Columbia University (2024-2025)

[quick sentinel]

any premed girlies here

this server is filled with engineering and cs sweats

[proud fulcrum]

I go to a allied health school

[loud furnace]

Maaaaaaybe

Not sure

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But i didn't like it

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the housing is so bad rn

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So I'm doing engineering now

😭

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i was a cs sweat until i decided i liked engineering better

[onyx chasm]

me!

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which was like this summer

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yass

[loud furnace]

LOL I might go research instead premed

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ur like the only other premed i can find here

[onyx chasm]

im surprised i havent seen a barnard girlie

[onyx chasm]

LMAOO real

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Truee

[onyx chasm]

im ngl i was gonna do barnard ed

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I literally decided my major like last summer

[quick sentinel]

thats my backup plan if i dont get into med school

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Before that I had no idea 😭

I was like I could do premed but I don't rlly like it

[quick sentinel]

girl i rlly dont like premed all that much, but it appeals to me the most out of all the fields

[loud furnace]

I’ve fallen in love w researxh throughout high school tbh so I might just do that

My parents rlly want me to do premed tho

[onyx chasm]

i like premed but im afraid what awaits me for med school

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research is my everything in terms of ecs

[proud fulcrum]

No literally

[onyx chasm]

i might be that girl w my own place and office and everything

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i dont think im gonna do research this year tho cuz isef is in ohio and it takes so much time lol

[proud fulcrum]

I have a rlly good premed ec but it's whatever

[onyx chasm]

be my own boss then travel and have time for myself

[proud fulcrum]

Like I'm a certified EMT

[quick sentinel]

i wish i could do research 😭

[onyx chasm]

flexxx

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And then I realized I cannot be trusted w peoples lives 💀

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i have a friend who's applying CS and his top awards are powerlifting nationals + state debate champ, and his top EC is debate 💀

[onyx chasm]

it's cool lowk the research i did last sum threw me more to biomedical engineering that's why i was contemplating changing my major

[loud furnace]

SAME

[onyx chasm]

it was rly cool it was titin truncations in engineered heart tissues at yale grad bio med

[loud furnace]

That’s insanely cool

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my hungry ass could not work in a morgue

[proud fulcrum]

Powerlifting??

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what type of research do u do?

[onyx chasm]

STOP

[loud furnace]

I love and breathe it bro

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yep

his total rn is like 1250 lbs?

im not fully sure

[proud fulcrum]

Omg...

Dang

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sheeesh

so when do u think that iron man nanosuit will be coming out

when can i cop one

[loud furnace]

What the freak

Ur the second person to ask me that LOL

which is weird bc it’s such a unique question

[vivid orbit]

when i was a kid i wanted to go into nanotech cuz i was a huge iron man fan

[proud fulcrum]

I got lucky that the research I did just happens to correspond with the major I decided on

[vivid orbit]

then i realized we are many years away from developing a full ass iron man armor full stop

[proud fulcrum]

It's biochem research for chem eng

It's weird how like no one at my school is ED'ing Columbia

When nyc is literally like 30 min away

[vivid orbit]

im doing world schools debate with the one other person in my school who ED-ed to columbia

[proud fulcrum]

But I mean less competition for me 🤪

[vivid orbit]

oh yeah when did that get so popular

[quick sentinel]

what type of school do yall be going to

[vivid orbit]

i was looking at a2c threads

and everyone was eding cornell

no one was eding columbia

[loud furnace]

Omfg yeah

[proud fulcrum]

Allied health school

[loud furnace]

Public school

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It's cause Cornell is easier to get into

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public school

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But like I would not wanna go there

[quick sentinel]

im like one of three ppl who r even considering ivies 💀

[vivid orbit]

im at a semi-competitive public school

[loud furnace]

We had 10% of our graduating class get into cornell 😭😭

[vivid orbit]

sometimes we have generational academic legends

[proud fulcrum]

Cause it's like in the middle of nowhere

[quick sentinel]

our school gets lucky if we even get 1 person to get into an ivy

[vivid orbit]

my old neighbor won 150k at a research comp and also got 2nd place at isef in his category

[proud fulcrum]

Someone from my school got into Princeton last year

[vivid orbit]

and got 5th at national debate and qualified USAMO

[loud furnace]

For REAL

[proud fulcrum]

And there was a upenn

And like 3 Cornell's

[rich aurora]

yall fw this place ?

[proud fulcrum]

But there's never Columbia's

[vivid orbit]

i think hes the best student my school has had in the last 15 years

[quick sentinel]

what is up with these acronyms

[rich aurora]

have u guys been to the city or visited campus yet

[proud fulcrum]

Yes I like live here

[rich aurora]

yea i pass by going 2 school

low k ugly af

fair pt

[proud fulcrum]

Stop i like it

[vivid orbit]

this guy's linkedin highkey makes me depressed sometimes

[quick sentinel]

okay nobody gaf get ur hating ass out of here

[proud fulcrum]

The library is so hawt

[rich aurora]

idgaf

did u guys do ed

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What happened to like hanging out with friends

[vivid orbit]

this dude was my neighbor 😭

[proud fulcrum]

Yess

[vivid orbit]

he was good at that too

[rich aurora]

nice mane

[vivid orbit]

he was also good enough at tennis for high level D3 😭

[proud fulcrum]

Howw does he have time for that

Wow

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insanely good time management skills

[proud fulcrum]

I could never

[quick sentinel]

i wish i went to a competitve school, i wouldve been pushed to accomplish so many amazing things 😭

[proud fulcrum]

I have the worst time management like ever

Same

[vivid orbit]

wtf

what kind of documentary

[proud fulcrum]

Wait what do yalls activity hours add up to

[onyx chasm]

Omg my little brother just ate 12 pop tarts

[proud fulcrum]

On common app

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r u at jericho

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Prob around 2000

[quick sentinel]

1700 hrs bc i have family responsibilities for my grandmother

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was that student natasha kulviwat

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I-

I mean like per week

[quick sentinel]

40

[onyx chasm]

LMFAO

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ive seen the documentary's first episode 😭

[loud furnace]

LMFAO

[proud fulcrum]

Oh ok

Mines like 35

[vivid orbit]

spill the tea

[onyx chasm]

did u guys get ur gates notificatiin

[quick sentinel]

ITS OUT??

[proud fulcrum]

What's gates

[onyx chasm]

yes

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💀💀

[quick sentinel]

i didnt get an email

[onyx chasm]

if u didnt get it it means u didnt advance i think

[proud fulcrum]

Oh scholarshup?

[onyx chasm]

OMG

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were any of them like the main characters in the documentary 😭

[onyx chasm]

I PASSED

TO SEMIFINALIST

[vivid orbit]

they all seemed cracked to me

[onyx chasm]

YAYAYYAYAYAYA

[proud fulcrum]

I always miss the deadlines for like everything

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CONGRATS!!!

semifinalist has like a 2% rate

gg

[onyx chasm]

OH MY GOD THIS IS INSANE??

[proud fulcrum]

Ateee

Wait so u get money

Or what's it for

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drop the first names

[quick sentinel]

DOES THIS MEAN I GOT IT?? @onyx chasm

[onyx chasm]

yes YES YES YE S

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i thought he seemed a little pretentious in the documentary im ngl

[onyx chasm]

CONGRATS

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OMG AHHH CONGRATS

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CONGRATS!!!

[onyx chasm]

AAAAAAHHHHH

should i send this to columbia

or not yet

too soon?

[quick sentinel]

i think u should

[proud fulcrum]

Why does everyone know what this is 😭

[quick sentinel]

also guys is this worth putting on commonapp honors section if i have blank slots on there

[onyx chasm]

yes

absolutely

[quick sentinel]

its for low income peeps

[onyx chasm]

yeah

[proud fulcrum]

Ooh moneyyyy

Get that bag guysss

[onyx chasm]

we r about to get gates money

papa gates

<3

[proud fulcrum]

‼️‼️

Did u guys try questbridge or

[quick sentinel]

nope bc the binding aspect made me scared

[vivid orbit]

yes

i think about 2k people get gates semifinalist

[proud fulcrum]

Fair enough

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out of like 35k initial pool

[onyx chasm]

yes but i didnt advance

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fr

using an algorithm to choose semifinalists

[onyx chasm]

this is crazy.

[vivid orbit]

is crazy

[onyx chasm]

what algorithm?

[vivid orbit]

coke scholarship algorithm

cuz they get like 100k applicants

[proud fulcrum]

Guys that's like 6%

Ur literally getting into Columbia likee

[vivid orbit]

wait nvm a lot more people than i thought apply to the gates scholarship

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It's 15%

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even less

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Omg 0.3%

Crazyy

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if its 2k/75k

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Oh cause it's 100k not 35k

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shit is below a 3% acceptance rate

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Lower than Columbia

‼️‼️

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harder to get this semifinalist status than to get into columbia

chat is this a sign

[proud fulcrum]

Yessss

Yall ate

[quick sentinel]

did u get semi to?? congrats!!@(

[vivid orbit]

i didnt apply lol

[proud fulcrum]

We're literally all getting into Columbia

[vivid orbit]

my income doesnt qualify for it

but i know about it

[onyx chasm]

hope this is a sign for cu admission

[vivid orbit]

even if not for columbia specifically its a sign that u have what it takes to get into a T20 at least

[quick sentinel]

i hope so, i need that hopium

[proud fulcrum]

Why is SEAS so hard to get into if it's not even that high ranked like compared to under engineering schools

😭

Like can the sweats just go away and apply for the top 10 ones

[vivid orbit]

columbia college is even harder to get into 😭

[proud fulcrum]

Oh rlly

They were all saying SEAS is harder

Well that's good

😘

[vivid orbit]

nah u got this

i believe

have u done the research program at jericho?

what did u think about it

oh yeah didnt the famous mentor person leave

how was she irl

thats the impression i got from whatever narrative they decided to paint her with in the documentary lmfao

did u do isef?

i heard from friends that science fair is super competitive in ny

aight bet

[steep ferry]

wait what

how doe sthis make sense

i got step 2 but not step 1

💀

[brittle brook]

just wait a little bit 🙏

[steep ferry]

damn charly

u teleported

😭

[onyx chasm]

its for the gates scholar thingy

it's happening w some people

cant believe i moved onto the next round like that this is crazy

[indigo crag]

Did u get an email

[vivid orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/kung-fu-panda-oogway-accidents-there-are-no-accidents-destiny-gif-16270886

[onyx chasm]

Yeah

[vague silo]

4 400 word essays

we may be cooked

[quick sentinel]

we're burnt

girl i might not have enough time to write these essays considering the amt i have for my RD apps

[vague silo]

Thank god I have like 3 more supplements to do

[onyx chasm]

literally

I’ve been procrastinating sm

[tacit sun]

I don't think they've released it yet. just a shallow classof28 profile

[broken stream]

i wish at least deferred or waitlist....

[crisp dome]

Theyre equally hard 😭

Like the % difference is almost non negligable and they look for diff things

[proud fulcrum]

why that date in particular?

[onyx chasm]

any columbia matchess?

QB released today!! 120 people matched omg

[loud furnace]

Well this is from Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/QuestBridge/s/7n8tcBL61h

[winter wraith]

Yeah it's the 18th

All my friends crashing out 💀

Fuck does it mean everybody except Harvard is following that

Wtf that means MIT has to be the 21st

MIT never releases before Penn and MIT I feel

Like the Ivies

They all released similar dates last yr

Yeah that's lame asf

😭

Ru gonna show up the day of

If I get deferred imma tough it out and show up either way 💀

Why

Is everyone hush hush

LOL this was my school

It was dead quiet for a week

But nobody has self control so everybody knows everyones now

We have like 3 spreadsheets criculating

Freak Academy 💀

[vivid orbit]

where did u find this?

if its actually the 18th im going to crash out

thats in the middle of my finals

[proud fulcrum]

wait what???

is it confirmed>>>>>

????

WHAT

NOOOO

oh my god

[proud fulcrum]

fml

[vivid orbit]

this is a screenshot i found

[proud fulcrum]

that gives me two days to meet with my counselor before break kicks in

what is wrong with themmmmm

that's actualyl insane

isn't that anticompetitive

department of justice pls

ugh now i have to have all of my other apps done

why..........

[vivid orbit]

time to get started on rd otherwise im mega cooked lmfao

im travelling for winter break so i'm gonna be gone starting from like december 23rd 😄🔫

[proud fulcrum]

llike actually

those rd deadlines are gonna fuck me up now

only way out is through

i guess all we can do is keep pushing

Bye wtf that's in so long

[empty linden]

Columbia ED Decision Date

Confirmed via QuestBridge: Wednesday, December 18th

Speculated time: <t:1734566400:F> in your time zone
@everyone

[cinder hollow]

Ooh a day after Yale, I thought it would be before

[brittle brook]

can we assume this is most colleges too or just ivies

chicago hasn’t said shit

[empty linden]

You shouldn’t assume any

Chicago said they’ll speak about a week before their date

Tbh I swear I remember a much higher number of qb colleges mentioning their decision dates in their letters a couple years back

[vivid orbit]

also through qb?

[empty linden]

But as of now the only ones I can find are Columbia Wellesley and JHU (which alr announced theirs)

Yeah when was this

[vivid orbit]

oh also qb it seems

found on qb subreddit

[empty linden]

Time for ping pong

[plucky kernel]

damn
is this later than usual?

[empty linden]

Yep

I wonder how long it will take to update my prediction on Google ai

[tacit sun]

18th??? omd. that's not even mid December. I'm crashing out

[winter wraith]

Hahahahahahahaha

Columbia losers

[proud fulcrum]

.

[clear lance]

gl guys

[onyx chasm]

thank uuu

[onyx chasm]

omg 😭

[rare ruin]

is it confirmed to be dec 18? 😢

[fair stratus]

yes

[upper magnet]

confirmed by the qb email thing so yeah probably

[tacit sun]

guys maybe an intern messed up the dates

[rare ruin]

im so nervous omg columbia reject me so i can move on

[vivid orbit]

They should give me an auto acceptance as payment for all this stress fr

Like wdym I have to wait two and a half more weeks and open my decisions on the first day of finals 😭

[alpine locust]

friend this is the definition of mid december

middle of a month = 11-20

[empty linden]

!columbia

Bruh

Shit used to work

Guess ur stuck to #🤖-bot-commands

Maybe I need to override it

!columbia

Why does it work in math thread

!ping

@wary ore

!ping

@wary ore ping

[empty linden]

!columbia

[wary ore]

Columbia ED Decision Date

The decision date is <t:1734566400> in your local time
13 days, 23 hours and 47 minutes until the decision date

[empty linden]

Fixed lol

[wary ore]

Columbia ED Decision Date

The decision date is <t:1734566400> in your local time
13 days, 22 hours and 48 minutes until the decision date

[vivid orbit]

day 4/18 of waiting for a columbia acceptance 🤪

[wary ore]

Columbia ED Decision Date

The decision date is <t:1734566400> in your local time
13 days, 20 hours and 21 minutes until the decision date

[upper magnet]

oh god it even has the timer on it too

[tacit sun]

!columbia

[wary ore]

Columbia ED Decision Date

The decision date is <t:1734566400:F> in your local time
13 days, 6 hours and 17 minutes until the decision date

[tacit sun]

me checking for the 5th time today and wondering why it's still at 13 days🤡

[onyx chasm]

my life is changing or staying the same in 13 days 🤞🏼

[dusky ruin]

!columbia

[wary ore]

Columbia ED Decision Date

The decision date is <t:1734566400:F> in your local time
12 days, 17 hours and 55 minutes until the decision date

[rare ruin]

!columbia

[wary ore]

Columbia ED Decision Date

The decision date is <t:1734566400:F> in your local time
12 days, 15 hours and 37 minutes until the decision date

[onyx chasm]

!columbia

[wary ore]

Columbia ED Decision Date

The decision date is <t:1734566400:F> in your local time
11 days, 22 hours and 33 minutes until the decision date

[tacit sun]

what are you guys planning to do if it's an acceptance. I got into a dare to dye my eyebrows pantone-290😭

[jagged lantern]

daamn bro 😭

atp I’d be okay with rejection lmaoo

it’ll look fire tho 🤭

[proud fulcrum]

a kid i know bet me $15 that id go to yale bc i have "that vibe". so if i commit to columbia (fingers crossed) then i will have him buy me lunch

[urban anvil]

!columbia

[wary ore]

Columbia ED Decision Date

The decision date is <t:1734566400:F> in your local time
11 days, 6 hours and 43 minutes until the decision date

[urban anvil]

guys is it confirmed to be the 18th

because they've never released it after the 15th

and its usually on a thursday right?

maybe im just coping but i cba to wait that long bro

[hollow crown]

hi any columbia girlies who wanna party in nyc once we get accepted??

[proud fulcrum]

Yesss

[untold onyx]

Hi is anyone confident they’re getting in I’m stressing so bad

[onyx chasm]

me 😛

[rich aurora]

u got the portal update leak

[proud fulcrum]

Me when I'm feeling a lil delusional

[alpine locust]

nothing lol they were just joking

[mild fable]

.

[mild fable]

yes

[loud furnace]

lol I’m dying too it’s horrible

[vivid orbit]

!columbia

[wary ore]

Columbia ED Decision Date

The decision date is <t:1734566400:F> in your local time
9 days, 22 hours and 4 minutes until the decision date

[proud fulcrum]

for the resources supp can i mention youtube channels

[hollow crown]

yes any piece of media

notice how the prompt mentions "including but not limited to"

[tacit sun]

I'm still hopeful that it's this week😭 regardless of questbridge

[proud fulcrum]

Hello 👋 I was wondering if the correct Columbia css code is 2116 ? I saw lots of codes on their site

[tacit sun]

yes

[empty linden]

This is the day before a2anniversary!

😱

[manic crest]

!columbia

[wary ore]

Columbia ED Decision Date

The decision date is <t:1734566400:F> in your local time
9 days, 15 hours and 8 minutes until the decision date

[vocal osprey]

!columbia

[wary ore]

Columbia ED Decision Date

The decision date is <t:1734566400:F> in your local time
9 days, 13 hours and 24 minutes until the decision date

[hollow crown]

!columbia

[proud fulcrum]

Thank you

[hollow crown]

whos excited to party up in nyc?

[gloomy hinge]

No because im not getting accepted

[tacit sun]

ay! ay! bow bow bow

[onyx chasm]

🙁 and they accepted 120 through qb

[tacit sun]

guys let's stop saying the increase in QB is a bad thing😫. if anything it's a W for economic diversity

[onyx chasm]

ikk it defo is I agree, im myself vv low-income 😭🤞🏼

they all deserve it fr, it’s like the chances now that stresses me 😔

[hollow crown]

does anyone whos ed'd or current columbia student can read my why us essay?

[loud furnace]

sure! send me a dm

[hollow basalt]

i can too i EDd

[frozen ridge]

!columbia

[quick sentinel]

did u guys use up all the 100 words for the 1st essay

[tacit sun]

i did

[proud fulcrum]

Yuh

I used up all the words for all of them

Including personal

[waxen ferry]

!columbia

[rich aurora]

My school is right by Columbia so all of our acceptances (~5-10 a year) are faculty kids

[loud furnace]

cgps?

[rich aurora]

naw im uptown a little

on ccny campus

[loud furnace]

Ooh ok

Oh I admiring ur school when I was at my Sophie Davis tour LOL it’s so pretty

[rich aurora]

LOL

we all think campus looks ass 😭

it has its moments

the NAC looks so fucking ugly though

[loud furnace]

What’s the nac?

[loud furnace]

it’s pretty small but it’s cute

[rich aurora]

its uglier on the inside

everything else is nice

[loud furnace]

yea I agree 💀

[rich aurora]

our school is in this building

[loud furnace]

At least u have a nice view ig

Did you apply Columbia too then?

[rich aurora]

this is our school

we go to the NAC for lunch and marshak gym for gym class

[loud furnace]

whoaaa

[rich aurora]

under the science building

[rich aurora]

RD

i will

winter break 🙏

[loud furnace]

ooh ok rooting for u

[rich aurora]

lol im not rooting for myself

i wanna leave this place

[loud furnace]

Oh I can’t wait to graduate

I’m from li

[rich aurora]

sending prayers 🙏

[loud furnace]

Ty 😭😭

[rich aurora]

i wanna go to the great lakes or new england

[loud furnace]

every New England school is so beautiful

[rich aurora]

i have a couple of southern schools but mostly those areas

[loud furnace]

I’m only applying east coast tbh

[rich aurora]

nothing west of like illinois or michigan though

texas is my furthest

fuck cali

[loud furnace]

Frrrr

did u early anywhere?

[rich aurora]

ye 12 schools

im applying 15 total

[loud furnace]

Whoa I only did 4

Two being safeties

Trying not to write any more essays

[rich aurora]

i did ccny and stony but no point cuz i got OOS already

didnt get results from them yet tho LOL

[loud furnace]

ahh ok

[rich aurora]

penn state / TAMU backup 🙏

[loud furnace]

I do not want to end up at stony man 😭😭😭

U got it

[rich aurora]

bro fr

what u applying for tho

[loud furnace]

At stony or in general?

I’m a chem major

[rich aurora]

geen

gen

im doing nuclear engineering and EE at schools that dont have it

[loud furnace]

Wow you’re the first nuclear engineering major I’ve heard of it’s always ee or chem e 😭😭

[rich aurora]

lol

go nukes

[loud furnace]

Lock in the Lockheed Martin 💪💪

[rich aurora]

i found another guy who was going nuke on this server but i havent heard from him in a minute

[rich aurora]

fr

we love the united states military industrial complex

[loud furnace]

Did u apply for dod smart? Bc that thing was actually scary to read

Every govt research base is basically dedicated to weapons

[rich aurora]

lol im going straight dod brotha

ROTC

🪖 ⚔️

[loud furnace]

oh LMFAO

I wouldn’t last a day there

[broken stream]

Is anyone here apply for Visual Art major for ED? (or any other arts)

[vague pilot]

anyone here apply as chem major for ED?

[alpine locust]

i was a theatre applicant (currently getting my b.f.a. at usc) if you have any questions!! we also have #1268945015556538439

[loud furnace]

Yeppp

[broken stream]

omg thank you!

[willow estuary]

!columbia

[rare ruin]

did anyone apply psych for ed?

[hollow basalt]

!columbia

[urban anvil]

!columbia

how many of you guys applied to SEAS?

i hope so bro imagine it actually happens tomorrow

itll be so good

idk why they cant just give us an official date

[proud fulcrum]

Meee

I haven't seen many

[proud fulcrum]

I thought it was 18th

[urban anvil]

i mean it is but they didn’t actually tell us that

we kind of just found out from some letters

[urban anvil]

nice nice

[urban anvil]

same that’s why i was asking

good luck tho

[proud fulcrum]

Never apparently

[alpine locust]

the questbridge date is confirmed

no portal astro please, the decision date is the 18th

[untold onyx]

does major effect acceptance?

[proud fulcrum]

Kinda but not chem Im doing chemical engineering

[hollow crown]

i think the school u applies does (i.e. college vs seas)

[hollow crown]

is ur pfp sana

[proud fulcrum]

YESS

[vague pilot]

I'm not sure but I was trying to see if other people applied as chem like me

Also, I have a friend who is applying to duke and they received an email with the official ed decision date, does columbia not do that?

[frozen ridge]

I think it's easier def for some of the humanities majors

[vague pilot]

I found some people that recieved a notification years ago and kinda got worried that they alr sent that email and I didn't receive anything

[frozen ridge]

The decision date is december 18 and from all we know, I don't think we'll get a letter unless it's week of

[vague pilot]

the 2020 or 2021 people got their decision the 15th and an email the 8th of december

[onyx chasm]

It’s confirmed. ^

open up ur portal guys

[frozen ridge]

oh fudge

[vague pilot]

I got scared thinking that they didn't send me the email and then opened it

[onyx chasm]

SAME

[hollow basalt]

email dropped my heart into my stomsch

[quick sentinel]

GOOOD LUCKK

[onyx chasm]

THANKSSS!!

Hows ur RD going?

[quick sentinel]

for columbia?? im pretty much done with the essays maybe it needs a bit of polishing

[onyx chasm]

proud af

if you need suggestions lmkkk

[stuck bridge]

Is anyone else applying to one of the joint programs?

[proud fulcrum]

Hello for the first essay are we allowed to use titles as in books- then list the books or the list section should just be a huge list separated by commas and semicolons ?

Also are music and movies allowed or we should just stick with what they suggested

Would appreciate some help thank you

[hollow crown]

i made one big list since the guidelines ask for only a list and they didnt want us to specify anything

[hollow crown]

as long as its intellecutally developing for u

[empty linden]

We don’t do chance mes

!rule 4

[wary ore]

#📜-rules

​Rule 4: Prohibited Content (Admissions Related)

​Don't discuss chance-mes, lying/cheating, portal astrology, or affirmative action. If you don't know what any of these are, you can double check their meaning in #📜-rules. Mods may ask you to change the topic at any time, even if a topic isn't listed here.

[sharp pike]

what do you think my chances of getting into Columbia is

[empty linden]

Joever

[sharp pike]

Lowk not looking good

[hollow basalt]

oh mbd 😭

[proud fulcrum]

Okay thanks

So your list was it like bullet points or strictly commas ?

[hollow crown]

commas

u can either do commas or semi colons

personally i wouldnt stress so much bc i dont think an essay like this is gonna move the needle in terms of ur admissibility

[proud fulcrum]

Yeah I’m just a careful person lol just wanted to be sure thank you

[onyx chasm]

!columbia

6 days and 5 hours

💔

[frozen ridge]

i've just resigned myself to rejection lol

[hollow basalt]

me too

[willow estuary]

!columbia

[vague pilot]

My heart dropped to the floor

[frozen ridge]

is that something everyone gets

what is this portal astrology

[untold onyx]

What happen

[rare ruin]

what happened??

[vague pilot]

it got deleted because of "portal astrology"

[upbeat portal]

JUST SUBMITTED MY COLUMBIA RD 👀

[tacit sun]

seeing other ppl's acceptances and rejections got me so scared🫠

[hollow basalt]

more like 5 days 20 hours and 11 mins

waiting for probable rejection 😞

17 years for next wednesday

probably denial 😞

they say my schools blacklisted

[quick sentinel]

its been 5 yrs since my school has had a student accepted to columbia

need me to break that streak 🙏

[hollow basalt]

no ones gotten in for years when we feed into every other ivy every year basically

me too

[vague pilot]

same

istg I dont know how much more I can wait

my school usually sends 1-3 people there each year and Im the only one applying

[loud furnace]

Similar situation 😭😭

[hollow basalt]

my school last sent someone in 21

[alpine locust]

colleges don’t blacklist high schools

columbia is just weird

ik a girl who got into every ivy except for columbia they like being special

[hollow basalt]

ig

i hope they value grad legacy

[fair stratus]

its a priv university, instate/oos doesn't matter

[mild fable]

yea, anyone feel they have a good chance of getting in

[proud fulcrum]

no

lowkey it seems like they don’t even care that much about grades and scores

Just like indeterminable “vibe” stuff

[mild fable]

well than Im praying they like my vibe

[proud fulcrum]

Me too but it’s so random

How do you know someone’s vibe with no interview no video

[mild fable]

yea u got a point. essays is the most they can know. Im trying to be delusional and think Im definetely going to get in

cause whenever I do the opposite and expect not to get something, I don't, so now im reversing it

[proud fulcrum]

Honestly slay though, self confidence is good

I think pessimism does kinda screw you up

I keep having stress dreams about rejection

Good luck to you on Wednesday

[mild fable]

good luck to you too! Ill try and remember your account so we can share our results

we gonna get accepted

[proud fulcrum]

we shall see… but rejection is redirection so

[proud fulcrum]

It's gon redirect me to the top of a building 😘

[mild fable]

empire state building cause your going to nyc as well

[proud fulcrum]

yo did anyone also apply to fordham?

i realize it's off topic but they dont have their own megathread so

[willow estuary]

!columbia

[mild fable]

yep

!columbia

[proud fulcrum]

nice did you get your decison?

[clear lance]

never heard this before

[alpine locust]

yeah i have no idea where people are getting it from lmfao

[vivid orbit]

All my friends are getting cooked and it’s giving me an overall sense of dread for next Wednesday 💀

[cinder hollow]

Have hope!

Feel like you’re going to get accepted, it will pull you through

[mild fable]

nahh not yet i applied RD

[mild fable]

i’m kinda similar but all my friends getting in and um nervous i won’t

[vivid orbit]

my friend group's first result was an acceptance to cornell ED but since then its been 1 deferral and 2 outright rejections

[rare ruin]

i hope i at least get a deferral tbh…. like i’m ok with that 😭

are u guys thinking of doing ed2? i’m probably gonna do uchicago

[frozen ridge]

im in doing ed2 johns hopkins but im waiting

[rare ruin]

oooo ngl i was thinking of doing that too i’m unsure tbh

either jhu uchicago or nyu 🫣

[frozen ridge]

im likely to get rejected from columbia

[frozen ridge]

nyu so expensive

[rare ruin]

noo trust 🙏

[frozen ridge]

my school hasn't sent a ivy league kid in probably 8 years

[rare ruin]

yeah so i’m not sure if i will.. plus i heard it’s difficult to make friends there bc there’s no campus 😭

[onyx chasm]

tbh I don’t love any school as much as cu so I’m just doing rd because ed is sm of a commitment 💔

[frozen ridge]

im just coping really hard and going in with the rejection mindset

[frozen ridge]

yeah that's real

Keep in mind i live in rural michigan with a school with 500 kids in my grade lol

[rare ruin]

that could help ur chances !

my grade has 70 kids ..

😭

[frozen ridge]

not really... we had a neighboring school send a girl to columbia in 2022

[rare ruin]

oh well 😔 i hope you get in 🙏

[frozen ridge]

like literally school in the town 2 miles away from us lol

but yeah

thanks

[rare ruin]

hoping we all get in 🫡

[frozen ridge]

i feel like 11% isn't too bad... but it's 10% after qb kids

[rare ruin]

i’m still wondering why the decisions are being released so late

[frozen ridge]

probably from sheer volume

[onyx chasm]

you’d be surprised mine has around 40

[rare ruin]

like fewer applicants? i heard yale had a 14% decrease and the results for that are later than usual too

[frozen ridge]

you guys are getting in gg 😭

[frozen ridge]

yeah maybe

[rare ruin]

😧

[frozen ridge]

i feel like it's easier to get in when your school is smaller or underfunded

[onyx chasm]

brown too

But brown went to test required and dropped around 1.2k

[frozen ridge]

okay wait... THERES HOPE

i think general trend is ed acceptance rate is increasing

this year

[rare ruin]

i go to a magnet school so everyone is cracked and insanely smart while i’m just. there. 🫤

[frozen ridge]

it's okay

[onyx chasm]

YES PLS 🙌🏻🙌🏻

bring columbia up to 15 idk idk idk

[frozen ridge]

because last year colleges in general accepted in record lows

[onyx chasm]

🤞🏼

[frozen ridge]

which... uhm...

yikes!

but that means YAY for us!!

[rare ruin]

ppl are so competitive in my class .. like ik someone who wrote down where everyone is EDing too and is “manifesting their rejections”

[frozen ridge]

okay that's just creating bad karma for themselves LOL

never wish on someone else's misfortunes because that'll come back to you

[rare ruin]

i’m crashing out bc i also find out if i got hired for chick fil a on wednesday LMAO

[rare ruin]

real

[frozen ridge]

I genuinely wish I never got attached to columbia

[rare ruin]

same 😭 i’m just trying to think of all the cons of the school now

[onyx chasm]

THIS

[frozen ridge]

I only got into it because a friend of mine had a sibling get sent (the kid who was from the neighboring public school) and she introduced me... and after that i kept bumping into alumni 😭

is that a sign....

is that a sign guys

after i met said alumni i shadowed a surgeon who went to dental school there

and didnt even know she did

[rare ruin]

yesss columbia is calling

[frozen ridge]

and then got introduced to a phd holder from columbia and who was involved in human rights institute 😭

IS THIS A SIGNN>???

i name dropped that shit like it was hot potato

[rare ruin]

i think it is 🙏 🕯️

[frozen ridge]

prolly 2 percent at most lol

[onyx chasm]

same

[rare ruin]

ngl i should have EDed to barnard instead

[frozen ridge]

there not gonna dramatically increase it

[frozen ridge]

barnard same shit

guys im nonbinary you think that's gonna help me LMAO

[onyx chasm]

I was j thinking this

like 5 days after doing ed

[vivid orbit]

i would've had a better chance eding to barnard than seas (im a guy)

[frozen ridge]

LOLL

that is a genuine question to me

does barnard accept transfem

or transmasc

[onyx chasm]

I think they accept as long as u identify as a woman idk tho

[frozen ridge]

oh cool

[bleak bluff]

Did Columbia come out yet

[frozen ridge]

no

!columbia

[rare ruin]

no

[frozen ridge]

look in #📆-decision-dates

[bleak bluff]

wtf why are so many today

[vivid orbit]

!columbia

[rare ruin]

does not having a class rank (bc our school doesn’t calculate or report it) put me at a disadvantage??

[frozen ridge]

maybe

do you have high sat

usually one can compensate for another

[rare ruin]

my sat isn’t too great.. 😭

[frozen ridge]

did you score well on aps

[rare ruin]

my gpa is pretty good tho i think (??) i’m unsure

[rare ruin]

i only took 3 bc those are the only ones offered but yeah i did well

[frozen ridge]

okay yeah youre fine then

[rare ruin]

i was thinking abt going test optional tbh but

[vague pilot]

Guys I have a kinda bad ranking but the most rigurous coursework in my grade, does that balance things out?

[rare ruin]

idk i guess it’s in range

[rare ruin]

hmm

[vague pilot]

by kinda bad I mean like top 25

[rare ruin]

how many ppl are in ur grade?

[vague pilot]

115

I think Im cooked ngl

[rare ruin]

oh that’s not bad

[vague pilot]

the salutatorian got rejected from stanford scea

[rare ruin]

i think they’ll see that ur coursework is very rigorous and take that into account

[vague pilot]

but everyone else that is less competitive than me got into their eds so who knows 🤞

[rare ruin]

our school has major grade deflation so i’m hoping colleges see that

[vague pilot]

ngl Im not sure if my counselor reported my exact rank or in deciles cause top 30% looks kinda bad

[onyx chasm]

I reported mine in deciles

It was top 10% but I’m actually like salutatorian oops

[frozen ridge]

my teacher tried reporting me 1/400 cause our schools are separate but still same area/public school system

but somehow we're in deciles

[rare ruin]

i wanna know mine so bad but my counselor doesn’t even share who the val/sal are until may

[frozen ridge]

but i am first so idk 😭

[hollow basalt]

yeah i got in

[frozen ridge]

im so cooked

the thought here is..... there are at least 9 applications worse than yours.

that's all my cuz imparted onto me before descending into cornell finals premed madness

[onyx chasm]

do y’all have any hooks in ur app

LIKEE in general

[frozen ridge]

uhm yeah

[rare ruin]

i think so

[frozen ridge]

why

my entire thing was hooks and spikes

[onyx chasm]

idk random

[onyx chasm]

yasss

[vague pilot]

wdym by hooks

[onyx chasm]

like legacy, first gen, recruited athlete

[rare ruin]

do u guys think schools actually read the additional information section or

[frozen ridge]

spike was science and math, hooks were generally cool essay ideas

also first gen

[rare ruin]

first gen

[frozen ridge]

and know multiple alumn

research bg

etc

[onyx chasm]

ngl my hooks were prob first gen, low-income & my rec letter

and also family because I live only w my grandma ig if that counts as a hook

[rare ruin]

my main thing was abt this research program i did

[vague pilot]

my spike was in premed/chem/bio and research heavy, not sure if communnity service counts towards spikes

[onyx chasm]

POP OFF

[frozen ridge]

guys i thought i was unique in that 🥺

YOURE RD

[rare ruin]

i liked the program a lot so i’m gonna see if i can go again next year 🙏

[onyx chasm]

yess research )))

[frozen ridge]

fuck

[rare ruin]

what majors are u guys thinking of doing? i applied psych

[vague pilot]

I lowk thought I was special for getting a 5 in ap research as it isnt a popular class to take and I was the only 5 in a few years

I applied as chem and I think I specified interest in premed, not sure if Im mixing stuff up

[onyx chasm]

HELP

[frozen ridge]

cool shit

[frozen ridge]

wait which one

was it aspirnaut vandy

if so im kms

i gotta compete against gigachads like you??

[rare ruin]

oh it’s one in NYC i would say the name but i don’t wanna doxx myself

[frozen ridge]

icic

and??

im gonna get rejected

[rare ruin]

no u won’t 😖

[frozen ridge]

LOL it's okay guys pray to the lion

gonna get in because lion --> im a leo and it's releasing december 18 --> 8 is lucky number and also part of leoism, know alum, athena was like basically my godly parent in middle school, IM DELUSIONAL

i think im going crazy chanting this shit

[rare ruin]

im cooked too my sophomore year grades weren’t too good .. i explained in additional info cuz it was for a valid reason but like. what if they don’t check.

[vague pilot]

Im constantly surrounded by light blue so that 1000% means Im getting in right guys

[dreamy terrace]

I'm here for RD too! :)

Fellow Stanford reject

[onyx chasm]

Stanford’s rejection letter is so nice

[frozen ridge]

constantly staring at blue light im going to get in

[onyx chasm]

like it sounds so kind compared to other colleges

[frozen ridge]

columbia and stanturd.... the two places that have the lowest accept 😭

[dreamy terrace]

Please let me join 🙏

[rare ruin]

does columbia use first quarter grades in considering admission for ED?

bc mine got submitted quite late like around nov 20 so

[frozen ridge]

i think so if you do quarters

[rare ruin]

well on my transcript it only shows full year grades but we get report cards each quarter so i just submitted that for ED

[vivid orbit]

why are so many people doing research now lol

its my spike as well 💀

[hollow crown]

how did yalls cold emails for research go so successful

its okay,,, maybe ill standout from a sea of ppl who does research as a person who couldnt do any

[rare ruin]

i cold emailed like 100 people the summer before 11th grade and didn’t get any good responses so i applied to a program instead and somehow got in 🙏

[frozen ridge]

i did an exclusive 2% accept research program through umich (state flagship school)

just for in state kids

aspirnaut

it wasnt the vandy one unfortunately cause i didnt know about that one till too late lol

but yeah got two abstracts from that and two research projects

i also interned under a state rep but it was more phone banking and canvassing

got him reelected though!!

one of the only democrats in a long time to win incumbancy in that district so im proud

[rare ruin]

oooo that’s cool

[vivid orbit]

bro is cracked wtf

[frozen ridge]

not really... LOL

[rare ruin]

fr

[frozen ridge]

it was through a friend who figured it out

[loud furnace]

Research lowk is the main thing on my app

[mild fable]

oooo i did something similar but diff school

[frozen ridge]

lol yeah

[rare ruin]

same the only downside is that the program i went to made it clear that you can’t use the research in competitions so

[frozen ridge]

ROGER CONE LAB LET ME INNN

[loud furnace]

I name dropped a lab that I want to work at in my why Columbia essay ahhhh 😭😭😭

[mild fable]

so we all getting in on Wednesday?

[frozen ridge]

i had my lab mentor write me a letter of rec too

[loud furnace]

Sameeee

[mild fable]

sameeee

[frozen ridge]

yeah zuckerman institute type shit

[loud furnace]

LOL

[frozen ridge]

wow we're all just the same

[vague pilot]

bro same

[frozen ridge]

i hope our personal statements are different enough

[rare ruin]

same 😭

[loud furnace]

Mine was emo af 💀💀 gonna change for rds

[frozen ridge]

cant be worse than mine

ill show you mine if you show me yours lMAO

[loud furnace]

sure!

Dms?

[frozen ridge]

already there

[rare ruin]

mine was ok i think but i’m not sure ..

[vague pilot]

I lowk cooked with my personal statement

[wanton magnet]

!columbia

[wary ore]

Columbia ED Decision Date

The decision date is <t:1734566400:F> in your local time
4 days, 20 hours and 48 minutes until the decision date

[rare ruin]

ahhhhhh

[vague pilot]

my supplements however...

[rare ruin]

i lowkey cooked on one of my columbia supplementals like the “why major” one

i’m saying this now but once i reread it tmrw morning ill crash out

[vague pilot]

I just talked about research and chem/medicine in most of them💀

[proud fulcrum]

Where my SEAS girlies at

[onyx chasm]

4 days and 20 hours im gonna cry

[rare ruin]

well that makes sense though

weird question but do any of you guys show ur personal statements to ur friends/family

[vague pilot]

I was hesitant at first

I showed my family a few weeks after I applied

[rare ruin]

my parents keep asking to see it but i’m lowkey nervous to show them

i’ll show them like. on commit day or smth

[onyx chasm]

omg no I haven’t 😔

[proud fulcrum]

Well I guess I'm getting in then like 😭😭

Competing with literally no one 😘

[onyx chasm]

LMAOOO

IM CRYING

[hollow crown]

who thinks arigato grande can get in 🙋‍♀️

[frozen ridge]

guys a2c is so cracked

legit doomed

[hollow crown]

girl im literallly doomiing too

[proud fulcrum]

Idk cause idk who else is applying 😭

[hollow crown]

im rethinking whether i should even apply now seeing all these ppls profiles

[proud fulcrum]

I mean ik someone irl and she did a whole summer program at Columbia and got a rec letter from a professor

So there's that...

[onyx chasm]

byeee

tbh I have a rec letter from Yale

but I’m not applying to Yale yk

[hollow crown]

yalll cracked asf

damn

[rare ruin]

yeah i’m cooked

[frozen ridge]

💀

[rare ruin]

i have a rec from the professor who mentored me so hopefully that adds value

she’s at Weill cornell

[hollow crown]

hopefully my essays pull through. .

[hollow basalt]

hopefully my app pulls through 😭

[hollow crown]

girl i might as well ED to emory

[frozen ridge]

hayden caufield when i catch you...

https://tenor.com/view/luffy-breakdown-one-piece-monkey-d-luffy-anime-luffy-gif-11905601955841962855

yes race is still a hook

[mild fable]

yes hopefully we get in

i have high hopes

[vivid orbit]

bold of u to assume i had a choice

[vivid orbit]

🙋 im not a girl but i applied seas lol

[jagged lantern]

wtf that’s soo jobless of them??

[slate estuary]

good luck yall !

(current columbia seas)

[timber pilot]

Anyone know about their economics program? What is so interesting about it that Columbia ranks really highly on economics in the world? I can’t find much info on their website.

[quaint salmon]

yo'

[bright cosmos]

hiii

did u ed?

[past quartz]

🎀🚀

[proud fulcrum]

Yess did you

[proud fulcrum]

ED?

[proud fulcrum]

Oh yess I remember you

What major again

[bright cosmos]

yess

what major

[rare ruin]

!columbia

[proud fulcrum]

Chemical engineering

Wbu

[past quartz]

Yuppp

mechie

Want to branch into aerospace in the future

[bright cosmos]

cool

comp sci😭

[proud fulcrum]

Hopefully we all get in 😭😭

[past quartz]

R u from US?

[bright cosmos]

are u guys working on rd apps or am I the only one unable to do anything

[past quartz]

Not yet, need to get through my school’s finals first😭😭

I’ll work on my rds after my winter break starts (next tues)

[bright cosmos]

I'm on gap so literally no excuses

[past quartz]

😭

Where else do u want the most?

[bright cosmos]

mit...

you?

[past quartz]

I don’t know😭

RISD prob

[jagged lantern]

did you apply for fin aid?

[bright cosmos]

yup

(yeeah I should go do my rd apps😭)

[loud furnace]

Omg same

[bright cosmos]

wait whats that

[past quartz]

Rhode island school of design

The art school next to brown

[vivid orbit]

Operations research and/or industrial engineering

[proud fulcrum]

Yep

[proud fulcrum]

Hell nah

Only thing that's gonna make me start is a Columbia rejection 😭

[proud fulcrum]

Yeah you?

I'm from nj

[proud fulcrum]

Same 😭

Did you EA there I did

[bright cosmos]

exactly

and it's a very questionable strategy

[bright cosmos]

noo

my logic was basically mit is my dream school so might as well send in a good rd app

[rare ruin]

omg same

[proud fulcrum]

Twinn

[quaint salmon]

Aah

[past quartz]

Canadian :3

[mild fable]

!columbia

[rare ruin]

!columbia

[vague pilot]

Do you guys think there are a lot of international applicants this round?

[rare ruin]

im so scared 😭

[proud fulcrum]

I think decrease

I mean its been test optional for a while hasn't it

But 2 makes sense

[onyx chasm]

!columbia

[proud fulcrum]

Is loci for post deferral

[rare ruin]

i might start writing my loci early .. preparing for the worst ig (pls don’t be a rejection 🙏)

[plucky kernel]

+1

I'm honestly breaking something if I get deferred 😭

[sleek frost]

it would be so discouraging

deferral 60% ...

[proud fulcrum]

Well luckily my test score is good 😭🤞

[proud fulcrum]

Yea def not gonna be going to school thurs and fri if I don't get in

[rare ruin]

mine is lowkey so bad

[proud fulcrum]

I need some time for depression

[rare ruin]

i’m thinking of skipping school on thursday but i have a test so

😔

[plucky kernel]

brodie decision will come out at 3am for me and I have a chem final 5h after that 😭

[proud fulcrum]

Well you can always skip it 😀

[rare ruin]

lowkey regret not applying test optional ..

[plucky kernel]

no need since I'm getting accepted

[plucky kernel]

what was your score?

[proud fulcrum]

Omg so true

[rare ruin]

1520 which is on the lower end

[plucky kernel]

💀

[proud fulcrum]

That's good pls..

[plucky kernel]

don't be dumb brhu

[proud fulcrum]

Why would you be test optional with a 1520

[rare ruin]

i get clowned for my score 😔

[proud fulcrum]

By WHO

[viscid meteor]

Dude not that deep

[rare ruin]

other kids in my class

[plucky kernel]

bay area tryhards

[proud fulcrum]

It is unfortunately

[rare ruin]

they said 1550+ is the minimum to get into any t20 school

obv not true

[plucky kernel]

🤣