Yale University (2023-2024)

[dusky tusk]

[topaz creek]

i got rejected from jhu i aint dreamin no more

its all bleak black and despair

[junior osprey]

Same but for brown and CMU

granted I applied for CS

[valid compass]

i found ppl from my country getting into yale without interviews from last year

im happy now

i love u yale

[junior osprey]

Did they get likelys?

[bronze steeple]

ppl rea get in w/o interviews so most probably didnt get likelies

[inner thorn]

Did yale send some decisions today?

[delicate jolt]

?

[inner thorn]

Someone on r/6th got one

[delicate jolt]

Maybe they got a likely

But no decision letters for us normies

[fallen moon]

this person is literally in this server too

[inner thorn]

😭

[manic rapids]

hi sorry yes forgot to post it but got in rea

her 😭😭😭

NO WORRIES

yes did it last year

finished thank god

what subject

RIP

the worst is maths ia

that low-key almost killed me

just waffle that’s what i did 😭😭😭

literally submitted on the deadline

tok teachers w weird it’s not a right or wrong subject it’s who can argue the best or make the most well informed points

if it helps i was failing this time last year n i came out rhe other end fine 😭😭

got two threes on my mocks 😭

hl?

fairsss i did sl i loved it

FOUR HIGHER LEVWLS

WHAT

FOUR SL

WHAT TBE FUXK

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

oh my god

rip

WHY WOULD U DO THAT TO URSELF

I STRUGGLED W6

omg😭😭😭

i have never heard of someone do 8

[inner thorn]

Are u gap yr?

[manic rapids]

history AND Maths pick a struggle omgggg

[manic rapids]

yehhh

[inner thorn]

Ohhhh

How does gap yr work when applying us unis

Like lors

[manic rapids]

oh btw history and maths exams r at the same time for me idk it will be the same for u but 😭😭😭

[inner thorn]

Did u get 45/45 to get yale rea 😭

[manic rapids]

i had three history and 3 maths exams in the spam of 3 days 😭

[manic rapids]

nah 42😭😭

[inner thorn]

I do a levels

[manic rapids]

and i’m so pissed of still bc i got a bloody 5 on french bc i forgot to include francophone references 😭if i mentioned the eiffel tower or a baguette i would’ve got 44

n that kills me

[inner thorn]

U dont send ib predicted?

[manic rapids]

LITERALLY I LOST TWO POINTS OVER A BAGUETTE AND IM LITERALLT FRENCH

[inner thorn]

Oh ok

[manic rapids]

i was in contact w my school

[inner thorn]

My transcript sent my a level preds

[manic rapids]

so they wrote me lors bc i hadn’t applied anywhere last year so nothing was written

so far oxford lse and ucl

😭😭

[inner thorn]

Oxford 😭💀

Which major

[manic rapids]

nah i don’t use reddit

i lurk there sometimes but never posted 😭😭

[manic rapids]

history

but history and ir for lse

would not have got anywhere if i applied last year tbh it’s just bc i had so much time to do applications

yup 😭

have u guys applied rd

that’s fair enough tbh

i was gonna apply columbia ed but i didn’t like the idea of commitment 😭

ur brave i am far too much of a procrastinator 😭😭😭

FAIRS

😭😭

tbf writing the essays ia LONG

what were ur intended majors

i acc thjnk they rlly prioritise essays bc i went test optional whixh i thoight ruined my chances but i was rlly happy w my essays so i think that balanced it out

[dusky tusk]

Gov and environmental science

Maybe public policy

[low helm]

I HAVENT GOTTEN AN INTERVIEW

IM SO COOKED

THIS IS CRAYZ

[north current]

same

[cerulean hinge]

what's the latest they can request u for an interview?

[low helm]

arent they important 😭

[north current]

i think like very early march

[cerulean hinge]

i believe in u guys!!!

very smart people

[north current]

yeah

[low helm]

i have noo idea

[low helm]

TYY

[low helm]

ughh this is so sad

im gonna start fighting for one or smth

[unique plank]

keep pushing guys

it’s coming soon

[low helm]

im done for

[inner thorn]

Arent interviews based in availability

[cerulean hinge]

soo scary

[hushed stone]

Not for Yale

[low helm]

yea mostly but i heard theyre given for good prospects at yale

[cerulean hinge]

hmm

[hushed stone]

But also selective doesn’t always mean like, better in some ways? I think it’s just who they need extra info on

[inner thorn]

Im intl so i dont think there are many slots

[cerulean hinge]

makes sense

[hushed stone]

Stay delulu my friends (me thinking I’m good enough for them to admit me without interview)

[north current]

yeah ik im not that special 💀

[low helm]

ohhh i see

I WANT THEM TO ADMIT ME PLEASEEE

(im cooked)

[merry yew]

i alr know they auto rejected my ass after taking my money

i submitted 4 days late

[hushed stone]

I literally haven’t looked into my rd schools almost at all (apart from the bare minimum to apply lmao) because I am simply cowardly

[rotund violet]

4 days is crazy

[hushed stone]

Living my best emotionally detached life

[hushed stone]

How????

Like genuinely how did you even submit

[merry yew]

i was originally going to submit on time but then i was like nah i already did enough RD schools

and then i was convinced otherwise

[rotund violet]

my brother got a yale interview and still got rejected

[cerulean hinge]

FF

[low helm]

NOOOO

[red prawn]

And here I thought that I was already pushing it by writing and submitting my entire Cornell app the night after the deadline

[merry yew]

LMAOO

[topaz creek]

same

[red prawn]

Me neither

😔

[topaz creek]

i hate you yale

[rotund violet]

I'm sorry, I probably shouldn't have told you that. My bad

[red prawn]

It's Yalover

[topaz creek]

its yallover

[low helm]

IM SO COOOOOKED

its ok i havent even seen one

[low helm]

sending this to yale rn

take out the competition

[topaz creek]

you aint doxxing me

[low helm]

NAURR

[low helm]

THIS SI CRAZTY

they dont want any of us or waht

[low helm]

watch me

[cerulean hinge]

they wont u!!!!

[topaz creek]

i got rejected by bumkins and my self esteem has hit a new low

im not an auto admit

so no interview means

over

[rustic silo]

could just be availability

[north current]

I need something to boost my self esteem and to rub in the faces of other miserable a2cers || /s||

[merry yew]

true

turns out no one in my district got an interview from northwestern

[north current]

that one actually doesnt matter so thats fine

thats purely availability based

[low helm]

stanford got me good bro

rejection went crazy

[low helm]

WONT???

[rustic silo]

aren’t most like this?

[cerulean hinge]

want!!!!

[merry yew]

not georgetown i think

[north current]

yale and duke are not

[rose vale]

My favorite chat

[merry yew]

my friend still didnt get her interview for gtown im scared for her

[rustic silo]

also they might still be assigning them

[merry yew]

and now im scared for myself abt yale

[north current]

dont they interview like every applicant

[rustic silo]

i got mine two weeks before rea

[merry yew]

yeah its required i think

[rose vale]

[fickle holly]

Yale interviews only people they like?

[topaz creek]

ik yale and dart cares abt them

[north current]

people they want more info from

[rose vale]

No people they need info on

[fickle holly]

Okay that’s what I thought this chat confused me 😅

[merry yew]

im fucked for dart then too

[rose vale]

well if no interview then kinda a bad sign

Unless ur cracked

[low helm]

did u get darty at least

[rose vale]

And auto admit

[topaz creek]

at least i got a darty interview

[north current]

no dartmouth is only availability

[topaz creek]

[rose vale]

Dartmouth hasn’t interviewed my region for the past 5 years

[fickle holly]

Yes I will be honest I got a Yale interview and was accepted

My region has a lot of available interviewers

[rose vale]

Rea right

[north current]

my region def has a lot so ik im fucked

[fickle holly]

Yea

[north current]

unless i get lucky in early march

[rose vale]

YES LUCKY

Do u guys know any internships

This summer

[cerulean hinge]

anywhere?

[topaz creek]

i will be lucky and get a LL from a school

[rose vale]

Ya but nationally

is best!

[topaz creek]

[cerulean hinge]

what kind of field do u wanna go into?

[rose vale]

Econ, stem, finance

but I want to take any research opportunites

Or stem

Or econ anything at this point 😭

[north current]

i managed to get myself one with the state attorney general 🥳

[rose vale]

OOOO

[north current]

and its virtual so i can work a second job if i want to

[rose vale]

teach me

[red prawn]

Econowomics

[north current]

i applied through this nyc program for high schoolers

[rotund violet]

lol

i know that program

[north current]

my friend did it last year and got an internship at blackrock 💀

[rotund violet]

damn

[rose vale]

What’s that

[north current]

L4L is goated

[rotund violet]

yea

[north current]

got rejected last year but we clutched up this year

[rotund violet]

I need an internship for the summer 🙏

[rose vale]

Same

[rotund violet]

im just praying everything works out

[rotund violet]

that's amazing

[rose vale]

I need something to do to save for college

[cerulean hinge]

no particular kind of stem?

[rose vale]

Nope

[rotund violet]

you can just work a regular job

that's what i did

internships are hard to find for incoming freshman

[cerulean hinge]

is #💼-jobless helpful

[spice willow]

They don’t like mods

[rotund violet]

hell, they're even hard to find for freshman

[cerulean hinge]

go on handshake or linkedin and browse options

[rotund violet]

kinda but they won't have access until they commit

[cerulean hinge]

oh i mean to u

[rotund violet]

oh

[cerulean hinge]

but true

[rotund violet]

yea a little

i've browsed through it

[red prawn]

Imagine being able to commit yet

[rotund violet]

what is that?

[fickle holly]

What is that secret channel 🤧

[merry yew]

verified village

[rotund violet]

does this help with cs stuff?

[spice willow]

Yes

[rotund violet]

oh okay cool

I'm not very confident in this stuff anymore bc i got rejected from a cs place

website thing that's pretty similar lol

[low helm]

nah fr they the opps

[spice willow]

Now’s the real time to shotgun 😂

[rotund violet]

well im just surprised i got rejected

[spice willow]

Someone put a curse on u

[rose vale]

[topaz creek]

lend me some copium yale thread

[rotund violet]

real

[fallen moon]

yale v a2c mods (and me and everyone else)

[red prawn]

https://tenor.com/view/copium-cat-gif-27161395

[valid compass]

nope afaik

also one was rea so no

[hushed stone]

wait what. oh. um. hm. sorry duke i lowkey would have tried harder if i knew that 💀 (i didn't really try because i thought i already threw on the app)

oh fuck that's actually so sad

[valid compass]

duke hates me

[topaz creek]

every uni hates me

all my unis hate me and i hate em back (not rly)

[hushed stone]

BRUH THE MORE I THINK ABOUT IT THE MORE SAD THIS SITUATION IS

I LIKE

FUILLY GAVE UP ON THE CHANCE

AND I MIGHT HAVE STILL HAD IT AT THE TIME

[remote vortex]

Holy shit I’ve only gotten one interview in RD

I hate ts

[valid compass]

which one?

[red prawn]

This is why Duke's a Duke and not a King smh smh

[topaz creek]

rd is tuRtle Decision

[rustic silo]

just came back from yale’s mortal enemy’s campus

[hushed stone]

you know what. i really really don't want to live in the south 'cause being gay is hard down there. i'm actually chill with this (copium)

[valid compass]

wdym by gave up?

[red prawn]

Huck Farvard

[rustic silo]

reaffirmed that yale >>>

[valid compass]

you have committed already right?

[red prawn]

Tbh I'm surprised I've gotten a few interviews

[hushed stone]

i thought i messed up my chances by applying neurosci major first instead of art first (which is what i did practically everywhere else) and so i fully thought i was over anyways

[red prawn]

All of them availability based tho so it's not like it means anything 💀

[hushed stone]

and

[rustic silo]

no i’m still waiting on harvard and princeton

[hushed stone]

so i gave up on the interview

[red prawn]

Stanford, Northwestern, Dartmouth, and Penn

That's it

[rustic silo]

i’ve had both of their interviews

[valid compass]

oh ic

[red prawn]

Haven't heard from the rest 🔥

[hushed stone]

tbf i had like 4 interviews that week i don't think i would have had time to prep either way

[valid compass]

noooi

[hushed stone]

but still argh!

oh well

[red prawn]

No Masstech? 🥺

[hushed stone]

live laugh love

[valid compass]

gave up in the sense declined?

[red prawn]

In a way I'm thankful and kinda sad I haven't been asked for any more interviews lmao

They are exhausting

😭

[rustic silo]

nope. i realized i would never go there 😭😭

[valid compass]

oh ok

[hushed stone]

i've actually gotten way more than i thought rd? stanford, penn, dart, duke, harvard, swarthmore

[red prawn]

Boo!!!

[hushed stone]

it was quite chaotic because like so many of those were in the same week it was kinda terrible

[red prawn]

Nice

[rustic silo]

i’ve had harvard and pton interviews

couldn’t be more different

[hushed stone]

idk they're pretty fun for me, but prepping sucks buttcheeks and these were during the school week so i deeply needed that time for homework and studying

[red prawn]

Kinda expected more since there should be more alumni here in LA, but evidently not 😭

[spice willow]

bumhaven wont give me interview

tr*sh

[rustic silo]

pton was exactly 45 mins, harvard was 3 hours

[red prawn]

I dunno how Northwestern got an interviewer out here tho

Kinda came out of nowhere lmao

[hushed stone]

i just want a yale interview atp t-t

[potent peak]

What does a 3 hr interview feel like

[red prawn]

3 hours to suck up to an interviewer of your enemy school

Crazy

[hushed stone]

i had one for swarthmore and it was pretty fun

he gave me an existential crisis

[rustic silo]

bro grilled me on REA then started giggling when i said Yale LMAO

[hushed stone]

mind you he warned me that he would so, alas

[rustic silo]

his brother went there

[red prawn]

Bro got Yuck Fale'd

[bronze steeple]

3 hr interviews sound like hell to sit through tbh

[hushed stone]

HELP

[rustic silo]

honestly i thought it went well. he said hi to my mom when she picked me up and talked about how i “was a great kid”

[potent peak]

Couldnt imagine having one

[red prawn]

I was already getting tired with my standard half-hour interviews lmao

[potent peak]

My pton interview was 1 hour long and that even I feel like I’ve ran out of things to say

[remote vortex]

Princeton

[bronze steeple]

i think the most ive done was 2 hours and i had such a bad headache for whatever reason after 😭

[rustic silo]

amateur yapping ability

[remote vortex]

My Princeton one was good tho, I even talked about eating clubs

[bronze steeple]

im not even introverted and it felt hella draining

[red prawn]

My MIT interview went for 90 minutes before ending since it got cold and dark outside

I don't remember exactly how it went ngl

It went all over the place

[remote vortex]

My interviewer had a 45 min limit on the zoom

[uneven crag]

I started talking about yale and Rory Gilmore in my Harvard interview….

[bronze steeple]

it was a dark and stormy night

[valid compass]

lmao

[topaz creek]

cold

[red prawn]

It stopped really being an interview and I just yapped about other topics afterwards lmao

[potent peak]

Tbf my pton interview ended bcs I had to leave

[red prawn]

Deadass

I was fucking freezing

😭

[potent peak]

Same..

[rustic silo]

my interviews were all really silly. i talked about furniture in my yale interview and charcuterie boards in the pton one

[valid compass]

the exact thing i did for duke

[rustic silo]

the harvard one we just laughed at the stock market

[red prawn]

Somehow I ended up commenting on some political stuff that was happening at that time

💀

[potent peak]

Rather than him asking me I asked my interviewer what he would do if he was me

[red prawn]

Got away with it somehow

[valid compass]

my interviewer asked me to tell me a story about myself and i yapped 5 stories lmao

[potent peak]

And we talked abt brown..

[red prawn]

Then again I wasn't saying really anything political per se

💀

[potent peak]

A lot

[bronze steeple]

my mit interview had just asked me the hardest question of the year..."why not harvard?"

[potent peak]

😭

[rustic silo]

LMAO my pton interviewer kept talking about stanford

[red prawn]

Ngl I can fucking yap so much on that question

[valid compass]

bruh

[red prawn]

Unironically

Hahvahd

🤢

[potent peak]

My pton interviewer was a brown undergrad and he preached brown all the way

[pale rain]

any advice for the Yale interview??

[potent peak]

Until i decided i wont apply to brown

[valid compass]

bro my duke interviewer said his duke degree is useless 💀

[rustic silo]

just be interested in a topic and talk about it

[red prawn]

Lmao imagine being the Princeton admissions office and then finding out that your alumni interviewer shilled brown instead

Ultimate advertisement for Brown tho ngl

[rustic silo]

undercover college ad

[bronze steeple]

my pton interviewer was dissing harvard 💀

[potent peak]

[red prawn]

Tbh out of all the Ivies I like Brown the most

[remote vortex]

Wait ur not committed MIT?

[red prawn]

They're a vibe

[red prawn]

I literally can't commit yet 💀

[potent peak]

I applied to all ivies but brown

[rustic silo]

LMAO brown is my least fav

[remote vortex]

Fin aid?

[valid compass]

me too (didn't apply)

[red prawn]

No my net price is $0

I literally just can't

[bronze steeple]

dartmouth seems like the worst one objectively

[potent peak]

Nah man

[bronze steeple]

i cant imagine a trimester system

[valid compass]

for me it's upenn

[rustic silo]

the only good ivies are yale and princeton 😤

[remote vortex]

Why?

[red prawn]

💀

[potent peak]

When u research more abt dartmouth you could potentially fall in love w darty

[valid compass]

hey it's harvard

[red prawn]

The official commitment form only comes out in March

[bronze steeple]

but the finance bros 😭

[red prawn]

💀

[rustic silo]

my parents are also hyper elitist with colleges so they really like the idea of me going to HYP

[red prawn]

Darty is actually a vibe

It attracts a specific type of person tho

[valid compass]

ok if you're at wharton then W else L

[rustic silo]

stanford/mit not prestigious enough for them LOL

[red prawn]

Tbh for Darty personal fit is the most important for if you actually wanna go

[remote vortex]

Oh okay

[red prawn]

Like, you go to Darty because you wanna go to Darty

[valid compass]

u made them proud 🙃

[remote vortex]

R u gonna wait for RD

[red prawn]

Not necessarily because Darty is an ivy

[valid compass]

bro-

[red prawn]

Hanover is a cute place ngl

Plus all the Darty alumni shill the place so much

Ahem ahem, Biggreen

So evidently they're doing something right

[bronze steeple]

whartons great yeah honestly they need to make internal transfers easier

[rustic silo]

yeah they’re a bit crazy. i remember them saying Duke was “mid”

[bronze steeple]

but i guess everyone would just switch to wharton lmao

[red prawn]

I don't have a choice

So yes

I don't gain anything by jumping into things anyway 💀

[prime briar]

i'm deprived of snow and clear skies so i like darty lol

[red prawn]

Finaid'd

[red prawn]

Mood

[rustic silo]

bro got $0 dollars in fin aid clearly

[potent peak]

I envy u LOLL

[red prawn]

My Darty interviewer evidently got fucking traumatized by the snow tho ngl

[valid compass]

ikr i applied for upenn sas and im regretting it

[rustic silo]

i got 6k efc

[red prawn]

He's a Californian through and through so bro sounded like he had PTSD talking about Darty's winters

[valid compass]

💀

[red prawn]

Bro was NOT prepared

[potent peak]

I applied sas too

[rustic silo]

if you got into oxford idk why you would be concerned about anything other than hypsm

[red prawn]

He also wondered why Darty has a cold environment research facility

Bro found out the hard way

[potent peak]

I have some friends getting into sas and internal transferring to wharton

[merry yew]

this is gonna be me when i get into an east coast college

[red prawn]

💀 💀 💀

[valid compass]

💸

i need my options

[red prawn]

Real

[bronze steeple]

u can probably internal transfer if u really wanted to but idk how hard it would be

[red prawn]

I'm tired of Cali weather rn tho ngl

[merry yew]

same

[prime briar]

idt this makes sense though like it's a completely different experience

[bronze steeple]

probably very hard so people dont try to game the admissions system

[red prawn]

But that may be because I live in the part of LA with the most fucked weather

[merry yew]

literally hot and then cold

[red prawn]

We get the coldest and the hottest

Oh and the worst floods

Actually trolled

[valid compass]

i searched it up and it's actually not that hard

[merry yew]

everytime it rains it's like FLOOD WATCH

[hushed stone]

this is so real

i want to expereince weather

and trees

[rustic silo]

maybe. i’m going based on perceived quality though… oxford is far better than most t10s imo

[potent peak]

And they have a bachelor+ masters program

In 4 years

[red prawn]

Oxbridge #2 and #3 on global rankings above Hahvahd and Stanford 🗣️

[prime briar]

that's just prestige which doesn't rly matter, i'm talking about the education it's like very different so it's weird to compare to US unis. i love oxford tho

[red prawn]

(Ignore the #1)

[potent peak]

What site is this

[red prawn]

QS

[potent peak]

Qs?

[topaz creek]

casual flex

[potent peak]

Qs is shit

[red prawn]

It is ngl

[valid compass]

when did cambridge go above noooooooooo

[red prawn]

Especially for undergrad purposes

It highly values research output which undergrads

well

[valid compass]

oxford better >>>>>>>> cambridge

[red prawn]

Who gives a shit

[potent peak]

I thought they’re on par?

[red prawn]

#1 Because they put MIT on top tho 😍

[prime briar]

Yale University

[rustic silo]

this list isn’t right bc yale is not listed as #1

[bronze steeple]

me when im getting a better undergrad education by 0.6 points by going to oxford over harvard:

[red prawn]

Cambridge >>>>> Oxford because Cambridge, MA is named after it

[valid compass]

not really

[red prawn]

😍

[rustic silo]

there is actually 0 difference in quality of education between any school in the top 20 of this list

[potent peak]

No list puts yale #1

[red prawn]

Real tbh

[valid compass]

[red prawn]

Yale and Princeton actually get trolled hard by QS rankings ngl

[potent peak]

Yeah

Stupid ass ranking

[valid compass]

i mean my grandparents know oxford and they were so proud i got in and when i told them im trying for hyp they were like "where are those countries?" lmao

[red prawn]

Lol

[potent peak]

Why are they below melbourne

[valid compass]

bro-

[red prawn]

HYPSM (The P stands for Penn)

Penn is 12th

[valid compass]

because it's not just a us ranking thing

worldwide

[rustic silo]

bro hasn’t seen niche.com clearly 😤😤😤

[potent peak]

The M is for Melbourne

[topaz creek]

how is melbourne there

[red prawn]

So real

[topaz creek]

who let bro in

[potent peak]

Literally

[topaz creek]

literally

the bum school give me scholarship by breathing fr

[potent peak]

How did caltech end below umelb

[bronze steeple]

uchicago 11th 💀

[topaz creek]

while i fight tooth and nail for a us acceptance

[valid compass]

so we conclude this ranking is biased and crappy lmao?

[bronze steeple]

uchicago over YP is crazy.. yeah

[valid compass]

but hey oxford is no. 1 fs

no one can beat that one

no mit no cambridge no harvard no nothing

[red prawn]

Nah this ranking is based (totally no bias here since MIT is #1)

[topaz creek]

i dont trust any aus unis

[potent peak]

Ofc it is

[red prawn]

A real Oggsford man

[prime briar]

your ranking is biased and cringe my ranking is based and objective

[potent peak]

Times higher education is way better than qs news

[valid compass]

the very first reason why i think it's biased

[valid compass]

INDEED

[remote vortex]

slight mit dub

[potent peak]

Forbes ❤️ us news ❤️

[prime briar]

MIT deserves #1

[red prawn]

https://tenor.com/view/shrimple-sea-puns-crane-of-my-existence-gif-27141534

[prime briar]

actually such a based school

[remote vortex]

MIT is insane for basically anything STEM

[topaz creek]

us news is mid but it clears qs any day every day all day

[valid compass]

only for STEM*

[topaz creek]

i hecking love em i tee

i wish i was good

[remote vortex]

thats like 90% of A2C

[red prawn]

MIT has very good econ, poli sci, urban studies, linguistics, and philosophy courses too

[red prawn]

Iirc for Econ they're #1

#2 for Philosophy somehow

[topaz creek]

e con deez

[bronze steeple]

MIT #1 in everything except food 💀

[prime briar]

philosophy has a lot of parallels with stem thinking

[bronze steeple]

arguably the most important part of college

[red prawn]

Forbes rankings based for booting Harvard out of T5

[potent peak]

Penn wharton :

[prime briar]

especially if you get into hardcore logic

[red prawn]

BYPSM 🔥

[potent peak]

How is berkeley and ucla > harvard tho

[topaz creek]

upeen farton

[uneven crag]

I think UPenn should be ranked above Columbia tbh

[valid compass]

nah it's harvard for econ

[uneven crag]

Having done a lot of research on both

[potent peak]

If you offer a harvard acceptance to every student there I guarantee 90% will go to harvard in a blink of an eye

[prime briar]

I think the school I commit to should be ranked above the school you commit to

[red prawn]

Nah they're all tied

[uneven crag]

Location I’m guessing. It’s easy to slide into some startup or marketing or business agency in California

[valid compass]

ok that's fair ig

[uneven crag]

This has got to be the stupidest thing ever

[valid compass]

i said based on qs tho

[potent peak]

If you cant decide lets just tie em all tgt 😃

[uneven crag]

I just hate how us news ranks like 4 colleges to be tied tf does that even mean

[red prawn]

Tbh just one look at the list of nobel prize winners for Econ will tell you they're all so cracked that it's hard comparing 💀

[uneven crag]

It’s so meaningless lmfaooo

[prime briar]

might have some volumetric rather than per capita factors

[valid compass]

yeah gotcha lol

everything makes sense

i mean harvard and mit is win win situation anyway

just cross-register and enjoy

[prime briar]

yall i think the terms HYPSM and T20 exist for a reason, at a certain point it's just splitting hairs

[red prawn]

It's harder to cross-register MIT to Harvard than Harvard to MIT 😔

Buncha bozos fr

[uneven crag]

If people cared more about fit I think hpysm/t20 would matter

[valid compass]

oh yes heard of that

[uneven crag]

For academics you can’t go wrong with any of them it’s the fit that matters

[valid compass]

i can get mit cross registeration if wellesley accepts me too

[remote vortex]

is ther a reasonable diff between HYPSM and t20

[red prawn]

It's very easy to cross-register for classes at MIT yeah

[remote vortex]

like yale vs vanderbilt

[potent peak]

Prestige

[valid compass]

100%

[red prawn]

I even found a post where a MassArt student filled out the cross-registration form for the sole purpose of getting an MIT ID and getting access to their facilities

[potent peak]

If you’re intl like me it kinda matters

[valid compass]

main one being prestige

[red prawn]

Good stuff

Open doors fr

[uneven crag]

Prestige maybe but academics is solely based on what program. Like I can confidently say vandy is better for stem than Yale is

[potent peak]

Many t20s are not globally known

[uneven crag]

Even then it’s such an insignificant difference that it literally doesn’t change anything

[valid compass]

smart one

[potent peak]

Really?

[prime briar]

but is there a meaningful difference in the prestige that matters

aka not lay prestige

[potent peak]

I thought yale has been working a lot in improving their stem department

[uneven crag]

Yeah recently but from what I read it’s not that great still

I mean it’s great in normal terms but it’s not ivy level stem education

[potent peak]

What ivy league provides ivy league stem education

[prime briar]

they are (it's part of the reason why they're doing so many STEM likelies) but those students are still getting poached by MIT/other good stem schools

[potent peak]

Arent most like liberal arts or im drunk

[hushed stone]

yeah still not great though

[uneven crag]

Princeton and Cornell are rlly good for engineering, Columbia also up there

[prime briar]

princeton is rly good at physical sciences, cornell at CS/engineering

[hushed stone]

they're like, all liberal arts i think

[uneven crag]

They are but some are better at stem

[hushed stone]

but i think like, yale, penn, brown, dart aren't that great at stem

[uneven crag]

Yeah

[hushed stone]

harvard gets the mit cross registration boost i think

[prime briar]

penn is decent

[uneven crag]

Well brown CAN be

Brown is underrated I think

It’s really a “if you want to do something great you can do it” kinda school

[hushed stone]

real! they rejected me but i am still pro-brown

[uneven crag]

I wish I added

EDed

[vague oxide]

brown 🤤

[uneven crag]

Yeah Columbia rejected me ED

I don’t love the core

But it’s a great school

[topaz creek]

personal callout fr

[hushed stone]

honestly i still don't really think i know what i want in a college considering i like columbia and brown which are like, kinda opposites curriculum wise 💀

[spice willow]

is STEM only engineering and CS here?

[hushed stone]

yeah t-t

tbf i might be wrong

[topaz creek]

didnt do brown but threw my hat in the ring for all the others

[spice willow]

yale bio, physics etc is goated

[hushed stone]

i'm a vis arts applicant

so

idrk how to evaluate stem

<3

[prime briar]

same lmao

[uneven crag]

Prestige ? Not judging I applied to both too

Competition?

[topaz creek]

raw chem in yale 🥶

[uneven crag]

Opposite campus areas too

[topaz creek]

tbf i dont think i fit dart that much

[prime briar]

it's perfectly fine to not have strong preferences in a college

[hushed stone]

i mean, yes. my college counselling ppl i think just made me put a bunch on because they're hoping that they can use me to flex lmao (i think they're somehow more delulu than me)

[prime briar]

like how do ppl expect HS students to know where they'd fit in

[topaz creek]

but applied cuz need blind for intls

[hushed stone]

i will simply

[topaz creek]

dart is real for that

[hushed stone]

wait until i get in places

and then evaluate

[uneven crag]

LMAO valid

Yeah I applied to all but darty

My top is princeton or UPenn

[prime briar]

my top was princeton (deferred)

[uneven crag]

My best chances are prob at brown tho bc I applied comp bio instead of cs

[prime briar]

next is columbia, then probably dartmouth

[uneven crag]

Hey at least it’s not a rejection !

[hushed stone]

i applied to all the ivies except cornell (i really really don't like the location) and princeton (my school already has 5 ppl in and for reference of how relatively huge that is, my grade is like, 129 ppl)

[uneven crag]

Oh wow

[prime briar]

bro what kinda feeder is this

private school?

[hushed stone]

fyi this has never happened before

[noble steppe]

the stem likely program is largely to increase yield — they're targeting students they're confident will get offers to MIT et al

[hushed stone]

i have no fucking clue how this happened

historically like, max 1 per year

idk what happened

yes private school

historically not a feeder

[uneven crag]

We have one ivy so far and it’s for track (she has a 3.5 gpa but she wooooo runs fast and is black)

[prime briar]

yeah i know but i think i read somewhere that it wasn't working as well as they'd hoped

[uneven crag]

She committed to Cornell

And two way more academically qualified ppl got rejected and deferred

Like tell me how that makes sense.

[hushed stone]

my grade also has so many sports recruits

[topaz creek]

person go zoom

[hushed stone]

scary

[uneven crag]

It’s (college admissions) a joke

[prime briar]

because these colleges don't just care about academics, they have other institutional priorities

[uneven crag]

Would I go if I got in? Yes but it sucks that I had to work 100000x harder

[hushed stone]

indeed

[noble steppe]

its around 1/3 yield, part of why they started guaranteeing research funding for YES weekend ppl.

(note: you wouldn't have struggled to get research funding. not at yale, not at MIT, not anywhere else)

[hushed stone]

i mean tbf, sports at a high level is. apretty huge commitment too

[spice willow]

be reborn as an olympic level athlete then, no big deal

[hushed stone]

esp on top of school

[topaz creek]

sick isekai premise

[prime briar]

athletes work very hard

[spice willow]

i feel like in another life i'd be good at javelin

[uneven crag]

How hard is taking 2 APs in 4 years

[spice willow]

not this one LMAO

[prime briar]

athletes for sure work harder than me

imma be real i don't deserve an ivy

[noble steppe]

probably should note that the no1 putnam guy last year at yale was an athlete

[topaz creek]

i was crushed by truck-kun! now i am a d1 athlete at "school"

[hushed stone]

bro working hard doesn't always mean grinding academics 💀

[uneven crag]

I get that but I think doing JUST a sport with honors classes vs like research clubs npos on top of 15 APs ….

[noble steppe]

like 15th nationally or whatever

mit just too good

[spice willow]

i guess so, but this is high level sports

not just clubs

[hushed stone]

yeah

[uneven crag]

I play varsity tennis yall 😭😭 im not even like saying she doesn’t work hard

[spice willow]

but not to the point of being recruited

there's a difference, no?

[uneven crag]

Obv I’m not recruit level but I spend 5 hours after school doing the same physical work she does

On top of a million other activities and course rigor

[spice willow]

eh, that's like saying i spend the same amount of time on a volunteering club like someone who founded an international volunteering organixation

[noble steppe]

tbh chicago being #4 tied rather than being #1 tied is proof this list is lowk kinda bullshit

[uneven crag]

I’m not saying that tho a sport is a sport

[spice willow]

i disagree

[uneven crag]

Frankly I’ve been on varsity longer than she has

Different sports but still

[spice willow]

but you're not recruit level, no?

varsity doesnt mean as much as recruitability

[uneven crag]

I think I started this convo bc of rigor and her having a way below average gpa

Not that I’m better at sports or smth

I’m def not

[prime briar]

yeah but colleges don't just have academic priorities

[uneven crag]

Right which is what I’m saying is kinda messed up

It’s impossible to compete in early rounds bc of recruits

[rustic silo]

not true lol

[spice willow]

highly selective applications kicking our asses day by day

[red prawn]

If your app rizzes them up doesn't matter if it's in the early rounds or not

[uneven crag]

Alr true

[rustic silo]

you just need to be sufficiently cracked

[spice willow]

for the vast majority of people 2A, 2R isnt wrong tho

[uneven crag]

Just from my school everyone is mad bc she’s the only one that’s gotten in

[uneven crag]

I would say I am

[rustic silo]

vast majority of people are not going to these schools

[red prawn]

Y'all schools' kids actually get in?

Most of us are just waiting for the UCs lol

[spice willow]

People assume better of themselves and worse of others

[spice willow]

yeah, which makes their statement right imo

[red prawn]

I know kids who didn't bother applying to anything but the UCs/CSUs

mfs made their common app for basically throwaway apps lmao

[uneven crag]

Just one ivy recruit so far

[rustic silo]

in my experience everyone ik who has been cracked got into at least one of their top choices

[uneven crag]

It’s not even that, ik ppl that are more cracked than me at my school but I wouldn’t say she’s one of them

[rugged chasm]

What is ur metric of cracked

[red prawn]

Being cracked 🛌

Having rizz in your written words 😍

[rustic silo]

just something very admirable

[topaz creek]

how admirable

[rustic silo]

like a diana award

[prime briar]

yeah this is very not true for me lol (not talking about myself)

[rustic silo]

national finalist or champion in some legit comp

sts

[topaz creek]

a what

[uneven crag]

(To back this up so I don’t seem pretentious)

I took 14 APs, 4.7 GPA and ranked top 5

ISEF finalist, CMO @ a global NPO, national honor society and science national honor society president, podcast co host, cyberpatriot captain, varsity tennis 3 yrs, national awards

[spice willow]

uk spotted

[rustic silo]

i’m from ny. i just know two kids

[red prawn]

Selective college admissions does selective college admissions things fr

[topaz creek]

hey i did some nat olympiad (3rd prize) is that cracked 😭😭

[uneven crag]

And I got rejected from Columbia ED lmao so yeah imma be kinda upset that some sports recruit got in over me

[rustic silo]

what did you apply as

[uneven crag]

Like yeah is it right to be mad ab it maybe but lemme cope idk 😭

[potent peak]

Honestly when i think abt it i’m not rlly sure what the use of the stem likely if the stem kids got into MIT they’re fs still go there

[red prawn]

Imagine giving preferred treatment to legacies and athletic recruits 🛌

Masstech Slams once again

[topaz creek]

id go (i wouldnt get accepted to mit) (i didnt apply)

but i dont so i wont

[prime briar]

columbia doesn't defer much so don't take it too harshly

[uneven crag]

Comp sci (I fucked up ik but I stayed true to myself yk? And my isef project was CS)

[prime briar]

meanwhile princeton defer is kind of a soft rejection ngl...

[worthy bolt]

my classmate got into yale w top EC as cross country captain… im on 2a 2r’s side

[worthy bolt]

we were the only two yale REAs..

[uneven crag]

Idk if I’m being ridiculed rn

[uneven crag]

Nah that broke me ngl

[red prawn]

No I'm ridiculing Columbia

[rotund violet]

Most recruits know they’re being recruited well before senior year

[red prawn]

🔥

[fallen moon]

my valedictorian friend whos also xc captain got deferred from yale

[potent peak]

Ok this is insane

[prime briar]

wait why

[potent peak]

Ppl from all over the world get diana awards tho (?)

[topaz creek]

who me?

[rustic silo]

could just be essays

[spice willow]

sure, but it's a uk origin thing

[prime briar]

like nothing is necessarily wrong with your application (based on what you sent) if columbia rejected you ED

[uneven crag]

Getting rejected from Columbia?

[potent peak]

Diana awards kids are insane

[red prawn]

Real

[prime briar]

ohh nvm

[red prawn]

I def ain't getting a STEM likely tho ngl

All the ECs on my app were in Art

lmfao

[potent peak]

Diana award is like an olympiad for volunteering

[spice willow]

no chance mes

[potent peak]

Like ISEF for volunteering ngl 😭

[rotund violet]

Probably just wasn’t a good fit

[uneven crag]

Idk same essays got me into northeastern honors + Binghamton with a rlly good scholarship

[rustic silo]

my bff got in columbia ed and he’s very smart but had absolutely incredible essays

[topaz creek]

i have a severe disrespect for isef but hear me out

[fallen moon]

it wasn't one but ok

[prime briar]

uh oh

[spice willow]

were they a recruited athlete? if they werent then they arent an athlete in thr traditional sense

[uneven crag]

I gotta hear this

[prime briar]

isef was so fun

[rugged chasm]

thats much higher then cracked, id venture to say thats best of the best considering 20ish ppl win it a year

[worthy bolt]

no but they had a 3.8 GPA and their essay was on a sports injury

[red prawn]

Me fr, totally isn't because all the cracked ISEF kids next to me are giving me massive impostor syndrome 🔥

[potent peak]

But sometimes I feel like the system is rigged

[fallen moon]

ok i can explain isef in one word: nepotism

[potent peak]

Or at least in my country

[prime briar]

oh that's fax tho

[uneven crag]

Fair

[rustic silo]

yeah that’s what i mean by cracked lol. i think a significant portion of people are setting their expectations much higher than they should

[uneven crag]

Half my delegation was nepo babies

[red prawn]

Ngl I didn't even know ISEF was a thing until A2C

Lmao

[prime briar]

i didn't know diana award was a thing until now

so

[rotund violet]

Still have no clue what it is

[potent peak]

Diana award kids have crazy track records

Someone from my country won a diana award and boom got into stanford

[uneven crag]

So yeah @spice willow I hope u understood that I was just lowk coping bc I did all that stuff just to get rejected and I was NOT tryna undermine athletes 😄

[red prawn]

Praise Saint Anford 🙏

[potent peak]

And his organization is only like a math tuition course

[topaz creek]

in my country ppl hire fucking grad students and pay like 100k for research projects for isef two kids in my class did that one got into cornell one got into jhu

[spice willow]

nah i get it

[potent peak]

Like legit everyone can make it

[spice willow]

everyone has their own form of cope

for rejection

[prime briar]

wtf

damn

[spice willow]

mine is gonna be essays

[rustic silo]

yeah this is p much how isef functions

[prime briar]

my cope for deferral is that they actually do want to see my midyear grades lol

[rustic silo]

they should separate mentored and nonmentored into divisions

[prime briar]

they already have a mentor form but it's difficult to enforce

[spice willow]

Down with ISEF

[uneven crag]

I loved ISEF ngl

[fallen moon]

realest way to make isef fair

[spice willow]

Down with all olympiads

[uneven crag]

I wanna do it again this year

[rustic silo]

isef isn’t even a college pipeline anyways anymore

[topaz creek]

as a poor bum i have to grind my ass of for olympiads to hold a candle

[rustic silo]

research meta failing

[fallen moon]

yes lets remove the olympiads 🤩

[uneven crag]

NOOOO

[worthy bolt]

help the two ppl who got into harvard from my school… they swapped dads so that they could get the other’s lab and they both qualified for isef

[red prawn]

Real

[uneven crag]

IT WAS CARRYING MY APP

[red prawn]

Nobody at my school even qualified for AIME this year lmao

[prime briar]

[potent peak]

Honestly when u think abt it every part of a college app needs money and privilege

[rustic silo]

speech + debate on top that meta is still so real

[spice willow]

wdym my pay to win research/ wikipedia research didnt net me an ivy 😂

[spice willow]

sure

i dont like olympaids because of the a2cer olympiad demographic

[topaz creek]

i cold emailed my way into a labhand position

[red prawn]

That's the argument being made for the SAT rn

[topaz creek]

literally titration 24/7

[prime briar]

nah this is so facts though like the top speech/debate kids from my school got into their top choices but STEM kids got obliterated

[potent peak]

But honestly it goes for everything

[red prawn]

Like, people were mad that the SAT correlated with family income/resources

[fallen moon]

its giving gaokao

[rustic silo]

just came back from the harvard invitational and 18/20 quarterfinalists in my event were committed to at least a t20 💀

[potent peak]

ECs and awards too

[red prawn]

But then everything else is also correlated with family income and resources

And even moreso than the SAT

💀

[potent peak]

Yeah

[red prawn]

So the conversation swung in the other direction

[topaz creek]

yeah my sat carrying

[uneven crag]

Yeah it makes me feel like I chose the wrong life path but I hope it works out RD lmfao

[topaz creek]

i love you sal khan

[rustic silo]

yeah because s+d isnt p2w

[potent peak]

Omg

So true

[red prawn]

I'm surprised I did well on the SAT tbh

[potent peak]

Wsdc kids especially

[red prawn]

I only signed up for the SAT last august

[topaz creek]

sd is sick

[rustic silo]

world schools debate is so funny

[red prawn]

Didn't give a shit before then 'cause I just thought I was gonna go to a UC or smth

and they're test blind

[prime briar]

but a lot of people i definitely know didn't p2w

including myself

[potent peak]

Wsdc kids from my country literally got into yale, oxford, penn

[rustic silo]

OO and LD are the real pipeline events though

[prime briar]

the bad apples gotta ruin it for the rest of us

[worthy bolt]

I should’ve done s+d instead of mock trial 😭😭

[potent peak]

And the stem kids from ipho icho are like gasping air to get into berkeley

[hushed stone]

Art ppl unite

[topaz creek]

but u can still buy tutoring for s+d so it is still mildly p2w

[rustic silo]

bro every kid from my area that got into yale did speech and debate 😭

[topaz creek]

not as much as research tho gotta give it that

[rugged chasm]

yeah this is true but not in the way we perceive it to be

[fallen moon]

cx but i hate it moment

[topaz creek]

still need u know

talent

[potent peak]

What is up with speech and debate honestly 😭

[red prawn]

An EC list entirely full of hobbies 🔥

[red prawn]

My AP Lang teacher actually wanted me to go into speech and debate but I went

Nah

💀

[hushed stone]

REAL! Bro me walking into the commonapp, putting barely anything into scholarly awards while my art awards languish in the corner

[fallen moon]

"nah, i'd win"
actually wins

[topaz creek]

looking back i wish i did sd

[rugged chasm]

ah i see, then yeah those people deffo get their top choices, in a2c there is prob very few ppl at that level closest thing i think of is coke scholars in accordance to diana award

[topaz creek]

but alas

[potent peak]

Respect for the art kids

[fallen moon]

i do art but i didn't put it in my apps 😭

[rustic silo]

two main reasons:

1. requires insane skill at nat’l level and pretty much exclusively performs at HYP tournaments anyways
2. of course s+d kids will write banger essays

[fallen moon]

yo artists wanna exchange pieces

i'm curious to see ur styles

[rugged chasm]

well its the nobel peace prize for <18 those ppl have doen incredible stuff and great social impact

[hushed stone]

Tbh I think it’s a little goofy I was able to put my poetry awards there but not my art awards

[potent peak]

Right

[uneven crag]

Also STS it’s insanely hard to get

[prime briar]

s+d isn't p2w but it does seem to require a baseline ability to easily pay for travel tourneys and stuff

[red prawn]

https://youtu.be/I4hoJzPllDo?si=PxfW36OWmmYHcAv4

[hushed stone]

Do you have an insta 👀

[fallen moon]

nohhhh

[hushed stone]

NOOOOO

[rustic silo]

this is true. still more cost effective than shelling out thousands for paid mentoring

[red prawn]

I only put ap scholar for awards lmaooooo

[potent peak]

Wdyt abt high school hackathons held by unis? Is it p2w?

[topaz creek]

everything is p2w to an extent

[hushed stone]

I just put a bunch of poetry or smth. I don’t totally remember

[fallen moon]

my cx classmates flex going to debate camp...like bsfr bro debate camps do not matter

[topaz creek]

money is blood

[rustic silo]

i got hard carried by awards LMAO

[hushed stone]

What is p2w

[fallen moon]

pay2win

[potent peak]

I got carried by my condition and essays

[spice willow]

of course everything is p2w to an extent, but for some it's glaringly obvious

[hushed stone]

Ohhhh

[prime briar]

yeah idk how common or rare this is, i don't personally know anyone who does this but then again they prob wouldn't disclose it LOL

[red prawn]

Tbh I should've gotten more involved in art through HS

[potent peak]

I was so lucky

[rugged chasm]

yeah this is so real it will never get old tho the #1 debater got deferred from harvard, but still ive seen so much kids with debate their primary activity but they excel at the highest level

[spice willow]

like p2w research

[red prawn]

Kinda a large barrier of entry for digital art tho

[fallen moon]

yk what makes me glad

[red prawn]

Tablets + Programs like Clip Studio/Photoshop

they do be expensive

[fallen moon]

that so many things were pay2win
but i did everything i did by myself

[spice willow]

ibis paint carries

[red prawn]

I mostly involved myself in graphic design and 3d art lol

[worthy bolt]

piano p2w competitions 😱

[topaz creek]

same

[hushed stone]

I lowkey didn’t do it on purpose I just kinda woke up summer last year and went “why is my resume like this”

[topaz creek]

hate this shit

[red prawn]

Real

I was fucking scrambling to find something to put on my app

And then that's just how my ec list turned out

Buncha yappin' fr

[hushed stone]

Omg fellow digital artist!

[rustic silo]

NSDA finalists had an 80% ivy early rate last year LMAO

[hushed stone]

I digital arted

[fallen moon]

i forgor to apply for the scholastic awards 😭

[potent peak]

Drop the name!!

[hushed stone]

:((((

[red prawn]

I'm trying to get into digital art right now, like 2D digital art, but ngl rn I'm 💀

[worthy bolt]

American protege is the biggest

[hushed stone]

What program?

[prime briar]

oh wow

[red prawn]

My school gives me photoshop for free so I'm just using that

Lmao

[hushed stone]

Oh also, is it ok if I dm you?

[red prawn]

Learning curve'd 💀

[fallen moon]

yeye

thats why i sent u a friend req

[hushed stone]

That’s so real

[rugged chasm]

ong wsdc are insane and ppl who win toc, ippf, or peak t10 in PF NSDA

[hushed stone]

OOP I DIDNT CHECK SORRY IM A LITTLE SILLY

[fallen moon]

lol its okay dw

[vague oxide]

that's far too many acronyms for 1 sentence

[rustic silo]

my impromptu final round was 5 harvard and me

[red prawn]

I tried digitally painting a portrait yesterday but my values were so off that everything just looked wack 💀

[rugged chasm]

yes and it feeds to MIT

[red prawn]

Went too ambitious with that one 😔

[hushed stone]

I fake it till I make it with curves lol

[spice willow]

there r levels to a2c

[red prawn]

Real

[spice willow]

even with mod status i dont know any of those acronyms

[hushed stone]

Curves and color balance my loves

[rustic silo]

toc is only for debate though. nsda finals is free admission for speech events pretty much

[rugged chasm]

not rlly its more skillset tho usaco is p2w now

[potent peak]

Really???

[red prawn]

Tbh they're great for making final adjustments but it's also kinda a crutch

[potent peak]

I guess the real crackedness come from intl oly kids

Like imo

[red prawn]

'Cause ultimately the basics, like light and shadow, making sure to emphasize form, etc.

[rugged chasm]

yeah its crazy

[red prawn]

You can't really BS that

[fallen moon]

know 2 sts 300s and i am certain it was nepotism

[prime briar]

wait usaco? rly?

[rustic silo]

it’s just s+d tournaments. NSDA (National Speech and Debate Association) and TOC (Tournament of Champions) are the big tournaments

[rugged chasm]

expected lol

[rugged chasm]

yeah bro look at dms

[prime briar]

oh is it cuz you can like pay someone to give you the answers live

[spice willow]

no i dont want to know

tainted my mind bruh

[potent peak]

Does the TOC has any relations to the wsc

[rugged chasm]

yuh

[rustic silo]

no it’s different. toc only gets prestige because it’s relatively hard to qualify

you need two bids by doing well at legit tournaments

[gusty kernel]

Olympiad are so much less p2w/resource reliant than literally anything else

[potent peak]

Ah