Yale University (2023-2024)

[slate rivet]

Did anyone do the STEM research portfolio supplemental? Where do we submit it? After we get our portal or somewhere on the common app?

[slate rivet]

Also does the supplemental require a LOR from the mentor? Or is it optional

[muted seal]

need to know this too
might ask my counselor if hes sending it somehow

[warm epoch]

is yale due at 12 est

or can i submit by 12 my time zone

[muted seal]

ur time zone

[weak steeple]

does ur school use naviance too?

[muted seal]

nope we use cialfo

[dusky tusk]

Im p sure yale doesn’t want any extra LORs

[muted seal]

they said on their podcast that the exception is for a research mentor
im not sure if thats only if you submit a research supplement or even if you dont but im gonna submit my mentors rec regardless since its probably the best of my recs

[weak steeple]

yeah same

my two main recs are all stem and mentor so my third rec is a strong one from a humanities teacher highlighting my humanities

[vivid pilot]

question, for the essay how do i indicate?

do i just write the number like

Essay goes here?

[merry kiln]

bro just

Prompt #1

(Essay)

or anything of that nature

what u said is fine too

please don't stress it

😭

they genuinely don't care how u say it lol

[worldly osprey]

Dub

[zealous knoll]

it says WHAT inspires you. NOT who

[remote vortex]

i think they meant this one

[tired zealot]

yeah i meant that one

oops

[vivid abyss]

guys...

no one has answered my question if the yale ppl have a grace period

i submitted my app and my counselor submitted my documents 2 times but on my portal it says they only have my transcript

ami fucked

is it over

[zealous knoll]

oh mb

[zealous knoll]

its not due until today at midnight your local time

you have time!

[vivid abyss]

no no no

that's not my problem

i submitted the actual application a LONG time ago

but

like

the ppl at yale for some reason haven't got all my materials even tho my counselor sent them

[merry kiln]

Does Yale do SRAR??

[vivid abyss]

no

i think

but if they do im cooked 💀

[pale sandal]

How many words y'all got for the Yale 400?

[muted seal]

397

[uneven crag]

Submitted

[indigo shell]

399

[subtle python]

400

[slate rivet]

400

[subtle python]

Wait Yales research supp says engineering or science

So I can’t upload an Econ one right

Even tho it’s like applied cs in some aspects

[woeful smelt]

how many schools does yale have

like most schools have a school of engineering, cas, arts school, etc.

[subtle python]

I mean isn’t it just Yale college?

[wild yew]

hey guys quck question for the why major essay does it have to be a personal topic?

or can it be something else

i didnt really treat it like a why major essay i moreso wrote about something that interested me within my major and why

[wet monolith]

This is what I did

And it worked out so 🙌

I wrote about how I’m interested in motor sports because Im into design and how Motorsports is a perfect mix or form and function and innovation

And that’s why I want to do mech e

[wild yew]

congrats on getting accepted!

ok my major rn is political science and i just wrote about a political case study was a huge collision of politics, law, media and drama lol

[wet monolith]

Ty!!

And yeah that sounds like it can definitely work well

[remote vortex]

blud the prompt takes up like 25 words

so 375 the max ig

[pale sandal]

I just wrote "Prompt 3:" Then submitted my essay under

[remote vortex]

oh

ig the number works

[vivid abyss]

buddy yall are cooked if ur doing ur essays rn 😭

[manic rapids]

has the deadline not passed

[vivid abyss]

it hasn’t passed

but like

u have 40 mins if you’re on the east coast

so like

lol

[manic rapids]

😭😭oh

[crystal pewter]

have faith

[remote vortex]

why bro so negative

[manic rapids]

i’m in england so the deadline passed 4 hours ago 😭

[vivid abyss]

sorry it was just funny

i wish u guys luck

[manic rapids]

so i was confused

[remote vortex]

i stil got hour and a half

[manic rapids]

good luck all hope u get in

[vivid abyss]

i believe

in you

[crystal pewter]

how many colleges u applying to

[manic rapids]

how much left do u have to do

[crystal pewter]

well im about to look at yales prompts rn

[manic rapids]

oh

[warm epoch]

guys i didnt know it was only 1 and i did all 3 prompts

rip

[crystal pewter]

nah jk

[remote vortex]

total about 15

only have two left

yale cornell

[crystal pewter]

no way 😭

[remote vortex]

damnn

[crystal pewter]

damn im only doing 8 and im dying out here

[remote vortex]

i only have two left

yale cornell

finished cornell mostly

yale just finishing last one

[manic rapids]

i only did two 😭😭omg good luck

[remote vortex]

damn

which two?

[manic rapids]

yale and princeton

[crystal pewter]

only 2??

[manic rapids]

i was so scared for u

[warm epoch]

its ok honestly writing this much helped me throughout the process to hone my ideas

[remote vortex]

no safeties?

[dusky tusk]

They alr got into yale

Rea

[manic rapids]

i applied to england aswell

[remote vortex]

bro doesnt need safeties

[teal dirge]

SUBMITTED MY APP LETS FUCKING FOOOOO

[manic rapids]

nah safeties in england

[teal dirge]

genuinely thought i wouldn’t be able to do it

[dusky tusk]

Yay

[crystal pewter]

everytime i have to write a college essay i feel i cringe when i look back on it

[teal dirge]

i thought the deadline was the 4th and only checked at 5 pm today😭👎👎👎

[warm epoch]

felt

[remote vortex]

@manic rapids u havent comitted to yale yet?

[warm epoch]

yeah i think u just have to get over how cringe it feels

[manic rapids]

no not yet

[crystal pewter]

bro i was punching the air when i realized my common app essay and why major for colum and princeton had big problems 💀

[remote vortex]

the last hour i get the best essay no cap

i work best under pressure

[vivid abyss]

wait

did you get into yale

[manic rapids]

yeh

[warm epoch]

uh oh what were the problems

[remote vortex]

is there a reason u didnt commit and applied to princeton

r u CS or smtg

[manic rapids]

i had already done the princeton app

so was like might aswell

[granite fern]

hmm realized last minute Yale counts me as "legacy" cuz my research mentor went there ?!?!

[crystal pewter]

i was like noooooooooooo

[vivid abyss]

how does that even work

[remote vortex]

oh

[manic rapids]

but haven’t committed bc i’m waiting to see if oxford lets me in😭

[remote vortex]

is that in the UK

[manic rapids]

yeh

[granite fern]

wouldn't Oxfurd be more expensive?

[remote vortex]

yale better

[manic rapids]

im english

[granite fern]

Yale better.

[manic rapids]

so it would be like 9th and

[granite fern]

oh u're British

[manic rapids]

*9 grand

for me

but yale like 80

😭

[remote vortex]

oh

[granite fern]

You didn't apply for aid?!?! Yale is need blind

[remote vortex]

then oxford

[manic rapids]

i thjnk it’s diff for international no

tbh i prefer yale england is v different to the way us unis work

[crystal pewter]

u can still get aid

[granite fern]

no, Yale is need blind for all students.

HYPM Bowdoin Amherst Dartmouth are need blind for intl

(and Brown from next year)

[manic rapids]

oh

[granite fern]

I think you can still get aid

[manic rapids]

what’s the criteria

i’m acc oblivious to how us uni system works

[remote vortex]

bro is oblivious and still got into a t5☠️

[crystal pewter]

this the people stealing my admission spot 🙄

jk

[granite fern]

I datelined is an anagram for intl need aid

[granite fern]

The point is you got in 💀

[manic rapids]

sorry

[remote vortex]

bro why u apologizing

🤣

[granite fern]

[manic rapids]

IDK

[remote vortex]

also did u apply last year as well

[manic rapids]

no

i’m post grad but didn’t apply last year

[remote vortex]

why is that?

u wanted to take a education break for a year?

[manic rapids]

yeh kinda also ib was so much stress couldn’t deal w uni applications aswell

[manic rapids]

do they acc take the legacy thjng seriously

[crystal pewter]

yes

[manic rapids]

deep

[granite fern]

Prolly not if it's only a research mentor

but like any % of boost is a %

😭

[crystal pewter]

abc can u vouch for me for yale ao's

[manic rapids]

i mean it’s probs more impressive that u weren’t born into it but had to work for a research mentor instead

[manic rapids]

yess 🙏 will give them a ring

i’ll snap them

dm them

[granite fern]

yeah let's form "a close relationship" with her and you get a legacy

[crystal pewter]

you the goat 🙏

[granite fern]

👌

[manic rapids]

shall i adopt u

[granite fern]

Did you kiss your interviewer ABC?

[manic rapids]

and then it’s a legacy

[manic rapids]

no.

he was 25 tjo

[crystal pewter]

do most people get interviewed

[granite fern]

Only ppl they're on the fence ab.

• they have availability

in ur area.

[crystal pewter]

ok good because im either barely accepted or instantly denied

[manic rapids]

ppl say it doesn’t mean much

but i acc tjink thé interview rlly helped me

it was chill

[granite fern]

I had a great Grinnell interview. Hope that I get in.

[swift trellis]

oh my... the cornfields 🌽

[granite fern]

Grinnell is like my 3rd choice rn.

Yale -> Pomona (ED2) -> Grinnell.

[manic rapids]

where is that

[dusky tusk]

Hey alexa play yale by ken carson

[swift trellis]

iowa

lol

[crystal pewter]

my friend has scholorship to grinnell and i didnt realize it had that small of undergrad pop

[swift trellis]

it was pretty up there for me too...

[granite fern]

3k is 6 times as much as my school.

so...

[swift trellis]

but i think as a city person, i wouldve been homesick a lot.

[granite fern]

I wanna get outta here.

my school is in bumass nowhere

[crystal pewter]

it says 1759 on us news

as of 2022

[granite fern]

while my middle school was in the center of the biggest city in my country. I felt fine w/ both.

[granite fern]

oh so x4

[swift trellis]

small town too

[granite fern]

Grinnell > Dart/Houghton cuz like it's only 45-1 hr to the nearest city.

compared tto like 3 hr.

[manic rapids]

oh ur intl?

[granite fern]

.

[crystal pewter]

im ngl i never realized so many intl apply until i joined a2c disc

[manic rapids]

oh

sorry didn’t see that

[granite fern]

I think I also DM'd you ab it during the essay review LOL. Thanks btw.

I'm happy w/ my Yale essays.

[warm epoch]

wait bruh does this question not exist

Tell us about a topic or idea that excites you and is related to one or more academic areas you selected above. Why are you drawn to it? (200 words or fewer)

[granite fern]

it does.

[manic rapids]

OMG YES

sorry i completely forgot

[granite fern]

nah it's fine.

[crystal pewter]

my yale something not inc anywhere else is so dumb

[manic rapids]

it’s in the academics section

pretty sure

[warm epoch]

oh nvm

yeah whoops

i was copy and pasting it over and forgot it was there

[manic rapids]

😭😭

[crystal pewter]

WTF

i didnt even know

[manic rapids]

😭😭😭😭😭😭

[granite fern]

I applied through coalition 🤷

[crystal pewter]

oh nvm

thank the lord

almost had heart attack

[granite fern]

Coalition app is rlly stupid

[manic rapids]

did u find it

[granite fern]

except for the extended word count for ECs.

[manic rapids]

what’s coalition app

[zealous knoll]

ikrrr i only saw it a week ago

[wild yew]

for the 400 word essay, i chose prompt 1, is it okay if i center my answer around an anecdote of personal experience?

[crystal pewter]

yea i did it but i gotta fix it

[wild yew]

that's sort of what i did but im having second thoughts

[manic rapids]

i did print one

prompt

[crystal pewter]

i need doctor strange time power bruh i gotta finish cornell and yale

[granite fern]

yeah it's fine.

[manic rapids]

i can send u mine if u want

[granite fern]

I decided against applying to Corn cuz how bad the students life reviews were.

[wild yew]

nah your good

[granite fern]

and the 650 why us.

[wild yew]

im out of time so im not gonna change it unless it's supe rbad

thanks for offering though 🫶

[manic rapids]

SAME

[crystal pewter]

oh im just applying cuz ivy lol

[manic rapids]

it’s acc deep how many essays u have to write for each uni - for england i wrote 600 words and u send it to all of them and ur done

[crystal pewter]

fr i gotta do extensive research for why us

[dusky tusk]

Aint it due in like 8 minutes

[crystal pewter]

3 hr

[granite fern]

eww west coast

[dusky tusk]

Ew

Californian

[crystal pewter]

cali > wherever you live

[dusky tusk]

Go apply to the UCs or smth

[stark finch]

SUBMITTED

[granite fern]

(I'm basically a New Yorker w/o the citizenship idk what's wrong w/ my accent)

[dusky tusk]

Cali is legit a shithole bro

Overpriced hyperliberal goofy ahh state

[dusky tusk]

Yayyyy

[crystal pewter]

ok 👍

[granite fern]

avg gtown applicantt.

[dusky tusk]

Admitted student*

[granite fern]

*admitted student

[dusky tusk]

I will be going to yale

Thank you very much

Alexa play yale by ken carson

My new fav song

[granite fern]

this is unhealthy ima leave this thread.

[dusky tusk]

Lmao

[granite fern]

THANKS Y'ALL!

I'll return on the 28th.

[dusky tusk]

Come back when i get in

❤️

[granite fern]

you too.

[wild yew]

submitted

[dusky tusk]

[wild yew]

2 minutes to spare

light work for a fella like me

[dusky tusk]

🔥🔥

Why is bro even applying to yale

💀

[wild yew]

fuck u mean

[dusky tusk]

Aint gtown your number 1

Or is that someone else

[wild yew]

eh

i mean it's probably the best school for my major

[dusky tusk]

Yuh

[wild yew]

but odds have it im never gonna apply to college again

so i might as well right

[dusky tusk]

Fair enough

Me with brown and nu

[indigo shell]

LOL

[wild yew]

plus i wanna go to law school

[remote basalt]

if i forgot to signifiy which prompt i chose should i be worried

[remote vortex]

what u even supposed to put on this one

[crystal pewter]

i put the dumbest thing ever

[wild yew]

i think i forgot too LMAO

[dusky tusk]

Is that for Yale

I forgot my supps

I dont remember what i even wrote

[remote basalt]

😭

this definitely isn't going to be a dealbreaker, but i just don't want them annoyed LOL

[wild yew]

i think mine is super obvious so im not that worried but oops

[remote vortex]

yes

[wild yew]

i was just at exactly 400 words and i think i just forgot to put it and wouldn' thave had room anyway

[remote basalt]

bro it's on the yale megathread lolol

[dusky tusk]

Ik but yale was alr due

So I thought it was smth else

[remote basalt]

yeah i think they overlooked just creating a select choice

[remote basalt]

time zones lol

[remote vortex]

bro u know im CST

[dusky tusk]

Im also cst

I just assume

Most are est

[wild yew]

i just wrote that i like cooking which taught me to accept criticism and make improvements, even if they are microscopic

[dusky tusk]

Ye i forgot

I put some imagery thingy from my job

[remote vortex]

once i finish this im done

[dusky tusk]

I can dm if u want

Its ass

[remote vortex]

sure

[dusky tusk]

💀💀

[remote vortex]

i just need some example

[wild yew]

the way i saw it, you could choose anything and sort of relate it back to you as a person and how it helped you grow/improve or something

[remote vortex]

to see what im even supposed to do

[dusky tusk]

Dont use mine as an example i dont wanna fuck you ove

Ill send later

[remote vortex]

its so vague holy

[remote vortex]

alr

at the beginning i thought it was optional

[wild yew]

yeah i think as long as you do something that is generally positive and makes you look "better" or something you'll be fine

i doubt that question will really make or break your application lol

[dusky tusk]

Yea real

[remote basalt]

look through ur other apps. what's something u mention there that u havent mentioned in yale's app

[dusky tusk]

They j wanna know ur personality

[wild yew]

fr because like why would you make me write it in the fuckign question

makes no sense

[remote basalt]

fr 😭

[dusky tusk]

I just wrote about an EC that i didnt put in my top 10 on common app

[wild yew]

commonapp is literally designed to circumvent all these problems and u just choose not to use it

[crystal pewter]

i wrote about this embarrasing moment

[remote basalt]

or think about it like this: look through your yale application so far, what do you wanna show them about yourself. you can use this space to communicate whatever you want them to see that you think will help yourself be shown (as long as you use it smartly)

[remote vortex]

what did yall put for this

[remote basalt]

i just waived my right in case

cause hwy not

[remote vortex]

ok

ig it doesnt matter but idk why they give u the option

i thought waiving it was a requirement

[remote basalt]

it's for a yale specific thing

but yeah idk why they give the option too

[remote vortex]

lot of colleges have interviews tho

[wild yew]

yous hould waive your right tbh

[remote basalt]

fr i think it's cool

took me a while to decide what to put tho

[remote vortex]

yea i ddi

did

[remote basalt]

yeah idk its weird

[zealous jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/homelander-cinema-homelander-cinema-gif-26650685

so it begins

[indigo shell]

EASY

COOK

[remote basalt]

hell no

[dusky tusk]

It dont matter

[remote basalt]

i dont even wanna think about the fact that i have to actually get my decision back 😭

[dusky tusk]

Lmao

[zealous jolt]

bro waive your right lmao

just in case

[dusky tusk]

I don’t remember what i put bit they clearly said it doesnt impact decisions

[remote vortex]

yes i did

[dusky tusk]

On their podcast too

Yale podcast is 🔥

[zealous jolt]

honestly overrated id prefer a blog

[remote basalt]

i love them

[remote basalt]

do u remmeber what episode

[dusky tusk]

Lmfaooo

[remote basalt]

lmao it's the only podcast i listen to 😭

[dusky tusk]

Mine was that limmytalks podcast

[remote basalt]

why would u listen to that man

[dusky tusk]

He did interviews with college students

They were actually helpful

[remote basalt]

ohh lmfao i thought it was just him ranting about decisions again

[dusky tusk]

His tiktok is useless

[zealous jolt]

thats shameful bro

[remote basalt]

agreed to both of u

[dusky tusk]

I almost worked for him

But then he switched up

[remote basalt]

lmao what

[zealous jolt]

same tho i only had like 4 hrs listened

[dusky tusk]

I ran social media for this other tiktoker and he asked me to run dreamschools social medja

But then dreamschool flopped

So I never ended up doing it

[dusky tusk]

Yea i dont rlly listen to podcasts at all

[zealous jolt]

on another note, 85 days until yale acceptance

im a lil confused do we have to do fafsa for yale it doesnt show up on the checklist

[white shell]

i did

[zealous jolt]

i should have submitted some crayon drawings maybe they'd find it funny

would help all the other applicants, they cant be the worst portfolio anymore

[remote basalt]

bro why tf are so many colleges writing supplements separate from teh applicat ion

i didnt even realize i had to submit till now

[indigo shell]

can sm1 share their why yale with me lets exchange

[snow pawn]

i did

[regal plaza]

Don't know if I screwed up my Yale app can I plz dm someone?

[snow pawn]

aw thanks :)

[remote basalt]

sure i can take a quick look over it

[snow pawn]

yale portfolio 8 pieces had me fucked up

[lusty obsidian]

EST timeline

[muted seal]

i submitted it at 12:05 😭 hope itll be okay

[livid jacinth]

guys if i forgot to indicate that i want to submit a STEM research supplement on the application, can i still submit it through the portal?

i was only looking at my music supp and completely forgot to click STEM research supp 🗿

[muted seal]

nooo but i passed the local deadline for my time 😭

i hope itll be okay cuz like
idk how theyd know what if i happened to be traveling somewhere else in the world doing my apps

praying

i wish i have sm schools left

too real

[hasty osprey]

im pretty sure itll be open till 12 pst for everyone

idk if they advanced enough to not do that

[remote basalt]

you'll be fine, a few minutes is definitely not going to negatively impact you

there are so many technical issues that it'd be unfair for them not to allow that

[unborn fractal]

bruh what ab hawaii ppl

[hasty osprey]

fuck em

[cunning wyvern]

I thought the Yale website said 11:59 EST?

I mean I submitted before 11:59 local time so I'm fucked if its true

But common app said 11:59 local time and did confirm that they got the app so....

idk let's just hope that the 11:59 EST was wrong or out dated

[unborn fractal]

its wrong

[cunning wyvern]

The 11:59 EST or the common app saying it's local time

[unborn fractal]

11:59 EST

like! we are currently vacationing in honolulu (im lying)

im still not done with half my yale essays

like

[cunning wyvern]

I'm so sorry for being obtuse but it's late and I'm barely seeing straight and I've been grinding essays for hours: so it is late if submitted local time

[vivid pilot]

nah

grace period

[cunning wyvern]

THANK FUCK

[vivid pilot]

i turned mine in 1215, processed and says 1/02

my friend yesterday turned in columbia 3 hours late

[unborn fractal]

oh hey

[vivid pilot]

still said 1/01

[unborn fractal]

u are fine!

[cunning wyvern]

Oop I turned mine in 12:30 and it said 1/03 😭

[unborn fractal]

ok brb i gotta finish this 400 word yale essay

im lowkey eating on my other ones tho

[cunning wyvern]

GO BESTIE GO

[unborn fractal]

stress makes my writing amazing

[vivid pilot]

oh today???

thats not good

but they should let u off

[cunning wyvern]

No I turned mine in 10:30 MST but common app recorded it as 12:30 EST

[vivid pilot]

no, download ur common app

[unborn fractal]

GUYS what else do i talk abt for yale

[vivid pilot]

top right

[unborn fractal]

whats even interesting

[vivid pilot]

download the reponse and it should say 1/02

[cunning wyvern]

OH IT SAID 1/02

[cunning wyvern]

THANK YOU SO MUCH

[cunning wyvern]

I yapped about how going to a catholic school made me more inclusive bc I'm gay and being excluded makes me want to include other people and also it made me more tolerant of other religious beliefs or some shit like that

[crystal pewter]

why yale resonse say it passed

aaplication

im pst

[cunning wyvern]

No I was reading my answers for the 200 characters one and being like. oh I'm eating. I'm serving. I'm Shakespeare

[crystal pewter]

not 12 yet

[cunning wyvern]

Don't worry

[crystal pewter]

ok i just turn in cornell stressing beyond belief rn

[unborn fractal]

for which prompt

[crystal pewter]

im good rihgt

[cunning wyvern]

I'm MST (actually PST but on vacation) and I submitted before 11:59 and the downloaded report said on time

[crystal pewter]

ok idk y it saying deadline passed

[cunning wyvern]

Prompt 3: how does your lived experience cause you to better be able to enrich ur college

[cunning wyvern]

Common app is based in EST

[cunning wyvern]

If you download ur transcript after you submit it before 11:59 it should say 1/02 (on time)

Yeah mine was certainly not my finest literary masterpiece I'll tell u that much

[unborn fractal]

ahh

[cunning wyvern]

So my lived experience of being socially excluded helps me enrich their college because I'm really good at including others

Also I wrote about how I volunteered as an assistant to a group therapist and thus I have actual skills in that area bc I've had training for de-escalationn and inclusion and tolerance

[bitter tinsel]

I forgot to paste my essay for the "a topic that excites you related to academic interests" prompt, so I ended up submitting a couple words (basically blank) in that essay. I emailed [email protected] w an essay but later realized that it was the unfinished version of the essay so I emailed them w/ the newly updated version and told them to disregard the previous email. If I recall correctly they don't update your app like this and require you to update it through applicant portal instead but I'm not sure when I'll receive that. How fucked am I?

[cunning wyvern]

No same. My Columbia supplementals were so good I wish I could show those off to all the colleges they ate

[cunning wyvern]

I mean. if you work with your college counselor at your high school you can probably work something out

I transfered as a senior so all my letters of rec are fucked up

So my counselor has to email them to every school I apply to because My old school used naviance and my new school doesn't have that software

Yeah I thought I fucked up and then I saw some of what the other people were saying and I was like. maybe I didn't fuck up all that bad.

it didn't say u needed to

[bitter tinsel]

bro that's better than submitting a fucking blank essay

it did yea

but

they'll probs know based on what u wrote

ik a bunch that forgot lmao

true

it doesn't matter though all that matters is you write smth good lol

[potent peak]

Hello future Yalies

[unborn fractal]

tell me why im talking ab my ex committed to harvard and i wanna be on the winning side of the game. for why yale.

the rest of my why yale was so serious i had to lighten it up

[cunning wyvern]

My thesis for the prompt was the prompt reworded so they better fucking know I hope 😭

[bitter tinsel]

fukc fuck fuck fuck i screwed up

[cunning wyvern]

No my "Why Yale" was me yapping for so fucking long

[bitter tinsel]

yo so what happens if u submit a blank essay, do i wait for portal to open and submit it?

[unborn fractal]

REAL

watch me not able to submit this

[cunning wyvern]

I couldn't even do my columbia speech

[potent peak]

true tho

[cunning wyvern]

My why columbia was so good because they're cracking down on antisemitism (at least that's what they're saying on the website) and I said that I really admired them for doing that

I'd say what I wrote my Why Yale about but. trade secrets /s

[unborn fractal]

WHAT

DOES

WHAT INSPIRES ME

idk what inspirs me

[bitter tinsel]

Yo can I update w a pdf of the essay in the applicant portal once I receive it???

[potent peak]

the idea of getting in inspires me

[unborn fractal]

im genuinely about to talk abt my garden

[potent peak]

honestly the short questions are trickier than the long questions for me

[unborn fractal]

RIGHT

[cunning wyvern]

No same those 35 word ones were tripping me up

[bitter tinsel]

the wrong essay first, then the correct one 😭 but they're gonna def tell me to add it to the applicant portal, but when do we ussually get that??

[cunning wyvern]

I got my applicant portals for Uchicago and USC like a week after they downloaded so

And like 2-3 weeks after for the UCs so it's anyone's guess

[warm timber]

about time I joined this thread

[crystal pewter]

gosh damn stressing beyond belief this past hour

barely turn in yale rn

[cunning wyvern]

SLAY!!

[warm timber]

I applied here on a whim 40 mins ago at 11:something

[cunning wyvern]

Congrats on turning it in

[warm timber]

if I get in for quantum computing that would be jokes

[cunning wyvern]

girl how did you write the supplementals on time

It took me 40 minutes alone to write the 400 word essay

[crystal pewter]

thank you

[warm timber]

the optional one was copy paste for me THANK GOD

[cunning wyvern]

.... optional????

[crystal pewter]

i mean even the why yales would take that long no

u have to research the school

[warm timber]

sorry sorry I meant option essay 😭

[crystal pewter]

i wanted to look over my writing and stuff but i was like nah im just turning it in

[cunning wyvern]

oh lol

[warm timber]

but yeah the why yale was my glazing quantum computing for 10 mins

[cunning wyvern]

Yeah I did some fidgeting but then I was like "dude you have to turn it in right now"

But it turned out that it was local time and not EST so in the end I submitted like an hour early

[warm timber]

my inspiration is kinda cringe but I hope they don't mind

[cunning wyvern]

See y'all again in 24 hours lmaooo (for the other colleges)

[warm timber]

inspector gadget and "now you see me 2"

[crystal pewter]

idk why but everytime it tells me to view my app i cant unless i open in new window when i submit

[warm timber]

I really hope they got those references

[crystal pewter]

it was 11:56 and im like im done with this stress bruh im turning this in 😭

[cunning wyvern]

No mood I was doing the same thing

[crystal pewter]

if they extend the deadline imma be fuming

[warm timber]

also for the coalition if I request generally, will the recs go into Yale?

[cunning wyvern]

I'm usually PST but I'm on vacation in MST so college apps have been a pain in my ass rn

[warm timber]

or is there something special with the coalition that I neeed to do to get those required recs in

[cunning wyvern]

OH SHIT

Columbia and U Miami downloaded my apps

[crystal pewter]

i got beef w columbia

extending apps

[crystal pewter]

oh so u have to submit mst huh

now i have to do all of brown tomorrow

[cunning wyvern]

Oh they extended their apps?

...

[crystal pewter]

columbia did to 1/4

[cunning wyvern]

Welp guess it was fine the entire time lol

[cunning wyvern]

I want my money back I worked and I worked to turn that thing in on time

[crystal pewter]

ik right

i do not want to do brown 😭

[cunning wyvern]

I do not want to do Northwestern RN but it's due at 11:59 so... yeah...

(1/3 I should specify I have 23 hours)

[cunning wyvern]

Thinking of applying to brown... how bad is it

[crystal pewter]

oh wtf northwestern only 1

well required at least

[cunning wyvern]

Oh yeah Northwestern is goated

Their personal essay is optional

[tired zealot]

optional (aka morally required) video

[crystal pewter]

maybe ill add that on

prob wont have tim etho

[cunning wyvern]

VIDEO??? Fuck no I haven't been taking care of myself rn bc the past 5 days I've been grinding apps I'd look like a slob

[crystal pewter]

i think its 7-8 answers

[cunning wyvern]

How long.... wordcount

Because Stanford has a ton but they're only like 50 words and they're the nonsense filler answers

[bitter tinsel]

you can turn it in late?

isn't it based on EST

[crystal pewter]

250, 250, 250, 3 , 100, 100,

50

[teal tusk]

yeah she smart as fuck i got that bitch str8 outta yale yeah

[crystal pewter]

im pst

[cunning wyvern]

No I refuse

I shan't be going to brown

[crystal pewter]

lol i kinda want to do NW now

[bitter tinsel]

fuck bro i should've shifted timezones to pst

[crystal pewter]

but no way ill have time

[bitter tinsel]

i submitted mine without an essay

[crystal pewter]

lmao

[cunning wyvern]

Just like how I saw the Harvard questions and was like. nah mate I'll apply elsewhere

Because I am not writing all that for a 3% chance of getting in lmao

[crystal pewter]

im applying to stanford but that got like 1000 questions

8 bruh

[cunning wyvern]

It's not so bad I am too but they're mostly like ~50 word nothing questions

[crystal pewter]

like my app ive repeated some stuff

so either im barely getting in

or straight denied

truly a gamble

[cunning wyvern]

I've reached the point where the supplementals I'm writing right now are basically just older supplementals I've performed plastic surgery on

I mean I wrote my Personal essay for EA deadline

[crystal pewter]

yeah at points i just regurgitate

[cunning wyvern]

And then I cut it up into 350 word chunks for the UC supplementals

[crystal pewter]

dont even get me started on my columbia and princeton why major essays bruh i was like wtf am i doing... i wrote way too much context

and those 2 i want to go to

[cunning wyvern]

And now I've just taken those and cut them into ~200 and ~150 word supplementals for right now

[crystal pewter]

like cmon 🤦‍♂️

[cunning wyvern]

Oh yeah columbia was. an interesting app

[crystal pewter]

how do u do all that dissecting from one essay 😭

[crystal pewter]

bruh even rn im still like y did i do that

[cunning wyvern]

Well the original essay had several drafts because it was way over the ~600 (i don't remember) words so I took the older drafts and just churned more content out of them

So the UC apps had original stuff in them

[zealous knoll]

i still haven’t submitted my yale app

its 2 hrs late

[crystal pewter]

my uc app i forgot some very important stuff too like bruh

[zealous knoll]

im almost done with the last supp

[crystal pewter]

the schools i actually have a chance to go to

[cunning wyvern]

And then I just ripped shit out of the UC apps and the Personal essay and combined them to create the mutant supplementals

[zealous knoll]

omfg it’s literally 400 words omggg

[crystal pewter]

i forget important stuff

[crystal pewter]

r u not going to princeton

[warm timber]

welp looking back, I forgot to indicate the number of my prompt 💀

insta reject for that one

[crystal pewter]

u must have some masterpiece ps to do all that 😭

[cunning wyvern]

I did have to get really careful tho because these colleges are getting both the personal essay and the supplementals so I had to have some original content in them

[zealous knoll]

???

i didn’t even apply pton

[crystal pewter]

i was at 400 so i just took out some random word and put 2

[crystal pewter]

oh my brain fried i mean stanford

[zealous knoll]

not if i get into yale

[crystal pewter]

yeah for my lived experience it kinda overalps into my ps so im like idk man

i hope its original enough

[crystal pewter]

really id go to stanford

[cunning wyvern]

It was basically a recounting of the trauma I faced in high school so I ripped it apart and carved the personal essay and lived experience out of that

[bitter tinsel]

same lol

[cunning wyvern]

So weird that they would ask supplementals that are literally just the personal essay

Like girl I already answered this and I can't say the same answer twice

[crystal pewter]

lol fr

[topaz creek]

when the ao see my application, they bout to change the school name to yae

[cunning wyvern]

I ended up saying the same answer twice but worded differently

[crystal pewter]

i talked about a diff experince but same outcome

[topaz creek]

cuz they gonna personally give me the L

[cunning wyvern]

Yeah the story was so complicated that even the personal essay was a massively truncated thing so there were always different aspects to analyze

[crystal pewter]

me fr

[cunning wyvern]

But yeah the end result for all of them were the same

"I will create an inclusive environment"

[crystal pewter]

im praying my ao has coffee that day or something

[crystal pewter]

i said similar stuff bruh 💀

[topaz creek]

me fr

"i will keep an open mind" 🤓

[cunning wyvern]

Everyone did that's what they want to hear

[cunning wyvern]

Oh I didn't go that corny lol but I did get very heavyfisted

[zealous knoll]

ehhh i mean i would be kinda torn

[topaz creek]

😢

[unborn fractal]

guys

[crystal pewter]

bros reading my supplements

[unborn fractal]

its 2:17 AM where i am atm.

WHY CANT I DOWNLOAD PDF

[crystal pewter]

bruh if i knew this then i wouldnt be stressing beyond beleif

[cunning wyvern]

"I have received basic therapy training. I am the human equivalent of a therapy pet" - my app more or less

[teal tusk]

haven't even started and its 3;17

[cunning wyvern]

Go to the common app colleges section and download

[unborn fractal]

the way i started writing after 12 AM my time

[crystal pewter]

aint no way u did allat in 2 hours

[unborn fractal]

i decided to apply tn

[crystal pewter]

im taking 2 hours on y yale

[cunning wyvern]

Magic trip to Hawaii

[unborn fractal]

yeah i teleported!

time to turn my vpn off

[topaz creek]

"i rly like science. i did research i led research also i ate rat meat once" - my app summarized

[cunning wyvern]

Miss Frizzle kidnapped u and made u turn in ur app in Honolulu sorry Yale 😱

[crystal pewter]

bruh honestly @cunning wyvern i might apply to NW

i want to

[unborn fractal]

can u download?

[crystal pewter]

but i dont think ill have time

[teal tusk]

dont look at them

just move forward

[unborn fractal]

well idk why my pdf isnt showing

like did it go through or...

[cunning wyvern]

Do it lol the supplementals are pretty easy

[cunning wyvern]

Yeah

[topaz creek]

wut

nw supps beating my ass rn

[cunning wyvern]

It's view submitted application

[crystal pewter]

if i finish brown early enough i will

[unborn fractal]

HEY I GOT IT

yayyy

[cunning wyvern]

1/2/24 too!

[unborn fractal]

YUHHH

WHATTT

HOW

[topaz creek]

i did my corny and darty late

[crystal pewter]

bros hacking

[cunning wyvern]

The magical island of Hawaii saved you /s

[topaz creek]

but its still 2 jan

pog

[unborn fractal]

no i put my date for the signature as 1/02/24

[teal tusk]

i dont even think it matters if u submit it 1 day late

[crystal pewter]

i wouldve just took my sweet time then 😒

[unborn fractal]

i submitted darty and yale late

and i think theyre the best things ive written

[teal tusk]

same i submitted dartmouth 2 hours ago

[cunning wyvern]

Same

[teal tusk]

Im working on yale rn

[unborn fractal]

the stress multiplied my writing skills

[topaz creek]

pls yale let me in

[unborn fractal]

by like 10

[teal tusk]

they all get downloaded

bro write my yale essays for me

[unborn fractal]

u dont even wanna see my short answers

the first thought i had

i wrote

[cunning wyvern]

https://tenor.com/view/chanel-oberlin-scream-queens-aquiver-gif-26258642

Me on my way! to submit my yale app that I concoted in the last 2 hours

[crystal pewter]

apply to brown @cunning wyvern

[topaz creek]

i wrote about POKEMON

you know shuckle

[unborn fractal]

i wrote abt my vegetable garden.

[cunning wyvern]

I cannot write that much in 24 hours sorry

[unborn fractal]

if cornell gives me an extension

i'll write it tmr

if not then no cornell

[crystal pewter]

if i can u can

[cunning wyvern]

No bestie I'm literally a serial procrastinator

[crystal pewter]

for my whats not included in ur app question i put some embarrasing moment

[crystal pewter]

i am too lol

[warm timber]

oh god

it might be over

[unborn fractal]

i talked abt running sushi theater nights for ppl in my community

[cunning wyvern]

I had been staring at the Yale app all day I literally could have gotten it done earlier and I instead chose to do it at the last 3rd hour

[topaz creek]

yo thats sick

[crystal pewter]

kirk getting into yale

im banking on my common app schools getting me in rather than uc 🙏

[cunning wyvern]

Oh I wrote about how good a person I was because I wanted to volunteer at ADL and planned parenthood lmao

[unborn fractal]

i didnt even try for the UCs

[teal tusk]

guys can i get into yale with a 2.6 gpa with a 28 sat

[crystal pewter]

im ngl i copy and pasted my vanderbilt essay from a supplement

[unborn fractal]

oh!

my stats and my shorts r gonna carry me into yale

[cunning wyvern]

Yeah I blanked on that question I was like... I'm a really good person just admit me already

[topaz creek]

my yale is the basis for my whole app

[crystal pewter]

my ecs = non existent

ima do the brown vid in like an hour or 2 prob

[unborn fractal]

u dont even wanna SEE my why yale

[crystal pewter]

no idea what ima say

lmao

[cunning wyvern]

No mine is so bad

[topaz creek]

my why yale was rewritten in 10 minutes

[spice willow]

We have a week

[unborn fractal]

the way i spent the longest on mine

[topaz creek]

wanna hedge a bet

[spice willow]

Focus on other apps before that if you still need to submit

[crystal pewter]

oh its for portal huh

[cunning wyvern]

Oh wait no actually I did write a good why yale in the end

[unborn fractal]

Lowkey same

im rereading

[crystal pewter]

@spice willow if i find out its not ur making me mod

[unborn fractal]

it is

[cunning wyvern]

I'm like "oh my god it's so bad" but I'm going back and I high key ate?

[topaz creek]

what did wustl mean by this?

[unborn fractal]

RIGHT

[spice willow]

I don’t see the appeal of rereading supps

[unborn fractal]

that they give u an extra day

[spice willow]

I mean if I get accepted I’ll reread

And think I was agenius

But until then I’m not opening that part of my docs

[unborn fractal]

tell me why i talk abt my garden and virgin mojitos for what inspires me.

[crystal pewter]

bro u reminding me of my ps

one paragraph dont even make sense

[unborn fractal]

and ratatouille.

[crystal pewter]

i didnt have any more words

[cunning wyvern]

I was like. oh yeah yale was on the forefront of New Criticism and Deconstructionism in the 1950s and 1980s. you guys are so great. I love ur philosophy degree. You should give me one.

[topaz creek]

tell me why i wrote abt shuckle

[unborn fractal]

oh ur philosophy

i should've understood "kant"

[cunning wyvern]

Yeah it made more sense when I had a kant pfp

[crystal pewter]

how u even know that

[unborn fractal]

i dont wanna share my why yale here but imma send it to u LOL lemme know what u think

[unborn fractal]

LMFAO

[cunning wyvern]

✨ wikipedia✨

[topaz creek]

i was trying to jerk off to yale history cuz gibbs (the guy from chemistry) worked his ass off here

but that was a bad idea

a2c told me so

[crystal pewter]

??

[cunning wyvern]

Yeah. Can't wait to work at starbucks after college 🫶

[cunning wyvern]

uh dude I think that was a really good idea

[topaz creek]

if i get in then im a god

[topaz creek]

like im applying and not him

[cunning wyvern]

Because it shows demonstrated interest in your major field and also it shows you know why yale is special

[unborn fractal]

or a professor!

[topaz creek]

i feel like thats the same as namedropping a prof

[cunning wyvern]

That's the actual end goal lol

[unborn fractal]

go check dms read mine LOL

[crystal pewter]

i did that 😭 multiple times

is it over 4 me

[topaz creek]

that is actually living and breathing and doing work that im interested in

[cunning wyvern]

That or write a textbook and make money off students being forced to buy it each year

[unborn fractal]

i didnt do profs or courses

YESSS

im not getting in to yale.

my classmate already committed for football

[topaz creek]

i wish i could play handegg so good i get into an ivy for that

[warm timber]

this is the first sentence of my why yale answer

is it over for me guys

let us manifest the 5% chance that it is alright

[crystal pewter]

well i cant see all of it

[topaz creek]

that is approx. the acceptance rate

[warm timber]

it's alright my writing is so rushed anyways

cooking this all up in 40 mins was too troll

[cobalt rampart]

i only talked abt how yale gives money to invite public speakers

[crystal pewter]

bro i dont even have a hook for my supps

[cobalt rampart]

in why yale

💀💀💀💀

it’s the only unique thing i was able to tie into my background

[topaz creek]

i feel like if you can tie it then youre g

[cobalt rampart]

cuz i was dropping class names and clubs like crazy in my og answer

[crystal pewter]

me for all schools

[cobalt rampart]

but after reading the podcast i realized that wasn’t what yale wanted

[topaz creek]

i was dropping class names and research that fits my past research

[cobalt rampart]

me for jhu and cornell

[warm timber]

how do u view this error

[crystal pewter]

bro fr

[topaz creek]

i pray that works

[warm timber]

it isn't like a typo

[crystal pewter]

r u serious

[topaz creek]

cuz im tieing it

[crystal pewter]

its over for me

[cobalt rampart]

it depends how u do it

[crystal pewter]

u aint gotta gatekeep the podcasst

i just droppred it ngl

[cobalt rampart]

https://admissions.yale.edu/podcast-transcripts#Essays1

[topaz creek]

hey i tied it to past research

pog

[unborn fractal]

i love all my supps except my diversity

[cobalt rampart]

perfect

[unborn fractal]

except my conclusion to diversity

[topaz creek]

i love my diversity

[cobalt rampart]

my diversity essay was just me yapping extra in a reused supp

[topaz creek]

#🛩-lounge-chat message\

cuz im actually diverse

pog

plaplapla bratty yale accept me

[teal tusk]

is yale going to extend

[cobalt rampart]

don’t count on it

[teal tusk]

i mean too late now

[crystal pewter]

i did present tense ....

[teal tusk]

lol

[cobalt rampart]

yeahhh

[teal tusk]

idrc abt yale it's wtv

if they extend ill apply tho

[cobalt rampart]

PERFECTT

[crystal pewter]

how im supposed to know

[topaz creek]

wiat i actually researched obscure faculty members

fuck

am i cooked

[cobalt rampart]

i think what they’re trying to say is that

people who do stuff like that

focus 99% on all of the research

and 1% on them

and they’re not able to tie it back to themselves

[topaz creek]

should i drop my why yale

deadline is like

passed right

[cobalt rampart]

i can read it rq before i go to bed

[topaz creek]

nah i submitted

[cobalt rampart]

okk

[topaz creek]

just wanna calc how cooked am i

[crystal pewter]

im ready

[cobalt rampart]

and it’s a common thing and they’re not able to learn from the applicant

so if ur just dropped professors and classes and stuff w 0 self reflection u did it wrong

[crystal pewter]

im cooked😔

[cobalt rampart]

u didn’t reflect on why u chose those things abt yale at all?

[crystal pewter]

i did but not extensively

[topaz creek]

im not cooked?

[crystal pewter]

i choose 2 things fir y yale

[topaz creek]

hope my AO loves rat meat and pokemon

[cobalt rampart]

that’s okay irs 125 words

they just wanna know something abt u

[crystal pewter]

i hope my ao gets moved by my average ps

[topaz creek]

125 is like 25% better than the wankers at dartmouth

[crystal pewter]

bruh the y major i spent WAY too much words on context

sigh

[unborn fractal]

my dartmouth essay is ASS

[topaz creek]

same

[cobalt rampart]

it’s gonna be okayyy

[unborn fractal]

i talked abt skiing

[cobalt rampart]

context is personal and vulnerable top

[topaz creek]

mostly cuz their research is like all biology and 0 chemical

[cobalt rampart]

so glad i didn’t do darth mouth

[unborn fractal]

i aslo talked abt how their rural campus leads to sustainable farming and dining

[cobalt rampart]

skipped columbia and darthmouth

[crystal pewter]

the thing w my context is too that idk i didnt say enoough 2 y i am interested in it

[unborn fractal]

talked abt their farm etc

[unborn fractal]

yeah same!

[crystal pewter]

somehow always after i realize ive been foolish

[cobalt rampart]

ohhh

[topaz creek]

i talked about the mountaineering club and how they are a LAC masquerading as an NU

[cobalt rampart]

but honestly there’s no formula to this

u took ur time applying and talked about urself, now it’s up to the ao, u did what u could

[crystal pewter]

true

very subjective

[cunning wyvern]

Honestly these essays don't even matter that much

[crystal pewter]

mayb they didnt have their coffee that day and my app instantly into reject

[cunning wyvern]

It more depends on what the colleges are looking for at the particular moment

[cobalt rampart]

yeah literally

most of the time it’s not up to you

[cunning wyvern]

Like the U Chicago dean said that they want engineers from California for a year so. those people had a leg up. It really depends on what the colleges are looking for in a specific period

[unborn fractal]

what schools r due tmr

[cobalt rampart]

hopefully they want sociology venezuelan girls from miami :p

[cunning wyvern]

Northwestern is the only one I'm applying to that's due tomorrow

[crystal pewter]

idk anymore bruh my add info is essential but every1 says make it short and i did

[cobalt rampart]

brown cmu

northwestern

[crystal pewter]

idk if i conveyed enough

[topaz creek]

wustl too

[unborn fractal]

oh they do!

they want all of us!

[crystal pewter]

imma actually do nw i just found out about it

[topaz creek]

[unborn fractal]

ya imma do northwestern

[crystal pewter]

even tho i got brown andd im gone all day

[tired zealot]

nw gang

[crystal pewter]

im a warrior

[teal tusk]

what else

[zealous knoll]

guys i finally submitted!!!

late but i got it done

[topaz creek]

"saint anford college"

[crystal pewter]

it still let u?? Hopefully other colleges will let me

[zealous knoll]

yeah ofc. hawaii people haven’t reached midnight yet lol

[crystal pewter]

so is it always off hawaii time

[zealous knoll]

no. the application can shut off hours or weeks later. idrk

but it will be at the very least till everyone in the world has passed midnight

[teal tusk]

just submitted yale

6 hours late only

[merry kiln]

how is this possible

it works?

[teal tusk]

yeah i submited 2 yesterday 3 hours after my 11;59 deadline

both downloaded

[vivid abyss]

that’s news to me

ur gonna get in now!!!

[topaz creek]

me and my applications

[vivid abyss]

atp i just submitted everything with like 0 hopes of acc getting in anywhere

lol

[topaz creek]

im in the its so over valley

[vivid abyss]

after penn rejection i realized getting into one t20 is gonna be a crapshoot so i might as well just shotgun even if my apps are ass

yea same

kinda

but like

idrc

my safety is p good for what i wanna do and i alr got in

and idk if any of my targets are worth it

also got deferred from case 🤠

[silent tree]

I did not indicate the number of question I was answering. Will AOs look down on me for that?

[cunning wyvern]

No so true

[vivid abyss]

yes