Stanford University (2023-2024)

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It’s December 15th

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BRO DE IS A JOKE

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well unofficially still

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my sis's final was "10 things u learned abt ---subject---"

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LOL

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oh I wish

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it was 100 words/ every question 1 hour to complete

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mine was like a 3000 word paper for english 😭😭

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ah

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MINE AINT 😭😭

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are we the most active megathread

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we have to be

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yeah my final for eng was around 3000 words as well

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idk man mit is pretty up there

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penn is probably near the top

it has more than we do

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alr alr

we will be up there in the next few days

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penn is better than stanford trust

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what’s u guys #2

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College?

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yes

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princeton

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yale

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awesome

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there is no number 2

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i’m with you

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twinnn

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Maybe UPenn? But tbh, nothing comes close to Stanford 🤩

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agreed

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my number 1 is cornell and my no 2 is penn

lolllll

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did u rea?

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lol

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bruh her final was a joke easiest A ever

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tell me why my cc research and writing class was the most time i’ve ever put into a class. i was zooming with the prof like 2ce a week working on papers when I literally got a 5 on every AP english exam prior to taking it

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Can't believe the letter from Stanford about the release date is going to be tomorrow

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i know the time is just flying

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wait how do we know fs its coming out tmr

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we don't.

lol

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They usually confirm on the Tuesday before the Friday so we r jsut assuming

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it'll happen when it happens

until then we remain paralyzed with fear

and anxiety

and until friday we remain paralyzed too

and after friday we remain paralyzed from shock

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I just wanna rip the band-aid off already

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I am going to call the admissions office tmrw and ask them what decision they made on my application

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are you serious

lmao

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If I get delusional enough aboslutely

Im so sick of waiting

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i hate how much this has taken over my life

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same

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like why can’t i sleep

why can’t i enjoy the things i used to love doing without thinking about this decision

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it will continue to haunt you after the fact

at least that's what i feel like

lol

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It will be an excruciating wait if deferred

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they dont defer a lot of ppl tho no?

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like 7-8%

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trust that u'll make it

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round up to 10

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are u international does that make a diff

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Yes

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yes it makes a difference

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where r u from just curious lol

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me? I'm from Maryland

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waiting for defer or more probably rejected friday 💀

international

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same lmao

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the wait is useless 😔

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ready for the rejection here

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stanford hasnt said anything yet right?

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nope

probably tmr

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do they send an email like penn or brown

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probably? idk but I know it will be updated on their admissions page and most likely the insta

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its so annoying cos ill get the notif

and click it

if i see "i am very" or something similar im immediately closing it

99% sure 😔

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you will know instantly if u get accepted cause the confetti lol

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stanford has confetti too?

😔

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o rly

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I believe so

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itll be sad if i dont see it 😭

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the chatbot on their site said the 15th apparently

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yea that was to be expected

this friday

being international, and not an athlete

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yeah it's very likely to be this friday

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like 7 pm ish ?

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im practically asking for rejection in rea

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yea later in the day

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ur not alone loll

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like 5 or 6

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4pm pst

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damn so 7 here time

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yup

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imma have my dinner

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where

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open my laptop

be disappointed

close it and work on my other apps

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i recommend eating before u open it haha

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or good case scenario, i never close it and i delete commonapp from everything 💀

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i will

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gonna be sobbing during my physics final

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its so sad cos i got the grades i think

but my ecs are mid af

and my essays could be a hit or miss

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I just have to hope I have something unique enough but ehh

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dont underestimate urself

and dont overestimate others lol

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its just that

i see on nyoutube and stuff

these people starting 5 figure businesses

in highschool for their ecs

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I swear this is futile for me

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and i have just basic stuff like projects ive worked myself on, and stuff im self teaching and service stuff

which is like miles below what ive seen

im not underestimating myself, but the others applying (atleast the ones i see online) are insane

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The hours are going down but my anxiety isn’t 😔

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so real

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thats not the majority and those ppl just come from loaded families

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I have to logical reason to be nervous but here I am

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yea true

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and ppl often lie online lmaoo

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thats also true lo

l

i wish the best for all of us here

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at least we share the anxiety here

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hope to see you all at Stanford 🙏

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hope to see myself and all of you at stanford 😭

oh yeah

how many interviews did yall have

if they do one, its just one right?

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? just one

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1?? was i supposed to do more

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i had one which lasted about 50mins

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If everything goes right we will look back on this time as one where we stressed for no reason

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i was asking

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oh oops

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i only had one and like UK unis have more than 1

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1, lasted 1.5 hours

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💀

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same

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damn my interviewer was like our time is up

at like 50 min

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my interviewer had to go to other interviews in the area

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o yeah that happened to my friend at my skl too

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so he had to leave

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timer went off at 30 mins and he left lol

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Mine was a sweet old lady but then I checked her LinkedIn and she created one of the first AIs for Apple

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I think my interview went pretty good we connected on a lot of topics

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I’m like damnnnn

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damnnn

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dang

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for us there was no timer

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where r u from

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Midwest

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he asked me some stuff, i asked him some stuff about the basic life at stanford and how the culture is

i told him about my interests and stuff

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ur interviewer is very similar to mine hahah but im int

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we went for about 50ish minutes and then he had to leave cos he had another interview

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I see

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yeah isn't representative of ur performance/ their interest in u

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I think I did well

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I was sitting in the starbucks for 30 min before so nervous

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sometimes theyre just too busy

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yea

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thats earlyy

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Mine was virtual 💀

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but he laughed a bunch

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Even when she lived in my city

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like we made jokes and stuff 💀

so i guess its okay

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Stanford is popping

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hey thats greatt

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lmao he gave me the option so I went in person

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Same

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ya me too

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damn

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I did not get an option 🥲

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i had to do it online

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neither did i

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We were legit in a biker cafe on the side of the road though 😭 not what I was expecting

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guys in terms of numbers right

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He was super informal too

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the academic one

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thats interesting

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Average Stanford grad hobbies

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what would a "1" be in terms of grade and sat score

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he was wearing a stanford hoodie lol

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No fr

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Probs like Harvard’s rating of 1 where they say near perfect record, tests, and then something on top of those

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I was so excited I started stalking his linkedin and forgot that ppl can see lol

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im def not any close to a 2

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yea my sat is so fucking mid compared to the competition but my school grades are good

45 predicted IB 🧌

but 1510

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my sat isn't the best idk

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Damn so many international ppl here lmao

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how did u do?

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We aiming for 2/3 lol, 1 is super difficult

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I got a 1540 but idk how that looks with the ppl in my school

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wow

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Damn

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my math score was a 790 but my english i messed up

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Honestly over 1500 and 3.8 unweighted they probs won’t auto reject you

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i got max gpa

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Not ideal but not gonna end you

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unweighted

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Fr

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i think

but my sat

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That's 1 in test score

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I got 4/4 unweighted

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is shit in stanfords standards

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Another day tmr and another day of waiting

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i see u getting in ngl after all uve said

💀

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i think skl grades and standardizes scores are complementary

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What is it?

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like ur interview went well

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1510

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THATS NOT ALL THEY WANT 💀

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like if u have lower skl grades a higher sat will help vice versa

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My schools average act is a 24 or 1170ish SAT 🤠

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790 math, 720 english

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790 math, 750 eng

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That's not bad lol, it'll probably be a 2 (maybe low 1) in test score

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noone from my school has got into an ivy or big school

even in my area

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Same

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so that lowers my chances even more

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not the case if ur asian...

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💀

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Like I get why we don’t have any chance at doing major extracurriculars unless you’re rich or a nepotism baby

Usually both

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lmao usually both

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see the thing is I live in a very competitive county and a decently competitive school

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Bruh :/

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im not wrong ;-;

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Do not talk about the thing let’s talk about some Stanford stuff we are excited about

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It's a 1/2 regardless

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Have yall looked at any classes yall wanna take?

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Well one thing I wanna do really bad is be a part of the HAI

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Hai?

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im asian but like nepali asian

and ive never even lived in asia 😭

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human centered AI lab

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but i had to put asian there anyways

even though i wasnt raised asian at all

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omg my mom is nepali indian

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im doing chem engineering

or chem computing

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I was looking at that too bc I wanted to do the Human Centered AI path

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computational chemistry

or chemical engineering

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I’m Indian American 😎

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same

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this sounds cool

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Me too 😭

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i wanna do so much there but opportunities dotn come on their own

💀

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I'm from Vietnam

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thats so tough i can never

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I moved here from India

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im likely a chem/ biochem major

sounds boring compared to u guys

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med?

wait nvm

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Stanford doesn’t have biochem

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I sometimes see videos of college chem labs and they look so fun wdym 😭😭

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in the likely event i get rejected

i applied biochem everywhere hahah

[hoary skiff]

https://tenor.com/view/jennifer-connelly-labyrinth-me-looking-for-friday-gif-11705475

[lusty sundial]

nooo but stuff like symbolic systems sounds sm better

[pine rain]

What is symbolic systems

[spring osprey]

Oh how did your debate go??

It’s like cs combined with liberal arts

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The fact it’s on Friday at 6 pm my time so I will go the entire day waiting

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it's an interdisciplinary major

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I was the 1st- runner up and the overall best speaker of the tournament hehe

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?

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What did you debate?

[lusty sundial]

dont feel too bad we have to wake up to the decision

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I lowkey need time to go slow, have to do 12 college apps before decision comes out and I’m hit with depression 😭😭

[spring osprey]

Omg congrats!! 🥳🎉

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That's better honestly 😭

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Congrats!!!

[hoary skiff]

waking up sm better

I will just be thinking the entire day

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i wont be able to sleep wdym t-t

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Knowing me I won’t sleep

[hoary skiff]

ah fair

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Better later in the day

[spring osprey]

Crying myself to sleep let’s go!!

[naive plinth]

Yay!

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But like 10 mins after I wake up as a surprise is the best option

[hoary skiff]

see I sleep regardless

so it would be so nice to have a morning decision

[spring osprey]

How to be like you 🥹

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Wake up like 2 hrs after decisions and be like oh

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what event?

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i respect that

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close eyes

lmao

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I bought a pre workout for the first time in my life after lifting for 2 years now and wish me luck

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I’m not going to check at 4 I’m going to wait for A2C to check first and then decide if I want to check at all…

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Vietnam Women and Queer Debate Open 2023

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Nah imma click it instantly

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That’s awesome!!

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wowww

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Thanks for taking one for the team (me)

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I'm just ready to pull the band-aid off

[spring osprey]

Omg you know what… I never knew that

[naive plinth]

Make sure to post your decision here so I can see 😁

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ima be refreshing on and on

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Please be an acceptance Istg

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@naive plinth im w u

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I have basketball stuff so I don’t want to be distraught while my whole team is cookie decorating

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Wha

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🥹 I'm still waiting for Stanford to tell us when the decisions will be released

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ill wait w u lmaoo

[naive plinth]

Tmr trust

[spring osprey]

Same!!

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Oh bet

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rly

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prob tmr

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So annoying 😂😵

[naive plinth]

Make sure to post your decisions in #✨-celebration-station #👻-the-medium-place and #💪-chad-rejects !! Leaderboards will be starting for the latter two

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I will be on this chat if I get in or deferred instantly, otherwise I will be crying in my bed.

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🥹

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what are those for sorry im new here

[naive plinth]

I’m going to record myself and I alr know my reaction 😭

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I guess being deferred from Stanford gives you a pretty good shot for RD

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ill be crying nonetheles lmaoo

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when is stanford coming out?

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well better than regular RD applicants

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like hypothetically

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Friday(unconfirmed)

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15th December

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Friday at 4 pm pst

Trust

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If you get in -> #✨-celebration-station and everyone is like 🫶🫶🫶 and if you get deferred -> #👻-the-medium-place and everyone will be very supportive and if you get rejected -> #💪-chad-rejects and everyone will be like 🫂🫂🫂

Yk I wouldn’t be mad if Stanford decided they wanted to wait until like Jan 1st 😁

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NO

ABSOLUTELY NOT

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NOOO

i havent started half of my RDs cuz im waiting

[naive plinth]

Whattt we can live in delulu a bit longer

[spring osprey]

I already missed out on recording my first 2 college decisions because I was like “omg let’s go see if they need any documents from me” and BOOM decision

[naive plinth]

Girl go start 😭

[hoary skiff]

I CANT WAIT ANY LONGER

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real

[lusty sundial]

my first decision email me directly so lmaoo

[naive plinth]

Stanford will be my first decision 😭 starting off really strong or really weak

Manifesting the former

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SAME

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Which ones released already 🥲

[lusty sundial]

i have literally no motivation

[naive plinth]

If you don’t get into Stanford…

[naive plinth]

Manifesting for you 🫂

[spring osprey]

Oh it was for my state school, Texas A&M

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Trust the other schools are just as good

[lusty sundial]

good point HAHA thanks

[naive plinth]

I wish I could but I can’t

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Oh I see

[spring osprey]

Got my safety but I don’t want to go to TAMU 😭😭

[hoary skiff]

we got this 🤞

[naive plinth]

Fr everyone here = Stanford ‘28 💯

[slim kayak]

You can use all 3 Stanford essays for Harvard trust

[spring osprey]

I struggled so hard on the Why Harvard essay

And honestly with all the why school essays

[hoary skiff]

my "safety" comes out in Feb and I saw a vid of a Stanford girl saying she got REJECTED FROM MY SAFETY 💀 WTF

[spring osprey]

Yield protection 🤭

[slim kayak]

Why [school]? Um cuz I want to and can pay you money now lemme in

[hoary skiff]

yes but also they reject basically everyone rd and accept most of their class ea

[spring osprey]

I saw that one admission file where the AO comment was like how the applicant would have stood out more in RD pool than REA 💀

[spring osprey]

Ohhh

[lusty sundial]

nah that does not make senseee

[hoary skiff]

I put not applying for financial aid in case they see that but they don't consider it, last ditch effort 💀

[spring osprey]

I have like the organizations I want to join which is like the same across all the schools but doesn’t know if it sounded insincere lol

[spring osprey]

Exactly 😭😭 Think it might be because those who are already stacked and got their life together apply early because they already got all their achievements

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I reused Columbia why us for Rice by simply changing the name of the program I want cuz either way I wanna do the same thing to change the world

[hoary skiff]

I used a question they put on instagram at one of the HAI conferences and was like I intend to find the answer to this question at Stanford

[spring osprey]

And also athletes and legacy

[spring osprey]

Omg that’s a nice one

[spring osprey]

That’s what I did lol

[lusty sundial]

yeah thats such a good idea

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That'll be Saturday in Vietnam already 😭

[lusty sundial]

same here!!

[spring osprey]

No financial aid is brave 😭

[slim kayak]

Hope we all get in and do a reunion at main quad for lightsaber fights

[hoary skiff]

I wouldn't have gotten any I think but idk

[lusty sundial]

HAHAH

[spring osprey]

My family in Vietnam will either wake up to me crying or spamming the group chat, there’s no peace for them 🤭

[slim kayak]

Stanford calculator said that in the best case scenario I get exactly $0 now 🤠🥲

[spring osprey]

Same

[lusty sundial]

do they have access to ur portal?

[hoary skiff]

same I even changed stuff

[exotic reef]

Somewhere around 7a.m. Saturday in Vietnam

[rigid cape]

Bro

AND I'm applying for financial ajd

I forgot

Ofc I'm getting rejected nvm ☠️☠️

I'm an international, in Rea, not athlete and asking for money

☠️

[spring osprey]

No but I’ll probably overreact no matter the results

[slim kayak]

As an international student is bold ngl

[hoary skiff]

oh damn they aren't need blind for international right

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https://tenor.com/view/oppenheimer-not-a-chance-chances-are-near-zero-unlikely-cillian-murphy-gif-2887590044279356113

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Yea they arent

[exotic reef]

International students 😭

[rigid cape]

So it's over for me

[lusty sundial]

my plan is to lock myself up in a cabinet in a room

[hoary skiff]

ngl I think I'm cooked as well

[rigid cape]

I can't go to Stanford without aid

[spring osprey]

Are you waking up early to check the decisions??

[rigid cape]

No way we will pay that

I'm finished

[exotic reef]

I don't have international awards, how am I suppose to compete 😦

[rigid cape]

No hope anymore now that I remembered it's not need blind

[spring osprey]

You know what, sounds like a good plan, I’ll join you

[slim kayak]

It’s okay we can all do our part to add to the student loan crisis

[exotic reef]

Depends =)))) I'll probably oversleep

[spring osprey]

That’s what I would do too, sleep is more important these days

[hoary skiff]

lol, my parents said they r gonna help me I'm so greatful

[slim kayak]

Trust wake up

[exotic reef]

96% saying: "We're sorry to inform you..."

[spring osprey]

Being an active citizen fr 😎

[hoary skiff]

If I don't see confetti I will start crying

[pine rain]

What kind of debate i mean

[spring osprey]

I’ll draw confettis on to my screen don’t worry

[rough lark]

are you guys sure stanford has confetti

[spring osprey]

Sending Stanford a I reject your rejection letter

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I'm very sorry

[exotic reef]

The format was British Parliamentary

[rigid cape]

It does

And the first letter is congratulations

[slim kayak]

Even on mobile?

[hoary skiff]

i think?? I swear I saw an acceptance with confetti

[exotic reef]

I haven't seen it lol

[rigid cape]

As soon as I see I am very I'm closing it

[spring osprey]

Wait what’s that, I’m only familiar with policy and world schools

[lusty sundial]

i'm down HAHA

[rough lark]

i think they added it jusr a few years ago cuz if you go to videos farther back they dont have confetti

[lusty sundial]

to prevent ppl from misreading the letter 💀

[slim kayak]

I am unfortunately been guilty of watching decision reactions videos 😔

[rigid cape]

They should have it so people know when to click off

Like me

☠️

[lusty sundial]

i used to be an muner 😭

[hoary skiff]

I HAD A PHASE WHERE THAT WAS ALL I WOULD WATCH LAST YEAR LOL

[exotic reef]

British Parliamentary is used in World Universities Debating Championship, yet we still debate this format anyway

[spring osprey]

Ohhh

[lusty sundial]

which ones do u recommend 😄

[spring osprey]

A lot of debate people are also in mun in my district 😭😭

[spring osprey]

Getting that motivation 🤭

[exotic reef]

I think I've watched all the Stanford decision reaction out there in the market

[hoary skiff]

idk I just searched up on yt and would go to the msot recent ones for the last cycle

[lusty sundial]

i ran a 300 ppl conf last month and i'm soo tired of min now

[slim kayak]

I’m not sure if I’d wanna wear the Stanford hoodie to school Monday if I get in

[spring osprey]

I avoid them at all costs lol

[lusty sundial]

mun**

[hoary skiff]

and stanford ones lol

[slim kayak]

Eh fuck it I will

[lusty sundial]

skl ended for me alr teehee

[naive plinth]

I’m not telling anyone until I commit other than my best friend

[spring osprey]

I don’t even have a Stanford hoodie

[exotic reef]

I was actually the first student to ever make it WSDC Team Vietnam Development Squad in my city lol

[hoary skiff]

I'm only gonna get merch for a school if I get accepted to it

[slim kayak]

Why not?

[hoary skiff]

same I got no merch

[spring osprey]

Omg congrats!! Da Nang representation!! 🥹

[naive plinth]

Bc if I don’t end up committing to x school that’s really good then people will be like why didn’t you commit to x?

More pressure basically

[exotic reef]

Me too...

[slim kayak]

Good point

[exotic reef]

I just want to save money 😂

[lusty sundial]

in my skl ppl don't tell anywhere where they're applying to, accepted to, or attending

[slim kayak]

Why??

[lusty sundial]

cuz either way ppl talk and judge lmao

it's rly toxic

[slim kayak]

We have a whole insta page for it

[hoary skiff]

same

[exotic reef]

None of the students in my school applies to the US 🙂

[lusty sundial]

yeah that's not allowed in our skl

[spring osprey]

Same 😭😭

[exotic reef]

I'm probably the first one to apply to Stanford in my school

[slim kayak]

But the posts are only the state schools

[lusty sundial]

i wish u all the besttt

[spring osprey]

In my school, if we’re in the same room as someone who is submitting their apps somewhere, we clap and cheer for them

[lusty sundial]

aww that's so nice :((

[hoary skiff]

every time I go on insta these days I keep getting reminded that I haven't gotten into college yet 😭

[lusty sundial]

idk why my skl culture is like this tbh

[spring osprey]

Trailblazer

[hoary skiff]

so supportive I

[exotic reef]

I need the support and information. I knew nothing about US admissions until senior year

[spring osprey]

Right?? I’ll miss it a lot when I graduate 😭

[slim kayak]

The top students at my school would 100% do wild stuff to get in but 99% of students don’t care

It’s quite a mix

[hoary skiff]

I heard stanford is very supportive too so 🤞

[lusty sundial]

it's so nice to hear abt ur skls tho

makes me realize how unhealthy mine is

[spring osprey]

Yea especially since the secondary to college system is so different, like I heard the college entrance exam is not even until after graduation

[hoary skiff]

I know like no one in my school cause I moved districts eh

[lusty sundial]

can't wait!!!!

[exotic reef]

Yeh, there's no culture of "applying to college" basically

[spring osprey]

My teacher went to Stanford and said he got massive duck syndrome 💀

[hoary skiff]

Literally I was so confused because my parents have never been to college and my counselors were so bad at the time

[slim kayak]

It is a big thing there but honestly the resources make up for it as long as you remember you’re not the only one that needs help

[lusty sundial]

whattt

😭

[spring osprey]

And it’s hard to apply to U.S. uni too because of holistic admissions but Vietnamese system is mainly based on standardized tests 😔

[hoary skiff]

I had a prof that got into MIT but went to carnegie

[slim kayak]

I feel like it’s easier w holistic cuz if the process was just test scores like IIT I wouldn’t stand a chance

[exotic reef]

I basically participated at national debating championships USING my school's name without them acknowledging 😂

[slim kayak]

Eh it’s fineee

[exotic reef]

They don't emphasize on extracurriculars

[spring osprey]

He said he got into Harvard, MIT, and Stanford but chose Stanford because California is where he’s originally from and also because it was less gloomy compared to Harvard and MIT. Got duck syndrome but said it was still fun so Idk lol

[slim kayak]

Yeah like what do international students do for extracurriculars? It all basically has to be outside stuff

[spring osprey]

My only question is why chose teaching when his resume is stacked 😭😭

[exotic reef]

I thought the weather in California is closer to that in Vietnam compared to Harvard and MIT where it is so colddddd

[hoary skiff]

I feel like I will for sure get duck syndrome wherever I go bc I suck

[spring osprey]

Honestly never lived in California but you’re probably right, heard it was still hot in Cali right now

[exotic reef]

Debate is actually very new in Vietnam

We only had our first WSDC Team Vietnam in 2017

[spring osprey]

They’re lowkey benefitting though 🤭

[spring osprey]

Same lol

[hoary skiff]

I've never done debate

[spring osprey]

Debate is so fun

It’s professional arguing

To put it simply

[exotic reef]

When the first WSDC was back in 1988 😵

[spring osprey]

We’re so late 😭😭

[hoary skiff]

lmao

I've been putting off studying for my finals 😢

[spring osprey]

I’ve been putting off doing my RD apps

[hoary skiff]

only one really matters for my grade tho

[exotic reef]

Vietnam only gained indepedence from 1975 so I guessed it made sense

[spring osprey]

12 apps to do 😭😭

[hoary skiff]

thats crazy I'm only applying to like 8 schools

[spring osprey]

True true, is there like a national organization for debate? Like in US we have NSDA (National Speech & Debate Association)

[hoary skiff]

it's either state school or elite cause my state school has a very good compsci program too

[spring osprey]

Throwing my shot so I don’t have any regrets later on lol

[exotic reef]

Nope, debate isn't a thing supported by the government yet

It's mostly student-led and other private entities

[spring osprey]

Same! All of my RD apps are elite schools because UT Austin is ranked pretty high in cs so I wouldn’t go out of state unless it’s like Stanford or something lol

[slim kayak]

I can’t bring myself to finish my apps for the schools I like but not as much as Stanford

[lusty sundial]

21 here !!

[spring osprey]

Same 😭😭

[exotic reef]

=))) try-hard to Stanford lol

[lusty sundial]

yeah no idk what tf i was thinking

[spring osprey]

Hopefully they will soon, debate is really helpful in terms of research and writing

[hoary skiff]

UMD is getting harder and harder for in-state each year tho but I pray I will get in at least to there

[spring osprey]

And honestly public speaking which is life skill too

[lusty sundial]

14 ish?? i think

[rough lark]

of the roughly 9k rea applicants, how many do you think are internationals

[hoary skiff]

no clue

how many are cali

[exotic reef]

No clue...

I only know 1 person from my city who is also applying to Stanford REA

[spring osprey]

We can probably get the overall from common data set and use proportions/ratios to figure it out

But too lazy lol

[spring osprey]

Positive side is less competition lol

[exotic reef]

We just need to get accepted 😂

[spring osprey]

I think it’s more quality of applicants rather than country

[exotic reef]

Roughly 4-5 students/country if we use last year's information

[digital spoke]

I scheduled a college apps essay work session 30 min after decisions come out 🤣 so I'm working on essays if Stanford doesn't work out, which hopefully won't happen and I can get accepted and just not work on essays 😆

[naive plinth]

Real good motivation

[spring osprey]

I’m hoping to get all my RD apps in before Christmas break and my college advisor said I have to send all the essays to her by this Friday so that’s fun

[hoary skiff]

I just wanna be done tbh

[spring osprey]

Same

[digital spoke]

Fr

[hoary skiff]

This is decision is consuming me in an unhealthy way

[exotic reef]

I have to eat apples to calm myself down

Weird coping mechanism 😂

[spring osprey]

Wait I’ve heard of an apple a day keeps the doctor away, not calm yourself down 😭

[exotic reef]

I hope stanford's decision is as sweet as the apple I'm eating now...

[hoary skiff]

time will tell...

[sonic dagger]

can you split an apple apart with your bare hands

[hoary skiff]

why is math so easy yet physics is so annoying

[exotic reef]

Yes... depends on the size

[exotic reef]

IKR

[spring osprey]

What’s more ironic is calculus and physics are connected

[exotic reef]

Math is fun to do. Physics isn't 😵

[hoary skiff]

real

i hate rotational

[exotic reef]

Lucky I didn't have to do A Level Physics

[trail olive]

Just took a nap
Was opening my decision letter and as soon as I clicked the button I woke up

[dim badge]

did anybody's counselor get asked about first quarter grades

[lusty sundial]

u got accepted to reality

[lusty sundial]

no... don't we submit mid term grades only

[rough lark]

if like stanford asked for them, would they only let the counselor know or would they let you know too

[rough lark]

but the admissions might make a special request to see in progress grades

but its very rare

[dim badge]

i think just the counselor

that's how it usually is i think

[rough lark]

damn ok then hopefully counselors have the decency to let the person know

[rough lark]

yea i know that they do this

it def is rare though

[dim badge]

im scared bc if they do i have a c in my quarter grade

[rough lark]

i feel like i’m the type of guy more likely to get asked because imo everything about my application is insane except for 2 B’s so they might want more info

[dim badge]

oh they'd definitely ask about mine

[rough lark]

hopefully counselors are decent enough to let us know if they get asked

[rough lark]

for junior year?

[dim badge]

soph

jr

[wintry delta]

my school doesnt have "final grades" until ends of semesters

[dim badge]

extenuating cirumstances

but

still

[wintry delta]

does your transcript have quarter grades on it or something

[dim badge]

nope

[rough lark]

you know like if you got all A’s then like you could make a special request to your counselor to get your in progress grades sent

[wintry delta]

then how would a quarter grade report work

[rough lark]

we have 6 week grading periods

[dim badge]

my 79 in ap lit is an 88 now

[wintry delta]

i do too

i have six week grading periods as well for non-DE courses

based on the timing of people asking about quarter grade requests, im assuming they have my 2nd marking period grades if they were to be sent

which displays 1 b and 4 a's rn

[low kindle]

yall 4 days left is craaazy

[dim badge]

these are my grades rn

idk if they'd be worth submitting though tbh

[paper cloak]

ap lit is kicking my butt!

[wintry delta]

wtf you have diffeq on your high school transcript

mine is on a college trasncript

[dim badge]

yes

[stoic stag]

Did decisions come out for y'all or smthin

[dim badge]

no

[low kindle]

nah

[stoic stag]

ahh okay

[low kindle]

friday at 4pm pst

[stoic stag]

wtf

pst

[low kindle]

pacific standard time

[wintry delta]

also speaking of diffeq i have a question lol
if i have an unknown function g(t) and i laplace transform it and multiply it by stuff in laplace mode, is it valid to use convolution to just turn it back and leave some integral like g(tau)

[stoic stag]

that'd be saturday where I am

[low kindle]

yk, the place where stanford is :/

[wintry delta]

because im slightly doubting myself on the final i took today

[dim badge]

Idk that was a bonus question for us

[wintry delta]

wtf bonus question????

[dim badge]

so i didnt bother learning

[wintry delta]

lucky

[dim badge]

same

[stoic stag]

what kinda class is that

lmao

[wintry delta]

i think i have an 89 in ap lit

[low kindle]

oh god this is my competition what have i done

[wintry delta]

im applying princeton rea dw about it lmao

[low kindle]

xD

thats my 2nd hope

[wintry delta]

i didnt even apply to stanford (yet anyway idk if i wanna apply we'll see after thursday)

[rough lark]

how rare or common do you think it is that top school applicants reach diffeq/linalg

[dim badge]

uncommon probably

[paper cloak]

depends on the school tho

[dim badge]

calc 3 lin alg kids

[wintry delta]

depends on context

[paper cloak]

for my school we have a class of 20

[dim badge]

yeah

[low kindle]

wait is calc 3 lin alg not the same as diffeq/linalg ?

[wintry delta]

for my district, only 2-3 kids out of 500 per class year enroll in DE classes at tamu

[dim badge]

but just maxing out your schools rigor only really gets you a 3 it looks like

[dim badge]

no

diff eq is a different class

i took calc 3 last year

[wintry delta]

at my old magnet, diffeq, calc3, linalg, and discrete were mandatory to gradudate with the "magnet diploma"

[low kindle]

harvard ranking? i think you get a 2 wdym

[dim badge]

no for stanford's ranking

[low kindle]

yooo could you link that

[dim badge]

yeah

[low kindle]

didnt know they had one ty

[dim badge]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rEZYzsUZu5Wc6bNYKWltAs4Jt53pPrX2/view?usp=sharing

jerry wei maxed out math at 10th grade yet still only got a 2

it's rough out here

[rough lark]

how come in jerry wei’s file they noted “finished all offered cs classes” like bro isnt ap cs like the only cs class offered

[rough lark]

i mean every admit file i’ve seen had a 3 in hsr except for jerry

[dim badge]

my school offers ap csp, ap csa, then data structures

[lusty sundial]

maybe they have a robotics department with tons of courses

my skl offers ai, mech e, robotics, web design and such

in addition to the cs

[low kindle]

yo they noticed Jerry Wei's powerlifting ?? and gave him a bump for that too lol what

[dim badge]

Well I be damned

[low kindle]

bro both jerry wei and i mentioning newspeak in our essays

[lusty sundial]

how do yall get this profile 😭

[rough lark]

does anybody have jerrys essays

[rough lark]

was a yt vid

[low kindle]

darnit

[dim badge]

I just better hope Jesus is on my side

[lusty sundial]

oh so admit students do get this file

[rough lark]

yes

[low kindle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETeFI1pjIaE

[rough lark]

i got the inside stanford admissions book so i also have a few from there

[dim badge]

That book wasn’t as helpful tbh

[lusty sundial]

wait what does the book look like can u show

[dim badge]

It had some good pages

But the profiles were utterly hard to even cop off of

[lusty sundial]

that person is crazy bro

those stats holy

[low kindle]

1560

[dim badge]

would you be willing to take photos and send them here?

for RD

[rough lark]

uh thats a lot of pages to scan

[lusty sundial]

can i see the cover?

thank u sm

[rough lark]

yeah not that helpful for me. but since i did an arts portfolio for music it was interesting to read the profile that got a 1 on portfolio and how they viewed that

[lusty sundial]

same! what instrument do u play?

[rough lark]

https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Stanford-Admissions-Daniel-J/dp/1734355905

[dim badge]

i meant the files

[rough lark]

i can tell you in dms

[dim badge]

It had some good framework

But most of it was unusable for me tbh

[lusty sundial]

sure i just messaged you

[rough lark]

i actually barely read the essays lol i was just interested in the admissions comments and ratings

[digital spoke]

I think you should be good

[wintry delta]

do you do diffeq

[digital spoke]

Yup, got my final tomorrow

[wintry delta]

thats good to hear

[digital spoke]

Laplace transforms are isomorphisms

[wintry delta]

there were 5 questions on my diffeq final and i can only afford to get one of them half wrong

[digital spoke]

So you should be able to multiply like algebra

And inverse Laplace both sides

Convolution is kinda just an effect of the product

So you should be good?

[wintry delta]

so i can convolution an unknown G(s) and something else right

[digital spoke]

With the context you gave

[digital spoke]

Yes, I believe so

Yeah, that seems right

[digital spoke]

Damn, we get a lot more

[wintry delta]

i think the original context was an ivp like y'' + 4y' + 4y = g(t) + dirac_delta(t-1)

[vale plover]

im so disappointed bc i got like a 93 on cal3 final

[wintry delta]

and i had to solve for y

[vale plover]

sadge

[digital spoke]

What's dirac_delta 💀

[vale plover]

how hard is diffeq compared to calc3

[wintry delta]

its stuff to do with impulse functions

all you need to know is that if you laplce it you get an e^(-cs)

[digital spoke]

That was my grade for my Calc 3 final too last year lol

[digital spoke]

Oh

[digital spoke]

Easy, just a bunch of computation I hate

[wintry delta]

the hardest part about diffeq is solving integrals

[digital spoke]

Okay, gonna go to sleep now

[wintry delta]

ok bye

good luck on your final

[digital spoke]

Bro, our professor taught us how to do most partial fractions mentally and it's cracked lol

[wintry delta]

dang

the cover up method?

[digital spoke]

I do most partial fractions in like 5 seconds now

[digital spoke]

Idk what that is

[wintry delta]

i wish i had a prof like that

my diffeq prof has a 1.9 on ratemyprofessor 💀

[digital spoke]

He's been teaching for like 33 or 34 years, so he's amazing at teaching

[digital spoke]

Mine has a 4, and the bad ratings are all just complaints about his class being too hard and grading being harsh lol

So not really valid excuses

[wintry delta]

i dont understand why professors dont post their class notes on canvas

like filled out

[digital spoke]

Mine does 🤩

[wintry delta]

because sometimes i just space out because im sleep deprived and i need the notes on canvs

[wintry delta]

my calc3 prof did, but not linalg or diffeq

[digital spoke]

Ah

[gleaming fulcrum]

!stanford

[mental haven]

3 days

[random jacinth]

Ugh feels like 3 years

[mental haven]

lollll i just randomly started bawling driving to school why is this so stressful

[lusty sundial]

trust the process u did everything u could

the rest is just a lottery

[digital spoke]

Ikr 😭

[pine rain]

this is gonna be me in a few days

[vagrant bloom]

When is decision notification coming out today?

Is it through their instagram account

[pine rain]

through email probably

[vagrant bloom]

Ok

[mental haven]

what time do we think those

like 12pst?

[random jacinth]

Oh wait we actually do get a time and date from Stanford about when decisions come out?

[vagrant bloom]

Yea

[random jacinth]

I thought we just wait lmao

[vagrant bloom]

What do you think the importance of the application factors look like

1. acadmeics, 2.ECs, 3. Essays , 4. Awards, 5. LORs?

[merry river]

basically the order you ranked them is probably how i would rank them too

[mental haven]

i think LOR might be higher than awards?

idk

[merry river]

oh yeah true

[mental haven]

just like self presentation

[merry river]

ultimately its all holistic and they’re looking to make sure you have everything

unless you can compensate with a hook or an exceptional ec or essays

[mental haven]

^

[lusty sundial]

but teachers never write anything bad on LOR ig lol

[vagrant bloom]

What happens if you don’t have one thing 😭

Do other factor make up for it

[lusty sundial]

one thing?

[mental haven]

ur essays r fine

[vagrant bloom]

Say like you don’t have that great of essays

GIRLL they are so bad omggg 😭😭😭

[mental haven]

NOOOO

[digital spoke]

prob gonna be pretty much equally important for HSR, EC, Support, and SPIV, less important is test score

[mental haven]

yeah but some write like “this is the best kid i’ve had in 23 years”

[merry river]

they’re like average. could’ve been better. when did you start writing them?

[digital spoke]

^ or like give lots of examples and personality traits

[vagrant bloom]

Ohh so essays are j for the SPIV score?

[mental haven]

what did u think about mine 😭

[vagrant bloom]

The week before 😭😭😭

[merry river]

yes i believe so

[digital spoke]

yes, it's mainly essays + a combo of HSR, ECs, and LORs probably

[vagrant bloom]

Ohh ok

[mental haven]

i want my emailllll

chronically checking

[digital spoke]

self-presentation

[merry river]

they were pretty okay. do you want me to rate them orrr

[digital spoke]

personal characteristics

[mental haven]

ig what u talk about that’s important shows who u r

[mental haven]

yes

[merry river]

oh goodness 🫢

[merry river]

do you want me to be honest or nice

[mental haven]

honest

[lusty sundial]

can someone tag me when they get the email i need to wake up

[merry river]

hm okay. lemme do a glance through

[mental haven]

thank u

[digital spoke]

lol

[lusty sundial]

pls thank u haha

[merry river]

The ratings on a scale of 10 from first to last supp: 5, 7, 6, 9, 7, 6.5, 8, 8

feel free to rate me back

[harsh sentinel]

damn which was a 9

[merry river]

lemme check

[merry river]

“list 5 thing’s important to you”

those tend to be pretty detailed and personal

my ratings aren’t objective. just my opinion so take it with a grain of salt

[harsh sentinel]

@mental haven can i read that one 👀

[digital spoke]

^

lol

Curiosity moment

[merry river]

lmaoo

looking back it was more of a 8.5 and not a 9 but yeah

[harsh sentinel]

💀

[digital spoke]

💀

bro's got high standards

[merry river]

im sorry 😭🤣

anyhoo if anyone wants to rate my essays just ask

[digital spoke]

I gotta study for my diff eq final

but maybe tomorrow

[lusty sundial]

i dont think im qualified to rate but can i read lol

[merry river]

our school does exemptions for finals. so i just chose not to take them

[digital spoke]

^ tbh same

[lusty sundial]

thats so nicee

[digital spoke]

damn

diff eq is at my college, so no avoiding that

[lusty sundial]

seniors just dont have finals in our skl

[merry river]

i go to a very uncompetitive district just as an fyi

[lusty sundial]

can i read ur essays?

[merry river]

yes ofc sorry i was blowing my nose

[digital spoke]

same here lol

[harsh sentinel]

lol my finals start tomorrow someone kill me

[digital spoke]

😭

[lusty sundial]

haha nw

[merry river]

yeah we have to take dual class finals no matter what. and you get a limited number of exemptions per grade level. but seniors get all exemptions

[digital spoke]

whaaa

[merry river]

sure. whats ur major?

oh yeah we already exchanged ecs lol

[harsh sentinel]

@lusty sundial im curious about your "list 5 things important to you" essay lol

[lusty sundial]

why haha im the wrong person to ask

[harsh sentinel]

no because the josh person said they gave it a 9/10

[lusty sundial]

its not me haha

[harsh sentinel]

ooh wait it wasnt you

sorry 😭

[digital spoke]

I just wanna get in already 🤩

lol

coping with the fact that results aren't out yet

[harsh sentinel]

me w uchicago

[lusty sundial]

no why

out of...

[digital spoke]

💀

oh my

where'd you see that

is there like data

[lusty sundial]

maybe some ppl just didnt share

[digital spoke]

^

whew

you scared me lol

no way only 3 people get in with these cracked stats

[lusty sundial]

why lmao

[digital spoke]

when is uchicago coming out?

Sunday?

[lusty sundial]

u applied ??

wutt

[digital spoke]

not me, @harsh sentinel

Ooh

[harsh sentinel]

they haven't told us yet lol

[digital spoke]

even counting deferred as rejected, that's 17.4%

not bad

[harsh sentinel]

yeah stanford rea was a bloodbath last year

mostly the people who weren't active got in

[digital spoke]

should I go inactive 🤣

[harsh sentinel]

look closely and you'll see no one with stanford'27 in their name

every other school has alumni

harvard penn columbia

the stanford thread is just a bunch of seniors lmao

[digital spoke]

damn 😭

help 🫠

lol

Should I too? 😂

[harsh sentinel]

omg there's 30 hs seniors in here

i predict 5-6 of yall will be accepted rea

[digital spoke]

you counted?!?!?!

[digital spoke]

🤩

[harsh sentinel]

actually thats active ones

[digital spoke]

Imagine we have an amazing year and like 15 of us get in lol

[harsh sentinel]

prob a lot more

[real herald]

Seems about accurate but I think maybe like 2-4

Stanford is Stanford

[harsh sentinel]

brandon ruby billert i have hopes in

[digital spoke]

😭

[harsh sentinel]

i dont really know anyone else here but like

[digital spoke]

^

@real herald

[harsh sentinel]

everyone seems kinda cracked

[real herald]

Key is out of those who shared

Selection bias

[digital spoke]

with the rate last year, it's gonna be like 5-6 acceptances

[harsh sentinel]

i doubt the people who didn't share got accepted

because if i got accepted the world will know about it

[real herald]

Yea

Oh ok I get ur point

[harsh sentinel]

so there's prolly more rejections

[real herald]

Maybe ur right

[digital spoke]

well, it's hard to account for that

[real herald]

Yes that was my point

But that wouldn't reduce the acceptance numbers

So I get ur point

[harsh sentinel]

yeah i just realized i contradicted my own point lmao

more rejections = lower acceptance rate

but yeah number of acceptances the same

[real herald]

Yea I was thinking about AR

Not #

5-6 seems accurate then

This year's kiddies seem cracked

[harsh sentinel]

kinda yeah

at least more than the harvard thread

[unreal flame]

arkansas?

that’s me

[real herald]

Acceptance rate

AR

[digital spoke]

lol 💀

[harsh sentinel]

💀

[unreal flame]

i’m joking 💀

[real herald]

Nah the Harvard thread is insane

[unreal flame]

i know

[real herald]

Mfs are actually wild on there

[harsh sentinel]

i swear

someone hunted down luck's messages from more than a year ago

[digital spoke]

💀

who's that

[real herald]

Their god

[harsh sentinel]

who's luck?

[real herald]

They literally worship him

[harsh sentinel]

the most famous harvard student lol

yo kvd

can you ping me at 2 ish pm your time

my usf decision comes out then lol

[real herald]

Today?

[harsh sentinel]

yeah

[real herald]

Ima be in class

I'm in class rn

But

We have a free period

[harsh sentinel]

oh rip

time to find some other a2cer

[real herald]

I'm suppze to be doing essays

[deft sleet]

Get to work

[digital spoke]

I should be studying for my diff eq final tonight

[real herald]

Yes

Doing Columbia's goofy booms

Books

Media

Supplement

[digital spoke]

I loved that one lol

Maxed it out basically

Could've added more if I wanted

[harsh sentinel]

i love that one

[digital spoke]

and the max word count was longer

[harsh sentinel]

i created a note in my google keep a year ago for this very reason

[real herald]

Did yall do just book

Or others

[harsh sentinel]

haven't actually written it yet but i have ideas

books + blogs + journals

[lusty sundial]

have we drifted from west coast to east coast 😂