Harvard University (2023-2024)

[gritty oak]

WELL IM FORCED TO BROADEN MY HORIZON’S IRL

[plain marsh]

the CS teaching assistant

[minor pecan]

yeah

[plain marsh]

gotcha babe

[pulsar pond]

BECAUSE THE BOYS IN MY SCHOOL ARE TOO SHORT

[bitter path]

U from HK right 💀

[pulsar pond]

I'm 167

[minor pecan]

you’re in korea bro

[pulsar pond]

ya

boys in my school range from 160-173

[rancid mural]

wait luck how tall are you

you give 5'10

[minor pecan]

I am

[pulsar pond]

there are one to two 180s but they're not cool

[rancid mural]

WAAHHHHHH i wanna be in cambridge alrdy

wow

[plain marsh]

imagine this man but he has the cutest sense of style and the deepest voice and he has a sleeper build HES BUFF

[rancid mural]

i guessed it fr

[gritty oak]

i need to pee sooo bad

[pulsar pond]

aight brown I'm sold

[plain marsh]

half the freshman population going crazy over him oh my lord

[gritty oak]

he’s def 5’7

[rancid mural]

no he played volley ball didnt he

you need to be tall for that

[plain marsh]

HES A CS TEACHJNG ASSISTANT

[gritty oak]

oh idk

[rancid mural]

what do i do to pass the time as a prefeosh when i wanna be there rn 😔

[plain marsh]

COME TAKE CS15

[rancid mural]

i remember

[gritty oak]

womp womp!

[rancid mural]

you dont i miss high school

[pulsar pond]

Kace stop

[gritty oak]

i dont

[rancid mural]

i hate alabama and my rural town 💀

even though i touched less grass in high school than i do now

i'd like to leave

it was better

[plain marsh]

@pulsar pond ATEEZ FAN?

[pulsar pond]

YESSSS

[plain marsh]

OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS

ONE OF US‼️‼️ ONE OF US‼️‼️

[pulsar pond]

that's my standard for men right there

[plain marsh]

babes my friend and i are going to target soon to album shop

[craggy latch]

SAME

[plain marsh]

bias???

[craggy latch]

like boys in general are very short here where I live

179cm is very tall here

[plain marsh]

where are you from

[pulsar pond]

whopp Brown I'm coming

[gritty oak]

abcde one more edit.. i’m convinced you can be convinced

[rancid mural]

do u need like, residency to get an id in another state

[rancid mural]

kate you can like him if you want

he just has a baby face

[gritty oak]

guys at pitt are short

[plain marsh]

there’s a lot of cute kpop stans here

[gritty oak]

UGHHHH 🙁🙁

[craggy latch]

If he’s brown we’re down 🤚🏻🤚🏻

[rancid mural]

ill watch the edit

send it

[plain marsh]

the brown men at brown are reaaaaaaallllyyyy s word

[pulsar pond]

no bias I'm a debut fan

[plain marsh]

every single one of them idgaf

[pulsar pond]

switch left and right every era

[gritty oak]

no i’m not sending anymore it’s fine 💔💔💔 stick with your veneer man..

[pulsar pond]

currently a Yunho stan

[rancid mural]

hes sooo fine do not come for him

[craggy latch]

me too 😭

skz and ateez are my ults literally

[plain marsh]

the culture in this chat right now is insane

[pulsar pond]

mine is dreamcatcher and ateez

[plain marsh]

DREAMCATCHER?????

[pulsar pond]

Edenary fan more like

[craggy latch]

Uzbekistan

[plain marsh]

i don’t Stan them but their music is insane

[pulsar pond]

I'm up for xikers as well

[plain marsh]

guys

[pulsar pond]

KQ family stan

[plain marsh]

do any of yall like zb1

[pulsar pond]

I like Hao and Ricky because blood advantage

I'm Chinese so I gotta stan my people

[plain marsh]

RICKYYYYYYYYYY❣️💖💙💘💔💕💖💖💕💕💘💔💘

[craggy latch]

ricky is just simp for all idols like me fr

[plain marsh]

oh my god wait in Chinese too????

[pulsar pond]

we twinning

[gritty oak]

nah because he’s eating in this picture idgaf @rancid mural

[craggy latch]

my first Chinese love was victoria from f(x) 😓

[rancid mural]

okay he looks good in that

[gritty oak]

SEE

[rancid mural]

he looks like someone i know

[pulsar pond]

Victoria is cool

[gritty oak]

omg who…..

[rancid mural]

hes 17

[pulsar pond]

standard white boy vibes

nothing special

[gritty oak]

IDGAF!!!

[rancid mural]

hes palestinian

[gritty oak]

oh.

[rancid mural]

looks like him

[pulsar pond]

oops sorry

[bitter path]

But white boys are baeee

[plain marsh]

YES!!!!

ur a gg stan too?

[bitter path]

Ngl if u fine u fine, regardless of ur race

[pulsar pond]

f(x) was a revolutionary group

[craggy latch]

yes I love my girls 😭

[pulsar pond]

ik

[rancid mural]

this guy has a baby face

[plain marsh]

TWICE????

[rancid mural]

so it makes sense

[craggy latch]

THEY ARE MY ULTS LITERALLY

[pulsar pond]

I've learned to appreciate every single race on Earth

[craggy latch]

I’m their fan since sixteen ‼️‼️

[bitter path]

Ongg, i was gonna say he looks like someone’s baby brother

[rancid mural]

bro you know how those tiktok thirst trappers lie about the year theyre born in videos to get clout

[gritty oak]

what 😭😭😭😭

[craggy latch]

#2008

[pulsar pond]

damn

[rancid mural]

am i the only one whos seen this

its always the arab ones

[craggy latch]

or when twins say that one is 21 years old while another is 20 lol

[rancid mural]

bro its like 20 year olds that will say theyre 13

let me find one and show yall

[craggy latch]

wow the diversity here in harvard thread

[pulsar pond]

it's what harvard wants I suppose

but they're gonna end up rejecting most of us here

next year's Harvard people are gonna have a hard time catching up to the spirit we have here

[gritty oak]

im turning 20 soon i might as well be most of y’all’s meemaw..

[rancid mural]

okay i lost his account

[rancid mural]

one foot in the grave....

[craggy latch]

I just hope to be accepted into vandy through ed2 😓💔

[pulsar pond]

I don't dare to ed2

I'm still thinking whether I should Ed2 JHU

[bitter path]

I still got like a yr but I was deeping how tf am I entering my 20s next yr 😟

[craggy latch]

that’s not one foot, that’s literally one finger

[pulsar pond]

do I want to risk my chances at all ivy league schools

[gritty oak]

start writing the obituary…

[plain marsh]

british slang

[gritty oak]

get that fine man at my funeral at least

[rancid mural]

lmaooo

i will do it just for you

[craggy latch]

tbh me too, I was like “but what if I have chances to get into somewhere too” but then realized that my international, full aid seeking ass shouldn’t even think about that

[rancid mural]

bro i feel like i should be 18 by now

like whats taking so long

[bitter path]

Is deeping not universal 🧍‍♀️

[pulsar pond]

🫂

[plain marsh]

No.

[gritty oak]

helpp when’s your bday

[rancid mural]

march...

[pulsar pond]

I persuaded my friend to forget JHU and Duke

reducing competition tbh

he's international looking for aid at need-aware schools

[bitter path]

Im just a girl from the trenches

[craggy latch]

duke isn’t treating right their ed applicants 😭

[plain marsh]

where are you from love

[craggy latch]

I was rejected by them btw

[bitter path]

London

[pulsar pond]

God bless you

I guess I should be happy that I was not rejected by Harvard

[plain marsh]

REALLY??????

[craggy latch]

their ar was lower than most of the ivies

duke is such ivy wanna be 😒😒

[bitter path]

Ong

[pulsar pond]

yep that's why I'm not applying

I prefer Emory and JHU above Duke

[craggy latch]

have you also applied for aid?

[plain marsh]

yeah cuz tell me why you give strong british vibes

[gritty oak]

wait what day i didn’t know we were nearly bday twins

[plain marsh]

wait did you apply to any UK schools

like UCL KCL kings imperial

[pulsar pond]

yea but I'm a dual citizen

Harvard is need blind to everyone

[craggy latch]

guys what to do you think

[pulsar pond]

for most schools it's not a problem for me cuz they're need blind to US citizens

[craggy latch]

should I apply to every school just rd

[pulsar pond]

I qualify

[bitter path]

I applied to ox, ucl, imperial, st andrews and something else

[craggy latch]

cause like if I were about to be accepted to vandy ed2, then I’d be accepted through rd too right

[pulsar pond]

not the same.....?

[craggy latch]

yeah I’m just being delusional atp

[pulsar pond]

ed2 gives u a lil boost

[bitter path]

I already applied last cycle and got into all but I became desperate for that american dream and gave up my oxford offer 🤧

[pulsar pond]

they may accept u in ed2

[pulsar pond]

CRAZY

[craggy latch]

😨😨

[pulsar pond]

bc of the boost but can reject u rd cuz they prefer ed2 applicants a bit more

[plain marsh]

EXCUDE EM?

YOU HAD AN OXFORD OFFER?

FOR WHAT

HOW MANY As

[bitter path]

Chem

[bitter path]

4 A*

[plain marsh]

NO WAY?????????

actually that’s what i got in my mocks teehee

and then i fumbled in the real thing and got a B in bio

[plain marsh]

what did you end up getting

[bitter path]

4 A*

[bitter path]

Bio was vile bruh

I came out that exam room crying

[craggy latch]

but what if some ivy will accept me through rd 😞

[plain marsh]

what exam board babes

[craggy latch]

jk no one is accepting me with my trash essays

[plain marsh]

im tryna see if we went through the same trenches

😭

[bitter path]

All AQA for sciences and edexcel for maths

[plain marsh]

WAIT ME TOO I TJINK I DID AQA BIO

[bitter path]

Omgggg

Girl are u from london??

[bitter path]

Aqa bio should be illegal

[pulsar pond]

so if vandy ain't ur absolute top choice don't ed2

[bitter path]

Had me fr writing a whole ass essay when i chose stem to avoid these essays specifically

[plain marsh]

Gloucestershire 🥲🥲

do you know where that is

[bitter path]

💀

Obv girl

[craggy latch]

yeah that’s the problem, like every school on my list is my dream

[plain marsh]

OH

IM SORRY

wait my friend told me nobody knows where that is

[craggy latch]

see you guys at vandy next fall 💋

[bitter path]

True 💀

But i do but never been

[plain marsh]

good <3

actually if you do you should go to Cheltenham

that’s where my school was

the cutest town ever, lowkey would be the perfect OP college town

also im curious why did you give up oxford yk so many Americans froth at the mouth when you even mention the word

[bitter path]

Basically i wanted to do med lile throughout secondary 💀 so i chose all sciences and maths for my a levels

But like mid yr 12 i was like yh… i aint a med girly

I didn’t know what to do

[plain marsh]

baby what….wait so did you do chem math physics bio….?

[bitter path]

Yes 😔

[bitter path]

With my alevels i was very limited to what I could do cuz most wanted like an essay based subject

[pulsar pond]

how ironic

[bitter path]

I knew i was good in maths and chem but to apply for maths to top unis, i needed further maths

[plain marsh]

baby let me give you a forehead kiss cuz why did you do that respectfully

well i get it if you even think you might be premed it’s recommended to take all sciences

that part of the UK system sucks, they expect you to know 100% ur future path

[pseudo hawk]

what is that

[pulsar pond]

go to bot command channel

you can use the command to ask the bot to give u a probability at something

[pseudo hawk]

i dont think i will

it'll ruin it for me

[pulsar pond]

which is not legit

[bitter path]

So i was only left with chem and i knew I didn’t wanna actually study that shi for 4 yrs (in most places that shi is combined with a masters 😔)

[pseudo hawk]

ik

[pulsar pond]

i just do it on a daily basis

it's a ritual for me now

[bitter path]

Ongg, i need that liberal arts education

Only Scotland do that shi here in the uk

Hence why i decided to give up oxford and just see if it works out with american unis

[plain marsh]

girl that makes sense

it’s so evil how they expect you to know everything at 15

and then if you change your mind they punish you

[tacit lotus]

SCOTLANNDDDD FOREVER

[plain marsh]

ur Scottish?

[tacit lotus]

Sorry had to

Nah im chinese lol

[pulsar pond]

dude is a W for real

hello fellow Chinese

[bitter path]

Scotland is so pretty but the lack of diversity puts me off

[plain marsh]

me too👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[pulsar pond]

how are we feeling as the most overrepresented asian race in the US

[tacit lotus]

I live in the uk as well

[plain marsh]

SO MANY UK PEOPLE HERE

[tacit lotus]

Cambridge reject

[plain marsh]

horrible school

saved a bullet

[bitter path]

Omggg noo🫂

[pulsar pond]

they rejected my school's crown jewel in physics and math

dude got 3 olympiad medals and still Cambridge is like no

we ain't even gonna give you an interview

[tacit lotus]

Only thing they care about is entrance exam

And even then the data makes no sense

[pulsar pond]

he did not fuck up the exam

still no

[tacit lotus]

You can have a 8.7 avg and get no interview

[bitter path]

Cmabs dont give a shit about olympiads

[plain marsh]

NO INTERVIEW IS CRAZY?

[tacit lotus]

While people with 4.2 gets interviews

[plain marsh]

wats the system

4.2 gpa?

[pulsar pond]

yea it makes 0 sense

no that's the score for the entrance exam

[tacit lotus]

Nah the entrance exams are scored out of 9

[plain marsh]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhh

wait so

does cambie have 1 entrance exam for all

or is it major specific

like a premed exam

[tacit lotus]

One for each maj

[bitter path]

Different courses has different ones

[plain marsh]

isee

and they’re all /8?

[tacit lotus]

/9

[bitter path]

I cant believe this is what u call it

The americans are getting to u

[tacit lotus]

Did your friend take NSAA or ENGAA

[plain marsh]

WAIT

[pulsar pond]

bro applied to CS

[plain marsh]

LMFAOOOO

IS IT JUST MED

[pulsar pond]

TMUA I think

[plain marsh]

IM SO SORRY

not a true Brit💔💔💔💔

[bitter path]

Some courses dont have entrance exams i think

[tacit lotus]

Oh right mb

[tacit lotus]

Nahhh

[pulsar pond]

another friend of mine took NSAA

got interviewed

[tacit lotus]

Cam CS

[bitter path]

Disgrace smh

[tacit lotus]

Back on Harvard, I’m stuck on revising the diversity essay, what are some topics you guys wrote about?

[minor pecan]

hands

[tacit lotus]

Hands?

[minor pecan]

Yeah

[tacit lotus]

Could you elaborate

[bitter path]

Most ppl that gets an interview score like above 5.5 so if ur friend got a 4.2 then…

[tacit lotus]

I know people who got 8’s and no int

[bitter path]

No way

[tacit lotus]

Check student room thread for it

[minor pecan]

Wrote about how we all have different hands, but we can work together and interlock our hands to create strong communities regardless of our differences. Something alone the lines of that.

[bitter path]

Student room is a joke

Something must’ve been wrong cuz no way

[tacit lotus]

I need to up my game to be as creative as that damn

[minor pecan]

what can I say

im a creative writer

[tacit lotus]

Clearly so

[bitter path]

U are being trolled

[tacit lotus]

Even if it is a troll it’s inspiration

[strange wedge]

If creative is the new “mundane” I think u hit it out of the park ngl

[minor pecan]

noob

[strange wedge]

How I was condensed into the letter K

[tacit lotus]

In a style similar to the essay about the letter S?

[strange wedge]

Oh no no😭 more about how people would mispronounce my name a lot so I shortened it to one letter that quite literally followed me everywhere. But then I came to know the true meaning of my name and unlocked a sense of authenticity that I hope to encourage through any programs or groups I may find myself in

[tacit lotus]

Ohhh

Thats fun

[bitter path]

Damnn, everybody so creative

[strange wedge]

They still deferred me so🤤

But I was the only one in my school to get an interview

[tacit lotus]

Better than a rejection 🫡

[strange wedge]

So they at least thought I was kinda cute

[strange wedge]

Real

[bitter path]

I have yet to meet a Harvard rea reject

Where they hiding

[tacit lotus]

Me neither

Not on a2c apparently

Either that or they’ve been quiet

[bitter path]

Is harvard ur top choice??

[plain marsh]

wait luck this is actually so cute

[tacit lotus]

Mit defer

[tacit lotus]

Harvard is for sure no 2 or 3 tho

[bitter path]

Where else have u applied in the UK

[tacit lotus]

I went cam imp ucl manchester bristol

Imp test went worse than the cambridge one ngl

5.5/40 raw score

Accepted into everywhere else

[bitter path]

What did u apply for?? Cs??

[tacit lotus]

Triple E

[plain marsh]

BRO GOT INTO IMPERIAL AND UCL????

RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[tacit lotus]

Not imperial

[plain marsh]

oh

whats imp

[bitter path]

He applied there

[plain marsh]

oh my god.

i didn’t see that was what you said the bad score was for

im so sorry.

imperial isn’t even all that

[tacit lotus]

Nah its all good

I got over it the next day

[bitter path]

Real

[tacit lotus]

I didnt even know there was a test until the day before

The exam date is playing hide and seek with me till I got the invite

[tacit lotus]

They shortened the MAT to a half an hr exam it’s actually so brutal

[minor pecan]

really?

i just made it up on the spot lmao

we didn’t have that prompt last year

ngl it’s not a bad idea tho @tacit lotus

[bitter path]

Lemme look up sum questions cuz for chem we dont have any entrance exams

[minor pecan]

if you do it well it could work

unironically

[tacit lotus]

Yea thats why I bought it

Forgot that they added the prompt after aa

[minor pecan]

ya

I think there are better things to talk about than whatever I spit tho lol

[tacit lotus]

I’ll play around with it

[minor pecan]

I just pulled it out in 2 sec

You can do better

[tacit lotus]

Maybe, I’ll try my best 🫡

[minor pecan]

O7

[pulsar pond]

my friend def did not get a 4.2

also does anyone think these three versions of mango pancake sound similar

[bitter path]

From 2.5 hrs to only half an hour exam?!

[pulsar pond]

I have to ask you guys cuz none of you know Cantonese and Korean Im pretty sure

if I ask my Hong Kong friends and Korean friends we'd be biased

would you think it sounds similar

to make sure im on topic mods this is a rewritten version of a Harvard essay I wrote

[tacit lotus]

In cantonese it is that

[pulsar pond]

Monggwo baankik yeah

[tacit lotus]

Might also be 煎饼 for pancake though

[pulsar pond]

do you find any resemblance between Mongguo baankik Manggo paenkeikeu and Mango pancake

[pulsar pond]

we don't call it that in Cantonese

well we might for other types of pancake but if im referring to mango pancakes there is only one way we'd call it in cantonese

[bitter path]

Is this a trick question🧍‍♀️they all sound familiar

[tacit lotus]

I think the concept works in that case yeah

They are similar

[pulsar pond]

ok great as long as you see the similarity then it's great

I need to make sure Yale AOs get what Im talking bout

thank you

[bitter path]

Traitor

[pulsar pond]

Harvard betrayed me first

I recycled this Harvard essay for Yale and Columbia

but id say the Yale version is much more well-written

BECAUSE THEY GIVE ME SPACE

[tacit lotus]

Columbia sure as hell doesnt

50 words less than Harvard

[pulsar pond]

yea Columbia is worse than Harvard

I had to get even more creative with my columbia essay

[bitter path]

For which prompt was the mango pancake the answer for

[pulsar pond]

Yale?

[tacit lotus]

I assume the topic / idea that excites you

[pulsar pond]

what personal experience shaped u

[pulsar pond]

no

[tacit lotus]

Ohhh interesting

[pulsar pond]

this little extract u saw was obv above 35 words

[bitter path]

Did we have that for harvard??

[pulsar pond]

yeah diversity essay

prompt 1

[bitter path]

I cannot even remember

[tacit lotus]

Yes

[pulsar pond]

I talked about how i learned to find connections between cultures because I'm a Chinese who knows Korean

I'm trilingual

[tacit lotus]

Int experience important to you

Is how its phrased for Havahd

[pulsar pond]

the only kind of diversity I can lean on is that Im quadlingual

Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Korean

[bitter path]

Arent ppl from hk an urm??

[pulsar pond]

yea all people from hk would be trillingual

but the problem is that they don't know Korean

they may not know Korean

[half topaz]

ik a few ppl from sg and hk who learned korean just to watch k dramas

[pulsar pond]

let alone finding how all these languages can be related

[pulsar pond]

ik many people do learn Korean here

[half topaz]

sg is actually perfect to become multilingual

mandarin, malay, tamil, and english

[tacit lotus]

Sounds about right

[bitter path]

Mit 29 is crazy, different level of manifestation

[pulsar pond]

it is basically impossible to find an angle that is unique to only me

[half topaz]

im just a junior manifesting MIT 😭

[pulsar pond]

but im trying to make it special

by including an experience in which i talked about it with my Korean friends

talk about personalization lol

[tacit lotus]

Real

You got it

o7

[half topaz]

o7

[pulsar pond]

manifesting for you

mit dream

[minor pecan]

🤔

[pseudo hawk]

[radiant sorrel]

Guys since when did luck act nice im scared

I just read so manu mesages

[pseudo hawk]

it's not that he's mean

luck just dgaf

he'll say what he wants

[plain marsh]

no way

it’s a really cute topic

i like it

[strange wedge]

I knew it.

My Stanford essays are eating rn ew

[pulsar pond]

im debating whether i wanna apply to stanford

I want to die looking at the essays

[strange wedge]

I’ll hate them tmr though…that’s how it goes 😦

[pulsar pond]

as if ivy league schools haven't kicked my ass enough

[strange wedge]

Noo the prompts are so cute

[pulsar pond]

why are ivy schools so essay heavy

look at Emory and JHU

[pulsar pond]

they're cute but they demand effort

[strange wedge]

Real

[strange wedge]

Apply to northeastern. No essays

[pulsar pond]

yep that's what im doing

[strange wedge]

W

[pulsar pond]

fee waiver, no essays?

im up

[strange wedge]

WAIT how’d u get the fee waiver

[pulsar pond]

that's also the case for case western as well now

[pulsar pond]

they emailed me

[strange wedge]

Let me dig through my emails

[minor pecan]

always been nice

[minor pecan]

yeah, it’s pretty obvious

[pulsar pond]

extremely ironically they sent me this on the day i got deferred

[strange wedge]

I FOUND IT

[pulsar pond]

yep congrats

now apply

[strange wedge]

I’m on it

[pulsar pond]

they're just desperate for more ppl to apply

perhaps i'll contemplate whether i want to give neu or cwru a chance

i do like boston but pre-med cwru wins so much more

both got fee waivers and no essays so i could save a spot

[minor pecan]

northeastern always does this

they make the application like super easy so a lot of people apply and they can lower their acceptance rate

[strange wedge]

Ima submit NEU rn

Trust

[pulsar pond]

ik that's why it sucks tbh

like u give me a fee waiver but u can just reject me in the end

[strange wedge]

Oh wait I have to wait for a letter of rec to come in

Then I can submit

[hidden bloom]

typical northeastern W

[pseudo hawk]

I would agree if they didn't reject me

[hidden bloom]

😭

[rancid mural]

he didnt even apply with the current essay questions💀

the question is asking for exactly what it sounds like. talk abt culture, ur community, ur family, etc

i talked abt being black and adopted into a white fam

[pseudo hawk]

i wrote about moving a lot cuz my dad is in the navy and a g.i. joe action figure

[sweet tundra]

for the intellectual experience essay would it be better to write about a singular event/experience or can you write about an extracurricular in general

[pseudo hawk]

it doesn't really matter as long as it's important to you and you can explain why it's important

[rancid mural]

nahhh bro i actually got 2 followers that r prefrosh from Phillips exeter 😭

these kids look so preppy

[sweet tundra]

one of the rich kids at my school literally held himself back a year and transferred to exeter 💀

[rancid mural]

i was mad abt not going to alabama's stem school but it didnt matter

[pulsar pond]

brother this is northeastern

[hidden bloom]

That’s what I meant 💀

[hidden bloom]

Literally saw that too

[pulsar pond]

oh

lol sorry I read it as northwestern

[final yacht]

can someone who got in help with essays or smth 😭😭

[pulsar pond]

man you're already going to Stanford

why apply

[sweet tundra]

frr

[pulsar pond]

every one of you already got an offer

[final yacht]

harvard is my top choice 😅

[pulsar pond]

i respect your harvard dreams

[final yacht]

but harvard rea defers too many people so i applied stanford rea

[pulsar pond]

but if i were u i would be happy to settle for stanford

just saying

[pulsar pond]

what kind of wack logic is this help

bro is god

[final yacht]

yeah im over the moon but like i just wanna know so bad if i can get in

[tacit lotus]

It’s never enough

The grind never steps

[final yacht]

its true tho. i wanted an immediate decision. not a deferral

[pulsar pond]

stopppp

have some mercy on dudes like me sinking in the deferral ocean

[tacit lotus]

I got an immediate decision from Columbia, just not the one I wanted

[final yacht]

oop im sorry :/ hopefully it works out for rd

[final yacht]

where did you get deferred

[pulsar pond]

here

Harvard

[tacit lotus]

Defers go crazy tho

[final yacht]

o

yeah applying early to harvard imo is not smart since they like defer 85% of people

[pulsar pond]

thank you i know im not clever

[final yacht]

i told my friend this too but he ended up getting in…

🫢

[pulsar pond]

ow

my heart hurts

literally

[final yacht]

take some rest lol and then get to writing those supps

[tacit lotus]

Meanwhile all of my friends are only staring down defers or rejections

[pulsar pond]

im already done with Columbia Yale and Emory

working on Brandeis

[tacit lotus]

Does Havard have a loct?

[pulsar pond]

hoping to get Brandeis and JHU done by today

[pulsar pond]

oui

[tacit lotus]

When does that come out for you

[pulsar pond]

if u r talking about loci

if it's not idk wut u talking about

[tacit lotus]

Yeah loci

My mind went interest

[pulsar pond]

ill write it when im done with all my supps

i want to submit by early feb

i think its kinda late tho

because in jan results will come out for a prestigious scholarship in my area

so if i get shortlisted i want to include that in my loci

[sweet tundra]

bro what

ik two ppl who have stanford as their top choice and rea’d to yale and princeton as if their chances were much higher

[final yacht]

well did they get in?

[sweet tundra]

nope both deferred 😭

[final yacht]

oh damnn

[bitter path]

Gimme stanford and i’ll give u Harvard 🧎‍♀️

[bitter path]

Literally me 💀 but in my mind Stanford rea feels more competitive compared to Harvard’s

[bitter path]

Their essays are literally harvard’s so I am actually enjoying writing these

[pulsar pond]

yea i feel like if i just recycle harvard supps i'll be done with them by tonight

Brown and UPenn are the problem now

[stable pecan]

real im feeling too lazy to do stanny

[bitter path]

That’s what I am doing, I think I only wrote like few sentences for the 50 words

Others are harvard copy and paste

[stable pecan]

no tweaks? ballsy ngl

[bitter path]

Does brown frfr need a video 💆‍♀️

[pulsar pond]

i wouldn't dare copy and paste

[pulsar pond]

fuck

are they serious

i don't want to record myself

where does it say they need a video

[pulsar pond]

i feel like my Harvard supps weren't the best

[stable pecan]

i had no reach EA so I have no way to tell my supp quality

cept my gut

[bitter path]

Only reason im copy and pasting cuz it worked out 💀

But i rewrote one of the essays

[pulsar pond]

girl i understand

but that's not my case honeyyyy

[bitter path]

Lumina u will get in somewhere good

Just trust the process

[pulsar pond]

i pray man

Emory please accept me

Im the most proud of one of the essays i wrote for Emory

[bitter path]

Lemme go look if brown fr needs a vid cuz i wanna apply

[pulsar pond]

if i finish brown and JHU today i fr wanna play a round of lol

[stable pecan]

we will finish our essays

[pulsar pond]

pray

[stable pecan]

no prayers needed

[pulsar pond]

I should be able to do all schools due on 2nd of Jan

by today

but Brown and 5th of Jan schools will kill me

[bitter path]

Why do they say the vid is optional but ppl are saying it’s like harvard’s old ‘optional’ essay

[pulsar pond]

nani

what they hell do they mean

what is harvard's old 'optional' essay

[bitter path]

They used to say it was optional but nobody got in without writing it

[pulsar pond]

can I hand it in later

like not 3rd of Jan

[bitter path]

I think u can but also im not even sure

Gotta ask cat

[bronze gyro]

Is it still somewhere in the app that I cant see?

[bitter path]

Noo dw about it

They removed it

And gave us 5 essays 😔

[stable pecan]

portal

u submit it on the portal

oh

im just reading the chat wrong

IGNORE what i said, i was talking about brown

[final yacht]

did you get into harvard?

[bitter path]

Yh

[final yacht]

damn when

[dusky schooner]

wait what does harvard have now

OH EW WTF THEY HAVE REQ ESSAYS

the old was better

[strange wedge]

👀…

[bitter path]

A day before u got into Stanford

[bitter path]

Is Harvard fr ur top choice🧍‍♀️

[reef forge]

5 200 word essays

[wind coyote]

Could I read someone's roommate essay?

[tiny tiger]

I'm completing my Harvard essay today 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[full bolt]

Could I read someone's prompt 1 essay just as an example

[stable pecan]

i deleted ur previous message that fell under the category

since I deleted it, I replied to another message

[buoyant carbon]

@jolly lichen how did ur friends jump straight to GR? do they get perms from profs or are their very little prereqs

[jolly lichen]

at least in physics/math/cs/stats at Harvard there are prereqs but they're just suggestions. you can just enroll in whatever classes you want without overrides

[sand iris]

That's really nice

[gritty oak]

that’s crazy actually

[jolly lichen]

it's not always a good idea and I know people (including me) who have gotten bitten in the ass by taking classes they shouldn't have

but on the whole I thought it was really nice to have the flexibility

[buoyant carbon]

is this like a well known thing

[jolly lichen]

wdym by well known

[buoyant carbon]

like should i include this in an essay

[jolly lichen]

oh uh idk if its known to admissions

but it's known by all the undergrads

[buoyant carbon]

ok ill just say “upon speaking with undergrads” or smth

[pulsar pond]

I wouldn't say it's a good idea to do that brother

like mentioning flexibility is fine but I beg you not to say upon speaking with undergrads

[jolly lichen]

why

[pulsar pond]

it sounds very cringe to me just saying

idk if AOs will look at you and think oh you're so desperate

ofc Im nobody to stop you

im just saying personally im not very comfortable with writing that

up to you

[jolly lichen]

sure I can see that

is there even a why Harvard essay?

I thought there wadnt

but maybe it fits into another prompy

[pulsar pond]

How will u use your Harvard education

sth like that

[pseudo hawk]

not specifically

which is why i hate the harvard prompts

they aren't clear with what they want

[buoyant carbon]

im not gonna say it word for word lmao

[pulsar pond]

alright good

[buoyant carbon]

and yeah ofc that sounds cringe

[pseudo hawk]

just don't say it at all

what benefit does it give?

[buoyant carbon]

because its areason i wanna go there ._.

isnt that sortta the whole point of the what r u gonna do with ur harvard education essay

[pseudo hawk]

that doesnt answer the prompt

so no

[buoyant carbon]

i already answered the prompt

and im saying why harvard would help m e

[pseudo hawk]

okay, so how does talking to harvard students reflect on you as an applicant

how does that make you better

[buoyant carbon]

oh not talking to harvard students

its just that they might not know

that the prereqs are just suggestions

as abnon said

just so they know im not talking out of my ass imma say that

[jolly lichen]

yeah seems legit, it's a very nice benefit for a small subset of the population

but for the people it helps, not retaking 4 semesters of content is huge

[low spire]

.-.

[rancid mural]

maybe if ur tryna play a game w admissions, a lot of ppl apply bc it is their top choice lmao

[rancid mural]

ive noticed even for psych, theres the prereqs then it says "OR approval from professor"

[hidden bloom]

You applying Harvard rd then, or are you committed to Stanford?

[mint portal]

Yo my harvard dudes

For the people that are reporting ap scores

And SAT testing

Does your Testing Page on your pdf preview for the review and submit section look blank

And say something like “no information to display here”

[tawny dock]

hey, are any admitted students comfortable sharing their application essays? really struggling with the two new questions, and there aren't any out there online

[stable pecan]

yh

i thought CA just blurred them naturally

[gritty oak]

^ that

[hot urchin]

i've been eyeing GR because the ideas in Math 132 were pretty fun, and I heard GR could help motivate Math 230a. But, I dont have any physics background. Is there anything you recommend I do before taking GR?

there's also a new course Math 166r on semi-riemannian geometry under Puskar Mondal, but im feeling iffy about it.

well, i did learn Kepler's laws of motion in a class on TMFs, but i dont think that counts lol

[jolly lichen]

omg lmao didn't expect you/actual harvard advice here hahaha

how much is "don't have any" background? like did you take AP physics in HS?

in general, if you're gonna take it this year, jacob barandes as a lecturer for 210 is legendary, would highly recommend in a vacuum

[hot urchin]

like, I took an equivalent of AP Physics 1 (or whateva the one before electromagnetism is) through Dual Enrollment two years ago

[jolly lichen]

I heard GR could help motivate Math 230a
yeah this is true. spacetime is a smooth manifold, lie groups and actions represent symmetries in spacetime, geodesics are the equations of motion in gr, yada yada

lots of great connections

Is there anything you recommend I do before taking GR?
if you're planning on taking GR like... right now I think the biggest thing is like... getting back into a physics mindset with some mechanics. in some sense, GR is nice because you don't need much outside of mechanics and some field theory (depending on how it's taught)

[hot urchin]

i was thinking of taking GR next year maybe? but this year could work - i can exchange set theory for GR

[jolly lichen]

set theory sounds lame

gr is way better 😌

[hot urchin]

oh, i just wanted to take set theory so that i can go "HoTT and infinity categories >> set theory"

[jolly lichen]

gah not infinity categories 😭

[hot urchin]

they're nice

they're cute

[jolly lichen]

my math friend that I took gr with got super nerd sniped by infinity categories

had to hear him go on and on about them every time we psetted

[hot urchin]

as he should 🥹

[jolly lichen]

I think the easiest way might just be to read a GR textbook? the class usually follows carroll or wald. you could give those a shot. if you need an easier intro, hartle and schutz are more accessible

but tbh I think the best thing to do is to find a physics friend lol

you teach them about lie derivatives and they teach you about lagrangians on the fly

[hot urchin]

slayy, i'll beg a physics kid ik to take it with me.

[jolly lichen]

this friend I think only took 143a before 210 and they were fine so I think you should be ok too

oh they might have had 153 too I forget

[hot urchin]

lmfao, welp, we'll see how it goes (if i can convince her)

[jolly lichen]

wait who is her 👀

[hot urchin]

is Jacob chill with grading?

[jolly lichen]

yah should be fine

[hot urchin]

Jennifer - class of 2026

[jolly lichen]

gah ok I'm too old for this 😭

[hot urchin]

we've been discussing course schedules, and ik hers isnt locked in yet

[hot urchin]

the only physics dino ik is Victoria class of 23

we took phil 140 together this fall

[jolly lichen]

I think the other thing that's nice about gr for math people (beyond the fact that it's self contained) is that it's also a pretty clean open closed theory

like you can state axioms and then derive most things from there

[hot urchin]

wah, okay, i'll just take it then

[jolly lichen]

as opposed to something like QFT where the mathematical rigor is basically nonexistent and there are arguments about what assumptions are actually axiomatic and yada yada

[hot urchin]

worst comes to worst- pass fail it

[hot urchin]

omgeh so true

[jolly lichen]

it's so good highly recommend 🙏

[hot urchin]

i tried to take dan freed's class, and wtf

the dude said "in this class, u will fet comfortable with not being confortable"

and then when he was asked about the vague homework policy

he said "i said we should keep an open mind and be comfortable with things not being settled or defined properly"

that and the fact that he was handwaving so much math i didnt know made me check out

[jolly lichen]

oh ok ok wait you should learn some basics of special relativity so that you aren't totally ass fucked when the course assumes you know what "equivalence principle" or "reference frames" mean

[jolly lichen]

oh was this the math of qft seminar thingy

[hot urchin]

yes

[jolly lichen]

ahahahaha

[hot urchin]

geometric theory of the quantum viewpoint or something

[jolly lichen]

it's because the physicists don't know what the fuck is going on yet either

[hot urchin]

i have to go rn - will come back in an hour

[hot urchin]

yeah,,, i could tell T^T

[jolly lichen]

oh the other nice thing for math people is that assuming you are comfy with basic diff geo/manifolds (metrics, (co)vectors, tangent spaces, lie stuff), you can learn the basic physics while the physics kids learn the diff geo at the beginning of the course

[rancid mural]

it should be blank yes

[rancid mural]

i doubt anyone will do this

it opens then up to plagarism

[hot urchin]

lmfao, how long is this period? that's a relief

[jolly lichen]

O(3 weeks)?

[hot urchin]

pogg

any other physics classes you'd recommend?

[jolly lichen]

if you want to learn the real deep shit 253a but it sounds like that's already kinda tainted for you lol

other than that 262 is a very cool class imo

[hot urchin]

yeah,,, i'll see if i can stomach qft next year

[jolly lichen]

other than that I think it just depends on what flavors of physics you think are cool

253a definitely has higher barrier to entry, gotta learn nonrelativisitc quantum first

but you'll have the relativistic part down from GR

[hot urchin]

so 143 series? 251 series?

[jolly lichen]

nah just 143a is enough

I mean... more is better but 143a is sufficient

[buoyant carbon]

@hot urchin have you taken a class with joe harris

or with siu’

[hot urchin]

harris taught 55ab my year

[buoyant carbon]

wow

how is he

he seems amazing

[hot urchin]

he's a great lecturer. he's also rlly nice

a bit too nice if that's possible

[buoyant carbon]

lmao

thats awesome

[hot urchin]

he's like always smiling - it's kinda wack how he just loves teaching and math

siu? i have not taken any proper analysis classes, so nope

i believe harris will no longer teach 55 after this year, so he will be free to teach other classes

[buoyant carbon]

sadge

its not like imma get in anyway why am i even sad

are you taking AG anytime soon

[hot urchin]

i did hear that siu is kinda funny in his lectures: he gives random life advice and stories

but his lectures from a pedagogy standpoint are not that worth?

[buoyant carbon]

i had a prof this semester that did that, she’d be like “i give you life analogy”

[hot urchin]

this was from a kid who has a horrendous sleep schedule and work load so his bar of "worth it" might not match your bar

I think Hopkins is the comedian of the dept for sure

For example, he was talking about to define a limit in quasicategories. And he started going on why cones and cocones are named the way they are. He said "see, if I made them, I would've made cocones just nes, but whatevs"

dad jokes galore

[buoyant carbon]

LMAO

[hot urchin]

he also told us one time where he said "that's trivial, honey!" to his wife, and how triviality didnt translate very well to non-math folks

when you guys (mostly grad students) grow older and have families of your own, y'all must take care not to use the word "trivial." To us, it's great! To everyone else?? Nah. just no.

[buoyant carbon]

yeah obvious is prolly a better word lmao

[hot urchin]

i plan on taking AG next year. classical (undergrad) AG is a sprint class, but it conflicts with an alg top class (second in a grad sequence)

[buoyant carbon]

wdym by sprint class

[hot urchin]

sorry, spring

[buoyant carbon]

o lol

[hot urchin]

so, i'll prolly take modern AG (grad) since it's available fall and spring in a sequence

[rancid mural]

submitted

[hot urchin]

depends on who's teaching tbh

[buoyant carbon]

GG

[rancid mural]

i submitted too fast and got one of my cultural traditions wrong in my essay

[buoyant carbon]

rip

[buoyant carbon]

isnt this normally discouraged cuz just learning schemes w/o varieties is a bit unmotivated

[hot urchin]

if you get in and come for prefrosh visitation day, or are in the area, i can show u around the math dept. it's small but cozy :3

[hot urchin]

well, yes, but a grad student who's under Gaitsgory asked me who tf needs classical AG nowadays, so I was like okie

also, i can deal with unmotivated lol

[buoyant carbon]

fair enough

i cant lmao

fricking hate books like spivak calc on manifolds, screw that book

why is that book even recommended? its literally like a students course notes minus any motivation they might have added themselves

[hot urchin]

never read thru it

[buoyant carbon]

its prolly like guillemin pollack? if u guys used that for diff top

(i just checked which class 132 is lol)

[hot urchin]

oh, i did use GP

that was a cute book.

[buoyant carbon]

yeah i feel like its kinda similar to that tho its a bit worse

[buoyant carbon]

idk, absolutely zero motivation for differential forms imo

[hot urchin]

aww, GP has nice pictures and short sections tho, so i liked it

[buoyant carbon]

fair

[hot urchin]

ahh, yeah,,, well, I took diff top under Hopkins who kinda stopped using GP after some point

do u prefer Lee's?

[buoyant carbon]

not really, i havent read through it but i read through this one random book

but it provided so much more motivation

[hot urchin]

i'll be CAing diff top this spring, so i'm trying to figure out how to best motivate/explain stuff

[hot urchin]

whats the title?

[buoyant carbon]

like four different ways of interpreting the exterior derivative, how to actually derive the formula for the determinant (i.e. by assuming certain geometric properties you get that its unique)

[hot urchin]

wah, okay, slayy

[buoyant carbon]

A Visual Introduction to Differential Forms and Calculus on Manifolds

its kinda weird tho, some notation is quite different and its handwavy by what it considers a manifold

[buoyant carbon]

honestly the biggest thing I struggled with is “what the hell do people mean when they say if you try defining integration on manifolds you get differential forms”

[hot urchin]

i think Lee was the one who said "diff top is the study of invariants under notation/definition changes"

so that's fine w me

[reef forge]

They fr downloaded so fast

[left sky]

what up harvard nerds

[pseudo hawk]

Think I’ve hit a wall now

Writing for Harvard for 12 days is making me a bit crazy 😅

Mental block is a bitch

[left sky]

not writing for harvard until dec 1 is killing me

[cold quartz]

why

💀

[pseudo hawk]

I started December 15

basically after my NU rejection

[opal night]

I started writing Harvard yesterday 😀

[timber oriole]

are u guys writing the roommate essay like how you wrote stanford's

or are yall using bullet points to list the top 3 things

[pseudo hawk]

do NOT use bullet points.

but it is a list, not a letter

[timber oriole]

do you write as if it's a letter

or just a very boring here are three thing abt me

[pseudo hawk]

no

it's not a letter to your roommate

just answer the prompt

[late zenith]

Harvard has long recognized the importance of enrolling a diverse student body. How will the life experiences that shape who you are today enable you to contribute to Harvard?

classic diversity prompt?

[rancid mural]

it truly does not matter

the entire POINT of the prompt is to be creative

if u wanna be creative through a letter then do that

jf u wanna be creative through bullets then do that

harvard couldnt care less

[rancid mural]

i did letter for rea cus i could be more silly and show my personality

[bronze berry]

yea same i like wrote a sentence before every paragraph to make it listlike but the content itself was written letter-like addressed to the roommate so that i could be a little quirkier in the writing

[rancid mural]

same

i said "the first thing you may want to know about me is..."

[left sky]

does opening with "what up foo" count as creative

cuz if it is then im golden

i think it's pretty creative

[plain marsh]

luckkkkkkk

@minor pecan

[minor pecan]

hi

[left sky]

hi @minor pecan

how you doing this fine evening

[plain marsh]

fan

i asked first

[minor pecan]

🤔

[plain marsh]

luckkkkk

[minor pecan]

what’s up cat

[plain marsh]

hai

[minor pecan]

hi

[minor pecan]

im ok

what about you feller @left sky

[plain marsh]

no hai is CRAZY…

[minor pecan]

hai cat

[plain marsh]

haiiii <3

[minor pecan]

did you see starry night

[plain marsh]

YES

[minor pecan]

that’s my art teachers favorite piece

[plain marsh]

my friend and i (both below 5’2) had to FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES. to see it

[minor pecan]

lmao

[plain marsh]

we took a selfie in front of it

it was so cute

[minor pecan]

oh nice

🔥

[plain marsh]

so tourist

so cute

we also saw monet’s water lilies

not all of them of course but

some

[plain marsh]

so cute

[minor pecan]

that’s saurr cute

[plain marsh]

you get it omg

a man who gets it

[plain marsh]

i have to do my genshin dailies now

women in consistency 💪🏼

[minor pecan]

you know i downloaded that thing to see what it was about

but then they wanted me to download 30 gb worth of content 😵‍💫

[plain marsh]

who told you to do that

also ‘that thing’ is crazy

[minor pecan]

nobody

[plain marsh]

wait so

do you have other friends who play genshin

what compelled you to download it

[minor pecan]

i have one friend that plays it

he’s a try hard

but i just wanted to see what it was about

like

i just wanted to see

[plain marsh]

hmmm

i understand

[plain marsh]

can you ask him who he mains

[minor pecan]

i can but idk if he will respond to me

[plain marsh]

what

[minor pecan]

it’s complicated

he shows up for a few days and converses

and then ghosts for like 3 months

[plain marsh]

ohh

[minor pecan]

but we’re still friends tho

[plain marsh]

so he’s like you

[minor pecan]

um

actually

i don’t ghost anymore

[pseudo hawk]

You ghosted me

[plain marsh]

erm actually 🤓

[minor pecan]

😐😐

[plain marsh]

he ghosted me for a year

[pseudo hawk]

check dms

[plain marsh]

please do

tell him a hu tao main is asking

[minor pecan]

no

[pseudo hawk]

Did I troll you luck

[minor pecan]

i did it on accident

[minor pecan]

no

[pseudo hawk]

did you fall for it

was it funny

[minor pecan]

no

[plain marsh]

awwww so you wouldn’t do it again?

[minor pecan]

maybe

[pseudo hawk]

😢

[minor pecan]

depends

if i closed your dm and you never messaged me

you might get ghosted

[plain marsh]

so

you would close my dm? 💔

[minor pecan]

no i said if i closed it

i closed your dm on accident last time

[pseudo hawk]

so you did 💔

[minor pecan]

that’s why you were ghosted for a year

[plain marsh]

wow….

💔

[minor pecan]

😐😐

why am i getting double teamed

[rancid mural]

year is insane

[minor pecan]

im just a poor man

[minor pecan]

Where did you come from

[pseudo hawk]

now you’re playing the victim card

[minor pecan]

😐😐

[rancid mural]

I just got home

[pseudo hawk]

luck the manipulator

For shame.

[minor pecan]

😐😐

[rancid mural]

Had to check on my many important messages

[minor pecan]

I don’t manipulate

I don’t even know how to manipulate

[pseudo hawk]

bogus

[rancid mural]

You're textbook gaslighting rn

[minor pecan]

Gaslighting isn’t real bro

[rancid mural]

This is literally the definition of gaslighting

[minor pecan]

😐😐

[pseudo hawk]

Throw in the towel luck

You’re not beating the allegations

[plain marsh]

someone wrote ‘gullible’ on the ceiling of a brown dorm

[minor pecan]

you said that before