#University of Chicago (UChicago) (2023-2024)

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undone plover
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are you in the uk?

tropic yarrow
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certainly makes me sad lmao

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only more motivation to up that number 🙌

little schooner
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There's def more than 7 this year

tropic yarrow
shy torrent
little schooner
undone plover
little schooner
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The kids from China are rich rich

tropic yarrow
shy torrent
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colleges want their paydays 😆

tropic yarrow
little schooner
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I didn't even know schools like that existed

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pretty mindblowing

shy torrent
little schooner
shy torrent
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i once visited their campus and WOWW

little schooner
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How was it on the inside?

shy torrent
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like a palace combined with a hotel 💀

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rlly nice nature decor and a rlly nice cafeteria

little schooner
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💀 April will be interesting

shy torrent
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i still dk if i can fly up

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trans-atlantic flights are spenny

tropic yarrow
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or Feb (for all those doing ED II!)

little schooner
shy torrent
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uk

little schooner
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that's like a 10 hour flight no?

shy torrent
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yeah and i have £0.26p to my name currently

little schooner
tropic yarrow
shy torrent
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second sem i gotta put in the shifts

tropic yarrow
little schooner
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There was someone on this thread that said they were gonna organize something to do on April with the people from this server

shy torrent
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ooh that would be fun

little schooner
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tropic yarrow
shy torrent
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nah not committed to uchicago yet as i applied ea imma take advantage of rd in the states

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cambridge is dicey lol

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interview was so hard

tropic yarrow
shy torrent
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i got a frickin biophysics problem 💀

tropic yarrow
rugged field
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lmao of course

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no one's surprised at this point

fading socket
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(its joever before it even started)

glass bear
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ed2 gets waitlisted not deferred

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lean sun
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Anyone know how many ppl uchicago waitlists every yr

rugged field
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ok

lost swallow
rugged field
astral pivot
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Hello UChicago

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I did ED2

astral pivot
hearty belfry
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magic touch i'm telling u

rich sapphire
short depot
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nice nice

final wave
shy torrent
shy torrent
final wave
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nah i mean uchicago for canadians

jaunty girder
rugged field
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same

tender wigeon
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April 🔛🔝

fading socket
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for anyone currently goin to uchi, how much of this is accurate now?

rugged field
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ok

zinc jewel
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ok

hollow quest
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I'm using a previous year prompt so I'd also like to know

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I'm hoping not

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Also wanted to ask can an essay be too quirky? I mean my essay is still an essay but written cryptically with lots of references to literature and films

rugged field
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no

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thats what i did

pliant falcon
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i forgot that uchi gave me a fee waived

rugged field
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kk

pliant falcon
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i love u hi

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uchi

rugged field
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i mean

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im in uchicago

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indeed

pliant falcon
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ghe email says i need to indicate my interest in fianncial assisfance on the uchicago member page

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how do i do that if i dont got it

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like do i need to pay on commonnapp

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the whole point of fee waiving was for me not to pay the fee

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i emailed them

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and was like

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i cant pay

hollow quest
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just indicate ur applying for aid on the common app

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I guess

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I think only bowdoin and uchicago do this

upper elm
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man FUCK uchicago

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am i rightg

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vale rivet
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quick question we are actually allowed to use a prompt from a previous year for Option 7 right?

fading socket
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it also doesnt harm you to

vale rivet
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ok nice lol

fading socket
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just if i were you write down the prompt at the top so they know which past one

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but thats obvious

vale rivet
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yea i did that

hollow quest
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damn my uchicago essay looking like a postmodern novel

blazing hill
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Is it cool if my why uchicago is at 600 words?

lost swallow
restive gazelle
hollow quest
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can I put images in my essay?

zinc jewel
vale rivet
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curious

restive gazelle
# vale rivet Which one?

University of Chicago alumna and renowned author/critic Susan Sontag said, “The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.” We all have heard serious questions, absurd questions, and seriously absurd questions, some of which cannot be answered without obliterating the very question. Destroy a question with your answer.

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also went past the suggested word limit by a little at exactly 999 words 😓

worthy oracle
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but im not gonna cut

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cuz i made sure first 600 is entertaining and valuable

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my why uchicago is 750 tho might cut

upper elm
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mfw it's finally fucking snowing

solid flame
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white christmas white new years

little schooner
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They'll keep reading if it is

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If your essay is more than 1k words, I doubt it's a good essay because it's hard to make it entertaining at that word count.

zinc jewel
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i copy and pasted the bible, is my essay too short?

hearty belfry
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650 pages

zinc jewel
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oh yes okay i should keep writing then

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see you on january second at 11pm

fossil minnow
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Is there an admitted students discord? Asking for a friend

rugged field
rugged field
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i agree

rugged field
rugged field
rugged field
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rugged field
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lol

jaunty girder
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RAVESDS

pliant falcon
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the uchicago associate of admissions is so

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nice

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may he have a happy new year this year fr fr

fierce stone
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actuallt he is not nice because he deferred me!!

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gloomy ferry
fading socket
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this dang application got me like

fading socket
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@untold hill

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you're gonna wanna join this thread

untold hill
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Ahhh okii

lost swallow
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no longer the deferral queen

gloomy ferry
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little schooner
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Does someone have Nitro? I wanna see this thread have one of those flashy ahh reactions

devout ginkgo
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does anyone know what the "representative work" button on the art supplement of uchicago means?

fringe axle
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can you submit resume as a supplemental material for uchi?

drifting marlin
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time to write my whole essay in one day

final wave
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anyone know the ed2 acceptance rate

hollow quest
little schooner
silent kindle
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is it even worth applying here RD …

gloomy ferry
silent kindle
hearty belfry
silent kindle
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If not then I won’t care tbh

hearty belfry
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u should go ed2

little schooner
fading socket
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^ what DARUS said

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@silent kindle if you want to go to UChicago

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do ED2

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if you dont youd have an easier time getting into Harvard than UChi RD

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(im pretty sure but could be wrong on that statement)

silent kindle
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I think they’re looking for a certain type of applicant and I’m not it tbh

hollow quest
silent kindle
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I won’t then 😭

hollow quest
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maybe I can get in after all

rich sapphire
fading socket
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just gotta nail the essay and fit their ideal student

hollow quest
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my gpa is the only blemish on my application rly

fading socket
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uw

little schooner
hollow quest
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i'm intl so im not sure how that would translate to my case

little schooner
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out of all T20s

hollow quest
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but thats good to hear

little schooner
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Still has 100+ Nobel prizes

rich sapphire
little schooner
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absolute Chad move

little schooner
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UChicago's the only one that has GPA in the "considered" category, and it shows

gloomy ferry
rich sapphire
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not a single other T20 has it as « considered » ?

fading socket
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i sort of remember it from their podcast

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or my memory is a haze

little schooner
hearty belfry
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uchicago considers GPA in the form of grades and course rigor

fading socket
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ive got 12 hours of sleep in the past few days

hearty belfry
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not as a direct number

fading socket
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im not ok

hearty belfry
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they will look at your academics

little schooner
fading socket
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im tempted to film my reaction

little schooner
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little schooner
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So an A in a school could be a B in another school

gloomy ferry
little schooner
fading socket
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based on fit?

little schooner
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an 89.5 could be a B+ in some school and an A in another

fading socket
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an 86 is an A

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at my school

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goes down to 82

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odd ass system

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no - or + on the letter grade either

little schooner
hearty belfry
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gloomy ferry
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We just have numbers and the highest average is 90/100 and im so 89.6 so

hearty belfry
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i did for MIT and it was literally just "ok well at least i didnt get rejected"

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# hearty belfry i was too scared to 💀

my counselor filmed my Princeton one and gave a 2 minute speech about "im sure theres an acceptance there and i know something good awaits you there"
cue silence when the rejection letter was there

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hes an awesome guy so it felt terrible

little schooner
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That's tough

fading socket
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he got an entire tripod

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and everything

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went all out

hearty belfry
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💀

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princeton is too hard

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screw that

fading socket
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i didnt even know he got the tripod either

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he just had it there

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completely took me by surprise

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theres a copy of my rejection video out there now

gloomy ferry
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all my acceptance videos were busts cuz they weren't schools i cared too much about but then the schools i did care about were busts because i got deferred lmao

little schooner
jaunty girder
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just grows in prestige

fading socket
little schooner
jaunty girder
fading socket
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thats terrible

gloomy ferry
fading socket
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yeah

jaunty girder
little schooner
fading socket
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idk how to feel about limmy he kinda just depresses everyone by covering only the best of the best

gloomy ferry
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my friend who got rejected uchi ed last year got into upenn and goes to mit so i have hope for my future but also no im so depressed

fading socket
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makes people feel bad about themselves

gloomy ferry
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And he makes it seem like everything is about ecs/stats

jaunty girder
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i opened a couple with my family but got my uchicago decision otp in a park :)

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little schooner
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jaunty girder
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jaunty girder
gloomy ferry
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i stalk limmy talks to make myself feel worse

little schooner
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Legally blonde was supposed to be filmed at UChicago

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but UChicago said no

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so they went to Harvard

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jaunty girder
# fading socket damn really?

i'm so glad i go here, ive got friends at like every other t20 and i think they're all wonderful schools but i feel like uchicago is the perfect combo of everything i like

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little schooner
little schooner
fading socket
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hard part is getting in lmao

little schooner
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it sounds silly but it's not honestly

fading socket
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man if i got in id jump and shit cause thatd be a full ride

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cause of my income

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under 60k = full ride

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bein low middle class* does wonders

jaunty girder
jaunty girder
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little schooner
little schooner
jaunty girder
fading socket
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i wouldnt have to take out loans or anything

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no work study

jaunty girder
fading socket
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id graduate owing not a damn thing to chicago

fading socket
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going to a UC would be like maybe 10k a year for me

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vs uchicago prob like 2k depends on what they do

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and i kinda prefer leaving the state anyway for a new adventure

jaunty girder
fading socket
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i want a new adventure and id absolutely take uchi over ucla or cal

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in a heartbeat

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no questions asked

jaunty girder
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Cal is awesome tho

fading socket
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yeah absolutely

jaunty girder
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i was actually born in the bay

fading socket
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its not that theyre not awesome i just want something new

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jaunty girder
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spent majority of my life in the south but before that it was oakland

fading socket
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i went to the south to visit HBCUs with my school district

gloomy ferry
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damn Bellingham i didn't know you were cali

fading socket
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left not wanting to apply to a single one

fading socket
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im los angeles lol

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EM thought i was intl cause I say uni instead of college

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i like the feel of saying university

gloomy ferry
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i say college and im intl😭

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jaunty girder
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i say uni and i'm from the us but my moms british and i like random british phrases

fading socket
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i like random british words

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or just spelling center as centre

jaunty girder
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oedema instead of edema

gloomy ferry
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oh i spell centre as centre usa is gonna fuck me up

jaunty girder
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i sat center but also theatre

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*say

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rugged field
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the one time i didnt record was when i got in

rugged field
fading socket
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aint nothing shot down my hopes for university like a good limmy insta reel

rugged field
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bro

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the ppl who submit gforms to him r trolls

gloomy ferry
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lmao i was thinking of submitting after

rugged field
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he knows they're fake but does it for fun

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and maybe cuz they make interesting videos

fading socket
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if i got into uchicago id submit

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rugged field
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🙏🙏

fading socket
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prayers up

rugged field
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ye

hollow quest
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is anybody submitting the video supp

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what do you even say in it

fading socket
fading socket
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but talk about you

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yk?

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the entire vid is for them to figure out who you are and attach a voice/face to your application

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its a good opportunity to go from a little packet of paper to a human

gloomy ferry
# hollow quest is anybody submitting the video supp

i alr submitted early action so i don't mind sharing my video was about my "roommates" which were stuff in my room like a bookmark, piano, gavel and other meaningful things through which i talked about myself

hollow quest
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ahh so its basically the same as the brown video right?

shy torrent
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yes

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the AOs actively encourage submitting the same vid to both schools iirc

gloomy ferry
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they do???

shy torrent
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i believe so. someone asked about the vid when a UChicago AO came to my hometown and he mentioned that but also said they have polar opposite approachs to curriculum so applying to both is strangein his opinion lol

rugged field
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ok

fading socket
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like all the a/os ive seen talk about brown

lost swallow
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@fading socket hi boo

fading socket
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how are you on this morning

lost swallow
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i’m in school bro

fading socket
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week of new years got you in school

gloomy ferry
gloomy ferry
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i personally love being able to take classes spanning disciplines so idc if it's core or open curriculum

fading socket
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did yall dirty

fading socket
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but it aint come off right

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gave up and mentioned UChicago pre-med and study abroad

rugged field
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nice

fading socket
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did not know they offered study abroad at yonsei university

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but the more you know i guess

rugged field
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oh really?

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im lookinh out for their beijing study abroad

fading socket
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that one looked fun as hell

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but for the sake of my why uchi i wrote about yonsei

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would def do study abroad in asia but i dont speak any other languages besides amharic and english

rugged field
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not at pku

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j beijing

hollow quest
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is it okay to name a professor in my essay?

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hollow quest
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yea

fading socket
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and you properly connect the prof to what you want to do at uchicago

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then theres no problem

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name dropping a prof for nothing wont get you anywhere though

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and if you DO name drop one it wouldnt hurt to explain why you like them

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like if they have research, talk bout why you wanna do research under them

glass bear
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you should name drop a prof you don’t know at all and just completely make up their personality

hollow quest
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no I mean I'm mentioning him as 'someone told me this professors teaching style is rly cool and im excited to learn under him'

fading socket
fading socket
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to say that someone told you that

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idk

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do research on the prof and speak from your research

hollow quest
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I see

fading socket
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cant just be namedropping people and things

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and not explaining the connection between them, you, and your future

hollow quest
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okay uhh can I not name the prof but say that i've talked to a major in my field who really liked the environment

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at uchicago

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since like thats genuinely what got me interested in attending uchicago

fading socket
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i dunno that might be a question above my paygrade

hollow quest
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alright well

surreal palm
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have any of you written a LOCI yet

pulsar barn
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pulsar barn
tender wigeon
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Is it impossible to get into Uchi

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Without ED or EDII

surreal palm
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some ppl in here got in EA

tender wigeon
surreal palm
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i was not that lucky zz

rugged field
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no

rugged field
fading socket
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no

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but then again the lottery isn't impossible to win

rugged field
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i think uchicago's rd is like 2% or 3%

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the 1% perception is j how they make more ppl ED

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idk

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rugged field
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lol

tender wigeon
fading socket
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youd have a better chance at harvard

tender wigeon
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Should I remove it

rugged field
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harvard is still harder

fading socket
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now im curious

rugged field
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doesnt matter

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their applicant pool is stronger anyways

fading socket
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true

rugged field
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by quite a lot

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nah not quite

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by a lot.

tender wigeon
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I thought everyone who applies to Harvard applies to Uchi

rugged field
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nah not my sister

tender wigeon
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Doesn’t everyone just apply to the same top schools for prestige whoring

rugged field
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also harvard engineering exists unlike uchi engineering

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sort of

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cant blame them

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rugged field
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prestige whoring isnt always a choice

tender wigeon
tender wigeon
rugged field
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like some parents (esp international) only allow their children to apply to prestigious schools

fading socket
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which fucks their kid over

rugged field
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not for me but i think it does for many

tender wigeon
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Those parents should be banned and sterilized

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And the kid given full ride

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Everywhere

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Ez

rugged field
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lol

tender wigeon
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Ultimate easy plan

rugged field
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well they'll keep existing anyways

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what

tender wigeon
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Ok maybe that’s a little harsh

rugged field
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lol

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it is what it is

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honestly tho

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im glad my parents r prestige whores

fading socket
rugged field
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it drove me to do better

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like i wasnt able to use 'chicago is unsafe' or 'boston is ass' as copium

hollow quest
rugged field
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gl

hollow quest
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submitted! catsip

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hollow quest
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yeah

formal cave
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how important is the video supplement? mine sucks so bad rn

glass bear
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you’re prolly fine not doing it

formal cave
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Alright sounds good thanks

lost swallow
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you have until Jan 8, wouldn’t hurt

fading socket
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^ yeah

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its worth a shot

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attach a face and voice to your application

lost swallow
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@fading socket my guy bro

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lost swallow
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just got home from school

fading socket
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bros free

lost swallow
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i gotta do cornell now

fading socket
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good luck bro

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im doing uchi and JHU rn

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im gonna die

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need one more UChi essay and then need JHU

lost swallow
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lost swallow
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the devil wants to stop me from finishing my apps today

fading socket
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today i have to take a few hours to go to LAX too

lost swallow
fading socket
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figured id do it there

rugged field
fading socket
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this why uchi essay gonna make my hairs go gray

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no idea how to get this conclusion

valid rock
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yo when does the letter of continued interest drop

jaunty girder
valid rock
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for EA

jaunty girder
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yeah but wdym drop?

valid rock
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oh wait we can send it whenever right

jaunty girder
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yeah

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i believe so at least

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and i just emailed my AO

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he emailed back setting up a phone call, then i got my admission!

valid rock
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wooo

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alrighty thanks

wheat hinge
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Is 724 words a good amount for the UChicago essay? Is it too much or too less?

foggy nest
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Google it, they have some comments on that question on their FAQ

somber lantern
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they say 300-650 ish is best iirc

glass bear
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did the other admits get their Christmas card yet

hearty belfry
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@rich sapphire

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what's the extent of the free lyft rides

rich sapphire
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7/month

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used to be 10 apparently : (

hearty belfry
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weird

rich sapphire
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i think it’s bc they know the students go out to party and all that earlier in the day on weekends

fading socket
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am I allowed to post a still from my uchi video if I cover my face?

hearty belfry
hearty belfry
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probably

fading socket
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cool

rich sapphire
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bc sun-fri is definitely not 5-12
wait scratch that maybe it is?!

fading socket
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Still from UChi video

IMG_9398.jpg
lost swallow
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lost swallow
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i hope to see that shirt on campus 🫡

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glory glory man united

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ggmu

lost swallow
fading socket
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brexit means brexit

hearty belfry
rich sapphire
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the schedule

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like its different per day

lost swallow
short depot
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were you deferred ea for class of 2028???

hearty belfry
hearty belfry
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initiative

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demonstrated interest

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it works yall

rich sapphire
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maybe they changed it maybe im hallucinating idk

hearty belfry
fading socket
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when life gives you free lyft, use free lyft

rugged field
fading socket
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I NEED HELP

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UCHI CLOSED

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EVEN THO 9pm PST

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IT SAID 12AM MY TIME

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WHY

rugged field
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wat

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application?

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they probably have a grace period anyways

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last yr they did

fading socket
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i still have 2 1/2 hours

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bruh i was shaking and shit what an unnecessary heart attack

hearty belfry
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happened to me

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when i submitted uchicago the common app showed it as past deadline all day

fringe axle
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can i assume, that, hypothetically, if i were to get accepted into uchicago ED2, that if i were to apply RD with the same application, i would at least get waitlisted/accepted...?

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im doing some insane decision making rn

jolly pagoda
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idk that's tricky

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from what i've heard they primarily accept ed and have significantly lower ea/rd acceptances

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so if ur super confident about ed2 it might not transfer into rd

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it could but with the way acceptances have been going so far it seems a bit unlikely

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hearty belfry
fading socket
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RD is very difficult

hearty belfry
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uchicago is one of the schools with an ED boost, i.e. people that get in ED will not always get in RD

fringe axle
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why they gotta be so weird.

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i thought they just cared abt fit 😭

fading socket
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i dont stand a mfing chance RD im doing everything i can ED2 uchi take me

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i will mop the damn floors if i gotta

hearty belfry
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if i applied ea i'd have gotten cooked

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defer to ed2 fs

fading socket
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the love i have put into this app has been bizarre

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i have never try harded this hard

hearty belfry
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well only one thing left then

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hearty belfry
fringe axle
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i wrote my creative essay abt mitski😍

jolly pagoda
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i did the portmanteau

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it was cringe asf

fading socket
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i wrote mine as a 1300s log journal when sailors fall off the earth

jolly pagoda
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ok

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so im cooked basically

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is what ur telling me

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jolly pagoda
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my portmanteau was so bad and ur just casually writing log books

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like

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ion even

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hearty belfry
fading socket
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the criticism was rough

hearty belfry
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bro cooked

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🧑‍🍳

fading socket
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its like 999 words

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too long for its own good

fringe axle
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mine was almost 1k words too

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thought i was pushing it :(

fading socket
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nah ur meant to go buckwild

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uchi aint quirky for nothing

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i almost did the draw paper one

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but falling off the earths edge caught my eye

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lot of freedom with that one

hearty belfry
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mine was 500

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😐

fading socket
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thats an amazing accomplishment

hearty belfry
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i guess

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u don't have to make it long

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is the point

hollow quest
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i chose the 'moon is made of cheese' prompt💀

fringe axle
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i chose the song prompt😭

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i think that was the easiest way out

fading socket
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that sounds creative

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fair

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i almost did a graphic art one but i thought it was a dumb idea and pivoted

restive snow
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but its prob a stretch

fading socket
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i talked about studying abroad at yonsei university through chicago and the cih fellows in community medicine program

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just tried to explain what chicago had, why i wanted it, and how important it was

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and gave backstory about myself

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every essay tried to show a different facet of who i am

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idk im trying to show im a good fit

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that is a unique way to approach a why us essay

fierce stone
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Mine was insanely bland, prolly the weakest essay I wrote

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But I somehow managed to get deferred@either way

little schooner
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It's insane

restive snow
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wtf

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gg for me

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i would be v happy w a waitlist

fierce stone
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Nah bro you can clutch up, I believe in you

restive snow
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i got my dream school

fierce stone
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Oh ok nvm then 💀

restive snow
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applying j bc it used to be my top 1

fading socket
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DREAMS CANNOT BE BUY

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I HAVE APPLIED BOYS

little schooner
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If you put a lot of effort in your app you're good for RD, most people that apply RD write their essays at the last minute and have mediocre applications

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If you read a2c tonight you'll see a bunch of people asking that if they got a chance even if they submitted their app missing couple of essays.

fading socket
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@little schooner job done

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thank you my brother for helping

little schooner
fading socket
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i mildly fucked up the why uchi essay by saying participated twice in two sentences back to back

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but just a small mistake

fading socket
little schooner
fading socket
hollow quest
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jk

hollow quest
hollow quest
fierce stone
fading socket
little schooner
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mid February

fading socket
fading socket
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When it comes to decision releases

fierce stone
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I would get into deeper specifics

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Like what exactly makes it@so rigorous, etc

little schooner
fading socket
little schooner
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It's good dw

fading socket
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I’m still pissed off at my counselor cause she tried to convince me to do RD UChicago

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Vs ED2 due to fin aid reasons

little schooner
little schooner
hollow quest
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I mentioned it in my essay

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idk

fading socket
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I almost mentioned it/the core but didn’t last second

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Switched topics

hollow quest
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i mentioned literally everything

fierce stone
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I didn’t mention rigor personally

hollow quest
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the core, rigor, clubs, art programs

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my essay is too dense

jolly pagoda
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i do full ib classes so i related it to rigor in that sense a little bit

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but that wasn't really one of the big points in my essay

rugged field
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ok cool

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cuz ib isnt rigorous

fading socket
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@rugged field do you reckon it’s a bad thing to not talk about rigor or the core?

rugged field
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nah i didnt talk abt it either

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ur f

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g*

fading socket
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phew

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I wanted to be “qUiRKy 🤪” and not talk about em cause everyone does

jolly pagoda
rugged field
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it is what it is

fierce stone
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Dawg what’s rigorous for you then

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IB is about as rigorous as you can get in high school apart from dual enrollment classes if I’m not mistaken. Unfortunately my school didn’t have IB tho

upper elm
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IB is harder thanAP by a lot

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💀

fierce stone
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Yeah for sure I agree

upper elm
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zawg i'm pretty sure IB is like

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hard as fuck

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or at least a lot of work

fierce stone
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Yeah

fading socket
upper elm
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which honestly equates to hard as fuck considering like

fierce stone
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At least from what I’ve heard

upper elm
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hs daily schedules are like

fading socket
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I hate my admin of justice class

upper elm
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up until 6 am

fierce stone
fading socket
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We got an LAPD officer as our prof but he’s fucking stingy

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Got a B in the class

fierce stone
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That’s fine

rugged field
fierce stone
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I got a a- in AP calc this semester which I ordinarily wouldn’t be too worried about except I applied as a math major

upper elm
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💀

rugged field
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and no ib isnt hard lmao

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for the average person it is

upper elm
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i mean math 161 was not hard so like

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what's "hard"

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if we mean freak-out material yeah math 161 kicked my ass mentally so idk

rugged field
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but cmon we're here applying to top colleges so dont lower ur standards

upper elm
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?

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is bro trollinng

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0 way ur not

rugged field
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wdym

upper elm
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💀

rugged field
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bruu

fierce stone
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Bro

rugged field
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i did ib

upper elm
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perf IB score is a pretty big banger

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yes bro but like

rugged field
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but its not even that important

fading socket
upper elm
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math 161 was min investment max return and based on how much work my friends are doing on IB it sounds like more work

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💀

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i literally just copied the hw from the solutions and then studied for a few hours before each exam and farmed the A somehow but it doesn't sound like you can do that for IB

rugged field
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lmao ofc u can do it for ib

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its eady

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easy

upper elm
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and if the "top college" is the metric for difficulty then idk

rugged field
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lmao i think it is

upper elm
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is uchicago a top college

rugged field
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ib makes the average kid struggle

fierce stone
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But you’re no average kid…

jolly pagoda
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ib is literally rigorous by all definitions lol

upper elm
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i mean what i'm getting at is this

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i'm a fucking fraud

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and i was able to get an A in math 161

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is math 161 the hardest course

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no not by a long shot but like

jolly pagoda
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especially when you compare it to any on-level or standard classes offered at most high schools in america

upper elm
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there are a lot of easier courses at uchicago

rugged field
jolly pagoda
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and it does boost college acceptance rates significantly

rugged field
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no it doesn't

fading socket
upper elm
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and i'm cripplingly addicted to video games and took the midterms on like 2 hours of sleep and 3-7 hours of studying total

jolly pagoda
upper elm
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so if that's the standard for "hard" then we're shitting our pants idk

rugged field
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lmao the ia is easy

upper elm
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💀

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mbboss

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no disrespect to uc hicago

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my favorite UC satellite campus 😂

rugged field
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dude ib isnt rigorous it j wastes time

upper elm
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honestoy like

fading socket
upper elm
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as an hs student timesink = difficulty tho

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not the only factor but like

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being up until 5 am is kind of asscheekwater

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big nerf to ur iq the next day

jolly pagoda
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is it hard? maybe not

rugged field
upper elm
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i'll be real with you writing makes me shit my p9ants i could not do that

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i mean there are kinds of difficulty

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you can tke a course that's hard as fuck to get an A in in a dishonest way

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or you can take a course that's hard as fuck to get an A in in an honest way

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as in like

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dishonest = u randomly lose points over bullshit

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honest = it's genuinely rigorous and difficult

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both are "hard"

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different flavors of it

jolly pagoda
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all im saying is that the average math pre-calc or calc class offered in high school doesn't require a 20 page exploration, 3 separate tests about 6 topics in math

upper elm
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my precalc/calc a course was like

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9x harder than math 161

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in terms of getting the A

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solely because it was COMPLETE bullshit

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you'd randomly get a 70 after like

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forgetting a - sign

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and it's like oh ok that's real for sure

jolly pagoda
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so if you think that it isn't rigorous in reference to the overall standard high school curriculum idk what to tell you

rugged field
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yeah "standard" hs curriculum which unis dont favor

upper elm
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i mean

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HS curricula are complete shit imo

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lol

rugged field
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ib doesnt boost college acceptances

jolly pagoda
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yet is does

rugged field
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lmao how so

jolly pagoda
rugged field
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lmao ofc ur showing that

jolly pagoda
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this study obviously isn't holistic but it does speak volumes

rugged field
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its by crimson education sir

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a college consulting company

upper elm
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i mean it's better than taking shitter standard courses

rugged field
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and they dont want ppl with like a 41 or lower to apply to top unis

upper elm
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doing like algebra or smth in 12th grade idk

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unless you're talking Algebra algebra.

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then ur a phd gg

rugged field
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thats vv self-selected and u should already know by now

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like one of the most biased shit ive seen

upper elm
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im going to sell out and become a college consultant

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fuck math

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i want to make stacks

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WITHOUT working for raytheon or becoming a finance bro

rugged field
rugged field
jolly pagoda
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it's based off of 4000 students

rugged field
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from crimson education

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ofc its biased

upper elm
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is this a rigorous proof

rugged field
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also 4k isnt a large sample size

upper elm
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like could i lowkey publish this under uchicago's name

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would torkaman be proud

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i wont lie i forgot what a fucking vector space is

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gg

rugged field
rugged field
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tell her tmr

upper elm
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OH

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TRUE

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bro the registrar at my hs is so shit

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like

jolly pagoda
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i don't think this survey draws only from crimson students

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the link doesn't work now but i remember it was from the IBO

upper elm
jolly pagoda
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that's also what it says

upper elm
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bro never responded

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to my request to sign up for 162

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wp

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i run anime pfps on my school account

rugged field
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ok no it aint from crimson

upper elm
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maybe that's why she doesn't respond

rugged field
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but its still vv self-selective

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like who in the right mind thinks that they have a 60% chance of getting into uchicago j by doing the IB

jolly pagoda
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my guess is that only a handful of the 4000 actually applied to uchicago

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just overall though i think this survey does speak volumes about the ib in terms of rigor and how much it boosts your chances of getting into college

fierce stone
jolly pagoda
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like yeah 60% is illogical aint no way but just overall

upper elm
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me bro 💪 60% chance babe

rugged field
upper elm
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ok wait if i purchase a 60000000 usd car for torkaman will i get into uchicago after putting that shit in my letter of continued interest

rugged field
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while if i got in id definitely say it

rugged field
fierce stone
jolly pagoda
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well

rugged field
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getting a good grade in IB boosts ur chances

jolly pagoda
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something i 100% remember from the survey was that dp coordinators that opted in made all their students take it

rugged field
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good grade key word

jolly pagoda
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so if one dp coordinator from one school opted in then all their students took it

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i remember that as a contingency for a fact

rugged field
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but just taking the IB definitely wont help

jolly pagoda
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but yeah all surveys should be taken with a spoon of salt imo

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yeah i don't think so either but i think to say it "ib doesnt boost college acceptances" at all is unfair

rugged field
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the world is unfair

jolly pagoda
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im trying to find the original survey because now im curious

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i wonder why they took it down

rugged field
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which probably has good results anyways

rugged field
#

600k car for torkaman might work out

jolly pagoda
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i wonder if it's on wayback machien

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nah

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damn this sucks

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im trying to find a forum or something where maybe someone downloaded the pdf and then posted the pdf download rather than the link

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which seems unlikely but not impossiblke

rugged field
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this 60% IB acceptance rate might j be there to give impostors syndrome to IB kids who got in

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lmao same as the 70% ar for CMU they definitely doing this on purpose

fading socket
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I wish I did IB but my school didn’t offer it

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They barely offered APs

rugged field
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my problem with IB is j that

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colleges weigh AP and IB equally

jolly pagoda
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did you attach your ee to any of your applications as "research"

fading socket
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But are they equal?

rugged field
rugged field
fading socket
jolly pagoda
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the ib is so much busy work it's insane

rugged field
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as it has been said, IB is more work

fading socket
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ah ok

jolly pagoda
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TOK, CAS, and EE are some of the biggest wastes of time i've ever seen

rugged field
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IB is more work, but AP is weighed equally

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i think american unis did this so that they can help local studenrs

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well now u realise

jolly pagoda
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but do colleges weigh the ib diploma the same against a normal high school diploma or the APID

rugged field
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idk what APID is

jolly pagoda
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it's the ap international diploma

rugged field
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ib diploma is more valued than the normal hs

jolly pagoda
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you just have to take a certain amount of ap classes to get it

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idk if they still do it anymore bth

rugged field
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oh idk bout that

jolly pagoda
rugged field
#

but yeah the fact that IB and AP r weighed equally kinda j shows how the unfair it is for non-americans who want to study/work in america

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i was coping abt IB's benefit being that it wd help me with UK unis

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but when i hear more and more ppl get into cambridge/oxford with APs it j pained my soul

fading socket
rugged field
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nah thats not even copium tbh

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thats delulu

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ok enough of me ranting abt IB

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gl to those who r applying

fading socket
fierce stone
#

It’s not joever

jolly pagoda
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im a touch stupid

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but i got it

rugged field
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bet

jolly pagoda
#

ok this survey is bullshit

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"• Less than 1% of all IB diploma candidate respondents would actively discourage others
to undertake the IB Diploma Programme."

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lol i mean most people probably wouldnt put that on an official survey but still

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aint noway

rugged field
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bit too funny

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uchicago classes start today

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damn

jolly pagoda
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this is also from 2011-2012

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so now it probably matters less because college has gotten significantly more competitive

fading socket
jolly pagoda
#

also kinda dumb how crimson puts 2018 on their thing knowing damn well the survey was from several years prior

fading socket
#

How long the breaks they give you

jolly pagoda
#

i hope they redo this study soon that would be cool

fierce stone
gloomy ferry
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the number of ed2 people here is insane

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i wish i could ed2 but :(

fading socket
gloomy ferry
fading socket
#

shit rough

gloomy ferry
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yeah I've lost hope

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but also im delulu

fading socket
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you might get in RD somehow

rugged field
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2018 = 2011

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18 = 11 cursedmoon

fading socket
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@rugged field did you happen to talk a lot about uchicagos academics/intellectual stuff

rugged field
#

ye

fading socket
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fuuuuuck

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I barely did

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Best I did was talk about an investigative research program that had social stuff mixed into it

rugged field
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nice.

fading socket
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im finished i aint say a prof or class name

rugged field
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ok

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nah it might still cut it

fading socket
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guess we’ll find out in February

gloomy ferry
fading socket
#

its soon

gloomy ferry
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yeah

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maybe i should ed2

fading socket
#

wont need to wait long and it fills the void between now and RD

fading socket
gloomy ferry
#

alexa how do I convince my dad to overcome his bias of contracts

gloomy ferry
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Cuz they already have our apps so