University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) (2023-2024)

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Etc

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I’m mostly connected to everything else

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I see

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But it’s hard esp since the Bengali community here kinda small

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Where did u grow up

What area

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Manhattan

Harlem

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Really I thought bengali comminity in nyc was huge

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It is

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Jamaica and Jackson heights

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Just not in Manhattan

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I’ve been there too many times

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That’s queens I fear

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Ic

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I went to hs in queens and made a lot of Bengali friends there

But growing up I knew none

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I mean for me I grew up with no Bengali people

But my dad was the only one who spoke English in my house

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Where u from

[opaque pilot]

So I was forced to learn bangla

Dc area

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Oo

Yeah I got kinda lucky both my parents are fluent in English

My mom from school, my dad came to the US at 17 and learned it the hard way

[opaque pilot]

Yeah my mom knew like English but like

She was taught it never spoke it

Besides that I mean u can always try and learn bangla from scratch again if u have time

I saw penn had bangla as a course before

From a visiting professor

https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/bengali

Nvm last one was 2021 😦

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they do

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dw she still teaches

its just like

not fitting in my sched

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should I take 😏

if I get in obv

idt Wharton has a language req does it

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IT DOES

oops

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bet

bangla it is 😈

take it with me next year kayak

ifu can

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i would

my own mom begging me not to

but ill also be done w my spanish classes by then so maube.

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hey not

why*

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Wait are you guys Bengali

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Yea

r u

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Very cool

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No but a lot of people in my community are

I’m South Indian

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Yea my closest friends r South Indian

Similar cultures and language it connects naturally

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For sure our closest friends are Bengali

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What part u from

My friends r telugu n tamil

Ones a tamil brahmin

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yurp

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Telugu

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I’m from andhra and karnatika

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W

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im not bengali

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sorry about your disability

[opaque pilot]

I see thats cool

Good to see A2c has big desi community

Storng desi community

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Kayak do u know what part ur from

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Fr

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brahmanbaria

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Chittagong ic

Wait na im tripping

Brahmanbaria is its own

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tbh idk

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Thank god im not from the same one as u

Wait no

Brahmanbaria is under chittagong

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kayak doxxed

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Lol

Im From Dhaka the capital

Ur noob

[opaque pilot]

u know chittagong people have an accent thats hard to understand

like very hard

my in laws r chittagong my parents born n raised in bangladesh can barely understand them

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in laws...

bluds married..

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no

NO

IM NOT

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terrivle

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i actually am getting married soon

so srs

like so deadass

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What 😭

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(im lying the girl im talking to parents r so strict its like house arrest)

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Very relatable

I thought for a second you were going to be like “arranged marriage”

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no my parents want me to

they said they were lookign for girls for me to get married too and today my mom said "i invited over a girls family she goes to ur school and shes very nice and pretty" AND I TOLD HER IM GONNA STAY UPSTAIRS TEHE NTIRE TIME

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My parents had an arranged marriage and let’s just say they should have been divorced ages ago

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Stop 😭 good luck bro

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i feel like thats 90% of arranged marriages bc just like imagine how crazya that is

one day u meet a stranger and a year later u have a child a home and ur sadily married

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Yeah pretty much my parents except they had 3 years

They’re polar opposites

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yeah but sometimes that fits yk like

one parent likes to keep things tidy other is lazy so it works out or one parent likes to cook and one doesnt

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Fs except my mom is like let’s travel 24/7 and my dad is like let’s stay home and so on

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oh hell nah

thank god my parents arent like this

feel for u

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i wish my parents were like this smh

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We get it Emre

Girls hate you so you need your parents to bribe a family

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facts

but it has to be consensual

like she needs to be a gold digger

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Tbh I am the opposite of a gold digger

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i like the girl im w rn alot

Only problem is height fr

She's 5'9 im 5'10

Not even a problem actually

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broke digger????

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I'll have D1 NCAA children

yeah she likes toxic broke men

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The broker the better

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d4 maybe

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buddy

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ewwww

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Wtff

No nsfw

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wait thats not nsfw

thats anatomy

💯

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Fuvking weird

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yea i got bounce @bold onyx

im dunking on u in our 1s

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what did he say i wasnt looking

i got more bounce buddy

well i did

now my knees fooked up

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no buddy

chk dms

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kayak ngl u should ban for that one

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LOOL

NO

STOP

yo hop off val

ur iron 2

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watch this im diamond 1

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🧢

hardstruck iron

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finally figured out who imma thank for the supplement

[rotund drift]

😯

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I’m sorry this happened

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ik you thanked him its supposed to be to someone you haven’t thanked before but thats so traumatic

im sorry

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I sold two of my immortal accounts

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When the fuck did you start existing

Who are you fellow Penn student

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I started messaging in a2c because I was bored in work and doin nothin

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I’m kinda active in the Penn server

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Do I have u on ig

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Maybe?

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Is rich in ur ig name by any chance

Cuz if so I don’t

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Is my ig

I gonna delete that now^

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Why is the Penn server so active 💀

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I did not read it 💀 dm it

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NOOO IM ALIVE SO I THINK ITS FUNNY NOW 😭😭😭 college essay type stuff

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damn wtf

for how much

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One for 975 and the other for 200

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Archeology class

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damn u clearing all the gen eds

also lmk how brain on food is, i rlly wanted to take it but it clashed w my classes 😔

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i think its a freshman seminar

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ik

i couldnt last year v sad

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My friend likes the professor and said shes amazing, told me that apparently we all have to do 1 presentation and thats the main assignment

then just some smaller hw assignments probably

But I will see in person if this is true

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Pathetic disheveled Columbia

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😍

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Woahh

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tbh maybe its bc i didnt party or nothing but nso was tame

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im gonna party so hard

(no im not)

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I hate parties

I like staying in my room 😭

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A2C moment

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Hanging with wingmates >

Not in parties

Just roaming around

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I like hanging out with friends too but I'm introverted so eventually social battery dead

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I was an introvert too but college changed everything in like a couple of days

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how good is the cis department in upenn

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good

the courses can be intense tho

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idm the intensity

but alr

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How’s the Applied Sciences in Biomedical Sciences major

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lmao not for me

I have some people Im friendly with that I will talk to but I still prefer staying in my room and reading or gaming or watching netflix

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Ahh but you should get out

Atleast your wingmates at really important

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ur schedule looks packed 😭

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Its all from chemistry

Cuz chemistry lecture, chemistry recitation, chemistry lab lecture, chemistry lab

All one class

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My roommates?

They’re ok

I semi get along with them

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what are yalls advice on writin the thank you essay

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be genuine

maybe dont pick your mom like everyone else

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Nah I meant the people on the floor.

Bonding among them is really important here

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oh fs, people on my floor were super close and it made events a lot better

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What abt my 9th grade english teacher if its significant

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yeah sure

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i feel like ppl do pick teachers often but u jyst have to do it well

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have u heard someone say they picked their imam

thats what i did

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oo i havent heard of that but thats neat

very swag

if i had the prompt, i'd prob write it to a peer of mine ngl

not a good idea probably b ut maybe the most interesting

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but it doesnt matter who right? just whats in the letter

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yeah

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Can I thank SpongeBob 😶‍🌫️

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genuinely sure

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How’s the AO gonna perceive that😭

“Too unserious, reject”💀

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execution matters, if you treat it seriously its fine

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Yeah. We're like brothers in just 6-7 days

(We are even making a video on Harlem Shake, a tradition for all wings here)

Do not check Harlem Shake IIT Kanpur on yt

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nobody seems to leave their room or if they do they dont hang out on our floor

Lounge is usually empty and I go there to study a lot

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they arent going to do that

sometimes lighthearted works too as long as it still manages to show good qualities abt urself

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It might be because it’s a summer program tbh

Or it might be the floor set up

People were extremely social

For me

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Oo that's tough

Wait so is it a summer program and not your final dorm at Penn?

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Yeah no those dorms aren’t permanently theirs

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Is anyone aware if Penn First Plus is open to first-generation international applicants (i.e., students who haven’t had family members study in the U.S. at the undergraduate level)?

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it is

but its only for accepted students

and invite only

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im p sure penns definition of first gen is no undergrad in the US

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yes

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Accepted students as in? How do you get the invite?

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Only current Penn students

You have to attend Penn

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I got the email titled “You’re invited! Are you the first in your family to consider college?”

Not sure what that is

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thats not pfp then

[teal sandal]

I see, thank you

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might be the pfp department advertising

but its not for the actual program

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Yeah

[teal sandal]

First Generation Excellence: Penn First Plus

Alright

Thank you guys

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Yeah it might just be like

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yea might be like a webinar or something

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Apply to Penn we have first gen support

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facts

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Ahh then it's cool!! You'll find better friends at Penn

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Lmao is it worth trying to barge my into PFP as a sophomore

They forgot to invite me

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peak x peak crossover

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Penn first plus is not the same as the pfp program I am in tho

Penn first plus is like an entirely different thing

just making sure u know

Penn first plus is P1P and Pre First Year Program is PFP

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cursed

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Agh these dumbass acronyms

I knew I got the Penn first plus program wrong

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potato tomato

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Brown or Penn bio major

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for premed?

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Penn

like not even a question

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I kept getting it confused and people corrected me lmao

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Depends

If premed tbh brown for flexible grading

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If you care about rankings, Penn is T20 bio globally. Brown isnt even T50. If you are premed, there are crazy amounts of resources here.

Prob at Brown too but cant speak on that

And Penn med school is one of the best in America if not the world, you get easy access to that for shadowing, volunteering, etc

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Tbh if you are international student and care about recognition go for brown, however in terms of actual ranking UPEN.

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Why are we focused on rankings

Lmao

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idt brown is more known intl than penn

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I think Penn > every school for all majors ngl

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might be wrong abt that

[bold onyx]

acts facts

[dire parcel]

I got rejected by upen

I am just bitter

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But fr do research on the requirements for bio at both schools

Look into the difficulty of the classes

Check out the resources at both

Both are great but fit matters more here

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Did you spell it that way on your application?

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https://tenor.com/view/maybe-gif-18405222

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I think we may have found one of the reasons then lmao

[desert coral]

Ratings are stupid 90% of the time but sadly that is one of the top concerns among the general A2C community

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Doesn’t mean we need to reinforce it

[desert coral]

Depends on the methodology of the ratings too tho

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There are plenty of valid reasons to choose Penn over brown for biology, I’d prefer we try using more concrete reasoning

[faint badger]

upenn's med school is also cracked!

[desert coral]

UPenn's med school is amazing

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Yes but you can go to UPenn med school from brown undergraduate

[desert coral]

Depending on what you are looking for in a school ratings can be a valid reason depending on what those ratings measure, but not if the ratings are close to each other cuz then it really doesnt matter.

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They don’t necessarily prefer Penn students

[dire parcel]

this is a full on sales team for UPenn.

[burnt osprey]

Well yes it’s the Penn thread

[desert coral]

Easier to network with Penn med if you go to Penn

Much easier for me to go do a job of some kind at Penn Med or CHOP as a Penn undergrad than Brown undergrad

Brown has its own med school that is good too tho!

[faint badger]

you think i get extra points if i was admitted to CHOP at age 6!

[desert coral]

Idk how big it is or what it offers tho but I heard good things

[desert coral]

😭

Penn library 📚

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omg fisher library

[desert coral]

It’s so cute

[faint badger]

i got kicked out of there

[desert coral]

Idk I like that photo

[desert coral]

WHY 💀

Was your ass loud

[faint badger]

the lady let me in right

i gave her my id

it said my bday and i was 17

and apparently u have to be 18 to b in there?

so she comes back in 30 min and finds me

[desert coral]

You can’t be under 18? Weird cuz there’s students that are 17 here??

[faint badger]

and tells me that i have to go

[faint badger]

i think its cuz im not an actual student

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Lmao that’s not true

[faint badger]

just visiting

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I was 17 in there

Yeah students only

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Makes sense

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Penn and it’s consortium

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Drexel students can use fisher right?

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Yes iirc

And swarthmlre

And brynn mawr

[desert coral]

Haverford too prob

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Ye

The gang

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ive only been to 2 at penn

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The Starbucks here is always sold out of the 1 drink I wanna try

[faint badger]

4th floor of van pelt is literally the most claustrophobic place ive ever been

[desert coral]

Lmao

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which

[desert coral]

I was there

[desert coral]

White chocolate macadamia cold brew

Only sold out of that ofc

Annoying

[faint badger]

oh cool

i'll try it tmr and lyk

love the 50% off on wed

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💀

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Is that a thing everywhere

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Fisher fine arts moment

[faint badger]

yes

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WOAH

its so pretty

with the lights

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Wb the Starbucks near hill

[desert coral]

I think it’s closed for repairs or something

[burnt osprey]

Cringe

[desert coral]

1920 commons Starbucks is closed too

Bookstore might have it but idk

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This happened on my birthday

[faint badger]

the bookstore is so nice

[desert coral]

Omg it’s emre

[faint badger]

i feel like its too big

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Penn book store kinda chill to study in ngl

They have a nice seating area

[desert coral]

I did an essay in there and actually it was peaceful

[faint badger]

they were having a buy one get one free of classic books

such a steal

or maybe 50% off

[desert coral]

I need to read my books

[burnt osprey]

I don’t buy books

I just coast as long as I can without it

[desert coral]

I’ve been too consumed in YouTube and Netflix to read my books

I have 2 I wanna read

[burnt osprey]

I need to start reading again

I might join a book club

[desert coral]

I want to cuz it’ll motivate me to read

I love reading but I get too distracted in useless stuff and it sucks my time up

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Yes!

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Thank you kayak!

Actually it’s between Penn Biomedical Sciences at College of Engineering and Brown Biology?

Specs are maybe somewhere I can find good internships, get good grade, get amazing scholarships as an international student and do research

[desert coral]

This is where yucky kids live

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I could vomit at the sight of this building

[desert coral]

I like the blue pointy things

Pretty outside ugly inside

[bold onyx]

what that

it looks beautiful

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Quad

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Quad is bad to live in tho

Imo

[frigid seal]

that building is iconic

when i think penn i think:

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Kcech better

[desert coral]

That’s where a bunch of the parties are iirc

Kcech ugly from the outside ngl but the rooms are nice

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In the building? Not rlky idt?

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should i mention ben franklin in my essays or is that hella cringe

[desert coral]

I always heard quad was the party place and super social

[frigid seal]

i feel like its cringy

[burnt osprey]

But they’re closer to party spots and most ppl live there for that

[frigid seal]

and overused

[desert coral]

What’s the need to mention him

[burnt osprey]

Unless you have a lengthy deep izmay style attachment to him I don’t think it’s best

[frigid seal]

commitment to community and service? i mean theyre like the only school that mentions their founder specifically and those were his intnetions with founding the school so its important to talk about how you can impact the philly community not just the school

idk maybe its kinda a stretch tho

[desert coral]

It’s corny imo

[burnt osprey]

Nah lots of schools reference their founder

Cornell has a while prompt about theirs

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i meant in the 'what we look for section'

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i heard a portion of quad is getting renovated

[desert coral]

Yes

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so a good amount of incoming freshman are in a diff building that is suite style

[desert coral]

Another reason it’s bad to live there

[burnt osprey]

Yes that’s why lauder is frosh only

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yea

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Lauder

[opaque pilot]

lauder thats waht it is

[opaque pilot]

i see

[desert coral]

Lauder is amazing !!

But super hard to get into

[burnt osprey]

I wish I could live there but oh well

[opaque pilot]

yeah ive heard lauder is really nice but people liked the quad because of how social it is right

and its location to other buildings

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Ppl have that preconception yes

[desert coral]

You’ll find your community even if you don’t live in the quad

[opaque pilot]

ic

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From my friends experiences the quad is just loud

Not necessarily better for socializing

[desert coral]

Yeah it’s pretty much in the center of campus I think cuz it’s basically close to everything

Whereas my one class is 20 mins from here

[opaque pilot]

where did u stay kayak and where are u staying iz

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Dying

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Kcech

[opaque pilot]

freshman year kayak ^

[desert coral]

Kings court for me

[burnt osprey]

English house last year

[bold onyx]

how is quad closer to huntsman and stuff when hill is like right across??!?!?

[opaque pilot]

i see

[desert coral]

Wym

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This year Gregory

[opaque pilot]

how u guys were in the same building

so*

freshman year

[desert coral]

I didn’t start in kcech yet

[burnt osprey]

Yea sort of

[opaque pilot]

ye ik

[burnt osprey]

Kings court is a separate connected building to English house

[opaque pilot]

emre u have to stay in a certain dorm right

since ur ben franklin

[opaque pilot]

oh i thought it was like 1 building separated

[desert coral]

Yeah kings court and English are separate but connected by a courtyard

So they’re just called Kcech

Kings court English college house

[bold onyx]

like i hear quad is closest to all wharton buildings

[desert coral]

Oh idk but I can check

[bold onyx]

ya hill

[desert coral]

Quad is 5 mins from huntsman hall and hill is 11 minutes

What other huntsman buildings are there

Hill is 10 mins from Wharton building (I think that’s what this is?) and quad is 11 minutes

Just look for where it says only walk

Oh wait I fucked the last one up

Quad is 6 mins from Wharton building

[hybrid skiff]

This looks so cool

[hybrid skiff]

Oh…

[desert coral]

It’s just really old

[desert coral]

Whoever told you that seems to be right

[zenith oasis]

How do y’all HS seniors know so much about Penn 😭😭

What’s ‘The Quad?’😭

[bold onyx]

ryans a nerd

bro never goes outside

[bold onyx]

bunch if freshman dorms basically

[zenith oasis]

Btw Penn is more recognized than Brown

[dire parcel]

Depends in which country

[zenith oasis]

You’re not international tho👀

[bold onyx]

the good one 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅

[zenith oasis]

Never seen someone say Brown is more prestigious

Most people never even heard of brown

[dire parcel]

UPenn is surprisingly very niche in some countries.

[burnt gust]

yes altho for math program tho im skeptical

[bold onyx]

we dont shine for stem which is all intls want

well we like t20 for stem

[zenith oasis]

This!

[burnt gust]

t20 is still good

[bold onyx]

but mid-lowish end

[burnt gust]

however its not like

compared to overall penn ranking its not as good

[zenith oasis]

Oh math major

[burnt gust]

days since touched grass:
14

[dire parcel]

In Malaysia UPenn has a funny rep

[zenith oasis]

Penn Engineering is also unnecessarily rigorous 😭

[dire parcel]

Have you guys heard the name Jho low.

[zenith oasis]

Naa who’s that

Just checked him out lol

Staged a scandal

He went to Wharton oh wow💀

[dire parcel]

He essentially scammed the Malayasian government with a bunch of UPenn alumni

[zenith oasis]

What the-💀

[burnt gust]

my favorite part is when jho low said its whartin time and whartoned all over them (the malaysian government)

im sorry

peak 1:30 behavior

[zenith oasis]

typical math major

[burnt gust]

honestly

we just shitpost when we dont understand something

which is anything except for math

[dire parcel]

Tbh I am just bitter UPenn for rejecting me

😢

[zenith oasis]

NU better

[burnt gust]

[bold onyx]

nothing wrong with that

bread is bread

[zenith oasis]

Brah 💀

[burnt gust]

great minds think alike i guess

bro really went out of his way to match with wharton

respect

[dire parcel]

The ironic part is that he funded the Wolf of Wall Street movie lol

[zenith oasis]

Bruh ran away with $12bn

Thought the first computer was built at Penn

[dire parcel]

In UPenn anything is possible!

[desert coral]

Dorm

[desert coral]

Lie

The neuroscience program is fucking amazing at Penn

Same with bio

[copper notch]

penn is good for med stuff i think

[desert coral]

Although neuro better

[desert coral]

That too

[copper notch]

they have a really nice hospital nearby too for shadowing/internships as well!

[desert coral]

They have the Penn med school which is one of the best in the country + CHOP

I want to work at CHOP eventually

[copper notch]

thats rlly cool iz

[burnt osprey]

The Quadrangle, which is a collection of dorms (often 4, hence quad, with a shared area connecting them). Other schools have quads too.

[desert coral]

Bruh no

Stem is so vague

[burnt osprey]

^^^

Penn is strong tho

[desert coral]

Yeah I got curious and looked up ranking for my major after I got in and was like wowwee!!

I’m assuming ranking = prestige but idk

It’s 6th

[copper notch]

not all the time but i think penn just has a lot of resources for neuroscience

which is good ofc!

[burnt osprey]

My major doesn’t even have a ranking

Anywhere

[desert coral]

6th globally too I didn’t even realize

😎 damn I’m just cool like that ig

[desert coral]

I just assumed since a lot of the times immigrant families that don’t know about colleges will just google the rankings 😭 (my mom did this too)

[copper notch]

wait ur a cogsci major right

[burnt osprey]

Yurp

[copper notch]

https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-colleges-with-cognitive-science/

[burnt osprey]

Oh forgor about niche

[desert coral]

Yeah it’s on niche and 11th

[copper notch]

penn at no 11 👍

[desert coral]

Seems right for wharton

[burnt osprey]

Wait this isn’t a cog sci ranking

It’s just their top colleges list, generally, but they removed schools without cogsci programs

Doesn’t mean anything about my major

[desert coral]

?!?!?

[copper notch]

OHHH

mb

[burnt osprey]

Yeah no worries

It’s a new major overall

So I’m not surprised rankings haven’t rlly been made yet

[copper notch]

https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-colleges-cognitive-science

[desert coral]

Hehe

[copper notch]

maybe this one?

lol

[desert coral]

Nah it’s the same

[burnt osprey]

I mean the phrasing suggests that it’s a ranking of top schools, cog sci thing being secondary

But I’ll check it out

Ayeeee T5 cogsci tho

[zenith oasis]

Just kidding💀

[zenith oasis]

Niche is whack💀

Use USNEWS or sum😼

[desert coral]

Doesn’t exist yet

[burnt osprey]

Doesn’t have a cogsci ranking

[zenith oasis]

Neuroscience same same 💀

[desert coral]

Best thing I can think of but would still be flawed is since cogsci is an interdisciplinary major that includes things like linguistics, neuro, psych, philosophy, etc just look up the ranking most closest to your concentration

But it’s not that deep tbh

[burnt osprey]

Offended frankly

[desert coral]

just a silly ranking for funsies

[zenith oasis]

How’s the Biomedical sciences program at Penn engineering

[burnt osprey]

Yeah exactly

It’s a hodgepodge ass major

[desert coral]

Good

[zenith oasis]

Exactly man

[desert coral]

What is actually bad here

[burnt osprey]

But Penn ranks well in cs, linguistics, psych, and philosophy so I’m not too worried

[copper notch]

cant think of any major bad at penn iz 😭

[desert coral]

Me neither

Chemistry??

Idk

[burnt osprey]

Our math program kind of sucks

Like compared to peer schools

[desert coral]

Oh we are 16th for chem

[burnt osprey]

Our intro math classes are universally despised

[desert coral]

I heard from math majors that it’s only the intro sequence that sucks

After that it gets a lot better

[burnt osprey]

That tracks

[desert coral]

But also they’re math majors so maybe bias

[burnt osprey]

Yeah true they’re biased

[zenith oasis]

Penn CS??

[desert coral]

Penn CS good but there’s better

[burnt osprey]

We have good CS

yeah

[zenith oasis]

Don’t they have one of the least in the Ivy?

[burnt osprey]

Uh

I don’t think that’s true but even so that’s not rlly a low bar lol

[desert coral]

Honestly you’re going to more or less learn the same things at every school, what you really get out of a place like this is the networking and connections for the most part imo

[burnt osprey]

It’s the ivies

[zenith oasis]

+1!

[burnt osprey]

Yeah this

And I’m not gonna be like

Going super deep into CA

CS*

[desert coral]

No

[zenith oasis]

Just wanna work at Google 💅
I see

[desert coral]

I think our cs program might be better than Yale but idk, it’s better than Dartmouth for sure

I always forget abt fart mouth

[zenith oasis]

💀

My friend chose Dartmouth over Williams

[desert coral]

If that’s fr your passion maybe do like MIT

[desert coral]

Might be better choice they’re both rural as hell

[burnt osprey]

L

[zenith oasis]

No no
I was referring to kayak 😂

[burnt osprey]

William better

[zenith oasis]

+1

[desert coral]

I lived rural for 18 years I cannot go back!!

[zenith oasis]

He’s premed for reference 😭

[desert coral]

Williams might be better for premed imo

[zenith oasis]

Real!!

[desert coral]

Cuz it’s an LAC

[zenith oasis]

Exactly 😭

Some people would do anything for the Ivy brand ig

[desert coral]

you can do good for premed anywhere tho

Like you can go from small school to Ivy med

Doesn’t matter

They don’t care abt ur undergrad as much

From my understanding its all abt gpa, MCAT, ur story in ur essays, ec’s, and ig interview

Some more important than others

[zenith oasis]

Them GPA

I’d just go to some good premed school with grade inflation lol

That’s why brown seems so tempting 😭😭💅

[burnt osprey]

Brown kinda ate

[desert coral]

You can get a good GPA anywhere

Just have good study habits and utilize the resources here cuz there’s a fuck ton

Free tutoring, office hours, recitations, study groups, study help at Weingarten, etc

[burnt osprey]

True but I’d rather be a premed at brown than like MIT

[desert coral]

Ew MIT

If you’re a premed at MIT you’re doing it wrong

But I would just say don’t make the grade inflation or deflation be the primary factor, there’s way way way more important things, you’re not just studying there for 4 years you’re living there, your “home” will be there, your social circle, your everyday life

I love brown tho ❤️

But school in Philly was personally better for me

[zenith oasis]

Seen someone do a 4.0 at MIT so idk💀

Premed too💀

[desert coral]

How many?

[zenith oasis]

But cog sci major tho

[desert coral]

Like I’m saying it’s possible anywhere but you have to take responsibility for that

[desert coral]

It might be easier at some places than others

[burnt osprey]

Lmao

[desert coral]

But if that’s your prime reason that’s stupid

[burnt osprey]

4.0 out of 5 sounds less impressive

[desert coral]

💀

Damn

I mean if you’re premed don’t worry so much abt grade inflation or deflation as much as the med school acceptance rates

And try to see where most go

[zenith oasis]

Wait let me pull-up her Linkledin

[desert coral]

We have a handful that go to Penn, other ivies and Stanford I think, ucla, and other ones around Philly like Drexel for the most part iirc

I don’t remember where else

[burnt osprey]

Hm

[desert coral]

But also remember that the med school you go to doesn’t matter that much at the end either

You’re still gonna be a doctor lmao

Idk this all seems pointless to me just pick where you wanna live and if the major you wanna do has courses you like 😭

[clever path]

rlly??

[desert coral]

Yeah

[clever path]

tbh i heard if ur school is known for deflation they add like 0.05

to ur gpa

😭

[desert coral]

Perhaps

[clever path]

cornell gpa is out of 4.0

[desert coral]

But my reasoning is if there’s grade deflation but the med school placement is still 85%+ then it doesn’t seem to be that big of an issue ig

[clever path]

some teachers give A+ which is 4.3

but not all

so ur gpa is just

boosted if u get A+

[burnt osprey]

These are the reported outcomes over the last 4? Years

[clever path]

imagine how many premeds took gap yrs and werent counted in this

[burnt osprey]

This too

[desert coral]

That’s also a factor

[clever path]

of what

[burnt osprey]

That’s impressive but not the norm

[burnt osprey]

Where premeds went immediately after graduation

[desert coral]

Penn is 76% compared to national average of 43%

[clever path]

ah

[zenith oasis]

Swarthmore is 90%🫢

[burnt osprey]

Ok but downside it’s in Swarthmore

[clever path]

cornell is like

70-75%

but so many take gaps

the curriculum is like

[zenith oasis]

What’s bad about swarthmore 😭😭

[clever path]

impossible to remain on track

[burnt osprey]

Javi

[zenith oasis]

Cornell engineering is suicidal

[burnt osprey]

!javi

[desert coral]

Swarthmore’s population is tiny…

[tropic meadow]

https://i.imgur.com/JSV4klM.jpg

[zenith oasis]

Personally I wouldn’t 💀

[clever path]

were talking abt premed

[zenith oasis]

Oh sorry😭

[desert coral]

I feel like Penn 76% is more impressive than Swarthmore 90% considering Swarthmore is an LAC and Penn has a population that’s a million times that

[clever path]

jhu with 83%

[burnt osprey]

Also dude you didn’t even crop out your friends name in the screenshots

[desert coral]

JHU is like basically only known for premed tbh

I don’t hear abt JHU unless it’s like bio or neuro or premed

Or music

[clever path]

or bme

[desert coral]

Ya

[clever path]

or research

[desert coral]

Research doesn’t count

[zenith oasis]

I don’t think med school admissions officer look at an applicant and be like “he went to Penn, pick him”

[desert coral]

Penn research is crazy good too but it’s not a major

[clever path]

some admissions give heavy ivy pref

at least in bsmd

but that could be correlation vs causation moment

[zenith oasis]

True
That kind of environment would be depressing 💀

[zenith oasis]

Happy doxxing💀

[desert coral]

Forgot my umbrella when going to class and got rained on for 20 mins 💀

[zenith oasis]

“Can you remember the RAIIIINNNNN”

[desert coral]

I look so dumbbb 💀💀

[burnt osprey]

It’s ok no one care

I lost my umbrella so I would rawdog rain for a while

[desert coral]

My roommate makes fun of me all the time and ik she’s gonna rip into my again 💀

[zenith oasis]

Class of 2027 started classes already???

[burnt osprey]

Nah Penn has a program

For first years

To take one credit before the school year begins

Not all are doing it

[zenith oasis]

Ohh that’s so cool😭

[desert coral]

Nah it’s a program mostly for fgli and urm kids

Some athletes and some kids from rural or very urban schools but mostly FGLI and urm

[faint badger]

Penn is the best school for every major ngl

[zenith oasis]

Are you EDing here too ?😭
Join meee

[zenith oasis]

Ohhh even way better tbh

[fringe surge]

Kinda scared of ED ing to Penn ngl

Considering of Williams instead

[burnt osprey]

You sound like me

But also

They’re both pretty damn different

[opaque pilot]

Yea dont ED Penn

Make sure i have less competition

-1 could be the deciding factor.

[desert coral]

What do you want in a college?

[zenith oasis]

Williams ED is irrational imo

[zenith oasis]

Bro just like me
Be my roommate when we get in🤭

[opaque folio]

ryan w/ his 90% chance at penn 😭

bro has cracked ecs and got into fly in

OR PEEP OOPS DIFFERENT

[opaque folio]

i considered williams since they actively connected w/ me but i dont think id like the rural in-the-middle-of-nowhere atmosphere

[copper notch]

yeah you have a pretty good shot at penn

[tacit ice]

thats why im still on the fence about williams

[copper notch]

didnt know u got into peep tho, congrats!!

[tacit ice]

yh thats pretty big

im waiting on pif decisions now lmaoo

[copper notch]

you dont need to be insanely cracked to get into peep tho

my twin was fairly normal and got in

[opaque folio]

i trolled peep pretty hard

i submitted the resume i made back in freshman year, edited minimally + i think that was what killed me

[tacit ice]

yh it has a little more leeway since its a virtual program so theres more spaces available

[copper notch]

my twin submitted a 3 page resume 😭

[opaque folio]

if i genuinely put in a valid resume i think it wouldve been okay but AH no use in thinking back then

[opaque folio]

PLEASE

[copper notch]

.

[tacit ice]

i did not mean that

i meant they can take in more ppl

[opaque folio]

tbh though .. im considering duke ed instead

[copper notch]

i thought you meant that. kinda seemed implied tbh. they dont have natl level ec's but a lot of community impact. pretty sure their essay was nice too.

[tacit ice]

yh community impact is pretty big for penn

[copper notch]

i love colleges that personally connect tho

my local schools sent me a t-shirt lol

[hybrid skiff]

W that’s so nice of them

Mine send me like huge booklets

[bold onyx]

yea but we’re not t5 in cs which is basically all that matters to them smh

[tacit ice]

lehigh sent me a t-shirt and jhu sent me a journal plus the hundreds of stickers i got from other schools

[desert coral]

No silly

[zenith oasis]

You??

[opaque pilot]

Fosho.

[opaque pilot]

honestly I didn’t even mean to et good EVs

i didn’t even know research or admissions was hard uNeil this@year

until

i just did stuff I liked and it turned out good for me

[opaque pilot]

i hope mane it’s been my dream school since I was a kid

except then I wanted to be a dentist

[tacit ice]

yes me

[opaque folio]

truee ^^

[zenith oasis]

You’re class of 27?😭

[opaque folio]

but i cant ):

[opaque folio]

haha neither did i

i think i started suddenly scrambling for "ecs" late? semester two junior year?

after i realized oh -- i really need to get into college and college is hard

[tacit ice]

28

i got them in the mail

[zenith oasis]

Why’d they send a tshirt

[tacit ice]

idk for funsies

[opaque pilot]

yeah i thought admissions would be alot easier t han this

[tacit ice]

it was a shirt and a handwritten card from my regional ao

[opaque pilot]

college is very hard

both to get into and while ur in it

[zenith oasis]

My hs counsellor just sent me this email from Penn 😭

[burnt gust]

oops

[burnt gust]

wow

[burnt gust]

getting into college isn't too hard, but getting into the best colleges for you is

cause you also have to decide what those places are which is something i havent done yet

[tacit ice]

it was after a college fair, she said she was really interested in getting me to know more about lehigh

[burnt gust]

she wants u

[zenith oasis]

😭

[tacit ice]

yh but i toured the school and its not for me

[burnt gust]

rip

[zenith oasis]

Just apply for fun 💀

[desert coral]

My bf goes to Lehigh

CS + math major

[zenith oasis]

Ouu
That’s the reason you go to Penn eeiiiu

[desert coral]

It’s pretty good for CS and they have really good job placement

[desert coral]

Nah me and my bf are same age and he got in later than I did

He didn’t apply to Penn cuz he didn’t have money and didn’t want to “waste it”

[zenith oasis]

Yeahhhh
They’re like a T30 for CS

[desert coral]

Said he was 100% sure he wouldn’t get in

He had straight C’s for two years except math and science

[zenith oasis]

Oh yikes

Wouldda been really bad

[desert coral]

He’s amazing at math and bad at everything else 💀

[zenith oasis]

Reminds of a friend 😭😭

[desert coral]

My bf is a nerd

I remember him doing MIT competition problems for fun in class

Instead of doing any of his English work

Which is prob why he got a C 💀

He did not have his priorities straight

[desert coral]

Yeah and their campus is pretty

I was surprised by how hard it is to get into Lehigh

It’s in the 20%’s

Unless you ED then it’s like 70% or something

[desert coral]

Lmao dont ed there

[desert coral]

Twins are different

[tacit ice]

its too mountainous for me

[desert coral]

If it’s anything like college admissions

[copper notch]

wdym

[desert coral]

Understandable it is on one big hill

But they have ways to get around that

[desert coral]

They’re considered a package deal a lot I think

[copper notch]

i sure hope so. my twin and i kinda wanna go abt college admissions as take both of us or neither of us lol

[desert coral]

If they really want one they might take the other or if one is really bad it might hurt the other? I think

But there are times when one twin gets in and the other doesn’t

[copper notch]

i feel for the twins that have to go through that

[desert coral]

Marketing to get you to apply oftentimes for them to reject u

Brings their acceptance rate down

[zenith oasis]

Wtf💀

[desert coral]

They’re a business at the end of the day

[copper notch]

wonder if PEEP participants get merch

[desert coral]

Idk

I didn’t know abt it

Until after I got in

[burnt osprey]

Same

I wish I did PIF tho

[desert coral]

Which one should I do

[tacit ice]

my friend did and then got matched to penn through QB

[burnt osprey]

Why not both

[desert coral]

I might

Socializing makes me tired

[burnt osprey]

But I’d do the second one if u have friends going w you

But if not, movie night is less socialization

[desert coral]

Hunger games 🍲 🏹

[burnt osprey]

Praying my brother gets in then lol

[copper notch]

did they get merch lol. also congrats!

[tacit ice]

yeah a hat and a couple of other things

honestly shes the only reason ik what QB and fly-ins are

[copper notch]

during the fly in, i noticed that they kept saying things like "when u come to campus, you can explore this resource". really got my hopes up 😭

[desert coral]

A lot of people that get into the fly in get into Penn from my understanding, but idk if that means your chances are higher or if it’s just because strong applicants get into the program so they already had a good chance at Penn

Maybe both?

[tacit ice]

ik dartmouth and penn fly ins are basically a huge boost

[burnt gust]

hmmt?

[bold onyx]

probably

im getting a jws sweatshirt already

lessgooo

[tacit ice]

makes sense the ivys dont really track it

[burnt osprey]

This is info on their website

[teal sandal]

This might be very silly to some, but if I registered for a virtual webinar and did not show up without cancelling the registration, could this possibly look bad? Or does it not matter at all? This is one of my top schools, so I’m a little overly cautious

[faint badger]

I am!

[burnt osprey]

I don’t think it would matter

[teal sandal]

Should I email them to be on the safe side?

[burnt osprey]

Not worth it lmao just sign up for another one if anything

[opaque folio]

if anything you can log in, turn off all cams

and kind of just let it play as u do wtvr

[teal sandal]

It ended an hour ago, I would’ve joined but something came up

[faint badger]

I thought you were gay

[teal sandal]

Okay

[faint badger]

how cracked are they lol?

[faint badger]

same bro

[opaque folio]

@burnt osprey KAYAK ur a cogsci major right

[burnt osprey]

Ya

[opaque folio]

my friend wants to do cogsci but she wants to make money

so she asked what jobs she could do after cogsci

[burnt osprey]

Honestly

One thing I learned after speaking with my academic advisor is that besides fields where the education directly informs the career (ex. Engineering) you can get pretty much any job with any major

Cognitive science is also very very multidisciplinary

Spanning over many fields like computer science, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy

So it’s career outcomes mirror those fields’ as well

So tldr pretty much anything if you put in the work outside of taking your classes

[opaque folio]

ooh okok

thank u (:

[desert coral]

ye I think

[burnt gust]

omg

wait

i dont wanna doxx him but which years did he go to math competitions

[desert coral]

he didnt go

he just did them for fun in his free time

idk if that was the name of the competition

[burnt gust]

o

rip

the competitions were online for a while

[desert coral]

the integration bee?

idk if thats the same

[burnt gust]

omg

mit integration bee is hella hard

[desert coral]

he never went to a math competition, we didnt even know they existed or we had no way to go

[burnt gust]

aw

[desert coral]

he found out abt it end of junior year but we never went to competitions for it

[burnt gust]

yeah there were quite a few online ones

ig theyre not public enough

cause theyre not like well known as in "you get prestige from winning it"

[desert coral]

Only competitions we did were fbla cuz it was through the school

[burnt gust]

fiar

[desert coral]

he did try to sponsor a math competition for his math honor society he started

[burnt gust]

ooo

[desert coral]

but didnt get funding from school

our school is poor

[burnt gust]

damn

this one kid at our school had grandparents who donated 12 million to the school

and then he got into cornell where the grandparents/dad went and didnt go

💀

[desert coral]

WHAT THE FUCK

our school was a few million in debt

we could use that

[burnt gust]

yep they used it to make a cool looking building that we never have time to go to

california school funding is so lopsided

i did some google searching (i was gonna say research but it doesnt deserve that title) for school and its a vicious cycle

[desert coral]

theres more than one building???

is this a hs

[burnt gust]

cause whichever schools do better with testing and attendance get funded more

[burnt gust]

yeah we have a large campus

i heard that a lot of east coast schools are all one building with like 6 floord

[desert coral]

we had 1 building with 2 floors

[tacit ice]

mine is 2 buildings with 3 floors each

[burnt gust]

wait how large

school

[desert coral]

small

well

medium

[burnt gust]

cause ours is 2400

oh

[desert coral]

oh how many students?

[burnt gust]

ye

[desert coral]

342 in my graduating class

[tacit ice]

yall have small schools 😭

[desert coral]

so idk 342 times 4 but that wont be totally accurate

[burnt gust]

wha

[desert coral]

im from rural

[tacit ice]

i have 4400 total and 1100 in my graduating class

[tacit ice]

makes sense then

[desert coral]

it took me 40 mins to go to school in the morning teehee