Harvard University (2024-2025)

[thick crown]

yikes

cooked

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https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/slideshows/things-to-know-about-merit-aid-scholarships

Ivy League universities don't offer merit aid.

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bro not even worth applying

u make too much

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bro what

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My counselors post about scholarship opportunities and they all require financial need

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ohh fr

[thick crown]

why

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no right qb kids ik are insane but not privileged at allll

like

😭

they're not lucky

exactly

for being low income

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thats actually wild

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There’s this guy I know who’s a d1 cheater who got into Stanford through QB

Praying on his downfall

[thick crown]

o

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bro what

ur family dont quality at all right

[thick crown]

my parents bro

fr

they tryna make me apply to random ass scholarships

[misty remnant]

mangogang r u ready for uiuc

[thick crown]

and most of them are needbase

😭

dude

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how much do ur parents make serena......

[thick crown]

they lecture me how much taxes take

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😭

wth

[thick crown]

how much property takes

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WHAT

[thick crown]

how much consuption takes

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NO WAY

bro wtf

[thick crown]

hes lying bro

😭

hes overexaggerations

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what the fuck

[thick crown]

prolly a solid 700k

[misty remnant]

thats stull insane what the fuck

bro what

300k SIA?!?!??!

[thick crown]

why did bro mention clothes for college

like they want 500 dollar scholarships

lMAO

WAIT THATS SO REAL

LMAOOO

MY PARENTS ARE LIKE EVEN IF WE SAVE "100" DOLLARS

LMAOO

100 dollars is nothing in this economy bro

[misty remnant]

no fr u can get like

idk

two shirts

[thick crown]

1.3 million house

mines is like 2 mil

💀

what r ur parents saying bro

LMFAOO

[misty remnant]

bro ur parents can fork up 100k a year

wth

[thick crown]

AVERAGE BROWN SCHOLARSHIP BRO

BRO

my dad heard his family friend son is doing science olimpiad at uc davis

now hes making my 12 year old sister prepare for it

😭

YES BRO

LMAOOOO

no

my fam friend did

hes a junior

now he wants my sis to prepare for it

💀

bros only in 6th grade

i make 2k in 1 second

naw

i didnt go

im a senior bro

idgaf abot compeititons anymore

im js going to hackathons for fun

to hangout w friends

and troll

yeah

last year

we went to los altos hacks

we bullied the hackathon organizers

for fun

i think we tied one up

oh

its just the name of the hackathon

its held

in juniper dome

3.5k a day is kinda less homestly

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damm thats wild bro

[thick crown]

u need to be making solid 10k a day bro

to live comfortable

yeah

cause like ion bro

but these taxes in usa are absurf

dawg

3.5k a day is killing u in this economy

😭

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dawg u better be joking

dawg what

[thick crown]

taxes will rob the fuck out of u

ok

to live comfortable in united states

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YES IT IS

[thick crown]

you need a good income of 500k+

and in cali 700k

yeah

500k

400k

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holy fuck yall too rich

[thick crown]

ull 200k from taxes

😭

[rapid wave]

That is not true

I’m in a hcol part of Cali

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dont hate on me yo

im with u

[thick crown]

wait

hold up

im talking about in context of a family of 4

if your talking to support one person

ull be fine with a 150k salary

1 percent isnt 2 mil a year

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LMFAOO

[thick crown]

ur dad is trolling u bro

how much lies has ur dad tol u

he leaves u for japan

few times

NAH WORD

WORD

BRO

FUCKIGN WORD

WORD

FUCKING WORD

MY PARENTS WERE SAYING

WE NEED TO SELL OUR HOME BRO

TO SUPPORT UR COLLEGE

😭

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bro i think yall dads ssayting that to keep u guys not spoiled and grounded

[thick crown]

LMAOOO

i was going to crashout bro

cause i can not live in a apartment

😭

NAWWW

SELLING UR DOG

ID CRASHOUT

yeah

but its fine

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@young jasper same thing as you as well my dad showed me his stocks 💀

[thick crown]

i told my 12 year old sister to go work at starbucks

so hopefully she can bring some money in

🤞🏿

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RIGHT BRO THATS SO REAL

[thick crown]

reminds me of kamala harris

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bro NO WAY

U NEED TIPS TO ACT AROUYND THEM

BRO

[thick crown]

real bro

ur dad doesnt mention he went to japan

bros up to some bro

[ocean palm]

honstly if i become rich ima raise my kids in the projects to build character. if they're worthy, they can get the generational wealth. i dont wanna raise rich kids.

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valid af

[misty remnant]

BRO WHAT

[thick crown]

hm

imma sugar daddy my kids bro

imma get the top brand shi

fr;

[ocean palm]

more realistically im prolly going to raise them how i was raised

[misty remnant]

not gonna have kids ong

[ocean palm]

so like

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giving them just whats enough and not even enough like literally understanding the value of money

[misty remnant]

so i can have the money

for myself

[ocean palm]

nice suburban house or whatver

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yeah same

[thick crown]

realy

wait yeah

[ocean palm]

i js dont see myself having kids tho

[thick crown]

im gonna raise them in bay area

[ocean palm]

so terrifying

[thick crown]

and moving to the coast in summer vacation

yk

2 homes

type shi

[misty remnant]

bro gonna have bay area cs kids wtf

[thick crown]

yes

im putting them in lessons day 1 bro

fresh outta the womb

ur going to kumon bro

🙏🏿

ur doing swimming by age 3

ur creating your own non profit by age 5

and riasing 1 million by the time ur in highschool

yes

u rite

and isef winner 11 months old

yeah

5.0 gpa

5.0 gpa w and 4.0 uw

[misty remnant]

kids gna get depression wtf

[thick crown]

nah

trust

u balance it out

ill treat them with vacations every 3 months

its an incenvtive

see

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ngl id want my kid to go into sports

[thick crown]

you need to give your kids an incentive to study

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fuck this college shit

def gonna give him a sport he enjoys to do

[thick crown]

and my kids have to go in a stem field

too

so they can carry on my legacy

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LMFAOOO u dont need height for most sports lmfaoo

id want my kid to go into f1 fr

true but we got yuki

ngl i wanna get into car racing when im in college bro

[ocean palm]

how do ppl get into f1

im ngl my attention span might be too short to get into sports

like even as a casual viewer

no as in like watching

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yea ik i def wrote about that

[ocean palm]

/following

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literally MONEY

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like idk i dont have the mental capacity to do it lol

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few rare cases like lewis hamiltion and stuff

LMFAOOO

[ocean palm]

whenever im watching an NBA game i always end up on tiktok halfway thru

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jann somethign

him as well yea through esports

let me save up for a racing sim and imma be locked inm

ik

jann mardenborough

💀

yea hes story is cool af

donating is a solid 10 mil+

depends on how much u donate I thin

not sure though

??

10 MIL?

YEA

THAT U POOR BRO

oh my gosh ur a isef winner bro

ur probably the smartest one here brto

😂

dawg aint no WAY

yes she is

what do you think the average wage was

💀

HOLY FUCK BRO

IK RIGHT

bro how do you think average salary is 300k

same bro ik every inch of money and where it is

and he lets me help him with finances and shows where each money goes monthly

bro u won ISEF stop

ur making it worse

thats bribery

bro

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dawg what

[quasi shadow]

not that deep

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rich ppl wtf

[quasi shadow]

I'm cooked anyways

real

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no fr

[rugged vessel]

some girl at my school got deferred from columbia and her dad knew a guy high up

and the portal legit switched from deferred to accepted

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💀

[misty remnant]

well we all wasted our time because we're all going to die

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thats wild

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one day

so is it really worth it yolo

bro what

😭

rich ppl wth

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fr lmfaoo

[rugged vessel]

dont put that much weight on the college u go to

like i get it being a big deal for various reasons (i have middle class immigrant parents) but its really never that serious

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fr bro

its just college doesnt define youre life

[misty remnant]

no right lets chill

ur gonna be fine

life is more than college

do you have fun hobbies

"okay"

[rugged vessel]

my dad works like 12 hour shifts to put food on our table and i still got into ivies so if you get waitlisted maybe take it as a skill issue and move on

i got my fair share of waitlists

i got a stem likely from washu despite getting a 3 in apchem 😮 + no research or other fancy things yall think u need

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bro i grew up in a 1 bedroom with 6 people 😭 I saw my dad once every year cause he was working somewhere else

but now he grinded fo rus

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no right

[rugged vessel]

my dad's donation to college was him paying like 3k instead of 0 for harvard and being kinda salty abt it 💀

[misty remnant]

some of yall r crazyy privielged help

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what 😭

ok yes i understand

still insane

[rugged vessel]

my parents r weird with money anyway but thats besides the point nmlsjkdgns

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thats really valid, ngl california has some amazing networking oppurtinties u can use

oh shit thats crazy

[thick crown]

i like u dub

U DUB IS FIRE

NAWWWW

U TWEAKING

OK?

bro

berkeley = bmw

idk what u on

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wym?

[thick crown]

if i go to uc berkeley my parents getting me a bmw bruh

so its a w school for me

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LMFAOOO

AW HELL NAW

[thick crown]

well good thimg im not c

cs

[floral briar]

Do you guys ever sleep ☠️

[misty remnant]

ong

[thick crown]

well yeah

but

like

im not staying home hto

yk

imma be out in dorms

or out w friends

[thick crown]

pookie its 8pm here

no one sleeping at 8pm

[floral briar]

But Seren was up since like forever?
☠️

[thick crown]

o

yeah

ion abot her bruh

she dont sleep apperently

[obsidian nexus]

LMAO

[orchid fog]

doesnt harvard interview students of interest? thats what i read on their website. like yale

[tame cargo]

no

[karmic flax]

wdym by students of interest

also the info you get from their website is likely much more reliable than what other hs seniors in this server will tell you

[charred shard]

facts

[tight steeple]

does harvard prescreen canadians? ive seen so much mixed info on this

[knotty orchid]

from what I gather, domestic students no, international yes

[molten glen]

for interviews?

[tight steeple]

yes

[tight steeple]

ahh ok bc i kept seeing ppl saying it’s availability based for domestic + can + UK 😭😭

[knotty orchid]

I think Uk and Canada actually might have a higher chance of getting one

I read it somewhere on a Harvard alum blog or something

But it’s still pre-screened

as some people here in England who I know are yet to get an interview while some already have had one

[molten glen]

🤔

[knotty orchid]

that’s what I said

for UK and Canada

pre screen

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me asf

where tf

is my INTERVIEW

[misty remnant]

me w my 6 remaining schools sad

harvard

duke

dartmouth

tufts??!?

idk

[reef grove]

someone needs to pin this smh

how many "does harvard prescreen" questions does this thread get every day 😭

[knotty orchid]

because friends and other people are getting interviews while others don’t, people begin to worry

[molten glen]

They do indeed pre-screen to an extent 🙂

[reef grove]

this too

[knotty orchid]

UK and Canada 🙆‍♀️

and yale…

[molten glen]

Are you arguing that they are solely based on availability?

[reef grove]

yeah which the screenshot says, idk why ppl come to the a2c discord channel instead of like looking at what the official harvard application website says

[molten glen]

Oh ok cool lol

[knotty orchid]

they don’t explicitly say they prescreen for intls, even though they do

[molten glen]

Yeah, Yale & Harvard do place a good emphasis on their interviews. Not to say that you don't have a chance if you don't get them

[reef grove]

no, im saying that ppl should look at the official website lol

[molten glen]

I never got to see my Yale admissions file obviously, but someone in the Yale thread did and theirs were similar to mine at Harvard. Without the interview, I'm not sure if I would've gotten in either places

[knotty orchid]

sounds abt right

although someone said something like 50% of ppl who got interviewed got in or got waitlisted

[reef grove]

idk man for every good bit of info on this thread (or other thread) ive seen a lot of misinfo as well

[molten glen]

My Harvard one literally said "The interview makes the biggest case for this applicant" and my interview got the coveted 1 score

idk lol

[knotty orchid]

must have been a crazy interview

[molten glen]

I've spoken to my interviewer, both my AOs, and seen my admission file 😮

Though things change

Most ppl I've seen Interview was very impactful to their application, but you coudl just be cracked without it and get in

My interviewer wrote down PARAGRAPHS

That's not normal though

[reef grove]

yeah i mean im sure you know a lot more than most, its just that anyone could say whatever they want here and potentially spread misinfo. like esp with interviews

[molten glen]

Someone else in here has probs seen theirs you can ask what theirs wrote

[knotty orchid]

holy, I had one for Dartmouth and the girl said she could only write 3 sentences 😭

[molten glen]

Dartmouth interviewers suck

[knotty orchid]

I mean it was a student

so can’t be too mean

to them

[molten glen]

So was mine they never even showed up at the time they were supposed to bruh

Then they ghosted me for 3 days

[knotty orchid]

yeah sounds abt right

[reef grove]

my harvard interviewer hated me

[molten glen]

nah i was waitlisted because when i finally got my interviewer i told them I wasn't really interested in dartmouth

whoops

[knotty orchid]

well…

[molten glen]

I promptly rejected my Darty waitlist on ivy day

[knotty orchid]

type shi

[reef grove]

he told me to quit resume padding 💀

[molten glen]

lol

[knotty orchid]

lmaooo

[reef grove]

like mb you asked me to talk abt my passion

[molten glen]

nah gotta be straight up

Mine was the former Attorney General of my state so it was pretty cool

yah

[reef grove]

i choked on my apple cider for 5 minutes while he looked disappointed at me

[reef grove]

mine was one of the guys in charge of the nukes 💀

[molten glen]

I'm still in contact with my interviewer, we get in contact about three times every semester

[knotty orchid]

so cool

[reef grove]

against his best efforts, im sure

[molten glen]

Of course I've only been here one semester

[knotty orchid]

this is too stressful waiting basically 2 more months for decisions bruh

[reef grove]

dude me and my gtown interviewer were so close

[knotty orchid]

the only bad one was the roommate one

[reef grove]

he asked me to invite him to the alumni potluck if i got in

[molten glen]

why did you apply to gtown

[knotty orchid]

REAL

except I spoke abt nfl and college football

[reef grove]

best foreign policy program in the world

[molten glen]

interesting

[knotty orchid]

I wrote my Harvard one first as the deadline was earlier ☠️

[reef grove]

i just did the interview early tho and submitted rd before i got harvard decisions back

they did my interview super early

[molten glen]

Georgetown University?

[reef grove]

yeah

[knotty orchid]

Georgetown is good

[molten glen]

did you already commit to harvard

[reef grove]

yeah

[molten glen]

nice

i was about to say

if you are thinking about goign to gtown over harvard

[knotty orchid]

I only applied ND bc their football team is good

[reef grove]

harvard doesnt have my major

[knotty orchid]

which is

[reef grove]

foreign policy/international relations

they have government, and fp is a subset of that

[knotty orchid]

their Kennedy policy school is pretty stacked

name of the major doesn’t rlly matter

[reef grove]

yeah i suppose, i have to take courses in all of the other subsets tho

HUFPI is sick tho

[knotty orchid]

yeah but it’s not that bad, and besides you’d still have the same internship and other opportunities

[molten glen]

doest it matter i could go to IOP at HKS and meet the prime minister of anywhere on earth on a Tuesday afternoon lmao

[knotty orchid]

you could have chosen any prime minister 😭

[molten glen]

whoops

[reef grove]

maybe not the same bc its not DC, but yeah i get what you mean

same caliber fs

[knotty orchid]

yeah exactly

[reef grove]

LMAO THE EDIT

[molten glen]

you will get much more opportunities being at harvard than being at gtown even if it is the number one foreign whatever

[knotty orchid]

I wanna do history so it’s the same stuff either way 😭

[molten glen]

me 2

wtf

[knotty orchid]

sorry for your loss

[molten glen]

what is wrong with '29s bro

[reef grove]

cant go wrong with either

[molten glen]

wrong

you could go to yale

[reef grove]

mb bro 😭

[molten glen]

there is a compsci bio track i think

[reef grove]

bro deadass i was reading that as competitive biology

i need sleep

yeah 😭

[molten glen]

there is computational bio here but it's the same thing as computation neuro it's not a separate concentration just a track within neuroscience

[knotty orchid]

what is that

[molten glen]

yah

[knotty orchid]

poetry major? ☠️

[molten glen]

r u sure there wasn't compbio

[reef grove]

ye i wrote aby specifically doing international relations inside the gov concentration

[molten glen]

i swear like yesterday during my gened there was some mf who said thye were concentrating in compbio

[knotty orchid]

I mean I did history when I kinda wanna do Econ (but I have more history research than Econ)

[molten glen]

fun fact my summer roommate is doing exactly what ur doing and he met the prime minister of afghanistan within like 3 weeks of being here

lol

got an internship too lucky mf

[reef grove]

whaaaaaaat

thats crazy

[molten glen]

of course i also have an amazon internship

i also met the amazon CEO here

lol

[reef grove]

i know a guy who said he had like lunch with him lol

[knotty orchid]

Jeff…?

[molten glen]

no

the current ceo

[reef grove]

at harvard i mean

[molten glen]

I met Jeff Bezos son at Bulldog Days tho he goes to yale

^

I met his roommate at the Harvard Club of Boston, who then put me into contact with him

[reef grove]

are there any celebrity kids in '29 that are gonna be going to harvard yet

[knotty orchid]

fuck me bro Harvard is so much more insane compared to Oxford 😭

[reef grove]

real

[molten glen]

I also got connected on LinkedIn with a person in the Tech Startup field which was cool

[knotty orchid]

nah ain’t no celebrities coming to Oxford

[reef grove]

it seems like everyone cool was '28

[knotty orchid]

USA is 10x more serious than Uk bro 🤣

[molten glen]

Oh yeah celebrities, I met Young Sheldon, the lady from Sweet Home Alabama whatever the actor name is, Nancy Pelosi, Pete Buttigieg, Paul Ryan, Elizabeth Warren

idk he was normal

he was eating in our dining hall

[knotty orchid]

yeah that casually Nancy pelosi

[reef grove]

YOUNG SHELDON??

[molten glen]

met a famous neurosurgeon, got a book signed by him. met a famous professor, got a boo signed by him

saw Bill Clinton

at IOP thing

yah tuff stuff up here

i wanted to secondary in polisci

but i don't like writing essays

so

my whole app was built around CS & PoliSci

[knotty orchid]

what sort of ECs did u do besides research

[molten glen]

oh yeah my interviewer put me into touch with a lawyer who represented Microsoft in 2001 and does a bunch of cool shit

and with one of Joe Bidens chief advisors for his 2020 campaign

Took a class with the expert in AI in English Education. She has talks with Sam Altman, Elon Musk, few of the others

Pretty cool

but its all hard af so

tradeoeffs

lol

[molten glen]

i didnt do any research

?

lol

no research no olympiads (infact didn't even know olympiads were a thing until I joined A2C like September of last year)

idk

math is hard

might just take my linear algebra with proofs and call my math career done

my og plan was to quant sellotu tho

my compensation pakcage at amazon is crazy good, but jane street comp packages are even better

just up to AP Calc BC

no

i went to math1b and it was nothing like BC

i had literally already taken calc 2 and calc 2 here was way different

stuff i did at the end of BC was at the beginning of 1b

confusing af

if ur good at math tho

thats how i was, i didn't have to try in BC at all and I made like a 98

but then I got here and you can't do that

idk ull see you have to take a placement exam lo

l

when did you get accepted into rea dec 17 or something

bruh

what u talking about then

don't trust

i did that with MIT and got burned

i got deferred -> rejected 😦

but then i got into everywhere else

so ig

lol

im sure itll work out

you dodged a bullet

no one wants to be a bulldog

GAS food tho

i didn't look into any college other than mit i applied to the rest just incase

you don't have to be sold unless u get in

yah

i applied to like 13 colleges

UVA was my safety

then the rest were the T12

i could

ive been there a few times

its p chill

whole different vibe than harvard

in a perfect world i'd want a mix of harvard and mit, i like mits campus atmosphere but i like harvards academic atmosphere i think

imo I think I benefit more from a liberal arts education, being able to do GENEDS & Div Requirements that aren't Chemistry, Physics, whatever

lol

i applied to cornells engineering school for CS

and columbias engineering school for CS

i didn't evne know you could apply for cornell CAS for CS

I mean I woul'dve went to MIT over Harvard, I'd rather do only CS classes I just don't wanna do the general requirements of chemistry & physics at the engineering schools, but I would've done it

rankings rank Cornell CS in Engineering school as #5 in the world but it's just for academia/research in cs i think

way better to go to harvard cs for going into employment market

cornell is in the middle of no where new york

i did

Ithaca was nice tho it was just nature

gas food at cornell too

they wanted me bad i miss the VIP treatment 😦

wdym

I got a likely from Columbia

oh idk they just wanted me bad they put me in a scholars program and everything

so did columbia

yale and harvard also put me into scholars program but not quite hte same thing

?

idk lol

no

i am sure in comparison to any big magnet school i was nothing

ah

yah

i was fully convinced i was goign to go to columbia whne i got my likely letter and I was going to get rejected everywhere else

no

but im just saying

well i was convinced when I got deferred -> rejected by MIT I wasn't going to go anywhere but UVA

[reef grove]

uva safety is crazy

[molten glen]

?

no

I was a Jeff Scholar

Jeff Scholar is like 1%

lol

UVA is still hard to get into as an instate, but easier

anyways i knew I was going to get in there

its t20

so otehr than that I applied to all ivies except UPenn & Brown, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Rice, UMich CS

[reef grove]

it’s a hard school to get into haha

[molten glen]

nah trust i had that on lockdown

[reef grove]

oh wait in state mb

[molten glen]

in state is still hard to get into

don't make me pull up admissions tatistics

[reef grove]

oh yeah ofc ofc

[molten glen]

i also applied to their engineering school

you'll get into duke

idk i have a feeling

i liked duke it was the first app i opened on Ivy day

purdue cs not bad

you know what is bad?

yale cs

[reef grove]

idk if i was like overly cautious but like my safeties were dickinson and syracuse lol

[molten glen]

yale cs throwing hella money at CS rn tho

[knotty orchid]

oh damn

mb

I thought research is usually a given for any kid tryna go to Harvard

at least most cases

[little flax]

Didn’t do any research and I’m going into stats/applied math

It’s a super popular major I get it

Omg I just got stopped to do one

If u see someone who talks about primal scream that’s me

Most ppl do it to be different than just Econ (maybe to go into quant idek)

P much

Yup!

Its pretty prominent but there’s a good amount who don’t

But idk anyone who doesn’t want to go into finance medicine academia or law

[molten glen]

hello

mf

[little flax]

Oops!

[molten glen]

I literally know ur ass

[little flax]

I don’t even think about them

[molten glen]

[little flax]

I am so anti-cs sorry

[molten glen]

bro literally took a cs class last semester

[little flax]

One and done 🙏

[molten glen]

you didn’t like it

?

[little flax]

Wait r u taking cs51 or 61

[molten glen]

61

Next fall

[knotty orchid]

the idea for most internationals (and what they tell us) is to take 4-5 A levels, run like 3 clubs, get tons of volunteering hours, do research, and enter every competition and Olympiad u can

[molten glen]

Don’t take 51

[little flax]

Hmm I might have to do one

[little flax]

Is it harder?

[reef grove]

i didnt do research

[molten glen]

Yes

It’s harder and the instructor isn’t great

[knotty orchid]

yeah now I’m learning it was a waste of time

although I did enjoy it

I didn’t even know I was applying before I did research!

bc I did too much

and coulda spent that time doing something else

like

socializing

[reef grove]

that’s not true 😭

i mean isn’t the point of doing research to like advance academia and shit 💀

[little flax]

Ugh but my soph fall would have 4 pset classes

[reef grove]

that seems hella cool to me

[knotty orchid]

ye ye I did it to talk abt new history in Kenya that was being researched

but

like

[reef grove]

okay yeah but like you still wanna like contribute to posterity no?

figure out new stuff

[knotty orchid]

it’s long considering only schools in the USA care abt it

[reef grove]

ooooh that sounds interesting

[knotty orchid]

See quants are cool but doing math all day sounds LONG

[dreamy lynx]

canon

[knotty orchid]

yeah it was v fun, mentioned it on my app as much as I could

[reef grove]

do it for expanding humanity’s horizons man

[dreamy lynx]

can't wait for hsxd street interview

[reef grove]

not for the clams

i wish i could’ve done research earlier on

i didn’t even know it was an option for my major until a bit ago

and doing research on foreign affairs as a non-citizen is quite uhhhh

not very looked well on

“okay so you wanna spy on us”

man 😭

isn’t that like one of the hardest journals to get published in tho for cs

ah i see

gotcha gotcha

lmaooo

idk maybe it was that you were a high schooler or they didn’t like the content or smth, your research might not be terrible lol

just not what they’re looking for ig

[molten glen]

u will die with cs51 ong

[reef grove]

guys i’m gonna go math 55 first year is that a good idea

i have done algebra 2

i’m joking 💀

[dreamy lynx]

do it

for the aura

[reef grove]

imagine how much money i could take from high schoolers by saying i did math 55

“i’ll help you get into harvard trust”

tbf half the ppl that get in early are legacies or athletes

well among white ppl i believe

[dreamy lynx]

that's because

[reef grove]

hey man i could be a legacy too you never know

or a pro sailer

[dreamy lynx]

you have a 75% chance of being a legacy or athlete

cause you have 50% chance of being either

cause you are either one or not

[reef grove]

aren’t you the stats major 💀

[dreamy lynx]

stats isn't real anyways just make up numbers it might be correct

[reef grove]

but nah i’m not legacy, though having celebrity parents would be cool

i’m just a big fish in a small pond i’m p sure

i live in like the true midwest (so not chicago) so competition isn’t super bad

yup

it’s very peaceful

[dreamy lynx]

like the first half an hour of interstellar

[reef grove]

i hate space 😭

[little flax]

Mid ahh movie

[dreamy lynx]

I liked it I forget most of what happened tho icl

[reef grove]

do y’all have any cool people in your grade

anyone in class of 28

[little flax]

A lot of random children of celebrities

[dreamy lynx]

conan obrein

brien

[reef grove]

how fun

young sheldon

[little flax]

Hopefully your class

He visited this fall I think

[reef grove]

real

barron trump should transfer

💀

HE DID??

[viral thorn]

idk preference

neither is bad

[reef grove]

that’s where his mom lives i’m p sure

he wanted to stay close to her

[dreamy lynx]

they also have a tower in nyc

so

maybe he wants to be close to the tower

idk

💀

[reef grove]

his signal will run out if he gets too far away from it 💀

neuralink chip

lmaooo nice

dude from what i’ve been hearing the non-harvard ppl on campus are annoying

with the interviews and requests to record inside the buildings and allat

[dreamy lynx]

eh tourists are part of campus but they usually don't bother people

[reef grove]

wait do you live on campus?

[reef grove]

that’s good haha

yeah i heard it was pretty safe

harvard police and all

ah icic

i like the little blue lights they have

that most colleges have

that you can press and a police officer will be there in like a minute

yeah, you can also use it for like an escort back to your dorm

if you feel unsafe

that’s what my tour guide said

which i think is pretty considerate of them

[reef grove]

i went on a standard one but they have like an admitted students day

it’s called visitas

[molten glen]

visitas is not good

i mean its fine

bulldog days is 100% better than visitas

[reef grove]

aw im looking forward to it :(

[molten glen]

harvard doesn't care bc it's harvard

nono don't get mew rong if you've never been to like boston or harvard or any big place like that b4 it was euphoric

it was the first time i had ever flown or been out of state

but like in COMPARISON to Bulldog Days, lackluster

[reef grove]

i wanna see my classmates and get to like sit in a harvard classroom

[molten glen]

Bulldog Days is so structured so much stuff to do

yah you do

[reef grove]

maybe i’m just silly

[misty remnant]

do any other schools have that

[molten glen]

wdym

[misty remnant]

like bulldog days

[molten glen]

yah

[misty remnant]

/ visitas.

bro i need to visit more schools

travel more

[molten glen]

Visitas, Bulldog Days, Columbia Days on the Lawn or some shit, UVA also Days on Lawn

they're admitted students day

If you get in and cannot afford, they pay for it 100% too. I didn't have to pay a penny for travel

[misty remnant]

OKAYY yes

[reef grove]

idk i feel like it hasn’t rlly sunk in for me yet that i’m gonna be going to harvard so i’m looking forward to the day that like i’m going to be meeting up with everyone else that got in and like, there will be a space for me in the classrooms yk

but maybe that’s corny

[misty remnant]

nice

please i need to travell

[molten glen]

I never stepped foot on a single college campus other than UVA until I got in

[reef grove]

i visited harvard yale and uchicago

harvard had the best campus but yale had a better food scene imo

from what i saw at least

yale had a kickass crepe shop

uchicago was ugly af 💀

[molten glen]

yale dining best food but boston food > new haven

[misty remnant]

yale sucks because my interviewer was ass

[reef grove]

they also don’t have ac in their dorms

(neither does harvard but that’s not the point)

[misty remnant]

harvard & yale both suck soo

georgetown has ac no

[reef grove]

okay but like does dining hall food matter if you have like the entirety of boston to eat in

or cambridge lol

[reef grove]

i’m sure some of the dorms do at the very least

gtown has like the second worst rated dorms in the country tho

and i can personally attest to that bc i lived on campus for 3 weeks

i literally had to dodge roaches and mice on the wall back to my dorm

open toed shoes would’ve been a death sentence for the faint of heart

[misty remnant]

thats ok

dont harvard dorms suck

[misty remnant]

oh

wtf

😭

bro are there rats in the room

[molten glen]

Can u afford Boston food everyday

[reef grove]

true true

maybe if i get a job or paid internship i could go like a couple times a month

[reef grove]

everything broke constantly and the doors were so unnecessarily hard to get into 😭 i didn’t see any rats in my dorm but i wouldn’t have been surprised if there were

[tight steeple]

i have a question for harvard students

do u guys see those like youtubers

[reef grove]

the ac gave out in one of the lecture halls in the middle of july so we were SWELTERING

[tight steeple]

that go up asking students questions 💀

in real life

[reef grove]

what questions do they ask? i’ve never heard of this before haha

[tight steeple]

it’s like those tiktokers 😭

they’re like

[reef grove]

don’t have tiktok </3

instagram reels >>

[tight steeple]

“so you got into harvard… you must be pretty smart. what was your high school GPA?”

they’re always at harvard and stanford 😭

[reef grove]

oh so basically just a2c irl

[tight steeple]

yea 💀💀

[reef grove]

bro if someone asks me that i’m gonna say 1.3

gpa diversity is important

[tight steeple]

https://youtu.be/G2rpz1FZN9c?si=5BxqUHtIWdTameXr

😭😭😭

this must be so awkward irl

some random guy coming up to u with a camera

[reef grove]

😭

[misty remnant]

oh

um

guess i can deal w rej a little easier

bro the georgetown acc letter i didnt know that apparently it doesnt say congrats

u have to read it actually

😭

[reef grove]

their portal is so bad

[misty remnant]

no fr

[reef grove]

it’s so outdated and for what

[misty remnant]

had an aneurysm

anything for my hoyas ig

[reef grove]

i would just lie through my teeth

“yeah so i cured a form of cancer, have 4 patents pending, and that building over there? yeah, i built that. no sweat”

much more interesting than my actual backstory lol

[tight steeple]

LOL

so real

[reef grove]

i’m kinda just a run of the mill good student tbh

nothing super earth shattering abt me LMAO

i’m boutta be harvard class valedictorian tho 🙏

[solemn panther]

i just want the free merch

😂

[molten glen]

@eager sinew you were the questbridge finalist who didn't do the match right

harvard really said f u

[eager sinew]

yes lol

[molten glen]

do you think you would've gotten in qb match

like would there be any differences

[eager sinew]

hell no

my qb essays were terrible

i prolly wouldve rea'd anyway cus the only place i wanted to be bound was harvard, i wouldnt wanna risk ED anywhere else and not know abt RD

[molten glen]

u could've just only ranked harvard and MIT

mit doesn't bound u so ud be nice

[tall haven]

Wait omg fr I didn’t match anywhere either

That’s crazy I thought my app wasn’t strong enough cuz I only ranked like ivys

[floral briar]

Update: no interviews yet

[solemn panther]

Help same

I’m forever salty abt that

But at the same time what was I thinking applying with only 260 volunteer hours 😭

Isn’t shadowing a waste of time

[thick crown]

congrats

you want a cookie?

[tame cargo]

how tf

huhhhhh

[rapid wave]

Some people are just liars

[thick crown]

whats a t1000

bro

what is this walmart versiion of gagan singh

😭

no

[obsidian nexus]

daily reminder directed at nobody in particular that if the school doesnt explicitly say it, its not true (even if reddit says so)

[solemn panther]

I’m convinced coke used ai

It’s actually so pathetic💀

[floral briar]

Wot

[solemn panther]

Let’s be honest, there’s no way 225,000 applications were filtered thru in 1 week

[tall haven]

Yea I asked they used an ai algorithm

[solemn panther]

HELP

[tall haven]

Hours

[solemn panther]

They’re not even hiding it

ATP what’s stopping someone from lying abt their hours to get the semifinalist distinction

[tall haven]

A lot of people did

That’s why coke isn’t that good

Coke doesn’t usually correlate with t10

While things like isef grand and rsi do

Since they do a thorough evaluation

[solemn panther]

Well at least I lost with honor 🫡

[tall haven]

Bruh the things people do to get to college

[solemn panther]

I think the actual coke scholars do but def not semi finalists

[tall haven]

Oh yea since there’s interview

And actual app

[solemn panther]

Reading the coke scholars bios

How to ruin ur self esteem in minutes

[knotty orchid]

are you saying they are cracked

[solemn panther]

I would certainly think so

[solemn panther]

Smh

Lack of morals and class indeed

[charred shard]

nah dwai

they prob exaggerate like everyone else

nobody realistically can give it their all to a dozen projects, president of 5 clubs, and research on the side

[solemn panther]

Lack of morals and class indeed

SHAME ON COKE

Pepsi tastes better anyways

[knotty orchid]

surely then they can tell it’s exaggerated

presidents of clubs and research seems reasonable

but all the extra stuff is pretty ott

[charred shard]

it does

[solemn panther]

Isn’t one more sweet

[charred shard]

they both have like 40 g of sugar so idk

[vagrant plover]

💀 have diet or zero versions

[charred shard]

yea ik

I dont drink soda anyway

[vagrant plover]

🦅 american and no soda

[charred shard]

☕ coffee better

[vagrant plover]

☕ + 🍵

[reef grove]

tea clears both soda and coffee

no contest

[bleak otter]

yesss

[reef grove]

a good darjeeling or oolong is loads better than any coffee

[zealous rune]

Still no interview

[knotty orchid]

English breakfast>

[reef grove]

english breakfast is very solid

with milk, vanilla extract, and condensed milk most black teas are even better

[knotty orchid]

it’s the best way to start the day

no need for sugar either, tastes great already

[misty remnant]

naurrr no interview

:(

sad sad

[ocean palm]

its funny because like for 5 of them im like "oh shit i used to go to middle school with this kid"

[tame cargo]

wait this is so real 💀

i feel u

[bleak otter]

harvard harvard harvard.

thank you for ruining my day

😅😹

[solemn panther]

That’s crazy

[misty remnant]

what happen

[orchid fog]

am i cooked no harvard interview

[misty remnant]

me too steven wtf

im gonna kms

[spring finch]

are interview requests still coming out? or did harvard stop sending them

[junior imp]

Same

I’m feeling like an auto reject lol

[potent gust]

please harvard pleaseeeee i want an interview

[misty remnant]

NOOO IBTERVIEW

[orchid fog]

got yale but no harvard 😭

i dont even like yale

[junior imp]

I got Yale for EA

But they screen so if you got one for Yale don’t worry about your app

You’re not an auto-reject at least in that case

[misty remnant]

ong yale fucking sucks

can suck my deez nuts

[reef grove]

yes they’re still coming out

until like the end of february

at least

[ocean palm]

W

do you know if harvard reads based on residency even if ur classed as international on visa status

im pretty sure they do

but idk if they say it specifically like cornell do

they jut say they dont consider it at all

[reef grove]

i’m not sure i understand the question

like they assign interviewers based on region if that’s what you’re asking?

[ocean palm]

people are saying they prescreen intls or whatever

but in general

[reef grove]

ohhh

[ocean palm]

like my visa status is international

[reef grove]

there’s nothing on the official website that says that from what i’ve seen

[ocean palm]

but i live in texas

ahh

ok

[reef grove]

it could be true

[ocean palm]

they just say they "dont consider citizenship status"

[reef grove]

but it has not been proven (from what i’ve seen)

[ocean palm]

so im pretty sure they just go off where you're at

[reef grove]

well i mean i’m a permanent resident

[ocean palm]

i see

permanent resident counts as domestic everywhere tho ig

[reef grove]

yeah

[ocean palm]

yeah my status is "permanent residency pending"

[reef grove]

ahhh i see, yeah i can see why that’d be confusing

[ocean palm]

yep lol

at least harvard is need blind for me!!

[reef grove]

i think the intl pre screen (if it exists) would be mostly for an availability/travel cost thing yk

[ocean palm]

unlike stanford 😠

[reef grove]

so if you’re in texas there’s plenty. of alumni

[ocean palm]

yeah there's plenty of harvard applicants where im from (dallas)

and alums

[reef grove]

right right

[ocean palm]

i know like 10 people who went to harvard irl so theres gotta be plenty

[reef grove]

yeah but the annoying thing is that if a harvard alum knows you they often refuse to interview you for ethical reasons ;-;

that’s what happened to one of my classmates whose dad went to harvard