Harvard University (2024-2025)

[misty remnant]

u getting. into harvard but not sfs 😭??

no ur gtown bound

but i will happily take ur harvard seat 😁

[reef grove]

i could self report my aps here 💀

[misty remnant]

jk i ended up acc highk liking georgetown... help

the interview was so weird tho

[reef grove]

my interviewer glazed me so hard omg

[misty remnant]

she asked me if my parents were immigrants, if i spoke good chinese, told me georgetown had good Chinese programs, talked about indian families she knew in the raleigh durham area (js like urs!!!), wanted to know SO much ab my trip to china, sympathized w my experiences "cant relate at all to that, man."

💀 bro so many stereotypes

[misty remnant]

ok real she def did write a good report

except she asked the weirdest ahh questions

"are u first gen????"

"do u want me to connect u w first gen/asian students at georgetown???"

[reef grove]

mine asked me like one question then we had a conversation abt like anything and everything. ai, the justice system, israel/palestine, his brothers wedding

[misty remnant]

helpp ok

[reef grove]

it was crazy

and religion too 💀

[misty remnant]

yea mine was chill except she obsessed w my race or smth 💀

idc she loved me or smth

real

omg we started trashing on other schools

[reef grove]

that’s crazy 💀

[misty remnant]

🔥

[reef grove]

lmaooo

[misty remnant]

yea idk

joined her in trashing on lacs (i love lacs)

its fine 😸

[reef grove]

mine was a fake georgetown student, he transferred halfway through from george washington

[misty remnant]

HELP??

mine was 40 y/o lawyer

we trashed on gwu today

*too

idgaf ngl it was kinda sexy

[reef grove]

we talked about the mandated theology course too

[misty remnant]

YESS omg

no cus she made it sound fun

am i tripping 😭

it sounds rllyyy cool

[reef grove]

mine was the boss of the bar association of my city 💀

[misty remnant]

help???

[reef grove]

IKR

[misty remnant]

yea was it problem of god or smth

omgg i wanna take that

[reef grove]

it sounds like sm fun

[misty remnant]

ngl im not religious so the religious aspect never like appealed to me but i def dont mind it at all anymore

[misty remnant]

rightt

[reef grove]

jesuit teachers teach students to question their faith

[misty remnant]

NO FR

[reef grove]

disprove their own religion

[misty remnant]

ok real 😍

idk the intrview made me fall in love w that school omgg

[reef grove]

i’m an atheist but religion interests me a lot from a historical/cultural perspective

[misty remnant]

the why school/major essay was sm fun to write

[misty remnant]

yes def

[reef grove]

seeing how they came into existence and stuff is sooo cool

[reef grove]

real, most of them i just adapted from my harvard one

not having a word limit is weird tho, i don’t like eyeballing half a page lol

[misty remnant]

wait urs was HALF?!?

we had a whole ahh page

[reef grove]

one is half, two are full page

[misty remnant]

oh okk

yea my why cas was like 630 words HELPP

[reef grove]

and then the 250 word one

[misty remnant]

they wanted a whole ahh personal statement

well another one

LMAO

[reef grove]

ikr 💀 like be so fucking fr, i’m already doing a whole other application website

[misty remnant]

NO RIGHT

why is it so ass

idk i havent touched it.. gonna start tmr

well i wrote all the essays 😸

[reef grove]

and they don’t trust us at all, every single sat/act/ap ever pls n ty

[misty remnant]

js need to fill out that ass thing

[reef grove]

no self report

[misty remnant]

NO RIGHT

i js gave up w ap

dawg they aint getting that

[reef grove]

pff

[misty remnant]

cus sure i can use the free send score but

i gotta pay it for my future school then

?? like i aint doin allat

[reef grove]

real

[misty remnant]

all sat score is wild bc my progression is so bad 😭

bro lets hope they look at highest ❤️

& most recent ❤️

[reef grove]

pfff that’s so true

i prolly look so sus bc i have a not so good sat score -> good act score in a two month period 💀

[opal pasture]

you can submit a pdf discussing your website to harvard?

[misty remnant]

me going from 1420 to 1390 to 1430 from aug to nov 😸

ok so i got a 1480 last time which is their 50th 🤞 pls js look at thatt

please

🙏

[reef grove]

p sure you can submit a pdf of anything on the applicant portal

[reef grove]

lmaooo fr fr

[opal pasture]

its fine to discuss an important website right

but theres no guidelines online i dont see anything how i'd do that

what they want to see on it

[reef grove]

ya discuss anything you feel needs more clarification

they might look at it, they might not

[opal pasture]

what if i've talked about it before in app but not given website link

is that fine

its googleable though

easily

[reef grove]

id say it’s fine, i referenced a movie in one of my essays and my AOs said they looked at the trailer for it

if it interests them i’m sure they’d reach into it further

[native solar]

wait should i get to my interview early/before my interviewer?

if it’s at 2pm, how early should i be there

wait i’m scared what if i walk in and i embarrass myself 😭😭😭

[reef grove]

i would, it’s good manners

i got there around half an hour early so i could order a drink + find a good spot

[solemn panther]

My lazy ass would show up a minute late 😭

[reef grove]

for my georgetown interview i sat at the table right in front of my interviewer without noticing, and then had the sudden realization he was my interviewer and did the slow turn around of doom

it was a fun way to break the ice tho

it’s not gonna flow perfectly, but like they’re not lying when they say they want it to be more of a convo and less of an interview

they just wanna talk to you

[hardy fern]

show up a few mins early but not crazy early

[native solar]

do i need to order something for my interviewer 😭

[reef grove]

no you’re good 😭

they’ll prolly order a drink themselves

i got a drink for if my throat went dry, i didn’t get any food tho bc i didn’t wanna be munching during the interview 💀

[native solar]

yeah that makes sense

how do i dress

slightly business casual? or just casual

[reef grove]

i would dress a little nicer than usual

no need to go all out tho lol

just don’t show up in ripped jeans and a t shirt

[hybrid yew]

a monocolor winterjacket/sweater is an easy bet

or smth along those lines

[karmic flax]

i dressed a little nicer than business casual for all of my interviews

like i had a blazer, a nice shirt, and dress pants

[eager sinew]

i wore a polo shirt

and jeans

my hs was closed on the day of my interview so since there were so few students at the trade school due to it, the counselor gave me her office to have it in

it was so nice cus i was freaking out before lmfao

and my teacher bought me mcdonalds before my interview

[dreamy lynx]

don't listen to kace he about to say something silly asf

[eager sinew]

my hs was not good but the teachers and admins who like me REALLY loved me

[reef grove]

i wore a blazer, dress pants, and a turtleneck 🔥 i looked quite dapper

[eager sinew]

i am never sully

im always stone face

[reef grove]

aww that’s nice

[eager sinew]

u give turtle vibes

[dreamy lynx]

I have a photo for this situation

I can't send it

[eager sinew]

which photo...

[dreamy lynx]

I'll dm one min

[reef grove]

😭 is that a compliment or an insult

[eager sinew]

tirtles are very chill creatures

simply an observation

[half sparrow]

man I'm kinda numb

[reef grove]

they are pretty chill

[reef grove]

real

[half sparrow]

lowkey its hrad to like a school

[reef grove]

second semester of senior year feels like an unskippable cutscene

[half sparrow]

when I know they're just gonna hand me a straight up rejection

[dreamy lynx]

icl I think I wore a blazer to my interview cause it was our team dress day

shlawg didn't question it

[half sparrow]

bro I wore a jane street tshirt for my brown video 😭

[misty remnant]

why tf

[reef grove]

what helped me was coming to terms with the fact that some factors were just out of my control. like i had the stats, but so did way more people than harvard could reasonably accept. it really does also depend on how many people are applying for your major, have a similar story to you, live near you, etc etc

[half sparrow]

wait did you get in lmao

[reef grove]

like 4000 people in the us get a 36 on the act, and that’s already 2000+ that harvard can accept

[reef grove]

yeah

[half sparrow]

bro hold on

I need to bitch about the act for a second

[reef grove]

11 writing is crazy tho, i got an 8 and thought i ate so hard

[half sparrow]

ok fun tip

actually fun tip

there's a really easy way to game this

just write

write as much as possible and you'll get a decent score lmao

that's how people gamed the SAT essay section

so I just applied that to ACT

I'm not a good writer lmaooooo

[reef grove]

that’s what i was taught not to do 😭 i didn’t write a conclusion + did two sentences for my intro

got me a 5 on ap lang but an ass writing score

so glad it’s going away

[half sparrow]

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/04/education/sat-essay-test-rewards-length-and-ignores-errors.html

I literally thought

"if it worked on the SAT why wouldn't it work on the ACT"

😭

[reef grove]

lmaoooo

[reef grove]

same but i got a 34 math 36 everything else 😭

[half sparrow]

this is the type of thinking harvard wants /s

[half sparrow]

did you see the ass curve on reading

[reef grove]

crazy how the one point decided whether you got a 35/36

[half sparrow]

I got 2 wrong

[reef grove]

crazy

i took it a month before you so idk how hard it was

[half sparrow]

its fine my SAT is better anyways

[half sparrow]

it was easy lmao

[reef grove]

i’m the exact opposite, my sat was so bad

[half sparrow]

i'm just bad and decided to not study

I locked in for the SAT

[reef grove]

i hated the open ended questions

[half sparrow]

I TOOK THE PENULTIMATE PAPER SAT

LMAOOOOO

[reef grove]

which one was that again?

[half sparrow]

I'm actually such a goat for making that decision

[half sparrow]

november 2024

2023

2023

I'm bad

[reef grove]

that can’t be right, my december one was on paper i think 😭

dec 2024

unless i’m tripping

doesn’t say, imma just assume i’m going crazy

[half sparrow]

What

You mean 2023?

[reef grove]

i was lucky enough to take the first digital psat when it was super ez

[reef grove]

oh yeah yeah mb

[half sparrow]

Yea you took the last paper sat

Lol

[half sparrow]

It's what I was wearing that day

[fiery flame]

what was it?

[solemn panther]

I wrote about my last name and how ppl mispronunce it

[potent vapor]

i'm lowkey starting to feel cooked

everyone that gets into harvard for human dev and regenerative bio is so tuff

[fiery flame]

what is it trust i won’t doxx

[potent vapor]

i got like no research awards

[solemn panther]

It’s just post application clarity

[solemn panther]

Help I applied as that too 😭

I mean it’s not like they admit by major but..

[fiery flame]

dude im applying math and i haven’t qualled for some

aime

and there’s english majors who’re 4x aime

[solemn panther]

What was ur second major choice

And third ones

I did human bio, integrative bio, and East Asian languages

[potent vapor]

second was classics

hdrb is tough af apparently to get in

im just hoping my loci was enough

[solemn panther]

Why did I just learn abt this

https://tenor.com/view/crying-emoji-dies-gif-21956120

[potent vapor]

u or me

[solemn panther]

Me

Human bio being a tough major

I feel stupid

Ima just pray it works out in. The end

[frail kettle]

wait FUCK

i did hdrb

god damn nit

if u get rejected from m1 can u get into major 2

with same possiblity idk

i did hdrb then psych then econ

[solemn panther]

they dont admit by major

u dont declare ur major anyways until ur sophmore year

its just a declaration of interest

[karmic flax]

yeah this

you don’t get rejected from a major, you just get rejected

[dreamy lynx]

I didn't even know hdrb was a thing tbh

life sciences

[solemn panther]

yea same

i changed it last minute

[little flax]

mcb is more popular I think

[cinder zenith]

lmao. Anyways miss u

[rugged vessel]

miss u too :3

mcb is definitely more opopular than hdrb

which is definitely more popular than the other one i forgot the name of

[little flax]

Thank you for validating me

[eager sinew]

what is ur major

r u a molecular

[little flax]

I don’t like to be defined by a major

[eager sinew]

ok r u defined by a concentration then

or perhaps a "cluster" as we were told in the 3 hour long freshman orientation module

[little flax]

If u paid attention you would know that we don’t have a concentration until soon year…

[eager sinew]

the liberal arts mindset has gotten you

[dreamy lynx]

You wouldn’t get it

Free spirit vs 4 year plan

[hybrid yew]

omg there's other classics nerds applying

[cinder zenith]

Haaaaahvad

I have a theory about all classics majors

[eager sinew]

[hybrid yew]

which is?

[cinder zenith]

Ur the coolest people ever!!

[hybrid yew]

we are not 😔 👊

we just like greek and stuff

or read Percy Jackson when we were young and it made us take Latin

[cinder zenith]

bye

[exotic lodge]

mine is on zoom 😡

[low surge]

Me regretting life choices

[rugged vessel]

That happens too dkdndk

[karmic flax]

the majority of my interviews were on zoom last year and honestly once you get past the fact that you’re looking at a screen it’s pretty easy to connect with people

[exotic lodge]

zoom stresses me out so bad

i failed online school

[karmic flax]

yeah no i get it

[exotic lodge]

how do i practice

also this is for mit harvard hasn't sent me shit yet

[karmic flax]

my first zoom interview freaked me out so bad because i hadn’t really done that kind of meeting before and all of my prep was in person

i would try to see if you can get a friend or teacher or literally anyone to practice w you over zoom so you’re familiar with what it’s like to have a professional convo through it

[exotic lodge]

i'm so bad at interviews ughhhh

[karmic flax]

also its important to remember that your interviewer has likely done both zoom and in-person interviews and understands that it’s not an ideal setting

[rugged vessel]

I had 2 online interviews 2 in person, got into one online interview school and one in person interview school

Wait i lied

3 in person 2 online, got into 2 in person 1 online

[karmic flax]

a lot of programs i applied to didn’t have in-person interviews so it was zoom by default

let me get an actual count for interviews i had

four in-person interviews (penn state, nyu, suny purchase, ithaca college)
seven zoom interviews (berklee, boston university, calarts, carnegie mellon, uiuc, umich, usc)

i thought carnegie mellon was my worst interview by far and i got waitlisted and i currently go to usc so

[exotic lodge]

what are the chances my harvard interview is in person in california

[karmic flax]

i would say california probably has one of the biggest harvard networks outside of the northeast so it’s definitely within the realm of possibility lol

[exotic lodge]

that's good

[rugged vessel]

I absolutely went ham on everything princeton related and got rejected so i feel like the moral of the story is dont go so tryhard u sike yourself out

A major reason i applied to harvard was bc i was already applying to princeton and yale

[karmic flax]

also psa before any of you hs seniors start crashing out: **most of (if not all) the schools i interviewed at do not conduct interviews for regular admissions ** i had to interview bc the major i applied for only takes 6-8 people a year

[exotic lodge]

my harvard app was low effort lol

it was a shot in the dark

[radiant flume]

bu has interviews?!?

[karmic flax]

#1268139746044022824 message

[misty remnant]

me when 0 interviews

[low surge]

us

they hate me BAD

i wanna be interviewed

[misty remnant]

no fr

[vocal ocean]

any midwest students w interviews?

[misty remnant]

no harvard, no yale, no dartmouth, no penn, no tufts, no vassar, no duke, WRFF

me when the only interview i got was the required georgetown one

[low surge]

i'll crush the interviews soo much i like interviews

[misty remnant]

real

[karmic flax]

a very small percentage of applicants are interviewed

also the deadline was literally last week lmfao

[unreal siren]

vassar interviews don’t matter at all you’ll be fine

[misty remnant]

noo i js wanted to show some interest tho 😞

issok LOL

[unreal siren]

nah they genuinely don’t care trust me 😭😭 ik people who do interviews and they have told me they are solely informative and legit have no bearing on ur app lol

[misty remnant]

ok good to hear LMAOO

[half sparrow]

wait they did interviews

[half sparrow]

no I thought cmu didn't do interviews

did they only change last year

[karmic flax]

no

they only have interviews for specific majors

not for admissions

[half sparrow]

oh

[obsidian nexus]

lowkey i like zoom because i can remember to smile since i see myself

[obsidian nexus]

almost 100% to be honest

california is filled with harvard ppl assuming u dont live smack dab in the central valley

[exotic lodge]

riverside :p

mit made me do online

[fiery ridge]

Like receive as in the email for inviting an interview, or the actual interview

[glad blaze]

the invitation

[misty remnant]

me when no intervoew

jk

its fine..

😍

[junior imp]

Same so far

[misty remnant]

am i cooked

how tf r ppl getting them

😿

[junior imp]

I talked to somebody who lives like 40 minutes away from me today and he had a Dartmouth interview

It’s okay our time will come

[misty remnant]

whatt

ugh me when nothing 🥲

[misty remnant]

real

[pulsar solstice]

is there any deadline to send in additional LoRs (and should I?)

[little flax]

ASAP and no if they don’t add anything

[pulsar solstice]

hmm

my current ones are from my math and CS teachers

I feel like my old (10th grade) physics teacher could help inject some life cuz the math and CS teachers mainly know me through academics/achievements, i'm closer to her personally

[obsidian nexus]

i mean if anything i would look to add a humanities LOR

[pulsar solstice]

hmm right

[exotic vector]

Does every school gives interviews

For ivy

[hybrid yew]

Interview in an hour 💪💪

[misty remnant]

me when no interview

[gentle ermine]

are they interviewing everyone?

[junior imp]

Depends on availability

[low surge]

I still haven't gotten any interview 😞

[reef grove]

as many as they can

[karmic flax]

the vast majority of people do not get interviewed because it depends on alumni location and availability. if you don’t get interviewed it’s not indicative of your admissions status

i’m from a rural area and neither of the people i know who go to ivies were interviewed

[karmic flax]

my brother in christ it’s been ten days

[gentle ermine]

ohh

[little flax]

Except Columbia and brown

[glossy jolt]

does harvard do prescreening for interviews?

[little flax]

Not rly*

[glossy jolt]

icic

i might be looking way too deep into it

but my harvard interview email said: "... offered an interview for admission to Harvard College based on your achievements and outstanding application"

does this mean anything?

[little flax]

No, I think a lot of the interviewers don’t rly understand the process 😅

[vocal ocean]

no interview either lol

[glossy jolt]

okay ☠️ thank you

[merry slate]

. 🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

🕯️ Harvard 🕯️

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[vagrant plover]

I am gona copy it and use it

[misty remnant]

bro everywhere

[tame cargo]

i don't think all harvard alumni clubs have reached out yet

even if they have, there are still a lot of people who will get directly scheduled by alumni

[crisp needle]

when are yall submitting locis

[crisp needle]

its a template p sure

and maybe slightly personalized idk

[potent vapor]

. 🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

🕯️ Harvard 🕯️

🕯️                         🕯️
         🕯️      🕯️

[misty remnant]

. 🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

🕯️ Harvard 🕯️

🕯️                         🕯️
         🕯️      🕯️

[low surge]

🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

🕯️ Harvard 🕯️

🕯️                         🕯️
         🕯️      🕯️

Bruh

. 🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

🕯️ Harvard 🕯️

🕯️                         🕯️
         🕯️      🕯️

[misty remnant]

. 🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

🕯️ Harvard 🕯️

🕯️                         🕯️
         🕯️      🕯️

Ohh does removing the period ruin it?

🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

🕯️ Harvard 🕯️

🕯️                         🕯️
         🕯️      🕯️

weird 😭

. 🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

🕯️ Harvard 🕯️

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         🕯️      🕯️

[zenith crescent]

. 🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

🕯️ Harvard 🕯️

🕯️                         🕯️
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love how I didn’t even apply to Harvard

still a supporter frl

[misty remnant]

ong

[dreamy lynx]

https://tenor.com/view/yummy-tongue-flight-flight-reacts-excited-gif-17057509

Me when Harvard

[plain stump]

bro why u rereading ur essays now

i submitted and never looked back

[reef grove]

this is the strat

if you don’t look at them then they don’t have errors

schrodingers application

[plain stump]

i dont wanna cry after finding my 5000 grammar and spelling errors 5000 comma splices and 5000 plot holes

if i get rejected then oh well

if i get accepted then ay, i wasnt worried for 2 months cuz i noticed some mistakes in my essays

[reef grove]

yield protected fr

[plain stump]

also congrats on the REA

[reef grove]

thanks i bribed them /j

[plain stump]

u committed or gonna compare offers?

[reef grove]

it’s between harvard and georgetown rn, wanna see if i get in there before i make a decision

75% sure i’ll end up at harvard tho

[plain stump]

what's your major/concentration?

[reef grove]

well that’s the thing, harvard doesn’t have my major 💀

[junior imp]

This is so real, especially since we can’t go back and change essays, it’s not even worth worrying about.

[plain stump]

what 💀 what u looking for?

[junior imp]

Worry about extracurriculars or things in your current life that you can actually change.

[reef grove]

i wanna go into international affairs/diplomacy, so in harvard terms thats government, which has a subfield of international gov

[hasty void]

does harvard accept superscore

[reef grove]

whereas georgetown has the best foreign service school in the world

[junior imp]

No

[hasty void]

im so confused, theyre not asking me to send my SAT or anything, and on my common app self report i superscored

[plain stump]

i can def see why georgetown and ur in the DC area

[junior imp]

I believe they can use the top score you give

[plain stump]

was SAT on common app? I was so paranoid i self-reported

[junior imp]

Does it ask for top score in one sitting?

[plain stump]

wait what?

[hasty void]

yea SAT is on common app

[plain stump]

idt ur supposed to superscore for common app...

[hasty void]

no

it didnt say anything about it

[junior imp]

I self-reported ACT and I think they just use the top composite that I sent

[junior imp]

You definitely can for ACT

[reef grove]

yeah, harvard has great foreign policy ecs tho, like HUFPI let’s you write reports for literal foreign governments and think tanks n shit

[junior imp]

Idk about SAT though

[hasty void]

in the past, i believe they asked you to send your SAT scores through college board

and they would look at that score

[junior imp]

Woops wrong reply, this was for @plain stump

[hasty void]

but this year theyre fine with my self report

which is superscored

[plain stump]

im p sure ur supposed to self report each sitting

and then the college chooses if they superscore or not

cuz if harvard doesnt

[junior imp]

For SAT?

[plain stump]

then u basically lied ur score 💀

[plain stump]

im p sure i can check rn

but doesnt it ask

ur score

then the test date?

[junior imp]

For ACT it just asks for your highest in one sitting, and then your all-time highest scores for each section

[reef grove]

i believe you only need to submit one, not all

[hasty void]

on the common app it only lets you put in the highest

[reef grove]

but you can’t super score it

[hasty void]

on each section

[plain stump]

oh yea this makes sense

ykw imma check rn

actually no

[reef grove]

you can submit multiple but you only need one

[junior imp]

I reported two scores on my Common App that Harvard got

[plain stump]

@hasty void what's happened has happened i wouldnt worry about it

[junior imp]

Idk if they consider anything more than composite though

Maybe the subsections a bit? Idk

They might unofficially consider them if sent I guess

[hasty void]

im just wondering if i missed something

[zealous rune]

Common app only allows you to report one composite score from each section though

[reef grove]

prolly depends on major, if you got lower in math when u wanna be a stats major that’s prolly not good

[hasty void]

Harvard says they have everything they need from me, but from what I gave them, they have no way of knowing my unsuperscored result

[junior imp]

Yeah, I’m glad I’m not majoring in math my ACT math was definitely

[plain stump]

just googled, ur fine

[junior imp]

Like I got it up a lot but compared to my other scores it’s a little rough

But we’re chilling because I already applied and it’s all over now

[plain stump]

oh ic what ur saying

[hasty void]

im also a little confused about that. theyre saying they dont superscore, but they appear to describe what a superscore is

[plain stump]

no so basically

[junior imp]

I just need to apply to UNC, graduate, and go to the best school that accepts me

[plain stump]

superscore is adding the scores together

but they seem to evaluate sections independently

[hasty void]

oh

[plain stump]

like they dont go

[hasty void]

that makes more sense

[plain stump]

"oh 1580 superscore total on SAT"

[hasty void]

thanks

[plain stump]

they go

"790 writing, 790 math" or something

[reef grove]

i jjst submitted my act and was done with it 😭🙏

[junior imp]

Bro ACT is so much better than SAT

[reef grove]

my sat was a little rough

[reef grove]

REAL

i hate the sat sm omg

[zealous rune]

So this is not for the superscore, right?

[plain stump]

what's the ACt like i never did it before

[junior imp]

So glad to live in Ohio where ACT is pushed lol

SAT was a nightmare for me

[plain stump]

yea that's your highest one sitting from my understanding

[hasty void]

that sounds lke superscore to me

[reef grove]

sunshine and unicorns compared to the sat

[plain stump]

oh really?

[junior imp]

Honestly it’s a little weird but it’s more about speed

[hasty void]

is ACT easier

[junior imp]

The questions are easier but you get less time

[zealous rune]

Yeah I put my superscore 💀

[hasty void]

im international

[plain stump]

dont worry bro

[hasty void]

we dont have an ACT testing center within like 2 hours

[junior imp]

Honestly it just depends on the person

[reef grove]

act covers more content but u don’t have to think as much, plus no free response

[junior imp]

SAT is better for some people

[plain stump]

i heard ACT has science section

[junior imp]

ACT English 🥳🥳🥳

My beloved

[plain stump]

free response???

[junior imp]

And ACT Reading

[hasty void]

what typa SAT u taking that has free response bro 😭

[dreamy lynx]

There is free response on SAT?

[plain stump]

^^

[junior imp]

Mixed feelings about ACT Science

[dreamy lynx]

Oh you mean the math?

[plain stump]

who does the essay loll

[reef grove]

the one where u have to type in the number 😭

[junior imp]

Yeah ACT is all multiple choice

[plain stump]

oh

loll

[plain stump]

really?

[junior imp]

I took the first digital SAT, did not know this was a thing, and absolutely bombed it

[plain stump]

i considered taking ACT cuz of the science

went with the SAT

[reef grove]

on my sat they made me type in a percent

diabolical

[hasty void]

thats numerical response

[plain stump]

somehow fumbled grammar bro

[reef grove]

AND A FRACTION

[junior imp]

It’s not even science lol. It’s just reading graphs

[plain stump]

oh lol

[junior imp]

The graphs are kinda stressful though

[reef grove]

you are free to respond with a numerical value

[junior imp]

Like PLEASE stop shoving 50 lines that look the exact same in my face

At least give me some color, but the test is all black and white

[reef grove]

bro they’re getting rid of the science section

[plain stump]

ah rip

[hasty void]

i think you are forced to respond with a numerical value... something tells me responding with a letter wouldnt be quiet right... lol

[junior imp]

Same as LSAT logic questions

[reef grove]

ikr

[junior imp]

Kinda glad about the LSAT

I’d rather do reading comprehension stuff

[plain stump]

bro why u talking about the LSAT

bro thinking ahead 4 years

[junior imp]

I’ll need to take it in like 2-3 years bro

[reef grove]

lawyers 🤢 (i wanted to be a lawyer up until last year)

[plain stump]

actually i dont blame you

im looking at MCAT stuff

[junior imp]

I want to teach or do federal judicial work but I’ll probably have to be a lawyer to do either of those

I’m thinking about PhD too though because it can help a lot with getting certain positions and I’m interested in it

But another 4-5 years of schools

[reef grove]

i’m just pretending the FSOT doesn’t exist

[junior imp]

Ooh, that’s a cool career though

I looked into it at one point but I’d rather work in a courtroom I think

[reef grove]

bro wants negative income for the next decade 😭

[junior imp]

I have been thinking about teaching abroad though

[junior imp]

Exactly why I’m still unsure lol

[plain stump]

PhDs are paid huh?

[junior imp]

Although PhD might get me like 40 a year

[junior imp]

Depends on the school

[plain stump]

oh really

[junior imp]

But most respectable PhD programs are paid

[plain stump]

that's what i thought

why arent MD programs paid :/

[junior imp]

I would like to do it abroad though

[quasi shadow]

I did a mock for fun once so valid

[junior imp]

They make a lot of money, and it’s more of a training degree

[quasi shadow]

Lowkey

[reef grove]

u can prolly work in an ambulance part time to make money

[quasi shadow]

Even though I plan on doing ECE

Not being a lawyer

[junior imp]

Like PhD is research

[plain stump]

i think its just some crazy gatekeeping

we need more docs

[junior imp]

Fair

[plain stump]

i was in the emergency room and it took forever

and i was just there with a minor infection

[junior imp]

Do they have good financial aid for MD programs?

[plain stump]

there were like ppl dying there w/ me probably

[plain stump]

tbh idk

[junior imp]

I know law school is pretty terrible for it

[plain stump]

i always hear about crazy debt from MD

but the doctor salary pays it off unless u fumble

[junior imp]

Yeah this is true

They make a lot

Although lawyers can make a lot too

Corporate law seems like such a nightmare though

I would love to live in NYC and work for a firm or something when I’m done with school but the hours

[reef grove]

ambulance work is brutal but i hear it pays alright, a lot of med students do it iirc

[plain stump]

govt bureaucracy law worse according to some of my friends

whose parents work in govt

[junior imp]

Yikes

Wait off topic, but you are a Bowie fan? @reef grove

Mb I stalked your Spotify

[reef grove]

esp since some of the best law firms hire almost exclusively from harvard

[plain stump]

David Bowie?

[reef grove]

LMAO

i’ve been told im very weird with my music bc i don’t care abt artists or albums, i just add songs to my playlist that i like

i don’t look at their other songs or anything

[junior imp]

Ah I love albums

I feel like I can get their whole statement that way

[junior imp]

Yes

Greatest music artist oat

[dreamy lynx]

I'm a fan of an active harvard channel

[reef grove]

honestly i couldn’t name you what song on my playlist is by david bowie, i prolly will know the song if you tell me the title tho 💀

[junior imp]

I saw a few on there

[reef grove]

i’m just a yappology major

[junior imp]

Prettiest Star is so good

[dreamy lynx]

ngl I should be locking in

[junior imp]

Well if you ever get around to listening to albums, most of his earlier albums are amazing

[dreamy lynx]

I've spent too much time dallying and dillying

[junior imp]

Same I have a paper on Chinese education to do and some art pieces for APAH

[dreamy lynx]

maybe I need to leave this server again

[reef grove]

oh wait i think my spotify is bugged, if you’re looking at my huge playlist that’s the one i made with my ex years ago 💀💀💀 i have much better taste now

[junior imp]

Bro I spent so long watching Avatar after my swim meet it was sad

[reef grove]

noooo

[junior imp]

No it was like a smaller one

[reef grove]

OH that’s a playlist i made with my classmates 💀 my biggest opp added those songs

[karmic flax]

please keep non-school-related convos out of this megathread so it’s not difficult for people to find info

[reef grove]

sorgy :(

[plain stump]

sorry sir 🫡

[reef grove]

haavahd

[karmic flax]

you’re good!! it’s just so if people ask questions they don’t get drowned out

[junior imp]

Oh dang, good songs though

Shameless plug btw but check out my mega playlist

[reef grove]

have any of y’all been to the campus yet? or done the precollege thingy

i went once early last year and it was quite nice

[junior imp]

I’m only going if I get in lol

I toured some schools this summer but not Harvard

[karmic flax]

i’ve been to the campus!! it’s beautiful but it’s so spread out lol i couldn’t imagine walking to class in the dead of winter

[junior imp]

Mainly because I was not confident enough to

[reef grove]

i think my favorite campus out of the six ive visited is georgetown

[dreamy lynx]

I have

I like it

[reef grove]

😦

how many people fall into the charles river on average every year

[plain stump]

bro yall visited campuses?

[dreamy lynx]

uh hope none

[reef grove]

because my clumsy ass will be sure to double that number

[dreamy lynx]

stay out the water

💀

[obsidian nexus]

i read this thread from bottom to top and i thought you said you fell into the charles river 💀

[reef grove]

@rugged vessel has threatened to push me in

i think i’ll need to hire a bodyguard

[dreamy lynx]

yikes what a rude person I would never

[reef grove]

that’s what someone who regularly pushes people into the charles river would say

[dreamy lynx]

I promise it's recreational

[reef grove]

the pushing people? 😭

i’m sure it is for you

i feel like i’m gonna end up in the river a lot, i wanna join the sailing team

gonna tip my boat over 🔥🔥

[dreamy lynx]

there are a few nice bridges

for sunsets and whatnot

[reef grove]

uh huh right right

[dreamy lynx]

my lock screen I took one day in the fall on a run

wait lemme show

[reef grove]

oooo pretty

[low surge]

you clicked? damn

where is it

[dreamy lynx]

one of the bridges I forget which one

tbh

[low surge]

it looks like a typa river i'd jump in ngl

[dreamy lynx]

it's like partially frozen in some areas rn

[low surge]

river diving in june then

[reef grove]

i wonder if you can fish in it

gonna skip my morning classes to go fishing

[eager sinew]

average southerner

[ripe plinth]

did anyone get interview reqs yet?

[reef grove]

bass and catfish 🤤

the best way to catch a catfish is with slim jims, they love it

very smelly

gonna make fried catfish for my dorm

[eager sinew]

my mom loves making salmon patties and i deadass stayed in my room everytime

they smell so bad

[reef grove]

okay but tbf salmon and catfish smell super different, i can’t describe it tho

[karmic flax]

a lot of bass do live in the charles river iirc

[low surge]

never actually gone fishing

[hybrid yew]

Objectively correct opinions haver right here

[reef grove]

it’s 95% waiting and 5% omg fish!!

[low surge]

probably why i never did😭

i do have a rod cus it looks cool hanging in my room

[hybrid yew]

i was in florida last week and did some canal fishing, took forever for stuff to bite 😭

caught a big snook though on a bass rod and that was fun

[reef grove]

it’s definitely an art

you gotta get the right time and location and bait

[hybrid yew]

I'd never canal fished before so it was kinda weird lol

[reef grove]

i fished in a catfish pond right before feeding time and that was the best day of my life

[hybrid yew]

More used to fishing for pike in new york

[reef grove]

not a minute went by without three bites

[hybrid yew]

that sounds fun as hell especially with catfish

[reef grove]

catfish are the best to fish

they can get big too

and they’re tasty 🤤

[low surge]

i want fish now

[hybrid yew]

i just remember i was in maine once w/ my dad fishing multihooks off a dock directly into a school of smth and you'd drop, reel, and have four fish on the line

[reef grove]

i hate almost all fish, catfish is the exception tho and MAN do i love catfish

[reef grove]

damnnn

[hybrid yew]

I'm from the chesapeake area and our catfish aint the good type where i am

they eat too much garbage

our crabs though 😍

[reef grove]

my southern catfish eat only the finest slop

[hybrid yew]

its like a whole joke about true southerners moving to NoVa and getting excited to catch a chesapeake catfish and eat one until they actually do

crap is poison

further south though theyre rly good

[little flax]

Love HUFPI but did u hear about their embezzlement scandal

[dreamy lynx]

sounds like my type of org

[reef grove]

whaaaat no i did not

do share

[low surge]

Ooh scandal

What happened

[vagrant plover]

. 🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

🕯️ Harvard 🕯️

🕯️                         🕯️
         🕯️      🕯️

[tranquil pike]

. 🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

🕯️ Harvard 🕯️

🕯️                         🕯️
         🕯️      🕯️

[lunar maple]

Does it mean anything hearing from an alumni club vs an individual alum?

[tame cargo]

i have no clue

my interview request was from an alumni club and i got it a few days after 1/1 while my friend who applied REA got his interview email directly from an alumni much later than 11/1

[acoustic imp]

Does Harvard interview most applicants ? Or if Harvard is like Yale - only interview around 15% of applicants?

[tame cargo]

harvard tries to interview as much as possible

[lunar maple]

Did either of you get in

[tame cargo]

i applied RD so nobody knows yet, friend got deferred REA

btw he for sure did it before the interview deadline

[lunar maple]

Cuz I got from a club but have a friend who also applied RD and got from an individual alum

So not sure if either means anything

[tame cargo]

same region?

[lunar maple]

Same school

[tame cargo]

his sister was contected by individual alum and also got deferred -> waitlist

iirc

pretty sure

[tame cargo]

doubt it tbh

[lunar maple]

Yeah it’s just weird

[tame cargo]

might be major related?

cuz i'm applying science he applied humanities

[lunar maple]

Hmm

Could be

[rugged vessel]

cuz u deserve it

[misty flax]

hahvad

[viral thorn]

i went to northwestern

and uchi

discovered northwesterns super nice and uchi is ass

[glad blaze]

they accept score choice
that means you send your highest score from each test
which is basically super scoring
but if you send each test individually, they will chose the highest individual test

so, you can superscore from your common app

[exotic lodge]

just UCs

[ornate sierra]

Did any intl get an interview?

[reef grove]

bro uchi campus is so bad

you’ll have this beautiful gothic architectural masterpiece and then they’ll put the ugliest modern building next to it

their library is also so weird 💀 the retrieval system is super cool, but the design is just. yeah

pretty egg dome + haphazardly stacked boxes in the background

[dreamy lynx]

it looks like you can run up to the top from the outside

[vagrant plover]

It looks like that packing air bubble wrap u can pop

[low surge]

How did I manage to convince the ceo of the company I interned at to write me an lor

I guess we'll never know

It's got branches in a few countries idk how big exactly

[proven minnow]

guys i got deffered rea how do i get in rd 🙏 🙏 🙏

[low surge]

write loci

pretty much all you can do

[rugged vessel]

ur insane

do not disrespect the dome

[vocal ocean]

does anyone know when the interview deadline is lol

[reef grove]

i don’t think there is one, but i would assume early-mid february

[idle berry]

Someone said in the Yale channel smth about the interview reports being due 2/3

Not sure tho

[misty remnant]

oh???

cooked

[vocal ocean]

of feb?

[exotic vector]

Harvard comes out April 1 like all ivys ruhht

Right

[misty remnant]

mar 27

[fiery flame]

HARVARD POOKIE WHERE'S MY INTERVIEW

[misty remnant]

ong

where tf

i checked email 100x today

nothing dawg

where tf is MINE!!

[fiery flame]

maybe there's too many "anna"s

change your name to Annath or smth

[misty remnant]

thats not my real name but ok 💔

[fiery flame]

Annaruth

Annaringa

[misty remnant]

annaruth

ah yes

[fiery flame]

Annarard

Annaton

[junior imp]

I got a reminder to schedule for an interview but I didn’t get a new interview

[fiery flame]

Annasgolinga

[misty remnant]

WHAT!?!??!

u got an interview where tf is mine

[junior imp]

For Princeton

Harvard has been radio silence

[misty remnant]

ohh

no harvard, no yale, no duke, no dartmouth

[junior imp]

Princeton is the only RD school that has given me an interview so far lol

[junior imp]

Yale was so last minute for me

[misty remnant]

ok ya

i used the extension LMAO

[junior imp]

I was so sure I wouldn’t get one and then I got one like last week of November

[misty remnant]

submitted lke 10 pm jan 5th

ohh

please interview 🥺

pls

[junior imp]

That was my least favorite interview

[misty remnant]

i js wanna know i passed round #1 or smt

[junior imp]

And I got rejected so clearly it wasn’t meant to be lol

[misty remnant]

checked my email and my heart dropped

no interview

js extra credit 🙄

where tf is minee

ahh

[winter pivot]

i

[low surge]

Every uni I've applied to has been silent

Other than random webinars

[junior imp]

Same, I keep getting these

Keep an open mind

You never know

[hybrid yew]

exactly

after REA i have no expectations but id also be pleasantly surprised

need UVA to take me EA though so i can feel really chill 😭

[junior imp]

I think Yale crushed my hopes but also opened me up to the idea of being happy at whichever school I get accepted to

[hybrid yew]

Exactly

[junior imp]

Honestly as long I can get out of Ohio, any of my schools would be good for me

I have some I prefer though lol

[hybrid yew]

i never let myself get TOO invested but after getting rejected from yale my vibes are weirdly much better

I got into my top safety with a lot of money + moved on in a scholarship the same day as my yale rejection so it softened the blow and reassured me ill get in where ill get in

like nothing crazy

but saved me from having any imposter syndrome arc

and now im just chilling and waiting

me you and adam should start a club

seriously though dw

like ik someone who got rejected hahvaad rea last year and got into duke and stanford RD

[misty remnant]

me when 0 interview

[hybrid yew]

thats purely availability dw

[potent gust]

i feel this

i know its not even a match but like 🙏 if ivies dont got me, uva got me (?)

[hybrid yew]

im lucky bc im in state there

[potent gust]

yayaya same

[hybrid yew]

oh yea fair we get in much easier then

[potent gust]

a bunch of people from my school got in ed

[junior imp]

Dang this whole chat is Yale rejects huh

It’s okay, we’ve moved on the superior rival

[potent gust]

i rejected yale 💪

[junior imp]

Honestly what’s getting me through it the most is not needing to live in New Haven

[misty remnant]

me when 0 interview

[potent gust]

like honestly thinking about it, would i really want to go to connecticut??

[junior imp]

Exactly… like I could live in New York, New Jersey, or Massachusetts instead

[potent gust]

frfr

[dreamy lynx]

what math are you currently in

you could also do 25

nah it's the same pace different content

yeah

it's like not as much prereq knowledge but still intense

I mean you could but idk too much work

most just take 21/22

22

yeah

well

ma --> 55 are all first year technically

eh not really

people who take 55 are mostly self selecting

also no point in taking 55 after 25

take higher level courses

regular math kids idts tbh in 55

unless you're very passionate and dedicated

usually have some experience above bc for sure

idk some do maybe

idt people really do if they want to prove anything

they just really like math or something

or too advanced for 22 etc

yeah it's a good experience but you get all ranges

there is a guy I know who took cs61/124 freshman year

all depends on your background

61 is hard 50 is too easy there is no good class for like semicracked cs students

you can take 51 but kinda silly unless you want to work at JS

yea

the next step up usually is 61 and that's systems

idk what classes are needed for research but I feel like cs124 and 61 are the like iconic hard cs classes

I think for most people cs50 is the best option

plus math reqs first year

first year you just want to take those gateway courses

so then after that you can do whatever

Eh maybe

Idk

I think having math background is always useful for cs

Cause like something like cs124

It’s just a math class

Yea

[reef grove]

could never be me 💀 im gonna load up on humanities courses

[dreamy lynx]

Analysis idk if it’s that useful

I think it’s more like proofs and being able to think mathwise

Like mathematical maturity

Idk

I think for sure having some proof experience is good

Discrete math for cs kinda mid at Harvard

That’s one reason to take 22+ to get proof experience

Then 110 for probability

And then self study the rest if you’re motivated enough

[eager sinew]

wow ur awake

[dreamy lynx]

How did you make your pfp even more edgy

[eager sinew]

let me enjoy my anime's

[dreamy lynx]

The T making you go through the teenage boy edge lord phase😭

[eager sinew]

i alrdy had this at 14

[dreamy lynx]

I fr thought you’d be like light from death note before I met you

[eager sinew]

i am just like light trusttt

[rugged vessel]

Then i learned he didnt even have comparable aura

[dreamy lynx]

😮‍💨

[eager sinew]

i have such aura

[little flax]

Me!!

[worn helm]

fuck yale

[fiery flame]

HARVARD

HARVARD

PLEASE

PLEASE GIVE ME AN INTERVIEW VERITASSSSSSSS

[low surge]

i'm on the side of whoever accepts me

[fiery flame]

midwest

alr i'll reach out to you at 11:59pm

[rugged vessel]

theres 3450394 of yall in the midwest, it'll take a bit

i took awhile for my harv interview too

legit got my yale one first 😭

[tame cargo]

my region's alumni president said 2/3

[lunar shoal]

That's crazy early

Maybe not idk, at least compared to Princeton

Hopefully I'll get an interview 🙏

[rapid wave]

Like when final interviews happen by?

[vagrant plover]

I ain't getting in but I am here to make connections who will get in

[vagrant plover]

when harvard and stanford has a kid

[vocal ocean]

yep

[floral briar]

3rd of February?

[tame cargo]

yes

[misty remnant]

me when 0 interview

[rapid wave]

My interview is mid February so interviews are at least happening until then

[ocean palm]

based

[tame cargo]

silicon valley

email said

Please let me know your preferred time as soon as possible and I will confirm your interview time. Interview reports are due by February 3rd.

[floral briar]

I think it's for domestic people PROBABLY for your interviewer
I have heard of interviews going on until early March for internationals at least

[misty remnant]

me when 0 interview

[low surge]

Still us

Sigh

im procrastinating css profile

halp

[misty remnant]

ts what i did

cus i applied 1 day late

💀

so i withdrew & finished fin aid

😭

[low surge]

💀💀

this is exactly what i did when submitting applications💀

[floral briar]

It's fine guys
I accidentally repeated an honor in my Harvard app while copy pasting

😭😭😭

Had to mail them

Prolly cooked

[floral briar]

For correction/update

[low surge]

i accidentally ended an activity description with a ;

been overthinking since

[floral briar]

Bruh, that's literally something no one would even notice lol

[vocal arrow]

friend got a harvard interview

[misty remnant]

me when 0 interview

[vocal arrow]

same bro

im scared

[tall haven]

Where do u sumbit loci

[misty remnant]

why is bro submitting locis for both harvard/yale

[floral briar]

FR

Same question

Even Princeton

😂☠️

[tall haven]

I’m curious for like in general

[floral briar]

And Stanford apparently

[tall haven]

Like where

[floral briar]

☠️

[tall haven]

Is email standard

Or like

Thru portal

[floral briar]

Portal and regional officer

[tall haven]

How do u find regional AO

For schools that don’t publish

It publically

[misty remnant]

bro lets wait until u need to send 1 pls 😭

its a bit early

[tall haven]

Does Stanford have a portal

For loci

[misty remnant]

im p sure 1/2 of em aint even touch the apps uyet

[tall haven]

I’m QB

Mine is due Jan 19

[tall haven]

QB

[tall haven]

For regional AO it’s their email right

[floral briar]

Yup

[junior imp]

Lack of interview is starting to stress me out

[eager sinew]

dont interviews for rd go til like end of feb