Stanford University (2023-2024)

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boba

comp sci

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the inveitable

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those are my 5 things

[jovial bobcat]

how did u guys write the how did u spend last 2 summers prompt

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ahah

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isnt the acceptance rate like 2% or smt lmao

[jovial bobcat]

did u just list 2022 and 2023

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everyone is cooked

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i talked ab my job

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yh

[jovial bobcat]

ok

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i put 6 different activities

most weren't serious

[elfin prawn]

same i had two “serious”

my spotify playlists

and two that arnt necessarily serious, but mean a lot to me

[smoky quail]

BOBA

bruh im so ready to be done w this application

they're evil for making us write 8 essays

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how many people do u think wrote ai or climate change for the sig challenge prompt

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prob not as many as u think

i put something kinda connected to my other supps/my major

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most ppl apply to stanford for cs right

[smoky quail]

yep

i am too 😭

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what'd u write then

digital divide or smt

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well sort of, i wrote my supps about wanting to use cs as a tool for social issues so i wrote about the social issue

if that makes sense

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ah i see

[smoky quail]

like i said "this is the issue" and then in later essays talked abt how i wanna use cs for it

[shy hinge]

tell me why ive been enjoying stanford the supps the most

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they are good prompts

but like very easy to overthink on

so it's frustrating

[digital spoke]

lowk kinda in a technical boring way

[smoky quail]

exactly omg

[smoky quail]

they're kinda fun

[digital spoke]

a lot lol, especially for climate change

but I put my twist to it

[smoky quail]

i should have started them earlier tho, i feel like i could have made them perfect but oh well

[digital spoke]

since I noticed the issue before I even did applications lol 🤣

so it was perfect

[uneven jetty]

everyone i've been asking is trying to be out of the box

so surprisingly not as many as i thought

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maybe bias bc we are on a2c 💀

[uneven jetty]

is abhi a name?

it sounds way too familiar

[jovial bobcat]

it is a name

[uneven jetty]

i knew it

[jovial bobcat]

also for the historical event prompt can u write abt smth non serious such as when the term "lmao" was invented (just an example im not doing that 💀 )

[uneven jetty]

lmao my friend referenced something with taylor swift i think

and i dont think he knows one of her songs

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yea

i wrote about smt non serious

so i hope so at least

[uneven jetty]

same

[shy hinge]

yeah i just never know what to say

[digital spoke]

LES GO

JUST RECORDED MY UCB MET VIDEO ESSAY

Now I'm done done 🤩

I didn't fill out the CalTech optional essays 💀

idk how much that hurts lol

[trail olive]

real

iirc they recommend the hobby one

[digital spoke]

ik 😭

I wrote ones for MIT and Brown

but I was too lazy to do the CalTech ones

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the questions were the same as the ones on the website right?

[digital spoke]

cuz I'm just submitting essay drafts, so I don't have much expectations for getting in

[digital spoke]

yup

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also didnt u already get into stanford why would u even be applying to met and caltech 💀

stanford is way better than met

according to friends in the program

[trail olive]

real

[digital spoke]

well, I applied to MET before my Stanford decision release

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oh

[digital spoke]

but also, my dad just wants me to apply to them lol

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then might as well just film one video ig

[digital spoke]

cuz I already had essay drafts for everything

and by everything, I mean MIT, CalTech, Carnegie Mellon, UPenn, Columbia, Brown, Princeton, and Cornell

so I just submitted those

[uneven jetty]

for the 5 things list

did ya'll do one long paragraph or an actual list

[remote lagoon]

Aieeee me neither cuz I'm not even home 💀

[digital spoke]

lol

I just finished recording mine

[remote lagoon]

Sighhh I'll get on mine to

[digital spoke]

we twinning the Stanford acceptance + M.E.T. lol

I'd still prefer Stanford

[remote lagoon]

🙏 we hoping

I'd be pretty torn but that's only a problem I would hope to have lol

[digital spoke]

do you prefer MET?

[remote lagoon]

Mmmmm it's rlly enticing for me so idk which one for now

[digital spoke]

oh

Stanford >>>

just cuz of the environment and the food and everything

~~less depressing 🫠 ~~

[remote lagoon]

Hehe food is also very enticing

I do like a lot of the Stanford research labs so that might tip it

[weary acorn]

OK LAST APPLICATION

LETS SPEEDRUN THIS

I'm half done

So let's do the rest now

Just finished penn and feeling good

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unless u are in state

it's not even a close decision

i have 2 friends at met

who both turned down stanford

and they regret it

met is great but stanford cs is a different level

well for some things

[digital spoke]

damn 💀

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like entrepreneurship

met isnt that great for that

[digital spoke]

🤩

[remote lagoon]

O damnnn 💀

[digital spoke]

see @remote lagoon I told you

[remote lagoon]

Welp that seals it for me (should I even submit my video essay ATP 💀)

[digital spoke]

I totally know @dim badge's friends 🤣

[remote lagoon]

Pfffttt so real

[digital spoke]

I did it cuz why not

I like reflecting

and it was the last thing on my list so yeah

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these are the same people who tore apart my personal statement bro 😭

[remote lagoon]

Truuuu

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they are not my friends :(

[remote lagoon]

One last hurrah

[remote lagoon]

😭 oh yeah this is why I don't show ppl my essays

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they over exaggerate it ngl

[digital spoke]

FOOD FOOD FOOD

I LOVE FOOD

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but like the internship program is solid

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LOL

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haha

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but if ur in met u can get ai research at berkeley much more easily than an eecs student

[remote lagoon]

!! I HEARD THERE WAS A DINING HALL FOR ASIAN FOOD WHICH IS BIG W

[digital spoke]

ASIAN FOOD

OMG

MY HOME

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nah leave the met spot for kids like me who cant even dream of stanford 😭

[digital spoke]

fun fact: I've never been complete satisfied with asian food at restaurants cuz I have such high standards 😭

[remote lagoon]

Ahhhh yeah I heard about that

[digital spoke]

but it's better than not having it lol

[remote lagoon]

SCREEEEEE I NEED IT

Also high standards is fair

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all the met people wish they were in m&t lmao

[digital spoke]

KLDFAJSKFLJADSKFJKASDJF

I REQUIRE IT TO LIVE

[remote lagoon]

This is also true, I'm also tired AF so prob gonna just withdraw my entire berk app

[digital spoke]

damn

I mean

valid tho

[digital spoke]

oh yeah

are you on the Stanford Class of '28 insta gc?

[remote lagoon]

yeahhh hotel room recording would suck

[remote lagoon]

I am not, just in the discord lol

[digital spoke]

oh okay

cuz peeps made a gc

do you want to join?

[remote lagoon]

Ooo sure

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gonna be in it in 4 months 🙏

[digital spoke]

I can add you on insta and invite

[digital spoke]

manifesting 🙏

[remote lagoon]

🙏🙏

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DM

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i think like if i fix my caps

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me your insta

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and dont make my supps super boring

i have a good chance

[digital spoke]

yeah

you have a rly good chance

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ill submit a bit late

tho

[uneven jetty]

do schools mind when you do that

i did that for one school yesterday

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idk

i submitted 5 schools late so far

each downloaded

so idt it matters too much

[uneven jetty]

mine was 2 days late 💀

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oh

[uneven jetty]

cause at first i was like screw it

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well that's pretty bad

my latest was 6 hours

i started brown like a few hours after the deadline lmaooo

[uneven jetty]

lmao started?

[shy hinge]

Bro I don’t even wanna talk about brown my supps were so bad 😭

[real herald]

why yall tryna live on the edge lmfao

[uneven jetty]

crazy ass prompts

its the thrill

no joke its so fun

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the adrenaline rush that hits when i see 11:30 on the top right of my laptop screen is unlike anything ive ever experienced

[uneven jetty]

its like a game i'm just like "2 hours and 3 essays"

and i get the craziest adrenaline rush of all time

and it ends up being a better essay than the one i spent 2 weeks on

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nah fr those supps u churn out in 15 minutes

they are the most genuine

bc u dont have time to bs

so everything just flows

[digital spoke]

lol

true

[uneven jetty]

compared to the ea essays i spent so much time on

i prefer these 20x over

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yea tell me why my ea essays were so dog shit when i was like planning them out for months lmao

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is the last essay to stanford just a why us

i want to make sure

[digital spoke]

not necessarily

I didn't

[uneven jetty]

are stanford students called cardinals

i can't find a name

if there is one

[little lantern]

isnt that their mascot

[solid steeple]

could i try getting an understanding of how u approached the essay as

[little lantern]

i mean there's card nation

[uneven jetty]

yeah but some people online were saying they've never been called a cardinal

so i got confused since i referenced it in one essay lmao

[little lantern]

i think its more for their sports teams

[uneven jetty]

fair

[digital spoke]

honestly, it's just kinda how to interpret the prompt yourself

I talked about different aspects of my life and how that shapes who I am

[solid steeple]

did u mention like how you woulddo future activities at stanford

[tropic grotto]

1. whats ur background
2. what u make of it
3. what u plan to make of it

[digital spoke]

mentioned nothing about stuff at Stanford

that's just me tho

[tropic grotto]

i mentioned nothing about stanford as well

[solid steeple]

here an example but im assuyming u guys didnt do any kind of this: through teamwork, i will make new friends at stanford blah blah blah

[idle axle]

theyre called NERDS

[solid steeple]

did u guys do something similar to this or anything kind of this @tropic grotto @digital spoke

[tropic grotto]

no

[idle axle]

why should i have

[digital spoke]

nope

[tropic grotto]

judging a book by its cover, it kinda sounds cliche. but who am i to judge, u prolly cooked up something good

[celest axle]

Is it fine if we did

I split it between diversity essay and why us

[tropic grotto]

ofc

[pale mason]

if i have a 36 superscore but 33 highest composite do i submit act to stanford

[tropic grotto]

does stanford superscore?

[pale mason]

no

not act

[jovial bobcat]

since stanford requires courses and grades, do u have to self report all courses on common app?

[tropic grotto]

ermm im not qualified to say anything

[tropic grotto]

well is 33 below 25th percentile?

[pale mason]

oh i guess its right on dot 25th

u know what ima just submit

[tropic grotto]

yeah submit

a hella amount of people are going test optional (me)

[celest axle]

Stanfords more lenient with standardized testing consideration

[pale mason]

i dont think it will make much of a difference honestly. if i get rejected its not gonna be solely bc of my score

[digital spoke]

That's completely okay, different people have different interpretations

[cold night]

Wait guys i indicated that I wanted to submit an art portfolio but im just now realizing the due date for that was a month ago should i email them and let them know or

[digital spoke]

😭 I mean, emailing won't hurt

[cold night]

fuck im scared i fucked up now

[smoky quail]

i did! i wrote half about what i do now and half about what ill do at stanford kinda

[solid steeple]

no its njust a generic example i didnt put the actual sentence i wrote

[solid steeple]

cool ty. i needed some opinions as to what people's approach was

[smoky quail]

yeah im sure anythings fine as long as u make a good point in the essay

[tropic grotto]

its time to finally submit 😢

for my second choice school

[elfin coral]

gonna submit uppen first because I only notice mistakes after submitting an application for some reason

[uneven jetty]

I spelled 'trial' wrong in my brown app and I've been curled up in a ball ever since

[pale mason]

felt

[digital spoke]

I miswrote my program name in my ECs, and I've done the program for 3 summers lol

so dw

[elfin prawn]

ao's wont care that i dont like shakesphere right?

[tropic grotto]

no

well

depends the way u phrase it

but most of the time no

[elfin coral]

welp this is it, the moment that will determine the rest of my life. I have alot of regrets, I wish my seizures never happened that way I wouldn't have this 3.65 uw gpa. I wish my sat was 1500 not 1480, I wish everyone in my school didnt bank on me getting into stanford. I wished I didnt have such high aspirations. Just last year I was aiming for umich. my 17 years have lead up to this, here.. we.. go

[elfin prawn]

thanks

u got this lol

[tropic grotto]

i did something similar but with edgar allan poe

[elfin prawn]

i'd personally submit ur sat btw

[elfin coral]

yeah no doubt

my schools average is 1020

submitting to all

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i dont like shaking spheres either so

hope it doesnt matter

[weary acorn]

Ok this last essay is so hard

[elfin coral]

LOL it actually worked

as soon as I clicked go for Uppen I realized I missed something

phew

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does stanford accept late?

[weary acorn]

wtf

This is insane

$140

[smoky quail]

omg

it says 90 on ca wtf 😭

[weary acorn]

Currency conversion 😭

[smoky quail]

ohhh

oh right i see cad

isnt that still like 100 bucks tho

tax maybe idk

these fees are crazy im pretty sure i'll have spent like 2k+ at the end of this 💀

[smoky quail]

idk but wouldn't risk it

if ur just starting supps you could always give it a try tho

[weary acorn]

It's brutal

But yay

[smoky quail]

woooo

congrats

[weary acorn]

My last school until next mondayyyy

[smoky quail]

almost done w mine

every sentence i try to write for this roommate essay sounds creepy 💀

[weary acorn]

The feeling is insane

[smoky quail]

lets goooo

[weary acorn]

GOODNIGHT

Mine sounds cheesy asf

[smoky quail]

BFJSKHSJ same its so hard not to

"what are your hobbies" 😁

[weary acorn]

First off, I come from -----, Ontario, a small town in Canada. Contrary to any stereotypes you might have heard, we don't live in igloos and my diet does not entirely consist of drinking maple syrup. But yes, it does get pretty chilly, and we do enjoy some good hockey! In fact, I've grown up on the rink. I started skating at just 2 years old, and my family has been proud supporters of my hockey career ever since!

Goodnight

Cringe asf

[weary acorn]

Smiling!

[smoky quail]

omg 😭 i love that you wrote abt ur backgroudn tho thats smart

and its not that cringe skjfs mine's worse

[weary acorn]

This is so stupid I cant

But it's over

[smoky quail]

at least its overrr

[weary acorn]

So I shouldn't think about it anymore

[smoky quail]

i cant wait to be free too

[weary acorn]

I should be happy

So free rn

[smoky quail]

yesss

[patent plinth]

woohoo!!!

[weary acorn]

YAYYY CONGRATS

What program did everyone apply to

I had Managerial Science and Engineering

[patent plinth]

i did ethics in society!

[weary acorn]

Omg good luck!!!

[patent plinth]

u too!! we got this!

[jovial bobcat]

earth and planetary 😋

glgl

and graduating stanford with a cs degree

[elfin coral]

finally

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Just submitted

[pale mason]

SUBMITTED

[stuck temple]

btw

for stanford self reportin grades

i put my unweighted

did they wanted weighted grades

[digital carbon]

doesn't matter that much

your counsellor report will give all the context needed imo

[stuck temple]

o ok

lowk shlda done weighted

woulda looked better

[elfin prawn]

i submitted 20 minutes late lmao hopefully they consider my app

[elfin prawn]

im not the only one yay

[errant fox]

SUBMITTED!!

[uneven jetty]

im with u too JUST SUBMITTED

(why do i do this to myself)

[elfin prawn]

my roomate essay sucks

its funny tho

I feel like i said all the serious stuff in every other essay tho

[uneven jetty]

if my AO is having a bad day my roommate essay is WAY too energetic

by my luck tho my AO's probably gonna be drunk reading mine

[elfin prawn]

mine is very energetic

i hope i get a yougner AO

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It’ll make em feel better

[crimson pasture]

gg everyone

best of luck 🫡

[robust lion]

for the courses and grades list do i put 2nd semester as "incomplete" or "no grade"

[celest axle]

Didn’t it say to not fill it out if you don’t have grades

Because they have the one on the commonapp alr

[robust lion]

our 1st semester grades came out for us

so idk what to say for s2

[shy hinge]

is there anything i should say for spending last 2 summers

or anything really

[solid steeple]

how old does historical events have to be

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decisions when

interviews when

[smoky quail]

wooooo

[smoky quail]

prob doesnt matter

[shy hinge]

did you do a list for the last 2 summers or like 2022:, 2023:

[smoky quail]

i just wrote mine in sentences

im sure either works

[shy hinge]

ok

imma do that

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does anyone know when acceptances come out

[smoky quail]

cool goodluckkk

[solid steeple]

so steven spielberg u think that would work

[smoky quail]

i think early april?

[solid steeple]

or george lucas

[shy hinge]

i got 4 more supps to go

thanks

[smoky quail]

u got this

[smoky quail]

omg yes

that's so cool

either one

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what about interviews

[smoky quail]

no idea lol

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oooo ok

[smoky quail]

i gotta start preparing 😭

[blazing rose]

Ugh gotta finish in an hour & 30 minutes 😭

[shy hinge]

same

[wise totem]

lmao me too 😭 i decided that if im going to get rejected, theyre going to at least like my essays

[jovial bobcat]

ur fine bruh

these schools are lenient on deadlines

as long as they send u a email tmr or next day ur fiine

[cloud star]

College apps done!!

Ty for being my last Stanford!

It means you’re special

[azure pollen]

How do you guys feel about this lol

[smoky quail]

🙂

submitted already but i definitely ignored the and us part LMAO

[azure pollen]

Did anyone actually follow his advice lol? I literally think everyone just treated it as a fun letter—that obviously has undertones of personal character

[digital carbon]

I said I'm an early riser, am I done for life 💀

[solid steeple]

whyd they say the applicaiton deadline has passed

when it hasnt been 11 59

whatever i submitted tho

[digital carbon]

oh and I definitely ignored academics in this essay

[dusky pumice]

the prompt doesn't say "write a letter to your roommate and us" it says "write a letter to your roommate that will help us get to know you"

[digital carbon]

talked more about what I'll be doin at stanny

i made it a why stanford is for me and I'm for them lol

[dusky pumice]

I still wrote it like a letter to my roommate but I did it in a way that told info about me

[digital carbon]

indirectly tho

[smoky quail]

same

[smoky quail]

common app is in est

so that happens if ur in pst

[solid steeple]

also because i dont have my senior yr course grade i dont have to do anything but just list them right

[solid steeple]

so im fine

?

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yall

is stanford the most holistic college out there

for its prestige

[elfin prawn]

i disagree with him, i saw that on tik tok too right after i sent it

[dim badge]

I guess I kinda followed it

good thing I didn’t disobey any of it

[digital spoke]

I do think it's one of the more holistic ones

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that’s my only@hope then

well not my only

but it’s a big hoap

[shy hinge]

11:58 barely got it in

[blissful trellis]

I submitted with 3 seconds to spare :D

[shy hinge]

bruh i just realized my writing looks so chunky

my 250 stanford had 2 paragraphs

looked so beefy

[digital spoke]

damn

[blazing rose]

Turned it in at 11:59 at night 😭

That was entirely too close for my tastes

[shy hinge]

1 minute apart 😎

[restive lake]

I didn't send stanford the commonapp courses and grades, should i email them or will they just look at my transcript?

[blazing rose]

They didn't want the courses and grades iirc

[shy hinge]

wdym they require them i thought

[blazing rose]

Wait for the portal and you'll see what they want

Let me check

Oh yeah they do require courses and grades

[blazing rose]

How did it let you send without it?

[idle axle]

ngl im spent MAYBE 15 minutes on that appliation

my entire roomate essay was about Seinfeld lmao

[restive lake]

I selected "no" to the "i can acccess my transcript"

Maybe i shouldve just submitted it late

[idle axle]

https://tenor.com/view/seinfeld-gif-18623119

[idle axle]

maybe on ur portal you can?

[lost knoll]

oml that was in my roommate essay

[digital carbon]

can someone read my research abstract and help me decide if it's worth submitting?

[restive lake]

Hopefully 🫡

[idle axle]

it was literally my entire thing

[lost knoll]

seinfeld is so goated

[idle axle]

ik i love it so much

i said they could borrow some of my extensive seinfeld merch if they wante

[lost knoll]

LO

LOL

[idle axle]

im wearing a vandelay industries jacket rn lmao

[lost knoll]

bro i wrote about being a night owl and then i saw that tiktok

like oh!

[lost knoll]

ok slay

i need to rewatch

rewatching big bang theory rn

[idle axle]

lmaoooo "dont be a goofball"

[lost knoll]

like whoops……

[idle axle]

maybe theyll see i was born in palo alto and go easy on me 😅

[lost knoll]

auto reject ig 💀

[lost knoll]

LOL

manifesting for you

[pale mason]

im so happy guys i submitted all my apps

[lost knoll]

congrats u ate

[pale mason]

thanks bae🩷🩷

[idle axle]

im on my like 20th rewatch

[lost knoll]

holy wtf

i would be too but i’m a one piece watcher

[idle axle]

honeslty maybe more

like 40% of all the tv i watch

is seinfeld

i can recite some of the episodes

[idle axle]

lmao that takes just as long to get through it once

[lost knoll]

😧

reciting is crazy

[idle axle]

😭

[wise totem]

the only thing i agree w/ is the "red flag" stuff. but the college ISNT trying to mislead people with the prompt. why the hell would they ask you to write a note to your roommate and then write a dry-ass "essay"

[lost knoll]

LMFAOO yeah

[pale mason]

agreed

[idle axle]

ik my roomate has gotta know my obsession level

[lost knoll]

me when i wrote bout being a night owl

[idle axle]

ik like boooring

dont ask me to talk to my future roomate if you dont really mean it 🙄

[lost knoll]

LOL

[idle axle]

i wasnt even gonna apply i just finished my cal videos and figured id fuck with them

ik some of the aos so i thought it would be funny

[lost knoll]

so u were a menace to society

i respect it

at least u cultured them with the seinfeld

[idle axle]

yeah hopefully one of the ones i know actually gets it tho

otherwise its weird

[lost knoll]

wait huh are u a senior rn

what is foothill

[blazing rose]

Yeah but who the fuck is this bitch and why does he know what to do

[idle axle]

2 year community college

so after i graduate from hs this year id graduate that in 26

[lost knoll]

ohhhhh

okay slay

[idle axle]

ty

[lost knoll]

isn’t he like a past stanford AO

or something

[idle axle]

yeah 😂

[lost knoll]

💀💀💀💀💀

[idle axle]

hopefully the new ones are more fun

[blazing rose]

Yeah I feel like it's portraying the doomsday mentality that colleges are trying to trap and trick you. They really aren't.

[lost knoll]

ik he’s so serious all the time

[idle axle]

hes literally so dramatic

drama queen

[lost knoll]

LOLLLL

[blazing rose]

It's because he needs to scare his audience so they buy his product

He's selling something. He can't if the audience isn't terrified of being rejected if they don't buy his thing

[lost knoll]

at least i can block him now cuz i’m done with apps

[blazing rose]

The whole college admission advisor thing is such a scam lmao

[lost knoll]

like lallalala 🫸☺️🫷

[idle axle]

i blocked him and the duke guy so long ago

hate them

[lost knoll]

oml the duke guy is so annoying

and the yale guy but he’s less annoying

[idle axle]

"average app" stfu let a man dream

[blazing rose]

These people exist to beat the fear drum so that people get scared enough to buy their terrible and useless product

[lost knoll]

i think having someone to edit ur essays is helpful tbf

[blazing rose]

I guarantee you these people are so fucking useless like a proofreader that doesn't do shit

[lost knoll]

like my king the essay mechanic

[pale mason]

yeah and admitium literally said "admissions officers advice is misleading" like okay

[blazing rose]

Get a friend who's good at writing. free advice for 3 hours is all you need

[shy hinge]

the duke guy who says like this person and what college they got into?

[jovial bobcat]

i agree

[lost knoll]

YEAH

[jovial bobcat]

the most IMPORTANT part is you coming up with a UNIQUe essay idea

[idle axle]

we had a free woman at my hs who was super quick which was nice. idk how much better she made them but it was nice to know an experienced person was approving them. I wouldnt have paid those outrageous prices tho

[jovial bobcat]

and no advisor can help you with that cuz they dont know u deeply

[shy hinge]

i follow him ngl

[idle axle]

masochist

[lost knoll]

ye but having an adult who has experience is helpful imo

[blazing rose]

"you have to come up with a unique idea 🧚‍♂️ "
fucking DUH

Tell me how to make my idea unique! (they never will)

[jovial bobcat]

@idle axle wait do you know peter bennett 👀

[lost knoll]

i don’t but he’s always on my page it’s so annoying

[blazing rose]

I have never seen these tiktoks lmao

[lost knoll]

it’s like having chanceme on tiktok

[harsh sentinel]

Limmytalks?

[jovial bobcat]

wAmy 😳

[idle axle]

uhhhh i dont think so. all the ones ive met are through my dad so ig i could ask him

[shy hinge]

who that

[jovial bobcat]

this ultra pretentious mf who thinks he's the next einstein just cuz he had connections to cutting edge research at harvard

[lost knoll]

bro rishab jain be trying to pretend that he’s like us

[jovial bobcat]

hes not gang bro

[lost knoll]

fr

like dawg isn’t it

[jovial bobcat]

this guy made a fake ass olympiad recently

[lost knoll]

OMG I SAW THAT

[jovial bobcat]

international research olympiad 💀 💀

SOB

LMFAO

[lost knoll]

BROOOO I WAS LIKE NO WAY

[jovial bobcat]

😭😭

[lost knoll]

people are gonna do it too like ☹️

[idle axle]

why didnt i think of that : (

[blazing rose]

Oh my god

[jovial bobcat]

nah someone needs to bully this kid bro

[blazing rose]

I forgot a verb in my college essay 😭

[jovial bobcat]

he needs to be stopped

[idle axle]

so over

kidding

[blazing rose]

I'm sure it won't matter that part of the essay was fluff anyway

"I like collecting things that represent people! Maybe we can some things that represent us!" I forgot to put buy 😭

[lost knoll]

uhhh i think so but honestly idk

[idle axle]

haha they'll get it

[lost knoll]

yeah fr they prob read supps at the speed of light

[idle axle]

interesting hobby tbh thats pretty cool

[idle axle]

i spent so long on some of those and they gonna spend like 2 mins on it

[lost knoll]

i think the more i look at my supps the more i think they are bad

[lost knoll]

ong it’s kinda sad

[blazing rose]

Honestly I'm starting to like my supps more and more

Except for my UMiami app

Oh my god

[jovial bobcat]

which is why i always tell ppl to have as many paragraphs in their supp as possible

slows down the reader like speed bumps

with those blank spaces

[blazing rose]

you can literally see where I lifted stuff from my personal essay 😭

[idle axle]

if any of the schools see the supp i wrote for the texas "how will you change the world" prompt theyll jump me

[lost knoll]

oml

[dim badge]

honestly I kinda cooked on all 8 stanford supps

[lost knoll]

i hate ut for that

[idle axle]

literally the worst thing ive ever put on paper

[dim badge]

I spent like a day on each

[tacit surge]

damn

[blazing rose]

But at the same time my SAT is like 60 above their average and my activities literally had a part where I talked about reading one of their professors so... I might be fine

[dim badge]

now I don’t have the best chance of getting in

[tacit surge]

i submitted my stanford apps 18 seconds late 😭

[dim badge]

but im just proud I put some good writing forward

[blazing rose]

No I always write such bullshit for stuff like that

[lost knoll]

bro ngl that prompt was like really hard

[shy hinge]

Real

They so bad💀

[dim badge]

and everyone who applied should feel as such

many people don’t have the nerve to even submit

they think it’s not worth it, beyond reach

[idle axle]

above stanfords average?

[dim badge]

so if you’re one of the 50k applying to stanford, congrats!

[blazing rose]

No U miami lol

[dim badge]

we shall face this together

[blazing rose]

Nah I did not give my SAT to Stanford I did not do that well

[dim badge]

you’re in luck

stanford is “truly” test optional this year

[shy hinge]

Y this year

[wise totem]

i feel like i lost my shot with the experiences essay bc i didnt mention specific clubs and stuff 😭 i thought it wanted me to focus more on lived experiences 💀 i still mentioned stanford briefly but still

[dim badge]

No idea

[idle axle]

i dont even know if i should have submitted by sat so many people said different stuff

i did it anyway tho

[dim badge]

what was your score

1600?

[idle axle]

1520

[dim badge]

no

[blazing rose]

I yapped so much about creating an inclusive environment at stanford lmao

[dim badge]

no

leave

[idle axle]

: (

[dim badge]

wdym “you shouldn’t have”

that’s a legendary ass score

[lost knoll]

nah u got this

[dim badge]

you’ll be fine.

[idle axle]

i saw a lot of people say not to

[blazing rose]

My SAT is low compared to my grades so I hid that shit

[lost knoll]

loved experienced work too

*lived

mb

[blazing rose]

Those people are idiots

[shy hinge]

Bro that’s what I did 💀💀

[idle axle]

i only did it cause my english score was higher than my math and i applied for history

[wise totem]

i feel more confident about stanford than penn bc i submitted that one 2 hours late through coalition 💀

[dim badge]

Stanford is test optional after this year

[idle axle]

so i thought theyd like that

[wise totem]

it aint looking good

[lost knoll]

LMFAOOO

bro i was gonna use coalition

[idle axle]

isnt?

[lost knoll]

but then i got rid of like 10 schools 💀

[shy hinge]

Dude I’m scared that I didn’t give enough info for the school I always gave hella context I didn’t know how to shorten it more 😭😭😭

[dim badge]

No sorry

[blazing rose]

I should've done ACT instead of SAT lmfao

[dim badge]

They’re truly test optional this year

[lost knoll]

u ate dw

[wise totem]

coalition scoir seems more lax with deadlines. when the deadlines pass there's always a note that says "the deadline's passed, but there's still time to submit ASAP" or smthng

[idle axle]

thanks wen

[dim badge]

I was here when many of the ED’ers got in

[lost knoll]

stanford wants us fr

[dim badge]

and when many of them sadly got rejected

like 12 admitted from this channel

[idle axle]

how do you know that will change next year?

[blazing rose]

I got a 1440 on my SAT 😭. not good

[dim badge]

They made some presentation on it

and how their admissions would pan out this cycle

[lost knoll]

ya a2c slayed

[shy hinge]

Bro I’m fearing for my letters of rec

[dim badge]

I just hope im “amongst” those slayers

[shy hinge]

I don’t think they were top notch

[lost knoll]

still above nat average 🥱

[idle axle]

one girl literally had the best app ive ever seen and didnt get in

coukdnt beleive it

[dim badge]

essays?

compelling essays are literally everything

[blazing rose]

Ugh that's a whole fucking nightmare. I transferred high schools which means my lors are all fucked up

[dim badge]

like every. Thing.

[idle axle]

i mean ig dont know what else it couldve been

[blazing rose]

Thanks

[dim badge]

don’t make your essays generic at any cost

[lost knoll]

yeye prob luck or just random best fit things too

[shy hinge]

Lors are a big part of ur app and I didn’t know until after one of my teachers writes extremely straight forward letters😭

I didn’t read it

[blazing rose]

I wrote my idea prompts about Plato in the sky in diamonds lmao I think I'm fine

[shy hinge]

But my friend told me his was

[dim badge]

I wrote mine about a banknote fetish 💀

[lost knoll]

oh

[blazing rose]

U better be applying for a sexual studies major

[wise totem]

there's a line to be crossed...

[idle axle]

they are gonna EAT UP my essay about when i tore my acl literally the night before the state championship

[dim badge]

bro

why

[lost knoll]

naw i wrote one of my harvard essays about tennis 💀💀💀💀💀💀

[dim badge]

it wasn’t an actual fetish haha

[wise totem]

thank god

[dim badge]

I just called it like that

[idle axle]

i just thought of the most generic thing i could

[idle axle]

feel like thats fine

[blazing rose]

Oh was it some macro concept?

[shy hinge]

Bro I wrote about being a nice person

Is it over for me?

[dim badge]

kinda yeah

[lost knoll]

nah u ate

[dim badge]

but banknoting is a unique hobby

[idle axle]

thats nice

[dim badge]

and don’t even ask how but I tied it to space travel

[shy hinge]

I need u to be straight up I can’t handle no bs 🙅‍♂️

[blazing rose]

Neat. I wrote about ancient philosophy bc I want to get in on philosophy/religious studies

[dim badge]

memchu is precious

[lost knoll]

i’m literally not even lying

[blazing rose]

For which prompt tho

[shy hinge]

That’s the most basic thing ever wdym😭😭

[lost knoll]

isn’t being a nice person like part of what they look for

[dim badge]

The last pikachu pfp got in

that dude was smart as heck

[shy hinge]

For prompt 6 I think but I changed it to 1 for a few for NO reason.

I sold myself 🤦‍♂️

[blazing rose]

???? The one about roommates or ideas that interest you 😭

[shy hinge]

Yeah but they probably see that in 45k of their applicants

[shy hinge]

Common app

[blazing rose]

Because if you wrote about being a nice person when talking about ideas that interest you... girl...

[shy hinge]

I thought we was talking about common app

[blazing rose]

Oh for the personal essay?

[shy hinge]

Yes

[dim badge]

common app you’re fine

[blazing rose]

... no? we were talking about the ideas that interest you prompts for stanford and yale

[shy hinge]

Oh

[dim badge]

for common app I wrote about being autistic

[shy hinge]

I sincerely hope they feel touched by my common app essay

It’s not even sad

But like 🙏

[blazing rose]

I wrote about being harassed for being gay and how it made me inclusive to other people ✌️ lmao

[dim badge]

I basically talked about being a dumbass and how I couldn’t talk until I was 6

but then i became goated

and yeah

[shy hinge]

Him

[blazing rose]

Which was a pain in the ass because that's what the supps were asking for and it's like. I've already told u this story but here it is again

[shy hinge]

Bro every time I had to write about my own experiences and the school

[wise totem]

omg i want to go in for Classics so same-ish

[shy hinge]

I have like 60-70% of the word count as context

[dim badge]

Everyone says stanford essays are hard

[shy hinge]

Like bro

[dim badge]

They’re really not tho

[shy hinge]

😭😭

[dim badge]

just a lot

[blazing rose]

Can't wait to have to learn ancient Greek 😭

[dim badge]

Columbia and UPenn essays are hell tho

[shy hinge]

It’s over for me I couldn’t condense the story much more

[dim badge]

“write to a person you didn’t get to thank”

[blazing rose]

The Columbia ones were a pain in the ass tho

[dim badge]

Like bro

[shy hinge]

I kinda liked that one

[blazing rose]

Oh sorry read that as "easy" lmao

[wise totem]

it's such a bitch 💀 i did an intensive course this summer and i cried every night 😭 and on the first day of class most people new the alphabet already and i knew nada

[blazing rose]

Fuck I mean I need to learn the language for ancient philosophy but. at what cost.

[shy hinge]

Do y’all know any top colleges with deadlines after today

[wise totem]

upenn was so cutesie 😩 i cried writing my thank-you letter

[shy hinge]

Like how am I supposed to find that out

[dim badge]

umich

umich is like one of the best engineering schools in the country

tied with caltech

and it’s gonna become a t20

[blazing rose]

Columbia's list your inspirations one 😭

[shy hinge]

Unless they give me 100 bands of fin aid I’m not going there 😭

[shy hinge]

That took me years

[wise totem]

it's still a rlly rewarding class tho! but after, i knew i was definitely a Latin person

[blazing rose]

Maybe I should just learn german and focus on german idealism 😭

[wise totem]

tuition is heart attack-inducing

[shy hinge]

Me when I see Yale and Columbia extends their deadlines as I turned them in right before midnight: 😐

[blazing rose]

Then again what german has in linguistic closeness the german idealists made up for in incomprehensibility so... back to ancient greek I go

[wise totem]

you might have to learn both bc a crazy amount of classics/ancient philosophy scholarship is in german 😭 if u want to go into academia/post-grad

if not, u cool with 1 language

[blazing rose]

FUCK NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

That's so true

Like you have to be fluent in german if you want to do religious studies

[shy hinge]

I forgot I’m out of state💀

[dim badge]

are any of you guys hooked

[blazing rose]

Ugh time to get started on my Pomona essays 🫡

[blazing rose]

No that pissed me off so much

[glossy river]

🦅

[shy hinge]

Bro I was rushing and submitted Yale at 11:56

I was stressing so hard

[blazing rose]

👏

[shy hinge]

Not even rereading them😭

[blazing rose]

Maybe I can see if I can submit a corrected essay to stanford...

[shy hinge]

😭💀💀

[blazing rose]

That one verb missing is pissing me off

[glossy river]

dont stress i legit submitted duke 7 hours late and they confirmed that they got it when i emailed them

[wise totem]

im a urm

[blazing rose]

No I submitted on time I just made a glaringly obvious mistake in one of my essays

[lost knoll]

no i’m chinese

[wise totem]

my columbia essays were horrid

[shy hinge]

ATP I should just submit ed maybe they will accept it

[dim badge]

same

im also first generation

nuerodivergent

[glossy river]

ohhh shit
was it a huge mistake or just an obvious one

[glossy river]

real

[blazing rose]

I forgot a verb in one of my sentences. Doesn't really matter but still looks bad. Was in the fluff section of the roomate one tho

[shy hinge]

Same

[lost knoll]

my fellow yellows

[dim badge]

I’m very distantly Chinese but im mostly Hispanic

My great grandfather was born in China but settled in Mexico

[glossy river]

ur prob fine doubt itll hurt u

[shy hinge]

Bro one of my paragraphs of my common app doesn’t flow good if I added a sentence it would flow but I had no words

Wait I said this to u already I think

My bad I’m just raging

[lost knoll]

not to sound dumb but what is yandle

just curious

[blazing rose]

... honestly we've submitted to like 8 dif schools together we've said so much shit to one another at this point 😭

[digital carbon]

anyone who did independent research in hs here?

[blazing rose]

NOPE

[shy hinge]

Joined by our struggles 😭😭

[blazing rose]

Who are these bitches who are doing independent research in high school

[lost knoll]

uhhh i did a summer program

[wise totem]

not published. it was more of a summer exploration on a topic

[shy hinge]

Abigfatpenguin signing out ✌️ my colleges are done

[glossy river]

independent is actually crazy like

[blazing rose]

Lmao ur so lucky I have another 5 to go lmao

[digital carbon]

did y'all submit???

[lost knoll]

BYE PENGUIN

to stanny?

[digital carbon]

planning to submit to colleges??

[glossy river]

2 more for me

[blazing rose]

I took part of a real estate course to get my Californial lisence

[shy hinge]

I’ll stay here and chat but all my college I’m done I’ve made sooo many mistakes but I’m done

[lost knoll]

oh i submitted yeah

[digital carbon]

crazy in like a good sense or what

[shy hinge]

Like just thinking about it I get so annoyed

[lost knoll]

u ate fr

[shy hinge]

That is majorly affecting my chances

[blazing rose]

Oh... that's actually a really good reason to stay in Cali if I get accepted to both UCs/Stanford and other out of state schools (delulu I know but you gotta rank your priorities in an ideal world)

[wise totem]

i put the link in my additional info. but since its humanities and not traditional with an abstract and stuff, im not attaching it as research if colleges ask specifically for research supps

[glossy river]

like good but also just insane how high schoolers could have the level of expertise in a field to head their own project

[blazing rose]

They don't they work as assistants 😭

[shy hinge]

How many u applying to

[digital carbon]

oh cool

[lost knoll]

@digital carbon i also linked in my additional info and submitted abstract/paper/poster where i could

[digital carbon]

hmm makes sense

[glossy river]

even if it’s an independent project?

[lost knoll]

honestly i forgot but i think around like 16?

[shy hinge]

@blazing rose how many more colleges u got

[digital carbon]

can u guys help me decide if my abstract is worth publishing pleaseeee??

[blazing rose]

I mean if it's a totally independent project they def ain't getting funding so...

[shy hinge]

Bro I did 8 and it’s too much😭

[digital carbon]

i can dm

[lost knoll]

sis idk if u want to ask me

[shy hinge]

I started like 2 weeks ago

[lost knoll]

also wdym worth publishing

[blazing rose]

Don't see how they could be doing serious research unless it's as an assistant lmao

[lost knoll]

isn’t that up to the publishers to decide

[wise totem]

oh @digital carbon i also worked with a professor tho. and their LOR is getting sent to all my colleges

[blazing rose]

Like 5 I think

[digital carbon]

oh sorry worth submitting

[lost knoll]

oh facts me to

too

i love my PI she’s my goat

[digital carbon]

not independent?

[glossy river]

true LMAO

[shy hinge]

Hopefully we’ll both be blessed on ivy day🙏

[lost knoll]

LOL it’s ok

8 is a lot

i just shotgun

[wise totem]

i did an independent exploration before, then got to work with a professor in the same topic the followign summer!

so half and half

[blazing rose]

Maybe. I'm holding out hope but I have safeties lined up lmao

[glossy river]

I’m applying to 21 bruh would not recommend

[shy hinge]

They all are hyper reaches 💀

[blazing rose]

Actually 4 of the five after this are safeties not reaches lol

[lost knoll]

they want u dw

[blazing rose]

Pomona is my last reach and after this I'm choosing all safeties

[shy hinge]

Thank you for your words of encouragement 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[blazing rose]

The blind leading the blind /s

[lost knoll]

ouch my list was like 30 and then i shortened it a lot

[blazing rose]

I'm sure you'll get in somewhere

We all will

I mean the fact that we sought out this discord in the first place means we're smart enough to get safeties and backups lined up

[lost knoll]

boo

[wise totem]

naur bc my school decisions IG is stacked rn. all schools with sub 25% acceptances 😭

[lost knoll]

ofc u got this fr

manifesting for you

[digital carbon]

how long was your abstract, like the word count?

[shy hinge]

Ik your good luck because ur discord account made on my birthday 🙏

[lost knoll]

it’s a sign

[shy hinge]

That’s a sign

[lost knoll]

ONGGG

WHAT IM SAYING

THATS WHATS UP

[blazing rose]

I have like. 10 schools with <10% acceptance ranges, 3 with 20-30% ranges, and 2 with 80-90% acceptance ranges lol

I am not going to Junior college

[digital carbon]

that's a fair list

[wise totem]

200-300 words ish

[lost knoll]

just based on general science fair stuff i think 250 is a good average

[digital carbon]

sounds good

[shy hinge]

I only applied ivies cuz I have fee waiver 💀

[digital carbon]

perfect thanks!

[lost knoll]

npnp good luck!!

[digital carbon]

ivies and stanny took all my money

[lost knoll]

bro i’m actually broke after this

[little lantern]

i applied ivies bc i got rejected from one in ED LMAO

made me go on a revenge tour

[lost knoll]

LOL

[shy hinge]

Bro Stanford $90💀

[digital carbon]

i got harvard deferred and now i got 22+ colleges

[shy hinge]

Praying for ur bank account 🙏

[digital carbon]

exactly

[digital carbon]

[wise totem]

rejected from yale and i panic applied to 30 other schools 😭

[digital carbon]

[shy hinge]

How do y’all do so much 😭

[lost knoll]

yeah bro i gave up

[little lantern]

i love writing supps

[lost knoll]

after ea

[blazing rose]

Rejected from U Chicago and I started panic applying everywhere lmao

[little lantern]

like deadass

[digital carbon]

me too so fun

[lost knoll]

oml

[little lantern]

its my new obsession

[digital carbon]

i hate it's all over

[blazing rose]

It does kind of become fun after a while

In a sort of prisoner enjoying his chains sorta thing

[lost knoll]

bro applying to 30 i was like i could do this and then i started doing it and my list magically shortened

[little lantern]

yeap

[digital carbon]

uchicago prompts were sick fr

[blazing rose]

they were kind of fun ngl

[digital carbon]

yeah if u got the time and interest, I had none

still applied tho

with the most random essay

[blazing rose]

I applied ea lmao

rejected

[digital carbon]

i chose the portmanteau one

oops

what prompt?

did u choose

[blazing rose]

Things that obliterate each other

[digital carbon]

ah that one

[shy hinge]

I kinda wanted to do uchicago but I ain’t have time

[lost knoll]

omg penguin hello

[shy hinge]

Y’all think I got one more in me?😭

[blazing rose]

Love and hatred and i yapped about Empedocles... honestly that's probably why I got rejected I just warped the prompt to yap about philosophy

[shy hinge]

Hello

[lost knoll]

when is uchicago due

[wise totem]

uhh it was extended to Jan 10th

for me at least

[blazing rose]

But if they didn't want me yapping they shouldn't have given such fucking awful prompts

[shy hinge]

Past like 3 days ago

[lost knoll]

u do have time then

[shy hinge]

Wait fr

[blazing rose]

Maybe I should reapply 🤔 /s

[shy hinge]

But I didn’t even add it to my college list does that matter

[digital carbon]

i created a work called 'sorceity' - the use of sorcery to influence society lmao

[wise totem]

yuh i got an email and i jumped for joy fr

[shy hinge]

Like I haven’t even started

[wise totem]

didnt have the essays started

[lost knoll]

LOLLL

[wise totem]

but had an app open

[shy hinge]

Mr rn

[lost knoll]

my goat

[wise totem]

so im gonna do them this weekend 💀

[little lantern]

it used to be on my college list but i removed it for a safety LOL

[digital carbon]

the lamest fr and then talked about how my tarot reading skills helped my School President journey

[lost knoll]

rooting for u guys

[blazing rose]

Nah i'd be so bitter even if I were accepted rd after being rejected ea I'd hold that grudge

[wise totem]

naw fr Yale is going to be rolling in their grave when im rich and famous someday

could've had a new donor but oh well

[blazing rose]

I'm holding a grudge against the schools that don't pick me like stg if I ever become famous I am shading that school

[shy hinge]

You starting Amazon 2.0 fr

[lost knoll]

yeah ong lie they fumbled the bag

[blazing rose]

thank you for the support

[lost knoll]

remember me when ur rich i ain’t like yale 🗣️🗣️

[blazing rose]

More realistically, if I become an academic and I'm invited to give a talk there...

[shy hinge]

Bros slandering the school😭

[little lantern]

yuck fale!!

[blazing rose]

Well I'd have a very hard time stopping myself from dropping some nasty references to being wanted now instead of when I was applying

[lost knoll]

yeah i applied maybe i shouldn’t 💀💀💀

[little lantern]

if i ever become a history prof and i get invited to teach at a school that i got rejected from i'd cry

[blazing rose]

legit I would be so bitter towards the admission people

[shy hinge]

What’s y’all top 3 ivy you’d go to

[lost knoll]

stanny 🫡

not even ivy but

[little lantern]

like you didn't want me back then... but you want me now??

[little lantern]

cornell columbia darty

[lost knoll]

harvard princeton yale

[harsh sentinel]

Upenn brown Columbia

[lost knoll]

what do u think about people who got into barnard but put barnard columbia 28’ in their bio

[blazing rose]

-> Yale
-> Columbia

[lost knoll]

and their parents told other people they got into columbia

[shy hinge]

I’d say Columbia too but I think my chances are shot I name dropped a professor and didn’t say anything

[blazing rose]

I only applied to those two

[shy hinge]

🥲

[little lantern]

i mean barnard is columbia

[lost knoll]

i only applied to harvard yale princeton

[little lantern]

js put one of them why bother putting both