Harvard University (2023-2024)

[small hare]

I just have one choice so far since I did all RD

[late zenith]

man juist wants to be different

[violet prawn]

I wish I applied more early

[tall moat]

he’s just edgy chill

[violet prawn]

Overestimated my chances of getting in ED 😓

[small hare]

I wanted to as well but I procrastinated a lot with essays

[reef forge]

Im not crying about decisions im crying about ib

[small hare]

I barely even made RD deadlines and had to cut more colleges

[tall moat]

bud I literally bought a hoodie before REA dropped 😭

[small hare]

Rip Princeton and UPenn 😭

[violet prawn]

LMFAOO

[eternal jungle]

how many places did yall apply

[reef forge]

I bought a penn t shirt in 10th grade

[reef forge]

22. 3 safeties 19 reaches

[scenic sedge]

I updated abt coke scholar a week ago and now I got national merit finalist, should I update?

[small hare]

Around like 15

[tall moat]

nah 😭

[small hare]

That's kinda useless

[reef forge]

No

[small hare]

Gj on coke scholars tho, that is fire

[reef forge]

Nmf is basic

[violet prawn]

15 reaches 6 safeties + targets

[reef forge]

Coke is worth an update

[small hare]

Coke scholars are like guaranteed ivies or something like that almost

[tall moat]

20 reaches, 1 target

[violet prawn]

NO SAFETIES??

[scenic sedge]

I hope coke is enough

[reef forge]

Theres legit 10 coke scholars on this server istg

[tall moat]

ig 1 safety ish

[reef forge]

What is the safety

[violet prawn]

Correlation not causation ppl who win coke are usually very accomplished anyways

[tall moat]

clemson 😱😱

[cerulean flax]

coke scholar is amazing congrats

[eternal jungle]

i did 4 safeties

[reef forge]

If u go 0/20 will u take gap or go to clemson

[tall moat]

that won’t happen 😈

[violet prawn]

W mindset

[reef forge]

W mindset but also that shit risky asf 😭

Insane confidence

[violet prawn]

I’d rather take a gap year than go to neu

[small hare]

Ngl I took that risk too

[reef forge]

Yea no way in hell im redoing college apps bro fuck this

[small hare]

1 target and the rest reaches

[reef forge]

But at the same time its neu

I fucking hate neu

[violet prawn]

Alr but u got into gtown

[cerulean flax]

I only put schools I liked on my list tbh but it ended up being only 7 schools long

[violet prawn]

I haven’t gotten anywhere I acc wanna go

[reef forge]

Yall know my top 3 hatred 1. California 2. Neu 3. Test opt

[cerulean flax]

but it worked out

[tall moat]

everyone that EDd NEU at my school dropped out of their agreement

[reef forge]

Nah id rather go to utd

Than gap year

[violet prawn]

Love that I qualify for 2/3

Damn we acc are opps

[reef forge]

Theres plenty of cali nerds dw

@violet prawn Only 1/3

U arent going to neu

💀💀

[violet prawn]

BRO I PROBABLY AM

[reef forge]

Cap

[violet prawn]

RD not looking good

[reef forge]

U got like 20 RD

[violet prawn]

16

17?

[reef forge]

Yo twinnem

[eternal jungle]

im sure youll be fine

[reef forge]

I also have 17

15 rd 2 deferred

[violet prawn]

I feel like we have different definitions of fine

[small hare]

It's kinda scary how so many are prolly coming out on same day

[violet prawn]

I will not be fine.

[small hare]

Isn't ivies + UCs + maybe Stanford all on like same day

[violet prawn]

aka I’m not getting into an ivy.

[tall moat]

Stanford is usuallyy 4/1 ish

[small hare]

Oh ok

[violet prawn]

How many do u think you’ll get in

[honest finch]

I think Duke is usually on ivy day

[reef forge]

1-2

[tribal copper]

i regret applying to 20 schools 😭

[violet prawn]

ITS HIM

[tribal copper]

CHILL

[violet prawn]

I’d say you’ll get 5+ at least

[tall moat]

I think I’ll get 6+ then

[reef forge]

Wild

[reef forge]

I genuinely think u can lol

[violet prawn]

I think I’ll get 2 maybe 3

[reef forge]

Ill be surprised if both of yall dont bag ivies

[violet prawn]

I won’t (for me)

[reef forge]

def more

[violet prawn]

Idk

All my interviews were mid

No yale interview

[tall moat]

interviews r like 5% of ur app

[violet prawn]

I just hope I get lucky atp lmaoo

[timber oriole]

interview for ivies is like

if it didnt go so well

it wont matter

but if it went rlly rlly well

it'll boost ur app significantly

[violet prawn]

It’s not that they didn’t go well

They were just boring

They didn’t ask me interesting questions

[timber oriole]

ok nvm mainly boost is for harvard

[cerulean flax]

probably not significantly

[timber oriole]

apparently according to the msg history in this thread

[cerulean flax]

maybe get you over the edge

if you're already qualified

[timber oriole]

there was a discussion on this in this thread on saturday

[violet prawn]

And they all finished In less than 30 mjns

[timber oriole]

ppl checked their admissions file

interview apparently carried some big weights

[reef forge]

Interviews are essentially useless

[timber oriole]

for harvard

[timber oriole]

yeah its fine

[cerulean flax]

interesting

[timber oriole]

ur fine

[violet prawn]

Did you ever get your penn interview

[tall moat]

rip 💀

[cerulean flax]

how does it indicate a big weight

[reef forge]

Still havent got penn duke harvard Yale

[timber oriole]

also im having so much fun reading thru the harvard lawsuit

[reef forge]

Expecting autoreject on duke and yale and harvard

[tribal copper]

nah fr tho

[violet prawn]

I cried after my harvard and princeton interview

[tribal copper]

my yale interview was my best one

[timber oriole]

containing every interviewer feedback

[timber oriole]

there ya go

harvard and yale care abt interviews i think

[reef forge]

Friendly reminder me and others have been accepted with a 20 min interview to a school that calls it important on cds 😭

[tall moat]

i forget u alr got gtown

[tribal copper]

but the thing is interviews can be soo subjective

[tall moat]

ur fine

[cerulean flax]

my harvard interview was my worst one

[tribal copper]

if u get a shitty interviewer

[timber oriole]

arent u already prefrosh

what college

[tribal copper]

u can have a trash interview

[tribal copper]

the one in this megathread

[reef forge]

U wouldve got in either way

[timber oriole]

o

[tribal copper]

lmfaoo maybe

[timber oriole]

i just think that

[tribal copper]

but good interviews can fr be great to ur app

[timber oriole]

these top schools care a lot abt personality

thererby putting more focus on interviews

but its not like one bad interview will ruin everything

[reef forge]

What can i say? Its hard to beat the himothy allegations

[timber oriole]

as long as u dont say sm unhinged shit 💀

[tall moat]

woah there bud

slow ur roll

[reef forge]

Didnt u predict urself getting into 6 t20s and also say brown and cornell werent good enough for you 😭

[cerulean flax]

idk about this one but you're fs right about personality and mid interview not ruining everything

[reef forge]

At least my yapping is based on an acceptance

[tall moat]

when did I say any of this?? ur crazy

who told u that

[reef forge]

Here

💀

[timber oriole]

i mean my logic is simple - interviews are one of the most direct ways to learn abt an applicant's personality

[tall moat]

I don’t see anything

r u ok

[reef forge]

Cancel this fool

Bros faking disabilities

🙏🙏😭😭

[tall moat]

U faked gtown acceptance

[timber oriole]

cmon at least bros not saying that their mom died only for the ao to call their home and their mom picks up

[tall moat]

im 110% sure

[reef forge]

No way that happened

[reef forge]

Oh naurrr u caught me redhanded

[timber oriole]

its a traditional story by now

[reef forge]

I wouldve gotten away with it too if it wasnt for u meddling kid

[timber oriole]

btw

whats gtown's best majors

[tall moat]

art

[timber oriole]

i cant find anything useful on usnews

[cerulean flax]

polisci stuff probably it's in DC

[reef forge]

International affairs, anything business, polisci gov

Premed

[timber oriole]

how are those ranked

[cerulean flax]

idk

[reef forge]

Us news rankings are pretty shit

[tall moat]

poli sci is highlyyyy ranked

[reef forge]

They arent t20 polisci according to us news

[timber oriole]

at least a standardized way for a noob like me to know how good a program is 😭

[reef forge]

Consensus #1 on most other sites

[timber oriole]

idk nothing abt these majors

[late zenith]

obly if AO interview

[timber oriole]

wat the

[timber oriole]

we werent talking abt getting an interview, just how well the interview plays out

[reef forge]

Business is good imo. Ranked t3 everywhere except us news. In my opinion its about 5-7 overall. Mcdonough has 2nd highest avg starting salary and is a target for investment banking

[timber oriole]

oh thats good

[reef forge]

The business + global affairs double is pretty well renowned

[timber oriole]

why is usnews opping

[reef forge]

I hope to get in if i go

[reef forge]

They put uc davis at 28

Who knows what they are thinking

[timber oriole]

i mean

from the fact that they put berkeley outside of t10

yeah ik usnews is scuffed

berkeley is one of the top 6 unis worldwide

[reef forge]

Berkeley is NOT a t10 lmfao who told u that bullshit

[timber oriole]

buddy

[late zenith]

easier version of huntsmann

[timber oriole]

cal on top

[late zenith]

berk t20

[reef forge]

Aint no way u genuinely believe this

[tall moat]

someone got into ucb 🙄

[late zenith]

no way t10

[timber oriole]

yes i do

[timber oriole]

no i didnt

ucb's research output is insane

[reef forge]

Huntsman funding got pulled

So looks like we got a new numba 1

[timber oriole]

generally the six top unis in the world are oxbridge, harvard-mit, and stanford and stanfordrejects (berkeley)

[reef forge]

MET is walmart M&T

[timber oriole]

dont fight me thats what u get when u search online

[reef forge]

Haas is walmart wharton

[timber oriole]

intl

[reef forge]

Berk = wannabe penn

[timber oriole]

berkeley gets the hate cuz its a public

also if ur doing tech entrepreneurship/management then berkeley claps penn

[late zenith]

no wtf

lol

wajt

yeah

i thought u said almost wharton

[reef forge]

Haas gmp = walmart usc wbb

😭😭

[timber oriole]

wbb bruh

[reef forge]

They fr just try and ripoff everyones shit

[late zenith]

VC clears everything else falls to penn

[timber oriole]

wbb ppl need to stop traveling so much

[reef forge]

MET is insane tho like 2% AR

[late zenith]

whats wbb

ye someone got early here with rsi

to met

[reef forge]

World bachelors in business

[timber oriole]

met admission, just like berkeley ,is random asf

[reef forge]

Its an unrivaled program

In its field

[late zenith]

is it kinda like intl biz

[reef forge]

Usc, hkust, bocconi, 4th year u get to choose which u liked

Then u get 3 bachelors

[timber oriole]

u basically study at a new continent every year

[reef forge]

1 from each school

Its cracked

Insanely hard to get

U need to do 4 extra supps and an interview

In addition to usc regular supp

[timber oriole]

wbb the only way to get a gf on each continent

[late zenith]

AR?

harder then met

[reef forge]

There isnt one

All we know is the cohort is 40

30-40

I assume its <1%

[violet prawn]

literally

[rancid mural]

u get 3 bachelors?? wtf

[reef forge]

Yuh

[rancid mural]

did u apply for it?

[fossil willow]

only if its an ao interview or ur report said ur gonna be the next president of the us

most interview reports are standard positive

meaning its just "this is a good kid, i think they'd be good on campus"

[rancid mural]

idt people have bad interviews all that often

[fossil willow]

i was worried about getting an old interviewer from my state

but i got a young one who lives in nyc

[rancid mural]

ngl some of the old interviewers are really chill

[fossil willow]

so it was so relieving

[rancid mural]

i feel like the middle age gen x interviewers are the scariest 😭

[fossil willow]

and my state is notorious for hating that

so im very cautious around anyone like over 40

most of the college millennials and gen z ive met are chill

[timber oriole]

yeah thats what i said

only when the interview was really really really good

[undone stone]

mine was 3 hours lol

[fossil willow]

mine was no where close to that

that sounds awful

[undone stone]

and at his house LMAO

[fossil willow]

i wouldnt know what to talk about for 3 hours 💀

[undone stone]

it was like meeting an elderly neighbor

[cerulean flax]

3 hours is crazy

[jaunty umbra]

Same

[fossil willow]

i was alrdy running out of stuff to talk about at 45 mins

[reef forge]

Buddy was getting groomed 😭

[quick monolith]

This aboutta be me aieee

[random crow]

Isn’t that against protocol?

Like not allowed

[cedar salmon]

Bro ong

[random crow]

Tbh you should probably report that

[cedar salmon]

There was a post on the Reddit about this

[oak lava]

is anyone familiar with what it means if an ao offers a second interview, after the alumni interview

is it for clarification/addressing concerns in my app or more of a positive sign

[timber oriole]

could be either

[tall moat]

50/50 admit reject

[timber oriole]

it means they wanna know more abt u

basically means ur on the edge

uh oh

[tall moat]

don’t screw it up

and ur chance will be looking v good

[oak lava]

alr

[small hare]

wtf that's insane

arent likelies coming out this week or somewhere around now too, gl either way tho!

[solemn quest]

did you get ao interview

you got this

harvard on lock fr

[oak lava]

yes

if its 50/50 thats a little scary though

[eternal jungle]

you applied rd?

[oak lava]

ya

[eternal jungle]

oh nice

[wary sparrow]

Its harvover for me

[small hare]

same fr

[timber oriole]

harvey

[solemn quest]

no ur a lock

congrats

they def j wanna clarify stuff in ur app

did u have like unique circumstances

[oak lava]

nothing that doesnt already stand out in terms of hooks

not athlete/legacy/dean's list/child of faculty

[solemn quest]

maybe its a likely

[small hare]

wtf W

[solemn quest]

or did they specify interview

[oak lava]

interview

not a call

[tall moat]

harvard is known for their second interviews

[solemn quest]

either way extremely good sign

[small hare]

actually?

[solemn quest]

basically best sign u could get other than likely admittance

[small hare]

yeah

[solemn quest]

they prob just wanna confirm u are who u say u are

[small hare]

man I want something like that 😭

[solemn quest]

so u got nothing to worry abt

i doubt the 50/50 is contingent on ur performance but more on js whether u confirm what they think abt u if that makes sense

but also i know nothing

but like considering tehyre selectng ppl theyre sus abt it would make sense for 50% of them to not be admitted due to rightfully being sus?

no idea if that makes sense

[small hare]

@oak lava could you let us know about what it was about once it happened as well, just curious

[tall moat]

damn… I always knew A2C was above average but I forget that this server is wayyyyy above average

[fair prism]

I know this reply is mega late lmao but I will say my harvard interviewer today did mention that he had to get in his report this week because committee begins next week or something (so they might prescreen? who knows thou)

[violet prawn]

right this is making me so anxious lmao

[solemn quest]

i feel like ive heard abt someone getting second ao interview -> likely

[reef forge]

shit gives u an inferiority complex sometimes (not me im a sigma alpha looksmaxxing mogger)

[solemn quest]

like bye

could they see the reader notes on the literal screen bc that terrifies me

[tall moat]

tell that to a peasant and they would explode

[small hare]

prolly nothing

[violet prawn]

wait so they'll be done in the next two three weeks - ish ??? this is so frightening

[oak lava]

after the interview or ivy day lol

[reef forge]

It means….absolutely nothing

[small hare]

after interview

[solemn quest]

yale says committee is 4-6

[tall moat]

coke scholars, likelies… like damn 😭

[reef forge]

No way we are doing call astrology now

[solemn quest]

im tweaking cuz yesterday i called and they said they didnt have me in the system

[fair prism]

he did not say the time frame lol just that they starting next week

[solemn quest]

so i was like bruh did they check the admit students files or smth

[reef forge]

I alr told it to one

[tall moat]

y’all wait what does it mean if my interview said goodbye at the end of our interview instead of just bye

[violet prawn]

based on this server alone i am NOT getting into an ivy the competition is crazy

[reef forge]

I admire your confidence!

[oak lava]

i gotchu

[solemn quest]

ok no thats not what i mean 💀

[small hare]

easy admit

[solemn quest]

NO bruh im saying the oppposite

[rotund ember]

💀 calling me out

[solemn quest]

im saying they couldnt find me cuz they were checking the admit students list

[short shuttle]

accepted, "good" wad a signal

[solemn quest]

goddamn

LMAO

[violet prawn]

its a likely! congrats.

[tall moat]

that makes me even more scared LMAOO

ty all ❤️ will be updating my server name

[timber oriole]

no

[small hare]

hey bro 😡

[timber oriole]

truly cracked ppl are always on discord

[small hare]

fr

[timber oriole]

two of my frirnds who got in mit as juniors

including someone who literally medalled in four different international olys

[reef forge]

To what

[timber oriole]

also ranked 1st in the entire world in biology olympiad

literally lives on discord

[small hare]

dang

[tall moat]

they need to make a gender studies Olympiad fr

that’d be sick 😭

[timber oriole]

no...

[tall moat]

wb communications olympiad

[reef forge]

Tf

What r u gonna study

What percent of the population uses ze/zir pronouns

[timber oriole]

none outside of the us

it wont be an international oly

it'll be a national oly

[tall moat]

yeah u wouldn’t qualify for usgso

[small hare]

lmfaooo

[reef forge]

Shit would be a war if it was intl

[timber oriole]

frankly

not even fully national

half the states prob will refuse to participate

esp the ones in the south

[fiery crag]

can you not

ik it's a joke

but like just be nice because that's not really what gender studies is a bout

[opal night]

Princeton is number 1️⃣ anyways

[reef forge]

Please educate me

What is it about

[fiery crag]

it's just a specialized sociology degree. you don't see anyone clowning race/migration studies, which is also a sociology degree that specializes in ethnicities and history. same thing goes for gws. you learn about class structure + historical implications. idk where you got the neopronouns from lol

i really doubt you spend 4 years learning about neopronouns

[reef forge]

Right but what is it about

What do u actually do

Also what is a neopronoun

[fiery crag]

learn about diff power structures, women-led uprisings, how culture plays a role in the way queer people and women are oppressed in certain regions, etc. nothing you can really directly apply to the job market (other than policy analysis @ the office of women's affairs, social work, academia) but it's not worth clowning

[reef forge]

I don’t discriminate, henceforth i clown almost every major including my own

[fiery crag]

what u mentioned previously

[fiery crag]

lovely

what is yours

[reef forge]

If we can clown communications then we can clown gender studies

[reef forge]

I have sold my soul like an absolute bot

To finance

I am THE npc frat bro

[fiery crag]

okay makes sense now

[violet prawn]

you're not a frat bro

[fiery crag]

wharton is 4 u!!

[reef forge]

I will be!

[reef forge]

Wdym by that

Are u planning to major in gender studies btw

[violet prawn]

actually apparently upenn kinda big on greek life

like they make themselves known

my interviewer told me that

[reef forge]

If i dont join a business frat anywhere im cooked

[reef forge]

I wish i had an interviewer

[violet prawn]

cry

[reef forge]

Shit is not availability bruh

[violet prawn]

my upenn interview was the best one i had

im sorry but i think upenn is my top choice rn

[violet prawn]

i wanna say it isnt but im the only one from my school that got one

[reef forge]

Just like you did after 2 of ur interviews bc they aint yap with ur robot ass

[violet prawn]

so maybe it isnt? idk

[reef forge]

Im joking lmao penn def is availability

Its legit non evaluative too

Its not selective

[violet prawn]

no they were just hella pretentious

[violet prawn]

idk why no one else got it then

[reef forge]

Its ivies what did u expect

[reef forge]

Not enough ambassadors ig

[violet prawn]

out of the 7+ ppl that applied to harvard only 3 got interviews

[reef forge]

Or maybe they just dont share everything

[violet prawn]

from my school

[reef forge]

Who knows

[violet prawn]

nah my harvard interviewer defff was a legacy admit he was lowk braindead

i read his articles that he posted on the crimson

they weren't the best

he was an architecture and religion major

idfk why i got assigned to him

[reef forge]

Its random

Interviews dont matter much

[violet prawn]

ik but that doesnt stop me from getting anxious

[fiery crag]

i'll double major probably or get a minor yea

[fiery crag]

finance bros are all haters

[fossil willow]

learn the sociology of gender and sex

[fiery crag]

what do you do in finance? color pages?

[fossil willow]

i am prolly minor in gender studies

[fiery crag]

yay! very cool

good on you - i think we had this conversation before but this seems very cool and i hope it works out!

[fossil willow]

tbh idk what single gs majors do

ik theres human resources and stuff

[fiery crag]

academia or policy or social work

[fossil willow]

to like make title 9 policies and stuff

[fiery crag]

idk what that is sorry

canadian

let me google

ohhh icic

okay but tbh people who want to do that need an MPA

masters of public administration

[fossil willow]

ya i dont think most humanities ppl only have a bachelor

i think they usuallt go for masters or phd afterward

[fiery crag]

if harvard undergrad doesn't work out, you'll see me @ HKS 🥂

correct yes

or they do consulting + finance

my friend went to harvard for econ/soc and is now doing venture capital stuff

they get sucked in

[fossil willow]

resisting the urge to become a consulting sellout

[fiery crag]

stay true to yourself

don't think they're all very happy

college app season becomes club app season

not fun

[fossil willow]

i forgot i gotta apply for clubs

and internships

sobbing

[fiery crag]

hack: make your own club

and don't let any finance bros in if they reject you from their club

[cedar kite]

I got an interview in 2 days, kinda nervous

Anyone know what they’re notorious of asking?

[late zenith]

💀

[late zenith]

same at penn everyone j wanna internal transfer wharton or end up consulting route

[timber oriole]

is getting in those clubs that important

like what are their advantages - resume?

or connections

[cedar kite]

Woah insane thank you so much

[late zenith]

yeah

connections, alumni access, good resume padding, etc

certain clubs are more comp then others and help a lot

typically at ivies a lot of ppl do <insert ivy league> undergrad consulting club

[timber oriole]

oh

is that also where u find baddies

🥺

[late zenith]

bro is going to college for the girls

but yeah all the rich girls in there

also ivy league p attractive or sum like that

barnard think they have baddies but they dont their 2028 committed is so fucking ugly

[timber oriole]

bro check the whole context

i was on smth bro

the startup strat

[late zenith]

lmao

[timber oriole]

telling someone the marketing strat

not obsessed with baddies personally

😁

[timber oriole]

💀

[timber oriole]

💀 💀 💀

[late zenith]

man was asking dg too

[timber oriole]

LMFAOOO

[late zenith]

wrong person bro

[timber oriole]

ok thats acutally cuz i heard some CRAZY thing abt cali girls bro

[timber oriole]

OH>????

u knwo bg irl???

[late zenith]

nah lmao im just messing with you

[late zenith]

emree is better

and coxinator

and abhi

[timber oriole]

emree 😳

[late zenith]

i mean uc berk and ucla are asian central, no?

[timber oriole]

nah to find a player he gotta also be rich spoiled

then u get ur classic bad boy in movies

[timber oriole]

smth to do with the coastal culture too

whats ur state

[late zenith]

NJ

[timber oriole]

oh

im close

ny

[late zenith]

shi nice

[fossil willow]

!ivyday

[frigid gate]

Ivy Day Decision Date

Ivy Day decisions come out <t:1711666800:F> in your local time
1 month, 14 days and 17 hours until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[timber oriole]

do u know wwpn

[late zenith]

ny got a lot

[late zenith]

yes lmao

[fossil willow]

1.5 months guys

[timber oriole]

ehhh idk abt that

[late zenith]

so much indians

[timber oriole]

me personally

not many baddies here

[timber oriole]

wait do u live near

[late zenith]

im in northern

35m away

[timber oriole]

ohh

[late zenith]

but that area near central jersey is just all indians

[timber oriole]

thats dope dang

[late zenith]

there is more east asians where i am

[timber oriole]

im friends with a lot of them

[late zenith]

nice

[timber oriole]

we are meeting up at a scioly tourney at penn next week

😤

[late zenith]

i lived in brooklyn till i was 9

and went to the ps schools

ps <insert number> type schools

[timber oriole]

oh rlly thats cool

im not in the city tho

but close

[late zenith]

i see

nyu columbia

they got some

right

[timber oriole]

😳

columbia does have some

[late zenith]

im 20m from columbia rn

[timber oriole]

i was at columbia the other day

[late zenith]

valid

[timber oriole]

like 2 weeks ago

and DAYUM BRO

im telling u bro

😳

[late zenith]

wait

go to dms

[timber oriole]

LMFAO

[late zenith]

cant say it here

[wanton lance]

randomly popped into this server and this is the first thing i see 😭

its so far yet so close

[late zenith]

im p sure ur getting ivy

u sweeped the hardest EAs

[wanton lance]

my entire school has a betting game 💀

[wanton lance]

i hope so 🤞

[late zenith]

avg bay area school

[wanton lance]

i have 200 dollars on me for wharton and 170 against me 💀

kids are actually insane

[late zenith]

nothing better to do smh

why do ppl still care this much

[wanton lance]

fr

[late zenith]

+50 cuz ull get in

[wanton lance]

ya nothing much on this server so ill come back for ivy day to report everything

LMAOO

[late zenith]

i mean there wont be much to report all the cracked biz/finance ppl here know ur getting an ivy

[wanton lance]

i hope i meet their expectations 😭

gngn

[late zenith]

gn

[rocky yarrow]

that could mean like anything like that could be regional committee or the final 40 person committee, and honestly its expected they should be getting to any committee stage at this point. by no prescreen, i mean they just assign who they can not based on like who they need more info from after reading applications

[vague hemlock]

Y'ALL STAR THIS

being an AO seems so fun

[solemn quest]

anyone wanna essay trade

j bored and curious to see what ppl wrote

[wary sparrow]

Its harvover

😔

[autumn dock]

Did anyone from the Middle East and North Africa get an interview for Harvard or Yale yet?

[spring cave]

Or sub-saharan Africa?

[slate quartz]

They're doing subcommittee meetings at this particular timeline; they are prescreening applicants and will go over again and do full and intensive reviews in the full committee with filtered files starting late Feb to early March

[reef forge]

finance majors can actually get a job so theres that

[vague hemlock]

y'all talking about jobs

im an English major

[tall moat]

sure 😴

[autumn dock]

Just the Middle East since I haven’t heard of anyone getting one here

[jaunty umbra]

sure 🤭

[bitter path]

I had an AO interview back in Dec and got in; it was mostly cuz they wanted some clarification

Treat it like an alumni interview but the person on the other end has access to ur application

And from what I am assuming, the interview in itself wasnt really evaluative compared to how alumni interview would’ve been (I could be wrong)

they might just want to know more about something in ur application that piqued their interest or they just need more clarification and an alumni interview didn’t help as much

But it’s a 50/50 chance

Me and many ppl got in after an AO interview but ik some ppl that also got rejected after an AO interview

[eternal jungle]

what did they ask you about? if you dont mind sharing? like an ec or supplement thing or grades thing etc.

[bitter path]

For me it was mostly bcuz I decided to do an apprenticeship at a big bank (u study whilst working full time), they just wanted to know as to why I decided to do that, what was it like and etc

[eternal jungle]

oh cool

[wet light]

Can a coach still submit a recommendation for me or is it too late?

[jaunty umbra]

That’s interesting, fs

[cerulean flax]

Probably too late

[late zenith]

do u wanna go into finance

[solemn quest]

messaged u

[solemn quest]

messaged u

[cedar salmon]

huh maybe doing one of those is the new meta

[ruby matrix]

No interview raaah

[jaunty umbra]

Interviews don’t matter

[ruby matrix]

Why would they accept an intl student w/o interview

What if im a psycho who cant hold a conversation 😋

[jaunty umbra]

they could say the same for any person from the us that applied

maybe there are no interviewers in your area? It’s availability based

Just wait for decision day

[opal night]

Yale is wayyy better you’re not missing out

[oak lava]

ah gotcha

if you dont mind can i dm you some questions

[bitter path]

As of rn, yh

But my application wasn’t anything related to finance 💀

[bitter path]

Sure!

[late zenith]

alr ur set

harv + citi

[rocky yarrow]

prescreens for the 40 person committee and not for interviews right

[lofty depot]

I'm so glad harvard didn't accept me

can we still withdraw applications or is that not possible?

[grizzled dragon]

i doubt that's possible for deferred ppl

[lofty depot]

i feel so happy suddenly

all my stress was for nothin

[opal night]

Probably can

[tribal copper]

go to yale bro😭

[lofty depot]

every time i see ur name i just feel so happy for u lol

[lofty depot]

gonna consider

maybe i can check the portal

I do have a withraw application option

[ashen carbon]

hey wait what happened

[lofty depot]

enlightenment u can say lol

kinda realized harvard was never the place for me

idk what i was running for this entire time

[ashen carbon]

hey character growth!!

[lofty depot]

yeah ig haha

harvard gave me more pain than happiness

[ashen carbon]

yeah i’ve been hearing the most atrocious stories recently about it and i might have to come to that conclusion too lmao

[lofty depot]

like im literally in the darkest state ive even been and the root cause is harvard

plus all my friends who go there don't seem happy either

[ashen carbon]

i think if anything you should forgive yourself for the time you’ve sacrificed though

[lofty depot]

and i really wanna make peace and happiness an integral part of my future life

[ashen carbon]

there’s nothing to do but remember to assess your priorities

good!

[lofty depot]

aww yes

im glad i at least came to this realization

[lofty depot]

true again

[ashen carbon]

its growth right

so what are you thinking you might do then

[wary sparrow]

Its literally harover

[opal night]

I mean if it helps your mental health you should do it! But don’t do it if you think you’ll regret it

[lofty depot]

i have a new college ranking wait

[ashen carbon]

real

[opal night]

Bestie you got into pton you don’t need Harv 😭

[lofty depot]

and like if there's none of those, I'll go for oxford

[wary sparrow]

Oxford is alr so damn good

Like

[opal night]

Y’all have incredible options omg

[ashen carbon]

yeah exactly lmao

[opal night]

It’ll turn out great even if you don’t get Harv

[ashen carbon]

i’m still butthurt they didn’t even give me an interview lmfao

[opal night]

Me w Yale

[lofty depot]

i love it sooo muchh tooo but uk the financial factor kinda prioritizes the US for me

[ashen carbon]

just imagining over 40 tutors looking at my application and individually going “nah”

[wary sparrow]

How much is oxford per year

[ashen carbon]

fair

[ashen carbon]

less than us iirc? but barely any finaid

so avg aid is better in us

[tribal copper]

aww thank you❤️❤️

btw congrats on duke :)

[wary sparrow]

Wait u got duke too?

[lofty depot]

i don't have duke

[lofty depot]

no lol

[tribal copper]

wait you didn’t receive the likely??

[ashen carbon]

wait duke kunshan?

[tribal copper]

omg sorry it might’ve been someone else

[lofty depot]

it was duke kunshan lol

that's way easier is what ik

but thanks

[grizzled dragon]

wdym?

how's a 7.8% acceptance rate easy lmao

[ashen carbon]

i assume for intl students

[tribal copper]

SEE THATS DUKE

YOU ARE CRACKED

[ashen carbon]

the accept rate is like far lower at duke main campus

[lofty depot]

u only get 2 semesters at duke so-

[ashen carbon]

but still far more cracked than i’ve accomplished lmao

[tribal copper]

STOP DOUBTING YOURSELF GIRL

you did that shit

[lofty depot]

honestly that's just what harvard's done to me

[ashen carbon]

8% accept rate dude

[tribal copper]

were you deferred ea?

[wary sparrow]

Harvard is a far reach tho like for even the cracked kids

[lofty depot]

my confidence has reached record low lmao

[lofty depot]

yeah

[lofty depot]

ik but like that pain was something

[ashen carbon]

it’s a far reach even for certain nepo babies lol

the school is unreal

[wary sparrow]

Unless u play in fresh off the boat

Lol

[random crow]

I FINALLY GOT MY INTERVIEW O MY GOD

[ashen carbon]

nah but i heard he was actually cracked

[tribal copper]

aw sorry to hear

[wary sparrow]

Hudson or ian?

[random crow]

I FULLY THOUGHT I WASN'T GOING TO GET ONE BECAUSE MY SCHOOL ALREADY HAS THREE SPORTS RECRUITS TO HARVARD (probably won't get in still but alas exciting)

[tribal copper]

harvard is actually a crap shoot tho

[ashen carbon]

no way both

[tribal copper]

don’t get down on yourself

[wary sparrow]

Both got in

[lofty depot]

wowie!! congratulations!!!

[tribal copper]

congrats!!

[lofty depot]

you're right! tysmmm

[random crow]

for real it's like such a low percentage

[ashen carbon]

ian is 2008

[wary sparrow]

Huh

[ashen carbon]

damn i’m a liar

nvm 2006

[random crow]

also who's getting down on themselves this is ungood behavior (but also relatable i can't reprimand you that hard)

my self esteem in this process just like, rollercoasters around its crazy

[tribal copper]

thats real

and a2c doesnt help at all

unfortunately

[grizzled dragon]

ms luck lol

[opal night]

Me asf

[random crow]

like one second i go "i'm going to get in to amazing places"

and next minute i'm like "ig i'm going to community college"

it's wild

[ashen carbon]

my self esteem is at an all time low but it’s like completely unjustified

[ashen carbon]

nah

[lofty depot]

can relate lol

[ashen carbon]

this part of it feels like a roulette game to me LMAO

i feel like i’m betting on a number

[random crow]

yeah

[wary sparrow]

To me it feels like you’re applying to become someone’s bf/gf

[random crow]

THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING

[lofty depot]

i just need one college in the US!! please god

[random crow]

I KEEP TELLING MY FRIENDS HOW THIS FEELS LIKE STRESSFUL DATING SIMULATION

[tribal copper]

it is tho honestly

[lofty depot]

bahaha and the person keeps ghosting you

[tribal copper]

college decisions are so incredibly random

you never know

[random crow]

yeah

maybe

they'll slip on a banana peel and put my letter in accepted

honestly though kinda realizing sports recruits might not be considered in the same pool as normal applicants

so that makes me

slightly less hopeless?

still flipping a very uneven coin though

[lofty depot]

why is it this way 🤧

[random crow]

too many students

[opal night]

Same :(

[random crow]

also i think its fair to note college admissions people can have extremely different takes on students

[tribal copper]

too many factors

way too many

[random crow]

like i've had ppl review my app (former ao's and college counselors) and have literally had one say "i hate everything about this" and another say "this is going to make me cry" on the same essay

it's just not an objective process

[lofty depot]

btw guys how bad is it if

[tribal copper]

100%

i was blessed by my AO

she loved my stuff

[tribal copper]

if?

[ashen carbon]

oh right they’re personalized right

[lofty depot]

like in my duke interview the person asked me to tell them an interesting story about myself and I told them 2 stories both which were the exact things i wrote in my duke application lol

land that's the only thing he asked lol

[random crow]

doesn't really matter

like

[lofty depot]

I literally told them nothing new about me

[random crow]

first interview kinda doesn't matter

but also your personality is going to be different written and in conversation

[tribal copper]

hmm wdym?

[random crow]

so you are adding something new, even if its not actual content if that makes sense

[tribal copper]

YOU’RE GOOD

[ashen carbon]

the accept letters

[tribal copper]

they don’t really “cross rederence”

[tribal copper]

oh I got a call :)

[lofty depot]

oh yeah that makes sense

[ashen carbon]

LMAO wait likely?

[tribal copper]

yeahh

still in shock

[ashen carbon]

damn nice

[lofty depot]

have u guys ever seen the yale admit video? the bulldog one?

[tribal copper]

it’s playing in my head rn😭

w the music

[ashen carbon]

i’m gonna be honest i feel like realistically i’m not gonna get into any of my reaches

[tribal copper]

and the bulldogs moving

[ashen carbon]

yeah

[lofty depot]

that music gives me goosebumps for some reason

i love it fr

[ashen carbon]

really i think i have to let go of all the stupid reasons i want to go to specific colleges

[tribal copper]

please do

[lofty depot]

lol i only applied to reaches so it's kinda joever for me

[tribal copper]

i feel like this kinda sets you up for potential disappointment

stay hopeful but don’t expect anything

[ashen carbon]

i think it has to do with unresolved entitlement i still have

sometimes i feel like my actual goal can be achieved anywhere i go since i don’t know what it is yet

and then other times i have tunnel vision

[tribal copper]

that’s completely correct

think long term !!

college is just a small part of that long term goal

same with high school

and middle school

and elementary

[ashen carbon]

the college process is honestly kind of just predatory marketing ngl

[tribal copper]

everything had been a part of that long term goal

[ashen carbon]

but it’s both ok and also fucked up how entitled and hopeful students will sometimes become

ok as in students should be allowed to be stupid that way

[ashen carbon]

i hope eventually i can pin down exactly what that goal actually is lmao

i think that for most even ivy-league-bound teenagers to assume you know what your end goal is is to kind of be shortsighted anyway

[tribal copper]

that’s real

i dont even know yet

but ik i like healthcare/medicine and i like science

thats all lol

[late zenith]

ivy -> finance pipeline

easy

a fool to think otherwise /j

[ashen carbon]

haha i feel that

i’d want to think i’m smart enough to make it to the end of college discovering something i could actually plausibly do but like realistically

[late zenith]

why am i seeing u everywehre now on a2c 😭 /j

[wary sparrow]

😘

[ashen carbon]

idk the investment banking world rn is garbage wall street is garbage big tech is garbage

[cosmic crypt]

Guys, so I saw on my portal that says I uploaded supplemental materials twice (but I remember only doing it once for the research papers). do you think I should email the ao to double-check? or is it unnecessary

[tribal copper]

i have to get off discord 💀💀💀

[ashen carbon]

i’d pretend that knowing economics would maybe help me figure out what the exciting thing to do is but that’s probably also not true lmao

[late zenith]

ik your gonna do orfe->quant at princeton and then change 🇮🇩economy

[ashen carbon]

they’re uploaded lmao you’re fine

[wary sparrow]

Omg my future in a sentence

Am i that predictable

Lol

[late zenith]

yeah

tech is horrible rn

so much layoffs

ehh wall street is meh rn

[cosmic crypt]

okay thanks!

[late zenith]

IB is goated tho but thats just my opinion i dont wanna waste my 20s being a bum

i like the work hard play hard culture

[ashen carbon]

its been plateauing for a decade and i think its really connection based

[late zenith]

lmao real

[ashen carbon]

nah bc i would but one of my family friends is doing it in nyc rn and she is miserable

[late zenith]

i mean u got lots of interests like ur math, eng, philsophy, linguistics so u can def find a niche

[ashen carbon]

she can’t enjoy nyc because she is never not on call

[late zenith]

Green is the color of the grass you need to touch!!

[wary sparrow]

Pls

Lmao

[ashen carbon]

i think it’s a bit of a roll the dice thing

you need to know enough about your field to know it’s on the rise

[late zenith]

it has weird curves of going up and down and is generally volatile but id say it isnt necessarily connection based tho that helps a lot, you need skillset regardless where u go

[ashen carbon]

but enough about other fields to know where it fits in

[ashen carbon]

that’s fair

[wary sparrow]

[late zenith]

yeah fr u can get calls during midnight and then go to the office at 7 am before the market opens up its hectic asf

[ashen carbon]

i’d just feel sad going from interesting math/physics to ib which is funny because i think they’re actually valued more than business/econ/ieor majors

[wary sparrow]

It’s all for the 💰

[ashen carbon]

the bag you can never use

[late zenith]

ye like find an intersectionality point or combine them smth like that, an english major wont suffice financially

[ashen carbon]

until you have kids

[wary sparrow]

I actually can tho

🤑🤑

[late zenith]

generally they kinda are bc they have v good intuition, logic, reasoning skills, think fast on their feet, etc business isnt even a major and econ is good but math/physics r heavily sought after

[ashen carbon]

a bag you use to buy a bomb-ass car! but then you can’t use it six out of seven days and you gotta pay for parking in new york city which is more expensive than renting

[late zenith]

yes money is happiness

[opal night]

cannot agree

[late zenith]

hes gonna make indonesia the next g7 🔥

[ashen carbon]

that is actually not a joke renting a car in nyc costs less than parking for most people

[late zenith]

live below your means nyc is fun to walk in

get ur cardio in as well

two birds with one stone

[ashen carbon]

valid

[late zenith]

ppl are so fucking lazy

and irrational

[ashen carbon]

get drinks on sunday! but then you can’t get wasted bc you have call at 3am the next morning

[late zenith]

when it comes to money

[late zenith]

ib party hard tho

esp at them networking fairs

the suffering is temporary

u can exit after 2-4 years

or jus do career progression

[ashen carbon]

yeah ik that’s true at least

it’s just like how is our economic system efficient if to create significant value in society you have to spend two to three years exploiting society to keep yourself financially stable

idk that’s an oversimplification but holy shit right

[late zenith]

well it will play a role in your happiness tho that depends for each person, like a trip to california didnt pay itself yk

and everything u want for ur loved ones is directly linked to money

ofc it doesnt literally buy happiness

but removes a lot of stress

[ashen carbon]

money bought walter white happiness

[late zenith]

capitalism at its finest

[ashen carbon]

ignore that he got arrested and lost his entire family

[ashen carbon]

i mean obviously capitalism isn’t supposed to be efficient but why bother pushing for a more efficient economy if the system is rigged from the start

[ruby matrix]

how about you capitalize on DN

[vague hemlock]

FOR REAL

[jaunty umbra]

you’re real for this 😭 I’m the same way too but tbh I can’t let my self esteem go up just bc I got in somewhere or let it go down bc of other results

[vague hemlock]

yeah i kinda let it go up too much after berkeley and now im gonna be disappointed when rd comes out lol

[sullen meteor]

Anyone on server got interviews from India harvard?

[vague hemlock]

my classmate did

[jaunty umbra]

Did Harvard likelies come out?

[wary sparrow]

My sister was like that and she rlly got into nowhere else for Rd 😭

[vague hemlock]

nooooooo now im scared 😭

[wary sparrow]

i mean she only applied to like jhu cornell penn but yeah

[vague hemlock]

she got into berkeley early?

[wary sparrow]

yeah

[vague hemlock]

damn

what major

[wary sparrow]

bio

[vague hemlock]

oof

where does she go?

[wary sparrow]

berkeley ofc

she didn't get into anywhere else

in the US

[sullen meteor]

ive heard of ppl who only got into harvard but no other ivy

[wary sparrow]

for stanford that happens too

[sullen meteor]

yeah

its so weird

[wary sparrow]

i honestly think sometimes it's all abt luck

Luck

[sullen meteor]

hmm yeah

[vague hemlock]

damnnn

you're intl?

[wary sparrow]

yeah

[vague hemlock]

was she like cracked lol

[wary sparrow]

not really

well

well

we're almost similar

[vague hemlock]

and you got into princeton right

[wary sparrow]

yeah..

[vague hemlock]

nice family

[wary sparrow]

i can say i'm more cracked 😄

[vague hemlock]

best private university, best public university

[wary sparrow]

i do research

she didn't

[vague hemlock]

what major are you?

[wary sparrow]

we're both into bio olympiads

i'm also bio

[royal spruce]

why do you suppose that is? i feel like people who get rejected from every other T10 somehow get into Stanford, but they reject students that get into multiple ivies

[wary sparrow]

this happened to my sister's ex

he got into nowhere but stanford

[royal spruce]

where does bro live the fuck

why is everybody around you cracked

😭

[wary sparrow]

well they met at a talented students program

so

if that explains it

[royal spruce]

oh fair

[wary sparrow]

Honestly I didn't think that he'll get into stanford bcs Idt his english skills are that good

[royal spruce]

you are high EFC or low EFC?

[wary sparrow]

we're all low efc

[royal spruce]

oh how did ur sister get berk then

[wary sparrow]

scholarship

[royal spruce]

i didnt apply because i was low EFC

[wary sparrow]

her ex also got into stanford with scholarship

[royal spruce]

oh damn nice

congrats to her!

[royal spruce]

what country, if u feel comfortable sharing

[wary sparrow]

i think her ex has pity points that just hit the stanford ao at the right spots

i think that's what happened

[wary sparrow]

southeast asia

[vague hemlock]

im hoping i wont be the person that gets into 1 t20 and nothing else

[royal spruce]

man me when

doesnt stanford send an AO note

[wary sparrow]

idk

[royal spruce]

i wish they did that for every school

[wary sparrow]

we didn't keep in touch

[wary sparrow]

but Princeton def did not have that