Yale University (2024-2025)

[fresh mango]

well they better help u then

did your stanford interviewer also go to ur hs

[river valley]

when i interviewed w yale and swarthmore and oberlin i didnt have (outwardly) much in common w the interviewers but we still had good conversations

[winter quail]

do professors ever interview

[fresh mango]

wait it isnt i found it im so happy i just rmeember a few months ago i turned on private mode just cuz im so happy

[winter quail]

porque

[fresh mango]

William Shakespeare wouldve been the GOAT of rap if he lived now

[river valley]

of course but reminding yall that just because someone is in a diff career than you doesnt mean u have less to talk abt

like my swarthmore interviewer is a lawyer turned elementary school teacher and im an artist lol

[fresh mango]

^^^^

[river valley]

but we had possibly the longest conversation abt writing and books and the state of modern education ive ever had

she was a very smart woman

[winter quail]

state of modern education
yooo elaborate

[river valley]

i mentioned the videos of teachers speaking abt their students being at a much lower reading level than they should

[winter quail]

what do you think is explaining that trend

[river valley]

i also mentioned this podcast i listened to called “sold a story” that discussed the disappearance of the phonics teaching method for helping kids learn how to read

[winter quail]

same

i remember tht

or i might have watched a tiktok about it

[fresh mango]

couple things come off the top of my head

[winter quail]

bro def wrote about frank niu

[fresh mango]

pandemic learning

[winter quail]

MY GOAT

NOELLLL

[fresh mango]

teacher disparity and shifts due to pay, region, student behavior, etc.

[river valley]

Funny thing is that my swarthmore interviewer actually told me she was a little doubtful of the podcast, she’d listened to it too and didnt like the exaggeration of the moral faults of the people in charge of the new teaching program

[winter quail]

yall think short-form content contributed

[fresh mango]

worse education?

[winter quail]

to lower attention spans -> less reading

[fresh mango]

yes

parents could parent better tho

[winter quail]

could be a correllation

[river valley]

isnt it crazy how candidates in lincoln’s time made speeches several hours long and people would sit and just. Listen to the entire thing

[fresh mango]

💀

[fresh mango]

thats not true lol

some mightve

[river valley]

no big music or banners necessary. Just a fuckin guy on a wooden panel

[fresh mango]

kids will be kids

if there was kids theyre for sure running around

[winter quail]

BROOOO I WATCHED THAT

[fresh mango]

have u seen some older paintings of theaters and stuff

[winter quail]

VIDEO

[fresh mango]

also ppl who go will def pay attention

what

[winter quail]

bruh the presidential debates r cooked

or that one nursery rhyme channel

cocomelon?

that did experiments

[fresh mango]

idk i watched thru the presidential debates

[winter quail]

on babies for attention span

me during college app season

[fresh mango]

well theyre playing minecraft

[winter quail]

tiktok + facetime + suits + supps

[fresh mango]

i do that

minecraft + yt or something

[winter quail]

i lowkey

just

[fresh mango]

sometimes the grind is boring 😭

[winter quail]

look at some putnam problems

[river valley]

you guys should start reading some comics

[winter quail]

while watching a show

[fresh mango]

and theyre so big

[winter quail]

it's super fun

[river valley]

then move on to kurt vonnegut books

[fresh mango]

cuz parents pushing it

[river valley]

then to albert camus

Thatll help train the ol attention span

[winter quail]

no like i'm not good at them

i can only solve like 2 problems

[fresh mango]

nah my attention span is fine when i care

[winter quail]

i'm reading frankie rn

ok bro u published papers

[fresh mango]

yo thats meeeee

[winter quail]

or did science fair

i'm just a math nerd 💀

[fresh mango]

at least u got some research

[winter quail]

plus i never qualled for aime

send the abstract and lemme judge

yuh

cus they js be pumping too much

research

[fresh mango]

really?

what happened to doom doom doom

[dawn mauve]

don’t lol

i planned out my hs career so i’d never have to take calc bc i just didn’t want to

even though i was literally in a mathematics honors society

honors algebra i in 8th grade, honors geometry in 9th, honors algebra ii in 10th, ap stats in 11th (didn’t take the exam bc my teacher was ass and didn’t teach us half the content), honors pre-calc and dual enrollment college algebra and dual enrollment trig in 12th

that’s bc those kids are either lying or they’ve been raised with the privilege of being able to do more academic prep outside of school like kumon and attend schools with enough funding and student success to offer advanced math classes to younger grades

other people’s advantages are not your shortcomings

[tulip pecan]

Frrr
That's an average Nigerian that scoring a 1500 on the SAT

[dawn mauve]

it’s not a skill gap, a lot of schools don’t offer the chance to take that level of math until the end of hs

my guy this system is kinda fucked

you can’t blame yourself for enjoying your adolescence instead of cramming for an admissions process that is 30% prep and 70% luck

especially since most people who do that are under the pressure of their families because their siblings/parents etc. have reached that level of academic achievement

yes definitely

[fresh mango]

facts right here. they dont lie but the privileges are crazy. in my school ik ppl who took calc bc in 9th grade

[dawn mauve]

yea this lol

[fresh mango]

thats right

[dawn mauve]

for every 1 youtube video where kids sweep the T20s there’s 100 others of kids who didn’t even get close

[fresh mango]

if u enjoyed what u did, the no fear

if a college rejects me then too bad

[dawn mauve]

i still have videos of my reacting to all of my admissions decisions in my google drive bc i planned on making a decisions youtube video

and i think i was much more successful than most

[fresh mango]

now u have the opportunity to wait 10 years and do “reacting to all my clips reacting to admissions decisions”

[dawn mauve]

i’m not trying to brag like genuinely i go to usc and i still have to remind myself constantly that i belong here just as much as anyone else

it’s the kind of mindset that college admissions culture has created

[fresh mango]

dont feel imposter syndrome. u got selected, u enjoy, u belong

i remember seeing a college reaction video where the comments clowned on the guy cuz they felt he didnt deserve it

im just hoping it was like friends joking in the comments cuz it wasnt a high viewcount

idk how it got recommended

ive been getting recs from like 300 viewcount videos that ive never shown any interest in

and a lot of time its parental ideas pushed onto kids

[inland ermine]

THIS is so true 😭😭😭 omg

gg...

[cerulean whale]

Y'all are worrying way too much about interview requests this early lol

There are literal months of file reading left to do 😭

Meatsteak already knows this but I didn't mention a single thing at Yale in my why Yale essay and I got in so ymmv!

[river valley]

vivian my nemesis

just kidding vivian is goated u all should listen to her

but also keep in mind miss kafka is cracked in the writing department so her essays were already carrying whatever smidgen of lack of yale specificity she may have had (personally i think they were specific)

[timber plaza]

compared college lists

• the amt of time i spent on colleeg apps vs their kid

goofy ahh

[river valley]

HUH

dear lord

[cerulean whale]

Yeah my thought writing that essay was based on this thing that said in the podcast about the why Yale essay "being about you not Yale" or something like that

[timber plaza]

no FR

[exotic wave]

my parents don't even care

they never have

I did everything I felt like doing myself

[timber plaza]

today they were like "it doesnt matter ur better off w out college" and a few hrs later they like "college MOST IMPORTANT thing"

[river valley]

fs, yeah theres a delicate balance between not telling the aos stuff they already know for no reason and also not going too far off

[exotic wave]

I'm doing engineering so it doesn't really matter much

[river valley]

jeniiiiiii ur chill 😭😭🙏🙏🙏

[cerulean whale]

You'll be fine. In the Yale Discord people started sharing their why Yales and there was crazy variation in how they were written (I'm sure there are better ways than others, but ultimately it will almost certainly not be make or break)

[river valley]

u r to this channel like the essay mechanic is to the essay channel 💜

never tried one i cant say much

but i like chicken pot pies

[cerulean whale]

<3 I am always lurking

[timber plaza]

HELP omg they dont know what econ is

i told em its like business

they're satisifed

😸

[river valley]

ofc excluding the part where people get told a 4.0 1600 is a “red flag”

Skull emoji

[timber plaza]

like ok im 17

im like its money stuff 💀 really not but

idk

ong

i hate microeconomics tho

[river valley]

kafka here is econ

[cerulean whale]

!!!! I love why majors

Meatsteak is doing art they don't need to shorten their name

[river valley]

[cerulean whale]

Mitski

[river valley]

uhhh guys

dont out my identity like that

shh…

🤫

[primal needle]

Env?

Environmental

💀

Ur essays r sure to be too quirky

Yale doesn't like quirky

As far as I could understand from the podcast

[cerulean whale]

Me in my long supp

[primal needle]

Valid valid

[primal needle]

😂yoooo

[river valley]

erm

[river valley]

my commonapp started with the words “the world ended in 1975”

[primal needle]

I wrote my essay about being an ironical nerd

[primal needle]

💀yooo mine starts with "Mom! Are sanitary pads radioactive ☢️"

[river valley]

thats fucking hilarious

[primal needle]

Yeah I talked about how pads r a taboo topic in my area and how no one really talks about it

• i never found a pad in recycle drives so as a kid I use to think they were radioactive

[river valley]

hey i hate mine too

[primal needle]

😞

[river valley]

incredible topic

[primal needle]

Dartmouth is good

[cerulean whale]

You liked your Princeton supps? Those prompts were worse than UChicago

[primal needle]

Darty supps are simple small and actualy fun to write

Like introduce urself

No bs jus introduce urself

Fr my Cornell 650 word is just yapping about 2 ECs

[river valley]

bro i recycled my yale supps for everything

lmfaoo

[primal needle]

💀real the community essay

And same framework for the why is essay

[cerulean whale]

How many other schools did you even apply to

[primal needle]

Bro my brown essays were v. Quirky 😔but I got rejected ed

[river valley]

errrrm like 8

[cerulean whale]

Oh wait same actually

[primal needle]

Brown scared of a brown boy

[river valley]

none of them were t20s except yale washu and uva lol

i did not reach for a wide spectrum

[primal needle]

I did 20 💀+ 20 outside us

[cerulean whale]

Oh lol my list was in comparison a bit silly

[primal needle]

Uk, ireland, canda, ausy...I got in everywhere except us as of now

[river valley]

yall are fucking insane

[primal needle]

Man intl have to apply alot

[cerulean whale]

I did 2 UCs (withdrew 3 others after I got into Yale), Harvard, Pton, MIT, Sford, Columbia, USC (national merit obligation) 😃

[primal needle]

Yeah (congo after u got into Yale)

[river valley]

goated kafka list

[primal needle]

Idk why he applied to a no name school mit tho

[cerulean whale]

Watch me do all this just to go to Yale

[river valley]

yeah kaf tried to sneak princeton in there

[cerulean whale]

Goodbye $[however much the app fees were]

[primal needle]

🙏i applied for business and engineering....I am kinda scared I'll forget in interview for what subject i applied where

[cerulean whale]

It's called the sunk cost fallacy meatsteak

[primal needle]

Yeah isn't that a place anyway...

[cerulean whale]

Not kidding every single one of these messages was about the pton supps

[river valley]

princeton will die

[cerulean whale]

I hope I can get in so I can lower their yield rate (punishment for those supps)

Yeah but like

[primal needle]

What does pton even want

[cerulean whale]

Was that one essay why liberal arts, why Pton, or why major?

As a research institution that also prides itself on its liberal arts curriculum, Princeton allows students to explore areas across the humanities and the arts, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. What academic areas most pique your curiosity, and how do the programs offered at Princeton suit your particular interests?

Pton core

I don't remember what I did

Suffered

[river valley]

kafkacore

[cerulean whale]

Meatsteak had a better app plan

Yale + then basically nothing

[river valley]

lmfao

[river valley]

the hospitalization also didnt help matters

[storm forum]

omg what canadian schools 🥰

[primal needle]

UBC and uni of Alberta

Both have really cool campus

[storm forum]

r u from canada

❤️

[primal needle]

Nope

[cerulean whale]

Why washu btw I've been meaning to ask

[primal needle]

Canada tooo cold for my brown bones

😔

[storm forum]

oh

LOL

if i get into a school in usa im so scared of the weather its gonna be so warm

[primal needle]

Bro Canada is really fire like for environmental research and shit

[storm forum]

esp if i get into a west coast school

[primal needle]

💀if I get in I am scared it'll be so cold

[storm forum]

ubc is really great for that

[river valley]

BUT all my outpatient residents wrote me a letter congratulating me on my yale acceptance

[primal needle]

Yeah I am hoping I get some scholarship so I can come 🔥

[river valley]

good arts building

[storm forum]

ubc is really beautiful my friend went there on scholarship

[primal needle]

Kinda wholesome tho

[river valley]

good finan aid

[storm forum]

u can literally just see mountains every day

[timber plaza]

omg twin?

28 too

was gonna do like 44 help

😭

[primal needle]

🔥Yale is more beautiful

[timber plaza]

then i realized supps were a bit much

[primal needle]

I did that💀

[timber plaza]

and coalition is a nasty thing

[cerulean whale]

Y*le...

[timber plaza]

help??

r u ok

[river valley]

😭

[timber plaza]

😱

[storm forum]

of all my usa schools i lowkey feel like yale is my #2 in terms of personal fit 😔😔😔

[primal needle]

🤓my frnd did 72 in US thru scoir

[timber plaza]

mfs be telling me they see me at yale

like no.

im gonna be a georgetown politician

[timber plaza]

dawg why tf

[storm forum]

brown as #1

[timber plaza]

u js wasting ur time atp

40 ok maybe max

[primal needle]

What is the Yale fit...I kinda applied cuz it's yale uk

[exotic wave]

For personal fit

Definitely pton number 1

[timid pendant]

alr

[primal needle]

Lol imagine u get invited to B.U.N.S.

[storm forum]

idk LOL

[timber plaza]

ya duke is hot

i fw georgetown heavy

same w dartmouth

[primal needle]

Dartmouth is the best

[timber plaza]

ong

[primal needle]

Party ivy and shit no comparison

[timber plaza]

nothing better than getting drunk daily in the middle of nowhere

[timber plaza]

no FR

thats my school dawg

[storm forum]

maybe im just brainwashed by marketing but yale just seems really nice 😭

everywhere else is so scary

[primal needle]

Yale secret societies feel like they practice racism

[timber plaza]

really

yale is highk my least fave 💀 sorry

idk why i applied ngl

[storm forum]

stanford seems so intense

[timber plaza]

idk it never hit vibe wise 😭

[primal needle]

Same I applied cuz it's yale

[storm forum]

everyone there literally changes the world

[timber plaza]

HELP?!

real

wait but u did dartmouth cus u love the school right

❤️

twins

i hate yale love darty

[primal needle]

Fr

The moment I saw party ivy

[timber plaza]

LMAOAO

[primal needle]

I had to apply

[timber plaza]

real

omg soph yr summer is gonna be crazy @ darty

[storm forum]

i dont think id survive in that environment AND the heat omfg 😭 but it would also be so cool to be surrounded by them

[cerulean whale]

One of my Yale friends DMed me at 1 am eastern drunk after a frat party

[primal needle]

We gota stop drooling but yeah it's gona be fucking crazy

[timber plaza]

help manifesting only way to make those dreams come true

[primal needle]

Dartmouth it's every week

[timber plaza]

ong

[primal needle]

🙏

[timber plaza]

yale lame compared to dartmouth 😛

[primal needle]

Bro could u start ur own secret society at Yale?

[storm forum]

yale campus is so gorgeous

[primal needle]

💀don't they will pull up the rankings

[storm forum]

yale students kinda scare me but thats kind of every prestigious uni

[primal needle]

Dartmouth is literally in the wild with a river passing between the campus

[timber plaza]

no right

conn river>>

hanover>>

maybe i glaze too much issok

bc im big green bound

[primal needle]

Ngl Yale people in linkedin were intimidating

[timber plaza]

💯

(watch me get rejected)

[storm forum]

thats literally my commute to school i live in canada bruh 😭

[primal needle]

What did u write ur essay , like which topic

[primal needle]

Oh yeah uphil both sides in snow

[timber plaza]

um what excites you on the time i spend w my brother !!! & the diversity essay LOL (quaker one)

what abt uu

[primal needle]

Lol I wrote the opposite, being urself and the nerd essay (where I talked about being an ironical nerd)

[cerulean whale]

The main convo in the admitted discord rn is about whether the Minecraft server should be Java or Bedrock

[primal needle]

Yale essay was great, like perfect length for a why us essay

[storm forum]

java.

[primal needle]

I ended at dot 125 words

[storm forum]

tf....

[cerulean whale]

Yeah Java is winning

[storm forum]

brown is my true love tho

[primal needle]

Java ofc, bedrock runs wierd

[storm forum]

that is a scrumptious university

[primal needle]

This was me before I got rejected ed

[storm forum]

brown js seems so happy and creative

princeton honestly scares me the most

[timber plaza]

ok real help

dw we r both dartmouth '29 trust

[primal needle]

😔🙏all it takes is one acceptance

[timber plaza]

no FR

[primal needle]

🔥Yale minecraft server

[timber plaza]

more like JAIL

dartmouth smoooth

[primal needle]

Yale, whale, ale, gale

[timber plaza]

yale jail fail kale

[storm forum]

harvard seems very businessman suit with red tie

[timber plaza]

no it’s not 😟😟

hahhhhvard

nice ngl

[primal needle]

The way she is over darty is funy

[timber plaza]

pepper????🥶🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️

[primal needle]

Dartmouth tastes like pine cones , foresty and maple syrup

Brown tastes like poop (I also got rejected)

U hit the spot in this one

For me it's darty, pine musk

Columbia is blue berry

[fresh mango]

are we eating schools right now

[primal needle]

Columbia is just richy rich

[primal needle]

Ofc 😁

[storm forum]

columbia is literally ice

[primal needle]

🔥🍀

[storm forum]

or columbia would taste like white chocolate

[primal needle]

We forgot cornell

It's really a barely ivy

[fresh mango]

corn

cornell corn

[primal needle]

Cornell is like tough on the outside soft on the inside

(u got rejected)

?

Brown is chocolate, for sure

[fresh mango]

why the hate

[primal needle]

Mint chocolate tastes refreshing if it's a good one

Otherwise kinda ify

[storm forum]

brown is something fun

brown is like neopolitan ice cream

[primal needle]

Uk brown is the most nude school

[fresh mango]

columbia

dark chocolate with gold sprinkles

[storm forum]

this drag

😭

[primal needle]

Brown is burnt smoky chocolate

[fresh mango]

brown sounds like chocolate cake 🤷‍♂️

hm

[primal needle]

Yeah smack ur lips

[primal needle]

And feel the word

[fresh mango]

texture is the conductor of flavor

brown is a cake

[primal needle]

Muricans 🦅 and there love for texture

[fresh mango]

nope

[primal needle]

Nah nah Harvard is red velvet for sure

Like the most accurate dart was it

Red velvet is just fancy vanila+lil chocolate tho

No hate

[storm forum]

harvard is baby food

[fresh mango]

yall eat baby food in ur free time or something 💀

[storm forum]

harvard is an extra protein protein bar zero sugar

[primal needle]

Bet bet

[storm forum]

harvard is diet coke

[primal needle]

Harvard is the mixed soda u make in party

[storm forum]

harvard is mentos + coke

[primal needle]

Lil of coke, sprite, and everything

[storm forum]

harvard is cocaine

[primal needle]

Brown is that

Ngl brown is like peek hippie stuff

People don't party just sit in sunlight smoking

Dartmouth has to be coffee + coke

Have u guys tried sprite and coffee together

It's awesome

Source ; trust me

[winter kayak]

Hold on I think you're onto something

Explain the process

[primal needle]

Bro u bet, I am opening a fusion dish cafe if I don't go to a uni

[primal needle]

Hot coffee shot, ice cold sprite

[winter kayak]

Ik what I'm doing today

[primal needle]

The hard coffee flavour gets balanced with sprite

And the acidic sprite gets warmed with coffee

[winter kayak]

Imma try

[primal needle]

Remember sprite needs to be ice cold for the drink to be good

Bet , I have mastered half and half coffee and tea

Like it's one of the best things I tried

[winter kayak]

If I get into yale my cooking will literally bless the people

It's even one of my essays

In those exact words

[primal needle]

Real 🙏Yale will be grateful of my fusion dish cafe...imagine when I get my hands on other culture food

And mix them up

[timber plaza]

me when 0 interviews

[primal needle]

😔 i hve 1 but its 2 hrs long

[timber plaza]

help??

crazy

bro im thinking i didint pass the pre screen

😢

[primal needle]

💀 real

[primal needle]

whats ur sat

[timber plaza]

umm 1480 LOL but my school avg is 990

didnt wanna do ap instead

and i think its fine for pre TO numbers/?

[primal needle]

yeah its good

dw + u r american u'll be fine

[timber plaza]

ok yea 😭

idk

maybe they js not get to my app yet

cus i used the extension

[primal needle]

😂 proly

[violet trellis]

has anyone gotten their interview yet?

[violet crown]

Lol my interviewer was Asian and I think worked for some Asian Advocacy group and we barely brought that up lol

[violet crown]

This was essentially my course short take

I always made like paocai burgers or slathered BBQ sauce on dumplings as a kid so I decided to write about a course where I teach multicultural fusion cooking lmao

[timber plaza]

interesting 😭

no cus she was a white woman

obsessed w my race ahh

[verbal fox]

Did any intl get an interview?

[primal needle]

YOOO thats great, i kinda got an internship in a cafe where i am making the menu ...with my fusion dish in a small section...i wanted to mention it in my app but didnt cuz it seemed too uk

but its definitely good for interview

[violet crown]

Yes

did you alr get an interview

[primal needle]

nah i am intl

gona be very late, + i aint cracked enough for yale anyway

[timber plaza]

me when no interview

[sharp mesa]

we were supposed to get interviews???

[timber plaza]

well if u passed the "pre screen" or wtvr

looks like i aint passin that big dawg

😭

[sharp mesa]

i didnt get anything 😰

idk if we even have interviewers in our area but im asking a person from my school who applied to see if they got anythin

[timber plaza]

i mean it takes a while

but

i have nothin

from any school

💔

[violet trellis]

most schools dont do interviews

[timber plaza]

well yea i js hae a list of who does em

and nothing 😢

except for georgetown required + middlebury which i requested

[sharp mesa]

they did not

idk anymore

[timber plaza]

hmm

ya idk its onlybeen like 10 days 💀

(where is mine)

[sharp mesa]

😭

[timber plaza]

maybe im auto admit

[sharp mesa]

ong real

[violet trellis]

did u?

[violet crown]

Nope

[verbal fox]

Could you share the list please

[primal needle]

Ik many people who got interviewed and still rejected

[timber plaza]

help well its js for my schools 😭

js a few ivies & lacs

[timber plaza]

ok real

so no interview = accept!?

🙉

[primal needle]

😂man this girl goes to the extreme in any situation

[winter kayak]

Let'sgooooo I just got in every school i applied to😂

[frosty swift]

i just got a request

extreme alumni availability moment lol

[timber plaza]

me when no interview

[frosty swift]

so i actually have to do well on the interview

according to that reddit post

[timber plaza]

wait so this is a pro of not getting an interview

😭

ong

[frosty swift]

it's possible you're an auto admit

[violet crown]

Are most interviews already out or what

[timber plaza]

ong

would be hot if i got an interview so i knew i stood a smidge of a chance

goofy ahh

[rigid vault]

??? how?

mine was 30

minutes

[timber plaza]

me when 0 interview

tweaking out br

[dawn mauve]

this isn’t necessarily true, they’ll continue sending interview requests for a while

[frosty swift]

yeah probably

i mixed it up with harvard

[verbal fox]

there are no more harvard interviews?

[frosty swift]

nah they just want to get it all done early

their hard deadline for interview reports is 2/3 and most clubs will at least schedule their interviews a few weeks before

i would assume it would be the same if alumni reach out directly

[verbal fox]

yea that’s fair

hopefully it’s different for internationals cause I haven’t heard of anyone who’s got an interview so far

for harvard or yale

[verbal fox]

those are pretty much the only 2 that pre-screen applicants right?

[dawn mauve]

yale allegedly does not prescreen

[frosty swift]

harvard doesn't prescreen

[frosty swift]

i'm pretty sure this is a false statement

[naive flame]

any intl got an interview?

[frosty swift]

assuming you're in an area that yale gives interviews for, yale only interviews people that aren't auto-accept or auto-reject (there's a reddit post on that that cites one of their admissions podcast)

[naive flame]

what is an auto reject

like what sat score

[frosty swift]

like really really low probably

[naive flame]

does interview mean 90% likely admit?

[timber plaza]

no..

[naive flame]

then

[winter quail]

does yale interview good looking brown boys like me?

[frosty swift]

no it just means that you're competitive

which is why a lot of ppl who get interviewed don't get in

because naturally, it's competitive

[winter quail]

or am i js too good for the prescreen

istg i'm acc gonna get yield protected from this mid ass college

[primal needle]

Oh I was talking different for a scholarship

[primal needle]

Ah see it this way they liked u to know more but not liked enough to admit

[frosty swift]

all the lone alums who reached out to me wanted zoom interviews

[primal needle]

Like if u were accepted then y would they interview

[timber plaza]

ong bruh

i aint wanna go here

[winter quail]

dude if only i acc started doing apps since like september

[primal needle]

We go darty

[primal needle]

Don't regret g, it iz what it iz

[timber plaza]

ONGG

[timber plaza]

no dawg cus i had tow ithdraw an app cus i missed the fin aid deadline

the mfs be like

no aid for u

like fuck u 😭 i know i was late

[winter quail]

whchin one

[timber plaza]

LMAOAO

[primal needle]

Shit where

[winter quail]

fuck that school bor

[timber plaza]

exactly

[winter quail]

it's mid

[timber plaza]

no ong

[primal needle]

Son of Harvard and Stanford

Or daughter

[timber plaza]

ok real

[winter quail]

LMAO

[primal needle]

Or idk

[timber plaza]

but no its mid

cus they need aware anyways

and the mf was like u should've done it in oct

[winter quail]

tbh the only good school is the one i'm going to

[timber plaza]

like okay i know that

[winter quail]

everything else is mid

[timber plaza]

ong

(dartmouth)

[primal needle]

Bruh

[timber plaza]

or georgetonw pleasee

[timber plaza]

no right like wtf am i supposed to do

go back 2 october

its jan 1th

[winter quail]

(princeton)

[timber plaza]

*12th

[timber plaza]

real

[primal needle]

Exactly 💯

[primal needle]

Ay u must be extremely cracked to aspire pton

[winter quail]

nah

i'm js delusional

💀

[primal needle]

Us moment

[timber plaza]

yale we get yielded

dartmouth we get in

[primal needle]

🔥on god pls

[winter quail]

dartmouth co29 is gonna be so lit cus of us

[primal needle]

Darty doesn't accept many intls in rd

So I might be cooked

[winter quail]

isok

ur himothy tho

[primal needle]

Himothy

[timber plaza]

no fr

[primal needle]

Demn

I like it

[timber plaza]

dartmouth is litrally gna be insane

[winter quail]

my ecs r soooooooooooooo fkn mid

[timber plaza]

i cant wait 2 get drunk every day

[timber plaza]

ong hel

[primal needle]

😭stop making me love it more

[timber plaza]

*help

[winter quail]

NAH FR CUS THERE'S NOTHING ELSE TO DO THERE

[timber plaza]

no real

[winter quail]

EXCEPT BLACKOTU

[timber plaza]

well that seems chil gang

we can drink

get drunk

[winter quail]

frfr

[timber plaza]

and do nature

[primal needle]

Tomorrow I have a test, i started drooling and came to dartmouth

[timber plaza]

WHATTT

LMAOAOAO

[primal needle]

Ok all alcoholics get auto admitted to darty

And all secret keepers to yale

[timber plaza]

bro i sometimes forget the acc rate is like 4%.

like no way 😭

for dartmouth

[timber plaza]

ong

[winter quail]

i think it's cus of internationals

[timber plaza]

yale bum ass school

[primal needle]

Real, I asked gpt to chance me said "10-15%"

[timber plaza]

no real

chatgpt keeps my delusions up

[primal needle]

Yeah we just spam darty cuz need blind

But I love darty, i spammed my application in yale

[winter quail]

ha i'm a dude so i have a slight bump for darty!

[timber plaza]

ong

js applied for prestige HELP

[primal needle]

Like I had no idea what and how Yale was, I jus saw prestige and need blind

[timber plaza]

but dartmouth

thats a true pick i love

❤️

[primal needle]

Is it????!!! Yay

[primal needle]

FR

[primal needle]

It's gona hurt so bad on 27

[timber plaza]

i acc care ab dartmouth

[primal needle]

None of us r ready

[timber plaza]

when we get in**

and we have to brace for the cold in hanover

:D

[primal needle]

🥺if I get into dartmouth idk what I'll even reat with

[timber plaza]

no but idgaf ab the other ivies

but god

dartmouth PLEASE

PLEASE

highk applied js for prestige help

like fuck em

💯 ong

[primal needle]

🔥the alcohol and partner to snuggle keeps us warn anyway

[primal needle]

Exactly 💯💯💯 pls

[winter quail]

when's the peer rec?

due

[primal needle]

Today

Like rn

10 days after deadline

[timber plaza]

😭

[primal needle]

🥺 shit

My frnd wrote a small crisp 2 small paras, but ong they r better than my eddays

[timber plaza]

ok so idk if ill get it in today

maybe tmr

i tink its fine

While your Common App should be submitted online by the application deadline, your peer recommendation will be accepted after the deadline. It would be most helpful to our review process to receive the peer recommendation within ten days of the application deadline. We will add materials to your file as we receive them.

yea so it js said bestt

[primal needle]

Every word he wrote he said was from his heart and pen*s

[timber plaza]

real

[timber plaza]

HELP?!

[primal needle]

He is a real homie

[winter quail]

LMAO

[primal needle]

I have seen him grow from nothing to 3

He wrote about how I don't get enough sleep but still I am who I am , and kinda wrote about how a small lame ah joke can crack me open

🥺I always reed me peer lor whenever I feel depressed

Or LOR in general

Oh it's a joke, he is very short like 5'1 is practically 3 ft

[winter quail]

colleges so pick me why can't they just like

accept me

[primal needle]

🙏be like, I am comming from tomorrow

[dawn mauve]

my guy nobody is auto accepted or auto rejected

reddit is not a reliable source of information

just because a reliable source is cited doesn’t mean that the person understands the information of the source

[rigid vault]

oh nvm ☠️

[astral glacier]

my senior interviewer just said "your time at yale" all casually

do they say that to everyone or am i reading too much into it 😭

@rigid vault how was ur interview

[patent pumice]

does anyone know when the interview deadline is lol

[faint mulch]

Still I haven’t gotten an interview yet

Sos

[river valley]

interviewers can completely shit on you and youll be accepted and intrviewers can kiss your feet and promise their firstborn child to you and youll be rejected

[timber plaza]

me when 0 interview

https://tenor.com/view/sunakook-cat-screaming-gif-25279230

[river valley]

daily reminder my interview came incredibly late and i still got in

[static sierra]

Does getting an interview mean you have a good chance of getting in?

Ok

[cerulean whale]

My interviewer responded to my question about whether he thought the resco system fostered good productive conversation with "well idk about Yale but at CALTECH where I went to undergrad (it was very niche) we had something similar and honestly everyone was kind of too busy with the coursework or job or grad school apps to have political or really any intellectual conversation like that"

[patent pumice]

bro i got no interviews for any of my colleges 😬

[violet crown]

Same lol

[patent pumice]

oh well

we ball

[violet crown]

Shoot I need to write mine

[cerulean whale]

It's been like two weeks...it's fine 😭

[timber plaza]

ong bruh

wtf

am i cooked

[cerulean whale]

I got my Yale interview ~2 weeks after I submitted and that was considered by most people to be really early

[patent pumice]

rahhh im spam refreshing my email

[timber plaza]

no mail no mail

wahh

[cerulean whale]

Yup

[timber plaza]

me when 0 interview

ahhh

[rigid vault]

i was way too nervous

i dont think i blew it but i wish i did better

i just hope i didnt ramble too much

[rigid vault]

if i was a senior interviewer i would prob say that without thinking about it ☠️

i asked a columbia professor about his competitive programming team and he was like "WHEN u come to columbia u can just let me know blah blah blah"

oh

😦

[violet crown]

Lol

For Georgetown it was both my and my interviewers first interview

Yeah

Mine was kinda old too

For MIT

I’m scared of them lowkey

But at least no interview I do will ever rival the nightmare fuel that is Oxford

Horrendous

Lol

At least he philosophy portion

He asked why it’s impertinent to assume that all creatures granted eyesight by God have innate principle of color

And I said like oh it’s redundant but bro was like “um I’m nawt QUOUYTE shore it’s that” the whole time I was yapping

[astral glacier]

thought so 😿

[rigid vault]

my yale interviewer said "hope we reconnect" or smth like that but i never ended up getting his contact info because he had back to back interviews

but i found him on linkedin

should i send a thank you email through the info i find online? or is that too stalky?

[astral glacier]

wait who was ur interviewer can i dm u

[rigid vault]

sure

[timber plaza]

me when no interview

AHHH

[river valley]

”so what did you like about yale”
“i dont know about that but at CALTECH it-“

[agile finch]

average yale alum

[cunning shale]

anyone from the bay area get an interview?

[timber plaza]

me when 0 intervie

[cunning shale]

yeah we getting auto rejected w this one

[timber plaza]

um actually 7 🤓 cus i apply late

but still!?!?

[cunning shale]

i saw people in la getting it even tho they have all the wildfires

[timber plaza]

WHERE TF IS MINE

[devout mulch]

yale has been sitting on my application almost 3 months and I still haven't gotten an interview

rea, but yeah

they couldn't make up their minds

but don't want more info...

[timber plaza]

no interview AHH

ok it’s fine

[plain rover]

Me neither 😍😍

[winter kayak]

Day 13 of no interview 😃

[earnest kelp]

girlies lets chill

the app deadline barely passed

[noble pelican]

can i submit an ouotside rec for yale

[winter kayak]

I wanted to SO badly they didn't let me

I wonder if I can now

[timber plaza]

ong bruh

counting to rejection ahh

[noble pelican]

on the website they say they dont encourage it

[winter quail]

chat can i lux on em's veritas

[dawn mauve]

yeah this lmfao

there’s no reason to obsess over it when it’s literally out of your control

[timid pendant]

i do believe the deadline for the same has passed though

the option opened up after filling out the stem supplement which you not only needed to indicate on common app but also needed to fill out by 9th

yeah

there was no explicit deadline for the lor itself

but you can only access the lor request page through the supplement

[chrome wing]

Has Yale sent out interview requests yet ?

[unborn sundial]

The new Yale quantum program looks pretty cool

[latent mulch]

yale does very good quantum research

YQI moment

[timber plaza]

me when 0 interview.

[unborn sundial]

Yeah YQI is a huge reason I like Yale

[unborn sundial]

Dw we still have time 🙏

[winter kayak]

us

studying for highschool finals when im clearly meant for college😔

[vague pecan]

2

[agile finch]

GOT MY YALE INTERVIEW

WOOOOOOO

[winter kayak]

me when 0 interview.

[vague pecan]

Me 2 when 0 interview ☠️

[winter kayak]

literally gonna rizz up interviewers fr

jk jk

[timber plaza]

WTF

IM CHECKING

nothing.

bro im cook

ED

[devout mulch]

I think you need a break (from your emails)

[timber plaza]

DAWG I JS WANT AN INTERVIEW!!!!

[merry pawn]

where's mine 😭

[merry pawn]

it's okay you're not alone

we're auto admit trust

[timber plaza]

ok guys i checked my email again

NOTHING

[timber plaza]

ong bruh

me when 0 intrview

no duke, no yale, no harvard

[merry pawn]

I have a rice interview but that's it, no interviews for any other schools 🥲

[devout mulch]

for your own good, stop

[timber plaza]

no dartmouth, penn (availability but ok)

[timber plaza]

no fr me when all i got was georgetown

(everyone gets it)

[agile finch]

nah guys i live in a populated area so you guys will probably get it soon

[timber plaza]

so it could js come at any time dawg

WHY NOT NOWW

[stiff merlin]

Where do u sumbit loci

[devout mulch]

Application Update then Other addition to application.

[agile finch]

lmao fr

everybody take a deep breath

[merry current]

My Duke one was sent 2/8 and my Harvard one was sent 1/14, dw about it lol

[timber plaza]

after i get an intervuew

😢😢😢😢

[plain rover]

Wait Duke does interviews?

I didn't get any interviews from anywhere either so we in the same boat 😭

[vague pecan]

LOLLL, just as confused

[plain rover]

Only Princeton and they're availability

[vague pecan]

Dw we are all in the same boat
It will continue traveling till mid frb

After that it's sinking

[vague pecan]

BRUH, no. That's mostly BS
Interviews are always good, especially if you are an intl

[unborn sundial]

Dw guys, if you don't get an interview it means you'll get a likely letter

We're just that good

[merry pawn]

So do I 😭

[timber plaza]

me when 0 interview dawg wtf

IM GOIN crazy

sure they’ll come out soon

i’ve been waiting mama

give me a yale interview

ong

where tf is my duke interview

i js did the initial view thing

🥶🥶

js got an email and my heart dropped (no interview still)

[merry pawn]

It's okay I have no hope for Yale so I'm just hoping for an acceptance from like any other college 😭

[timber plaza]

no real

[unborn sundial]

Maybe idk, I've known some people who got likely letters but no interview

[timber plaza]

thats cus we're auto admit onggggg

[plain rover]

Well I'm literally from nj 😭

[plain rover]

Samee

It was lowkey fun

I sent it to like 8 schools that mentioned it on their website or portal

[agile finch]

bro why is my yale interviewer cracked

[timber plaza]

NO FR

im tempted to send everwhere highk but i wontt

LOL

but it was so cute

[unborn sundial]

That's how I feel with my Princeton interviewer

[storm forum]

my princeton interviewer is a whole CEO 😭

has their own google profile when u look them up

they never even emailed me, the person who manages their schedule was the one that reached out

[unborn sundial]

Like mate is the chair of my flagship's MSE department, a full professor in four others, has 250+ papers, 30,000 citations, and I'm really supposed to just have a chat with him 💀

[unborn sundial]

That's wild lmao

[agile finch]

THATS SO FUNNY

[storm forum]

literally a brief google search and its js a bunch of articles abt them or interviews

[plain rover]

Yea I didn't want to send it to the schools that didn't even mention it cause I feel like it would just oiss them off

😭

Like why are they even an option to send it to

[timber plaza]

no fr

[earnest terrace]

wait when will yale interview invites stop coming in

i have friends from neighboring schools who copped it

[stable crescent]

is this the case for regular too

i also heard that it was priority based based on when u submittedf

like rice gave priority interviews earlier

but maybe it dffers by school

how do yk if u get an interview

ik penn said it in the portal

but didnt see it anywhere for yale

[fluid gulch]

interviwer emails u

[winter kayak]

I don't even care somebody interview me 😭

[merry pawn]

Like a few weeks before decisions so March x_x

[unborn sundial]

Duke doesn't anymore

[earnest terrace]

yea same i thought so

[winter quail]

my friend got a duke interview

[unborn sundial]

I got my Duke interview

Yeah it changed relatively recently

I was confused as well

[violet trellis]

wait are the "auto-admit" people who dont get interview the ppl who get likelies?

[winter quail]

nah

cus you could be competitive but not allat but not have any alumni near you

[agile finch]

only 200 people get likelies and many are athletes or highly-stem-specific ppl

[naive flame]

define stem specific

[tulip pecan]

that's legit what i was about to ask

[timber plaza]

me when 0 interview

type shi

[tulip pecan]

having my initial view on thursday but processing's gonna take till 30th lol

[agile finch]

one variation of likely letters that they send are stem likely letters

as a whole, non-athletic likely letters "tend to be around 200 or so of the 2,300 or so total offers of admission that we will send out in a given year and they are almost all going to go to applicants with backgrounds or profiles that we think that our peer institutions– and by the way, that’s sort of higher ed speak for competitors, the other schools that tend to admit great students like we do– we think that these students are likely to be admitted by those other schools and that they’re going to be keen on responding to their applications as well."

[naive flame]

does any other ivy want a mathematical philosophy researcher

[agile finch]

usually, one of the things they mention in a likely letter is "your general academic abilities, your leadership in your school or in your community, your exceptional strength in STEM, or your fit for the directed studies program"

also note that yale likely letters are actually likely calls, so you meet the AO that read your app

[naive flame]

i have the first two

[latent mulch]

the stem likely letters are basically just the YES program people

[agile finch]

but none of this is really relevant for anybody here because they're just so rare

your chance of getting a letter is 0.004

[naive flame]

what happens if i put my phone on dnd

[latent mulch]

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2023/02/17/new-stem-recruitment-program-seeks-to-increase-yield-of-stem-matriculates/

[frosty swift]

you mean a call right

[agile finch]

yep

[naive flame]

I usually dont pick up calls from a random no. tho

[frosty swift]

wait yale does this type of stuff

[agile finch]

nothing

[frosty swift]

???

[latent mulch]

they will find a way to contact you

[frosty swift]

😭

[latent mulch]

have you guys ever seen Taken?

the AOs operate like that

[naive flame]

not really

[frosty swift]

oh they probably sent those clals like really early right

[naive flame]

ill watch it tomorrow

to learn about AOs

[latent mulch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZOywn1qArI

you basically just need to watch this

[naive flame]

imma start picking up random calls

maybe its an AO

[agile finch]

LMAO

they send them mid-february

[naive flame]

MID FEBRUARU

THATS SO LONG

WHY

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR SO LONG

NOOOOOOOOOO

[latent mulch]

the deadline was like a week ago dawg

[frosty swift]

what other schools do likeley letters?

[latent mulch]

how quick do you think they can read apps 😭

[agile finch]

also, likely letters are not sent to the most qualified applicants, they're sent to the applicants that are qualified and least likely to attend

[frosty swift]

just uc berkely for regents right?

[agile finch]

which is a little weird to think about

but again, i wouldnt waste any time thinking about it at all

[latent mulch]

yeah, basically candidates almost guaranteed to get into MIT / Stanford / etc for STEM, and Harvard etc for non-STEM

[naive flame]

they be beggin on hands and knees

like bulldogs

[agile finch]

yep makes sense

[frosty swift]

:prayge:

[latent mulch]

one of my loose friends got a likely and got into MIT, so n=1 is 100% accuracy

[naive flame]

what is n=1

[latent mulch]

sample size of 1 lol

[agile finch]

lmao

i love sample sizes of 1

[timber plaza]

um so on yale's fin aid checklist if they require a business tax return

but its not listed on IDOC as smth i have to upload

do i upload it anyways

[soft barn]

my only friend who got a Yale likely was also accepted to (and ended up attending) MIT

[frosty swift]

this year?

[soft barn]

class of '23

[latent mulch]

few years ago

[frosty swift]

oh i see

[soft barn]

im ngl bestie yale probably doesn't think about your school

[latent mulch]

he did very well at olympiads (hence getting into MIT) but chose yale for specific research interests + sports (he does—or at least did—fencing, and was also very good at it)

[latent mulch]

do your parents own a business?

[soft barn]

thats just covid

[soft barn]

my hs used to get 25 Princetons per year pre covid now we get 5

feeder schools got deemphasized during/post covid

[latent mulch]

my hs year has more people charged with murder or attempted murder than getting into an ivy league or oxbridge

[soft barn]

generally relationships did

[latent mulch]

so could be worse!

[soft barn]

we probably have more coke addicts than ivy matriculants (venn diagram is nearly a circle)

[timber plaza]

yes

[timber plaza]

ok do i upload to idoc

even if it doesnt show up

there

?

[latent mulch]

https://finaid.yale.edu/forms#forms-block_6-11 yeah i think so, it's under "Signed Parent Tax Returns"

[timber plaza]

okay thank you

[soft barn]

trust me they dont care there's like 25000 high schools in this country

[latent mulch]

im from the uk, everyone and their dog is addicted to coke

there is way more coke in a random pub than at any us university

[soft barn]

good ol bri ain

[latent mulch]

how it be

there's a wetherspoons named after elihu yale actually

[soft barn]

haven't been to the uk since '22

was a fun time

though the drought was crazy

went to Cambridge and all the fancy lawns were yellow

[latent mulch]

in wrexham, wales, where he is buried

actually the church at the graveyard was the inspiration for part of branford college

(incidentally named wrexham tower)

[latent mulch]

i was in italy at the time for a study abroad and it was horrific

nowhere had AC

[soft barn]

oh no

when we were in London there wasn't much ac either

but the climate was fine ngl