Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2023-2024)

[raven saffron]

He was apparently #NotAGoodDude

Odds are it reflected in his recs which is why he got Berkeley

Since they dont require recs

[vague pelican]

Hey guys

[median grotto]

W, D or L?

[vague pelican]

Deferred

🥲

[median grotto]

You 'MURICAAAAAAN?

[vague pelican]

Something like that

Why

[median grotto]

Idk just curious about how high/low intl rejection rate is.

[fringe cave]

Very high

[median grotto]

In EA?

[fringe cave]

in both

[vague pelican]

Well I’m living in the usa so yea

[median grotto]

oh. I thought most intls just got deferred.

[vague pelican]

Also now that I’m deferred Whats my next steps

[fringe cave]

more waiting

mid january fill out the February updates form

then pray until 3/14

[median grotto]

That does not sound FUN.

[obsidian mesa]

didnt they have a 1.8% defer acceptance rate last year or smth 💀

cause if so

its joever for me

[fringe cave]

Did they just leave?

[raven saffron]

Nonono

They'll consider ur deferred app the exact same as they consider RD apps

[fierce gust]

Have the decisions come out yet?

[raven saffron]

Like there's been years where RD acceptance rate is almost the same as EA defer

[raven saffron]

yeah

[fierce gust]

How’s it looking

[raven saffron]

The % rate is very misleading for defer --> admit

Because they defer a lot of students who are unqualified and realistically wont get admit

[fierce gust]

so I’m guessing a poop ton of defers rn

[raven saffron]

if youre deferred it's either youre in this group ^ or you have a questionable fit.

[fierce gust]

icic

[raven saffron]

or ur fringe

Like waitlist potential

Which

I think all 3 kinda suck

But the last 2 are fixable

[fierce gust]

well mit was my original dream school

but good luck to all of you

[raven saffron]

Bad Fit then tal;k about like

"Oh Im doing a class in [So and So] to improve my [So and So]" and make it sumn MIT likes

If ur fringe just be better

-Deferred Student

Hoping he's on the fringe and not a bad fit

[fierce gust]

you’ll get admit next cycle trust

[raven saffron]

Yeah I really think I will

Historically

At my school

They only take 1 person early

[fierce gust]

I wanted to go here

[raven saffron]

And one guy got in early but a few ppl also get in RD sometimes

[fierce gust]

but I saw the sat requirement and was like fuck no

ah I see

a dude last year at one of the surrounding schools got in rea

[raven saffron]

Hoping I was the 662nd best choice in Earlies

[fierce gust]

he had a hook

he’s really chill and I talk to him

[raven saffron]

Cuz like the other thing is

They can only accept so many ppl early right

[fierce gust]

Okay wtf

This is a shit ton of defers

[raven saffron]

So whats stopping them from just saying "hey this guy is very good but we already took too many earlies"

[raven saffron]

Deferral rate is down from last year

Its declining pretty steadily

Im going to literally make myself look like god in this LOCI man

FUN Applicaiton Update dont know whats boutta hit it

[fierce gust]

slay those deferral essays like there’s no tomorrow

[raven saffron]

Ofc ofc

Might submit a portfolio too tbh

[cedar hornet]

why tf

apparently they rejected a lot of qualified kdsi too

[raven saffron]

If youre rejected and qualified

Theres a red flag somewhere in your peripherals

• 4.0 1600 doesnt always = qualified

[river sky]

or maybe with like a 4% acceptance rate its rpetty much always a gamble

[raven saffron]

Nah

Its been set in stone

We making it to Boston

[cedar hornet]

i mean idk how a 4.0 1600 is signaling unqualified

[raven saffron]

if you have no ECs/Awards

Or if your essays are mediocre

Or if your interview made you appear dicky

Or if your rec letters talked bad about you

[cedar hornet]

why even keep them in the running atp lfmao

[raven saffron]

They didnt

Those are the rejected ones

[cedar hornet]

oh yeah

[raven saffron]

But I think deferred kids are made up like

[cedar hornet]

yea idk why the whole defer pool is so huge

[raven saffron]

Prolly 25% of people who didn't have any red flags

[cedar hornet]

you cannot seriously be considering that many people

[raven saffron]

Like people with no reason to reject

But also no real reason to accept

[cedar hornet]

me asf

[raven saffron]

Like 3.8-3.9 gpa, essays that were not memorable, etc

[cedar hornet]

me asf

[raven saffron]

People who could theoretically get in

If they suddenly dropped like 10 papers in Nature

[cedar hornet]

lmao

[raven saffron]

For FUN Update

[cedar hornet]

do they accept any of those people

im curious

[raven saffron]

I'd assume a few

Cuz some people do go ham on their FUN Updates

Id assume a good few applications are also just like

[cedar hornet]

ig but like if ur in that pool u think u get in without curing alzheimers in ur update or what lmao

[raven saffron]

"We need to know more"

[raven saffron]

I mean I wouldnt know

But yeah like

People who are academically fringe

Prolly make up a good amount of deferred

Im coping so hard thinking that it's these groups dragging down the admit rates

"So really half the defer pool was never serious applicants so I should have a 5% chance of getting in oh but also..."

OH

Internationals too

They used to not allow intls to early and I'd assume they only take a handful of intls early anyways most get deferred

[pale plaza]

Damn bruh the defer was real 😔

Jus woke up

[raven saffron]

So really 10% 🔥 but also since my FUN Update will be basically another application I have 20% chance 🔥

[cedar hornet]

its ok bro my essays are going to be god given

and i will make past the fringe group

[pale plaza]

My essays were so shit dude

[raven saffron]

We praying for you dude

[pale plaza]

My app woulda got in ong

[raven saffron]

My essays I lowkey liked them

Those essays were bomb

[pale plaza]

The ideas were good

But my essay writing was kinda trash

I rushed it so hard

[raven saffron]

I wrote one pretty poorly

That was the

Contribute to community

Cuz I had a 150 word essay that was bomb

About setting up volunteer drivers to get groceries for the old folks home near my old house

[cedar hornet]

idk

my grades r fine my sat is fine

[raven saffron]

That was super good

[cedar hornet]

ecs awards r mega cooked

[raven saffron]

But then the last 100ish words I yapped

About how the old ppl have helped me learn about myself

[pale plaza]

FUN gonna be fire trust

[raven saffron]

Which I think was a good idea but it was so

Abrupt shift

Other than that essays were ham

Im gonna mention that Im auditing a class on public speaking

Hopefully that helps

Oh and the published paper ofc

Not forgetting that a 2nd time

[cedar hornet]

lol

chat you think they accept me with mid ecs but a banger essay

[raven saffron]

I mean yeah

Mid ECs prolly not even mid

[stoic fox]

Some MIT graduates

[fierce gust]

This is the case with any school tho

[stoic fox]

[cedar hornet]

no

im not capping

[raven saffron]

Maybe Im like self centered or something

Or egotistical

[cedar hornet]

no my mid ecs r just shit

[raven saffron]

But I rlly dont know why I got deferred

[fierce gust]

Well not any school

[raven saffron]

I think its cuz I have a 3.92

[fierce gust]

But most T20’s

[raven saffron]

Because like

ECs were pretty bomb

[cedar hornet]

lmao

[raven saffron]

Got that Oxford Research + Major App Dev + Ran a Huge Football Blog + Developed Hella Vidya Games

[cedar hornet]

i have a 3.93 rn

i can probably get it

to .95

[raven saffron]

I get to a 3.94

With all As this sem

Which is on lock

If we count college classes

[cedar hornet]

lmao

[raven saffron]

3.95 but idt they do

[cedar hornet]

you got this g

[raven saffron]

Ive heard that 3 Bs is ok for MIT

I have 3 Bs

Awards were bomb too and my LORs should have been solid

[cedar hornet]

.9 and above

is p much all the same

[raven saffron]

Nah

You can be a .9 with 4 Bs

But if you have 4 Bs in Math classes

it's an ick

I have 2 Bs in Math

Both from freshman year

[cedar hornet]

i have one b in math from freshman year

[raven saffron]

I got

[stoic fox]

I had like 7 Bs

[raven saffron]

6 As in Math

[raven saffron]

Since then

So Im hoping

[cedar hornet]

u handled poisonous snakes

[raven saffron]

They ignore that

[cedar hornet]

thats hella cool

[raven saffron]

Plus im USAMO so my math shld rlly not be questioned IMO

[stoic fox]

But becides that

I shouldnt have gotten in 💀

[median grotto]

So who got rejected EA?

[pale plaza]

Did u get in w gap year

[raven saffron]

Yeah ECs good Awards good Essays were solid I think LORs good

[pale plaza]

Or did you choose

[cedar hornet]

LMFAO OK BRO

[pale plaza]

I don’t think anyone got rejecte

[stoic fox]

Yes

[raven saffron]

Also had good interview

[stoic fox]

Plus internationale

[raven saffron]

Like really struggling to grasp where I bombed this

Assuming it was just fit

[cedar hornet]

kid drops usamo

ok bro

[stoic fox]

What is US AMO

[raven saffron]

US Math Olympiad

[raven saffron]

Awards is like

My best section

But

[stoic fox]

Oh so nolife 2+2 =4 guy

[raven saffron]

I forgot to add most of them to my app 😭

So I emailed the AOs afterwards

Asking them to add ite

What Olys are there

Giving decisions before Feb 15

Cuz Im p confident in my problem solving

[ionic spindle]

Does anyone know if MIT has ever accepted a GPA less student?

[stoic fox]

No

[last hatch]

my friend got accepted but shes currently struggling in micro/macro econ. we are wondering if mit will rescind their offer if she gets a B or C quarter/semester average for a course?

[hollow sedge]

if i were to submit a research supplement, should i still include research on my activities list or no

[flint wigeon]

I’m not sure if they would rescind after a semester? But if it’s a B/C for the final year-long grade then potentially

[last hatch]

ah ok thank you

[flint wigeon]

(Im not an MIT AO tho so who knows 💀💀)

[last hatch]

i did but i got deferred

so take my advice with a grain of salt lol

i included it bc it was an internship and i didnt have many internships so it didnt take up too much space

[last hatch]

true true

[flint wigeon]

wait

is rd decision date

Tau time PM?

[fierce gust]

Mo

no

once you’re accepted you’re accepted

[raven saffron]

Bro

[raven saffron]

We making it out dw

I have an insane amount of cope confidence after that deferral

[fierce gust]

unless you make like a stupid ass tweet

[gusty orchid]

mannn why these colleges care sm about gpa

[pale plaza]

@exotic briar congrats

I missed ur msg sorry

[median shard]

so how crucial are any of the portfolios for a humanities major?

[royal badger]

They probably have

I’ve heard of GPAless before

At the very least it’s not smth they’d hold against you

[pale plaza]

@stoic fox

Did u get in EA

[stoic fox]

Yes

[pale plaza]

Damn

I gotta clutch on fun

[median grotto]

are you an intl?

[pale plaza]

Im@not

[cedar hornet]

usaco

[raven saffron]

Mmhm

[cedar hornet]

theres a contest going on rn and then one in january

[raven saffron]

USACO and AIME is the goal

[cedar hornet]

usaco what

like plat?

[raven saffron]

Plat + Perfect AIME + AMO

[cedar hornet]

sweat

[pale plaza]

Aime doesn’t come out in time

[raven saffron]

AIME comes out next day

And since EdVista statistics are out

If your USAMO Index is above T250

Which in this case would be around 280+ you can guarantee USAMO Qual

[pale plaza]

Are u sure aime come out next day tf

[raven saffron]

Yeah

It did last year

[pale plaza]

What u get on

AMC

[ionic spindle]

Okay

thank you

I've gone through multiple waves of panic about this

[elder vine]

TRUST DO NACLO

its so free

[obtuse heron]

I’m doing RD for MIT rn what do you guys think they care about the most?

Cause compared to common app’s 10 activities having only 4 ecs to enter is so less even tho you can do more awards and summer activities but still

[elder vine]

I didn’t know if you were joking or not

[raven saffron]

When is NACLO

[elder vine]

January

O I’ll be in Taiwan then

Cant take it then

Naclo kinda easy tho ngl

I almost qualified last year without even studying

[fierce gust]

Go to northeastern

[austere vapor]

Does anyone know what the FUN form looks like

[elder vine]

Ok so we all know that out of the people who get deferred only 1.8% accepted

But how many of those people withdraw due to ed or don’t submit the fun form

[cedar hornet]

youre evaluated in the same pool

as rd

[magic meadow]

no way lmao

[cedar hornet]

its not like you have a disadvantage

[cedar hornet]

they probably dont publish that data

[river sky]

did u get deferred

[river sky]

i should do naclo

i know a ridiculous amount of linguistics because i used to conlang

[sand lance]

The deferred decisions will be released along with rd?

And… rd cannot be deferred

[river sky]

MIT should force everyone to take unified engineering

biggest troll

[eternal jasper]

#1185482844584288317 message

like this apparently

[tacit lily]

MIT event today served oyster

it's crazy

[eternal jasper]

save some for me when i get there 😤

[modern flax]

lmao this made my day

anyways, fellow deferred students:

[modern lava]

No

That's Stanford

[eternal jasper]

oh rip

tbh it looked like the mit application tho

[modern lava]

Source: Got the same form 'cause I got moved from QB NCM to RD 'cause I matched to MIT

[eternal jasper]

like the textboxes looked the same and shit

[modern lava]

Only non-binding college through QB moment

[eternal jasper]

oh makes sense

[vague pelican]

I need more stuff like this 😀

[pale plaza]

where is this

[elder vine]

time to grind usaco

gotta get atleast gold before febuary

[modern flax]

https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/open-thread-deferred-early-4/

[inland flicker]

Honestly not sure what I should include in my FUN. Obviously my semester grades which will all be A's, but that isn't going to change my application. Am I just destined to be rejected if they didn't think my app was good enough in the first place and I don't have any significant updates?

[pale plaza]

honestly, i read my app again

i think i know where i messed up

and i have alot to add already in terms of growth

2 of my essays were p dog imo, others were gold

im fgoing to be very honest and transparent bout those 2 essays

and say what i think about them now

that its been longer since x event and ive grown

Then im also adding shit like things im doing for fun ( which add on to the ecs/summer acitivies )

i know for sure im going to stack that shit up

as much as i can

hi jl

wher edo i know u from

[inland flicker]

wut

[pale plaza]

jack luo

he was typing

i remembr now it was his elon musk thing

i rememebr his webste

[flint wigeon]

lucky naclo is so early

im pretty sure hklo results come out like 1 day after pi day 😭

[austere vapor]

The universe is not deterministic. In all of the possible future that play out between now and 3/14/2024, there are an innumerable amount where you are accepted to MIT. How does this happen? Probably if you write a goated FUN. How can you do that if you don't have anything significant right now? I say you make something significant There are 7.6 million seconds between now and when decisions come out. Do something with them!

[inland flicker]

But like what? I can say that I successfully ran two more campaigns (one for a county-level office and another for a state-level office) but is that "significant"?

I can say my company continued to gain more business and is continuing to ramp up more but that isn't really significant

Like the things I'm most passionate about and work hard at everyday, are in the application. It would just be a repeat of me saying "hey, these things are still going great (maybe a little better.)"

[austere vapor]

Me personally I'm continuing working on some personal passion software/econ projects (geometric brownian motion stock price modeller and black-scholes option pricing implementation)

[ionic spindle]

No I am RD

[remote vessel]

I don't have anything else to do I think

I believe that my grades are what prevented me from getting in ea

[inland flicker]

Oh yeah I'll have all A's in 7 more APs but that's it

[remote vessel]

oh I do need to do that makerspace portfolio though

[austere vapor]

then make more stuff🙏

if mit is your dream u can still make it happen

[junior ocean]

Maybe because this year is "the most competitive applicant pools in the history of the institute" due to the decline of Harvard. Harvard applicants from 9553 to 7921; MIT applicants from 11,924 to 12,563.

[elder vine]

Do you know if you can submit a portfolio if you got deferred

[remote vessel]

think so

[elder vine]

I didn’t submit one in early action cuz I didn’t know you could submit code

Thought it was for only physical projects

[austere vapor]

imma cook so hard on FUN

[elder vine]

Same

[remote vessel]

real

[elder vine]

I made a portfolio website and tried submitting it for ea

But they said they couldn’t add it to my application

[inland flicker]

you can

[austere vapor]

@grave token Just curious, what percent about of deferred applicants even fill out the FUN? To what extent does it help.
Planning on filling it out ofc just curious

[inland flicker]

https://mitadmissions.org/pages/ea-deferred-faq/

"We only recommend you submit a supplemental portfolio if you were planning to do so for Early Action, but just ran out of time. The deadline to submit a supplemental portfolio is January 4. You cannot make changes to portfolios that have already been submitted, though you are welcome to provide any meaningful updates using the FUN Form."

[austere vapor]

cannot for the life of me find what the FUN form looks like

[tacit lily]

wait

what

when?

how

[pale plaza]

twitter

idk when

[tacit lily]

you follow me on twitter?

hm

[pale plaza]

i justu remmeber ur website

ion follow u sorry

i will

i just saw ur tweet lol

[tacit lily]

how did you meet me

[pale plaza]

Twitter

[tacit lily]

wow

and you made that connection

on discord

thats crazy

[pale plaza]

Ur website

In ur bio

I remmeber the pic

In the middle

Its a v memorable pic

No offense no glaze

[tacit lily]

I see

thats pretty cool

[pale plaza]

I aint know u go to mit thats p cool

Hows it going

Still doing the language processing stuff?

[tacit lily]

well I just attended TedXMIT and the MIT video game concert today

its crazy how much free food they serve

[tacit lily]

not as much

[pale plaza]

lmaoo

[tacit lily]

anymore

i am looking more into robotics

[river sky]

bye

[tacit lily]

they literally served unlimited oysters

its crazy

but MIT's been great

[pale plaza]

Defered application fees gotta go somehwere

[tacit lily]

met really really cool people

[pale plaza]

How did u meet musk again

[tacit lily]

and changed how i see life

long story ahaha

[pale plaza]

I just remember the video

[tacit lily]

maybe i should write a blog

[pale plaza]

I forgot the lore

Yea would prolly be smart

[tacit lily]

i dont' think i have it published anymore

[pale plaza]

Or just make apost

R u monetized

[tacit lily]

no

all my blogs are free

[pale plaza]

i mean on twitter

[tacit lily]

no

[stoic fox]

My other minor talent is guitar

[pale plaza]

you should ngl

[ionic spindle]

MIT unlimited oyster glitch

[pale plaza]

free bag !

[tacit lily]

perhaps

[pale plaza]

clean raw

your snake shi tis really cool though

[tacit lily]

i am doing well with investments though

so that would last a bit

[pale plaza]

was it like ur central personality

for ur shit

[tacit lily]

but i will look into it

[pale plaza]

my boy

[stoic fox]

Yeah its probably what got me in

[pale plaza]

if u make less tjhan like 15/month its not worth it

cuz u need to pay taht t oget the verifiedi bs

[tacit lily]

my stuff don't get that much views

[pale plaza]

how amny essays u write ab it ?

[stoic fox]

My GPA is not cut out (3.851) for most top schools

[tacit lily]

i haven't figured out twitter algo nor should i try

[pale plaza]

You on my shit

The feed

[tacit lily]

what snake shit

[tacit lily]

thats prety cool

[pale plaza]

He a snake lover

[tacit lily]

oh ok

snakes are cool

[stoic fox]

It got me into the school

Lol

[pale plaza]

If i get in

[tacit lily]

congratulations

[pale plaza]

Can i buy a snake

[tacit lily]

i have seen people do escape rooms and get in

and also people who cook and get in

snakes is def a first

[stoic fox]

It probably caught them off guard

Lol

[stoic fox]

87th person to develop a new tiktok filter…

[tacit lily]

do you have snakes as pets?

[stoic fox]

Wtf snakes

-admissions guy

[tacit lily]

lmao

[inland flicker]

lol

[stoic fox]

40

[tacit lily]

well congratulations

i am sure you'll love MIT

[stoic fox]

All of which are not legal in MA

[tacit lily]

its a really exotic place

[stoic fox]

[pale plaza]

i think my salesmanship

with ED

[tacit lily]

i can see why you are accepted lmao

[pale plaza]

Was having 2 mid essays + not distinguishing 1 thing specifacaly

[tacit lily]

there is always this one thing you can pinpoint

[pale plaza]

I had the elemnts but i was

[tacit lily]

for the MIT admits

[pale plaza]

Trynna balance all 3

Yea

Gotta clutch that bit on feb notes

[tacit lily]

my best friend got in for pelting people with ketchup

[remote vessel]

I really hope MIT admits me in RD

ai sponge wasn't for nothing

[spiral tiger]

This was actually a rip

[ionic spindle]

AI Spongebob is such a crazy EC

But so is snake dude

[stoic fox]

Rejection list (1-10)

1. Princeton
2. Yale
3. Brown
4. Harvard
5. UCLA
6. UMich
7. Dartmouth
8. Columbia
9. Stanford
10. Cal Berkeley

[tacit lily]

what is AI spongebob

[spiral tiger]

Nah this is stanford deferral

[tacit lily]

I am curious

[remote vessel]

ok but did snake dude indirectly cause the writer's strike

[ionic spindle]

Rejection List:

• None

[stoic fox]

No

[elder vine]

did anyone do the maker portfolio

[spiral tiger]

Are there any water snakes you own

[remote vessel]

welcome to the rabbit hole known as my top extracurricular

[elder vine]

am I allowed to submit class work or only independent work

[stoic fox]

A moccasin yes

[remote vessel]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-seinfeld-wrought-ai-spongebob-230034619.html

[ionic spindle]

Those are your rejections? Doesn't surprise me, MIT is likely a better fit for you

[tacit lily]

ah ok

[remote vessel]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_sponge

[tacit lily]

i don't think so

[stoic fox]

I have 41 rejects

[tacit lily]

berkeley and ucla is not even out

[remote vessel]

you KNOW i made it when i have my own Wikipedia page

[tacit lily]

huh?

[elder vine]

yall hop on lethal company fr fr

[remote vessel]

he's been applying since sophomore year lol

[tacit lily]

congrats, i tried to create one multiple times

failed

[ionic spindle]

Well that'd do it....

[tacit lily]

makes sense

[stoic fox]

guy develops ai sponge
gets deferred
i do something non tech
get admitted

[tacit lily]

MIT just has too many people doing tech nowadays

[spiral tiger]

Ai spongebob is not tech

[tacit lily]

i think you just have to really realyl stand out

[spiral tiger]

It is art

[tacit lily]

that is the trend Ive noticed

[spiral tiger]

Or make MOP

[stoic fox]

No i took a gap year

[spiral tiger]

and PRIMES

[stoic fox]

Lol

[tacit lily]

there was an IMO person who got rejected from MIT

so its not even foul proof lol

[ionic spindle]

Well then my 100% humanities background in school is gonna get me in

[spiral tiger]

Not domestic tho

Right

[tacit lily]

thats true

[pale plaza]

yep yep

[spiral tiger]

MOP is USA

Unless you get really unlucky like neil your EA should be set

[ionic spindle]

Oh this is simple for me

[tacit lily]

i think that guy made IMO somewhere else

[ionic spindle]

cause I am insane

and my app

is off the rails

[remote vessel]

mit has too many people doing generic tech things

i gave squidward a personality funnier than anything in spongebob ever

[austere vapor]

yall be stressing too much fr

[tacit lily]

define this

[spiral tiger]

Well yea making rwandan IMO is easier than USA

[austere vapor]

promise?

[spiral tiger]

and MIT prioritizes domestic applicants

[tacit lily]

i wonder if north korea send people to IMO

[spiral tiger]

I can promise

[spiral tiger]

They do

[tacit lily]

oh shit

lol

[spiral tiger]

Someone actually defected at the IMO

[austere vapor]

no way thats wild

[spiral tiger]

interestingly enough

[stoic fox]

But they get executed if they lose

[remote vessel]

real

[tacit lily]

thats pretty impressive

[austere vapor]

@spiral tiger how good is the NK team

[remote vessel]

they did that at my school once

[spiral tiger]

Very

[stoic fox]

Because life on the line

[austere vapor]

wild

[spiral tiger]

I think they beat the US sometimes

[ionic spindle]

Nah my application and story is just super weird
No GPA, 1600SAT, No APs, Humanities and CS, but applying to CEE

[austere vapor]

LMAO

[remote vessel]

I can't believe my buffalo wild wings essay didnt get me in

[stoic fox]

You lost? Execution!
Oh wait you beat the us?
Life in labor camp!

[remote vessel]

execution anyways!!

[spiral tiger]

I was wrong they didnt beat the USA

theyve gotten 4th tho

[remote vessel]

this gonna work out in regular decision just you wait bro

[ionic spindle]

I mean how many people are applying with AI sponge bob

uniquest EC

[remote vessel]

zero

[tacit lily]

probably 1

[stoic fox]

I think your near miss with viacom will make it a issue

[spiral tiger]

My question for you is why did you do it

[tacit lily]

update me

in pi day

[remote vessel]

how many people are applying with a youtube livestream with 250,000,000 views

only me

[stoic fox]

Prepare for viacom to screw your life over

[junior heath]

Link🔫

[stoic fox]

[ionic spindle]

Can I put making biodiesel in a junkyard waterheater as an EC?

Serious question

[tacit lily]

if it is significant

[stoic fox]

Shutdown by big corpo

[tacit lily]

yes

[junior heath]

ah

[tacit lily]

is it something you spent a long time doing

[ionic spindle]

Not really, but it is funny

[tacit lily]

and does it matter to you

[remote vessel]

🤑

[tacit lily]

a lot

[ionic spindle]

I mean I still do it to this day

[tacit lily]

one of my awards for the MIT award is the sour patch kid award

[ionic spindle]

I'm interested in it

[tacit lily]

so you are fine

[stoic fox]

I had to spend 80k today

[remote vessel]

new house?

god damn bro

[stoic fox]

Tuition + room and board

[remote vessel]

OH YEAH

[ionic spindle]

What is that?

[tacit lily]

already commited?

congrats

[tacit lily]

come by to CPW

[tacit lily]

its really really stupid

i sold sour patch in high school

[ionic spindle]

Jesus christ that is a lot of money

[tacit lily]

because the snacks in the cafeteria is dog water

[ionic spindle]

bro just withdrew my entire networth

[tacit lily]

surprisingly that bussiness grew pretty large

[remote vessel]

yeah so like it was a passion project at first then it blew up and it became a little bit money but i left that mindset when i taught the ai to sing

[stoic fox]

No finaid

[tacit lily]

and ive purposed a change for snacks

[stoic fox]

Since intl

[tacit lily]

nothing that significant

its just funny

all the teachers knew me

[spiral tiger]

Are you rich

[stoic fox]

Ive got stocks to take care of that

[tacit lily]

as the "sour patch kid"

[ionic spindle]

Well clearly you didn't need it if you could make 80k appear same day

[stoic fox]

And crypto

[ionic spindle]

as acceptance

[spiral tiger]

How much do you make

And how

[tacit lily]

damn

good stuff

crypto is fking fun

[remote vessel]

Nvidia

[tacit lily]

i miss 2021

[spiral tiger]

I want to make money like that

[spiral tiger]

Should i go all in?

[remote vessel]

NO

[ionic spindle]

Bro I have worked fulltime for 4 years with housing included with my work and I barely have that much money

[tacit lily]

interesting

[spiral tiger]

Wait so you had 900k to start with

[tacit lily]

so init you already have a huge fund

[spiral tiger]

Where’d you get that from

[tacit lily]

where did that come from

^

[remote vessel]

if I get into MIT I have the first 2 years paid for by ai sponge

[stoic fox]

No i had college fund

[spiral tiger]

We had exactly the same thought LOL

[elder vine]

bro i s loaded

[tacit lily]

well the portfolio is huge

lol

[spiral tiger]

Sorry i meant 1.3 million

[tacit lily]

i started a crypto portfolio from zero

[stoic fox]

I just moved the money to another broker

[tacit lily]

basically, didn't make a few million

[stoic fox]

So thats why it says only 100k

Gain

[elder vine]

what should i invest in

[spiral tiger]

What did you start with

[tacit lily]

its kinda rare to see that large of a portfoliio

[spiral tiger]

@stoic fox

[stoic fox]

70,000 in 2008

[ionic spindle]

bro beat the market hard

[stoic fox]

My parents

[tacit lily]

2008?

[remote vessel]

so are you sure you got in for owning snakes and not your godlike stock market abilities???

[tacit lily]

oh nice

[stoic fox]

I was 6

[remote vessel]

this is insane

[stoic fox]

I didnt get this account until last year

Lol

[ionic spindle]

Wait you are 21 years old?

[tacit lily]

the gains you have is still impressive

[stoic fox]

Thats all my parents work

[stoic fox]

20 and a half

[ionic spindle]

and applying to college

that is cool

[tacit lily]

ive made only high 5 figs from crypto

and stocks

in my life

[elder vine]

ive made 17 bucks

[ionic spindle]

I'm not invested in the stock market, because I don't believe in it

[remote vessel]

theast time I heard someone mention their half age was when I was 9

[ionic spindle]

and it is so volatile these last few years

[remote vessel]

do you still celebrate half birthdays

[stoic fox]

Same

[tacit lily]

damn you went all in doggie coin

how much did you start?

[stoic fox]

78k

[tacit lily]

oh i see

thats still not too bad

i thought you are one of the early adopters

[ionic spindle]

bro is a doggy fan

[tacit lily]

what app

[stoic fox]

Delta because vanguard’s app is ass so i manage it through a third party portfolio manager

[inland flicker]

Vanguard updated their app

It’s not bad

[tacit lily]

oh i see

[stoic fox]

Yeah i perfer not..

In my home currency im worth 50 million

[inland flicker]

Lol

[modern lava]

No wonder bro's paying $100k a year to attend

[tribal ether]

Wait how are you 20 but mit 28 just wondering

[stoic fox]

Gap year

• pain in admissions

PAIN I TELL YOU

[cyan kite]

What're yall's 2nd choices and why? Idek what my 2nd choice is, idk what colleges have that atmosphere as MIT

[stoic fox]

I dont have one

[tribal ether]

Ah cool

I trade on the side sometimes

But not as big as you lol

[austere vapor]

how much did u make from ai sponge

[fierce gust]

2nd choice is prolly yale or jhu

they tie

yale cus its yale and jhu cus i have a friend there

[remote vessel]

uhh 150

thousand

[modern lava]

Stanford ngl but I really do hate Palo Alto

[austere vapor]

jesus. ads? sponsors?

[modern lava]

Bruh 😭

That's three times my family's annual income

[remote vessel]

donations alone

[austere vapor]

WTFF

[remote vessel]

I KNOW

[modern lava]

People wanted squidward to talk shit huh

[remote vessel]

OH GOD YEAH

[modern lava]

How did you tell your parents about that money bro

💀

[fierce gust]

where can i find $1-10k scholarship that arent gonna be extremely competetive

im doing hosa scholarship

cus acoording to the rubric id get a 98/100

[remote vessel]

if it means anything I gave most to my team

[river sky]

Hi Petey, does applying sideways still work for technically internationals

[fierce gust]

so as long as no one gets 100 im chillin for the scholarship 💀

[modern lava]

Bro got into Harvard as a low income kid and is still worrying about scholarships

[fierce gust]

i want to work as little as possible

like, i dont wanna work cus i have to

i wanna work so i can save the money

[modern lava]

Mood

[river sky]

Bluds got full rides to the two best unis in the us 🫡

[fierce gust]

does mit give good aid

like do yall get full ride w/o qb

[modern lava]

Yup

[modern lava]

Yeah but there's still a student work contribution

BUUUUT

Any outside aid - including the pell grant - immediately goes to reducing it

[fierce gust]

how much

[modern lava]

Like 2.5k

And I qualify for the pell grant soooo

[fierce gust]

omg i gotta check on that

[modern lava]

That gets reduced to 0

[fierce gust]

idk if harvard includes mt pell geant

if it doesnt fuck this scholarship

cus id get full pell and harvard ws is 3.5k per year

thats like 4.5k left over

[modern lava]

A large percentage of each entering first-year class receives one or more outside awards from national or local organizations. When adjusting the Harvard financial aid package, 100% of the total outside award amount is first deducted from your work expectation. If the total of outside awards exceeds your work expectation, that excess amount is deducted from the Harvard Scholarship. Since outside awards are additional resources that help to meet need, they may not be used to replace your parents' contribution or other expected family resource. For example, if you were originally offered a financial aid package with a $3,500 job, and a $15,000 Harvard Scholarship and subsequently receive a $2,000 National Merit award and $1,000 from the Elks Club, then we will reduce your term-time job expectation to $500. Only if outside awards exceeded $3,500 would they have any impact upon the amount of Harvard Scholarship.

If the Pell Grant isn't included then you're set

[fierce gust]

kinda mad that it will cut into my hardvard scholly but it is what it is

[modern lava]

Scholarship displacement

[fierce gust]

atleast i dont gotta pay them any of the money i make from internships

[tacit lily]

damn you are old

[tacit lily]

uchicago

is the closest

caltech is very different but tries

CMU and berkeley are close but not quite

[austere vapor]

im so hyped for my FUN form im gonna have so much fun with it

like at this point idc if i get in or not

gonna make a puzzle hunt for the MIT ao's and put it on the form

[remote vessel]

what is the fun truly

I know it's the extra info thing but

what is fun

[austere vapor]

February updates form

[remote vessel]

no yes I know but

what is so fun about the fun

[austere vapor]

its only as fun as you make it

[keen sentinel]

wait but isn't that fuf...

[austere vapor]

its fully febuary updates and notes

[exotic briar]

xooks

[keen sentinel]

ahh

[austere vapor]

i just dropped the and notes

@exotic briar u get in?

[keen sentinel]

seems like it

[exotic briar]

ye; see my server nickname lmao

[austere vapor]

lol

congrats

[exotic briar]

thx

[slender marsh]

quick question
for the mit research portfolio - i didnt have a research mentor.. what do i do for the rec letter?
I read something earlier about being able to put your name and "[email protected]" for the email address, but i am unsure if its acceptable

[hallow delta]

Wow, MIT just straight up deferred everyone

[eternal jasper]

yep lol

[stoic fox]

Can anyone link me the poll

[glacial carbon]

Wow mit you seriously messed up. Im truley the type you want and need but you deferred me!

I actually applied sideways and you couldnt even see it

[modern lava]

Pins

[stoic fox]

I cant see them

[modern lava]

#1135695786273943705 message

[stoic fox]

Oh

[modern lava]

Lmfao only four people got into MIT today while 37 got deferred, with one straight up rejection

[stoic fox]

3

[modern lava]

Naw the other one left

[stoic fox]

Oh

[modern lava]

There was the kid who got into Brown ED and then MIT EA

And then they dipped out of A2C

💀

[stoic fox]

Thats a predictament

But also kinda sus

@modern lava watching the cope in UChi rn 😦 i feel it

I was rejected

[keen sentinel]

person who knew about your research the best

[keen sentinel]

yeah I dipped from a2c on thursday during the decisions of cornell princeton and harvard because I didn't want to be even more stressed than I already was

[modern lava]

WAIT DAMN YOU GOT IN?

[keen sentinel]

mhm

!!!

[modern lava]

I WAS REFERRING TO THE KID WHO GOT INTO BROWN

YOU TOO???

YOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[keen sentinel]

yep

very exciting

[modern lava]

Congrats!

[keen sentinel]

thanks!!!

[modern lava]

We all gon' be seeing each next year 😭

[keen sentinel]

I really needed this as I had not started my rds yet...

[modern lava]

CO '28 fr

[modern lava]

Mood

[keen sentinel]

🎉

can't wait

[modern lava]

Are you gonna still do your RDs bro

[keen sentinel]

hell no lmfao

mit top choice

[modern lava]

Valid

Chill for the rest of the year fr

[keen sentinel]

also I could not be bothered to write 20 more supplementals

I don't even have common app filled in yet

[keen sentinel]

indeed

senioritis goes hard

[modern lava]

Me looking at my AP Lit grade rn be like

88.8% before finals is sad

[keen sentinel]

bro ap lit not looking good for me either

[modern lava]

Tfw my grade is actually on the higher end for that class 💀

[stoic fox]

@keen sentinel https://youtu.be/0X2OpQAR4xY?si=xsPeKxyk011XCr2z

[keen sentinel]

got a presentation for a project next week that I've been busy not doing

[modern lava]

Iirc the teacher is very generous with rounding up on that class tho so

💀

I'm praying she gives me mercy

[keen sentinel]

lol

[modern lava]

The two other finals I'm concerned about are AP Chem and AP Physics which are gonna be

[keen sentinel]

fr

[modern lava]

😬

[stoic fox]

TFW 89.8 in classes

[keen sentinel]

you doing both mech and e&m?

[modern lava]

I can only think of Geometry Dash listening to Waterflame lmao

[keen sentinel]

or just one of them

[keen sentinel]

so true

[modern lava]

Mech first sem Enchantment & Magic second sem

[stoic fox]

Im jamming to fleetwood mac

[keen sentinel]

magic 💀

[keen sentinel]

our school doesn't even offer e&m

😭

[stoic fox]

Masters degree in touching grass

Some of you need

💀

[keen sentinel]

yeah I went on my first walk in months after being accepted

[modern lava]

I went out to eat an entire bucket of chicken to celebrate lmfao

[stoic fox]

MIT schedule be like
MATH 9999 (WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS ACTUALLY MATH)
ENGL 0001 (English Alphabet and basic words)
COMPSCI 1002 (ADVANCED CHATGPT)
TOGRASS 1001 (Touch Grass Basics)

[modern lava]

Well, two weeks ago

[keen sentinel]

walked to my nearby dunkin

bought 15 munchkins

and devoured them all

[modern lava]

QB Results were two weeks ago so seeing the acceptance letter wasn't a surprise at all

[stoic fox]

Bruh

[keen sentinel]

smh

[modern lava]

But I was still fucking shaking in my seat when I saw the letter lmfao

[stoic fox]

I gained 30 pounds from the stress of admissions

[keen sentinel]

yeah

it's exciting

[keen sentinel]

I dreamed of acceptance for the past 2 days

[strong torrent]

imagine they accidentally sent you the wrong letter

[modern lava]

Tbh this email is cuter

[modern lava]

I was scared of that lmfao

[stoic fox]

Im intl so im even more cracked

[keen sentinel]

lol yeah

[stoic fox]

Rip my stock gains from the last year

[modern lava]

QB releases results early while official portal updates only come on the regular EA deadline

[keen sentinel]

intl admission is crazy

[modern lava]

so for the last two weeks I was just thinking of that

Only that

[modern lava]

Imagine paying anything to attend

Being poor af 💪

[keen sentinel]

it's crazy

I know 5 people irl who got in

[modern lava]

That's crazy

[stoic fox]

[modern lava]

Close to you or just down the grapevine?

[keen sentinel]

2 from my school 3 met through isef whom I'm still close to

[stoic fox]

No fin aid

[modern lava]

Zamn

2 from your school in addition to you?

Wild

[keen sentinel]

mhm

most in our schools history

I think

[modern lava]

You must go to a competitive damn school

zamn

[keen sentinel]

nooooo

not for mit

we usually get 1 at most

if any

this year we had 2 athletics recruits

[modern lava]

So y'all were exceptionally lucky? Based

[keen sentinel]

+me

[stoic fox]

Athletics are sorta the easy way in

[modern lava]

Ngl I'm not sure how many another kids from LA got into MIT

[modern lava]

Fun fact, for MIT, hell no 💀

[stoic fox]

wut

[keen sentinel]

yeah no those two people are still hella smart

[modern lava]

They're one of the few exceptions to athletes getting a massive boost to admissions

[keen sentinel]

but recruiting just makes up for a bit of ecs

[modern lava]

You still gotta be insanely smart to get admitted

[stoic fox]

Harvard admitting basketball phenom

[keen sentinel]

mhm

[stoic fox]

With a 1.8 gpa

[keen sentinel]

1.8 gpa is wild

[stoic fox]

Its a joke

But it feels like that

[keen sentinel]

oh...

[strong torrent]

LMAO I LOVE THIS

[stoic fox]

Harvard recruits the next michael jordan even though he has a 1.7 GPA and a 820 SAT

[strong torrent]

is this legit the email they sent

[modern lava]

Yes.

[stoic fox]

Yes

[keen sentinel]

yes

[stoic fox]

The email ppl are on crack 💀

[keen sentinel]

that's what I thought too

[stoic fox]

It IS mit

[modern lava]

The acceptance letter on the portal: 🗿

[stoic fox]

I would have no questions lol

[modern lava]

The acceptance email:

[keen sentinel]

literally

[stoic fox]

Letter: formal

Email: LOLOLOLOLOL WERE HIGH ON CRACK LOLOLOLOL

[keen sentinel]

I love it

[modern lava]

💀

[keen sentinel]

stare

[stoic fox]

IM GONNA HAVE PTSD FROM THIS FUCKIN MASCOT

ew random cornell appears

[modern lava]

Nope

[keen sentinel]

no

[modern lava]

At least you get the bragging rights lmfao

[keen sentinel]

bragging rights is all that matters anyways

[strong torrent]

as a uchi coper, i feel offended

[stoic fox]

I didnt get in

So i feel ur pain

[strong torrent]

we're not coping we're manifesting

💪

[stoic fox]

Manifesting didnt help me

[strong torrent]

tbh same

[stoic fox]

In fact i think it made it worse

[strong torrent]

i put a countdown in the Georgetown thread for 30 days

got deferred anyways lmaoaoao

[stoic fox]

41 Ls

Then this W

[fallen storm]

41 what

[keen sentinel]

mit is the first college I've heard back from

guess I'm 1 for 1

[strong torrent]

deserved

[keen sentinel]

very nice!!!