Princeton University (2023-2024)

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they learn anatomy in and out after all

live practical demonstration

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Y’all need to stop

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☠️ sorry

yea

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Im not wrong

[livid moat]

If I’m ucsb ‘28 😭

[manic jay]

Ill flame u

Jk

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hey it's a good ass school tho

[manic jay]

Ucsb beaches

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for bio and chemE

[manic jay]

And campus

[livid moat]

It’s honestly a very very happy school though

[manic jay]

Seems lit lowk

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plus the beaches are pretty

[livid moat]

I think I’d like it

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Very very pretty

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Yeah

Better than ucsd

[manic jay]

Theyre always high or drunk so probably why 💀😭

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legit only 3 UCs i applied to

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my friends want to transfer out of washu

[livid moat]

Whatever I can live with the vibe!

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berkeley la and sb

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to where

[manic jay]

Then u will like brown

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I’ve heard a lot of people wanting to

Like they go for the prestige

And then realize it’s not for them

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Yeah ik

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washu is tough

[lament matrix]

i didnt ask to where but they both rly dont like it

[livid moat]

I’m Californian did you forget kvd

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plus their prestige tanks regularly

it ain't worth it

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WWW

[lament matrix]

i dont think they went for the prestige mainly, they both really liked it but i guess it wasn't like what they thought?? idk

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more prestiigous schools with lesser cost and higher acceptance rate assw

and more happier asw ofc

[livid moat]

That makes sense too

[manic jay]

Is georgetown depressing

Or happy

Or just average

[livid moat]

I researched WashU and before I was like 🤯 I love this school and after I was like um…

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the dorms are crap

and so is the food

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average

[livid moat]

WashU just gives me interestingly weird vibes

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if you can get over that

[manic jay]

Biggest downside other than the lack of diversity for me

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then it's pretty reasonable

[livid moat]

You have ut

A

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eh the lack of diversity is to be expected

since like

yk

[manic jay]

Right but i lowk wanna explore the world

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it's mostly a gov/policy feeder

[manic jay]

At least the other side of the country

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and you know what most politicians look like

soooooo

[manic jay]

And its test required

So socioeconomic diversity is lacking

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that's a good thing in my opinion

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test required helps poor people more than the rich

[lament matrix]

wait are you east or west coast??

[manic jay]

Yea but richer ppl tend to have higher sat

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legit you can see the data published by darty

[manic jay]

Its a correlation

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that poorer kids have better advantage

[manic jay]

Neither baby 🤠

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came out like 3-4 days ago

[manic jay]

Im in the best state in all the land

Howdy partner

[slender citrus]

ew /j

[manic jay]

When they went test opt they said the exact opposite

[manic jay]

Shut up you indian

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i still feel like there should be some sort of exception or if you cant take the sat/act for financial reasons the college that requires it should give you money,,,

[livid moat]

I feel like UTA would definitely be better than gtown for what you want

[manic jay]

Fuck u

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now they have more data after being TO for 3 years lol

[manic jay]

UT or UT Austin

[livid moat]

Cause like gtown polisci and ir will constantly be overshadowing!

[livid moat]

Nah uta

[manic jay]

Im double majoring mate

[livid moat]

In polisci?

[manic jay]

Business global affairs program literally mogs the bottom ivies

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fee waivers legit exist bro anyone can give the sat if they want to

[manic jay]

Its extremely well renowned

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all poor people get waivers from their school

[livid moat]

Never heard of it but I trust

[livid moat]

Then I retract my statement

[manic jay]

Surprising

It’s pretty well known

Sfs + mcdonough

[livid moat]

If you’re trying to get on Capitol Hill gtwon is THE school

[lament matrix]

outside the usa

[livid moat]

Idk you’re the only business person ik who applied to gtown

All my cousins did the other schools you did

[manic jay]

@livid moat my interviewer has me solddd

[slender citrus]

bro I'd happily go to santa clara lmao
idc where i go to college because I'll go to wherever is financially cheapest, i just wanna know that the effort i put into essays and stuff actually pays off so I'll be sad if i don't get into uchicago because i wrote them 2 1000 word essays, a 1000 word loci, a 3 minute music video, and a 500 word research abstract

[livid moat]

For gtown?

[manic jay]

Lots of business kids ik applied like silly sheep

[manic jay]

Cbhp if i can bag it

[livid moat]

@slender citrus you give really really strong frown vibes did you apply?

Gtown

Not grown

Frown

[livid moat]

Ohh ok

[livid moat]

You will trust

What does chop stand for

Whatever the acronym is

[slender citrus]

THERE'S SNOW IN CALIFORNIA??????

[manic jay]

They dont deserve her bruh she is going to a school with a journalism major

[livid moat]

Lake Tahoe!

[livid moat]

W nvm!

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in gtown?

[livid moat]

Gtown law is really good right

[manic jay]

Yes

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lol then suck it up

if you can't pay sat fees

your ass not paying us tuition fees either

[manic jay]

Sadly smith and i most likely wont be classmates unless we both get stanford or columbia or penn or smth crazy

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full rides for intl is very very rare

so like the no of people really suffering from this

[livid moat]

Pennnnnn please 🙏

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is like 0.0001%

[livid moat]

Let me the third person ever from my school

[manic jay]

I think ill be the 2nd

1st at gtown

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We have 2/39 iirc

[manic jay]

101024828282 at UT

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W

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gtown law policy business gov IR

stuff like tha

is all really good

[livid moat]

Yeah that’s what I thought

Why tf does Harvard not have a rare disease center 💀

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also most poor intls get fee waivers from their school asw

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you're also Indian smh

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my counsellor hands it out

at least

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Ruby ily

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should they?

isn't uta ut arlington

and not ut austin

tf

[livid moat]

Yeah they’re supposed to be top tier in medicine and Penn, Yale, Duke, and everyone else has one

[slender citrus]

deferred

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hms is no 1

[slender citrus]

rare kvd W

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They’re lacking and now I can’t talk about it 💀

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You’ll get in dw

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idk they just don't care about it i guess

[slender citrus]

oh yeah to me that's not California

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Exactly they’re Ls

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extra money going from their pockets

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Is it hard to get into Princeton after being deferred

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THEY COULD DO SO MUCH

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pretty sure their miserable ass complained to usnews to bump it back to 1 when they dropped to 2

literally so fucking stuoid

[slender citrus]

We're both going to stanford trust

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so usn had to "update" their ranking criteria to make hms no.1 again

[livid moat]

Harvard doesn’t have an orphan disease center either 💀

They cannot be fr

[manic jay]

Im a proud ‘murican. Proof: i say yall, i live in texas (americas state), im an eagle scout (americas boys), and i watch football (americas sport)

[livid moat]

Hate this school by the second

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same as how they "update" their criteria to make all the ivies t20

[manic jay]

Tf is india

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despite ofc

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Ew

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them not being t20

[livid moat]

Me when I fit 2/3 of those 💀 kind of

[manic jay]

How

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you learnt carnatic music, your parents don't let you date, you don't waste food, and you're cracked

Indian at heart fr

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Girl Scout and football lover

[slender citrus]

oh and you live in dallaspuram

bro i love girl scouts

[manic jay]

I totally dont speak read and write telugu

Also

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i loved selling brownies

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☠️ ain't no way there's something called "dallas puram"

[slender citrus]

exactly

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it's a joke because so many Indians live in dallas

[manic jay]

Its a pun because towns in india often end with puram

So dallas + puram

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exactly

i got that

[manic jay]

Basically saying theres hella indians

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since i'm indian

[manic jay]

Oh i aint know that

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ohh

[manic jay]

You give arab vibes

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makes sense

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eh

indians are close enough to arabs anyways

[manic jay]

Dont tell the arabs that

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we're better

💪

[manic jay]

They ll start raging

Most indian hate comes from arabs lmao

At least from what i see and in my experience

[slender citrus]

I have an Arab best friend

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lol they're brown as well

[manic jay]

They say theyre white

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it's copium

[slender citrus]

Y'all i think this is headed in a slightly racist direction

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yea

we should

stop

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yeah

let's talk about Princeton the best school in the country

(i didn't apply)

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bruh

☠️

[slender citrus]

Look i was lazy to do the graded paper thing

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well it's a lottery for literally anyone

so idts it's a big deal

[lament matrix]

LMAO

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shit stumped me as well

[slender citrus]

We don't have graded papers here

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i just got a UT paper and submitted that

[slender citrus]

And i was lazy to figure it out

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same

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Ah

What subject

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so i picked the next best alternative

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eco

literally only humanities

thing i have

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Oh

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and they mentioned english/humanities

and all my english scores are like

really really deflated

[slender citrus]

Lol mood

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so i'd look like a fucking idiot if i sent that in

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the max they're allowed to give is a 90

so a 90 is a 100

and an 80 is a 90

but the people at pton don't mnow that now do they

also my eco was insanely good, i had like 39.5/40

[slender citrus]

Dw im also from India i have that too

My best English mark is 73/80

And i literally applied as an English major

[manic jay]

Literally me

My paper was marked a 15/25

Which is an A

After its weighted

And it was the highest mark in the class

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relatable

( mine was 69)

[slender citrus]

ay

[proud brook]

Idk in skl exam no one can cross 70 in eng but it boards.some.random 3 ppl who don't even do English that well get 99

[slender citrus]

LOL YEAH

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bro i ain't even gonna lie to you, i went as writer for 12th boards last year, did the paper entirely since the guy i was writing for was pretty dumb and school said to write enough for passing marks

i even managed to attempt 24 marks/40 in literature since it was based on passages

and scored 89/100 💀

[proud brook]

Lmaoo

Actually there is a problem with marks in general in college applications for my school

As we r in India not many apply to the US

Only 4 of us have applied

Our skl just gives 97% as predicted score for everybody

But 2 others in my class have put it as their GPA

They normally have lik 80-90%

So technically I have put my actual GPA(92%) which is higher than those two

But since they put 97 I actually have the lowest GPA out of applicants from my skl

DK what to do

[slender citrus]

They still sent 9, 10, 11 grades right?

Schools recalculate gpa

[proud brook]

Ye they sent the grades

Not sure as to colleges taking them

Lik example common app says Princeton doesn't use courses and grades

[slender citrus]

They'll have their own srars

Doesn't mean they don't look at grades at all

[proud brook]

Which I assumed meant they were ok without our SRAR but just the GPA number we gave

[slender citrus]

gpa is very unstandaridized so they'll def look at 9-12 grades

[proud brook]

Oh ok

Ah that's seems ok then

[slender citrus]

yeah dw

and plus grades are just one component

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the most important one

[obsidian cobalt]

is Princeton interview evaluative

my Shi was Boring

[gaunt shuttle]

yeah it is

[wary lantern]

it should be illegal to call CBSE english actual english

its just a boring memorization test in english medium 😭

[rose lava]

this some crazy elitism lol

[charred elbow]

ikr lol

i didnt know hypsm was a thinf outside of a2c i Wont lie

[quaint parcel]

omg

[thick seal]

hyp is like a sports rivalry or some shit like princeton does this whole traditional celebration when they beat both

but yeah super elitist ngl

[charred elbow]

ohhhh wtf

i did not know rhat

[rose lava]

prestige is real 😭

[quiet echo]

Did you get into uc Berkeley eecs?

This mans him, smart as hell

[rose lava]

ye

[rose lava]

nah all u bro hopefully i’m in class w u in a year

[quiet echo]

How Yk where I’m going for college

Oh wait nvm you just changed your pfp

LOL

[rose lava]

u forgot me 🥲

[rose lava]

yea lmao

[quiet echo]

Nooo , i didnt fr

I just wasn’t active for a while and forgot everyone

[quiet echo]

Ngl if you got in early for a hella competitive major like eecs at berk, you got Princeton easy

[rose lava]

👀

i’d only pick princeton and stanford over eecs

[livid moat]

Cause you remind everyone once a day

[quiet echo]

Not true

[livid moat]

Should we pull up message history

[quiet echo]

That’s the only two I would pick too ngl

[quiet echo]

You’d see that I haven’t been active for these past couple of days

[livid moat]

Ok every day you are active then

[rose lava]

i just rmb bc u were the first person here to get into princeton 😭

[quiet echo]

Fr

[rose lava]

insane

[quiet echo]

I wouldn’t have gotten in for uc Berkeley EECS sooo

[zenith flame]

damn so true

[thick seal]

wdym luck goes to harvard for native american studies and public policy

and is not currently in high school and also not banned from the server

[rose lava]

and i won’t get into princeton 😵‍💫

[surreal junco]

do schools not start reviewing until they get all materials?

so if i finished my interview yesterday, i can still send in an app update and it'll probably get read, right?

[quiet echo]

You don’t know that

[tough eagle]

I’m getting into neither

[zenith flame]

Me too

[pale sonnet]

don’t be negative of course you are getting in. ✈️

[zenith flame]

I'm sure if Harvard doesn't want me no other college would 🤷‍♀️

[urban sinew]

That’s not how it works

[pale sonnet]

Cheer up! we need positive energy, we can be sad only after results come out…

[zenith flame]

[urban sinew]

I was also rejected from Harvard and many other schools

[zenith flame]

Why is it all so difficult

[zenith flame]

So u mean there's still hope 🥹

[pale sonnet]

Thank You for this we need hope

[urban sinew]

I was rejected from San Jose state lmao

[zenith flame]

I see hope coming back

Idk but like i made Harvard my entire world and like the thought I'll be rejected rd makes me cry every day

[urban sinew]

Wait you got deferred?

You should have hope then

[zenith flame]

Yeah

[urban sinew]

You can still get in

[zenith flame]

80% people get deferred so-

[urban sinew]

I guess

But you still can get in

And if not Harvard, then somewhere else

[rose lava]

yea

id say 1% odds i dont go to berkeley tho

[zenith flame]

I hope😭

It's just that i didn't work 4 years just for a letter saying “SORRY…..”

[urban sinew]

True

But it only takes one

[rose lava]

lwk if i get into princeton itd be a hard choice

i have a few friends there and they all love it

[orchid axle]

This is like

The main thing

That matters

[zenith flame]

I love the positivity ✨

Thank you 😭

[urban sinew]

‘27?

[urban sinew]

Np I need smth to do after that awful Super Bowl ending

[wintry turtle]

LOL

[rose lava]

and 25

yea a few

[urban sinew]

Cool

If they are cs I might know them but otherwise probably not

[rose lava]

yea a good amount are cs lol

[urban sinew]

Did you get in Berkeley early

[rose lava]

yea

somehow 😵‍💫

[urban sinew]

Cool

[zenith flame]

lol

[quiet echo]

“Somehow” bro prolly invented chat gpt or something. Hella genius

[rose lava]

lol working at open ai would be so cool

[quiet echo]

Wdym would be cool, you’re alr doing that cause you’re a genius

[rose lava]

genius is crazy coming from a freaking princeton student

#1 school in the world

[quiet echo]

Nah that’s you

[tough eagle]

Wait what did I miss?

[quiet echo]

Abhi got into Berkeley EECS

[tough eagle]

Nah I meant the ai thing

Man I want a T5

[quiet echo]

Oh lol

[quiet echo]

Same

[tough eagle]

Dude what didn’t you literally bag pton

[quiet echo]

It’s #8 for cs 💔💔

[tough eagle]

It’s Princeton tho

[quiet echo]

Not a top 5 like Berkeley fr

[tough eagle]

Honestly Princeton > Berkeley for me

But I’m also not a fan of cali

[quiet echo]

I have a bias for Berkely

[rose lava]

can we switch lol

id rather go to princeton

[quiet echo]

lol

[quiet echo]

I also like Princeton 😁😁

[rose lava]

W school

im so jealous of youuuu

[zenith flame]

I used to love princeton but my sister goes there and she says i won't vibe with the uni lol

i think she just wants to get rid of me though

[rose lava]

legacy 😄

[safe oasis]

would you guys think submitting all SAT scores is better since it shows progression (even the lower ones) or do you think submitting like the highest only is the best

[slender citrus]

I did all

Although my lows weren't very low so

I only officially sent my highest tho

Everything else self reported

[safe oasis]

my lowest is a 1370

[zenith flame]

and highest?

[safe oasis]

1490

[slender citrus]

ah yeah my lowest was 1510

Up to you whether to submit but since it's an upward trend I don't think it could hurt you much but depends on number of attempts

[safe oasis]

3 attempts. 1370, 1390, 1490

[zenith flame]

you have 2 scores right?

[zenith flame]

Id say go with any of the 2 approaches

they generally only care about the highest

so not an issue

[safe oasis]

hm okay

[thick seal]

no longer best school in country rip

[tough eagle]

Whar

[thick seal]

luck’s best school in country complex

replied to the wrong thing

[tough eagle]

Fair

[quiet echo]

LOL

[quiet echo]

Telling Princetons AO about this

[thick seal]

this man is trying to turn my hometown against me

[quiet echo]

It’s my town now

[thick seal]

damn

it’s over for me

[quiet echo]

Yea..sorry buddy

[quiet echo]

Guess you’re gonna have to apply to the worser ivies instead

[thick seal]

dartmouth

i did not apply to dartmouth

[quiet echo]

Nah Dartmouth Goated, I was thinking of like Columbia

[thick seal]

you just hate cool places wtf

bro takes nj over nyc

[quiet echo]

I hate the rat stinking place over the amazing clean place

Okay…

[thick seal]

the rats are just silly little guys

west windsor is twice as evil as the rats

[rose lava]

bro columbia more goated than darty

[solemn crag]

https://tenor.com/view/fr-lie-gif-9063740662564569899

[manic jay]

Columbia clears dart

[rose lava]

fr

[quiet echo]

Yea…but it’s in NYC

[manic jay]

Dont make it a location battle

Even the dart alums i talk to shit on the location

Dart legit in the middle of nowhere and the campus is the only thing

Thats why frats and getting hammered all the time or hiking in the wilderness are the main activities

For a guy like me thats fine tbh but it cant rlly compare to NYC

[cunning vortex]

I'm p sure some ppl go to Columbia specifically for its location lol

Coz nyc can lead to a lot of great internship opportunities

[quaint parcel]

ofc columbia didnt even have my major but thats why i applied 😍

1 chance to live in nyc 😂

[cunning vortex]

😂no frrrrr

[manic jay]

Youre pretty close even at princeton haha

Also princetons neighborhood small town vibe is so beautiful

Especially at night it seems so peaceful

[cunning vortex]

Yess

And yeah I absolutely love princeotn's campus

Makes it easy to romanticize studying

[manic jay]

Too bad common folk cant get in too easily

#1 overall

[rose lava]

ok luck princeton kids wish they were in nyc

like nyc is a good place to be

[hollow jewel]

😭

darty is so ass

[hollow jewel]

not like you'd get invited 🙄

[pale sonnet]

does anyone know what is a ‘Tiger team interview’?

[charred elbow]

i did one

you just go to the plCe

and jts a group of interviewers

and you do your interview there

[pale sonnet]

OK Thx was it intimidating? or chill

[charred elbow]

super chill

[manic jay]

I would easily lol

[charred elbow]

free donuts

waffles

[manic jay]

Try to get in anywhere first 😭😭

[charred elbow]

now t waffles

bagels

and coffee

they have princeton napkina

[pale sonnet]

wow! Princeton 👀

[hollow jewel]

3/28 will either be a good day or bad day

[manic jay]

Hope its a good one (sike u my son bih)

[quiet echo]

Hmmmm maybe

[hollow jewel]

idec thast much atp

[manic jay]

I hope u get into princeton pops

[hollow jewel]

so u want me to steal @meager mango position?

[manic jay]

U mean my position? Sure u can have it

Im going to Stanford

[cosmic crater]

Why u be crying

[thick seal]

full disclosure nyc people don’t love transplants and columbia is a bubble

but it’s nice regardless

[thick seal]

i live in nyc and i wish i was in princeton

[meager mango]

yeah sorry everyone on this server should withdraw i called dibs on pton

[quaint parcel]

oh well

theyll have to get used to it then 😍

anything is better than where im from

[cosmic solar]

nyc ppl not likign transplants is wild from an outsider perspective

like they damn near invade florida every few months

[charred elbow]

right

and poison the seagulls w their trash and their food

[manic jay]

Im tryna be nice bro

[quiet echo]

Mars the goat

[quiet echo]

My bad, I alr took your spot 🥱

[meager mango]

i called dibs tho ?? in writing too

[cosmic crater]

No your name

[manic jay]

Oh

ib

[hollow jewel]

Attention seeker

[manic jay]

No way ur talking

Premed yapper

Everyone in ib be crying cuz we actually do rigorous course load

Unlike some booty ahh schools

[cosmic crater]

U JUST WANT ATTENTION

[quiet echo]

Rip

[manic jay]

You rea?

[cosmic crater]

YOU DONT WANT MY HEART

MAYBE YOU JUST HATE THE THOUGHT OF ME W SOMEONE NEWWW

[hollow jewel]

It’s not my fault

[hollow jewel]

Bro I ain’t talking to you, I was referencing his server name

I’m just shitting on kvd

Bc fun

[manic jay]

Git gudder

[hollow jewel]

Sxhool is gonna be my downfall if anything

[manic jay]

Nah ur perfect in all aspects except SAT

W glazing amirite

My glorious king

Actually idk how ur essays are

[hollow jewel]

Nothing too special

Some were better then others

Yale was the worst and duke mid

[cosmic crater]

It’s literally a song

[hollow jewel]

oh lmao

i just realized it now 😭

[loud haven]

princeton interview tmrw 🤞

and i just started prepping 💀

[manic jay]

Honestly fuck pton atp bro 😭

[loud haven]

LMFAOOO

yale has my heart dw

[zenith flame]

why is duke mid for most lol

duke needs to do something with their alum training or whatever

[hollow jewel]

i meant essays wise

i ahvent gotten duke or yale either

[zenith flame]

oh mb lol

[quiet echo]

lol

[quiet echo]

Telling Princeton AO, we don’t need fake fans Fr

[loud haven]

CHILL

but if i'm being real I didn't expect anything from princeton

can't believe i even got an interview

[zenith flame]

why aren't u asleep yet

[loud haven]

you're 100% right

I was working on princeton interview prep

but I think i'm good

also I have work tomorrow at 7:30omg

OKAY GOODNIGHT

FR

[zenith flame]

yeah shouldn't see u here now lol

[ocean raptor]

how to prep for interview guys? is there specific questions they ask?

[quiet echo]

Fr

[hollow jewel]

man became a celebrity in a few hours

most talked person on a2c today

[quiet echo]

Lost cause… I alr emailed the AO, good luck getting in

[quiet echo]

Nah I’m a celeb

[zenith flame]

lol

[loud haven]

LMFAOOO

nah chill i’m not all that😭😭

i just did my best bruh

[loud haven]

NOOOOO

[meager mango]

princeton is the only interviewer who didn’t respond to my ty email

[tall wharf]

same prolly some policy

[uneven bloom]

They’re not allowed to

[meager mango]

oh interesting lol

i asked her about her latest novel so I was lowk bummed she didn’t respond

[quaint parcel]

this makes a lot of sense lol

a lot of my interviewers didnt respond

but my pton one did actually

he was so cool

[gaunt shuttle]

pton interview has some strict rules same with stanford if im not wrong

[uneven bloom]

Yeah my interviewer told me that he's not allowed to reach out with any follow-ups after the interview

but then when i got in he sent a very enthusiastic email

which was very sweet of him

[gaunt shuttle]

stanford ones arent allowed to follow up or answer questions after the interview either

[gaunt shuttle]

i think thats allowed cuz my rice interviewer told me they send a list to them of all the kids that they interviewed that got in

[meager mango]

same for yale

[slender citrus]

oh really

thats a relief because my interviewer didnt reply

why tho?

[broken marlin]

Maybe conflict of interest?

Idk

[meager mango]

ugh mine was writing a mystery crime novel about my city and I was hype for it 😭😭

[slender citrus]

THATS SO COOOOL

[livid moat]

None of mine have replied 😭 5/5 I think they hate me

[slender citrus]

lmao dw it's probably just policy. they were all good irl right?

[gaunt shuttle]

only my haverford and darty ones replied

[dusty meteor]

yh, interviewers are allowed to speak to us after our decisions

my rice interviewer hoped he'd get to send a congratulatory email soon

jinxed me lowkey

[livid moat]

Idk

[dusty meteor]

you're fine

[livid moat]

Yeah they were fine on zoom, some went really good and others where eh

[dusty meteor]

only 3 of my interviewers respond

[livid moat]

My dart one hasn’t replied

[dusty meteor]

because u cant really respond to a thank you email

[livid moat]

I went 0/5 😭

[dusty meteor]

what do u say, you're welcome?

[livid moat]

You can say thank you back, write a one liner, etc

[dusty meteor]

eh

[livid moat]

If there’s a will there’s a way!

They can also just be like yeah so glad I got to meet you too!

[dusty meteor]

mine responded

[dusty meteor]

youre looking too deep into it trust

[livid moat]

☹️

What else am I supposed to obsess over

[dusty meteor]

speculate about likelies instead 😉

LMAO

[livid moat]

No bc that’s not happening 😭

Analyzing interviews is more interesting!

Yale just give me an interview so I have something new 🙏

[dusty meteor]

Stg

bumyale

[uneven bloom]

ye

[dusty meteor]

but we autoadmits ruby

[livid moat]

Ong

[livid moat]

Girl maybe you 😭

[slender citrus]

Yeah I was obsessing about this for stanford too until I saw that it's policy not to reply

Plus my interviewer was so curt over email but SO NICE irl

[livid moat]

Highly doubt it’s every school though

[quaint parcel]

similar to me lol

its ok

[livid moat]

I actually just got a reply from my Penn interviewer 😭

[meager mango]

I make my thank you emails rly detailed so that’s prob why

7/8 have responded 😱

[livid moat]

Same

I write like 3 paragraphs 😭

But my Penn one responded!!!

[quaint parcel]

whattttt 😭

I write like 1 sentence

Or a few

Depends

[livid moat]

😭 I try to talk about our convo a bit

They don’t like my effort fr

[manic jay]

No way yall desperate ass mofos talking about interview responses after an interview 😭😭

Weird ahh

[quaint parcel]

Oh cute

No there might be a policy saying you can’t talk to your interviewees after you’ve interviewed them

Shouldn’t reflect on you

[livid moat]

💀 no like I talk about how x helped me understand x culture better or whatever

[livid moat]

Makes sense

[manic jay]

Yea i know we all do but it literally means nothing 😭

Yall were discussing whether the person responded or not lmfao

Someone made a stat out of it

7/8 of my interviewers responded to my thank you email!!!

[meager mango]

that wasn’t serious 😭

hence the shocked emoji 😱

[manic jay]

It is serious

What was the school that didnt respond

We are nuking them with immediate effect

[meager mango]

u would do that for me pookie? 🥹

[manic jay]

Ofc bbg

[meager mango]

it was whatever school that’s ur top choice

[manic jay]

Oh no ball state

My loyalty only goes so far

I will never turn my back on ball state

[livid moat]

No ik

[cunning vortex]

yooooo that's epic

for me 2/5

[loud haven]

princeton interview was so firee

10x better than duke

me when my interviewers are not robots and actually have a personality

he just kinda asked me why princeton and then about my extracurriculars and things like that

it was only 25 mins but i could tell my guy was on a time crunch

and time doesn't really matter as long as u can convey yourself as you'd like

[meager mango]

Real

They only have sm space in their report

[loud haven]

nah fr

if your interview is like 2 hours or more wtf...

😭

[manic jay]

Youre getting groomed

[loud haven]

LMFAOOOOOOO

IM WEAKKK

[quaint parcel]

Fr like it’s so weird that ur interviewer is crying and comparing you to their kid and having a long convo with you

[loud haven]

DID THIS HAPPEN TO YOU?

[quaint parcel]

Noo this is what others like to say lolll

[meager mango]

Lmao imagine if their report was only like “X was a pleasure to talk to. I recommend them for admission”

[loud haven]

lmfaooo

[quaint parcel]

Really 😭😭

[cosmic crater]

i always thought that was weird

[oblique pier]

what’s wrong with a long convo?

connecting with people shouldn’t be defaulted as a weird thing imo

[meager mango]

it’s when those convos go too far

like I would be uncomfortable if my interviewer started crying

[oblique pier]

ig

depends on why they’re crying

[quaint parcel]

This

[oblique pier]

but if they genuinely see a part of their kid in you and care about their kid i think that’s sweet

[quaint parcel]

But even longer interviews are..weird

Like past an hour

Hr and a half

[oblique pier]

that’s fair

it might be because i frequently talk with strangers so its more normal

but i see the concern especially from the parents

[oblique pier]

have you received an interview longer than?

[quaint parcel]

no, my longest was maybe 45 minutes

shortest was maybe 30

[oblique pier]

those are good, normal times

[quaint parcel]

Yeah. You can make an interview like a convo and it can still be good in a shorter time. You don’t have to push yourself into speaking more and making the interview last longer than it should.

[oblique pier]

yea i agree

[slender citrus]

i talked about how i convinced my parents to get a dog and that was my biggest accomplishment and my interviewer went oh yeah my daughter did that too and talked about her dog lol

[crude topaz]

my longest was 3 hrs (northwestern) and then 2.5 hrs (dartmouth)

tbh it's all random, just depends on your interviewer

my harvard was hard cut off at an hour, so was my stanford (30mins) just cuz the interviewers wanted to stick to recommended timings/had stuff to do

the long ass interviews were just the both of us being genuinely curious about each other ig, and because we can't really control if we get a chill or grumpy interviewer we can kinda only just do the best for ourselves

viktor frankl said something like: when we are no longer able to change a situation, we are forced to change ourselves

[crude topaz]

lmao it's weird but also wholesome ig? depends on the context prob

[meager mango]

yeah exactly

[crude topaz]

same goes with your ao as well lmao

they might just be having a bad day or even an epic day

end of the day we shall never know

“So give up hoping that your prayers can bring some change in the decisions of the gods.” - Virgil, Aeneid VI.376

[meager mango]

that’s why I believe in shotgunning

[crude topaz]

ahhhhh im getting too philosophical

[crude topaz]

what i would do for an acceptance to one of my 10+ schools rn

[loud haven]

dawg what do u talk about for over 2 hours 😭

[quiet plover]

are likely letter out yet

[rose lava]

princeton likely letters r only for athletes

[urban sinew]

No

My friend got one

[rose lava]

wait really

[urban sinew]

Yea

It was a call from an ao

[pale sonnet]

Last year? or now

[urban sinew]

Last year

[cosmic crater]

!ivyday

[ripe ibex]

Ivy Day Decision Date

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

ApplyingToCollege

[cosmic crater]

Hype

[crude topaz]

Tangents that form after each qn

convo just flows

[loud haven]

but 2+ hours is INSANE

😭😭

[graceful spoke]

so i sent my interviwer an email three days ago and he still has not responded

[gaunt shuttle]

princeton interviewers arent allowed to

youre good

[graceful spoke]

its in ur own time? I always thought the time was set.

[gaunt shuttle]

(im assuming you mean after the interview)

[graceful spoke]

no before

[gaunt shuttle]

it just means like the exact time according to your time zone

[gaunt shuttle]

oh then send another follow up today

[graceful spoke]

i dont want to annoy them lol

[graceful spoke]

what time is it est

[gaunt shuttle]

7 pm

[gaunt shuttle]

i mean they probably forgot about the interview

[graceful spoke]

but i emailed him 3 days ago

what should I say lol

[gaunt shuttle]

what did you say last time

[graceful spoke]

I asked him if he was still available for an interview

[loud haven]

mine responded 🤨🤨

[graceful spoke]

lol

[gaunt shuttle]

thats what mine told me that princeton doesnt let them respond after the interview

ik stanford does it too

[loud haven]

it wasn’t anything crazy tho

[crude topaz]

True

but it depends how you frame it

If it’s a college interview yeah 30mins-1hr is plenty and any more is ridiculous

but if it’s meeting a random stranger who went to X school and you both want to learn about each other 2 hours isn’t even enough

[livid moat]

Did we have the same interviewer WTF

@loud haven

The all the best, Jon is kind of making me think 😭

[pliant moat]

maybe just wait for another few days? my interviewer responded me back in like 14 days after I sent him the email 😂

[charred elbow]

i cant email my interviewer nc it was an interview event </3

i love her

[lilac raft]

yeah mine said he would send a shining recommendation LOL me and him are basically homies frfr

[loud haven]

MY BOY JON

@livid moat econ major??

[loud haven]

big W

[livid moat]

Penn???

Wait was yours from sf

/sf suburbs (don’t want to dox me and him)

[loud haven]

where?

wait pm😭😭

[civic magnet]

Is it normal that I still didn't get interview invitation?(princeton ao didn't even send me like a note to schedule it)

[rose lava]

i thought they were guaranteed for all applicants

[quiet echo]

Yes. It’s based of availability and region

[thorn fable]

wtf my stanford interview responded with a 3 page email to my follow-up

[orchid axle]

that's so cool

[slender citrus]

damn

[gaunt shuttle]

damn

[tough eagle]

Anyone got a likely here

Just curious

[zenith flame]

have they started sending?

[tough eagle]

I don’t know

[pale sonnet]

my interviewer responded and she also emailed me after my deferral

[pale sonnet]

I found some historical info. I don’t know if it is very accurate but:

HARVARD - March (March 5)
YALE - Feb 7 to 14 (Likely call)
STANFORD - Feb 15 to 20
UPENN -
DARTMOUTH -
GEORGETOWN -
PRINCETON-

[pale sonnet]

I think we are getting close to Stanford likely season…

[charred elbow]

i tiink that 28 jan thing

was fake

if its the one on reddit youre talking about

he ended up getting flat out rejected from princeton

[pale sonnet]

yes reddit so it can be fake fs

[manic jay]

Waiting for my stanford and harvard likelies

[pale sonnet]

I will edit the Princeton one… less stress

[quaint parcel]

Yeah

I saw that

They posted in the Minnesota subreddit

[safe oasis]

i didnt consent to the princeton interview on the commonapp. how screwed are my chances

[quaint parcel]

Idt you’re screwed

Chill

You’re good

[night hare]

Wait I didn’t find any stanford likely’s last year

[charred elbow]

same

[pale sonnet]

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/stanford-class-of-2027-official-thread/3625690/50

[pale sonnet]

I think i found the info as part of the thread in CC…

[night hare]

Ya, but I didn’t see anyone get one

Last year

[pale sonnet]

I will try to find it but maybe I made a mistake with previous years idk

[pale sonnet]

I found this article saying that Stanford & MIT don’t send Likely Letters

https://www.crimsoneducation.org/us/blog/likely-letters/

so who knows…

[night hare]

Ooooo

[tacit zinc]

I literally want to go to Princeton so bad

[quiet echo]

Same

[orchid axle]

(2)

[tough eagle]

(3)

[zenith flame]

u literally have it!

[zenith flame]

u too ma'am

[pale sonnet]

(4) 😭

[slender citrus]

What are we counting?

[wary lantern]

wanna go to princeton? i suppose?

(5) then

[proud brook]

(6)

Ngl we are asking do you wanna go to a HYPSM college, almost everyone would say yes

[loud haven]

(7) hi

[charred elbow]

(8)

[charred elbow]

Hii

[loud haven]

hii mimi

how are applications/interviews going

[charred elbow]

jhu ed2 Today....

[loud haven]

omg

good luck mimi

keep me updated

[charred elbow]

I WILL

[loud haven]

hope they realize your greatness

[charred elbow]

its at 3pm

super early

[loud haven]

WHAT

THATS EALRY

[charred elbow]

thank youuu

[loud haven]

EARLY

[charred elbow]

IMR??

[zenith flame]

what's ur top choice uni?

[loud haven]

waiting for financial aid 😭😭 but i really like yale

i dont think i have any other college above it

but urichmond is considering me for a full ride so its gonna be a hard choice

i also really liked washu but

yale better😭

[zenith flame]

ok ok

[orchid axle]

Princeton!!

[zenith flame]

gl with that!

[slender citrus]

i wouldn't go to a HYPM college like obv I'd love to but I'd choose uchicago or even usc or UCLA over HYPM

[orchid axle]

!! Smrithi how dare u !!

[zenith flame]

[orchid axle]

Not in this thread!

[zenith flame]

i love how smrithi doesn't play the name tag game

she choses her uni based on what she loves and not what companies love

[proud brook]

Didn't include the S... Stanford doesn't track demonstrated interest

I was saying lik to an average person if u ask would you want to go to a HYPSM college they would say yes

Even if by chance they rate other colleges higher, they wouldn't turn down and opportunity to attend one

Lik I ask someone would you rather attend MIT or not attend MIT, they would attend MIT

[slender citrus]

fr!

my friend asked me why i had 9 dream colleges and i sent him a 3 page long essay on my favorite aspects of each college

i asked him about his

this is what he sent

but like every a2c-er ever

[slender citrus]

i only applied to one of hypsm

[slender citrus]

Yeah that's definitely valid I'd go to hypsm over any >t30 uni

[loud haven]

i feel like princeton is really competitive :(

[final abyss]

got my interview in an hour

[slender citrus]

bro got a Yale likely but doesn't think he'll get into pton

[loud haven]

chill😭 i am not all that

also competitive in its like campus environment

but oh yeah it’s crazy hard to get into

i don’t think i’m making it in ngl

[zenith flame]

that's me but for yale

pton too maybe

and ofc harvard

[loud haven]

i feel like all t20s are crazy hard to get into

[zenith flame]

oh and the other ivies

[loud haven]

all u can do is shoot ur shot and see what happens

[loud haven]

for everyone*

[zenith flame]

u don't deserve to feel that way anymore lmao

[loud haven]

😭😭 all i did was shoot my shot

[orchid axle]

idk i may be biased bcs the people i know from Princeton are so god damn nice

[livid moat]

I’d only go to Yale none of the rest

[orchid axle]

like zero competitiveness

[loud haven]

oo that’s good

[orchid axle]

but well may be bcs she's non-stem

[loud haven]

my interviewer was telling me its a really good and diverse community

[orchid axle]

maybe the stem kids are like the crazy ppl idk loll

[loud haven]

but he graduated like 1995

idk how much it’s changed since then

[zenith flame]

it's so funny that my HYPSM rating goes in the same order H>Y>P>S (didn't apply to MIT)

[livid moat]

Lolll

Yale solos everything else

But idt they want me

[quaint parcel]

id put every school over yale

[livid moat]

Real asf 😭

[zenith flame]

out of my reach

[livid moat]

I thought you wanted harv

[zenith flame]

ufortunately

[loud haven]

NOOOOO

[zenith flame]

yeah because I thought it was in my reach

but-

[orchid axle]

as time comes closer reality slaps harder

maybe i shouldn't be the one saying this but lol

[zenith flame]

traumatic yale past?

[zenith flame]

true

[slender citrus]

girlie ditched stanford after rea 😔

i mean valid

[orchid axle]

stanford SUCKs

[slender citrus]

def except stanford

my objective hypsm rating is

[orchid axle]

i am gap year and my first year I was a stanford simp

[slender citrus]

S>Y>M>P>H

[orchid axle]

you know what IT AINT WORTH IT

[slender citrus]

Nah it is

[loud haven]

valid

i dont like cali so

for me its

[orchid axle]

Stanford is like so weird

the way their admissions work

[loud haven]

Y>M>P>S>H

all objective 💀💀

[charred elbow]

P>Y>S>M>H

[orchid axle]

H>P>Y>S>M (the only thing that can make me act different from this is aid-related)

[loud haven]

princeton actually has really good aid

i’d prob do princeton over mit

[orchid axle]

yeah they actually do

they cover everything but my flight

[loud haven]

full ride?

[orchid axle]

but i'm from all across the globe so it's kinda expensive ngl

for the tickets

[orchid axle]

does full ride = free tuition, housing, food?

[loud haven]

mhm

[orchid axle]

if it does then yes I am

[loud haven]

i think so?

[orchid axle]

on a full ride

[loud haven]

damnn good shit

[orchid axle]

yale i think also has pretty good aid

shit i mean aid

rip

only their asset cap is like lower

[urban sinew]

P > M > S > H > Y (not biased)

[loud haven]

yea fs

average cost is like $16k/yr

but COA is 85k I think

[orchid axle]

my coa is 91k

[loud haven]

based

[orchid axle]

rip

without the aid I'll be doomed

[urban sinew]

Friendly fire

[loud haven]

Y > M > S > H > P (not biased) /j

[quaint parcel]

not really

depends on how you would see it

it was a jokeee

my rating: h y s p m

[orchid axle]

[wary lantern]

S > P > Y > M > H

[zenith flame]

no guys

there's a reason behind HYPSM is a reason

[wary lantern]

and that is?

[zenith flame]

H>Y>P>S>M

[wary lantern]

no.

[rich zealot]

P = Y = M > S >>>> H

[wary lantern]

dont do Harvard that bad

[loud haven]

why harvard so low

😭😭

[wary lantern]

but like genuinely

[zenith flame]

i love the harvard rating

harvard nothing

[wary lantern]

like every top college has its own thing

[zenith flame]

[wary lantern]

uk?

[loud haven]

why harvard so low lmaooo

[wary lantern]

like whats Harvards thing lmfao

like when u think of Harvard