was about the guitar thing

oh wait!

that was only 6 mins ago

i was going to say "i'll come too!!"

[small parrot]

lol fr. I did research about concentrations😂

[small parrot]

I'm gonna have my last mock exams in four hours. Still, won't hurt talking abt guitar🤭

[hidden heart]

honestly

being in college taught me

guitar >>> academics in terms of validation

or at least learning guitar as a pianist makes me feel like a prodigy and that's far more validating

[rich mist]

woah

sylvia what kind of music do u play

[small parrot]

Damn you prodigy! 🤭

True though. I'm so glad I dropped IB physics for IB music back then. Otherwise I was gonna be further cooked.

[rich mist]

i'm in a midwest emo band and i lowk want to go to brown bc of how strong the emo scene in providence is lol

[hidden heart]

recently started learning

trying to do mostly rock but that requires a lot more skill and i'm only 2 months in

[hidden heart]

HAHA it is famous and also that is cool!

[hidden heart]

IB physics is the worst designed course in all of IB

[hidden heart]

i'm a classical pianist now turning into a jazz pianist too

[small parrot]

can't agree even more🫢

[rich mist]

you got it!! rock is awesome -- you can play so many songs with just power chords

[small parrot]

Dk if we're allowed to share ps here but I literally wrote I regret giving up piano in it.

[rich mist]

no way that's awesome. the most talented musicians i know are all jazz pianists LOL

[hidden heart]

Classical music is harder to get perfect but also musically it progresses into jazz

[rich mist]

jazz musicians with classical training are crazy

[hidden heart]

Good pianists should be able to do both, but usually are classically trained and shifted into jazz

[hidden heart]

Classic rock

Currently trying to learn Angie by stones

[small parrot]

the guy who got in brown from our school is also a pianist. I wonder if you'll know him

[rich mist]

y'all are a different breed fr. i just play my out of time FACGCE riffs lol

[hidden heart]

name?

i know most of the beijing people

[rich mist]

aw that's a pretty song

[small parrot]

know what. my ig is always promoting me rock-arranged classical pieces on guitar these days. sacrilegious and intriguing at the same time

[small parrot]

Ody or Odessy (yes he did call himself Odessy)

we‘re from shanghai though

[rich mist]

neoclassical metal guitarists are also mind blowing

[small parrot]

I was born in beijing though.

should have attend hs in beijing🤤

[hidden heart]

Oh Ody yeah

I've talked to him like once

At the beginning of the year I think

[hidden heart]

I love 70s music

[small parrot]

I‘m not so familiar with metal but they always sound mind-blowing to me

[hidden heart]

Their technique is crazy

I wish I can do that without practicing

[rich mist]

RIGHT its inhuman

[small parrot]

you wish (and I wish too

[rich mist]

fr 70s one of the best decades for music

[hidden heart]

It's kinda sad how there's actually a lack of electric guitar scene at Brown

Providence as a whole is great but Brown is more populated by singer-songwriters

[small parrot]

Gonna play Here comes the sun on our grad ceremony

[small parrot]

✅

[hidden heart]

On my to-learn list!

[small parrot]

If it's also a lack of fingerstyle guitarists then maybe will boost my chance😜

[hidden heart]

Yup it is

People are much more focused on vocals than anything it seems

Singing is a big deal here

[rich mist]

okay i will bring amp stacks and you can bring les pauls and then we will blast riffs 😎 🎸

[hidden heart]

Hopefully I'll be good enough by the time you come

Actually yeah I'll probably be decent by junior year assuming i practice

I think I'm somewhat impressive at least for being able to manage barre chords after 1 week then be able to solo after less than 2 months

[rich mist]

that's crazy progress

i can't even barre well after playing for like 5 years lol

[small parrot]

I‘m not sure if I what to bring my guitars to college or simply try some new stuff once I arrived

[rich mist]

it's that piano dexterity

[hidden heart]

Definitely bring guitar

Having your instrument with you helps you mentally too

[small parrot]

seems to me it’ll cost so much

[hidden heart]

I always forget most people don't have that finger dexterity and assume it to be normal

[hidden heart]

There's 2 really good guitar stores in Boston

Close enough to buy a new guitar there

[small parrot]

Exactly. Buying a ticket for guitars is like prob the same price as buying a new guitar