University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) (2023-2024)

[tender kiln]

georgetown

rest were online for me

[opaque pilot]

yeah that’s the one im most worried about lowk

[tender kiln]

georgetown?

[opaque pilot]

wait ill show u my interviewer for penn

ya

[hazy merlin]

Did you get in

[bold onyx]

depended on in person v virtual

but mostly smart casual

whats h4i? also i didnt know grc was that comp wtf

[tender kiln]

nope 💀

[tender kiln]

hack4impact

[bold onyx]

damn bro it was that comp????

i should have applied grc, vp told me he wanted me to

i fumbled so hard during fall club apps

[tender kiln]

yeah because there’s only 2 good cs clubs 💀

both end up being hypercomp

[hazy merlin]

It’s ok Penn on top

[opaque pilot]

virtual

[bold onyx]

then yea i think just wear something smart casual or business casual

and u can wear sweatpants lmao

[analog shard]

heard this was the most active thread hello guys what's cooking

should I apply to penn yes ✅ or no ❌

[analog shard]

@upper zealot my fav junior fr

[upper zealot]

Ur one of my top favourite seniors fr 🤩🤩🤩🔥🔥🔥

[ember bolt]

im wearing my speak now cardigan for my interview 😭😭

[upper zealot]

Speak now

[ember bolt]

the fit is kinda hard

[analog shard]

YESSSS SWIFTIE REPRESENTATION!!!

[tranquil dagger]

good luck

this early tho?

[ember bolt]

no its at 3:30 but i have to do my interview at school

[faint badger]

So my penn interviewer lives in Austria???!

[burnt osprey]

lmaooo

that happens sometimes

my cornell interviewer lives in italy

[true cliff]

MY INTERVIEWER IS IN

23 HOURS

AAA

[true cliff]

oo nice

[bold onyx]

prolly grew up somewhere near you

[true cliff]

wait do they have to be somehow connected to u

[bold onyx]

they dont have to be

[true cliff]

my interviewer has NOTHING in common w me

i dont think

[bold onyx]

but usually are from what ive seen

[true cliff]

damn

[faint badger]

he greew up in austria

[ember bolt]

my interview ate tbh

[bold onyx]

what’s his name

[burnt osprey]

Ngl@im excited to interview for Penn in three years

[bold onyx]

me too

im gonna be so harsh and critical

im gonna try to get as many people as possible rejected

[burnt osprey]

I’m gonna lie

[opaque pilot]

if i get into penn

and become an interviewer in 5 years im gonna buy linkedin plus to see if people stalk me before the interview

and im gonna confront them

[bold onyx]

so real

im gonna say the applicant called me a stupid immigrant

[opaque pilot]

LOL

[bold onyx]

i shamelessly linkedin stalk everyone

[burnt osprey]

Im gonna eat loudly and scroll through tiktok while they talk

[bold onyx]

LMAO

i would be so sad if that happened to me

not even mad just depressed

kayak im going to macys do u think i will get robbed

[burnt osprey]

Tbh I’m probably just gonna be nice I was so relived my Penn interviewer was normal

[burnt osprey]

Yea you should bring me w you for protection and compensate by buying me things

[bold onyx]

too late lil bro im half way there

[burnt osprey]

Make a U turn Keegan and I are gonna be at the palestra for the mens basketball game

Join us

[bold onyx]

only if keegan buys me wingstop

@dense oriole

wingstoppppp

[inner merlin]

my interviewer wants a phone interview

is taht bad

[burnt osprey]

No

They’re probably just camera shy

[inner merlin]

i fele like i wont be able to connect with him over phone as well :((

[bold onyx]

i feel like phone is easier tbh

[inner merlin]

lolw hy

[bold onyx]

u dont gotta worry abt appearance

sometimes during interviews i be feeling silly

[inner merlin]

but like how is he supposed to get to know me over just my voice and words

[burnt osprey]

I mean

Why would your face make that big of a difference

[inner merlin]

idk makes it more personal

[burnt osprey]

If it were me I’d just turn on my laptop camera and pretend it was a zoom meeting

[burnt osprey]

Not rlly the point of the interview sadly

[sonic tree]

I assume all ED ppl got an interview

[burnt osprey]

Nah

Not everyone gets an interview

[strange ember]

penn officially says that? cuz i ed'd and didnt get interview

[bold onyx]

no

[dense oriole]

No u buy me

[bold onyx]

me pooooor

[dense oriole]

So am I bro

[bold onyx]

yea but ur oldddd

[burnt osprey]

Haha brokies

[bold onyx]

kayak u buy us food

[dense oriole]

Imma be at station in like 15 mins

I left from the library right to this😭

am not prepraed

[dense oriole]

I AGREE

[burnt osprey]

I’ll pick you up I’m omw

[burnt osprey]

What the fuck man I bought your ticket

[dense oriole]

Donate to the poor (emre and I)

[dense oriole]

I’ll pay u back

I gave u part of my poker money

[burnt osprey]

I earned that

[burnt osprey]

Buy me food

[dense oriole]

Ur food finna be more than the ticket

[bold onyx]

realll

[burnt osprey]

Canes is like 10 bucks

[burnt osprey]

Ugh fine

[dense oriole]

Is emre pulling up

[burnt osprey]

Idk ask Emre

[dense oriole]

I thought y’all were like mentally linked

[bold onyx]

no 😝

[dense oriole]

:(

[burnt osprey]

Wow

[burnt osprey]

The Islamophobia goes crazy

[bold onyx]

im walking back from center city and getting dinner with my friends

[dense oriole]

fuck u then smh

[burnt osprey]

Fuck u Emre

[dense oriole]

get out of my city 💯

[bold onyx]

i own these streets

and i need to do laundry 🗣️

[burnt osprey]

At the station lmk when you here

[opaque folio]

how to dress for interview :0

mine is on thursday !! ngl kinda excited

should i be in business casual or just nice-looking casual

[hazy merlin]

Business causal

I wore a nice sweater and jeans

My interviewer was just in a straight t shirt and jeans

I felt very overdressed 😭

[opaque folio]

okok

it's online for me so

damn it my busines casual literally is just .. business

like suit & casual-er blouse ILL FIND SOMETHING IN MY CLOSET

[hazy merlin]

Oh dw then

[opaque folio]

okok

[hazy merlin]

Like just make sure you have a nice upper half

[opaque folio]

OKAY

so a nice-looking jacket would be fine or should i just opt for idk

formal-ish blouse?

[hazy merlin]

Depends on the jacket imo

[hazy merlin]

That’s fine

[opaque folio]

okay >:)

thank u

[hazy merlin]

Ofc!

[bold onyx]

business casual/smart casual is fine

[opaque folio]

okk thank uu

ACTUALLY excited for this interview ahh the guy literally lived my life 😭 penn even managed to get my hometown

[faint badger]

they got a guy from europe for me!

[opaque folio]

YAY !!!

i saw

austria is insane

like in what world

do you live in some rly rural place & minority or something or did they just not care 😭

and get u some austrian guy

LMAOOOOOO

[faint badger]

THERE R 100% ALUMNI HERE

[opaque folio]

NO THAT SUCKS

[faint badger]

MY DAD LITERALLY KNOWS LIKE 20 alumns within 10 min of me

[opaque folio]

WTF PENN ACTUALLY HARD TROLLING YOU

[faint badger]

ok my theory

is because he did two degrees

one in wharton one in engineering

[opaque folio]

ohh

[faint badger]

and i applied to m&t?

so maybe??

[opaque folio]

are you applying m&t

yeah

MAYBE

i applied straight wharton & my interview person took a bit but penn managed to find me literally like. an alumni whose family was from the SPECIFIC city i was born internationally & living in the same state now, pretty much same ethnicity so

[sonic tree]

Lol is getting an interview a good thing

[opaque folio]

maybe wharton is just broader

i mean i think its just based on avaliability

[sonic tree]

Yeah that’s what I thought

I got a guy in the same state as me

[opaque folio]

ykw kirk

think positively

maybe. they want u

to be challenged

because you were so qualified

:)

[sonic tree]

I highly doubt they want me 😔

[opaque folio]

they want u

they want all of us

[faint badger]

or bcuz im legacy and they dont want me to possibly know my interviewer if hes local

[opaque folio]

(trust in the delulu)

[faint badger]

thats another option

[opaque folio]

that might be true too yeah

[sonic tree]

The delulu never works

[faint badger]

thats valid too

[opaque folio]

the delulu works

only thing keeping me going

[hybrid skiff]

i have a feeling that was why it took a longer time for me to get an interview too than other ppl in my area

[opaque folio]

you legacy babies 🙄

[faint badger]

where is ur interviewer from

[opaque folio]

jk must be nice

[sonic tree]

I’m tcu legacy

Texas is cool

[woeful pebble]

How is canes

[faint badger]

my double legaxy stanny friend still hasnt got a stanford interview

[lean quiver]

https://tenor.com/view/among-us-sus-yhk-among-twerk-among-us-twerk-gif-23335803

[woeful pebble]

they opened up next to unc

[opaque folio]

im the epitome of first gen one parent completed hs internationally & the one ditched high school also internaitionally LMAOO

[hybrid skiff]

my state but the one that did the rest of the kids at my school did the same major and was the same class as my dad

[opaque folio]

ohh you might be onto something

dont want u to know ur interviewer

[hybrid skiff]

ye i was stanny too

thats where i rea'd

[opaque folio]

FUN

[sonic tree]

My dad has a phd without a bachelors so I’m so confused on 1st gen ngl

[opaque folio]

ik so many ppl reaing stanny

[faint badger]

There are TOO many ppl eding penn

[sonic tree]

Stanford is for nerds

[opaque folio]

maybe just a2c

:)

think positively !!

[hybrid skiff]

i prob would of had a better chance EDing here or penn tbh

[faint badger]

here?

[opaque folio]

eding here or penn fr is here not penn

[sonic tree]

Yeah we are going to see another “record sweaty applicants this year” post on upenn

[opaque folio]

💀

bro

[sonic tree]

Bro what

[opaque folio]

i didnt like penn that much till i did research

[hybrid skiff]

my hopes r not high for stanny

[opaque folio]

and now im wayyy too commmited its not ok im going to be crusehd when the rejection comes in

[sonic tree]

I like penn because I like oatmeal and they have Quakers

[opaque folio]

HAHA

[sonic tree]

Ngl only reason I applied

[opaque folio]

no the reason i applied was bc its good for business, east coast, pretty campus

[sonic tree]

I like oatmeal

[opaque folio]

was deciding threeway between duke and columbia too

[sonic tree]

U should try it with brown sugar and cranberries

[opaque folio]

i wasnt HUGE on penn either till like... the week before i did ed and now im too obsessed

IVE NEVER HAD OATMEAL

ERM

[faint badger]

ive been obsessed for a decade

[opaque folio]

okay but ur valid ur dad went here

[hybrid skiff]

ya idk theres a legacy attraction fs

[opaque folio]

i didnt think abt colleges till? the time i joined a2c

[hybrid skiff]

i dont like the campus and my chances r probably way better somewhere else but stanford is my #1 choice

[opaque folio]

part of me wishes i did ed to columbia or questbridge but no turning back now

[faint badger]

not applying to stanford! i have no chance

[opaque folio]

applyign to stanford!! still have no chance but its a californian mom thing 😭

[hybrid skiff]

how i feel 🙏🙏

[opaque folio]

i might bs the supps a little bit

[hybrid skiff]

honestly i feel like i prob have a better shot at harvard than stanford

[opaque folio]

REALLY WHY

[burnt osprey]

Keegan keeps roasting penn sports kms

[opaque folio]

WHOA

THAT LOOKS COOL THO

[hybrid skiff]

cuz im from the midwest

[opaque folio]

idk if thats a deciding factor

😭 is it??

[hybrid skiff]

it helps for harvard

[opaque folio]

REALLY

[hybrid skiff]

i mean its not gonna be the sole thing to get u in

[opaque folio]

i doubt it? stannys acceptance rate for west coast is higher just bc more west coast ppl apply, but harvard nor stanford rly care about location no

[hybrid skiff]

but its an underrepresented group in the eastern schools

[opaque folio]

unless ur from some rural place

[hybrid skiff]

they consider it

[opaque folio]

are you from california

[hybrid skiff]

if they only accepted people from the east then their perspective would be limited

[hybrid skiff]

nope

[opaque folio]

idk abt washington & oregon but i promise u harvard doesnt count california 😭

maybe then for somewhere else

no idea

BUT YOU GOT STANNY

WOOOO

[hybrid skiff]

still pretty underrepresented

its prob factored

if they accept only people from the east theyre gonna have a very skewed perspective

[opaque folio]

hmm

no idea!! not harvard admissions

[hybrid skiff]

did u do peep??

[opal silo]

peep

[hybrid skiff]

peeep

[opal silo]

love the name

peep

🐤

[hybrid skiff]

Pif is trash

L program and L name

[opal silo]

peep

[opaque folio]

no :(

unforutnately </3

got rejected TEEHEE but its partially my fault for doing everything in an hour

i still got a you should apply & fee wavier though

HAHA not me unfortunately, wish i did

[hybrid skiff]

W

i dont think everyone got a fee waiver so

[opaque folio]

wish i finessed everything more before i applied ngl, will live w that regret 😭

hopefully it means something yeah

i get a fee waiver anyway but its still a plus

to be doing penn fee waiver > commonapp

[hybrid skiff]

i just wish i applied to more

[opaque folio]

same

wish i did williams' haha

[hybrid skiff]

i only ended up doing one

[hybrid skiff]

did u do any?

[opaque folio]

NO I DIDNT i only applied to penn then idk what i was doing

i just kinda existed and floated through all of the fly ins

and didnt apply to any

really liked cmc & pomona till i toured then realized id hate my life living there

[hybrid skiff]

i wish i tried for mit williams swarthmore and pomona tbh

[opaque folio]

so it got cut out of my college list entirely

i hated how pomona seemed ngl, liked the idea but the place was not it

[hybrid skiff]

swatty seems cool

[opaque folio]

YEAH IT DOES

[tawdry crystal]

SoCal moment

[hybrid skiff]

its in pennsylvania and u can cross register here

[opaque folio]

LMAOO yeah

yum

[opaque folio]

HELP YEAH

erm i was literally heads over heels with cmc

then i visited

and it was so bad

[tawdry crystal]

I tried for MIT's fly in but I wrote my essays in like four hours lmao

Didn't get it for obvious reasons lmao

Those essays were so shiiiit

[hybrid skiff]

i just thought my sat score was too low

did you get a fee waiver?

[opaque folio]

didnt apply for mit hehe

im not applying for the school at all anyway so

[hybrid skiff]

i somehow got rejected from pomona virtual 😭

[opaque folio]

NOO what

its ok

[hybrid skiff]

everywhere else i did well

[opaque folio]

they dont know what theyre missing 🙄

[hybrid skiff]

just not pomona

[tawdry crystal]

Naw, and ngl I'm not sure if anyone actually did get a fee waiver this year

[hybrid skiff]

or amherst

[tawdry crystal]

We just got a workshop webinar invite

[hybrid skiff]

even those who got in?

[tawdry crystal]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Doesn't matter for me tho since I'm a QB applicant

[hybrid skiff]

bro i just found out dartmouth bound didnt give fee waivers to some people

[tawdry crystal]

Actual troll

[hybrid skiff]

i feel like i wouldnt even apply at that point

[ember bolt]

i swear i will start sobbing when my rejection comes

[opaque folio]

sob tgt? <3 🤝

tbf tho a2c penn ed class of 2024 is HUGE we can just collectively agree if any of us get in were getting emre dinner 😭

[sonic tree]

Why is the penn Ed class so huge

Unreal

[opaque folio]

i think just in a2c haha

[opal silo]

ew no way

if i get in im fistfighting him

[opaque folio]

DSFLJKSDF

BOXING MATCH

ILL REFEREE

[sonic tree]

I feel sick en

Rn

[opal silo]

me and emre are such opps

[opal silo]

me too

[ember bolt]

if im not broke then yes

[opal silo]

my interview is in 7 mins

hooray

[sonic tree]

I don’t go on a2c much

[opaque folio]

GOOD LUCK

[sonic tree]

Good luck!

[opal silo]

tyty

[opaque folio]

YOU GOT THIS

[opal silo]

ready to get bashed and rejected 😄

[sonic tree]

My interview is at 4 tmr

[opaque folio]

penn?

[opal silo]

glgl

[opaque folio]

mine is 4 on thursday hehe

[sonic tree]

What should I be prepared for give me a rundown

[ember bolt]

i had mine at 3:30 today and the interviewer lowkey ate me up i think but i also might just be delusional

[opal silo]

i havent had it yet

so i dont know

😮

[opaque folio]

^^ NO YEAH PLEASE TELL US HAHA

after >:)

[opal silo]

loool alr alr

[tawdry crystal]

Me but with MIT fr

[opaque folio]

ik interviews dont matter but its the nerves

[tawdry crystal]

I don't expect to get into Penn at all lmao

[opaque folio]

id have absoltuely no chance at mit

[tawdry crystal]

I ranked Penn third on my QB match rankings and only applied to M&T lmao I'm gonna get fucking rejected so hard

[opaque folio]

the only thing i have going for me is 800 math but like 0 academic competitions whatsoever

mit would slaughter me esp since theres like 5 people eaing at my school

[opaque folio]

NOOO . HOPE.

[tawdry crystal]

If I somehow get into Penn through QB that means I'd have been rejected by my first two picks WHILE getting into M&T which is even more damn selective

If that happens then it's gonna be goofy af

[ember bolt]

i feel like for penn i probably have like a 5% chance? lol just bcz im applying nursing so its a bit more of a chance

[opaque folio]

ITS OK COLLEGES ARE GOOFY ASF

isnt penn ed acceptance like 5% though

[tawdry crystal]

We manifestin' fr

[opaque folio]

yes 💪

i feel so delusional and crazy rn

i had too much caffeine istg

😭

im on my third cup

[ember bolt]

its 10% from wht i saw

[tawdry crystal]

I don't wanna think about decision day

[opaque folio]

no oh my god

[tawdry crystal]

For QB it's in 18 days

This shit sucks 😭

[ember bolt]

but i have a crappy gpa lol

[opaque folio]

we get back on thanksgiving on like december 1

so thats like ..... 15 before decision

[opaque folio]

ecs >:) holistic >:) 10%

you can do this

[tawdry crystal]

That's our decision release date for QB 😭

[opaque folio]

THATS SO SCARY

I WISH U GOODLUCK

WISH I APPLIED QB

BUT MY COUNSELOR REFUSED TO GIVE ME MY TRANSCRIPT OR LETTER OF REC BEFORE THEN

(i hate my counselor)

[tawdry crystal]

Wtf

Your counselor's an opp 😭

[opaque folio]

so my school is majority wealthy ppl

i told her i wanted to apply qb like 3 weeks b4 and she said ti was too late

[ember bolt]

WAIT ED DECISIONS COME DEC 1ST??

[opaque folio]

15th

[tawdry crystal]

No

[opaque folio]

around then

but like my thanksgiving break ends around 1st

[tawdry crystal]

QB Decisions are Dec 1 but regular ED decisions are around 15

[tawdry crystal]

Ngl I'm really thankful I asked my counselors at the beginning of August

[opaque folio]

my counselor said she didnt want to rwite a rec w/ 3 weeks notice

[tawdry crystal]

some of the kids around me only started filling out their Counselor rec packets the day they were due 💀

[bold onyx]

have u done mtsi

[opaque folio]

she literally. wrote my rec

in one day.

like she was bragging to the other counselros & my friends heard

that she was procrastinating on her recs

and she had like 15 to do in one day

<3

[tawdry crystal]

I didn't even know about MTSI until after the summer lol

[bold onyx]

damnn

but questbridge is like binding right

[opaque folio]

i thought it was :0

[tawdry crystal]

It is - but Penn has an option that lets you opt out of being bound to your secondary school choice if you get rejected from the primary coordinated dual-degree programs

[bold onyx]

ooo okay

nah i was just saying bc this year there was only 1 dude who got into m&t non ed / qb / mtsi

[tawdry crystal]

And that's exactly why I don't expect anything from Penn when match day comes around

[opaque folio]

i mean ur qb 😋

[tawdry crystal]

QBRD gon' pull through tho

[hazy merlin]

You don’t think you’ll be matched?

[tawdry crystal]

I only ranked MIT, Stanford, and Penn that ain't happening 💀

[hazy merlin]

Oh 😭

[tawdry crystal]

I ranked six before but cut half of them

[opaque folio]

😭

[tawdry crystal]

I really just didn't wanna be bound to places I didn't necessarily wanna go to

[hazy merlin]

You weren’t ready to be committed?

[tawdry crystal]

so I just shoved all my plans to QBRD lmao

[hazy merlin]

@buoyant spire why wasn’t this you

[opaque folio]

that makes sense haha

[tawdry crystal]

That and I didn't wanna write all my essays in two weeks

Penn already asked me for 5 essays - and the M&T essay was 650 words 💀

[hazy merlin]

No that’s valid

[tawdry crystal]

I didn't wanna write shit essays in that small of a timeframe

[hazy merlin]

Crazy

[opaque folio]

not qb related but my friend just lied to me about being a coke scholar

💀

[hazy merlin]

One of my friends did

[opaque folio]

semifinalist

[hazy merlin]

And wanted to cry

[tawdry crystal]

Some of the QB kids I've seen who ranked all 15 schools 😭

[opaque folio]

that sounds so atrocious

[tawdry crystal]

The QB Match Requirements deadline (Supp deadline) is only two weeks after finalist decisions release, which is horrendous

[bold onyx]

W penn

[opaque folio]

im so sorry 😭

i was going to apply for huntsman but i saw the 650 essay

and decided against it

[tawdry crystal]

Ngl I wrote my M&T essay in like three hours 💀

Went really well honestly

BUT THE OTHER SHORTER ESSAYS

THEY TOOK ME LIKE A DAY

[tawdry crystal]

But why tho 😭

[opaque folio]

shes a chronic liar haha ive noticed so many discrepancies in her story

i literally was like "damn semifinalists are so cracked" then she told me "coke semifinalist isnt that good lol i didnt get qb finalist but i got coke semifinalist !!"

and then i checked it for my state and her name was nowhere to be found

idk? she wants to be impressive?

[hybrid skiff]

why would i get emre dinner when he is the dinner

[tawdry crystal]

She let the anxiety get to her huh

[opaque folio]

nom nom

[opaque folio]

shes lying about so many things bro

[hybrid skiff]

nobody: eno:

[opaque folio]

she also gatekeeps insanely hard

i asked her like if shes applying to mich

bc i was just curious on how to develop teh essay

and she waslike

"wHY ARE YOU ASKING ME SO MANY QUESTIONS BRO IM NOT GOING TO TELL YOU BECAUSE IM GOING TO GIVE YOU ANXIETY"

like wtf . i asked her one question. maybe 2 questions about college in like a month

[hazy merlin]

Just don’t talk to her

[bold onyx]

cuz hes sexyyyyy

[opaque folio]

the fact she tells me that shes not letting me know because its my fault that ill get college anxiety if i know bc she said shes too impressive and ill just get scared 😭

[opaque folio]

no yeah i hate her but i have to talkt o her :(

we're in a cab together

[hazy merlin]

Why

[hazy merlin]

Cab?

[opaque folio]

like really active club

leadership

[hazy merlin]

Oh

[opaque folio]

unfortunately </3

[hazy merlin]

I mean don’t talk to her other than do that

Just ice them out

That’s what I do

[opaque folio]

yeahh ive been doing that

learning boundaries 😁

[tawdry crystal]

Oh yeah found it

[opaque folio]

last year she was so atrociously mean to me for a solid month then once that month was over she was just like "oh everything u did pissed me off for some reason but now ur super nice and i love you and were besties"

.... no we're not

[tawdry crystal]

I saved the entire Penn supplemental form to a pdf before submitting lmao

[opaque folio]

SCARY

[tawdry crystal]

Why do some colleges make it so that you can't see the stuff you've submitted after applying 😭

There's always like that one mistake that's just sitting there like

Man

[opaque folio]

😭

bro its ok

yesterday i was panicking over not phrasing my ecs as impressive as it is

and adding an accidental ' after one of my nouns LMAOO

everyone has their little mistakes

[tawdry crystal]

Mood

[opaque folio]

it was a singular ec too and i mulled over it for a solid hour instead of studying

probably shouldve used the time to study for the calc test i bombed today

[frigid seal]

i wore a dress shirt and pants along with dress shoes and my intervieiwer for georgetown showed up 10 mins late wearing tennis shoes and a random dress

[opaque folio]

PLEASE

[frigid seal]

i felt so overdressed

she was like 'as u can tell im not very formal'

i kinda just looked like an idiot

[opaque folio]

😭

better overdressed than underdressed tbf

[tawdry crystal]

💀

[opaque folio]

ITS OKAY

maybe u left a really good impression

[frigid seal]

at least i didnt wear a blazer

[opaque folio]

also guys. whats the consensus on $40 an hour on tutoring

such a steal

some middle school kid's parents willing to pay me sm 😭

[frigid seal]

she told me she chose georgetown because she liked basketball and dikembe mutombo and alonzo mourning went there

[opaque folio]

HELP

[frigid seal]

i was just like, yea i like sports too!

[opaque folio]

THATS SUCH AN ICONIC INTERVIEWER THO??

[tawdry crystal]

I did tutoring once and I asked for $20 bruh I lowballed it so hard 😭

[frigid seal]

she has a law degree and an mba

[opaque folio]

thats low for someone so high achieving yeah 😭

[frigid seal]

undergrad gtown

[opaque folio]

my friend does $30

but this is $40 for english tutoring, im just stressed that i cant teach english as well as like

math

because how does one teach english.

[frigid seal]

i tutored for 10 dollars from 8-9th and 15 dollars in 10-11th

[tawdry crystal]

Ngl in my MIT interviewer I managed to match the vibe of my interviewer's clothing

[frigid seal]

i taught alg 1, geo, alg 2, pre cal

[tawdry crystal]

I wore a hoodie and a polo shirt and my interviewer showed up in a hoodie and jeans

[opaque folio]

thats pretty low 😭 for 10-11

[frigid seal]

yea i lowk got scammed

[opaque folio]

yeah

like i get 8-9 but for 10-11???

thats hella low

[tawdry crystal]

I'm so thankful that I took that hoodie now ngl because we did our interview at like, 6:00 and both of us were legit shivering 'cause it started getting cold 💀

[opaque folio]

esp since ur probably pretty good academics wise

[frigid seal]

the alg 2 person didnt even take alg 2 in school i singlehandedly taught her the entire curriculum and she got 96 on CBE and skipped the course

[opaque folio]

💀

bro

thats like a $30 raise by itself HAHA

[frigid seal]

i dont tutor anymore

lmao

[opaque folio]

i might start

the bank looks good

[frigid seal]

i might start back up and flex my sat, psat, act

[opaque folio]

better than being scammed by my clients </3

[frigid seal]

just cuz

[opaque folio]

yes 😎

[frigid seal]

also next year will hopefully flex college acceptances

[opaque folio]

my act still hasnt come out yet !!

bro dont even do tutoring if u can flex college acceptances

[tawdry crystal]

My school just asks us for if we wanna do some tutoring and then puts all of our emails on a list that they send to parents

[opaque folio]

✨ college counseling

[opaque folio]

thats a nice thing ur school offers ahh

we have to outreach ourselves

[frigid seal]

its so ez to tell ppl what to do as a college counrselor

[opaque folio]

^^

[tawdry crystal]

Tfw just today I got an email for a tutoring offer

[frigid seal]

doing it is the hard part

lmao

[tawdry crystal]

Not even in my school either

[opaque folio]

college counselors are kinda slay

[frigid seal]

i prefer a part time job although ur just cheap labor its consistent income

whereas tutoring isnt as consistent

[opaque folio]

mm true

i do freelance translating

which makes decent money

[tawdry crystal]

A substitute teacher from my school started working over at one of our neighbor high schools and ended up referring a kid who needs math tutoring there to us in my school

[opaque folio]

but its for like one company and they give me pretty consistent work

[tawdry crystal]

goofy stuff

[opaque folio]

so its pretty much part time

[opaque folio]

THATS KIND OF NICE

[hazy merlin]

Lol 😭

[hazy merlin]

No I feel you

[tawdry crystal]

Ngl it's the same mood with emails

'Cause like, people emphasize writing a good, well-structured email

But every time I've emailed someone even within my school they just wrote shit like a text

My teachers, the school administration 💀

My MIT interviewer barely wrote a cohesive email either

[opaque folio]

my penn interviewer wrote a pretty cohesive email

but ngl looked like some chatgpt template

[tawdry crystal]

Mine did for the first email - but then they stopped caring after that

[opaque folio]

HAHAHAHA

same for me but he stayed fairly formal

and i wondered for a solid 40 minutes whether i should address him w/ his first name

or mr __

[tawdry crystal]

Like, the second email just didn't bother with any spacing
The third one didn't have any salutations or endings at all

[tawdry crystal]

Same

[opaque folio]

SDFLKJSDF

i ended up with first name

but erm idk if i shouldve done that

[lean quiver]

yall are yappers fr fr

[opaque folio]

what are yappers

OH

no im just on wayyy too much caffeine and have jittery fingers and someones willing ot talk to me 😭

[lean quiver]

so real

[faint badger]

my friend j got $150 for 2 hrs

[tawdry crystal]

WHAT

[opal silo]

wow muy scary

@opaque folio very stress

[tawdry crystal]

Some of y'all live in rich af neighborhoods bruh

[opal silo]

he cut it off at the 30 min mark but it went pretty well

[faint badger]

private school ring in dallas has MONEY

her and i r prob gonna do a sat tutoring and essay help thingy and charge exorbitant amounts to rich dallas kids

i should b doing sat tutoring w my perf score smh

[opaque folio]

w h a t.

[opaque folio]

WHY VERY STRESS

[opal silo]

it was so scary

[opaque folio]

OH NO

[opal silo]

he was nice tho

nah it was all good

[opaque folio]

OKAY THATS GOOD

[opal silo]

now im fine

[opaque folio]

yayyyy

[opal silo]

a lot of it was like

personaly focused

[opaque folio]

how were the questions was it just chill talk

ohhh thats valid

[opal silo]

he didnt really touch on ecs or school until halfway in

[opaque folio]

oh damn

okay okay

was it more conversation or formal style

[opal silo]

hmm

i would say definitely more conversation

i cracked a few jokes so hopefully that was all good

[hybrid skiff]

u should tell the whale to join back

[opal silo]

im just a bit nervous cuz the other shambles had his mit and harvee mud interview go 30 mins over the allotted time for each and mine was just 30 mins on the dot

hopefully my interviewer was just busy or smt

[opal silo]

the whale is tired of a2c 😄

he'll come back to flex his community college acceptance

[opaque folio]

YAY

you got this

[opal silo]

tytysm

[opaque folio]

the whale

[opal silo]

i hope so

the whale was snoozing in class @hybrid skiff i caught him lacking

[hybrid skiff]

tell the whale he needs to wake up or i'll have to intervene 🧁

[opal silo]

BRO STOP POSTING THE CUPCAKE EMOJI

DID HE TELL U TO DO THAT

[opal silo]

i will

hes too busy playing poker until 3 am with me every night

[hybrid skiff]

m&t interview chill. talked for like 1hr 45min about interesting things.

[faint badger]

was it specifically w a m&t guy

[hybrid skiff]

yeah

[tranquil dagger]

interviews dont rlly move the needle right?

its not statistically significant

[bold onyx]

not at all tbh

[tranquil dagger]

do most ppl who get in do some sort of interview tho

[bold onyx]

it’s just an opportunity for them to see if you’re a good person or if ur an evil little fuck

[bold onyx]

i think so

but most people also get interviews

theres no correlation between interviews and acceptance

[faint badger]

evil fucks can mask themselves lol

[civic cipher]

Is there any reason why it’s considered important then on the CDS

Cuz like other schools like stanny have them as j considered

[tender kiln]

highest ranked ed school

honestly i think that plays a big part in it

because ik a lot of ppl here who did ed1 to uchi just because of that last yr

[opal silo]

damnit

i wish uchi held at #6

or duke passed penn

[tender kiln]

duke will never pass penn

only school i think can atp is caltech and idt it will

[faint badger]

penns passing yale next yr

[frigid seal]

Don't lie to urself

I love Penn but wharton high key carries

As a Wharton applicant I am cool with that

But penn can't touch hypsm

[opal silo]

cant believe they almost put #6 ranked princeton in hypsm. it's good to know that penn's spot as the P in hypsm and the #1 ranked college is safe tho 😌

[tender kiln]

eh i think we’re in touching of yale they dont really do much better than us

[tranquil dagger]

that shit school irrelevant

[tawdry crystal]

987 undergrad population moment

[tranquil dagger]

id go to a local school ngl

and its so hard for no reason

nerds

its where all the usamo kids meet up irl

[bold onyx]

veryyy untrue lmao

[bold onyx]

yea hypsm isnt far ahead of penn lol

[faint badger]

in what way lol

[frigid seal]

True*

[frigid seal]

Cap

[bold onyx]

its not 😭

[bold onyx]

its not, hypsm is insanely overhyped for no reason

[faint badger]

i dont think they do better at all

[opal silo]

cope

[tepid dew]

delusional penn kids 🙄

[fringe surge]

P in HYPSM is Penn

[frigid seal]

Coping penn student

[faint badger]

penn has highest salary impact if thats what u care ab

[fringe surge]

Penn has 2nd highest billionaires?

[tepid dew]

nobody cares

[tender kiln]

i mean what is hypsm really exceptional in compared to penn 🤷‍♂️

penn top 3 premed prelaw #1 business #1 robotics #1 nursing very solid overall engineering

stanford mit are on their own plane i agree but the 3 ivies 🤷‍♂️

only upside they have are they’re marginally more competitive and thats only because penn takes 1000-1500 more students per class

and i think even with that we’re still more/about as competitive as yale most yrs and fs this yr

hypsm penn columbia uchi all on a very similar level

[tepid dew]

we get it bro penn is the best school ever

[tender kiln]

what is bro cooking 😭

[tepid dew]

thats me blud

[bright wraith]

bro how do I choose a major for Upenn on the common app

I wanna study physics

so I chose college of arts & science

but they don't let me choose a major

just how do I

[strange ember]

are you usapho or some cracked award

[bright wraith]

no. removes it from the colleges list just pretend I wasn't here.

[hazy merlin]

?

[bright wraith]

sorry but whats the question mark for

[hazy merlin]

I’m just confused lol

You can apply to penn without having cracked awards and get in

[bright wraith]

so...what about this

I had the common app section filled out and I can't even see the major selection

I understand I don't have to apply but this is too interesting, I don't need sleep I need answers

[tender kiln]

pretty sure they might just not ask for major

when you come in to penn you’re just undeclared in wtv college you got into

[bright wraith]

oh so thats why

[tender kiln]

except for engineering

yeah

so if u do engineering instead of cas it might ask for major

[bright wraith]

I thought commonapp has a glitch or a loss of feature

anyways thanx

[tender kiln]

k

gl bud

[bright wraith]

😉

[bold onyx]

if u get into take phys0080 and enjoy getting into a top grad school :3

[bright wraith]

Yeah I do wanna get in a top grad school but I think it will be tough

good luck to me I guess

the change of me getting in is in of itself very slim lmao lmao

[bold onyx]

so take phys0080

and you’ll be set

if u get into penn

[bright wraith]

aight bet

wait I can't even find phys0080

can you link me for a sec

[bold onyx]

dm me when decisions come out

[bright wraith]

most likely a rejection but what do you know hey

[true cliff]

interview went amazing

[opaque folio]

YAY

[buoyant spire]

i want an interview 🥲

[sonic tree]

UPenn interview was ok I just got a little nervous

[rotund drift]

It’s ok 👍

How long did y’all interview last?

[torn onyx]

30 minutes or so

[ember bolt]

47:50 😁

[sonic tree]

An hour

[rotund drift]

oh ok good

i thought my 45 mins was short

[sonic tree]

The interviewers seem to be very like brief and specific on their points tbh

But I had a nice conversation I just got nervous 😔

[tawdry crystal]

I'm terrified of the Penn interview man

I applied to M&T through QB and god forbid I actually get an interview that's an M&T alumnus

I'm just imagining like getting shoved into one of the offices of the big ass banks here in LA

Thankfully it's only two weeks before QB match day so it's incredibly unlikely that they'll give me an interview unless they want to be trolls and send one out like a day before the deadline

🛐

[hazy merlin]

😭

If it makes you feel better my Stanford alum was an ex citadel guy and showed up in jeans + a t shirt and we literally sat outside in a biker cafe right next to the road

[tacit ice]

atp it wouldnt even be used

cuz decisions are usually finalized a week before or the week of the deadline

[tawdry crystal]

Thank god

Wait fuck no that means all our QB decisions will likely be finalized by next week

NOOOO

I don't wanna think about this stuff

[tacit ice]

i just wanna have a chill thanksgiving break w/o thinking about any of this

i literally have to go to a work event from the 1st-3rd

[tawdry crystal]

Mood

Thanksgiving is gonna be stressful af for me tho

[hybrid skiff]

im working on rd apps all thanksgivings break

[tawdry crystal]

Not only is QB match day right after Thanksgiving, but the UC app deadline is also a day before that

[hybrid skiff]

im fully expecting a rejection from my early

[tawdry crystal]

Shits fucked

[tacit ice]

im gonna get all my commonapp rd schools outta the way

[tawdry crystal]

Mood

[tacit ice]

stanford or columbia?

[hybrid skiff]

stanny

[tacit ice]

nah you got this

[hybrid skiff]

if it was columbia i wouldnt do any rd

[tacit ice]

yh youre basically guaranteed for that

[hybrid skiff]

idk about that

better shot probably tho

[tacit ice]

true but youre pretty cracked + fly in so you have a really good shot

[hybrid skiff]

i also wanna see if i get in here too

[tacit ice]

yeah no i get the rd thing cuz i wanna see my options

thats why my qbrd list is so darn long lmaooo

[hybrid skiff]

qbrd sounds so nice everythings free

[tawdry crystal]

It is

No fees
No binding clause
No limits on how many you can apply to
No supps (for some schools)

Vandy 😍

Look at them tick boxes 😩

I'm not actually going to apply to all of them tho

They made QBRD so unrestrictive it's crazy

[hybrid skiff]

i had to write sm fly in essays for that stuff 🔥🔥

[civic cipher]

Quants 😵‍💫

[hybrid skiff]

honestly 1000 dollars in app fees for a middle class family is kinda diabolical

[tacit ice]

app fees in general are crazy

[tawdry crystal]

The state of higher education in the United States of America 🔥 🔥 🔥

[hybrid skiff]

90 dollars for a rejection most of the time

its an overpriced lottery ticket for a school that ur losing money to

[tacit ice]

they literally make millions off those fees

[bold onyx]

mid

[hybrid skiff]

lowkey app fees are the reason im not applying for harvard and cornell

[strange ember]

oh u didnt get an interview assignment yet?

[tawdry crystal]

Naw

Either no availability or no time (too close to the deadline)

Thank god for that

[strange ember]

dang

i rlly wonder how many ppl dont receive interviews

esp for ED, which i expect everyone will get

[strange ember]

wait isnt no interview bad lol

one less factor to consider in ur application kinda like going test optional

[tawdry crystal]

Not necessarily

[hybrid skiff]

no

the interview is the last thing they look at

its kinda just like a background check honestly

[tawdry crystal]

If you don't get an interview they obv can't hold that against you

If you deny an interview if offered one then you are disadvantaged tho iirc

[strange ember]

oh hm ig

[civic cipher]

hmm idk doesn't penn value them a bit more? they are considered important on CDS

while most schools ahve it as considered

[civic cipher]

ye

[hybrid skiff]

yeah but theres too much demand and not as much alumni, they cant hold it against you

[hybrid skiff]

sure but they still read them last (source: peep staff)

[strange ember]

are m&t interviews supposed to be hard or smth lol

[faint badger]

give me more peep specific advice

[hybrid skiff]

im ngl i dont really know much

all i took away was 2 things

(1) my sat is too low for engineering to submit and (2) interviews are read last

the rest was pretty generic

[faint badger]

what is ur sat?

oh cool

[hybrid skiff]

720 math

[strange ember]

is engineering more demanding of ur course rigor and grades?

i would imagine a cas physics student to have a higher expectation for course rigor/grades than a mech e student tho

[hybrid skiff]

nope

[hybrid skiff]

yes

i heard the engineering ao is tough to get through and looks for 2 years of physics and calculus (if offered) to even get into the school, cas has different expectations

[civic cipher]

yea im not disagreeing with u lol. im just sayin penn probs cares about them more than, say, stanny

[hybrid skiff]

oh yeah fs

we're on the same page then lmao

[civic cipher]

how was peep? i wish i saw it beforehand lol

[opaque folio]

what are some nice interview questions?

getting a little bit nervy

not sure how exactly to plan for this

[civic cipher]

like for ur interviewer or vice versa?

[opaque folio]

^^

for my interviewer

[hybrid skiff]

i went to another one of their outreach programs they have, same faculty as peep and got a fee waiver

[civic cipher]

why not ask them abour their favorite moment at Penn or wtv specific school u r applying to (i.e. CAS)

[hybrid skiff]

i heard it was good

[opaque folio]

oOH

that sounds cool

[hybrid skiff]

i heard it was super duper boring though

just several 2 hour long admissions webinars

[civic cipher]

if u vibe w them well imo smth that could be cool is asking them about hardest/worst moment (well maybe not worst but ykwim)

[hybrid skiff]

if u have questions about columbia tho i did go to theres

[civic cipher]

peep kids do hella well in ED tho right

[hybrid skiff]

yes

[civic cipher]

lol it is what it is 😭

[hybrid skiff]

very well

[civic cipher]

it woulda helped a lot especially since im doing huntsman 🤡

[hybrid skiff]

but i heard it was harder to get into than penn itself

[civic cipher]

oh interesting

[hybrid skiff]

its a correlation not causation thing though

they wouldve gotten in anyways

[opaque folio]

oooh

[civic cipher]

oh yea fs

[civic cipher]

yea i mean u can ask them a potpourri of quesions im sure u will be fine lmao

[hybrid skiff]

i prob shouldve applied to peep but i didnt feel like id ever go to the webinars

[opaque folio]

YEAH DEFINITELY

i was just like . should i not miss smt

i dont want it to feel like just a interview process yk

[civic cipher]

i mean with questions idt u can really miss lmfao

[opaque folio]

heard it was very engaging which is nice

^^ that

[civic cipher]

r u applyin to CAS?

[hybrid skiff]

r u eding penn?

[opaque folio]

yeah

wharton

[hybrid skiff]

ahhh gl

[civic cipher]

nice nice gl

[opaque folio]

im an npc like every other wharton ed kid 💀

[hybrid skiff]

wharton W

[opaque folio]

KIDDING I CAN ROAST THEM BC IM PART OF THE COMMUNITY

but yeah

[hybrid skiff]

i rea'd stanny

[civic cipher]

what major?

[opaque folio]

ikk hehe

super cool

[civic cipher]

stanny is very nice

[hybrid skiff]

bme

[civic cipher]

woulda REAed there if i had the balls to do so 😂 and didn't live near philly

[hybrid skiff]

i feel u 😭 i wouldnt either but im legacy

[civic cipher]

bro has that cracked fam

[hybrid skiff]

we dont donate so idk if itll have much effect

im the rare middle class legacy who somehow lived poor for some of his life

[civic cipher]

i think stanny legacy in general doesn't do crzy boosts right

[opaque folio]

ive been to stanny once or twice and it is nice there

u got this >:)

[hybrid skiff]

ye

[opaque folio]

(california kid)

[hybrid skiff]

i think the campus is pretty mid

[opaque folio]

the people

[hybrid skiff]

the people are cool tho

[opaque folio]

are hella nice

yeah

really charismatic overall

and theres the california weather ig

[hybrid skiff]

yeah extremely chill

fs

[opaque folio]

im not a huge fan of it but !!

[civic cipher]

are u bay area?

[opaque folio]

i like seasons :(

la

socal

[civic cipher]

winter not fun bro 😭

[civic cipher]

o nice

[hybrid skiff]

honestly i was about to ed columbia tbh

[civic cipher]

i liked LA

visited pasadena

[opaque folio]

i was split between columbia penn and duke

😭

[civic cipher]

respect columbia but that campus is too small for me

[opaque folio]

oh shit

[hybrid skiff]

i love penn so much

[opaque folio]

where in pasadena

[civic cipher]

caltech lol

[opaque folio]

caltech region?

[civic cipher]

😆

[opaque folio]

OH MY

[civic cipher]

yea

[hybrid skiff]

stanny yale columbia penn my favorite schools

[civic cipher]

i like penn and yale 😄

[hybrid skiff]

caltech kinda sucks

i couldnt imagine myself being successful there at all

[civic cipher]

Im sweatin everythin i have for yale RD lol

[opaque folio]

YALE RD

[civic cipher]

i shlda just applied normal CAS for penn ed

💀

[hybrid skiff]

honestly a W decision

[opaque folio]

im sweating for my other schools rd HELP

and also

dub

:( can dub accept me

[hybrid skiff]

scea doesn't give any boosts and has some of the most competitive applicant pools

[opaque folio]

it is. so . gorgeous

[civic cipher]

i did a program which does pretty good there so hopefully 🙏

[hybrid skiff]

yygs??

[civic cipher]

idk why i did huntsman in hindsight too hard

[civic cipher]

nah

i did an IR progam

[opaque folio]

i wanted to apply huntsman

but decided against it

i love learning languages on my own but not in class 😭

[civic cipher]

i rewrote my essay on the last day 💀

it's okay

we let it go

[opaque folio]

i wrote my essay in 30 minutes, looked at it, hated it, and never applied

HELP

[civic cipher]

valid valid

[hybrid skiff]

i was thinking about m&t

but

im not competitive enough

[civic cipher]

i already did a language program for korean tho

so like

it made sense

i apply huntsman

[opaque folio]

i was thinking the half bio half business one too

[hybrid skiff]

i have no reasons for studying business at all

[opaque folio]

brain blanked

but it felt so like ... i was interested in env sci

and had no bio ecs