Columbia University (2023-2024)

[iron canyon]

mt friends were when i clicked the application 🤭🤭

[bitter iris]

ok

theres a lot of political stuff

[native hatch]

https://www.columbiaspectator.com

[bitter iris]

going on campus ive heard

[native hatch]

look through all of it on the spectator

yes

there’s a lot of issues on campus rn

[runic tartan]

ik someone who goes to columbia rn and she posts a lot abt whats happening on campus

[native hatch]

do not commit here if you are not sure you’d be happy

[potent meteor]

does her name start w a t

[runic tartan]

🤫

no doxxing!

[potent meteor]

yeppie!

[native hatch]

nyc in general is very overwhelming even if you’re from a big city already and with all of the political discourse + stress culture it has the potential to get really bad

mental health support here is a mixed bag but in person therapy is very good and free

[runic tartan]

i feel like NYC is on a different tier from all the big cities

[native hatch]

cps is a lovely resource

i have therapy and psychiatry thru them for free

[native hatch]

yes

[iron canyon]

my only thing is i wanna live in nyc when i’m older so idk if i wanna ALSO do@college there

[native hatch]

being in nyc when ur young is a crazy good experience

imo

[iron canyon]

i feel like it would just be too much for me

[halcyon flame]

imo going to nyc for college kinda sets u up to live there as an adult

[runic tartan]

idk if it'll help but you can do what my sister did

[native hatch]

best time to live in nyc is in ur 20s

[runic tartan]

she did undergrad at NYU and likely going to do grad in cali

and then after grad she's moving back to NYC

[bitter iris]

cameron rise global winner and coolidge

[iron canyon]

totally agree i just kinda want a more traditional college experience

[pure sonnet]

that would be the life

[dense fable]

Lol @winged lion I didn’t know you had to register for the scholarships I thought selecting them on the common app automatically put you up for consideration

Kinda wild

[hybrid bay]

Wym register

[dense fable]

Oh wrong thread

I’m talking abt Vanderbilt

I didn’t know you had to go on there and register for them even after you said you’d be interested on commonapp

[tawdry sparrow]

did they give likely letter only to Valedictorian?

[bitter iris]

No

Anyone can get

[tawdry sparrow]

I see in our area only valedictorian got it

[dense fable]

Nah anybody can get it

tho admittedly I’m valedictorian lol

[oblique island]

no and im not close to val

i got 2 bs

[tawdry sparrow]

did the valedictorian in your school already committed to other shcool

[oblique island]

no

[south hemlock]

Likely letters weren’t for valedictorians

[dense fable]

Likely letters are not meant for valedictorians specifically. The only correlation it has is that usually valedictoirans are high achieving and competitive which in turn makes them a competitive applicant which results in a likely. However, correlation ≠ causation

[tawdry sparrow]

how many or percent of offered admission have likely letter

[zinc tinsel]

like 10% at most

u shouldn’t really pay attention to it

[dense fable]

Top 10% of the acceptance pool receives a likely @tawdry sparrow

To put it into better perspective, 57,129 applications applied to Columbia for the Class of 2027 and they generally send around 100 likelies (or 100 likelies for the College and 100 for Engineering not confident on which one it is) but regardless you're looking at about 0.01% of everybody who applied getting a likely

More people get in that didn't get a likely than those who did

so dw abt it

[south hemlock]

You have a higher chance of getting in than getting a likely

[tawdry sparrow]

understand that should be based on past numbers. but feel like they give out more likely this year than the past. last year, highly competitive students did not receive any, those students are more competitive than the students who got likely this year.

[south hemlock]

Because it’s not really about how competitive you are

Schools are doing guessing games

They’re targeting people they think might have multiple admission, and trying to convince them to choose the school earlier

It doesn’t mean people who are admitted and didn’t get likelies aren’t competitive or aren’t great applicants

[dense fable]

Ouch

They sent out the same number

[winged hinge]

||it dont matter and dont spread this but psst im like 90% sure all scholars get a likely so :3 yippee congrats to anyone w a likely||

[native hatch]

this

don’t hate on yourself if you didn’t get a likely

[young jay]

could you tell me more, i got a likely but idk anything about the scholars program

[smoky crater]

yeah i’ve never heard about these likely letters or the scholars program

someone explain pls

[quasi kayak]

WHEN MY TIME IS UP

HAVE I DONE ENOUGH

WILL THEY TELL YOUR STORY ?

[dense fable]

lol

[potent meteor]

OH I CANT WAIT TO SEE U AGAIN

ITS ONLY A MATTER OF TIMMMEMEMEMEMEMMEM

[winged hinge]

the scholars are so irrelevant lol

(as a scholar)

but it's a cool thing

u can slap it on ur resume later down the line

[dense fable]

we should have an a2c meeting at admitted students day

[bitter iris]

awkward

[dense fable]

?

[bitter iris]

Nah nothing

It jus be a lil weird

[quasi kayak]

yall r weirdos ❤️💨

[dense fable]

lol

[bitter iris]

Like what would we say

[dense fable]

idk gonna be wild i've never been to nyc

[bitter iris]

If I saw Kirk Itd br natural

Idk abt anyone else

[dense fable]

kirk would be a vibe

[bitter iris]

Ur gonna like it

Yea

Everyone loves Kirk

No haters

We would all tower over hsxd

[dense fable]

lol

[quasi kayak]

oh so what about me

[young jay]

okok

[iron canyon]

i love him hes so nice

[iron canyon]

fav hsda nat staffer

[bitter iris]

[zinc tinsel]

!ivyday

[neat marten]

Ivy Day Decision Date

Ivy Day decisions come out <t:1711666800:F> in your local time
20 days, 24 minutes and 22 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[quasi kayak]

they will come

[dense fable]

You already know ur Columbia one

[wicked knoll]

do only likely letter ppl get scholars from columbia

[dense fable]

Nah I don’t think so

[faint pasture]

saudi arabia

[winged lion]

I’m salutatorian and got it

[winged lion]

..

[bitter iris]

ur sal?!

wow

[winged lion]

middle school courses were all reg

[oblique island]

my gpa was a 3.94💀

[white hazel]

Same

[bitter iris]

Same

[oblique island]

idt it’s really based on gpa

for likelies

as long as it isn’t bad

[white hazel]

18 Aps didn’t do nothing 😭

[tall hare]

its 100% not based on gpa for likelies

[oblique island]

ye

[tall hare]

gpa is prolly the least important for it

like standout ec's and essays

[oblique island]

yeah

my essays weren’t that great tho i feel

ecs i can see ig

[white hazel]

With every incline press the pain fades

[tall hare]

thats how i felt with washu

it kinda just happens

ppl are pretty real when they say schools look for specific things

bc out of all the colleges that give likelies that i applied to i would think my washu essays were the worst of the bunch

[oblique island]

yeah it’s very strange

[devout mirage]

likelies are for candidates they believe will get into equally or better schools adn they want to claim those ids for themselves

wtv the critera is for that

[tall hare]

yes

thats why cornell gives quite a lot of likelies

bc they assume those kids would also apply to/get accepted to higher ranked schools

so theyre ready to fight for those kids early

[devout mirage]

nobody wants my ass 😻

[tall hare]

i want your ass

[devout mirage]

damn

everyone in my math class has alr been accepted to an ivy+ tier school minus me 😁

[tall hare]

:(((

fr?

[devout mirage]

ya i mean its a very smart people math class

Lin alg + topo + multi

[dense grail]

wrd 😭

[devout mirage]

We strike RD

[oblique island]

did cornell likelies come out

[dense grail]

ong 😤

[dense grail]

nah not yet

[white hazel]

Bide your time

[tall hare]

oh damn

[white hazel]

Meditate

[tall hare]

well that is still goated for you

[white hazel]

Build your garden

[tall hare]

im prolly getting a B in calc BC 💀

[white hazel]

You’re 2nd semester

[devout mirage]

word

[white hazel]

Don’t matter that much

[oblique island]

ooh

dyk when they come?

like roughly

[devout mirage]

why would they come out so late

[dense grail]

last year it was march 15

[oblique island]

ok🤞🤞

[dense grail]

assuming same this year

[oblique island]

sounds good

[winged lion]

sorry but columbia > cornell for me atp no matter what

[digital hedge]

[digital hedge]

Fr

Columbia is in nyc

Cornell

Is in the middle of no where

[dense grail]

lowkey hope i get one for cornell bruh. only cuz im jn heop and technically the heop student gets likelys ☹️

[oblique island]

same lol

like

yeah

[dense grail]

😡

[devout mirage]

columbia protests go crazy

[dense grail]

wrd

[tall hare]

with washu im rly only anticipating like a handful of decisions

that id choose over it

[winged lion]

columbia and brown have possibly my fav student cultures

[dense grail]

@winged lion u got a columbia likely?

[tall hare]

if brown gives me a better package i would strongly consider brown over washu

[devout mirage]

yale naked parties if i get in 😩

deluding myself into thinking the senior interview means anything

[winged lion]

yes !

[dense grail]

ohhh so u smart smarttt

damnn cgs

[oblique island]

same

lmfao

[winged lion]

nah I’m not the brightest lightbulb in the drawer

[dense grail]

never got a yale interview

[dense grail]

i think it’s a good sign tho tbh

[devout mirage]

like the senior interviews are hella structured (30 mins, they ask abt ECs, you sign up for an interview thru the site, etc) but still man i wish there was more evidence than people who got interview "tended" to get in

[devout mirage]

hopefully man

[devout mirage]

you'll cook for other colleges regardless dawg

[dense grail]

wrdd

[stuck badger]

oh did you get one

[normal knoll]

what school do u go to 😭

topology is crazyy

[normal knoll]

one of my friends got one today!! it might not be joever yet

[tall hare]

columbia? no

[devout mirage]

our math teacher went to princeton at 13 (this is real i'm not joking)

[normal knoll]

id trust u on that

is it a top private or magnet

i go to a top magnet and our math past linalg/diffeq/calc3 is just discrete math + complex analysis

[devout mirage]

magnet

honestly thats really good

[sonic anchor]

stuy or exeter

[devout mirage]

neither 😻

[sonic anchor]

davidson academy

[devout mirage]

nope

[sonic anchor]

i’m gonna stop guessing

that’s crazy though that’s a straight up first year math major class

[devout mirage]

more or less

apostol calc vol 2 + a little bit of baby rudin

[smoky crater]

what is it bruh how do i join

[smoky crater]

so you apply to columbia and before results come out they give you a likely letter trying to convince you to pick them?

[tall hare]

Basically

[winged hinge]

LOL they pick them idk how tbh

[smoky crater]

they just randomly email you and say you're a columbia scholar now?

[digital hedge]

A likely scholar ya

[smoky crater]

so the scholar program == likely letter

got it

[winged hinge]

i think

not 100% sure but that’s what i’ve seen

[smoky crater]

likely letters are for ppl who applied RD right

cause they're getting results in a few weeks

[digital hedge]

Ya

[young jay]

guys please tell me things you love about columbia

[rotund ingot]

they play with my emotions like fiddles

[weak delta]

Will lyk if i get in

If i dont its immediately bottom tier

[young jay]

alr got it 😂

[weak delta]

You got it yea

I dont

[young jay]

😭😭 you do

i believe in you

[weak delta]

❤️

[finite stratus]

all in one yr?

[digital hedge]

The campus

The city

The clubs

i visited 2 times

And it was amazing

[young jay]

okok keep it coming

[native hatch]

ik y’all are excited but please do your research and consider both the good and the bad

don’t let prestige blind u

[winged hinge]

i like columbia 🫶

[native hatch]

i like columbia too and i’m really proud to attend but it isn’t for everyone and you don’t want to be one of those people who transfer out first yr because you hate the school

[winged hinge]

fair

[sweet storm]

!ivyday

[neat marten]

Ivy Day Decision Date

Ivy Day decisions come out <t:1711666800:F> in your local time
19 days, 8 hours and 22 minutes until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[grand plinth]

Don't compare yourself to others

School prestige doesn't matter

Whether it's a T10, 20, 30, or 50 you're getting a great education

[mental garnet]

bruh i got an email from Columbia College Chicago and freaked out bcuz someone said intls might get likelies later

[brisk cape]

[queen schooner]

columbia college chicago?

[brisk cape]

i feel like crying today

[river phoenix]

Hold on I thought you had left this server to reduce insanity

[mental garnet]

she came back because yale interview (andbecause she gave in)

[mental garnet]

speaking of, how did you do?

[brisk cape]

yeah i did and now im back

[river phoenix]

That was fast😭

[spark hatch]

Do intls get likelies tho

To be real

[boreal stream]

yeah they do

my friends from this area like 2 of em got columbia likelies

[mental garnet]

where are you from? (if you dont mind sharing)

[brisk cape]

yeah i actually realized A2C wasn't the problem, all this time the problem was me

[boreal stream]

to be general, africa

[brisk cape]

still is actually

[spark hatch]

Its me, hi

[brisk cape]

fine (i think)

my mcqs always go wrong

[mental garnet]

awh honey its okay

its over!!

[brisk cape]

im the problem IT'S ME

[mental garnet]

oh nice!

[spark hatch]

💀

😂

[brisk cape]

❤️

[brisk cape]

yeah that's how im surviving

[spark hatch]

It means that the intls have received likelies too.. and soo it’s basically over

😀

[boreal stream]

yeah i didnt get one unfortunately

[brisk cape]

i couldn't even get a likely

guess im useless

[spark hatch]

This is a bad mindset fr

Why are we pinning ourselves to be the top 1% admits

[weak delta]

Im ngl i cant defend his behavior

[spark hatch]

😭

[weak delta]

Stop being stupid yall

Likely is top 10% of the 4% who get admitted

[boreal stream]

they only give like top 10%😭 so lets wait and see

[spark hatch]

If I got in i’d be in the bottom 10%

So

😃

[mental garnet]

YOU GOT A DUKE LIKELY GIRL WTF

[mental garnet]

overachieving mindset

[hybrid bay]

Like where is mine

[mental garnet]

fr

"only top 10% got it" girl i know that im depressed that im not in the top 10

[spark hatch]

coming in 3 weeks or so

[brisk cape]

i have this mindset and it kills me everyday

[hybrid bay]

nah im top 11%

[brisk cape]

wow see i couldn't even make it to the top 10%

[spark hatch]

Im top 12.7%

[mental garnet]

EXACTLY

[brisk cape]

😭

[boreal stream]

you did for Duke😭 be fr

[mental garnet]

i just want like 1 t10 man

[spark hatch]

Berkeley:

[native hatch]

bro

i got 11 rejections i was ready to commit to the school i was auto admitted to

got into columbia ivy day

my only other acceptance

it’s not over

i didn’t get a likely

[mental garnet]

i love berkeley ngl

[brisk cape]

[mental garnet]

and would 10/10 commit to berkeley

but

as a writer

i wanna get into a school that prioritizes essays for the writing validation

[spark hatch]

Me too

🤔

[hybrid bay]

stanford incoming

[brisk cape]

thanks for this (ill stay hopeful)

[brisk cape]

like?

[mental garnet]

tbh all this likely stuff won't matter while you're in college but as a high schooler especially in a2c its very hard not to care about

[spark hatch]

Does stanny rlly care abt writing tho

[mental garnet]

my dream 🥹

[hybrid bay]

very much

[mental garnet]

lol they have like 8 essays

[white hazel]

Go on a walk

Clears my head about all of this

[mental garnet]

stanford, brown, columbia, uchicago mainly

[hybrid bay]

if u dont have good essays ur not getting no matter how cracked u r

[brisk cape]

i have a feeling stanny is coming for you

[native hatch]

on top of that i was fucking test optional i was terrified bro i had 0 guidance and came from a random ass title I high school which never sends anyone to anything other than the state college at best

[brisk cape]

Ooo i see

[spark hatch]

Ik someone with not rlly good english fluency get into stanny last cycle

[native hatch]

it works out

it really does

just trust in urself

[mental garnet]

you dont need to be good at english to have good essays

well you do need to be but like

[spark hatch]

So i’m a little skeptical

[brisk cape]

really?! wow

[mental garnet]

good essays aren't about being a good writer

its about being authentic and genuine

but im p sure that if you're a writer they will care about your writing

idk how i'd feel if i got into stanford tho

because stanford is the only thing i'd choose over berkeley

and stanford is more expensive

[brisk cape]

💗

tysm

[mental garnet]

and it'd be a v hard decision to make

[spark hatch]

Berkeley ftw duh

[brisk cape]

really helped ngl

[spark hatch]

dUh

Oski is the best!

[mental garnet]

ok but thats so insane, congrats???

[white hazel]

Id be happy until my alarm clock woke me up from that dream

[mental garnet]

LOL

[mental garnet]

real

blue and yellow <3

[spark hatch]

Fever dream

[native hatch]

yeah it was pretty insane and im super grateful to be here

my year in hs sent 3 to ivies

was massive on the news

i was the first columbia in history

luck and hard work

i feel like everything begins with coincidence

[mental garnet]

damn thats so cool!!

[visual orbit]

I'm not even top 10% of my class and got a likely

[mental garnet]

such a W

[visual orbit]

wait were you an early berkeley admit?

goat behavior

[mental garnet]

yes :)

[mental garnet]

thank you!

you too lol

[weak delta]

Ah hell nah who gave this girl mod

Im leaving soon

[bitter iris]

Fr

[winged lion]

literally in hs i got over w it in an hour

[brisk cape]

hater fr

[mental garnet]

https://open.spotify.com/track/0MMyJUC3WNnFS1lit5pTjk?si=f67fb97d0d9c4152

[mental garnet]

nah no you deserve to ride the wave of euphoria for at least a month!! revel in your successsss

[winged lion]

it’s def bc i take ashwagandha LOL

i don’t feel anything fr 😭😭

[mental garnet]

😭 ok well in a way thats good ig? 😭

[river phoenix]

not ashwagandha💀

[weak delta]

Trust me discord mod is not the the title i wish to acquire 😭

[mental garnet]

ok but a2c mod to ivy+ pipeline is real

[digital hedge]

🦆

[mental garnet]

just look at oats and billert and brandon and kace fr

[digital hedge]

[river phoenix]

https://tenor.com/view/the-rock-rock-gif-21708339

bro answered the survey to get the special flair tho hmmm

[mental garnet]

LMAO

[weak delta]

Not at all

[stuck badger]

What 😭

[river phoenix]

no it makes sense in context

[stuck badger]

Kace is a mod???

[river phoenix]

Ms. Luck felt the pressure of college was making her a bit obsessive so she had decided to take a break iirc

[small wadi]

Everyone is a mod these days

It explains how much the server has fallen off

It’s created a class divide that obstructs natural interaction

Having a group of mods who are, to a great extent, typical ‘active’ members is detrimental to the server

[pseudo helm]

bros examining class struggle on discord 💀

[stuck badger]

omg you're back!!!

[small wadi]

yes

i am the lisan al gaib

the mahdi if you will

[faint summit]

when do they finish reviewing apps by?

[young jay]

is there a columbia admitted students server?

[grand plinth]

Yes

[digital hedge]

ooooo

[grand plinth]

If you google it it'll pop up

To be invited to the actual server and not prospective student one you gotta show one of the student mods your acceptance letter

Wait no you don't even show it, you just use your Columbia email which you get after acceptance

You need the email though

[young jay]

oh ok so can’t get in with the likely alr

[grand plinth]

I don't think so

You can sit in the admitted students chat in the prospective server. You don't need proof there

You need your email for the actual student server though

[young jay]

ok thank you!!

[grand plinth]

Yeah np. Do you want the link to the prospective server? Maybe if you ask them you can get into admitted. I think they do it this way though since some students have had a likely but not gotten in for breaking an agreement or smth
You're a lock with the likely, its just a precaution I think

[young jay]

yeah! i’ll take the link, ty

[grand plinth]

Dm

[sullen cypress]

can u send me the link too

[potent meteor]

can u send the link to me too pls 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[native hatch]

Yes you can’t get into the columbia server’s main channels without your email which you get in june/july

i think y’all should make a 2028 server

the 2027 one was fun but died off after nsop

people are generally active in the main columbia one

[dense fable]

Me too pls or @young jay @potent meteor if you have it

[mental garnet]

Kace was a guardian right

[visual orbit]

yes me too pls

[pliant wren]

Me too

[dense fable]

Lol

[potent meteor]

has anybody made a columbia 2028 server?

[dense fable]

Probs but we probably need our official acceptance to get in

[potent meteor]

ughhh i need march 28th to be rn

[barren adder]

18 days left!

[neat marten]

Ivy Day Decision Date

Ivy Day decisions come out <t:1711666800:F> in your local time
18 days, 6 hours and 31 minutes until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[native hatch]

join the university hub with your email

it’s listed on there

[calm minnow]

yo @young jay arkansas gang rise

[young jay]

YOURE FROM ARKANSAS

OOPS

[young jay]

YOURE FROM ARKANSAS?

[calm minnow]

yeee sure am, nice to see another arkansan here

[young jay]

yess dming you now

[sonic tendon]

have there been any Columbia likelies that have gotten rejected?

[south hemlock]

Probably if you failed all your classes

[sonic tendon]

oh ok

ty

[sonic tendon]

hi can I get the link as well pls 🙏

[grand plinth]

That and any criminal acts or charges by police severe enough

[native hatch]

• don’t get sent to jail
• graduate high school

and that’s about it

[digital hedge]

oooooo

[normal knoll]

that gets you rescinded, right, not rejected

[zinc tinsel]

yes

[oblique island]

gonna be me

[digital hedge]

Columbia just send actually likely letter

In the mail

I recieved mines + a phone card holder and book

[bitter iris]

🎉

cracked fr

[digital hedge]

[bitter iris]

and epc

[digital hedge]

EPC

woooo

[bitter iris]

congrats!

ur engineering right

[digital hedge]

Tyty

Ya

Sadly though

[bitter iris]

i thought u liked it

[digital hedge]

Time for hair lost

[bitter iris]

but congrats nonetheless

oh lol

[digital hedge]

ya I do, but engineers are always stressed

[winged lion]

WHATT

I’m so excited

[digital hedge]

Ya

Exciting they send one out I was suprised when I checked my mail

[weak delta]

Yippee

[young jay]

wait i hope mine came

i have like no college merch

[digital hedge]

YA

[young jay]

nothing yet 😞

[digital hedge]

Maybe it’s slower

i live in VA

[young jay]

yeah i am in arkansas so

[digital hedge]

Ya

That’s why

ahhh

[young jay]

are you engineering or college

[barren adder]

He did engineering. Maybe they sent those out first?

[young jay]

yeah i feel like stem always get priority kinda

[barren adder]

I haven’t gotten anything either (Louisiana)

[young jay]

yeah i’m in arkansas we will probably get ours last 😂

[winged lion]

me neither (sc)

[barren adder]

Idk if you two feel this way too, but ever since I got the likely I’ve felt like all my college decisions were done before they even started

[young jay]

wdym

[barren adder]

Like I’m happy already with what I have / this is the result I’ve always wanted so the process already feels complete to me

Idk if I should withdraw my other apps until I see my package tho

[young jay]

i wish i felt like that

i’m extremely grateful for the likely

but this one school i just can’t escape from 🥲

[winged lion]

there r only 4 colleges I would go to instead of Columbia

which puts sm pressure on those decisions 😭

[young jay]

SAME SAME SAME

two of them are still eh

[winged lion]

true two of them r bc I just want to see if I get in lol

[young jay]

no i meant like two of them i would consider with columbia like it wouldn’t be a clear choice (princeton and duke)

[digital hedge]

BRO SAME

[barren adder]

I have family living 25 minutes away from Columbia so I can just stay with them when I’m stressed out

[digital hedge]

CHINA town will be my savior

boba

[barren adder]

Frr

[digital hedge]

but

IVY DAY

hopefully

[barren adder]

We shall see. But the only schools I’d possibly choose over Columbia are Yale and Harvard so

[digital hedge]

BRO UR JUST LIKE ME

• Stanford possibly

[barren adder]

🙏🙏

[young jay]

yeah those are my definites

[barren adder]

I didn’t get a Yale interview so it’s not looking too great

[hollow garden]

nah we're autoadmit dw

[digital hedge]

ya

After the Columbia likely

Auto admit

For sure

[hollow garden]

i'd like to think i'm not being delusional when i say that some cracked friends got interviews but i'm equally cracked and i didn't so i must be autoadmit

[digital hedge]

ya

YES

I WAS SUPRISED

[barren adder]

Did you apply for engineering or no? Because i think they went ahead and send out the engineering ones first

Yeah

[bitter iris]

Bro..

I’m like 20m away too lmao

[barren adder]

a2c is insane

No one from my school has gotten into a t20 (or t50 actually) in almost a decade

Waiting on other decisions

Every time I tell someone about Columbia, they ask me “is that school even good?”

😭

Yes

They’re the type of people to say you’re guaranteed to get into harvard with a high act score only

[young jay]

oh so we in same shoes huh?

[barren adder]

It is so frustrating

[young jay]

yeah made this process all the more difficult

[barren adder]

That’s why I didn’t tell anyone where I applied

[tall hare]

if i get into an ivy i know that most of my grade is going to be surprised and a lot of people are going to call me a diversity admit

so similar but different problem

yea

its a very toxic school environment

like bay area but in chicago fr

TRUE

oh no

yeah

LMFAO

[winged lion]

I hate that term bc everyone is a diversity admit 😭

In their own way

[bitter iris]

that place is so bad

prob worse then bay

each year that area feeds a lot to coke scholars

[hollow garden]

i might know

💀

[winged lion]

My school has never had a coke scholar stay safe tho

[bitter iris]

for an t10 school 🤔 thats insane

[native hatch]

felt that, lol

i was in the exact same position last yr

begged my guidance counselor (who was managing 600 people) for help with applying to t20s and she looked at me like i was going mad

told me she can’t help me applying to t20s but she can give me advice on the community college or our state school

we hadn’t had an ivy in AWHILE and we got 3 last yr, first columbia and dartmouth in history

[digital hedge]

same

She didn’t know what ivy were

[tall hare]

yall are fucking badasses ngl

first ivy for your school

[winged lion]

tbh idek but no one has gotten rf in the past 5 years

[native hatch]

she told me to call and ask if they would accept my act score 💀

[tall hare]

is incredible

[native hatch]

she said she didn’t have advice but i should call them and ask what would help my admission chances and i was like

…

my main resource last year was unironically a2c

skull.

but trust, y’all it works out 😭

[digital hedge]

yes!

my counselor said no one ever Ed

[bitter iris]

u got robbed

[tall hare]

next couple weeks r gonna be a fever dream

[digital hedge]

Yes

[young jay]

oh see me! my counselor is a first year, no one in my area has gone t20, and she screwed up my school report!

[digital hedge]

Dang

[young jay]

had to redo it all and send itv again 😂

everything felt out of my favor v

[digital hedge]

MY counselor listed my EC’s as her rec letter

like straight bullets

[hollow garden]

tf is a t10 high school 💀

[native hatch]

that happened to me too 💀 she fucked up the school report and my transcript, submitted it with a bunch of grades missing (???) and that was her first time advising hs seniors

but it worked out

[young jay]

NO FR MINE TOO

[digital hedge]

She Asked me

If it was good

[tall hare]

u probably do LMFAOO

[digital hedge]

I was about to cry

[young jay]

SHE SENT THE SCHOOLS ALL THE TRANSCRIPTS OF KIDS IN MY GRADE, put my act scores (not even the highest ones) and was missing the rec letter i think?

[hollow garden]

yea i'm like 95% certain 💀

[tall hare]

yea

[hollow garden]

tbf its the only chicagoland hs i know

[tall hare]

so you can attest to the environment 💀

as per most ppl

[young jay]

CRAZY

[digital hedge]

🦫

[native hatch]

i felt so bad i was so worried i asked her to email the schools about it and she submitted apologies via email to every school admissions email i gave her 💀💀💀💀😭😭😭😭😭😭

[winged lion]

usnews

[white hazel]

Hey it worked out

In the end

[tall hare]

i think mines a t10 high school 😟

[native hatch]

what is a t10 hs

[young jay]

yeah my app is centered around education reform so

i think they kinda knew 😭

[winged lion]

the ranking is v arbitrary tho

[white hazel]

Haha

[digital hedge]

like Thomas Jefferson high school

[white hazel]

Need some of that down in Fl

[digital hedge]

Is too 2

[hollow garden]

oh now i'm 100%

💀

[digital hedge]

Top*

[young jay]

it was coherent 😭

[tall hare]

ur welcome

[native hatch]

yo that’s so cool! i worked on educational policy reform too in hs!

[tall hare]

idrc

[white hazel]

Thomas Jefferson , school for advanced studies, etc

[winged lion]

my app doesn’t have a policy area focus 💔

[digital hedge]

Yes

[tall hare]

dm me who :o

[young jay]

yess i actually am a career coach intern and help students apply to colleges, scholarships, and sort of coach high achieving underclassmen

[hollow garden]

nah i'm not gonna say

[native hatch]

that’s great love to see it

[tall hare]

BROOO

[young jay]

and i talked about like creating clubs and stuff for better academic success in essays and stuff

[hollow garden]

i would rather keep a2c within a2c

[digital hedge]

Bro

Same

[native hatch]

i did a lot of work with post secondary preparedness programs too

[tall hare]

you lit know my hs 🙄

!?!?!?

[native hatch]

it feels really great to be a trailblazer

[young jay]

yess

[hollow garden]

yeah but no

[native hatch]

i established a prominent stem club at my hs which is expanding post secondary preparedness in stem rn and submitted a ton of policy reform stuff being put into place in the form of 1 and 5y plans

p cool

[young jay]

yess i established a quiz bowl team

[native hatch]

you can expand that stuff at columbia btw!

tons of law stuff here

[young jay]

which is now doing our first year at state this year!

[native hatch]

that’s fantastic

[young jay]

ty! app update overload!

i did so many

ik my schools actually hate me

[white hazel]

Paving it forward for your underclassmen goated

[native hatch]

dw i submitted 2 updates too

[white hazel]

I did 0 except for my loci

Am I cooked

[young jay]

you did 2… i did like 8

so

😭😭

[native hatch]

8???

app updates????

💀

[young jay]

i can explain!

[tall hare]

i did 0 app updates anywhere

[young jay]

so one i started working on a rep campaign

[tall hare]

idt anything i have to update will make a difference

[white hazel]

Is not doing an app update a bad thing

[native hatch]

No

[white hazel]

Ah shit shoulda sent something ab something similar

[young jay]

THEN i found out about the screw up so i decided to submit act scores since she submitted my lower ones

THEN I had to clarify she was sending in a new one

THEN SHE SENT IN THE NEW ONE AND LEFT OUT MORE INFO SO I HAD TO DO THAT

THEN QUIZ BOWL MADE STATE

[winged lion]

I’m stressed for u

[native hatch]

i did one update for loci but my second update was some program stuff

[tall hare]

@hollow garden i hate how i can search my hs name in the server and there'll e mentions LMFAO

[white hazel]

@young jay fighting the good fight down in Florida keeping out moms for liberty from school boards and trying to elect teachers

[native hatch]

he has a columbia likely i would not be stressed for him 😭

[winged lion]

I was squirming in my boots sending in two updates 😭

[young jay]

THEN I QUALIFIED STATE FOR THIS MATH COMP (i’m humanities but i wanted to show i was academically qualified)

[winged lion]

Same I included aime

[white hazel]

You nerd

[winged lion]

Let me be interdisciplinary 😝

[young jay]

THEN IM STARTING A CLUB COMMITEE that juniors are gonna carry over to next year to increase club participation

[tall hare]

maybe i should have done app updates

[native hatch]

id usually reccomend u wait and condense that one letter but it worked

[white hazel]

It’s too late now 😭

[native hatch]

so congrats

😭

[tall hare]

im aware

[young jay]

yeah well i did that for all my other schools as well so they might hate me

[tall hare]

mightve shot myself in the foot

[white hazel]

It’s Joever for us

[winged lion]

Y’all think mid February was too late for updates ?

[young jay]

or they might appreciate me either way

[white hazel]

We gotta cook on that waitlist

[native hatch]

dw u got columbia

[young jay]

i think they could understand my panic so

i should be fine

[young jay]

no

[winged lion]

I sent an update on 2/13 😨🫣☹️

[young jay]

my last one i sent was 3/2 😂

[white hazel]

Bro that’s before some locis are due

Wdym

[native hatch]

everyone is panicked at columbia fr

[young jay]

if you’re still being considered they will probably read them

[young jay]

which is why i’m scared to go

[native hatch]

if ur stressed u fit in with the culture!

[winged lion]

I did not take my ashwagandha for the week 🙏

[white hazel]

I don’t think they’ll read one if I send it on March 11th 😭

[native hatch]

eh it’s what you make of it tbh

[tall hare]

my decision is probably decided for nearly every school

[white hazel]

Fuck shoulda updated them on band charity work and school board stuff

I thought it had to be like

National level

[native hatch]

here’s my guide

[tall hare]

yea i thought it had to be like big updats

bc i have a lot of updates

[native hatch]

to surviving columbia first sem

[winged lion]

I mean if it’s significant to you

[native hatch]

first sem:

• focus on adjusting to college and make solid friends
• go join clubs and go to events you find interest in (any and all)
• go to office hours (they really do help) and dont be afraid to ask questions
• don't overload--take it easy and adjust courseload as you feel more comfortable
• don't be afraid to reach out to professional support (academic advisors and counselors/therapists) they are purposely there to support you

that’s all you really need

[winged lion]

I heard social life was tough at Columbia ?

[white hazel]

Is it true that like after the first 2 semesters you’re sort of locked into friend groups

And after that it’s hard to make new ones

[native hatch]

not rly

[spark hatch]

finally someone like me

[native hatch]

uhh i have no clue i’m on my 2nd sem but i’d say generally no?

i’m still making friends

[white hazel]

Betttt

[winged lion]

and that’s perfectly fine 🙏

[spark hatch]

bcs honestly i literally did nothin

[jaunty thorn]

t20 hs

who needs a t20 college when you can go to a t20 hs

[dense fable]

my highschool doesn't exist on any top any number

[native hatch]

my hs was top #10000 in the US haha, barely

🔥

[sonic anchor]

LMAO

my school is literally only ranked on niche

very trustworthy

[sonic anchor]

real this singular pset is killing me and it's not even that hard

[native hatch]

DUDE i haven’t even started it

[sonic anchor]

LMAOOO

[native hatch]

LOOK WHAT MF MODERN ALG ASSIGNED

[sonic anchor]

NAHHH

[native hatch]

DUE A DAY AFTER DRAGOMIR’S

like HELP???

😭

IM DONE FOR

[sonic anchor]

WHAT THE FUCK

[native hatch]

THEY ASSIGNED IT THURSDAY NIGHT

[sonic anchor]

dude all ive heard about modern up til now was that it was light!

[native hatch]

💀

[sonic anchor]

wtf happened

[native hatch]

LIGHT …..

I WISH IT WAS LIGHT

last pset was right before the drop deadline

i should’ve dropped

[sonic anchor]

oh hell nah

[native hatch]

i used my singular extension this semester and the TA gave me a whole 2 days

💀

im so doomed

[sonic anchor]

columbia does NOT believe in spring break fr

[native hatch]

right????

nah the hon math b pset isn’t the end of the world

modern?? might kill me

and i still have a 2000 word essay due tmr night

sooooo it’ll prob be a long night

[sonic anchor]

bro if i go math major for real i might have to forget about mathematical rigor forever

if i had this pset you could not catch me writing down every step

[native hatch]

im scared because the last one was 24 problems as well and it just got graded

and the TA is like EVIL

[sonic anchor]

oh hell nah good luck

[native hatch]

i got 15% off my pset for using a variation of the toitent function that “made the problem trivial”

HELLO the problem was already trivial

[sonic anchor]

i hear lit hum is a hate crime

[native hatch]

lit hum isn’t THAT BAD

this is for UW

[sonic anchor]

BRO

[native hatch]

😔

[sonic anchor]

that's crazy

[native hatch]

fortunately this class is on a curve and the top like

50% of the class gets a B+ or higher

but u don’t know if ur top 50% or not

[sonic anchor]

💀

good luck

[native hatch]

i fear it will kill my motivation to do work if i see my fully latexed 24 proof pset absolutely decimated by some TA who wants to see me suffer

so i’ll prob ably look at that tomorrow

[sonic anchor]

my greatest fear is having to actually commercialize latex

you got this though!

[native hatch]

thank you 😭

im glad i actually have something for the summer or else i’d be massively stressed about that too on top of this

also gl with the pset and the work you have to do too

[sonic anchor]

oh dude i can't imagine lmao

[native hatch]

still stressed bc funding but yk… an opportunity is an opportunity

enjoy the void between hs and college

[sonic anchor]

yeah im gonna need it apparently 💀

[native hatch]

yeah… i don’t wish working 50h/w in a lab for min wage on u first year summer

that is my reality unfortunately

[dense fable]

What class is that pset for

[native hatch]

modern algebra

[dense fable]

what year are you

at Columbia I think if I remember right

[native hatch]

freshman

yes

[dense fable]

Why are you taking modern algebra ?

[native hatch]

we’re literally in the same math class 💀

oh wait wrong guy

[dense fable]

yuh

[sonic anchor]

LMAO

[native hatch]

im literally hallucinating

[dense fable]

Wrong dude LMAO

Why are you taking modern algebra tho

[sonic anchor]

yeah i have NOT gotten into columbia lmfao

[native hatch]

because im physics + cs-math

[dense fable]

so

[native hatch]

it’s required for the cs-math major

[dense fable]

Is that for your physics or math

but not for CS only right LMAOO

[native hatch]

no

[sonic anchor]

math iirc right

[dense fable]

alright cool lol

[native hatch]

yeah it unlocks upper level physics courses too

[sonic anchor]

the modern algebra and analysis sequences are required

[native hatch]

yeah i decided i’m going to take topology and the actual real analysis I and call it a day after i finish modern this sem

[dense fable]

it doesn’t seem wildly difficult, but I wanna major in cs with a minor in poli sci (in SEAS)

[native hatch]

im trying to not get too far absorbed into pure math or i might delude myself into being a mathematician

[sonic anchor]

i have heard columbia's cs degree is actually not that bad

[native hatch]

i CANNOT work for $20k a year

[sonic anchor]

might be crazy but i feel like its just getting through ap

[dense fable]

I’m not worried about the difficulty I just wanna take classes I enjoy modern algebra is NOT one of those

[native hatch]

modern alg is chill if ur not taking baby real analysis at the same time

[bitter iris]

[dense fable]

fair point

[native hatch]

tldr don’t take more than one math class at a time

not recommended

[bitter iris]

Why topology

[native hatch]

idk i like topology

it also unlocks reqs for grad physics classes

[bitter iris]

Ur triple majoring in the hardest majors..

Cs phy math

[sonic anchor]

dude i went to that talk last week

[dense fable]

Yeah I’m not interested in pursuing so much so the analytical side of CS if you know what I mean @native hatch

[sonic anchor]

i cannot become alex scheffelin please get me out

[native hatch]

nah only double majoring

[mental garnet]

omg can we see

[native hatch]

😭

dude im trying so hard trying to delude myself out of pure math

like if i could i’d be a pure mathematician i LOVE algebraic strucutures

[sonic anchor]

its already begun i went back into the algebraic geometry wikipedia rabbit hole

[dense fable]

Analytical is the wrong word actually I’m interested in applied CS as opposed to theoretical CS

[native hatch]

YES

like

😭

if i want to do math.. i quant and make money…. no pure math dreams… can’t survive off less than half the median US income

[sonic anchor]

dude why can't the quirky shapes and equations arrows make me money

[native hatch]

not feasible coming from columbia

[native hatch]

right i’m so sad why do they have to be actually applicable

[sonic anchor]

its so over for me i got one email from jane street this morning and lost my mind

they sent it to every aime qualifier and i still freaked out 💀

[dense fable]

Wdym?

[native hatch]

i can do quirky space things and make ok money but i can’t do the shape thingies in R^n

[bitter iris]

Yayy

[native hatch]

i did not go to columbia to make $20k a year for the rest of my life or be locked into academia or both

[dense fable]

Fair

That’s the CS portion of ur degree

[native hatch]

yes

[dense fable]

You’ll be making atleast 110k/year

[native hatch]

that’s why i convinced myself out of physics + math

[bitter iris]

[sonic anchor]

YEAH

[native hatch]

LMAO

rip

[bitter iris]

So aime ideal

Not mine my friend

Who got amc dhc

[sonic anchor]

lmaoo

[bitter iris]

He wanna do quant

[sonic anchor]

i went back through my email

[bitter iris]

So usamo math isn’t needed

Helps tho

[sonic anchor]

this is the only email ive ever gotten about qualifying for the aime

and i qualified for the first time in 2020

[bitter iris]

Fr

I saw abnon mention putnow level problems for quant interviews

[sonic anchor]

but yeah i think that's true the consensus is usually first 10 problems on aime is good practice

[bitter iris]

Ye

And then for cs aspect usaco gold??

Idk the metric

Prob Leetcode

[native hatch]

i let myself only indulge in a little bit of wildly inapplicable academic nonsense and that’s in physics for rn 😔

[bitter iris]

What did ssp do to you

[native hatch]

ssp did nothing to me ssp was actually a bit applicable

i wanted to do planetary defense orbital dynamics stuff

until i got really into stellar

[bitter iris]

Ok aerospace

[sonic anchor]

math+cs majors when they suffer through four years of keeping their skills applicable only to lose a quant job to a pure math major who studied category theory for four years

[native hatch]

and then theoretical cosmology

[bitter iris]

Nasa

[native hatch]

and now i’m doing QR/stellar stuff

**GR

[bitter iris]

😭😭

[native hatch]

don’t ask how i got GR research first year i don’t know i’m wildly under qualified

[bitter iris]

Isnt that grad level

[sonic anchor]

oh fuck that's crazy

[bitter iris]

Like phd

[native hatch]

general relativity

yeah

[bitter iris]

Ye u cracked wtf

[sonic anchor]

don't you need differential geometry for that shit

[native hatch]

maybe? it’s TDEs of solar type stars and the emission lines they create in comparison to O type stars’ stellar wind emission lines

so like when a SMBH tears a star apart at its event horizon and forms an accretion disk

[sonic anchor]

[native hatch]

basically the prof i’m working with is expanding his work from O type star mass loss / stellar winds -> TDE events

[sonic anchor]

physics is black magic

[native hatch]

and he was like u should do it with me! so i was like ok that’s awesome! and so i’m meeting w him end of march but i am wildly under qualified

💀

[sonic anchor]

professor's lives are so chill

[native hatch]

idk what he saw in my CV or research statement

yeah dude was in australia when i emailed him

[sonic anchor]

every research position ever apparently

[native hatch]

yeah i got soft rejected (passed on until soph year fall) from this solar lab i really wanted but this should probably secure it for next year

i hope and pray

and this guy should give me a solid REU lor for next year

so this is fire

[sonic anchor]

it sounds so cool

hope it goes well

[native hatch]

ty ty

[south merlin]

AUSTRALIA MENTIONED 🦘🦘🦘

[grand plinth]

Yooo same

What part of VA?

I'm in NoVA like 15 miles off of Fredericksburg

[digital hedge]

I am Va beach area

[jaunty thorn]

yo sick

i didnt qual for aime (or do aime for that matter) but i caught a jane street shirt from a tshirt cannon one time at ucla

[vernal wolf]

did they call ur counselor?

[halcyon flame]

Same #NOVA

[dense fable]

!ivyday

[neat marten]

Ivy Day Decision Date

Ivy Day decisions come out <t:1711666800:F> in your local time
15 days, 19 hours and 22 minutes until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[spark hatch]

🥱

Make the time go faster!!

[hybrid bay]

did u apply UT

[young jay]

why me no package 😞

[digital hedge]

What’s ut

[hybrid bay]

nvmm

[barren adder]

Imagine if it’s only for engineering 😭

[young jay]

i have a feeling it might

stem privilege!

[digital hedge]

No

it was for everyone

[young jay]

how do you know?

[digital hedge]

Cuz

The folder

I recieved

Was general

Columbia stuff

[young jay]

yeah but none of us are getting it so 😭

[digital hedge]

• whatever scholar

You were

[young jay]

maybe you’re the only scholar here

[split furnace]

is columbia coming out on ivy day?

[young jay]

bc i haven’t heard of anyone else getting it

[young jay]

yes

[split furnace]

when is that?

[digital hedge]

Wait what

[young jay]

march 28

[digital hedge]

did you not get a scholar?