Stanford University (2023-2024)

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I’m not that delulu 😭

Teacher showed me

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lucky you

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2/3 of them have showed me so Fr

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i probably could get my teachers to show me, but i'm the most curious about my counselor's (and i dont think she's ever gonna show me)

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I wouldn’t ask

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yeah ik

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My counselor didn’t show me either

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i wont

i have to say, though, she really helped me with my predicted grades and everything else, so i'm confident it'll be at least decently good

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W

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if you're cracked it's not

who is "colleagues"

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yup read my img above

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fellow school counselors prob

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he knows some people in the trade

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yeah but by cracked I mean like extremely good

Hm I see

As in admissions consultants

Or admissions officers

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not gon dox him but he worked at admissions at one point in time

dunno if fellow admissions consultants or AOs

probably? idk

ah

then

i wouldnt go for it

you saw what the colleague said

REA is a death knell

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If I get rejected nbd as I am not married to the idea of any school tbh

I don't have a dream school

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My friends parents worked at Stanford he wants to know if that is considered legacy?

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p sure not

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what are chances of getting off waitlist

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They ask on common app if any of your parents have ever been employed so does it mean anything

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no clue

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i am

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yes you get boost

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Good for you I hope you’re prepared for every scenario though!!

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i'm applying to 26 schools 😭

so thats my "real" confidence

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They could be considered a faculty child depending on what their parent did

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Real asf

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Not as big as legacy right?

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I think it may make marginal difference
Ie If youre on the cusp of being deferred they may take a second look and say “oh this person’s parent worked here, they’re more likely to come here, let’s defer instead of reject”

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i've already submitted 9/26

so i'm cooking

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Got it thanks 👍

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I’m so happy I grinded during the summer I wrote 20 apps 💀

But now I’m procrastinating on the final 3

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nah

stanford best supps

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Me when my dad works at a post grad school instead of undergrad 🔫

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I liked them tbh

They were fun to do

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They were the first ones I did

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my stanford supps wrote my michigan, purdue, USC, UIUC, Gtech

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Helped me sm for my other apps

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agreed

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One of my Stanford supps opening lines has appeared in almost every app

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my other supps suck compared to my stanford ones

cause its like frankstiened versions where i shove in words or cut stuff

but it like ruins them in a way

one of my USC supps

i copied 2 stanford 50 words

and half a 250 word

and called it a day

its like sort of good

but its like 3 different essays

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nah fr im straight recycling rn

i know that shit wont work then i get to ivy+

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nahh

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they all switch up the word counts and ask goofy prompts tho

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diversity essay recycling goes hard

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my community essay for umich is shit

so ima redo

cant use that as diversity

im the least diverse mf out there

🙏

thats what im so scared abt

aint no way ur alr doing rd supps

i got burnt out from ea 😭

yall gon see that 7/23 slowly become 20 then 18 then 15 then 13 😭

youre putting why us in your CAPS?

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if i get in stanford its because my essays are goated

if i get in anywhere else

its depsite my essays

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which school makes u do that lmao

ah ok

mfs straight stole common app prompt

im so glad i picked that one bro

used it for CAPS, national merit app, apply texas, ut, a&m, and georgetown

🙏

stanford

yes i love stanford

great school

dont know why im applying bc i realistically have no shot

yolo ig

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sup gang

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manifest

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yurrr wsg did u finish all ea

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submitted vandy neu and uiuc today !!

submitting uconn on nov 1st

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vandy rd

?

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and im set until january 😍

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yeah but their merit scholarships are due dec 1

and i cant access that until i submit

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which one did u pick

oh i see

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wym

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yea with emory/vandy i could do that

but im too lazy

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do it !

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and those are low

on my list

so

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Does common app have a 10 activities limit

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yes

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vandy merit scholarships are so good

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poop

I’ll just stick nhs in awards

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theres multiple ones such as cornelius vanderbilt scholarship but i think theres like 3 diff ones with diff prompts

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i only filled 9 💀

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ohhhh

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thats what i did

still couldnt include my poverty ahh job

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My EC’s are a little overpowered tbh

Awards are average

GPA above average

Rank average

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how many people get merit scholarships to vandy?

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ingram cornelius chancellors (im applying to all three)

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ok research robot

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Essays=gonna be stellar 😎

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not a lot

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thats so many essays bro

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spill

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vandy itself is hella tough imagine that even harder

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one of them is robotics president and I’m applying for stanny aerospace

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worth it if i get in

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fair

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ik someone that cornelius last year but turned it down

for prinecton i think

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thats literally the best one

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idt ive seen anyone get in bro every person gets WL at vandy istg

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what

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and I’m working with a house of rep

and I’m currently seeking a stem internship

so yeah hopefully that thats

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those sound good but im ngl ive seen all 3

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robotics prez at school?

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multiple times

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yeah

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seeking

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They’re not uncommon

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i think my school is a vandy feeder cuz we send so many people there a year

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thats wild

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even through we're public

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Yeah

Gonna see what I can get

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W

good luck!

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tyty

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how many schools yall applying to

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6

literally just six

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damn

are u doing ed

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Stanford, Caltech, Berkeley, UMich, UT and UNM

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no

ed is overrated

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sheesh

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None of these have any strategical advantage in terms of that

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tru tru

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I was gonna apply to ivies

But my dad said only do engineering schools since that’s what I want

So I was like oh well 🤷‍♂️

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i feel like ur hella cracked for some reason

prolly like an isef winner or smthn

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aww thanks 😅

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ehh not quite but I’ll make the most out of what I have

Mainly essays

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fax

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unm only safety?

also doing the UC app just for berk is insane

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and ut

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you should apply to some other UCs too

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I’m in a program that is auto admit for ut

yea

tbh

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ut engineering isnt a safety

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UCLA is nice

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even if youre auto

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i think UCLA is nicer than UCB anyways

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True

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I’m just targeting engineering specific schools

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ut instate is such a blessing fr

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and tbh I don’t really wanna go to Purdue or gatech

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yea but doing 4 250 word piqs for just berk is crazy

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…

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thats basically what you do for purdue

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have your parents offered to pay for berk?

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purdue honors college makes my wanna kms

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berk oos is about 320k

if that matters

ik for some ppl it doesnt

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nah

at this point

I’m ready to accept my student debt

cost isn’t a factor in selecting schools

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gotcha

ut instate is such an advantage tho

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and my parents couldn’t pay that if they lived a thousand lives

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I’m in a program that helps and oos thanks fully

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youre oos?

ut has an oos auto admission?

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no

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ive never heard of this before

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but there’s a program exclusive to my school

linked to a magnet school with a bunch of alumni

blablabla certain activity/course that certifies participation

basically auto admit

it’s complicated

but it’s guaranteed

but to be safe

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so youre 100% guaranteed right

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I’m adding a&m

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Yeah

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everyone in ur school

or a certain top kids

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any participant of the program and you need to maintain top marks to be in it

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cool cool

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the coordinator is ut alumni

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is it auto into ur major

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no

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or j the school

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Just the school

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oos tuiton?

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it is also linked to a current state house of rep and former professor of ut

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there are some links to scholarships but wouldn’t help as much as in state

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thats a killer

a huge advantage of ut is instate

privates are prolly better then

since they give more aid

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I just looked up A&M

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oos publics basically give nothing

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a&m is even worse for applying

yeah

especially engineering

miss when engineering acceptance rates were above 50% 😔

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I manifest that everyone here gets in 😊

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My friend got off vandy’s wl last year

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LET'S GOOOO

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Yay!

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Tfw I ended up talking about tomatoes in two of my short answers

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Lmao

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stanford cant look at sat by demographics anymore

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do they work rn

yes thats legacy

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no but hes an int'l student

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You do get legacy

It means you get an extra reader

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selecting certain majors gets you that too 🤯

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not in the same regard

they only rate an individual part of ur application

legacy is basically you get a third admissions officer, if the first two dont take you to conmittee

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Which majors?

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not sure

but it's humanities stuff

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Makes sense

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Wait how does this work

I thought it was one admissions officer per region

And then committee if you get past initial screen

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nah you get 3

everyone gets 2 initial readers

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Nah

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idk the source but ask @dim badge

ive never heard of humanities getting an extra one

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Nah my source is pretty good

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that you dont get 2?

bruh everyone gets 2 minimum

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That + the humanities bit

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what humanities lmao ive never heard of this

theres no way theyre giving people applying to humanities the same boost as legacy when theyre a school that doesnt admit by major

are u sure? that doesnt make sense at all since they dont admit by major

unless ur talking about how they review a specific component of ur application

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Not admitting by major is very misunderstood

And mostly cope by CS kids anyway 💀💀

Obviously your major is going to influence your application

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stanford is heavy cs

i might be wrong on that actually

but the vast majority are engineering/cs

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Idk what your point is

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they arent admitting a quota of cs majors

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I don’t see anyone saying they are

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what im trying to say is your major only influences your application in the context of your application and if you're ready for it. its more about fit

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What does that even mean

‘Only influences in the context of your application’

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like if you've taken the maximum amount of cs courses at ur school and done cs ecs

theyll take that into consideration

or you would be disadvantaged if u were to apply to humanities with no humanities ecs, rigor in humanities, or interest for humanities in essays

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Well yeah

They take everything into consideration

But idk how that relates to what you said

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what does it mean to admit by major

tell me

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Idk

But people think it means that the major you’re applying for doesn’t matter

When that is not the case

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what if my cousin went to stanfurd

and he already graduated

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it matters for in the aspect they expect that major to match to your story but your chances are virtually the same as if you were gonna apply to any other major with a profile that matches it

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Well no

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yes, its an example of correlation not causation

people in certain majors (ex: cs) just tend to do similar things and have similar personalities

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Which ones

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Maybe that’s an element of it, but stanford, for example, gives some majors an intentional boost

Which is very much causation

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Idk exactly

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source?

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former ao

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how do they give people an intentional boost

is it quantitative?

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Second reader

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wdym

like people who are a humanities major get a second reader?

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Idk about ‘humanities majors’ but yeah

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and you're 100% sure about the information you're telling us

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😈😈

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like ur absolutely sure that certain majors get a second reader as a boost?

how does that help them?

seems kind of underwhelming

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It’s allegedly what legacies get too

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okay so like im pretty sure the info ur giving is wrong cuz everyone gets two readers

lmao

i just searched it up

and looking at my friend's admissions files they had 2 readers too

*friends'

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Were they admitted?

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yea

they were not legacy

and they were a cs major

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Not exactly everyone then?

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it goes against what you're saying for one

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No it doesn’t

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yes it does

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They were admitted

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you said that cs majors and nonlegacies don't get a boost of two readers

if you excuse me imma have to dip

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I said they don’t automatically get that. I didn’t say they never do💀

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idk

there was someone who said on their profile there was space on their profile for 3 readers

they only got 2 cause they were non legacy

and theorized that legacy got 1 extra

but tbh i've changed my mind

i think everyone gets 2

and edge cases where you're between admit and deny might get 3

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nah you get 1 then a second if youre compelling or for other reasons

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thats prolly true

actually yea

like if you have 2.0 gpa

your prolly thrown away no matter how holistic they are

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lmao 'prolly' im not speculating 💀 it's from a good source

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is it a current AO

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former

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how many years ago

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not sure exactly

but it's not like your knowledge just ceases

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bruh

it matters a lot

they can just change

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i dont see what that changes

this person is a professional 💀 theyre not blind to changes and work with others

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Guys

My relative might be apart of a Stanford alumni association

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legacys get 3

i can confirm

thats what the alumni association said at least

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ive never heard anything about majors giving an extra reader though

the extra reader thing for legacy been known

why does this even matter 😭

knowing you have an extra reader doesn't mean you can make ur app shit

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its actually a pretty op boost that should be removed imo

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yes

but we can't control

you have 3 shots as opposed to 2

we can't control

thats why its better

if the other guys right

i'm more fucked

i get 1 reader

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you get 2

minimum

dw

multiple ppl read it

even that interview u sent said that lol

why trust 1 guy over dozens of sources

its too late anyways

it legit doesn't matter

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especially when bro cant clarify on which majors

i just check portal dec 15

yep

its dec 15 right?

thats what we all do

idk

yale is dec 14

one time it was dec 9

and i heard stanford is always day after ivies

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dozens?

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i mean also primarily anecdotal but still

also a current ao told me multiple people will read over ur app

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i know someone who visited here and she said that it was really creepy cause everyone was smiling really widely and there were a bunch of people just speaking different languages and it seemed like she walked into an ad

so either that's good or it's more evidence that stanford isn't real

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wait if 1 reader votes to admit and the other votes to reject r u admitted?

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generally

readers read

they determine whether to bring you to committee

if 2 hate you and don't want to bring you to committe

but the last one wants to bring you

you get brought to committee

then in commitee its like 4/5 members have to vote yes to admit

thats from yale admissions podcast

i think committee size and exact number needed to vote to admit varies

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the committee gets the final vote

if both say yes, then its generally an admit

if both say no, but a third (legacy) says yes, its a committee vote still, not a reject

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huhh????

readers have no say on admit i think other than their singular vote in commitee

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.-. if both readers give u around a 2+ score

its probably an admit

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its on avg 2- i think

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really? well then ig 2-

then im guessing 2+ is sometimes admit and sometimes deferred

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i don't think thats the problem

you have a group of 2+ and better people

now you balance your school

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balance?

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institutional priorities

minorities

keeping rich people happy

etc

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ah

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men woman

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well i mean im betting even 3- legacies and rich people can get in .-.

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institutional priorities

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yeah lol

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rlly?? i thought u got sent to committee regardless

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.-. i mean u do.

by the salami corrected it to 2-

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is that what yale said

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no

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is yale same as stanford?

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AO has to bring you to committe

thats why more AOs is benefital

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^ wait this is true

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more likely to be brought

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yes

they ain't bringing a 2.0 gpa to committe

to instant deny

yale admissions podcast on it

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but if the two AOs give you admit u dont have to go?

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no

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i think u do

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wheres that jerry guy

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but 2-, the committee tends to sway towards admit

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no i was just wondering

he went to commitee

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jerry is 2+

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yeah

everyone goes to committee

the fringe people

are argued about

ok thats whar i thought

the obv admits

are made in 2 seconds

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amherst video is different from grading

but basically sent to commitee and vote no matter what after eliminating a lot of people

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Tbh yeah

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amherst

has 13k applicants

yale and stanford have like 60-80k

Also Stanford uses scores

I think

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I mean if ur app is shit ur not getting in regardless lol

I’m not sure about council votes

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True

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true but they still eliminate down to about 4000

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but if you're on the cusp it can really help

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main difference yes

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Hm

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ngl the amherst 💀 video does not make me trust admissions

they literally said: "I go by my gut"

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ngl with the diversity (not race but of everything scores gpa people) of stanford, i would not be surprised if theres a lot of gut admissions

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at least they gave a rubric for the readers

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thats true

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amherst goes like: hmmm tragic essay, admit

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the AO for my region is new

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still possible admittance with a 1 on IV

so i better get a second reader

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you will

dw

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they better let me in too

lmao

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tru

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HOPE

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i reread all my other early schools

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:D copium

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im really banking on that admission

and oh boy are the essays mid

they're only like a 7/10

i reread stanford

they're still a 10/10

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ironically my stanford essay is good, but my other eas are actually really good (because i used stanford as practice / earlier deadline)

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my other EAs are good

they're not stnaford good

my stanford is art

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lmao im the opposite (unfortunately)

my IV essay is high tier but others are only good ;-;

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i think all my essays cook

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id say i really liked how my IV and roommate turned out

my diversity is just good

salami read it

its not bad

but its not amazing

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makes sense

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honestly ngl it doesnt

thats the essay i probably shouldve done the best one

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.-. its also the newest essay

at least tahts why i struggled more with it

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ye but i already had to do it two times before

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ah i c

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The A2C Stanford obsession is real 😭

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fax

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im banking on that admission

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Why is everyone still analyzing their admissions process and their app

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.-.

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we're coping

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cuz this might be the only school i have a shot at

since my grades r taking a downward trend

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Work on those rd schools!!

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You have Columbia

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lmao ik ik

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I am so getting on that UC grind today

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well if i have a similar grade trend yeah

but im not sure

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same here

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Well you have targets and safeties

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thats true

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I have way too much to do

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also usc

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Yeah

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usc early is hard...

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Yeah

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because of scholarship 💀

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Idrc usc can reject me

I don’t want them anyways 👎

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i want at least one acceptance in my early ;-; so i won't be ded from stress

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Do safeties

I did 2 safeties, 1 target, and 2 reaches early

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probably shouldve done umich and unc chapel hill

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umich is not a safety ;-;

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i mean more shots

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I heard ea helps for umich

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i did usc and umich

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But I’m not applying to umich

80k for public university is too much

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:D my rd is banking on my fly in to pomona

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Did you do the virtual or in person?

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virtual but counts the same

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i got rejected 😭😭

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40% acceptance to pomona >:D

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cause what else do you do

i swear the lacs hates me

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I doubt tbh I only know one person who got rejected (Brandon)

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Rd apps…

Live life

Keep your grades up

Work on ecs more

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i dont understand

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they told us they only see "POP" on the application

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Etc

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and i k5 others who got rejected

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but not pomona virtual

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overall 10% acceptance rate apparently ;-;

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Oh interesting I got in

But I didn’t do it

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oop

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Bc my parents would not let me go

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no

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oh the in person?

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So why waste my Saturday and Sunday

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i spend my time coping

and living life

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No they wouldn’t actually let me go to Pomona

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i didnt write an essay so i couldnt explain my grades

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oop

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Sad life

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You should have

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I did it 15 minutes after the app deadline

bc u guys told me to apply

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😭 prob why you got rejected

It makes sense now

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apparently pomona only looks at transcript for iv

not ur essay

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Oh interesting

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oh yeah i wouldnt have gotten it then

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everywhere else u have to be more personality vibes

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nonholistic admissions is not my friend

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THE one flyin I did virtually helped a lot

It showed me I didn’t want to go there

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me when caltech... i did not realize i had to write ONLY stem

before fly in applicaiton

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Caltech rejected me

I didn’t want them anywyas

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i didnt even try

theres no way id get into caltech or mit

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😭

There was only one fly in I wanted

And I got rejected 😐

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which

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Tufts

Lowkey crushed my soul

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ngl i just wanted bound

and didnt expect anything from columbia at all

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Yeah I remember

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ngl columbia wasnt even really on my radar

it was just the "one other ivy im applying to"

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Are you glad you did epc instead of bound

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yes

i didnt realize id like the school so much

im honestly grateful for the opportunity

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i was kinda hoping for amherst too

😭

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Aww that’s glad

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You’re too good

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@calm condor did u do peep

ur one of the peep kids right

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I was soooo sad about tufts though

I almost cut from my list

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yeah damn

you shouldnt though

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oh also

the fly ins dont look at race

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I didn’t dw

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so it literally couldve just been because of your income

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Oh really

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Tufts didn’t ask

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ya

its surprising

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did it ask if first gen

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I thought they did dang

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Idr

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i thought they could

but ig they cant

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My race was included for tufts though

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they ask but they cant consider it

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Ah

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Oh I see

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yeah

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Interested

*int

Ing

Omg

Did you finish Columbia supps

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no

i finished yales

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Why 😭

Wait are you not doing Ed

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nah

im rea

i wanna go to stanford more

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W

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i ed i never know if i get in

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what is peep

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I know I’m glad you decided rn

*rea

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penn

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Penn

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oh nah

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Fly in

Virtual

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rlly?? i swear u were one of the peep kids

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.-. nah, i think i mentioned a summer prorgram

but not a fly in

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ohhhhh

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i heard it was kinda boring

its like 8 virtual sessions

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upenn?

damn thats crazy

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yes

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Yeah but it helps a ton

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tru :D

if only stanford had a fly in

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my friends just afked their computers and played video games

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they used to

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Real

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Really??

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my dad went to stanfords fly in yeah

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damn must have been a while back

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I bet it was super competitive though

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^ caltech just 4 years ago was like only 100 admit for fly in

4 years before that it was like 30 💀

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stars is like that

they're increasing it next year i heard though

to 50

and then to 80

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yeah

:O damian musk is at caltech

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Ohh

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do u mean the summer program by the way?

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Wdym

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for the fly in

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Columbia STARS

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now its like 250?

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oh i c

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Ohhh wow

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nvm i keep thinking of stanford summer programs

there's one called Stars: regenerative smth surgery research

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Brandon is talking about flyins

Like

Small towns and rural I think

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oh wait actually the native american one was a summer program, stanford did also actually have a fly in too

they had both

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oh nice

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yk how they send like

the rural kids

and underserved

to school like during the summer early

to adapt to the environment

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yeah they do that for some of their medical summer programs too

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its like that

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thats cool :O ~~but no longer exists?

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that one does

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oh nice

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but the fly in doesnt exist

anymore

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sad

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uchicago actually had one too

and notre dame

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uchicago??!?!?!

damnnn

i mean uc hicago

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yeah its kinda crazy

i wish they still had them

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Doesn’t uchi still have one

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.-. uc hicago is kinda funny :D their scavenger hunt one year had some nuclear thingy detected by cia or fbi

:/ the officer wouldn't tell me if students run scavanger hunts

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do u like uchicago

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i mean yeah :D

uchicago, stanford, georgia tech, jhu are my fav

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Dang those are very different

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ik lol

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Yeah two students built a nuclear reactor in a dorm

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:D stanford's campus is such a W though. some of my summer program friends didn't like it because of size but i love it o7. their research labs OP

only down side is food

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Which the hazardous materials agency or whatever didn’t like

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LOL its actually so funny though

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if u make it to stanford, definitely try "Blend"

its the only good food place there

other than food court thats like starbucks and overpriced 5 dollar protein bars

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Or just go to the city

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guess my favorite schools

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^^^^ this is way better

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besides columbia

thats an outlier

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dang it i was gonna say columbia

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I actually dk

Yale?

Dart ?

Obviously Stanford

Hmm oh Penn

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yale probably?

next guess uhhh

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yeah

yale dartmouth

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maybe upenn because u mentioned peep?

oh nvm

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LMAO

u guys got them perfectly

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dartmouth hmm interesting

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very similar vibe to stanford imo

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oh thats a W

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also flexible quarter system

^^^

love that

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grade inflation???

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I hate the quarter system

It sounds awful

Idk how I’ll deal w the ucs

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UCLA is not that bad for grading ;-;

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grade deflation

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oop

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harder than stanford

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UC berkeley and caltech is the real grade deflater

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princeton and columbia engineering is pretty bad too

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i mean how much harder? stanford is basiclaly minimum B for a grade

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columbia eng .-. sounds like hell too...

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I don’t like the quarter system in general

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3.6 gpa to 3.4 gpa

so .2 gpa "harder"

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oop...

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However 2/3 of my top UCs are on it 😭

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its just their chem

dartmouths chem department

is hell

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same with berk

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stanfords can be hell

but

it can also not be hell

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bioE?

💀 avoid russ altman's class

his lectures are peak

but his class is heavy heavy heavy workload

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for bme?

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yeah

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im prob switch to mat sci tbh

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💀 you all are so delulu

Lowkey I haven’t even serioulsy considered getting into Stanford

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everywhere im applying with materials science

im switching from bme

to materials science

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oop

i mean thats a cool major :D happy to work with u though im not gonna make it to the schools u get into

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i hope at least one of us can make it in

even if it's not me i just hope that one of us will

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.-. i doubt i will...

assuming im even at the level of regular admission, "While Stanford admits about 25% of its class from the Restrictive Early Action pool, this is much smaller than the percentage at other schools, which is usually about 40%."

15% of that class is like legacy and others

9% are hella cracked isef kids probably

💀that leaves 1% for me

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😭

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HOLY SHIT

ONLY 25%?

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.-. its still a lot

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25% is a lot

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and for u, legacy is 15%

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You’re going to get in Brandon

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25% of a small pool of rea

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im not gonna say anything

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75% = a LOT of people who don't have the false confidence to get in

so technically that 25% is a lot lol

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thats true, smaller pool as well

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@ that message when you do get I

*in

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i wonder what princeton's is

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"City"

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bruh ik a kid who was an immigrant to salutatorian, crazy life story > rejected rea

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Palo Alto 😔

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Suburb if you must

Sf is pretty close to Stanford though

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Won’t be you

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idk bruh its just deadly

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It's an hour away by car, ain't nobody got time for that 😭

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Well ofc

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Not even

It’s like 40 mins w traffic

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I used to live in the east bay and I think we visited SF like, once

or twice

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You’re missing out bro

I live like

30-40 mins from sf and I go all the time

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Sad

Now I live in L.A. which is basically just a downgrade 😔

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i wanna go to cali sm

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Ong

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i love it more than the east

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I like where I live but

The rest of California is lowkey mid

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but its kinda a blessing i dont live there for college apps

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i LOVEEE socal

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No city has the right to be this huge and be so mid

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bay is epic too

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Idk I’m glad I live here

I can go to the Ucs, low competition, decentish education

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I have mixed feelings about socal

No allergies though!

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Best public higher education system in the country 💪

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Quite literally

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In fact, no - I have horrible allergies here

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i am a party person

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Ong! My school is 29% proficient in math 🥰

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Then again it might be because I live in one of the valleys and dust is everywhere here

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I didn’t have them when I visited but north bay murders me

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I specified higher education for a reason

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You can party in the bay

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In HS quality I think we rank 40th 💀

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Omg I missed that 😭

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ok but the socal ones are just more epic

socal is party central

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Real..

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CSU, UC, and California CC system tho 😍

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Fr!

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SoCal's people are really nice, though some are a bit sorta... fake? Somehow, but most are really down to earth and nice

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Debatable I’ve heard Berkeley parties hard

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But holy shit this city is ass

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YEAH

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This city is a disservice to its people

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i cant apply to berkeley

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That’s such a great way to describe California people

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Why

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oos

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My condolences

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Oh right no ucs

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I passed through Central CA once going from the bay to L.A. and all I can remember is the smell of manure

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That’s ok less competition

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Davis is literally cow manure

Whenever we go on i5 I’m like 😐

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Though Sacramento is a nice place I must say - some of my relatives live there

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I don’t like it 😭

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i think they meant like for portfolio shit you get an extra person looking over the portfolio right?

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nah hes saying like

humanities

as a degree

thats what i thought too

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how early do interviews start for stanford?

and do int'l students get interviews? (im from canada)

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Thank God Stanford doesn't do interviews for QB kids because it's too early

My heart would fucking stop if I had to do one for Stanford ong

I just wanna sit here for a month and then cry in December (From joy or pain)

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why not?

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

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damn

common app people get them right

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REA yeah, but QB's timeline is two weeks ahead of REA

QBRD gets interviews as usual tho

"Do not match to a binding college" also includes matching to a non-binding college (which at the moment is literally just MIT) so there's the hilarious off-chance that someone gets matched to MIT and gets automatically shuffled into the QBRD round for every other college they ranked

I think Stanford used to be non-binding through QB tho but it seems like they and a whole bunch of other QB (I think Princeton and Yale used to be non-binding too) schools switched to binding

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palo alto?

what di you visit it for

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Well yes I go to Palo Alto a lot but I was referring to sf

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My mom’s company’s hq is in Palo Alto

And I used to go a ton for dance

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UC Palo Alto LET ME IN

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💀ngl i thought u meant quarterback for a good 6 hours

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don't think it counts for stanford

Actually it might

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even better, child of faculty

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yes

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what if they dont work there anymore

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I sent my app about a month ago and haven't heard abt an interview yet, so idkkk

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same

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I’m debating if I should send Stanford an extra letter of Rec to be considered💀

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it takes time off of them reading/examining ur other stuff

[rose night]

yeah. Thank you

[dapper gale]

I did it because I have interned with the same research prof for 3 years and felt it would be important context to my app. But if you’ve explained all your ECs without the need for a rec letter, or if the recommender is someone who is similar to your other recommenders, then prob don’t

You don’t want the rec letter to be repetitive. If it presents new info though, go for it

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Yeah, since it’s a California senator I got in contact to.

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^

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If you feel like they know you personally and will showcase you in a different way, definitely add it

I had my crew supervisor write a lor for me and I think she really did a great job

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Gotcha, thank you

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not relaly much benefit then

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If it doesn’t add anything then it can only hurt you

[foggy mauve]

If you have not developed a meaningful connection with Padilla then it won’t help much

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Ty

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So just stick to two EC’s?

The hard part is you can’t really view your letter of recs

So you won’t know what they’ll be saying

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whatevers required is optimal

yes you can

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I don’t think so

Because it doesn’t specifically say the scholarship deadline is for ea applicants

It says they’re due in Dec so you could submit your Tulane app before then in Dec

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my friend did EA tulane REA Stanford

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Tulane is private though

Yeah I’d do this

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Yea but theres certain merit scholarships you can only get by applying EA

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Does Tulane say that? Bc the page sent doesn’t say taht

*that

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no but some of their full rides are

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I’m sure that your friend did their research

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Hmm ok

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tulane ea and stanford rea is pretty common

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Idk I’ve never heard of it

Like together

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plus they dont check regardless

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?

It’s unethical and risky to apply ea to a school you’re not supposed to though

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true

id ask admissions just to make sure though

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Yeah fs

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im pretty sure tulane is allowed

do you think theyll respond by the ea deadline tho?

i havent contacted ugrad admissions so idk how fast they respond

might wanna work on it just in case

during app season tho?

gl

hopefully u get into stanford so tulane dont matter 🙏

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It does not matter either way lol

It will be fine

The only thing I wouldn’t do is double up on restrictive

[calm condor]

;-; don't get my hopes up. im already delulu

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told u!

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i think it depends on if they take ur credit

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found out it doesnt matter actually, you can sign up for any class immediately past calc 3 without a placement test or credit

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really lmao

do thye just let you fail