Yale University (2024-2025)

[stable crescent]

😭

there goes quant

i need a school better than uva

their business school isn’t guaranteed and i wanna go finance

[meager mango]

Bruh

Why

[latent mulch]

like i also started with the more difficult track so if i started with an easier class (even though i'd know some/all of the content) it might have worked out better, but i was never like insane like these guys

[meager mango]

Why do you wanna go finance I’m just curious

[stable crescent]

i think it’s interesting

esp like bayside

buyside

[latent mulch]

im from the UK but i never did well at BMO (USAMO equiv), like i was in the top 3 digits but not doing camps and shit

[latent mulch]

i mean u can just say u want money

[stable crescent]

i mean obviously the money is good too

but like

investment banking, ur prob only making 40 an hour

u just work insane shifts

[latent mulch]

i mean with the hours yeah

[stable crescent]

80-100 hour weeks

[latent mulch]

it does chill out at some point

[stable crescent]

and ngl i don’t like the culture

[latent mulch]

but it takes a while to get to that point

[stable crescent]

esp w how competitive it is

but the exits r amazing

i’m interested in maybe hedge funds venture capital or private equity

[latent mulch]

imo finance is better than consulting, at least its a real job

[stable crescent]

ngl idek what consukting does

i just know my friend did it and he said to go finance

instead

hours r better for consulting but pay isn’t as good

[latent mulch]

the real answer is they make things to justify decisions that would be made anyway

[stable crescent]

real 😭

r u still into quant

[latent mulch]

consulting can get pretty rough, especially at the start, i've seen some insane shifts

[latent mulch]

nah never really tried for it, not into finance

[stable crescent]

damn

[stable crescent]

so SWE

[latent mulch]

gonna work for a bit in software postgrad (is the plan) and maybe do grad school

idk with AI i really do want to career pivot

[stable crescent]

what year r u

[latent mulch]

senior, my flair is wrong lol

[stable crescent]

gotcha

i need yale so bad

yale penn or duke

idrc about cornell or columbia

[latent mulch]

u got it trust

i like columbia

i think i would have enjoyed it there

[stable crescent]

the schools i got interviews to r the ones i care about

[latent mulch]

nyc and whatnot

[stable crescent]

i think i would’ve too

but they’re killing their name

[unborn sundial]

Utah mentioned 🔥

[latent mulch]

its rough

[stable crescent]

prob easier to get off waitlist

[plain rover]

🙌

[stable crescent]

cornell lowkey is a vibe

[latent mulch]

but i think long-term it'll work out, and trump being so hardline on the protests too should make them fix up

[latent mulch]

idk its too quiet

[stable crescent]

fair

[latent mulch]

my one issue with yale is that new haven is lowk boring

[stable crescent]

but it’s gotta be peaceful

[latent mulch]

like i've never had real safety issues

[stable crescent]

what do u do then

[latent mulch]

but it is boring

[stable crescent]

yk what

go to o block

experience life !!

[stable crescent]

real

[latent mulch]

not too far from uchicago right lol

[stable crescent]

ngl i’ve been a yale hater my entire life until like

the week yale was due

always been a harvard guy and i didn’t even apply lmao

lowkey a regret

[latent mulch]

like there's good food, downtown and the surrounding areas are super gentrified (yale owns a lot of it too), good bars etc, but like, to give a good example, there's really few good concerts about, or clubs, or smth like that. nyc kinda just pulls a lot?

[stable crescent]

that’s fair

philly is also good

wharton accept me 🙏🏼

[latent mulch]

ehh its what it is

[stable crescent]

real

i’ll prob end up in state if i get trash aid anyways

[latent mulch]

harvard rejected me so fuck them fr

(i would have gone there had i got in)

[stable crescent]

😭

where did u get in

[latent mulch]

i got in yale early so just yale lmfao

applied to like four other colleges RD (id wrote essays for a dozen but no point applying to most of them)

[stable crescent]

real

but kudos to u tho

why rea yale instead harvard then

[latent mulch]

rejected mit, harvard, columbia and wl princeton

[latent mulch]

i felt like i had a better chance? idk kinda just vibes

i also did a summer school at yale the summer prior (through like some UK org) and visited harvard during that, and really preferred yale

plus i just assumed i'd get rejected by both so like

[stable crescent]

ohh i see

wait ur intl

[latent mulch]

ye

[stable crescent]

did u apply oxford or cambridge

u prob would’ve gotten into all of them if u were domestic

[latent mulch]

oxford for mathematics and got rejected

requires a short explainer

[stable crescent]

ah

ngl i just feel like harvard and princeton have the most aura worldwide

[latent mulch]

for oxford maths u do the admissions test in like mid-october, and because i was writing essays i studied for like 4 hours for it

total

so did not do well

[stable crescent]

nobody really knows yale outside of us and rich people or studious people

[latent mulch]

i was like ~5 off an interview

so probably could have got one

[stable crescent]

oh so

minimum

in order to get in

[latent mulch]

yeah, but idt they really consider the MAT at the interview stage

it's just that people who do well on it tend to interview better

[stable crescent]

ah i see

[latent mulch]

tbh i should have applied to cambridge

[stable crescent]

cambridge is better anywyas

[latent mulch]

its easily the most beautiful university

[stable crescent]

oldest uni

and more employable

[latent mulch]

no oxford is older

[stable crescent]

oh

i heard oxford is good for unemployment stuff and cambridge is good for employable stuff

💀

[latent mulch]

i dated someone in kings and it was genuinely the nicest placed ive ever been

[latent mulch]

yeah mostly

[stable crescent]

what’s kinds

kings

[latent mulch]

but oxford is like really not that far off cambridge for a lot of employable subjects, maths is really close

cambridge is better but not by much?

imo

[stable crescent]

i think their grad program is better

not sure tho

[latent mulch]

yeah for sure, but at undergrad its pretty similar

[latent mulch]

kings college, one of the constituent colleges

its the one they use in the photos

its the commie one

and then st john's is the capitalist one

and then trinity is the one where all the cracked maths students go

they have reputations, to say the least

[stable crescent]

i see

anyways imma go to bed

but thanks for the convo

hopefully

imma be there this fall

[latent mulch]

i nearly fell into the cam whilst punting

[latent mulch]

real

i probably should too

[stable crescent]

wow that’s beautiful

us can’t compare to europes archietecutr

[latent mulch]

there's about four buildings at yale that are explicit derivatives of buildings in this college

all are lovely but they just don't compare

[ashen oak]

Are we cooked man

[unborn sundial]

It just means they had enough information to make a decision about our application conclusively

Statistically, yes, we have a lower acceptance rate, but it is not an auto-reject

[ashen oak]

Oh damn

Just reject me already bruh 😀

[tidal gazelle]

whats the percentage and if you have data where does it come from??

[unborn sundial]

Obviously some selection bias, but

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/02/11/how-do-yales-alumni-interviews-impact-admissions-administrators-alumni-weigh-in/

91% of the 537 people who responded to the class of 2028 survey had an interview

[tidal gazelle]

how does that number end up applying to the number of people who applied

[latent mulch]

i think about 9k people get an interview

according to the alumni thing

but that probably doesn't include senior interviews and AO interviews? idk

[plain rover]

cooked

coooooked

[tidal gazelle]

and how many applications do they get like the last 10 years

so like what would ve the percentage of people accepted with an interview

[balmy solstice]

it’s 15-20% get an interview

[tidal gazelle]

and out of those how many get accepted?

[plain rover]

yale so buns

[balmy solstice]

like 2k

[meager mango]

Yeah so 15% get interview and of those who get interview 20-25% get in usually

1/3 of those who get interview get WL or acceptance

2/3 rejected

[summer girder]

96% of total applicants get rejected from yale 😔

[dark lichen]

it fell to 4%

?

this is just insane wtf

[summer girder]

wasnt the acceptance rate around 3-4?

[dark lichen]

i js remember 5% but i havent checked in like forever

5% is still bonkers ngl

4% is insane

[summer girder]

oh

[unborn sundial]

Sounds about right

[summer girder]

methinks it'll go up tho

[unborn sundial]

Duke is also 4%

[summer girder]

bc they increasing class size

and a decrease in applicants overall

[dark lichen]

it was 3.7 last year damn tf

[summer girder]

but still hella low

[summer girder]

wait so i was right

[dark lichen]

nah 5.1%

[unborn sundial]

For rd I thought it was 4

[summer girder]

because i was crazy once and i said some shit of seeing signs of lucky number seven or whatever and remembered that yale's acceptance rate had a seven in it somewhere

[dark lichen]

yea you right 4.1

[summer girder]

smh

mub spreading misinformation

[dark lichen]

nah its 5.1 for normal

4.1 for rd

[golden prawn]

RD is below 4 lol

last i checked RD was like 3

[dark lichen]

idk google said 4.1

it could be wrong tho

[golden prawn]

3.7% for ‘28

no use dooming though it’s basically the same number

the 3 makes it seem scarier but it’s basically the same

[dark lichen]

yeah no difference

[dark lichen]

real

i wonder how many schools r under 4% rd

ik like 7 of em are

[ruby marten]

yale should let me in bc i spent my interview talking ab death 🙏

[unborn sundial]

Real

[tawdry viper]

it should go up a little more because of test required

but still sub 4 prob

[quartz glacier]

Why would the test requirement make the acceptance rate go up

[summer girder]

because the amt of applicants have devreased

the class size has also increased by a slight amount

[ruby marten]

what's yale's acceptance rate?

[dusky bough]

4%

[tranquil pagoda]

I will get in

[dusky bough]

2 days till i find out if I got into yale!!!

[fading knot]

Less

1 day 22 hours 44 minutes

[dusky bough]

Let’s see if likely letters are actually real…

[ruby marten]

idk did u commit a war crime

[dusky bough]

I spent half of my spring break on this discord idk if that counts

[ruby marten]

it does your acceptance is going to me now

[silent gorge]

lmao

[ruby marten]

tho i've been sick the whole day and just switched back and forth between discord and reddit

[sharp mesa]

oh

[tawdry viper]

2 days until i get rejected!

[dark lichen]

browns ed acceptance rate exploded for ed bc of it

acceptance rates are stupidly inflated bc of to

but yale wont be affected since most applicants will have the ap scores or test score

[hallow lodge]

im getting in

[violet crown]

Same

🙏

[summer girder]

Yale you didn’t defer me for no reason

I wrote a good loci about simping for you… (kidding)

[hallow lodge]

im literally in

[sharp mesa]

im already giving up my spot to someone else 🙏

[stable tide]

Tmrw…. 😭

[tidal gazelle]

TMR WE ALL GET IN

[meager mango]

Real

[meager berry]

Do you think being a 20 year old gonna affect my decision?

@summer girder Where are u from?

[summer girder]

Moi?

[dark lichen]

yeah def

[graceful drum]

😔

[summer girder]

Oh also I’m from CT

Why tho

[balmy solstice]

if Yale wasn’t washed at basketball I’d go

[latent mulch]

don't think oxford is much better

(congrats on it though)

what is ur offer for?

[latent mulch]

what made u apply at 20?

if it's smth like military service that is pretty common, don't think it would alter anything

[balmy solstice]

Oxford ballers is cold bro I’m gonna play there

[balmy solstice]

history

[latent mulch]

good shit

which college (if u dont mind me asking)

[balmy solstice]

but Yale shoulda won r64 in March madness bro they sold

[latent mulch]

i applied to maths at christchurch many moons ago

got rejected # sad

[balmy solstice]

Brasenose

[balmy solstice]

rip

[balmy solstice]

broooo picking CC is a bad choice they get so many apps 😭

[latent mulch]

didn't do amazing on the MAT, mostly because i was spending my time writing essays

[balmy solstice]

u shoulda applied for one of the smaller less applied to ones

[latent mulch]

so did it with like a few hours prep

[balmy solstice]

that’s understandable, the latter MAT questions are so fucked

I remember using the first 10 qs for TMUA prep

[latent mulch]

yeah after the multiple-choice it gets whack

i was probably ~5 off an interview (and possibly may have got one had i applied to like, catz)

probably not a christchurch interview but ehh who cares

[balmy solstice]

ahh unfortunate

you’re at Yale now though?

[latent mulch]

yeah

so it worked out

[balmy solstice]

yeah bro it worked out for the best haha

[latent mulch]

lowkey though, oxbridge is rly cool

[balmy solstice]

yeah I’m so relaxed for Ivy day 😭

[latent mulch]

i dated someone at kings (cam) and so spent ages there, it's so lovely

no hate for yale but it is far nicer

[latent mulch]

right approach

[balmy solstice]

Cambridge is rlly nice (but Oxford is better obv, I’m not bias at all)

[latent mulch]

i used to think this but i flipped

cambridge has a river!

[balmy solstice]

we do too lol

I’m gonna start rowing too hopefully

[balmy solstice]

yeah lmao, Yale would be sick bc it’s 4 years of fun abroad but like it’s got the same prestige so I’ll be happy to stay in England lol

[latent mulch]

like lowkey the cherwell going past some meadows and trees is not cam levels of cool

and then the thames is just... the thames

[balmy solstice]

😂

[latent mulch]

different vibes

[balmy solstice]

yeah tbf but while a river is cool, oxf has better night life and that’s a fact

[latent mulch]

i mean it's not tidal at that point so still pretty clean

[latent mulch]

no offence they both kinda suck

[balmy solstice]

permanently in love with Oxbridge architecture man

[latent mulch]

but i mean no one goes to oxbridge to go out

there are many better universities for that lol

[balmy solstice]

true 🤣

but when I went on my offer holder day they made it out like there’s a big party scene

or like at least college party’s and balls

[balmy solstice]

true true

[latent mulch]

yeah you get the balls and college things

but the bar / club scene isn't amazing (and very brookes-oriented)

[balmy solstice]

it’s pretty cool we get to wear our fancy gowns 3 times a week and then have tuxedos for balls

I can’t wait

[balmy solstice]

yeah fs, pub scene on the other hand is amazing

pubs are packed every night

[latent mulch]

nice, honestly yale does not have nearly enough balls and whatnot

[balmy solstice]

yeah it’s a shame, I’ve heard yall have like eating clubs and stuff tho

[latent mulch]

nah eating clubs r princeton

[balmy solstice]

oh mb

do you have an equivalent

[latent mulch]

like we have secret societies and whatnot but they're kinda mundane, though i guess balls become pretty mundane after a while

[balmy solstice]

secret societies sounds fun lol

[latent mulch]

well the landed ones (about 8-9 have a house or 'tomb') are cool but those aren't exactly easy to get into

the rest are kinda LARPing in their shadow

[balmy solstice]

yeah I’ve watched the gossip girl episodes 🙏

[latent mulch]

they don't do anything crazy

[latent mulch]

you also got ninth house, which is really the secret society book tbh

[balmy solstice]

ah cool

[latent mulch]

i mean it's fiction about magic but just about everything in it exists

except the magic

as far as i know

[balmy solstice]

yale always been a bit mysterious so who knows

and it’s old asf

Maybe there’s some old colonizer magic still there

[latent mulch]

real

brasenose is such a nice college too

[balmy solstice]

imma let u know how I do tomorrow night 🙏

[latent mulch]

trust

i'll probably be about

[balmy solstice]

ong it’s beautiful

[latent mulch]

maybe not at the time it comes out but after

[balmy solstice]

bet bet

[violet crown]

Don’t yall (I meant WE 🙏) have a winter ball that’s basically the Capitol from the Hunger Games

[latent mulch]

university church AND radcliffe camera, goes hard

[balmy solstice]

yessir

and I’m a history major so the history library is 15 steps away

[latent mulch]

yeah it's super extravagant but that's for freshmen, after that it gets less cool

[latent mulch]

and that's versus like termly balls and constant formals at somewhere like oxford

[balmy solstice]

3 times a week baby 🔥

but do remember we only go to college for 24 weeks a year lol

[latent mulch]

yeah i dont think there's any way you're getting close at yale

honestly most the formals i've been to were for clubs, not like colleges

[violet crown]

Don’t yall dress up and pay like 15 pounds to eat like lamb chops at Oxford

[latent mulch]

wait till you figure out you're paying $20 for dinner on the meal plan

and you don't even get a choice

[balmy solstice]

£9 for 3 courses 🙏 🙏

[latent mulch]

crazy

[violet crown]

If you’re a ‘28 are you a senior rn then

[latent mulch]

way better food to i suspect

[violet crown]

Is that formals tho or normal meals

[balmy solstice]

formals

[violet crown]

Nah Yale dining slaps

[violet crown]

Oh fr that’s wild

[balmy solstice]

Yeah nah they step it up for formals it’s mad

[latent mulch]

trust me, it doesn't

[balmy solstice]

besides that it’s just like dining hall stuff

[violet crown]

Lots of chicken thighs

I got cooked by my PPE interview so

I don’t get to know

Sad!

[latent mulch]

tbf the yale food is probably a fair bit better than the standard food at brasenose or whatever other college

but the formal dinners r always rly good

[violet crown]

I was gonna be at Mansfield

But I got cooked

[balmy solstice]

Mansfield is the state school college so you dodged a bullet 😭 🙏

[violet crown]

Yeah and lowkey even if the college experience in the UK is nice I feel like as someone who wants to stay in the US it’d be kinda hard afterwards

It’s in the past anyways

[latent mulch]

lowkey would be fun

[balmy solstice]

yeah but tbh I do like the fact that I could go on a crazy gym grind and bulk in America

[balmy solstice]

rs

[latent mulch]

my shoulders went from 36" to 40", it's pretty easy to bulk. unlimited protein #trust

[balmy solstice]

yeah I have a few friends going there, it’s cool but if ur a bit rich and like upper class ur gonna get clowned on

[dark lichen]

3 balls a week?

thats insane

[balmy solstice]

Yessir American food is godly for the bulk

[latent mulch]

its pretty standard at older oxbridge colleges

[balmy solstice]

noo just formals, balls are like 5 times a year maybe including subject and society balls

[dark lichen]

formals are cool but 3 a week sounds insane

is there good food?

[balmy solstice]

it’s pretty standard for most colleges

[violet crown]

Sometimes when I think of Oxbridge I still find it weird that they prolly also scroll IG reels and stuff

Cuz they’re different country and like at a really old uni so it’s

[balmy solstice]

I think so? Like 3 course meals n stuff

[violet crown]

Is there a limit on how much food

[balmy solstice]

bro when I get the TikTok’s abt colleges and it’s like Oxford Harvard Yale Princeton etc it doesn’t feel real lol

[violet crown]

Like is it a buffet

[balmy solstice]

yeah it’s not a buffet it’s like served by someone

[dark lichen]

seeing ivy people comment on tiktok is bizarre

[dark lichen]

RIGHT

[balmy solstice]

we all brainrot at heart 🙏

[dark lichen]

on those "im made for low acceptance colleges" or like aesthetic stuff

shi makes me proud 😭

[balmy solstice]

yeah makes me wanna lock in too 😭

bc I need to still secure my grades (UCAS is dragging it)

[dark lichen]

they always have that one dumb pic of emma watson smh

makes me mad

[dark lichen]

how r u feeling about it

[balmy solstice]

LMAO

[violet crown]

Bruh I sent enough AP scores to fit the requirements

AND THEY STILL ASKED FOR MY IB PREDIVTEDS 😭

[balmy solstice]

It’s calm, AAA I’m dropping my 4th subject bc I don’t need it but I’ll have to take it if I decide to go to America and I kinda don’t want to so it’s a mega drag

[violet crown]

At least the one good thing that came out of applying to Oxford is that I get to know my predicted

Otherwise they don’t show you

[balmy solstice]

haha

yeah

dw

[violet crown]

lol I’m not scoring what I’m predicted

Doesn’t matter for US tho

[balmy solstice]

exactly lol I’m just tryna get As maybe some Bs

[violet crown]

Are you British

[balmy solstice]

yeah

[violet crown]

My history teacher used to teach in the UK and he makes the British school system sound like hell

Like he described GCSE in a way where it sounded like mini gaokao for HS sophomores

[balmy solstice]

it’s not bad, but it’s really only set up for British universities post 18

[balmy solstice]

GCSEs are easy lol

it’s like maybe as hard as some of the easy APs

[dark lichen]

that sounds horrible

[violet crown]

He was like “if you fail you’re cooked for life”

[balmy solstice]

like not calc Bc level

[violet crown]

lol

[dark lichen]

but youll know tmrw whether youre taking it or not

[balmy solstice]

true but failing GCSEs genuinely means you either put 0 effort in or ur already cooked

[balmy solstice]

yeah 🗿

[violet crown]

He basically said in the UK you have to earn the right to do IB and A levels

Whereas like here in the States

A lot of better funded public schools already offer IB and even my specialized IB school had a low bar of entry

[balmy solstice]

IB is only rlly done at private schools, but tbf like it used to be hard to convince ur teachers to do a levels in regular comprehensive schools

like my mum had to beg her teachers to let her sit the exams because no one else in her schools was doing them

[violet crown]

Wait isn’t it in like the UK private schools are called public and public are called state schools

Or smth

[violet crown]

Dang

[balmy solstice]

uh I sometimes get confused but public schools sometimes refer to like Eton and harrow or whatever, but you can also call them private schools

Then state or comprehensive or grammar are all state funded ones

I think

don’t trust me entirely bc I get mixed up sometimes 😭

[violet crown]

Oh I see

[balmy solstice]

I go to a grammar which is like a selective state school

[dark lichen]

have you thought about

what you would choose over oxford

[balmy solstice]

idek

I don’t wanna think abt it 😭

it’s scary

also I could very easily go 0/8 tomorrow or get waitlisted

[dark lichen]

and then you live your awesome life at oxford going to your fancy balls and formals, eating the nick the headless ghost

[balmy solstice]

you romanticize it too much 😭

I might get cooked by the academics

I’d love for a brown pass fail year 🙏

[dark lichen]

but then you can go outside in that gorgeous gothic campus with your tea

[balmy solstice]

yeah I will be drinking my tea ofc

[dark lichen]

"that test was bloody difficult mate i could barely even think"

[dark lichen]

i cant even do that since im premed

once a sem AT MAX

life is tough

[latent mulch]

i mean yeah you go to an old ass library and it's full of macbooks, not people reading 18th century literature

[latent mulch]

ehh GCSEs aren't hard there's just a ton of exams

all together

[balmy solstice]

real lmaoo

[latent mulch]

which makes it rough

[dark lichen]

some are hard tbh

gcse bio

[balmy solstice]

unlucky fr bc brown lit be letting u just have fun for a year 😭

[balmy solstice]

bro I got like 195/200 on bio 🤣

shi was free

[dark lichen]

i saw someone who graduated with every class p/f

[balmy solstice]

that’s insane

[dark lichen]

bro can actually get a job with that insane 😭

[balmy solstice]

bro probably learnt how to shotgun a beer and that’s abt it the whole of college

[dark lichen]

how to smoke weed without getting high

[foggy cobalt]

bro was farming clash of clans for four years

[dark lichen]

he said he got a job at this think tank

ig it worked out

[balmy solstice]

ay ay idk abt that one (🤫)

[balmy solstice]

hopefully not project 25

[dark lichen]

that isnt even an accomplishment lowk

you js have to be a popular conservative

[latent mulch]

yeah it's a shitton of content

[dark lichen]

they pay good asf tho

[balmy solstice]

how do u know so much abt British exams 🙏

[latent mulch]

cause im british dawg

[dark lichen]

theyre british

[balmy solstice]

real

[balmy solstice]

Oh shit what

I thought you were just an American

Yoooo

[latent mulch]

nah

[dark lichen]

conservatives js rich asf 😞

[balmy solstice]

glad to see a Brit living life

proud of you for making it out

[latent mulch]

surprised you didn't notice with this lowkey 😭

[balmy solstice]

I was tripping lowk I never even see a Brit on here so it just went right by

but yeah that’s mad

if I get in I got so many questions

😭

[latent mulch]

there's a ton of brits in yale college

most are sports recruits

[balmy solstice]

yeah I heard, but lots are like bloody rowing recruits or Eton kids

[latent mulch]

but like ~30% aren't?

[balmy solstice]

that’s not too bad

[latent mulch]

yeah, plus like the american international schools

[balmy solstice]

how’d you even consider applying

[latent mulch]

sutton trust us

[balmy solstice]

I knew I shoulda done that

I literally qualified for it too

[balmy solstice]

true true

how much did Sutton trust help you

Because I’ve heard sometimes if unis see it they are more inclined to admit you

[dark lichen]

my friend got a rowing offer back in the summer from yale

[latent mulch]

i mean in terms of like writing the essays and stuff they do give a lot of advice

[dark lichen]

yale recruits r so insane at their sport

[latent mulch]

yale crew is really good

lots of olympians

[dark lichen]

yeah

he rejected it cause he didnt like the team which was insane to me

but ig it matters to athletes

[latent mulch]

where did he go instead (out of interest)

[dark lichen]

brown

[latent mulch]

interesting

i mean i can see why, the team is almost entirely international

mostly brits and australians

[dark lichen]

yeah hes british

[latent mulch]

oh nvm

[dark lichen]

😭

[latent mulch]

he would have fit right in

[dark lichen]

yeah lowk

he chose alot based off fit

but he does think about it a good amount

[balmy solstice]

fair, well I mean I can’t do anything now but hey

[balmy solstice]

that’s cold, the only girl I know who has gotten in to a t10 went to Stanford for rowing

But she was insane

Like Team GB and everything

[dark lichen]

DAMN

olympics is insane

my friend does nationals but idk about olympics

[balmy solstice]

not sure if it was Olympics but she won like the European nationals for rowing

something insane

[dark lichen]

damn 💀

[balmy solstice]

And when I asked her for advice she just said ‘idk’ because her agent did everything for her lmao

[latent mulch]

yeah i mean they party a lot too (esp. heavyweight), idk about brown but they might be more laid back there

[balmy solstice]

@latent mulch u mind chatting in dm I got some qs if that’s alright

[latent mulch]

yh sure

[summer girder]

AWEE THEY RESPONDED BACK

what i wrote to them:

Dear Yale Undergraduate Office,
As the title says, thank you. Thank you for making the process as stress-less as possible, whether through the interesting and thought-provoking prompts I needed to answer as an applicant, or the incredibly nice staff and interviewers you assign to prospective students. I also want to thank my regional Admissions Officer (whoever they are) for reviewing my application with enough faith and objectiveness with their fellow officers.
No matter what my decision on March 27th is, I'll be excited to open it.
Thanks for being a part of my application and senior year journey,

• (name)

what they wrote back:

Dear (name),

You are awfully good to write. I will let the dean and admissions colleagues know about your gracious note!

Thank you, (name). Good luck!

Best wishes,
Yale Admissions

[tawdry viper]

AWW

[summer girder]

its short but sweeet <3

[tawdry viper]

what did they say

oh nvm

ur getting in girl omggg

[summer girder]

nah

i think this is my regional AO from how they write

[tawdry viper]

why else would they let the dean and admissions colleagues know

[summer girder]

because i thanked them

i dont think im getting in tbh

[tawdry viper]

nah u gotta manifest

[summer girder]

i just wanted to thank them because they helped me a lot

[tawdry viper]

and hope this is a sign

[summer girder]

its so sweeeet

[dark lichen]

hes not too much of a partier but he said the vibes were off

apparently to athletes your team is like

[summer girder]

if this is my reginoal AO and they're covering it up as not being regional AO

[dark lichen]

the core of your social life and stuff

i wouldnt know

[latent mulch]

yeah

i mean if you spend a few hours together every day (minimum), are the same age with a huge common interest you're probably gonna be tight with them

[violet crown]

You're in 🙏

[summer girder]

no 😭

[tawdry viper]

im ngl i feel like they wouldnt respond if else

[dark lichen]

yeah exactly

[tawdry viper]

because they got flooded with emails these 2 days

[summer girder]

i cant believe they actually responded

[summer girder]

rly?

imo im not the best applicant

so ill be surprised if i get in either way

[dark lichen]

if it was me and i had an offer from both

[tawdry viper]

yeah, prob a bunch of people spam emailing asking when decisions are coming out or something else

[dark lichen]

i wouldve taken way longer to choose 😭

[tawdry viper]

even though its on the portal

[summer girder]

oh thats annoying asf

i didnt want to send that as a question because thats a rly stupid question

idk i just think they responded bc they're genuinely nice people

idk it made me happy and less stressed

[tawdry viper]

i heard stuff that their fin aid office takes FOREVER to reply

[meager mango]

Yea ur in bro

[tawdry viper]

but the lady who was talking to me was emailing me at like 10 pm on a weekday 😭

[summer girder]

they replied back to me fast tho

like

i told them i wasn't applying for FA

[tawdry viper]

wait did u get an email first asking ?

[summer girder]

and then they did some weird shit with my pprtal

[summer girder]

yeah with an SID but again that doesnt mean anything

[tawdry viper]

omg sameee it was on march 5

[summer girder]

NO WAY

SAME

[tawdry viper]

hella annoying tho bc lets be fr u alrdy rejected me

[summer girder]

FR

(not you but me)

[tawdry viper]

and then after the initial email one of the ladies at the fin aid office emailed me asking to fill out an extra form

like be so fr

you know ive been rejected

[summer girder]

(i posted my shit in chanceme as a heehee haha andd im waiting for them to rip it apart)

finaid was actually hella responsive to my emails

like

[tawdry viper]

that sub is not real

[summer girder]

every day or so

ish

[tawdry viper]

no same

[summer girder]

but i didnt have extra documents to fill

[tawdry viper]

lady was so adament about me completing it asap too like the chain was 17 emails

[summer girder]

if there was a weekend they wouldn't respond

[tawdry viper]

bc my dad kept making mistakes 😭

LMAO

[summer girder]

because duh

[tawdry viper]

im currently waiting for NW

but the thread is being weird rn

LMAO

[summer girder]

they didnt respond to you on the weekends at least?

[tawdry viper]

it started on wed and then the last email was the following monday

but no weekends thank god

[summer girder]

to be fair the people who replied to me

[tawdry viper]

my blood pressure cant handle that

[summer girder]

like they were moreso assistants to administrators and stuff ike that

and like

the coordinator

[tawdry viper]

oh wait can i say the name of the lady who emailed me here?

her name is on the website

like the general email was from kari difonzo or something

[summer girder]

if u say the name u might be doxing urself

[summer girder]

yeah ^ ong i as so stupid

because

[tawdry viper]

how 😭

[summer girder]

i didnt realize it was

like

an automated email

right

and i thought mrs. difonzo was the one actually sending out the emails

so i said mrs difonzo's name

[tawdry viper]

no shes the director

[summer girder]

or ms or whatever

[tawdry viper]

so all general emails are adressed from here

her

[summer girder]

YEAH

so i shouldve adressed as

"yale FA office"

or something

[tawdry viper]

its not that deep tho

[summer girder]

not her name

[tawdry viper]

its fine

[summer girder]

ik but i feel stupid

LMAO

[tawdry viper]

well i wont say her name but from this link: https://finaid.yale.edu/ufastaff

one of these ladies emailed me

oml why is NW still not out

[summer girder]

yeah me tooo

idk i think ur getting in

me i probs not

because two people frm my school got in already lmao

[tawdry viper]

nah they work differently

fin aid and admissions

its just hella anonoying tho bc i know im a reject

like leave me alone babes

[summer girder]

was ur person emailing u like an assistand director

[tawdry viper]

yeah

[summer girder]

thats usually for students isnt i

t

[tawdry viper]

she was "assistant director for fin aid"

nah idk

[summer girder]

no it is

[tawdry viper]

i dont wanna jump to conclusions

[summer girder]

they manage regional financial aid stuff

girl i think ur in

[tawdry viper]

was it the same for you?

[summer girder]

no it was a senior administrativee assistant who emailed me lol

and the finaid coordinator because something on my portal looked off

[tawdry viper]

theyre so many goofies on the NW thread

[summer girder]

which makes sensee because they arent asking me for documents

[tawdry viper]

wait how is that any less meaningful than who emailed me then

i dont get it

[summer girder]

uh idk it probs isnt

[tawdry viper]

yeah well find out tomorrow

[summer girder]

mhm

[tawdry viper]

it seems weird asf rn

[summer girder]

mhm

[tawdry viper]

prob no correlation

[summer girder]

glad i sent them the email tho

the response was v sweet

[tawdry viper]

im going 0/5 today

[summer girder]

made me kinda cry

and less anxious

[tawdry viper]

i alrdy just got rejected from nyu

but i expected that cause i did stern

[summer girder]

i got WL 😭

i did CAS

[tawdry viper]

and my essays made no sense with the major i applied

[summer girder]

its ok

if we both get into yale NYU can kiss its ass goodbye

fuck nyu lowkey

[tawdry viper]

like i picked sustainable business but i misinterpreted what sustainable business actually meant LMAO

nyu was my first rejection

i got deferred from duke and up till today its been smooth sailing

[summer girder]

got deferred from yale, accepted to 3 state schools, rejected from CMU/RISD, and waitlist from BU, UW-seattle, and NYU

:)

[tawdry viper]

YAYYY

[summer girder]

im not opening this chat on ivy day if i dont get in lol

if i do i expectt to be drawing 500 hands after

[tawdry viper]

i got accepted to uva echols, vt, boston college, bu, safeties. and waitlist from ND (but i wrote dear cornell in my essay LMAOAM)

[tawdry viper]

no real i will be retiring

[summer girder]

im sorry im salty but idontwanttobe in a comparison rabbit hole

more than i already am anyway

[tawdry viper]

same

im gonna protect my peace

[summer girder]

🙏

are u indian btw? i see ur username

[tawdry viper]

yes LMAO

i go by an alias

[latent mulch]

shoutout 4o imagegen for letting me ghibli-fy yale

[tawdry viper]

how could you tell

[latent mulch]

no campus ass school

[summer girder]

an indian can easily sniff out a fellow indian

just takes a nose and a brain

[summer girder]

bro fr 😭

my mom tells me that NYU is never worth it and my DAD agrees

[latent mulch]

r u saying u can smell @tawdry viper thru the screen 😭

[tawdry viper]

HELL NAHHH

[summer girder]

idk if she smells stinky or not

[tawdry viper]

ok lets switch the topic

i alrdy kinda doxxed myself for saying that

[summer girder]

rly? just by saying you're indian?

[tawdry viper]

idk

thats more of a hint than not

[summer girder]

n...no....

[tawdry viper]

HELP

can you not doxx me pls

esp in the chat

why would yoou do that

[summer girder]

😭

[latent mulch]

girl... that's ur username everyone can see it 😭

i'll delete it but pls change it sob

[summer girder]

elesa i'd suggest changing ur user

[tawdry viper]

i did change it

you couldve DM me...

you couldnt have seen it unless u click on my profile

[summer girder]

i- i thought it was ur online profile name 😭 im so sorry i didnt realize

[tawdry viper]

HELP NOT YOU

the person who doxxed me in the chat

i dont trust the internet

[summer girder]

yeah i click on people's profiles because they usually have like pronouns and stuff there just in case i get it wrong by accident

[summer girder]

oh sjhfkhshkfh

[latent mulch]

nah its still there

[latent mulch]

i didnt realise it was ur full legal name 😭

[latent mulch]

ok it just switched nvm

[tawdry viper]

kk i changed it

[summer girder]

i forgor it

dw

[tawdry viper]

yall im not that good at discord

LMAO

its so weird bc no one has doxxed me yet LMAO

[summer girder]

i'll remember when u get into yale and i get into yale so we can be friends irl

but yeah i forgor

[tawdry viper]

that would be so FUNNY LMAO

[summer girder]

😭 fr

[tawdry viper]

wait im acc greatful you pointed that out

[summer girder]

LMAO no problem

[tawdry viper]

why are u the first person to point othat out 😭

[summer girder]

now u know a little bit more

[summer girder]

because i like checking ppls profiles idk

[latent mulch]

same

its fun to stalk

[summer girder]

sometimes they have a cool pfp (or like u) they have none

[tawdry viper]

ill change my pfp

tryna mastor discord

besides waiting for NW is making me ancious

anxious

[latent mulch]

i like seeing what servers people r in lowkey

like if we have mutual ones

[summer girder]

gives someone who hasnt been on social media her entire life im ngl im sorry

[latent mulch]

facebook / myspace / etc are a very different skill to discord

[summer girder]

also true

took me a while to figure discord out

a friend had to guide me through UI

[tawdry viper]

there sm better

FEWWW

[latent mulch]

the discord ui is actively bad

[tawdry viper]

nah i have a viral tiktok account

[summer girder]

like i wanted to put a pfp on and i didnt know how and she had to guide me

[tawdry viper]

ive just never used discord until this year LMAO

[summer girder]

what do u do on it

[tawdry viper]

i make empowering videos for girls

[summer girder]

(i hope it isnt lipsyncing)

[tawdry viper]

but also im a social media junkie

[summer girder]

thats better than lipsyncing

[tawdry viper]

like im ALWAYS on twitter

[summer girder]

i need to start putting my dance videos on like insta or smth

[tawdry viper]

and insta

[summer girder]

too lazy tho

[latent mulch]

nice

[tawdry viper]

i have like 5 diffeent insta accounts

[latent mulch]

im such a twitter fiend

[tawdry viper]

LMAO

during election szn

twitter was soooo wild

[latent mulch]

i have like ~5k followers on my pseudoanon account

[tawdry viper]

its how i found out trump got s***

i have 25 k or something on tiktok

oml when is NW coming out BRUH

istg if USC or VANDY comes out before

[summer girder]

me when waiting for UMD

[tawdry viper]

my computer abt to die waiting for ts

and my charger is upstairs

[summer girder]

my computer's charger dies rly fast

like if i unplug it it has no charge within 10 minutes

[tawdry viper]

this is a new computer LMAO

why is it being so bummy

like it doesnt even last 8 full hours

[summer girder]

what was ur common app on btw

curious

[tawdry viper]

lowk i dont want to talk abt it here

but if ur curious you can dm

[summer girder]

oh fair

[summer girder]

dms off because previous bad circumstances 🙏

[tawdry viper]

ohhhhh

if we both get accepted we can share socials and dm you there

[summer girder]

yeah a bunch of people share trauma unsolicited and idk how to help so best bet was to just turn them off lmao

[tawdry viper]

damn reallyu

that sounds so bad

why do they think they can just dm you like that 😭

[summer girder]

i always say that if i get rejected i wont be sad about not going to the school, i'll be sad about not being able to genuinely know people who i've met who will go there

[tawdry viper]

same

its the friends we make along the way

[summer girder]

mhm

[unborn sundial]

That's pretty based yeah

[tawdry viper]

im manifesting for both of us tho 🙏

[unborn sundial]

About how I feel

[summer girder]

🙏 🙏 thanks queen

[violet crown]

Yo this is sick

[tawdry viper]

wow today was brutual

ready for my rejection tomorrow!

[plain viper]

no interview

i hate you yale

[summer girder]

i tweaking out

put the fries in the bag pleasee

i think it really might have been my regional AO who responded to my email

the tone of style is completely different from the yale seniors who responded to one of my questions earlier

[meager mango]

Ur in

[summer girder]

listen idk

the wording of it makes me think it was genuinely an AO tho but i genuinely dont know

[meager mango]

Didn’t u get deferred

Ur in

I got deferred too

Ur in

[summer girder]

ye but im not cracked

idky they deferred me

[meager mango]

Same lol

[summer girder]

i genuinely dont think im in

tbh

its still wayy too early to tell

like the wording of the thing also makes it seem as though they know my decision and im not getting in

[hidden haven]

did you get an interview?

what region and when did you get it if you got one

[summer girder]

yes EA

CT region

[hidden haven]

too strong

[summer girder]

got FA requests and docs all the way in march if u want more info but i dont think that means anything from what ive seen

[summer girder]

dont most ppl get interview EA round

[stable crescent]

ik i want u baby

[sharp mesa]

sorry what

[frail aspen]

ALASKA MENTION

sorry i saw your bio

[sharp mesa]

lmao

[glad tundra]

hey am i cooked for yale with a 3.7 UW

😭

[tawdry viper]

twas the night before yale

[glad tundra]

js put the rejection in the portal bro... 💔🥀🥀

[tawdry viper]

if i get rejected tomorrow im acc gonna be so pressed abt all the extra fin aid info, like couldn't you have just waited until after my decision😭

[glad tundra]

wdym

[tawdry viper]

read above im not writing all of that again 😭

[glad tundra]

did they specficall ask for more info

[tawdry viper]

yea

[glad tundra]

yea ur in gng put the acceptance in the portal 🔥

[tawdry viper]

nah bruh

the email chain was 17 long

like im acc gonna be PRESSED

yale and I are gonna be throwing hands

anyway

what are u guys gonna be doing to pass time

tomorrow

i had a fight w my econ teacher on tues and he sent me an email apologizing but i dont wanna face him so im not going to school 🙂

[frail aspen]

school LOL

comes out at 3 for me but i get out of school 3:15

i refuse to open it in front of my classmates (my mom wants to open it with me)

[tawdry viper]

ohhhhh

yeah no

i will not be attending tomorrow to protect my peace

[summer girder]

it starts during school for yall?

[stable tide]

I’m 100% getting rejected tmrw but who cares!!! at least my college decisions will be over

[devout mulch]

where in the world does 7pm est translate to 3pm?

[frail aspen]

alaska 💀

[tawdry viper]

i have to wait until duke on monday because they decided to be special...

[devout mulch]

by the time monday roles around, i woulda already choosen. that's what duke gets

[unborn sundial]

True

[autumn hedge]

Hope everyone gets in and to have yall as my future classmates!

[stable crescent]

pls get in

help me w this heartache

[ebon goblet]

same here…

[winter kayak]

us

[latent mulch]

i was asleep when results came out for yale

i would advise napping, works with 100% success rate n=1

[agile finch]

you guys got this

i believe in you guys

[meager berry]

@summer girder Oh I thought you're from india

[timid pendant]

🙏

[meager berry]

How ? Badly or ..?

[timid pendant]

it'd change the perspective from which they consider your app or smth

[agile finch]

i wouldn't say badly

[tidal gazelle]

i hope everyone hears amazing news this is so nerveeee racking

[dusky bough]

12 hours till i find out if i got into yale!

[summer girder]

Im Indian by race

[sharp mesa]

11h 9m bro im cooked

[dusky bough]

wait i’m literally gonna commit today lol

i doubt i get into harvard

[hidden haven]

id go yale over harvard ngl

[dusky bough]

so would i

[hidden haven]

for anyone who isnt already rich id go yale

[dusky bough]

but i would consider

[dusky bough]

my situation

lol

[hidden haven]

harvard is... it feels less "friendly" if that makes sense

[dusky bough]

yes

i like the vibes at yale so much more

[hidden haven]

yeah

yale seems like a cozy home

harvard is more like a club

[dusky bough]

but also like

i haven’t gotten into harvard yet so

[hidden haven]

true

[dusky bough]

lemme not stress about decisions i don’t have to make

[hidden haven]

but even if you got both id go yale

haha

true

[dusky bough]

i probably would to

but i’m stem so harvard ranked higher and my parents would try and convince me

but i’m like set on yale yk

[summer girder]

I’m just meh

[plain viper]

im so cooked

[summer girder]

Idc anymore just give me my decision

Like it was a good run yale but I want my rejection rn

😭

I would’ve rather gotten rejected REA

[hidden haven]

i literally am into yale

[summer girder]

Genuinely forgot about decisions until March because colleges were emailing me about css

[hidden haven]

no likely because they playing hard to get

[summer girder]

And one of them was cough cough yale

Put the fries in the bag bro please

Ykw I’m not opening any decisions

Ik what the outcome is 🙏

So I don’t need to

(My mom will make me)

[mental blaze]

today is the day

[summer girder]

Hi my guy

You know one of our friends thought Penn state was an Ivy and applied to Penn state instead of the other Penn Ivy

Now he only has 7 and not 8 Ivy decisions to open so sad

[mental blaze]

thats not real

[summer girder]

Yeah fr UPenn doesn’t exist

[winter kayak]

you'd be surprised at how many people do this

[meager berry]

I remember someone from the US who applied to Oxford Brookes thinking it was Oxford idk If it's actually true

[plain viper]

@dusky bough is this you?

[tawdry viper]

ngl those schools esp northwestern have no incentive to yield protect

[dusky bough]

LMFAO no

i didn’t apply nu vandy rice

just nyu usc reject

[regal canyon]

lwk saying yield protection from usc is crazy

[autumn hedge]

Yeahh, calling those waitlists yield protection is just plain wrong. T20s don’t do yield nor do they need to lol.

Each school has their own things they look out for (as vague as that sounds). It all depends on how they wanna build up their class, maybe they want more representation from a certain area, maybe they want more stem majors or etc…So receiving a likely letter doesn’t mean everyone else is gonna accept you.

[autumn hedge]

Also, W pfp. Idc what anyone says I watched the shit out of mlp when I was little, peak

[tawdry viper]

REAL

[covert monolith]

i mean tbh they do care about yield, just not in the way where they'll reject overqualified candidates and moreso in the way where they'll only accept people thye know will go.

basically they care about yield js not yield protection

[autumn hedge]

Oh, ofc they care about yield. Every college does, but t20s have the liberty of not needing yield protection.

[stable tide]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-sponge-jumpscare-scared-what-gif-6257162990672816180

7ish hours left

[sweet herald]

Time prediction for

[sweet herald]

Whats the exact time

[mental blaze]

7pm est

[sweet herald]

Thx

For ivys + Berkeley right?

Sorry just confirming

[mental blaze]

all ivies yea not sure about ucb though

[sweet herald]

Ait ty

[mental blaze]

i think for est might be 6-8?

[summer girder]

UCB probs around 6

[covert monolith]

Berkeley was 3:30 pm last year

like pst

[mental blaze]

yea probably 6pm then

[fiery radish]

See yale pleaseee

[tidal gazelle]

pray yale everyone

[brave night]

Boola boola

Dumplings in the commons is really good during BDD make sure to try!!