Stanford University (2023-2024)

[tender vigil]

whats that

[lapis flower]

mit summer programs, very hard to get into

[dim badge]

I don’t wanna make this about me

but I’m just fucking scared now

[mental haven]

hello

did u get in

[dim badge]

he was deferred

mbee

how did it go

[mental haven]

i haven’t opened guys

[dim badge]

when are you going to

[narrow jacinth]

I believe in you tree man

[mental haven]

did @merry river get in

[dim badge]

Yes Josh got in

[latent moat]

yes

[hoary skiff]

yes

[dim badge]

mbee when are you opening

[mental haven]

YES JOSH GO FUCKING JOSH HOLY SHIT

[dim badge]

also

[mental haven]

later with my drunk friends

LOL

[dim badge]

whenever you open

whatever happens

just know

[mental haven]

i love u guys

[dim badge]

it was meant or wasn’t meant to be

[mental haven]

this has been such an experience

[dim badge]

but nonetheless

you will not be alone

but in the cases so far

if they couldn’t get in

how do I even stand a chance

[narrow jacinth]

I believe in you all

[solemn echo]

that's just not how it works though

[dim badge]

?

[crimson pasture]

ahhhjdafhahjkfl is everyone who got in committing

[gaunt flame]

@pine rain apply to mit

they’ll take you trust

[solemn echo]

you can't really quantify who is "better" or "worse" (and assume that if someone better doesn't get in you can't) because 1. there's so many unknowns that our rankings have such a high margin for error and 2. AO's don't think "okay let's find the 1000 best people out of this applicant list and just admit them"

[gaunt flame]

plus they’re better than stanford

[merry river]

im getting FLOODED WITH DMS . pls everyone stop. my discord is GLITCHING cuz of the volume of dm requests im getting

[solemn echo]

in response to this btw

[sage shoal]

SOO HAPPY FOR U 🤩

[dim badge]

I know

I understand where you’re coming from

[sage shoal]

Congrats everyone 💯💯

[dim badge]

like I said I don’t want to make this about rd

but now I just feel doomed

[hardy locust]

NOOOO

[dawn verge]

rejected

[dim badge]

I’m sorry man

[solemn echo]

i get that lol i waxed poetic about all that to try and rationalize away what im feeling too

[dim badge]

you know what

you’re right

you just need to have faith you’re gonna pull through

[hardy locust]

U guys did ur best

[dim badge]

you need to have faith that the people looking out for you will do their job

[hardy locust]

Also who tf is Stanford admitting then

[dim badge]

you need to have faith that everything is going to be alright no matter what

[hardy locust]

Like who is qualified

[dim badge]

today mightve been a rough day

but it isn’t the last day we’ll be receiving a last-day decision

because it’s not over

and all of your guys’ collective courage actually inspires me

[naive plinth]

It’s ok

[dim badge]

so because of that courage

I’m gonna see this through until the end

[crimson pasture]

you guys got it!!

[hardy locust]

I’m willing to watch u cry though that bet was not meant to be srs

[dim badge]

and avenge everyone

[naive plinth]

Do you want to see my reaction video

I’m legit an npc 💀

[hardy locust]

Do itttt

Ur probs normal can’t be that bad

[gaunt flame]

Yo bro can you share your stats

Thanks

[hoary skiff]

I just said oh well and ended it 💀

[solemn echo]

i was going to make one but i just forgot in the moment

[hardy locust]

Just turn off DMs

[solemn echo]

it would have been very boring though so no big loss

[crimson pasture]

where did the poll go

[gaunt flame]

Pinned

[hoary skiff]

its pinned

[hardy locust]

Shattered

Lost to the ages

Ancient relic

Bro how the FUCK do I see pins on mobile

This update is SO ass

[spring osprey]

Should I change my rejected Stanford essays for RD to other schools

[hardy locust]

Are u allowed to?

[spring osprey]

Because I literally reused my Stanford essays but don’t know about that idea after rejection

[crimson pasture]

hmm

[spring osprey]

I mean like RD for other schools

Sorry

[verbal forge]

if you think you can make them better sure

[crimson pasture]

maybe spice a few up?

[verbal forge]

but dont change topics that you like just yea

[crimson pasture]

add variety cause college admissions is kinda just a lottery sometimes

[gaunt flame]

True bruh

Why did they even update this shit

The old was literally goated

[spring osprey]

Thank you for the advice

[hardy locust]

U have to go to the SETTINGS

Of a threwd

[digital spoke]

Good luck!!!

[lapis flower]

holy 2 kids from my school got into stanford and 1 got deferred (class size of 200)

[mental haven]

flat out rejected

[crimson pasture]

ahh, i'm sorry to hear that

[crimson pasture]

no way, are you a feeder school??

[mental haven]

guys fuck

i’m so sad

[lapis flower]

competitive public high school, but 2 kids getting in stanford rea is unheard of

[mental haven]

holy shit

[crimson pasture]

noo 😭😭

[lapis flower]

we send a bunch of kids to ivies every year tho

[narrow jacinth]

Its alright

[crimson pasture]

it will be ok

mbee, you are QUALIFIED and COOL and AMAZING and you WILL get into one of your top choices 💪

[narrow jacinth]

^^^ you’re super kind to everyone here too, you’re definitely gonna go far

[mental haven]

i don’t know what to do honestly

[digital spoke]

aw :( so sorry to hear that

[mental haven]

holy shit i’m so sad this is terrible

who else got rejected

[exotic reef]

Me 🤝

[hoary skiff]

Me!

[dim badge]

I’m sorry

[jovial widget]

Me

[mental haven]

WAIT

NO

[rough lark]

man got rejected and had been hoping to get in for 5 years. congrats to everyone who got in though

[hardy locust]

It’s ok, college is moe than jsut Stanford

[jovial bobcat]

you will do great wherever you go. in the end the college is just there to amplify what's already great in you

[exotic reef]

I'm commited to the University of Sydney after Stanford rejection haha

[jade narwhal]

Stanford is the biggest L college

Apply to pronceton

(They defer me too)

[crimson pasture]

princeton is coldddd though 😭

anything east coast i would freeze to death

i did!

but idk man

stanfords pretty cool

cali weather is like unbeatable imo (i've never lived in cali)

[native loom]

based

[real herald]

Imo u can't get better than stanny for cs

I would commit on the spot if I got into stanny ngl

PLEASE LET ME IN STANFORD

[oblique egret]

huh

[dull flume]

I don't know if I've worked with a UW CS grad (I'm a software engineer at Google), but plenty of Stanford CS grads 🙂 That might be a function of distance, though.

[floral relic]

stanford prestige and academia but uw for a career

can't beat amazon microsoft google spacex unreal all in one place

[dull flume]

Maybe Microsoft gets all of them

[idle axle]

We have google

At least

[dull flume]

Just Google? Amazon Lab126 is in Palo Alto, Microsoft has a campus in Mountain View, SpaceX is in Sunnyvale, Tesla (engineering) is in Palo Alto, Meta is next door in Menlo Park

[final sedge]

You forgot apple

[dull flume]

From what I remember, Paul Allen had the first radio station to stream online. Cool guy.

[final sedge]

Hi, welcome to paul allen calls you stupid for 14 hours the podcast 💀

[oak leaf]

WHAT DID I SAY WHAT DID I SAY WHAT DIF I SAY??? LETS F*CKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[digital spoke]

THANK YOU!!! 🤩

[rough lark]

something that like gets you in other than your merit

actually not exactly

cuz d1 recruit is merit but is a hook

hooks are like d1 recruit, legacy, donor, feeder school, a race they want, a geographic area they want, etc

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Underrepresented ones

[solid steeple]

Anyone get into Stanford

[floral relic]

mozambique

[dim badge]

Don’t be a jerk

El Paso, Detroit, St. Louis, Memphis, Idaho, Wyoming

Poor areas

That’s the USA tho

places like El Paso are though

[solid steeple]

Wait so no one got into Stanford in A2C

[dim badge]

No they did

[solid steeple]

I have yet to find anyone that got in

My friends got rejected

Not even DEFERRED

[solid steeple]

Who?

[dapper gale]

Ya

And @digital spoke

[austere folio]

why does everyone think that donors have 100% acceptance rate lmao their rate is bumped up by like 1-2%, dw we still have a chance

[solid steeple]

Insane congrats. Could I get a dm on like a rough idea of ur stats and ecs and opinion on ur essay cuz idk if it’s worth my time applying after finding my friend getting completely destroyed today

[rough lark]

they like being able to say they got people from 50 states. like wyoming/the dakotass and other stuff would be an example

possibly yeah but some people just want to do sports though. also like i have nothing against d1 athletes it's reallly really hard to get recruited especially to a school like stanford

[austere folio]

"mom dad can we please move to montana for 4 years 🙏"

montana kids have it best bro they can make a baking soda project and go to ISEF

[rough lark]

depends yeah 7 figures might not do much but like 8 figures or higher could possibly do a lot

[solid steeple]

I’m just curious. I have high doubts and don’t know if Stanford is even worth with it to apply.

[rough lark]

because they focus on sports

also like their scores at least at stanford are still solid like 1300-1400 ish

[spring veldt]

bro montana has MONEY

in some parts

like the mountain towns

whitefish

[austere folio]

lets be fr tho most kids in whitefish will like probs take over their dads oil company or ski resort instead of going to stanford cs

[spring veldt]

yeah 100%

[dapper gale]

I don't have reddit so I guess not?

[spring veldt]

how r u here then lol

[dapper gale]

Friend told me about the server

[hoary sluice]

anybody who got deferred can we start a gc 😍

[pine rain]

There were so many people deferred

Yes

[hoary sluice]

do u guys think the deferral rate was still hella low

[pine rain]

How do i check pins on the new discord app

[hoary sluice]

like what do we think is deferral -> rd acceptance rate

[stone mural]

What type of students does Stanford look for?? Entrepreneurial and similar?

[pine rain]

How do i check pins

On the new discord app

[spring osprey]

Click on the name up top

Settings

Pinned messages

[solid steeple]

Bro aren’t u contradicting what ur saying to me by saying this

[spring osprey]

He got into Stanford

[dim badge]

There's a section for pins

[digital spoke]

Prob not lol

I can lyk in DMs

Just DM me

[pine rain]

I need to rethink my application strategy

I might try a few things for harvard and yale to revamp them

[spring osprey]

^

[pine rain]

Yes

It’s my top choice

[spring osprey]

Is it still your top choice??

Ohhh

[solid steeple]

I don’t think mine is a wrong reason what makes u think it’s a wrong reason

[austere folio]

j remember that he finished HS a long time ago

[pine rain]

A deferral wouldnt change that

[merry river]

i also got in stanford

[pine rain]

Congrats!

[spring osprey]

Congrats!!

[digital spoke]

Hard to tell

[pine rain]

Tbh you dont really know

At a certain point

[merry river]

ty!!! what ended up happening with you? sorry i didn’t check the thread

[digital spoke]

Alright, I'll respond when I get home

[pine rain]

Both @dim badge and I got deferred

I remember you were betting on him to get in

It’s kinda surprising for him tbh

[livid bobcat]

also defer doesn't equal rejection, so could be a chance if u fill out the deferred essays. such a pain, but i would do it

[pine rain]

The deferral rate is low

[livid bobcat]

my friend last year got deferred and now she's there chillin

so there's a chance

[pine rain]

I’m probably gonna end up getting rejected

I got a B+ this semester

Trying to get it to an A-

[livid bobcat]

what major r u applying for

[pine rain]

Data science

The b+ is in ap lit

[livid bobcat]

lit sucks bro

i took it last yr and it was horrible

maybe since ur applying stem tho, they don't care as much

[real herald]

One B isn't the end of the day dawg

[pine rain]

I really dont know how to feel about deferral lol

[spring osprey]

Trying to get my Stanford alumni AP lit teacher to give me pity points on the final exam after that rejection

[pine rain]

I think I’m going to print it and stick it to my wall

[dim badge]

so uhhhh.. how do you cope with the rejection

[real herald]

You're getting a 2nd chance make the most of it

[merry river]

oh damn. but hey a deferral from stanford is AMAZING. gl for rd!!

[real herald]

Use it as motivation for rd

[pine rain]

Im trying but i havent done much lol

[pine rain]

Thanks!

[spring osprey]

I opened my RD apps and started working on them right away, not the best method but yea 😭😭

[pine rain]

I think I’m going to try something with my application

I’m going to try and

Theme my essays

Let’s see how it goes

I aint getting that dawg

Lol

[dim badge]

same... but now im overthinking my entire app cuz of the reject

[spring osprey]

Same

[rough lark]

damn i got coke semifinalist and got reject

[dim badge]

u tryna work on apps together? i kinda wanna get some eyes on mine for a diff perspective

[rough lark]

same

[spring veldt]

ur in a slightly less comp region tho

[dim badge]

let's make a gc or smth

stanford rejects 🔥 deforestation 🪚

[pine rain]

I think coke semifinalist is slightly overrated

[crimson pasture]

guys i wanna read my admissions file so badly

[spring osprey]

But I asked my advisor and she said “just because they weren’t a good fit for Stanford doesn’t mean another school won’t like them”

[digital spoke]

SAME

[pine rain]

You will if you ask for it next year on campus!

[rough lark]

yeah i want to read my admissions file too bro i was legit out here thinking i could get a 1 in EC

[pine rain]

FERPA requires them to disclose it to you

[spring osprey]

That’s what my irl friend group chat did after I got rejected lol we were spamming 🌲🔥

[dim badge]

why am i stupid why does my dream school need to be need aware specifically for internationals

😿

[digital spoke]

I'M SEEING THAT THE MOMENT I WALK ONTO CAMPUS

[spring veldt]

I'm so glad my friend got into Stanford because he WILL be helping with my essays

[pine rain]

When you do you have to bring a notepad

[crimson pasture]

i'm planning on it!!

[digital spoke]

Damn

[spring osprey]

I’m from Texas and I got rejected and like 2 valedictorians from the top magnet schools in Texas and nation got deferred from Harvard so like

[pine rain]

They read it out loud to you

[digital spoke]

Ik

[dim badge]

@crimson pasture @digital spoke stats and ecs reveal?

[spring veldt]

oop

well

[crimson pasture]

my friend too LOL he's like "you're in so now you're an all-knowing god and you must edit my essays"

[spring veldt]

TAG?

[dim badge]

mannnn i really liked my roommate essay

[rough lark]

yeah this stats/ec reveal of people who got into stanford plz

[crimson pasture]

ok

[spring osprey]

SEM and LAW

Haven’t heard from TAG

Yet

[crimson pasture]

you guys can pm for more details!

[digital spoke]

DM

[dim badge]

into the bin she goes

[crimson pasture]

but i'll just let you know that i did not start a non-profit or anything so there is hope haha

[digital spoke]

For details

[spring osprey]

SEM had like 10 kids get into ivies except for their valedictorian

[spring veldt]

ahhh

[crimson pasture]

wait sorry what is sem??

[spring veldt]

whattt

[pine rain]

I remember thos

[crimson pasture]

wait lol i also mentioned disney songs

and newjeans...

[pine rain]

You talked about it in #📝-essays

[spring osprey]

Science and Engineering Magnet, #2 magnet school in Texas and one of the top magnet in the nation

[dim badge]

did i

it was like a few months ago

[spring osprey]

Yea he got deferred 😭

[crimson pasture]

dang....

[pine rain]

My brother i have a question

How does it feel

Does it feel relieving

Happy

Do you no longer feel tormented by this process

[digital spoke]

NEWJEANS

[digital spoke]

So relieving 😭

And grateful

So grateful

[pine rain]

I think i’m going to have to forgo my social life for my essay grind

[lapis flower]

howd it go for you

[pine rain]

Deferral

[lapis flower]

deferral is rly good right? for stanford

25% acceptance from there?

[pine rain]

They dont publish it

[crimson pasture]

i'm still in shock

a bit terrified

imposter syndrome already

but i'm so grateful

[rigid cape]

What's uw again

[pine rain]

Go out there and get em tiger

Or should i say tree

[crimson pasture]

fun fact i tried to record a college decisions reactions vid but i forgot i was an ugly crier 🤠

[pine rain]

Or cardinal

[crimson pasture]

HAHHA yes i'm a tree now 🌲🎄 (at least for the foreseeable future)

[pine rain]

👀 for now? Are you planning on robbing a bank in the foreseeable future?

Easiest way to get rescinded

[mental haven]

i’m so sad guys

[crimson pasture]

hahaha no i meant i'm still applying to two schools

[mental haven]

i don’t even know what to do

[crimson pasture]

just to keep my options open

[pine rain]

What happened

[crimson pasture]

you will end up in the right place for you

i'm sure

[mental haven]

i didn’t get in

[pine rain]

Keep your chin up

[crimson pasture]

everyone here is insanely qualified

just keep applying

you got it

[dim badge]

Guys

[spring veldt]

where!

[dim badge]

This begs the question

[pine rain]

What happened with you

[dim badge]

I got rejected

[pine rain]

Unfortunate

[dim badge]

Yup

[crimson pasture]

MIT and UPenn (M&T)!

[dim badge]

That’s my decision 4 months from now

[pine rain]

MIT based

[crimson pasture]

it's cold though

also

i was telling my dad

[dim badge]

@pine rain I haven’t applied yet

But I’m probably fucked

[crimson pasture]

(don't tell the mit megathread)

but MIT is like tier 1 nerds which is like very little social life whereas stanford is tier 2 so more fun stuff

[pine rain]

They dont go outside

So its fine

[crimson pasture]

me, in our heated house, freezing under 3 blankets at night

i dont even know how

[pine rain]

As a current beggar I cannot be a chooser

[dim badge]

Okay guys

This begs the question

Socio-economic disadvantages/advantages aside

What is THE best region to apply from?

And what is THE worst region to apply from?

[pine rain]

Personally i like it when i turn the temperature down really low and get a shit ton of blankets

[crimson pasture]

you will be the chooser soon just watch 💪

[pine rain]

The US

[dim badge]

That’s the best

international is hard

I’m talking about like American regions

tho

[crimson pasture]

like wyoming or some state everyone forgets about lol

[pine rain]

The worst region to apply from is outside the US

[dim badge]

What about in the us

[crimson pasture]

its so nice but then i cant get out of bed 😭

[pine rain]

Unironically maybe california?

[crimson pasture]

prob^

it's so cut throat

[dim badge]

What about a poor city like El Paso in Texas

[pine rain]

Why get out of bed when me can sleep

Existential crisis

[crimson pasture]

if i was in cali i think i would've been rejected

[crimson pasture]

but... school D:

[crimson pasture]

this could be good too i don't know

[dim badge]

like it’s in Texas

[spring veldt]

el paso 😦

[dim badge]

But it’s underrepresented AF

and super poor

[vivid atlas]

Got in im so shocked😭

[pine rain]

I really didnt want to write RD essays

[pine rain]

Congrats!

[dim badge]

Congrats

[vivid atlas]

Thank you!!

[dim badge]

Okay so

What if there’s a region in a big state

But it’s super underrepresented

[pine rain]

Dont worry about it

Just try your best

[dim badge]

wdym

oh

[crimson pasture]

gg 😎

[dim badge]

august

help me

[pine rain]

Initially i was kind of sad but i guess deferral is reassuring

Definitely not as reassuring as acceptnace

[dim badge]

yeah it’s not over for you

that means

[dim badge]

lol

you, me, Lyle, and the other deferees are gonna be in the same cycle

[pine rain]

But it lets me know that I’m not totally incompetent

[naive plinth]

F Stanford 💯

Now I just need that Berkeley rejection and I’m out of the Bay Area

[crimson pasture]

deferred right

[dim badge]

no

I haven’t even started

[crimson pasture]

ohhhh ok

[dim badge]

By that I mean I’m doing rd

[crimson pasture]

yes that makes sense

[dim badge]

so like yea halp would be cool

[crimson pasture]

how can i help

[dim badge]

like next week

[crimson pasture]

also i feel like once you get everyone thinks you know what you're doing but full disclosue i have no idea what i'm doing

[stoic stag]

oh right

[dim badge]

I’ll have my supps done, and maybe you can lmk what to tweak

If you’re fine with it ofc

I don’t wanna take up your time

[crimson pasture]

possibly, i am out for a while but i can try to leave some comments! but also i don't think my essays were my strong point ngl 😭

[stoic stag]

all the cries about Stanford and Harvard and Cornell and Cambridge and ppl around my school just forget about Berkeley and ucla because their application isn't singular

[dim badge]

okey dokey, sounds good!

[crimson pasture]

yes just dm me whehever!

[wintry delta]

this is so me

this is what i hate the most about texas

the only time i can double blanket is during december and january

[stoic stag]

How hot is texas though

I mean, from my latitude it has always been around Penn and we still only "double blanket" during dec and jan

[wintry delta]

right now it is 59 f

[narrow pendant]

this school is such a scam 😔😔

[narrow pendant]

thats the temp in my room rn

[dim badge]

will forever have a grudge against stanny

[wintry delta]

no 59f is the outside temp

[dim badge]

[wintry delta]

and its 9:58 pm

[narrow pendant]

yea i was just sharing 💔

[wintry delta]

dont let the stanford decision weigh too heavy on you, at the end of the day these are private corporations that make weird decisions

[stoic stag]

We are at 45 f right now and its 12 pm.

[wintry delta]

there will be plenty more times in life to prove yourself

[stoic stag]

"private corporations" applies to Berkeley, UMich, GTech, and UIUC, gets rejections for all

[wintry delta]

i was talking about stanford in particular

are you talking about the guy that made rabbitsign

[jagged thistle]

Any int'l s who got in?

[foggy mauve]

Yeah, son of Chinese billionaire #1, #2, and maybe #3

Also IMO gold medalist #8

[stoic stag]

woah calm down don't throw shades on the daughters

[foggy mauve]

They REAd to Yale but are keeping their options open

[stoic stag]

well, that's when it's not binding

REA just sounds like a weird punishment from a mom, enlarged thirty sizes

like "You can go somewhere else if we take you, but you gotta stop applying early to the other kind of schools."

[narrow pendant]

ty king 👑

im gonna grind my ass off now 🙄

[wintry delta]

i believe

[stoic stag]

the application cycle got my atheist ass praying

[narrow pendant]

real

[stoic stag]

instead of God, I just be praying to the presidents of the large universities, even smaller ones as well if you count Williams & Harvey Mudd

[merry river]

im texan and got accepted stanford rea. had 0 hooks and am male!!

[merry river]

same!!

[spring osprey]

Honestly I have just been telling myself to throw my shot

[crimson pasture]

yes

go for it

[spring osprey]

So that a couple of years from now I won’t have any regrets when I look back

Even if I get rejected, at least I got closure and is not stuck on the “what if I applied there”

Ohhh

My advisor was the one who told me to apply REA and here we are 😭😭

There's really no right or wrong in this process

And honestly I’ve came to acceptance with whatever is meant to be, will be

That Stanford rejection pulled me down to Earth real quick lol

Same

It’s like reality actually hit

Exited out of the Stanford portal and opened my RD apps tabs so quick lol

Awww byee

I’m staying here just for fun lol

[sonic dagger]

same bye thread

[floral relic]

best of luck y'all 🥹

[spring veldt]

i was talking about the coca cola regional finalist thing hahaha

[dim badge]

goodbye to this thread for now

[crimson pasture]

awee bye everyone! you guys got this!!

[naive plinth]

Bye bye Stanford thread you guys were def better than Harvard❗️hope rd/deferrals end up going well!

[digital spoke]

Goodbye 😭

[digital spoke]

Goodbye 👋

[arctic snow]

bye guys

||might be back in transfer season||

[dim badge]

be back in feb when im motivated to do my loci

[harsh sentinel]

don't leave all of you :( im applying rd and need company lol

[naive plinth]

😭 you’ll have all the rders

[karmic drift]

Uh

[harsh sentinel]

but they're so weirddddddd

[karmic drift]

Do I drop in good luck here

[harsh sentinel]

i don't want ivy rejects smh

[karmic drift]

Or is it a bit early

Im here : D

[dim badge]

i'll be back

[karmic drift]

Feb return

[harsh sentinel]

SLAY

[dapper gale]

Have a consistent theme throughout every single essay

[mental haven]

this is the most painful thing i’ve gone through in so long

[naive plinth]

You'll get others too!

[crimson pasture]

what killerqueen said 🙌 but that doesn't mean talk about the same thing for every essay!

[naive plinth]

I just don't think I will like how this channel's culture will be now that's all

[harsh sentinel]

yeah def, move on to better schools that want you like UCLA!!!!

[digital spoke]

Build a complete picture of yourself, find points of reinforcement that can work together to strengthen your point/application!

[crimson pasture]

so like a theme i had was briding gaps so i talked about all the different reasons why i see this as a problem/why do i want to do this, and then also how that's reflected in my profile! not just "i did outreach to bridge gaps" for 4 essays straight

[naive plinth]

exactlyyy

[digital spoke]

Yes, I mostly let my ECs speak for themselves rather than explaining deeply about them (except a bit in additional info where I gave context)

[trail olive]

where yall going next
whats your second choice 😭

[crimson pasture]

@digital spoke are you committed to stanford

[digital spoke]

most likely

[crimson pasture]

wait did i alr ask i can't even remember lol

[digital spoke]

why does yours say "for now" 😭

[digital spoke]

idk lol

I've been spammed with messages 💀

[crimson pasture]

i'm like 90% haha

maybe i should get rid of "for now"

[trail olive]

😭 nooo

[harsh sentinel]

are you applying elsewhere?

[digital spoke]

oh okay

[digital spoke]

maybe a few more privates, but idek if I will apply

[crimson pasture]

ok i fixed it :))

[crimson pasture]

the "for now" was like a, what if i miraculously get into MIT and suddenly decide i like the east coast

which would never happen and also west coast > east coast (fact, not opinion)

[trail olive]

unfortunately there are only 2(3?) colleges i want to go on the west coast and one of them rejected me today

[dapper gale]

Fighting words

[trail olive]

• my chronic disease doesnt fare well with east coast weather so im kinda screwed

[crimson pasture]

sorry...

[crimson pasture]

most of the west coast > most of the east coast

[crimson pasture]

oh nooo did you apply to USC?? UW?!

[dapper gale]

Come down to FL! We got nice weather here, humid but warm (if the cold of the upper east coast is what concerns you)

[trail olive]

i dont wanna go to the university of spoiled children

caltech ill apply to but the workload is crazy
berkeley is okay but its not stanford 😭

[dapper gale]

🤔 🤔

[trail olive]

tbh i have no clue what concerns me
also its florida to be fair

[dapper gale]

Ok yes we are crazy.
But. Uh.
We give alligators marshmallows? Which is, yknow, fun. And we have Disney!

[cunning basin]

every colllege has its subset of spoiled children tbh

there are plenty of hardworking people at usc who dont nepo

[trail olive]

whats the mortality rate of this activity

[dapper gale]

Hopefully 0 because as elementary schoolers we all gathered in a lil riverboat and were off into the Everglades to feed em

[trail olive]

that is

the most florida thing ive ever heard

[dapper gale]

A true compliment!

[trail olive]

feeding crocodiles at the ripe age of 9

[dapper gale]

Oh younger! I have such distinct memories of these wild Everglades trips lmao

We would go every year

[trail olive]

omg 💀

[crimson pasture]

i wonder if those alligators know that you got into stanford

[trail olive]

florida is straightup a fever dream

[crimson pasture]

i bet they'd be proud

[dapper gale]

And there would also be an alligator wrestler show at the place we went to where we would just sit around and watch “trained professionals” fight gators

[crimson pasture]

also you knwo the little triangle flags people have, where do you get those

[crimson pasture]

that sounds terrifying omg 😭

[dapper gale]

They are prob wondering why I haven’t come back to feed them marshmallows since like 2016

[trail olive]

is this like
normal

[crimson pasture]

COLLEGE APPS ARE BASICLALY DONE NOW IS YOUR TIME TO GO 😤

[dapper gale]

I mean
Yea?
Maybe?
My school sure thought so and clearly it was like a popular enough event for there to be demand for it

[trail olive]

man
florida seems crazy

[dapper gale]

I mean yea but also… yea I got nothing

We have publix as well

Best place in the world

Like how west coast people worship in & out, we worship publix

[trail olive]

is it just a convenience store

[dapper gale]

My friend got a cake for me from there today and told the lady I got into Stanford and she filmed a video congratulating me just a complete stranger lmao

[dapper gale]

A grocery store yup!

It’s in most of the south but it comes from Florida!

[trail olive]

seems like an interesting place

cant say i would want to go to florida still though

[dapper gale]

Idk, it’s worth a visit! But I’m with you there. I’m def trying to leave before it goes underwater

[trail olive]

itll be eternalized in gta i suppose

at least miami

im so discouraged to write my rd apps now 😭
i was a legacy too and still didnt get in
am i even gonna get in anywhere

[dapper gale]

You will!!

[trail olive]

aside from here
i wanna leave this state 💀

[digital spoke]

No, don't be discouraged!

[trail olive]

😐 thanks ill try that 😭

[urban pulsar]

Glazing

West coast ass

[trail olive]

do you have any rd recommendations for schools like the tree place
time to hit the grind for the next 2 weeks

[urban pulsar]

As a Florida resident

It’s def one of the more interesting states

U should pu

[digital spoke]

okay, but it's very rng sometimes

[urban pulsar]

The subs go crazy ngl

[digital spoke]

I had so, so many essays drafted in case Stanford didn't work out

[dapper gale]

Pub subs >>>

[urban pulsar]

What’s tree

What u get admitted to

[dapper gale]

Chicken tender sub is god tier fr

[urban pulsar]

Jaguar sub

[dapper gale]

Stanford lol

[urban pulsar]

Oh damnnnnnnnnn

Congrats

U a traitor tho

Going to Dali

[dapper gale]

Ty

[urban pulsar]

Cali*

[dapper gale]

Ehh we’ll see, I’m still waiting on the ivies

[trail olive]

for rd schools or?

[digital spoke]

Yeahhh

[urban pulsar]

Me and u MIT @dapper gale

[digital spoke]

Like 25 pages of essays or sum

[urban pulsar]

We remake Publix

Split profit

[dapper gale]

Yusss

Publix for the non southerners

[digital spoke]

It's kinda just if one doesn't work out, try another

[dapper gale]

So they can appreciate the beauty

Get rich quick lessgo

[urban pulsar]

Publix also clean as hell

I’ve never seen a dirty Publix

[trail olive]

i have
4 mit
3 harvard
1 caltech
2 washu

😭

[dapper gale]

That is so true

[urban pulsar]

Ngl tho they taxing

Nowadays

Subs r $8

That’s entering chipotle territory

[trail olive]

yeah ig

[urban pulsar]

I really want mit so i don’t need to write supps lol

12 hours

[digital spoke]

ah

[trail olive]

my current list is
done: purdue, gtech, 7 ucs, stanford

Caltech
Carleton
Dartmouth
Harvard
Northwestern
Princeton
Santa Clara
UPenn
Vanderbilt
WashU
Yale
MIT

[dapper gale]

That’s why you gotta wait for chicken tender sub to go on sale

[waxen dove]

@solid steeple did u end up reaing

[spring veldt]

ok like i was legacy to penn and i truly thought id get in but ended up deferred! who knows maybe im meant to be somewhere else

or atleast have the freedom of choice

[trail olive]

defer > reject though

tbf

[digital spoke]

damn, gl

[waxen dove]

^^ kirks def right haha

[trail olive]

pain

[waxen dove]

i also got deferred! holding on to the hope that i can write a good loci tho

[spring veldt]

i wish i could edit my essays lol

[waxen dove]

wish i could edit my ec descriptions

[spring veldt]

i wanna get in j so i can go somewhere else

[waxen dove]

hahahahaa

i love penn bro 😔 just. wish. couldve done better somehow but im not that upset abt it

[trail olive]

same for stanford
oh well

[waxen dove]

yeahh

we do well rd hopefully :)

[trail olive]

gap year seems like a bad idea too

[trail olive]

i can hope

[lost nimbus]

Wait tictac did u get in??

[trail olive]

nope

[lost nimbus]

Damn

I took a dub🥰🥰😍😍

No shitting on their campus for me💯💯💯

[trail olive]

congrats! :D

[merry river]

i got accepted and my advice is to be quirky, and crack jokes and show intense amounts of intellectual curiosity in a fun engaging way. vary syntax and punctuation. take risks.

[digital spoke]

be careful with that tho

unnaturalness will be obvious

be quirky in your way

but don't go overboard

[merry river]

i went really overboard tbh. and i was nervous about it. soo yeah

but yeah dont overdo it. i agree!

also ur ignoring my dms. 😑

[digital spoke]

wait sry

sorry

I got like 20 DMs

and I was at a restaurant

💀

[merry river]

ohhh mb

[crimson pasture]

i still feel like my essays were mid but ig if they worked they worked

also

does anyone know when REAL aid statements are released

i was stupid and missed the css deadline… i’ll still do it late and do fafsa tho but i was just wondering

[digital spoke]

I can't seem to log into axess for some reason

I like created my ID

The login to axess isn't working for me for some reason

[digital spoke]

we gotta wait

😭

[crimson pasture]

awh man

it’s ok then i got time to do all the financial things then and hopefully they’ll be ok that i did the cs a tad (one month) bit late… this is a little embarrassing oh well

[mental mica]

hi august :O i'm a big fan

good essays

[heady lark]

bro predicted it

im chillin tho

it was never my dream school

[crimson pasture]

hi moon :O i’m your biggest fan

[dim badge]

I was the OG who met with you before you were even admitted 😎

[digital spoke]

🤣 true

[muted sage]

I wonder how many people have left this thread today

There are still over 250 in it rn

[trail olive]

a lot probably

[heady lark]

where are the stats how many many accepted/deferred/rejected here

[trail olive]

in pins

[heady lark]

thx

holy shit that is brutal

[trail olive]

yeah 💀

[heady lark]

and thats for a2c

cant imagine how much worse a random sample size would be

[solemn echo]

i mean the numbers here are like 13.5% accepted which is honestly above par

[heady lark]

yeah 13.5% from an applicant pool well above the average + rea

[merry river]

how do i check pins

[trail olive]

pinned at the top

[merry river]

on mobile

[solemn echo]

top right if youre on pc

oh

yea youre screwed

[trail olive]

swipe right?

might be there

[random jacinth]

Is there any like Stanford deferred discord for this year lmao

Or some channel for that

[muted sage]

We just use one channel in here for everything bc it doesn’t really pick up for a while

I doubt there’s a deferred discord

[random jacinth]

All good thank you!

Being deferred is such a weird feeling

Like idk what I did wrong as well so idk what they wanna see over these next 2 months…or what I could do to come off more appealing for the RD round

[muted sage]

Actually you inspired me

#1185482844584288317

Gonna be an all schools thread but maybe you’ll find some people

[random jacinth]

Awww thank you 😊

[solemn echo]

same, but at the same time i feel like my record is clear now

for stanford at least

like im not super proud of my progress freshman and sophomore year but theyre somehow at least okay with all that

now nothing else really matters except the next 2-3 months

funny bc ive spent a lot of time stressing abt what i could have done if i started doing research earlier and stuff like that

now stanford is telling me it doesnt give a shit about that stuff anymore, it just wants to know what i do now

comforting in a weird way

and motivating

[harsh sentinel]

Stanford deferred is great so don't lose hope!

[steel stratus]

hey is it worth applying to stanford with aid as an int?

ive heard its like auto reject

[lusty sundial]

not sure if this helps, but i didn't apply for aid and i got deferred

[severe gulch]

I didn’t even apply for aid and got rejected 💀

[stoic stag]

I am an int and I am of a defer right now, so don't quit before you start I guess

Well I did apply for aid cuz I had nothing to do cuz everything else I ea'd to is a public school and they don't even hand out financial aids to intls

[solid steeple]

Nope I haven’t

[mental haven]

this is like finding out santa isn’t real

except worse

[flint umbra]

I’m ngl what turned me away from Stanford rea was bc of how many people get rejected

But I love the final decision policy I wish more schools did that

[lusty sundial]

@/ ppl that got deferred - do we want a chat for us stanford deferrals?

[pine rain]

uh

my ecs/stats aren't the worst i guess?

i had a 1590 sat and 4.0 gpa at the time of application

unweighted

for awards

i had a best paper award for an ieee conference

a best paper award for a national geography conference

usapho bronze medal (top 173 in usa physics olympiad)

ieee is like

a research thing

"Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers"

i don't know

i would guess more?

because ISEF is purely student submissions

IEEE is like

you're submitting research where PhD's and professors submit too

not sure

i never did ISEF

then i also had all-state orchestra first chair

[glass palm]

wtf bro

💀

[pine rain]

as an award

[glass palm]

ieee is INSANE

how are you not a shoo in to stanford

[pine rain]

idk i think i just didn't make the best of my application

i should've written more about my research

but it's whatever

13 APs

uh

4 graduate college courses

my course rigor is not a problem

i think it's my essays

and how i present myself

[hardy locust]

f

[pine rain]

individually each piece of writing was not bad

but i think i should've just shoehorned in some sort of spike

[hardy locust]

bros story was jsut not sobbing enough

[pine rain]

instead i wrote about a lot of things i was interested in

for extracurriculars it's kind of uh

like standard i guess

for an applicant

i had a nonprofit/math competition with 5k people and last year we had $26k in prizes

i did research

and had 4 publications and 2 presentations

feel like a lot of applicants do this

lol

and then i did olympiads

[glass palm]

dawg

[pine rain]

so like usaco gold usapho bronze amc dhr usnco hm

[glass palm]

🗿

how

are you getting deferred

like there really is no reason to not accept you

[pine rain]

and then i was vp of an organization that plays music for nursing homes and hospitals

and i also coached our school's mathcounts team

ig

[glass palm]

are you applying anywhere else?

[pine rain]

i think it's more about how i present myself

my essays were all over the place in terms of content

yes

yes

[compact igloo]

yeah das a good thing

[pine rain]

i think i should've tried to focus more on one thing

or more memorable things

for example

[compact igloo]

yh memorable is important

but who tf am i to speak tbh

i got rejected from stanford

[pine rain]

for the "idea or experience that makes you excited aobut learning"

i wrote about how i crammed for the usapho in two weeks

after not knowing anything about physics

and how i was grateful for the people who went out of their way to teach me

cuz there's no way i wouldn't have made it without them

i should've just written about my research instead

[compact igloo]

excuse me??

[pine rain]

it was a meme a while back

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/teen-accepted-stanford-after-writing-blacklivesmatter-100-times-application-n742586

[compact igloo]

STOP

bro mustve been brilliant tbh

[pine rain]

nah he just built different

[compact igloo]

yes absolutely

[dim badge]

3.7 gpa 1440 sat

some good awards and ecs

i'll be fine

deferral is a good sign that i'm a competitive applicant lol

i think my season will go okay

maybe not stanford but eh

[pine rain]

yea im probably gonna end up getting rejected too lol

[dim badge]

but gpa is holistic

there are reasons why my gpa is lower

it's not just a consistent 3.7 every semester

oh yeah

that makes sense

a lot of state schools are that way

[dim badge]

idk if we're getting rejected

honestly deferral for stanford just means they havent made a decision

[pine rain]

it means we weren't good enough to get accepted

[dim badge]

in the rea pool

look on the bright side

deferral acceptance rate is higher than typical RD

yeah but i think they still want them

mine does

idk

about others tbh

are you gonna shoot for t20s?

[pine rain]

i think that's just cuz deferred people tend to be better than rejected people

[dim badge]

exactly lmao

[pine rain]

it's not like we get any advantage

[dim badge]

i know

but

it means we're competitive applicants

[dim badge]

if we were able to even stand a chance for further consideration by the school and not be like the <80% that got rejected, we're gonna be fine for other schools even if it's not stanford

like imo it's more good news than not 😭

they could've rejected us straight off the bat

damn

and by "super successful" i mean scoring at least 1 t20

[lusty sundial]

i see a deferral chat but we shld have one just for stanford

i mean its just gna be us and we can talk haha

it doesnt have to be large

were u also deferred?

wb billert and brandon

[dim badge]

aid

[pine rain]

all my friends are there

and career opportunities are insane

and there's just too many opportunities there to say no

[dim badge]

going to HYPSM is gonna be the same price as my state school w my gpa and sat

so like why not shoot my shot?

i'd rather be against sweaty nerds rather than high school popular kids

[lusty sundial]

is it just me or does it seem like a lot of ppl are deferred

[dim badge]

idts

most people ik got rejected

like

an insane amount

[lusty sundial]

same in my skl but my area is pretty small so i wasnt sure

[pine rain]

my school had one accept, one defer, one reject

[dim badge]

not full ride

[lusty sundial]

ig ppl lied on reddit lol

[dim badge]

a2c is just a pool of insanely qualified applicants

[lusty sundial]

ok yeah cuz same

[dim badge]

getting deferred is a great sign, maybe not as good as getting admitted

but

if u can keep doing what ur doing

ur gonna get in somewhere good

[lusty sundial]

im just worried abt what i shld update them w lmao

[dim badge]

just in general if i attended

[dim badge]

LMAO idk either

im waiting till jan

[lusty sundial]

my life is in a hiatus

[dim badge]

if i get into usc full ride im prob not gonna apply to stanford

[lusty sundial]

its due feb anyway

[dim badge]

state school is like that too lmao

[lusty sundial]

thats gna be amazing gl!

[dim badge]

ivies also have way smaller classes than my state schools

oh it's because my state school is a competitive one for engineering

tryhards are going there anyways

nah

colorado

well

there kinda is

cuz deadline is jan 1

[lusty sundial]

there kinda is

[dim badge]

oh

getting into classes at my state school

is horrible

i took a class there

literally i had to take the honors math because the normal one filled up instantly

i'm not even going into a pure math related field

[vale plover]

HUH

[dim badge]

nah

differential equations

i finished the calculus sequence last year

yeah

honestly im not gonna worry about that for now 😭

[vale plover]

Take 60cm

Wait you got in?

[dim badge]

that's ok

calc 3 is my favorite class

deferred

[vale plover]

Stanford lets you skip multi if u Alr took it

[pine rain]

i'd rather just retake it

tbh

[vale plover]

But they recommend you take the honors multi/linalg sequence

Yeah

[dim badge]

you can take other classes in lieu

i'd prob take like game theory, applied stats, or sum shit i find interesting

you can self place a lot of the time

most of the t20s aren't harsh on prereqs

nah

yep

at dartmouth all u have to do is email the professor and usually they'll let you in.

its horrible

ik what u mean

i tried to calc over fresh summer and my cc refused

i'm glad they kinda did bc

[weary acorn]

HI EVERYONE

[dim badge]

diff eq is kicking my ass

[weary acorn]

APPLYING TO STANFORD

[dim badge]

hello welcome

same

[weary acorn]

🥳🥳🥳

[dim badge]

i have to do 4 more supps

[weary acorn]

so happy to be here

just decided this morning as an impromptu decision

[dim badge]

math 3 (precalculus) -> ap calc bc > calc 3 > diff eq/linear alg

[weary acorn]

do you guys think going for econ would be worth it like where could that take me

[dim badge]

they dont admit by major so whatever you feel like most comfortably fits your profile

nope

same

then i coulda placed into calc 1 at my cc

yep

still have to place into precalc

i did take it

ye

damn that sucks

WWW

Guys I just realized

This is something that may be affecting admission chances

When people see supps, sometimes they go like “uhhh I have x number of supps left to do and they’re hard”

When the supps are supposed to be the most important part of your app, so it’s kinda important you don’t rush them

its okay, i think its the thought that matters the most lol

[dim badge]

i agree

okay guys i've got to go

nice to talk to you

[digital spoke]

@dim badge @pine rain wait damn, this is more accepted than we expected

[pine rain]

more accepted than deferred

[dim badge]

for sure

we were the most successful thread

out of hypsm it seems lol

for now

maybe MIT will do better

[digital spoke]

Just shows the power of Stanford applicants 💪

[weary acorn]

is it worth it to submit a 1510 sat

[mental haven]

yes

[lusty sundial]

honestly compared to the other skls we are pretty successful haha

[lusty sundial]

this has to do with how everyone is acc super qualified here lol

[mental haven]

is anyone applying to duke

[hoary sluice]

could we pls make a deferral gc pls dm me if u wanna be in it 💯 😍

[lusty sundial]

me 🫡

im not done w supps tho its a little concerning