Harvard University (2024-2025)

[rugged vessel]

its a bit random but it's not bad

@eager sinew do u think this is chill

[eager sinew]

yes its that way for everyone

a lot of classes dont put it on canvas

[rugged vessel]

okay

you and PLAYERPIANO05

said its basically fianlized

that means

im gonna celebrate now

MARK MY WORDS

[little flax]

Haha I win 😝😝

[rugged vessel]

?

now what did u win

[karmic flax]

u lost

the game

[wet owl]

I mentioned two labs related to previous research I did

[molten glen]

None of mine are either my prof said most don’t bother with it

[wet wing]

Genq, what is the point of GPA boosts

[junior imp]

I don’t know how to do the disagreeing essay without sounding annoying or like I think I’m better than somebody else, like why is this a prompt

Also it’s hard to talk about certain issues because what if the reader doesn’t agree with you on the issue you talk about?

[wet wing]

Just talk about when you think you were wrong

And analyze why you were wrong ig

[lunar shoal]

Wait jazzy are you doing choir/acapella?

The 107 class does sound pretty sick

[tardy sparrow]

It is easier if youre in the wrong but you dont have to be wrong
I wrote mine about me being right but standing up to an authority figure

[junior imp]

Oh wow I didn’t even think about that, that would be a lot easier lol

Okay I got an idea

[ripe plinth]

to ppl that got in, for the "How will the life experiences that shape who you are today enable you to contribute to Harvard?" question, did you write about a specific contribution like joining a club/program/organisation/etc or more general

[rugged vessel]

makes the number look better for my crippling self esteem

(that's not why i took the class though)

[rugged vessel]

i didn't talk about anything harvard

i used it as the classic unique life experience question

[rugged vessel]

yes choir

not yet acapella 😔

thats the goal

[ripe plinth]

but it asks for contributions to harvard

which is why im confused 💀

[rugged vessel]

it just means kinda in general like how do your life experiences contribute to a college campus environment

idt you have to specificaly make that about harvard

[ripe plinth]

ah okok

ty

[knotty orchid]

so if I just say some stuff like I live in a super multicultural area so I’m already prone to understanding culture (not this exactly ) but like that kind of thing of being open minded and aware etc?

[rugged vessel]

yeah sure

[knotty orchid]

okay cool

[rugged vessel]

my whole gist was being from a silly little broke chicago neighborhood and also homeschooled and also under very strict hispanic parents

i also connected a bit of ideas from that to another essay

all of my essays were kinda chapters to the same story

[ripe plinth]

slay

im feeling kinda cooked bro

everyone that got in had like

[rugged vessel]

i felt cooked too but you really won't know whatll happen

[ripe plinth]

olympiad stuff

💀

[rugged vessel]

i didn't

i know more people who don't than do ngl

[ripe plinth]

damn

[rugged vessel]

my STEM stuff was not cracked by any means

[ripe plinth]

well im also intl tho

[rugged vessel]

i think it was the whole package

[ripe plinth]

but like canada intl so ig i have that going for me ish

[rugged vessel]

same applies for the internationals i feel

like a lot of the internationals i know arent super duper crazy academically cracked

[dreamy lynx]

You are my whole package king 🙏

[rugged vessel]

well some

[ripe plinth]

how many canadians are in your class?

[dreamy lynx]

Pause

[rugged vessel]

definitely a nonzero amount 💀

[ripe plinth]

if you know?

[knotty orchid]

yes keep glazing

[rugged vessel]

hm

[rugged vessel]

no clue but like

i know quite a few

[knotty orchid]

you know any brits

[wet wing]

I feel like my essays are too abstract

[rugged vessel]

yeah

[wet wing]

Not specifically for Harvard

[knotty orchid]

are they super posh or normal

[rugged vessel]

brits and canadians are the msot common intls i know

[ripe plinth]

did u apply to oxbridge

[dreamy lynx]

I can hear em from a mile away

[rugged vessel]

mixture 💀

[knotty orchid]

yh but I’m cooked

my interview went HORRIBLE

[ripe plinth]

are you uk?

[knotty orchid]

yeah

[ripe plinth]

bruh rej without interview

lmao

[knotty orchid]

rip

[ripe plinth]

crazy i screwed up my test

so

[knotty orchid]

it’s very hard for internationals so don’t worry

[ripe plinth]

😛

[knotty orchid]

like

90% get rejected

[ripe plinth]

yeah

[knotty orchid]

Because Oxford wanna privatize British students

[ripe plinth]

hope it goes well for you

[knotty orchid]

Prioritize

[knotty orchid]

Thanks bro

[ripe plinth]

both apply

LMAO

[knotty orchid]

Yeah I can imagine, I’m gonna assume that the posh people are SUPER rich lmao

[ripe plinth]

dude I just wanna leave my country 💀

[knotty orchid]

Canada ain’t that bad bruh

[ripe plinth]

its getting increasingly bad

honestly if LSE wanted me

<3

[knotty orchid]

isn’t it only bad in like Toronto tho

[ripe plinth]

im from toronto 💀

[knotty orchid]

LSE is a good choice but we gotta wait till March

[knotty orchid]

yeah okay fair enough

[ripe plinth]

really? i saw people posting offers

do they all come out at the same time or are they rolling?

[knotty orchid]

they are capping

LSE hasn’t given any offers that I know of

UCL has

[ripe plinth]

UCL WOKE UP??

istg it went mia for like 3 months 💀

[knotty orchid]

yeah two of my mates got offers last week for Econ

[ripe plinth]

🔥

[knotty orchid]

Btw

In the supplement about an extracurricular

Is it okay to write about my research project

[lunar shoal]

Niceeeee you got this

Acapella at Harvard cooks

[junior imp]

Do they care if you use the 150 words?

[rugged vessel]

yeah i did

[rugged vessel]

nah

for us last year it was 200

so its tricky

like if i had to do 150 instead of 200 like everything wouldve been super restructured

idk why they lowered it lol

[wet wing]

It's always good to minimize the amount of information you get in the admissions process

[rugged vessel]

150 v 200 does nothing tho except make the writing process harder

[wet wing]

Who wants to have applicants presented as multi-dimensional human beings when you can just reduce them to paper pushers unsuccessfully concocting the most concise form of their application essays

I would hate to actually understand the people whose life trajectory I am radically altering

[reef grove]

i talked abt certain aspects of my life teaching me skills that i could then apply to a specific organization at harvard

[knotty orchid]

bro it’s not that deep

[wet wing]

This is my Wendy's

[tawdry pumice]

i liked it, as a brevity enjoyer

[wet wing]

One could be short with a 200 word limit as well

As you can see I am furnishing ample material for your disagreements essay

[junior imp]

New essay redraft is over 100 words over limit

I love my new topic but I want room to yap

[radiant flume]

oh they say about 100

its a 150

i mean if youre cutting close

[lunar shoal]

No way I'm answering in 100 💀

Every one of my responses is 145-150 lmao

[junior imp]

Yeah this one will definitely be 150

There’s no way I can cut it all the way down without missing details of the story lol

[worn helm]

i included 3 specific contributions

but its up to you

[junior imp]

Did you talk about things you want to do? That’s the direction I took it in, like advocacy I want to be a part of and how the school can help and my background?

[rugged vessel]

damn bro counted

[worn helm]

yeah

and dont worry if you lie a little lol

i am doing NONE of these things rn 😭

[junior imp]

How specific should it be?

I mainly just tried to relate to my interests and volunteer work I already do now

[rugged vessel]

thats good

[worn helm]

honestly depends on you but whenever i wrote my essays i always tried to find a specific opportunity that aligned with what i talked about before

[rugged vessel]

but also give urself space to tell the story

i kinda like advise against straight up listening stuff

[junior imp]

Okay thanks

[rugged vessel]

listing*

[worn helm]

say i said in my supp that i'm someone who likes to volunteer

i'd find an example of volunteering at the school

[rugged vessel]

nah dont lie you literally fixed climate change

[worn helm]

oh yeah connect it to u

[worn helm]

it snowed!!!

it didn't do that last yr

[rugged vessel]

all thanks to u

[worn helm]

i think its bc the el nino/la nina thing

we're so doomed

[rugged vessel]

did ti move again

or whatever

[worn helm]

wym move again

[rugged vessel]

nvm

im slow

[worn helm]

i wrote a 6 page single spaced paper on climate change for my gened wanted to kms

thats actually so much

[rugged vessel]

are you gonna go for a secondary in energy and environment

i was looking at it and was like chris would do this

[worn helm]

oh hell no

we're doomed

[rugged vessel]

why not

[worn helm]

actually idk

[rugged vessel]

its for the climate change baddies

[worn helm]

should i

[rugged vessel]

yeah why not

you already got a gened

[worn helm]

isnt the secondary for kids who are doing ESPP?

[rugged vessel]

i bet it gets a credit

i mean mostly for them but you can do a secondary in like whatever you want

[worn helm]

idk what i want to do yet lmaoo

[rugged vessel]

thats just where the most overlap happens

[worn helm]

should i take spanish or french jazzy

[rugged vessel]

i wold get overlap too but im not taking that route so no i wont

why french

french is harder and less payout i feel

then i cant help u

you will not get bitches speaking french

[worn helm]

so my parents are haitian and they speak french too

[rugged vessel]

oh

hmm

[worn helm]

and a lot of people in haiti speak french

[rugged vessel]

i so forgot that

ngl

hm

[worn helm]

so it'll allow me to connect w my culture better idk

[rugged vessel]

do you know any french

[worn helm]

but spanish is more widely spoken

[rugged vessel]

nah thats a good reason

[worn helm]

not rlly but haitian creole is somewhat a little similar

and i'm like intermediate with that

[rugged vessel]

tbh most ideal is spanish at harvard then french on your own

[worn helm]

you're right

thanks goat

[rugged vessel]

cuz you got like your family for help

[worn helm]

u right

[rugged vessel]

if you're feeling like a tryhard you should take the intensive spanish

spanish 15

[worn helm]

also im thinking of becoming a chem major

[rugged vessel]

crazy

[worn helm]

is that the daily meeting one?

[rugged vessel]

u can help me with chem

[worn helm]

i got u

[rugged vessel]

its 10+11 combined in one sem

so yeah

[worn helm]

shitt

im tryna gpa maxx rn

[rugged vessel]

i almost took italian 15

LOL

[worn helm]

i heard the strat is like 2 hard/concentrations reqs

and then 2 gems or just easier classes

[rugged vessel]

thats what i did

[worn helm]

spanish 15 might cook my gpa maxxing

[rugged vessel]

and imma do similar

[worn helm]

i got placed 11

[rugged vessel]

not gonna go super tryhard

[worn helm]

nah facts

i realized i have a shit ton of time

to do everything

[rugged vessel]

then ngl 15 would be easier for you

well not easier

[worn helm]

really?

[rugged vessel]

but like easier for u than some other ppl

tbh

[worn helm]

ohh

[rugged vessel]

i mean spanish 11 means you like

know a lot of your basics

[worn helm]

yeah i do

[rugged vessel]

like you can piece it together

[worn helm]

a decent amount

oo thanks for the put on

is 15 8 creds?

[rugged vessel]

the hard part is having to speedrun undrstand some things that aren't intuitive to native english speakers

yeah

[worn helm]

oo

imma check it out

[rugged vessel]

i mean you dont gotta do it obviously but it might got a rewarding academic experience

[worn helm]

i haven't course planned yet past freshman yr

[worn helm]

nah u putting me on fr

[rugged vessel]

i also just like

wanna have time to do other things

[rugged vessel]

im looking into sophomore year

but in a way that like

i wont stress over junior and senior as much

[worn helm]

bro im cooked for my lab schedule

[rugged vessel]

bc im giving myself flexibility

9am chem lab <3

[worn helm]

true i want a rough plan tho

[rugged vessel]

i kinda have a rough plan

[worn helm]

bc i didnt have one i was getting cooked for course planning next sem

[worn helm]

next sem?

[rugged vessel]

i switched up kinda last second lol

yeah

[worn helm]

what chem 👀

[rugged vessel]

ps11

[worn helm]

no wayy

you're doing ps11 too

[rugged vessel]

i need it for EPS

LMAO

[worn helm]

type shi type shi

[rugged vessel]

but also i want a redemption arc from chem

[worn helm]

earth and planetary?

[rugged vessel]

ive been self studying apchem

yeah

[worn helm]

nah u got this

[rugged vessel]

im not doing straight physics anymore

[worn helm]

lmk if u need the goat's help type shi

[rugged vessel]

i want to do a joint between eps and astro

[worn helm]

fire

im still wondering if i'll do anything besides chem

premed can count as my secondary w all the fucking ecs i need to do 😭

maybe spanish citation

my reason for spanish is like if i want to go into healthcare i want to be able to connect w patients as well as possible

[rugged vessel]

with a joint i keep convincing myself i should do a secondary 💀

[worn helm]

and since spanish is so widely spoken

ykyk

[rugged vessel]

yeah

[worn helm]

why joint instead of secondary in ur opinion

[rugged vessel]

i mean like both tbh

bc my brain tells me a joint is one concentration so i should add smth else

there

[worn helm]

ohhhh

[rugged vessel]

is too few requirements i feell like im cheating 💀

[junior imp]

Should that essay have a story? I sort of just introduce where I am from and then move into how it has impacted me and what I’ve learned

[worn helm]

nah u got that 😭

[rugged vessel]

i would do archaelogy

but like

idt i'd find 5 cool classes

maybe 1 or 2

[worn helm]

imo i tried to storytell whenever possible

[rugged vessel]

so i'll just use it for divisional distribution

[worn helm]

u dont want ur essays to be boring

but only 150 words is ahrd

hard

[rugged vessel]

if you have a story to tell then do it, i mean just make sure you like

[worn helm]

i feel bad for yall

[rugged vessel]

are telling a story in a way

some adivce i like to give is read your essay out loud as if its an interview

like if someone asks you that question in a chill interview setting

is that how you'd answer it out loud?

if you find it coming out choppy/unnatural, then it prolly is

[worn helm]

how's the overlap between the 2?

can u double count some classes

[worn helm]

wait this is great advice tho frfr

listen to jazzy

[rugged vessel]

im good at what i do, telling yall i didnt get in bc im smart

[worn helm]

u dont want ur essays to sound like something you'd write in like ap lang/lit

be casual

imo

[junior imp]

Thanks

[rugged vessel]

smth i notice with kids applying to ivies is they kinda like tense up sometimes

i can tell the hesitance

[worn helm]

they be so smart but write so bad

[rugged vessel]

and id tell the kids im helping, why are your safety/match essays better than your reach essays 💀

nah i can jut

feel their intimidation

in their writing

[worn helm]

i see wym

wait how much do u charge

[rugged vessel]

i usually negotiate with people too and then give them a quote, but like base price is 5 cents a word, then like 25 for vc's, but after 2 vc's the rest are 15

then like 2 dollars per ec/award

i have like a bunch of essays to read rn but im thinking in terms of how long it takes me per hour

so its good enough both ways

[worn helm]

wait thats not bad at all

i started upping my shit after my kids started getting in

technically would it be bad to put paid college consulting on a grad school or med school app 😭

[rugged vessel]

i got no clue tbh

[rugged vessel]

i dont have a lot of customers yet

[worn helm]

i just realized i did like no ecs this sem

[rugged vessel]

but this shits hard work im glad

[worn helm]

just working

[rugged vessel]

im in choir and caribbean club and thats enough

[worn helm]

i gotta tap into HCC

[rugged vessel]

bro i saw them reject u from caribbean club that was so sad

[worn helm]

i been slacking

[rugged vessel]

you gotta

i was snoopin around their google drive

[worn helm]

wait im actually glad i didnt have the time

[worn helm]

did they have any comments

[rugged vessel]

i still dont have the time

[rugged vessel]

nah i just saw their google form

[worn helm]

my essay was rushed ong

[rugged vessel]

like the ppl who applied

[worn helm]

ohhh

[onyx laurel]

are u in college rn

[worn helm]

nah it worked out tho i did a shit ton of other things this sem

[onyx laurel]

oh nvm yeah u are i see ur roles

what college are u at

[worn helm]

mine

[junior imp]

Wait how can the Caribbean Club reject someone?

[rugged vessel]

like for the role i mean

first year rep

[junior imp]

Ohhhh lol

[lunar shoal]

I was about to ask that myself lmao

[rugged vessel]

chris just isnt caribbean enough 💯

[junior imp]

I was like how can a group for Caribbeans not allow a Caribbean

[rugged vessel]

chris are we be annoying by yapping about harvard life

cuz i will dm you all the reqs for my joint

LMAO

[worn helm]

nah

[rugged vessel]

i got all the docs bookmarked

[worn helm]

they fw us

[rugged vessel]

yeah we're being inspirational

[junior imp]

It makes me want to go to Harvard

[rugged vessel]

YOU GUYS CAN DO IT ‼️

[worn helm]

wait do u have a course planner or something on the go

[rugged vessel]

i have a google sheet

[junior imp]

[rugged vessel]

nothing that pretty

[worn helm]

mm

i lowk need one

[marsh lark]

Very specific question but does anyone have any advice on the Harvard art supp? Specifically how many pieces to submit (idk where you'd find this info but idk maybe someone has it)

[worn helm]

can u send inspo here 🙏

[worn helm]

art supp?

[rugged vessel]

i submitted a creative writing portfolio

nothing award winning or anythin

[worn helm]

ohhh

[rugged vessel]

just...personal things ive written

to prove to them "hey i wasnt lying when i put creative writing as an ec"

[worn helm]

wait jazzy did u view ur admissions file

[rugged vessel]

yes

i should be applying to internships 💯

[marsh lark]

Yale asked for 5-8 and Stanford asked for 10 but Harvard asks for 2-25 💀 which is a bit

[rugged vessel]

wait what was ur composite

[marsh lark]

Less specific

[rugged vessel]

mr likely letter

[worn helm]

lemme check

[rugged vessel]

you got into something EA right

[worn helm]

i was actually surprised they were hella dry

[rugged vessel]

ami tweaking

yale

[marsh lark]

Yeah I got into Yale early

[rugged vessel]

or smth

YAY

[marsh lark]

<3

[rugged vessel]

glad u still might make the right decision (harvard)

[marsh lark]

Cambridge seems significantly less boring than new haven

[rugged vessel]

it is

i did not like yale

chris can attest

we like

[worn helm]

!!!!

[rugged vessel]

convinced our gc to not go to yale

[worn helm]

omg if u between here and yale

talk to us

😭

[rugged vessel]

not even a choice

i was choosing rice over yale

[worn helm]

FACTS

[marsh lark]

😭 will do

[rugged vessel]

and u got into yale early so

um

write good essays

and we will

see u shortly

💀

[marsh lark]

💀💀💀 your supps are genuinely terrible though

[rugged vessel]

?

[marsh lark]

150 words each?

[rugged vessel]

um

LISTEN

IT WAS 200 LAST YEAR

[worn helm]

chill they used to be better

[rugged vessel]

do not take that out on us 😔

like

[worn helm]

harvard tryna decrease their class size apparently

[rugged vessel]

i got so much to complain about harvard

but like

[worn helm]

same but i love it

[rugged vessel]

i could not imagine myself anywhere else

not even a little bit

[worn helm]

actually cannot wait to go back

[rugged vessel]

same

[worn helm]

sometimes i do think what if i chose yale tho

[rugged vessel]

i got back home and was like

[junior imp]

Bro this makes me glad to be a Yale reject

[rugged vessel]

why tf did i come back

[marsh lark]

😭 what

[junior imp]

Still coping tbh

[worn helm]

im just saying it seems like it

why they being so ass w the essays

[junior imp]

Cooked

[rugged vessel]

harvard probably has the best balance out of the ivies for a lot of thing

[worn helm]

do they want people not to apply

[worn helm]

!!

[rugged vessel]

like academics, location, culture, everything

[marsh lark]

Yale also has a hard conversation prompt but theirs is 400 words

I looked at Harvard's and was like

Yeah I'll just pick a new story

[rugged vessel]

did we have this one

[marsh lark]

That is not getting cut

[rugged vessel]

i dont remembr doing this

[marsh lark]

Yeah

[worn helm]

oh yea that prompt also sucks

[rugged vessel]

tf was my conversation about

[worn helm]

bc wtf do they want u to say

[rugged vessel]

nah mandela effect

[marsh lark]

Describe a time when you strongly disagreed with someone about an idea or issue. How did you communicate or engage with this person? What did you learn from this experience?

[rugged vessel]

what

i did NOT write that essay

[marsh lark]

Maybe it's new?

[worn helm]

what if u say something that the aos dont want u to say

[worn helm]

they changed it

it used to be intellectual something

[rugged vessel]

oh good that essay sucks

like wtf do i say

[worn helm]

!!!

[marsh lark]

Oh yeah you guys don't have an intellectual essay

[worn helm]

im sorry for yall 😭

[rugged vessel]

"Mom, dad, i'm trans"

like ??????

[marsh lark]

Sford has better supps than you guys too

[rugged vessel]

cant think of anything worse than that

[worn helm]

dont care

• cope

[rugged vessel]

theres too many of them

• ratio

• L

[marsh lark]

Of course sford forced me to submit RD a month early 💀

[rugged vessel]

chris

[marsh lark]

So I can only give them so much credit

[rugged vessel]

we gotta lock in next semester

like

we fell off but not really

[worn helm]

FACTS

[rugged vessel]

our lives just didnt rly intersect

[worn helm]

nah true

[rugged vessel]

and i like barely text ppl

[worn helm]

but we both taking ps11 now

[dreamy lynx]

real

[worn helm]

i barely saw smoof either

[rugged vessel]

chris u might have to start coming to LL07

[worn helm]

??

[marsh lark]

Also wait did they say anything about it in your file

[rugged vessel]

thats where like

[dreamy lynx]

chris I miss seeing you in the smith center crosswalk 💀

[rugged vessel]

all of us spend our time lol

[worn helm]

same twin :(

[rugged vessel]

my social life is like 90% my friend group rn

and then ppl in my classes

[worn helm]

ohhhh

cabot?

[rugged vessel]

yeah

[rugged vessel]

nah

[worn helm]

ohhhhhhh

[rugged vessel]

they liked me for the reasons i thought they would

i underestimated my ec's

they were like WOW SHE IS SO INVOLVED 🗣️ ‼️ A LOT OF TIME ON HER HANDS 🥶 🥶

not really but u get it

[marsh lark]

Do Harvard AOs give you guys like

Personal notes

[worn helm]

😭

[marsh lark]

Ik Yale AOs do it's a big concern in the admitted discord

[worn helm]

harvard admissions doesnt gaf once u get in

imo

[dreamy lynx]

no

[marsh lark]

(the answer is yes they just don't come with the acceptance package)

[marsh lark]

Wtf

:(

[worn helm]

a handwritten note is very important to you?

[rugged vessel]

no

[worn helm]

or troll

[dreamy lynx]

unless it's admissions file but that's not addressed to you

[rugged vessel]

yale did give me one

[marsh lark]

Yes Wendell I want to know why you admitted me

[rugged vessel]

depends on the AO to how good it is

mine was like 4 sentences

but sweet

[worn helm]

yeah yale sends you notes tho

[marsh lark]

Yeah

[rugged vessel]

they try to extra glaze to convince u to come

[worn helm]

yale is odd imo

not even tryna hate

[rugged vessel]

some people almost fell for it

@shut cliff cough cough

bro yale kids are weird weird

they cant be real

[worn helm]

its like nobody tells u the bad about yale

[rugged vessel]

they just glaze for no reason

[worn helm]

its like a positive echo chamber

[rugged vessel]

harvard kids are more gen

genuine

[worn helm]

and nobody tells u the bad

[rugged vessel]

YEAH

[worn helm]

completely agree

[marsh lark]

I was told by an ex-brown AO that Yale AOs are all like Joo Dee from Avatar

100% fake

[worn helm]

!!

listen to them

but

[rugged vessel]

kafka ur job is to

[worn helm]

if you don't bag another ivy just go yale loll

[rugged vessel]

convince ur yale buddies

to commit

and then u come here

bc none of them apply here

[worn helm]

RIGHT

[marsh lark]

😭

[rugged vessel]

make sure no REA admits apply to harvard

[marsh lark]

Wait is there a Harvard Discord

For admits

[worn helm]

wait i thought i was the only one who felt that way

[rugged vessel]

there was barely one 💀

[worn helm]

there's a general harvard one

[rugged vessel]

im not in it

should i be

[worn helm]

lowkey w harvard its like after u get in nobody gaf 😭

LMAOO

[rugged vessel]

yeah

and thats good

[worn helm]

am i the only one who felt like that

[rugged vessel]

i lowkey just go to college

[worn helm]

its more realistic

[rugged vessel]

a great college

but college

[marsh lark]

Caltech/MIT's seem really good they have the AOs

[rugged vessel]

yale they dont

shut up

about going to yale

[marsh lark]

We just have some student moderators

[marsh lark]

Idk if I'll go

[worn helm]

LMAOO FAX

[rugged vessel]

YAYYAYAYAYAYA

[worn helm]

wait what are u interested in studying

[marsh lark]

I applied because I was like might as well apply somewhere early 😭

[worn helm]

yale is rlly good at humanities

i mean so are we but

no bias

[rugged vessel]

we are too

[worn helm]

for stem uhhh

[worn helm]

ok but u gotta get in first

no hate

[rugged vessel]

difference between T5 and T1 is negligible

[marsh lark]

Uh I list like one social science one hums one stem when they let me list three

[worn helm]

being realistic

[marsh lark]

Primarily socsci though

[worn helm]

oo okay

yeah i wouldn't commit yale asap for sure

try to talk to more yalies

[rugged vessel]

if i ea'd i probably wouldnt commit to anything

but idk

[worn helm]

and apply more places which u are doing ofc

[rugged vessel]

dude i almost REA'd harvard

that woulda been crazy

like

[worn helm]

!!

[rugged vessel]

how would i have reacted

if i got in REA

[worn helm]

REA is hardd

respect to yall

[rugged vessel]

by RD i wasnt like screaming and jumping up and down bc that was my 20/20 college decision

[worn helm]

i heard if you're not legacy or an athlete ur chances are shit

[rugged vessel]

but if my first college decisison was a harvard acceptance?? wack

[marsh lark]

Yeah I'm still doing the rest of HYPSM (MIT because their econ department is crazy and also tiny) + Columbia + Wellesley (free app + access to MIT UROP)

And Berkeley because I'm in state

[worn helm]

fire

good luck

[dreamy lynx]

I have my video but it

will never see the light of day

[marsh lark]

Statistically I will not get into any of them 🙂‍↕️ but it's okay

[rugged vessel]

bet when are you showing us

[marsh lark]

Yale is a good safety school

[dreamy lynx]

maybe a super silly cabot night

[rugged vessel]

chris if i applied REA could i have ended up rejected

that doesnt make sense

that's what kace says but he's a d1 hater

[worn helm]

when did u write ur RD essays

[rugged vessel]

...

[worn helm]

no prob deferred

[rugged vessel]

but then deferred to rd and rejected

[worn helm]

then u would've had to write LOCI and thats a lot of work

[rugged vessel]

LMAO

[worn helm]

nah i dont think so

[rugged vessel]

like

first week of novemeber

[worn helm]

oh nah you're fine

you would've made it regardless

[rugged vessel]

is the logic just because people write better essays with more time

[worn helm]

keep that same energy

[dreamy lynx]

bro just like me fr

[worn helm]

somehow yes

i wrote my essays last week of december

wait my harvard ones were mid tho

my other schools oml i cooked

[rugged vessel]

yeah i tbh didnt like

change mine much with more time

[worn helm]

can i share essays that got me rejected?

would that be tuff

yk how people be like what essays got u in

can i send essays that didnt get me in

[marsh lark]

My Yale essays were bad ngl I like my Harvard ones more (and my Stanford ones more than that)

[marsh lark]

Anyway ty lol

[reef grove]

that’s actually such a good idea

“here’s what your essays have to beat” 💀

i think i’m the exact opposite, i was cooking on my harvard supps and absolutely burned down the kitchen on my other ones

unc and utaustin were my first two and i deadass think i responded to the prompts with “i want to attend utaustin because this, that, and this. First, i want to attend bc…”

my school has a wall where we tack up our acceptance and rejection letters and i’m so ready to put up the first rejection letter

[lunar shoal]

I'm going to do the same thing for myself haha

Print out all my rejection letters

Need at least 8

[reef grove]

bro at the end of the year i’m going to make a huge bonfire with all the college spam i got

genuinely i had to resort to putting the letters under my bed bc i ran out of drawers to shove them into 😭

imagine all the trees that were chopped down to make letters i was never gonna open

multiplied by like all the high schoolers in the us and prolly abroad

[kindred forge]

Did the admission packet arrive today for anyone not in the northeast

[reef grove]

i can walk to my mailbox and check (midwest)💀 gimme a sec

[reef grove]

unless it’s an actual package it did not

not for me at least

[kindred forge]

Okay

They mail like an official letter and some info abt visitas and some other stuff

[reef grove]

bro not even a sweater or anything 😭 johns hopkins gives speakers lmao

[little flax]

I didnt at all and idk if it’s worth it with only 150 words

[eager sinew]

i never said this ⁉️

i said most deferred people get rejected so if u got deferred u couldve been rejected 😭

[ripe plinth]

is harvard food really as bad as people say it is

[eager sinew]

idts

[ripe plinth]

ive heard some things about harvard food

oh

[eager sinew]

its fine

[ripe plinth]

idk i keep hearing stuff about it being like absolutely gapped by amherst/yale

was wondering if the rumours were true ‼️

[dreamy lynx]

don't listen to kace he just eats fries

it's basically just college dining hall shi

[ripe plinth]

honestly i cant argue with that

[dreamy lynx]

nothing special but could be worse

if you like fries

and only fries

you'll survive

[ripe plinth]

compared to the avg american HS lunch

[dreamy lynx]

better

[ripe plinth]

is kace a seagull

[rugged vessel]

its not bad

[dreamy lynx]

avgerage american hs lunch doesn't get harvard budget

[eager sinew]

yes

[rugged vessel]

like yale's and princeotn's are better but harvrad food is like

[dreamy lynx]

good enough

[rugged vessel]

still better than 75% of college campuses im sure

[ripe plinth]

building that class 🔥

[eager sinew]

i like maybe 6 foods and berg has 2 of them daily so im chilling

[ripe plinth]

how do the houses work?

[rugged vessel]

and u said most people REA get deferred? 🤨 so i could've been deferred? 🤨

[ripe plinth]

are there dining halls in the houses or do you all go to annenberg or smth

[eager sinew]

u get one end if freshman year and live in it sophomore year

[ripe plinth]

ah

[dreamy lynx]

all houses got their own dining hall

Annenberg only for freshmen

[eager sinew]

except breakfast

cus for some reason

[ripe plinth]

ohhhh

[eager sinew]

1/12 houses have hot breakfast

i need quincy i want hot breakfast 😔

[eager sinew]

statistically yes, evaluatively prolly not

evaluatively is prolly not a word

but u get what i mean

[rugged vessel]

stiastically i would not have gotten in at all

[eager sinew]

stiastically goes crazy

[rugged vessel]

statistically

"u get what i mean"

[eager sinew]

good thing admissions is based on statistics

according to the court case files i had a 50% chance of getting in 💀

statistics mean nothing without context

[rugged vessel]

idek what court case files are

[ripe plinth]

doesnt everyone

youre either in or youre not

sounds 50/50 to me

[rugged vessel]

so can we just operate on the fact that those who got in RD were in REA and vice versa

[ripe plinth]

LMAO you want them?

[eager sinew]

young sheldon's pastor ahh response

[ripe plinth]

i have them downloaded somewhere

[rugged vessel]

sure 💀

[ripe plinth]

aight bet

https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.thecrimson.com/pdf/2018/10/24/1333425.pdf

idk if the links work

damn

big ahhh link

[rugged vessel]

i am about to get hacked 💀

[eager sinew]

first one is fine

bros traumatized from usps text

[ripe plinth]

2nd one i downloaded from an email

idk if

u can use it

[rugged vessel]

P GANG HOLY SHIT

[ripe plinth]

actually no wait

that ones old

[eager sinew]

theres a P?

[ripe plinth]

disregard that one i have a newer one

https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.thecrimson.com/pdf/2018/10/29/1333554.pdf

if i get 2's across the board excluding sports

bless

omg did any of yall see your admissions file yet??

[rugged vessel]

shoutout to my man "late information" he's a real one on god

[ripe plinth]

its not even late information its "could easily lead to admission"

like

thats just impressive

[eager sinew]

ye

i found it interesting

[ripe plinth]

do you mind giving your ratings?

i just wanna know if i even have a chance at this 💀

[eager sinew]

mostly 2- with one 2

athletic a 5

[eager sinew]

wait what does fhis mean

its cut off

[rugged vessel]

thats about it to it

[eager sinew]

but what does rhat mean

[rugged vessel]

bro really wanted to anyway

[eager sinew]

ok buddy

[ripe plinth]

man yall seem so cool

manifesting my acceptance to meet yall 💯

[eager sinew]

she isnt shes a nerd

[ripe plinth]

said the seagull

[rugged vessel]

i could say a lot of mean things about kace but i just choose not to nowadays

[ripe plinth]

omg best house on campus?

[rugged vessel]

lemme read this bc maybe i was getting deferred

[eager sinew]

WHERE ARE MY KEYSS

[eager sinew]

I LEFT MY ICE IN THR LAUNDRY ROOMMM

I HAVE TO FO GEAB IT

worst day ever ong

[eager sinew]

i like quincy

cus hot breakfast and homosexuals

[ripe plinth]

valid ✅

[eager sinew]

cambridge is currently covered in snow

beware

its been like this for 3 days 😭

[ripe plinth]

im from the great north

snow is

common

too common...

[eager sinew]

oh i am from the deep south

activelt dying

i almost slipped

multiple times

[rugged vessel]

i have no clue what any of this means

the 3+ part concerns me

[eager sinew]

u didnt have 3+ overall i thought

i thought it was 2-

[rugged vessel]

it was3+

[eager sinew]

means they thought u were special in some way then

did u submit smth else later

[rugged vessel]

i dont think so i just submitted things

[ripe plinth]

maybe it was like a midyear report or smth

though idk how much weight that would have

[rugged vessel]

my interviewer just didnt go crazy about me

whatever now im sad about it again after like 3 months

[eager sinew]

girl u actively go to harvard

why does it matter 😭

[ripe plinth]

bro youre already in thats an achievement in itself

youre living the dream of like

60k other people 💀

who cares about a silly number and a silly little sign

[rugged vessel]

i barely scraped by

i got lucky

[lunar shoal]

How hard is it to get a 3+

[ripe plinth]

check the admissions guide

what they used in 2019 cant be that diff apart from the race thing

surely

[lunar shoal]

Is that a thing?

Could you send it to me?

[rugged vessel]

i read them both

[rugged vessel]

i have no clue how many peopple get it to be honest

but like i originally thought, a 3+ is like a tossup to getting in or not

[little flax]

My theory is that rich ppl r used to rich food so they unfairly diss on berg food

[ripe plinth]

scroll up i posted a while back

[rugged vessel]

fr those curly fries make my toes curl 🤤

[ripe plinth]

here

[lunar shoal]

Thanks 🙏

[rugged vessel]

see im confused i got like 2's in everything except like two things and they give me a 3+

thats just a scam

[little flax]

yes!

[rugged vessel]

bro scrollde up

[little flax]

I am catching up..

[rugged vessel]

its ok this is a safe space

[little flax]

2 | 2+ 2+ 4 2- 😊

[lunar shoal]

Ngl reading the admissions criteria is just making me delusional 😭

[little flax]

It’s so arbitrary don’t even worry about it

[rugged vessel]

oh u ate ate

[little flax]

And the criteria is outdated anyway

[rugged vessel]

oh i never gave mine

i forgot tho

like

2- 2 3 2- 3+ 3+ 2+ 2- 3+ some combination like that

[ripe plinth]

damn 2+

what were ur stats?

I would give myself a 2

[rugged vessel]

HSXD RUN

[little flax]

I just won everything

[ripe plinth]

BRO WHY THE SKULL

[little flax]

So 🤷‍♂️

[ripe plinth]

oh

dman ok

the rare

[rugged vessel]

hsxd can losers like me still get into harvard

😔

what if i won everything but then lost one thing

[little flax]

Sorry ur out

[rugged vessel]

and thats why i got a 3+ guys

i was at a 2+

then i lost one thing

and boom

@little flax hows ur break :3

r u coming to campus early to do anything fancy?

i have the choir tour on the 10th

[eager sinew]

how many categories ur ass have 😭

[eager sinew]

what is j term 😭

we aint got that

[rugged vessel]

is that not what its called

fancy name for

winter recess

bc we call nothing by its right name

[eager sinew]

j term means classes

[rugged vessel]

ok well any reason to come back early

bro do uhave to correct me on

every

single

thing

[eager sinew]

no im confused 😭

cus harvard doesnt do winter classes

[rugged vessel]

ok there fixed

jeez

[little flax]

Yes for EMT training 😭😭

[eager sinew]

omg hes gonna meet S

[little flax]

Uneventful I’m so bored

[rugged vessel]

stay strong bc ur literally gonna be saving lives in a few weeks

[rugged vessel]

yes this is so hype

letus know if you meet S

that is the letter you are knowing

[eager sinew]

can u tell the ambulances to stop driving past lionel thanks

[little flax]

Mysterious!

[little flax]

Stop getting crazy in Lionel then

[eager sinew]

I AINT DONE NOTHING IN LIONEL

[rugged vessel]

this is why we cant have so many queers in the same place

they get crazy

[eager sinew]

is this why quincy is quincy

im actuallt so confused how theres so many gays in quincy like houses are random bro 😭

[worn helm]

lowell house 👀

[junior imp]

Guys I’m always over yapping

[worn helm]

nah u under yapping

[hasty void]

For anyone who applied harvard, do you send your official SAT

when you submit

or only if you are planning to enroll after being accepted

[worn helm]

yes

i think?

there should be like an application checklist after u submit

[rugged vessel]

yeah i think so

[worn helm]

i think SAT is one of them

[worn helm]

hows minecraft goat

[rugged vessel]

i went to go do smth for my mom and hang out with my dogs

half an hour later they afk'd

like no one's online

so imma just relax 💀

[obsidian nexus]

yes

[hasty void]

I’m so confuzed

Bc Harvard says their self-reported test

But then they ask you to submit SAT?

[worn helm]

send a ss

[worn helm]

all schools always do this

to make sure u not bsing

[hasty void]

I know but that’s usually after you get accepted

They ask you to submit SAT

They do “self report” to reduce costs and shit

But the thing is

Harvard claims to be self-reported but then on the portsl

[eager sinew]

yeah u can self report for now

[hasty void]

they ask for you to submit it

[eager sinew]

a lot of ppl go ahead and submit official if its free tho

if its not free then no point

[hasty void]

It’s not free

Ok so I don’t need to worry about sending it

For Jan 1st

Right

[eager sinew]

as long as you did it on the portal or on common app you are fine

[hasty void]

Ok

[raven crane]

can someone(admitted) send me their harvard supps

[low surge]

+1

[pulsar solstice]

+2

[obsidian lance]

damn

imagine having almost perfect plus a 4.0 and being denied

[dusty vale]

Thats me for my upenn ed!

They coulda at least given me a deferral now i have no confidence

[modest palm]

guys how tf do u show not tell anything in 150 words..

wild word limit

[tawdry pumice]

wheres this from lolol

[zealous cipher]

is it just me or does the harvard application look easy 💀

[junior imp]

It’s not a lot of words so you have to shove a bunch of information into a small space

I thought it would be super easy at first lol

[junior imp]

I hope they don’t care if a lot of mine are at the 150

I can’t see how to trim a lot of them down more

[obsidian nexus]

you should have them at 150 use all the words

[junior imp]

Okay, good to know, it’s just confusing that they put “around 100”

[obsidian nexus]

yeah they're confusing like that

[junior imp]

Also would Prompt 4 be a good space to talk about research that interests me?

[obsidian nexus]

is that the future one?

if so yes

[junior imp]

Yeah

Pay

I tried to tie it in with something else I talked about but it’s sort of independent

[obsidian nexus]

• statement about what you want to do in the future (25 words)
• what you've already done on that path (25 words)
• what programs at harvard will help you continue that (75 words)
• concluding statement (25 words)

[junior imp]

I have a somewhat similar format

But not exactly a concluding statement

[junior imp]

Second drafts of essays done

They still need work but I am so much happier with them

[lunar shoal]

Nice!

Yeah I'm pretty happy with most of my essays except the "why harvard"

It's kinda deranged

[graceful rain]

which one is the why havard one

[radiant flume]

Ws

[radiant flume]

probably the future q

[graceful rain]

but is that not how you will use your education in the future

so it's talk about future aspirations

[eager pond]

can anyone that is admitted right now, send maybe some ideas and essays that they used?

[rugged vessel]

thats me until this day ngl

this is just a theory but i would argue the why harvard is the least important supp

because they know u wanna go there.

thats just a theory