Stanford University (2023-2024)

[lusty obsidian]

Yea international relations

[merry river]

oh okay i just saw this

[merry river]

oh cool that was my second choice

[lusty obsidian]

What’s ur first

[merry river]

yes i saw this. i referenced it a lot actually

[merry river]

ill tell you in dms

[digital spoke]

9 more days 🫠

[trail olive]

[slim kayak]

The fact that they have already made all decisions

Just waiting now

[spring osprey]

Thinking of how my decision is just lying around somewhere in their office makes me anxious lol

[slim kayak]

Did any of yall get an interview?

[hoary skiff]

Yeah

[trail olive]

Yeah but not sure how well it went so I'm hoping it doesn't have much of an impact

[digital spoke]

Yeah, the last of applications are probably making it through committee

[digital spoke]

Yup!

[pine rain]

ive been taking straight L's recently

im guessing this decision is going to be another one of them

oh well

whatever

move into the fucking future

mr billert

going mentally fucking insane

!

[deft sleet]

real

[slim kayak]

Yeah I got one and I liked it but did have improvement points

[digital spoke]

Yeah, same here

[spring osprey]

Nope 😭

[naive plinth]

Yeah

[naive plinth]

It’s so you can have a big w with your Stanford acceptance

[pine rain]

The only light out of this tunnel is graduation

[jovial widget]

when are acceptances released?\

[trail olive]

9 days; December 15th, 4pm pst
(Most likely)

[jovial widget]

what r the odds its this friday

[digital spoke]

I'd give it a 1% lol

If it is, they would've likely told us by now

[muted sage]

In the past they’ve announced the Tuesday before

So yeah

I doubt Friday

[unreal flame]

sooo

in atleast less than a week we should have an announcement guys!

[digital spoke]

Yup!

[trail olive]

The number is now single digit which is kinda scary

[slim kayak]

It’s been scary since I submitted

[digital spoke]

fr

[dim badge]

t-9 days

[naive plinth]

Till rejection 😦

[dim badge]

atp yall just manifesting rejection for urselves

im taking no part in this 🥱

[naive plinth]

Better to have no hope and be pleasantly surprised than have all your hopes crushed

[slim kayak]

Just don’t care at the end

That’s the better option

[naive plinth]

It’s hard to simply stop caring

I think processing your emotions is important but if you anticipate something it’ll be easier to process when it occurs rather than being blindsided

[deft sleet]

I agrée with you but I feel like the people saying I don’t have hope have a slight hope anyways and get crushed

Rejection is crushing in general

[naive plinth]

Ofc they’re trying to lie to themselves

I have a sliver of hope too

But it’s better than having a ton and fully being crushed

[slim kayak]

Personally just don’t care. Life goes on and you’ll go to a good college anyway

(Im delusional Stanford pls I’ll do anything)

[naive plinth]

Ofc but it’s ok to care

You’ll move on

[slim kayak]

Yeah def

Gotta chillax

[hexed harbor]

but theres no other top school like stanford
like
everyone at mit is depressed etc etc

idk im just kinda delulu and obsessed with stanford and its environment ig

[naive plinth]

😭

[deft sleet]

Dw… they’re depressed at Stanford too. They just have a culture of hiding it. You’ll feel terrible thinking you’re the only one struggling while your classmates are seemingly perfect

[wintry delta]

i thought mit was like silly nerd culture

[arctic snow]

"oh no im so depressed studying at mit"

[deft sleet]

Yes this is a real thing

It’s grueling and hard

[hexed harbor]

also probably true
but stanford's workload is less than that of mit and caltech too tbf

[hexed harbor]

kinda
they like prank to get away from the academic stress ive heard because theres so much pressure and work etc

[digital spoke]

fr same here 🤩

[dim badge]

or just making ur life more miserable

if you really didnt think you had any shot of getting in why did you even apply lmao

even if that chance might be slim believe in it

ur not rejected until you have an admissions letter that says ur rejected

[hexed harbor]

tbf im not sure if i have a chance of getting in even though my stats ecs etc are all up to par (i think?)
the culture on a2c, chanceme, collegeresults etc manifests a skewed view on the process in general

[dim badge]

i mean thats the thing, you dont know what's up to par lmao

you could be way above par

its more of a lottery

[hexed harbor]

i think a lot of the active a2c applicants probably are but its just a gamble always
to show "fit" or something 💀

[naive plinth]

Not really everyone copes differently

I don't like being blindsided

[naive plinth]

@dim badge

[wintry delta]

i dont know how to treat december 14 prinecton rea day, so im just going to let time march on and open the letter when its time

[dim badge]

maybe but then stop saying that lmao

[hexed harbor]

real

[wintry delta]

i got too much schoolwork to panic about decision day

[dim badge]

its also bad for other ppl bc it makes us all lose our morale

[dim badge]

same

[naive plinth]

That's my way of coping lol I'm not forcing you to say anything lol

[dim badge]

"get rejected" spreads negativity

rn everyone needs positivity

[naive plinth]

Me thinking I'm going to get rejected shouldn't impact you 😭 I know myself you all don't know me

[dim badge]

still a negative message 😭

[naive plinth]

false positivity doesn't make things better 😭 I'm not saying we're all getting rejected

I'm very confident plenty of people in here are getting in

I've said that a ton

[dim badge]

TBH im not

previous years have been a blood bath

it's not going to turn out good 😭

[naive plinth]

I just am not confident in myself

[naive plinth]

What happened to needing a positive message lol

[hexed harbor]

TRUE

[dim badge]

well clearly we aren't following that

[hexed harbor]

can i just take a nap and wake up 10 minutes before they release 🙏

[dim badge]

im not sure what to think about my own chances

but it's not going to turn out good

[naive plinth]

I thought you wanted to 😭 practice what you preach

[dim badge]

it's looking the exact same as last year

[hexed harbor]

says who though

[naive plinth]

ofc that's a really good idea ngl

Idk if I want to check friday

[dim badge]

one random qb student gets in

[naive plinth]

I need to see if I have practice

[naive plinth]

alr happened

[dim badge]

history repeating itself

[naive plinth]

did anyone get in last year

rea

from a2c

[dim badge]

a few did

not sure if they were actives though

[naive plinth]

same thing this year!

[hexed harbor]

hey maybe this year itll be the actives

[naive plinth]

well idk how much causation there is between that and this

[dim badge]

lots of randoms who've never spoken in the server say they got in

[wintry delta]

from what i remember the last time ivy day rolled around it was something like none of the active people got in

[dim badge]

makes sense

[naive plinth]

I have practice 5:30 to 7:00 next friday 💀 I'll just check after practice ig

[dim badge]

see it worked i made you spread positivity

[wintry delta]

stop practice and open the letter trust

[naive plinth]

I've been spreading positivity 😭

I have more faith in y'all than I do in myself

[hexed harbor]

i dont think this is a great idea 💀

[wintry delta]

no but actually im pretty sure we had a youth orchestra concert on ivy day and the decision time was when we were on stage

and the conductor had to say "dont check your phones on stage"

[naive plinth]

I'm going to start sobbing mid practice trust

[naive plinth]

good

[naive plinth]

plus I don't want to do it in public even if I do get in bc I don't want to tell anyone tell I commit 100%

[wintry delta]

my pton decision comes out right before i get dinner

[dim badge]

my stanford one is just once i get home from school

[wintry delta]

wont be fun explaining to my parents that i got deferred/rejected

[hexed harbor]

damn is your dinner schedule that strict

[wintry delta]

actually they think princeton is a moon shot anyway so its probably fine

[dim badge]

i think you have a good shot

[wintry delta]

no we just usually get dinner at 6pm central time

[dim badge]

princeton nepotism goes hard

[wintry delta]

idk

[hexed harbor]

mines like 5 hours after a final 💀
gotta suffer those 5 hours

[wintry delta]

its crazy that decision day is in just over a week dang it

[dim badge]

i honestly wont be that sad if i get rejected

ill be disappointed for a day but then i'll be happy again cuz of rd

like sure stanford is my dream school but i'm not booking my whole morale based on a one in a million shot

[hexed harbor]

tbh stanford is my 1st choice by like a mile so i wont be happy bc rd 😭

[wintry delta]

i dont even know if i want to apply anywhere RD

mit is a giant hassle because i need separate recommendation forms for their portal

[dim badge]

im not even gonna lie berkeley was my #1 but i cant afford OOS so im settling for stanford

[dim badge]

ur not gonna try for any of the ivies?

[wintry delta]

idk i dont know why i would want to go to an ivy

[dim badge]

oh fair you have it set

[hexed harbor]

im preparing like 7 other apps (hopefully) before dec 15th
if i get in ill just submit those and be done with the whole process
if i dont get in ill write some more over break

[lusty obsidian]

if history tend to repeat itself then I should not be active then 😂

[dim badge]

ngl tho i think i wanna get in more than ever though since abstracts betting against me

[wintry delta]

wtf mean

[hexed harbor]

ik the numbers arent public but does anyone know how much of a bump legacy gives

[dim badge]

are you legacy?

[hexed harbor]

i am

[dim badge]

it's just a guaranteed third reader

i am as well

[hexed harbor]

🤝 we can hope

[lusty obsidian]

All Stanford legacies in my school have gotten in the past three years

[wintry delta]

doesnt stanford only have a very small boost for legacy

[hexed harbor]

this is anecdotal though 💀

[hexed harbor]

comparatively to harvard yeah

[dim badge]

yeah i wish i could say the same

[wintry delta]

im interested in knowing whetehr the 3rd reader helps

[dim badge]

its a third perspective that might really like you

[dim badge]

it's basically like trying to get a lawyer that is enthusiastic about your case that will defend you in court

[hexed harbor]

my school overall has an 11% acceptance rate to stanford
tbf its 4/36 though so not a large sample size

[wintry delta]

yeah ik how committee works

[jovial widget]

thats rly good bro

[lusty obsidian]

Fair

[wintry delta]

my old magnet had a 20% matriculation rate to ivy+ schools

[naive plinth]

?

[jovial widget]

im international and we havent had one get in, in 10 yrs

[naive plinth]

You're going to get in

[wintry delta]

i had to transfer out but ive been maintaining the mandatory research requirement + course rigor

[dim badge]

is that petty that's the only reason i wanna get in now 😭

[jovial widget]

also bc no one applies to us at my school

[hexed harbor]

its likely due to geographic location (new mexico)

[jovial widget]

im canadian

[naive plinth]

according to @jade narwhal princeton is accepting everyone (not true) but you seem like an amazing applicant so I'm sure you'll get in

[hexed harbor]

oh wtf

[naive plinth]

who is betting agaisnt you

[wintry delta]

looks like a bloodbath

[naive plinth]

whoever is is terribly wrong

[digital spoke]

💀

[wintry delta]

6% acceptance rate begs to differ

[dim badge]

meh motivation

[naive plinth]

yikes...

[naive plinth]

real asf but I have faith in the billerts of a2c

[naive plinth]

you can't really do much atp though

[wintry delta]

one of my biggest regrets is not applying 0.1 damage to him at the start of uhc for stealing my name

[dim badge]

to get in

[naive plinth]

you've done all you can

[digital spoke]

yup, same

[wintry delta]

^

all you can do is wait

[naive plinth]

^

[dim badge]

no i mean i didnt really have anything i was excited about getting in for

lmao like i said idk much about the school so idk if i even like it

besides that it's in cali and is next to family

[wintry delta]

i want to live somewhere snowy again

so thas partially why princeton

[dim badge]

princeton snow prob disgusting tbh

[wintry delta]

its not nyc snow

[dim badge]

isnt it in sort of an urban area tho

[wintry delta]

its suburban

well not even suburb

its a college town thats 1 hour by train from nyc

[naive plinth]

💀

cannot relate

If I get rejected stanford it's bc I'm getting into yale rd 💯

[dim badge]

i mean literally the only reason i'd go to it over yale is bc its in california

[dim badge]

oh is it not near rutgers?

[wintry delta]

the good ending: bri, ruby, brandon, and other billert all get into stanford

[wintry delta]

lemme find rutgers on a map rq

[naive plinth]

yale is very nice

[dim badge]

oh shit it's kinda rural

[naive plinth]

manifesting

[naive plinth]

it's a suburb

I've visited

It's like where I live rn

hence why I didn't apply

[wintry delta]

ive never been up north for a while

the only northerner trait i have is nyc walking speed

[naive plinth]

I have a bunch of pics if you want to see

[wintry delta]

yes show

[dim badge]

i swear everyone who visits has 1000 pictures of it

[naive plinth]

I have like 15

[wintry delta]

once when i was away in china, my parents took my little brother to princeton campus and didnt tell me

[jade narwhal]

They are

[wintry delta]

motivational reminder that the bar for essays is extremely low this year
we'll do fine

[trail olive]

Wait why

[naive plinth]

one sec

[naive plinth]

bffr

[wintry delta]

for our class year, we never got a proper end to middle school or a proper start to high school

due to covid

[naive plinth]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1178127951875817553/1180390092712452170/IMG_3607.jpg?ex=657d3ef0&is=656ac9f0&hm=2115bfd12ac10d1178bd12a852d2d35b3889f8a63c46ed2b5069de34c21c04f8&

[real herald]

Is stanny date confirmed

[digital spoke]

damn 🫠

[naive plinth]

Bro

[digital spoke]

wait why

[naive plinth]

Only 1 pic sent

[digital spoke]

nope 😭

[real herald]

!stanford

Oh

Yall want sum pics

I visited 1 year ago lmao winter break

[dim badge]

is that what they said

[wintry delta]

its what essay mechanic said

paste this in the search bar
from: essaymechanic bar

[naive plinth]

Oh a

*w

Mine won’t look as bad 😎

[slim kayak]

Can’t do it on mobile 😔

[trail olive]

I think this is cope

[wintry delta]

have you seen how many chatgpt essays there are

you might not know it because a2c is a self selecting group of tryhards

but the bar is definitely lower

[pine rain]

dawg

i feel like with chatgpt

[vagrant bloom]

WAIT FR??

[pine rain]

it sets a minimum bar

chatgpt doesn't write THAT shit

it just writes mediocre content

[wintry delta]

i dont think its that hard to write better than chatgpt

[pine rain]

for some people their writing is worse

than chatgpt

[pine rain]

lowkey idk

im probably gonna get deferred or rejected

and panic

and shittily complete my other applications

and get rejected everywhere i apply

then become depressed and do nothing in life

[wintry delta]

you got purdue as a safety and purdue is amazing

[pine rain]

and live in my parents basement

worst case scenario

which ain't bad

[slim kayak]

What post does this take you to 🙏

[pine rain]

i thikn they have an inheritnace for me

[pine rain]

#1064652331779641374 message

smith machine ftw

nick smith

[wintry delta]

true

[digital spoke]

💀

[jade narwhal]

I am. I am NOT Princeton material 💀

[wintry delta]

but also the thing with chatgpt is that i feel at a certain point you get a sense for knowing when something is written by AI

[pine rain]

hi not princeton material

[slim kayak]

Oh damn I thought it referenced to why the essays were bad 💀

[pine rain]

im rejected/deferred from stanford

[pine rain]

if you're not dumb as bricks you can make it less obvious

[jade narwhal]

Wow what a coincidence! I am deferred from Stanford too! (I have an vendetta out for Stanford now)

[pine rain]

wait you are?

that's only cuz you matched with princeton

dawg

right

clarify

elaborate

expand

justify

expiate

[jade narwhal]

Princeton was my ranked 1 school

[pine rain]

you know what

[jade narwhal]

Lol

Wait

[pine rain]

so you didnt really get deferred in the traditional sense

[jade narwhal]

Not princrton

Stanfoor

[pine rain]

oh i see

so you got an L

[jade narwhal]

Stanford was my ranked 1 school on qb

[pine rain]

that's unfortunate

understandable

[jade narwhal]

Yea, it was an L

[pine rain]

as anyone would rank

[jade narwhal]

Princeton is okay too ig

[pine rain]

yea

[wintry delta]

dang you took an L and only got into princeton

[jade narwhal]

Ik. Princeton was my safety for Stanford

Oh well

[naive plinth]

Lies

[real herald]

Well you can cry about it at the #1 school in the country on a full ride

[naive plinth]

Ong

[pine rain]

what do you like more about stanford than princeton

[real herald]

You ARE the cousin my parents yap about

😭

[digital spoke]

💀 Princeton safety moment

[naive plinth]

Near his gf

[naive plinth]

NO FR

[real herald]

Dawg 😭

[naive plinth]

This is a whole story bro

Ask @jade narwhal

Bro didn’t even want to do qb 💀

[real herald]

I'll trade w u real quick

You can live with yo girl

I'll go to princeton

[naive plinth]

😭

Yk I’ve been feeling Yale > Stanford lately 😍 I’ll take the Stanford L if I get the Yale W please

[pine rain]

ive just been feeling L recently

[real herald]

If u get into Stanny will u do anymore apps after

[naive plinth]

The more I read about Yale the more I think this is legit me

[naive plinth]

Yeah

[pine rain]

ive had a million L's recently

[naive plinth]

Me too

[naive plinth]

Twinning fr billert

[real herald]

Why

[pine rain]

no but that's not gonna happen lmao

[naive plinth]

I’m 100% applying Yale

[pine rain]

today i was put through like

so much mental anguish

[naive plinth]

I will prob only do Yale and UPenn though

[real herald]

That's before dec15 tho right

[naive plinth]

Oh no what happened

[pine rain]

cuz i was talking to hash about something and then we unraveled a whole can of worms i was NOT ready for

[naive plinth]

No

[trail olive]

Ain't no way people actually do that right
They're not that dumb right

[pine rain]

i am not going to talk about it here

[naive plinth]

After

[naive plinth]

Oh no

[real herald]

Who u calling fat

This is bodyshaming

[naive plinth]

DMs are open

[pine rain]

nah it's like

something that's hard to understand

[naive plinth]

I horribly mistyped after

[pine rain]

unless you know the people

[naive plinth]

Oh I see what you mean

I’m sorry that happened billert

[pine rain]

nah it's fine

it's not your fault lmao

[real herald]

My dad says Dec 22 is the day I have to submit my top choices

[pine rain]

it might be mine but im not sure at all

[real herald]

So we sending out the big 4

All on Dec 22

[naive plinth]

Ik but it still sucks 😦 feeling down is awful

[pine rain]

hypsm

[real herald]

No

[naive plinth]

Is it an auspicious day

[pine rain]

great for fueling writing

[real herald]

My top 4 lol

[digital spoke]

I might apply to a few more if I'm already done with those apps, but definitely less because Stanford is still my top choice

[pine rain]

hypsm

[real herald]

Penn Columbia Stanford and duke

[naive plinth]

Fair but still depression

[pine rain]

why would you apply to more

[naive plinth]

Is Dec 22nd auspicious

[pine rain]

i feel like the only ones i'd apply to if i had to would be MIT and harvard

[real herald]

I wouldn't waste my time

[digital spoke]

that's why I said if I was already done with those apps

[pine rain]

just because of abstractnonsense and the fact that i have a million friends at MIT

[real herald]

Idk I just don't want arguments and it doesn't hurt me so I just listen to wtvr my dad says

[naive plinth]

Ask for me please

[naive plinth]

Stanford is my parents top choice I’m not sure it’s mine yk

[real herald]

Ah I see

[digital spoke]

just cuz it's cool, and if I already have everything done, why not give it a try (like as a backup on the thin possibility that my mind will change in a few months, still highly unlikely though)

idk

[pine rain]

for me it's like

why would i pain myself by writing something i dont want to write

lmao

maybe id apply to uchicago just to write an essay

i'd write it about writing while drunk or something

[digital spoke]

well, that's why I said if I have everything done, I'm in the middle of writing essays for RD just in case

[real herald]

I asked he said Dec 17 and Dec 22 are good days same with December 3rd which is why he had me submit vandy nyu and emory

[digital spoke]

so for those I'm done with

[naive plinth]

Ok W I will do Dec 17th then

[real herald]

Which school

[digital spoke]

idk

still considering it though

[pine rain]

i ain't even gonna pay the application fee

[vagrant bloom]

Did anyone start RD apps yet

[digital spoke]

I might just not apply to any

[naive plinth]

Hopefully Yale + UPenn + tufts

[pine rain]

everyone here tbh

[digital spoke]

if I get accepted to Stanford

[real herald]

He said December 22nd is upenn day LMFAO

[wintry delta]

if you call UT Austin dec 1 RD then sure

otherwise no

[naive plinth]

And then I’ll do brown + duke + Wellesley 22nd

[vagrant bloom]

Can't believe deciisons come out next week

[naive plinth]

Oh I’ll do upenn then

[digital spoke]

I qualify for the Common App fee waiver so yeah

[vagrant bloom]

What time?

[naive plinth]

Honestly do not care

[pine rain]

saying "you too" to the waiter

[digital spoke]

Likely 15th at 7 PM EST

[naive plinth]

I’m in my Yale era 😍😍😍

[real herald]

I change my favorite school all the time

Yall prolly remember I was obsessed with usc

[naive plinth]

Me too

[real herald]

Now I don't like them

Idgaf

[naive plinth]

Yes

[naive plinth]

LOL

I never really liked usc

[real herald]

I loved them

[naive plinth]

My dad made me apply

[real herald]

I'm so detached rn

[pine rain]

if i have to use girl slang

[jade narwhal]

Instate lol

[pine rain]

usc gives me the ick

[real herald]

I genuinely could care less

[digital spoke]

I don't like USC, my friend was deferred :( (last year btw for context)

[pine rain]

based

[real herald]

I'm homesick and I haven't left home yet

[pine rain]

my mom got an offer there to be the dean of some school and she turned it down

[jade narwhal]

You’re at Stanford??

[pine rain]

hes not there yet

[digital spoke]

damn 💀

[real herald]

Idk if yall get this but like

[jade narwhal]

Did he match or what

[real herald]

I don't wanna go 😭😭😭

[pine rain]

i dont think so? i could be wrong

[real herald]

I'm just a kid man

[jade narwhal]

😭

@real herald you committed yet?

[naive plinth]

Since junior year I’ve gone from jhu (not on my list anymore) -> uchi (not on my list anymore) -> duke -> vandy @jade narwhal I think was there for that era -> UPenn -> Stanford -> Yale

[real herald]

Nah but I'm double legacy and I did research there

[pine rain]

bro lowkey

[digital spoke]

damnnn

[pine rain]

what do you guys think about racing

for this essay

[real herald]

Lmaooo I'm joking

I have 0 affiliation

[pine rain]

i feel like racing will never die out

[naive plinth]

What school is this for

[real herald]

I was just joking lick

Luck

[pine rain]

uchicago

[jade narwhal]

Ngl, im debating on berk or princeton

No cap

[naive plinth]

Not surprised

[pine rain]

like even if teleportation gets invented

[real herald]

Isn't Princeton binding

[pine rain]

it's so fucking fun to just

ZOOM

[naive plinth]

I think this is lowkey a basic answer 💀

But if you have a fun perspective

[pine rain]

they dont know anything about f1

i do

i can teach them everything i know about cars

[naive plinth]

You have a high chance of getting rejected

[jade narwhal]

Not if you have “extenuating circumstances”

🤔

[real herald]

I remember your vandy era

[naive plinth]

It’s becoming pop culture nowadays

[naive plinth]

I don’t think I was on A2C for my vandy era

[jade narwhal]

Nah I’m just playing, I’d regret if I don’t go to princeton

[pine rain]

are you actually fr

[naive plinth]

Exactly

[naive plinth]

Yes

Very much Fr

[real herald]

I'm trying to like vandy then I realize they have a 4.1% rd acceptance rate

[naive plinth]

That’s all I hear people talk about

[pine rain]

dawg

you must live in some blessed place

no one here is interested in racing

[jade narwhal]

Lol me with Princeton

[real herald]

Oh I remember when I first joined u always talked about duke and vandy

[pine rain]

except for some uni students ik that like to do donuts in the parking lot

[naive plinth]

I only applied bc my dad was like “Vanderbilt premed 😍” and merit scholarships

[real herald]

Ok but u actually got in

And I'm not

😭😭

[naive plinth]

Oh maybe I was on A2C for it 😭 i don’t even remember

[jade narwhal]

@naive plinth apply to princeton

[naive plinth]

Idc about racing

[naive plinth]

Bro wants me to waste time to get rejected

[real herald]

Princeton is #20 on my list I'm ngl

Might not get to it

#1 in the nation for a reason

They don't want my ass

And hard essays

[pine rain]

princeton is good

[real herald]

Idek why I'm applying yo stanford

Or harvard

Stanford I really liked when I visited

[naive plinth]

Not even applying 😭

[real herald]

Harvard I'm only applying because I was born in Boston lmfao

And I don't like MIT

So harvard is my only chance to go baxk

And it's harvard so

Yk

[real herald]

R u done w essays

[naive plinth]

For Princeton?

[real herald]

No

[naive plinth]

I don’t want to apply to Harvard but I think my mom will make me

[real herald]

All apps

[naive plinth]

I wish

I’m nowhere near close

[pine rain]

harvard is good

[real herald]

I applied to 10 and have upenn Columbia done so 12

[pine rain]

maybe our tastes in schools are really different

[real herald]

12/22 is dreadful

[pine rain]

what are your goals

[real herald]

[naive plinth]

Yk how you feel drawn to schools

I don’t feel drawn to Harvard

WAIT

Yes

Harvard

I love stanford

[digital spoke]

lol

[pine rain]

ever since what happened today my memories of palo alto have been slightly soured

[naive plinth]

W

[slim kayak]

Are any gym boys here prepping to cut in time for college/summer?

[naive plinth]

I removed my count to stop my depression

[real herald]

I'm ngl if I get to 17 apps ima be so happy

22 too far man

3 of my top schools I haven't even started yet lmfao

[digital spoke]

I have 4 CSUs, 7 UCs, Stanford, UWash so far, still need to apply to 10 if Stanford doesn't work out 🫠

[real herald]

Stanny duke yale combined AR of like 10% but here we go baby

[digital spoke]

23 in total 🤩

[naive plinth]

As you should

[naive plinth]

I think I’ll stick to 21

-7 ucs

So more like 15

Good enough for me

[real herald]

I have 0 UCs. When I say 22 I mean 22 separate

[naive plinth]

Yeah ik

22 is a lot

[real herald]

It's depressing

[naive plinth]

I would apply to more

But like

[real herald]

I'm so glad I have css fee waiver and sat self report

[naive plinth]

I don’t really like other schools…

[real herald]

Or else I would be spending 10k

[naive plinth]

So why apply to a school I dislike

[naive plinth]

Real asf

I’ve alr spent like

[real herald]

My parents bro

[naive plinth]

700$ on apps

[digital spoke]

honestly, it just depends on how good your app is, the admissions rate lowk doesn't mean much

[real herald]

Clarification My dad

[naive plinth]

Fair

[real herald]

He wants me to apply to cmu

And dartmouth

[naive plinth]

My first list had every single t20 premed school in the us courtesy of father dearest

[naive plinth]

Ew

[digital spoke]

💀

[naive plinth]

It isn’t like that anymore I promise

[slim kayak]

Honestly almost all the schools in the T20 will give a high quality education and alumni network so I feel like if you like a few schools in the T20 you’d like most schools in the T20 if you learned about them enough

[naive plinth]

My first list also had a ton of southern schools like Emory and wake forest and UT like what was I thinking

[real herald]

My dad thinks dartmouth is easy to get into and I have the best chance at it since my app is mid. I'm like BRUH IT HAS 5% AR AND HARVARD HAS 4% and he said that extra 1% will be me

[naive plinth]

Not true

They might all have good education but they are very different in like every other aspect

[naive plinth]

💀

[real herald]

Previous you was 'slaying'

[wintry delta]

harvard's 4% also is due to popular culture always putting harvard as "THE" school in america'

[naive plinth]

He has a lot of faith in you that’s great

[real herald]

Hookem

[naive plinth]

If I’m bffr I was not going to live in Winston Salem, North Carolina

[naive plinth]

I did like UT though but Texas..

[real herald]

I'm actually praying that usc AR is deflated because ppl apply for the name and aren't actually comp

I don't even like my EAs that much other than UT and USC kind of

But I want reduced pressure

[digital spoke]

yeahhh

[real herald]

And anticipatipn

[wintry delta]

spiderman has made mit slightly more well known

[real herald]

So Georgetown pleaseeee let me in

[wintry delta]

but in general its like harvard and mit and thats it

[jade narwhal]

If I can get in, you can too

If I can get in, you can too

[real herald]

Georgetown I love you

[jade narwhal]

If I can get in, you can too

[naive plinth]

That’s a lie

[naive plinth]

I’m only considering usc if I get a merit scholarship

[naive plinth]

So many people are applying here from my school

And elsewhere

Georgetown is the new hot school

[pine rain]

dawg now im curious

[naive plinth]

He’s had a life

[jade narwhal]

About what

[real herald]

Even with my guaranteed Scholls it's still like 50-60k but my dad wants me to go if I get in and I'm rlly grateful that he said he will cover my fees

[pine rain]

what did you do

[naive plinth]

That’s sweet

[pine rain]

in high school

like

you keep on talking about how trash you are

[jade narwhal]

Prayed

[pine rain]

but i have a feeling you aren't

[real herald]

Bros lying fs

[pine rain]

given the fact that you're in princeton

[jade narwhal]

I am

[real herald]

The most cracked mfs shit on themselves the most

[naive plinth]

Idk if my parents will pay for me to go to usc even for 55-60k if I get into ucla for 35

[real herald]

It's a fact

[pine rain]

which is why im curious

[naive plinth]

😭 luck is goated guys

[jade narwhal]

I can send stats if you want

[pine rain]

not like my ass has any chance at getting into these colleges tho lol

[pine rain]

sure

[real herald]

I told my dad I'd rather go to UT because it's cheaper

[pine rain]

they're all similar probably tho lol

3.7+ gpa and 1500+ sat

[naive plinth]

I remember sophomore year he got a 4 in AP world history and decided not to apply to UCI because they only accepted 5’s 💀

[real herald]

Dawg you can't even hide we alr know ur cracked so no need to pretend

[naive plinth]

Ong

[pine rain]

dawg im not cracked

[real herald]

R yall friends

[pine rain]

i dont think i have a shot at stanford ngl

[wintry delta]

didnt you get like t150 nationally in an olympiad

[real herald]

Didn't u invent some competition with like 100k participants

[pine rain]

i keep on looking at my applicatoin

[pine rain]

not 100k

the fuck

who the fuck told you that

[naive plinth]

Not irl but I’ve known luck since then

[jade narwhal]

Benching 200+lbs got me in

[pine rain]

it was 5k

[real herald]

Still crazy

500p

5000

5 racks

5 bands

Can I hold 5 bands

If each one of your participants gave me 10 bucks

I could pay for a year at usc

[pine rain]

my brother

how is this trash

[jade narwhal]

Yes

[pine rain]

it's not trash by any means

[real herald]

Ah yes casually valedictorian but considers themselves 'trash'

[jade narwhal]

Cause not ivy material

[pine rain]

im not going to shower you in praise but this is far from bad

[pine rain]

dude

it really depends on your circumstnaces

don't feel let down just cuz some kid has research

maybe they live next to a university

maybe their dad works at one

[jade narwhal]

Yea, that was what my ad. Info was about

[pine rain]

or same with nonprofits

if you dont have access to talented people

or resources

it's not really your fault

[jade narwhal]

My town didn’t offer a lot of opportunities and I hella abused that in ad info LOL

[pine rain]

what did u say

[naive plinth]

Yeah luck i need that for mine

[jade narwhal]

I forgot Ngl. I have it on google doc

[pine rain]

some day i will do an a2c meetup

[jade narwhal]

But I said I was from a small farming town with subpar education/opportunities, and I was also low income

[pine rain]

everyone needs to sign this pact

sign a pact

saying that if you get rich and famous

[naive plinth]

Send please 🙏

[pine rain]

you are legally obligated

[jade narwhal]

I also wrote my essay about how I took advantage of every opportunities I got

[pine rain]

to invite everyone here

to a meetup

[wintry delta]

when

[jade narwhal]

Fr

[deft sleet]

Imposter syndrome will be the death of you, you are ivy material !!!

[wintry delta]

we havent seen each other irl ever since i moved to texas

[pine rain]

yea

[real herald]

If any of us end up at the same college I'm down

[pine rain]

that isn't an a2c meetup though dawg

that's a preschool meetup

[jade narwhal]

Discord users meet and greet is bound to fail 💀

[pine rain]

💀

[pine rain]

nah man

usually for me the interactions are good

[wintry delta]

[pine rain]

as long as they don't look at their fucking phone

which pisses me off

[naive plinth]

Same

[pine rain]

like dude im right in front of you

[jade narwhal]

😭 real

[pine rain]

there's this alternative to texting called talking

[naive plinth]

I’m a super social person

[digital spoke]

sure, I'm curious too

[jade narwhal]

Princeton 🤔

[naive plinth]

I got it fr

[real herald]

https://tenor.com/view/discordmod-meetup-gif-20343533

[pine rain]

don't know if they've ever heard of it????????

[pine rain]

i actually met up with tay a while back

[naive plinth]

The last time someone got in was 2 years ago

[real herald]

U live in indiana?

No one from my school gets into iviies

We had like one upenn

[naive plinth]

Same

[jade narwhal]

Well I’m the first in my school to be accepted and go to Princeton 🤷‍♂️ anything is possible

[real herald]

That's it

In our history

[naive plinth]

Yooo that’s awesome

[real herald]

No hyps

We've had 2 MITs I think

[pine rain]

live in a cornfield

[naive plinth]

We’ve had 7 Stanfords from 1950-2017

[real herald]

My school was est 2012

[pine rain]

our stanfords were kinda insane

but im not gonna be a part of them lol

im fucked

last year we had 1

the year before that we had 3

[real herald]

Stop.

[pine rain]

the year before that we had 1

[digital spoke]

do you mind sharing with me too?

[pine rain]

or was it 2

[digital spoke]

I didn't see earlier

[wintry delta]

my 270k pop town sends like 3 people to mit in a year

[real herald]

You. Are. Getting. In.

[digital spoke]

🫠

[real herald]

Say it w me

[pine rain]

im kinda fucked

[untold temple]

ive been summoned

[pine rain]

this shit is so competitive

[pine rain]

amongus

the concert was so good

[untold temple]

im dying

[pine rain]

get better soon!

[real herald]

We might be neighbo4s

[untold temple]

what concert was it

[real herald]

Would be crazy

[pine rain]

the jazz one

[wintry delta]

do you live in texas

[pine rain]

bro they had a singer and a rapper too

[real herald]

Yea

[untold temple]

the last one i went to was the pmo christmas show

[pine rain]

and some people just asked if they could come on stage and sign

*sing

[wintry delta]

cstat?

[untold temple]

thats fun

[real herald]

Nbm

[pine rain]

i was going to volunteer and play

[real herald]

Nvm

[pine rain]

but

[real herald]

I've been tho

[untold temple]

u shoulda, slacker

[pine rain]

im terrible at working in jazz ensembles

i would've stolen the show

which is not good

[digital spoke]

omg that's not anything close to bad like you said 😭 it's def ivy material

[pine rain]

i was gonna play gershwin

[real herald]

@wintry delta ntx

[untold temple]

you should have stolen the show

for shits and giggles

[pine rain]

im not an asshole

[digital spoke]

also, nice XC + track, me too @jade narwhal

[wintry delta]

then we are not neighbors unfortunately

[untold temple]

but we arent talking about stanny now so im gonna leave

not the thread for me

[untold temple]

love xc 🫶

[jade narwhal]

No it’s not 😭 I see those stats vid and it’s nothing like mine

[digital spoke]

fr same

[real herald]

R u considering tamu

Or ut as ur safety

[wintry delta]

got accepted into tamu engineering already

[digital spoke]

bro, I want to meet leo and lex young if I get in

[wintry delta]

still waiting on UT, need to submit an honors resume but im procrastinating like always

[real herald]

Lol

[digital spoke]

that's cuz of region 😭 you're absolutely cracked for your area

[jade narwhal]

True lol

[digital spoke]

there we go

[jade narwhal]

I was decently fast for xc too

19 mins 5k

[digital spoke]

damn

bro

I'm so slow

[jade narwhal]

Same

[digital spoke]

say that to my 23 min 5k

[jade narwhal]

I’m so slow no tho

Now*

[digital spoke]

I'm even slower now 💀

[jade narwhal]

I prolly run like a 10 mins mile now

[jade narwhal]

Same

[digital spoke]

I peaked in 8th grade I swear...

[jade narwhal]

I got fat cause of the gym LOL

[digital spoke]

way too early

[jade narwhal]

Got muscles now tho 😈

[real herald]

I'm so low on confidence rn. I'm legit practicing hookem sign🤘

[digital spoke]

lol

[real herald]

These t20s man the acceptance rates are so scary

[jade narwhal]

Fr

[jade narwhal]

Apply to princeton

[pine rain]

luck

wanna play chess or geoguessr

[digital spoke]

yeah 😭

[arctic snow]

plot armor

[slim kayak]

Does rea give us a small boost 🙏

[digital spoke]

I think it gives the boost in that they have open spaces still, so they can accept as many people as they want who are qualified, whereas in RD, if they have too many people, they have to cut some people

[paper cloak]

when are these coming out? dec 8 or dec 15 its been different every year

[spring osprey]

Probably the 15th

[dim badge]

no its actually harder, in one of the admissions files one of the admissions officers said something about doing better in the RD pool and that applicant got deferred iirc

[solemn oasis]

The way I think about decisions now is that we have no control over what's going to happen, and a rejection is just the universe telling me that Stanford isn't the right path for me, and that there are many other beautiful opportunities that will open up one day soon.

Still, we expect the worst and hope for the best 🙂

[harsh sentinel]

is rea harder for Harvard too

[dim badge]

im not sure

i wouldnt be surprised

yale rea is harder as well, theyce said it themselves

[harsh sentinel]

then why do regular people do it

as in like non athletes, legacy

[dim badge]

bc they wanna know their decision sooner

lmao

[harsh sentinel]

ok lol fair

[dim badge]

the reason rea has an inflated acceptance rate is bc of athletes and legacy

and donors

[harsh sentinel]

i have a friend who did Harvard rea and only that and if he gets in he won't do anything else so makes sense ig

[dim badge]

you have it down kinda, just think the oppositely, they only have so many spaces and dont wanna miss out on the opportunity on using spots for phenomenal RD candidates that arent in the REA pool

[dim badge]

theres an article, it's prob around this server somewhere

some dude named salami had it but i'm not sure what happened to him

[jade narwhal]

I’m down

Love chess

[dim badge]

@naive plinth where did salami go 😭

we lost our stanford information plug

[naive plinth]

You’re so right

He disappeared

[dim badge]

he literally had all the sources on a list

[naive plinth]

I think he left A2C

[naive plinth]

Maybe we could dm

[dim badge]

he deleted his account 😭

[naive plinth]

NOOO

Actually heartbreaking

[dim badge]

he was actually so knowledgeable on this too

oh well, harder or not nothing we can do about it

[naive plinth]

He was committed to getting in

Very very committed

[naive plinth]

Bro I’ve gone from being sad about Stanford to falling in love with Yale in a day 😭 I’m too indecisive

School of the month is Yale

[trail olive]

I wish I could do this but for a safety

[naive plinth]

Real asf

I will be devastated if I’m rejected from Yale

[trail olive]

I had to choose stanford of all schools to be obsessed with 😭😭

[naive plinth]

😭

[naive plinth]

Ngl by March it’ll probably be another school I’m obsessed with 💀

[trail olive]

Hey at least you'll be able to move on if you're rejected

[naive plinth]

Watch it be brown next and then I get rejected there 😭 then I’ll be heartbroken for months

Yk what school id actually be devastated with though

If I got rejected from ucla I’d be on my knees sobbing

[trail olive]

why ucla 🤨

[naive plinth]

Fav uc + in state

[trail olive]

understandable
the only reason i did the uc app was because of berkeley tbh

[naive plinth]

Berkeley is like 30 mins away from me lol

[trail olive]

i would kill to be able to visit stanford like that

[naive plinth]

Hence not a huge fan

[naive plinth]

Fun fact I’ve never been to Stanford despite living an hr away for my entire life

I’ve gone to the Stanford shopping mall before

For my American girl doll

But never Stanford

[wintry delta]

uc palo alto

[trail olive]

you should!! i went in may for a trip (to visit stanford and berkeley) and ended up visiting uc palo alto 4 times in the 4 days i was there 💀

[trail olive]

st. anford's university

[naive plinth]

Crazy 😭

[trail olive]

all i can do is 🙏 for dec 15

[wintry delta]

december 14 princeton day

[slim kayak]

Inside view of green library

[arctic snow]

decent

[slim kayak]

Terrible picture

It’s huge but this was my fav spot

[arctic snow]

indoor jungle

[harsh sentinel]

damn girl i live in India and visited stanford lol

[harsh sentinel]

OH MY GOD THAT'S SO COOOOLL

[harsh sentinel]

I will be devastated if im rejected uc irvine cuz ^

[arctic snow]

i just applied rea cuz stanford was the only college visit ive done 🤡

[slim kayak]

What’s even the point of REA? Just make it ED at this point

[wintry delta]

rea is non-binding so if you want to consider other schools you still can

[dim badge]

for legacy, donor, and athlete lmao

[naive plinth]

I’ve been to Palo Alto!!

[dim badge]

i mean the statistics are closed so i wouldn't know

it's definitely a fair amount though

they get an extra reader, that's pretty much it

because of that and just being more qualified in general they tend to have a higher AR

[harsh sentinel]

why wouldn't you go to stanford then😭

[hexed harbor]

does anyone actually know the number though
i feel like its just speculatory tbh

[naive plinth]

No idea bro

If I get in I’ll go

If not no harm no foul

[dim badge]

for legacy?

yeah the actual number is

[hexed harbor]

oh thats awesome glad to hear

im so much more confident abt my choices now

[dim badge]

its speculatory

[hexed harbor]

yeah i got that :p

[dim badge]

you're legacy right

the third reader really helps

[hexed harbor]

i am

[wintry delta]

wait im genuinely interested in knowing
because if its like if the first 2 readers say your app is mid, why would the 3rd reader change anything

[hexed harbor]

does it? wouldnt you get the same score based on all the readers

[dim badge]

different perspective

maybe they see something the other two dont

[hexed harbor]

all the aos are taught to approach it with objectives in mind though and theres a very small chance theirs will be any different than the other 2

[dim badge]

each reader gives their own score

[dim badge]

oh you'd be surprised

[hexed harbor]

well yeah but theyre very similar

[hexed harbor]

do you have evidence or are we coping together

[cloud basin]

brandon already got in

[dim badge]

theyre different people

[dim badge]

no i didnt 😭

thats the evidence

[hexed harbor]

yeah but i mean
if an applicant is mid wouldnt they be considered mid by all 3

[dim badge]

well that's true, but theres a chance the applicant could be a swing applicant

mid test scores/rigor, good essays

two readers think theyre mid

third reader likes them

it helps

[wintry delta]

i think its interesting how stanford has a strict policy of +1 reader when dealing with legacies

[hexed harbor]

i guess yeah
ill just hope it works (worked?)

[wintry delta]

i think at other schools its just "plus factor onto your app"

[cloud basin]

u didn't???

you'll still get in tho

[hexed harbor]

i figure that cant be it though right
does it result in support boosts? something else altogether?

[hexed harbor]

you were just manifesting it dw

[cloud basin]

manifesting it for him 🤞

[dim badge]

ty 🙏🙏

[cloud basin]

yw, u don't need it tho, already got it in the bag 🥱

[dim badge]

but the main reason they had a higher released AR that one year is because legacies just have more resources and stuff generally

[hexed harbor]

when was this + what was the increase if you dont mind me asking?

[dim badge]

u too (wherever u applying) 💯💯

[dim badge]

im not sure when but it was awhile ago they released 16%?

[hexed harbor]

howd it compare to the normal acc rate at the time?

[dim badge]

lower

you can kinda get a rough legacy estimate with just doing math too

they release the percentage of the class which is legacy

[hexed harbor]

very rough though 😭

[dim badge]

i wouldnt worry about it to be honest

all thats confirmed really is a third reader

[hexed harbor]

yeah fair
itll help a little at the very least (i hope)

[trail olive]

does anyone else browse stanford on google maps or am i delulu

[hexed harbor]

when?

[wintry delta]

schools usually do this

[hexed harbor]

we can hope but itll almost certainly be a week from friday

[hexed harbor]

damn was unaware'

[wintry delta]

heres the legacy letter i got from princeton

i dont think brandon got one either and hes also a stanford legacy

so maybe they just didnt send them this year idk

[hexed harbor]

huh interesting
did not know they sent these but it seems very useful to give an intro/faq to the process

[digital spoke]

Damn 😭

[digital spoke]

🫠 welp, gotta hope I get an overall score of 2 or 2+ then 🥲

[digital spoke]

I didn't

sad that Stanford doesn't have a research supplement

[harsh sentinel]

@pine rain sent a viola portfolio

[pine rain]

ya

[digital spoke]

damn

talented

[digital spoke]

t-8 days

I want the day to comeee

[dapper gale]

+9 hours

[digital spoke]

stop 😭

[dapper gale]

If they did they would get way too many

[digital spoke]

yeahhh