Yale University (2024-2025)

[stable crescent]

i ddint like my personal but my yale supps were decent imo

[dusky bough]

i wrote it about how minecraft inspired my passion for CS and engineering

[steel notch]

she just said it was very fun to read

[civic horizon]

love hearing essay topoics

[civic horizon]

thats so tuff

[dusky bough]

my yale ones werre very specific and direct

i thikn thats why they worked

[civic horizon]

wdym like it had very detailed info abt yale?

[steel notch]

bro our why yale essays were like

[stable crescent]

my short takes were interesting if yall wanna read them

[steel notch]

carbon copies

of each other

[dusky bough]

LOL

did u read all of mine

[dusky bough]

sure why not

[steel notch]

i read ur why yale one

[civic horizon]

do u guys go to the same school or smth

[dusky bough]

i changed my why yale one so much

[dusky bough]

no

[steel notch]

no

[dusky bough]

never met tin in my life

[steel notch]

yeah lol

we just met through discord

[civic horizon]

mind sharing supps im interested i alr know my yale ones were bad anyways

[dusky bough]

hopefully we meet at bulldog days

[steel notch]

good

[stable crescent]

hope we all get in

[steel notch]

ye im going

[dusky bough]

nice

im rlly excited

[devout bison]

are they paying to fly u guys out

[stable crescent]

ok imma delete it now

[steel notch]

they pay for our flight yea

[devout bison]

nicee good shit

[stable crescent]

for any afdmitted student

[dusky bough]

well i live nearby but they pay for my train ticket/for gas

[stable crescent]

or just likely people

[devout bison]

just likely i think

[steel notch]

any admits

[devout bison]

oh rlyu

[stable crescent]

nice

[steel notch]

its all

[devout bison]

damn

[steel notch]

u just need to qualify

for fin aid

[dusky bough]

ya

[devout bison]

ah

[stable crescent]

like how much financial aid

[dusky bough]

im really hoping yale aid is good

[steel notch]

no idea

[dusky bough]

but my thought process is that if northeastern gave me good aid then yale will

[steel notch]

if ur under 6 figs u can def qual tho

[stable crescent]

oh

[dusky bough]

my thing is if i choose a diff school its prob because of money

[stable crescent]

this is how much npc estimates how much id be able to pay

💀

[dusky bough]

but if any of the other choices i would consider accept me i would be going for free

[dusky bough]

oh

[steel notch]

wtf?

[stable crescent]

how is it higher than my sai

[steel notch]

75k is crazy

[dusky bough]

per year?

or overall

[stable crescent]

i think my dad messed up my sai

per year

[dusky bough]

jesus fuck

[stable crescent]

we make 225k annually but sai is 75k

why is our sai a third of our income

💀

[steel notch]

💀

[slender marten]

You can always fix it later, I think

[stable crescent]

is that normal

ya and i can always appeal directly

[dusky bough]

i need to lock in for my finals so that yale doesnt rescind my likely bruh

[stable crescent]

esp bc my dads job is losing a lot of income

[dusky bough]

senioritis is kicking my ass

[steel notch]

i think youll get aid but not fully

[agile finch]

neu gives terrible aid so if neu aid is good yale will for sure

[steel notch]

😭

[stable crescent]

we just did really well 2023

idk how much we made 2024

[dusky bough]

i was so shocked when i saw my neu aid lol

[slender marten]

I wouldn't worry about step 2 when step 1 is get in

[stable crescent]

prob lowered our income 50k

[dusky bough]

i have an essay due tomorrow that i started tonight

[stable crescent]

i mean idrc i'm going anyways

i'll take the debt lmao

[agile finch]

LMAO

[stable crescent]

if its a t20 school im taking the debt

[dusky bough]

like i had no words lol

[slender marten]

I forgot to fill out my financial air paperwork until after I got in...

[stable crescent]

worth the 90k price tag

[dusky bough]

it was weird tho because i opened it on my phone

and then i couldnt open my fin aid

and it was weird because i was happy i got in but i was a little sad because it was oakland

[stable crescent]

imma just spam appeal for aid

oh

[slender marten]

Why is it always the Yale thread?

[dusky bough]

and then i opened it on my computer and saw my aid and was baffled

[steel notch]

@dusky bough how low of grades do u think yale will rescind?

like a B?

[dusky bough]

like b-s and below

[steel notch]

oh shit

[dusky bough]

i had a b senior fall

and they gave me a likely

so..

[steel notch]

o

probably Cs then

[dusky bough]

my school does trimesters tho so its weird

[slender marten]

I think they just want you to maintain what you're doing....

[dusky bough]

im thinking js that my winter grades need to be = or better

[steel notch]

bro i had all As

now i got 3 Bs

😭

[slender marten]

Uh... Over thinking this

[steel notch]

ok time to lock in

[dusky bough]

i dont think they wil lcare that much

but like lock in

lol

[slender marten]

There's terms of admission when you get in

[dusky bough]

we havent gotten in yet tho

lol

[steel notch]

technically yea

[slender marten]

Yeah....

[stable crescent]

i heard

[dusky bough]

i also doubt they will not accept u after a likely

[stable crescent]

as long as u don't get two c's

[dusky bough]

unless theres smth really bad

[stable crescent]

ur fine

[slender marten]

If you enjoy what you're doing in school, then you'll be fine

[dusky bough]

they might just message you and ask what happened

ik columbia is notorious but its never an immediate rescinding

its always asking first

[slender marten]

Getting in is the hard part. Once you get in, they do their best to make sure you graduate

[stable crescent]

for basically all schools?

[dusky bough]

for most schools yeah

unless you get like suspended or something schools dont rlly like to immediately rescind

they accepted u for a reason they want you to go there

[stable crescent]

mechanic said this

[dusky bough]

i feel like its also based on what ur previous gpa was

[slender marten]

I like how nobody is listening to me

[dusky bough]

we are listening to you

[stable crescent]

ive had 4.0 unweighted

4.4 weighted

[dusky bough]

just also providing additional info

[steel notch]

we're listening we just dont have any inputs

[stable crescent]

but our weighted system is garbage

cause ive taken 13 aps

[agile finch]

LMAOOOO

[dusky bough]

thats why its more than js ur gpa

[stable crescent]

and my gpas that low

[agile finch]

this is why i stopped trying qhasti

dont stress guys! youll be 100% okay

[dusky bough]

noone wasnt listening

we were just discussing

[stable crescent]

i wanna keep my a's up

i dont htink im getting one in physics

[steel notch]

i literally did a "okay" in my head and just moved on lol

[stable crescent]

ap calc bc im doing bad bc i took ab last year and havent done any hw yet

[slender marten]

🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

[stable crescent]

ap spanish our teacher has no curve

[dusky bough]

i have a bc final on tuesday

i need to study

[stable crescent]

our bc final is in 2 weeks

[slender marten]

There's more to life then prestige chasing

[dusky bough]

improper integrals-sequences and series

[slender marten]

It's a stressful existence

[stable crescent]

oh our teacher flipped that one and the one before it

[steel notch]

Agree, tho it does change the trajectory if your life if you do get one

[stable crescent]

like being rich

[steel notch]

coming from someone who is lower class

[dusky bough]

im honestly starting to question how ive gotten into these schools because my work ethic after ive gotten in is so much lower

like i used to be such an academic weapon.. and now i barely wake up for class.. what happened to me

[stable crescent]

coming from a middle income background, i need to do better than my parents

[steel notch]

dude same bro

the past 3 years of burn out

finally hit

[stable crescent]

aint no way my dad is an immigrant from a third world country coming here w 600 dollars and makes more than me after i have an amazing childhood and innumerable opportunities

[dusky bough]

and then we're going to do it for 4 more years at another academically rigorous institution

lol

[steel notch]

this time the atmosphere will be different though

im actually gonna start seeing results with internship, networks, $$$

[stable crescent]

pray for good grade inflation

[dusky bough]

for sure

[slender marten]

But you will be the same....

[dusky bough]

well i feel like also a different atmosphere provides different growth

[stable crescent]

i feel like

id grow better w smarter people

and i wanna go into ib

so just semi target

would be nice

[dusky bough]

ib 🤮

[slender marten]

There's a ton of smart people here if you look

[dusky bough]

there are smart people everywhere tho

[steel notch]

ib sellout

[stable crescent]

my friend was telling me about his friend whos an unpaid intern for a pe firm and raises rent for using green energy while receivng tax cuts for implementing it 💀

[stable crescent]

the school im going to if i dont get in anywhere else was top 3 rushes last year

[slender marten]

Then why does "where" matter?

[stable crescent]

easier to get in from target than non target

[dusky bough]

idk

[steel notch]

the average wont be the same

[stable crescent]

true

[dusky bough]

prestige doesnt matter but it does yk

[steel notch]

prestige will literally help so much either directly or indirectly

[stable crescent]

also

[slender marten]

I think you're not understanding how networking works...

[stable crescent]

imagine putting

@yale in ur bio

[dusky bough]

so much aura bro

[stable crescent]

or like

@wharton

@harvard

@duke

[slender marten]

I can put @princeton/@harvard in my bio. But I don't

[stable crescent]

@columbia

[stable crescent]

ur loss

[steel notch]

I mean im not in college yet, but id assume prestige = better networking?

you're constantly surrounded by better average students

[slender marten]

I don't want to be judged by my education

[stable crescent]

i wanna be judged based off of my salary

im joking btw

[autumn hedge]

aint no way

[dusky bough]

LMFAO

[autumn hedge]

same

like legit same

[dusky bough]

wait did u actually write it about that

LFMAO

NO WAY

[autumn hedge]

I wrote about how minecraft tech mods

inspired me😭

computercraft and stuff

[slender marten]

Just trying to encourage some positive mental health, that's all

[dusky bough]

thats so dope

[autumn hedge]

and since I choose cs and EE as my top option, I yapped about spending countless hours building powergrids and stuff in minecraft

[stable crescent]

nah dw about us

[dusky bough]

i just talked about my minecraft survival world and how building farms to make things more efficient modeled what i want to do in real life

[slender marten]

Sure, but your accomplishments carry more weight

[stable crescent]

i’ll be happy wherever i’ll end up

i wouldn’t be mad other than how much i’ve spent on college apps

[slender marten]

Real.

[stable crescent]

u end up where u worked up to be

[slender marten]

Optimization is fun, but it's all probabilistic

[dusky bough]

this is so cool LOL

its dope how we both took a similar idea and personalized it to ourselves

ig yale really loves minecraft players

[autumn hedge]

Yeahhh, it also probably helped that I mentioned a lot/ where I live is known for having power grid issues

so it made sense

[stable crescent]

i talked about my drivers license in mine

[dusky bough]

ah

[stable crescent]

is that an overused topic

[autumn hedge]

it must be yeah lol

peak recognizes peak

[dusky bough]

type

what did u write ur why major about

[steel notch]

@autumn hedge you got yale?

[autumn hedge]

ye

[dusky bough]

3 yale likelies in the chat lol

[stable crescent]

likely or rea

[autumn hedge]

likely

[stable crescent]

i got a friend who got into princeton rea but applied stanford harvard and yale for fun

he wouldn’t even consider stanford or yale

[steel notch]

nice

[slender marten]

Echidna.... Biologist interest?

[stable crescent]

aura

[dusky bough]

bruh?

[stable crescent]

ya lowkey but also he can do whatever he wants

[dusky bough]

some guy in the yale admitted students got mit ea and then yale and stanford likely

[stable crescent]

good for him he worked for it

[autumn hedge]

i like computational bio, but in this it's Echidna from Re Zero not the animal loll

[slender marten]

Which form of comp bio?

[dusky bough]

computational bio seems cool, one of my friends did research about using data science to analyze retina or something

it was some specific disease i cant remember but it was really interesting

[autumn hedge]

idk, just in general. I worked on a research project about ML on skin cancer genetic mutations and that was pretty fun

[stable crescent]

@slender marten did u go pton or harvard for undergrad

wait i’m dumb

pton doesn’t have grad

[slender marten]

Bro.

[autumn hedge]

didn't even know that tbh

[dusky bough]

princeton doesnt have grad school???

[stable crescent]

learned that when ao came here

[slender marten]

Wtf😅

[dusky bough]

https://gradschool.princeton.edu/academics/degrees-requirements/fields-study

?

[slender marten]

No professional schools

[stable crescent]

is that the same thing?

[slender marten]

Lots of grad/PhD programs

[stable crescent]

oh

i just remember they said they were undergrad focused

[autumn hedge]

i think professionals schools is Medical school, business and law right?

or am I wrong?

[slender marten]

No MBA/Law/Med/Dental/education schools

Like... Penn/Yale/Harvard

Stanford

No vet school. Penn has a vet school

[autumn hedge]

idk if after undergrad im just gonna go straight to industry

or if to pursue a phd

cuz I want one

[dusky bough]

are you doing cs

[autumn hedge]

yeah

[dusky bough]

i feel like after yale undergrad id wanna go to a bigger grad school

[autumn hedge]

oh definitely

[dusky bough]

but also like i have so much time to decide

like i feel like being at mich would be so fun in a different way that yale is fun

[autumn hedge]

I was thinking that for grad, maybe CMU or another technical school

[stuck hollow]

have yall got interview yet?

[dusky bough]

yes

[autumn hedge]

i got mine pretty early

[stuck hollow]

oh i see

still havent got mine

[dusky bough]

i got my interview email 1/24 and then it was 1/26

[dusky bough]

youll be fine

[stuck hollow]

i got interview for harvard mit duke and princeton but not yale 😭

[autumn hedge]

what's funny is that I got my interview the day before the likelies arrived lol

[dusky bough]

no way LOL

mine was like a week before

[autumn hedge]

yup

my interview was on feb 5

[dusky bough]

damn

my AO emailed me like a week after my interview

[autumn hedge]

i then afterwards emailed my interviewer cuz I just had to, it all felt like destiny lol

[autumn hedge]

im ngl

i was scared af when I first saw the email

I thought I did something wrong

[dusky bough]

i remember i was stressing because she emailed me during physics on a tuesday

[dusky bough]

same LMFAO

i was sitting next to my friend who got into yale rea and she was telling me that it was a good sign

[autumn hedge]

I woke up and checked my phone and was scared af

[dusky bough]

and it was so weird because i thought it was an interview

[autumn hedge]

I mean, it sort of was?

[dusky bough]

i got the email 2/3 and like 2 pm and i didnt schedule the call until 7 pm 2/4

mine wasnt lol she just told me i got a likely lol

[autumn hedge]

rlly?

I talked with mine for a while

like 25 mins

[dusky bough]

she like asked me how my day was and stuff

oh shit LMFAO

[autumn hedge]

yeah lol

[dusky bough]

we just talked for like 5 mins

and then she was like "i was impressed with ur application, heres ur likely"

was such a surreal moment

[autumn hedge]

mine yapped a lot, I also was asking her questions regarding financial aid, and stuff

[autumn hedge]

no like fr

I didn't know what to do afterwards

(I went back to sleep lol)

[dusky bough]

i just called my sisters then called my parents

and i cried

and then i told some of my friends

[autumn hedge]

real

my friends thought I was joking

[dusky bough]

LMFAO

i was telling my friends that the AO emailed me and they thought i was reading too much into it

[autumn hedge]

I sort of thought I was reading too much into it until I remembered likelies were a thing

what's even more wild is that I found out a week before they were a thing

[dusky bough]

i was looking on reddit and i was like this cant be

[autumn hedge]

through a tiktok

[dusky bough]

i wasnt even thinking that it could be a likely

i thought likelies were for like insanely cracked ppl lol

[autumn hedge]

real

[dusky bough]

didnt think i would get one at all

[exotic gorge]

They r ur just cracked

[autumn hedge]

same

[dusky bough]

thank you! i still dont feel like it tho lol

[exotic gorge]

nah

I don’t feel like I’m cracked either

[dusky bough]

like i knew i was competitive but i didnt think i was likely competitive

[exotic gorge]

Yet here we are

[dusky bough]

true

[autumn hedge]

yup

[exotic gorge]

Lols

[dusky bough]

maybe my recs were fire

i feel like they were pretty good

[autumn hedge]

idk, ever since that day I've kinda just been mentally clocked out of school

[dusky bough]

one of my rec writers went to harvard grad school actually

[exotic gorge]

they think ur gonna get in to other ivies

[autumn hedge]

I thought it was gonna be a tense wait until ivy day

[dusky bough]

im procrastinating my psych essay rn lol

[autumn hedge]

but now not rlly

[autumn hedge]

we aren't doing shit in my school lol

[dusky bough]

i still wanna see where else i get in lol like now im invested

[autumn hedge]

true

[dusky bough]

like i wonder if the ivies yale thought i would get into will accept me

[autumn hedge]

the thing is tho Stanford and Harvard are the only ones else I would consider

[dusky bough]

i didnt think it was worth to apply to stanford 😭

i was sure they would reject me

[autumn hedge]

I applied to all except Princeton and that other random Ivy

[dusky bough]

"the other random ivy" 😭

cornell?

[autumn hedge]

Dartmouth? is that how you say it?

[dusky bough]

LMFAO

i applied to harvard yale penn columbia

and mit and jhu

[autumn hedge]

hey a lot of people diss on cornell

but it's actually rlly good for stem

[dusky bough]

idk if jhu is in the same category

i just applied because they extended the deadline lol

[autumn hedge]

i regret not applying to mit

i mean

[dusky bough]

i feel like i wouldnt like mit

[autumn hedge]

i definitely wasn't gonna get in

but now idk

[dusky bough]

like it was my first decision

and it will be my first RD

[autumn hedge]

oh same, that's why I didn't apply

[dusky bough]

i think i was just trying to like it a lot because its a great school

[agile finch]

11 days!

[dusky bough]

shit

[autumn hedge]

imposter syndrome would be going wild

[dusky bough]

thats lowk close

[agile finch]

its creeping up

[agile finch]

fr

[dusky bough]

the two people who went to MIT from my school last year

one of them was a regeneron scholar

[agile finch]

only two??

[dusky bough]

the other was a squash commit

[agile finch]

wait that came out wrong

[dusky bough]

LMFAO

[autumn hedge]

ik someone from my school obsessed with mit

[agile finch]

but ykwim 😭

[dusky bough]

yeah i do

idk i feel like mit is for weirdos

[autumn hedge]

I guess I'll know if they got in or not by how depressed they are that day

[agile finch]

yeah its a pretty common thing at our school

[autumn hedge]

nono you don't get it

like

totally obsessed

[agile finch]

well i dont wanna say common but mit is everybodys top choice here

[autumn hedge]

like a yandere thing Lmao

[dusky bough]

we dont really send that many kids to mit or stanford

[agile finch]

i have a friend group of 5 people where everybody except me ea'd mit

[autumn hedge]

nah

[agile finch]

💀

[agile hornet]

out of curiosity was your likely letter before or after your interview? @dusky bough

[autumn hedge]

I wouldn't wanna go there

[dusky bough]

after

interview was 1/26, likely was 2/4

[agile hornet]

ah sick stuff man

[agile finch]

i wish our school showed the # of accepted/enrolled

[dusky bough]

i only remember when i had my interview because i got the interview email at the exact same time mich came out lol

like i recorded my mich decision and the first thing i said was "oh i got a yale interview" lol

[agile hornet]

LOL thats insane

😭

i cant lie bro ive seen you talk about your yale likely in other threads before and i lowkey thought you were playing

[dusky bough]

its cool stats to see

[agile hornet]

😭😭😭

[dusky bough]

LMFAO

[agile finch]

yeah hes still playing

jk

[dusky bough]

likelies are fake

[autumn hedge]

i should have recorded reactions

[dusky bough]

i didnt actually get one

[autumn hedge]

all of my decisions

[agile finch]

ill record RD why not

[dusky bough]

i recorded most of mine

[autumn hedge]

I have checked after waking up from a nap

[dusky bough]

i recorded my yale likely call lol

[autumn hedge]

and then going back to sleep

[agile hornet]

🤯🤯🤯🤯

fr though congrats

[autumn hedge]

georgia tech and umich? checked portal, said cool and back to napping

[dusky bough]

thank you man ❤️

[dusky bough]

did u get into both LOL

i fuckin cried when i got into mich omg

[agile finch]

are you in a two party consent state

[dusky bough]

i rewatch the video sometimes i was so emotional omg

[autumn hedge]

yea, I got hype af for umich

[dusky bough]

uhh

i didnt record the call..

the call never happened i didnt actually get a likely

likelies are fake

[autumn hedge]

😭

likelies are a CIA psyop

[dusky bough]

facts

[agile finch]

LMAOO

[autumn hedge]

deepstate propaganda

[dusky bough]

im actually a 27 year old man i didnt go to college

[agile finch]

bro ppl here care so much about likelies nobody at my school or anybody knows what it is

😭

so funny

[dusky bough]

DEADASS

[autumn hedge]

fr

[dusky bough]

like people here talk about likelies like everyone has one

self selecting bias

[dusky bough]

this is actually the most emotional ive been for college decisions

[autumn hedge]

it's like 10% of a admitted class

[dusky bough]

like i cried more for mich than i cried for yale lol

[autumn hedge]

and of that 10%

a lot are athletes

[autumn hedge]

I think it was the fact

[dusky bough]

most athletes apply rea tho

[autumn hedge]

that it was the first one

[dusky bough]

yeah

mich was the first like top school i got into

t20/25 or whatever

[agile finch]

W

[autumn hedge]

i did cry when that fin aid package arrived lol

[dusky bough]

was it generous

[autumn hedge]

no...

[dusky bough]

rip

[autumn hedge]

i imagined so anyways

[dusky bough]

mine was good but not affordable

like i could probably afford it if my sister helped pay and if i worked

[autumn hedge]

i mean, maybe I could have made an appeal

I could have probably considered it if they gave me 10k more

[dusky bough]

it was generous for a public

[autumn hedge]

yeah

[dusky bough]

like umd wanted me to pay 64k a year LMFAo

[autumn hedge]

fuck that lol

[dusky bough]

after i saw that fin aid package i rescinded the application

[autumn hedge]

im never paying that much for any college

[dusky bough]

same with drexel like no way u looked at my familys income and said "yeah he can pay 40k a year for college"

[autumn hedge]

not even an ivy

[dusky bough]

fr

[autumn hedge]

cs isn't finance where the school determines everything

[agile hornet]

@dusky bough what are you majoring in?

[autumn hedge]

though im ngl, I think I might fall into the finance pipeline at yale, or at least fintech/quant

[agile hornet]

fwiw if you worry about aid

[dusky bough]

probably eecs i think

[steel notch]

i think iwas freaking over ut cs more than yale likely

[agile hornet]

ah

fwiw jhu has the most insane aid ive ever seen

friend with like

[steel notch]

is that a thing at yale?

[autumn hedge]

yeah

[agile hornet]

a middle class sai

[dusky bough]

i was gonna do s&ds but i can always just minor in data science

[steel notch]

o

[agile hornet]

has to pay 5k a year

[autumn hedge]

it's pretty nice

[dusky bough]

damn

[agile hornet]

💀

[dusky bough]

i also have an outside scholarship i applied for and hopefully i get that

[autumn hedge]

im hoping I get something like that at yale

[dusky bough]

but the problem is it would just reduce the amount that yale gives me

[steel notch]

question, do you know what fintech is even about

bc i genuinely dont

😭

[dusky bough]

i dont rlly wanna do econ

[autumn hedge]

sort of? it's like software engineering but for financial stuff

so you gotta know finance

but also software

think idk

[steel notch]

is it basicically jsut being a swe at a firm

[dusky bough]

im scared if i do applied math ill fall into quant work

[autumn hedge]

robinhood, yk the app?

[steel notch]

yep

[autumn hedge]

that's fintech

[steel notch]

I see

[dusky bough]

but applied math seems so cool

[steel notch]

They make so much money

[autumn hedge]

i think anyways

[autumn hedge]

yuppp

[steel notch]

i think yale's avg salary on scoreboard

for cs

[dusky bough]

and eecs seems hard

[autumn hedge]

i mean, i have greater interests than just money

but like

[steel notch]

is just pure fintech

[autumn hedge]

I gotta take care of my mom and stuff

so money it is lol

[autumn hedge]

i've been considering

cs and econ

[steel notch]

like omg bro

[autumn hedge]

highest after grad salary

[dusky bough]

jesus

[autumn hedge]

that seems about right

[steel notch]

is that basically how you get into fintech?

[autumn hedge]

nah, you can make it with just cs

but like

look

[dusky bough]

i feel like coming from yale

if you do any stem field

[autumn hedge]

lemme pull up the charts

[dusky bough]

u can do fintech

[steel notch]

okasy

[steel notch]

honestly yeah

[dusky bough]

just because a lot of econ firms value the hard math skills

you can teach a cs/engineering major econ, not always the opposite

[steel notch]

yep

[autumn hedge]

this is for cs and econ

[steel notch]

i heard you can teach a math major almost any stem major, not the opposite

[dusky bough]

probably because math is so theoretical

pure math is so hard lol

its lowk a philosophy degree lol

[autumn hedge]

this is cs only

[steel notch]

nice

[agile finch]

phil mentioned

[dusky bough]

i feel like working as an engineer could be fun

[dusky bough]

yass

yale has cs & phil p sure too

[steel notch]

i want a startup

😭

[autumn hedge]

we can just make the startup guys

trust

[dusky bough]

or maybe just cs& psych idk

[agile finch]

real

[agile finch]

i think so

[steel notch]

how is startup scene at yale

[agile finch]

probably would do EPE tho

[autumn hedge]

lets make another chatgpt wrapper service

[agile finch]

look at tsai center

[steel notch]

ive heard of tsai

[dusky bough]

deepseek 2.0?

[steel notch]

is it basically a mentorship fotr startups

[dusky bough]

i feel like startup is a buzzword

[autumn hedge]

that too while at it lol

[dusky bough]

like i dont really know what a startup is lol

[autumn hedge]

in tech yeah pretty much

[agile finch]

bro this is literally easy game right now my chatgpt wrapper has 500 users

💀

[autumn hedge]

oh shit rlly?

put me on game

[agile finch]

i submitted it as an update to yale maybe theyll be like "wow a chatgpt wrapper!"

😭

[autumn hedge]

yeah they definitely letting you in after that

[agile finch]

fr literally innovation

jk

[dusky bough]

is yale ur top rd choice

[agile finch]

if they take me then yes

[dusky bough]

i want everyone to come to yale

boola boola

[agile finch]

bulldog day meetup

[dusky bough]

i need to go visit and say hi to my AO

she came to my school for college kickoff but i wasnt required to go and i didnt know she was there so i slept thru it

lol

[agile finch]

oh i hope i get into harvard so i can see what the first interviewer said about me

[agile finch]

damn lmao

[dusky bough]

i also want to read my yale file

lol

[steel notch]

u had 2 interviews for harvard?

[agile finch]

this is true

[agile finch]

yes

[autumn hedge]

wtf is a distinguished engineer and why is google paying them so much lol

[steel notch]

wow

[autumn hedge]

shit sounds like an elden ring title

[agile finch]

its because they're distinguished

[dusky bough]

i wonder if submitting my sat score fucked me over for my other rds

[agile finch]

did u submit to yale

[steel notch]

what is it

[dusky bough]

yeah

1460

[steel notch]

bro its like a 20+ year of experience manager

i doubt they do jack shit now 😭

[dusky bough]

yale was required

[steel notch]

oh yea

[agile finch]

nah i think ur fine

[dusky bough]

but i submitted it everywhere except for like

usc

i lowk think thats why i got deferred bc i went TO

[steel notch]

whats ur school avg?

[dusky bough]

uhh

i think like 1360?

[autumn hedge]

i feel like I should have submitted to stanford

[steel notch]

wtf thats crazy

[agile finch]

really

[dusky bough]

yeah its high

[steel notch]

mines is like 890

[autumn hedge]

cuz I went test optional there because I submitted everywhere else

[dusky bough]

idk how to check tho

lemme check school profil

[autumn hedge]

collegeboard

[dusky bough]

oh

that only tells u the avg for a specific test

[steel notch]

i used the school day one

since everyone at school takes it

[agile finch]

it says 1440 when i googled

[dusky bough]

damn

wtf

LMFAO

[agile finch]

for @dusky bough

[dusky bough]

why is it so high

[agile finch]

no clue tho i dont think they really release it

[dusky bough]

well lowk everyone has a 1580

[agile finch]

only public schools need to release

[agile finch]

LMAO

bro ur just mogging

ur just better

[dusky bough]

some guy in my physics class took it sophomore year and got a 1560

[autumn hedge]

that's wild

[dusky bough]

or 70 idk

[steel notch]

bro i got put on the school news for getting a 1500+

the difference in schools is wild

[dusky bough]

like one girl i know had a 1520 and then retook it in october lol

for october sat

[agile finch]

interesting

[agile finch]

LMAOO

[dusky bough]

if you have 1500+ and retake

i find that so interesting

[autumn hedge]

fr

big waste of time

getting higher involves luck

[dusky bough]

once i took the october one

[agile finch]

i dont get it tbh

[dusky bough]

i was like "yeah im done"

even before seeing my score

[autumn hedge]

yeah

i said fuck it and prayed that my essays and ecs carried for me lol

[dusky bough]

oh the average is actually a 1412

[autumn hedge]

wtf

wild

[dusky bough]

for class of 24

[agile finch]

this is a W

[thick ermine]

a buncha nerds

[dusky bough]

yeah

[thick ermine]

ngl

as a professional hater

im praying on their academic downfall

[dusky bough]

oh?

[steel notch]

what was ur sat

[autumn hedge]

1400 xD

[steel notch]

ah lol

[dusky bough]

yass

1400 gang

[autumn hedge]

fr

[steel notch]

i mean u still got yale likely

[dusky bough]

why do ppl act like a 1400 is bad lol

[steel notch]

is ur school avg high at all

[thick ermine]

yea, as an engineer its really easy to do

[agile finch]

its the 1600 snobs

[steel notch]

its just reddit

[thick ermine]

1400 is goated

[dusky bough]

someone on here told me "i think you got a likely despite your sat score"

[autumn hedge]

no lol, that probably also helped

[thick ermine]

dont let anyone tell you otherwise

[autumn hedge]

like a 1030 or something last time I checked

[steel notch]

wow

[thick ermine]

if they say otherwise, then they a bum

simple

they bums

[agile finch]

i mean that's probably true too but nobody gets a likely for getting a good test score so a) that doesnt make any sense b) ur just even cooler because that means they liked u as a person and not because ur a good test taker

[thick ermine]

only a bum would see a score of such a high percentile of the general population as subpar

[autumn hedge]

yeah

[agile finch]

so real

[agile finch]

facts

[thick ermine]

like we gotta be real here

bums only got their sat score to flex, no humanity, no fun, no nothing

just their scores

[dusky bough]

lmfao

[autumn hedge]

yeah, I never got that tbh. A sat score by itself means jack shit

[agile finch]

this is true the entire point of the score is to flex, it's not even like getting a grade in a hard class where you actually learned something meaningful in that class

[agile finch]

💀 💀

[thick ermine]

-# certified by the American society of Professional Haters

[dusky bough]

wait guys its 2:30 and my essay is only halfway done

[steel notch]

💀

[autumn hedge]

rip

[dusky bough]

its due in like

[agile finch]

11pm

pst just better

[dusky bough]

11 hours

[autumn hedge]

i don't have school today thankfully

[dusky bough]

whoops

[agile finch]

im about to start my essay

[steel notch]

wtf

[thick ermine]

also if someone tells you that the sat preps you for college exams, they are lying

college exams are so much worse

[dusky bough]

and i have a bc final to study for

and a physics presentation

and an english presentation

[thick ermine]

imagine ur worst nightmare, and multiply that by 100k,

[dusky bough]

and a stats presentation

am i cooked

[thick ermine]

thats a midterm

[agile finch]

never heard someone say this and hope i never hear it because i will be unable to resist the urge to laugh

[autumn hedge]

I have legit, only gone to school like 10 times the past month lol

not even cuz of skipping

just because of random shit and stuff

[thick ermine]

stop contemplating if ur cooked and lock tf in

[dusky bough]

😭

i dont wanna do my work anymore

[thick ermine]

u will only achieve what u can when u focus

[agile finch]

are you cooked or cooking. that is the question

[dusky bough]

im not cooked

[thick ermine]

listen to music, or whatever

[dusky bough]

type shiii

[thick ermine]

leave discord

and finish ur shit

[dusky bough]

damn

[thick ermine]

come back knowing u accomplished the task ahead

[dusky bough]

yes

[autumn hedge]

nah, let the senioritis take control

[dusky bough]

this is what my mind is saying

😭

[thick ermine]

senioritis will control you well into first semester of college

[dusky bough]

noooo

[thick ermine]

u mustnt let it control you fully

[dusky bough]

dont say that

[agile finch]

uh oh

[autumn hedge]

im gonna let the senioritis take control like, when there is only one month left of school

[thick ermine]

nah thats like what happnes

[dusky bough]

bro senioritis kicked in when i got into mich

[thick ermine]

the tryhards will try to say otherwise

but its just fr

[dusky bough]

and it doubled down when i got into yale

[thick ermine]

first semester is decieving

[autumn hedge]

real

[dusky bough]

why am i lying it started in december

it started before i even submitted my rds :(

[autumn hedge]

even realer

[thick ermine]

what major u tryna do

[dusky bough]

eecs

[autumn hedge]

I think I've had senioritis since second semester of 11th lol

[dusky bough]

so i need to lock in

[thick ermine]

bro do umich

thats like goated for electrical egineering

the big10 schools are like no other

[dusky bough]

if i go to mich i wouldnt do ee

[autumn hedge]

anywhere works for EE tbh, and engineering as a whole

[thick ermine]

cs?

[dusky bough]

i would do cs/data science

ya

[thick ermine]

yeabut the midwestern colleges are great locations

[dusky bough]

but also like yale will be so much cheaper

[fluid garden]

deadass have had it since freshman year 💔

[thick ermine]

alot of companies are located in the midwest

for their manufacturing and other sorts of offices

[autumn hedge]

yeah, the ee in the eecs is like an add on onto cs, only like 4 classes I think

[thick ermine]

closer to campus

[dusky bough]

i also feel like yale and mich are such different experiences

[thick ermine]

and stuff

[dusky bough]

i could always do mich grad school

[autumn hedge]

fr

[thick ermine]

mich is that big school college town vibe

[dusky bough]

yeah

[autumn hedge]

i'd say that's the better option

just do your chill ivy undergrad

[thick ermine]

do mich undergrad

[autumn hedge]

then technically focused grad

[thick ermine]

then yale grad

[dusky bough]

why would i go to yale grad for engineering tho

lol

[thick ermine]

triue

just do a 4+1 at umich

[dusky bough]

i would prefer having the yale undergrad experience

[thick ermine]

5 years of engineering

[steel notch]

wtf where do u go

[dusky bough]

why do u want me to go to mich so bad lol

[thick ermine]

youd be in and out like lickity split

[dusky bough]

do u go to mich

[steel notch]

yeah same im scared of yale grad school for stem

i might not even apply

[thick ermine]

im at purdue

[autumn hedge]

shitty public school

[dusky bough]

ah

[thick ermine]

but umich is like what we count as a fantastic sister school

[agile hornet]

where are you that your school avergae is a 1370

[steel notch]

i mean where do u skip school for and sruff

[agile hornet]

😭😭😭😭

[dusky bough]

prep school

[autumn hedge]

i don't skip

[thick ermine]

im a bit biased

[agile hornet]

ah

[autumn hedge]

just a lot of no school days

[steel notch]

oh wow

[thick ermine]

but its like simply cause i see public schools as fire

[steel notch]

i want that wtf

[thick ermine]

i intially wanted to go to columbia

or cornell

[dusky bough]

ah

theyre just so different

[autumn hedge]

ehhh, it comes with a lot of annoying add ons lol

[thick ermine]

but uh that big midwestn college was just something else

uiuc become my number 1

rejected from there

purdue was next in line

[dusky bough]

nice

[thick ermine]

i love it here

cheap as hell

fantastic enviroment

niel armstrong went here

[dusky bough]

dope

wait did he acc

[thick ermine]

acc alot of the apollo astronauts went here

[thick ermine]

yea

[autumn hedge]

pretty dope, that's a cool thing about going to prestigious schools

you randomly find important people all over

[thick ermine]

we have neil armstrong building

[autumn hedge]

if I remember correctly

[dusky bough]

ok guys i need to lock in

[thick ermine]

this is just a public school

[autumn hedge]

the creator of oh my zsh was from yale

[dusky bough]

this essay will be done by 3:30

trust

[thick ermine]

we are big as a mf

[dusky bough]

o/

👋

[thick ermine]

adios

58k people

jolly as hell

good luck in ivy day tho

a real bloodbath

[autumn hedge]

it's the d-day for students

[thick ermine]

most folks aint get in

i mean it makes sense

[autumn hedge]

yup, sad affair rlly

[thick ermine]

i know alot of people who didnt get in there

and the ucs

who came to purdue

so its like that

[autumn hedge]

i wanna see if I can get into Harvard, but mainly to make my family/neighbors proud

[steel notch]

It’s so relaxing knowing I at least got Yale

[steel notch]

Would u choose it over Yale?

[thick ermine]

ngl

looking back

[autumn hedge]

probably not, it would be smart to pick it over

[thick ermine]

if i got columbia id still choose purdue over it

[autumn hedge]

but Harvard sounds like it would be hellish sort of

[steel notch]

You’re going into bio right?

[autumn hedge]

me?

[steel notch]

Yea

[autumn hedge]

nah

cs

[steel notch]

Oh

[autumn hedge]

maybe cs and something else

but definitely cs

[steel notch]

I mean cs is still stronger at Harvard tho

Yale cs is so looked down upon

[autumn hedge]

yeah, that's why It would be the smart move

but idk

i don't wanna deal with rats at harvard dorms bruh

[steel notch]

😭

[autumn hedge]

and apparently, you gotta apply for everything at harvard

like applying to classes

[steel notch]

oh yeah

[autumn hedge]

and certain shits

[steel notch]

It’s hella comp

[thick ermine]

that sounds horrible

[steel notch]

I would actually hate that

[thick ermine]

over here, its a free for all

[autumn hedge]

right? I don't wanna have to compete to be able to take a fucking databases class Im probably gonna have to self study anyways

[thick ermine]

just lock the classes in when u can

[thick ermine]

paying bands just to compete like dogs

is crazy

[steel notch]

echidna how much do yk about startups

[autumn hedge]

apart from the fact that the majority fail and they burn through money not much

I know venture capital loves em tho

[steel notch]

Do you think it’s do able to create a startup while maintaining a software engineering role at faang or smth

[autumn hedge]

maybe? depends

[steel notch]

I’m too scared to go all in LMAO

[autumn hedge]

you might have to work insane hours

and it depends the role that you have

you could work on whatever product you have

like part time

[steel notch]

yea

[autumn hedge]

and then when you have it built up

[thick ermine]

ngl

[autumn hedge]

then lock in and make it a startup

so that you already have the hard part done

[thick ermine]

startups seem like a awesome thing to put on ur resume

[steel notch]

My end goal is just entrepreneurship no matter what tech industry I go into

[autumn hedge]

if they actually are good then yeah

otherwise

[thick ermine]

my goal is rockets

[autumn hedge]

it's just the "started a nonprofit" but for the job market

[steel notch]

Lockheed

[thick ermine]

why i came to one of the best aeroE colleges in the nation

[thick ermine]

nah those guys are bombs

and incindearys

[steel notch]

do most startup founders make it so they put it on their resume??

[autumn hedge]

I like Lockheed

[steel notch]

I’m tryna make a startup that brings in money for me LMAO

[autumn hedge]

I mean

not all

[agile finch]

this is true

[thick ermine]

lockheed hires straight from purdue

[autumn hedge]

but I feel like a couple do it for that

[agile finch]

but usually when the startup takes off enough

[thick ermine]

i talked to some lockheed folks

[agile finch]

u no longer need a resume

[thick ermine]

they told me to go away

im not getting an internship this year

next year for srue

[autumn hedge]

damn

[steel notch]

Dang

[thick ermine]

yea im not goated like that

[steel notch]

At that point just stay at the startup right?

[thick ermine]

home depot for the summer

and summer classes

[autumn hedge]

what about, NSA or CIA? that seems like a cool place to work at

[thick ermine]

i woudlnt think about the government rn

they kinda in limbo

[autumn hedge]

ik, have relatives who are feds

[thick ermine]

by the time u get to college, the job openings and opportunties may go away

[autumn hedge]

it's bad but it depends on agency

[steel notch]

@autumn hedge wait did u do thrive

[autumn hedge]

some are still pretty much operating like before trump

[thick ermine]

over here we just being wary, some of my friends aint got a career no more

[autumn hedge]

idk what that is

[steel notch]

Nvm

[thick ermine]

fun still

i love engineering

its so jolly

and wonderfull

full of suprises

[autumn hedge]

yeahh, a lot of internships got fucked

[thick ermine]

but those uh exams...

[autumn hedge]

not so fun