Duke University (2023-2024)

[minor mango]

https://tenor.com/view/markiplier-gif-24903806

me when i find the guy in charge of the dates

[ivory flame]

i’m going feral for raw marinated crabs rn

[mellow forum]

i just took a nap and had dinner and still nothing

[slim cave]

I’m going to sleep

and if I wake up with no emails from duke

I’ll lose hope to see decisions on 14th

[mellow forum]

yeah if it doesnt come by tomorrow

then we probably have to wait till the 16th-17th

even one day feels like an eternity rn

[ivory flame]

what if they dont even send one out cause from that reddit post, it looks like they didnt last year

[slim cave]

yes???? omg they didn’t?

they’re really horrible at communicating then

almost like my dad

[ivory flame]

actually i think last years it said it was edited to be coming out sometime in a week it was just at bottom of post lol

[fresh night]

When’s the latest they could come out?

[ivory flame]

i think ppl are saying it’ll come out before december 19th

[mellow forum]

i think sunday

[pallid shale]

!dukeed

[vocal umbra]

They said that themselves

See

@slim cave sent this earlier

[pallid shale]

post them today

[scenic zephyr]

Tuesday on finals week is insane

[vocal umbra]

Honestly I feel like they’re just procrastinating hella

Like they prob aren’t even done so they don’t wanna rush

Cuz Penn said they finished decisions before they even announced I think

[pallid shale]

well they did have an insane increase of applications

[vocal umbra]

Yea but I feel like it’s expected

Like all the NC kids we just gonna shoot their shot even if they weren’t gonna before just cuz of the fin aid policy

Nc and sc

But ig 28% is still a lot

[pallid shale]

hopefully they admit a higher percentage of carolina students 🙏

[mellow forum]

well hopefully not for the rest of us 🙏

[ivory flame]

just finished a final and it’s still not out

[mellow forum]

im gonna sleep

and dream of a date

[vocal umbra]

Idk maybe but usually they keep geographic distribution similar to past years

NC Usuallt has the highest percentage tho i think

Followed by California and New York

South Carolina is pretty low tho

So idk if they’ll admit more from there

Everything is a guess

[quartz adder]

south carolina admit is going to be me

[vocal umbra]

Fr

But I think SC is just generally smaller

And less competitive

Than NC

[quartz adder]

it’s way less competitive

[vocal umbra]

So u should have a good shot

[quartz adder]

at least where i’m from

do they like

[mellow forum]

cries in intl

[quartz adder]

underrepresented areas

[vocal umbra]

Possibly?

I have no idea

But like if you’re the most cracked one applying from ur area

[pallid shale]

i will be the [my county] admit for duke, trust

[vocal umbra]

Then you probably have a higher chance

[quartz adder]

idk what they consider area

my hs is the only in the county

[vocal umbra]

R u NC

[mellow forum]

amen

[pallid shale]

sc

[vocal umbra]

Oh lmao

We have like 50 probably

[pallid shale]

oh you're golden

[quartz adder]

does it actually work like that

[pallid shale]

idk probably not but maybe

[vocal umbra]

Nvrm

There’s about 85 high schools

In my county

[quartz adder]

wtf

what is the avg pop. of a town

[vocal umbra]

Including private and charter

I’m not in a town

I’m in a city

[quartz adder]

oh oop

have you guys started on RDs

[vocal umbra]

Nope

Probably should

[pallid shale]

my county has like 12 high schools

[vocal umbra]

My district alone has 14

Also

Did y’all see this

No way it’s today right

[pallid shale]

i'm worried about a few cracked schools here having several applicants that are 10x more cracked than me

[quartz adder]

have they ever just released results ?

[pallid shale]

0 chance

[quartz adder]

without noti

[pallid shale]

they weren't done with decisions on friday afternoon

[ivory flame]

im so nervous cause i live in nc and especially the ncssm kids

[quartz adder]

i still think itss going to be thurs

[vocal umbra]

Thursday or Saturday

[mellow forum]

yeah i have the same feeling

but like we're bound to be notified a day or two before right?

[ivory flame]

i dont know like anyone from nc that went to duke in my city so is that a good sign

[vocal umbra]

I mean hopefully

So if we don’t get a email by today or tmrw

It’s probably sat

[vocal umbra]

No point worrying

[mellow forum]

ugh this anxiety

all i can think about is the fact that they've already decided on me

most probably

[pallid shale]

they've already decided on almost all of us here...

[mellow forum]

yeah well exactly

[vocal umbra]

Yea they’re probably doing the super borderline people now

Like there’s probably like 2 spots left for 20 people or smtg

[pallid shale]

that's so scary cuz i know i would never be one of the 2 they pick

[mellow forum]

hmm

with my luck im in the 20 and get canned

[mellow forum]

ikr

[ivory flame]

wait so are they saying 600 more ppl will be selected out of ~6000 for ed or is that including questbridge/athletes? im so confused lol

[pallid shale]

i'm just not that interesting 💀

[pallid shale]

600 more

[vocal umbra]

600/6148

Around

[mellow forum]

jesus

[vocal umbra]

But I think the athletes are under the 6148

So probably like 600/6000

[ivory flame]

Omg so more spots are open thankfully🎉

i thought they were only going to accept 400

[vocal umbra]

Yea not more just the same as last uwar

Year

[minor mango]

it’s so dukeover

[ivory flame]

any news yet

[pallid shale]

ugh clemson comes out an hour before duke is supposed to

i wanted that (likely) acceptance to cheer me up

[quartz adder]

you will get in 😭

instate

easy money

[pallid shale]

well yeah lol

[quartz adder]

did you do honors college

[pallid shale]

i didn't submit it yet, i think i can still submit it by jan 10 right

for rd

[quartz adder]

pretty sureee

i have no interest in going to clemson tho

too expensiveeeee

[pallid shale]

i like it a lot

more than uofsc for sure

[quartz adder]

i like it too i touredd

but

i dont like how expensive it is

did u apply for usc honors college

[vocal umbra]

Yep it def does

Cuz I got into UT and it makes it way less stressful for future decisions

Cuz u have a good backup

[pallid shale]

no i got lazy lol

i'd pick clemson honors of usc honors so why write 3 more essays

[quartz adder]

that is major W backup

[quartz adder]

does clemson even offer scholarshipsss

[pallid shale]

only a couple

[vocal umbra]

Last year they sent the email on Tuesday that decisions are coming on Dat

So my guess is if we don’t get an email today the decision will be pushed to sat

It’s weird tho

They got the email before the checklist disappeared

But ours disappeared on Monday last week

[pallid shale]

idk if this is worth it lmao

[quartz adder]

is that clemson

[pallid shale]

yeah

at uofsc i would get free tuition and "academic fees" so it'd be way cheaper

[quartz adder]

it is NOT worth it 😭

usc would be close to free if not free

[pallid shale]

ok i did the net price calculator for usc and it said 8k a year but that's without subtracting the 15k in tuition that they are making free for next year if you're top 10%, so yeah it would literally be free 💀

[quartz adder]

do u meeet the income req tho

for the top 10%

[pallid shale]

yes

it's under 80k right

[quartz adder]

i asked during a q&a

[quartz adder]

yes

they said if u have palmetto fellows and the initative thing i would cover more than u would need to attend

idk how true it is tho

[pallid shale]

yeah it would cover it with 7k left to spare

but that's also with national merit

[quartz adder]

no tengo

test optional

[pallid shale]

rip

[quartz adder]

you have that ?

hope the honors college scholarships come in clutch

idk if ill get in tho

[pallid shale]

well i'm a semifinalist

the net price calculator said they give money for national merit but i can't find anything about it on the school's website, that's really weird cuz i swear i saw it there before

[minor mango]

yo what if they never intended on releasing thursday and just said that so we wouldn’t go insane

[pallid shale]

oh sorry for flooding the duke thread 💀

[pallid shale]

probably

[minor mango]

nah it’s not like we have anything else to talk abt

cough cough where’s the letter cough

[minor mango]

well too bad cuz i’ve been going insane all day today

[quartz adder]

ive just tried to stop thinking about ittt

its confirmed this week right

before the 19th ?

[pallid shale]

well the 19th is a tuesday so it could theoretically be monday the 18th

[quartz adder]

oh boyy

i still have faith
they will send today

[vocal umbra]

Bro

I keep confusing the two of you

The names sound so similar

Or look similar

[pallid shale]

you'll be confused even more when all of our names say duke '28

[brazen tree]

what if we all change our names to duke '28 rn

just fuck it

i didn't even ED duke

let's just do it

for fun

[pallid shale]

yes let's all be delulu

[quartz adder]

🤞

a2c lunch seshs bouta go crazy

at WU

[pallid shale]

pls tell me they're wrong, it's supposed to be 10% right

[minor mango]

d1 yappers smh

[heady urchin]

Looks like everyone’s acceptance rates are hitting new lows

[pallid shale]

gen alpha is gonna have a 4% duke ed acceptance rate

[swift needle]

omg im so scared for rd

[pallid shale]

i got an email

[quartz adder]

IT CAMEE

[fresh night]

Same

[slender cradle]

same!!

[quartz adder]

@minor mango

@vocal umbra

[pallid shale]

oh i doxxed my first name again but this is like the 40th time i've done that so who cares lmfao

[quartz adder]

😭

[swift needle]

gl guyss

[cerulean obsidian]

it feels real now

[pallid shale]

73 hours and 22 minutes

[quartz adder]

AHH 😭

[slender cradle]

🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀 🍀

[minor mango]

+OH GOD

OH MY GOD ITS A CHRISTMAS KIRACLE

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1115704380239397045/1134331767537549402/Tumblr_l_265383421389908.gif

oh jesus it’s finally happening

finally i guess my insanity wasn’t for nothing

[minor mango]

wdym your first name is shrixy

[pallid shale]

so true

[minor mango]

huh so it IS thursday

interesting

i feel a lot better now knowing that we have a date

[scenic zephyr]

Bruh ED gonna be a disadvantage soon 😭

[vapid urchin]

Lmao

[quartz adder]

supposed to beeee

[vocal umbra]

Finally

[warm fjord]

Modmail us with this next time please!

So we can add to calendar

[vocal umbra]

At least now we have a time to wait until

[quartz adder]

yesss

countdown starts nowww

[pallid shale]

sorry

[warm fjord]

No worries! Now you know

Also you get this

!duke

[fair rivet]

Duke University ED Date

Duke University ED decisions come out <t:1702598400:F> in your local time
3 days, 40 minutes and 8 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[warm fjord]

@everyone this Thursday (12/14) 7pm ET you’re going with the ivies

[pallid shale]

we are all Dylan 🔥

[warm fjord]

🔥🔥🔥

[swift needle]

dylaners rise up

[vapid urchin]

DYLAN

@pallid shale I am now your loyal follower

[swift locust]

L yale comes out two hours earlier 😜

[vapid urchin]

L Yale can suck it dukes on top

[swift needle]

REAL

[vapid urchin]

Duke >> Yale

[swift locust]

Oh that’s not…

[vapid urchin]

Your opinions invalid Idc

[swift locust]

Wildest take I’ve ever heard

[vapid urchin]

Your take is the wild one I just gave the least controversial take in history

[swift locust]

Delusional and Duke start w the same letter

[pallid shale]

on us news yale is 5, duke is tied for 7

not that big of a difference lol

[vocal umbra]

Yale is more of a humanities school

Diff vibe too

Not much a sports school too

Not in the south

[warm fjord]

Harvard’s allegedly at this time too just unannounced atm

[vocal umbra]

R u pacific time

[warm fjord]

Yep

[vocal umbra]

An okay

Ah

[warm fjord]

Columbia probably will be too

They said 12/14 on their qb letter but not what time

So that would be 6

[vocal umbra]

!duke

[fair rivet]

Duke University ED Date

Duke University ED decisions come out <t:1702598400:F> in your local time
3 days, 32 minutes and 33 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[quartz adder]

😅

!duke

[fair rivet]

Duke University ED Date

Duke University ED decisions come out <t:1702598400:F> in your local time
3 days, 31 minutes and 56 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[past pelican]

lawd

[vale knot]

the saddest day of my life

[marsh pulsar]

there’s also emory no?

[vocal umbra]

Emory is wed I believe

[slim cave]

I KNEW THAHT THEYLL POST WHEN I WILL BE SLEEPING

omg duke connection

I’ll get my rejections earlier than you guys

[vocal umbra]

how

its 7 pm ET

so itll be converted to ur time zone

[nova shuttle]

AGHH here we go

final countdown

[minor mango]

i’ll bet it’s gonna be the fastest you’ve ever woken up

[slim cave]

oh lmaoo

[minor mango]

LMAO

[slim cave]

too sleepy for that

[vocal umbra]

nah trust u wont be able to fall asleep that day

[slim cave]

so 15 in the early morning

[vocal umbra]

5 am for u

[slim cave]

I ALREADY CANT SLEEP 😭

what to do

[vocal umbra]

just pull an all nighter atp

[slim cave]

anyway, started working on my essays

mentally preparing myself for rejection

[vocal umbra]

good idea

but its not like im gonna get anything meaningful done in the next 3 days

so i might as well wait

[slim cave]

I think getting decisions early is good compared to when you’re at school/doing other stuff

like you want to know your decision but can’t really do that in front of someone else

[vocal umbra]

yea for everyone else it will mostly be after school

other than maybe cali it may be at the end of school but im assuming most people will wait till after school to check

[winged snow]

ED Cornell because less competition for me lol

[vocal umbra]

shes not gonna be competing against u

unless ur from teh same county or smtg

[winged snow]

But if I can convince everyone to not apply ED to Duke next year... mwahahaha auto admit for me

[slim cave]

I mean every year it gets more and more competitive, but the thing is that duke I guess is the only one who’s not going to add 50+ more spots at least 😭

[vapid urchin]

Wdym she

[winged snow]

I love Duke too much I can't get rejected

[vocal umbra]

oh shit

we've been through this already

i forgot

mb

[vapid urchin]

Bro man is literally in my name 😭

[vocal umbra]

yea yea i remember now

[vapid urchin]

Dudeman

[vocal umbra]

^^

[vapid urchin]

Many animals man

[vapid urchin]

Ik lol

I remember

It’s just funny

[vocal umbra]

sry if i offended u or amtg

smtg

[winged snow]

Anyone else here a junior?

Other than izapril and me

I'm totally not procrastinating studying for my finals

[vocal umbra]

u can check on the right

but not many

[winged snow]

I'm just terrified cause this time next year I would be finding out my decision x_x

Gotta scope out my competitors lol

Even if they're not direct ones

[vocal umbra]

u will be fine

even if its not at Duke im sure u will get in somewhere good

good luck tho

[winged snow]

Thank youuuu just gotta manifest my acceptance lol

[quartz adder]

what percent of this thread u think gonna get in 🤔

a2c kids are cracked

[pallid shale]

idk how many here are ed

[winged snow]

I keep having the horrible urge to keep doing chancemes even though I know they're inaccurate and people either say I'm not getting in anywhere or I'm getting in everywhere with no in between

[vocal umbra]

just dont use reddit tbh

for now at least

start drafting your essays early summer

work on them throughout summer

dont go on chanceme its not even worth it for the most part

[quartz adder]

but

bro*

my regret is not starting earlier

[winged snow]

My broken mental health needs validation lol but yeah chancemes are the most inaccurate things ever

[quartz adder]

massive procrastinator

[winged snow]

I'mma start in about 5 months

And hopefully I'll have a college list by then

My parents are freaking out that I don't have a finalized one yet

[vocal umbra]

ur parents are crazy

ur not graduating early or anything right

[winged snow]

Nope still got an entire 1.5 years to go until graduation

Like in September they were like "DO YOU HAVE A FINALIZED COLLEGE LIST YET"

and they've been asking me repeatedly since then

[minor mango]

dw bro i didn’t even know what major i was gonna be until august

[pallid shale]

i checked last year's duke ed thread and only like 3-4 people got in 💀

but hey that means some of us probably will!

[minor mango]

idk why people are so hellbent on deciding now, it’s not as if you can’t grind during the summer

[minor mango]

true

maybe a few more that never posted?

[pallid shale]

i saw more deferrals than rejections so it might not be over for us

[pallid shale]

probably more rejections that didn't post tho

[minor mango]

it’s ok we’re gonna beat the odds

[vocal umbra]

did u check the ED thread

that thread only had 381 messages but this one has over 6k

[pallid shale]

yeah

well this thread is the same 6 people stressing all day long lmao

[quartz adder]

😭

[pallid shale]

i see a lot of acceptances on last year's reddit thread

everyone who posted stats (no matter their decision) had 1520+ and 4.0, totally not worrying!

[brazen tree]

yooo dec 14

[pallid shale]

!duke

[fair rivet]

Duke University ED Date

Duke University ED decisions come out <t:1702598400:F> in your local time
2 days, 22 hours and 53 minutes until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[vocal umbra]

at least we're not as crazy as this dude

[quartz adder]

LMFAO i seen that

(thats me)

[pallid shale]

nah i'm the opposite

[quartz adder]

just kidding 😅

[pallid shale]

i keep telling my mom "(x amount of time) until i get my rejeciton letter"

[vocal umbra]

yea everyone islike i have a 4.0 1570 rejected

but then again stats dont tell the full picture

[pallid shale]

that'll be me 😭

[vocal umbra]

ima fully expect the rejection

[quartz adder]

yeah my parents hyping me up 😭 they said they think i got 75% chance of getting in when they dont know anything about the college process 😭

[pallid shale]

i told my counselor i'm applying to duke and unc and she said i'll probably get into both

at least she has faith in me!

[vocal umbra]

r u going to record ur reaction

[quartz adder]

i kinda want to

it would be either really good or bad memory

[pallid shale]

not sure cuz i have a concert so i might check on my phone before i drive home

well i could record on my phone in the car

[brazen tree]

if this school has good basketball

and their mascot is a blue devil

is this school for blue ballers

[brazen tree]

im going to

i'm going to edit and post it if it's a rejection

like turn it into a shitpost

and if i get accepted im not posting it

[pallid shale]

if you get in you can be in a cringy compilation

[brazen tree]

i'm not going to survive a rejection without laughing

i need to laugh or it's over

[pallid shale]

ok then i scrolled down and saw 10 rejections and 2 deferrals all in a row

never been more joever

[quartz adder]

new year new duke

we all getting in 💯

[pallid shale]

the acceptances were higher because people were screaming and telling their family i guess

[vocal umbra]

theres still hope

[quartz adder]

are we peak insanity rn

[slim cave]

Our group chat 💯 fr

[pallid shale]

oh no it's gonna get worse up until the last minute

[vocal umbra]

nah tbh even if one of us gets in its a W

[slim cave]

my sat optional ass is screwed but hey let’s hope for the better

[brazen tree]

bros

we all die to send one to duke

[pallid shale]

lots of TO people here

[slim cave]

if not duke, we’ll get into other amazing schools

[brazen tree]

remember that

[quartz adder]

im test optional

[brazen tree]

six of us die so one of us gets in

family.

im not even ed duke idfk why im talking.

[pallid shale]

what are you guys' main ecs

[brazen tree]

[slim cave]

real family ❤️

[brazen tree]

impostor bastard i am

i have 0 ecs

unironically

[slim cave]

work at art studio with kids

[brazen tree]

my best ec is my service

[pallid shale]

nice

[brazen tree]

i tutor refugees

they're my goats

im going back to that site as soon as i get in somewhere

[quartz adder]

small businesses internship game dev

[vocal umbra]

oh ur RD?

[brazen tree]

fuck college apps

ye

applying for the food no bullshit

👍

[vocal umbra]

nah

same

[pallid shale]

well you guys definitely have community impact

[vocal umbra]

i looked up top schools with good food

duke came up first

[brazen tree]

im going to research it so i have actual speaking points tho

not just "yeah ur food is lit"

[vocal umbra]

gonna be on a 4 yr bulk

[brazen tree]

do u guys know how good duke pure math is

[pallid shale]

idk but i'm applying for math

all i saw on reddit is that the classes are really hard

[vocal umbra]

all math classes are hard

esp like real analysis

[pallid shale]

calc 1:

[slim cave]

I love math

[brazen tree]

calc 1 nearly beat my ass

[vocal umbra]

so do u plan to do graduate math?

[slim cave]

might as well change my major to math

[brazen tree]

i just took it at uchicago

terror

[vocal umbra]

calc 1 is just calc ab right

[brazen tree]

yeah

[slim cave]

duke’s architecture is better than uchicago’s imo

[quartz adder]

duke is so pretty

[vocal umbra]

uchicago in the hood

duke is not

[brazen tree]

for MATH 16100 at uchi it was from basic numerical properties to differentiation

if duke does the same then it'll be like that

ye i like duke more

also bc i live in chicago

so im tired asf of it

u know what i mean

i know the school is amazing but i dont want to be there for my whole life

[vocal umbra]

10 min from O block

[swift needle]

dance, chorus, and musical theatre are my top three and im a stem major 😭

[pallid shale]

i don't like schools that play games with their decision rounds

[vocal umbra]

thats acc a good thin

[pallid shale]

it shouldn't be nearly impossible to be admitted rd

[brazen tree]

ye

[vocal umbra]

ghaving all stem ECs as a STEm major isnt that good

[swift needle]

o rlly?

[vocal umbra]

but like obv having 1 or 2 stem ECs would help

[pallid shale]

i can relate, my main ecs are marching band, concert band, and beta club lmao

[vocal umbra]

but all STEM is def not as good as it seesm

[swift needle]

no ya i got some stem ecs thankfully

[swift needle]

so real for this

[pallid shale]

i have drum major, region band placements, and """president""" for beta so hopefully it looks good

[quartz adder]

duke loves well rounded students
well rounded > spike

[vocal umbra]

where did that idea come from just curious

[quartz adder]

their website

[vocal umbra]

cuz ik people say it a lot

[slim cave]

I have one friend who also said same thing about Chicago, but now she’s at grinnell and says that she found her love for chicageo again 😭

[pallid shale]

i've heard aos say they never use the term spike

[vocal umbra]

where

[quartz adder]

lemme find it

[slim cave]

I mean yeah Grinnell’s location scares me

[quartz adder]

https://admissions.duke.edu/what-we-look-for/

[vocal umbra]

this?

[quartz adder]

yes

[swift needle]

isnt well-lopsided like the spike thing

[winged snow]

I've only tried food from a few colleges but Duke topped that list (with Cornell as a second)

[vocal umbra]

UCLA is bomb too

[swift needle]

when i toured they did say they were a big foodie town

[pallid shale]

i think duke likes well rounded students more than stanford for example

[slim cave]

I’m well-rounded student pls duke accept me

[winged snow]

I also went to get food from Chapel Hill (the city not unc) and the food was amazing like oh my gosh they weren't lying about how good the food is

[pallid shale]

i saw a stanford admission file on reddit and the aos talked a lot about the ecs related to their major

[quartz adder]

hmm actually maybe
but i think they prefer well rounded
my interviewer said that duke is looking for well rounded students

[vocal umbra]

or like MIT

[swift needle]

oh cool

trying not to get my hopes up 😭

[pallid shale]

idk how mit picks students

i still remember when they rejected someone who made a nuclear reactor 💀

[slim cave]

oops

[winged snow]

Yeah MIT is just a different level

[slim cave]

yeah I’m never applying there

[swift needle]

i think probs passionate stem students who have made an impact while not looking like theyre trying to cater to college apps

[winged snow]

Thank God I don't like MIT

[swift needle]

like they just genuinely like doing what they do

[slim cave]

same

who likes mit 😒😒

tasteless ppl

[winged snow]

Sometimes I think I'm such a prestige whore but honestly compared to a lot of the people I know I'm not that prestige driven

Like honestly I wouldn't be that upset going to my safety, and I might choose one of my safeties over my targets

[pallid shale]

i'm a prestige freak: i have 2 safeties, 1 target, and 17-18 reaches

[swift needle]

Same but for me it's target over reach

[pallid shale]

once you get into a safety, go big or go home!

[winged snow]

Jeez x_x

[swift needle]

17-18 😭

[winged snow]

Honestly yeah

Idk if I'll even have 12 colleges and half of those will be safeties

[slim cave]

same

[winged snow]

Cause no essays lol

[swift needle]

i have like 2 safeties 1 target 3 reaches and 1 hard reach

[pallid shale]

some of them would be targets if i were in state or if acceptance rates hadn't plummeted in the past few years

[swift needle]

make that 2 hard reaches lol

[winged snow]

I have like 4 safeties, 1 target, 4 reaches

[tepid pagoda]

das good

[slim cave]

I have 15 schools on my list

[swift needle]

ya im trying to only go to places i think i'll like

[tepid pagoda]

when i applied i hat 1 safety and 7 hard reaches

[winged snow]

Same

[tepid pagoda]

[winged snow]

I'm not applying to colleges I don't like

[swift needle]

real

[tepid pagoda]

dumb move in retrospect

but it worked out

[swift needle]

how did it go?

[slim cave]

I love Williams, bates and colby for no essay thing

[vocal umbra]

what were the reeaches

[winged snow]

What college are you going to?

[tepid pagoda]

2 rejections, 1 wl, 5 aceptances

[swift needle]

omg slay

[winged snow]

Canadian unis with no essays and domestic tuition cause I'm a citizen

I love those

[tepid pagoda]

this one

[winged snow]

OH MY GOSH YOU'RE MY IDOL

I dream to be you one day

[pallid shale]

i feel like i need a lot of reaches cuz i need a miracle to get into a t20

[swift needle]

r u pratt or trinity ?

[tepid pagoda]

pratt

[swift needle]

omg how is it

[slim cave]

daaamn

[swift needle]

im applying to pratt too

[winged snow]

Well I hope to be almost you one day lol

[tepid pagoda]

depends on ur major lmfao

[winged snow]

Sammeeee but I'm too picky

[tepid pagoda]

its p good overall?

[swift needle]

im looking at mech eng with a certificate in materials science

but idk i might change

[winged snow]

I only have 2 colleges I truly love, and the others are ones I wouldn't hate going to but i wouldn't like that much either

[tepid pagoda]

ive had some gripes with our cirriculum but overall if u want to do something theres more than enough resources for u to do it

[tepid pagoda]

ah

im mech e with aero and robotics certs

also cs minor

[pallid shale]

the only other schools i really like are vanderbilt and unc

and dartmouth has a major called "mathematical data science" which is super perfect, but it's dartmouth so idk

[slim cave]

and duke should be one of these two!

[winged snow]

Yep it's my #1 choice lol

[tepid pagoda]

yeah i mean im still v indecisive and im a junior

[winged snow]

My ranking is Duke, Cornell, UMich, NYU

For my reaches at least

[tepid pagoda]

lots of career crisis going on rn

[pallid shale]

i told myself i wouldn't get attached to 1 school and now duke is my #1 by miles

don't ed kids!

[winged snow]

Honestly they're all so different and people are like "why do you like all of them??"

[winged snow]

Sammeee

[pallid shale]

umich is cool but it's way too expensive for me so i had to remove it

[tepid pagoda]

yeah u mich oos was asking for 52k

💀

[winged snow]

Fair enough, UMich used to be my number 1 until Cornell and Duke

[tepid pagoda]

my ass aint paying all that

[tepid pagoda]

what major?

[swift needle]

Wat is ur major?

[pallid shale]

upenn used to be my favorite ivy but now it's probably cornell

[swift needle]

Also real

[tepid pagoda]

mechanical engineering

[swift needle]

my favorite ivy is brown lol

[vocal umbra]

umich is close to 80k for me

[winged snow]

Comp. media for Duke, info sci for Cornell + UMich, Integrated design + media for NYU

[swift needle]

oo ok

[winged snow]

Honestly my major sucks cause there's so many different names for it

I can't just google "[college] + [major]"

I have to go through the list of majors one by one

[swift needle]

thats like how vt doesnt have data science, they have "computer modeling and data analysis"

or fintech for more business oriented data analytics

[vocal umbra]

is that an IDM?

[winged snow]

Yep, CS + visual and media studies

[vocal umbra]

nice

[winged snow]

And I wanna do a certificate in innovation + entrepreneurship and maybe a double major in pub pol?

Not sure yet

[tepid pagoda]

ohhh thats quite unique

thats p nice

[winged snow]

Yeah just gotta manifest getting into one of them now lol

[brazen tree]

ok but like... iowa is ass sry

[tepid pagoda]

hahaha gl

[brazen tree]

[winged snow]

LOL yeah

[shut yacht]

Does duke care about legacy

[brazen tree]

prob

[pallid shale]

yep

[swift needle]

probs lol

[brazen tree]

every school does to some extent

[winged snow]

I can't imagine being in the middle of nowhere (please disregard the fact that I'm applying to Cornell)

[brazen tree]

it usually matters more for ED

i mean im fine w cornell

[mellow forum]

OH MY GOD

[brazen tree]

i can travel a few hrs to civlization

fuck happens in IOWA

the ENTIRE STATE

[winged snow]

Its location is one of my least favorite parts but Cornell has other stuff that makes up for it

[brazen tree]

des moines???? nothing's even there 💀

[tepid pagoda]

yeah

[shut yacht]

Lol my friend ed’d to duke and the guys stacked might open my ed with him so at least if he gets in I’ll have something to be happy about

[slim cave]

At least they have some nature

[winged snow]

LOL I know like at least you got NYC if you really wanna go there for Cornell but I can't name even 1 city in Iowa

[swift needle]

me when my guidance counselor asks me how im going to be in small classes (allegedly what I want) applying to huge public schools:

[winged snow]

Yeah I can't stand colleges without a pretty campus with nature (again disregard the fact that I'm applying to NYU x_x)

[brazen tree]

[winged snow]

I mean you win some you lose some lol

[brazen tree]

bro it's interesting how each thread is diff

some threads r dead asf

[winged snow]

I mean there's a reason why NYU is at the bottom of my list

[mellow forum]

@slim cave i wake up
AND WE HAVE A DATE

[brazen tree]

some have active current students

this one is like top 1 activity but it's all applicants getting edged by duke

[winged snow]

Duke's thread is nice, not too active but there's a good amount of activity

[brazen tree]

until now ig

[slim cave]

YESS WHAT A GOOD DAY TO BE INTERNATIONAL APPLICANT

[brazen tree]

i like this thread

it's often alive

and the ppl r chill asf

[winged snow]

That's cause we're applying to the chill college

[slim cave]

I’ll be everyone’s intl bestie at duke 💯

[brazen tree]

some of the schools who have bigger egos just have psychos in them

[swift needle]

Thats what im scared of with like ivies

[winged snow]

I don't like Yale because honestly the people there seemed to sometimes have a slightly large ego masked behind niceness and I'm scared of Yalies lol

[winged snow]

Cornell people are so chill

My family got gifted a Cornell teddy bear

[exotic root]

holy shit duke comes out on thursday at 7pm

[brazen tree]

cornell is too big to be all psychos lol

so it's lowkey chill like that

[winged snow]

UPenn people are fairly nice but oh my gosh I HATE the campus

I mean the inside is pretty

BUT IT'S TINY

AND THE LOCATION SUCKS

[pallid shale]

yep we're all losing our minds

it's too real

[brazen tree]

you prayed for admissions date to come soon

and now that it's right on top of us it's joever

real tbh

[exotic root]

same i thought it was going to come out on the weekend like it did last year

[winged snow]

I have a big hw assignment due tomorrow and I'm procrastinating so bad

[brazen tree]

lmfao

[pallid shale]

no ik i'm happy it's thursday because i have next weekend to work on rd essays

[brazen tree]

gg

same vibe here lmfao

rd apps r being written

[winged snow]

I'm applying to this school and I have to get the essay in ASAP and I'm too lazy to revise it

[brazen tree]

📓 🖊️

[slim cave]

yess! I was afraid that decisions will be out in like 22 of December 😭

[winged snow]

Aight I shall stop procrastinating, goodbye all lol

[slim cave]

I hate schools who release ed dates after 20th, like why are you doing that to your applicants

[swift needle]

Same lol bye

[swift needle]

Sounds like they were still deciding right up to the wire

I feel like thats usually the case

When schools do that

[quartz adder]

mane

i dont want to do my RD apps

i should wait til thursday when i get into duke right 😆

https://tenor.com/view/delulu-delulu-land-skipping-sponge-bob-gif-2199534323363290737

[brazen tree]

you do that, king

i mean

duke*

[quartz adder]

[pallid shale]

so over

[vocal umbra]

I had this

^

[minor mango]

we d1 yapping our way into duke with this one 🔥🔥🔥

[mellow forum]

gonna cry so hard when i dont get in

[swift needle]

upgrade 🔥

[minor mango]

i’m on the verge of a delusion right now

and i have an econ test on friday morning

so either i get in and slack off or i get rejected and cry through the test

[vocal umbra]

Yea I have two tests on Friday

[minor mango]

i think god’s telling me not to study econ

[mellow forum]

i KNOW gods telling me to take a 48 hour nap

but unfortunately my boarding school wont allow

[minor mango]

nah a three day nap

istg i keep seeing duke everywhere now

[warm ore]

piano (im a young steinway artist), founded org to help incoming refugees to canada with musical schoalrships and helped ukrainian refugees settle before being drafted, fulbright canada colloquium and others

[vocal umbra]

did u aply music major

[tribal bane]

Did any of your financial aid checklists change?

[vocal umbra]

did urs?

[tribal bane]

not mine

[vocal umbra]

oh

whos did

[tribal bane]

but someone’s did

someone I know*

[vocal umbra]

i cant even participate in this portal astrology cuz i didnt apply fin aid

[vocal umbra]

what changes

[tribal bane]

new items on it

[vocal umbra]

oh

is that a good sign

[tribal bane]

Like more tax return schedules

idk honestly

[vocal umbra]

it could be unrelated

[tribal bane]

could ask a qb person

How their checklist looked

[vocal umbra]

@mystic sentinel

do u remember ur checklist changing

[mystic sentinel]

hi

its gone for me but it did

chnage

[vocal umbra]

oooh

[tribal bane]

interesting

[vocal umbra]

dont look too deep into it

[hardy burrow]

NO PORTAL ASTROLOGY TALK

[vocal umbra]

cuz they could just need more info to give him/her a more accurate number

[vocal umbra]

i still dont understand to this day why it got banned

[quartz adder]

portal astrology police

🚨

[tribal bane]

but

I can’t wait

[vocal umbra]

how doe ur portal look rn

[mystic sentinel]

no check list besides the css profile

they said they cant release it till admission or something

im eating rn

[vocal umbra]

oh ok

[mystic sentinel]

ill chdvk for exacty if u need

[vocal umbra]

yea np take ur time

just dm me if ur free

[ivory flame]

yall dukes food is so good i actually dreamt about it

[hardy burrow]

too bad

[hardy burrow]

cuz it is dumb and misleads people

[ivory flame]

sushi and boba restaurants right next to each other

[pallid shale]

the latest change was something received on 12/7

i sent multiple docs so idk what's taking so long

[quartz adder]

on what

idoc or portal

[tribal bane]

Portal

[quartz adder]

mine hasnt

[vocal umbra]

true but we lowk have nothing better to do

[hardy burrow]

just dont pls

talk about things you like about duke or wtv

portal astrology discussions just get ugly

[vocal umbra]

yea we are not

[quartz adder]

!duke

[fair rivet]

Duke University ED Date

Duke University ED decisions come out <t:1702598400:F> in your local time
2 days, 21 hours and 12 minutes until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[mystic sentinel]

@vocal umbra

@cow

[vocal umbra]

Ah okay

so urs looks a bit different

so it wont say accepted until dec 14 on the portal?

[mellow forum]

say accepted
but yes

[minor mango]

thursdays have always been unlucky for me but

🙏

[mellow forum]

all the superstitions coming out rn

[minor mango]

all the religions coming out rn

i haven't prayed in years and my family isn't religious

[brazen tree]

the atheism leaving my body

[minor mango]

fr

[brazen tree]

friday for me

but like

[mellow forum]

ikr

[minor mango]

someone pull out that cost benefit analysis of religion

[minor mango]

oh you're not duke ED?

[brazen tree]

Ah(aq) -deltaE(collegedecisions)-> Ah(g)

that shit is evaporating

no im not

im just here

LOL

[minor mango]

in the coolest chat so true

[brazen tree]

fr

this is tthe best chat i've been in

💀

[mellow forum]

cost = my sanity
benefit = duke???

[brazen tree]

other than uchicago but that's bc my classmate is there

lmfao

so im biased

this is the most basedass channel

[minor mango]

speak your shit

so true 🔥

[mellow forum]

💙

[brazen tree]

dartmouth is kind of dead

vanderbilt is like

EXTREME DEATH

nobody's there after the scholarship application talk

brown has some uh

kind of rude ppl

🙂

[minor mango]

saw this stanford girl who was like "umm if you ask me now if it was worth my sanity in hs to go to stanford? i'd probably still say yes"

realest ivy leaguer

[brazen tree]

this is legit the most based channel

[minor mango]

LMAO WHAT

[brazen tree]

i cannot stop typing "based moment."

it's muscle memory.

[minor mango]

that's kinda uhhhh

[swift needle]

wait what? i left a weekback

[minor mango]

smh all these ivy league kids

imejin

[brazen tree]

idk it's like

[mellow forum]

going to an ivy? pffft

[brazen tree]

she was just like "pls don't apply here if ur applying bc it's an ivy league"

[mellow forum]

couldnt be me

[brazen tree]

"ur all boring as hell"

and it's like

[minor mango]

LMAO SHUT UP

[brazen tree]

maybe that's true u shouldn't apply for prestige

[minor mango]

[brazen tree]

but i know ur ass did

[minor mango]

you shouldn't

[brazen tree]

and who r u to call ppl boring

like r u serious

[minor mango]

but that doesn't mean people don't lmao

[mellow forum]

so would i honestly

[minor mango]

dawg who would brown be without their notoriety

[brazen tree]

fuck is that

"ur boring as hell"

??

if we're looking at it that way, name one person here who'll ever do anything that nobody else has ever done

[minor mango]

the true goal of college apps is to not care while pretending like you do care about the shcool

[brazen tree]

we're all frogs in a well

[swift needle]

i mean fair play, if it isnt a good fit but you just want the name i wouldnt personally apply but at the end of the day it's up to the person to decide what they want

[swift needle]

this is crazy tho 😭

[brazen tree]

ppl here think they're the next bernhard riemann? isaac newton? confucius? they're not

the reality of the situation is that life is not remarkable

[minor mango]

the name is like at least 60% of why people apply to any given ivy league

[swift needle]

blind leading the blind

[brazen tree]

we're all frogs in a well

but the fact that it doesn't matter doesn't mean that life isn't able to be enjoyed

when you learn or do things

just bc someone else has done it b4 u doesn't mean ur boring

[minor mango]

sheesh getting philosophical in the duke chat

[brazen tree]

or that ur worthless shit

it's just fucking cringe to look down on ppl for being unspecial

[minor mango]

if any one of us gets into duke we gotta show the chat logs to the AOs ok

[brazen tree]

bc we all are.

🙏

[minor mango]

show them that we're all great fits for duke

[brazen tree]

yeah please get my ass in with this monk asf talk

LOL

[swift needle]

so true

[brazen tree]

distilled this wisdom over trillions of hours meditating in a temple fr

🗿

[swift needle]

bro pondered their orb

[ivory flame]

stan kim chaewon

[brazen tree]

fr

💀

the real goat is still IU

unbeatable

i should have fucking EDed duke

[swift needle]

i just think it's crazy that ppl believe u gotta be the quirkiest zaniest most cracked person to walk the earth to be worthy of ivy leagues

[brazen tree]

[minor mango]

IU people where

🔥

[brazen tree]

these ppl in this channel are too goated

[swift needle]

me rn..

[ivory flame]

LILACCCCCC

[brazen tree]

im a fraud for this

[minor mango]

you don't need to be that guy, but you do need to pretend like you're that guy

[swift needle]

my ass is not getting in RD

[brazen tree]

if i somehow get into brown ED im about to fake my tax returns to get out of it and pray for duke RD

[minor mango]

my ass is not getting in ED

[mellow forum]

of course

[ivory flame]

BRO WHEN I WAS IN KIREA STUDYING ABROAD WE SAW SO MANY IDOLS

[winged snow]

Brown isn't your first choice?

[minor mango]

should've become the next BTS

[brazen tree]

unfortunate reality 😔

[brazen tree]

it still is lol im kinda shitposting

it's just that i had one bad experience with one student

[swift needle]

i just feel like it's better to be genuine than to play yourself up. ofc u gotta present the best version of urself tho

[brazen tree]

i'm kind of far down the hole of like "damn taht really sucked"

i know i'll swing back to loving brown sometime soon

but please god let me feel this wsay until friday at least

so that i don't feel as bad when i get rejected

[winged snow]

Lol fair

[mellow forum]

i cant stop reading the decision date letter

email astrology?

[minor mango]

true that, cuz when i was being "the genuine version of myself" today in class some kid across from me asked if autism was infectious

[swift needle]

oh 💀 tf

[mellow forum]

whatd you say

[ivory flame]

OMG WAT

[minor mango]

"i'm not on the spectrum"

also no wtf what kind of question is that

[mellow forum]

shouldve said "if it is then get away from me"

[minor mango]

i might be i dunno

[swift needle]

stg people are way too comfortable with being rude these days

[minor mango]

dawg my gov class fr has the weirdest kids

[brazen tree]

idk i ED'd to brown because i want to become a kinder and better person
i had a vision that brown students would be very kind and supportive, and that it would be a place where i can explore everything and find out who i am while becoming nicer
i guess i knew that a group of people will never have 0 rude ppl but i allowed myself to be deluded. in a sense, i'm grateful to the brown student who lowkey slapped me awake.

[brazen tree]

💀

ur gov class goes crazy ngl

[winged snow]

Honestly Duke has the nicest people like it's crazy how nice they are

Maybe it's a southern thing

[mellow forum]

excuse me while i send all your messages to my friend whos a brown ED

[ivory flame]

no cause wat is up with skibidi toilets why are there so many people saying that now

[minor mango]

nah fr if i do get into duke imma get such a culture shock cuz all the ppl in here are chill af

[minor mango]

seconded

[swift needle]

duke thread best thread

[minor mango]

DUKE ON TOP 🔥

[swift needle]

we are all honorary blue devils

even if we dont get in

[mellow forum]

💙 💙 💙

[ivory flame]

praying we all get “duke is our university” now🤞

[minor mango]

they need to send me a package istg

do schools send you a package if you're accepted or if you commit?

[mellow forum]

how many duke applicants are in this thread

[swift needle]

25 thousand

[minor mango]

probably count up all the seniors and then subtract a couple

[heady urchin]

Duke is wilding

Very active

[swift needle]

hi ruby

[minor mango]

yeah cuz duke on top

[swift needle]

dookies rise up!

[minor mango]

dookies 💀

[heady urchin]

Hi hru

[swift needle]

good hbu?

[heady urchin]

Dookie pookie

[brazen tree]

duke is fucking goated

LET ME IN.

[heady urchin]

Dead asf I need to go work on essays

[swift needle]

real 😭

[heady urchin]

Didn’t you do brown Ed?

[brazen tree]

yeah

[heady urchin]

And do AP lit reading

[brazen tree]

i had An Experience and now i'm a little out of it

i'll come back to loving brown soon

[heady urchin]

An

Ah

[brazen tree]

but for now it's duke appreciation time

[heady urchin]

Gl

[brazen tree]

❤️

fr just changed teams

[ivory flame]

dukes food omg yall better watch vlogs about it

[brazen tree]

the ppl here r too chill

💀

[swift needle]

ap lit makes me wanna ascend

[brazen tree]

if any of u get in