All UCs (2024-2025)

[sharp oak]

and ucla and sd are like mid march like the 15th or something

[tidal birch]

the others i swear they just release it when they wanna

[sharp oak]

hollow where did you open your decisions

[tidal birch]

honestly i opened my berk letter depressed cause i took back to back hits from the ivys 😭

[sharp oak]

this is why i didn't apply to ivies 😭😭

[worn aurora]

I knew I was gonna get rejected prior so it wasn’t a surprise

[tidal birch]

i thought i would be and just accepted my fate

[worn aurora]

Ivy day was anticlimactic

Except for getting waitlisted at Cornell ig

[tidal birch]

i think i opened it up in like a random ahh location in arizona for a trip and i only felt numb cause the happiness canceled out with the sadness of the other rejections

[worn aurora]

March was probably the worst month of my life

[tidal birch]

UC d day be crazy

[worn aurora]

Emotional rollercoaster fr but it mostly went downhill and then just stagnated at the bottom

Lmao i started off so well and it just went downhill

[tidal birch]

whenever a UC drops their admission results everybody in school just talks about it

[worn aurora]

Yeah and then you get the people who don’t stop talking about it

Tbh my hustle idea was that if I got into an Ivy League i would drop a course or something

[pale spire]

March was just a feeling of increasing doom and then honestly more confusion than celebration

Like Duke was def the schools I thought I had the least chance tbh

I was thankful but also like so confused

[worn aurora]

Yeah my duke essay was a copy and pasted essay from my Cornell essay and I just changed some words

Berkeley I definitely was cooked because cs major

[pale spire]

My Duke interviewer primarily talked about unc 💀

[worn aurora]

Imagine being in a location where you get interviews

[pale spire]

Mine was virtual tbf

Idk if they were actually local to me

[midnight vine]

february 9th 6:43 am is when i opened my berkeley decision

i was in my latte pyjamas and was half asleep

but that video is lwk so cute i think the caladmissions page posted it on their story 💀

[sharp oak]

i wanna open my decisions WAIT HOW DID YOU GET IT IN FEBRUARY

[midnight vine]

lemme find

[worn aurora]

Some batches are released early

[pale spire]

I always opened them around 4 hours after they released

[worn aurora]

If you’re exceptional

[sharp oak]

i wanna open my decisions in my classes recording w all of my friends

[worn aurora]

And get regents eligibility

[midnight vine]

#1135713116425035837 message

[pale spire]

Like completely alone in my room as a study break

[tidal birch]

i open them immediately to get over it

[sharp oak]

lord let this be me

[pale spire]

Same

[midnight vine]

except boston university, every single college decision of mine was released at ungodly times of the morning

bc intl timezone

[worn aurora]

I only knew one person who was admitted early

[midnight vine]

so it either ruined my day or made me the happiest ever

[pale spire]

I’m lowkey really good at rejection now

Which is an unexpected good I got

[midnight vine]

i got into usc the day before my birthday + chem final and it was awesome

[worn aurora]

Yeah I just had a red and yellow carpet

[sharp oak]

i'm so nervous and impatient

[worn aurora]

Yeah that’s gonna last the entirety of March

[sharp oak]

it's so surreal to think that i'll receive my first decisions in 3 months

[sharp oak]

AHHHHHH

FUCKKKK

[worn aurora]

Felt like the longest month of my life

Also gets to show you which friends are fake and which friends are real

[sharp oak]

wait how so

[tidal birch]

ngl i made a fake acceptance letter to berkeley to fuck with my friends back then since they all got rejected

[worn aurora]

People go crazy over decisions and people get jealous, etc

[sharp oak]

my friends don't have the stats to get into top UCs and they know it

they'll be okay

[midnight vine]

ngl i would've hated this

i applied to so many schools just so that i would have a decision every month

every week in december, january, and march

i hated february

[tidal birch]

they’ll be fine since fangz was able to get into berk

[sharp oak]

i'm submitting tmrw

[worn aurora]

What do you consider the required stats to get into a top UC

[midnight vine]

dawg wdym fake acceptance letter you literally got in

[worn aurora]

There was a person with. 3.7 gpa that got into ucla

I met someone with a 3.5 that got into Berkeley

With like 2 APs

[tidal birch]

oh a fake early acceptance letter

[sharp oak]

above a 3.6 gpa unless you have amazing essays

[midnight vine]

ahhhh

[sharp oak]

but i've read their essays

[tidal birch]

maybe it somehow manifested into a real one

[sharp oak]

and i'll try my best to help them perfect their essays

[tidal birch]

should’ve done that with my dream schools

[worn aurora]

You never know, admissions are unexpected

[sharp oak]

but... let's just say you never know

[frosty ibex]

this is so many schools

kudos

honestly a smart move ..

[worn aurora]

You’d be surprised by who gets into a school and who doesn’t

[midnight vine]

im being so fr when i say that i only wanted to get into berkeley early to flex on a2c bc i genuinely did not know early admissions were a thing until a2c

but hey what do you know i ended up falling in love w the school

[tidal birch]

me constantly thinking “my fate for the next 4 years is gonna be decided in the spring”

[pale spire]

FR

[sharp oak]

i suppose, but i'll be overjoyed for them if they get in i truly don't care too much if i get in

[worn aurora]

There were friendships ended over decisions

[midnight vine]

real

[worn aurora]

Which it really shouldn’t be that serious

[sharp oak]

my friend group isn't academically insane like that

[midnight vine]

my friendship wasn't even over jealousy about decisions it ended in october bc she kept being elitist and flaunting that she got ed and that she had a fancy private counselor

among other things ofc

[sharp oak]

would've smacked her tfdym private counselor

[worn aurora]

Looking back I can’t help but laugh at how I thought my life was over during admissions because I thought I had wasted my hard work or whatever

[midnight vine]

not to be mean but she ended up at her safety school 💀

[tidal birch]

freak all the haters 😭🙏

[sharp oak]

LMAOOOO

[worn aurora]

Oh yeah I knew someone like that except they had nepotism and they kept flaunting it in front of me specifically at every opportunity

[sharp oak]

i put everything i could into my apps, if it wasn't enough, i was never getting in in the first place

[midnight vine]

she ED'd to northwestern and kept rubbing that in my face bc she knew that it was my dream school and that i couldn't ED bc financial reasons

[midnight vine]

DUDE I HAD SOMEONE LIKE THIS TOO

it was horrible oh lord

[sharp oak]

straight rejections except for one safety that waitlists, defers, accepts, and rescinds you

[tidal birch]

some of my haters cope by saying how they’re gonna transfer to a better school than mine

like bro it can’t be that deep

just take the L

[sharp oak]

honestly i wanna get into ucla to rub it in my haters faces

[worn aurora]

Tbh I don’t care about “better school” anymore because my school is decent enough and I feel like going somewhere else for what I want to do is just a waste of time and only a prestige thing

[midnight vine]

and also im ngl i feel like transferring esp if you're at a really good school already will just fragment your college experience

[sharp oak]

i know that the college i go to doesn't matter but im still gonna go insane over it

[tulip relic]

i aint going to ivy

[midnight vine]

like i've met people that i wanna know my whole life im already sad that i can only be close close for 4 years i would not want to make that time shorter

[tulip relic]

im not gonna bust my ass off in the name of going to harvard/mit

[sharp oak]

fuck the ivy league!!!!! down with the ivy league!!!!

[tulip relic]

YES

[midnight vine]

and there are so many things i wanna do here that again can't be achieved in 4 years

[worn aurora]

Yeah I’ve already met good friends here and i think transferring and the social implications that come from it outweighs whatever I’ll gain academic wise

[sharp oak]

literally just to work harder make it make sense

[midnight vine]

fs

[tulip relic]

also $$$

[tulip relic]

legacies

usc is fuming bc legacies are illegal in california

[sharp oak]

yea i love UCs im not getting aid but the worst i can pay is 45k a year

[sharp oak]

haha fuck usc they deserve it

[worn aurora]

I’m only paying like $14k a year rn

[tulip relic]

frrr

[tidal birch]

until they add random ass fees that make it more than 45k 🥲

“resilience fee” my ahh

[sharp oak]

wtaf is a resilience fee

[tidal birch]

i have no idea

just look at these charges

[worn aurora]

Damn lol

[sharp oak]

i'm never coming out of debt

[midnight vine]

the agony of

[worn aurora]

UCs when it comes to fattening the wallets of their chancellors

[worn aurora]

Oh yeah ik someone here from Texas and he’s paying like $65k a year

Actually insane

[tidal birch]

they fr gonna turn you into another homeless person in berkeley

[tulip relic]

me who lives in texas:

[tidal birch]

maybe that’s how they’re there

[tulip relic]

though i may qualify for the condit bill as my dad holds california residence

[sharp oak]

where do you go?

[worn aurora]

uc scam Diego

[tulip relic]

scam diego is WILD

[midnight vine]

dude thats not how much it is for oos

[sharp oak]

i can't afford college i'll just die instead

[midnight vine]

its 79k for oos

how is your friend only paying 65

[worn aurora]

They took up until a day before class enrollment starts to remove a hold for transcripts they didn’t process

[midnight vine]

bro is either lying or found a hack

[sharp oak]

aid maybe

[midnight vine]

oos barely get aid at UCs

[worn aurora]

He probably has some scholarships

[midnight vine]

hmm even max regents is like 7.5k

so maybe outside scholarships

[tulip relic]

my brother attends uc out of state

[worn aurora]

Also 79 is like estimated, doesn’t mean you’ll actually be paying full 79 because you have cost of textbooks factored in etc

[midnight vine]

does he not get instate

[tulip relic]

wdym

[tidal birch]

when the professors encourage you to get textbooks illegally

[midnight vine]

i paid 36k for fall semester

[warm relic]

ucsd regents is 5k

[midnight vine]

so 72k for full year + im not paying for health insurance

[midnight vine]

condit bill?

[midnight vine]

dawg i wish

[tulip relic]

iirc he did not have it

[midnight vine]

all of mine are like "its only $20"

[tulip relic]

so unlikely

[midnight vine]

but when its like 5 classes 💀

[tulip relic]

though he got a scholarship

[worn aurora]

I literally had to pay like $300 just so I could do my homework

Because textbook is online

[warm relic]

bruh what class is that 💀

[worn aurora]

Which is included in the learning platform

20C

Idk if it was $300 but it was expensive

That’s all I remember

[warm relic]

😭 😭 😭

[worn aurora]

And it expires after this quarter

[tidal birch]

allat tuition and random ass charges and UCs can’t even make laundry free

[worn aurora]

Or even maintain the laundry for that matter

[tulip relic]

talk about appeasing the chancellors and their pockets 🤩

[worn aurora]

Me when they cut library hours because of “cost issues” and proceeds to raise the chancellors salary by an extra three million

[tulip relic]

anyway what is with the beef about revelle college

just asking

[warm relic]

the dryer never even dries my clothes fully

[tulip relic]

6th is my first choice btw

[tidal birch]

it it’s revelle

[worn aurora]

Idk I’ve never heard anything about that

[tidal birch]

good choice

[worn aurora]

I only know ERC sucks because GEs and it looks like a prison

[tidal birch]

beautiful place

[worn aurora]

But all the parties are in ERC

[tidal birch]

revelle erc and marshall all suck

[tulip relic]

eleanor roosevelt

yeah thats second to last for me

[worn aurora]

Marshall is getting new dorms I believe

And it looks nice

That’s why there’s construction on campus

Except there’s always this one guy sitting there who does literally nothing

I saw bro sweeping the ground today

[tidal birch]

they better cause i would not want to live in a place that looks like an underdeveloped school in compton

[worn aurora]

I swear he actually doesn’t do anything

[tulip relic]

last time i visited ucsd in august i recall seeing some construction in the area

[worn aurora]

There always is but construction progress is fast

And I mean like they’ll have the dorms done by fall 2025

[tulip relic]

i mean they surpassed berkeley in total students

[worn aurora]

When I initially toured there was nothing but a fenced off area but now theres entire apartment complexes

[tulip relic]

recently

[worn aurora]

Yeah the campus is constantly expanding and we don’t have to deal with residents who protest because the college is trying to turn a park into housing

And then proceed to put up a wall of cargo crates to stop protests

[tulip relic]

oh my god

on the ucsd subreddit the chancellor is controversial

[worn aurora]

Oh no I was referring to Berkeley

[tulip relic]

oh

[worn aurora]

But yeah the chancellor is still despised

[tulip relic]

true

i mean the bay area is urban sprawl

can confirm bc i have family in san jose

[worn aurora]

Doesn’t also help that Berkeley is so close to Oakland

[tulip relic]

yeah

more urban sprawl

[tidal birch]

i love crime!!

[worn aurora]

Yeah I had family that lived 30 min away from Berkeley

[tulip relic]

my dad visits my brother every weekend to eat

brother goes to berkeley

[worn aurora]

My cousin went to Berkeley and he would go home every weekend

[tidal birch]

me brushing off the report of a man with a gun and a machete a couple blocks away from me (it’s a normal occurrence)

[worn aurora]

At least Berkeley has parking though

But driving through it is hell

[tulip relic]

traffic

yummy

[worn aurora]

We just get scooter thefts and that’s it

[worn aurora]

No the lanes are genuinely so tiny and hard to drive in

[tulip relic]

oh

[worn aurora]

Like people would park in the middle of the road

[tulip relic]

is the area very hilly

[worn aurora]

And some lanes are one ways so

Yes

It’s built on a hill I think

[tulip relic]

i mean it's the bay area

[worn aurora]

If you’re crippled then good luck because you might not make it to class lol

[tulip relic]

also when i visted ucsd in august i saw some christian group trying to promote their faith near the library

im wondering if yall have seen similar people at other campuses like berkeley/la

[worn aurora]

Yeah that’s library walk, there’s like 50 different Christian groups

[tulip relic]

😭

[worn aurora]

Berkeley has those too according to my friend

They’re just at the bridge area

[tulip relic]

are the usually ignored or do they get some interaction

[worn aurora]

They’ll try to bait you in with free boba or something

But usually people ignore them

[tulip relic]

thats creepy

oh good

theyre essentially npcs

on some map

[tidal birch]

i just take the boba and leave ngl

[tulip relic]

id do the same

[worn aurora]

It feels like you’re walking down Las Vegas

Fr

The frats also do the same

[tulip relic]

oh frats...

the only time i really hear about greek life is when someone dies

im avoiding sororities like the plague for now

[tulip relic]

yeah

[brisk basin]

was this last year

[tulip relic]

also alcohol

[brisk basin]

Hey Sara

[tulip relic]

hey ty

[tidal birch]

idk i lost track of time

[brisk basin]

Lmfao

where are you now?

[tulip relic]

finalizing my piqs

after that i can finally put this applicaton to rest

[brisk basin]

||I was asking him ||

[tulip relic]

oh

[brisk basin]

glad to hear tho

[tulip relic]

thanks

[brisk basin]

I'm sure you'll be fine

[tidal birch]

berkeley

[brisk basin]

Kekw

How's depresso expresso school treating you

[tidal birch]

https://tenor.com/view/silly-cat-silly-car-car-stare-10-thousand-yard-stare-10-thousand-yard-gif-14200271775968563996

[brisk basin]

also last year

Berkeley had some major technical difficulties

the fucking admission letter wouldn't load lmfao

I remember watching my friends open it and being so confused

it was funny af

it took you straight to the FAQ section

so for the people who didn't get in it was "How do I appeal my decision" or "How does Berkeley evaluate applications? (insert link to that boring ass UC app page)"

😂

[sly plover]

are there no individual uc threads

[brisk basin]

no

they add them closer to decision day

[sly plover]

oh okay

[tropic minnow]

We had a uni required drug and alcohol presentation and after that I think they do drink they just dont trust us yet

But yeah I suppose it depends on the frat and the school

[desert escarp]

nerds

[lost oyster]

thanksgiving break day 2 is the day to finish uc apps raaaah

i wonder if writing exclusively about shrimp was such a good idea

im running out of shrimp ideas

[tidal birch]

seafood boil

[noble fossil]

wait what did I say lmaoooooooo

I'm not even applying to the UCs

[tulip relic]

he confused you with me 😭

[noble fossil]

LMAO No problem

good luck tho

[manic maple]

how is berkeley not 1?

[tidal birch]

cause it’s bad

[burnt ridge]

??

[tidal birch]

horrible school ngl

[worn aurora]

Horrible location, just prestige

[midnight vine]

it's rated by distance to trader Joe's I think

[midnight vine]

don't listen to him

[sharp oak]

haiiii

does anyone have speculation on releases for UCs

ik the four on the calendar

[tidal birch]

stanford tree…

[worn aurora]

I thought it was din tai fung

Either way sd is next to both Trader Joe’s and din tai fung

Trade Joes orange chicken is so fire

[worn aurora]

Praying for Berkeley’s loss but unfortunately Stanford is also terrible at football though they’ve been on a good streak recently

[sweet citrus]

Last two Berkeleys have been Ivy day

So Thursday March 27th this year

[sharp oak]

okok

[sweet citrus]

Let me see which I put up to begin with

Oh yeah those are ezpz

UCM and UCR are probably gonna be around March 3rd

They’re usually March 1st ish but March 1st is a Saturday this year

UCSC is rolling

Usually they start very late Feb occasionally early March with it

But it goes for a while

Oh I forgot Irvine

Irvine will be either March 14th or 21st

Sometimes they go with LA and SD who like to go together

Other times they go earlier

But if we take “mid March” at face value then all three could be the 14th

[tropic minnow]

Davis was March last year if I remember correctly

[sweet citrus]

I’m guessing March 7 it’s just alr on website

[midnight vine]

chat what UCs are good for business / economics

[sweet citrus]

I really hope not tho bc then this would mean we have MIT + UCs

Oh god

It’s so over

I got Google to spread misinformation

[midnight vine]

@marsh sparrow

[balmy light]

happy conquest day apply to usc

[burnt ridge]

Marking my calanders

[burnt ridge]

UCCL?

Univeristy of California Couldn't Lockin

[balmy light]

read it again but slowly my guy

[marsh sparrow]

For Econ only thing I know is Berkeley for business idk

Berkeley is obv a cut above, ucla is a tier below for placements even though they don’t have a business school and anything below ucla is the same placement wise

[midnight vine]

are none of the UCs good for business/econ apart from berkeley and LA

[marsh sparrow]

I mean UCI is passable but for high finance it doesn’t really matter if it’s not a target it’s all the same below ucla

for like normal business idk uci sure but the salary diff is negligible

[lost oyster]

Bay area doesnt have a trader joes???

Cringe

Taking berk off the list /j

[bold bear]

bro i live like within 3 miles of a trader joes 😭

wait but that's far from berkeley

there should be a trader joes in berkeley

there has to be

impossible there isn't

[midnight vine]

there is

just not walkable

you'd have to take a bus

[worn aurora]

Yeah ngl

[worn aurora]

Damn you right

[tidal birch]

stormed the field

L stanford

so funny seeing berkeley students yell fuck you at stanford kids

[marsh sparrow]

haha

[ornate abyss]

i heard it sucks at LA actually

[marsh sparrow]

it’s passable

target for LA offices I guess

somewhat reputable non target everywhere else

[tidal birch]

me chanting “daddy’s money” fully aware that i didn’t have to take out any loans

[midnight vine]

LMAO

[worn aurora]

I remember watching clips and seeing berkeley kids making posters saying Stanford was their safety school

[worn aurora]

Ucla being ucla just gives it rep

[marsh sparrow]

For sure

Not in business though they’re basically a glorified non target

[brisk basin]

surely

[marsh sparrow]

wdym

[brisk basin]

sounds like something a UCLA student would say

[marsh sparrow]

probably

theyre definitely more reputable than just any non target

but theyre still a nontarget nevertheless

[worn aurora]

I’m not even a ucla student

[dense epoch]

last year was weird

uci came out of nowhere

and came out very early

uci lowk mentally broke me

[tidal birch]

uci waitlist

https://tenor.com/view/transitions-kinemaster-black-guy-suit-tiktok-gif-25279479

[dense epoch]

uci lowk killed my mood that day

[tidal birch]

got everybody tweaking that day since it was like the first or something

“oh no if i couldn’t get into uci then i can’t get into the better ones”

[dense epoch]

bro idk how i didnt get in lowk

no hate

or anything

[tidal birch]

i didn’t play enough valorant to get accepted

smh

just maybe if i was atleast like ascendant i would get in

[midnight vine]

same

but I ended up getting in

but I was salty

[sharp oak]

why is valorant like the best EC you could have

for UCs

[high bronze]

I peaked gold 3

[ornate abyss]

yeah but for a top school its horible

[marsh sparrow]

i suppose

they tried their best ig

[ornate abyss]

econ undergraduate overall isnt great

[marsh sparrow]

why lol

[strange cloud]

what the fuck

[tropic minnow]

Mf I told you to NOT look

You will not do well in college

[strange cloud]

self-incest is all i needed to see

[ornate abyss]

veyr weak compared to actual econ work

most of the econ stuff is at grad level

[marsh sparrow]

people only do econ for business jobs usually

[worn aurora]

Fr thought I was gonna get cooked everywhere (lowkey right)

[worn aurora]

My friend with 1 AP and no ECs and a 3.6 gpa got in

[desert escarp]

same

was at a camp staff dev and I held it in but I ended up going to bed early

[dense epoch]

real depression hit hard

[desert escarp]

the only ones that actually hurt for me were Irvine Davis and UW

ugh

[slate mountain]

how far can u go back in a piq
ik they say talk about the near past or present, but can i like

talk about my experience growing up

[tropic minnow]

Don't say you remember what it was like being born

[slate mountain]

its not like a specific event that happened 7 years ago

[slate mountain]

😭

[slate mountain]

but more broad (?)

[worn aurora]

I wrote in my piqs that I foresaw the future and that if they don’t let me in then the world would end

[balmy light]

me listening to that knowing that it’s the u.s. government and the commonwealth of pennsylvania’s money paying for me to go here via loans

[dry pollen]

Ohh

[tropic minnow]

Yeah maybe later

[manic maple]

@balmy light why is everyone on reddit obsessed with usc?

[tribal hamlet]

it's a school with good balance between academics and fun

very strong alumni network in southern cali businesses

and it gives an automatic half-tuition scholarship to NMS, which makes it cheaper than UC (OOS).

[manic maple]

Even for intl?

[tribal hamlet]

good q. don't know the answer.

[forest grotto]

you have to be a united states resident to get national merit scholarship, so no

[slate mountain]

does the TAG program at UCs require an associate degree

[lost oyster]

lmao the ai thingy just copied the reddit post

how do i disable it

[slate mountain]

ohh

okay so it doesnt boost your chances of getting accepted either

[slate mountain]

thank u

[tulip relic]

in the additional comments are links allowed

[burnt ridge]

yeah they do, the AI webscrapes information from sites etc and makes its own summary based of that

[wooden sierra]

nooo dont disable ai

[brisk basin]

nope

[burnt ridge]

am i fucked. bro

i didnt copy paste anything from AI

😭 😭 😭

[glad aurora]

no

these are unreliable

[burnt ridge]

how do they check ai then

isnt like gptzero.me the most reliable one out there?

or do unis have their own system

[dense epoch]

tbh i dont thik they even do

[cyan fog]

Try scanning it again after a week lol

[slate mountain]

ahh ic ic

[thin shell]

if i retook a course and those new grades are shown on my transcript and get factored into my GPA but my old grades still show up on my transcript but dont get factored into the GPA then do i report the old grades too?

they say this

but the way they have it set up is that it dosent let me put "0 credit" or allow me to indicate that its not factored into my GPA

so im worried that they are going to add those old grades into my UC GPA calculation

they have a "No" button for grade but im not sure if that works since they say that i need to report the grade

[hallow sapphire]

b

[brisk basin]

Report them as they are on your transcript, they will manually make changes to your UC GPA when they see "repeat" courses, whether it be for retakes or other reasons.

[thin shell]

gotcha ty 👍

[brisk basin]

Don't worry too much about it, I had the same situation when I applied and I'm pretty sure they will manually calc it.

I would recommend putting something in the additional comments in the grades&academic history section tho.

[thin shell]

ohh ok i will do this

sucks that they dont consider B+'s tho 😢

[brisk basin]

I consider that lucky, U don't need to stress about A-

Lol

[thin shell]

ohh yea true

we dont have A- or A+

just A

[brisk basin]

So I guess they are only specifically scamming your school

[thin shell]

yup

[brisk basin]

[thin shell]

[brisk basin]

Rip

[thin shell]

also i had a quick question - in had a extenuating circumstance that led to a drop in my GPA and i want to explain it on my application. Theres 2 places for additional info - the grades and the one in the PIQ section

which one should i put it in?

[tidal birch]

additional info

[lost oyster]

but it sucks actual ass

[midnight vine]

its more vibes

[burnt ridge]

where do I put hackathons where I made projects in the UC application?

would that fall under like clubs and orginization

or what

[midnight vine]

you could put it as award / honor if you won an award or put it as extracurricular activity

[burnt ridge]

i won 2 of them

and the other 2

oh yeah alr

[tidal birch]

god oski is a baddie

[tulip relic]

ok so as a result of my writing hobby i started a passion project so do i make an additional activity slot for that project or keep it within writing

[midnight vine]

additional activity slot if you have a decent amount of info you wanna add

[tulip relic]

if i dont have much info it can just be in the writing ec?

but thanks

[tidal birch]

yes

[burnt ridge]

am i screwed if im only able to fill in like 14 of the activities on the list

😭

[coarse tree]

No what

That’s plenty

Remember the reason they have 20 slots is cause educational prep programs, non-AG classes etc go there too

So 14 is fine

[burnt ridge]

oh yeah

yeah

my 14 is just awards, ecs and community service

[coarse tree]

Yeah that’s great

[tulip relic]

i only have 4 though i’ve spend extended amounts of time on all of them

[tidal birch]

that’s fine

many ppl apply with >10 and still get into UCs

[tulip relic]

my activities list is only 4-5 items though they all have leadership and extended amounts of time committed to throughout high school

like most are all 4 years of hs

i don’t have time to join clubs bc of family and health matters

[burnt ridge]

ohhh

[burnt ridge]

alr alr

yeah same

like 4-5 mines are also personal projects etc of mine

that i dedicated a quite logn time

[burnt ridge]

yeah ik im just tryna compensate foor my lower gpa

[frigid mountain]

do u guys know if i could use my collegeboard fee waivers for ucs and how i would do that 😭

[worn aurora]

It’s just very obvious if you rip an ai generated essay directly from the ai

[worn aurora]

If you have like 5 good ECs that you dedicated lots of time to then that’s 100x better than having 10+ mediocre ones that you do here and there

[tulip relic]

yeah

[burnt ridge]

i mean those 5 ones i dedicated

i would say like 2 of them are pretty much just mediocire prolly

the rest 7 do have somewhat of a impact

OH YEAH I FORGOT ONE EC

[worn aurora]

Just put them all down, it’s never going to hurt you

[burnt ridge]

yeah ik

i was just blanking out cause i know i was missing something

for UC's

I have this resarch I did

so I mentioned the research

But I also got it published

would that fall like under awards/honors? cause on the common app i ptu that under awards & honors

[dry pollen]

Y’all if you need another reason why ucla the Royce hall headshots 🤩 just got my first one today and they’re amazing

[dry pollen]

I would put it under ecs

[burnt ridge]

hm

alright

would that be like another whole entry?

[dry pollen]

Up to you though

[burnt ridge]

or should i just mention that in my research activity desc

[burnt ridge]

alr

[dry pollen]

Put it in your research entry unless you have significantly more to add

The only time I did two entries was for Girl Scouts and then Girl Scouts gold and silver AWARD

Emphasis on the award part

[burnt ridge]

i do talk aboht the publications in one of my piq tho

[burnt ridge]

yeah

[dry pollen]

That’s fine

[burnt ridge]

alr thx for the advice

[dry pollen]

Publication isn’t really an award although it could be seen as an honor

[dry pollen]

Ofc

[tidal birch]

wait who won in ucla vs usc

[burnt ridge]

yeah Honor

[dry pollen]

Don’t talk to me

[tidal birch]

💀

[dry pollen]

I’d still do ec

[dry pollen]

It’s ok it was still a fun game

[burnt ridge]

alr alr

[dry pollen]

• I got cute pics

[worn aurora]

In a perfect world I wish both schools would’ve lost

[dry pollen]

USC lowkey sucked

I expected more

Like there’s no way you get to 1st and goal 3 times and don’t score a touchdown…

[worn aurora]

I mean they’re 6-5 rn

[dry pollen]

Like that’s embarrassing for you

[worn aurora]

Miller Moss is a terrible qb

[dry pollen]

Yeah mid mid mid

[dry pollen]

I’ve heard

Caleb Williams needs to come back

[worn aurora]

They even lost to a bad Michigan

[dry pollen]

L usc

This is why the nfl is better

[worn aurora]

My boy Bryce Young almost upset the Chiefs

Actually wait Miller Moss didn’t even start against ucla so it’s just usc that’s bad

[ornate abyss]

nah theres more than that

[marsh heron]

wuts dif between MET an regular CS

[worn aurora]

MET is business + engineering and regular cs is cs

[marsh heron]

right so is the business part more useful for anything other than if you want to learn business

[ornate abyss]

MET is for nerds

[marsh heron]

like regular cs isnt 😆

[tidal birch]

it’s also like, insane to get into

i think only like 50 ppl get in or something

or it’s propaganda

[novel mango]

i applied met lol

no way im getting in tho

[marsh heron]

ok but if u dont get in do they put u in regular cs

or at least consider u for it

[tidal birch]

i think u gotta put cs as alternative major

otherwise ppl can just do eecs + met and cs+met and technically apply for 4 majors

[marsh heron]

but that lowers chance than jus regular cs right'

[worn aurora]

Someone in my region did last year

The building for met looks like a shack

[tidal birch]

it does indeed

[tidal birch]

basically

[strange cloud]

what if i link some stuff together?

do they have to be completely different?

like in one essay i talk about photography and in another essay i briefly mention it

[tidal birch]

no

i did something similar to that

[slate mountain]

wait

u can put non a-g classes in the activities

do u think its a good idea to put my Teacher's Aide class

its a non a-g elective

[strange cloud]

no as in i shouldn't do that?

[strange cloud]

can some current or former uc student take a look at my piq drafts

[tidal birch]

no as in it’s perfectly fine to do so

i’ll take a look

[strange cloud]

oh

[tidal birch]

i’ll get back to you in like a business day tho i’m reading a manwha

[strange cloud]

lmao ok

[harsh spindle]

did you have to pay or was it free

[dry pollen]

Free

Clubs do it usually

[marsh sparrow]

Lol no

[tidal birch]

of course blud defending his own kind

[marsh sparrow]

met is generally better in most ways

also you can do met and backup major eecs

which is a really good backup plan versus if you’re rejected cs you’re done

[marsh sparrow]

ok

Look at employment data

[tidal birch]

go to sleep fangz u got coloring 101 tmrw

[marsh sparrow]

I’m home alr

But I fucking left my retainer in my dorm so i have to go back

[dry pollen]

Hi loser

[dry pollen]

Dang

Just sleep one night w/o it

[tidal birch]

my flight be on tuesday 🙏

or wednesday

i forgot

[dry pollen]

Wed for me ☹️

[tidal birch]

yeah wednesday

might be cooked cause it’s 11 am flight and i wake up hella late on wednesdays

[marsh sparrow]

Yeah i have to go back like tmrw

[tidal birch]

i always think ur a socal person idk why

just vibes

[marsh sparrow]

Gruh

😬😬😬

[tidal birch]

ik you would be feining over seaside if u were

[midnight vine]

wdym he's peak bay area

i leave tomorrow afternoon 😍

[dry pollen]

Why

Just get you friend to get it or something

[tidal birch]

dayum yall be living in the bay yet leaving so early

shoulda booked my flight on monday or somethin cause im literally doing nothing till wednesday

[dry pollen]

Agreed

[midnight vine]

i would've left on Friday if not bay

[dry pollen]

Bro I’m leaving wed dw

You’re chilling

[midnight vine]

bc im close by i thought I'd attend my Monday classes then leave

skipping my Tuesday one

[dry pollen]

I would have left Friday if I didn’t have class tues

[tidal birch]

i got so many plans yet so little time

[midnight vine]

most of my professors made it online/optional/cancelled

tomorrow's the last class for my German class tho so I wanted to go

[tidal birch]

same i didn’t know that otherwise id be already outta here

also bro…there’s fr just a week of class left…

[midnight vine]

right it's crazy

[tidal birch]

what do u mean finals is just around the corner

[midnight vine]

hollow I miscalculated my cs points

so now I can get a lower score and get an A on the final

[tidal birch]

how low

[midnight vine]

67

[tidal birch]

that seems very high still ngl

[midnight vine]

yeah but by my previous estimate it was 71

i forgot to take into account EC points

[tidal birch]

wait ik u got like 38 on the first midterm and an A on the second

[worn aurora]

how much is your exam weighted

[tidal birch]

we’re a point system

no weight

[midnight vine]

75 points out of 300

[worn aurora]

i c ic

[midnight vine]

yeah 36 on the second

[worn aurora]

damn

[midnight vine]

but I got all the EC points

[tidal birch]

144+38+36

an A is like what 230 points or something

wait no

[dry pollen]

Yeah same

[tidal birch]

that’s too low

[dry pollen]

Except for one of my stupid teachers

[tidal birch]

300 something

[midnight vine]

285 😭

[tidal birch]

wiat no

too high

fuck

[midnight vine]

A+ is 300

[tidal birch]

smartest berkeley student

[midnight vine]

A is 285

230 would be crazy

[marsh sparrow]

How would I get it then

Also no one has access to my room

[dry pollen]

They drop it off duh

[dry pollen]

Have them pretend to be you or your roommate lets them in

[midnight vine]

most people have left

[marsh sparrow]

That’s too much to ask of them

[dry pollen]

Also when is our meetup bro

[tidal birch]

that’s like a B- or a B i think

[dry pollen]

Pick a friend nearby

[tidal birch]

i forgor

[marsh sparrow]

My roommate is gone

[marsh sparrow]

None of my friends live near me

[tidal birch]

i feel like you could genuinely get an A+

[dry pollen]

Dang

Sad

[marsh sparrow]

Wdym

[midnight vine]

B

[tidal birch]

A+ isn’t perfectly 300 but u still have to do bonus questions

iirc

[dry pollen]

I’ve met legit everyone but you

[marsh sparrow]

LOL

[midnight vine]

dawg I already lost 7 points

[marsh sparrow]

How was the meetup w waves

[tidal birch]

oh nvm

[dry pollen]

Good he was exactly as I expected

[midnight vine]

yeah but I can never solve the A+ questions lol

[tidal birch]

295 poofed

[marsh sparrow]

Cannot be that deep dawg

Get an a and move on

[marsh sparrow]

LIL

[midnight vine]

yeah that's what im saying

he's saying I could get A+

[tidal birch]

me comfortable with a B 💀🙏

[dry pollen]

Legit clocked his personality to the t

[marsh sparrow]

Burh I was on FaceTime with him while he was waiting and I was gonna say hi but he just ended it @dry pollen

[dry pollen]

He’s tall asf though

[tidal birch]

unless i try hard the final

[marsh sparrow]

Very true

[dry pollen]

Dang that would have been very funny

[dry pollen]

I forgot tall people existed bro

[marsh sparrow]

And that fatty ate 5 bowls

[dry pollen]

Everyone where I live is tall asf but at ucla they’re short

[marsh sparrow]

ucla filled with dwarves I see

[dry pollen]

He ate like 8 I ate 5

The portions were small

[dry pollen]

Yup I feel tall at ucla

[marsh sparrow]

yawn

[worn aurora]

What is considered tall

[dry pollen]

I am lowkey hungry now though

[marsh sparrow]

let’s not get ahead of ourselves here

[dry pollen]

Stfu sit down shortie

[midnight vine]

like be so fr wtf is this bs

[tidal birch]

5’2 on my momma

[marsh sparrow]

gruh

[dry pollen]

For women above 5’6 and for men above like 5’10

[marsh sparrow]

😭

[tidal birch]

yeah not doing allat 🙏💀

[midnight vine]

i tried

[dry pollen]

F grade scope

[midnight vine]

but idt I can

[tidal birch]

fuck grade scope

[dry pollen]

Dining hall closes in 12 mins ☹️

[worn aurora]

grades cope

[midnight vine]

why don't y'all like gradescipe

[dry pollen]

I am praying to god you are like 5’5

[dry pollen]

It’s annoying

It’s mocking me

[midnight vine]

me w my humanities class as a humanities major

[tidal birch]

fangz is like 4’11 on a good day

[midnight vine]

i got a 90 on my paper:(

[tidal birch]

5 ft when he stands on his poker winnings

[marsh sparrow]

WTF bruh all of ours close at 9

[worn aurora]

My visual arts ta hates me

[midnight vine]

^

[marsh sparrow]

Not even close

[worn aurora]

lol mine closes at 8

[tidal birch]

also yeah wtf closing at midnight?!?

[marsh sparrow]

Funny ahh mf here

[midnight vine]

no he's like 5'8"

[tidal birch]

how does it close that late

[midnight vine]

rip

[ornate abyss]

this is next level nerd

[marsh sparrow]

lol this guy never has anything productive to say

almost none of the met kids are nerds

[ornate abyss]

1% acceptnace rate says otherwise

[tidal birch]

never met a met kid

they’re like shiny pokemon

[marsh sparrow]

there’s a video essay

[tidal birch]

probably holed up in their rooms

[marsh sparrow]

They do a pretty good job of filtering

[marsh sparrow]

No they just don’t live in unit 3

[tidal birch]

stfu

no way u know a met kid

that’s in our year

[marsh sparrow]

I know like 75% of them tf

[shy saddle]

I think that's probably fine.

[midnight vine]

i know a met kid who didn't get in to CS kickstart lmao

[tidal birch]

bro fr

[marsh sparrow]

Yes

Not lying

[dry pollen]

We have like 3 open till 12

[dry pollen]

I don’t velieve

[dry pollen]

Oh not much better lol

[marsh sparrow]

Lucky

[marsh sparrow]

Boo hoo

[dry pollen]

Yeah late night pizzas are so big

One lasted me a week

[dry pollen]

Shut up 5’8 mf

[harsh spindle]

I have actually never tried de neve late night

I always go to the study because it’s the closest to centennial

[worn aurora]

I do know a met kid since he went to a school in my district

[manic maple]

nothing is reliable. think for yourself, if it was so easy to detect, why wouldnt openai or any other company release their own model to check for ai? openai tried to make one, gave up cuz it wasnt reliable

[noble kraken]

How should I rank the UCSD colleges? Like can someone give me a tldr?

[fast oriole]

Someone on Reddit wrote this and I think it’s pretty good!! https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSD/comments/1gkjy1o/ucsd_college_rankings/?rdt=34840

[sweet citrus]

@noble kraken

[noble kraken]

thanks guys!

[desert escarp]

they probably don’t

that would be a lot of extra work

plus you can tell when something is AI pretty easily

the AOs should be able to tell what’s human and what’s not

AOs know what that looks like from reading so many essays

[dry pollen]

It’s solid not amazing but pizza size is big

[bold bear]

i was reading the convo and why would u apply met over eecs if you want to do cs

or is that just for the ppl who aren't set on what u do in engineering

[midnight vine]

met is for people who wanna do both engineering and business

[sweet citrus]

@tropic minnow @desert escarp https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCxtaOYvd1y/

ucscadmissions

Just lowkey a chill guy who wanted to chill with the forest creatures fr. 🌲

(artist Phillip Banks)

#ucsc #chillguy #universityofcalifornia #exploresantacruz #collegememes

Likes

1806

Instagram

[desert escarp]

I saw that lmfao

[tidal birch]

bro wtf do i do the ppl ik already left

i could be at home rn baking cakes or something

[worn aurora]

go find a homeless guy

[tidal birch]

and jump him

yes

my favorite berkeley activity

[neon river]

Ucla lingustic cs

It is hard to get in?

[wooden sierra]

Lmaooo

[worn aurora]

its in the college so not as bad as cs because they dont care about your major

but my friends who study cs ling says its more like linguistics with a cs minor

[tropic minnow]

Sometimes I love this school and other times the admissions account wants to make me jump off Oakes Bridge (I will simply break my legs)

[brisk basin]

Lmfao first comment

"add more housing"

[tropic minnow]

Someone always posts that and it just annoys me cause a decent amount of the time these are the same people that throw a fit when the admin try to build anything

[brisk basin]

funny

[noble kraken]

why everyone flaming revelle online

it doesnt look that bad

can someone expound

[long thicket]

Hey guys

for the scholarship section on the app

Is that section the application for the scholarsships? or are you just saying that you are interested and then you have to do a whole appplication later on

[worn aurora]

Idk but since it’s like right next to 8th it looks like the slums

[noble kraken]

do you go to ucsd?

[worn aurora]

Yes

[noble kraken]

can you help me rank these 😭

rn muir is looking best to me

sixth and eighth, i need to look more into

[worn aurora]

What do you look for in living/GEs

Seventh is the best imo, it’s a little far from classes but by far best dorms and GEs

[noble kraken]

living - just want something modern and relatively spacious
GEs - am applying cs (alt is bioe) but i dont mind taking humanities and like philosophy, want to avoid foreign language prob

[worn aurora]

I’d go seventh -> eighth -> sixth -> everyone else -> ERC

[noble kraken]

i thought warren was best for eng though

[worn aurora]

Warren is close to the engineering building but your classes won’t necessarily be in the building

Also the dorms are pretty mid imo

It’s good for engineering GEs I’ve heard but seventh GEs are easy as well

I’m cs in seventh and some GEs overlap with your DEI/other reqs

[noble kraken]

i got this rn

[noble kraken]

ah ok

[worn aurora]

Just so you know Marshall is getting new dorms next year but idk if it’s for first years or not

[noble kraken]

i dont really like its GEs

but what makes seventh better than the other...numeric...colleges

[worn aurora]

living conditions mainly, it’s apartment style housing and you get a personal kitchen/fridge/oven/microwave and living room

The GEs are tame compared to other colleges Ive heard, it’s close to the only good gym as well

The only downside is that it’s far from a lot of buildings in campus but eighth is also the same in that regard

The dining hall is probably one of the better ones on campus too

[noble kraken]

ah okay

[worn aurora]

If not the best

I’ve seen Amazon employees go there on their break

[noble kraken]

then ill def put seventh on top

what about eighth vs sixth?

ive heard a lot of good things about sixth

[sharp oak]

what should i do here

actually i'll just say yes idrc

[worn aurora]

Sixth is pretty modern and close to the center of Campus meaning you’re close to many classes, imo it’s the most well rounded college

There’s also private balconies that only sixth residents can access

And there’s plenty of dining halls built in to the college but the food is admittedly mediocre

Eighth is the newest and the most spacious, but the downside is the interior is a little too industrial and looks unfinished + it’s far from campus and there’s no kitchen

But if you don’t mind that then it’s not a bad choice, the facilities are the newest

[noble kraken]

hmm

by far wdym

like biking distance?

[worn aurora]

Its on the other side of campus

It’ll probably take you like 15-20 minutes to get from Geisel to Eighth

But that’s the same for seventh as well

They’re both on the opposite sides of the edge of campus basically

[noble kraken]

alright

[noble kraken]

walking?

[worn aurora]

Yes

[noble kraken]

oh then thats not bad at all

[long thicket]

anyone know 😦

also, would it be harmful if i indicate that an academic interest for the scholarship section that i am not applying as (my major)

[tranquil peak]

wait why r u applying for housing rn???

[noble kraken]

its not housing but colleges

ucsd has a unique system

[brisk basin]

Special system

for special kids

🗣️

[worn aurora]

Yes but when you’re walking every day, it does get tiring though you’ll get used to it

The pro is you burn a lot of calories

[tranquil peak]

ummm ok so no other ucs have anything like that i have to do right

[worn aurora]

Freshman 15 doesn’t exist at ucsd

[noble kraken]

🔥

[worn aurora]

It’s freshman -15

[noble kraken]

uc socially dead

is it true

[worn aurora]

No

[worn aurora]

Not really, there’s parties both on and off campus

Just no frat row

Most parties on campus you’ll need to know someone

Most are in ERC

[noble kraken]

yeah this is final ig

[long thicket]

Any thoughts on me ranking 6th first as an eng major lol ?

Im doing sixth and then muir

and i think erc last

[noble kraken]

do people not bike btw

or do bikes get stolen

[worn aurora]

Sixth should be fine but Muir just looks like a mental asylum

[worn aurora]

They do

[long thicket]

Lol my sister goes there

[worn aurora]

Rarely actually

Definitely not as much as Berkeley

[noble kraken]

yeah so its prob like 10 mins max biking

[worn aurora]

I only get 2-3 theft messages per month

[noble kraken]

which is pretty good

[worn aurora]

Rather than 1 every day

But as long as you lock your bike and don’t leave your scooter unguarded past like 10 you’re good

[noble kraken]

👍

[brisk basin]

nah

Berkeley is very safe

clearly

only like 7 violent crime alerts per day

[tropic minnow]

If you're talking about the colleges and having to rank them, UCSC and UCSD are the only UCs with a system like that I believe

[noble kraken]

Hogwarts ahh system

[tropic minnow]

Real

[midnight vine]

we haven't got one in a while lol

[worn aurora]

It’s basically like caltech’s system but more unnecessary

[noble kraken]

Don't tell me I have to do this for Caltech too

😭

And they have like 5 million essays

[worn aurora]

No you dont

Because caltech has a sorting system where you go around every house and see which one you like I think

They’re even more like hogwarts

But instead of learning about casting spells and magic theory they learn about math to build rockets for Lockheed Martin

Which is basically the same thing

And just like hogwarts they’re isolated from the outside world

[noble kraken]

thats def not one of my essay topics

[noble kraken]

Wait that's cool

[noble kraken]

😭😭😭

[worn aurora]

Yeah they have their own “parties” and dinners for each house

[noble kraken]

"parties"
Hehe

[worn aurora]

But in order to survive you need to be able to withstand their magical aura || odor ||

[noble kraken]

😂

When a CS major is saying this it's insane

[worn aurora]

CS at caltech is like multiplying the regular cs odor by 100

[noble kraken]

😭

[warm relic]

Interesting

[noble kraken]

Is that a good interesting or a bad interesting

[warm relic]

Both maybe

[tidal birch]

god gives his strongest warriors 220 chapters

[tidal birch]

dawg why is it whenever i see a spoiler i suddenly have photographic memory

fuck

[worn aurora]

God gives his strongest soldiers a 115 chapter manwha you can binge but isn’t finished

[tidal birch]

literally me RIGHT NOW

GOD DAMNIT

and i ease the pain by reading another manwha

just to be met with the same fate

it’s an endless cycle

all of a sudden everybody is on hiatus

[worn aurora]

That’s why I’ve learned to become a novel reader

[worn aurora]

Hunter x Hunter

[tidal birch]

i’m reading one rn

i’ve finally achieved the level

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[tidal birch]

wait what’s the best app for it

or do u just find websites online

[high bronze]

What is a manwha @tidal birch

I’ve read light novels before but not a manwha

[tidal birch]

manga but korean

[high bronze]

Oh ok

[tidal birch]

such as solo leveling

[high bronze]

Ohhh

Is that really the pipeline

[tidal birch]

usually so

i didn’t think i’ve reach this point yet