Yale University (2024-2025)

[dark idol]

udub seattle, georgia tech ea2 nonga tesidents, northeastern, purdue, ut austin, uiuc, umd, umich, vt, wpi

basically just all state schools + northeastern cuz it lets ppl know in february so its ok under scea

[honest lynx]

Oh yeah that adds up

[dark idol]

lot like

jan feb

deadlines for me

yale will be the first tho

[merry sable]

yooo vt mention?

[dark idol]

yuh

my vt essyas were so troll omg

[merry sable]

i was debating whether to do vt or purdue but i decided i didnt wanna go to blacksburg

[dark idol]

if i dont get yale rea i might consider ed2 hmc

[dark idol]

i dobut ill go to vt too tbh

like

now that i realize it most of the schools on my list that are like below purdue / udub for cs

i'd rather just go cc

[merry sable]

its not a bad school but a lot of people from my school go there and idk if i wanna see them 💀

[dark idol]

lowk valid

i also dont wanna travel all across the country unless its like

a crazy goated school

ykwim

[merry sable]

yeah fr

[dark idol]

udub cs is t10 theres no point leaving

seattle

[merry sable]

like if im going out of state it better be worth it

[dark idol]

yeah exactly

[plain rover]

hell yeah

love LACs

hope i dont have to apply to them tho

im doing like williams amherst swarthmore bowdoin macalester

[crisp tendon]

Lacs always catching strays🙁

#Freeus

[plain rover]

i love lacs tf

tbh

i should have stayed on williams' waitlist

they took off a lot more last yr

[crisp tendon]

ya they surprisingly did i think i know like 3 ppl who got off the wl

Nd then a lot more who chose to not committ

[dark idol]

is there a reaosn

people like

dont accept a slot on a waitlist

shouldnt it be a no brainer like might as well

or do you have to like write an essay

[cedar kettle]

If you got into another school you like more

[cedar kettle]

No

[dark idol]

oh thats valid

kind of like rescinding rd's if u get into an rea u like

which is what ill probably do for most of my schools

[cedar kettle]

Yes exactly

[dark idol]

if i get into yale i plan to apply to a few schools in regular but theyre all ones i would actually consider going to

stanford hmc etc

im just gonna drop all my targets and safeties

as a courtesy

but most ppl dont and its kinda weird

[plain rover]

yeah i agree im only keeping ivies/SM/top LACs/full ride programs

which lowkey is most of my apps because im applying risky

but yeah

[dark idol]

i think not pulling like

ur targets and all

is kind of weird behavior

even in like ED i've seen some people not pull rd's

they end up committing to the ed and just like make it arbitrarily harder for other kids cuz theyre taking a seat

[crisp tendon]

i ended up rejecting all of my wls bexause i got into the school i liked the most and i dont want to waste their time if tbey accept from the wl me when i alrd decided on another school

[cedar kettle]

Most ppl do and it is much appreciated

[dark idol]

maybe its just my school

[cedar kettle]

I think so? Everyone ik at my school had the courtesy to withdraw their apps

[exotic gorge]

@cedar kettle i hope you come back from thanksgiving break and yale is in shambles

[cedar kettle]

wtf 💀

Bro is still salty from losing the game ig

[exotic gorge]

NAH BC THAYS BULLSHIT

WE NEED SOME REFS OUT HERE

INTERCEPTION MY ASS

[fierce quiver]

Has anyone gotten in with a subpar interview?

[tough parcel]

ever? probably

[dark idol]

probably yeah

[fierce quiver]

Im nervous bc i think my interview went well but i probably didnt stand out in any way

Also my interviewer never responded to my thank you email 💀💀

[fluid garden]

same

[marble peak]

I got an interview!!!!

[plain rover]

dude I don't have one 💀

[merry sable]

nice!!

[dark idol]

it could be location

one of my friends lives in a rural part of our state

he got his interview a few days ago

and the dude is from liek

utah

like several states over

[plain rover]

Alabama ppl have been getting them

And I'm not super rural

I'm in a college town

[dark idol]

auto admit question mark

maybe they just dont need any extra info from u

[merry sable]

maybe you were just that good

[plain rover]

hopefully

we'll see tho

im happy with my other schools esp the ones im considering ed2 worst case

[median echo]

yes definitely, it's holistic for a reason. my harvard interview was not stand out, i mean it was great he liked me, but it was one of my lower scores on my file

and also dw abt like thinking it didn't go great or that you were awkward or too shy

i know a lot of ppl who didnt feel great about their interviews

[stiff surge]

i wouldnt expect them to, my princeton interviewer told me he wasn't supposed to contact the people he interviewed after & your interviewer could also just be busy lol

[fierce quiver]

Ohh ok that makes sense

[fierce quiver]

I see thanks

This whole process is so neurotic

[cursive violet]

is 35-40 mins bad...

[plain rover]

nah

[dark idol]

thats like

how long its supposed to last

[sonic rune]

That’s normal dw

Some schools explicitly ask interviewers not to communicate after interviews

[marble peak]

My interview is in person, any tips for it?

[median echo]

my yale interview was 21 minutes

and i thought it was bad but maybe because i had just like put the finishing touches on my app

[merry sable]

just keep calm :D ngl i think i hyped myself up for mine too much, just be chill, smile, and talk naturally

[marble peak]

Thanks!

[cedar kettle]

Nah that’s extremely average

Mine was 40min

[charred steeple]

i had my interview today, all that's left now is to wait another agonizing 20 days 🙏

[plain rover]

its only 20 days left?

epic

[weak lotus]

i did a good amount of interviews during my app cycle and before them i would make a google doc outlining some key parts of me that i wanted to highlight (imagine you were asked "tell me about yourself") and i recommend preparing a good response to why x school

don't try and overprepare bc you don't want to come off as a robot in ur interviews. it should be natural

oh and send a thank you email after!

[marble peak]

Thank you!

[weak lotus]

yea for sure! good luck and lmk if you have any other questions

[earnest turret]

hey yall

[marble peak]

Tomorrow is the day 🥳

[topaz parcel]

the day for what

[marble peak]

Interview

[cursive violet]

gl

[teal pendant]

gl 🐐

[marble peak]

It went pretty well

I messed up on one question but overall I think it went good

[dark idol]

unless u said ur hobbies are dropkicking babies u will be OK

[marble peak]

Thanks, something I said just seemed arrogant on accident I’m just hoping he didn’t take it that way

[plain rover]

"Will fit in GREAT with the donor child student body!"

[dark idol]

LMFAO

why does yale not have like a list of all documents receieved

i had to send some college transcripts and it says they were sent and other schools got them but yale doesnt show on portal smh

[marble peak]

Bro it was so bad I hope that I recovered I just got confused and said the wrong thing

I tried to fix it but it was just a mess, but he seemed really nice and the interview went really well other than that

Maybe I’m overthinking it

[plain rover]

well ig it's official I am either going to be admitted with no interview or crash out at my counselor

[dark idol]

whatd you say bro

[dark idol]

um

u still could get one no?

[plain rover]

it's friday

they're due dec 2

[dark idol]

is that offiical

[plain rover]

i am doubtful

[dark idol]

news

or is that specultion

[plain rover]

it was on the alum doc iirc

[dark idol]

could be diff bc thurs friday this year is breakj

[plain rover]

like all interview reports due dec 2

[dark idol]

ah

well

u got into colgate last year so u shouldnt be filtered out

if ur essay responses werent like asscan maybe ur still in the running

[plain rover]

i think they were fine tbh

[marble peak]

I accidentally made it seem like I think I’m above my friends because I said they see me as super smart but I meant to say that they joke around with me about it and I try to separate my academics from my friends and not be competitive with them

[dark idol]

i was told not to use the word ocmpetition bc thats who yale is trying to weed out

[marble peak]

Because I try to just have fun with my friends and not compete with them and stuff but it just sounded like I was saying that I think I’m a genius it was so bad

[dark idol]

but in ur case ig it works

[plain rover]

interviews don't weigh too too much iirc

[dark idol]

im the opposite lowk

[marble peak]

[dark idol]

i have a crazy inferiority complex towards my friends

💀

[plain rover]

💀💀💀

[dark idol]

u said non competitive so i think ur gucci

[plain rover]

there's one guy in my friend group who we all speculate is like that but he's very very chill

[dark idol]

i dont think ive felt intelligent in like

[marble peak]

Yeah a large part of the interview was us talking about how Yale is more collaborative than competitive

[dark idol]

the last 6 odd years

cuz everyoen is just way too intelligent

[marble peak]

So maybe I’m overthinking it and he didn’t take it like that

And we also talked about the humility at Yale

But ahh idk I’ll find out two weeks from Tuesday

[dark idol]

mine said some similar stuff

yeah

18 days

:3

[plain rover]

rhats my last day of school

[dark idol]

man

😭

hopefully you get good news

[plain rover]

also the day I find out if my family is becoming rich

long story

[dark idol]

what

wiat what

are the lotto results the 18th or something

[plain rover]

consulting pays a shit ton

no

it's a consulting job thing that's BASE 400/hr

[dark idol]

whose interviewing for it

u??

or like ur parents

[plain rover]

my dad

[dark idol]

oooh

good luck to him

wow 18th could be like

the best day of ur families life

[plain rover]

17th

but yeah

[dark idol]

ah

17th

sorry

best case its the best day of ur families life worst case there can be another best day of ur families life

[plain rover]

i need to get in

[dark idol]

also whats the lsat demon thing

whats ur like

diagnostic

[plain rover]

there's another kid at my school who's fairly likely to get penn and 2 icies would be school record

[plain rover]

176 June 2007

[dark idol]

u were born in 2007 and have a 176??

[plain rover]

guessed on a few but no guess would probably be low 170s

[plain rover]

08

[dark idol]

oh on the june 07 test

thats crazy

i took it once for shits and got like a 160

💀

[plain rover]

that's good for a hs

[dark idol]

or

[plain rover]

actually

[dark idol]

shit

no i think it was lower

[plain rover]

bro ur inferiority complex is showing

chill

ur good

[dark idol]

it was below average

i forgot what it was

i think i was in the 40th percentile

i only did a quarter of the the thing cuz i got lazy and js extrapolated

but it was just so riddly

[marble peak]

That’s my last day before exams

[plain rover]

that'd be low 150s

[dark idol]

ah

somethign like that yeah

[plain rover]

not terrible as a hs

[dark idol]

not great score

[marble peak]

I’m really hoping it goes well for the sake of my future and my exam scores

[plain rover]

gl!!!

[dark idol]

good luck

[marble peak]

Thanks

But we’re going to cook

[dark idol]

hopefully my college decision reactions video will be banger enouguh to sustain a future youtube career

real

[dark idol]

the only prep i had was watching lsat jack

for ilke

10 videos

[plain rover]

valid

[marble peak]

I’m going to make a video but just for me and my family I don’t want to post it

[plain rover]

i didn't prep xd

[dark idol]

so i just didn't know how to answer half of the questions

idek what it was asking

i feel like if i choose to go to law school i can probably get 170 w enough trial and error

but everyone thinks that

so

we will wait 4 years and see

[plain rover]

it's a very studyable test so it's definitely possible

[dark idol]

yeah

if its anything like the sat i'll be fine

i refused to study math so i got a 1550 but if i spent like 2 weeks reviewing math to get my 780 to an 800 i could have gotten 1570 imo

[plain rover]

lowkey ima try to study a 180 for full rides

like ccn full ride

[dark idol]

isnt hysccn

still like

30% ar w 3.9-4.3 180

💀

[plain rover]

hys doesn't give merit

nope yake is 6%

h+s are 9 iirc

ccn is 12

[dark idol]

not general ar

ar w 3.9-4.3 180

lsdata

[plain rover]

oh

yeah it's 30s for hys and 50s for ccn

prob higher with ed

[plain rover]

yeah yale is rough

[dark idol]

so

i mean

[plain rover]

more holistic than other law schools

[dark idol]

wont yls be easier if u go

y undergrad

[plain rover]

nah they don't save seats for their ug

harvard does

but I'm trying to get merit money so I'm aiming full ride ccn

[dark idol]

they might not save seats but if i had to guess the #1 ug of yls kids

is yale

[plain rover]

like hamilton/ruby

[dark idol]

yeah

number one

yls

ug

is yale

number 2 is harvard

https://www.reddit.com/r/lawschooladmissions/comments/yx9glc/yls_undergrad_institution_representation/

it could be correlation but it looks like the best place to set urself up for yls is yale

u can also do work w law school profs which i imagine might help in some capacity

and like

most students come from stacked ugs

[plain rover]

it definitely helps bc I want to end up in (tenured) academia

after work exp

[dark idol]

valid

did u rea yale cuz u wanna go yls

or did u rea yale cuz u wanna go yale ug

[plain rover]

ug

my top choice for ls rn would probably be Chicago with ruby

[dark idol]

w who

?

am i not tapped into the ls terminplogy

[dark idol]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1h2v32t/really_late_yale_rea_interview/

looks like they're still sending them out

[merry sable]

the closer the deadline is, the more i start dooming 💀

[plain rover]

ruby=rubenstein=uchicago's full ride

[dark idol]

oh valid

also check ur junk

and ur spam

and ur other

[plain rover]

December 2

Also I still don't have any

I searched yale

In my gmail

[dark idol]

search interview

[plain rover]

Nothing new

[dark idol]

my interviewer went to junk

[plain rover]

Nope

[plain rover]

Mine didn't bc I don't see one

[dark idol]

aww

i still believe

[plain rover]

nothing i can do rn other than interpret this as autoadmit!!!

yale 29

alpha omega sigma

[dark idol]

sigma sigma

on the wall

[dark idol]

yuh

u good

[cursive violet]

on god

[marble peak]

It’s the month!

16 days

[charred steeple]

tis the season

[dark idol]

shit

2 weeks

[cedar kettle]

Lowkey funny they come out during our finals

[marble peak]

They come out the day before my semester exams

[cedar kettle]

Oof

[plain rover]

If I get rejected do I ed2

I actually like my ed2

Not necessarily #2 tho

[real dagger]

NO YOU APPLY TO HARVARD RD LIKE YOU SHOULDVE REA

[teal pendant]

me when i lie

[plain rover]

I have it as rd already

Hm

[merry current]

No

[marble peak]

Apparently 66 people matched for QB?

[teal pendant]

thats abt normal if a bit on the low end

[plain rover]

real

but what if the diamonds are actually bombs

[marble peak]

The Yale Class of 2029 account exists 🥳

[light portal]

just got an interview req yesterday for the 8th so they might still be sending them out — not entirely sure what yale’s timeline is this yr because it seems awfully late in the game 😭

[dark idol]

ts is wack

[light portal]

loool yeah

[marble peak]

It’s starting to feel real

[charred steeple]

🥲

i got a second interview invite yesterday

[marble peak]

Second?

[plain rover]

2 interviews before ive had one

bruh

[marble peak]

You might be cracked

I’m glad I got an interview but it also means they’re on the fence, right?

[plain rover]

yeah

which for yale is pretty good

[plain rover]

hopefully thats what it is if i have to wait till march for every single reach im crashing out

[marble peak]

I think you’ll cook

But there’s less than 2 weeks

[plain rover]

true

[dark idol]

wait what

its either a mistake or ur so cracked ur getting in

[dark idol]

well

i think someone said here like 95% of admitted students had one

[plain rover]

do you have legacy?

[fierce quiver]

Is the interview with an AO?

[loud glen]

Maybe same situation as this? could be anything: https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/fj61fd/second_yale_interview/

[cedar kettle]

Oh shit

[cedar kettle]

That’s actually so funny

[plain rover]

@cedar kettle dyk anyone in ur class accepted w/o interview

[dark idol]

i think my friend knows one or two

[cedar kettle]

I really don’t want to cause panic but personally I don’t at least for people I’ve talked to about their admissions situation

Which tbf is not a lot

We don’t actually talk about college admissions almost ever

[dark idol]

i think someone earlier said like

93% had interviews

which

statistically means 7%

which is i think like at least a hundred kids

didnt get interviewed

93% admits

[plain rover]

fair

ive also heard of no interviews getting deferred

to see how competitive rd is

[cedar kettle]

I would honestly be a little hesitant on trusting that number because Yale doesn’t publish this data but also they do say there are definitely people who do get in without

[dark idol]

tbh at this point there's only 2 weeks left

[cerulean whale]

Where's that number from lol

[dark idol]

js wait it out instead of speculating

[plain rover]

i mean last time i trusted admissions astrology i was pleasantly surprised so

[dark idol]

i thought it was from this thread

maybe im hallucinating chatgpt style tho

[plain rover]

idk why im believing in it

like I thought I was cooked and I wasnt

[cedar kettle]

Good advice! The decisions is probably already made at this point as hard as it is really trying to not to worry too much. You did what you could, and no amount of speculating will change your decision.

[merry sable]

2 weeks left!!

[cedar kettle]

If yall get in do you have celebration plans

[merry sable]

ngl might just not go to school the next dasy

give myself a break

[cedar kettle]

So real

[plain rover]

delete most of my other college application essays, withdraw most of the ones ive submitted, hit up a brazillian steakhouse, and fucking sleep for 18 hours

[cedar kettle]

I think after ivy day last year I slept for like 12 hr straight 💀

BRAZILIAN STEALHOUSE IS FIRE

[merry sable]

dude so fr

[cedar kettle]

I went to one for the first time recently

Oh my god

My tastebuds were blessed

[merry sable]

what makes a braziliian steakhouse different from like other ones?

ive never been to one lol

[plain rover]

more sigma

a lot more sigma

[cedar kettle]

It’s like kinda buffet-y?

Idk how to explain

[plain rover]

first time ive ever gotten 12hrs was last spring after colgate day

[cedar kettle]

Deserved sleep haha

Idk I can sleep sorta infinitely

[plain rover]

i cannot 💀

[cedar kettle]

Like one time I willed myself into sleeping 16 hr

Not sure how

But I did

[plain rover]

melatonin+melatonin substitute+b complex and i still couldnt sleep till 2:30 last night

[cedar kettle]

Not straight

I woke up to eat lunch and went back to sleep

[merry sable]

one time my friend slept for 24hr straight 💀 went to bed saturday night woke up on monday

[cedar kettle]

THATS CRAZY

[plain rover]

?? i wish

[cedar kettle]

I AM NOT THAT CRACKED

[plain rover]

imagine listing sleep as an EC

[cedar kettle]

tbf I also get crazy insomnia sometimes so like

[plain rover]

"can sleep 24hr on command"

[merry sable]

didn't wake up once 😭 i was both impressed and shocked

[cedar kettle]

Flippy floppy situation

[merry sable]

it balances out

[cedar kettle]

Yeah haha

[cedar kettle]

Crazy ec

Autoadmit fr

[merry sable]

lmao imagine writing your essay on sleeping

[cedar kettle]

Lowkey I feel like this has def been done

[dark idol]

um

take off school

i had a plan and then im going thru like personal issues

which kinda threw a wrench in those

so ill js sleep and watch like yugioh

[merry sable]

:O which season/series(?)

[dark idol]

probably start from scratch

watched it when i was a kid

[merry sable]

ngl 5gs is fire, card games on motorcycles 👌

[cedar kettle]

Oh I’m sorry 🫂

[dark idol]

nah it was like 60-70% my fault so

i'm taking some space to process

at east for a week or two

60-70% is at minimum

[plain rover]

i just realized im going to be able to celebrate a lot more if i get in because yale rea day is also my last day of school

[dark idol]

either way i was being weird

so i'm taking some time to be better

[merry sable]

damn luckyy

[merry sable]

take care of yourself! senior year is a rough time but i hope it all works out

[cedar kettle]

That’s good at least. Like even if it was your fault I’m glad your giving yourself space to learn from it and process

[dark idol]

yeah, i'm taking some time to process

i think the hard part is

preparing for what i'll do if this is gonna permanently damage whatever situation was going on

but

i'll deal w that when i get to it

[verbal pine]

if i dont get in im lowkey cooked

[plain rover]

same!

im kinda screwed for finaid

and hyp+wasp+mit are the only places with straight up good finaid

lowkey think it would be funny if i ended up at mit though

dream school since i was 8

and to end up there in a non hard stem major...

[verbal pine]

whats wasp

[plain rover]

williams amherst swarthmore pomona

top LACs

[verbal pine]

oh are they premed schools

[plain rover]

no

just liberal arts colleges

[lilac maple]

is there such a thing as a college only for pre-med??

[verbal pine]

schools good for premed i just call premed schools

[plain rover]

a lot of ppl do go there for premed/law/intending to get a PhD but its not exclusively that

[lilac maple]

lac r usually p good for pre-med

[verbal pine]

yeah honestly idk if i should apply to one

[lilac maple]

apply to schools that u think r a good fit / will give u scholarships cause med schools r hella expensive

[verbal pine]

ima just lock in for jhu med school trust(im cooked)

[lilac maple]

glgl

[plain rover]

im doing it bc i like the idea of one+im very likely to do a doctorate

[charred steeple]

nope

[plain rover]

hmm

maybe its a toss up between you and one other candidate

give it your all

[dark idol]

or ti could be a mistake

either way js go for it

[plain rover]

it might not be tho so take it w a grain of salt

yeah

[charred steeple]

that would be kinda funny but it's not with an alum

[plain rover]

agree

[sonic rune]

^^

I applied to a good number of lacs but there's no way in hell I would have actually gone lol

[lilac maple]

also the lac matters, theyre all so diff

[sonic rune]

fs fs

[lilac maple]

you're not gonna get the same education at pitzer vs swarthmore

[plain rover]

lacs are really good w recs as well

[sonic rune]

they have very different atmospheres and that's just not for everyone

[plain rover]

which are very important softs in grad school apps

[sonic rune]

yeah fs

you have a tiny class

and it's like 90k a year I'd be shocked if they didn't

[plain rover]

also hate to plug a school i turned down (and will be applying to again 💀 ) but colgate alumni network is actually one of the best in the us like ivy grade like you will likely have job/grad security

[lilac maple]

how have you alr turned down colgate??

[verbal pine]

how did bro turn down a school and apply again

[plain rover]

class of 2028!

[plain rover]

i was super depressed junior year because i lived in alabama!

[verbal pine]

u applied junior year?

[plain rover]

yes

!

[verbal pine]

to same schools as u are now or only colgate?

[lilac maple]

wait so why didnt u go?

this is such a lore moment

[plain rover]

fuck off they deleted my old uchicago letter

[plain rover]

colgate and 8 others

[verbal pine]

was yale on that list

[plain rover]

i would be in the middle of nowhere with a lot of alcohol... at the tender age of 16

[lilac maple]

yet u got into colgate

[plain rover]

i applied in like late january so it was closed

i applied very late

[plain rover]

fun fact i didnt know they had optional essays so i didnt do any of them!

[lilac maple]

bro if i got into college as ajunior id be booking it out of my sorry ass hs

[plain rover]

honestly i shouldve

because i could have cooked transfer admissions worst case

[lilac maple]

colgate is a great school i would def stay

is it the only place u got in?
'

[plain rover]

uh

yeah

lol

i got 5 r 3 wl and colgate

in my defense i did 9 apps in 5 days

[verbal pine]

nah but lowkey second half of senior year is fun like i wouldnt wanna miss it

[plain rover]

+common app

and they were all reaches

[lilac maple]

fuck no the status of graduating early from college and hs beats this

[plain rover]

hypothetically, id be able to be tenured before 30 if i did a phd

[verbal pine]

bro u gonna have to start from scratch and not be with ur family

[plain rover]

if i went

now i still maybe can

but idt ill try that

[cursive violet]

how tho ur stuck with the same hard classes just with 0 motivaiton

[plain rover]

for me at least i have no classes 2nd sem

i literally just have a 90 day chill period

[cursive violet]

bro

i wish

[plain rover]

dude im still mad at uchicago

[verbal pine]

nah 2nd sem grades dont matter too much dawg just dont fail

[plain rover]

i really thought they wl to give me a deferred acceptance

bc i was young

they reject me mid may

i was close to getting my first b in linalg bc i played too much valorant

[verbal pine]

nah but like as long as ur like mid Bs ur chillin

[lilac maple]

im alr p independent so i wouldnt mind, honestly would love it

[cursive violet]

true but liek i odnt wanna end w a shitty gpa either

[plain rover]

at least with what im tryna do thats honestly a good thing

[cursive violet]

is linalg even real

we have done the same thing all year

[plain rover]

lets me start financing property earlier

finish a house mortgage faster

etc

[plain rover]

unfortunately

our professor gives us the hardest stuff in the class less than a wk b4 the final

[cursive violet]

ive literally only learned rref and ive passed every quiz

[plain rover]

and its on the final

fucking pseudoinverses and singular value form

[cursive violet]

professor ???

[plain rover]

my school sucks ass bro

im taking it DE

[verbal pine]

no one boutta look at ur hs gpa no more

[plain rover]

^^^

[lilac maple]

unless you're transferring

[plain rover]

only if ur a freshman transfer

if u transfer after 2yr they dont care

even so they prob care abt ugrad gpa more

[mental leaf]

i just got one as well

and its set for the 13th?

which is really close to the decision date 😭

idk what to make of it

[tiny fractal]

soooo at this point should i assume that if i didnt get an interview yet then theres not a very good chance i'm getting in lol?

idk i saw that 93/95% statistic somewhere on here

[sonic rune]

Nah

Second half of senior year is a really fun time

[sonic rune]

No don’t assume that

[dawn mauve]

i chose not to graduate from hs a year early lol that shit freaked me out too much

senior year i literally just had to take an english class to graduate

[lilac maple]

ig i just have the unpopular opinoon

[lilac maple]

same same

[dawn mauve]

my bday is also pretty late so i would be going to college like. freshly 17

[lilac maple]

i didnt apply early bc i knew junior year ecs and gpa would lift me up from the trenches of whatever freshman year was

but i would love the independence, i like hs but depending on the options id go for it

[dark idol]

i turn 18

after about a quarter of college

[light portal]

oh my goooodness the 13th 😭😭 best of luck to you!!!

[teal pendant]

who is it with?

[thorny flume]

Does Yale actually do screenings before sending interviews? I heard that somewhere but wasn’t sure

[dark idol]

yes

[fluid garden]

one of my friends has been going insane everyday bc he still hasn’t gotten an interview

[dark idol]

has he checked junk spam

other

[fluid garden]

yeah

thinks he’s getting auto rejected

[dark idol]

well

only 14 days left to wait

[plain rover]

hes an auto accept trust

[thin fog]

17

[thorny flume]

14 days is insane

[dark idol]

oh shiet

13 days

[thorny flume]

Hoping are least on of us get in 🙏

[plain rover]

🙏

[marble peak]

Tell my family, be happy, and then take exams for the next three days

[plain vessel]

u got this king

[dark idol]

thanks goat

i'm getting my ass beaten by classes rn lowk

i gotta thug it out tho

[honest lynx]

!yale

[sterile briar]

Yale SCEA Decision Date

The decision date is <t:1734472800> in your local time
12 days, 21 hours and 46 minutes until the decision date

[merry sable]

does getting an interview mean anything at all? does it actually show interest in your application or is just based on availability?

[loud glen]

"An interview is not a required part of the application process. Because of limited interviewing capacity, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions prioritizes interviews for students for whom the Admissions Committee needs more information. Students who do not receive an interview invitation will not be disadvantaged"

[dark idol]

u get prescreened

and my friends say most ppl theyve spoken to at yale got interviewed

its like very inconcrete evidence

but idt official data is released

[marble peak]

!yale

[sterile briar]

Yale SCEA Decision Date

The decision date is <t:1734472800:F> in your local time
12 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes until the decision date

[simple tusk]

!yale

[sterile briar]

Yale SCEA Decision Date

The decision date is <t:1734472800:F> in your local time
12 days, 33 minutes and 36 seconds until the decision date

[cerulean whale]

Anyone else get their application audited 😭

[frank crater]

Wdym?

[cerulean whale]

My AO contacted my counselor + (both? I only asked one so far but I'm assuming they would've contacted both) my teacher letter writers asking them to confirm that they wrote my letters

My counselor also confirmed a few ECs (not sure if they were the ones mentioned in his letter or ones the AO asked about specifically; I'll follow up tomorrow probably)

Well I say my AO

Ig it could be any AO but I assume it was the one for my region

[frank crater]

Ohh i heard yale is one of the main schools that audits

Just read a little bit more on it too. Kinda scary stuff when i dont have physical proof of me doing some activities other than people vouching and i dunno if my counselor knows i do them

But yea i heard it is very regular for yale in the way you described

[cerulean whale]

My counselor literally just asked me if I did the things described lol

And the teacher email

I actually have a screenshot my teacher shared with me

It seems very chill

[cursive violet]

wheres the part abt ecs

[cerulean whale]

This was one sent to my teacher

My counselor was the one who asked me about ECs (and also why ik I was audited lol)

I haven't seen his letter

I'll ask tomorrow at school probably

[cursive violet]

do they do this to evertone theyre gonna accept

like is it indicative of antthing since its so close to decisions

[cerulean whale]

No idea they do say it's random

[frank crater]

Some schools do it for major awards but i think its just random for yale

[cerulean whale]

Well I know at [a different ivy] they only audit people who've been admitted but that ivy is not yale so idk how much can be generalized

12 days till decisions

Not like it'll be long before we find out lol

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Interesting though!

My teacher said he'd never had to confirm something like that before

[cursive violet]

whcih one

[cerulean whale]

Brown

[merry sable]

howd you find out about your app being audited? did you receive anything about it or did your teacher/counselor tell you?

[cerulean whale]

My counselor called me to ask me to verify like 4 of my ECs

Maybe the counselors are asked for EC verification?

My teacher did not go out of his way to tell me

But I asked him about it because I knew about the counselor contact

[cerulean whale]

But yeah no I didn't get any direct notification from Yale

[cedar kettle]

The email says random so I’d guess not

[dark idol]

good sign no?

[dark idol]

truly random makes no sense tho, that means they could waste time on a bunch of auto reject applicants

[cursive violet]

probably randomly selected from people they wanna accept

that would make the most sense

[cerulean whale]

Yeah brown explicitly states they audit matriculated students so idt I can apply their practices here

Ngl though

I'm mostly happy because I sent in an update last night 💀

And I was mildly worried they already would've made a decision and wouldn't look at it

But hey if they were emailing people this morning they probably saw it 😃

[plain rover]

youre good

12 days 🙏

[dark idol]

!yale

[sterile briar]

Yale SCEA Decision Date

The decision date is <t:1734472800:F> in your local time
11 days, 18 hours and 40 minutes until the decision date

[dark idol]

oh shit it releases at 2 pst

[verbal pine]

do they audit everyone who they accept?

cause i might be cooked

[plain rover]

idts

[loud glen]

probably not since they would have to audit thousands of people(including rd)

[proper sail]

did anyone not get an interview yet 💀

[plain rover]

i havent

[proper sail]

are you intl?

because like

im stressing bro

[plain rover]

no im domestic 💀

[proper sail]

https://tenor.com/view/golden-freddy-golden-freddy-tweaking-tweaking-gif-7239630623117779377

is that a bad thing?

[plain rover]

no idea

[proper sail]

ive been doomscrolling reddit and its coming back very mixed

[plain rover]

getting an interview is mixed signals as is

[proper sail]

mmm fair

[merry sable]

it just means your app was so good they didnt even need an interview

auto admit frfr you just gotta trust

[proper sail]

frrrr

delulu is the solulu

[cerulean whale]

Yeah there's absolutely no way lol

The AO replied to my teacher's confirmation within an hour of him sending it (like "thanks for the quick response") so it's definitely not done automatically

There's like 25 people working in the office there's no way they're doing this that fast if they're doing it for 700 people

And also based on their wording idt it's just for admitted students anyway

[dark idol]

oculd just be people they're sus about

[plain rover]

yeah this seems more accurate

my counselor prescreened my ECs and mentioned them in the rec to get around audits (and to make a more cohesive rec)

[cerulean whale]

Could be yeah

Though they do say it's random

[cerulean whale]

Idt this matters lol I'm pretty sure my counselor was specifically verifying ECs mentioned in his LOR

Or at least that's how it sounded

[dark idol]

they could say its random but why waste time and effort checking an applicant whose ec's are 150% believable

[cerulean whale]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

I found the ones they asked to check a bit odd

One of them was being president of a random school club? And another one was being a member of a school team

Idk why those specifically would raise suspicion

[wind jacinth]

i saw on reddit all the RD audits were for admits

not to get anyone's hopes up tho

[cerulean whale]

Oh interesting

Yeah idk anything about Yale's process here

They seem to like obfuscating info lol

E.g. the real signal of the interviews

[wind jacinth]

yaLe

[dark idol]

me if i dont get in

[cerulean whale]

Fwiw the other two were founding and leading an out of school org and being on an district committee

[plain rover]

me when there are zero good signs from yale to me

unless, of course, i want to be delusional

[exotic gorge]

@cerulean whale it's probably pretty unlikely that they would audit you unless you've atleast passed one form of committee

to randomly do it makes no sense

The randomization aspect of it is probably something they say to give it a reason

when, in reality, they want to make sure they aren't admitting liars into their ranks

[cerulean whale]

Yeah that's my intuition

Also I Googled around and this never seems to happen early in the cycle?

[exotic gorge]

yeah but don't feel too happy

it's yale after all

its not harvard

[cerulean whale]

Idk why they'd do it so late

💀

Harvard supps are finished

[exotic gorge]

maybe if it was harvard you'd actually have something to celebrate

[cerulean whale]

You guys have the worst word counts in the world

[exotic gorge]

they just changed that this year

idk what they're smoking up there

[cerulean whale]

What was it last year?

[exotic gorge]

what is it this year

250?

150?

[cerulean whale]

150

[exotic gorge]

last year it was 200 for all of them im pretty usre

or something like that

idk i started and finished my harvard app an hour before the deadline lol i barely remember anything about any of my apps

[cerulean whale]

Describe a time when you strongly disagreed with someone about an idea or issue. How did you communicate or engage with this person? What did you learn from this experience?
This is not a 150 word answer

Yale actually has a similar prompt

But they give you 400

I didn't even bother trying to cut that down

I just picked a different anecdote

[exotic gorge]

My Yale interviewer asked me that same question oddly

nice guy

I felt bad telling him I chose Harvard lmao

[cerulean whale]

You kept in touch?

[exotic gorge]

Yes! I kept in touch with all my interviewers, actually

My best skill is interviewing

Looking at my admissions file from Harvard, it literally says my interview was a BIG reason I got accepted/pushed over the line

I'd imagine it is the same for the others

I got into every college I interviewed for, actually, except MIT

[cerulean whale]

Oh neat

I sent my Yale interviewer a follow up thank you email but he never replied lol

[exotic gorge]

LMAO

Yeah it be like that sometimes

[cerulean whale]

That was a slightly odd interview he answered every question by starting "well idk about Yale but at Caltech [where he went to undergrad]..."

It was fine though

[exotic gorge]

tf

Did he do a masters at Yale or something

[cerulean whale]

Yeah

One year

[exotic gorge]

bruh

[cerulean whale]

That got cut short by covid

[exotic gorge]

bruh

[cerulean whale]

I just gave up on the Yale questions eventually

[exotic gorge]

Interesting

[cerulean whale]

When I asked if he thought the residential colleges fostered interesting conversations because of the whole community thing

He said

Well he didn't know

But at Caltech where they had something similar

[exotic gorge]

interesting

[cerulean whale]

Everyone was kind of too busy with classwork or grad school/job apps to talk about politics "or any kind of intellectual discussion"

I wrote that down after because l was like what lol

[exotic gorge]

nah its not like that in the ivy league dw

caltech is weird

theres like 12 people

[cerulean whale]

Yeah

Basically I learned I shouldn't apply to caltech

Not that I was going to

[exotic gorge]

The res system at Yale is kind of just the same as at Harvard and at most places I feel like

Like in the Ivy League anyways

The only difference is at Yale you get sorted into ur res college the first day ur there

Whereas at Harvard you don't get that until Sophomore year

[cerulean whale]

Yeah I was about to ask

[exotic gorge]

yuh we will get our housing assignments next march

[cerulean whale]

I remember hearing some old complaints about the h system? Idk if they changed it though

[exotic gorge]

the H system

idk what that is

[cerulean whale]

I'm too lazy to type harvard

Harvard system

[exotic gorge]

oh

idk lol its fine

its completely random

you can pick a group of 7 other people, 8 including you, to go with

[cerulean whale]

So you guys get resorted between frosh and soph years?

[exotic gorge]

all freshman live in the yard

[cerulean whale]

Ah

[exotic gorge]

the houses for upperclassmen are by the river or in the QUAD

Though, to be frank, I think you need the experience of living in the Yard

You cannot get more Harvard than Harvard Yard

You're in the middle of it all

Kinda sucks having to walk in the freezing cold to get food tho especially when you've got strep (me)

[cerulean whale]

Do you guys get a lot of tourist passersby

[exotic gorge]

a lot of tourist is an understatement

It's only tourists

Tourists everyday tourists everynight

Tour groups visit groups

Every single day

Harvard is the #1 most visited college campus in the world

The tourist out number the students

[cerulean whale]

I'm from socal if I end up on the East Coast idk what I'll do

[cerulean whale]

Sounds about right

[exotic gorge]

lots of socal people here

they seem to be surviving

upperclassmen housing is better because the dining hall is just in the house, much like at Yale

Though, be completely aware, if you are expecting the visit days (Visitas for Harvard, Bulldog Days for Yale) to really choose which college you're going to, Yale's Bulldog Days is the best college visit day I ever went to

Harvard knows it is Harvard, they already fully expect you to choose Harvard because they're Harvard anyways

They don't try too hard on Visitas

Yale goes ALL out

[cerulean whale]

I actually have not heard of that

[exotic gorge]

nah Bulldog Days was so fun

[cerulean whale]

I've mostly heard of MIT's lol

[exotic gorge]

well you know what we don't all get into mit

so i can't speak to that

[cerulean whale]

💀 it's fine who wants 2% non-STEM majors anyway

[exotic gorge]

me

my dream college since i was like 8

anyhoo

BUT! I did go to 5 of the ivy leagues admitted student days

And Yale was by far the best

Bulldog Days showcase was to die for, they had so much energy, all the students were out having fun (though, to be fair, it was an abnormally warm few days in New Haven)

Great food

Yale has the BEST food out of all the ivy leagues guarantee

[cerulean whale]

Trying to figure out how to factor this info into a potential decision hm

[exotic gorge]

don't go to Harvard

[cerulean whale]

Well ig I'll see if I get in and then figure it out

[cerulean whale]

😭

[exotic gorge]

If you do end up going to Yale try for Pauli Murray res college

so nice inside

such nice bathrooms

[cerulean whale]

I think it's random? Unless you're a legacy

[exotic gorge]

oh damn

[cerulean whale]

Which is kind of a gamble

[exotic gorge]

well nvm then

pauli murray was so nice but it was far from campus

but super close to all the new STEM buildings

[cerulean whale]

Ivy League STEM pushes are neat

[exotic gorge]

Yale CS just couldn't compete with Harvard CS

[cerulean whale]

How's the Zuckerberg Chan engineering thing going

[exotic gorge]

what

[cerulean whale]

Center? Building?

I just remember Zuck donating a lot to Harvard to build some engineering facilities

Years ago

[exotic gorge]

ohhhh

the 500million dollar Kempner Institute

[cerulean whale]

Yeah that one

Is it functional at all yet lol

[exotic gorge]

yeah its up and running

its just in the SEC

Their floor is cool af

[cerulean whale]

Ah cool

[cerulean whale]

Yeah it's interesting Yale seems to try way harder to recruit engineering/CS oriented kids and it just doesn't really work

[exotic gorge]

they're trying hard for sure

i mean the benefit for yale cs being historiclaly worse is that they put wayyy more resources into making it better

[cerulean whale]

But Harvard's dumping a lot into CS rn too isn't it?

[exotic gorge]

im sure it is

but, you come to realize, you aren't all that smart being amongst like the top 0.01% of students

I mean everything is super nice

As far as in the SEC and for CS courses

CS50 everything was also super nice, but CS50 generates like millions of revenue for harvard

[cerulean whale]

Oh yeah CS50 is wild

On Harvard's tax forms

Well for all npos

On the 990 form they list the top 5 highest compensated employees

Iirc it's mostly business/med school faculty

[exotic gorge]

then david malan #1 lol

[cerulean whale]

Except at Harvard there's also Malan

Yup

[exotic gorge]

yah u can't really compete

i mean he literally revolutionized it

they do it at Yale now too and now at Oxford

[cerulean whale]

And the Harvard name will always be #1

In lay prestige

Good for getting people interested

[exotic gorge]

its fun being in cs50 i recommend it to anyone even if they think they're too advanced for it

i was definitely too advdanced for it, but hey it's a free A that I'll probably need

and It was a cool experience

[cerulean whale]

Did he rip the phone book

[exotic gorge]

The 3 hour lectures are daunting in theory, but, tbf you can leave whenever you want and even more easily during half time

[exotic gorge]

yeah

[cerulean whale]

!!!

[exotic gorge]

it's like being on a gameshow

i got on stage like 3-4 times, got to speak, and do some random thing

so atleast i'm cemented in harvard's CS50 2024 course

[cerulean whale]

Wait do they update the videos on the moocs every year

[exotic gorge]

wtf is moocs

[cerulean whale]

Massive online open courses

Coursera edx type

[exotic gorge]

not sure, but i know they livestream every lecture

[cerulean whale]

Ah interesting

[exotic gorge]

and you have to sign like a waiver thing saying you're alright with it being posted and used in course material

i know they update it on CS50x every year

[cerulean whale]

That's cool

Might be the most famous class in the world now that I think of it

[exotic gorge]

and ify ou pay for the course to get our certificate and you actually go through CS50 all the uploaded lectures are real time

Michael Sandel is another big shot professor here

Alas, he only does the Justice GenED like every two years or something

so I missed my shot

[cerulean whale]

Give it another two years?

[exotic gorge]

I knew I saw Kentaji Jackson walking around campus bruh

[cerulean whale]

💀

Is Elena Kagan around

She used to be like

A dean? I don't remember

She used to work there high up somewhere

Ngl I feel like specifically at Harvard/MIT there's probably like 10 academics I would recognize on sight

Idk how I would react to actually meeting them

[exotic gorge]

elena kagan was HLS dean in like 2003 or something

[cerulean whale]

Only other class I can think of is like...math 55?

It has its own wiki page

But idt it's nearly as famous

[exotic gorge]

you've gotta be mad crazy to go into 55

fr

[cerulean whale]

Is it not just olympiad kids

[exotic gorge]

idk i steer clear

[cerulean whale]

💀

[exotic gorge]

justice gened is pretty popular, maybe not to normal people tho

[cerulean whale]

I think I've heard of it

[exotic gorge]

cs50 is known to even people who don't know like harvard/school

[cerulean whale]

It's just called justice right?

[exotic gorge]

yes

[cerulean whale]

Yeah I've faintly heard of it

[exotic gorge]

Psych 1 is the worlds most famous psychology class and its at harvard the professor is a NY Times best seller

[cerulean whale]

I think from the front page of edx at some point

[cerulean whale]

Idk harvard psych for anything other than the Francesca Gino scandal sorry

[exotic gorge]

idk lol

[cerulean whale]

Also wait

[cerulean whale]

Who's the prof

[exotic gorge]

ECON10A is also popular

Daniel Gilbert

[cerulean whale]

Interesting

[exotic gorge]

hes been on late night show and stuff

[cerulean whale]

I think I mentioned Raj Chetty (idk what classes he specifically teaches) in my Yale interview lol

[exotic gorge]

lol

[cerulean whale]

I'm ngl idrk any big Yale faculty names

[cerulean whale]

I realized this while talking about MIT profs during this interview

[exotic gorge]

i wouldn't think too hard about mentioning specific anecdotes about certain college's professors/classes/buildings whatever

[cerulean whale]

Yeah I was just talking about my favorite papers lol

[exotic gorge]

i never researched any college or went to any college until after i got in besides MIT

[cerulean whale]

Not specifically for the interview they're just always sort of in the back of my head

[exotic gorge]

never went to MIT until I came to Harvard tho

yuh

[cerulean whale]

This is my truth

I feel like if I go to a school I'll be biased by random things (whether it's finals season, whether the weather is good that specific day)

Also it costs money

I'll go when/if I get in

[exotic gorge]

lol yeah i was about to say i'd go visit them all but i couldn't afford it

and besides if you're poor like me they pay for everything

all 5 of the ivies + duke/rice/uva/some other places whatever paid for my visit

harvard flew me out, yale offered a free shuttle for harvard/yale cross admits from harvard visitas -> bulldog days, then Yale flew me to Durham for my duke visit and then from durham i just drove home bc not too far

the rest were at weird dates but they also paid for my flgiht to and from

[cerulean whale]

That's really cool actually

[cerulean whale]

Also you applied to a lot of schools lmao