Stanford University (2024-2025)

[old vector]

Does this look intriguing @neon dust

I mean it’s just how you write it ig

[neon dust]

mine are unique because they're rare

I truly believe my computer chess essay is 1/1

[old vector]

Nice bro

[neon dust]

but

idk you're seem more connected

with yourself

I just have the inability to reflect

like I'll get pissed and just move on

[old vector]

wdym reflect

Like on your essay

Or in your essay

[neon dust]

in

[old vector]

Like at the end you don’t say like

What u learned

And shit

[neon dust]

I do but its like shallow

like in the moment

I did it because I wanted to do it

[old vector]

Ah I see

[neon dust]

there's no bigger story lmao

I had to retroactively think

[old vector]

I mean we’re still kids

what’s in the essay is just written that way

[neon dust]

like for the love of god

[old vector]

irl it’s like not that deep

[neon dust]

I could not think of a real reason why I liked cs

[old vector]

💰

?

[neon dust]

nah like

unironically I just like it because

idk its just neat and I'm kinda good

[old vector]

lol real

Have u done any cs research

[neon dust]

nah

I have some lined up tho

like on paper I'm an academic weapon

I just have no research to back it up

[old vector]

Ye sure

[old vector]

It’s fine honestly

most don’t do

[wraith hawk]

I did research through UCSD

[neon dust]

that's a bit better than mind lmao

actually much better

[wraith hawk]

😭

[old vector]

You seem to go like everywhere lol

[wraith hawk]

Thank you

[old vector]

From research to volunteering to business

[wraith hawk]

I travel a lot yeah

[neon dust]

small opinion tho

uh just

[wraith hawk]

Covering all the bases

[old vector]

I personally focused on just one topic which was community service

[neon dust]

be very careful writing about going to vietnam and cambodia

[old vector]

I talked abt science research in why major at Penn

[wraith hawk]

Thailand*

[neon dust]

don't write yourself a "savior complex essay'

[neon dust]

whoops

[wraith hawk]

My family’s from there

Vietnam

[neon dust]

myb

[old vector]

you’re viet?

[wraith hawk]

Yeah

[neon dust]

I'm too sleep deprived

[wraith hawk]

You’re good

[old vector]

Nice I’m viet too

[wraith hawk]

No way

[old vector]

Ye fr

3rd name is me

[torn ravine]

it’s ok duke doesn’t give essays numerical ratings anymore

[neon dust]

I'm trusting that my stats carry

[old vector]

Yea idk how I didn’t see earlier

Yes

[wraith hawk]

That’s sick wow

[old vector]

Cuz of ai

[torn ravine]

yuurp

[wraith hawk]

Hella

[neon dust]

what's ur opinion on mine lmao

mine is like uhh

[wraith hawk]

Is this for community

[neon dust]

questionable

yea

[wraith hawk]

Writing’s not my speciality

Math is

[neon dust]

just content based

idk

[old vector]

That cooking is actually so unique

[wraith hawk]

I like the questions

[old vector]

I like

[neon dust]

so you know how these essays are like

[wraith hawk]

My personal essay especially has a lot of questions

It’s really cool

[neon dust]

not only what will you do

but what unique voice will you contribute right

or like what unique thing will you do on campus

even tho they say why us right

[old vector]

ye

[neon dust]

I've like been so tired

[old vector]

Action based

[neon dust]

I've just been spoonfeeding them

[old vector]

Is what you’re looking for

[neon dust]

stuff I'd do on campus

like starting a fountain pen club is a classic

[old vector]

That is

bro I just want a hypsm

😦

[neon dust]

its stock but idk if its the play

I've never seen anyone write it like that

but it'll probably make it easier to argue during committee?

bro if I get into any hypsm I'll just

[wraith hawk]

Incredible

[old vector]

Damnnn bro sharing his whole personal statement

[neon dust]

I'll share in dms

[wraith hawk]

Right

Same

[neon dust]

aight wanna jsut create a temp dm with the three

[wraith hawk]

Incredible

[old vector]

Sure

lowkey apps r over

I can share everything

[neon dust]

i still have 4

[wraith hawk]

Oh right

[neon dust]

accept the friend req I need you uh

[old vector]

Oh I have jhu

[neon dust]

to create the group

[old vector]

That’s it

[wraith hawk]

I still have M&T and Wharton to write for

I might just expand further on it

[old vector]

oh shit the big boys

[wraith hawk]

Yeah

[wraith hawk]

Everyone’s apps are over that’s why I’m sharing mine

But I’m still working on Penn USC and Michigan so

[vestal tulip]

computer chess meaning?

[neon dust]

Smth about smth I founded

[vestal tulip]

ic

if it's about chess engines, then it's cool to see someone else who wrote about that

lol

[neon dust]

Wait you wrote about it too lol

Wait which engine is urs

[vestal tulip]

mine was a simple hobby project, nothing big https://github.com/shhivv/deltoid

[vestal tulip]

wbu?

[neon dust]

This is gonna doxx me

Dms

[vestal tulip]

sure

[tame dust]

savior complex essays r so funny

[neon dust]

Good for you

If you went any deeper it would've been over

I barely escaped

Chess engine development is the devil

[vestal tulip]

lmao

[old vector]

Where is the Stanford grading scale again

[quasi panther]

does stanford prescreen for interview requests?

[wraith hawk]

How does that tie into community at Penn lmao

Oh

Can someone review my Penn community essay

[south spear]

wait didnt you post this yesterday or am i getting some sort of deja vu

[sick glacier]

sharing penn essays in stanford channel is crazy

where is the stanford police at

[quasi panther]

i love you aabis

[sick glacier]

blushing rn, another cat as well no way 🙈

rm -rfed

[quasi panther]

i realized i need to maintain my karma

[sick glacier]

good realization

[wraith hawk]

No

[wraith hawk]

This is like one of the only threads that are active

Plus I’ve been active here for a while so why not

[wraith hawk]

They mysteriously disappeared

[sick glacier]

why isn't the uc thread active

don't they get like 10 billion applications

[wraith hawk]

Cuz UCs were due 1.5 months ago

[sick glacier]

hm fair

[wraith hawk]

So any comments

[sour dune]

i mean im j a senior so idk how helpful my opinion is, but i think its good. ur making it clear who the person is and why ur thankful, as a reader i also learn more abt ur passions being stem and space, and that ur a curious person. it also doesnt read exactly like a college essay, it reads like a thank you letter someoene would acc write

[south spear]

or like a few days ago? i swear i’ve read “fascination with stars” before 😭 unless it’s a really common response or something

[wraith hawk]

I posted it yesterday then deleted cuz I edited it

I remember now lol

[south spear]

ohh ok lol

[wraith hawk]

I GET AN EXTRA WEEK WOOOOO

[lethal holly]

Damn nice

I wonder if any other universities do extend it? I submitted to some but not to others

I wonder if Yale & Brown do it, hadn't had the chance to submit to them

[cunning ruin]

Just finish and submit if u got progress they’ll take

[lethal holly]

Wow

[lethal holly]

Yep will do

[drowsy oxide]

yale closed on the fifth

[empty ginkgo]

this isn’t necessarily true

especially since yale’s deadline was already extended

also in the future please talk about schools in their respective threads instead of flooding stanford’s megathread

[sharp merlin]

https://bechtel.stanford.edu/engage-our-center/about-us/annual-report-and-studentscholar-statistics

does anyoen have a downlaoded version of the data sets in here

it got privated for some reason

[neon dust]

check the wayback machine

[sharp merlin]

i dont think that will work

bc the file is stored in a google drive

and the drive itself got privated

even if I use the wayback machine, the pointer will bring me to the same locked drive

holy

youre right

it did work

except i dont speak dutch

or german

ummmm

[neon dust]

ok guess I have to do everything myself

/s

[hardy surge]

yall are active these days

[tame dust]

its just stanford thread everywhere is dead for some reason

[hardy surge]

yeah ive noticed lol

i had like 4 pings iin this thread asking me what sport i am recruited for

not even recruited to stanford

[neon dust]

how good is ur chinese

closest I've gotten https://www.yumpu.com/it/document/read/18241239/bechtel-international-center-stanford-university

[tame dust]

🏌️‍♀️

[hardy surge]

[wraith hawk]

Anyone know when Stanford RD Admissions results come out?

[tame dust]

3/28

[rose ermine]

April 1st most likely

[rose ermine]

Frr?

Verified?

[tame dust]

doesnt it say

am i tweaking

okay nvm its not confirmed but its speculated as per a2c calendar

a2c calendar never wrong 🔥

[rose ermine]

Ummm no
27th for ivy

[tame dust]

yeah but stanford isnt ivy

[rose ermine]

It's always april 1st lol

[tame dust]

they usually release after ivy though

[rose ermine]

Oh wait. That's true

[tame dust]

you might be right

i have no clue im just following a2c

[neon dust]

their ass was wrong about mit

[rose ermine]

RD?

Pi day?

[neon dust]

ea

[rose ermine]

Oh

[raven lotus]

so 28th?

[storm ledge]

I have it as 28th of March

The day after Ivy

[tame dust]

that’s what a2c says

[empty ginkgo]

this isn’t the truth lmfao april 1 is a catch-all date

[empty ginkgo]

it’s speculated because stanford historically releases decisions on the last friday of march (or on april 1 if the last friday is the 25th) but nothing is confirmed until we have an official announcement from the school

the only year in recent history that they weren’t released on that friday was in 2021 when they had a massive influx of applicants bc they moved to test-optional during covid

[keen thicket]

has anyone gotten their stanford inteerview yet

[neon dust]

calm down

[keen thicket]

wym boi

[keen thicket]

I’m certain it’s gonna be March 28th

[lethal holly]

I wonder if applying for Symbolic Systems is easier to get in?

I'm international and I imagine they see CS everytime. SymSys might be something unique they'd prolly appreciate

[wraith hawk]

It’s a good track yeah but from what I’ve heard it doesn’t really go too “in depth” with anything

It covers all the bases but minimally

Did you apply for it? Which 3 tracks did you apply for?

[lethal holly]

yep, I wonder abt how they consider it

[lethal holly]

didnt apply yet, submitting application tomorrow lol

got deadline extension

I'm thinking 1) symbolic systems, 2) CS, 3) EE

not sure if 1) should be CS or symsys though

[wraith hawk]

Ahhh okay

Well first what are you trying to do

[lethal holly]

tryna get in

:)

[wraith hawk]

Oh are you trying to get in first then switch majors once you’re admitted?

[lethal holly]

nah prolly not

I don't mind taking either symsys or CS though

[wraith hawk]

Yeah cuz Stanford doesn’t account for major

[lethal holly]

ngl I think they do consider it

cuz from what I know they admit like 5-6 people from my country each year

and they prolly get like 2 CS, 1 symsys, 3 other random majors

they want diversity in majors, kinda different than national for y'all

[wraith hawk]

Nah they stopped ac

[wraith hawk]

MSE combines both business economics and engineering which is extremely appealing

Super applicable

[lethal holly]

yea to an extent, but you cant say that gender studies and CS have the same acceptance chance 😭

[wraith hawk]

True

[lethal holly]

thats the decision im tryna make rn

[wraith hawk]

They only have so many spots

[lethal holly]

between symbolic systems and cs, the former seems better

[wraith hawk]

I probably should’ve switched my third CS to SymSys

[lethal holly]

thats cool

[wraith hawk]

The startup culture is massive there so I plan to take advantage of that

Create something special

[lethal holly]

I was thinking of choosing a major too niche, but that probably wouldnt work for me

maybe data science? tho never heard someone apply to that

[wraith hawk]

DS is one of the fastest growing majors

[lethal holly]

same!

[wraith hawk]

It’s cuz AI revolves all around data which makes DS more impacted by the year

[lethal holly]

yo ngl I think symbolic systems will be my first choice

I wrote some of my essays on AI ethics etc

using technology ethically

[wraith hawk]

I wrote mine on AI too so

Yeah same here

Using Stanford’s resources to develop technological and financial resources, especially to underserved communities around the world

[lethal holly]

yep nice

[wraith hawk]

I wouldn’t do CS though only because it’s so extremely impacted

Find someone similar that incorporates CS but isn’t literally CS

[lethal holly]

I've seen most people choose electrical engineering as a second choice

yea will prob do what I said before, 1) symbolic systems, 2) CS, 3) EE

^^ if any current stanford students can give advice though, would appreciate it!

[wraith hawk]

EE’s a great choice

I applied for EECS/ECE/CSE programs to several of the colleges I applied to

@lethal holly just looked through your website it looks really cool man

[lethal holly]

Yo nice

[lethal holly]

Thanks!

I see

Yea, prolly not with symsys though. If I chose something like ecology or smth they'd see that

Or gender studies lol

But my activities etc align w symsys

[lethal holly]

And being international this was my reasoning

Is it fine if I really show I'm a programmer? Cuz like 8 of my activities are that. My 2 essays are related to ethics and computer/human interaction though

Definitely

Like I suppose they would assume I might concentrate in AI or smth

Symsys with a concentration in AI, this kid likes both

For sure

[fierce iris]

nah just apply cs

[lone elk]

lOL

LOL

goodluck gng

[fierce iris]

i should've applied cs honestly

cuz now i have to say why i love physics and i did not write a "why physics" why major essay so i have to start from scratch

[lethal holly]

Why

[wraith hawk]

Stanford doesn’t have a why major essay

[fierce iris]

yea that's what i'm saying

[lethal holly]

Better than CS lmao

[raven lotus]

Stanford after rejecting their 10,000th aspiring entrepreneur and CS major CEO of small AI startup with 2 nonprofits

[raven lotus]

What even is an ai startup

Is it just ChatGPT

[violet jay]

yall im looking at stanford dorms rn

why do all the frosh dorms SUCK

[mossy pawn]

https://x.com/aaryankushwahh/status/1867795281359843514?s=46

https://x.com/rexan_wong/status/1867736640019738625?s=46

aaryan (@aaryankushwahh) on X

bittersweet day

rejected from Stanford, hit 220k total users, hit our first 2 million impression day, $10k emergent grant got approved.

tough loss but gotta come back stronger.

grateful I had the opportunity to apply, grateful I felt badly about the loss.

all in God's glory.

Twitter · Dec 14, 2024, 4:54 AM

Rexan Wong (@rexan_wong) on X

rejected from @Stanford

tough to take in but understand how hella competitive it is so kudos to whoever got in

I'll do it 10x if I have to. They're not ready.

Twitter · Dec 14, 2024, 1:01 AM

@green spruce @keen cedar

think this is who yall r talking about

[hazy parrot]

not a 36? it's over.

[violet jay]

then his essays sucked

or his lors were ass

either wya

too many factors

[hazy parrot]

biggest was probably being an international

[violet jay]

also perfect IB is crazy

@hazy parrot dyk what country

[hazy parrot]

India

[violet jay]

okay thne idk what hes on about his perfect IB

is he transfer or first year

im guessing first year

[raven lotus]

He’s from India

That’s why he got rejected

[south spear]

i applied symsys! though apparently it’s a very popular major too so probably not that much easier, but ALSO stanford doesn’t admit by major so it shouldn’t make a lot of difference anyway

i love symsys it’s so cool rahh!!

i wrote my second choice major as inter-arts lol

it’s so cool as well. UGH !! stanford ily 🙏🙏🙏

[empty ginkgo]

stanford doesn’t admit by major so there aren’t impacted majors. you’re just admitted to the university as a whole!

[wraith hawk]

Jesus

[wraith hawk]

Thank God

[wraith hawk]

I’ll see all of y’all there!

I’m assuming decision letters come out late March so that’ll be fun

[south spear]

TRUST !!

yeah late march i think

[sharp merlin]

Stanford actually doesnt care what major you apply. You apply to Stanford as a whole, not majors. The only place where major matters is your demonstrated interests in the subject through ECs and Essays

[haughty wyvern]

45 ib is sick

like please

i think i got a predicted 30

but also my school does underestimate predicted by a lot

[haughty wyvern]

this like stanford doesnt "care" per se about your major, but it wouldnt make a lot of sense if all your ECs and essays are about piano and the legislature and you list your major choices as cs, symsys, and math

[sharp merlin]

Yes

[violet jay]

how the fuck did you get into stf with a 30

[sharp merlin]

That’s what I mean by you need to show your interest in the major through ur essays and ecs

[haughty wyvern]

IB is literally useless in the US

[violet jay]

no way

[sharp merlin]

Are you American @haughty wyvern

[haughty wyvern]

yes

[sharp merlin]

I didn’t even know American had IB

[haughty wyvern]

lets pray usyd bcomm/law lets me in

[sharp merlin]

I thought it was a commonwealth thing

[haughty wyvern]

but im applying to them with SAT instead of IB

and my sat is like 180 points above the indicitave for bcomm/law

[haughty wyvern]

no yeah Americas is actually like the largest ib region

or second

[sharp merlin]

Damn

What’s bcomm

[haughty wyvern]

bachelor of commerce

[sharp merlin]

Isn’t Stanford commerce pretty competitive

[haughty wyvern]

https://www.sydney.edu.au/courses/courses/uc/bachelor-of-commerce-and-bachelor-of-laws.html

[sharp merlin]

Wdym 180 points above

[haughty wyvern]

stanford has no commerce

[haughty wyvern]

sorry i was talking about usyd lol

[sharp merlin]

Ohhh

Dang

What did you get in for stngord

Stanford

[haughty wyvern]

stanford doesnt admit to majors obviously, but my preferences were public policy, international relations, and political science

but im planning on doing computational public policy

[sharp merlin]

Oh cool

That’s what I was planning on doing to

Why didn’t you apply data science + social systems

[violet jay]

sre you aussie

[haughty wyvern]

didnt really make sense with my background

[sharp merlin]

That’s what I chose and I wanted to do computation pol sci and shi

Oh

[haughty wyvern]

no 😭

[sharp merlin]

Interesting

[violet jay]

nvm

[haughty wyvern]

but its so cheap

like i wish stanford was as cheap as usyd

[violet jay]

why usyd

[haughty wyvern]

location, and my friend goes there

[violet jay]

i mean its better than umelb but @thorn tulip doesnt agree

[haughty wyvern]

not monash...

i sent my sat scores there before i realized i didnt want to apply

[violet jay]

also why would you turn down stanford for usyd

😭😭😭😭

[haughty wyvern]

oh im not

[thorn tulip]

MONASH UNI VERSITYTYYYYYYYYY

[haughty wyvern]

but i like having options

[violet jay]

ah ok

[haughty wyvern]

BUT

in aus law is a bachelors degree

when in the US its a graduate programme

so it would save 3 years of my life

[thorn tulip]

med is also a bachelors program!

[haughty wyvern]

to just get the LLB

[thorn tulip]

i have a friend that got direct entry into a bs/md

or bs/md type program

i keep forgettin which....

[haughty wyvern]

usyd med is a 45/45 indicative entry score for IB

like thats sick and twisted

[violet jay]

45 and you’re baseline

[sharp merlin]

That’s crazy what

[violet jay]

LMAO

[thorn tulip]

usyds med school is also

one of the best in the world

[violet jay]

they reject

plenty

of 45s

[haughty wyvern]

oh thats amazing

im sorry the whole ATAR thing sounds awful

like ive watched videos of people in tears over their ATAR

[sharp merlin]

What’s ATAR

I never understood that system

[haughty wyvern]

ask the australians

[violet jay]

yeah its rough

IB superiority

[violet jay]

your mark but its also your ranking

top score is 99.95

[sharp merlin]

Is it standardized or something

[violet jay]

which is top 99.95 percent in the country

[violet jay]

yes

[haughty wyvern]

okay like if u get a 50-ish are you cooked

[sharp merlin]

Dang

[violet jay]

how hard do you have to flop to get 50

[haughty wyvern]

definitely bad

[thorn tulip]

👎

[haughty wyvern]

its a cult

[thorn tulip]

The funny thing is

A 50 isn’t actually the average atar

It’s a 70

Bc a lot of people do their y12 unscored

And no ur not cooked

You can easily do a bridging course

[haughty wyvern]

hi!! im a m25 taking hl lit, bio, hoa and sl aa, gp, and french my ee is on canadian federalism

[haughty wyvern]

i didnt know that was an option

how does ATAR even work

[thorn tulip]

It is!

[haughty wyvern]

is it just based on exam scores

[thorn tulip]

Basically it differs from state to state

But in my state

You take 4-6 subjects

And based on your schoolwork + exams

You get a score which gets scaled up or down if the course is competitive or not

[haughty wyvern]

oh wait thats actually nice

[thorn tulip]

For each subject

[haughty wyvern]

its less standarized which i kind of like

[thorn tulip]

And ur top 4 subjects gets added up + 10% of ur score from ur bottom subjects

And then you get an aggregate which basically is a rank then gets converted to an atar

[haughty wyvern]

like in the US when you take the SAT its literally a 2 hour test of just math and english

and to USYD thats the equivalent qualification to an ATAR

[thorn tulip]

Oh yes I did the sat too

[thorn tulip]

Honestly I think they’re a bit diff

[haughty wyvern]

like in my opinion these are NOT equal

[thorn tulip]

Sat is just a standardised test

Atar is a lot more

[thorn tulip]

😭

[thorn tulip]

Honestly kinda true

[haughty wyvern]

like yes technically

a 1360 is the top 5% of all us students

but idk

it feels easy...

[thorn tulip]

Yeah I get where ur coming from

Fs

[haughty wyvern]

love

[thorn tulip]

Yikers

[haughty wyvern]

hello

how do u even get a 99.95

[thorn tulip]

Be insanely cracked

I know a friend that got one

Basically got in the top 1% of every subject he did

Except like the hardest math which scales up isnalry high anyway

And French

[haughty wyvern]

thats genuinely evil

like that sounds like torture in high school

[thorn tulip]

It’s actually

Alright? 😭

I heard the ib is much harser

[haughty wyvern]

oh to get a 45

for sure

like theres also a lot of luck involved in getting a 45

to some extent

[thorn tulip]

Absolutely

I’d argue that’s the same with like

All the upper echelon grades

Same with atar

[violet jay]

ooh poor thing

i just did IB n24 and got a 43

trauma

[dull walrus]

bro is anyone rereading their essays and wallowing in shame

because that's what i'm doing now and i sound so insufferable oh my gosh i asked chatgpt to roast my essays and it ripped me to shreds

i think i went too ham on the intellectual vitality part of the app and i just sound too self-aware with no humility and personality besides Classics 💀💀 like if I was an AO reading this i would freaking hate this applicant

which is really sad because i'm totally different in real life lmao

anyways yeah i've been working on the essays since August (was initially gonna go REA) so I have no idea how I managed to miss this this shit so asssss

[south spear]

this is so true oh my god

🙏🙏🙏

it's ok

rereading essays is the most awful thing

im vowing to never reread mine (except i did a few times. BUT NO MORE.)

[hardy surge]

u got predicted a 30 and got into stanford?

wait so whe u graduate will u take the may exams

or are u just graduating w a normal HS diploma

[raven lotus]

Me

All the time

[haughty wyvern]

ill still take the exams but also i dont know if my predicteds are 100% accurate

like i took 2 anticipateds and got 7s on both

[haughty wyvern]

i promise its really not that bad

a quarter of my roomate essay is basically about my favorite redbull flavor

[last scroll]

How much do semester 2 grades matter esp if waitlisted

Specifically here

[faint egret]

Does Stanford require or let us email them a letter of continued interest apart from their update form?

[dull walrus]

yess that's smart

[dull walrus]

after submitting did you always really like your essays though

[last scroll]

Second on this

[haughty wyvern]

I loved most of them except my roommate essay

I used the word sunset eight times in it

[vocal bough]

real

i reread my stanford essays the other day and i still cannot believe i did not get in

[violet jay]

@haughty wyvern are you canadian

wait no you're domestic right

[haughty wyvern]

yeah US

[hardy surge]

ur not a recruited athlete r u

[haughty wyvern]

no i wish

i only got recruited to d2/d3 schools

and one irrelevant D1

[hardy surge]

huh okay

what sport

[haughty wyvern]

golf

stanford is unfortunately like 94k a year for me

got exactly $0 in financial aid

[hardy surge]

💀 wanna know what sport i was recruited for

[hardy surge]

yeah good luck man

[haughty wyvern]

wait yes

[hardy surge]

womens golf

[haughty wyvern]

okay wait you cooked

to stanford?

[hardy surge]

no

another t20

[haughty wyvern]

wait youre actually so cracked

how many performance stars do you have

[hardy surge]

i had full status

[haughty wyvern]

are you in the top 100 rn

[hardy surge]

ajga jgs or wagr

[haughty wyvern]

AJGA

if youre in the top 100 on WAGR ur actually goated

[hardy surge]

are u ranked on ajga

or jgs

cuz u said u had d3 offers right

[hardy surge]

i think i was over the summer, but im intl so

[haughty wyvern]

oh makes sense

[haughty wyvern]

i really only played in my regional tours

i think im like in the top 600 on ajga

which is...

not great

i played junior worlds though like two years ago

that was fun

[hardy surge]

ah sounds fun

i never played at torrey

actually i did

just wasnt interested in playing img

[haughty wyvern]

torrey is actually so tax for no reason

and it just kills me that if i were a san diego resident its litearlly cheap

also kind of upset that the design on my torrey t-shirt completely faded after 4 washes

[hardy surge]

idk i paid 400 bucks for a round

isnt it like 50 for locals

[haughty wyvern]

around i think it was 70 last time but im pretty sure twilight is 50

[violet jay]

hold on so how did you get in

[haughty wyvern]

to stanford?

intern at the gates foundation, chair of a high level council with the senate, spoke at a few conferences, wrote and passed a few bills

nothing crazy honestly

[hardy surge]

idk dawg that 30 IBDP predicted is throwing me off

thats really low even as a recruited athlete that would be too low

[haughty wyvern]

thank god stanford doesnt care about the DP

[hardy surge]

not really low but still

[hardy surge]

thats so cap but ok

[haughty wyvern]

for domestic

[hardy surge]

im assuming ur not graduating w a ib diploma

[haughty wyvern]

they only care about your grade in the actual IB class

[hardy surge]

ur just in ib courses

thats what im assuming

[haughty wyvern]

im a dp candidate

[hardy surge]

predicteds are based on in class grades wdym

[haughty wyvern]

not at my school

we do predicteds based on mocks

and i DID NOT do good in those

[hardy surge]

sooo ur saying that ur in-class tests are easier than mocks

[haughty wyvern]

but on two of the mocks i got a 4 on as anticipated i got 2 7s

[hardy surge]

so ur a M25 right

[haughty wyvern]

oh most definitely

[haughty wyvern]

yes

i do the DP at a public high school in the US its very different than abroad

[hardy surge]

lol did u just hand ur skl to ib misconduct 💀

[haughty wyvern]

stanford doesnt even have my predicteds

[hardy surge]

oh right

[haughty wyvern]

or will get my final results

[hardy surge]

huh.

interesting

@violet jay

arent we obligated to send

[haughty wyvern]

thats so odd

[hardy surge]

im assuming u just wont graduate w an IB diploma

bc if u take the finals i think u have to send em

idk how it works for domestic students tho

[hardy surge]

but didnt u claim to be a N24?

[haughty wyvern]

anticipated N24

[hardy surge]

huh. interesting

[hardy surge]

may 2024?

[haughty wyvern]

yeah but i literally cooked in november

[haughty wyvern]

anticipated

may 2024 (a) -> november 2024 (a) -> may 2025 (D)

pls dont ask how my school does IB its genuinely stupid

and my coordinator is incompetent

[hardy surge]

huh. interesting

[haughty wyvern]

but yeah applying as intl to the US is so much harder imo, like beyond glad that if i wanted to i could go in to exams this year, get all 1s, and nothing will happen

[violet jay]

i happen to know which school you go to 😭

bro we follow each other on insta...

[haughty wyvern]

HELLO

[violet jay]

your school is sweaty AS FUCK

????

like???

[haughty wyvern]

NOO

thats a different

wait elt me dm u

[violet jay]

....

we have 10 mutuals

💀

[hardy surge]

idk why but we have 3 mutuals...

[violet jay]

SKULL

[hardy surge]

hahahaha....

[haughty wyvern]

oh thats horrid

[tame dust]

whattheheck

[last scroll]

Where do u sumbit loci

[haughty wyvern]

wait i thought theres like an updates form

[last scroll]

Do I just use that

To put my letter in

Or like

[waxen moat]

Does anyone know if 1 B+ in first semester senior year effects you significantly in english

assuming you had Stanford 4.0 before

[storm ledge]

😭

one grade won't kill you

unless you're majoring in English but even then, man. (IF YOU FAIL, WHOLE OTHER STORY)

[forest tapir]

yeah I'm gonna have my first B+ in ap lit as well

tbh it's not that deep though

[drowsy oxide]

at least they dont look at freshman Bs

(B in math 💀 as symsys major)

basically its the perfect major for me

its basically theoreticla math + theoretical CS + linguistics + philosophy + etc

its rly cool

honestly the biggest reason why i like stanford

former yahoo ceo

iirc

yeah

basically what i want to pursue in uni anyway

[violet jay]

you're actually tripping then

???????

its the 4th largest major but okay..

interdisciplinary subject

either way its still a fricking large major at stanford

[drowsy oxide]

yeah i feel like my academic profile is perfect for symsys

still its stanford so

💀

i did symsys/urban studies

/ling as third major

i need acceptances 💔

if i dont get purdue im crashing out

ending it

its over

fax

i alr got tamu and utd but

sigma

ngl comp bio is the ultimate sweat major

for kids who want to be both premeds and engineering/cs ppl

rly

how new is the program

i think a lot of people drop

only 100 people ever graduated from it??

thats insane

makes sense

i know symsys also has compbio

[violet jay]

becuase not that many people are psychotic and do comp bio

[neon dust]

I applied cs I'm cooked

[fierce iris]

stanford sigma

[worldly latch]

stanford cs so good

[quasi panther]

has anyone gotten an interview request from stanford yet?

[loud flare]

uh no

[haughty wyvern]

yeah you'll get an email, phone call, and/or text from your interviewer directly

[storm ledge]

just did

[raw geode]

committed?

[dull walrus]

stanford give me my interview :(

[haughty wyvern]

yup

[raw geode]

amazing

lmk if u have any qs

[violet jay]

@raw geode how are the dorms

i searched up stanny dorms and im sorry but most feel like a massive turn off 😭

not that dorms actually matter but asdjhlfasgfhadb

[raw geode]

wait whats a turn off to u

my dorm is pretty chill

my room is big

[violet jay]

crothers

[raw geode]

okay yea

[violet jay]

LOL

[raw geode]

thats the one

[violet jay]

which one are you in

[raw geode]

everything else is very well maintained

[raw geode]

west lag

[violet jay]

govco too although id prefer it over crothers

ohhh

okay fair

[raw geode]

govco is also good

but j a bit far

like the dorms r nice

tbh

[violet jay]

apparently its socially dead but actually tahts perfect for me

[raw geode]

wait u find community everywhere

im not rlly connected w that many ppl in my dorm cuz im never here

[violet jay]

ahhh

fair enough

[raw geode]

like most of my good friends are in other dorms

[raw geode]

yea noone rlly complains about dorm quality

like noone has roaches or anything

or like bug problems

[violet jay]

ahhh ok

my dream is to live at EVGR A

😭

[raw geode]

u cant until junior/senior yr rio

rip

but same

[violet jay]

WHAT

FUCK

ok branner hall

pls

😭

[raw geode]

branner is chill

most of my close friends r there

lantana has big rooms

j a bit far

[violet jay]

where lantana

[raw geode]

gerhard casper quad

[modest snow]

wait ong?

i thought hella ppl apply for biomedical comp

[storm ledge]

is it bad i got an interview this early

well i assume they just give by availability so there’s no real like meaning behind it

stanford is evaluated so

[quick urchin]

Real

[shut spruce]

Please does Stanford display your ID on their portal

Or not yet I want to submit my css

And I can’t see any ID

[inland python]

Any intl who got interviews?

[haughty wyvern]

you can leave it blank on the CSS for stanford

[unique shore]

2

[harsh grail]

are stanford interviews random

[inland python]

At what date is kinda the last date to expect an interview invitation

[rose ermine]

Nope

[fierce iris]

jus got my stanford interview

[unique shore]

Me wen 0 interview, only ☠️☠️

[unique shore]

Congrats

[fierce iris]

ty

4/5 schools have reached out 🥶

well upenn interviews aren't evaluative so it's more like 4/4

[unique shore]

Damnnnn, which one left

That's great lol

[fierce iris]

i have my yale interview tmrw and harvard interview on saturday ☠️

[old vector]

Bruh me sitting with 0/9

tho it’s rlly only Harvard and Yale that rlly matters

[fierce iris]

lmao one of my upperclassman friends last year turned down a stanford interview and got in

[old vector]

wtf that’s crazy

[quick urchin]

Makes sense

Stanford doesn't care a ton about interviews

[tame dust]

yep your application is considered complete without an interview

goes for most schools tbh

minus gtown

[fierce iris]

🫡

:trenches:

[wraith hawk]

Yessir

[thorny orchid]

I'm int; if I get an interview then is that a good sign or just neutral and nothing much

[unique shore]

Prolly good

You got one?

[violet jay]

stanny gives everyone interviews

[inland python]

Isn’t it generally a good thing cuz interviews can only help

Very few interviews become burdens on ur app

[unique shore]

Well honestly I personally feel like "everyone" is a BS
Sometimes they don't tell you everything
So yeah it's a good sign
Give it well, it will help

[thorny orchid]

Yea

[thorny orchid]

Thank youuu

[woeful lance]

omg i just saw this- symsys is my dream major 😩😩 ugh its so perfect

all the classes seem so interesting and i love that they have tracks within symsys as well

i put ling as my #1 major and symsys 2nd but im planning to do symsys if i get in 😭😭😭

[south spear]

dude symsys dream major is so real IT is literally the coolest thing ever

i put symsys as first and inter-arts as my second choice JFDHJKSG even though inter-arts is only a minor i think

oh my god symsys DROOLING fr

[woeful lance]

SLAY omg interdisciplinary queen 😍😍

i feel like symsys naturally attracts ppl like us w lots of interests which is why i love it sm 😭🤟

[woeful lance]

LITERALLY

i am going to be absolutely gutted if i dont get in 💔

is stanford ur top choice

[south spear]

YEAH exactly

!!!!

oh my god

RUGHHGrnsjkdfg

[south spear]

yes for sure

oml

mit is my second choice but it is cold .. stanford is literally my dream

UGH i don't wanna think too hard about it though bc i'm gonna be so crushed if i don't get in sigh .. i gotta lower expectations...

[woeful lance]

DFKSJDFKJHhskljdghldfjg

[woeful lance]

omg i live in massachusetts LOL i want to get out of here 😭😭😭 warmer weather sounds amazing

[violet jay]

i feel like anyone can do symbsys

am i wrong

[woeful lance]

yeah i think a lot of people switch into symsys bc it's more accessible than CS

[violet jay]

wait if you guys applied symbsys what's field are your strength ec/honours in rn

im curious

@south spear

[woeful lance]

me fr 😔😔😔 im like oscillating between completely delusional and having zero hope

[south spear]

DUDE i love warm weather...

[south spear]

umm most of my ecs are in compsci/gamedev/'creative' tech competitions? and a little bit of linguistics side stuff

[violet jay]

ahhh okay

[south spear]

YAH ACTUALLY 😭

[violet jay]

mine was music + education

they really take everyone

💀

[south spear]

oh that's really cute

[south spear]

i mean i haven't gotten in yet so

[woeful lance]

most of my ECs are language or cs related - i do linguistics research, freelance translating, and language clubs at my school

[south spear]

🛐🛐🛐🛐🛐🛐

[south spear]

!!!!

[violet jay]

well yours actually fits

[violet jay]

omg linguistics queen

[south spear]

i also do a bit of music and stuff but it's really small and on the side

[woeful lance]

WAIT THIS IS SO COOL 👀👀

[south spear]

EHEHE

[woeful lance]

id love to know more about game dev

[south spear]

i feel like my strongest ec/award is apple swift student challenge 😭😭😭😭 oml

[south spear]

!!! i make games as a side hobby & participate in game jams and stuff hehe

but they're mostly small games so far

which is something i really regret, i feel like my app could be soo much stronger if i pushed through and released a larger commercial game

but it's okay 💔

[woeful lance]

that's so cool!!!! it sounds like an amazing creative outlet

[violet jay]

what did you guys write about in your roomate essay

[woeful lance]

LOL mine is really cringey

i can share it if you want

[south spear]

yea it's really fun hehe

BRO mine was so cringe fr

😭

[violet jay]

id love to read it

[woeful lance]

help this is how i feel too 😭 i made a language learning app last year at mit blueprint and we never made it anything more than a webapp 😭😭

[south spear]

i formatted it like a "Ready, Player Two!" type thing cuz games are kind of my thing so like 😭😭 omg

[woeful lance]

wait this is so fun symsys majors unite

[south spear]

KDJFHJKDS oh man

i love linguistics so much though AHRUNSGJK !!

see u guys all in symsys. trust. TRUST

[violet jay]

wait should we just all share our roommate essays on the off chance we're roomies at stanny

[woeful lance]

WAIT SLAY THATS SO COOL

[violet jay]

LMAO

[woeful lance]

YES.

[violet jay]

okay bet

[south spear]

THANK YOU 😭😭😭 omg

[violet jay]

oh you meant in dms

[south spear]

i read it now and i feel like mine is so cringe

[woeful lance]

we can do it here too LOL

[south spear]

awwhhua wait this is actually so cute

[violet jay]

"shrek's wife"

😭

[south spear]

AKLJSHJKA

omg

wow

[woeful lance]

wait how do u send images LOL

i dont have permission to send pictures i think 💀

[violet jay]

screenshot and drag to discord

you should

[south spear]

oh i think you need a certain level of activity in the server

before you get the role to send images

😔

[violet jay]

oh its the perms role

[woeful lance]

AW THIS IS SO CUTE 🥺 I LOVE IT ITS LIKE I CAN FEEL THE ENVIRONMENT THAT UR CREATING

[violet jay]

AWWHHH STOP YOU'RE TOO KIND

[woeful lance]

the chinese snacks are so real too 😭❤️

[south spear]

YEAH for real

godshhgs

[woeful lance]

oop LOLOLOL that's so funny

[violet jay]

WANG WANG BISCUITS WILL ALWAYS HAVE MY HEART

[woeful lance]

i can send it in dms

[haughty shore]

is it still possible to get an interview did you have to email someone for one?

[tough marsh]

U get interviews like entirety of January and Feb as well

I think

[unique shore]

Fr fr

[raven lotus]

bc stanford isnt a real school

[normal shoal]

real and future stanford students are too busy to say anything here, and anyone applying knows its a lottery ticket

less Stanford simping

[tame dust]

not like the princeton thread everybodys so chill

[torn ravine]

i love this essay oh em gee 😭😭

[violet jay]

thank you 😭 🫶

[dull walrus]

STANFORD INTERVIEW SECURED

omg i’m so nervous

[storm ledge]

COOK

[south spear]

GOOD LUCK!!!

[vocal bough]

wait i wanna read it

[south spear]

okok i will dm it

[drowsy oxide]

dawg i have the same writing style 💀

[last scroll]

Are in person or virtual interviews better

[south spear]

i think in person is more fun and you can properly connect w the interviewer lol

[drowsy oxide]

this fs

[unique shore]

But me wen 0 interview stands still ☠️😞

[neon dust]

Wait LOL my interviewer bought the subscription to continue the interview

[unique shore]

Guys should we fill the Stanford FAO document upload?

[sour dune]

does an interview have more significance since im intl?

[unique shore]

Prolly

[unique shore]

Anyone?

[tame dust]

SHOW ME

[vocal bough]

no

[neon cave]

Do Stanford interviewers see your activities list? What do they know about you

[storm ledge]

No and they only have phone number, name, email

[keen thicket]

did u get ur rd interview?

[neon cave]

Yes

[keen thicket]

boi i haven't gotten mine yet

[neon cave]

California. I got it on Wednesday

[keen thicket]

oh yeah it's by state ig

[granite oriole]

omg this is such a cute essay, i can tell you're such a sweet person from this 😌

[violet jay]

thank you 🩶

[tawdry pumice]

does stanford send an interview request to each person? (assuming there's an alumni in their area)

[violet jay]

yes

[tawdry pumice]

ik everyone say's it's optional, but stanford's site says it can reveal more abt us beyond our application... do yk if interviewers just give ratings or also pass on notes to aos?

[merry salmon]

they send a written report

[violet jay]

yes

mine wrote hella notes

[shut spruce]

Wait do you request a Stanford interview or they give you one ?

[violet jay]

you can opt in for one

then they give you one depedning on avail

[shut spruce]

Is it the common app question?

[shut spruce]

Okay thanks

[tawdry pumice]

r u applying this season?

or ru alr in uni

[violet jay]

accepted rea

[tawdry pumice]

wow

congratsss

[violet jay]

tyy

[tawdry pumice]

wld u recommend doing the interview?

[violet jay]

yes 100%

[tawdry pumice]

okok tysm

[tawdry pumice]

btw u committed to unsw?

[violet jay]

no my name is a joke

[tawdry pumice]

oh 😭

wait you're international??

[violet jay]

yes

[tawdry pumice]

woaa 😭
do u have a u.s. citizenship?? int'l at stanford is crazyyy

[violet jay]

us citizenship yes but still intl unfortunately

im US for fin aid

so if i applied fin aid i'd be need blind

[tawdry pumice]

but ur still domestic no?

im also an int'll with a us citizenship

[violet jay]

not for admissions purposes

[tawdry pumice]

is that for stanford speicfically? cus everyone else is saying u'd be considered domestic w a us citizenship

[violet jay]

yes stanford specifically

harvard is fully international, both adm and finaid

[tawdry pumice]

ohhh okayy

do u mind if i ask what ur spike was 😭

or the strongest thing on ur app

[violet jay]

If you are a U.S. citizen or a U.S. permanent resident living and attending school abroad, you are considered a domestic applicant for financial aid purposes, while your application will be read in the context of your secondary school.

[violet jay]

music

music + this educational resource i made (also music related)

grades

rec letters def

[tawdry pumice]

wowwoow

that's crazyyy

im applying for cs 😭
such a blood bath

[violet jay]

💀

why cs

[tawdry pumice]

just shooting my shot cus it's so unpredicatble

[tawdry pumice]

literally my whole profile is around cs 😭

[violet jay]

ah ok

i applied symbsys

[tawdry pumice]

oooo