Yale University (2024-2025)

[timber plaza]

northwestern like 4 hrs

[merry pawn]

This is why I liked duke it was by far the happiest school I visited 😭

[timber plaza]

tbh if i only had like 1 good reach option

i'd js like

commit no tour

[compact wren]

the food too

[timber plaza]

but ya if i was rllyy stuck

[compact wren]

omg

[timber plaza]

i'd visit then

[merry pawn]

And I go to a competitive private and if I have to go to another competitive school I will actually kms I swear

[timber plaza]

right me w penn

why tf i paply

apply

i fucking hate univbersity of pennsylvania

[compact wren]

i almost did ed to penn

[timber plaza]

ME TOO

lmao

im glad i didnt

not like i would've gotten in

[compact wren]

but then they discontinued a program i was gonna do so i was like fuck yall

[merry pawn]

Cause knowing me if I went to somewhere like northwestern and don't get a friend group I'll be absolutely miserable

[timber plaza]

but i hate that school

[compact wren]

my biggest fear

[timber plaza]

i cant imagien its that hard to find friends tho?

reddit is very anti social

[compact wren]

im gonna reinvent myself this summer trust

[timber plaza]

💀

[compact wren]

new body new me !

[timber plaza]

no fr

idk

im gonna be like

new person

😭

(idk who)

[merry pawn]

I mean then again there's a problem if everyone on reddit says it's hit or miss

[compact wren]

this will be the summer i turn pretty

[timber plaza]

well the reddit kids r anti social

they dont go outside

[compact wren]

fr

[merry pawn]

we're all reddit kids here 😭

[compact wren]

omg wait this reminds me of this girl on the harvard subreddit complaining abt no social life

[timber plaza]

umm this is discord

nerd

[compact wren]

and ppl were like u need to get checked for autism

and she was coping so hard

[timber plaza]

no jk this summer gang i need to like work on my phone addiction

[merry pawn]

but most of us came from the a2c reddit

[timber plaza]

my technology addiction

[timber plaza]

ok 😿 cant deny allat

yesss 😛

[merry pawn]

no I'm the type of person to have like a lot of distant friends but no actual friend group I can even count on

[timber plaza]

THIS IS SO CUTEE

[merry pawn]

why are you so organized that's so nice

[timber plaza]

no fr

[timber plaza]

no right

god i hate my school

i think college will be a welcome change

[merry pawn]

I need one of those movie-esque friend groups 😭

idec about a boyfriend or anything

I want friends 😭

Yeah that's honestly so nice

[compact wren]

omg ill show u mine

its like really wide

so much info

literally everything i need

like deadlines

only way i wont fall behind

[merry pawn]

my macro test grades just came out and I kinda fell off but it's fineeeeee (totally not me coping rn)

wait that's so nice

lol

even your phone is aesthetic with the nice font and pink crossed out colors

Ooh yes lemme see

Wait that's so cute and aesthetic

I have the most boring home screen of all time I gotta do something like that too

[timber plaza]

that is SOO CUTE OMG

[merry pawn]

ooh nice

[timber plaza]

yess

ok this is my college apps notion LOL

so cutie

i LOVE the tables sm omg

[timber plaza]

macro sucks

HELP i lowk found it off of reddit

but tweaked it a bit

lol

real

[merry pawn]

wait what that's actually amazing I need to do that

[compact wren]

OMG

I LOVE

[timber plaza]

notion.so LOLL

u can play around

very cutesy

[merry pawn]

looking at your duke thing hurts so much 😭

[timber plaza]

help noo i had a database

💀

like a table

and used docs

[merry pawn]

same lol it was so messy x_x

[timber plaza]

im sorryyy

duke sucks fr

[compact wren]

how do u make the picture things?

[timber plaza]

this what i did for like essays

[timber plaza]

oh its the gallery option

databse

and then you make the cover show your image

[compact wren]

omg

tysm

[compact wren]

i didnt know this existed???

[timber plaza]

help 😭 lol real

i love notion sm

the way i'd die w out it fr

ok yess

[compact wren]

actually nv im too lazy to make it

😭

[timber plaza]

HELP real

[winter kayak]

how do you make this

i legit made so many docs files

each college

[timber plaza]

well i did use docs

i used both docs & notion

[winter kayak]

i just filled apps like crazy

idek how many all nighters was it

[slender marten]

imposter syndrome is insidious

It gets better over time, but everyone has their own way of dealing with it

there's definitely a public versus private face

[exotic gorge]

i know like 100 people whose main hobby at harvard other than school is watching TikTok let's be real here

The best quality of a student at Harvard, Stanford, MIT all those kinds of schools is being able to appear very productive and have something of quality but also just being a normal person imo

[compact wren]

ive found my people

doomscrollers

😍

[maiden silo]

wait yeah that was diabolical

[slender marten]

That's also why they like students with goals and motivation, don't have time for impostor syndrome if you're busy kicking ass

[compact wren]

🔥

[cedar kettle]

Yeah def. Idk my thing is if they were stupid enough to let me in I might as well take advantage of them 💀

[cedar kettle]

SO TRUE

we’re all just ppl who are good at college apps at the end of the day

[exotic gorge]

yah one of my aos said that they like accepting people who they know will take advantage of everything they have to offer at harvard

but that can be applied to anywhere

[hollow needle]

guys

does anyone want help

[primal needle]

🙏 too late alrdy uploaded stuf sed

but thanks

[meager mango]

Someone on Reddit got a likely yesterday

[primal needle]

Yoooop huge

[grave pumice]

WHAT

[pseudo reef]

how long do yale interviews come out until

[devout bison]

linkkk

[merry pawn]

Well I'm screwed lol

But there's a reason why it's rumored that my school is blacklisted from Yale so doesn't really matter 🤷‍♀️

[frosty swift]

reddit search is terrible, mind linking?

[ruby marten]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/s/CniXhBQuit

i wouldn't worry too much because they're intl

but also

had several interviews

[dark idol]

wtf

im so cooked

[slender marten]

Likely is not an offer. Just likely

[prisma glacier]

pretty sure they werent intl tho

but honestly likelies do not matter 💀

its literalyl just a soruce of stress

rlly?

oh i thought they were just applying to bocconi

[slender marten]

!cs

[sterile briar]

Ding!

Looks like someone brought up computer science again. Why don't you compute the shortest optimal path to a shower?

Used 945 times.

[slender marten]

Hmm. There should be a touch grass one

[prisma glacier]

LOL ye we need to all touch grass atp

[oblique idol]

when do the latest interview emails come out

[slender marten]

it's probably random

when the interview coordinator in whatever region you're in happens to get to it

[merry pawn]

please let me get an interivew 🙏

[latent mulch]

snow is covering the local grass what should i do

[prisma glacier]

grab a shovel

[latent mulch]

(yes it's currently snowing in nhv)

[exotic gorge]

the aesthetic at Yale goes hard

[latent mulch]

james gamble rogers never stopped cooking

[exotic gorge]

lol

yale's campus almost made me mistakenly choose it

Very beautiful

[latent mulch]

i do like harvard (and probably would have gone had i got in) but generally my tolerance for bad aesthetics is a lot higher

i dont really mind the commie blocks

[exotic gorge]

and the walks to the "far away housing" weren't even that bad, my BDD host was in Pauli Murray

[latent mulch]

yeah yalies are particularly insane about distance

[exotic gorge]

pauli murray was nice

i will say the little late night snack bar thing was really cool

[latent mulch]

im in TD (which is considered to be notoriously far away) and its just.... not. it's like 6 minutes from sml (the main library)

[exotic gorge]

i'd die for some of that mac and cheese and chicken nuggets at 2 am fr

[latent mulch]

yeah butteries are great, murrays is one of the best (biased as one of my friends used to run it). TD has a bunch of deep fryers in theirs, goes hard

[exotic gorge]

yeah we don't have any butteries

that closest thing we get is brain break that stops at like 10

[latent mulch]

the big problem is they're closed fri-sat (generally) cause student workers, but that's also the days in which you need them the most

[exotic gorge]

i don't remember what day bdd was

i was only at yale for like two days or something

[latent mulch]

i think its normally like mon-wed or around then? its midweek i think

granted i never did bdd but i hosted two years ago

[exotic gorge]

yeah i left harvard on a Tuesday, was there all rest of day Tuesday, all day Wednesday, left on Thursday morning

bdd was my favorite admitted student days by far

[latent mulch]

yeah seems to be consistently right after veritas

[exotic gorge]

visitas

lol

[latent mulch]

close enough

[exotic gorge]

bro

the engineering department is insane at yale though, not like insanely good but actually INSANE for what they did

i went to an engineering department Q&A as u do as a cs student at BDD

and they offered FREE MERCH for anyone who committed to yale ON THE SPOT and showed them the screen of them accepting their spot

[latent mulch]

that is quite insane 😭

the funny thing is i still don't have a yale eng hoodie

[exotic gorge]

no one did it for the hat, but then they offered in two sweatshirts, the hat, something that goes on the back of ur phone, and a keychain and bro did it on the spot hte dude next to me

[merry pawn]

LOL

[exotic gorge]

i was like wtf

i mean, tbf, the dude said he only gotten into Yale and UCLA so it wasn't that big of a choice ot make

but still

the peer pressure was real

[merry pawn]

How's CEID?

[exotic gorge]

what is ceid

[dark idol]

wait liek verbal or physically commit

[latent mulch]

i like going there and printing off random things on the 3d printers

[dark idol]

u can like commit and back out u just lose ur deposit

💀

[latent mulch]

i mean its a full workshop you can do basically anything

[exotic gorge]

?? like go onto the website and click accept your spot

[dark idol]

ohhh

lmao

thats funny

[merry pawn]

I'm not an engineering major but I'll probably be there a lot cause I want to do human-centered design

[dark idol]

im p sure thats not even binding either

[latent mulch]

but im pretty sure most other colleges will have something similar, especially GT

[dark idol]

u can js back out if u want

u js lose the money

[merry pawn]

yeah

But paying a few hundred dollars for like sweatshirts and a hat and stuff is not a good deal lol

[latent mulch]

either way its super well managed, staff are great. they do rly try and help u with projects and the like.

[latent mulch]

yale doesn't have a deposit

[dark idol]

oh

[exotic gorge]

yeah i don't think any ivy has a deposit lol

[dark idol]

so u could js bait and switch

for free merch

💀

[exotic gorge]

im p sure u enter into a binding agreement when you do that

[latent mulch]

yeah i mean there's probably not gonna be a ton of people bait-and-switching, even for yale eng

[dark idol]

valid

i wouldnt

but

[latent mulch]

i mean you can still withdraw, its not really enforceable (hence why many schools have deposits)

[dark idol]

the fact that u can is funny

[exotic gorge]

yale probs wouldn't care and big dean Q is pretty chill anyways

[dark idol]

ugh

[exotic gorge]

is dean Q still there

[dark idol]

if by q u mean quinlan

[exotic gorge]

bro read my application at the showcase

[dark idol]

than yes

[latent mulch]

quinlan? like the admissions guy

[merry pawn]

no way that's insane

[dark idol]

i only remember his name bc of how long i stared at my rejection letter

💀

[exotic gorge]

lol

[merry pawn]

ouch

[dark idol]

jeremiah quinlan

[latent mulch]

crazy

[exotic gorge]

some girl from '28 got drunk while at BDD and got caught with alcohol and got like arrested and her offer got rescinded on the spot by Dean Q

[dark idol]

wtf

💀

oh

underage drinking

yeah

[exotic gorge]

someone got off the waitlist that day tho

[exotic gorge]

i mean just an excerpt from one of my essays, he read like 30 other peoples too

or something

6 other people

[dark idol]

my princeton interviewer told me that nobody would care if i started drinking underage at princeton

😭

bro like

[latent mulch]

this honestly is surprising to me, at least that they'd rescind

[dark idol]

why say that to a 17 year old

[latent mulch]

fwiw once you're committed / at the college i think the tolerance for bullshit rises massively

you can get away with a lot

[exotic gorge]

it's not a big deal to do it when ur enrolled, but it's a big deal to do that when you are a prefrosh

nah if she was already enrolled it'd be different

[latent mulch]

yeah probably, for all the events i've been involved with for prefrosh yale are particularly insane abt alcohol

[exotic gorge]

atleast don't get caught with it

[latent mulch]

like no alcohol at events with prefrosh, even if it's just for the undergrads

[exotic gorge]

yah

my bdd host was high the whole time because he was being hazed LMAO

[latent mulch]

and they will probably put your org on probation if you do anything like that

so not worth it

i mean orgs still do, but a lot of them aren't registered with the university so it's like....

[exotic gorge]

I do like the Harvard area better than the Yale area, like surrounding the university

[latent mulch]

oh definitely

new haven is boring

[exotic gorge]

fr

and even just walking outside of the gates at Yale and a little bit down towards where the showcase was held in that theater, it was a little sketch sometimes

[latent mulch]

it gets sketch towards the green

it seems particularly worse for the gals

[exotic gorge]

it wasn't really that bad 4 me

i was never like scared ora nything

idk I just thought actual campus was super beautiful

the vibes were amazing esp bc it was like a heatwave for Yale at that time unprecedented

everybody was outside in their courtyard

[latent mulch]

no AC does rough you up during them though

granted harvard also doesn't have AC

[exotic gorge]

my bdd host had AC in pauli murray

[latent mulch]

works in the corridors not the rooms (i think)

[exotic gorge]

his RA turned it on for him

[latent mulch]

oh huh

[exotic gorge]

yah

[latent mulch]

didnt know they could do that

[exotic gorge]

not suppose dto tell anyone

but like

[latent mulch]

i nearly transferred to murray too 😭

[exotic gorge]

LMAO

[latent mulch]

AC would have been incredible

[exotic gorge]

i've also got A/C at harvard tho

[latent mulch]

did you just get a window AC or is it like fully in your room

[exotic gorge]

i have an acco for A/C but it's a window unit yah

there are two dorms that have fully A/C in the rooms

The Inn and DeWolfe

[latent mulch]

oh nice

none of the dorms here do (bar the murray/franklin thing)

a lot of people move off campus, AC is genuinely a motivating factor there lol

[naive root]

Crazy that the most prestigious and wealthy colleges in the world don’t have AC for students

[slender marten]

Problem is, these buildings were built without A/C in mind, and renovating the entire interior without tearing down the structure is extremely difficult

[steel notch]

Yale doesn’t?

[stable crescent]

got a yale interview

[merry pawn]

Congrats!!

[latent mulch]

it is not that difficult they are just lazy

the oldest building at yale—connecticut hall, built in 1752(!)—has AC

it does not work well (they just end up using window ACs) but still

either way many of the classroom and office buildings date to the 30s/40s (around the time the colleges were built) and all of them have AC

[compact wren]

Then tear those mfs down‼️

We can instead build a 300 car parking spot with a mega Walmart instead yk

[velvet field]

🔥🔥

[primal needle]

secret society in walmart with secret gate

[cedar kettle]

Nope these are old ass buildings

The newer ones do

[cedar kettle]

Oop that’s so silly what

[cedar kettle]

Is it just the dorms

Like that don’t have it

[winter quail]

do people get in for yale without interview

or is it just wraps

[velvet field]

Wraps

[dark idol]

anecdotally more admitted students have then those that dont

[naive root]

Is the interview the deciding factor since the students that get it are usually on the fence? Considering they’ve already looked at ur application before sending it

[winter quail]

nah

cus admissions aren’t linear

[dark idol]

oh its snowing again

yippee

[slender marten]

if I were an admissions committee and I had limited interview resources, I'd direct them at borderline students to help with the evaluation there to break ties, and then the surefire students as a vibe check. But that's just a guess

lol, the snow just stopped

[dark idol]

it stopped aorund 10 am here

and now its back

school was on today but there was snow all over the roads

we got snowed in :p

[slender marten]

it was below freezing for 12 hours, so I was pretty sure schools weren't going to open

[dark idol]

mine did

i was so mad

we only had 2hr late start

[slender marten]

morning commute must've been hell

[dark idol]

yeah a ton of ppl r js skipping today

from what ive heard

[slender marten]

I'm not surprised. Driving around in the snow yesterday, it was donuts in the parking lot conditions. Unfortunately, Seattle drivers aren't used to that sort of thing

[merry pawn]

Same here

No idea why they didn't just cancel it

I have a few classmates who can't get out of their driveways

[meager mango]

Multiple people getting likelies today i think

[dark idol]

damn

not me

😂

[merry pawn]

Ouch

Me without an interview

[dark idol]

me with

stanford and duke

[merry pawn]

Shush you had an amazing Princeton interview

I haven't had any interviews other than Rice for rd

[dark idol]

my guy legit said

yeh

every time i get a kid

who i think

deserves to get into princeton

he gets rejected anyways

💀

[merry pawn]

Eh you never know

I think you have a chance

[dark idol]

we'll see

on

march 27th

😍

why does stanford have to be zesty

they should js drop on ivy day

[slender marten]

let's try not to speculate something that isn't relevant to the majority of students

[merry pawn]

Ugh I have to open them like April 2nd

[dark idol]

nah bro im getting likelies for every school

[merry pawn]

Or 3rd

[dark idol]

im getting a harvarfd likely

princeton likely

columbia likely

[merry pawn]

Yes exactly that's the spirit

[dark idol]

upenn likely

cornell likely

js all of them

light work

[merry pawn]

Northwestern Cornell Yale please I need one of you 🙏

[dark idol]

cornll ew

northwestern eh

yale 😡

[merry pawn]

It has my major

[merry pawn]

It kinda has my major

[dark idol]

idk

[merry pawn]

It mostly has my major

[dark idol]

im not tryna go to cornell

cuz im not tryyna

jump off luh bridge

[merry pawn]

Those are the reasons why I like them LOL

x_x

[dark idol]

💀

ngl

[merry pawn]

Same reason why my parents don't want me to go there

[dark idol]

id probably take duke cs

over mit cs

even tho it sucks comparatively

bc i just want to have a happy college experience

[merry pawn]

Duke sucks in every way smh

[dark idol]

😭

esp for cs

[merry pawn]

No I've given up on a happy college experience

[dark idol]

duke and yale are not great for isolated cs programs yet they were my #3 and #2 respectively

[merry pawn]

Duke reject, I'm auto reject for Rice cause I switched to RD, Yale is basically an auto reject cause they hate my school

So I'm gonna be depressed LOL

That's gonna be fun

[dark idol]

i think stanford hates my school

💀

[merry pawn]

Eh trust my school has very very very very bad prospects for HYPSM so it can't be worse than mine

It's funny

Cause

I might be happiest at gt

Out of all the schools I applied to

Gt or UMich

[dark idol]

yeah

[merry pawn]

But they're not my top choices

[dark idol]

which is why im tryna bag mich now

cuz i couldnt bag gt

💀

[merry pawn]

Nah you'll get into mich trust

But I want to get into a school at least Duke level to feel better about myself x_x

Otherwise I'll probably regret it for life LOL

So that'll be fun

[exotic gorge]

duke was nice

[dark idol]

so a t10

💀

[merry pawn]

Nah Duke sucks totally not biased

[exotic gorge]

what

[dark idol]

duke sucks cuz she got rej

[merry pawn]

Yes but I'll take Cornell

[dark idol]

yale sucks cuz i got rej

:p

[dark idol]

i would not

💀

absolutely not

i would not go to uiuc or cornell

[exotic gorge]

Cornell? More like NY State Ithaca

[dark idol]

cmu i used to hate as much

now i hate less

[merry pawn]

Yeah I've given up on college happiness lol I'm prestige driven now

[exotic gorge]

why u going to cornell if prestige driven

[merry pawn]

Used to be my dream school cause it was best for my major

[merry pawn]

Has my major

[exotic gorge]

Aerospace Engineer?

[merry pawn]

It's an ivy

[merry pawn]

No x_x

UX design

[exotic gorge]

Oh

bruh

Why would you major in something so specific

Just major in CS

[merry pawn]

Like maybe I would be happy at Emory but I couldn't go there cause they don't have my major

[merry pawn]

I have nothing CS related

[merry pawn]

Idk

That's why I got rejected duke

Ugh I'm actually gonna kms

Duke sucks

Cause even if I end up at northwestern Cornell Yale I know for a fact I wouldn't be happy at any of them

So like

I'm screwed

I'm setting myself up for 4 years of depression

[exotic gorge]

why would you not be happy at Yale??

[merry pawn]

So see their major is kinda theoretical and it's not really suited for my major at all

[exotic gorge]

did you apply to harvard

[merry pawn]

Out of those I'll be happiest at Yale though

[merry pawn]

No

[dark idol]

are u applying for yale computing and the arts

[exotic gorge]

yale CS is theoretical but its not that deep

[merry pawn]

Cog sci -> theme in human centered design

[dark idol]

ah

i did

[exotic gorge]

if you go to yale ur not going to be depressed

[dark idol]

yeah

[exotic gorge]

lets be for real here

[dark idol]

genuinely

💀

[merry pawn]

Idk

I loved duke

[exotic gorge]

where else would you rather go than Yale?

[dark idol]

yale kids r kickin it

[merry pawn]

It had the best work life balance

[merry pawn]

Yeah but I'm not getting in

[exotic gorge]

Guarantee yale Engineering has better Work life balance than Duke Engineering

[dark idol]

u got

gt

and unc

oos

💀

cmon now

[merry pawn]

My parents will kill me if I go there

[dark idol]

brah

[merry pawn]

Realistically I'm most likely to get in northwestern compared to Cornell and yale

[exotic gorge]

all these chats are is doom central

[merry pawn]

I tutored this girl in ACT and she got into northwestern

Idk

She had a happy high school life

[dark idol]

even if i get fried in RD i'll go to UMD or purdue

and kick it

im chilling

[merry pawn]

I feel like I should get into a better school after suffering so much

[dark idol]

i was a lazy ass bum in high school bro

i dont deserve a thing

💀

[sharp mesa]

Me w Georgia tech

[dark idol]

💀

[merry pawn]

So was I but I was also a depressed lazy ass bum lol

[dark idol]

no i was just a bum bro

[primal needle]

🔥 u will get everything

[dark idol]

i do not deserve any of the acceptances ive gotten

[sharp mesa]

I went insane

[dark idol]

💀

i didnt bc i was doing nothing

[merry pawn]

You wrote a research paper

[dark idol]

i did nothing in high school

[exotic gorge]

stop with the likelies man they're so rare and shouldn't be even thought about

[dark idol]

i am a max prestige bum who lucked into t20 cs acceptances

[exotic gorge]

what school

[primal needle]

so true

[dark idol]

purdue and umd

not t20 overall

lol

[exotic gorge]

which one is t20 cs

[dark idol]

💀

both

both are t20 cs

[exotic gorge]

whats umd?

[dark idol]

maryland

[exotic gorge]

oh

[dark idol]

my bad king

[merry pawn]

Bro I've given up on just gonna assume I'm going to gt or UNC and then deal with the repercussions of screwing up so hard

[dark idol]

LMAO

[primal needle]

💀 us news says ucinci is 1st for environemental engineering

[exotic gorge]

lets calm down

[dark idol]

dont use usnews

use csrankings

https://csrankings.org/#/fromyear/2014/toyear/2024/index?all&us

i want to do research and csrankings puts a lot of importance of research output

[primal needle]

my major is environmental / sustainability

[dark idol]

ohhh

nt then

🙏

yeah

if i get lucky ill get udub cs in RD

and go there

[exotic gorge]

that's for like research academia

[dark idol]

i want to do research

[exotic gorge]

oh ok

[dark idol]

i will likely go to grad school and do research in several years of UG

[exotic gorge]

best ivy to go to for CS in research is Cornell

Cornell top tier CS for academia

[dark idol]

idk if ill go academia

probably phd and then industry

[exotic gorge]

academia/research/phd

[dark idol]

ya ya

[exotic gorge]

anything to do with research great place to be

[dark idol]

i dont want to be miserable

and thats all ive heard about cornell

[exotic gorge]

idk why harvard is ranked so low on csrankings though

[dark idol]

plus upstate ny sucks

[timber plaza]

help why

[dark idol]

harvard has good research output no

[timber plaza]

💀

[exotic gorge]

Harvard has really great research

[dark idol]

ya ik

[exotic gorge]

Especially in CS right now

[dark idol]

surprising

[exotic gorge]

AI in particular

Idk what that place cooking us on

[dark idol]

it could just be the low faculty number

cmu has 160 harvard has 22

[exotic gorge]

Ah it's probably just that

[dark idol]

like i think if harvard expanded its cs dept

it would be a lot higher

[exotic gorge]

We have a lot of researchers that research at Harvard, but aren't actually harvard faculty

[dark idol]

yeah

affiliated organizations

[dark idol]

theres still a lot of great

research opportunities

at harvard

which is more or less why i applied

[merry pawn]

idk I just started being depressed like 10 min ago like I've screwed up my entire life not just academically and college-wise but social wise too and personally too and like what's the point and at this point maybe 1 prestigious college acceptance will make me feel slightly better about myself 😭

[timber plaza]

😭

bro

[dark idol]

you have not screwed up ur life bro

you will be fine

[timber plaza]

have u went outside

[exotic gorge]

I think we still excel higher at other science research than CS probably, but alot of that "other research" is so intertwined with CS research now, I don't really see why we cannot have a relational research

[dark idol]

ya

interdisciplinary research is v cool

[merry pawn]

bro you literally know nothing about how much I've screwed it up 😭

[dark idol]

we've all made mistakes bro

we're children

[timber plaza]

what happen

[merry pawn]

no my mistakes are bad bad LOL

[timber plaza]

it cannot be that srs

[merry pawn]

Nah it's bad

[timber plaza]

u have ur whole life ahead of u

[dark idol]

you get a fresh slate in college

and another one when you start working

[merry pawn]

eh not really not cause of my certain mistakes cause they'll follow me forever

[timber plaza]

tf did u do bruh

[merry pawn]

Ugh I would pay a billion dollars to go back in time

[exotic gorge]

The simple fact is CS is in everything, in my generative AI class today we had an astrophysist talk. He is one of the co-leads on this billion dollar telescope in Chile that is the US' biggest investment in a telescope ever (or some similar statistic to that effect) and he went over how he used CS literally at every corner in the project/research

[timber plaza]

did bro commit a crime

[merry pawn]

let me be depressed in peace 😭

[exotic gorge]

Calm down, you didn't do anything that bad

[merry pawn]

unless you count stealing a rock from a neighbor's garden when I was 5 LOL

fun fact I felt guilty about that for years

[slender marten]

I do wonder why Harvard CS is such a small department. Maybe all that faculty ends up going to MIT instead

[merry pawn]

to be fair it was a very pretty rock

[slender marten]

MIT/Stanford/CMU CS are all epicenters

[exotic gorge]

I find it difficult to keep my reply civil

[dark idol]

LOL

ugh my harvard essays were so mid bro

why did i cook myself

😧

[slender marten]

I mean, Princeton's department doesn't make that list either

[dark idol]

princeton is still

[exotic gorge]

I actually had a professor explain a little bit into that, like why harvard CS is so small

[dark idol]

t20

on csrankings

princetons isnt that huge either but its double hsarvards size

[slender marten]

is it funding? or is it the theoretical bent?

[exotic gorge]

damn bruh i was writing it all out

the theoretical bent

[slender marten]

sorry, continue

[exotic gorge]

no its ok u get the jist, the department was manufactured out of so much theory and it is so hyper-theoretical at harvard that the "CS research" and "CS Department" is just overshadowed/supplemented by math

[dark idol]

its like that a yale too no

[slender marten]

yeah, same thing at Princeton. Physics/Math are global level departments such that CS was an afterthought for a long time

[dark idol]

hyper theoretical mathematical underlying

ive heard harvard cs only became a thing semi recently

or maybe that was yale

[exotic gorge]

He broke it down better than I can explain, but he basically said we have world renowned, brilliant mathmeticians / theorists whatever that can do all of these great research into the theory behind CS, but there just really isn't much push towards more applied CS research that cannot be done simutaneously with a heavier focus on the theory

[slender marten]

it's sorta like the statistics v data science thought process. The statisticians look at DS and mock it for being data engineering. but it led to AI/ML

and the folks who mock neural networks for being generalized linear models on crack

[dark idol]

what ive seen the most is

ppl rationaling that ai wont take their job

bc its a statistics and linear algebra mashing machine

and not sentient

id agree but for a diff reason

[exotic gorge]

I don't understand why Harvard doesn't grow their applied CS tbh

[dark idol]

theres still a lot of applied cs stuff at harvard no

i think there are a few bioinformatics labs i was looking at

[torn bobcat]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1igv2hj/2nd_interview_from_yale/

are yale likely letters out

[exotic gorge]

nierghjighneu5hegitrhborw

[dark idol]

oh it was the broad institute

harvard-mit broad institute

[exotic gorge]

going to crash out with all of these likely letter stuff

[slender marten]

there's an "computational and applied math institute" at harvard or somethign like that

[exotic gorge]

I feel like my educational path is so off though

[slender marten]

that has nothing to do with an actual likely letter

[dark idol]

it is js quite unusual

[exotic gorge]

I know a soph concentrating in CS and he is taking 3 stats classes and 2 CS classes. The most applied CS he gets is actually in a stats class, but it's just something that I feel like should be vastly updated not expelling the theory but atleast introducing more application

[slender marten]

the funny thing about the computational and applie whatever at harvard, is they keep hiring pure maths people

[torn bobcat]

aren't the phone calls for likelies?

[dark idol]

No Yale Likely… It’s Over 💀

I told myself I wouldn’t spiral, but here I am. No Yale likely, no signs, just radio silence. I thought my essays were strong, my stats solid, my ECs unique—but apparently not enough. Seeing other people get theirs just confirms what I already knew: I’m not that level.

I know, I know—decisions aren’t out yet, and it’s not the end of the world. But let’s be real, if they wanted me, I’d know by now. Just bracing for the inevitable R and wondering where I went wrong.

Anyone else in the same boat? Misery loves company. 😭

[exotic gorge]

like don't be telling me my CS professor is a masters PHD doctoral in math applied math and the theory behind the creation and isaac newtons biography in math

[slender marten]

likely letters as I understand them, are letters sent to recruited athletes. second interviews happen because someone messed up and there's a reason for a second interview (afaik)

[exotic gorge]

none recruited athletes do receive likely letters, particularly for STEM students in Yale's case send out about 100 for STEM and 100 for Arts (inclusive to Recruited Athletes)

trust i was in no way a recruited athlete

[dark idol]

wtf

why is it so good at this

[exotic gorge]

it is inside your computer

[dark idol]

it is inside my walls

[cedar kettle]

Is the likely panic starting oh my god 😭

[exotic gorge]

Starting?

It's been started for days

It's doom city in Yale and Harvard

[slender marten]

does yale actually send likely letters?

[cedar kettle]

Welp

[dark idol]

yes

for

[cedar kettle]

Yes

[dark idol]

100 really smart

stem students

its how theyve been doing stem recruiting

to make their stem programs not suck ahh

[cedar kettle]

I’ve actually only met one likely letter

[torn bobcat]

yes scholars

[cedar kettle]

And he is an English major

[dark idol]

wtf

😭

[cedar kettle]

So stem recruiting is def not the only thing

[exotic gorge]

I've met two, one was CS and one was Math

[dark idol]

my friend checked his like

admissions file

and he got straight

7's

out of 9

and wasnt likely

its super random

🤷‍♂️

[torn bobcat]

i know 2 ppl, both stem

[exotic gorge]

why would a 7/9 be a likely candidate

[dark idol]

7/9 is quite high

[cedar kettle]

Not really

[exotic gorge]

I feel like a 8/9 should be getting that shit

[cedar kettle]

Wrong way 9 is better

[exotic gorge]

oh

[cedar kettle]

I think

[slender marten]

how can someone check someone else's file?

[dark idol]

they checked their own file

and just

disclosed theh results

[exotic gorge]

Harvard will get you for the that, they send Sasha after you

[slender marten]

way too much time on your hands

[cedar kettle]

Maybe I just know the one humanities likely lmao

[exotic gorge]

asterisk

[dark idol]

idk

im just hoping i get in bro

let alone likely

[exotic gorge]

have you been to the new CS building at Yale?

[cedar kettle]

Young nerd

[dark idol]

😭

[cedar kettle]

No

[exotic gorge]

is it open yet

it was under construction when i was at BDD

[cedar kettle]

Lowkey I don’t pay any attention to the cs

Like zero idea which building that would be 💀

[exotic gorge]

They gave us a tour of the side that was finished and that was NICE

It's near pauli murray

[cedar kettle]

Mmmm I think it’s finished

Nothing is under construction there except the turrets they’re removing

[exotic gorge]

They had some really nice like conceptualizations of labs

Turrets?

[cedar kettle]

One of the buildings has turrets they’re removing

It’s sad

[exotic gorge]

Turrets? Like

[cedar kettle]

Much aura will be lost I fear

Wait turrets isn’t the word is it

Wait yes it is

[exotic gorge]

Like a gun turret?

[cedar kettle]

Like the castle-y tower things

Not a gun turret

[exotic gorge]

Oh just the tower part

I see

[cedar kettle]

Architecture turret

[exotic gorge]

@slender marten In computationl biology labs do they have those like in-table computers?

I'm not sure exactly what they're for, but I've seen them a few places and they are mostly seem to be used for like 3D rendering/modeling

[slender marten]

no, not really. That's mostly for show rather than use 😅

[exotic gorge]

damn

They looked cool tho

[slender marten]

it's like video walls, expensive high tech decoration

[exotic gorge]

there is one at the SEC at Harvard that's pretty cool

Nnot sure what the material is

But like you walk infront of it and it will display you but it's in those like

Pillow things that you rub your hand over and it changes color little plastic things

[slender marten]

I mean, I don't know in what world they're better than a VR headset. But it doesn't make for as flashy a building feature

[primal needle]

🔥 it does sound cool

[exotic gorge]

I heard that harvard will be getting some Apple VR Pros

What are they caleld? Vision Pros

[slender marten]

my wife has one, but I can't use it because it's locked to the individual user

[exotic gorge]

LOL

That's lowk funny

[slender marten]

we were so excited and then, crap you can't use it. That and it's in the office and can't be taken out

[exotic gorge]

"The office"?

[primal needle]

💀 whats ur age bro

[exotic gorge]

I guestimate anywhere from 40-95

[primal needle]

a2c is full of quite big people i suppose

[dark idol]

hes like 25-35

[primal needle]

mine would be 30

28

[dark idol]

probably on the lower half

[slender marten]

not that many "big" people

[dark idol]

of that range

25-30 is my guess

[low glen]

bro I AM TWEAKING

[primal needle]

could be 24 too maybe??

[low glen]

international here with no yale interviews 2/4/25

[dark idol]

nah i doubt it

[primal needle]

dont wory no intl got it yet

which region?

[low glen]

they have

[low glen]

Middle East

[primal needle]

whoa

[primal needle]

gl man hope u get em, i am intl too idk if ill even get

[low glen]

me too

hopoe you get in as well

[timber plaza]

u have a wife??

[timber plaza]

hi catalyst

omg

frog pfp again

[primal needle]

helllooo

[timber plaza]

no intervieww

💀

[primal needle]

lol i have a folder full of em

[timber plaza]

except for vassar (lac)

[timber plaza]

real

pls gimme harvard interview brah

[primal needle]

intl started getting interviews ig now domestic cooked

[timber plaza]

ya im cooked

its ok

had a life like

awakening

💀

[slender marten]

it's apparently an enviable distinction

[dark idol]

damn

you know what else

is an enviable distinction?

[primal needle]

😄 how does it feel being married

[timber plaza]

ok well im 17

[dark idol]

BEING A HARVARDE MAN

[primal needle]

and like done with uni

[timber plaza]

i dont yearn to be that

[primal needle]

job

gaming set up

[timber plaza]

how did u meet ur wife

[dark idol]

if there was the right girl id lowk propose now

shit

[timber plaza]

bro i need to find uiuc men to rizz up

[dark idol]

im like tha

t

[primal needle]

YES drop the lore

[timber plaza]

ong

[primal needle]

college sweethearts???

[timber plaza]

gonna be me

i need like

a georgetown guy who has generational wealth

[dark idol]

vaqlid

[primal needle]

SO +aura

[primal needle]

😭 yooo money hungry

[timber plaza]

umm yes bro

so i can do an ethical job

[primal needle]

i want a girl with generation wealth too pls

[timber plaza]

& he can bring in the big bucks

[timber plaza]

ong

we all need that

[primal needle]

real, my gf wants to be a writer and she has stem for monitary reasons

how does yale ask for interview

like they email or portal update

[dark idol]

email

[timber plaza]

yupp

[low glen]

whens the interview report due for yale? when do i (generally) stop expecting interviews

[cedar kettle]

Last year at least end of February was when people stopped reporting getting interviews in a2c I think

[low glen]

you mean getting as in the email in the inbox or conducting them

like could they still get an email end of feb and do it like march 3rd

[cedar kettle]

Yes

[cedar kettle]

No idea

[low glen]

okay

might be cooked lets goooo

[cedar kettle]

Bruh you have a month

Procrastinate dooming

[low glen]

you right

mb gang

[cedar kettle]

Also you have four acceptances already you’ll be fine either way

[low glen]

yes very grateful

what major are you

at yale

@cedar kettle

[cedar kettle]

Oof good question

Neuroscience

[low glen]

nice

hows engineering at yale

i understand its not the gem of the school

[cedar kettle]

Going to attempt double major with art but the attempt is important there lmao

[low glen]

woww

[cedar kettle]

More theoretical than practical

[low glen]

you got it trust

[cedar kettle]

Lowkey we have pretty poor placements internship wise

[low glen]

i dont know how much i would enjoy that

[low glen]

damn

you know what my probelm is

i want to like

pursue engineering

[cedar kettle]

Benefit would be you aren’t really competing against a lot of other people for stem things within the school

Like relative to peer institutions

[low glen]

but not out of "love" but more as a medium to connect grow and lock in with businesses and exec positions

i thankfully got into Georgia Tech two days ago as an internatioinal which is a hugeeee accomplishment and the schools engineering is INSANE

[cedar kettle]

Oh my god congrats what?!?!

[low glen]

but my teachers want me to commit to like yale, dartmouth, brown etc because i have more interdiscplinary/liberal arts tendencies

and the ivy name

but at the same time i dont want to sacrifice an insane engineering degree

[low glen]

thank you!!!

was so unexpected bro i got fucking deferred from purdue

[cedar kettle]

Mmmmmm ok tbh I don’t know the Georgia tech resources

So I can’t really help compare

[low glen]

4th in the country engineering state-of-the-art eng facilities, consistent elite placements

[cedar kettle]

But also if you are ultimately going for like exec kinda positions the name might be more important? Idk

[cedar kettle]

I met liberal arts wise

[low glen]

but not an ivy, no geniunely strong alumni network, and no like liberal arts focus

[cedar kettle]

But yeah Georgia tech engineering is insane

[low glen]

lacking compared to any T20

[cedar kettle]

Yeah ok that’s what I thought

[low glen]

so idk

[cedar kettle]

Oof that’s hard

Yeah

The privilege and burden of choice

[low glen]

obv im creating ahuge theoretical that ill even get into an ivy

or a T20

[cedar kettle]

Yeah

This might be a future you problem

[low glen]

but say i did it would be super hard to choose

[dark idol]

u got gt stem why worry

[low glen]

no liberal arts focus

[cedar kettle]

Yeah fs that’s a hard choice to make

[low glen]

no alumni network

no ivy name

bro harvard had bill gates the other day just chilling

GT is not pulling that

[cedar kettle]

Ivy name usually isn’t important but for business maybe?.? Idk how that stuff works

[dark idol]

i mean

my state school had sam altman pull up to give a talk

like a month and a half ago

💀

its not unheard of

[low glen]

i want to stay in the US, but thats highly unlikely and ill have to move back to the middle east

there in ME an ivy name lands you 110K+ USD untaxed at 22 years old

[cedar kettle]

Oh

Well

I did not know that

Crazy

[low glen]

yale?

[cedar kettle]

Woah congrats to her!

[dark idol]

where to

[chilly hawk]

Haha same happened with me, deferred from Purdue but accepted to UIUC CS, dunno what happened with Purdue this year

[dark idol]

wtfffff

[low glen]

FUCK PURDUE

[meager mango]

For anyone deferred when you sent a loci did it show that you uploaded a pdf

[timber plaza]

ya 💀

so im cooked gang

issok

[meager mango]

Mine doesn’t and I’m worried

[low glen]

i got into GT and UIUC for mechE but not purdue

[cedar kettle]

Yield protect mayhaps idk

[dark idol]

i got into purdue cs and flat rejected from uiuc, even for my second choice

:p

shit is js weird

[timber plaza]

uiuc sucks (i may have to go there)

[low glen]

apparently they dont

[timber plaza]

bro my mf teacher announced to the whole class i got into uiuc

💀

[cedar kettle]

Wack

Alright then

[timber plaza]

bro treated me like i got into harvard or smth

[cedar kettle]

Help??

[chilly hawk]

I don't think my profile was that good ☠️, Purdue is still T20 for CS

[timber plaza]

avg illinois public school experience

bro i told my retired spanish teacher i got in & she told him via text or smth and he got mad i didnt tell him so he told the class that i didnt tell him

💀

[cedar kettle]

Lowkey if my teacher did that to me for any school I would be so embarrassed but maybe I’m just ask like that

[timber plaza]

no right bro

help

i was js like noo

i dont need ppl to knoww

[cedar kettle]

Oh wait yeah cs way more competitive I forgot

[chilly hawk]

I think UIUC is supposed to be more selective? Especially for CS + intl

[dark idol]

im domestic

[timber plaza]

but then he talked to another kid in. my class ab going to LIBERTY

[dark idol]

and

my second choice major

has a 40%

[timber plaza]

so embarassment gone

[dark idol]

acceptance rate

[timber plaza]

💀

[chilly hawk]

Damn

[dark idol]

i got rejected from uiuc brain and cog sci but into purdue cs

💀

welp...

[cedar kettle]

Aw wait he’s just really proud of y’all ig

[cedar kettle]

Honestly it’s just all really unpredictable

[dark idol]

yeah

i thought i was gonna get deferred from yale ngl

💀

might have been

a lil egotistical

in hindsight

i expected uiuc rej gt rej

[cedar kettle]

Nah early round delusion is traditional to the college app process

[dark idol]

😭

i was not allat sad about yale rej tho

cuz i would have likely gone to stanford anyways

or it would have been like

ridiculously close

[cedar kettle]

Yay!

This is good