MIT (2024-2025)

[long spruce]

Can't wait to play poker with stu schmill

[crude flare]

It is based on availability still, but an interview could help bolster your chances if it went well; not the end of the world though

Best of luck, i hope things go well for you

[crude flare]

Although I don't know how MIT's admissions office works (I'm not an admissions officer or anything, pfft), they almost certainly get barely any applicants from the Middle East in general, let alone Syria

So they should take that into account - in theory you really shouldn't be held up to the same standard as somebody who already had a ton of opportunities (Western country, rich prep school, etc.)

The one consistent theme I've gotten from mit's admissions blogs is that, even though they obviously value those achievements, they also want to make sure that you'd actually be able to do well on campus, that you're nice to others, that beyond your achievements there's also someone who would genuinely fit in at campus

That's not to say that you're a bad person or didn't do enough if you got rejected/deferred/waitlisted, it's just that they probably didn't think you were an amazing match, and that's fine! You don't have to go to MIT to be successful, and not everyone that does will be, so just focus on doing what you think is best for yourself

||I mean, okay, it probably won't feel 'fine' (I know I'll be pretty downtrodden when that rejection letter eventually comes in on Pi Day), but what I meant to say is that it'll almost certainly be okay in the long run, so you can relax||

[long spruce]

Yep I definitely agree haha

I've taken to calling Harvard the better school in Cambridge (definitely easier to get into)

In an attempt to care less

But seriously, yeah. It will sting being rejected with how much I've learned about the school and really feel I would be happy there (spending a weekend at in cambridge two weeks before decisions certainly won't help lol), but ultimately the admissions officers probably know better than I do

[iron wigeon]

Hola

Has anybody actually gotten in this school

[long spruce]

Yes

[iron wigeon]

How many

[long spruce]

12 people in this server

You can see here

[wanton ore]

how important is mit interview

mit and harvard both fking amazing

for whatever field

every school is amazing

type shi

[tranquil coral]

alright

most interviews are essentially just a paragraph or two about you

i think some are sentences actually ?

trying to determine fit

[wanton ore]

i think mine was ok? bro idk lol

[wanton ore]

did u get a likely?

where from?

[tranquil coral]

washlee

[wanton ore]

yooo nice

[fresh mirage]

its not even that, it's like

there's a lot of people that could sucessfully be at MIT

it's jsut that there's so few spots that it essentially comes down to how compelling your application looks within thast context

and tbh

[crude flare]

Yeah exactly, they're just really selective

[fresh mirage]

it's very miniscule gap between getting in and not

yeah

a lot of top STEM students at good state schools or T20s would not be out of place at MIT

and vice versa

[naive gulch]

Not the case for this place
Yes, it's based on availability, but what would you do if no one is available to interview syrian applicants? Are you going to risk admitting an international student, from Syria, without an interview!!

So I'm assuming: since we have no syrian alumni doing interviews, mit reviews apps, after picking who's likely to get admitted, they assign them to an interviewer from any place to conduct a virtual interview

[crude flare]

The thing is that, even though interviews help, as far as I'm aware they're not really necessary
They are supposed to be understanding in that case

Whether they actually are? I have no idea though

[naive gulch]

Thank you! Even tho I'm certain it's over for me lol

[crude flare]

Hopefully not, but either way, best of luck man

[naive gulch]

You need to forget a lot of things you know about the application process when internationals are in question, let alone from a place like syria

[naive gulch]

Thank you! You too

[crude flare]

Oh yeah I'm aware, I'm from an underrepresented region too (though not that underrepresented)

But from what I've heard it isn't too different for us internationals, like, in theory it should be the same

[naive gulch]

Bro your profile says Europe 💀

[crude flare]

I'm from an island and had to travel for like half a day just to take the SAT
I barely know anybody applying to university and literally nobody doing it in the US lol

Doesn't mean it doesn't come with more privileges though

[crude flare]

Like I'd say I'm less privileged than the average Portuguese applicant (I don't go to an international school or anything, I had to handle a lot of stuff myself), but relative to someone from Syria.. I mean, it's going to be a lot more tough sadly

[naive gulch]

True. Its not different in the application sense, but it is drastically different when talking about what results expect, and what standard you're held to

[crude flare]

Yeah

[naive gulch]

I'm someone who's asking the schools im applying to, to invest 0.3 million usd in me (i need a full ride lmao)

[crude flare]

Honestly the most annoying thing is that all the advice you see online seems to be exclusively geared towards people from common backgrounds already

Like, I see so many people saying "they'll compare you to other applicants from your school"
What applicants!?

[naive gulch]

Lol

[crude flare]

Let's just hope for the best though, I do think they like underrepresented backgrounds at least

[fossil flare]

I come from a region with so many competitive applicants a nearby high school got 6 mit acceptances just in the early around 💀

the standards are definitely different

[glacial lion]

so if i move to corsica or smth ill have 1% more chance to get in

[crude flare]

You'll also have -94% more opportunities

[fossil flare]

yea its totally different

[crude flare]

Though

I mean either way just do your best

[naive gulch]

This

[glacial lion]

im the only polisci applicant to mit in the entire northern part of my country at least (possibly even the entire country)

and my interviewer said that might slightly help me

[naive gulch]

Syrias only sat center decided to shut down last year out of nowhere

So now we're hitting aoers with arbitrary numbers on a translated arabic transcript

[glacial lion]

i thnk it was basically impossible for them to operate legally w/ the sanctions in place

[fossil flare]

gl to yall that sounds tough af

[naive gulch]

Bro they were fine for 10 years

[glacial lion]

thats weird

[crude flare]

Could just be the political situation

[glacial lion]

im guessing a trip over the border to turkey or jordan wasnt feasible

[crude flare]

Assad singlehandedly kept the test center running /j

[naive gulch]

This is the first season college board decided: yeaaa im not having it anymore lil bros

[naive gulch]

Loll

Nah it shut down months before our boxers model was overthrown

[fossil flare]

ppl in my area flying to diff places to take the sat coz nearby centers r all fully booked is like such an opposite problem

[naive gulch]

Lebanon and jordan were the options

[glacial lion]

our centers are always underbooked

in fact i think we were one of the very few cases where we had make up sat days

[naive gulch]

In Lebanon its cheaper but a war broke out

[glacial lion]

cause one date in may fell on orthodox easter weekend and the staff were like we aint coming

[crude flare]

No test centers where I live so I had to take a 2h flight to the mainland
But also there's very few people here taking the SAT it really wouldn't have been worth it either way

[glacial lion]

i aint risking my physical safety to take the sat atp

[naive gulch]

For jordan its like my dad's yearly income

[glacial lion]

there is a solution to this. remove test optional and add a test waiver option for these circumstances

but collegeboard lobbying wont allow that

[naive gulch]

Schools supposedly understand these situations

[crude flare]

Pretty sure most colleges let you waive the test score requirement for reasons like that

yeah

[naive gulch]

All syrian applicants applied with no testing this season and a bunch of them got in

[glacial lion]

thats nice

[trim locust]

yea bc theres prob no testing centers 💀

[naive gulch]

Pton, brown, stanford... (early round)

[crude flare]

At least we're in the 2020s, imagine being in Deir Ezzor in 2015 or something

[glacial lion]

i hope u guys dont have any issues with your f-1 visas tho

cause a certain man with orange makeup might reinstate some previous bans

[naive gulch]

Ohh boi you know too much

[glacial lion]

yeah

honestly im glad i lived in the DSAT era

paper one had these long ass texts

i aint reading all that

[crude flare]

yeah same

[crude flare]

On one hand i'm european so i don't think i'd be impacted too much
But honestly i'd probably still be impacted by everything else

[naive gulch]

During trump season one, some students were miraculously able to get the visa

[glacial lion]

we probably wont

[crude flare]

(And there's a good chance that, if he fucks it up, he fucks it up for everybody)

[glacial lion]

usually EU countries are "safe"

[crude flare]

I feel for y'all though

[glacial lion]

relatively

[naive gulch]

How do you know deir ezzor

Youre impressing me

[glacial lion]

but overcoming the presumption of leaving the us after studies might be a bit hard

like imagine being in that room

and being asked

[crude flare]

I used to read up on the syrian civil war like 2-3 years ago
The siege of kobane was also pretty impressive, there's a documentary on it i think

[fossil flare]

well esp getting a work visa

[glacial lion]

after you finish your studies, instead of seeking a job with 120k+ yearly salary, i will return to my concrete-filled city to be paid 800 euro a month

[fossil flare]

time to get rizzy and marry a us citizen

[glacial lion]

now shout out to my grandma and mom who passed me citizenship under n600k

[crude flare]

At least if you're paid in euros you can make use of the schengen area

[glacial lion]

but for yall i will try to empathize

[naive gulch]

Loll

[glacial lion]

cant even pay rent with that

[crude flare]

Like, the job market here in Portugal kinda sucks, and the cost of living is so insane that it's virtually never worth it
But we also have the privilege of working in a ton of other countries

[fossil flare]

most of the us is concrete filled car park anyways ur not missing out on too much

[glacial lion]

true but at least its not pretentious

but reality is this

[fossil flare]

esp if donny manages to yeet the quality of life down the drain w the fda and doe kaboomboomed

[glacial lion]

when one thinks of my country its like this

[fossil flare]

lol is that santorini

[naive gulch]

Ok goodnight everyone idk how imma wake up 5 hours later and go to school

[crude flare]

Best of luck, sleep well

[fossil flare]

a lot of the cs profs at my local state uni are greek so maybe its like a professional degree immigration thing

[crude flare]

Portugal and greece are pretty similar in a lot of aspects tbh

Amazing place to visit, meh place to actually live in, bad place to grow your career or earn well

[glacial lion]

but its just this

[glacial lion]

some sort of island idk

[fossil flare]

lowk reminds me of central china where my grandparents live

its like the balconies

[glacial lion]

its urban anarchy

back in the 70s there was this policy of "antiparochi"

where essentially if you owned land in the city or a house

you would be approached by a contractor and he would be like

ok give me this land

i will build and cramp as many apartments as possible

and i will give you 3

so all the traditional houses dissapeared

and we got filled with soulless apartment buildings

yet for some reason a shitty apartment in one of those costs 200k+

[fossil flare]

💀

[crude flare]

Here, there's a ton of real estate construction, but even though the market is satured it's basically all luxury apartments since those are what pay best

[fossil flare]

ah i see

[crude flare]

So even though we have Greek salaries, a half-decent apartment is minimum 150-250,000€

[glacial lion]

the funny thing is i live in a quasi urban suburban area which used to literally be just fields and was rapidly developed

and they build luxury apartments next to mid houses

[crude flare]

And most of the apartments being sold are 500,000-1,000,000€

[glacial lion]

like its out of place

[fossil flare]

thats actually crazy

[glacial lion]

jeez

[crude flare]

Meanwhile.. I think almost a quarter of people here don't even earn 10k a year each

[fossil flare]

us housing seem much more affordable in comparison

[crude flare]

Average family income is probably like 40k a year

[glacial lion]

idk if its integrated into ur society, but here our people have an obsession to pass real estate to their children

[fossil flare]

its just foreign rich ppl buying them right

[crude flare]

Yeah pretty much

[glacial lion]

like u are considered a failed parent if u dont give ur child a house

[crude flare]

I think Portuguese people only move out of their parent's house in their mid 30s on average

[glacial lion]

(this is true for my parents generation and before) not for new families

damn

[crude flare]

Because that's when you can actually afford to take a mortgage on a house

Renting one is too expensive for most people

[fossil flare]

ig for chinese ppl its the opposite where children r expected to be successful enough to buy their own home & give their parents a better living situation

[glacial lion]

idk about other people but my cousin who is from a village and is studying in my city moved out at 18

[crude flare]

Most apartments cost more to rent than the gross minimum wage after taxes, and I think 10-20% of people only earn that much

[glacial lion]

usually greek students dont study near their homes so they start to rent from 18

[glacial lion]

alot of pressure ngl

[fossil flare]

its starting to be like this in us for non college grads and in some cases college grads too

[glacial lion]

im genuienly worried about supporting myself i cant worry for more people

[crude flare]

I see people being like "I've been in the workforce for 20 years and I still only earn 10k a year, what are these youngsters complaining about"
Which.. idk man, that just makes me sad

[glacial lion]

but im lucky bc if i decide to move out to greece im supposed to inherit my grandma's apartment so at least i wont be homeless

back*

[crude flare]

Yeah, my area is kind of the opposite - there's very few expectations but also not much opportunity to really stand out

[glacial lion]

the property bubble will burst

but when that comes people wont have cash to actually buy things

and banks wont give out loans

[crude flare]

Nobody who I talk to wants me to even apply to MIT for example

[glacial lion]

so only those that have reserves will be able to buy

[crude flare]

My parents don't, took me years of convincing (started in 10th grade and they only started to accept it / not dismiss it a few months ago)

Whenever I bring it up with people, a lot of the time they tell me it's not worth it and that it's a waste of time / that the local universities aren't any worse / etc. etc.

[glacial lion]

they dont want to be seperated from u probably

my parents tell me smth similar like

[crude flare]

True, but it's not just that, it's the mentality

[glacial lion]

why dont u do ur bachelors here

greek universities are very good

you can do ur masters in the us

[crude flare]

Like, I remember telling my psychologist I wanted to go to MIT and she told me how it was totally unnecessary and that i could just do my bachelor's here for like 5-10 minutes

[glacial lion]

like ok ik our unis are academically fine

[crude flare]

My aunt was the same, my parents were the same - hell, when I brought it up on r/portugal i just got downvoted and had people tell me the same thing

At least my teachers kinda believe in me, I'm glad for that

[glacial lion]

but there is no organisation in our unis otherwise

damn

at least my teachers support me

but then again i do ib so its assumed that i will go abroad

[crude flare]

Portuguese universities aren't all that bad either - they're essentially my safeties lol - but obviously i'd be a lot more glad if i got into a good university in the US

IST in Lisbon is basically the closest thing we have to MIT and it's definitely my number one choice.. but i also don't really like lisbon that much (and rent prices are insane)

[glacial lion]

dont get me wrong. aristotle university is ranked like 450 in the world (ik rankings arent best metric) which is decent. it also has produced many successful alumni + its completely free

but our universities have become so heavily politicized

there is a great chance that if smth controversial happens during my studies

some anarchist student group will literally camp inside the building

police isnt legally allowed to enter uni

[crude flare]

Oh what .w.

[glacial lion]

cause people have assylum in uni under greek law

so i will lose maybe a whole semester

[crude flare]

I mean universities here are kind of political but nowhere near that extent

[glacial lion]

and it ruins my exams

[crude flare]

That's kind of insane though

[glacial lion]

this dates back from the civil war

bc the military junta drove a tank and crushed some students inside the uni

so if any govt dares to touch that law its over

[crude flare]

Oh, that explains it

[glacial lion]

so the unis have become a breeding ground for drugs

for molotov cocktail throwing

for destruction of public property

you name it

[crude flare]

Yeah I can see why you wouldn't want to go then

[glacial lion]

but if i have to i will

the free part is particularly appealing

[crude flare]

In my case, it's not really that I don't want to, as much as it is the fact that American universities honestly just seem better - really good aid policies, amazing connections, really comprehensive curriculum, tons of flexibility, I love the culture, etc.
But they're also so hard to get into that realistically speaking I'm almost certainly not going to

[glacial lion]

like if i stay i dont pay for anything, i have my house, my car, my family + i can distinguish myself in an environment where 90% of students are mediocre

[glacial lion]

unless they give me a full ride the expenses start to add up

even if i dont have any charges due to mit

its at least 2k for transport

book costs

personal costs

insurance

[crude flare]

Same here, but the cost of living in Lisbon is so expensive that it's unironically cheaper to fly round-trip to Boston every month and not pay anything there

That, or I can go to my local university, but it's not that great

[glacial lion]

makes sense

i have the perk of being in a city with the largest uni in the balkans

so i dont have to move

[crude flare]

Let's just hope for the best though

At the end of the day, we don't really know what's ahead of us
But I did enjoy having this conversation at least, pretty refreshing to be able to take a break from.. well, everything else lol

[glacial lion]

sometimes you just need to chill yk

[crude flare]

Wait no i should've phrased that differently

I meant like - most people here are from really overrepresented groups already
Nothing wrong with that but it is nice to feel heard i guess, I'm not from the Bay Area or from some $40,000/year private school, it feels like half of the things on here don't apply to me sometimes lol

[glacial lion]

yeah

its a different world

but you adapt

i go to a private school on scholarship which i wouldnt be able to afford normally

but im actually having a good time contrary to what i expected

its just really what people you choose to surround yourself with

[crude flare]

In my case, pretty much nobody I know wants to go to college abroad probably because i didnt even take the college-preparatory track (please don't reject me i can do calculus)

I have a few classmates who want to study at the local uni but that's it lol

[glacial lion]

everybody in my department wants to go abroad

but in away everyone is naturally sorted into the kind of college that fits them

[crude flare]

||Long story short but it enables me to take classes that I'm actually interested in, at the expense of some course rigor - so, I have a bunch of really amazing programming classes that I excel in, but my math teacher barely even explained what a derivative was - I explained that in my essays, hopefully it doesn't harm me too much (since i did make an effort to learn the advanced material myself, I have a schoolhouse.world calculus certificate for example)||

[glacial lion]

i virtually have no competition rn because those who got into t20s got into the early round and now im just waiting

[glacial lion]

they like schoolhouse

idk how they might feel that i took the easiest math course available in IB

yet again i never said my strong area was math

[crude flare]

Might not be seen well, but if you did amazingly well there, you're probably fine

[glacial lion]

consistent A+ in us scale

[crude flare]

Should be fine then

[glacial lion]

• 780 sat so not cooked ig

[crude flare]

Tbh the only other issue with my app is that, I get really consistent A+s and A*s in most of my classes, but I also have a few (all non-STEM) that are exclusively Bs

[glacial lion]

i dont rlly think thats a problem

[crude flare]

Like, I have 7-8 classes where I've never gotten anything other than an A, and 2-3 where I've never gotten anything higher than like a B (or maybe an occasional A)

[glacial lion]

thats many classes

[crude flare]

Caveat being that the former are STEM, and the latter aren't - PE, languages, etc.
I don't know how it looks if I consistently get perfect grades in math/programming/english/social science/physics/etc., but consistently get really bad grades in portuguese lol

[glacial lion]

i have 6 classes in junior and senior year

but when i was in the national school system in freshman and sophomore i had like 13/14/15 classes

[crude flare]

Yeah, i'm taking a vocational curriculum so i have like 4 extra subjects relative to everyone else

[glacial lion]

its all about the circumstances man as well

like in physics i had a shit teacher in 10th grade

i could barely get a 50% in the test

so i did self study and got a tutor

[crude flare]

Oh damn

[glacial lion]

and sure enough in the exams i wrote 100%

im lucky now bc we are like max 9 ppl in a class

[crude flare]

It's actually kinda funny, the score distribution of each national exam is available online

[glacial lion]

but then it was 28 ppl

also in the greek school system grades are hella inflated

[crude flare]

Out of like 30,000 students who took the advanced maths exam (Matemática A), I believe a few hundred got a perfect score (100%)

[glacial lion]

like someone would get a 45% on a test which would ammount to a ~9/20 and on the term they would put a 17/20

[crude flare]

Out of the 35,000 students who took the portuguese exam (Português)? Literally in the single digits

[glacial lion]

so you have half a class getting honor certificates

rip

i hate greek lit

[crude flare]

You are dozens of times more likely to get a perfect grade in the Mathematics exam than in the Portuguese one

[glacial lion]

i feel like the people marking greek lit feel entitled or smth

they refuse to give good scores

[dusky sable]

Has anyone here done the MIT blueprint hackathon before. Do you know if it's worth going to?

[crude flare]

Oh yeah

Portuguese involves a lot of old literature as well, can't imagine it's too dissimilar from greek lit

[crude flare]

The education system is very human (half of my classmates can't spell and we never learned how to write a formal email, and yet we spend every single class analyzing old literature and learning how to identify a dozen different types of adverbial subordinate clauses)

[glacial lion]

damn

im rlly enjoying discovering similarities with my fellow europeans but its 12:15 am and i have to wake up at 6:40 tmr so unfortunately i have to go sleep

[crude flare]

Thank god I know the difference between a subject predicate, a direct complement, a name complement, the adverb complement, the adjective complement and the passive agent complement, this will surely be useful when I can barely remember how to write sometimes

[glacial lion]

but im confident you excelling in an under resourced environment will work in your favor

in any case, good luck 🙂

[crude flare]

Same, good luck to you too!!

[crude flare]

Oh fun, I didn't know English syntactic functions were fucked up too

[finite arch]

Whens the last day for interviews? im intl

[sudden sand]

??????

[potent dawn]

it really depends on the olympiad

IMO medalist in 2 years? LOL

IChO or IBO in 2 years? definitely doable

• solid dedication is difficult when school is a 9-5 and you have ECs to juggle

im not making excuses im just saying its more difficult than you might think

[placid lagoon]

did any of you guys do any summer programs

[rose halo]

guys, are interviews for internationals still rolling? or am i cooked (cause i didnt recieve one yet :((( )

[gilded iris]

Girl bye

[finite arch]

me too no interview yet 😦

[frank lance]

mit interviews are only availability based right ?

so it doesn't mean anything if you get or don't get

[finite arch]

yeah thats true

[trim locust]

🙋

[trim locust]

Yea

Don’t fret abt it

They won’t penalize u for not interview

[gilded iris]

Man I hate math olympiads so much lmao

[finite arch]

my profile is banking on it 💀

alr got 2Rs and 0A lmfao

[gilded iris]

prepped for a total of like 25 hours of nothing but practice tests in 8th grade, got AIME in 9th grade, and never touched them again

[finite arch]

damn gg

[gilded iris]

my group partner in English 1, during the day of the presentation, went to take USABO just so he could skip

💀

[finite arch]

lmao

mad lad

howd he do

[gilded iris]

awful im pretty sure

[fathom crow]

i hate them but only bc i fell off after 10th grade

[gilded iris]

though he's smarter than me

[finite arch]

💀

olympiads i think are fun

i only did the math

[gilded iris]

omg I didn't even qual for AIME in 10th grade

[finite arch]

didnt do the rest subjects

[fathom crow]

not when you get a 0

[gilded iris]

and I was too lazy to register in 12th

[fathom crow]

bro no

[finite arch]

oh no

😭

[fathom crow]

ykw aime this year was scuffed i got a 7 for the second time in a row

[finite arch]

AIME 1 or AIME 2

[fathom crow]

1

im cooked

[finite arch]

oh i did 2

i heard aime 1 was quite difficult?

[fathom crow]

bro im so pressed i made like 3 arithmetic errors on this year and last

[finite arch]

yeah every questions worth like 10 points

costly errors

[gilded iris]

Its wild cause I have like 9 USAMO friends, most who qualified before 11th grade

[finite arch]

add 1 more

[fathom crow]

i legit answered 1-11 and 14 and fucked up like 5 of them idk what i did

[finite arch]

😉

oof 💀

[fathom crow]

whatever

[finite arch]

1-11 is good though

[fathom crow]

what's done is done

[finite arch]

yeah thats right

MIT releasing on pi day is funny

really niche

[fathom crow]

dont remind me

[gilded iris]

last year's AIME I took 60 minutes to answer the first ten questions, then left bc I didn't care enough to work through the rest

[fathom crow]

literally in less than a month

[gilded iris]

I got a 5 💀

[finite arch]

thats a very good pace honestly

6mins per

usually the avg is 12

oh u got 5 ☠️

[fathom crow]

guys is it really that hard for MIT to just accept me

im just a girl like

[finite arch]

The only people mit accepts from my country are medalist

i dont got no medals

🤡

[gilded iris]

I'm gonna beg Collegeboard to make an AP competition math course just so I can kill whoever teaches it

[fathom crow]

yes

final AP exam is the AIME

[finite arch]

Would be lit

[fathom crow]

grade bounds would be dogshit

[finite arch]

nah make the IMO

[gilded iris]

your ap score is your floor(aime score/3) 💀

[finite arch]

to get a 5/5 you need to score 4 points out of 42

[fathom crow]

we getting a 2 with this one

[finite arch]

💀

[fathom crow]

LMAOOOOOO

am i crazy bc i think i could get at least 2 points on IMO

[finite arch]

trivial work gives u 0 points lmao

need to make some substantial progress to even get 1-2

[fathom crow]

yeah

i think i could get 2 points in my prime

[finite arch]

usamo scoring system but same appleis for imo

[fathom crow]

like 1 pt on 1 and 1 pt on 4

[finite arch]

ye

1 and 4 are my best bets

[fathom crow]

i feel like that could happen

[finite arch]

maybe try a crack at 2/5 but no hope on 3/6

[fathom crow]

i met a gold medalist from IMO and the way he solves things is actually just terrifying

[finite arch]

i am speed

[gilded iris]

Honestly I'm astounded by how well I've done in college decisions so far
Everything I've done is so incredibly mediocre and took so little time compared to everyone else

[fathom crow]

what did you get?

and i feel the same lol

[finite arch]

i did shit lmao

rejected rea stanford and ed2 jhu

[gilded iris]

with scholarships on northeastern and RPI, and potentially a full ride for USC

[fathom crow]

oml congrats

[finite arch]

my hopes are on the need blinds

need blinds pls

🙏

[fathom crow]

real bro i only applied need blind RD

[finite arch]

this is literally it for me

[fathom crow]

4 from there

thats all i applied RD

[finite arch]

no concept of safety as intl needing aid

[gilded iris]

thanks, definitely don't feel like I deserve it so far 💀

[fathom crow]

literally like if i wanted safety id stay in my country

[finite arch]

ggs though

yeah

[gilded iris]

trust
you'll get somewhere

[finite arch]

Ye

MIT would be a fever dream

Never in my wildest dreams would i imagine this working out

[fathom crow]

no bc obviously something you did merited acceptance, they feel like you would be a great fit and they think you will grow into a joy to have on campus ggs

[finite arch]

On the off chance that it does

[fathom crow]

i knowwww omg

[gilded iris]

Thanks man

[finite arch]

<1% chance im getting it

but theres a chance

and thats all that matters

[gilded iris]

They accepted 2 students from china last year right

crazy

[finite arch]

imo gold medalists

[gilded iris]

literally the cream of the cream of the cream of the crop

[finite arch]

honestly i saw a video online from the china imo team and they clown silver medalists lmao

[gilded iris]

If I managed to get IMO gold, then I would feel the right to clown on everyone else

[finite arch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rj0U1_6oQc

the ending 💀

[fathom crow]

if i had imo gold everyone would hate me bro id be insufferable

[gilded iris]

Bro I have the blandest stats and yet I still act insufferable sometimes 💀

[finite arch]

fr

[fathom crow]

kinda real

[gilded iris]

like "hur hur I interned at boeing and built a fusor" no bitch you aint special

[finite arch]

anyone submitted mit slideroom stuff

[fathom crow]

yeah i did music

[gilded iris]

yup, made a whole 2 minute reel

[finite arch]

i did the research supplement

aero/astro project

i did lol

[fathom crow]

i did a voice portfolio

my research not good enough for ts

[sick yew]

Hi!

[finite arch]

ah cool

[sick yew]

Is MIT worth it for basket weaving? I’m trying to decide between MIT and UMich EA.

[fathom crow]

are we deaduzz

[finite arch]

basket weaving?

[fathom crow]

this has got to be a bot man

i cant do ts today

[gilded iris]

idk, I'm currently deciding between Purdue and the Illuminati for quiltmaking

[sick yew]

ummmmm ok

[finite arch]

therres an MIT in india

you can go there

[sick yew]

Ive never been to India before

[finite arch]

Well please do!

Basket weaving at its finest

world renowned

[sick yew]

MIT in the usa is world renowned

[fathom crow]

bro do you lowkey keep reopening your portal just to check if it's still there

[finite arch]

you asked for the basket weaving 😡

lmfao yeah i do

[sick yew]

MIT usa basketweaving is not bad

[finite arch]

i check if any changes or sm or recent activities

[fathom crow]

im scared if i dont keep checking itll disappear

[finite arch]

i check mainly for recent activities

[gilded iris]

Sometimes I fear they'll hire conor mcgregor to ring my doorbell and bitchslap me when I open the door

[fathom crow]

omg this is so me

where did yall apply RD full list rn

[finite arch]

They should let everyone in honestly

[fathom crow]

yassss

[finite arch]

0% rejections

[sick yew]

I only applied to ivies and one safety

And umich ea for fun

[gilded iris]

(duke umich and gtech were deferred)

[sick yew]

This setup is so aesthetic

[gilded iris]

cant wait to see how many days I make it into march until my no refection streak is nuked

[fathom crow]

oh yay i only hit you on one school

[finite arch]

Chrome bookmarks i thinks

[sick yew]

Congrats on usc!

[gilded iris]

Thanks! interviewed for a full ride scholarship 2 weeks ago

[sick yew]

Thats insane

I hope u get it

[fathom crow]

omg hope you get it

guys idk if this is just me

but

3% sounds a whole lot easier than 2000/60000

do yk what i mean by that

[gilded iris]

lowkey yeah

[fathom crow]

thank you omg like i swear when i think 3% i just have to be 1 out of 30 not 2000 out of 60000

1 out of 30 just feels like beating 29 people 2000/60000 feels like beating 58000

minus aura for not knowing percents

[finite arch]

💀

typo

3 out of 100 is 1 out of 33.3

🤓

[gilded iris]

sometimes I glaze myself that being requested to interview for scholarship for usc ea is 1000/40000 applicants, and then I remember that I'm a royal dumbass

[gilded iris]

erm actually its 33.3̅

[finite arch]

lmfao

[fathom crow]

idk

[gilded iris]

dammit why wont the bar work on discord 💀

[finite arch]

it works

i can see it

[fathom crow]

like when you say 2k/60k it feels like there are so many more options other thn me yk

also its crazy to me how many people apply

[finite arch]

heard 2007 had a spike in births

[fathom crow]

yeah but still

[gilded iris]

mit last year was 1300/30000

[fathom crow]

oh sorry MIT is 1300/28000

sync

[gilded iris]

yeah but every applicant is insanely cracked by themselves
Like I feel like I'm probably slightly below the average applicant to MIT, which does not leave very good prospects for me going there 💀

[fathom crow]

literally

like

idk on my rea i got really fucking lucky

i feel like if it were accomplishments alone i stood no shot

[normal stag]

Sameeee

Like maybe I'm just mad bc I'm bad

[gilded iris]

Did you get stanny

[normal stag]

But it feels much less interesting than other branches of math to me

[gilded iris]

Yeah like I like math
But doing these weird ass word problems just is not it

[normal stag]

Yeah exactly

It feels very arbitrary tbh

But then again I never have acheived even as much as you. I put a grand total of 0 hours of prep in than got like 2 points above the median score 💀

[gilded iris]

I remember back in 8th grade I thought I was the shit in terms of math competitions
Then I met 4 USAJMO qualifiers in my grade in freshmen year and completely forgot about olympiads 💀

[normal stag]

So I am a little weary to make general statements just bc people who have a little more compentance might find it more enjoyanle

[normal stag]

rip 💀

yeah some people be insane

there was an 8th grader ik who full scored the amc 10

like what

[gilded iris]

like 5 of my friends who I didn't even know were interested in math at all scored in the 130s on amc 12 in sophomore year

actually gonna crash out

[normal stag]

no frrr people who are that good at comp math but then say that math is boring make me so mad

[woeful coral]

You guys actually enjoy math competitions ?

[gilded iris]

hell nah

[normal stag]

I have a friend who got into aime which is chill ig but then when he told me he hated math I was really annoye

[normal stag]

no 💀

[woeful coral]

Lmfao let’s go

Why do it then

[normal stag]

I don't anymore

bc I didn't enjoy it

[gilded iris]

cause I thought I was good, until I realized I very much wasn't

[woeful coral]

That’s good, I thought you guys started doing it cause college or something😭

The only math I’m studying is for a test or quiz

[gilded iris]

During a school trip to Puerto Rico in freshman year, I met a girl who got USAJMO 8th grade, but says she doesn't even care about it because its not that important to her

[normal stag]

no honestly like I don't want to hate on anyone but as someone who thinks math is genuinely a really beautiful subject, thinking its boring but then still study it intensely is a pet peeve of mine

Like no hate on comp math people, if you enjoy it thats awesone and good for you

[woeful coral]

Lmfao similar, I enjoy math but doing it too much is crazy work

[normal stag]

but hating math but then doing it is kinda annoying

[gilded iris]

The only reason why I ever did any humanities stuff was for college and GPA

[normal stag]

Honestly humanities are based

[gilded iris]

Actually does partly running an e-waste recycling organization count or nah

[normal stag]

lowkey most of my favorite ECs are humanties based lol

[gilded iris]

10 hours of my life which I will never get back were dumped into writing several genuinely garbage position papers for MUN

[woeful coral]

My ECS are literally engineering, some chess, volunteering and summer internships/programs I should have kinda done something outside of this

[normal stag]

That's actually incredibly cool

[normal stag]

Honestly those sound cool. Tbh if you enjoy your ECs and learn stuff then mission accomplished imo.

[gilded iris]

thanks
If I reveal any more about the organization then you could trace it back to my identity lol

[normal stag]

okay fair

[gilded iris]

I will say that It's recycled 500,000+ batteries and 100,000+ lb e-waste so far

[normal stag]

Lowkey I love reading about people's niche/unique ECs because people do genuinly cool stuff

[woeful coral]

I did enjoy them but idk if they good enough lmfao

[woeful coral]

Woah that’s cool af

[gilded iris]

We've already recovered several dozen kilos of gold, platinum, cobalt, etc

all donated, of course

[woeful coral]

Damm that’s a good business 🤑

Saving waste could be as a non profit then for profit to sell the gold

🤑🤑🤑

[gilded iris]

colleges don't care about profit in ECs haha

[woeful coral]

I want profit

For myself

[normal stag]

ngl that's insane

I really hope you get into MIT with that now lol

[fluid dragon]

U have the brain of a future millionaire

good luck folks

[woeful coral]

LMFAOOO

[woeful coral]

How many kgs of gold did u guys get from 100,000 lbs of waste?

Also recycling E waste require like machinery and stuff right?

[normal stag]

yeah same. Idk I think very few people think their ECs are 'good enough' bc so many people are so accomplished so it ends up feeling almost random

[woeful coral]

That’s true Yeha

[gilded iris]

we collaborated with existing industrial plants

[gilded iris]

we never actually tallied all that stuff, its just an estimate

[woeful coral]

Damm that’s sick

[woeful coral]

I mean approx or a minimum?

[gilded iris]

approx

all just based on readily googable statistics

It's not like we're gonna do a chemical composition analysis of a broken inkjet printer lmao

[gilded iris]

What are some of yours, aside from comps

[normal stag]

Okay my ECs are really whack and I did a bunch of random stuff so it was hard to get it down to 4

[woeful coral]

Minimum 500 grams to max 10000 grams gold
So maybe around 1 million, platinum around 200-300k

Costs should be maybe around 100-300k

Could be a profitable business

Just depends on what specific item is recycled

[gilded iris]

true
would be awkward to switch from highschooler-led nonprofit to college student led startup though lmao

[woeful coral]

Lmfao, I mean this is something I’d start without going to college

Just capital intensive

[woeful coral]

Governments tax benefits and stuff would be crazy

[normal stag]

So I ended up putting:
debate/speech/ethics bowl
doing random projects 💀 (desmos art and like rl stuff mostly)
math tutoring
online content creation (math yt channel+publishing dnd content online lol)

[woeful coral]

A lot of countries want u to recycle e waste, and countries that don’t do it so far is a major market

Alright too much business talk lmfaooo

[gilded iris]

thats awesome

I do some modding in factorio, which is probably the most embarassing thing on my applications 💀

[woeful coral]

Desmos art is so hard and cool

[gilded iris]

https://mods.factorio.com/user/SerotoninTheft if you wanna play any

[normal stag]

thats actually based

[woeful coral]

That is not embarrassing it’s a cool hobby and passion

[normal stag]

Thank you. There are people who did way cooler stuff that I, mine was kinda mid tier

[gilded iris]

what curves did you use

bezier, polynomial, trig, etc?

[normal stag]

Agreed. I don't know what AOs think but I find ECs like this that are clearly motivated by passion way cooler and more impressive than "impressive" things that are clearly motivated by college apps

[normal stag]

Okay so I actually did mostly music desmos bc I'm insane 💀

And then visual stuff was manual not with bezier curvers 💀
I also did a lot of basically visually explaining math problems in desmos which isn't exactly art but is similar, which was also done manually

[normal stag]

So like this is an example https://www.desmos.com/calculator/7peplpcaz3

[gilded iris]

true
lowkey I'm kinda an awful person because I wrote my dead brother as motivation for one of my ecs when it had nothing to do with it

[gilded iris]

this is sick

[woeful coral]

Ngl my coolest EC is probably my passion project the rest is just the typical

[woeful coral]

That is SICCK

I didn’t know u can do this on Desmos

[sick yew]

Are any of you already in mit?

[normal stag]

I could never imagine loosing your brother that must be awful, and so I am both sorry for your loss and impressed by your ability to continue to push forward despite it. Definity no blame for putting that on your application bc obviously that's going to profoundly impact you

[normal stag]

thanks ❤️

[sick yew]

Its summer time looovin lovin in the summer time

[woeful coral]

That is def not being an awful person wtf 😭 this def had a major impact on you and you’re life 😭

Don’t hate on yourself😭

[gilded iris]

thanks man

[gilded iris]

it was an ear tumour which chemo couldn't remove
Currently, the best alternative treatment for radioresistant tumours is fast neutron therapy, which requires a robust neutron source
I'm currently building a small nuclear reactor in my garage, which functions as a variable, controllable neutron source, which I can use to conduct research on fast neutron therapy with in the medical labs at MIT when finished

I still feel cheap and exploitative by writing about it from that angle in my common app, but it's already been submitted

[woeful coral]

Bro that is not cheap and exploitative you’re trying to save lives

What are u on about 😭

[gilded iris]

Idk, I guess I just feel ethically biased against using life events like that

[normal stag]

Bro no. That's a great project and that seems to be a very real motivation

[woeful coral]

Exactly

[gilded iris]

Thanks

If I were interested in medicine/chem, I would probably just do cancer research at universities directly, but I'm an aerospace major so I went this path instead

[normal stag]

I think sometimes people do it designingly, which its definitely fair and good to push back on. On the other hand everything I see about your project makes it seem incredibly genuine. Like we've said its an awesome project and an incredible reason to do something.

[gilded iris]

I talked about this with a few of my friends, and one of them called it the holy grail of college app extracurricular motivations lmao

[fathom crow]

Caltech lol

Idk how

[placid lagoon]

which one?

[placid lagoon]

that's amazing!
what are your ECs/stats?

[fathom crow]

4.0/1600

I mostly do math and music related things, applied math/cs

[trim locust]

ssp

[long spruce]

ooh nice

I keep hearing amazing things about people's experiences at ssp and wishing I had applied

[woeful coral]

i got rejected lmfao

but i found a better in state program for myself which was nice

[normal stag]

Yeah was rejected from sparc and mites but went to a program at my state school that I absolutely loved

No regrets

[trim locust]

i didnt have anything like that so it was ssp or nothing 💀

[keen girder]

what is bro waffling about. good luck getting anywhere in competitive math, cs, or physics in 2 years. maybe others are easier but 2 years is still a very short time. i've heard a lot of us IOI ppl have been preparing since middle or elementary school

[keen girder]

twinning

except i got deferred caltech 😭

[fathom crow]

omg what

the heck

[keen girder]

you got in though right?

congrats!

[fathom crow]

yeah

thanks!

i still dont think it's right

[keen girder]

may i ask what region you are from?

[fathom crow]

i don't want to say lol

im very international though

and also very rural

[keen girder]

i see i see

i guess being in the bay area does not help ☠️

[fathom crow]

oh shi

is that in california?

[keen girder]

yea norcal

[fathom crow]

yeah ok

ive heard that that's really competitive right

[keen girder]

yeah

standards are much higher here

[fathom crow]

eeeekkkk

1600 is fire tho congrats

[keen girder]

ty ty

you too :))

[fathom crow]

i just want mit to let me in like

what the freak

and harvard

and all the good ones like

[keen girder]

oh so you also applied caltech rea for the same reason im assuming 💀

[fathom crow]

?

[keen girder]

caltech especially hates it when kids from my region apply RD

(because they know they're not going to go)

[fathom crow]

tbh

idk why i REA caltech

i didnt want to early to harvard mit princeton or yale because they all defer everyone

just always deferring

so i wanted to early somewhere where id probably either get accepted or rejected straight up

so at least it did something

[keen girder]

yeah that was my thought process lol

you'll probably get into everywhere else if you got into caltech rea tbh

dw abt it

[fathom crow]

i dont think so my essays peaked in ea

i wrote some BAD essays

hella corny

for rd

[trim locust]

thats so real

EA ED essays were so buns

its fine as long as we clutch our rd essays

[fathom crow]

no my rd essays were the bad ones

ea was where it was at

i had more time to write them

[trim locust]

i rushed my essays for my jan 2nd schools really bad

[keen girder]

my rd why school essays were kinda interesting ngl

[trim locust]

my worst ones: yale

and northwestern

and princeton 💀

cooked on rest i think

[fathom crow]

omg my princeton was chopped

and harvard was semi chopped

[trim locust]

that long ahh 500 word essay fucked me uppp

[keen girder]

i mainly just talked abt 1 or 2 things and related them to myself instead of "random bullshit go"

[trim locust]

i wanna cry bc of my harvard essays

[fathom crow]

i had no idea what to do

dude

[trim locust]

i feel like i shot myself in the foot with them

[fathom crow]

MIT felt so good for no reason

and yale too

my mom LOVED yale essays

[shut magnet]

my columbia essays were booty cheeks

[trim locust]

they asked TOO MANY questions

[shut magnet]

give me 250 words please thats all i need

[fathom crow]

nonono they were onto smth i had a chance to get out a few personality traits

[shut magnet]

not whatever 100-150 bs they were pulling

[trim locust]

i think my mit essays were solid except that "how have u gone thru ur educational journey in a unique way" question

[fathom crow]

omg

[shut magnet]

yeah same

[fathom crow]

i forgot abt that essay

[shut magnet]

it was hard to write that one without being like im not like the other girls

[trim locust]

like tf were we supposed to write abt????

i ended up writing abt my debate club... 💀

lets hope they ignore that essay

[fathom crow]

ate

[trim locust]

i had my questbridge friend read it and he told me he didnt have to do that question 💔

hes so lucky

[shut magnet]

💔

[fathom crow]

ugh

[shut magnet]

let's hope they ignore my entire app and just let me in 🙏

[fathom crow]

for real actually

[woeful coral]

Yep same!

[keen girder]

???

wym

[fathom crow]

top 2 worst takes on this server 💔

[keen girder]

@analog canopy (im making some assumptions here from our one mutual) you may be out of touch with the average person because not everyone can pick up olympiad stem subjects that easily

[keen girder]

that's exactly what i'm saying. you can't just assume everyone has that much talent

our mutual certainly does

maybe you also do

but not everyone is in the small minority

yeah but even those ppl take a long time

that's the thing

espcially since i know one of the people you're alluding to who has been doing competitive programming since 5th grade

[keen girder]

those really talented people

yea but that sharp new kid doesn't necessarily get to ioi or other olympiads like that in 2 years. it's still a process

[severe bear]

lmao when i opened my decision i was literally running like 101 degrees

just opened in bed on my phone

good luck to y'all

[fathom crow]

Did you get in??

[finite arch]

i think so?

[woeful coral]

😭

what was you're SAT score?

[severe bear]

1550

[woeful coral]

nicee

ngl im sure my 1460 is gonna be the thing that gets me rejectteed

[glacial finch]

Hi did you get in as an international?

[sterile pebble]

do they consider us citizens living abroad international?

[fossil flare]

no

[trim locust]

No

[wooden stag]

I think once you get past AIME style stuff, the proof based stuff is much more fun

People shouldn’t think math comps r just wordy problems they r more like a proof u spend 1-2 hour trying to build

(In most cases)

[chrome quarry]

They probably were and you didn’t realize it

People are just

Shady about working on this stuff LOL

[normal stag]

Okay fair

[cursive hazel]

yeah people gatekeep hella

[crude flare]

I don't think most people realize that

Olympiads are a good way of getting in.. if you're actually interested in them, and dedicated enough

[crude flare]

Do not actually do them unless you like it
It's not a golden ticket - if anything it can actually be detrimental because you're burning yourself out on studying things you don't like

[crude flare]

The reason why colleges like them so much is because they require a lot of effort and dedication; it shows that you're genuinely skilled, and way above average at that
But if you'd much rather spend that effort and dedication on something else, then go for that instead

[crude flare]

(That's not to say they're bad, I just feel like people here have a really skewed view of what olympiads are like)
(If you like them, do them! But please don't commit years of your life towards getting an olympiad medal just because you heard it was good for college)

[vivid tulip]

Yeah lol the key is to explore and do things you like

Fwiw some of the best academic conversations I've had here have been about decidedly non-STEM topics as well as STEM topics

And within the STEM subjects you can be interested in them in ways that don't involve doing some kind of science olympiad lol

e.g. what if you're really fascinated by topology, abstract algebra or some other topic in math that's definitely not in AIME/AMC lol

[short estuary]

Did mit stop accepting updates

[vivid tulip]

Ofc there's the proof aspect for math olympiads, but that's a skill you can develop without subjecting yourself to years of practice on a type of math that you don't necessarily like

TL; DR just do what you want 💀

[short estuary]

Sent one Saturday

No response

Usually respond within two days

[vivid tulip]

Tbh if this whole place was filled with just olympiad kids then it would lowk be miserable

Ofc the science olympiad community presence here on campus is great, but it's great as one group in the diversity in interests and ideas present on campus

[vivid tulip]

It's the weekend 😭

Additionally Monday was a federal holiday

They'll get back to you when they're back in office

[severe bear]

i agree! i tried taking AMC all 4 years of high school and it was NOT my thing (never qualified for AIME and i didnt like it) but i found other stuff that i rly liked

and HS has been much more worthwhile

i have classmates who are genuinely passionate about math and they do math problems for fun in class, and they're the type of people who excel in math Olympiads and stuff which is where it would be a good activity fit

[placid prairie]

i have AMC trauma bro

never doing that again

[fathom crow]

what’s your major

[severe bear]

mech e probably

so AIME honestly is not that relevant to my major anyway

[waxen cloak]

nope I got one in

[fathom crow]

Fire

Valid

[molten mauve]

I sent one Sunday and got one

[short estuary]

Hmm

[short estuary]

Should I resend

Cuz I sent it like Saturday 3am

[long spruce]

Does anyone have reccomendations for stuff to do in the Cambridge area

I'll basically have a free day friday so I'll probably do a tour + mit museum but idk what else besides walk around harvard

Partially because everything is so expensive 💀

[shut magnet]

you should wander around the mit tunnels

and open doors with warning signs on them

[long spruce]

Lmao are you allowed down there as a tourist?

I totally would just for fun

Not the opening doors with warning signs part 💀

[short estuary]

Harvard square is rlly fun

[trim locust]

go to the admissiosn office and beg for acceptance

[short estuary]

Guys I does mit have a backlog

Or did they alr decide to reject me

And need no further additions to my rejected po

Since its in the rejected pile already

[long spruce]

No it's actually going to be so embarrassing

I'm with my father and he does not understand how mit could not care about demonstrated interest

So he is for sure going to try and say some stuff and I'm just going to have to sit there 💀

[long spruce]

real

They should just tell me rn

I alr know I got rejected, why keep it a secret smh

[long spruce]

Yeah I'll definitely go there

My ap lit teacher from junior year started talking about restaurants he loved in harvard square only to be devastated when he learned they were all gone

[normal stag]

Wait I was wondering the same thing 😭

Bc I sent am update a week ago and no response

[normal stag]

Real 😔

[long spruce]

Guess I won't send the update I was going to send

Rip

[short estuary]

@rancid apex do u happen to know sorry for the ping 🙏

[short estuary]

Omg I just realized

HS lmao

[molten mauve]

Idk they’ll prolly see soon

[long spruce]

Ngl I think they were just working through a backlog

They responded to my update email in an hour

[short estuary]

Ok

[wraith crater]

so if we want to send an update we just email them?

[long spruce]

Yep

[normal stag]

hmmm

So the fact that they ghosted me might really mean I am rejected?

Checks out 😔

[long spruce]

Nah there's no way

They were probably just processing a ton of emails over the weekend and didn't respond to every one

[onyx jacinth]

yeah iirc they only have 4 people answering emails

https://mitadmissions.org/help/contact/via-email/

[long spruce]

Lmao that's wild

[indigo gazelle]

we went to tatte in harvard square and it was goated

the boston public garden and library are cool asw

[grave bronze]

Does mit accept extra recs

At this point

Or no

[long spruce]

Thank you for the recs I'll add them 🙏

[long spruce]

They don't really accept extra recs in general, so I probably wouldn't

[indigo gazelle]

nice hfhf

i wonder if everything is still frozen

[cursive hazel]

doesn't hurt

[cursive hazel]

i sent in a 3rd one

🤷‍♂️

[hidden axle]

i dont believe they accept any significant material post-app submission save for the fun form

even outside of mit ive never really heard of a school taking an extra lor

like maybe an update to your awards sure

but an entire lor is p big

[cursive hazel]

i added a LOR post-submission, there's an option for it and they told me they received it

that was back in january though

[hidden axle]

were you at the threshold alr?

[cursive hazel]

so at this point might be late

[hidden axle]

like max amount

[cursive hazel]

i submitted 2 teachers + 1 counselor beforehand, not sure if thats the threshold

lemme look :p

[hidden axle]

You will only be able to submit your application with two teacher evaluations and one school counselor/Secondary School Report. You may also include up to one optional supplemental evaluation.

so you had room it seems

[cursive hazel]

oh yeah same thing yay

[cursive hazel]

yeah so you have room for a 3rd i suppose

[hidden axle]

for some reason i assumed this kiddo hit cap

and was like

"can i submit another anyways"

[cursive hazel]

i mean he might've 😭 LMAO

hopefully it works out for u hehe @grave bronze

LMAO

[hidden axle]

id assume theres a sort order that isnt necessarily in the order received

like it could be

but also if it is that could result in a higher chance of aos duping email responses

my theory that has zero proof is that they divide it up somehow whether by region you applied or something else

so if you have a low email count in your region or more people taking care of it youre getting faster responses

[grave bronze]

Yeah I have room too I’m just wondering if it’s too late

[long spruce]

Sorry you guys, I assumed you were both at cap haha

Yeah I guess it can't hurt

They're still accepting updates in general

[normal stag]

yo email was finally responded to

I love the subtle implication that they don't want any more email updates

[short estuary]

Lmao

[short estuary]

How many did u send 💀

This is my second

[normal stag]

This was my second

[wooden stag]

Are they even still considering them?

[short estuary]

Huh

I didn’t get a reply yet

[wooden stag]

They must be done with at least like 20% of the apps no?

[normal stag]

When did you send yours?

[normal stag]

yeah probably...

[short estuary]

Last Saturday 5pm

[normal stag]

idk. It was something that I think could impact the decision, but more likely than not it won't be considered

[short estuary]

Yes mine was one sentence

[wooden stag]

Yeah of course I’d send it as well

I’m still waiting for results from 1 competition as well and I’m gonna send them the moment the results r released

[short estuary]

Same like mine was smth new to my app entirely

[wooden stag]

I think they evaluate in rounds tho so they might look at ur app several rounds

So if ur still in the running it might be a big thing

[short estuary]

Like ex: aime 3x then finally usamo (not my case my similar idea)

[wooden stag]

Making USAMO is wild

[short estuary]

Bruh I hope I’m still being considered

If there’s rounds

[normal stag]

I regret my choices bc my email update was before FUN was due 💀 I submitted FUN early bc I thought there was no shot I would win anything at the comp but then to my surprise I got 1st. So I literally should have just waited to submit FUN

[wooden stag]

Guys would it not be funny if they actually did it like that like you’d get a notification every time u qualified in a round

[short estuary]

Lmao

[wooden stag]

💀💀💀💀

[short estuary]

Oh mine were all after fun form

I submitted fun form on frb5

11pl

Est

[wooden stag]

Yeah same

[short estuary]

This would decrease my stress

I would know early

Whenever I’m still considered or not

Or rejected

[wooden stag]

Yeah lowkey good idea no?

[short estuary]

Ye

[wooden stag]

I mean Oxbridge has their interviews

[short estuary]

Ok from what I’ve heard

[wooden stag]

As like the 2nd round

[short estuary]

Regional AOs go first

Pick their strongest

Go to commiteee

[wooden stag]

Yh

[short estuary]

Do

I hope

I was picked by regional Ao

Ngl my area is competitive asf

[wooden stag]

Praying europe is not cracked this year

🙏🏼🙏🏼

[short estuary]

Bro I’m mass😭

And competitive mass too

[wooden stag]

💀💀💀

[normal stag]

my condolences

[wooden stag]

Might have to pray to all the gods tonight

[short estuary]

Bruh think Boston Cambridge mass

I’m in doomhole

[wooden stag]

But I’m sure they don’t have caps like that

If the pool is rly competitive the AO is allowed to bring idk more apps

[short estuary]

I hope

[normal stag]

bro you said you had something similar to usamo. Trust

[short estuary]

Bruh like everyone here has usamo isef etc

Two people in my region got STS t40

[wooden stag]

USAMO qual is liek bronze/silver imo no?

Same level

[short estuary]

And then two others got rsi

😭

[wooden stag]

RSI😭😭😭

[short estuary]

Ikr

[wooden stag]

I got rejected SSP bro

And rsi is more competitive

[short estuary]

Yea they only had two mass

For rsi

And both were from my region

😭

[wooden stag]

Same age🫣?

[short estuary]

Yea

[wooden stag]

Oh shit

[short estuary]

Co2025

Dw they alr got Harvard rea

[wooden stag]

What they have harvard already??