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

[indigo sparrow]

is mit

[sand lance]

yes

Woah

Space

[remote vessel]

mit is

[indigo sparrow]

guess what i plan to major in by my name (if i get in)

[prisma tree]

gotta be chemistry amirite

[indigo sparrow]

hint: enginerinh

[modern lava]

Clearly biomedical engineering

🗿

[indigo sparrow]

yes, correct (joke)

[sand lance]

Is it… astrology

[indigo sparrow]

you got the first letter right

[indigo sparrow]

"what did you major in"

"astrology"

"do you mean astronomy?"

"no"

[obtuse sentinel]

you could probably get a PhD in history or sociology or something with a focus on astrology? closest you'd get to an astrology degree though

[indigo sparrow]

i have libra due at 8

[obtuse sentinel]

I need to solve cancer

[indigo sparrow]

if i get in to MIT everyone that reacts is getting burger

[obtuse sentinel]

if I get into MIT I will cry

[indigo sparrow]

why

[obtuse sentinel]

it will be one of the best days of my life

[indigo sparrow]

yeah me too

i will violently sob for 15 minutes and hope i don't fuck it up

[obtuse sentinel]

mm
I hope we both get in

[indigo sparrow]

i hope too

i will spend like five minutex on campus having a heart attack

[obtuse sentinel]

I'm going to text basically everyone I know, people I haven't talked to in years included

[indigo sparrow]

yeah

[stoic fox]

Good luck

[prisma tree]

man

the delusion hurts

[indigo sparrow]

"SUCK IT MRS POOLEY"

[stoic fox]

MIT really told us to touch grass

[indigo sparrow]

-me

i'm doing aeroastro probably, with a physics minor

[obtuse sentinel]

8 and 18 dual major is my hope, though subject to change

[indigo sparrow]

oh

mafs

[obtuse sentinel]

mhmm! and physics
I love the subjects dearly

[indigo sparrow]

physics my bloved

[obtuse sentinel]

I too blove physics

[indigo sparrow]

i considered going chemical eng because i'm insanelu=y good at it but decided against it

[obtuse sentinel]

oh? wdym by insanely good?

[indigo sparrow]

just good at it and enjoy it

[strong torrent]

Me if i get into uchicago today

[indigo sparrow]

but i decided against it

wait

[obtuse sentinel]

good luck!

[indigo sparrow]

you can dual major and still not incur more financial stress?

[strong torrent]

ty😭

[indigo sparrow]

i think(?) you can.

[obtuse sentinel]

I don't believe you have to?
unless you go over four years to complete it I guess

you have to do very well in one major before you're allowed to have another one though

I think I'll start with physics, and then add math if I can

I'm a little better at physics than pure math

[indigo sparrow]

i'll probably go aeroastro then physics

[obtuse sentinel]

aerospace engineering?

[indigo sparrow]

yeah

and astrodynamics

in a fun little package

[obtuse sentinel]

oo, sounds fun
any idea what you want to do with it yet?

[indigo sparrow]

it seems generic, but i have been working for it for god knows how many billion years: nasa

[obtuse sentinel]

that's still cool!
I have an uncle who did aerospace eng and ended up a US General in the air force working with satellites

[indigo sparrow]

yeah

[obtuse sentinel]

any idea what specifically you want to do at NASA?

[indigo sparrow]

either jpl or astronaut corps. childish but as stated, i have been working towards this for yearss

[high spruce]

Weird quesition, but if I label myself as part of the LGBTQ community in the application, am I expected to talk about it in another part of my application? I don't think it's a huge part of my identity but at the same time I don't want AOs to think that I am doing it soley for admisisons purposes

[obtuse sentinel]

wh-why would you do it solely for admissions purposes? I don't see any reason why they'd assume that

(am nonbinary and pan myself)

[indigo sparrow]

pan club

[obtuse sentinel]

mm kitchenware

[high spruce]

Lovee

[indigo sparrow]

and some weird mix of girl and nonbinary

[obtuse sentinel]

oh same!

sometimes I'm a guy though. it's weird

[indigo sparrow]

i put another sexuality in and just typed in sql code along with my sexuality

dw i'll probably remove it

[obtuse sentinel]

hah
tried to hack the MIT admissions website gang

I tried some sqli and xss and regex and stuff. none if it worked so I gave up

[indigo sparrow]

i wonder if they have port 22 open

[high spruce]

Could someone help me pick out my 4 ECs for the application? I'm having trouble choosing between two

[obtuse sentinel]

it's MIT, I doubt it

if nothing else, I'm sure their system's been roundly tested by their applicants

[turbid barn]

I picked mine not based on just academic prestige but more the 4 things I would be most excited to tell an AO if I met them in person

[indigo sparrow]

it might be open but just password protected

i use p(Arch)ment btw

[turbid barn]

My normal stats and everything were fine, but my teachers told me they talked about character and personality a lot in their LOR - I think MIT rlly does value kindness and that kind of authenticity

[obtuse sentinel]

MIT rates character as the only 'Very Important' quality they look for in admissions

[turbid barn]

Ah that makes sense

[indigo sparrow]

great, applying with all F grades

/j

[obtuse sentinel]

there's also one lecture by an AO on their process; they look mainly for the minimum academics, and then after that fit with MIT (part of which can also include academics)

[turbid barn]

Now this is very interesting

I thought they ranked u

[obtuse sentinel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzzrgbhknvo

[obtuse sentinel]

you might be thinking of harvard?

[indigo sparrow]

what disease will i get if i drink the MIT Milk™️

[obtuse sentinel]

beaver fever

[indigo sparrow]

i think there's strange matter in there

[proud current]

what's your expected major?
just curious

[obtuse sentinel]

you will be assimilated

[proud current]

it doesn't exist anymore so

[high spruce]

Did you guys apply EA?

[obtuse sentinel]

RD

[indigo sparrow]

the antiproton magnetic bottle failed

[high spruce]

Nice nice

Got accepted?

[obtuse sentinel]

ohno

[indigo sparrow]

i've just got my counsellor thing and a short response left

[obtuse sentinel]

no? I'm applying rd I said

[proud current]

@stoic fox @modern lava (QB) and @keen sentinel got accepted

[obtuse sentinel]

I mean hopefully

[high spruce]

Ohh sorry tagged the wrong person

[obtuse sentinel]

there was one person who got brown ED and MIT EA
I feel so sorry for them

[indigo sparrow]

sneak this person into MIT

hopefully people in MIT are more accepting of a disability i have (i HATE IT HERE)

[obtuse sentinel]

ah same

autism my beloved

[indigo sparrow]

autism gang

(and misophonia)

[obtuse sentinel]

oh miso sucks. I have some sensitivity issues but nothing that bad

[indigo sparrow]

yeah it sucks

are we literally the same person

[proud current]

gl guys!!

i have no hope left but hope you guys use the opportunity to write stellar apps and get in

[turbid barn]

Oh no why

What happened 🥲

[obtuse sentinel]

oh frick we are you have osdd too wth

[proud current]

Deferral happened 💀

[indigo sparrow]

yeah it sucks

[turbid barn]

Oh hope you get in RD 🫶

[obtuse sentinel]

mhmm it's hell

[indigo sparrow]

i did self diagnose @ the start but got it diagnosed by a therapist a few weeks ago

[obtuse sentinel]

I don't have an official diagnosis yet, but I've been seeing a specialist and they've essentially confirmed it

[keen sentinel]

hi

[indigo sparrow]

I checked your bio for pronouns and saw sys but just was like "is it funky brain stuff or something else"

[obtuse sentinel]

it is indeed funky brain stuff
my brain is an enigma it has to be studied
osdd is my eighth diagnosis

[indigo sparrow]

peculiar brain

[obtuse sentinel]

it's spicy

[indigo sparrow]

my brain has a lot of mustard in it

[obtuse sentinel]

my brain is a soup

[indigo sparrow]

wait

...

you're right

[obtuse sentinel]

thank you I try

[indigo sparrow]

meat, salt, water

soup

[obtuse sentinel]

suspended by glia and neurons

[high spruce]

wait did you guys report PE & health courses for hte paplicaton?

[obtuse sentinel]

I put them in self-reported coursework

[high spruce]

Ok

[indigo sparrow]

my brain is soup controlling a meat armor made of calcium structure and more meat

[high spruce]

What about Half-year courses? How did you specifgy that htey were half year

[obtuse sentinel]

or, well, my one health course
all my other ones were at a non-US school and it said not to add them

[indigo sparrow]

edx is fun to do, i put some edx courses on there

[obtuse sentinel]

all my school's courses are half-year, so I specified that

[indigo sparrow]

if you can, do a edx course or two and put it on the fun form

[obtuse sentinel]

cool! I did a bunch of OCW, but there's no documentation

I'll talk about it in my interview and I think my counselour will mention it in her LoR

[indigo sparrow]

i put my edx under self reported coursewrk

[obtuse sentinel]

mm, it might be doing one of those for FUN

[turbid barn]

Btw anybody else a recruited athlete?

[obtuse sentinel]

or a couple

I don't know I'm self-studying 9 APs this year

so that should look good enough already

[turbid barn]

🫣

[high spruce]

Woudl AP CS A be an engineering/technical coursE?

[turbid barn]

Probably engineering

[obtuse sentinel]

what? APs are easy

[high spruce]

ok thanks

[obtuse sentinel]

just read a textbook in a day or two and test

[indigo sparrow]

i did a funi exoplanetology course

[turbid barn]

I mean true but 9 is kind of more the number of tests

[obtuse sentinel]

oo cool!

exoplanets are super interesting

[indigo sparrow]

yeah

[obtuse sentinel]

mm, I'm doing, let's see if I can remember
CSA (well that's an acronym), Bio, Chem, Both Phys Cs, Microecon, Psych and, mm, more I can't remember

oh! Calc BC of course, and Stats (fake math)

[turbid barn]

Lmao I had a tennis tournament the week before APs and fcked some of my tests up by not studying as much as I should have

4 on stats and chem lmao, 5 on lang

Chem was understandable, but a 4 on stats was a lil embarrassing 😭

[obtuse sentinel]

I've only taken APUSH, APHUG, APLit, and AP Chinese so far
5 on all of them, except a 2 in Chinese (goddamit I was born there)

[turbid barn]

Chinese class sounds so hard at my school

[indigo sparrow]

who wants burger if i get into the Institute (it makes it sound like a mysterious sci-fi organisation who comes up with the plan to save Earth)

[obtuse sentinel]

did you know that the majority of people who take AP chinese get a 5? it's actually the easiest AP course by stats

...because all the chinese people take the test and frick up the statistics

[obtuse sentinel]

If we both get into the institute let's get a burger together

[indigo sparrow]

absolutely

but where burger

[obtuse sentinel]

hmm

I don't know I've only been to cambrige once

rubbed the foot of John Harvard for good luck and left

I'm so sad I didn't see MIT

[indigo sparrow]

i would say mcdonalds but burgers there are made of 73% rat and 27% cardboard

[obtuse sentinel]

(John Harvard is such a silly name though. Like, who founded harvard? "John Harvard" sounds like a joke.)

[obtuse sentinel]

mhmm
a local place would probably be best

[indigo sparrow]

it sounds like john baseball

[obtuse sentinel]

John Chess, inventor of Chess

[obtuse sentinel]

I find that hilarious despite never having watched a baseball game

[turbid barn]

Same that’s honestly very similar to what i expected

Based on the ppl who play baseball at my own school

[indigo sparrow]

theres a light somewhere in mit that does weather

[obtuse sentinel]

it controls the weather

all weather is actually designed by MIT

[indigo sparrow]

me, in summer, making it flash red to get snow

(why are people crying)

[prisma tree]

weather was a concept made up by big MIT to sell more umbrellas and sweaters

[obtuse sentinel]

that is what we call ecoterrorism

it is bad

[turbid barn]

Truer statements have never been spoken

[obtuse sentinel]

the colder the weather the more people will where MIT branded sweaters, advertising the institute
truly devious, somebody must stop them

[indigo sparrow]

but i want snow

snow and rain >>>>>>

[obtuse sentinel]

noo noo
snow is evil, ice should not come from the sky
rain is the sky's tears. do you want to make the sky cry?

[prisma tree]

yes

im a meanie

[indigo sparrow]

counterpoint: that weather is cozy inside and is also hoodie weather

[obtuse sentinel]

sees murder drones pfp
makes sense

[obtuse sentinel]

anything below 30C is hoodie weather in my opinion

[indigo sparrow]

what

[obtuse sentinel]

it doesn't need to be so cold

[indigo sparrow]

im in the uk and 30c is like

grounds for cancelling school

[prisma tree]

this has been the second time someone mentioned the murder drones profile pic

in this discord

[obtuse sentinel]

wth
30C is just a normal day

[turbid barn]

lol what 30 C is like 86 degrees

[indigo sparrow]

my area has over 45 degrees of temperature variance

[prisma tree]

30C is kinda hot

[obtuse sentinel]

I may have grown up in the tropics

[indigo sparrow]

from -5 to 42 that one time

[turbid barn]

Our place goes to 95 sometimes but it’s usually in the 70s

[obtuse sentinel]

holy heck

I will stick to my 33-24 variance thank you very much

[indigo sparrow]

there is also flooding warnings from rain every few eeeks

[obtuse sentinel]

that's normal
you don't even get typhoons up there

who needs snow days when you can have typhoon days

this message is brought to you by southeast asia

[indigo sparrow]

massachusetts cold weather i think

[obtuse sentinel]

I know it's terrible

genuinely the only thing making me consider caltech

[indigo sparrow]

also staying inside with hot chocolate >>

[obtuse sentinel]

you can have hot chocolate at 30! it does not have to be -15C to enjoy a hot beverage

[indigo sparrow]

the blood in my body will boil att 45 degrees (i live at 0.1 atmospheres)

mit has a nuclear reactor and thus a supply of uranium. ulyimate midnight snavk for cramming

[obtuse sentinel]

the greatest hack ever pulled

[turbid barn]

Caltech has a kinda dead vibe though

At least from my friend who’s a freshman there

[indigo sparrow]

the greatest hack ever pulled: making the reactor go into mektdown, all safety systems destroyed

[obtuse sentinel]

mm, I've heard some say it's good, some who disagree
mostly on the worse side though

[obtuse sentinel]

greatest hack ever pulled (100 kiloton nuclear explosion)

(at harvard)

[alpine sail]

real

[indigo sparrow]

transplant the reactor to caltech

[obtuse sentinel]

and steal the cannon again while you're at it, why not

[indigo sparrow]

[indigo sparrow]

put the button to blow up the reactor in its place

"ooh whats this"

[obtuse sentinel]

"press if you're a better school than MIT" (they get what's coming for them)

[indigo sparrow]

bright flash

[obtuse sentinel]

CIT: for the people who couldn't get into Masstech

[indigo sparrow]

mit >>>>>>>>> any other schl

[exotic briar]

Imagine stealing 🦫 and 🐢 from MIT soba d 🤡

[obtuse sentinel]

agreed

gah I hope I can get in

[indigo sparrow]

praying i get in

[exotic briar]

u guys applying RD?

[obtuse sentinel]

mhmm

[indigo sparrow]

yeah

[exotic briar]

ic

[obtuse sentinel]

no big 'spike', no shocking ECs (I guess I built a turningturing-complete computer on a breadboard once), mediocre grades (extreme extenuating circumstances). 1600 & perfect 36 though, with excellent LoRs and hopefully great essays.
gah really riding on that "Very Important" character bit here

[exotic briar]

[obtuse sentinel]

thanks

[indigo sparrow]

ayy electronics

[obtuse sentinel]

woo circuits

[indigo sparrow]

i got some really good grades but my only two ea's were working in chatrooms on projects that got defunded

[exotic briar]

"turning complete"

[obtuse sentinel]

it was very good at rotation

all three axis

[exotic briar]

mhm

[obtuse sentinel]

it had moves like you wouldn't believe

[indigo sparrow]

and one of them never even went to manufacture

[high spruce]

is it bad that i haven't taken calculus recently when it comes to admissions?

does mit care when you take calculus?

or just if?

[exotic briar]

I took multivar in 10th, calc bc in 8th (but they didn't let me list this 💀)?
I think they like to see that people took it b4 college tho 🤷

[high spruce]

haha same here

ok that's good

[obtuse sentinel]

I've got a handful of speech things in early highschool, the breadboard thing, and music (Viola)
the only awards I have is a mid international solo recital and a schoolwide APUSH thing (top of forty people). I guess NMS semi and AP scholar too

agh I wish I'd done more
instead I was in hospitals (hopefully they understand the extenuating circumstances)

[indigo sparrow]

i never joined any clubs, too busy being a nerd and playing copious amounts of ksp

[obtuse sentinel]

really my whole app is "I was very very ill please ignore my lackluster academic grading and focus on my perfect test scores, essays, and LoR"

[prisma tree]

damn ur guys cray-cray

[obtuse sentinel]

same I was bad at socializing and also dropped out of highschool for nearly a year

[prisma tree]

i did some research (unpublished)

[obtuse sentinel]

I won a national robotics competition in middle school

but can't list that

[prisma tree]

did some science club shit

went to the national olympiad

[indigo sparrow]

ay @obtuse sentinel can i friend you?

[obtuse sentinel]

sure!

[obtuse sentinel]

wdym?

[prisma tree]

like gr8 profiles

while being very ill

[indigo sparrow]

this chat feels like general when it's really a hideyhole

[prisma tree]

the competition sure is tough

[high spruce]

Wait... MIT doesn't consider 9th grade activites?

[turbid barn]

Good question

[high spruce]

Would presenting at a conference/getting accepted for a publication be considered a scholastic distinction?

[exotic briar]

yeah

[spiral tiger]

yo @modern lava or anyone else applying to MIT

i have a question

if i took a class

that was two semesters long

do i just input it like this

cuz this is what the website says but im not sure if im understanding it right

[exotic briar]

To be fair, I basically put all of my oly stuff in scholastic and all of my humanities/fencing stuff in non-scholastic, even if it was somewhat academic 😳
But I got in so it's all aight

[spiral tiger]

@exotic briar can u answer my q

[exotic briar]

uh lemme pull up my saved app

[spiral tiger]

thanks

[exotic briar]

so basically

if your course was 2 semesters long

you put it in like this, with separate semester grades

[spiral tiger]

so i should put like

[high spruce]

DM'ed you a question btw!

[spiral tiger]

Fall: blah blah blah

and then spring: blah blah blah

instead of

A+, A+

[exotic briar]

I think I put it in like this to be as clear as possible

[spiral tiger]

dude this mit app is kinda confusing ngl

ill see what oats says in a few

if he corroborates ill do it like y'all

i don't really know if it matters

this mit app is kinda unintuitive ngl

idk if i should put my research awards or my olympiad awards for scholastic

does this count as a social science or what

there's no option for social studies

[strong torrent]

Yeah it does

[exotic briar]

yeah

[spiral tiger]

bro what the fuck are these

what do i put for the reading test

is it just like

40

cuz this is what it shows me

i dont want to mess this up

[turbid barn]

39 and 40

[spiral tiger]

and where do i find this one

[turbid barn]

U don’t

Leave it blank

[spiral tiger]

okay i see

bruh filling this out is so exhausting

[turbid barn]

I mean unless u somehow took it in like 2021 2020 b4 they got rid of essay

[spiral tiger]

i've taken like 40 minutes just filling out my activities and coursework

[turbid barn]

Yah lol not being on the common app is a slog

But I appreciate only being given 4 slots

Made me able to really shape the interests and type of person i wanted to come across as

[spiral tiger]

BRUHH

look at this

[hollow sedge]

yeah

i hate that

[spiral tiger]

how am i supposed to remember when exactly i fucking took it

[hollow sedge]

you need to report the exact day

google ig

[solid pawn]

google

[solid pawn]

bro only the 790 and 800 r required

[spiral tiger]

for this would I put AP Bio/AP Lit if i'm currently taking the class but haven't taken the exam yet

[exotic briar]

You don't need to put anything that isn't required lmao

I didn't, for the matter

[exotic briar]

oop seems I have been sniped

[solid pawn]

hahahah

[inland flicker]

lol

[spiral tiger]

@exotic briar how did you put usapho as an award

what's the organization

is it aapt or usapho

[austere vapor]

dude read"Advanced placement.. should be reported in the table above"

[raven saffron]

We making the Top 2% deferred students man idc

[inland flicker]

i hope so

[raven saffron]

So done with this bullshit

[inland flicker]

I mean, I kind of understand why they defer so many

[raven saffron]

They deferred the wrong guy fr

If I ever get rich

And they dont admit me

Imma promise them hella money in donation

[inland flicker]

They want to see us in light of ALL their potential applicants. Instead of just seeing us in > 30% or so

[raven saffron]

Nd then just not send it

Cuz fuck them

[raven saffron]

Its 50/50 EA/RD

Defer pool so 💔

[inland flicker]

rip

💔

[raven saffron]

Its fine

This FUN update getting us out

[inland flicker]

fr

[raven saffron]

If not MIT

im getting out somewhere on the east coast

We may not have made Plat this month

But January fs

In time for that FUN

Unfortunately unless we have record low Plat cuttoffs this month Im gonna have to leave it off my RD apps 💔

[spiral tiger]

Answer my question

[raven saffron]

Nah MIT dk what they missing out on I would bring so much holly and jolly to the campus

[spiral tiger]

I didnt ask that

[raven saffron]

Dont put them in there

[spiral tiger]

I asked if i should put planned AP exams

In there

[raven saffron]

No

You put planned in the table

[spiral tiger]

Oh they let me do that?

[raven saffron]

Yeah

I believe the score is optional

[eternal jasper]

this is literaly me

literally the best combo

[austere vapor]

its still int he table above

and in addl info make it clear ur just taking the test

[vague maple]

what is the other person tag with the same character for profile picture that got into mit

i can’t find the tag but i want to congratulate them

[inland flicker]

what

[vague maple]

new discord layout is so shit I can’t even search

there’s someone who got into mit with the same character as their pfp

they were in this channel

[inland flicker]

oh the same chaarcter s u?

[vague maple]

yes

furina

[inland flicker]

yuh they left the discord

[vague maple]

oh no

[inland flicker]

they got into Brown ED tho the day before so they aren't going to MIT

[eternal jasper]

lmao they just noped out

[vague maple]

wow

[eternal jasper]

too much success for all of us to handle

[inland flicker]

@eternal jasper I told you you should've moved your app to RD

[vague maple]

yeah someone just yelled at me for being sad abt not knowing how to do admissions bc they were like “mf didn’t you get into mit” but they confused me w someone e else

[eternal jasper]

maybe

[vague maple]

yeah im not even close to them I’ll be lucky to even get into one t50

[eternal jasper]

but its not mitover yet

[inland flicker]

its mitover for me

[eternal jasper]

[inland flicker]

I'm still sad about the deferral

[vague maple]

I didn’t even apply here

[eternal jasper]

No it’s not

I believe in you

we both getting in rd i can feel it in my jellies

[inland flicker]

[vague maple]

3.4 gpa but 1560 gang ( looking at common data sets makes me want to kill myself)

[eternal jasper]

idk man shoot your shot

you never know

[vague maple]

not for mit lmao

i am shooting elsewhere

[eternal jasper]

yeah that makes sense

im shooting elsewhere too after deferral

[vague maple]

covid freshman year doomed me

i only got on adhd meds after that year

without freshman im like 3.65-3.7 or something

[inland flicker]

I'm shooting everywhere after deferral

[austere vapor]

The universe is not deterministic you still have a chance at MIT

[cedar hornet]

if you have

a legitimate circumstance

that affected your gpa

id argue all isnt lost

[raven saffron]

We all making it to MIT

Trust

[vague maple]

yeah my grandpa died and I didn’t get adhd medication till after freshman year

[raven saffron]

Bruh 💀

[vague maple]

along w Covid and stuff

[raven saffron]

If you only did bad Freshman Year

MIT dc

[cedar hornet]

freshman year is legit not important at all

[vague maple]

I’m not applying to mit

[cedar hornet]

dont be a wuss

[vague maple]

ive gotten a b in math before man

my overall is 3.38 uw

[raven saffron]

Ive gotten 2 Bs in Math before

Nd I still got deferred

[vague maple]

most of my bs are in English tbh

[raven saffron]

Which prolly means Im above board for MIT Academic Level

[vague maple]

also I have no stem ecs

I’d be happy with like northeastern or Wellesley

[cedar hornet]

bro

dont be a bitch

apply

[vague maple]

[raven saffron]

Fr

We want u

[vague maple]

im not trying to be

[raven saffron]

We (Im getting in trust)

[vague maple]

but I got rejected from tufts

[cedar hornet]

bro

[vague maple]

so there’s no point in wasting essays on mit

[cedar hornet]

that one kid got rejected from 19 schools

and got into mit

[vague maple]

who

[cedar hornet]

whats hi sname

the snake guy i forgot

like chris

[turbid barn]

Yah he was a gap year applicant

Crazy resilience tbh

[raven saffron]

Need AMO 😍 surely MIT will want me then

[cedar hornet]

he applied

to 42 schools

and mit was the 42nd

[raven saffron]

This is an abusive relationship man

[cedar hornet]

and he got in

[vague maple]

interesting

[raven saffron]

MIT just gonna keep beating my ass

Nd Im gonna keep coming around begging for more

Waitlist up next

I would legit cry

[turbid barn]

Pause

wtf 😂

[remote vessel]

mit chat been active as hell the past 3 days

[raven saffron]

Deferral Army

We scheming our way through this roadblock

[vague maple]

I’m between 50 and 75 for sat pierce tile I guess

[raven saffron]

Hoping usaco plat + amo can carry my FUN but alas 😭

670 on gold for the 3rd straight comp 😭

Im not built for these MIT streets man

UDub better anyways

[cedar hornet]

idk man if u want to go to a school but u dont apply cuz ur scared

thats just kinda being a bitch

[raven saffron]

Got deferred from MIT

Hard reject from Penn

0-2 already

My confidence low 😢

[cedar hornet]

eh

udubs not better for cs but theyre p comparable

[raven saffron]

mfw Physics major

Someone gotta carry the boats!

[cedar hornet]

LOL

[raven saffron]

Nah trust

After MIT reejct

Ill delude for Caltech

Princeton

Yale

0/6 on HYPSM + Caltech would be so 💔

[cedar hornet]

hey man

udubs campus is so nice

[raven saffron]

Its gonna be high school all ova again

[cedar hornet]

LMAO facts tho

[elder vine]

Not counting my mit deference as a loss

It’s not over until it’s over

[raven saffron]

FR!

[elder vine]

Gonna go crazy on my fun

[raven saffron]

49 people will be rejected so I can get in 💪💪💪💪

[cedar hornet]

it wasnt meant to be, go next

[raven saffron]

Idk how Im gonna go crazu on FUN man

[elder vine]

I got a lot of updates

[raven saffron]

If I cant Plat in January I got literally nothing to share

[elder vine]

Hosted a cs competition for other schools

Immersion trip to Taiwan

[turbid barn]

Also I’d recommend reading up on how many universities do their admissions process

[elder vine]

We cooking

[raven saffron]

Oh I can mention published paper I forgot to send

[raven saffron]

No fun

[elder vine]

And I built a whole portfolio website I can send now

[raven saffron]

YESSIR

RESEARCH SUPPLEMENT 💪

[elder vine]

I tried sending it for ea but they didn’t accept

Told me to add it on the fun

[turbid barn]

One thing that was particularly illuminating was when I learned that admissions offices have certain individual people that will read everything, and then summarize “u” in a few sentences to a larger council

[raven saffron]

Not reading that yap sesh

Too busy being DELULU

[turbid barn]

And then as everyone else reads ur file the admissions counselor basically advocates why yes or no

[raven saffron]

Gonna go crazy in the next 2 months 💪

[cedar hornet]

yeah

the ao has to convince

his colleagues

you should be let in

[raven saffron]

It shouldnt be hard convicing them to let me in bro

[turbid barn]

This is why a hook or something unique is important, because it usually ends up within those few summary sentences and helps the person advocating for u to describe where they would imagine you at their school

[cedar hornet]

at some schools with really tiny deferral rates deferrals usually mean it was a half and half vote

[raven saffron]

Im literally nice like that

Im gonna be nicer RD trust

[elder vine]

We both gonna get in trust mit is literally so free

[raven saffron]

Er post deferral

[raven saffron]

If we think ab it

MIT deferrs most intls

So domestic defer admit rate is closer to 5%

And no one is gonna have as good of a FUN as I do 💪

[turbid barn]

Domestic is 8 percent no?

[raven saffron]

Defer --> Accept?

idts

[turbid barn]

International is like <2 percent

[turbid barn]

Ah my bad didn’t see that part

[raven saffron]

Only like 35% of deferred kids are intl

[austere vapor]

probably more like 10% if you ignore people who submit shit FUNS

[raven saffron]

Yeah thats the thing

• around 700 will prolly withdraw

[elder vine]

And ed withdrawals

[raven saffron]

700 withdrew before EA came out

Id expect just as many if not more to do so before RD

• no one got the bag like me 💪

As long as everything goes to plan I dont see how they can cockblock me

[turbid barn]

What an incredible way to describe it

[elder vine]

I’m basically accepted at this point in my mind

[turbid barn]

😂

[raven saffron]

Im saying

[elder vine]

Gonna withdraw all early and not submit rd

That’s how sure I am

[raven saffron]

They cant reject me Im basically already a Nobel Laureate

[austere vapor]

guys they just wanted to read my app twice

[raven saffron]

EXACTLY

They liked me so much they wanted to have the joy of reading my essays a second time

Theyre also gonna offer me a full ride scholarship on merit

First ever from MIT

Trust!

[elder vine]

We are so back

[indigo sparrow]

can everyone pray for me to get in

[turbid barn]

Yes

🙏

[indigo sparrow]

if we get in it'd be so pog

[raven saffron]

Im literally gonna turn down MIT

Cuz Im that good

Theyre starting a new college in my name

Seattle Institute of Technology

SIT down MIT

[spiral tiger]

is putting something like coca-cola scholars semifinalist

worth it

for non-scholastic

i have no fucking clue

[raven saffron]

Over?

coca Cola is scholastic no?

[spiral tiger]

no

[raven saffron]

Then go for it

[spiral tiger]

scholastic is like academic competitions

i don't know if it's good or not

[raven saffron]

Good enough lol

[spiral tiger]

would i put it over some music award

state level

idk

whatever

hopefully i get in anyways

[exotic briar]

I think I put organization as aapt (fully spelled out)

[spiral tiger]

did you put usapho bronze medal

i meant silver

oops

whatever

yk what im ean

[misty ice]

hey guys i have a question

SO THIS IS KINDA RANDOM AND WEIRD

BUT

does this letter look fake..

https://imgur.com/a/Jt0obFZ

[exotic briar]

I put "USA Physics Olympiad Silver Medalist" verbatim

[misty ice]

my friend sent it to me

but i can’t tell if it’s fake or not..

[exotic briar]

Definitely fake

https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/mantic-markets.appspot.com/o/user-images%2Fdefault%2FE13tjyci8I.png?alt=media&token=2e0d0ac2-0f0d-4a8d-87ef-ebd7f90098ac

the current letter is a lot more plain

That's probably an old version lmao

Also the silver tubes didn't arrive yet

[misty ice]

ooo.. i see

[spiral tiger]

also do i say waive my right

i do right

for LOR

[exotic briar]

yes you have to

[exotic briar]

the wording is also significantly different

[spiral tiger]

why would they send a fake letter

😭

how low do you have to go to do that shit

[misty ice]

RIGHT LIKE

IDEK

[median grotto]

Petey said this is not true.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1185482844584288317/1185954273507426344/image.png?ex=65917cfc&is=657f07fc&hm=73e96d82d31a95be6bb7fa72805d874af3f04a606686fe960d2c93947b94247c&

[raven saffron]

YOU NEED TO TELL ME WHATS IN IT PLS 😭

[exotic briar]

It'll probably be the same as last year (Rishab Jain has a video on it or smth)

[exotic briar]

fr 💀

[austere vapor]

https://www.tickcounter.com/countdown/4709527/mit-regular-decision-acceptance
lmao run it back

[indigo sparrow]

I JUST FINISHED MY SPPLICATION TO MIT

[indigo sparrow]

wish me luck

[raven saffron]

We gonna be roommates @indigo sparrow

Lolz

[indigo sparrow]

Why?

[raven saffron]

We both getting in trust

oh hell nah 💀 I aint realise u a girl that sounds so wrong now 😭

[eternal jasper]

you can be my roommate 😳

when we both get in

[raven saffron]

YESSIR!

fellow double deferred

[inland flicker]

www

[eternal jasper]

actually lets just start our own frat

and we can all live at mit together

lets call it alpha 2 kappa

[vague pelican]

bro my moms begging me to commit to like our local state uni before my duke and MIT rd results come out (deferred from MIT ea)

lmfao no one has faith in me istg 😀

[eternal jasper]

is there a reason she wants you to do it so soon

[inland flicker]

my dad told me if I get into UVA he wants me to committ immediately smh no faith

[eternal jasper]

damn my parents have too much faith in me

i just got deferred from uchi and i texted my dad and he responded with "ohh i thought for sure" and i'm like ???

[zealous condor]

i'm not even gonna go to mit but im down

alpha 2 chi

[vague pelican]

just wants me to have a confirmed spot at the uni ig

[austere vapor]

Guys I’m getting in my update is gonna be so fire

Already wrote it out

Sheesh

[eternal jasper]

double deferral squad rise up ong

[austere vapor]

im in that defer -> accept pipeline fr

86 days until MIT acceptance?

[tacit lily]

it does look fake

the real one is more fancy

and has beavers on it

[raven saffron]

Ye

3 months to MIT

Lmao

So ez

Trust

[ionic spindle]

You should waive your right, but you do not have to

if your worried that your recommender will write a bad letter they shouldn't be your recommender

it is just a courtesy to your recommender

[high spruce]

Could I list hte congressional app challenge as non-scholastic?

[inland flicker]

lol

yes

[vague pelican]

where u updating?

[austere vapor]

lmao

i mena the February update

[vague pelican]

oh the FUN form?

[austere vapor]

ya

[solid pawn]

I can attest

[vague pelican]

where do i find this FUN form

[austere vapor]

comes out later

[vague pelican]

alr so as a deferred kid, anything i do yet?

LOCI?

[austere vapor]

nada.

no do NOT send in a loci

they explicitly say not to

[vague pelican]

alr then

where did they say it

[austere vapor]

blogs

google.com

[inland flicker]

FUN Form = LOCI basically

[austere vapor]

and is where u tell them yo grades

[stable kindle]

comes out january right

[proud current]

hi

[eternal jasper]

yeah i think so

[stable kindle]

bet

[keen sentinel]

hi!!!

[proud current]

hi!

[eternal jasper]

hi

[proud current]

saying hi is really fun guys

[eternal jasper]

it is

[proud current]

And I have nothing to write in the FUN

[keen sentinel]

hi

[proud current]

hi :)

[keen sentinel]

hi ;D

[proud current]

hi 🤩

[keen sentinel]

hi :>

[eternal jasper]

guys i wish we all got into mit so we could see each other in person

[proud current]

me too!

but like that's delusional thinking for me

[eternal jasper]

same

[proud current]

I am not an Olympiad medalist, I am an international applicant (from India) AND I didn't win a science fair or write a research paper.

[inland flicker]

www

[proud current]

.mit.edu

[keen sentinel]

indeed

[eternal jasper]

one day

[proud current]

hmm

[austere vapor]

rip my MIT email ☹️

gone forever if I don’t get in

[eternal jasper]

yeah fr 😭

[inland flicker]

😦

how u get A2C'23

[proud current]

so someone, ai spongebob and the young nerd are different people, i keep on getting confused

[inland flicker]

yuh

[keen sentinel]

lol

I get that

[keen sentinel]

also he's just known as ai spongebob now 💀

[eternal jasper]

THE ai sponge

[keen sentinel]

the sponge

[gusty siren]

🧽

[austere vapor]

three ppl who are all getting in rd

[proud current]

Good luck :)
I hope you get in, you're all genius

[austere vapor]

appreciate it

[keen sentinel]

why does that link crash all the tabs

[inland flicker]

lol

[raven saffron]

I too

Will get in RD

Trust!

[austere vapor]

congrats on being the 2^3rd person to fall for it

[keen sentinel]

de

dw

I already fell for it way back when

then I opened it again

[austere vapor]

lmao

[ionic spindle]

are you listing it as a honor or EC btw?

I currently have it listed as both

and am wondering what others are doing

[inland flicker]

It's an honor of winning it, if you want to list the developing of it as an EC that is fine too

[ionic spindle]

Well if I won can I write it as both?

[inland flicker]

Sure

[ionic spindle]

Other people told me it was weird to do that, but it took a significant amount of time outside of shcool to do so

[eternal jasper]

i think it would make sense to do that

[inland flicker]

how u get double defer

[eternal jasper]

uchicago defer today

[inland flicker]

awh man

are you going to move it to ED2?

[eternal jasper]

nope

mit is still my one true love

[inland flicker]

good

[sand lance]

Anybody in mit who is NOT a school club founder

[junior heath]

im sure plenty

[pale plaza]

E

[eternal jasper]

me

just kidding i'm not at mit (yet)

[modern lava]

🫡

[turbid barn]

Yep

[indigo sparrow]

is there a official server

shiiit

I mistyped a grade

[indigo sparrow]

only one though

I still have a insane alevel

[royal badger]

MIT is making one for accepted students but not until March

If that’s what ur asking

[indigo sparrow]

oh

[indigo sparrow]

(Literally one of the, if not the best in the school

Eait

FUCK

Wrong message

[royal badger]

?

Oh

[indigo sparrow]

[indigo sparrow]

Actually doesn't say much, the unis here need 2's in GSCE to get in

[wanton obsidian]

what country you in?

[indigo sparrow]

Uk

[wanton obsidian]

oh, that is cool

i am also applying there with my Alevel grades

[elder vine]

Wait what’s with the yellow names

[keen sentinel]

we're a2c 2023

I guess I'm not 😭

[spiral tiger]

imagine writing about stanford deferral

do you think MIT AOs will know what the AMC is or should i explain more

besides the acronym

[flint wigeon]

they def know

they have a section on their portal for reporting amc scores

[proud current]

it's just a new role

saw it in id:browse today

its on the top of id:customize

[keen sentinel]

mmm thanks

[solid pawn]

100%%%%%%

[flint wigeon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/727850377403170819/1183754957791445043/caption.gif?ex=65897cb7&is=657707b7&hm=5efc241d85860355fcd2facbdad2b868fac765a3e71a5c6e1619c8f219a98d11&

[ionic spindle]

How did ya'll become yellow

[exotic briar]

rbuh

if they didn’t know what the AMC was, how could they have taken MOPpers at >85% rate

[spiral tiger]

I’m seriously thinking abt putting the amc leak as a situation essay lol

Idk

[outer hollow]

Want an opinion in a rec letter, which would be better?

• lor from se internship, director of company talked about how the program is typically for senior level undergrads but im a unique case of a high school student who is successful in it - mentions how my front line manager was shocked to find out i was high school and how i am capable of doing assignments and having professionalism expected of a career professional way older than me

• lor from a old college admissions counselor of mine, really liked me and would talk more about how I am as a person and how I was one of his favorite students to talk to and what not - has specific examples probably from college visit trips we went on together and what not - said i impacted his life considerably and that i have the full package

I know mit really values personality and character, but i also think the work rec is really good. So idk what to do. Any advice?

Right now I have the work rec, but im debating emailing the other guy and asking him to write me a rec. I feel like he would write me a really glowing rec about my personality and whatnot, but at the same time my work rec is really good. I just wanna submit the one the mit aos would find more valuable

[atomic vapor]

is MIT already getting a counselor rec from your current counselor/teachers?

and what's their limit

[outer hollow]

Yeah thats separate though, im talking about a counselor in a different program my school runs that does college stuff sepcifically for top students

So i would have to choose one supplemental rec

[atomic vapor]

ahh got it, sorry i can't help further -- imo the work rec sounds really good and would go beyond the personality traits your primary recs would cover

i do have my own question, so sorry to clutter up the chat:

if i have a school winner thing for AMC but didnt qualify for aime, i should leave it out right 🙃

[outer hollow]

Lol i didnt know that was a thing, if so im the school winner for my school and i didnt qual for aime either

[atomic vapor]

lol they give a pin

it kinda counts and you get a certificate

not super official

[outer hollow]

I got 82.5 but its not terrible considering its my first time ever doing comp math and i had one weekend to prepare. The next highest score at my school was a 52.5 and it was a girl who answered a few questions and left 💀

All of the kids who took it were my friends who i forced to sign up lol because I was the one who got my school to sign up in the first place

[atomic vapor]

pretty much same, but i run our amc prep club (mu alpha theta) 😭

i think MIT would look down on it tbh

[outer hollow]

Yeah im mat president too

But im not putting that on my mit app cuz my math comp results are garbage for mit standards

My school hadnt proctored amc for 15 years until this year, and i only found out it existed because of the mit app

Apparently too many kids took it just to skip so they stopped offering it 💀

[calm kestrel]

💀

was the amc leak rly that bad at most it wouldve raised AIME cutoffs by like 2-3 points

[outer hollow]

I can upload my work rec if you wanna see it, my boss just sent it to me lol, i honestly have no idea if mit would find it more useful than a 10/10 personality and character rec

[calm kestrel]

litweally me

exact same score too

[outer hollow]

Issue is i have no idea what my other recs wrote about so idk if the personality rec would help me or not

[outer hollow]

Noicee

A bunch of my friends got below 37.5, like they could have left everything blank and gotten a higher score lol

[calm kestrel]

lol fr

I hate comp math so much its so easy to fumble

I sillied on like 5-6 problems

[outer hollow]

Its fun but it sucks i didnt know it existed til this year

[calm kestrel]

like off by one or forgetting to undo log

[calm kestrel]

yeah its fun if u practice ig

im too lazy to spend more than 5 hours prepping for anything 😄

how does MIT look at summer projects vs ECs differently

im hella confused on which to put where

also if im doing a portfolio should I still keep a projects ec or switch it out for smth else thats less valuable

[spiral tiger]

I was responsible for managing it

It was first leaked on my server

[atomic vapor]

same, i think i wont 😭

but you have a year

[spiral tiger]

I have a different perspective on this situation compared to a regular test taker

[atomic vapor]

you could def take it next yr and then update by email

[atomic vapor]

is that not a red flag essay?

[spiral tiger]

It’s a public discord and someone posted it as a practice test

We have 5k people

[atomic vapor]

ah gotchu

i mean if youre careful

that's a cool story fs

[spiral tiger]

If it’s above 100 ur fine

I put my 118.5

You don’t need a 130+

[calm kestrel]

send invite /j

[modern lava]

Lol my AMC score was like 60 y'all are fine 💀

Just vibe tbh

[high spruce]

How has the world you come from—including your opportunities, experiences, and challenges—shaped your dreams and aspirations?* (225 words)
For this can I talk about my parent's prusuit of the American Dream

And how it shaped me and my interests

Is that too cliche of a topic?

Yeah lmfao

[obtuse sentinel]

cliches are fine, what matters is how well you write them. Don't do a cliche because it is a cliche and you think its easy; write the best essay you possibly can, and if it has cliches in it then that's the best essay you can write

[stoic frost]

how fucked are my chances with a b+ in one semester of apes, but an a+ in the next and no awards besides the ap scholar one

[fierce gust]

i promise you they dont care

[modern lava]

^^^^^

[austere vapor]

done. failed. quit while you still can.

Ok more seriously though

how tf do i get accepted after being deferred

Is just getting the best grades i can first half of the year and cooking on the FUN the extent of it

[shrewd basalt]

Mcdonald

[gusty siren]

do u have to participate in math/cs/ any kind of comp to have a chance 😭

[inland flicker]

So the way many MIT students and 2 alumni have explained it to me is that nobody has really HUGE accomplishments between Nov-Jan that they can include on FUN. It’s only 250 words so the best thing is your semester grades and anything you can add abt your ECs

It won’t really change your chances in any direction

[austere vapor]

semester grades dont take up any words right thats in a seperate box

[inland flicker]

Not sure

[austere vapor]

i hope not cuz i wrote a fire FUN using nearly all 250

like i be getting in fr fr

it so good fr fr

[shrewd basalt]

If you’re not IOI/IMO/IPhO winner it’s wraps

[austere vapor]

naw naw

[exotic briar]

MOPpers had >85% acceptance rate this year
Everyone in blue group got accepted

All cow campers got accepted

oly camp is the threshold for securing MIT

[austere vapor]

everyone from my school who has gotten in got deferred u can get in after deferred if not

ik for a fact none of them had a single award above the state level

[modern lava]

Imagine having awards

[shrewd basalt]

I was trolling

[shrewd basalt]

“No one thing will get you into MIT”

Sure, but some things will decrease your rejection chances to epsilon

There are HSers ik that I have promised to pay if they get rej

This book is kind of mickey but it's very good to understand everything in it

[austere vapor]

seems easy enough!

[calm kestrel]

I swear ML books are always so funny cuz they start with like HS math and end with an introduction to a grad level bayesian statistics

in 100 pages

[shrewd basalt]

Yeah that’s what I like abt ML books

[calm kestrel]

I feel like you lose a lot of the tangential information that rly helps with AI stuff tho tbh

you end up knowing how to do one particular type of problem really well

and jack shit else

[high spruce]

Do you know how AOs view research supplements? Do faculty members review them?

If they do, what exactly do they review them for?

[calm kestrel]

for mit and caltech im sure

professors review them

[high spruce]

Like the rigor of the research?

[calm kestrel]

for the other ones they couldnt give less of a shit

[high spruce]

Is that what they review them for

[shrewd basalt]

Better to stack conference showings than papers tbh

[modern lava]

Yes masstech sends portfolios to the relevant faculty members iirc

[shrewd basalt]

It's difficult for an AO to know if you have good ideas or are a bullshitter

Because too many HSers do shit research

[modern lava]

Yeah with research you really gotta make it clear that your research isn't BS

[calm kestrel]

im not sure, I would assume they look at if the research is cool

[high spruce]

How do you do that lmfaooo

[calm kestrel]

kind of how you would read a paper to learn abt smth

[modern lava]

As clarified by Petey not too long ago 💀

[high spruce]

Should I show the conference preceedings

What is BS research in the first place

Just like a literature reveiw or smth?

[calm kestrel]

using a CNN to detect cancer

for the 100000th time

[shrewd basalt]

they can try but AOs seem to be mostly liberal arts majors

[calm kestrel]

I mean for MIT and caltech

AOs could give less of a shit I presume

[modern lava]

Consider taking the option of touching grass for ECs

[calm kestrel]

they see too many

[modern lava]

Yeah a lot are English majors and other areas of study along those lines

[calm kestrel]

tbh a lot of ppl could get away with shit research on apps if they just explained why their research is important

[modern lava]

Your AOs won't necessarily know all the jargon you're talking about

[calm kestrel]

and a high level overview of how they solved it

[high spruce]

Speaking of ECs can someone give me feedback on my list

[shrewd basalt]

Oh it looks like at Caltech students can have a heightened impact in admissions

[modern lava]

So you really have to make sure they understand the significance on your stuff

[calm kestrel]

dm

[modern lava]

It's a talent being able to explain complex stuff in simple terms

[exotic briar]

I concur with this statement, but having oly camp + a solid school record with decent essays is almost always sufficient for admission
A lot more systematic than the other colleges for sure

[shrewd basalt]

I mean it's a trivial statement

But it's deliberately wrote for people to misinterpret it

[calm kestrel]

make simple stuff sound complicated but then reexplain it in simple statements

me on the way to start my next million dollar startup on website loading performance (a 3 page html app with no js)

[modern lava]

Tbf there are also more ways than that to get into MIT

[high spruce]

Like what

[modern lava]

Being yourself? 😭

[shrewd basalt]

I cannot do web dev, GPT-4 built my website from scratch

[austere vapor]

Yeah, reminder the majority of people who get in don't have intl. awards or oly camp

[calm kestrel]

I hate people like this

[shrewd basalt]

I still don't have a professional photo so I put a lucky star profile picture

[modern lava]

Not everyone has to do olys and I think that encouraging the narrative that olys are the ticket in just makes everyone more sweaty

[exotic briar]

Yeah I agree, but this is one of the most surefire ways to get accepted
(obviously, you shouldn't and can't do olys just for college, all of the caveats)

[calm kestrel]

especially when they ask why their website has a memory leak