QuestBridge (QB) (2023-2024)

[zinc terrace]

cuz they dont have minors

[royal gorge]

They do, it's crazy

[royal bear]

I slid my stats into your DMs for you to check out when you get a chance fellow MITwanter @royal gorge

[royal gorge]

Iirc WashU also has a lot

[zinc terrace]

yh

dual degree engineering is pretty solid

[hallow crane]

mass tech 😭

[royal gorge]

Tbf I don't exactly know what I'm going to major in, but Civil Engineering and Architecture/Urban Planning are legit things I'm interested in, plus I can write really well for those as my major selections lol

I can also tie it into Econ, which was what I referencing earlier with Yale

[zinc terrace]

i think one of the only lacs im applying to that has engineering is lafayette

[royal bear]

That emoji was a joke, Civil Engineering sounds great if you're interested.

You can embrace the great dome

[hallow crane]

fuck i dont wanna revise this stupid stupid essay, im too tired for this

but if i finish i can text my advisor then gts immediately

[zinc terrace]

get some sleep which i should too lol

[royal gorge]

No but seriously why are there so people going for civil engineering 😭

MIT and most QB colleges don't ask you to declare a major until a few years in anyway though, so I can still explore

[royal bear]

MIT has one of the best civil engineering program in the US lol

one of the best*

one of the best

[royal gorge]

And it's MIT

MIT has the best programs in basically goddamn everything tbh

It's not a question about program quality with MIT anymore tbh

[hallow crane]

mit has the best molecular biology program and its not even a major 💀

[royal gorge]

I was really considering that but the prospect of having to go through a painful selection process to do that is 😭

It's not guaranteed

Some used to guarantee it, but now they don't

[royal bear]

Sigh

500000 essays to do and 12 assignments due today by midnight

I hate canvas

my calendar is always full

[royal gorge]

Lord

(this is page one of two)

Huh

For Darty:

USC has partnerships with like, six colleges and WashU has partnerships with quite a few

Actually not just a few they have like 50 partners 💀

[graceful ridge]

https://www.reddit.com/r/QuestBridge/comments/1477p75/updated_questbridge_partner_admission_rates_for/

I don't know how to post just the picture

But

Dios mio

Is this real????

[royal gorge]

Nice to see the fun and amazing trend where every darn college's acceptance rates have fallen

[royal bear]

MITs steady decline into accepting nobody

[royal gorge]

Anyway yeah this confirms what I said about MIT - Their QB acceptance rate is like 4.5%, which is about the same as the 4% they get regularly

The reason why it seems that the acceptance rate is different is cause way less people apply to MIT through QB than other schools

Like, as many people apply to MIT through QB as there are people that get accepted into Yale through QB

[royal bear]

I'm gaslighting myself into believing I'm that 4%

[royal gorge]

And that doesn't mean Yale or MIT are more or less selective than each other

Oh yeah for USC, they only accept like 5 people a year... but they have a 10% acceptance rate through QB

Tbf with how many supps USC asks for I can see why nobody wants to apply 💀

For MIT it's probably like 100 people applying, while Yale gets like 2000

[graceful ridge]

To be honest

I might do like 10 or so schools in the ranking

I may be my only way to go to college and not die in debt

[royal gorge]

Mood

I'm really thankful I have a cheap option near me though

My local CSU is so cheap for me that the Pell grant alone covers the entirety of tuition

[royal bear]

I could go to University of Alabama for free if I really really really really had to

[zinc terrace]

hobart and williams has a 3+3 with cornell law that i really want

[graceful ridge]

I could do some state college and use my assossiates I got with DE classes to basically get two years of college done

[grim narwhal]

26 hours until qb due

This is crazy

[royal gorge]

😭

[grim narwhal]

Yo the preview option is kinda cool thats what the AOs use to read tehe

[royal gorge]

Yeah it's really important

Some of my shit got cut off 😭

[graceful ridge]

This application is a canon event

I must complete it

[tired yarrow]

Finished and revised my 800-word essay 30 minutes ago, the light is at the end of the tunnel 😭😭 Once my advisor reads it and I make last minute changes I'll be free

[graceful ridge]

I can't start mine

I have the idea but just can't put it into wordws

[tired yarrow]

Go go go!!! You can do it, I struggled so badly on mine that I almost scrapped it for a second time

The trick is to just keep writing, even if the sentences aren't cohesive, you can always go back and edit, you need somewhere to start!!

[graceful ridge]

I don't know how but I wrote like 700 words in the last hour

Quite literally barely related paragraphs

But its better than nothing, I still have a day to make it a great and organized essay

[grim narwhal]

Less discord go take a short break and get back to it

[graceful ridge]

I'm getting to sleep now

Almost 2 am here

24 mpre hours

I'll just give a conclusion to my current mess and then A Mimir

[royal gorge]

The race against the clock begins

[royal gorge]

😭

[hallow crane]

does it show all ur honors

Cus it only shows 3 of mine 💀

[royal gorge]

You have honors to show?

Really though check all y'all shit 'cause you don't know what's gonna get cut off

[hallow crane]

Wdyd if its cut off

Email?

[royal gorge]

Maybe

The QuestBridge questions email is still open, so ask em quick

[hallow crane]

WYM STILL OPEN?

DOES IT CLOSE TODAY

[royal bear]

Yuh

[royal gorge]

Ofc not but wtf are you gonna do about an app question after the app deadline?

[royal gorge]

No but the app deadline is today so you don't have a choice lol

[hallow crane]

my counselor included my ACT score in my app and my writing score..... what do i do?

She sent my superscore

But i dont want my superscore reviewed

[royal bear]

Hopefully she sent all the sessions that lead into the superscore bc to have a superscore considered you have to report each individual score that adds up to the superscore

But uh I’d ask if she can go back in the portal and edit it

[hallow crane]

Its not possible to edit

[royal bear]

Err

[hallow crane]

She was supposed to send 1 test

[royal bear]

Why don’t you want your superscore considered?

[hallow crane]

My superscore is just 1 test minus writing

[royal bear]

Is it not higher? Lol

[hallow crane]

no

Its the same scores

[royal bear]

Oh okay

[hallow crane]

but includes writing

Which i dont want

[royal bear]

Can you exclude it from consideration and have her fill out another?

[hallow crane]

idk i emailed qb to ask

[royal bear]

I know in like MITs portal you can exclude your counselor from consideration (but you still have to add another lol)

[silver jay]

I WROTE 400 WORD FOR THE "which extracurricular is your most meaningful achievement" BUT ITS 400 CHARACTERS

[hallow crane]

i almost did that for the career one 💀

[silver jay]

I swear it's like an electric shock

my school decided to give me my national merit commendation TODAY

I thought I didn't qualify

[royal bear]

what state do you live in

[silver jay]

washington

honestly i didn't do too well on the psat

my sat was way better

still happy though 😅

[royal bear]

POV I made a 38 selection index on reading and writing then, in my lowest math performance ever recorded in history, my math selection index was a 31

[silver jay]

real

[royal bear]

I had taken the SAT twice before it and my math score was always 700+ but somehow on hte PSAT it went down to a 610

[silver jay]

math is way harder than ela lol

[royal bear]

lol

I like math it's crazy

[hallow crane]

no fucking way

they are not that good 💀

[royal bear]

She’s rizzing you up

[grim narwhal]

👈👈👈

[grim narwhal]

What is that

[silver jay]

a scholarship thing

me reading through the finalists stats as a white non-first-gen applicant:

[hallow crane]

me reading through finalists stats as a black, trans, fgli applicant 💀

[silver jay]

bros got more hooks than a fishing line 💀

[zinc terrace]

YAY!

[royal gorge]

Let's goooooo

Tfw one of my recommenders still hasn't done their LOR

[zinc terrace]

my counselor said hes gonna submit by oct 2nd

[royal gorge]

I know I chose the master procrastinators as my recommenders but he really hit me with the but it isn't the due date yet 💀

Glad to see they're staying entirely in character tho

[zinc terrace]

im so glad mine came in clutch and submitted it yesterday cuz she didnt see the email telling her she has till oct 2nd

[royal gorge]

From what I can tell my first recommender procrastinated until a week before Sep 26 and then cranked it out when he panicked seeing the reminder email

He pulled the same shit with our grades lol

He procrastinated on grading our stuff until like a week before the end of the semester last year

Meanwhile the other recommender is such a master procrastinator that he still hasn't graded stuff we submitted a month ago (he's my current teacher)

Some things never change 💀

[royal gorge]

Nice nice

[grim narwhal]

Im done bro

I let my AP lit teacher read my personal statement and she said the the whole thing is ass now I’m shitting bricks

Im dead meat

[zinc terrace]

my ap lang teacher was my op lmaoo

everyone loved my essay except for her

[grim narwhal]

When she says it looks like a good first draft 😭 😭

[royal gorge]

FUCK I T WE ROLL

I wanted to go over the app with my school counselor but she was in a meeting 😔

Probably getting flooded by school report requests too tbh - I guess that's why she was only able to give me one sentence of comments on my essays lmaoooo

[tired yarrow]

The spaces between paragraph thing that Questbridge suggests is so ugly...give me back my indents!!!

[royal gorge]

Worked very well for me tbh, but that's mostly because my paragraph structures are so goofy that they'd look awful indented

[tired yarrow]

My paragraph structure is a bit goofy too, I just like how it looks with indents more

[hearty nova]

yo does anyone know how the activities hours section works? cuz i lowk made a google doc with all of my info

but i checked the school year / summer timings

and the school year has upto 12 months and summer 4

so like if I do smt year round do I just put liek 8 and 4?

or just 12 and 4?

[royal gorge]

God forbid I saw this essay with indents

[hearty nova]

mostly cuz i had different levels of hours per week during school vs over summer

and i dont wanna put 12 months for school year if i am misunderstanding

[zinc terrace]

i hate indents

[silver jay]

i emailed [email protected] six hours ago

i know their busy but

i really hope they respond soon

[tired yarrow]

🥳 🥳

[hearty nova]

wait does questbridge not let you type your essays in another language?

i have some parts in another language

whuch shows up in the essay box

but when i save then

they save as ???

[graceful ridge]

If its a different script then yeah that does happen

[hearty nova]

frick 😭

[graceful ridge]

i mean unless is like arabic or hebrew it might show up

[hearty nova]

its korean

[zinc terrace]

it might not

just transcribe it instead

[hearty nova]

ill prob do that

[graceful ridge]

yeah I was thinkg about cyrilic or something. Transcribing would be good

[hearty nova]

konglish ftw i guess

[graceful ridge]

And povide a translation of course

[hearty nova]

yeh ofc i already had them

i just like

had a mini aneurism tho lmfao

almost had a heartattack

[graceful ridge]

Me entenderan si les escribo algo en español?

[tired yarrow]

Korean doesn't show up... my college prep scholar essay tried to use korean

[hearty nova]

thank god i joined this sub reddit cuz i would not have thought of this in time lmfao

[tired yarrow]

I just romanized it instead if you want to keep the same sound, but yeah... the textboxes are limiting

[hearty nova]

ye

[royal gorge]

Oh yeah the formatting is weird

Somehow though I managed to pull off some goofy shit like putting ™️ in one of my short answers

That actually showed up

[graceful ridge]

I like cats™️

[hearty nova]

lmfao

[hallow crane]

oh are u a cps too?

[tired yarrow]

Yeah

[hallow crane]

i havent met many cps a2cers

[royal gorge]

I found out about QBCPS after the matter, sadge

[zinc terrace]

i got rejected but my income was kinda high last yr

[royal gorge]

Being just slightly above the cutoff income for programs and shit is actually painful

[hallow crane]

time to shave 150 words from my PS

[hearty nova]

procrastination to the max 💀

[royal gorge]

Like, our change in income was the difference between me having to pay $100 for each AP exam to just $5 for my school

[hallow crane]

what

i alrdy submitted my qb app 💀

[hearty nova]

oh what?

ohh wait

u mean

trim the 800

[hallow crane]

yes

[hearty nova]

to a 650 commonapp

okat that makes more sense

[zinc terrace]

my friend just found out hes over the cutoff after submitting ncm

[hearty nova]

for a sec i thought u had 950 words and had to trim it to 800 💀

[hearty nova]

idt there is a cutoff

for ncm

[royal gorge]

Tbf it's not a hard cutoff, but it can be a pain in the ass if you're over it

[hearty nova]

like kind of a bit over the "cutoff" by a decent amount but i have like

[zinc terrace]

like his family makes like 75k for a family of 4

[hearty nova]

specific circumstances that would make up for it

[hearty nova]

same

but my agi is like 35k lmfao

[hallow crane]

my agi is 0 💀

[royal gorge]

Goofy

[hearty nova]

so wrote abt that in the additional info section

[zinc terrace]

mine is 19k 💀

[hearty nova]

💀

[royal gorge]

Ngl I kinda have the same situation

[hallow crane]

i swear they felt bad for me in cps

[grim narwhal]

What is agi

[zinc terrace]

like for cps my income was like 45k but now its 19k

[hearty nova]

adjusted gross income

[hallow crane]

adjusted gross income

[hearty nova]

its like

[tired yarrow]

Really? That's so strange

[grim narwhal]

Wtf is that

[hearty nova]

the taxable income

[grim narwhal]

Whats cps

[royal gorge]

Child pro- QB College Prep Scholars

[hallow crane]

college prep scholar

[hearty nova]

bro im praying that i get finalist cuz like

the kids at my school are cracked asf

[zinc terrace]

I REALLY NEED IT

[hearty nova]

i go to a lowk rich kids school

and they r too cracked

those nepo babies 😭

[hallow crane]

im really hoping i pull valedictorian in december

[zinc terrace]

like being a finalist makes my life a million times easier

[hallow crane]

I will scream if not

[hearty nova]

ong

[grim narwhal]

Yo anybody here good at cutting words

[royal gorge]

My AGI is 35k but there's a lot of tax writeoffs since that's counted for self-employment income as an Uber Driver

[grim narwhal]

I have 40 words to cut still

[hearty nova]

💀

lmfao

[royal gorge]

9k in gas, uironically 💀

$6 per gallon here shit's fucking wild

[hearty nova]

yea i would write abt that

or wait like my agi is 0

[royal gorge]

I did

[hearty nova]

but my parents is 35k lol

yeh then u should be good

the cutoff id say should be around 70k for no extenuating circumstances

where ur income would hurt you

[tired yarrow]

Have you just started editing, or are you at the point where it's hard to find words to take out?

[hearty nova]

still have a chance tho

[grim narwhal]

Done editing just cutting off some words

[hearty nova]

also for the activtieis section how did u guys put ur time involvement?

[royal gorge]

Yeah I listed so many expenses (plus extenuating circumstances) with actual numbers that it's pretty clear we're poor af even with the gross income listed lmao

[hearty nova]

cuz it asks for summer and school year

but they put the school year as 12 months

[grim narwhal]

But after my AP lit teacher's reading my confidence has dropped to 0

If I get into a UC I'll be happy bruh

[hearty nova]

so i lowk just put 8 months for school year and 4 for summer if i did smt year round

[graceful ridge]

i don't remember who was the guy who told me to work on my essay at 1 am but I thank him so much

[hearty nova]

Also bump :))))))

[royal gorge]

A moment

$12k of those expenses are just fees that Uber takes off before any money even gets into your account lol, $9k of that is gas, and the rest is some other shit that I asked my dad was but he couldn't remember

[hallow crane]

its because different peoples schools get out and in at dif times

[royal gorge]

They just handed it off to a tax preparer and they did all that shit for them 😭

[hallow crane]

oops wrong reply

@hearty nova

[graceful ridge]

Is this from the application

???

[hallow crane]

if ur school is in session for 10 months, its 10 months school 2 months summer

[graceful ridge]

I DON'T REMEMBER THAT

[royal gorge]

If your family owns a "Business" then you have to list this out

[hearty nova]

ohh i see bet thanks!

so as long as the sum is 12 or below we good lmfao

[royal gorge]

Uber Drivers, for some reason, are counted a business for tax purposes

[graceful ridge]

Ohhh yeah makes sense

[hallow crane]

yes

[royal gorge]

Shit's goofy af ngl

[hearty nova]

what they owned a business?

cuz i put nah cuz we lost it lmfao

big reason why im low income now 🧍‍♂️

[hallow crane]

bro what 💀

[graceful ridge]

Nah I just got scared, but no my parents don't

[hallow crane]

thats dumb as hell

[graceful ridge]

Well my aunt, as she is my Guardian

I'm so confused about that lmao

[royal gorge]

Technically they're self employed... so... eh?

Shit's weird man

It was so painful going through our tax documents to check for this shit

[hearty nova]

no legit

[graceful ridge]

For some things I have to put my parents' info and for others my guardian's and Idk anymore

[royal gorge]

You have to go through all these random schedules and whatever and like 💀

[hearty nova]

only good thing abt not working while being a low income student is that our household agi doesnt go up

we need the money but it would fuck up my financial aid

which is stupid asf

but my parents also want me to focus on school

[royal gorge]

Ngl I'd work but I can't drive, so it wouldn't really even be feasible lol

[hearty nova]

so even without fin aid they prob wouldnt let me work lol

[hearty nova]

same i dont even have a car to drive lmao

like everyone around me has their liscenes whereas i cant even practice driving lol

[zinc terrace]

i only work during the summer

[hallow crane]

i should give my counselor preview access just so she can see this 🥰

[royal gorge]

https://tenor.com/view/to-earn-the-right-to-work-gif-15946523028530843330

[zinc terrace]

i cant multitask between work and school during school

[hallow crane]

lowkey would love to see her reaction to learning that 😭

[zinc terrace]

this is gonna be on one of those "essays that got me accepted to harvard and 15 other top schools" tiktoks

[hearty nova]

harvard class of 28 frr

[hallow crane]

always gotta remember im doing better than my haters 💪🏽

[graceful ridge]

I have a friend who told me she just started her application

TODAY

She was like so confident in her words it was painful

I don't mean the essays

Or the short responses

[hearty nova]

wtf

[graceful ridge]

I mean THE ENTIRE THING

[hearty nova]

professional procrastinator

holy

[graceful ridge]

She just discovered QB on SATURDAY

[hearty nova]

shes just her ig

wait what abt recs?

cuz most teachers would be a little pissed to get it this late

[graceful ridge]

No idea what was her plan

[hearty nova]

esp when the earliest deadline for normal kids is oct 15

[untold raptor]

^^

[graceful ridge]

If she's smart she probably did it during school and told them it was due october 2

But she didn't even KNOW that she also needed one from her counselor when I asked her in the morning

SO

[hearty nova]

lmfao

i mean tbf

the counselor one isnt rlly a rec

[graceful ridge]

If I feel somewhat delussional for trying to make my PS essay in a day

[hearty nova]

i think its just like ur transcript, test scores, school profile

[grim narwhal]

It is

[hallow crane]

bro what 💀

[hearty nova]

so for them it takes like an hour

max

[grim narwhal]

Counselors write a rec too

[hearty nova]

or like they call it a rec but even QB said its not rlly a rec

[hallow crane]

girls an auto reject atp cus i genuinely dont believe you can get those essays done, reviewed, and perfected in one day

[graceful ridge]

She's beyond tyhat

[hearty nova]

lowk what i did but more like make my first draft in a day and then spent a couple weeks revising it until its final

[hallow crane]

this is what i do

[hearty nova]

i mean she prob wont get matched but still a chance to get finalist

just pray that the worst case of her getting finalist and not u doesnt happen

[graceful ridge]

IMFG IF THAT HAPPENS

[hallow crane]

bro that would be crazy if she got finalist and u didnt 💀

id be raising hell 😭

[graceful ridge]

The worst part is

[tired yarrow]

I'm going to be real, I think my college prep scholar ps was done in a day, I think I might have changed one or two words the day I submitted but that's it

[hearty nova]

also is family death / helping parents with a loan we failed on a good thing to put on the additional info section?

[hallow crane]

so was every cps's essays absolutely terrible?

[hearty nova]

cuz my grades in junior year lowk tanked because of these htings

[hallow crane]

cus mine were

[graceful ridge]

She's living literally RIGHT NEXT TO ME

[hearty nova]

💀

[graceful ridge]

I HATE HER SO MUCH SOMETIMES

[hearty nova]

so that means when she gets finalist u can hear her through ur walls 💀

or wait unless u dont live in a townhouse

[tired yarrow]

God I don't even want to look at mine anymore, I read the first word and thought it sounded so pretentious

[graceful ridge]

Long story short, she moved here last here and my aunt offered her to rent a trailer

[hearty nova]

but im assuming u do cuz we all QB pple lol

[hallow crane]

bro mine was so bad

it was literally a trauma dump

atleast its a tasteful trauma dump with a good moral now

[hearty nova]

lmfao

[graceful ridge]

I doing the most typical "I'm immigrant give me a chance plz" essay in history

[hearty nova]

ong my ps is just trauma dump + personal growth + identity

[sour palm]

Are y’all’s QB statement ur common app

[tired yarrow]

I hate trauma dumping, all my essays are like just normal people struggles now

[hallow crane]

Yeah im shaving mine rn

[hearty nova]

nah but i like my qb so might cut it down to be my common app

[sour palm]

I don’t have trauma to dump 💀

[royal gorge]

It took me from June to now to fully revise my essays 😭

[hearty nova]

bro i was telling my mom about my QB essay and she almost cried cuz she felt bad about my life 😭

[zinc terrace]

same

[hearty nova]

i didnt even think it was too hard until i wrote everythign down

[graceful ridge]

I do think my topic essay was good ngl

[tired yarrow]

I have a common app essay already

[hallow crane]

my ps was abt racism and transphobia ive experienced and how i strive to create equity for all imdividuals

[graceful ridge]

I should mention I'm gay and that I can't tell my family lol

MORE TRAUMA

[hallow crane]

Have u done anything to help inclusivity

[royal gorge]

Bruh my PS is about immigration, moving cities, and homelessness all in one 💀

[hallow crane]

if so u can do that

in the topical

[tired yarrow]

Yours sounds so meaningful....☹️ wa...

[hearty nova]

lmfao

[royal gorge]

Ngl my essay could've really, really easily fallen into just being a trauma dump if I didn't write around it carefully lmao

[hearty nova]

its fine im sure everyone's essays are gonna be great

[royal gorge]

I ended up focusing my essay on my relationship with my family in the end

[hearty nova]

as long as u didnt go too negative lol

[hearty nova]

same

[hallow crane]

this is what my advisor said and i was honestly shocked

hes a former penn ao

[hearty nova]

most of my stuff was like childhood struggles

wish i could write 💀

[hallow crane]

i expected to be RIPPED into 💀

[hearty nova]

avg engineering kid:

[graceful ridge]

I'm focusing mine on like the language and culture barrier moving to the US

[royal gorge]

Oh yeah, I also focused on my connection with my culture a bit too

[zinc terrace]

youre alr just matching to wtv ur #1 is

im gonna guess mit

[hallow crane]

not doing the match 😭

[hearty nova]

legit the only good thing abt my essay is that my struggles are very unique

[hallow crane]

but i am applying harvard rea

[hearty nova]

W

[graceful ridge]

And mentioning how, literally these are the data, 98% of my school is Hispanic AND YOU CAN BARELY HEAR ANY SPANISH

[zinc terrace]

harvard '28 fr

[hallow crane]

getting into every qbrd college i do frfr 🙏🏽

[hearty nova]

^^^

bro the only bad thing abt my app

is my grades 💀

hopefully my additional info section can somewhat alleviate this

[graceful ridge]

My SAT

[royal gorge]

Tbh for me it wasn't that it was too negative - it was too much bullshit lmaooo

I kept saying self-aggrandizing shit I didn't believe

Shit sucked

[zinc terrace]

i want this but id honestly be lucky if any one of those schools think im worthy enough to attend their school 😭

[royal gorge]

Legit my first draft and finalized draft are basically about the exact same thing but oh my GOD it was pure bullshit in the way it was written

[hallow crane]

youll get into atleast 3 is my prediction

[tired yarrow]

My essay is basically just, "I'm tired, I'm going to go apeshit"

[hearty nova]

bro i just dk what counts as valid reasoning for a drop in grades

[zinc terrace]

thats 3 more than what im expecting

[hallow crane]

me writing english essays

i am terrible at english essays bur great at personal and research

[royal gorge]

I'm really proud of my essays now ngl

[graceful ridge]

Mines could be higher but they kinda messed up my 9th grade grades from Mexico

[hallow crane]

im an average stem kid when it comes to writing 💀

[zinc terrace]

same like reading them makes me feel good about myself

[hearty nova]

ooh yea makes sense

but bro atleast its from freshman year, my fucked up grades were from junior year 😭

[graceful ridge]

And I know people who have taken AP classes as freshmen

[hearty nova]

i didnt like fuck them up too bad

but like it was a significant drop from previous years

[royal gorge]

When I had my matriculate advisor read over the final drafts (they saw the god-awful initial drafts too), they asked me if I wanted to go into creative writing 😩

[tired yarrow]

I love creative writing so I nearly killed my personal statement with too many extended metaphors

[royal gorge]

It just feels so validating

[hearty nova]

i just had one main metaphor lmfao

i actually rlly like it. its the only reason i liked my essay

[royal gorge]

Ngl I had an extremely painful time cutting down my essay to 800 words

[zinc terrace]

honestly id be heartbroken if these schools dont think its good

[hearty nova]

also does anyone know how to write an additional info section? :)))

cuz lowk

my format rn is

[royal gorge]

Like, we had to pick at straws to cut down on the word count because basically all of the paragraphs served a purpose in the essay in some way

[tired yarrow]

I love a good extended metaphor, used it in both of my longer essays

[hearty nova]

i wanna explain or because ... my (?) ...

[royal gorge]

The shit we tried to cut out I had to reverse because I realized how they were crucial too 💀

[hearty nova]

same

it makes me feel

so smart lmfao

but idk if the AOs will think the same

[tired yarrow]

I didn't put anything in my additional information section

[zinc terrace]

OMG my 800 almost went to 1000

[royal gorge]

I spent like, 10 hours removing a bunch of fluff words and retooling sentences to be slightly shorter to get over the limit without compromising content and flow 😭

[hearty nova]

i need to explain my somewhat shitty junior year grades 💀

[hallow crane]

do most qb partners have mixed gender dorm rooms available (minus the womens colleges obviously 💀)

[zinc terrace]

im so lucky to have my consultant cuz w/o her id be so lost

[hearty nova]

like i have 2 main reasons which kinda fucked me

[royal gorge]

I hit the word limit 💀

[zinc terrace]

yh they usually have some option

[hearty nova]

damn 💀

[tired yarrow]

I love literary analysis, but I know I have to tone down my metaphor in a more comprehensible way because I know they won't get it the way I do

[zinc terrace]

my additional info was only like 250 words

[royal gorge]

I spent 90 words detailing the circumstances of my temporary homelessness and how that created oddities in my transcript, the next 30 words explaining some Jargon about one EC, and then I inadvertently ended up spending the rest of the 400 word count detailing another EC

[tired yarrow]

😭😭

[hearty nova]

same i like opened up with a physical thing, referenced similar things throughout, then ended on the metaphor side of it

[royal gorge]

That description basically turned into an EC Supplemental Essay 💀

[hearty nova]

wait we can explain ecs?

or add more?

[grim narwhal]

Do you guys have good stats too I'm just curious

[hearty nova]

cuz like my ecs and awards lowk carry

[zinc terrace]

i just explained how transferring during covid fucked my credits so i spent most of soph and junior yr making up credits

[tired yarrow]

I think the only reason questbridge made me a cps is because I have a national award

[hearty nova]

cuz i went to a sweaty school so even tho i was poor i abused the fuck out of my opportunitites

[graceful ridge]

5% is like the best I have

[royal gorge]

If it's not redundant info and you believe that adding that info would be a net benefit to your app, sure

[hallow crane]

screaming

cut 80 words so far

[grim narwhal]

Like GPA, standardized score, class rank, awards, research / internships / nonprofit work

[graceful ridge]

A lot of DE classes too

[hearty nova]

my stats are shit lmao

atleast

like

i feel like they are and compared to kids at my school

but my school doesnt rank

[tired yarrow]

My stats are probably better than average..?

[hallow crane]

i think mine are pretty good

[hearty nova]

but im praying that i get finalist

my stats are above average but def not above QB average

[grim narwhal]

We talking like 4.0 1500+

[hearty nova]

cuz a 3.9 gpa at my school is crazy

[hallow crane]

4.0 33 act

[graceful ridge]

AFAIK, they also take into account your schools' average info

[hallow crane]

somewhat similar

[hearty nova]

i have like a 3.83 but 4.3 weighted and 1540

[graceful ridge]

4.0 1360

[tired yarrow]

I'm not even going to match I'm just using QB for the RD 😭

[grim narwhal]

Thats good

[hallow crane]

im retaking act in december and gonna have my schools mean math teacher tutor me

[royal gorge]

Iirc I'm rank 16 out of a class of 960, 4.0 UW (disregarding PE lmao), and a 1510 SAT

[hearty nova]

the only schools i rlly wanna go to are on QB so im doign ncm lmao

[graceful ridge]

I couldn't take more SATs bc I used my waivers and Its like 80 dollars

[hallow crane]

act >>

[tired yarrow]

3.98 UW 4.57 W 1470 SAT

[hallow crane]

U get 4 waivers with act

[hearty nova]

all the other good schools i wanna go to are public and wayyy to expensive

[grim narwhal]

Damn bruh if every QB kid is built like this its game over bro

[hearty nova]

so idc abt them anymore

[graceful ridge]

I I know but I haven't been able for other reasons

[hearty nova]

nah they arent

u will be fine

esp cuz for QB

[hallow crane]

this is a very select pool

[zinc terrace]

nah you got this

[grim narwhal]

I have 4.0 UW 4.59W 1510 SAT, one research internship, many school awards like Junior Overall

[hearty nova]

reccs and essays are WAYYY more important

[graceful ridge]

I accidentaly used one of my waivers last year and bought A PRACTICE DIGITAL BOOK

[hearty nova]

but brooo im praying that I get finalist

[hallow crane]

We are the kids who actively searched for a server to willingly discuss college 💀

[hearty nova]

i NEED my ecs and awards to carry

[royal gorge]

Tbf the QB finalist SAT percentiles are like high 1200s to mid 1400s

[graceful ridge]

For sure, that's what makes me nervous

[hallow crane]

a2c kids are not the general applicant pool

[hearty nova]

yeh

[zinc terrace]

lmaoo id totally put a2c as an ec

[grim narwhal]

Idk what an a2c kid is

[graceful ridge]

This exactly

[hallow crane]

...

[grim narwhal]

I just found this server on a reddit post when I was googling essay stuff

[hallow crane]

you are an a2c kid

[tired yarrow]

Me too

[hallow crane]

if u joined ur an a2cer 🙏🏽

[grim narwhal]

Damn

Thats wassup

[zinc terrace]

i hate how mine is lower than 1290

[grim narwhal]

We fam now

[hallow crane]

DAMNIT IM STILL IN THE AVERAGE

[grim narwhal]

Abe you joking

[hallow crane]

i thought i was above it 💀

[hallow crane]

yes and no, im not actually mad

[royal gorge]

TO and strong essays ❤️

[hallow crane]

its the average a2cer comment

[zinc terrace]

i have a 1220 😭

[tired yarrow]

I want to take the SAT again but I don't think it's worth $60

[grim narwhal]

Don't submit

[zinc terrace]

obv im not lol

[royal gorge]

Ain't you eligible for waivers as a QB kid

[hallow crane]

Some ppl here say dont submit ur scores if ur in the 25th percentile 💀

[tired yarrow]

I used them all...

[zinc terrace]

some kid was arguing with me about that

and he had like a 1490

[hearty nova]

my gpa is def not 3.92 💀

[grim narwhal]

If I had a 1490 I would go test optional

[hearty nova]

fuck my school bruh

[hallow crane]

submit if ur in/close to 25th percentile

[zinc terrace]

i have like a 3.7 uw

[hallow crane]

if ur way below it obv dont

[grim narwhal]

Cuz like a lot of the match schools have high medians

[hallow crane]

If ur like a point off ur fine

[royal gorge]

Me staring at MIT's comically high SAT percentiles be like

1520 25% 💀

Test Required 💀

[tired yarrow]

5 in physics but can't clear over 700 in SAT Math

[hallow crane]

i removed mit from my list when my math didnt improve 💀

cus theyre test required

[royal gorge]

I'm near 1520 with 1510 thankfully but holy shit I'm terrified still

[hallow crane]

and my math is much too low when mit is basically only holistic after a 34 math 😭

[royal gorge]

MIT admissions is a vibe check after meeting academic thresholds ngl

[hearty nova]

bro i suck at writing additionai nfo section god damn

[royal gorge]

Bruh

[hallow crane]

Im still debating on submitting act or not

cus of my math

TO def wouldnt hurt me

Cus 4.0

But

idk

[royal gorge]

Not gonna lie I don't even know how to evaluate my ECs

[tired yarrow]

What's this for?

[royal gorge]

All of my ECs are hobbies or are just plain goofy

[zinc terrace]

most of my ECs are kinda random

like i dont have a clear spike or wtv

[hallow crane]

I think my ecs are pretty good

[royal gorge]

Ngl tho I still managed to milk them for essays because ong I think I managed to write an essay or additional info expanding on all of them in some way

[tired yarrow]

My ECs are ok I think

[zinc terrace]

my top EC is a great one so hopefully it helps

[hallow crane]

id describe every part of my app as "pretty good"

[royal gorge]

MIT

[hallow crane]

what 5 did yall list for qb

[royal gorge]

Schools publish their common data set, showing their SAT percentiles, what parts of the app they focus in most, etc.

[hallow crane]

i listed npo state pres, hosa, prism (gsa) leader, biotech internship, and science programs cus ive helped with a few

[zinc terrace]

my top is the state-level climate justice organization im a board member of, student govt, model un, yygs, and RA for a law academy

[hallow crane]

whats yugs

yygs

[tired yarrow]

• FFA
• Student Council
• Choir
• NAHS
• Volunteering

[zinc terrace]

yale young global scholars

[hallow crane]

ah

[royal gorge]

Here's Hahvahd's CDS for comparison

[zinc terrace]

i might get my program mentor to write me a LOR for yale

but i heard yale dislikes additional lors

[hallow crane]

love how harvard doesnt even specify 💀

[hallow crane]

Every school does

[zinc terrace]

cant get sued if you dont know lmao

[hallow crane]

unless it significantly adds to ur app and gives a new perspective

[royal gorge]

It's basically a black box 💀

[hallow crane]

Then dont

[royal gorge]

Also...

[hearty nova]

mine were like mostly robotics based

[royal gorge]

The Harvard CDS website has the gall to link the CDSes of the rest of HYPSM

Ain't no way

[tired yarrow]

Oh... I just realized I forgot to mention I was working towards a CVA in my QB application... Well you win some you lose some

[hallow crane]

LMFAO THEY ACKNOWLEDGW THEYRE HYPSM

idk why i didnt think they would like

acknowledge

that theyre the top 5

atleast not like that

[graceful ridge]

I just hope they acknowledge that i took almost only college level classes during the last two years

[zinc terrace]

dartmouth one threw me off ngl

[tired yarrow]

Oh... I could have been $100 richer

[hearty nova]

Anti-dox :)))

[hearty nova]

for this i mean

[royal gorge]

Huh Princeton does the same

They link even more schools

[graceful ridge]

I got the $500 they give each month, which I good I guess

[royal gorge]

Oddly enough they link Caltech and WashU but conspicuously leave out Columbia 🇨🇴

[hearty nova]

dont they accept additional transcripts aka DE ones too?

[tired yarrow]

???? 😭😭

[graceful ridge]

As the Hispanic I am

Please DON'T SAY COLUMBIA IF YOU REFER TO COLOMBIA

[hearty nova]

bro i told u i need my ecs and awards to carry 💀

its cuz im a poor kid at a rich school so i abused all of our resources

[royal gorge]

Columbia 🤢
Universidad de Colombia 😍

[graceful ridge]

They told me the admissions wouldn't probably accept my classes

[hearty nova]

like deadass avg income in my school is prob around 150k to 200k

[hearty nova]

who did?

ur counselor?

[graceful ridge]

Only state universities in Texas, here I live

[hearty nova]

ohh yea for credits

usually in state would be the only one to accept

but

[royal gorge]

I mean, for credit, probably not, but like they'll see the Rigor of your transcript

[hearty nova]

you should still put it

cuz it shows how u pushed urself

[tired yarrow]

Wah... Maybe I should have gone to the rich school in the area

[royal gorge]

UCs giving AP credit 😍

[hearty nova]

lmfao

[graceful ridge]

yeah yeah that's what I mean, that they see my blood and tears in those classes

[hearty nova]

ong my commute is like 30 min one way but its worth

also doesn anyone know if u gotta explain a plus or positive in the additional info section?

or can u deadass just be like

[tired yarrow]

I wouldn't mind being a dragon (the rich school's mascot)

[hearty nova]

this happend so this bad thign happend

[hearty nova]

aitn no way its a dragon 😭

[tired yarrow]

It's a dragon

[hearty nova]

wild 😭

[zinc terrace]

mine used to be 45 min for a shit school and now 5 min for a great one

[hearty nova]

lmfao

[tired yarrow]

It looks so sick too

[royal gorge]

Hmm, looking at the CDSes of HYPSM, Hahvahd and Masstech are outliers

[graceful ridge]

I mentioned what I said before about moving to the US so my 9th grade grades are probably not the best, but they are still 100s

[hearty nova]

💀

[graceful ridge]

In the additonal info

[hearty nova]

100s bruv

[graceful ridge]

AND A 90 IN MUSIC LMAO

[tired yarrow]

But I have to be a loyalist to my school so they actually suck

[hearty nova]

my grades fell to mid high 80s for 2 classes 😭

[royal gorge]

Stanford, Yale, and Princeton all highly rate academics, ecs, talent, and personal qualities

[graceful ridge]

Online classes fucked me up

[royal gorge]

Meanwhile MIT puts personal qualities first and foremost

[graceful ridge]

i would honestly expect it to be the other way around lol

[royal gorge]

Harvard is a black box and doesn't specify anything as being more important than the others

Goofy

[hearty nova]

can i dm sme to look over my additional info section to see if the wording is fine and is even a little valid reasoning?

[hearty nova]

harvard just wants the cancer curing types 💀

[royal gorge]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/11s15mq/mit_aos_after_rejecting_another_40_1600_sat_isef/

[tired yarrow]

I can if you want, it's not like I can unsubmit my application

[hearty nova]

bet tysm

[graceful ridge]

Ok I'll stop this procrastination and this that essay NOW

Se ya later

[tired yarrow]

Go go go!!!!!!

[zinc terrace]

yeahh

[graceful ridge]

Same please but later

[zinc terrace]

i hate schools that have interviews as important

[hearty nova]

wait

do any QB schools even do interviews?

[zinc terrace]

cuz that adds so much unnecessary pressure

[hearty nova]

cuz ik thast like princeston doesnt

[tired yarrow]

Alright!!

[zinc terrace]

not part of the application

[hearty nova]

ok bet

[zinc terrace]

you can still request one if u want

[hearty nova]

wait rlly?

cuz i lowk need the interview to justify my character lmfao

or like also

cuz idt my personality will show well in my essays

[tired yarrow]

"Justify your character"? 😭😭

[hearty nova]

idk how to work things bruh 💀

[royal gorge]

Some do, some don't

[hearty nova]

justify my character to fit with a school?

convince someone that I am a good fit?

idek

p much i just like to talk

and i wanna be able to talk with sme from a school so they can see if my personality matches well with the school

[royal gorge]

Thank god

MIT still gives interviews if possible tho 💀

[hearty nova]

lmfao

[tired yarrow]

I'm leaving things up to the winds, if they want me then they want me, I'll put in the work to show them who I am but if we're not compatible then that's it 🤷‍♀️

[hearty nova]

tru

[royal gorge]

Mood

[hearty nova]

this is like speed dating minus the speed and minus the dating

[royal gorge]

Honestly atm Im basing my schools choices beyond the ones I've already chosen based on how much I vibe with their supps

[zinc terrace]

i signed up for a bowdoin one myself

[royal gorge]

Darty supps 😍

[hearty nova]

also can nyone else look over my additional info cuz i wanna make sure the wording is fine

[royal gorge]

Tbh a good fit will be self evident

[tired yarrow]

The only school I'm fighting for is Cornell... Please let me in

[hearty nova]

lmfao i was only considering not doing QB in case i wanted to ED cornell or cmu

[royal gorge]

Ngl if you're a good fit for a school just naturally - they'll smell that out lmao

[hearty nova]

or like not doing the ncm

[hearty nova]

hopefully i am for atleast 1 lmfao

[royal gorge]

If you don't fit all that well with a school in the first place then bending over backwards to demonstrate fit for a school that you probably wouldn't even like is just counter productive tbh

[tired yarrow]

I'm not even trying to demonstrate fit at this point, I'm just hoping they want me 😭

[royal gorge]

Mood

[untold raptor]

tasteful 👏 trauma 👏 dumps 👏 work || /hj ||

[royal gorge]

One person's trash is another one's treasure.jpg

[hearty nova]

lowk trash from slight trauma dumping was my topigraphic essay 💀

[royal gorge]

No but seriously at that point its not a trauma dump, it's an essay about overcoming challenges - an essay demonstrating incredible grit in the face of awful circumstances

[hearty nova]

onggg

[royal gorge]

It's a very fine line though ngl

[hallow crane]

I hate being asthmatic with no ac or inhaler 💀

[hearty nova]

no fr

[hallow crane]

i am dyinf while tryna shave my ps to 650

[hearty nova]

holy shit i cant imagien this 😭

[royal gorge]

Like, the same essay content to make some good awful, painful to read shit

[hearty nova]

that sounds terrible

[hallow crane]

my ac went out and since we're poor my mom has had to wait on her check 😭

so its been like this about a week

[hearty nova]

dam ik what u mean 😭

[royal gorge]

Breathing problems are just so debilitating line - like, you can't even exist without your entire respiratory tract feeling like shit 😭

[hearty nova]

is it cold or hot where u are

[hallow crane]

alabama so hot 😭

[hearty nova]

GAH DAMN 😭

[sour palm]

alr bro who wants to write my app

[hearty nova]

i remember my ac breaking over the summer one year

and for a week

i had to sleep in 90 degree temps 😭

[royal gorge]

It's due in 7 hours bru

[sour palm]

its due in a few hours and i ahvnet done jackshit and im also signficinatly above the income line

[hearty nova]

but with asmtha

[sour palm]

but like fuck it we ball

[hearty nova]

that just sounds like hell

[sour palm]

whos writing it for me

[hallow crane]

7?

OH YEAH

[sour palm]

3 am

[hallow crane]

i thought i was behind pst

[hearty nova]

💀

[royal gorge]

PST

[zinc terrace]

est is 3 hrs ahead

[sour palm]

my family makes too much money what can i say my moms been on the up

[hearty nova]

due in 7 Hours. 11:59 pm PST 9/26 and 2:59 am EST 9/27

[untold raptor]

the play for Questbridge is to go to Alaska whenever anything is due

[hearty nova]

only recently or for most of HS?

[sour palm]

real

[untold raptor]

just hitchhike there

[sour palm]

like a year ago

is when it started

[hearty nova]

oh then i would try to explain this in ur additional info section

[sour palm]

man im just lazy

[royal gorge]

Mood, that was basically all of SoCal for the past few months

[hearty nova]

that u lived in low income (i think) unti llast yr

[hearty nova]

imagien being a cali kid 💀

East coast on top ngl

[royal gorge]

Do you know how fucking painful it is having to do a mile run for PE in the middle of 100°F summers

😭

[sour palm]

its actually easy

[royal gorge]

Shit got so hot we regularly started getting mirages floating off the pavement

[sour palm]

normal running conditions

[hallow crane]

not even 100 c? pathetic

[sour palm]

dead ass

bro wasnt boiling alive

[hearty nova]

💀

[royal gorge]

Bro lives in a boiling pot

[hallow crane]

on a side note it took me passing out after every mile in elementary AND middle school to be diagnosed with asthma

[hearty nova]

bro fr lives in the melting pot

[hearty nova]

😭

[sour palm]

this is crazy

i feel likea fter the 2nd time they wouldve noticed

like "maybeeee smths wrogn with this kid"

[hallow crane]

they took me to the doctor every time too

[sour palm]

"nah hes just got shit stamina back to the field"

[hallow crane]

and the doctor was like "ur fine"

[sour palm]

didnt try hard enough

shoudlve started turning blue

maybe then they woudlve believed u

[hallow crane]

nah they wouldve said i was just hungry or smth

[hearty nova]

bros doctors def graduated from online school wtf 😭

[hallow crane]

didnt drink enough sprite beforehand

[hearty nova]

how do u go undiagnosed with asmtha after visiting a doctor multiple times for passing out during a mile run

[sour palm]

who is supplying a kid sprite before he runs everyday

dawg u are not carboloading on the daily

[hearty nova]

💀

[sour palm]

thats not even healthy

bro is gonna have his teeth corrode

[hearty nova]

bro i finally finished everything and the last page i see was the referrals

[royal gorge]

Speaking of teeth

[hearty nova]

but everyone in my school is so riuch i dont have havbe pple to refer 😭

[royal gorge]

Y'all mfs go to a dentist real soon before you get a nasty surprise in the form of a huge dentistry bill a few years down the line

[zinc terrace]

FR

[hearty nova]

💀

[tired yarrow]

I don't know other poor people to be honest, we tend to blend well enough in regular schools I guess

[hearty nova]

tru. most of the pple ik dont even know im poor

and my close friends that do know are always very surprised

[royal gorge]

If your state has programs letting you take advantage of free dentist work - like here in Cali for minors, who automatically qualify for Medi-cal - go to the fucking dentist

[hearty nova]

if u have medicaid i think it covers dental but i might be wrong

or qualify for it

[tired yarrow]

Real rich people are on another level, my big sister talked about how she knows someone who has a private chef at her school

[royal gorge]

Tbh it's more about the attitude than anything

In the past week I've seen two kids fly out right across the country to take vacations in the middle of the school year

💀

It's a wild experience thinking about that one kid going absent, thinking they're probably sick or smth

[hearty nova]

bro some girl in my school dropped 16k for her sweet 16 😭

[royal gorge]

No they got dragged off to fucking Chicago 💀

[royal gorge]

😭

[hallow crane]

Bro what

[hearty nova]

ong tons of kids in my class skipped weeks of school to watch the world cup last yr

like this is a rich rich school 😭

so much so that the counselors dont even talk about financial aid

[hallow crane]

i got a cake from walmart that said "happy birthday kaesyn" and a new microscope and i was happy w that 😭

[hearty nova]

nah thats valid asf

[tired yarrow]

That sounds so good wait

[hallow crane]

The cake was so good

Red velvet >>

[zinc terrace]

my whole class just watched it on their phones while teachers taught

[royal gorge]

Lol for my birthdays we've just basically gotten buckets of fried chicken

[hearty nova]

also valid thats what the rest of us did lmfao

some teachers were very chill

so we legit just watched the games on the projectors lmfao

most fun I had last yr

[hallow crane]

i like going out to Cracker Barrel day of

[zinc terrace]

all the rich kids in my school fly out to miami together every november and spend an extended thanksgiving + christmas break there

[hallow crane]

Thars what i did this year

[hearty nova]

GAH DAMN

[royal gorge]

The teachers at my school basically gave up and allowed kids to project the world cup on the promethean boards for everyone to watch lmao

[hearty nova]

bro i feel like

extended vacations / skipping school for vacation is only a rich pple thing

if I become rich i aint doing allat for my kids 💀

[tired yarrow]

I want to go eat out with my friends, but it's kind of at an awkward date

[zinc terrace]

my gym teacher is also the soccer coach so he made us watch it in class and take notes and have group discussions

[hearty nova]

lmfao

[sour palm]

https://tenor.com/view/brusmala-cat-arabic-gif-21437623

[hallow crane]

near thanksgiving/christmas?

[hearty nova]

teaching moment fr

[tired yarrow]

Mid November, so yeah

[hearty nova]

dam

[hallow crane]

my bday was early sept

[hearty nova]

^ same lmfao

[hallow crane]

but my moms is ON christmas 💀

[hearty nova]

💀

[tired yarrow]

I was supposed to be born early December lol

[hearty nova]

either she loves or hates her birthday

[tired yarrow]

Got evicted early

[hallow crane]

hates because shes old

[zinc terrace]

mine is early feb lol

[hearty nova]

lmfao

[hallow crane]

she turns 60 soon 😭

[hearty nova]

ouf

[hallow crane]

she'll be 68 when i fully graduate, damn

[royal gorge]

TOGETHER?

[hearty nova]

wait i just remembered

[royal gorge]

Mood, my dad is 63

[zinc terrace]

yep

[hearty nova]

there was a group of seniors ik last year who all as a group skipped like the last 2 weeks of school to go on a bahamas cruise together 😭

[zinc terrace]

tbh most of them are all 2nd and 3rd cousins

[hearty nova]

wtf

i forgot 2nd and 3rd cousins are kept track of ngl 😭

[zinc terrace]

(who also date each other)

[hearty nova]

💀 NAHHHHH

[tired yarrow]

And I thought my friend group was a little crazy for planning to go to the next big city's zoo on senior skip day...

[zinc terrace]

yh its weird

they have one friend group and just date each other throughout the yr

and theyre all kinda related to each other

so they vacation together

[tired yarrow]

That's so weird....

[zinc terrace]

EXTREMELY

like their older siblings are also married into each of their families

[tired yarrow]

[zinc terrace]

its the definition of keeping it in the family 💀

i go to an avg nyc public hs and still have to deal with inbred incest-loving rich ppl

[hearty nova]

bro this is just an inbred friend group 😭

bro how is the most southern cousin loving friend group from nyc??? 😭

crazy

[zinc terrace]

theyre all russian too lol its funny

[hearty nova]

💀

[fading karma]

consultant?

[hallow crane]

yes

[sour palm]

wait no i cant say that

im gonna get muted

[hearty nova]

💀

[zinc terrace]

did i get pinged or smth lol

[sour palm]

u did

i asked what hs

but thats illegal

[zinc terrace]

lol ill just dm

[fading karma]

howwwww

[grim narwhal]

Why is that illegal

Does it matter if we know who we are

Isnt that the point of social media to connect and meet new friends with similar interests

[zinc terrace]

doxxing risks or wtv

[hallow crane]

pro bono

[grim narwhal]

Managed to cut 180 words from PS and 170 words from topical

We poppin

[hallow crane]

currently down to 686 words from qb to caps

also my mom installed a window ac unit in our living room to help me not die

[grim narwhal]

You are cutting it down not rewriting?

[hallow crane]

my ps is very good and conveys the message i want to get across

so im cutting, rewording, etc

[grim narwhal]

Ah I see

I lowk finished my PS at 970 for QB so I feel like if I cut 370 off it wouldn't be the same lol

[hallow crane]

Im just cutting extra details and things that are already implied

that dont really add anything

[hearty nova]

^ i deleted like 150-200 words just by deleting anything too repetitive

then brought my word count back up to 800 by adding better imagery

so unless i specifically want repititon in some places just by removing it u can cut down a whole lot

[hallow crane]

like, from: "They explained every detail of Prism, including the risks and duties of leading the organization"

To: "They explained the risks and duties of leading the organization"

no

ivy inst

[fading karma]

this??https://theivyinst.org/

[hallow crane]

yes

[hearty nova]

how important do u guys think reccs are to be a finalist?

[hallow crane]

eh, depends

[sour palm]

probably somewhat important

[hallow crane]

if ur rec corroborates ur story its good

if it contradicts or gives a bad view of u on the other hand

ur in hot water

[hearty nova]

yeh makes sense

praying my teachers didnt screw me over lmfao

[royal gorge]

I'm terrified of bad recs ngl, like, that alone can destroy an app

Thank god most teachers aren't that spiteful

[hallow crane]

my chem teacher submitted my qb recommendation the day i added her....

[hearty nova]

same for my latin teacher 💀

[hallow crane]

but tbf i told her my second semester of junior year

[hearty nova]

or well like 2 or 3 days after

but still

[hallow crane]

so she has prob alrdy thought abt it quite a bit

[hearty nova]

💀 💀

[royal gorge]

One of mine is procrastinating until the final day 💀

[hearty nova]

i asked like 3 weeks ago

[hearty nova]

lmfao

[royal gorge]

the other one procrastinated until like last week 😭

[hallow crane]

i asked every teacher i had if they'd be willing to write my rec letters

everyone said yes

[hearty nova]

also i just remembered

[hallow crane]

so i just chose the ones i liked most and who matched w my major

[hearty nova]

robotics / engienering technically coutns as a science right?

[hallow crane]

r u talking abt the 1 stem 1 humnaities thing?

[hearty nova]

cuz i lowk asked by robo teacher for the recc cuz she rlly likes me and it connects with my major

[hearty nova]

kind of

[hallow crane]

its generally recommended to get 1 from each

And robo is stem

so ur fine

[hearty nova]

its just cuz QB reccomends a math or science

but im just gonna take robo as science lmao

[hallow crane]

yeah ur fine

[sour palm]

i needa get a math rec engineering schools require one

[hearty nova]

i would check per school also cuz for QB they drop of the requirements

like MIT requires 1 stem 1 hum rec usually