Duke University (2024-2025)

[quartz bridge]

75% reject

[regal lark]

i just really hope i get in i got waitlisted and cooked everyhwere pretty much

[old spindle]

😮

[scarlet quarry]

Same

Rough

[old spindle]

duke is everyone’s last hope 😭

[quartz bridge]

duke is also test optional so more kids were able to apply

[regal lark]

main hope is that im like 20 mins away from duke and they take a decent amount from our school

[quartz bridge]

yale was test required

[quartz bridge]

omg i couldnt imagine going to college the same place i grew up

i saw a lot of TO kids get in ED to duke this year

[old spindle]

dook

[regal lark]

i wish duke was test required sigh

[old spindle]

agreed 💔

[quartz bridge]

but my SAT was also not jawdropping it was pretty avg for t20's. Honestly i think it was in the bottom 25% when i ED to duke

[regal lark]

but i initially applied with a 34/1510 but then got a 35 in december plus got all As after getting a B one time junior year so well see

[old spindle]

it’s ok ur the yale goat!

[odd hollow]

I mean sat lowkey doesn’t matter much

[quartz bridge]

i applied with a 1460 ED but in november i got a 1510 so i updated

[odd hollow]

I had a 1580 great essays and great recs and solid ECs good awards and didn’t get in a lot of places

[quartz bridge]

true. I got into cornell test blind

i yoloed my yale essays

wrote em in an hour

my duke essays took 2 weeks

[old spindle]

LMAO i feel like it’s always the essays you try the least on that work the best

[odd hollow]

Yeah bc they’re raw

[quartz bridge]

my yale essays were just my duke essays copy and pasted 💔

[old spindle]

omg LMAOOO

[quartz bridge]

except the why yale

[old spindle]

i wrote the worst worst worst essays

[quartz bridge]

which i also used with the same format as duke

[old spindle]

only thing saving me is a late interview 💔

[old spindle]

oh real

[regal lark]

i think i messed up by applying neuro + visual arts with no real visual arts honors

[quartz bridge]

thats a good sign!

[regal lark]

i applied for more like design

[quartz bridge]

also duke has one of the best envi sci programs

[old spindle]

content does, but style not as much

[quartz bridge]

which is also why I EDed

[old spindle]

oh wait thank god

[quartz bridge]

like their climate action program has really expanded

[old spindle]

i have horrible style

[lean bobcat]

im so cooked

[old spindle]

my contents decent

this is why berkeley liked me 💔 they like it chock full of linkedinese

[quartz bridge]

i thought my duke essays were the best ones i wrote from the whole cycle

i caught at least 4 typos on my yale common app

💀

[median bluff]

i had a typo in profs name for rice and got in

[lean bobcat]

chat i mentioned a professor in my essay

and he retired a few months ago

im cooked

[old spindle]

HELP

were u ed deferred

[lean bobcat]

yea

[median bluff]

you cant know

its fine

[lean bobcat]

i think it might be over

[old spindle]

okay then i doubt they’d hold it against you

[quartz bridge]

i didnt even get an interview for yale and im kinda sad because i wanted to yap to my interviewer and have a cool interview story 😔

i only had 2 interviews the whole cycle (duke and rice)

[old spindle]

auto admit queen !

[bleak mantle]

i genuinely dont think they check that hard

[limpid dew]

hold up what ai thing

[quartz bridge]

def not LMAO

[lean bobcat]

i hope so

[bleak mantle]

they probably see oh this person put effort into looking at faculty and seems to know what we offer well and then move on

[quartz bridge]

omg yall dont remember this thread during ED

like it was actually insane

[limpid dew]

huh?

[quartz bridge]

i remember all the OG's

[gritty palm]

why

[quartz bridge]

nah the ED rate this year was terrible compared to other t20's

like Northwestern was 20%💀

[old spindle]

cracked!

call us walnuts the way we are cracked

[quartz bridge]

yeah this is what happened to me

[lean bobcat]

nah i got cooked

😭

[quartz bridge]

i know somone who was deferred last year who bagged Harvard in RD

its insane

[lean bobcat]

damn

the only ones i can afford is purdue and uiuc

[quartz bridge]

honestly my second choice after yale was uva because i got into the honors scholars program there

cornell wasn't really my vibe

[lean bobcat]

ye mech eng for both

its ok

im grateful

[quartz bridge]

uiuc is insane for engineering HELLO

[lean bobcat]

but its like very close to my budget limit

so idk if its fully worth

[old spindle]

purdue eng is insane too

omg 😭

[gritty palm]

Not rly it’s mainly eecs

[forest rivet]

Please Blue Devils

[scarlet quarry]

Duke is my last hope

If not michigan

Dubs

[quartz bridge]

idk i just know that most t20s besides like stanford and mit arent really worth it for engineering

[scarlet quarry]

Or UIUC CE

[quartz bridge]

duke is tho

[gritty palm]

Bruh what

[quartz bridge]

jhu too

[gritty palm]

Duke engi is ight

[quartz bridge]

for bme

[lean bobcat]

isnt jhu more for like med

[scarlet quarry]

Duke bme is top tier

[quartz bridge]

duke engineering is really really good

like their tech is top of the notch

[scarlet quarry]

I think ECE is really good too

Everything else is

Kinda eh

[quartz bridge]

i visited it earlier this year

[scarlet quarry]

Ngl tho

But

I still would go if I got in

[gritty palm]

Yeah everywhere has good tech bro

[scarlet quarry]

Not happening

[gritty palm]

It’s still 23rd engineering school

lol

[scarlet quarry]

Mich on top

Go wolverines

[lean bobcat]

between purdue and uiuc, which one would u take for mecheng

[quartz bridge]

i would take uiuc

[scarlet quarry]

I think for mecheng purdue is better

[gritty palm]

Purdue in a heartbeat bro

[quartz bridge]

too many opps at purdue

[scarlet quarry]

UIUC is better for

[gritty palm]

have u seen their maker space

it’s insane

[scarlet quarry]

Compe and EE

[gritty palm]

it’s like 3 floors

crazy

[lean bobcat]

oh wow

lemme look that up

[gritty palm]

purdue meche in a heartbeat

ik a lot of smart ppl there

[lean bobcat]

ahh ok

[gritty palm]

unless ur a prestige fein then purdue > duke as well

[lean bobcat]

i wouldve gone gtech over any but i got rejected

[gritty palm]

ye gatech is fire

im very grateful

[heady bolt]

Stanford deferral got me uiuc and purdue, waitlist harvey mudd, ucsd, gtech and rejected from 3 ivies, stanford, northwestern, ucla and berk so it seems pretty random

[lean bobcat]

yeah good stuff

[scarlet quarry]

☠️ yeah this shit was ass bro

[heady bolt]

I guess applying for computer engineering was not the move

[lean bobcat]

damn stanford deferral is pretty crazy

[odd hollow]

Ppl say that abt Yale rea but I got semi cooked

[scarlet quarry]

This is how I feel!

[heady bolt]

🥹

[scarlet quarry]

Wallah bro

[heady bolt]

Mg are you going to uiuc

[gritty palm]

It’s based on fit bro

[scarlet quarry]

Not sure between mich and uiuc yet

[gritty palm]

half the people who get into like cornell engineering dont get into gatech

[scarlet quarry]

Lowkey might go mich

[gritty palm]

cuz gatech is simply better

same w mich

[heady bolt]

Mich is great

[scarlet quarry]

Yeah

I’m gonna

[gritty palm]

mich engineering is better than any ivy imo

its fire

[scarlet quarry]

Have infinite rizz

At mich

[lean bobcat]

ye most of the ivy eng is mid ash its just the prestige hunters

[heady bolt]

How about uiuc😭

Im coping

[scarlet quarry]

Hella baddies bro

[gritty palm]

idk much

not even true bro

ur classes get smaller as the years progress

[limpid dew]

uiuc goated for cs & engineering

wish i could afford uiuc

[gritty palm]

umich engineering is basically it’s own little school

[heady bolt]

Lmao i just realized you created punch a college

[scarlet quarry]

I asked like

[limpid dew]

i did! 👊

[scarlet quarry]

My granduncle

At AMD

he glazed uiuc

So hard

So

[heady bolt]

I wrote a script that spammed

[limpid dew]

love that

[scarlet quarry]

He’s a high level position there too

[limpid dew]

mit ppl spammed too

[heady bolt]

I wanted to send a message that you needed to implement rate limiting

[gritty palm]

does duke even admit by major

they made us put 3 choices

[limpid dew]

i did

[heady bolt]

😍uiuc

[scarlet quarry]

I put

[heady bolt]

Gotcha

[scarlet quarry]

ECE

environmental

And physics

Random ahh choices

[limpid dew]

only after cmu mit nerds spammed the shit outta it & i lost a ton of money on storage lmao

[heady bolt]

I fumbled 3 choices i put bme then entrepreneurship and the certificate

[gritty palm]

yeah i did meche physics then philosophy

[heady bolt]

Im getting rejected

[limpid dew]

i put all engineering shi & maybe a business idr am i cooked

[heady bolt]

Idk what i was doing

And for gap year I messed up

I forgot to finish writing it

And put finish getting pilot’s license and scuba certification

😭

Actually cooked

[limpid dew]

mf you friend with emi of course you did LOL

[gritty palm]

gap yr?

[heady bolt]

I didnt go too hard dw

I did like 5k

Then my chrome window on mac crashed

[limpid dew]

well your friend did not think so 💔🥀

lmao

[hoary plaza]

guys

[heady bolt]

Cant wait to get m4 macbook pro

[hoary plaza]

what do I do

i got rejected from everything and wl from cornell and mich

[limpid dew]

0/1/8 fries. bag. now.

[gritty palm]

did u apply to any safeties bro

[weary yacht]

lock in for grad school

[limpid dew]

not even a safety bro?

[heady bolt]

How much did it end up costing

In total

[limpid dew]

like $20

[heady bolt]

Oh

Not bad

[hoary plaza]

well yh in the UK but i don't like it

at all

could go to the extent that I DO NOT Want to go

[weary yacht]

why apply to them then

[limpid dew]

yeah not too bad

for the clout & connections i made because of it not bad at all

[narrow raft]

Still waiting remember you & pepper

[hoary plaza]

nothing better

[fleet bay]

and nft snipers yeah

[umbral dirge]

shotgun

maybe take a gap year

or apply rolling to a state school like penn state then attempt to transfer as a sophomore

[steel bloom]

dookie

please pookie

[neon basalt]

Nah but I’m sure it has some correlation with your admission decision

[lofty pelican]

Oh chill

[craggy wren]

idk i just looked at my application file

and they said they didnt really care for that ec

ya you should be fine

[lofty pelican]

cuz I feel like its impressive scaling it as far as I did either way

[craggy wren]

ya

the founder of hayha goes to duke too

[heady bolt]

Lickety split?

[lofty pelican]

oh what thats cool

[heady bolt]

Have you met him

[craggy wren]

na i havent unfortunately

but hes in the Cube

[forest rivet]

Does Duke like pre-med students

[craggy wren]

what do you mean by like

[forest rivet]

Idk

I’m just delusional

I’m just praying for this acceptance

[old spindle]

wdym

duke likes all kinds of students

they also reject all kinds of students

[steel bloom]

:(

[craggy wren]

you guys got this

[umbral dirge]

Sure doesn’t feel like it

I’m starting to feel like UVA might not be that bad

Once I look beyond the fact that all my peers are going to ivies and HYPSM, I feel more comfortable with where I am

[gritty palm]

Wow really 🤯

Uva isn’t that bad?

No way

[limpid dew]

uva is crazy awesome

wdym not that bad

[umbral dirge]

Well it’s a state school

crazy competition for good references and huge class sizes

[gritty palm]

☠️

[umbral dirge]

People have gotten in by being far less tryhardy

[limpid dew]

id die for a uva admit

[old spindle]

duke will clutch

[limpid dew]

rly need a clutch rn

DUKE DUKE DUKE

[kindred sparrow]

why is the duke decision date the 31st

[steel bloom]

if duke doesn’t clutch then what

is it joever

[forest rivet]

Best for last

[limpid dew]

yes

[kindred sparrow]

perhaps they'll yield protect against Ivy League accepted ppl and then accept everyone else, thus taking advantage of the students' despair and forming a stronger connection. This guarantees that most people will be willing to go to Duke

[steel bloom]

zamn

[steel bloom]

if only they knew

[kindred sparrow]

y'all think i could send a email rn to say theyre my top choice 💀

[old spindle]

bro seeing the people who went 0/8 on ivy day then get stanford is giving me hope

[limpid dew]

if delusional was a person, it’d be you

[kindred sparrow]

literaly my friend

[steel bloom]

what if the hope is false bro

[kindred sparrow]

lolllll

[old spindle]

well

that will be ok

berk berk berk

i have waitlist hope

[kindred sparrow]

i dont :(

it's fine Cal campus wasn't as ugly as people hyped it to be

[old spindle]

what waitlist do u have

[steel bloom]

actually u guys both have berkeley bruh

[kindred sparrow]

and I have so many connections there

[kindred sparrow]

NW

[old spindle]

ohhh

[old spindle]

this is true

i watched a video of the haas campus

it’s so cute

[kindred sparrow]

haas is p good i went there yesterday

right next to it is that ugly envirodesign tower tho

[old spindle]

oh ☹️

[kindred sparrow]

it was worse in-person than the pics showed

besides that tho the campus is chill

could repair the roads but wtv

[old spindle]

yeah the roads ☹️

[kindred sparrow]

yeah im totally fine with Cal lolll, but it'd be nice to reach slightly further

[old spindle]

berkeley, any private ivy/ivyplus, would all be 90k/year for me

so it would be nice to have a private school option

[limpid dew]

PLEASEEE DUKEEEE

[umbral dirge]

I wish brown didn’t reject me

Princeton WL is so pointless

[old spindle]

you only have pton waitlist right

[umbral dirge]

yup

not much else I can do

3 is mean

honestly better odds

[kindred sparrow]

dw u got Columbia ur getting in

[old spindle]

yeah true better odds

[umbral dirge]

maybe it is nice

[steel bloom]

how many get off brown waitlist

[umbral dirge]

100+?

[old spindle]

10-15% ? ish

[steel bloom]

or columbia

damn

[old spindle]

they don’t publish their data

[umbral dirge]

nyu waitlist is so dumb I’m not joining that shit

[steel bloom]

i only got yale waitlist and that shit is cooked

[umbral dirge]

HYPSM is high yield

Mit is defo the worst

[steel bloom]

yea mit takes like 0

they waitlisted 943 this year

13 is cooked

[kindred sparrow]

hope for some weird yields and ull have a chance

[steel bloom]

they took 23/774 last year

which is still bad

[old spindle]

damn

[umbral dirge]

that’s not terrible

better than pton and harv

[narrow raft]

They rejected most of the legacies kids I know who applied ED if it makes you feel better think they only courtesy deferred kids they might take

[kindred sparrow]

it's a long shot esp if ur going for competitive majors

[umbral dirge]

I’m guessing mostly stem kids get off tho

[kindred sparrow]

huh really?

[old spindle]

because if yale loses stem kids to harvard princeton mit etc

then yale might be more inclined to take stem kids to fill in that gap

[kindred sparrow]

oh that's true for yale

[old spindle]

but i mean you can get off the waitlist regardless of major/profile

[steel bloom]

i pray

[umbral dirge]

idk who’s turning down princeton ngl

I’ve only seen 2 ppl turn them down and one was for brown the other for harvard

[steel bloom]

i mean princeton is like super depressed right

[umbral dirge]

yeah

[steel bloom]

grade deflation school

[umbral dirge]

still #1 in the natiob

good for stem and arts

[steel bloom]

true

but idk if i’d rather be happy for the next 4 years

or idk

[umbral dirge]

wait did you get in?

[steel bloom]

no

im talking as if i were you

im cooked bro i got into one school

[umbral dirge]

okay cuz if you were I’d have to convince you to go elsewhere cuz I need that waitlist A

[kindred sparrow]

lolllll

[umbral dirge]

I got into like no reaches

[steel bloom]

are u from va

[umbral dirge]

no

[old spindle]

pokémon go gave me a sign

[steel bloom]

the only school i got into is my state school

[steel bloom]

lol

[kindred sparrow]

everyone's going to be fine in a few years trust

[steel bloom]

ur got into berkeley oos of course it ain’t over

[kindred sparrow]

oh im in state lolll

everyday im so glad im in state the advantages are crazy

[old spindle]

i’m oos!

[kindred sparrow]

yeah

[umbral dirge]

save money

[old spindle]

someone said the oos acceptance rate for haas was like 1% idk how true that is but i’ll take the ego boost ☹️

[umbral dirge]

berkeley in state is better than t10s

[steel bloom]

i mean realistically going to my state school is probs the best option because ill graduate in 3 yrs and save money

[umbral dirge]

just makes more sense financially

[old spindle]

which major :0

[umbral dirge]

abg studies

[kindred sparrow]

what in 3 year???

[steel bloom]

yeah i have enough aps and dual enrollment

[umbral dirge]

I mean I’m doing that at UVA

[old spindle]

damn how many?

[kindred sparrow]

that's true but i like smaller schools, not to complain too much

[old spindle]

i wonder how many of my aps berkeley will take

[kindred sparrow]

a few i think

[umbral dirge]

I have enough credits to graduate in 3 years at any of the state schools I got into

[steel bloom]

45ish credits

[kindred sparrow]

same lol

[steel bloom]

i can do more this summer at cc

[kindred sparrow]

premed 💀

im cooked at Cal

[umbral dirge]

doesnt cal have grade inflation

[kindred sparrow]

huhhhhhh

its famously for super hard premed

ur supposed to take LA over Cal premed any day

[old spindle]

cal apparently has grade inflation now after covid

[kindred sparrow]

didnt get in tho sooo

[kindred sparrow]

oh what

yoyoyo what

[old spindle]

allegedly so!

ucla waitlisted me

[kindred sparrow]

same

[old spindle]

it’s ok haas mogs pre business econ

whatever that major is

[umbral dirge]

engineering is bad everywhere

[kindred sparrow]

idt im going to try too much for ucla even tho my friends are going

[umbral dirge]

I hate that I can’t get direct admit to business school

[kindred sparrow]

Cal's fine i have connections and hearing about the inflation !!

[umbral dirge]

I have to acc grind freshman year to get into Mcintirr

[kindred sparrow]

did u figure out the GMP thing

[neon basalt]

I wanted this but got the opposite

[steel bloom]

8/8 ivy day

bruh

[kindred sparrow]

don't cry bro 😭

[umbral dirge]

first word problems

[kindred sparrow]

wait did u apply to duke

please withdraw 🙏 save some for us

[steel bloom]

lmao bro i don’t think they can withdraw anymore

[umbral dirge]

decisions are final

[kindred sparrow]

ikr itd be an amazing problem to have

[umbral dirge]

Duke clutch would be insane

[neon basalt]

I literally can’t

sorry

[kindred sparrow]

no problem

[umbral dirge]

Legendary story

[kindred sparrow]

id assume u wont go to duke so ull be helping whoever gets waitlisted!

have u figured which ivy ur going to?

[umbral dirge]

or mit

[kindred sparrow]

yeah

[old spindle]

nah i’m lazy

[umbral dirge]

I mean mit cs is the clear option

[kindred sparrow]

imagine they send u to Ghana tho

[neon basalt]

Ye

[neon basalt]

MIT or Harvard rn

[old spindle]

my admit letter says spieker

[kindred sparrow]

not necessarily

[steel bloom]

what is gmp

[umbral dirge]

yuh uh

mit and stanford and cmu mog everyone for cs

then comes berkeley

then comes gatech

then the ivies

[neon basalt]

My only drawback with mit is their grade deflation

lol

[kindred sparrow]

if i did CS i'd also care about my secondary interests

[steel bloom]

where is uiuc blud

[kindred sparrow]

avg of like 3.6/5 is so low lolll

[neon basalt]

Yea

[old spindle]

i mean people know how hard mit is

[umbral dirge]

lower imo

[old spindle]

it won’t be an issue for employment

[steel bloom]

its ranked higher

[umbral dirge]

if you’re good enough to get into all those schools I’m sure you’ll be fine at mit

[old spindle]

bro how did alexandr wang have a 5.0 at mit 💔

[kindred sparrow]

good pt tbh

[umbral dirge]

that’s higher than princeton

[kindred sparrow]

really?

princeton is on a scale of 4 tho i thought?

mit ranks high on the "grade inflation" thing cuz theyre compared to /4 schools when its actually /5

[neon basalt]

I’m thinking abt grad school too

So i dunno

[kindred sparrow]

grad school cooked for current applicants rn 💀

[old spindle]

stanford grad!

[neon basalt]

Yes

The dream

[kindred sparrow]

phd?

[old spindle]

mit -> stanford grad is aura bro

[neon basalt]

mit undergrad to Stanford grad

[umbral dirge]

Princeton’s 3.3 which is lower than Harvard at 3.65 and Stanny or Brown

[neon basalt]

Masters

I haven’t thought abt phd

[kindred sparrow]

yeah but they're out of 4; MIT is out of 5

[umbral dirge]

I thought you only get master’s if you fail to complete a phd

[kindred sparrow]

no u can go for just master's

when u go for phd u get ur master's along the way

[kindred sparrow]

i see i see

[neon basalt]

Yep

I wanna give up on life actually

Why can’t I be born rich.

[kindred sparrow]

what???

[neon basalt]

LMAO I’m joking

Sometimes I just wish I was a billionaire’s son

So I have 0 problems

[kindred sparrow]

chill life huh

[umbral dirge]

I mean you’d still have problems

[kindred sparrow]

eh sounds kinda boring and ur worldview would be weird

[neon basalt]

I’ll prob be used

[kindred sparrow]

yes

[umbral dirge]

you can buy a building

[kindred sparrow]

climb up urself

self-made billionaire yk

[steel bloom]

that takes work

[kindred sparrow]

have fun along the way

enjoy the climb

[wanton ivy]

april fools 4:30 am for me

[old spindle]

duke duke

[forest rivet]

Pls

[scarlet quarry]

Alr you know what

I’ve given up

But please holy shit

I’ve been through SO MUCH

[old spindle]

duke duke duke

[neon basalt]

duke duke duke

[steel bloom]

duke duke duke

[umbral dirge]

nuh uh you don’t need this

Duke needs to win my bracket tho

[old spindle]

duke duke duke

[umbral dirge]

Duke Duke duke

[forest rivet]

Duke duke duke

[steel bloom]

DUKE DUKE DUKE

[lyric quarry]

duke duke duke

[heady bolt]

D1h d1h d1h continue my rejection streak

[viral rose]

Duke is gonna finish my rejection streak brother

Gonna be my 12th r/WL in a row

[umbral dirge]

12 rejections but landed cmu scs?

I mean that’s a win

[viral rose]

Ye

[viral rose]

Ty ty

[glossy wharf]

if i ddint get an interview am i cooked

[devout mango]

I think for intl yes (?)

Idk I’m an intl who applied and didn’t get an interview

[thin radish]

Bro wtf we are the same person

I’m also prob CMU Duke gonna bring my streak to 13 I think

[viral rose]

Lmao

[viral rose]

U scs too?

[thin radish]

Nah CIT

So easier I think

[viral rose]

Damn nice nice

Ever since cmu I've been taking straight Ls

[thin radish]

Same bro it’s been so depressing

I got ucla the week after CMU but following that was straight Ls

Can’t afford oos ucla

This whole process makes no sense to me but whatev

[old spindle]

duke duke duke

[mighty minnow]

[steel bloom]

please dookie pookie

kyrie and tim cook 🙏🙏

[elder nacelle]

guys what egregious task should i do if i get into duke

[steel bloom]

decline

lmao

i’m kidding don’t shoot me

[elder nacelle]

bro my moms gonna send me there i cant decline 💔

[steel bloom]

if you get in then you should beg them to let me in too

[elder nacelle]

alr

what major are you

ill tell them to admit double for that major fr

[steel bloom]

cs

[elder nacelle]

oh

that may take a bit of convincing but ill try 😭

[steel bloom]

im cooked bro

[elder nacelle]

nah trust 🕯️

is anyone else in here physics

[lean bobcat]

ib?

[elder nacelle]

oh nah i meant like physics major

[lean bobcat]

ohh

[elder nacelle]

u applied to duke as a phys major

[lean bobcat]

what demon would take a phys major

oh hell nah

i applied eng

[elder nacelle]

..me 😔

i wouldve put aero but bummy duke doesnt have an aero major

so my second choice is astrophys and they dont have that either so....

physics it is

[lean bobcat]

bro thats crazy

my physics teacher in ib said dont take physics in college 😭

[elder nacelle]

💀

[lean bobcat]

he said its pure tedious work

[elder nacelle]

well

idc

[lean bobcat]

praying for u

🙏

[elder nacelle]

i was born to go insane 🙏

[lean bobcat]

lmao

[elder nacelle]

nah dukes phys research looks cool

like the cosmology and quantum computing stuff

so hopefully i get to do that 🙏

[gritty palm]

That was my second choice

First was mech e

[elder nacelle]

nice

lmao i see gtech in ur name too

if duke doesnt work im going over there 💀

[gritty palm]

Realistically GaTech is better anyways but wtv

[elder nacelle]

lmao

[gritty palm]

We ball

[true pond]

Didn’t get a duke interview we lowkey cooked

I just need the rejection for closure though

So I can finally maybe commit somewhere

[elder nacelle]

duke is just edging everyone atp

like stop preventing me from commiting to gtech 💔

[scarlet quarry]

Straight Ls is a good way to describe this past week LMAO

[final gazelle]

ok literally i only got into schools i didnt get interviews from

its so weird to me bc i literally got straight rejected from every other interview school

[true pond]

ong this week i had 10 rejections 4 waitlists

[final gazelle]

i was so hyped when i got my yale interview but they were just playing 🤨

[forest rivet]

Go Blue Devils

[old spindle]

LMAOOOO

[old spindle]

ong…

ok if duke gave me a late interview and still rejects me

d1 edging

[umbral dirge]

duke pls tell me you interviewed me for a reason

[weary yacht]

sameeee

pleaseee dukeee

[thin radish]

ive done 10 fuckin interviews all rejects 😭

[old spindle]

duke duke duke

[humble crest]

this is prob the whitest school i applied to that was good

so pls accept me

i listen to zach bryan and have a usa flag in my room

[old spindle]

aren’t they like 23% asian

but i see what you mean

[kindred sparrow]

its in the south so ig ??

[old spindle]

duke duke duke

[humble crest]

i should’ve applied vandy

[steel bloom]

duke duke duke

[bright trench]

straight fucking waitlists

duke will be hearing from my manager if they waitlist me

[weary yacht]

straight rejections

😭

[bright trench]

hardest year for college apps i tell you

[weary yacht]

ya we got all the shi goin on in politics

[old spindle]

duke duke duke

[civic pasture]

ddmf

[scarlet quarry]

bro I've been just getting WLs and rejections left and right

I'm hella depres over it

[weary yacht]

im feelin a bit better cuz i found a friend to talk to

but ye when my dook rejection comes out ill still be depressed

[scarlet quarry]

yeah I'm feeling better

[wintry solar]

same

the only thing keeping me sane is locking in on the pile of work I have to do

[weary yacht]

ts is unavoidable

[scarlet quarry]

but I'm going to go back to being depres after my rejection tmrw

[weary yacht]

i still got prom and senior assassin to lock in for

[wintry solar]

im making my promposal rn lmao

[weary yacht]

im just goin w/ my friends cuz i get no huzz

[steel bloom]

duke duke duke

[narrow raft]

Putting it out there, Duke . . . you know you want me!

[somber laurel]

I’m interested to see how my Duke decision plays out

[umbral dirge]

Duke duke duke

I hope they took this extra time to filter out the ivy acceptances and give it to ppl who need it

[forest rivet]

yes pls

[elder nacelle]

yeah fr thats why they pushed back the date 4 days

[weary yacht]

fr fr

leave some for the rest of us

[grizzled steppe]

how would they do that tho?

[wet forum]

bruh

i want to get into duke so badly

final holdout

[umbral dirge]

/s just for you

[wet forum]

i even did research here

[scarlet quarry]

I don't need this school I'll live

but I'll cry if I get in

[wet forum]

i need ittttt

https://tenor.com/view/ineedit-needit-spongebob-squarepants-need-it-gif-4883495

[elder nacelle]

oh

[old spindle]

dook

[kindred tinsel]

dook

[odd hollow]

D!h

[odd hollow]

How do I frame senior assassin on my loci

[umbral dirge]

Everyone hing happens for a reason

[fringe rose]

"In [insert month], I led our Senior Assassins game — a playful but intricate tradition involving over [#] participants. The experience sharpened my leadership and logistics skills while strengthening our overall senior class connection" /hj

[wet forum]

ill donate 50mill when im richer

[mortal pulsar]

um why did duke waive my tax forms?

dont they need that for fin aid?

[umbral dirge]

they did that for a bunch of applicants idk why

[mortal pulsar]

oh

ok

i hope that doesnt mean reject

🙏

or maybe they got it from css???

idk maybe im thinking too. much

[inland gust]

i don’t think it means anything BUT

the day before i got into jhu, they waived like 5 things

so it doesn’t necessarily mean reject

[gritty palm]

why am i the only jhu accept who didnt get into an ivy bruh

[mortal pulsar]

icic

[scarlet quarry]

they waive it for

wealthy people

[mortal pulsar]

dude some of us didnt get any t20s

😭

[scarlet quarry]

who they've determined don't need aid

or people they don't admit

those are the two categories

[gritty palm]

ion even wanna go there bruh 😭

[mortal pulsar]

i c

[scarlet quarry]

so pick your poison

[mortal pulsar]

jhu is depressing

and they lost all their money

[gritty palm]

lol

[mortal pulsar]

a bullet was doged

dodged

fuck i cant spell

[gritty palm]

fr

[scarlet quarry]

alr gang

we WILL clutch up on god

[mortal pulsar]

hmm

OH

wait

[inland gust]

i was the former because i wasn’t eligible for aid 😭😭😭

[mortal pulsar]

maybe if ur like really low income

they need to see ur tax forms

to verify iit

[scarlet quarry]

I believe I'm the former as well

[scarlet quarry]

no I mean like

350k+ income

[mortal pulsar]

oh

[scarlet quarry]

like you definitely won't get aid

[mortal pulsar]

thats def not me

lol

[scarlet quarry]

then they don't ask for them

yeah

[mortal pulsar]

ok i should just accept defeeat ig

😔

[scarlet quarry]

congrats on princeton

btw

that's huge

have you committed?

[inland gust]

oh THANK TOU AAA 😭😭 i’m the first person in my school’s history to get in

i’m committed

i withdrew my duke app

BUT i still like reading the chat here 😭

[gritty palm]

idk how i got defer -> reject pton man

i was full pay bruh just take my money

[scarlet quarry]

😭

[mortal pulsar]

ty king

[scarlet quarry]

sorry bro

[gritty palm]

lmao

[scarlet quarry]

but

gtech is fire

[mortal pulsar]

too many ppl trying to load up on acceptances

[scarlet quarry]

I got waitlisted!

FUCK

[gritty palm]

umich is fire too

[scarlet quarry]

yeah ik

thanks

[gritty palm]

my cousins in nyc say more ppl wanna go to umich than like

cornell

idk

[scarlet quarry]

average day in the life of a CS/CompE major

[gritty palm]

its like an ivy up there

also my whole family went to umich so i recommend

[inland gust]

real 😭 this is so inexplicably annoying

[inland gust]

wait are you oos for gt?

[gritty palm]

Yeah

i applied ea 2

[inland gust]

i live in georgia so that’s where i was going to end up if everything else failed

[gritty palm]

gg

[inland gust]

nice! congrats on that

[gritty palm]

yeah ty

[wet forum]

jhu accepted me

and then the ivies decided to be mean to me

[scarlet quarry]

JHU is still very fire

what major

[gritty palm]

k im not the only one good

[scarlet quarry]

yep same

ivies did not like me

[gritty palm]

well

i got WL at like half

i have 5 rejections and theyre HYPSM

[wet forum]

history

[gritty palm]

💀

[wet forum]

but i want DUKE

I WANT DUKKKKE

[scarlet quarry]

oh damn

yeah

duke is a lot better for that

I hope you get it

[wet forum]

thank you

🙏

you too

duke is hard man

i really want it

[gritty palm]

I love history but what do u do with a history degree

ngl

[inland gust]

same, i was waitlisted at 4 schools 😭

out of 8 that i applied to

[gritty palm]

ye i did 6

wl 3

[wet forum]

finance or academia or law

[gritty palm]

oh yeah law is valid

ic

[limpid dew]

DUKE DUKE DUKE

[inland gust]

WAIT i want the purple role

how do people get thaf

[wet forum]

pre-frosh

[limpid dew]

DUKEEEEE

[scarlet quarry]

kinda curios

curious

[limpid dew]

uhh go to channels and roles

[scarlet quarry]

who here got an interview

[gritty palm]

me

[limpid dew]

i didnt

[inland gust]

oh nvm 😭 i’m dumb

[cedar knoll]

Duke

[scarlet quarry]

I did as well

[scarlet quarry]

did you also apply mich

[gritty palm]

yeah

[scarlet quarry]

or just gtech

[scarlet quarry]

are you choosing gtech cause of cost

[limpid dew]

im like the least likely to get into duke here

[scarlet quarry]

that's what I would've done as well

[cedar knoll]

Nah that’s me

[scarlet quarry]

if I hadn't gotten WL

[gritty palm]

bruh idc abt cost, im touring both but i feel like gt is better

[scarlet quarry]

man CompE is brutal

[scarlet quarry]

yeah fair

GT is great

[gritty palm]

I feel like im better fit at gt

[scarlet quarry]

like campus culture wise I def prefer mich though

[gritty palm]

ya

umich culture is a bit much for me

cuz like my whole family went there

[scarlet quarry]

makes sense

that you'd go to gt

[gritty palm]

so im tryna do my own thing

[scarlet quarry]

like some of my extended family lives in michigan but nobody went

so I'm the first

[gritty palm]

ic

also gt is only 1hr flight away from tpa

[scarlet quarry]

ooh

[gritty palm]

and lowkey

i like the big city / campus vibe

kinda like upenn but nicer cuz its in the south

my dream school was pton but gt growing on me

[limpid dew]

nah
international male CS need aid no legacy here
didnt do any of the optional essays
did not interview

[cedar knoll]

cooked

u cooked

[wet forum]

u didnt do any optional essay? ...

[cedar knoll]

lmfao

[gritty palm]

You not making it past the AI filter bro

[quartz bridge]

does everyone have a permanent address and a mailing address on their portal?

[scarlet quarry]

It was mine too

[regal lark]

people on this thread are going crazy

[scarlet quarry]

No portal astro(also it doesn’t work we all have it)

[quartz bridge]

im not doing that astro

i just checked my portal and it looked different

i havent been on CC

[regal lark]

i dont think this astro even works like

[scarlet quarry]

I don’t believe it works

[quartz bridge]

its so bad

[regal lark]

they are trying

[quartz bridge]

cornell's was reliable apparently

even though i didnt try it

[regal lark]

berkeley one was too

[quartz bridge]

(protecting my peace)

[scarlet quarry]

@odd hollow brother what are you doing

☠️

[regal lark]

but duke astro just not working im telling u

i tried but i think these people are just delusional

the links are not going to update on a sunday night right before

[quartz bridge]

yeah its not that hard to wait

[gritty palm]

Bro is this fr bruh

[regal lark]

what does it say for you 😭

[gritty palm]

Transfer lol

[regal lark]

yeah same

i think it can only say transfer

i think they tripping

[quartz bridge]

and special

[regal lark]

yeah duke its pretty much the same for everyone

[quartz bridge]

last year apparently there was some astro for duke defers

something about the withdraw button but they fixed it this year

people who were accepted didnt have their withdraw buttons before

i cant believe duke even missed that

thats such a big mistake

[scarlet quarry]

no I know rka

if someone else sees first year

then uh

someone else probably sees first year!

oh well 96% rejection rate

what did I expect

[regal lark]

yo are u in the forum lmao

[scarlet quarry]

don't use the same thing

💀

[regal lark]

what did ur friend see

[scarlet quarry]

cooked

[regal lark]

can you show it

[scarlet quarry]

is he cracked

oh well

[gritty palm]

:/

[scarlet quarry]

wraps guys

move on

[regal lark]

to tell us what it looks like

[steel bloom]

what the hell is getting deleted i just got here

[umbral dirge]

well idk how fin aid works

[fleet bay]

portal astro that does not exist lmao

[umbral dirge]

I’ve never gotten a find aid portal login

[quartz bridge]

omg bruh whats going on

[fleet bay]

the real portal astro is waiting about 20 hours and changing the url to /apply/update

[steel bloom]

facts

why don’t people just wait

i want to delay my depression

[quartz bridge]

duke was my first love

and i will always love her

so even if she doesnt want me tomorrow

[scarlet quarry]

exactly bro

[quartz bridge]

its okay

[scarlet quarry]

now my fun is ruined

lame

[gritty palm]

cooked

[umbral dirge]

The team i support in the final four depends on this

[umbral dirge]

how is it ruined

[quartz bridge]

my team lost 💔 (uconn men)

go women tho!

[regal lark]

dont be stressed i think its really unlikely they are done with uploading decisions anyway

[umbral dirge]

My team didn’t make the tournament (not UVA, smthn else)

don’t do astro

just makes it harder on you

[regal lark]

im not saying that the person didnt see that

[scarlet quarry]

cause I know my decision now lol

[quartz bridge]

yall its jus not this deep

[scarlet quarry]

oh well

[quartz bridge]

just wait till tomorrow

i said this in other chats too

[umbral dirge]

no, it’s not out yet

[gritty palm]

does it say transfer

[feral wraith]

yall the moderators are gonna get yall i fear

[regal lark]

true

[quartz bridge]

duke is not all that (cooper flagg isnt going to be there next year)

[umbral dirge]

they’ll probably purge the chat

[feral wraith]

LMAOOO

[regal lark]

please purge it

[umbral dirge]

but NIL money is so sweet

[regal lark]

my fault for starting it

[feral wraith]

this is what happens when duke decides to be so fukcing late

[umbral dirge]

I think he should do one more

[quartz bridge]

luckily yale has billions

[umbral dirge]

i thought it was rka

[regal lark]

i shared it here

[umbral dirge]

I am not going to check the astrology

[quartz bridge]

my rory gilmore ass will be eating good (i think)?????

[regal lark]

but im ngl i just think that "first year application" doesnt make sense anyway

[umbral dirge]

the white boy accountant march madness runs are amazing

[regal lark]

cause wouldnt that just be common app or the scoir thing

[umbral dirge]

they should invest more into bball

[quartz bridge]

its sad they think they're special 💔

[quartz bridge]

I PICKED THEM TO WIN

and they lost...

smh

[umbral dirge]

I had them making it to sweet 16

[gritty palm]

under transfer

[umbral dirge]

luckily I made 3 more brackets so all was normal lost

[gritty palm]

so idk how true it is

[quartz bridge]

ngl i had them out in the second round

but thats before i found out i got in

its been so chalky this year

[scarlet quarry]

I had them out first round.

I didn't apply.

[umbral dirge]

everyone has that

[odd hollow]

I didn’t post it on A2C and we shouldn’t talk abt it here

[regal lark]

yeah im saying there wouldnt be a first year application portal

[gritty palm]

well yeah it wouldnt say that under first year application lol

[regal lark]

thats literally just the common app

or the other way to do it directly

[grizzled steppe]

did anyone here apply with Scoir?

[forest cradle]

does urs say transfer or first year

[gritty palm]

transfer

[grizzled steppe]

what is this for?

[odd hollow]

Ok guys let’s not talk abt it here

[forest cradle]

does anyones say first year?

[odd hollow]

No astro on A2C

[regal lark]

yeah we get it rka but u brought it up, just making sure did u see it urself

[odd hollow]

Nah he told me

He’s p trustworthy tho

[forest cradle]

who told u

[gritty palm]

Screenshot or cap

[forest cradle]

wait dm me

[odd hollow]

Not gonna talk abt it on this server, not allowed

[scarlet quarry]

alr guys chill the guy ik who got all 8 ivies+ mit sees transfer

it's not over

that's all I will say

[umbral dirge]

rka is an upstanding citizen

[scarlet quarry]

no more astro

[umbral dirge]

tin??

[regal lark]

big astro scandal

[scarlet quarry]

we will see our decisions tomorrow at 7 pm

[scarlet quarry]

yes

[umbral dirge]

oh yeah see i told you it’s nothing

tin guy’s probably a lock for duke

[regal lark]

somebody gotta let the college confidential people know or they will not sleep tn

that place is actually insane

[odd hollow]

I did just so they chill

[quartz bridge]

its p funny tho