Harvard University (2024-2025)

[young jasper]

some stat out there

says like

avg admission reader spends 6 minutes on an app

or 8 min

or wtv

[molten glen]

for harvard specifically

?

[tall haven]

Wait committee has already started right

[young jasper]

assume so

[tall haven]

Cuz first readers had to be done right by now

[young jasper]

its been over a month

[tall haven]

For like the prescreen interviews

[molten glen]

ig ur right

[tall haven]

So it either second readers

Or committee

[molten glen]

brah what's the point in hypothesizing these things

you'll never know

[young jasper]

yea

[tall haven]

So I know when I can stop sending updates

Or like when they won’t look anymore

[young jasper]

js keep sending them

why not

[molten glen]

don't stop sending updates if they are meaningful

[young jasper]

who cares bro js keep sending them

[molten glen]

they're going to rej u regardless if u send them or not, but they may decide to accept you if you send a meaningful update

[tall haven]

Phhh freer bro I thought it was Feb 3 cuz some person here said that so I submitted all my loci before Feb 3

[molten glen]

does harvard even do locis

did u get deferred REA?

[tall haven]

Not Harvard but if Harvard did it I assumed other schools did too

[young jasper]

i hate deferrals bro

liike

michigan

i wrote a 500 word why mich essay

[tall haven]

I’m QB so defer Stanford Yale mit Princeton

[young jasper]

then i have to write 250 more words

[molten glen]

wdym

[young jasper]

were u the kid on chanceme

who potsed about

5/5

hypsm

deferrals

[tall haven]

Nope

U can’t apply to Harvard

Early

[molten glen]

oh u got QB but didn't match but got deferred to RD

[tall haven]

Yea

[molten glen]

i c

[young jasper]

thats rough

[tall haven]

I ranked those four lmao

[molten glen]

yeah lowk rough

dang that is rough

[tall haven]

Yea kinda sucks tbh

[molten glen]

actually shit is different for u bc u had QB supps n stuff didn't u

[tall haven]

Cuz now chance of accept from early is so much harder

[molten glen]

wdym

[tall haven]

Bro that’s so outdated

From like September r

Lmao

[molten glen]

yeah

thats what i was thinking

i should've done qb lowkey i didn't know it was a thing lol

[tall haven]

Sm did a sheets thing where like mit accept from defer is sub 1%

But regular action is 3%

[molten glen]

trust i know

it's like > 1%

[tall haven]

Yea which sucks

Cuz they literally saw smth where I barely began senior year

[molten glen]

i got deferred from MIT

[tall haven]

It’s ok Harvard better anyways

But I’m Eng so I’m kinda cooked

Cuz all the early ones I wasn’t allowed to apply

Purdue uiuc GT etc

[molten glen]

just stop thinking about it all together

forget about colleg

e

[balmy thorn]

How dyk lol

Do u have premium

Bc mine just says x number people viewed ur profile

[tame cargo]

liknnedin is craasy

[tall haven]

Bro mine is blank cuz there’s some people from my school that used to stalk my ecs and it was weird asf so I deleted

Omg do I ineeed to re create LinkedIn

[balmy thorn]

Bruh you have 7 research papers and $1 mil in funding iirc, fym with this “I’m cooked” stuff

[balmy thorn]

It’s like 2.5

RD accept is like .1 or .2 higher

[tame cargo]

☠️

[molten glen]

definitely not

[balmy thorn]

They publish the stats

206/8051 = 0.0256 = 2.56%

RD not including deferred kids is 2.60%

Including deferred is 2.58%

You’re an auto admit if anything lmao

You prolly won’t I’m ngl

You’re prolly one of the most cracked applicants but likelies are mostly used for hooked applicants

Like urm or fgli

[young jasper]

nah a bunch of yale yes scholars were sent to rich asian men

lmao

[balmy thorn]

And I’m pretty sure you’re not that right

[balmy thorn]

Oh fr?

[young jasper]

yes

ik someone who knows

4

yale likelies

[balmy thorn]

Oh alr

I stand corrected!

[young jasper]

she said they were all rich asian men

from competitive schools

lolo

would u rather be a bum

[tame cargo]

:wesh:

[young jasper]

with an interview

or be u rn

💀

no u wouldnt bro

its an hour long phone call

its not that deep

u got into berkeely

just go to berkeley

go to berkeley

and graduate

it's not that deep

[tame cargo]

gets berkeley
still complains

[young jasper]

she got regents

lmao

[tame cargo]

yea i heard

what kinda excuse is that

[young jasper]

ts pmo

[tame cargo]

you're from california right

[young jasper]

im a bum js cuz harvard interviwes me doesnt mean theyre gona let me in

💀

it doesnt mean anything

its an hour long zoom call

u got berkeley regents

[tame cargo]

don't we all?

[young jasper]

who cares

[tame cargo]

don't worry a lot of people do

[young jasper]

nah ucla and umich r fire

why do u keep yapping about transfer

js go to the mf school

no u dont

literally says who

[tame cargo]

.-.

[young jasper]

lol

[tame cargo]

i mean i don't want to go to a uc either tbh but i wouldn't complain about going to berkeley

(i did not get regents 😭 )

[young jasper]

nah i talk shit about berkeley and cornell a lot

but like

id at least

tour the school

to see if my hatred was justified

if i got in

eh

id do my due diligence

[tame cargo]

._. 😭

[young jasper]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_gorge_suicides

[tame cargo]

it's always easy to talk shit about your local uc even though it isn't that bad

davis right?

[tall haven]

This is true it’s mostly for hooks

[tame cargo]

i remember you saying smth about that

anyways that's not the point

[young jasper]

davis is in the cornfields

[tame cargo]

the only uc i didnt apply to was davis

[young jasper]

lolo

i didnt do UCM and UCR

[tame cargo]

i applied to 6 and then riverside+merced for the count me in

[young jasper]

i was not allowed to apply to ucm and ucr

like

2 ppl told me they didnt want me applying

2 was bc they were shit schools not worth 300k

[tame cargo]

@ornate garden it's easy to hate something after you get it. just enjoy regents for the next 6 weeks or so

[young jasper]

lololoolololollolool

im cooked

stanford does not want me

harvard would be cool js for the aura of putting @harvard in my bio but like

bro

u got

an

AO

interview

ive never even heard of those

bro who cares

[tame cargo]

AO interview is insane

[young jasper]

i havent even gotten one interview

u got 2

💀

stanford barely sends out

any

its even less

than

other schools

i think stanford sends out like 50

so do i

but that guys mogs me anyways

[tame cargo]

where tf are ur schools

oh

[spice marsh]

bro got 1m from being a discord mod

[tame cargo]

work hard be a discord mod later

[molten glen]

You did the math wrong lol

Deferred applicants are placed into consideration among the entire RD pool, they aren't set into a separate pile of 'Deferred EA' applicants and read separately from the other RD people

The actual figure would be 206 / ( (regular decision pool applicants) + 8,051 )

Assuming the published statistics don't already add deferrals into their RD applicants

Which, is in fact, > 1%

[little flax]

Tbh Stanford has more

[obsidian nexus]

this is wrong bruh

source: @agile kite

its literally a statistically insignificant difference

[obsidian nexus]

yep lmao

[wet owl]

I thought MIT didn't defer many people

[obsidian nexus]

they defer 60% of early applicants

it's a mass-defer school like harvard

[wet owl]

that's a lot

[obsidian nexus]

yeah its wild

[wet owl]

I didn't expect it from MIT lmao

[obsidian nexus]

from petey of MIT:

every year we try to deny more students EA but there's just a lot of very good students where you could in principle see a path depending on how things develop and you just want to leave that path open

we deny students if we definitely think there is no path. we know that most defers probably don't have a path -- because we defer so many and admit so few rd -- but we just don't know which ones are which yet

[wet owl]

yeah it makes sense

[glad blaze]

on MIT's side yes
but on the students side, it doesn't
it helps to have an idea of where you at with a school
Take Yale's deferral for example
just 17%
that's a good sign
Deferring 60% of applicants is more of just keeping the applicants on a goose chase imo 😂

[wet owl]

Giving false hope ain't cool obviously, it is what it is tho

[balmy thorn]

Huh it would be deferred -> accepted divided by total deferred to see % of deferred that are accepted

[vocal arrow]

Holy fuck my dumb fucking teacher finalized grades without fixing my two zeros for projects which I wasn’t there for

I have a 74 now bro FUCK FINALIZED grades😭

If she can’t fix the grades what do I do? I was already gonna mail colleges saying can u add to my file that grades are bad cause I had to travel back to my home country as grandma got a heart attack. Now do I also add the fact that a teacher didn’t grade stuff I was excused for when I was out of country?

Which is true

[viral thorn]

She can almost certainly fix the grades but you can have the school sending a note saying there was an error made

[vocal arrow]

Alright, I’m not sure if “infinity campus” lets u fix it after finalizing

[frail dew]

infinite campus? they do, normally teachers have to file a form to do so though

[vocal arrow]

Oh alright great

Thank you

[solemn panther]

Day idfk of no Harvard interview

[molten glen]

The chances of being an ACCEPTED DEFERRED candidate from a RD Pool

[balmy thorn]

Oh we’re talking abt different things lol

[dreamy lynx]

Counting is hard

[balmy thorn]

I thought you were saying what % of people deferred get in

[molten glen]

no

sorry

couldve been my b

[balmy thorn]

All good I gotchu now

[agile kite]

Thank you 🙏

[obsidian nexus]

i gotchu

[tame cargo]

so it's the same

[vocal arrow]

Alright she’s being a bitch and she only fixed 1 and now I have a 83, I mean I’m still gonna mail all college saying some grade discrepancy because I was out of school for 3 weeks is that fine?

[viral thorn]

I mean sure

[vocal arrow]

Like would that be enough to explain the AOs about my Bs

Two Bs in calc and business communications both cause teachers don’t wanna give me credit when I was out for some assignment s

[halcyon cairn]

hey yall
can you tell me your top awards/honours? i wanna see what level harvard applicants are lol

[zealous cipher]

Very mid tbh

I think my best one is PVSA?

[timid sleet]

Awards don’t really matter too much to your application unless they are super prestigious ones

[fleet thicket]

^

i feel like awards dont rlly mean anything

essays=ecs>awards

[halcyon cairn]

hmm yeah

@fleet thicket whatd you think of kendrick's halftime show

[fleet thicket]

i liked it a lot

i liked the symbolism and the performance of it all

a lot of ppl were upset that he didnt play some of his classics but idk u kinda have to play whats popular rn

[glad blaze]

oh chim 🥲😭

[misty remnant]

lmao no interview

cooked

[glad blaze]

this is another reason why unnecessary deferral doesn't make sense 😂😭
cos how do just 206 out of 8000+ make it 😭💀

putting this in context of another school
Brown deferred 792 applicants I think
assuming they pick 100, that would be a 12.63% acceptance rate 😭😭😭

[balmy thorn]

I would assume Yale prolly is similar no?

I’d guess like 100 of 1100 or so defers get in

[glad blaze]

yeahhhh

that's so much better tbh 😭

[balmy thorn]

Wdym

[glad blaze]

i mean the acceptance rate is slightly higher

like better than Harvard

[balmy thorn]

Oh yeah

Cuz Yale only defers 17%

Harvard is like 60+%

[glad blaze]

Brown deferred 17% this year also I think

[balmy thorn]

Idt I’ll get in bc I’m not cracked enough ec wise or have a spike but I genuinely do have an insane loci

[obsidian nexus]

yeah mass deferral doesnt make sense

but it is what it is

when you apply to an EA pool you're asking a school to bet that you're better than the other 80% of the pool AND theres no guarantee that you'll actually go

[balmy thorn]

It’s weird how 100 of 1000 seems so much easier than 1 in 10 lol

[obsidian nexus]

so i can see reasoning

[obsidian nexus]

i enjoyed writing my LOCI

[quasi shadow]

you have a good shot at getting in bro

[balmy thorn]

But they’re the exact same chance

[obsidian nexus]

fr you must have hope it's never over till its over

[glad blaze]

realll 😭

[hardy sable]

how do you know how insane your LOCI was

[balmy thorn]

Where did you get deferred

[obsidian nexus]

yeah but the pool is bigger, that's why research studies conducted on 1000 people vs 10 people are better

[obsidian nexus]

this thread

[glad blaze]

same tbh 😭
i feel like writing LOCIs is more cooler than essays 😭😂

[fleet thicket]

central limit theorem

[obsidian nexus]

i lowkey put emoticons in mine hopefully they like that

[obsidian nexus]

true

[fleet thicket]

yass

i love stats

[glad blaze]

they would 🥹✨

[obsidian nexus]

woop

[obsidian nexus]

real it's more personal

[glad blaze]

yeahhhh 😂

[balmy thorn]

The updates were rlly rlly good with a national business comp award, cleaned up unclear things / shortfalls from my original app, got another award that rlly showed my impact in a club, and rlly showed the AO how I would not only join things on campus but improve them

[obsidian nexus]

w

[balmy thorn]

I sent it to a bunch current students and they said it was rly good so

I’m hoping

[glad blaze]

i low-key wrote about watching Solo Leveling since ED decisions 😂😭

[glad blaze]

dopeeee
hopefully, we all get into our deferral schools 🤞🏻🍀
@bronze yew & @balmy thorn

[balmy thorn]

🙏🙏🙏🙏 only 46 days

[fleet thicket]

did u guys all rea harv

[balmy thorn]

Wait that’s actually hella long tf

[fleet thicket]

its rlly not

[balmy thorn]

Yaleeeee

[glad blaze]

i EDed Brown 😭

[fleet thicket]

oo

[quasi shadow]

wait that little time

[balmy thorn]

Hopefully I see you on campus lol

[quasi shadow]

wow that much time until my life is

[fleet thicket]

ya hopefully

[quasi shadow]

well it'll prolly be similar

[balmy thorn]

Are you gonna commit

[glad blaze]

so you are def committing to Yale?

[quasi shadow]

I think it's very unlikely I get any of my 7 reachy reach RDs

[fleet thicket]

i want to

but im waiting for rds

[balmy thorn]

Where would u go over yale

[fleet thicket]

very few schools id choose over yale

columbia or harvard

[glad blaze]

ohhh, where would you rather go

[fleet thicket]

but even if i get in i stil lwant to go to yale

lol

[quasi shadow]

what major

[glad blaze]

that makes sense

[fleet thicket]

at yale id do eecs

[balmy thorn]

Did you have a spike in ur app or no

[fleet thicket]

not rlly

i didnt have any stem ecs

[quasi shadow]

oh I applied CE everywhere

[fleet thicket]

but im a stem major

[quasi shadow]

neat

[balmy thorn]

I lowkey think that’s what’s hurting me

[quasi shadow]

dude you're fine

[glad blaze]

not the Columbia part 😂

[quasi shadow]

a yale defer is NOT BAD

[fleet thicket]

having a spike or not having a spike?

[balmy thorn]

I’m scared looool

[glad blaze]

the heck 😭

[quasi shadow]

keep that in mind

[fleet thicket]

well i guess my spike was community impact

[balmy thorn]

Not having one

[quasi shadow]

also

you already have ross

UNC chapel hill

and UVA

[fleet thicket]

like none of my activities were stem

[quasi shadow]

so like whatever the fuck happens you'll be fine

[glad blaze]

and probably banger essays

[fleet thicket]

im doing a capstone research project thats it

[glad blaze]

wowww

[fleet thicket]

yeah i think my essays were pretty good lol

but also everyone says they haev good essays

[glad blaze]

yeahhh
essays are very important

and you said you have a 1460 SAT right?

[fleet thicket]

ya

1460 3.96 uw

[glad blaze]

brooo 😂😭

[fleet thicket]

1460 is still a good score smh

[glad blaze]

your ECs must be really 🔥

[fleet thicket]

theyre okay

[balmy thorn]

Nah

[quasi shadow]

bro sometimes it comes down to other shit

[fleet thicket]

bruh

[balmy thorn]

1460 is good

[quasi shadow]

yeah yale especially like

doesn't value test scores that much

[fleet thicket]

i think it was my essays

[quasi shadow]

just don't suck ass

[glad blaze]

yeahhhhh
i feel like everyone just makes it seem like SAT scores must be 1500+ which isn't necessarily true

[fleet thicket]

when the ao called me she referenced my personal statement

and said she really liked it

[glad blaze]

woww
that's dopee

[balmy thorn]

1460 is prob close to 25th percentile once you factor out TO kids

[fleet thicket]

i wrote my ps about minecraft

[quasi shadow]

My friend had a 1470 as a stats major and he got into some pretty good schools

[balmy thorn]

Yea I remember you saying that

[glad blaze]

the game???

[quasi shadow]

and yale doesn't have TO anymore

so

[fleet thicket]

yeah lol

[glad blaze]

oops 😂

[balmy thorn]

I have a hella unique common app essay topic but my writing isn’t like unique

[fleet thicket]

idk if my why yale was good or not lol

lemme send it

[quasi shadow]

I mean tbh dude

[glad blaze]

with 125 words, it's really hard to make it so strong 😭

[quasi shadow]

just don't get fixated on one of these schools

[quasi shadow]

you have a good shot but you already have great schools

so like no need to sweat it

[glad blaze]

broooo 😂😭🥲

this is low-key nice though

totally unrelated but nice font 🥹

[fleet thicket]

lol i write everything in times new roman

[glad blaze]

i appreciate good writing font lmao 😂

[balmy thorn]

I think I messed up my topic that inspires you essay

I wrote it like a why major at yale

[glad blaze]

bro for life 🙏🏻😂

[balmy thorn]

Not a why major

[fleet thicket]

oh mine was just why major

[balmy thorn]

Yeah I spent like 30% talking abt yale lol

I shoulda talked more abt stuff i did

And then my person who inspires you was lame

[zealous cipher]

Raleway clears

🙏

[glad blaze]

i wrote about how Gojo Satoru's selflessness in teaching Yuji inspired me to start a mentorship program in my high school 😭

[balmy thorn]

Everything else was elite tho

[fleet thicket]

untrue

oh wait my short takes were good too i think

[zealous cipher]

have you SEEN the w

[glad blaze]

smh 😒

[balmy thorn]

My Stanford short answers are insane

I looooooved those so much they’re so good

Yale 3/4 were good

[zealous cipher]

what did you say for the historical moment one

[glad blaze]

Stanford is something else 😭

[balmy thorn]

Lowk highly doxxable

But I made it funny

[zealous cipher]

i said lewis and clark expedition

[quasi shadow]

bro I didn't even apply😭

[zealous cipher]

am i cooked

[quasi shadow]

too far

west coast

[fleet thicket]

same

[balmy thorn]

I went funny

[fleet thicket]

also noone from my school gets in lol

last year 1 person got in and they didnt even go

[balmy thorn]

Same no one from my county in like 5 years

[fleet thicket]

this year rea everyone rejected and 1 deferred

[quasi shadow]

yeah same they don't take anyone from my county

like I know a guy who got in a few years ago from a different school in the area but he was like

JSHS winner

[balmy thorn]

I rlly took a risk with some of them tho, im not getting in bc Stanford loves spiky kids but i think essays keep me in contention

My intellectual vitality essay was abt art lol

That’s the only thing I’m worried abt bc I’m Econ major

If they fw it tho it’s good

[zealous cipher]

wait they want spiky ppl?

im cooked.

[fleet thicket]

i dont think so

i think they want some spiked people

but they also want some well rounded ppl

[balmy thorn]

Based on what I’ve seen (anecdotally obv) they love spiky kids more than anything

I was reading stuff from a former AO who’s pretty no bs and he said non spiky kids didn’t usually get considered

[fleet thicket]

i think also spikes come in different forms

[quasi shadow]

yeah stanford is very fixated on spikes

and intellectual vitality

[fleet thicket]

i think ppl assume spike means really good at stem or rlly good at humanities but it can also mean really community oriented or engaged in leadership and advocacy

[zealous cipher]

i thought spike was like one focused interest you're really good at

im all over the place

[viral thorn]

I don't have one of those and I got in somewhere decent so I wouldn't say it's necessary everywhere

[fleet thicket]

^

[viral thorn]

Maybe only for Stanford

[zealous cipher]

Likewise

[viral thorn]

I don't think it applies to all good schools

[zealous cipher]

I'm talking about stanford specifically

[viral thorn]

Yeah I don't know shit about stanford

[zealous cipher]

Tech took me as a non-spiky kid

🤷‍♂️

[viral thorn]

I wouldn't apply because they haven't accepted a non-legacy/athlete/billionaire from my school in 8 years

[zealous cipher]

Lmaoo

[young jasper]

p sad

awards was my best category

[fleet thicket]

rip

[young jasper]

tied w like essays

[fleet thicket]

my best award was national merit commended scholar

lol

[young jasper]

eh it proved i’m good at what i do

🤷‍♂️

[viral thorn]

i entered no awards

😭

might be slaying

slacking*

[young jasper]

that’s valid

[viral thorn]

i had NMSF and that's it

[young jasper]

i had 5 and i put 2 in an ec description

i coulda put like pvsa ap scholar in additional info but there was tbh 0 point

[zealous cipher]

My ECs were much much better than my awards

[viral thorn]

both my ecs and awards were kind of ass

i am boring and did not do anything notable

[obsidian nexus]

bro i dont think i put any academic awards

[balmy thorn]

Same

[balmy thorn]

Yes agreed

Ivies in general are more liberal arts focused so it makes sense that they take more well rounded kids

[obsidian nexus]

spikes are lowkey a scam ngl

[balmy thorn]

There’s one spiked girl ik that’s insane

She gonna get in everywhere

[obsidian nexus]

we will see!

[viral thorn]

this is what I thought but a lot of them got deferred MIT

💀

[obsidian nexus]

MIT is probably the biggest reach tho tbh

[zealous cipher]

MIT defer is a rite of passage though

[viral thorn]

Yeah but I knew sooooo many people who did the MIT + UPenn early combo bc of timings and got deferred both 😭

[zealous cipher]

For all shotgunners

[viral thorn]

even with great profiles

[obsidian nexus]

it's a numbers game! if they put their best foot forward and genuinely enjoyed everything they worked on they should be proud of themselves :)

[balmy thorn]

I’m prettt sure she only applied usc ea

[zealous cipher]

Who enjoys essays though?

[balmy thorn]

And got in

[rugged vessel]

not applying to MIT is what all the cool kids do

[balmy thorn]

I’m sure she’ll get in crazy places rd tho

[viral thorn]

How many people do the MIT+UPenn thing

[zealous cipher]

Jazzy.

[viral thorn]

i knew sooooooo many

😭

[zealous cipher]

MIT has a banana lounge.

[balmy thorn]

I know so many too

[zealous cipher]

What in the world do you mean?

[balmy thorn]

They all do Wharton too

Wharton + Sloan

[zealous cipher]

I should've done Columbia ED

[balmy thorn]

I applied mit Econ but I’m cooked bc no spike and didn’t connect w stem

[obsidian nexus]

i did

but i like writing

[zealous cipher]

I liked the unique essays

Not the basic ahh ones

[obsidian nexus]

brown had the best supps i think

uchicago was very enjoyable

[zealous cipher]

I liked MIT supps

[obsidian nexus]

mit was pretty good too

[zealous cipher]

Wait lemme check Brown

Actually

[fleet thicket]

i liked mit supps except for the blazing trail one

[zealous cipher]

THAT WAS MY FAV ONE

[obsidian nexus]

which one is the blazing trail one

[zealous cipher]

Alr yeah brown was fun

Esp the teach a class prompt

[balmy thorn]

Same I talked about art here 💀

Idk what I was doing

I’m stupid for that

[obsidian nexus]

oh i liked this one

mit had fun supps

[stone mural]

Are Harvard likelys out

[zealous cipher]

Worst supps were

CMU

No originality whatsoever

[fleet thicket]

idk if there was any one that i particularly disliked

[balmy thorn]

I talked abt how I tried taking an art class freshman year and then discovered an interest that I developed over a few years in a hella niche sector of art

[fleet thicket]

i dont think i liked jhu that much

[zealous cipher]

Oh yeah jhu was also stupid

[balmy thorn]

I shoulda gone more academic ngl

[zealous cipher]

And hmc

[balmy thorn]

My brown essays were elite

[stone mural]

Fr i actually enjoyed writing them thy were probably the only reason i got in

[zealous cipher]

I didn't talk about academic at all

I talked about paper airplanes

💀

[balmy thorn]

I reused my Stanford biggest challenge essay lol

[obsidian nexus]

commit when :O

[fleet thicket]

i almost didnt apply to jhu cuz of the supp

[obsidian nexus]

this is so valid

[fleet thicket]

and then they extended deadline

[obsidian nexus]

for one of the supps i talked about like

visiting museums

lmao

[zealous cipher]

My fun one was

Shorthand

[balmy thorn]

Mine I lowk reused Stanford IV essay

[zealous cipher]

Having random hobbies helped

[fleet thicket]

i wonder what my best supp was

i think my columbia ones were pretty good

[zealous cipher]

If I get into Columbia, I'm leaving this server

[balmy thorn]

My northwestern were trash

[zealous cipher]

I loved NU tbh

[balmy thorn]

Ong a lot of my essays are so unique that no one coulda written them lol

[zealous cipher]

My friends read them

And they just said

You're weird

💀

[young jasper]

this is such a mid prompt bro

what is there to write

[rugged vessel]

hello

[fleet thicket]

thats what i was saying

such a dumbass prompt bruh

[obsidian nexus]

hello!

[zealous cipher]

You could write about anything

[young jasper]

bro unless ur like some hyper diversity case theres js nothing to write

i should have writtena bout how i do milk b4 cereal

[balmy thorn]

My ps is about a unique family challenge, for supps I wrote about interacting with cultures I’m not actually part of and how it shaped me, and then also my hella unique art hobby lol

[zealous cipher]

MIT Banana Lounge, ma'am.

[obsidian nexus]

wdym, everybody does something unexpected

nobody follows a completely normal trajectory

[golden pebble]

Buddy what are you yapping about

[fleet thicket]

yeah ive def done a lot of unexpected things but i couldnt recall any of them

its like how for the disagreement question

ive had millions of disagreements

do i remember them? no

[golden pebble]

How boring you gotta be to not have an answer to that and default to calling it a diversity question

[junior imp]

I loved this question 🥳

I wrote about modern art

[fleet thicket]

i hated it

[balmy thorn]

I love disagreement ones too

[obsidian nexus]

real

[balmy thorn]

I think they’re more about what you learned though

[junior imp]

I couldn’t stand it at first but I was able to talk about something really good for it

[balmy thorn]

I basically said I learned I’m an idiot and how I’m more open now

[obsidian nexus]

Wait, I also wrote abt modern art

[junior imp]

Oooh no way

[obsidian nexus]

loll

[junior imp]

I talked about how I grew to love modern art after hating it

And an experience that caused that

[obsidian nexus]

so we all wrote about modern art

this is so cool

u guys r awesome

[junior imp]

Still no interview though

[fleet thicket]

rip

[junior imp]

I think I’m okay with whatever happens with Harvard lol

[young hull]

i wrote about philosophy and the trolley problem for the disagreement one

[zealous cipher]

Mine was the opposite 💀

[junior imp]

It’s such a crazy reach that I just have no expectations

[balmy thorn]

Oh!

[fleet thicket]

im lowk hoping i dont get in so i dont have to make a decision lol

[obsidian nexus]

it’s ok getting an interview doesn’t mean you get in either

[balmy thorn]

They want you to be humble in these lol

That’s what I found

[junior imp]

Yeah that’s true

[obsidian nexus]

lol pick yale

[fleet thicket]

i want to bruh

[zealous cipher]

Nah trust

[junior imp]

But it would be reassuring at least

[zealous cipher]

My app gonna stand out

[fleet thicket]

im so ready to commit

[balmy thorn]

lol

[fleet thicket]

but if i get into harvard i have to think about it

1st world problems 😭

[obsidian nexus]

bro it must be a different kind of turmoil lmao

[rugged vessel]

one good thing about the school

[balmy thorn]

If I get into yale rd I’m wearing a south Harmon institute of technology shirt on decision day at school

[fleet thicket]

im lowk sad im prob not going to mich tho

i love tht school so much

[obsidian nexus]

you never go wrong by being humble ngl

[balmy thorn]

Yea that’s my interview strat

The one thing you wanna show (imo) is crazy amounts of openness to other ppl and opinions

[obsidian nexus]

nice

[obsidian nexus]

hey i mean you have options! wouldnt cross it off just yet good to be able to choose

[fleet thicket]

yess fs

[young jasper]

i am boring bro

i followed the most NPC lifepath ever

i dont even remember what i wrote baout i just remember it took me like a week to even come up w an answer 😭 i think it went alright

not getting in anyways soooo

[reef grove]

i went to a non competitive summer camp around my major and got second place lol

[reef grove]

only applying to one private school is what the even cooler kids do

[reef grove]

bro i would’ve eaten this one up omg, give me this prompt instead of the harvard disagreement one and i would’ve gotten a likely fs

[vocal arrow]

mine was counting cracks in sidewalks and a conncetion to how I learn

[vocal arrow]

ngl same but I kinda went mad risky for the class u would teach

[rugged vessel]

u arent even a cool kid in this scenario

[solemn panther]

Istg if I get another email from the college of Wooster

Bethel Hofstra collenstone grace college uni of Detroit mercy

[misty remnant]

me w uic

💔

bro sorry i aint goingg

iwant an interview

[solemn panther]

I can’t take the wait any longer

I’m worried for Yale

[misty remnant]

me w harvard & duke bro

[solemn panther]

Appearntly the last interview requests go out on feb 14th

:sob

[misty remnant]

UMM really

[solemn panther]

No clue but i fear its true

😓

I can’t take any more Ls

[misty remnant]

bri i realized

harvard out in a momth

💀

IM COOKED

ofc they not gonna interview me now lmao

[solemn panther]

No i heard Harvard does it till early march

[misty remnant]

reallyy

😭

isnt that for likely tho

UGHH

its ok.. i dont even like the school

[solemn panther]

Idek

The lack of transparency is killing me

[misty remnant]

me telling myself they couldnt have read all apps in a momth

[solemn panther]

Yea they def haven’t

That’s why they haven’t sent our interview reqs 🙄

[misty remnant]

onggg

bruh no duke either

im gonna crash out

so basically i shouldnt have applied

bc no shot

💀

wasted my time!!!

fuck harvard

[solemn panther]

No

No application = no chance

Again we live in areas without many alumni so

[misty remnant]

fairr

delulu is the solulu

its fine

we'll be at harvard next yr laughing

ab this

[solemn panther]

Just have to pray for them to interview us

[misty remnant]

🔥

[solemn panther]

Right

[misty remnant]

im gona play hard to get

🔥

(i cant do this)

[solemn panther]

FRRR

I’m in the trenches omg

[misty remnant]

gonna refuse them

[solemn panther]

Like can it march already

[misty remnant]

no right bro

i cant believe its next momth wtf

[solemn panther]

Ok but this month is going by really fast

[misty remnant]

yes

bro i cant believe it

[solemn panther]

And Presidents’ Day next week!

[misty remnant]

like feb 10th

☠️

rightt

oml

so basically

[solemn panther]

3 day week for me next week

[misty remnant]

MARCH?!

[solemn panther]

Thank god

[misty remnant]

ok real

no bc why is it so soon..

im scafed

like march basically here

and everytthing js rolllllls out

[solemn panther]

Yale is gonna send us likelys next week totally 🥱

[misty remnant]

my death is pending

[solemn panther]

Then we can chill

[misty remnant]

onggg

i love being delulu 😍

(they enver responded to my interview complaints)

[solemn panther]

Ugh hold on my dog is acting up

[misty remnant]

idk maybe they decided the interview doesnt matter & im toooo good

[misty remnant]

HELP

😭

[solemn panther]

She always barks at night bc my dumbass brother doesn’t walk her

Anyways

[misty remnant]

HELPP

how old is ur brother ☠️

[solemn panther]

Um

I forgot

He’s a sophomore tho

[misty remnant]

real

bro im gonna crash out if i see

"i had the best interview ever"

☠️ one more time

why do i get stuck w bad ones wtfff

bc either they ask weird race questions or disagreement questions or never respond to my thank u note 😿

sighh

what am i doing wrong

[young jasper]

theyre

not supposed to respond

to your thank u note

lol

often times they are explicitly instructed not to or heavily discouraged from doing so

[solemn panther]

oh ew wtf

god these ppl are so weird

cant they ask normal questions like what do u like to do for fun!

[young jasper]

i answered a little bit too honestly

when i was asked this once

and now im gonna say some shit like playing basketball

[misty remnant]

oh

☠️

tf

[misty remnant]

yes bro

wait nvm

[young jasper]

yes

[misty remnant]

what do u mean u sanswered too honestly

💀

[young jasper]

i told the guy i play valorant bro

and he was like oh yeah ive heard of it

and

he

WROTE

IT DOWN

[misty remnant]

bro he not gonna put it in ur report

[young jasper]

NO

NO

KEEP IN MIND

[misty remnant]

"a.m plays valorant"

[young jasper]

WE HAD BEEN TALKING

FOR

HOURS

ABOUT RANDOM NONSENSE

AND THE FIRST TIME IN FOREVER HE PICKS UP HIS PEN

IS TO NOTE THAT I PLAY VLAORANT.

I'M LITERALLY GONNA CRY

[misty remnant]

ok i cant defend that

which one wa sthis

[young jasper]

princeton

[young jasper]

ok he did say he wrote down

more than he typically did

for other interviewees

[misty remnant]

oh

how old was bro

[young jasper]

26

27

he was p young

[misty remnant]

jesus

well

i dounbt he'd put that tf

[young jasper]

he plays beat saber

[misty remnant]

😭

[young jasper]

so i think it will be ok

[misty remnant]

umm what is that!!

[young jasper]

https://tenor.com/view/beat-saber-gif-22713238

[frail dew]

the vr game lmao

[young jasper]

have u ever seen someone play this

[misty remnant]

okay 💀

um

no..

[young jasper]

the vr game

oh nvm

[frail dew]

it’s kinda fun

[frail dew]

that’s some tryhard shit right there

[misty remnant]

u should be fine

gamers unite or smth

idk

[young jasper]

idk

like

the only thing he really noted down were my hobbies

or like

things i said i wanted to do in college

like

he noted down that i wanted to relearn guitar

he noted down that i wanted to do this one specific sports club

[misty remnant]

ok thats nice tho

bc like

personal stuff

[solemn panther]

LMAO i said i played roblox

so

[misty remnant]

real

bro im cooked

no harvard

interview

:(

💔

tf

harvad after edging me

[solemn panther]

us tweaking out together!

[gaunt wave]

just tell me already vro im done w ts 🙏

[balmy thorn]

Assuming each AO spends an average of 7.5 minutes per app and reads apps for 8 hours a day it would take 23-26 days to finish reading all the applications for the first time

[misty remnant]

ok bro

[solemn panther]

someone do the math

[misty remnant]

dont need pessimism

[solemn panther]

im too lazy

[misty remnant]

ongg

bro today calc quiz got me fucked up

bc lik

he put all decimals

and no calc

SOO like i spent 30 mins doing mf long division & multiplying small decimals

[solemn panther]

OMG

[misty remnant]

and then we have test wed, thurs

gonna k,ms

[solemn panther]

i literally cannot do math

[misty remnant]

RIGHTT

[solemn panther]

without a calculator

im so cooked

😭

[misty remnant]

no fr

and it was so bad

[solemn panther]

im so envious of ppl who can do math easily in their head

[misty remnant]

like 1.5^3 then u divide by whatever whatever

like tf

this is NOT necessary for integrals 🙏😭

[solemn panther]

i had my ap physics test today and ik im cooked!

screw electricity bruh

[misty remnant]

ongg

no bc like idk i dont have that much senioritis

i js procrastinate ig

idk

[solemn panther]

i forgot how to solve a circuit with a capcitor and resistor 💀

[misty remnant]

whats the right amt idk

real (what is that)

[solemn panther]

no clue!

[misty remnant]

helpp ong

ya so

pls can decisions js drop

anything drop

or else im dropping

[solemn panther]

my school district is my biggest opp

they only allow 10 absences a year

before they send us to truancy court

[tame cargo]

o wat

ours is 5 before a truancy letter

and then i think 15 or 20 for court

[misty remnant]

bro like every absence has to be excused 💀

idk how sick days work ngl

[solemn panther]

my old school didnt even enforce abscenses

[misty remnant]

so i js take mental health days

but um

[solemn panther]

they just dgaf

[misty remnant]

we only have 6

but u can only take so many

before like

they give u a therapist

💀

[solemn panther]

they make us get a damn letter and shit

[misty remnant]

helpp

[solemn panther]

like lemme just school bruh

[misty remnant]

right

[solemn panther]

im telling u no one will notice im gone

[misty remnant]

im gonna be gone for veritas & bulldog days

trust

ongg

[solemn panther]

oh they give us 4 days for school tours

[misty remnant]

lucky we get 3 💀

[solemn panther]

ima use that for veritas day too! (being delusional)

[misty remnant]

bro i had to turn down fly ins

💔

so sad

well tbh i could've like

begged sure

but like

[tame cargo]

i shuld take mental health days but i am only taking 4 real classes this semester 💀

[misty remnant]

i wasnt gonna go to the school so wtvr lmao

still i wonder the what ifs

[solemn panther]

im taking a full ap schedule minus band 💀

[misty remnant]

so i used up all my college days.. gotta beg for them when i go to bulldog days 🙏

[solemn panther]

senioritis is KICKING me

lmao just go and deal with the consequences later

[misty remnant]

no fr (i havent gotten in)

bro i need to LEAVE

go east coast

[solemn panther]

The ocean is calling for me

[misty remnant]

ongg

bro im gonna go to every admitted students event (that they pay for 😍)

[solemn panther]

I can’t stand living in the Midwest it’s so weird not living near an ocean for the first time in my life

[misty remnant]

(i havent gotten in anywhere)

[misty remnant]

real midwest sucks so bad omfg 😭

get me oytta here bruh

[solemn panther]

We have Lake Michigan but

That’s a lake

😭

I want crab legs

Omg ima get a crab boil for my birthday in April

18ty birthday + Harvard commit

🤭🤭

[misty remnant]

right bro lake michigan lowk mid sorryyy

like i went and its like

[rugged vessel]

what part

[misty remnant]

water pretty

thats it

💀

like

[solemn panther]

Indy

[rugged vessel]

why tf u do this

[rugged vessel]

ew

sry

[misty remnant]

NO FR

[misty remnant]

ok yes

[solemn panther]

It’s actually not too bad

[misty remnant]

where r u from

are u midwest

😞

[solemn panther]

Only Ap classes really killing me are Ap physics chem and calc

Can’t wait for college with the 4 class semesters

[misty remnant]

real

(isnt it hell too)

idc

[solemn panther]

7 classes a semester is so buns

[misty remnant]

its gonna be fantastic

[rugged vessel]

chicago

[misty remnant]

also harvard grade inflation is gonna eat!!!

[solemn panther]

Actually I want to go to a quarter school

Ngl

[misty remnant]

really

[rugged vessel]

all 3 of those classes killed me separately

[misty remnant]

[solemn panther]

Stanford I’m coming!!

[rugged vessel]

don't get comfy with this idea.

[rugged vessel]

it doesn't.

[ripe plinth]

lmao same

[rugged vessel]

physics and math last semester each had about 12-15 hours of homework a week

[solemn panther]

Wait do u go to Harvard rn

[misty remnant]

okay its fine bc im gonna get rejected

dw

no interview type shi

[rugged vessel]

yes

i dont yap here judgementally for no reason 💀

[misty remnant]

when did u get ur interview.

:(

mama im cooked

[fleet thicket]

what math were u in last sem

[misty remnant]

burnt roasted

[rugged vessel]

like right away but ik thats not everyone's experience

im just awsome

[solemn panther]

Oh we’re cooked Anna

😭

[rugged vessel]

actually wait i mighta lied do u want me to check

LMAO

yale was right away bc im the fucking goat