MIT (2024-2025)

[proud lantern]

NO PROBLEM ALSO YOU WILL GET IN RD

pete

[proud lantern]

goat

[pseudo garnet]

pete is only so that they dont dress up as a train at games

[sharp thicket]

wtf is htat.

[proud lantern]

pete bro

[proud lantern]

pete the boilermaker

he makes boilers for trains

[sharp thicket]

u mean a gaston wannabe w botched plastic surgery

[pseudo garnet]

the train itself is the official mascot tho

[sullen sable]

Bro killed the tree he is not living up to his legacy as an environmental activist

[coral sandal]

any usaco plats that got in?

[copper oracle]

friar dom

[proud lantern]

this is the other mascot

[proud lantern]

wat da hell

[sharp thicket]

alr buddy at least it looks good

[untold drift]

2 kids from my school got in 💀

Wtf is this guys 💀💀

[restive zinc]

Unfortunately this is the school i really need to get into

[proud lantern]

cal studnets got 34gb of oski r34

[proud lantern]

AGREED PURUDE LET ME IN

[proud lantern]

is that stanford wtf

[full lynx]

@pallid yarrow

[restive zinc]

Lets just ignore sophomore year and give me a full ride 🙏

[copper oracle]

yes he's playing dress up

[proud lantern]

agreed

[copper oracle]

otto

[proud lantern]

have u seen the osu mascot

[sullen sable]

What is this bro

[pseudo garnet]

their mascot is red

[copper oracle]

BRUTUS

[proud lantern]

i freaking hate o*io state

[sullen sable]

Like just red?

[copper oracle]

me too

[restive zinc]

woahhh

[pseudo garnet]

ya

[shell surge]

killing one true wont kill the environment dw

[pseudo garnet]

technically "big" red

[shell surge]

real

[proud lantern]

bro knows from experience

[shell surge]

oski loml

[gray dawn]

Did anyone get in here

[sullen sable]

True especially since the Stanford tree can be tied to Nestle so it deserves it even

[copper oracle]

who is this cutie

[proud lantern]

this goofy ass mf

[sullen sable]

He is a serial killer thats who he is

[copper oracle]

i want to meet him

[shell surge]

uc berkeley mascot

[restive zinc]

Like a hawk tuah flame

[shell surge]

i;ve met him he;s so adorable!!!

[restive zinc]

The berkeleys 💔

[shell surge]

https://tenor.com/view/beat-stanford-uc-berkeley-cal-big-game-oski-gif-4438686

[shell surge]

https://tenor.com/view/cal-golden-bears-oski-lasso-dance-dancing-dance-gif-24401787

[sullen sable]

This one is just insane

[burnt tree]

did anyone here get into mit

[pallid yarrow]

[pallid yarrow]

🙏

[pallid yarrow]

🙏

[pale sierra]

berkeley bears

[proud lantern]

u shoudl become a AO and tell them to let me in

[shell surge]

speaking of oski this was a question on my astro exam

[pallid yarrow]

that’s the plan fr

[proud lantern]

bro the cal chants are so fire

[pseudo garnet]

was it right

[wise glacier]

Bros gonna create an AI to decide 😭

[shell surge]

yes

[restive zinc]

Yoo you know the AOs right

I forgot to mention that time i saved a family from dying in my application 🙏 🙏

[pallid yarrow]

Yeahh (no 😔)

[pale sierra]

purdue!

[pallid yarrow]

The AOs family

[proud lantern]

@shell surge dyk any of the chants

[pale sierra]

i love purdue

[full lynx]

Purdue gotta clutch up next month cause of the 12/17 incident

[livid garnet]

mit class size is only around 1100 if they already accepted like 700 people that means theres only 400 slots left and RD is going to get so many more applicants

[pale sierra]

withdrew my application though 😔

[pallid yarrow]

The what incident?

[full lynx]

12/17

Those who know: 💀

[livid garnet]

the 7 thousand people being deferred from mit incident

[proud lantern]

(mit)

[pale sierra]

on the bright side maybe all the cracked applicants decided to apply ea so its more likely for the deferred group to be accepted

[proud lantern]

bro on purdudes soul if i dont get into purdue im gonna burn this place down

[pale sierra]

you're getting into purdue bro

[placid prairie]

What happened to oh be a fine guy/girl and kiss me 😭

[full lynx]

fr

[shell surge]

(no 💀 )

[shell surge]

what

[pale sierra]

OBAFGKM

[placid prairie]

I’ve only ever seen that acronym be used for OBFGAKM

[pale sierra]

HERTZPRUNG RUSSEL

!!!!

[placid prairie]

One test i took had answer choices for hertzprung Russel and hertzpring Russel

[livid garnet]

thats not a gamble im willing to take

[placid prairie]

That one fucking letter….

[pale sierra]

thats evil

[shell surge]

bye wtf

[livid garnet]

so was this AP Spelling Bee or

[shell surge]

the acronym our professor gave us was "oh boy alex filippenko gives killer midterms laughing" (our prof's name is alex filippenko) (nobel prize winner come to berkeley teehee)

[placid prairie]

No just a science Olympiad test

[placid prairie]

Ok thats funny

Wait my initials are AF too so i could just put myself in the acronym 😭

[shell surge]

LOL

[rocky notch]

this is so nice

thank you

[waxen cloak]

oh boy a fucking giraffe killed something

that's what we did

i forgor the rest

[pastel socket]

Did anyone here get into mit?

Or just deferred

[pale sierra]

plalts did

majority deferred tho

[pastel socket]

lol

As it should 🙏

[sullen sable]

The poll records 7 accepted, 34 deferred, 2 rejected

[rocky notch]

where is this data coming from

[livid garnet]

https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/mit-early-action-decisions-now-available-online-6/

[rocky notch]

ohh ok

thanks!

[waxen cloak]

actually so fucking unfortunate

how are applications dropping but the pool is getting even more fucking competitive every year

[placid prairie]

Deferred

[waxen cloak]

furina got deferred

[brisk forge]

So that means she dan apply again or something right

for RD

[shell surge]

guys dont cold ping people

[waxen cloak]

her app will be reconsidered for rd

is it bc ur a furry

[proud lantern]

bro predicted it

[placid prairie]

It CANNOT be the end of the world vro

[proud lantern]

a rejection is redirection

[brisk forge]

Ohhhh

[proud lantern]

into the pit of a canyon

[brisk forge]

What about jeni

[placid prairie]

On god

[proud lantern]

jenny didnt apply mit

[placid prairie]

(Redirecting me to drive off a cliff)

[brisk forge]

Ohhhh

[brisk forge]

they liked her application so much that they wanted to read it for a second time

[wanton ore]

EVERYONE GOT IN?

congrats if so

[idle pumice]

defurred

[manic imp]

i just took a showr

[placid prairie]

defur

defurinaed

[onyx atlas]

This gives off vibes of the pneumonic for taxonomy from Community ||Dear Kevin, Please Come Over For Gay Sex||

[pallid yarrow]

im safe :D

[normal stag]

rip😔

bro this is crazy

[polar slate]

my rejection feels better now

i probably will be better off without the high level research stress MIT has

[normal stag]

The coping goes hard https://www.nber.org/papers/w7322

[polar slate]

well i mean the dude is right

to a certain degree ofc

[normal stag]

Yeah true. You can definitely do really well wherever you go. Trust.

[normal stag]

yeah yeah I'm using this research to cope is what I mean

[polar slate]

can you take a look at my linkedin and tell me with more confidence lmao

[polar slate]

well i mean think of it this way, if they rejected you, they probably want to save the trouble

and maybe it wasn't you, it could be the college

[peak jacinth]

omg is this game theory

[wicked pond]

Where can I see my financial aid offer? It says the portal but there's nothinf

[normal stag]

No its just data analysis. They had a really big dataset of where each student was admitted, where they attended, and their eventual earnings. They looked at this and compared, among students that were accepted to an elite school, those to who chose to attend and those who chose not to. They then found that students who were good enough to get into a top school but chose not to earned the same on average and those that chose to attend, implying that going to the school made no difference in wage potential. Basically, the conclusion is that averages wages are higher from top schools only because they admit top students, not because the schools added much value to the students.

[idle pumice]

apple bottom jeans / boots with defurred

[sullen sable]

The whole club looking at her

[idle pumice]

she was deferred 😔

[placid prairie]

(She was deferred)
Next thing you know

shawty got low low low low low (drowned)

[normal stag]

What you do in high school doesn't define you. I think a2c creates a really weird bubble of expecting a certain kind of success. High school is just 4 years when you are still young. You can do well if you are driven, smart, passionate, etc regardless of how well you did in hs.

[livid garnet]

petey im emailing this to ur boss

/j

[sullen sable]

With how weird MIT is I'm pretty sure he'll just get employee of the month

[peak jacinth]

oh huh
i was thinking they meant like payoff matrices but this is just as interesting

[livid garnet]

the way ur not even wrong

[idle pumice]

multiple blog posts i have written made senators complain to stu

[sullen sable]

And they'll include a song with that next year

[normal stag]

Yeah. Also probably important preface is that the data is from 1972

[livid garnet]

senators be complaining about anything and everything except national issues

[quick ingot]

usamo and usaco plat still deferred ? 😭

whar are they even looking for

[livid garnet]

i dont have any of that and still got deferred if that makes you feel better

[waxen cloak]

what's stu

[idle pumice]

i won an mit excellence award, the highest award an mit employee can win, for making a video that involved putting tim beaver in a willy wonka suit and having him be tackled repeatedly into a ball pit

[livid garnet]

im pretty sure its the director of admissions

[waxen cloak]

also based

if you can make the senators complain

you must be doing something right

[livid garnet]

i didnt read my letter far enough to get to the bottom but something stu signed off on it

[idle pumice]

ya he's the dean of admissions + financial services (aid)

[livid garnet]

holy hell

[sullen sable]

Somehow I feel like thats still not the weirdest thing you've guys made Tim the Beaver do

[proven reef]

https://tenor.com/view/respect-parasite-respect-scene-oscar-bong-joon-ho-gif-16320542

mr. stu! RESPECT

[waxen cloak]

bro mit is like

[hidden axle]

Based

[waxen cloak]

why is MIT's defer letter not that bad

it's so much better than cmu's

[hidden axle]

I love cyberbullying

[waxen cloak]

if you think about it, tim the beaver is a furry

[idle pumice]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_e5_cqzQKU&pp=ygURdGltIGJlYXZlciBzcGxpdHM%3D

[idle pumice]

https://tenor.com/view/predator-arnold-schwarzenegger-hand-shake-arms-gif-3468629

[hidden axle]

Guys what do you think the theme of the pi day video will be this year

[waxen cloak]

damn

[waxen cloak]

I will bake a beaver pie if I don't get in

[idle pumice]

the theme is going to be "can we come up with something or are we too hosed to make a video"

[sullen sable]

https://tenor.com/view/rayman-absolutecinema-wow-amazing-gif-4262883547222144536

[waxen cloak]

tim needs to stay safe out there
https://www.brocklebys.co.uk/product/wild-beaver-pie/

[peak jacinth]

this is crazy work in the mit thread

[hidden axle]

This implies you’re going to get anywhere near MIT

[idle pumice]

go back out to the hill and roll around in the grass it will help

[waxen cloak]

well known fact that all deferred from MIT will go to harvard

[sullen sable]

I can quite easily get into MIT. All I have to do is fly to Boston and walk onto the campus

[hidden axle]

Real!

[hidden axle]

Wrong. MIT is not in Boston.

[waxen cloak]

bro does it matter

you literally round the block and you're in the heart of boston

[hidden axle]

It’s a joke lol

[waxen cloak]

it's also a joke

[peak jacinth]

real
you can not convince me boston actually exists

[hidden axle]

Only im allowed to make jokes

[sullen sable]

I do not consider Cambridge to be a real place

[waxen cloak]

MIT isn't real

I was not accepted

[young ingot]

mit is in boston dawg

[waxen cloak]

so thus, MIT doesn't exist

[pale sierra]

the only cambridge is the university

[waxen cloak]

it's in cambridge lol

[young ingot]

thats not a real place

[rocky notch]

isn't this the first thing someone said in the last year MIT thread 😭

[normal stag]

Game theory is lit though

[hidden axle]

Nice memory

[rocky notch]

lol

I thought so

[peak jacinth]

fr
I never studied it but i wrote a paper on anthropology and game theory awhile back

its such a cool field

[normal stag]

yesss

[hidden axle]

I forget if you’re from somewhere where it actually snows or not

I feel like ur east coast I forgot

[normal stag]

I havn't done a lot of formal study either. I got a game theory textbook at a used book store and have been reading that, and I also did some projects combining ML and game theory

[coral sandal]

thats crazy, tmas books were well made and unique. Suprised you didnt make it in

[normal stag]

I am really curious though, how did you combine athropology and game theory? That sounds really intersting! Or, if you wouldn't mind DMing me the paper, that would be awesome!

[amber dragon]

hopefully chance in RD 🙏

or some the other colleges

gotta grind those essays

[idle pumice]

furina has cursed midwest energy

jinx

[hidden axle]

Cooked

[normal stag]

Bro the furina hate from an AO is so cooked 😭

[simple oracle]

wait what?

[hidden axle]

Lol its not legit

[peak jacinth]

honestly it wasn't a big thing, I just sorta considered some of the scenarios in which anthropology struggles to make informed decisions and sometimes succumbs to inherent biases (as well as the more implicit game theory settings like MAD) and sort of reframing those within the context of different cultures and societies
an example being a hierarchical framework emerging as a result of an extensive form game between different players
and sort of trying to frame some of these informed decisions we've made about places through a societal framework. i hate to make an analogy to psychohistory here but thats kinda it (ofc considering how this could be used to reinforce colonialist/imperialist practices as well)
I can def dm you the paper though, although its a bit jargon-filled

[hidden axle]

Columbia thread moment

[young ingot]

gavin cookin

[hidden axle]

There are always a few threads that get very interesting each year and it’s fun to see how they swap out

[idle pumice]

this one is interesting because i am posting here and i am the universal protaganist (so is carly)

the other threads have npcs

[left palm]

omg mit out

i saw the little insta post they made

[rocky notch]

literally

[rare sail]

en pee cee

[rocky notch]

the two of you are watching over us like gods while we toil and struggle

[rare sail]

what is everyone eating for dinner today

i need dinenr ideas

[sudden dome]

deFURred --> accPETed

[rocky notch]

you might even know who I am considering that my username is on my application so many times 😭

[peak jacinth]

blackened chicken

[rocky notch]

don't reject me for being in a2c I just want the decision calendar

[rare sail]

yum

[rocky notch]

I had sandwiches for dinner

[sudden dome]

ABGs

[rocky notch]

delicious

[rare sail]

enough.

bro sent me a whole reel about abgs

i am NOT the token abg mascot in a2c

[steep trout]

LMAO?

[peak jacinth]

hold on why would you be the abg mascot

[rare sail]

it's a long story

[peak jacinth]

in any case, im sorry for your loss

[sudden dome]

bro just farm the dudes there for free boba

it's like an infinite xp glitch

[peak jacinth]

you could not have worded this any worse

please do not farm men

[limpid walrus]

I printed out a picture of him for good luck during my decision

[sudden dome]

wanna see me try

[limpid walrus]

It worked out I got in 😎

[sudden dome]

oh word??

comgrats

[peak jacinth]

congrats

[limpid walrus]

This is tuff ngl

[peak jacinth]

even after decisions are out the mit thread is never normal

[dull forge]

so how much people got into MIT?

cause i only know 2 people so far irl that got in

and some people in discord here

[peak jacinth]

there's a poll in the pins

[true star]

skibiditravistoilet

got in mit

kms

[stark fox]

poor furina

[stark fox]

i mean they're cracked no

[true star]

idk them

i was referring to their username

[dull forge]

oh 7 people is good

[stark fox]

did you know she would get deferred? i'm guessing not since you don't know who she is no?

[idle pumice]

i don't know who anyone in this server is and i want to keep it that way

especially after all of the meowing earlier today

[steep trout]

wait didnt you meet oats

unless im schizophrenic

[sudden dome]

you'll know in 9 months

depends on the amount of meowimg you hear on campus

[idle pumice]

oats and i maybe met at cpw? but i mean of applicants

[steep trout]

ohhh i see

[stark fox]

fair enough lol

[stark fox]

that's crazy

[young ingot]

how is bros discord name on his app

[left palm]

ahhhh congrats

[wanton osprey]

150-250 a yr?

But like how many kids got deferred in total

[icy stirrup]

Congrats to everyone who got in!!! 🥳

[left palm]

just do the math

ea applicants * 0.8 ish i think

should be around 8000

[simple oracle]

When I was last here about 2 hours ago, the count here was 6 admits and 2 relatives

[rocky notch]

I must have missed something 😭

[wanton osprey]

80% ea got deferred???

[wanton osprey]

Relatives?

[left palm]

or that might be harvard idk

[steep trout]

mitch mconnells sister!

[left palm]

but ik mit also defers heavy

[rocky notch]

a lot of my extracurriculars are online with this username

[simple oracle]

like sisters/cousins

[wanton osprey]

😭 what

[wanton osprey]

:/

[waxen cloak]

lmao all the top unis are getting sued

[wanton osprey]

Oh wait thats like 2% acceptance 😭

[left palm]

no mit ea is like

500

like 5% or so

[idle pumice]

i've been up since 4 so i'm crashing and then heading out on vacation and logged tf off for the rest of 2024; good night y'all and i hope things go well for the defurs

[left palm]

sorry at least my year it was

[waxen cloak]

godspeed

[left palm]

its gotta be simialr tho

[stark fox]

hi plalts

[shy girder]

Wtf

Popped up out of nowhere emi

LOL

[stark fox]

backreading

lol

[left palm]

wait r u that gap year kid

i wanna do a gap year so bad lowkey

need time to be paused

[stark fox]

wdym that gap year kid

am i like

known or something

but yeah

gap year kid

[peak jacinth]

i fear you may be

[stark fox]

WHAT

NO

[shy girder]

LOL

[shy girder]

Arch

[peak jacinth]

i will as soon as possible

[stark fox]

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN

[shy girder]

LOL stands for Laugh Out Loud! It's slang!

[stark fox]

😭

[wanton osprey]

194 / 10673 were accepted 2021 out of the deferrals 😭

[knotty canopy]

does mit usually give lots of aid?

[shy girder]

Yes

They are super generous

They became even MORE generous

[knotty canopy]

awesome sauce

[left palm]

ummm bc i am also on this server

i wanted to do a gap year

join the princeton class of 2028 i guess

i could still i suppose

[stark fox]

wait what

[stark fox]

indeed!

[knotty canopy]

yipee!!

[peak jacinth]

slang?

what does calc stand for in that case

[left palm]

yeah mit and pton are the best i think

stanf harv yale good as well

[shy girder]

Oh ur on top of the trends arent u

In that case calc is short for calculator!

[peak jacinth]

thrilling! i try to keep up with the times 🧐

[left palm]

the way i just had to dig thru my desk to even find a calculator

bc i havent had to use it all semester besides one mideterm

[normal stag]

calc stands for calculus actually legendary class

[peak jacinth]

SO TRUE

she differentiate on my function till i mvt...

[placid prairie]

oh

[normal stag]

Thanks Petey my goat

have a good vacation

who else is gonna try locking in to have a legendary febuary update?

[errant turret]

hello fellow deferees

[normal stag]

there are two things I've had on the backburner for a while that I might have to lock in for during winter break

[coarse parrot]

wait so there are like 300 slots left for this class

[placid prairie]

I thought more

[coarse parrot]

if they already gave 700

[placid prairie]

Didnt they have 1700 last year

That would be ~1000 left

[coarse parrot]

1102

402 leftr

we are cooked

[placid prairie]

Oh oops

It’s ok ill be one of the 402 🔥 (massive lie)

[coarse parrot]

!cooked

[knotty geyser]

It’s so over…

@coarse parrot is absolutely doomed.
@coarse parrot feels this server is the place to bring it up time and time again.
@coarse parrot is truly A2Cooked.

Used 595 times.

[sudden dome]

yeah you're the gap year kid

[full lynx]

gap year kids ...

[normal stag]

ONLY 402??

We cooked

[full lynx]

I saw somewhere they give like 12-1400 offers to try and get a class of 1100

[normal stag]

If they give 1400 offers than 700 is only about 50%

[coarse parrot]

last year they gave 12 something

i just looked

[normal stag]

okay

[full lynx]

Maybe they'll give 3000 offers for a class of 2500

:D

[normal stag]

trustttt

[full lynx]

Let's just make shit up to keep us going :DDD

@sio2

My boy is gone

[normal stag]

Yeah so they're building a second mit rn because there was so much interset

so there should be an extra 1200 slots

[stark fox]

stoppp

😭

lol

[stark fox]

they admit like 1400 btw

or they did last year iirc

[full lynx]

I was right !

[coarse parrot]

oh so they basically do 50 50

neat

praying on acceptance

[full lynx]

Samesies

[normal stag]

Honestly I'm going to treat defferal as rejection for now as to not get my hopes up

[full lynx]

Yeah

[coarse parrot]

lol

[full lynx]

I agree

[coarse parrot]

well i didnt get denied so i must be in

lol

[full lynx]

Right???

I got in too guys ✨

[coarse parrot]

i had to explain to my family what deferral meant

[normal stag]

lolll so I meant to type rejection and then accidentally typed acceptance 💀

[coarse parrot]

they thought i meant denied

[full lynx]

Dude I'm gonna get asked at work if I got in or not and im not tryna explain what deferral means to 50 people

[coarse parrot]

i am like no not denied

[stark fox]

i read type rejection as "type rejection"

[coarse parrot]

but i didnt get in

[stark fox]

work?

[coarse parrot]

they just told me to wait

[full lynx]

Ye my internship

[stark fox]

save me

[full lynx]

Do you run it lol

[coarse parrot]

@stark fox your going to love this, my friend who is also gap yearing MIT didnt even realize he got differed and just thought the decision took forever

he legit never checked

[full lynx]

He got in RA?

[coarse parrot]

he got waitlisted then got in

[stark fox]

LMAOOOOOOOOO

[full lynx]

EA > RA > WL is INSANE COMEBACK

[stark fox]

that's insane

[coarse parrot]

i didnt even know he applied until he said he got waitlisted

[stark fox]

brooo

[stark fox]

fr

[stark fox]

i do now

[full lynx]

Wow awesome

[coarse parrot]

he is the 4th person from our school who has ever gotten mit

he is telling me im the 5th

[stark fox]

lmaoo

[full lynx]

My school had a drought last year after 6 the previous year

I thought we'd get rain this year but it's not looking too good

[coarse parrot]

When i told him I got differed he thought i meant waitlisted

it was so funny

[coarse parrot]

thats more then we have ever had

thats crazy

[full lynx]

Those who know: 💀

[normal stag]

I don't know the full historiy at my school but I don't know of anyone from mhy school ever getting into MIT

But I have an RSI friend whos applying RD so he's prolly in fs

[full lynx]

What's that

You mean RPI?

Like the college in new york

[coarse parrot]

i should have applied lol

why didnt i bother with rsi

[full lynx]

Idk I feel like research at HS seems like bs

What r u rlly doing bruh

[steep trout]

yeah most of it is but rsi is legit

[full lynx]

Wrd

Idk I wouldnt know lol

I'll take ur word on it

[placid prairie]

https://tenor.com/view/troll-face-meme-troll-face-scary-troll-face-phonk-those-who-know-those-who-snow-gif-8838879525100589615

[full lynx]

https://tenor.com/view/rtbm-mangos-mango-meme-gif-2622587602874209309

[placid prairie]

What the fuck

[full lynx]

Caption: Mangos, mangos, mangos, mangos

Mangos, mangos, mangos, mangos, mangos

[normal stag]

That's impressive!

A2c bubble effect but research is noramlly something you don't do until grad school. Doing any research in high school, even nonimpressive/nonimpactful, is an incredible achievement

[simple oracle]

MIT poll: #1268141479440683019 message

[waxen cloak]

same

sigh

[proud lantern]

hi jenny

[shy girder]

Hi jeni

Little ....

Hypm girl

[full lynx]

Those who know: 💀

[hidden axle]

guys if i make a blog post for the server anniversary on thursday will you read it

[pale sierra]

yes

[hidden axle]

this will be instead of a long announcement

i will just link the post

bc i know a lot of you do not like reading

[pale sierra]

we can have chatgpt do a tldr

[full lynx]

@hidden axle or have chatgpt do the whole thing.

also very viable

[hidden axle]

no i wanna write it

[full lynx]

why 😭

[hidden axle]

bc i care lol

i would just not do a post if i didnt

[full lynx]

ill read it

[pale sierra]

me three

[hidden axle]

the thing is idk if i should make it semi personal to my experience owning this server for four years or if i should make it more pr

idk how much people gaf

[full lynx]

if u make it pr ppl rnt gonna read stuff u write in the future

[pale sierra]

I think it'll be nice if its semi personal

[shy girder]

I would read it!

[hidden axle]

me when i try to write

i will get better!

trust

[pale sierra]

I'll still read the whole thing nothing can be worse than my semi personal experience writing

[shy girder]

Exactly

We should make a2c blogs

🥺

[full lynx]

It's ok furina

We'll get them in RA

[hidden axle]

we do lol

just people dont finish theirs often

[shy girder]

Wait rly

Where can u read

[pale sierra]

looks like notion ngl

[nocturne sable]

I want!!!!!!

[hidden axle]

already given out sorry

substack!

thats where all the blogs are pushed out of

[hidden axle]

me when i make a new phrase through blog for a2cers

"academically inclined and chronically online"

[whole plaza]

aura aura

[stray plume]

yall know what though

being deferred was lowkey good for me

it made me realize how little one college defines me 🔥

whether i get in somewhere good or not doesn't matter so much as what I do with where I go

[sudden dome]

fr bro

sometimes it takes a rejection or deferral to realize that

took me 9 rejections and 2 WL's to figure that out

#1 thing i would say to all seniors rn is that

[stray plume]

nah it was more like realizing ahead of time i was gonna get either deferred or rejected realistically

[sudden dome]

ok now that's more lame

[stray plume]

and i didnt cry or feel bad or anything when i got the deferral

[sudden dome]

but you do you

[stray plume]

😭

[sudden dome]

dude i crashed the fuck out

it was hilarious

[stray plume]

it was that like realization afterwards

omg i recorded my reaction opening my letter dude

i put it down i went

[sudden dome]

i opened all 7 in a row and got hit with 7 rejections on camera

[stray plume]

"alr heres my reaction video im gonna get deferred"
click
"okay i got deferred"

20 seconds and it was gone

[sudden dome]

to this day i refuse to record anything (including football games)

because im scared they wont happen

[stray plume]

god damn

i think me opening everything separately has been good luck

[simple oracle]

yeah. that's why I don't say anything like that even though it's the right message. Most people can't hear it until they experience it

your school doesn't define you. You feel like it does, but you're you and you have to make your choices before, during and after school which define your career

[sudden dome]

true that

a total of 0 people i told that to have actually taken it seriously

until they get handed an L themselves

[lavish scroll]

skibidi

skibid

skibi

skib

ski

sk

s

[proven reef]

if applying to mit had one general merit for me it’s this: i’d never have thought reading blogs (and the prospect of writing them!) could be so fun and entertaining, unironically might start writing like that lol

[hidden axle]

we have a2c blog

you should write for it

and actually finish ur post

unlike some others!

i am not strict on writing style tbh like you have to be appropriate and i do correct a bit for syntax and give pointers on understanding (like "idk how you got from point x to point y") but the general use of slang is chill

for the understanding it is a skill to be able to zoom out and be like "if i were someone who didnt gaf about this topic beforehand would i be able to follow this post"

[proven reef]

that sounds fun, i’ll sign up🥰

[hidden axle]

I have not checked the form in a while ngl

I will probably axe the form tbh

[proven reef]

or ig what i could do is start my own blog but idk anything about the logistics of blogging rn

[hidden axle]

i added you to #📖-bloggers

[stark fox]

!! yes

[hidden axle]

are you going to be like my uncle

my uncle is like the way you're discussing

i remember one time i was in high school around your age at a family dinner

and i was really proud of how far i threw during a recent shot put track and field meet

and this guy who mind you is pushing his 50s now

decides to chip in with

"well back in my day i pitched really well"

"columbia wanted to recruit me"

blah blah blah

[shy girder]

Skull

[hidden axle]

i understand during college where you go will define you to an extent and it is hard to think life extends further than those few years

just remember that i exist

and i am old!

and my uncle is even older!

eventually people will forget where you go and it will at best be a party fun fact

also i went to a 4 year college before uc davis and most the server forgets that so that's proof college really doesn't define you

[little sequoia]

you should've said "in my day we stfu"

[hidden axle]

Real

I would’ve been yelled at tho

[little sequoia]

yeah same

banished to the shadow realm tbh

[proven reef]

i hope my own application process will be useful and relevant to my nieces and nephews when they reach that age so i can help and give advice

[true star]

i hope college apps get abolished in 50 years

[placid prairie]

Oh

Bro just goodwill it 😭😭😭

Let’s not pollute the environment

well u could still donate it to someone else but ok ☹️

[fresh mirage]

my bit is going to be getting a beaver plush which i either guantanamo bay or dress up in a suit

[placid prairie]

oh

[fresh mirage]

https://tenor.com/view/byuntear-incrives-meme-meme-react-gif-25029710

[hidden axle]

Just found out someone who managed to get banned from A2C discord also alleges they got into MIT

[limpid solstice]

who

[hidden axle]

While both are challenging the first is not a positive challenge

[hidden axle]

Why

[limpid solstice]

lol Im curious what it takes to get banned here

also cats do not come to mit bro I haev a final in 1..5 hours i'm cooked for 😭

[hidden axle]

Typically either immediately entering the server and baiting or having many repeated warns

[olive kettle]

how close am i to being banned

close or far

[hidden axle]

Well I don’t want you to toe the line

[olive kettle]

how many inchhes away am i

like 1?

[hidden axle]

It’s like if I told you it took x warns to get banned so you kept yourself at exactly x - 1 warns away from that

[olive kettle]

ok

i mean more of like

am i an overall good user or a bad user

[hidden axle]

In all honesty you are not a rule breaker but sometimes you can get a bit annoying but I largely chalk it up to you being 14 over anything purposely harmful

So I guess a good user

[shy girder]

Damn

💀

[hidden axle]

Tbf he’s not a unique case when it comes to “doesn’t break rules but is also sometimes annoying”

Some of you don’t have the courtesy to not break rules and are instead only annoying

Also you’re not 14 so it makes your behavior worse than his

[shy girder]

What did I do

Sigh

[hidden axle]

Not you

[shy girder]

I even donated

[hidden axle]

But like

[shy girder]

Oh

[hidden axle]

I’m talking abt the kiddos who fall under what im mentioning

[pale sierra]

bro skipped middle school??????

[true pumice]

but you cant unburn it when you get in rd

[silver nacelle]

😭

Praying you get in rd round furina, u got thisi

[wise glacier]

If you get in rd, you should eat a snail

[shy girder]

I agree

[silver nacelle]

i got rejected ed but i realized i like alot of my rd schools more than jhu so im not that sad anymore tbh (im still sad but not as much as i thought id be)

are u gonna ed2 cmu or wait on mit rd

guessing the latter probably

jhu is lowkey boring as fuck compared to some other schools ngl 😭

maybe im just coping but im ed2 uchi or rice and im liking both more than jhu

its rly godo for public health tho so

[wise glacier]

I just want to get into hypm fr

I need to research Yale before applying still

How is it for stem?

Yeah I need to research a lot

[long spruce]

Ngl after spending like 5 hours grinding out RD apps I feel a lot better about being deferred

Too many cool schools to get sad about MIT

[normal stag]

best reason to go to mit

just write that in your loci

[peak jacinth]

Even if you don't make it into the Michelin industry temple we will still appreciate you and enjoy your posts ✨️

You got this fr

[olive kettle]

:

[placid prairie]

Chat im cooked i dreamed i got accepted to MIT (haven’t even applied yet)

[long spruce]

Same 💀

Maybe your seer abilities are better than mine though

[simple oracle]

https://tenor.com/view/jedi-obi-wan-mind-trick-gif-14640578066844272279

[placid prairie]

I woke up thinking it was real 😭🙏

That dream was too realistic

Except for the part where someone else got in who never even applied but 💀

[long spruce]

No you're just that good 💪

[manic imp]

im sending you jiji good energy

[long spruce]

Realizing last christmas is the perfect song to listen to rn

[full lynx]

https://tenor.com/view/rtbm-mangos-mango-meme-gif-2622587602874209309

[pale sierra]

probably yea

[simple oracle]

Boston

[pale sierra]

new york

[manic imp]

chicago

[manic imp]

well then ask that next time

[haughty token]

I'm applying from a rather suburban city, but I don't know anyone else applying

[simple oracle]

Bethesda, MD

what's your area?

Texas has some great schools

literally don't know anything else about the midwest

closest thing I could index to

[charred spruce]

10 admits 2024, university high school irvine, 300k population in irvine

[manic imp]

i mean this is the nice way bc i cant word it any better, but you might just need to cope

write a rly good FUN or whatever, apply to more schools

take care of yourself, enjoy your senior year

why dwell over a statistic you can't change

im saying this bc i was like

shit at coping

i got deferred from all 3 of my EA's

that was a god awful next few weeks bc i get it

well its MIT, statistics arent your friend here

statistics tell you you're getting rejected

so focus on the good that can come out of the bad

there are many other schools you probbaly have a great chance at

i mean, people here seemed to really believe in you for a reason

[charred spruce]

I feel that among the top 10 schools, MIT is the one that least considers the pool. As long as you are outstanding enough, believe in yourself!

[manic imp]

well to be fair, this community sucks ass in a lot of ways

i still feel imposter syndrome here

by seniors

LMFAO

like this is by no means representative of the population of like anything

by my accomplishments with college apps im by definition a cracked a2c kid but if i show most people my stats they'd be confused, because everyone here thinks they knows what the college app system is like to a tee

[proud lantern]

our city 200k pop got 2 admits last year and 0 so far this yesr

why did i say our

i meant my

[simple oracle]

you really gotta be cognizant of who's telling you what

[manic imp]

there really isn't

theres no way to game it

[manic imp]

the best you can game it is by trusting the colleges when they say "be yourself"

[simple oracle]

I would never tell anyone that they have a good chance or anything like that

[manic imp]

obviously a joke but like

i'm a stem major at harvard and i like

almost got a B in math 3 times in a row

got a B in chem

got 3's on all my science ap's

so likeee

[proud lantern]

what the hell

harvard stem:

[lavish scroll]

Screenshot from https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yol3cckIx8o

[proud lantern]

joking

[broken star]

Yeah. 10 admits last year in our city. (A suburban place, not a big city, decent amount of pp)

This year, we already have 6 admits from our city.

[proud lantern]

this man needs to die

[lavish scroll]

Why y’all hate him 😭

[manic imp]

youtubers are the last ppl u should be listening to as well

like limmy goes to duke

and apparently is the AO at every college

[proud lantern]

is this like fucking plano or something

[broken star]

no

[manic imp]

GIRL

[proud lantern]

are u dallas suburb

[manic imp]

fine i'll let u have this

[broken star]

dms then?

[proud lantern]

i can smell the dallas suburb

are u a flower mounder

[manic imp]

i am so damn tempted to ask limmy to guess what schools i got into

and then all the comments r gonna be like

DEI OMG DEI

or some shit

[proud lantern]

LOL

limmy is himmy

[manic imp]

limmy has nothing better to do with his time

[lavish scroll]

Bro what

[proud lantern]

where does he go again

[lavish scroll]

Were ur essays cracked?

[proud lantern]

duke

[cursive hazel]

why does limmy exist

[lavish scroll]

Or ecs?

[proud lantern]

asian side hustle

[placid prairie]

Not my city but a school in another city (smaller than mine) has a school that sends like 1-3 people? Don’t trust me on that
For context my city is like 300k population
Except that school is a boarding school too so idk if that changes it

[placid prairie]

LIMMY MENTION

[proud lantern]

wait

my boarding school knowledge is really wide

[manic imp]

what does a cracked essay look like

[manic imp]

what does a cracked ec look like

i rly like the ec's i submitted but they're not conventionally cracked

[lavish scroll]

Idk 💀

[manic imp]

see

im healing one college applicant at a time yall

[cursive hazel]

cracked is in the mind

[proud lantern]

i hate my school why are were sending like 8 ppl to t20s already

[manic imp]

im good at what i do

[lavish scroll]

💀

(I’m not healed)

[manic imp]

i just submitted an application that i genuinely oculd not see myself getting rejected because i made myself so damn interesting

focus on the personality

[proud lantern]

100% acceptance rate to brown btw

[manic imp]

the voice the story

[proud lantern]

fuck u sophomore

[manic imp]

how the AO's will see you on their campus

[cursive hazel]

winning mindset

[lavish scroll]

I need a top tier on the list

[manic imp]

if you just do crazy math comps and nothing else, then get rejected, dont act surprised

they have their share of math smarties

be special

[lavish scroll]

https://tenor.com/view/cormbreab-llama-big-teeth-smile-my-mom-says-im-special-gif-14039449

[cursive hazel]

me but i had the shift yesterday

[proud lantern]

fuckk my ea’s are so cooked furina

[manic imp]

im grateful i had the shift earlier, but mostly because i was in a rly toxic cracked environment and knew academically i didn't compare

i knew that i had to show myself in a different light

[placid prairie]

Im simultaneously having the shift and not having it (Schrödingers shift)

[proud lantern]

nope

its over

[broken star]

biggest thing you should put is people make the place.
The Ivies, MIT, JHU, UC's, and Stanford are all popular because the people there are intelligent.

If it weren't for the people that go there / previously attended, the college would't be popular. Case in point: University Of Florida recently skyrocketed to #1 Public University because several intelligent people chose to go there.

[true star]

this is the dude that made mit then ditched his channel

[manic imp]

these top colleges don't just accept the smartest people

if they did that'd be kinda lame wouldnt it

[placid prairie]

Nah real

[proud lantern]

i hate super smart people

except for furina

[manic imp]

tbh harvard's just college im just here for the vibe

i am definitely grateful for the opportunities/resources and will use them

but like

[broken star]

Intelligence is your ability to process info, your smartness is your existing knowledge.

MIT values intelligence.

[manic imp]

im not stressing myself out like crazy

so many harvard kids are like

stressing themselves out so much

[lavish scroll]

SAME

[restive zinc]

me when i lie:

[manic imp]

deadass kids crying over A-

comping 3405934 clubs

[lavish scroll]

well only if they don’t put in effort

[broken star]

dude harvard has grade inflation

[lavish scroll]

If they do it’s fine

[broken star]

idek

[proud lantern]

reacting to ur own message is crazy work yo

[lavish scroll]

Bc I can be like

[broken star]

why they crying their ass off

[restive zinc]

not is even crazier

[lavish scroll]

I would get the same results if I tried

[proud lantern]

i am cooketh.

[manic imp]

oh cool! are you harv class of 2028? 2027?

[proud lantern]

burnt to a crisp

WAIT SHIT COLUMBIA

CHAR

[cursive hazel]

bro chose uc berkeley over mit tho

[broken star]

no, my cousin went there

[proud lantern]

FUCK

[manic imp]

what was his concentraiton

[restive zinc]

i believe i just thought it was funny seeing “personable” and “cs” in the same sentance

[peak jacinth]

it's so over or are we simply not so back yet

[broken star]

something on the medicine side

like

[manic imp]

well yea they want their kids to go to med school

[broken star]

cardiology or smth like that

[manic imp]

i mean with harvard like

[broken star]

bro jhu

[manic imp]

a decent chunk of departments have grade inflation but like

[broken star]

is so much better

[manic imp]

they have to work

so fucking hard

like so much work

and there is no grade inflation in my math and physics class

that or im stupid

because i might be dropping B-'s/C+'s

its hard

[restive zinc]

i know a phd student in cs who literally lives and smells like hes homeless 💀

home smart u gotta be

[proud lantern]

is there a CE stereotype

must be pretty similar to cs

NO

[restive zinc]

i thought by phd they would clean up

[proud lantern]

THE VOICES THE VOICES

[wise glacier]

CE is same as CS for most ppl

[proud lantern]

https://tenor.com/view/the-voices-meme-cat-gif-23917781

on my

on my appendix

if i get deferred or rejected from purdue im gonna cause the 3rd impact

[restive zinc]

CE is fucking fire

[wise glacier]

Most ppl think it's the same thing

[proud lantern]

turning everyone into orange juice

[restive zinc]

CS is ok.

[wise glacier]

I don't like to touch computer parts

[proud lantern]

i think im good at explaining the difference

[broken star]

dawg i legit thought purdue was some dookie ass school so i applied as a safety 💀

[manic imp]

crazy reference

[proud lantern]

i love touching things

[broken star]

cause no one ever mentions

purdue

from where im from

[manic imp]

nope, worse

[restive zinc]

Is it

[proud lantern]

gg were ur essays ass

[wise glacier]

Why did you ping me to say this wtf 😭

[broken star]

HELL YEAH

[proud lantern]

YIPEEEE 😋

[wise glacier]

That is NOT funny

[proud lantern]

mb gang

honkai…

I LOVE GAMbling

[proud lantern]

shinji crank that souljia boy

[manic imp]

i love shimji

[restive zinc]

Purdue? Well.. Its my everything ❤️

[manic imp]

soldier man, please notify them

[proud lantern]

https://tenor.com/view/meme-anime-gif-22734101

shinji stop fucking having a breakdown

t1 victim

[proud lantern]

me after gt

agree

[simple oracle]

what the heck is this

[pale sierra]

honkai!!!!

[broken star]

a prose

[feral coyote]

???????

[simple oracle]

https://tenor.com/view/stupid-idiot-gif-7217573

[feral coyote]

WHAT

wait harker?

ah

wild

that makes sense

[long spruce]

No way I have to compete with campers for deferred spots 💀

[proud lantern]

gg

[long spruce]

Yeah it's not looking good

[proud lantern]

these fucking san jose fiends bro

[feral coyote]

stanford tbh

[proud lantern]

stanturd

[stark fox]

stanford vibes

kirk

[feral coyote]

i mean if he didnt get in to MIT

[stark fox]

where's the stanford 29 server

[feral coyote]

ur not getting into it

[stark fox]

why not

[feral coyote]

bcuz ur not a stanford student..

[pale sierra]

stanturd

[stark fox]

not real

i'm such a real stanford student

[sudden dome]

las vegas

[proud lantern]

DID SOMEONE SAY GAMBLING

[long spruce]

Perhaps I should apply to asu

[sudden dome]

perhaps you should

[long spruce]

They do have a good EE program

And you can never have too many safeties

[long spruce]

The most dense urban area of my state had no ea admits this year lol

So basically 50% of the population

[coarse parrot]

https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/on_aps_1/

[long spruce]

I've literally never seen anyone in my high school or the few around me go out of state 💀

[haughty token]

I'm struggling to be personal with this question, I feel like whatever I write is just cliche
"How did you manage a situation or challenge that you didn’t expect? What did you learn from it?"

[coarse parrot]

lowkey tho the defferal just makes us all try hardeer

[long spruce]

True yeah

I do wish they were more stingy with their deferrals, although I understand Petey's explanation of why they defer so many

I just don't know if my app is actually pretty bad or decent

But better safe than sorry

[coarse parrot]

yeah i agree

like what % is deffered now?

its like 60%

why not like 40%

[long spruce]

Yeah it's wild

No choice but to grind now

[coarse parrot]

yeah

i do wish tho that i knew where i stood compared to the rest of the pool

like if i knew i was cooked i wouldnt want to spend more on apps lol

[long spruce]

Exactly yeah

[coarse parrot]

but i do see their reasoning

accept me as a prank 🦀

[long spruce]

When I didn't even get an email to check my portal I knew it was joever ngl

It would be a pretty funny prank if we got in

[coarse parrot]

no they only send you if you dont open it quickly

but seriously

chris let me in as a prank

[placid prairie]

I dont really have an personal challenges im just gonna write about how i thought i was gonna do one thing over the summer, and that did NOT happen so i ended up doing something else which i didnt really wanna do but i ended up enjoying it idk

[long spruce]

It is kinda staggering looking at ~200 deferred out of 23,000 though 💀

Yeah the FUN scares me

Not fun ❌

[haughty token]

Fair enough, I currently have an essay on the difficulties of mixing two friend groups that I was a part of in a very specific situation, but that was a long time ago and it's probably pretty cliche

Might rewrite with another topic

Right it's so limiting

[long spruce]

Last year there were 23,720 applicants considered during rd and 206 deferred admitted

Yeah it's more about if you can write something uniquely, every topic has been done before

I wish I was 😭

Probably less this year since they admitted so many ea

[haughty token]

Only 0.87%?? Isn't that less than just applying rd?

[long spruce]

Yep :)

[haughty token]

Can you just withdraw your application and reapply lol

[long spruce]

Nope :)

[haughty token]

That's kinda dumb

[long spruce]

Between this and the massive financial aid expansion we're cooked

[fallow cliff]

what is the FUN

[placid prairie]

You cant do that i need my daily source of freaky comments

[fallow cliff]

oh yikes

😣

[long spruce]

It's alright there's always grad school 🥰

[fallow cliff]

true only like 30-40% of MIT students are undergrad

[haughty token]

Are there stats for the acceptance rate among applicants with maker portfolios?

I would assume it increases your chances

Like it probably won't hurt if it's not great

[long spruce]

Definitely didn't help 💀

[fallow cliff]

did u apply & not get in?

[long spruce]

Deferred

So basically reject yeah

[fallow cliff]

what did u do ur profile on

[long spruce]

An emulator I built in Rust and hardware acceleration for some cryptography on FPGAs

[fallow cliff]

hmm

it has no impact so i guess i can see why it didnt aid your application