Stanford University (2023-2024)

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Ngl these essays are really fun

[harsh sentinel]

fr

[coral wyvern]

starting mine today.... I'm way behind

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Dw I started yesterday and wrote 4 of them

[pine rain]

14 days till my stanford deadline

😭

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gl!!

[calm condor]

same ;-;

[coral wyvern]

i'm doing it no more

just found out a competitive dude in my class is also applying REA....might as well take a leave here lol 😐

[clever grove]

Noooo

How are you a highschool grad

[coral wyvern]

I'm taking a gap year... I'm an int'l student

So i completed last year October

[harsh sentinel]

wait how

[pine rain]

arts portfolio

[harsh sentinel]

ohhhhhhhhh

glgl

[pine rain]

already preparing for my rejection

oh well

[cloud star]

You can’t have that mentality

I’ll manifest an acceptance for you!!!

Dw

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Aww

[calm condor]

SAME

💀 my counselor wrote her rec letter in like 2 ish hours

[jolly summit]

im just applying to Stanford because a bunch of my friends are

like only one kid from my school in the past 7 years or something has gotten in

and he turned it down for Harvard

will not be surprised at all when I’m rejected

[calm condor]

i mean yeah?

[dapper gale]

Woohoo submitted my rea app!

No going back now 🙃

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Congrats!

[harsh sentinel]

damn this early? very cool

[dapper gale]

Thanks! And yes, I finished all my essays by now even for RD (besides MIT & Caltech because I’m procrastinating hard on them…)’! I grinded during the summer lol

[dapper gale]

Tyy!

[harsh sentinel]

damn you on that grind

manifesting your dream schools for you

[dapper gale]

Tyy and you as well 😇

[pine rain]

are you submitting an arts portfolio?

i cannot imagine submitting that early

i would get so much anxiety

[dapper gale]

No I just finished my supps for Stanford by Aug 3rd and spent the rest of the time sending to my parents, the professor I work with, etc and getting feedback

Felt it was ready so I submitted!

(and yes I wrote all the supps within 2 days as I said I grinded during that final month..)

[pine rain]

all the supps for stanford?

or for all your schools

[dapper gale]

Stanford! But I finished all the schools minus 2 by the end of summer

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Hi

channel been dead

[calm condor]

si

i see that ur stressed too

[pine rain]

So am i

Also depressed

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Trying to decide between Yale & Stanford REA
Acceptance rates for both are pretty similar
10%
Trying to apply to the one that is most likely gonna accept me
Since they are looking for different traits
Could I PM someone my application? For advice on where to REA

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the chances of getting in rea for both is the same as rd

unless you're a legacy or recruited athlete

for yale its confirmed to be even harder to get into than rd

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REA is harder to get into for Yale?

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according to one of their articles yeah

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Oh ok

Do you know what characterstics both the schools are looking for?

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both are pretty much the same as rd

so whatever the rd acceptance rate is thats gonna be the rea acceptance rate

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so ultimately just apply to whatever you wanna go to more

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Oh great thanks

Any ones that aren't explicitly mentioned?

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nope

it also comes down to like fit too

but

thats what theyre looking for in students

who will align with those values

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Wdym fit?

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like

just the type of people they need in the incoming class

ex: they dont want the entirety of the class to be cs majors so they look for people with other majors too

[vagrant bloom]

Ok, thanks

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how many schools did you apply to?

[dapper gale]

22!

[flint umbra]

Wow, you’re so ahead

[lusty magnet]

lowkey skeptical

any essay can be improved 💀

also what id do if i was actually deadass done with anything is just find hella schools with no app fee

and apply to like 100

😂

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how did you have the essays done when the diversity supp wasnt released until aug 1

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I finished them end of August? And I am not writing the diversity supp

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oh wait

when does ur summer end

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Ofc I haven't submitted all of them yet! Waiting for my parents to look thru some. Submitted 4 of em

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Sept 1

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oh makes sense

[dapper gale]

You?

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oh

like

august

mid

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I ran out of common app space or I would 😦

A lot of essays are so repetitive: "what unique things will you bring" "what's your fav extra curricular" "what's your identity"

So if you take the baseline and retool it to fit w whatever college it's fairly easy imo

Stanford was the one I started with that day Aug 1 which is great since a lot of its essays can be somewhat reused

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yeah ive reused the what makes you excited to learn

one

a lot

but tbh most of my essays have been new stuff

like all my columbia ones are just entirely new material

[dapper gale]

Omg same and mine has a memorable starting line so whenever my parents see it they're internally groan from how often it appears

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however i did epc so im just copying and pasting it

[dapper gale]

Me too I had to completely redo Columbia

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since i got in

so i think my supps are good(ish) enough

from epc

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yale and penn too right?

pretty much every ivy league besides dartmouth (which im now not even applying to) ive had to work hard on

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Harvard I retooled the roommate essay from Stanford for theirs

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harvard has too many supps im not even applying

i might not even apply to princeton tbh

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Penn im applying to LSM where I expanded immensely on the intellectual experience from Stanford

[dapper gale]

Princeton was low-key annoying since almost nothing I had previously written worked

[dusty trench]

and get rejected from all

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@dim badge your theory of rea being harder might be correct if this is real https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/yye6zx/stanford_admissions_file_takeaways/

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It is if ur average Joe. Also even if ur qualified as for regular admission u still have a high chance of rejection because of their policy

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tbh the only one it helps is legacy and recruited athletes, which are just more than the average joe

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i think they might just defer you if you're not a clear admit rea

if that makes sense

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theyll deny you too

bc of their final decision philosophy

[pine rain]

wdym

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like they prefer to give final decisions

so some people who couldve been admit material also get denied

its fucked

[pine rain]

don't they defer a decent amount of the pool

like 10-15%?

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yea but think of all the highly qualified people that make it up

[calm condor]

^

[gaunt flame]

hello

[rare herald]

hi!

[gaunt flame]

i don’t go to stan but just want to see you guys panic

so i decided to join

is this rea and rd channel combined?

[rare herald]

yea!

[gaunt flame]

nope

o

[rare herald]

lmao

[gaunt flame]

gl to you guys who did rea

[rare herald]

imo wait for the rea decision release date

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stan is a really nice school

my friend goes there rn

[gaunt flame]

ye

also looking forward to seeing the stanford 28s

[flint umbra]

yes i believe

[calm condor]

.-. watch everyone who is not in this thread get accepted

[oak leaf]

Thread isnt a pre requisite lmao

[calm condor]

ik lol

[pseudo gate]

Stanford AO is watching this thread

[nova ruin]

Harvard better

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pretty much all of us in this channel are stem and harvard is mid for that

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cs*

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tbh surprisingly not lmao, i wanna do mat sci and two of the actives here wanna do tech and society

@pine rain r u doing cs

[pine rain]

No

I want to do data science

[pine rain]

Wrong

Harvard math stats and physics are good

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not better than stanford

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Hey guys

[pine rain]

In reality i probably dont have data science at heart

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Any Coca Cola Semfinalists here?

[pine rain]

But i dont know what else to put

[pine rain]

Yea?

Coke semis is kind of a crapshoot tho tbh

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billert how many hours did u put

i heard i was supposed to put 1000

[pine rain]

Like 700 ish?

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Is it worth putting as a honor?

[pine rain]

Idk bro

I’m not

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Not sure how AOs consider it

Why not?

[pine rain]

I feel like it doesn’t say anything about you or your interests

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its automated

[pine rain]

Yea exactly

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Should I not put it then?

[pine rain]

I mean

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coke finalist def put

[pine rain]

What else do you have

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if u have nothing else

[pine rain]

I’m putting my research publication as an international honor

My international conference award as one

Then my olympiad achievements (2 of them)

And then a music award

[vagrant bloom]

Shoudl I talk out merit semifinalist

[pine rain]

Replace NMS with coke

[vagrant bloom]

Ok will do

Thanks

Are yall done with your essays yet?

For stanford

[pine rain]

Yep

Mine are due the 15th

So i kind of have to be done

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Oooh for the music supplemet?

[pine rain]

Yup

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Do you plan on majoring in music?

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im submitting mine tn

[pine rain]

No

[pine rain]

Wanna trade after we submit

[vagrant bloom]

Trade what

I'm submitting mine tonight

As well

[pine rain]

Submitting mine on the 14th

[vagrant bloom]

Ah ok

[pine rain]

I need to put my portfolio together and get my teacher to check it

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sure

[vagrant bloom]

Are we trading applications or smth?

[calm condor]

It’s an algorithm thus how they quickly chose semi finalists

[pine rain]

I trust brandon

[pine rain]

I know

Thats why i said its a crapshoot

[calm condor]

Lol

[pine rain]

I still think it’s merit based though

[vagrant bloom]

Wait whats the point of trading apps

[pine rain]

I mean after all

An algorithm is the most objective u can get

[pine rain]

We’re friends on discord

[calm condor]

True

[pine rain]

For like a long time

[vagrant bloom]

Oh ok

Could I trade as well

[pine rain]

Like as long as you didn’t lie about shit

[pine rain]

No

[vagrant bloom]

Once I'm done submitting

[pine rain]

I dont know you well enough

To do that

If that makes sense

[calm condor]

Yeah that’s the thing lol people can embellish

[gaunt flame]

would you guys send more apps if you get in REA?

🤔

[calm condor]

No

[vagrant bloom]

Yeah

[pine rain]

Yea

[vagrant bloom]

Sending in Harvard & MIT

[calm condor]

Wait we can apply twice?

[pine rain]

I would also apply to MIT and Harvars and Princeton

[pine rain]

To other colleges

[calm condor]

Ohhhh I’m stupid I thought u meant Stanford twice lol

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columbia at the very least

i loved it

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Which one would you take

[vagrant bloom]

What are you applying as brandom

[calm condor]

Can’t do rea to those??

[gaunt flame]

Assuming you get into all

[pine rain]

I would have to visit them and research more

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maybe yale too

[vagrant bloom]

If i get into Stanford REA I would RD them

Either way

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yeah, that’s fair ig

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princeton for fin aid negotiation

[pine rain]

I just think top 5 schools have the best opportunities career wise

For almost anything you want to do

And i want to keep my options open

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id argue columbia has great opportunities on their level

its in new york

[vagrant bloom]

I thought columbia was more for humanites

Not stem

[gaunt flame]

Seas is good

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eng is crazy there

[calm condor]

Upenn = really good bioengineering > Princeton and Columbia in my opinion

[calm condor]

I heard people say the graduation rate for it is low though

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u doing bme?

[vagrant bloom]

Wait j crious but what sort of ECs do yall have

[gaunt flame]

yeah, I think that’s fair

[calm condor]

Yeah

[vagrant bloom]

Is anyone into research?

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not a concern of mine

im getting through if i get in

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I think you’re gonna get into all 5 billet

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same

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I don’t spend much time in the general chats but from I heard it seems like a good shot

[pine rain]

Are you stanford frosh

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i think youll get at least princeton or yale

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Nah, I go to harvard

[pine rain]

Nah dude

Im not confident at all

These admissions things are always a crapshoot

[gaunt flame]

Hmm

I think that’s true but usually the cracked people end up in the right places

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did u see what i said about columbias tip on admission

their #1 question is "is this person nice?"

[pine rain]

i did not see that

i do assume that that's the question they ask

i wrote about it in one of my essays

[pseudo gate]

Is that why you ended up at Harvard

[pine rain]

someone that is mean and super smart is dangerous

[gaunt flame]

I know Stanford has a good data science program or something, one of my friends is interested in data sci and he’s a fresh at stan

[pine rain]

wait

hold on

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ya its really good

[pine rain]

is his name patrick by any chance

just wondering

lol

[gaunt flame]

Nah

It’s from a random hs

you don’t know him

[pine rain]

oh wait my ass thought you were in stanford after u just said u were in harvard

my bad

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out of anyone who i think will get into stanford its u billert

[gaunt flame]

Luck

[pine rain]

i think it's u lol

u got the legacy and stats and ecs to back it up

my ecs are lacking

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theyre insane

[pine rain]

i heard they like to see leadership positions but i don't have many

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wym

[pine rain]

i have one vice president position i'm putting on my application

and then the math competition that i run

[vagrant bloom]

Brandon are you cracked

[real herald]

Just sum light tho 😭

Brandon might be him

[pine rain]

i feel like they like to see quantity

[real herald]

Nah

Quality fs

[pine rain]

like

my ass is not going to compare to someone who made 6 clubs and is the president of them

in leadership

[gaunt flame]

Are you from the bay?

[pine rain]

no

i live by a cornfield

[real herald]

Is ur top ec like some comp/research/passion project

[gaunt flame]

Idt it matters

[pine rain]

it's my math competition

[gaunt flame]

Leadership is jackshit kinda

[real herald]

You create a math comp

[pine rain]

im pretty proud of it ngl

[gaunt flame]

Just be good at a few things

[real herald]

I disagree

[pine rain]

we have 4 thousand members

[real herald]

WTF

[pine rain]

and get 2 thousand participants annually

[real herald]

Dawg ur def cracked lmao

I tuff EC is all u need

4k is wild

[pine rain]

most of the participation is not due to me though

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SEE BRUH

[pine rain]

we got some cracked problem writers on borad

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i told you hes insane

[real herald]

Did u partner with an org

[pine rain]

what does I tuff EC mean

[pine rain]

technically yea so that we could get financial backing

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tuff

strong

[pine rain]

i think it also gives us 501c3 status

[real herald]

1 tuff EC = one standout or unique activity

Far better than president of 6 clubs

[pine rain]

hold on can u see if the description is good

i want to sanity check

[real herald]

All my ecs are local

[pine rain]

actually i'll just ask brandon in dm

[real herald]

So not cracked

Atp I'll be happy at state school

Can't compete with u mfs no more

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ur state school is goated bruh

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REAL

im scared i havent done very many supps 💔

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MAN SHUTCHO DOUBLE LEGACY AHH UP

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THAT WONT SAVE ME IF MY SUPPS ARE BAD

[real herald]

Go longhorns 🤘

[real herald]

AT LEAST U HAVE SMTH

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bri

s family

has a

bad history

with stanford

[real herald]

Brandon u have legacy too 😭

[narrow pendant]

WHAT R U ON ABOUT

bros spreading misinformation

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ask them

about

"joe mama"

[real herald]

Jajaja

Guys I'm seriously reconsidering my list

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dont

[real herald]

25 might be a teensy bit too many

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oh

[real herald]

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yesd

do

[real herald]

My goal is 10 by the end of this week

I have no school this week

Fall Break 😻🙏

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25???

holy moly

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bri

[narrow pendant]

bring that down bro

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I have no hooks

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u have 3 siblings irhg

t

[real herald]

Just time to waste

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my cousin applied to 24 tho 💀

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most ppl dont

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yea 2 older 1 younger half

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how did they do

in terms of admission

the other girl ik thats legacy got waitlisted

[real herald]

Umich is killing me rn

[narrow pendant]

one got into nyu & rejected from stanny

he wanted to do music tech but stanny didnt have it so his app was kinda bad for whatever he chose 💀

the other got waitlisted at stanny and mit but rejected in the end

[real herald]

Damn

Don't go 0/3

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istg

[real herald]

Ur parents didn't do allat for nothing

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every legacy ik

[real herald]

🙏

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also my cousins mom went to stanny and his dad went to stanny for masters & phd and he didnt get in

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has got waitlisted or rejected

[real herald]

Legacy kids get extra reader and still get rejected

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one brother got waitlisted then rejected and the other got rejected

[real herald]

Skill issue lmao

[narrow pendant]

none of them applied early tho 💀

[real herald]

Well that's stupid

[pine rain]

girl you are actually guaranteed

[real herald]

Legacy has larger boost for early

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i heard stanford has higher expectations for legacy

[pine rain]

there ain't no way

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my cousin got into yale & columbia tho so i think it was fine 💀

[pine rain]

im pretty sure you get a 3 times boost

[real herald]

Blud

[pine rain]

i dont know what you do but u sound pretty cracked

[real herald]

Billers how many schools on ur list

[narrow pendant]

a lot of my fam went to stanford bc my grandma thought stanford and harvard were the onnly good colleges

[real herald]

Lmfao

[pine rain]

like 17-18 ish

[pine rain]

bro i want to meet your parents irl

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me and bri have the same t3 schools

[real herald]

Ed?

[pine rain]

rea

[real herald]

Which

[narrow pendant]

u scare me

[pine rain]

wdym

[narrow pendant]

theyre pretty chill rn

[real herald]

Stanny yale or harvard

[narrow pendant]

my dad is in his dgaf era

[pine rain]

bro they sound like they are like

idk

[narrow pendant]

ur cracked asf

[pine rain]

i feel like they had similar childhoods to me

ngl

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billert ur easily the most cracked out of all of us

[narrow pendant]

ohhh

[real herald]

Billert really tryna act like he is one of us

[narrow pendant]

yea my mom had to study the sat from elementary 💀

[real herald]

WTF

Wait I kinda did that

Ngl

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WTF

[pine rain]

same

[narrow pendant]

i did not 😄

[real herald]

I did psat 4,5,6 th

[narrow pendant]

3rd kid who cares

[real herald]

Duke tip SAT 7th

[narrow pendant]

dam whqat

[wintry delta]

according to a duke study on harvard admissions, legacy students on their own have a 3x higher acceptance rate, and 9x higher with the legacy boost
notice this is harvard and not stanford but still similar

[narrow pendant]

i just did that duke tip thing

[real herald]

I still remember my dad wanted me to get a 1500

[pine rain]

what does the 9x mean

[real herald]

He drilled it into my head

[dim badge]

in 10th grade i wasnt even thinking about applying to any ivies tbh

[pine rain]

do you mean legacy students are 3x lses qualified?

[real herald]

Blud I was in 7th 😭😭

[narrow pendant]

oh damn

[wintry delta]

9x compared to the standard acceptance rate

[pine rain]

bro i got a 1440

[real herald]

My friend did too

[pine rain]

what is the 3x then

[real herald]

I got 1320

And cried

Bc I thought I was a failure

[wintry delta]

3x means legacy students have 3x the normal admissions rate if legacy wasnt a factor

[pine rain]

bro itw as my first time taking the sat ever

i got yelled at cuz i didn't study

[real herald]

Same

[narrow pendant]

3x higher acceptance rate than the avg person

[pine rain]

they made me study AFTER i took the sat

[real herald]

What's ur current SAT

[pine rain]

1590

[narrow pendant]

my sat went so bootycheeks

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bri have ur parents contributed

[narrow pendant]

i can never foxus in the testing room

[real herald]

Smh only 150 pt increase in 5 years

What is blud doing

[narrow pendant]

theyve been donating forever idk

my mom always gets the mail thats like "pls send us money 🙏 "

[real herald]

What's ur SAT bri

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ok

yeah

youll have a boost

my dad dont donate

[real herald]

Fs

But her parents donated and siblings still got rejexted

Bri sounds cracked tho

[dim badge]

she is i think

[narrow pendant]

wghy not

[narrow pendant]

1530 💀

[wintry delta]

wtf legacy and donor

[real herald]

Blud u said ur SAT was bootycheeks

[dim badge]

we're middle class

[real herald]

Stop lying

[narrow pendant]

weve been joking that my oldest brother got rejected and middle got waitlisted so ill get accepted

[wintry delta]

i think princeton sent our family two "annual giving" letters with envelopes inside but we dont donate

[narrow pendant]

the donations are compounding 😈

[real herald]

Princeton legacy? Oh nah

I'm actually done

Why are there so many legacy mfs here

[narrow pendant]

it is for my family 💔

[real herald]

LEAVE

[wintry delta]

welcome to a2c

[real herald]

Why

[narrow pendant]

ohhh that makes sense

[real herald]

What did they want

I got a 1550 but my dad wanted 1560

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in fact i even grew up low income for some parts of my life

[narrow pendant]

princeton seems too preppy for me ngl

[real herald]

I'll never be enough

[dim badge]

my sat is 1450 lmao

[narrow pendant]

me asf

BUT U ARE DW

ur def cracked

[wintry delta]

my dad was unenmployed because he got denied tenure (from when i was ~7 to ~14)

[narrow pendant]

rlly?? what job does ur dad have

[real herald]

Guys just cut my list down to 7 schools (all ea rolling that I'm p much done with)

[narrow pendant]

dam

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used to be a school counselor

[narrow pendant]

my dad got rejected from med school first try

[real herald]

Far from it lmao

[narrow pendant]

my mom got in tho so he took a gap yr

[real herald]

All my shit is local

None of that Intl award

Billert type stuff

[wintry delta]

!billert

[meager eagle]

https://i.imgur.com/lxktZs7.png

[wintry delta]

i dont have intl awards lmao

[narrow pendant]

ohh that job sounds super stressful ngl

[real herald]

Not u

The mod billert

[narrow pendant]

same

[real herald]

Idk if he does either

Bit his EC is wilc

[narrow pendant]

i have one national award and its kinda lame 💀

[real herald]

Wild

[wintry delta]

im just a weird artsy stem random

[real herald]

National merit semifinalist 😭

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im just cracked in the sense that nobody is doing the same ecs as me

[real herald]

I'm ashamed to say it

[narrow pendant]

LOL

i didnt qualify 💀

i fell asleep during the math section ngl

[wintry delta]

my two actual competitive awards are 2nd place at tsa state for an event & making all-region full orch (TX) and all state orch (KY)

[real herald]

AP Scholar, pvsa, nmsf, Eagle scout

Guys in the 90s I'd be him

All I need is a Varsity letter

😭

[wintry delta]

one of my friends is a recruited athelete but for a d3 school

[real herald]

Pretend I'm a 3 sport Varsity athlete

[dim badge]

ivy conference participant and ap scholar are like my only awards

[narrow pendant]

LMFAOOO

u are him trust

[real herald]

I'm the dream American child of the 90s

[narrow pendant]

3 sport is crazy

im a one sport wonder

[real herald]

Maxed out the most basic shit

[real herald]

Nah I said pretend bro I'm ass at sports

[dim badge]

my dad got into stanford with a 2.8 but went beastmode senior year

[real herald]

I love sports sm but I'm not talented

[narrow pendant]

LOLLL

[real herald]

I grew a lot and couldn't change my playstyle

Height change was wild

[narrow pendant]

swim and track are ez tho

just takes practice

[dim badge]

depends on the event

[narrow pendant]

WHATTT

[real herald]

I played lots before covid then grew 9 inches and couldn't switch up

[dim badge]

he took a postgrad year at like exeter tho

[real herald]

My playstyles

[narrow pendant]

50 free & 800m seem like the easyt one

[wintry delta]

my mom couldnt afford to eat at restaraunts when she was little and now she makes 2-3x as much as my dad

[narrow pendant]

WHAT

[real herald]

GPA maxing

[narrow pendant]

dam i wish i grew that much during covid

[real herald]

5'4 in 8th bro

[narrow pendant]

RESPECT

thats not even that bad

[dim badge]

k bye

i dip

[real herald]

For my family it is

Adios

[dim badge]

crazy

ur only a bit taller than bri

[real herald]

Thankfully my genes kicked in

[dim badge]

she's 4'0

[real herald]

I'm not 5'4 anymore lmfao

[narrow pendant]

WHAT THE HELL

dude what are these accusations

[dim badge]

shut up gremlin

[narrow pendant]

im actually 7 ft tall

[real herald]

Bri is my short queen

Short kings up? Nah

Tiny queens up

[dim badge]

Bri is a shortie

[narrow pendant]

WHEN DID THIS CONVO DEVOLVE

INTO SLANDER

tall queens (me) 👑

[real herald]

Slander? This is praise

[dim badge]

wsg shortie

[real herald]

Wsg lil bri

[dim badge]

Lil baby

[real herald]

Nahhh

Lil sis

[dim badge]

Oh my

[narrow pendant]

ruby save me pls

[dim badge]

Hi bri bae

[narrow pendant]

we were talking abotu stanford and smth happened

HIIII

[dim badge]

What happened

[narrow pendant]

aint no way

they mentioned height 🤯

immediate slander on my name

[dim badge]

Bri 6’2

[dim badge]

lil bro

[real herald]

Hi ruby

Long time no talk

[dim badge]

Hi kvd

[narrow pendant]

FFACTS

[real herald]

#🛩-lounge-chat please!

[dim badge]

Real

[real herald]

[narrow pendant]

#🛩-lounge-chat 🧹

[dim badge]

Bri is my queen

Bri what are your opinions on 5'2 guys

[dim badge]

💀

[narrow pendant]

i dated one it didnt go well

so its a no 🙅‍♀️

[dim badge]

NO WAY BRI

[narrow pendant]

RUBY ILY

PLS

IT WAS A DARK MOMENT

[real herald]

Wtf lmao

5'2 is wild

[dim badge]

Concerned for you girlie

[narrow pendant]

this is my reasoning for being anti short guy

[narrow pendant]

never again its fine 👑

[real herald]

But dude was prolly towering over u

[dim badge]

Shorter than me that says something

[narrow pendant]

no bro we were samae height

[real herald]

How can u tell the difference between 5'7 and 6'0

Aren't they both giants

[dim badge]

Dang you’re short

[narrow pendant]

i dont rlly

if i reach someones shoulder ik theyre a foot taller

[dim badge]

How much taller was he than you

[narrow pendant]

thats usually my measurement

[narrow pendant]

like an inch taller 💀

[dim badge]

thats crazy

[narrow pendant]

avg tbh

[dim badge]

ur only 4'0

[dim badge]

Idk about bro but I can tell easily

[dim badge]

No

You’re below

[real herald]

Guy please use #🛩-lounge-chat we can happily discuss height there 😊😊

[narrow pendant]

bro cant do math

[dim badge]

i'm 6'2 but rounding up im 6'3 and 3 is an odd number so im 6'4

[narrow pendant]

my bad! ill go there in a jiffy!

[narrow jacinth]

#🛩-lounge-chat

[dim badge]

6’4 is too tall

[narrow pendant]

KRISPEE WHY ARE U MAD

anyone over 6'3 is not real

alien

[dim badge]

Krispee hi bar

[narrow jacinth]

If you keep talking about your height you’re not getting into Stanford

Hai guys

[dim badge]

i am (unlikely)

[narrow pendant]

yikes

alien behavior

[dim badge]

No Fr

Imagine being 6’2

[dim badge]

gremlin shenanigans

[narrow jacinth]

Collin kept telling me to go to sleep

[narrow jacinth]

No fr

[dim badge]

Krispee you give off 5’3 vibes

[real herald]

7'1 is perfect height (no bias fr)

[narrow jacinth]

Ok guys remember its Stanford not STANDford :) idc how you all stand just not in here

[narrow pendant]

u need good sleep

krispee shorter than me

[narrow pendant]

what

[narrow jacinth]

Im going insane

[narrow pendant]

sleep = peace

[dim badge]

STAR PLATINUM

[dim badge]

Hahaha so funny

ZA HANDO

[narrow pendant]

bro whatt is going on

[dim badge]

Do you not get the joke 😭

[dim badge]

the world

[real herald]

#🛩-lounge-chat

[dim badge]

Are your usc supps done

[narrow pendant]

whats za hando

[vagrant bloom]

Hey

Can I DM someone about REA?

[pine rain]

No chancemes if thats what ur asking for

[vagrant bloom]

Have some questions that are specific to my app

No chanceme lmfao

But still a bit personalized

How do I self report dual enrollment coureseS?

[real herald]

Yes!

Still working on umich and gtown this week tho

Wbu

[pine rain]

It’s joever

[pine rain]

My friends did additional info

[dim badge]

WWW

[dim badge]

I’m like done but I don’t like them 💀

[dim badge]

you can

[pine rain]

it's so joever

[worldly pagoda]

stanford doesn’t admit by major right?

[narrow jacinth]

No

[worldly pagoda]

Bet

Also for any of you guys that got coke semi finalist, are y’all reporting it in honors or nah

[wintry delta]

what happened

[dusty trench]

its so joever

[pine rain]

Nah

I put it in additional info

[dusky pumice]

pweese let me in >w<

[cloud star]

700 hours of what?

[dim badge]

@pine rain submitting

[cloud star]

You guys are all like, insane

Very discouraging to apply but ima do it anyways

[wintry delta]

good luck

[calm condor]

feel the same here bro.

[nova ruin]

Bro is ISEF💀

[nova ruin]

Bro is HIM

[rare herald]

this is who im competing against

[pine rain]

michelle you're fine

you're considered in context of your peers

and background

[calm condor]

watch based say he's from the rural parts of murica

[nova ruin]

Like gurllll😭

[rare herald]

yea?

[rare herald]

bro i basically have local awards??

[nova ruin]

Idt honors/awards are really so important unless it’s ISEF or Olympiads

[rare herald]

like 2 local (small town awards), 1 national but not presitgous and 1 honor society

[nova ruin]

Honor society saving lives

[nova ruin]

IMPACT (town awards fr!)

[rare herald]

i live in a town w less than 10k ppl

[nova ruin]

Community essay gonna hit hard

[dim badge]

i dont think hes in ur region

plus different field anyways

[calm condor]

i mean they don't look at field?

[vagrant bloom]

Nah I go to private school in urban area

[pseudo gate]

Ik someone that goes to your school and is 2x ISEF Grand Finalist + Nobel prize winner

Yeah

[calm condor]

i mean some don't fake passion and actually work hard. its just that maybe they have access to stuff we don't like labs

[dim badge]

i know they dont but she has equivalent level ecs in her field

[calm condor]

Kk

[dusty trench]

wow stanford accepts one person a year? 😐

ur fine brandon ur hella cracke

[calm condor]

^

[civic breach]

Mathematics surrounds me

[calm condor]

.-.

[dim badge]

u right

[rare herald]

i dont rlly think this is true

[dim badge]

YES U DO BRUH

[rare herald]

state-level ec's max, literally nothing on the natl level that is on my app atm

and i have community awards mainly

not being humble or anything

[dim badge]

bro wrote a bill

[calm condor]

wait what.

damn...

[solid dragon]

wtf is up with this thread

all ive done in my highschool career is like attend national tournaments for debates and like a few speech related activities

and like a leadership role or two i guess??

im mostly relying on my grades to back me up honest to God

[calm condor]

damn at least you have national stuff

[solid dragon]

for stanford im sure thats a low bar lol

[calm condor]

tru.

but debate :D

[solid dragon]

:D (;-;)

[calm condor]

;-;

[dim badge]

its just the reality of the stanford rea pool

most if not all of us will be rejected tho so

[calm condor]

i mean at a certain point, we're all in the gray area

not the best

not the worst

so our essays need to stand out

[dim badge]

when it comes to personalities most of us are not in the grey area 🔥🔥

[calm condor]

real

same here.

[solid dragon]

if you dont get into REA, then are you pushed into the RD pool automatically

[dim badge]

no you get rejected if you dont get in rea

only like 10% of people get deferred or something

[clever grove]

Not necessarily. If you get deferred, you are pushed into the RD pool. There are 3 potential outcomes of your REA application:
Accepted
Rejected
Deferred (Pushed to RD Pool)

[dim badge]

yep thats why people say rea is harder

not only are you up against waves of legacies and donors but some of the most qualified applicants who've trained for stanford since birth

in a pool you could get very much rejected in

[dim badge]

tbh if you get deferred you're in relatively good shape

deferral rd acceptance rate is higher than just normal rd

[clever grove]

Really?

Is that from their CDS?

[dim badge]

thats what salami said ask him for the sources

he's done the research

[dim badge]

this is all i can find

[native loom]

“congrats that you got deferred” lmao

[dim badge]

its slightly higher

they don't release it anymoer

but ppl think its at least above 10%

[pine rain]

i mean at least they don't get rejected

[calm condor]

honestly im a celebrate if i get deferred.

[harsh sentinel]

my friend got deferred then rejected lol

[calm condor]

better than getting rejected before deferred

[vagrant bloom]

How did you guys answer the 5 things important to you prompt

[calm condor]

list 5 things, short explaination why

[vagrant bloom]

Is it alright if I use somehitn abstract?

Like maybe a feeling

[dim badge]

Yeah

[calm condor]

:D just submitted my arts portfolio

[dim badge]

Yay!

[pine rain]

SAME

GL

GLGL

[calm condor]

U too

[dapper gale]

Does Stanford allow sending a research portfolio/paper/etc

[pine rain]

They allow an arts portfolio

Not a research portfolio as far as i know

Yale does though

[dim badge]

no

[foggy mauve]

how are the stanford wannabes doing

[foggy mauve]

no research portfolio

[real herald]

Idk you and your classmates should know seeing you go to Berkeley

Berk = stanny reject college

[oak leaf]

LOL

[calm condor]

damnnn

ngl. we could be joining them.

[foggy mauve]

Roughly half of you probably will be

[foggy mauve]

More or less true

[flint umbra]

bfr 😭 ya'll love to troll

[vagrant bloom]

Is it bad that I didn't submit a music supplement

I've won a couple of comps but didn't want to submit my music supplement cause the deadlien was too soon

Will they look down on my app because of that

Also music isn't a huge part of my application

[foggy mauve]

No

Unless you’re literally world class it wouldn’t have mattered anyways

[vagrant bloom]

Ok thx

[calm condor]

Lol yeah a couple competitions probably not enough too

.-. They take resumes

[dim badge]

does it even help though unless ur like business

[calm condor]

No I meant music

Or arts portfolio

[vagrant bloom]

Can someone read my common app tonight plzzz

J need some advice on ec descriptions

And additional section

[pine rain]

let me send u smth

https://admissions.yale.edu/podcast-transcripts go to episode 10 and reaad the transcript

[pine rain]

ill read them if im not busy tn

[calm condor]

questions?

@dim badge

.-. boy dipped lol

[dim badge]

yo

[calm condor]

hey

[dim badge]

my thing was glitching like heck

one sec

[calm condor]

oh

lmao its fine

[dim badge]

okay I’m back

so like

ik you said you don’t wanna share your profile

but is it good

[calm condor]

uh i would say they're pretty good. not top rea ofc but above average rea applicant.

[dim badge]

you’re doing Rea right

[calm condor]

yeah

alreayd finished.

[dim badge]

damn

[calm condor]

music supplementals = about month early so have to submit

[dim badge]

you still have plenty of time till November 1st

[calm condor]

arts portfolios require you to submit by october 15th

[dim badge]

I havent started yet but I’ve been compiling info for like a month

ohhh

so like I’ve been looking around

and can’t seem to find a clear answer

does rea Stanford boost your chance

[calm condor]

no

they don't really share recent acceptance rates

[dim badge]

ok good

[calm condor]

but uh

doesnt boost

[dim badge]

I was stressed between choosing

[calm condor]

are u a legacy?

or athlete?

[dim badge]

my cousin went

but no

and no

[calm condor]

not relaly legacy lol

yeah okay

so same chances

[dim badge]

are you legacy?

[calm condor]

nah

[dim badge]

are you doing test optional

[calm condor]

nah. i already took the test

[dim badge]

can I guess your score

[calm condor]

;-; rather not share but ill just say above 1500

[dim badge]

bro

that’s like

[calm condor]

everyone

LOL

[dim badge]

i would kill for that score

NO

[calm condor]

oh

[calm condor]

i mean test optional makes it so that u have one less factor

[dim badge]

does test optional hurt u at a place like stanford

[calm condor]

in total, u have 6 factors

i don't think so

[dim badge]

Ok good

[calm condor]

it can help u but won't hurt

[dim badge]

is your gpa above 4.0

[calm condor]

.-. weighted gpa?

[dim badge]

unweighted

[calm condor]

our school doesn't allow unweighted to be above 4.0

[dim badge]

damn

so your unweighted is just 4.0?

[calm condor]

i would say tho. rea could hurt your chances if ur not careful

[calm condor]

yeah

[calm condor]

.-. stanford has a policy of final decision

[dim badge]

for Stanford specifically or just caltech

I mean

[calm condor]

so only 10% of rea applicants get deferred

[dim badge]

what

sorry

for Stanford only or colleges in general

[calm condor]

even if ur qualified as a regular decision application

[calm condor]

stanford

[dim badge]

ok good

[calm condor]

if u apply rea, u can get easily rejected

[dim badge]

I was stressing about whether to do rea or regular

but now I have a clear conscience

what are some of ur awards and honors

let me guess

Olympiad?

[calm condor]

lmao do u want me to talk about the 6 factors thing?

[dim badge]

sure

[calm condor]

;-; im not gonna explain my stuff lol

[dim badge]

ahhh I love stats

[calm condor]

sorry but uh i like to keep that private

[dim badge]

but that’s alright

nah you’re good

mb for asking

[calm condor]

kk

[dim badge]

I have a bad habit of asking that

[calm condor]

so u have 6 categories

each catgoery gets you a score from 1-6

1 the best

6 the worst

negatives are better than positives

so like 1- > 1+

wait nvm 5 categories

only music portfolios have 6

anyways

test, intellectuval vitality, rec letters, class rigor, and activiites

if u go test optional, u will have no number for that

[dim badge]

ooo

[calm condor]

ur graded in each and they take the average

if u got a 2.5 - 3 average that would be 2+ (average rea acceptee)

if you get 2- or below, typically accepted

if you have 1, ur almost guaranteed accepted

but uh their grading rubric is harsh

[dim badge]

it seems straightforward

[calm condor]

so i think for u, u will ahve 4 factors

[dim badge]

But my question is

yeah

why do so many get rejected

Like thousands

[calm condor]

not a lot of spots in the school

[dim badge]

with only 3% acceptance rate

[calm condor]

they can't exactly build a dormitory again (okay they can but they don't want to)

not the best use of money too. they use it on research, events, etc.

[dim badge]

this was a very educational 2am convo

[calm condor]

LOL

[dim badge]

I definitely noted the criteria you just described

the intellectual vitality is the one that I need to focus on ig

[calm condor]

i recommend uh jerry wei's admission files video for more info

[dim badge]

oh that guy

he tours all the schools

[calm condor]

he does??

[dim badge]

and makes this face in every thumbnail:

[calm condor]

he only made one video

.-.