UC Berkeley (2024-2025)

[little barn]

used to be happy for waitlists

now i dread them

got lik 7 now

[twin heron]

I will do you a favor in a few days.

I got into UCI, but I am not going there.

One less person on the waitlist.

I will commit to a college by the end of the month.

[shrewd cairn]

thanks 🥹

[stoic warren]

i made room for you as well don't worry ❤️

i pray that you get into UCI

idk prolly they'll roll it out

maybe a huge spike on ivy day

[shrewd cairn]

thank you 🥹 🙏

[little barn]

if u submit loci earlier

do u get off waitlist earlier?

[stoic warren]

waitlist is not ranked so idk

i think they do random

[little barn]

then why would uclla roll out on ivy day

when the thing to reply by is april like 15 or 21

[stoic warren]

cause strong applicants would likely commit to an ivy

probably some correlation between being an ivy applicant and ucla admissions

[little barn]

strange

[stoic warren]

wdym strange

[coral chasm]

Did anyone do UCB ATDP i have a question

[vivid fractal]

I 💚 SAQUON BARKLEY

why he gettin brought up

[slate rose]

saquon berkeley

[tepid marlin]

i did ATDP throughout elementary and middle school 💀

[stoic warren]

barkley = berkeley

[narrow dagger]

Yeah I did atdp

[dull pawn]

yo just curious berkley doesnt call people about admits right? this dude i know has been saying berkley called him a few days ago and said he got in

[vernal flame]

he's probably bullshitting

[grizzled shuttle]

prolly lying lmao

[shrewd cairn]

^

[grizzled shuttle]

berkeley only sends around 1k early acceptances

that too in early febuary

[shrewd cairn]

yeah

everything else is in march

[wise geode]

5 more days to go fellas

i'm def gettin rejected fr fr. I was talking about minecraft in my piqs

[shrewd cairn]

i was talking about pokemon and persona 5 in one of them 😭

all in 1 essay

[narrow dagger]

No they don’t

[vagrant sigil]

hey

has anyone applied from the middle east?

if so pls dm

[solid venture]

i did, sent you a dm

[vagrant sigil]

perfect, anyone else?

we're looking for some signs if ykwim

[little barn]

can uc berkely let me in

[south ginkgo]

hello vros

[main prawn]

berk berk berk

[old halo]

bark bark bark

[rapid shoal]

barkeley

[little barn]

berkley in 5

[obtuse hamlet]

4

3

2

1

It’s out

[little barn]

no way

its actually out

[obtuse hamlet]

Real!

[little barn]

fr

[main prawn]

berkeley berkeley

[little barn]

i think i got rejected guys

[old halo]

ts not real vro

[main prawn]

i love berkeley

[obtuse hamlet]

I think I got waitlisted

😔

[old halo]

i got kicked out

[long hollow]

I got in… but it says “Welcome to UC Merced” not Berkeley.

[vivid fractal]

anyone else have this one major problem with berkeley?

i hate this dopey fuck

[crystal zinc]

He’s so cute

[vivid fractal]

this guy is cool:

[crystal zinc]

Like a little gremlin thing

[vivid fractal]

but i can’t stand that beer-bellied cardigan-toting dope

with his little hands folded behind his back while the football team gets blown out 45-0

[main prawn]

oski oski

[vivid fractal]

you can never forget what they took from us

i mean can you imagine that

[tropic basin]

how do u know u got haas

already

[vivid fractal]

real ass bear on the gridiron that then gets replaced by…. oski

[vivid fractal]

some people got in early admission if they were especially goated applicants

[tropic basin]

oh

i thought speiker came out

on march 27th

and same with gmp

[vivid fractal]

oh idk the words you’re saying

i just know they let in some people who got scholarships and stuff early

idk if it was specific by colleges or anything like that

[main prawn]

LMAO this reminds me of yales mascot

there’s a wikipedia page about all the iterations of handsome dan

[vivid fractal]

that is an incredible mascot name

💀💀💀

oh my god this wikipedia article is a gold mine

[main prawn]

bro some of these poor dans 😭

[vivid fractal]

like 75% of them died of heart attacks on the field

my favorite was the one “notable for falling off the boathouse dock and nearly drowning”

[little barn]

whos gonna tell him

[slate rose]

cooked

[jagged obsidian]

😬😬😬

[little barn]

its over for us bud

nah its fake trust

[jagged obsidian]

Yeah a bit too funny

[winter widget]

hey at least they let me pre-cope

[jagged obsidian]

Like 6 years in a row

Like

Cmon

[little barn]

they pranking us

big prank

[jagged obsidian]

7th time is the charm

Trust

[tidal sun]

what's cc

thank u

[little barn]

better delete that before uc moo student sees it

[radiant shell]

what just happened??

[winter widget]

mods banned portal astrology discussion here

[radiant shell]

ohhh

dayum 😭

[vernal flame]

Lol

[tidal sun]

oh

[stoic warren]

rip portal ass-strology

[tidal sun]

welp

at least i got to pre-cope

[wise geode]

Guys If I get into berkeley I will genuinely stop being lazy af. and get straight A's this semester so my parents don't kick me out early.

Coping rn 🙏

[tawdry inlet]

i got waitlisted at ucla, so i actually might not be cooked for berkeley?

i'm not sure

[old halo]

twin

[sweet summit]

imma one up you by being rejected from ucla 😍

[queen patrol]

REAL

[brave pasture]

What time do Berkeley decisions usually come out

[old halo]

im gonna assume 8 est if they follow ucla idk tho

[gleaming frigate]

REJECTEDDD

[crystal zinc]

Yeah I’m fairly certain someone said last year they released at 5 PST

[true glade]

we got it at like 3:30 pst

[crystal zinc]

oh god

while I’m still in school then

[vivid fractal]

dw you're the goat you'll get to flex on all your classmates

[crystal zinc]

that’s gonna be wild we had like 200 kids apply to Berkeley this year

tytyty hopefully hopefully

we will see— normally we have like 40 (24%) get in

soooo

fingers crossed

[vivid fractal]

thats crazy to send 40 people a year to berkeley wtf

is it like a mega feeder school or sumthn?

[crystal zinc]

Nope it’s a public high school

Berkeley just really likes our magnet

[vivid fractal]

my school had one kid get into berkeley 2 years ago for throwing (like track & field scholarship) and it was a huge deal

like nobody from my school goes to t20s ever

tbf my high school does have 11% math proficiency on US News Rankings so 💀

[crystal zinc]

Thatttt might do it

it’s okay our non Berkeley rates are really pretty average

[vivid fractal]

not too pretty

we have major grade inflation thats why grad rate is so high

[crystal zinc]

Oh Jesus Christ yeah not pretty

I would have to look for that data but off the top of my head I know our ap gov pass rate is 96%

[vivid fractal]

damn nice

my school so shit 😭

[crystal zinc]

Hey makes it easier to stand out?

[vivid fractal]

yeah definitely

[crystal zinc]

I assume you got into Berkeley early

[vivid fractal]

also they only offered 4 APs so i took 100% of offered AP's

[vivid fractal]

no def not lol

[crystal zinc]

Oh wow that’s not a lot

[vivid fractal]

berkeley or bust

[crystal zinc]

Ahhhh assumed cause prefrosh

So real

[vivid fractal]

oh

yeah ig thats the wrong tag

but i mean im gonna be a prefrosh somewhere

[crystal zinc]

Yeah just a assumption on my part no need to change

[grave kiln]

its actually berkeley or bust for me

(ucs dont like me)

[vivid fractal]

on the dl

[crystal zinc]

Exactly can’t say anything

[vivid fractal]

fs fs

i do have a decent feeling about it though cause i swept the rest of the UC's and only got waitlisted at UCLA

[crystal zinc]

Oh hey that’s really good

You should feel pretty good

[vivid fractal]

and worst case scenario I'll be deciding between UCSD and UMiami

[crystal zinc]

I would say I swept too but freaking Irvine

[crystal zinc]

Which are both excellent

[vivid fractal]

yeah i mean at the start of the application process those were my two top schools that i thought were realistic

[crystal zinc]

it’s always good to expectations being matched

[vivid fractal]

i made a whole lil calendar with all my schools on it and everything

im actually pretty proud of it i drew up all the little college logos and everything on Canva

[crystal zinc]

Oh so far you’re clearing

I love the graphics

[vivid fractal]

definitely gone as good as I could've hoped

but all of the top schools of course end up at the very end of march

[crystal zinc]

Isn’t Berkeley on the 27th

[vivid fractal]

oh yeah ig thats on the wrong date i gotta move that

[crystal zinc]

Well ofc they have to make us as anxious as possible

that’s a triple hitter day then

Good luck dude

[vivid fractal]

i mean ivy day is always a big day

ive pretty much given up on Penn I've got legacy there and thats really the only reason i applied but didnt get an interview or nothin

did get one at Dartmouth but I know their interviews are less of a big deal than for other ivies

[crystal zinc]

ahh well still good luck

interviews aren’t the end all be all

[vivid fractal]

i think i would take berkeley over Penn anyways

my dad's from philly and has painted a pretty glum picture of Penn lmao

[main prawn]

wait this is so cute 😭

i shouldve done thisss

[main prawn]

penn interviews arent evaluative ur chilling

i saw a girl literally on her reactions video say that she didnt get an interview so she wasnt expecting anything and then get in LMAO

[vivid fractal]

haha thanks

[vivid fractal]

ignore the doodles i got bored while staring at the decision dates for the 30th time today

[main prawn]

the little doodles are so cute 😭

ahhhh i shouldve done something like this

this is so insanely cute

wait why is cal on 28

[vivid fractal]

that was a mistake i havent moved it yet

[vivid fractal]

i was more talking about... these guys

[main prawn]

squidward worm

squidworm

bro is an artist

i am a huge fan

i want these printed on shirts

dudpe merch

[vivid fractal]

i am picasso and my canvas is the margins of my calculus homework

[main prawn]

real

i feel bad for my calc teacher

he has to grade my work thats surrounded by doodles

[lost zodiac]

i draw little doodles in all of my ap exams 😭 i wonder if the graders giggle

[main prawn]

i hope my ap lang reader giggled when they saw my doodle depiction of kim kardashian 😞

[vivid fractal]

one time my molecular bio prof drew a little hat on one of my guys before handing back my test and grading it an 85.

the gall

if you're gonna give him the hat at least give me an A

[main prawn]

maybe the hat counted for 15%

so it really was a 100%

[vivid fractal]

that professor actually sucked but it was funny

[vivid fractal]

i take dual credit stuff at a local CC because my high school sucks so bad

[lost zodiac]

my art teacher used to draw sanrio characters on my rubrics it was really cute

In hindsight, i wish i had taken cc classes but i literally didn't have time to take them in person bc my school is like an hour away from where i live 😭

[winter widget]

i took cc classes and it dropped my uc capped gpa by .1

[vivid fractal]

yeah its like a 20 minute commute for me and i'd say it's worth it

it's worth it for me cause there's literally no AP's left to take or any rigorous courses whatsoever but it definitely makes you feel disconnected from your high school friends to a degree.

honestly though going into my third trimester I actually am taking 1 class on tuesdays and thursdays and thats it

with an online microeconomics

[main prawn]

yeah real lmfaooo

i took calc ab soph year and im taking calc bc rn as a senior and its cs i couldnt do DE to do any more advanced math than that 😭

i couldnt drive until late junior year, and senior year rn i have an internship that takes up 20 hrs/wk so i was too scared to deal with DE schedules

[crystal zinc]

Community college classes were so worth it

and taking the accelerated math program

Having precalc calc ab and calc bc and starting the concepts of multi in two years was sweet

[stoic warren]

where did you find this

[vivid fractal]

oh its on us news

[vivid fractal]

yeah im graduating with 60 or so credits which makes paying for college a little easier since i dont gotta take as much

[stoic warren]

yeah my school don't even have ts 😭 💔

we're a lameass school

[tardy hawk]

💀

[cinder cairn]

berkeley got a whole creek running through it but there's no fish in it

ts pmo

i dunno if i was even allowed down there but i was like wading through that creek

[radiant shell]

oop

it got deleted

[agile onyx]

mods always on the watch lol

working overtime

[vernal flame]

PORTAL ASTROLOGY PORTAL ASSTROLOGY

[tardy hawk]

YEAH bro they got my ass last night

timed out for 2 hours

💀

[trim ruin]

Portal astrologists work hard but I fear I work harder

[latent pilot]

there should be a channel for portal astrology

[trim ruin]

No

[vernal flame]

Pin

Ong

[jovial lance]

thread will never know peace from portal astrology

[gloomy hawk]

We’ll find out thursday

[narrow dagger]

No portal astrology

[spring shore]

email scarin tf outta me

anyone else get it?

for CAS

[jovial lance]

it's a mass email lol

[gloomy hawk]

I got an email ya

[jovial lance]

everyone got it

[gloomy hawk]

Yeah ^

[narrow dagger]

Emails mean nothing in this instance guys

Just the letter

Also come to ucla instead number one public university ‼️‼️

All my friends turned down berk for the better school

[balmy belfry]

They’re so evil for this omg

That email is obviously sent to everyone applying to L&S

[spring shore]

i heard ucla premed is tough

[narrow dagger]

Nah

It’s not I promise

I think Berk premed is worse imo

[spring shore]

i feel like if i go to la i’d mess around too much

leaning BU rn icl

[narrow dagger]

You wouldn’t

I’m locked tf in

[narrow dagger]

Did you get a lot of money

[spring shore]

nah im gonna try and appeal

[narrow dagger]

If you didn’t and you’re in state la go la

[spring shore]

bu ranks ridiculously high for premed but ion know how trustworthy those are

like 5-7 nationally

[rapid shoal]

wow i can't believe i got a uc berkeley likely 😍

[spring shore]

intl from toronto

[narrow dagger]

BU is not known for premed

[narrow dagger]

Ohh

Ik a premed from Toronto

Do you have citizenship here

[queen patrol]

uhm

[spring shore]

im getting my green card rlly soon

[queen patrol]

berekly rejected

🤧🤧

where’s my email

[narrow dagger]

So you’ll be a permanent resident right

[woven rock]

Did any of yall get that fall program for first semester email?

[jovial lance]

Maybe l&s only idk lol

[rapid shoal]

idk check ur spam?

[balmy belfry]

Only l&s

[spring shore]

yup, my other options are tulane and ucsd

[little barn]

i got one too!!!!

[narrow dagger]

Tulane lowkey solid for premed too

[little barn]

they want us

[narrow dagger]

I would not go berk for premed

[spring shore]

yeah, gave me 25k yearly too, heavily considering it

[narrow dagger]

That’s def the worst option of all of yours

[jovial lance]

Wow can't believe l&s has 100% acceptance rate this is so awesome

[little barn]

look berkely getting hella flirtatious

they want us

[woven rock]

What is this 😭 they’re flirting omg

[narrow dagger]

One of my cousins friends did Tulane bs md and really enjoyed it she’s starting at Tulane school of med

[narrow dagger]

Yeah they send this stuff

[narrow dagger]

UCSD solid for premed too just depends on the atmosphere you want

[woven rock]

They want us so bad trust

[jovial lance]

Is Berkeley really that bad for pre med

[spring shore]

dang so would u say ucsd over bu?

[woven rock]

I’m forgetting if I applied premed or not
I hope not </3

[narrow dagger]

I haven’t heard good things from anyone but I’m sure it’s doable

[narrow dagger]

Premed isn’t a major

[narrow dagger]

No

[woven rock]

Pathway

[balmy belfry]

Why doesn’t the US have medicine and law UG

[jovial lance]

Eye sea

[narrow dagger]

IMO if you’re oos don’t go to ucs

[woven rock]

Oh wait right I applied bio

💀

[narrow dagger]

Canada doesn’t either

[narrow dagger]

Mcb

[woven rock]

Yea

[narrow dagger]

Just like everyone

[woven rock]

Berk let me in

Let me innnnnn

[narrow dagger]

The issue w Berk is there are no nearby hospitals (on campus) Nor a med school

Which makes it significantly worse for premed

[woven rock]

Not really that many opportunities I’ve heard

[spring shore]

lowk only reason i applied is bcz berk has hella clout in canada

[narrow dagger]

One of my labs rn is a med school lab which wouldn’t be there at berk

[narrow dagger]

Valid I mean you should go if you want

[brave tendon]

ive heard people apply to do resedarch at ike ucsf is that true?

like undergrads at berk

[narrow dagger]

I will just say many many many of my ucla friends turned down berk for ucla premed

[narrow dagger]

Sure over the summer

[brave pasture]

Did anyone NOT get the email

[little barn]

lemmee innnnnn

[little barn]

its only for l&s

[narrow dagger]

Even I can go to ucsf over the summer and do research I just choose not to

[brave tendon]

not during school yr?

[spring shore]

tbf ucla is also a much happier school

[narrow dagger]

If you’re trying to go to ucsf it’s a commute

[brave pasture]

Yes I got it but why tf would they send that and waste their internet like

[narrow dagger]

Unless you’re planning on bringing a car it’s unrealistic

Also just do research at Berk

[narrow dagger]

I mean that’s not why they turned down berk

[brave pasture]

Happier for different people

Very different schools

[narrow dagger]

I like ucla bc it really pushes me to do better + there’s so many opportunities if you look

My doc went to UC Berkeley though (ages ago) and then ucsf so ofc it’s posisble

Just hard

She’s cracked asf too

[vivid solstice]

yo is talking about the idk thing here banned or nah

[sweet summit]

are u for real

this shit is so dumb got my heart rate up

😭

[narrow dagger]

No portal astrology

[little barn]

we like portal asstrology

[brave pasture]

A2c doesn’t 💀

[old halo]

[narrow dagger]

No

It made a lot of people feel terrible

And it was wrong too 💀

[little barn]

including myself!!!!

[narrow dagger]

No portal astrology!

[brave pasture]

Um

Ok

[little barn]

i mean berkelys has been historically correct

but ill shut up now

please no ban

[narrow dagger]

No more talking

About this

Portal astrology is not always right

[little barn]

^^^^^

[narrow dagger]

For a specific school that came out on Ivy day it was not accurate last year and caused a lot of unnecessary sadness

[brave pasture]

🧎‍♂️‍➡️🧎‍♂️‍➡️🧎‍♂️‍➡️

[narrow dagger]

That’s why no portal astrology

Cause it’s not always right

[brave pasture]

Wait which one or is that not allowed

🤔🤔🤔

Idk cc says otherwise but kk

[narrow dagger]

It’s just not worth it

Multiple of my friends got in because the letter is right

That is your final and actual decision

[brave pasture]

Well obviously the decision

Yes

Idk atp i think ppl just do it to pass the time

[narrow dagger]

Yes

[brave pasture]

It’s comforting in a way

[narrow dagger]

Sure

[brave pasture]

I mean cc probably has ALOT of selection bias

[stoic warren]

i just got the "likely" email

i think it's proof i got rejected

[vernal flame]

Inwould have if they didn't reject my ahh

[winter widget]

worse than ucsd

[radiant shell]

👍

[agile onyx]

didnt get it either but it happens with a lot of emails lol so not surprised

[vivid solstice]

i did not get an email

what does it say?

[narrow dagger]

☹️

[narrow dagger]

Cope

[winter widget]

nah only facts

[narrow dagger]

You’re like junior atry

[winter widget]

sorry for being based 🙄

[narrow dagger]

You should be 🙄

[queen patrol]

2 ghost pings whattttt

[warm cobalt]

Lmao is this outdated because I just checked and UCLA is ranked higher on 4/5, and I don’t have access to the full WSJ list but they also put davidson ahead of upenn and Merced as a t20 so…

[vernal flame]

blah blah

[stoic warren]

hs sophomore 💔

[warm cobalt]

Oh that’s old my top choice rn is ucla 💀

[tepid marlin]

yeah go get a license buddy

oh

[winter widget]

this came from john berkeley himself

[main prawn]

berk berk berk

[rapid shoal]

bark bark bark 🗣️

[obtuse hamlet]

Are you sure?

[rapid shoal]

would john berkeley ever lie?

[winter widget]

its an actual ass post https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rich-lyons-30332b1_standing-of-americas-public-universities-activity-7302053742202273792-IMzJ

[vernal flame]

uc davis is #1 in my heart (they took me in)

[obtuse hamlet]

Are you sure?

[winter widget]

wdym

[obtuse hamlet]

sorry it's just an invincible meme

[winter widget]

oh lmao mb

haven't seen the show yet

[obtuse hamlet]

Are you sure?

[short tusk]

what time does berkleton drop

[primal schooner]

6:30 est usually

[old halo]

berkleton?? 😭

630

thats too early...

[jovial lance]

don't come to Berkeley unless you want sewage flooding 💔

[desert pewter]

💪 💪 💪

[desert pewter]

I wouldnt want it any other way

[jovial lance]

W

[vernal flame]

LMAO

[grizzled shuttle]

thats just the rain bro

[jovial lance]

as lovely as that would be it was unfortunately 80 degree weather today 💔

[grizzled shuttle]

VRO

THE WEATHER WAS BEAUTFUL TODAY

i havent heard the birds chirp since 2020

i ahvent seen the sk this blue since 2020

[vernal flame]

be so fr

[grizzled shuttle]

i havent seen the world look so vibrantlike ts since 2020

deadass

[vernal flame]

it felt like 2020

[jovial lance]

no I love Berkeley most when it's grey and miserable

[grizzled shuttle]

when i got all my decsiions

[vernal flame]

thats a good thing

[grizzled shuttle]

back

[vernal flame]

btw

2020 is peak

[grizzled shuttle]

idc if twas rejection

it felt so better

the world was so brighter

i havent heard the birds chirp like ts inages

the weather was amazing today

80 degrees

[jovial lance]

sky too blue sun too bright 💔 need me my grey clouds and rain

[grizzled shuttle]

no

sto

[jovial lance]

cant take this sun

[grizzled shuttle]

bruh

thats my weather

for 2 weekss

today and tmrw is a preview post ap exams

[stoic warren]

berkeley there's guaranteed to be one hobo on the outskirts and one protest going on

[grizzled shuttle]

and then graduation finally

[jovial lance]

real

[stoic warren]

it isn't berkeley without those two

also the insane class sizes

[jovial lance]

💔 at least we have like 4 boba shops per block

[stoic warren]

oh my goodness

they have a teaspoon near UCLA

and by near i mean like ten miles away probably

[jovial lance]

I can't go to teaspoon anymore

the heytea opening has permanently changed me all the other boba shops can't compare

[vernal flame]

portal asstrology

[vivid fractal]

we should call it ass-troll-ogy more like

🆙🔝🙏

[hoary mural]

https://tenor.com/view/harry-potter-dont-speak-his-name-gif-12688511

those words can't be uttered in this server

[little barn]

It’s over

For her

[vivid fractal]

shh

this gotta be the mod’s least favorite channel in the whole server

the problem child bringing up asstrollogy 100 times a day

I had a friend i was talking to the other day say “Is Berkeley known for anything” when it was brought up that I applied.

gave me pause on if I have a distorted worldview or if my town really is that disconnected

[hoary mural]

no way

lmaoo

[woven rock]

Overcrowding?

[vivid fractal]

nah like i think she just didn’t know if berkeley was a good school at all

[vivid fractal]

like she was really genuinely asking if i would choose it over UMiami

and i mean UMiami is awesome if i don’t get into Berkeley that’s where im going but i mean Berkeley is Berkeley

[hoary mural]

umiami is g but like berkeley is insane

[vernal flame]

furries

[vernal flame]

my online friend once said he wanted to go to umiami to bag donald trump's granddaughter

i was like

"it doesnt work that way bro"

[vivid fractal]

you’re one to talk UC Davis

ain’t you the animal school

[vernal flame]

yeah but we have real animals here

[winter widget]

fr im a ucb hater

[vernal flame]

valid

[main prawn]

omg 😭

[vivid fractal]

i toured Miami last summer and the campus was actually heavenly

it was like an all inclusive beach resort if it was your campus

[vernal flame]

https://tenor.com/view/jrue-holiday-giannis-antetokounmpo-milwaukee-gif-22385531

[woven rock]

Furries and overcrowding is what my mind goes to when I think about Berk tbh

Good school though

[hoary mural]

udub feels like furry town

[woven rock]

Didn’t udub just get sued and shot up or is that somewhere else

[vivid fractal]

oh i mean that’s just all of Seattle

[winter widget]

HAHAHAHA

[woven rock]

😭

[hoary mural]

https://tenor.com/view/jrue-holiday-jrue-holiday-celtics-jrue-holiday-interview-jrue-holiday-sup-gif-948388568855938349

[vivid fractal]

portland gets a lot of attention for being weird but Seattle is genuinely just a furry simulation

half furry college grads and half meth head zombies

and some are both

[vernal flame]

the only two people i know who go to uw are chill

one is a rich oos kid from my school the other is someone online

[hoary mural]

i mean i would have rlly liked to go there

if they hadn't rejected me

[vernal flame]

its expensive bro

[stoic warren]

oos it's stupidly expensive

which is why i didn't apply to uw 😭

[hoary mural]

how much expensive is it for you as compared to uc davis

[vivid fractal]

i got my financial aid estimate yesterday and it was a grand total of $0

[stoic warren]

hey don't worry my financial aid is also $0

but i think i can get mcs

[vivid fractal]

hey at least i got that purple & gold scholarship right

-$4200

[stoic warren]

oh hell no for UW? 😭

[hoary mural]

thats a drop in a river

[vivid fractal]

yeah

fuck UW

i mean i’m not going to get any money from Berkeley either if i get in but berkeley i’d be willing to take some loans out for

since i’m looking at going into pharmacology and bay area connections are so massive for that

[hoary mural]

my thoughts exactly

ivies and berkley make it worth it

[vivid fractal]

damn it would be nice if berkeley gave a little aid though

like just to one lucky out of state student

who’s name is dudpe

i’ve been grinding out of institution scholarship stuff though

$1000 here, $500 there, trying to chip away at stuff

[narrow dagger]

Not accurate bro portal ASTROLOGY is a hit or miss therefore don’t discuss

[narrow dagger]

They give if you get met

[vivid fractal]

huh

[narrow dagger]

Met offers more finaid

[vivid fractal]

what is met

[narrow dagger]

It’s a special program at Berk

[vivid fractal]

oh idk if pharmacology / biochem would fall into there

[vivid fractal]

it’s more business/engineering right?

off of a 5 second google search

although some might call me a businessman……

a suave stockbroker if you will

[vernal flame]

twice

[narrow dagger]

Yes

[narrow dagger]

Nah

[trim ruin]

My auto mute hit rate has been better than expected tbh

I got 3 people in 15 minutes the other day

[brave tendon]

wait so berk is coming out on thursday right is there a confirmed time

[twin halo]

ooo

when's berk

thursday?

[brave tendon]

yess

[grizzled fjord]

putting up wilt numbers right here

[stoic warren]

sorry but what are the T20 schools

[twin halo]

i think ya

[stoic warren]

rip astrology 😭

[twin halo]

omg so scared

[grizzled fjord]

aint ts supposed to be banned

[stoic warren]

yeah it is banned

[short tusk]

the t20 schools

fuh

[grizzled fjord]

berkeley anyway updates at around 3:14

pst

[short tusk]

duh*

[twin halo]

i haven’t done anything like astrology or wtv so i’m waiting in fear

[grizzled fjord]

real dedication

lmao

that was clutch during feb

whoever found all the links is some serious dedication

[twin halo]

ucla or ucb guys 🙏

like between the two if u had to choose

[short tusk]

ucla

[grizzled fjord]

just take ucla

(make ucb smaller)

[stoic warren]

depends on major

[twin halo]

what major r u

i’m js curious cos a lot of ppl prefer la but a lot of my friends r also ucb fans

like diehard fans

[stoic warren]

cause you're probably tired of oc 😭

[short tusk]

econ

[grizzled fjord]

diehard ucb fans 💀

[twin halo]

one guy i’m friends with would take ucb eecs over every college 😭

[stoic warren]

i'm tired of the bay and would rather be in oc

[short tusk]

i got rejected tho

[grizzled fjord]

if ur comp sci, its pretty easy

[vernal flame]

!cs

[light ocean]

Ding!

Looks like someone brought up computer science again. Why don't you compute the shortest optimal path to a shower?

Used 1052 times.

[twin halo]

oh wait true

cos my bay area friends simp for uci ucsb ucla

and we simp for ucb

[stoic warren]

just go by the location atp but UCLA's got better weather, dorms, food, and class sizes

[short tusk]

but im like scared its fake bruh

[grizzled fjord]

eecs buildings suck tbw

btw

[twin halo]

eek

[grizzled fjord]

generational gray 5 stories

[short tusk]

eeeeeek

[twin halo]

i kinda like pomona a lot

[stoic warren]

if you go to berkeley they have like 500 student class sizes 😭

[twin halo]

but idk if i wanna make my parents pay allat

[grizzled fjord]

nah

its not like that

multi sections of max of 100ish

just the general course has a lot

so u work w TAs

[twin halo]

also i applied to most of the UCs for engineering

[grizzled fjord]

ucla is around the same w their class structure

[twin halo]

and realized later i kinda don’t wanna study that

[stoic warren]

CS61a

[short tusk]

would you guys do USC or UCB (price not a concern)

[twin halo]

can u like leave engineering at ucla 😭

[grizzled fjord]

thats cause ds, cs, and eecs all take it lmao

61a also first sem lower div

so its free as hell to get

[stoic warren]

class sizes for lower divs are always high no matter what

[twin halo]

for me it would actually be the same cost so i have no idea lol

prob usc

cos housing >

[stoic warren]

but i've never seen enrollments as high as berkeley's 😭

[short tusk]

real

[grizzled fjord]

idt its that bad tho

[short tusk]

same

[twin halo]

usc mccarthy is pretty

[short tusk]

i love usc

USC LEMME INNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

[stoic warren]

i loved usc until they deferred me

[twin halo]

lowk my mom keeps asking me why i only care abt housing and food 💀 💀 💀

[short tusk]

what did yall apply for at usc

[short tusk]

huh

oh

real

[twin halo]

physics/cs!

[short tusk]

same

nice

[stoic warren]

mb forgot

[twin halo]

prob gonna double major w english lit creative writing concentration

[short tusk]

i applied for american popular culture

i plan switching

[stoic warren]

applied bio 🙄

[short tusk]

i just wanted to get in

😛

[twin halo]

so u applied to smth u thought was uncompetitive

[stoic warren]

L

[twin halo]

or smth

idk

lowk gonna hate on that one im sorry 😭

[stoic warren]

yeah i'm hating as well

mb

[twin halo]

ucla engineering is rlly good but

[short tusk]

yeah

[twin halo]

i’m starting to realize ion wanna study engineering

but i also applied to like 10 schools for it

[short tusk]

also my application makes sense for american pop culture

[twin halo]

ig i could transfer out

[stoic warren]

idk how easy it is to switch from engineering to l&s major at ucla

[twin halo]

but that’s like a waste cos engineering’s competitive anyhow

i feel like it’s easier than the other way around

cos ucla engineering is like 5% ish

[stoic warren]

yeah

[short tusk]

i just wanna switch to something within dornsife

[twin halo]

lower than their 9% usual

[short tusk]

econ

😛

[twin halo]

ion wanna hate but

i’m lowk gonna hate

cos if u wanna study econ u should be putting urself against other ppl who r tryna do econ

instead of tryna go the easy way in

[stoic warren]

switching from a noncompetitive major to a competitive major is bad move

[twin halo]

ye

it’s also a kinda rude move

[stoic warren]

she left 😭

[twin halo]

oop

LOL

[twin halo]

or she got banned for talking about portal astro

[stoic warren]

we were hating a bit too much

[stoic warren]

then i would've been banned 😭 i did slightly mention it or smt

i think she just left or smt

[twin halo]

ion think so

i feel like normal ppl dislike this kinda thing anyhow

would u hate on me for applying english and then double majoring with physics

[stoic warren]

no cause you're doing what you applied for

[twin halo]

i happen to like/want to do both but i happened to have more ecs for english

😭

[stoic warren]

if you just avoided english overall and just switched to physics i would hate

[twin halo]

tbf both majors r equally competitive for me i think

[stoic warren]

yeah cause you're competing with the pre law students for english too right

idek what are the pre law majors

[twin halo]

well

i am pre law

even if i did physics like at usc id be prelaw lol

[stoic warren]

oh 😭

well it's fine then

[twin halo]

yeah

one more week of decisions!!

i’m so scared

[stoic warren]

i'm prolly gonna get rejected from gatech and usc since my common app was apparently ass

berkeley is a coin toss but idrc

no ivy day for me 😭

[vivid fractal]

i think my UC application PIQ's cleared any of my common app essays

but also i have no clue why I applied for undeclared Raussers at Berkeley

Actually have 0 memory of doing that but i heard its pretty easy to transfer from rausser to L&S after one semester

is it tough to get into the biochem major though cuz...

[stoic warren]

i don't think so

i think it's the same as any l&s major

unless if you're doing chemical biology

[vivid fractal]

okay good cause thats what i thought but i figure when the program is so highly ranked sometimes it could be competetive

[vivid fractal]

no i was looking at L&S biochem not college of chemistry

[stoic warren]

yeah they don't admit by major so i'm guessing it's L&S acceptance rate

[plain hare]

we unabnned

[vivid fractal]

ok cool

[stoic warren]

😭

how long were you timed out for

[vivid fractal]

you get caught talking about asstrollogy?

[plain hare]

3 days

maybe

i want coping so hard

sitll am

[vivid fractal]

happens to the best of us

||i hope its real so bad||

we'll find out thursday, that's all you can say

[twin halo]

don’t lose hope!!

i thought my usc app was shit and they liked it

even tho i rewrote almost everything before rd (including a completely different personal statement topic)

[plain hare]

no

[vivid fractal]

what did you choose for favorite snack?

[vivid fractal]

those are the only stats im interested in

[twin halo]

uh i said oh snap! pickle bites

[stoic warren]

those supplementals suck

[vivid fractal]

mm mm good choice

[twin halo]

it’s like the prepackaged sliced pickle snacks ye

why?

*wby

[stoic warren]

i didn't enjoy doing them as much as the UC apps

they say they don't matter but they actually do

[vivid fractal]

i said crunchmaster artisan four cheese rice crackers

[twin halo]

i’m pretty sure they don’t matter

[twin halo]

did u get in

LOL

[stoic warren]

i said kopiko coffee candy 😭

[vivid fractal]

deffered ):

[twin halo]

oh i didn’t rlly like doing usc or uc apps 😭

[vivid fractal]

they just dont know

[twin halo]

cos usc felt a bit artificial and it was early on

[vivid fractal]

these things slap so insanely hard its not even funny

[twin halo]

and uc was like

too little creative liberty for me

[stoic warren]

USC has a panda express i rate colleges based on their panda expresses

[twin halo]

like no commonapp personal statement

[stoic warren]

caltech has the best panda express

and UCSB's orange chicken was too vinegary and sour

[twin halo]

wtf LOL

[vivid fractal]

i ended up crunching down my commonapp essay for one of the PIQ's

[twin halo]

smart

[vivid fractal]

the topic was just too gas

[twin halo]

my commonapp was like

insanely

idek

couldn’t be made into anything else

😭

[stoic warren]

my commonapp was rushed and didn't sound like me at all

[twin halo]

i did the challenge essay for my usc personal statement

[stoic warren]

it sounded like i was trying to be the "i hate the letter s" essay or the costco essay

[twin halo]

but i realized i didn’t wanna be basic

so i changed my essay to one of the other prompts

[vivid fractal]

my topic was gas but i feel like the way i wrote it wasn't great. But i feel like when i crunched it down for the PIQ's it was so much stronger

[twin halo]

hru doing with uc results so far

[vivid fractal]

jfk harvard essay

to be a harvard man...

[stoic warren]

best essay ever he's definitely not a legacy 💔

i think he reused it for princeton as well just replaced harvard with princeton

[twin halo]

i feel like bc UC app doesn’t ask sat, personal statement, letter of rec, etc. it was harder to feel good about my app

[vivid fractal]

hey UPenn legacy isn't gonna get me anywhere so it's not real

[vivid fractal]

it isnt just that im way below any average benchmark for UPenn admits

[twin halo]

cos i felt like UCs were differentiating mostly on gpa and piqs

[vivid fractal]

or that i didnt ED

[twin halo]

oh yeah both of my waitlists so far were for colleges with multiple EDs

call me salty but ima pretend that’s why i didn’t get in

[vivid fractal]

multiple ed's are bs

thats just a money grab atp

[twin halo]

fr

[stoic warren]

ED1 ED2 i hate ED

[vivid fractal]

because you know every person who goes for EDII is paying full price

[twin halo]

bro uchicago was ed0 ed1 ed2 💀

and i applied rd

[vivid fractal]

but they get stuck wit da contract

[vivid fractal]

tf is ed0

[stoic warren]

you apply during the summer or something 😭

[twin halo]

like a super inflated ed where u can only apply if u went to their summer programs

[vivid fractal]

thas crazy

[twin halo]

i think the other college i actually just

wasn’t good enough

but i think their ar was inflated by ed fs

[vivid fractal]

if UChicago was a person he'd be the most insufferable mfer on earth you just know it

[twin halo]

LAMO

[stoic warren]

uchicago just seems like a bad place to be at idk

[twin halo]

berkeley or bust is wild btw

r u eecs or smth

cos one of my friends is like that and he’s eecs

[vivid fractal]

no it's really not berkeley or bust but i just think its funny

[twin halo]

ohh

[vivid fractal]

i really want to get into berkeley but i have no problem falling back on UCSD or UMiami

why not Berkeley and bust 😏😏😏

[twin halo]

LMAO

[vivid fractal]

||if you saw me make the same joke 2 days ago don't say anything||

[twin halo]

wait ucsd is solid af

what major

[twin halo]

i’ve never seen u before tbh 😭

[vivid fractal]

Pharmacological Chemistry

oos though so it's full price which is not great

i got good scholarship from UMiami though

[vivid fractal]

nah thats fair i joined like 5 days ago

[twin halo]

oh shit

[twin halo]

SLAY

[vivid fractal]

yeah i mean i'll be getting full price at berkeley if i get admitted too but berkeley is worth it

[twin halo]

this is cool my ap chem teacher last yr studied this

[twin halo]

yeah berkeley’s pretty cool lmao

location gets me a little bit but the academics r good

[vivid fractal]

and bay area for pharma is gold

[twin halo]

oh really

i wouldn’t know i’m socal

[vivid fractal]

yeah bay area is like the #1 pharma hub on earth

maybe only second to boston

pharma is a weird industry that's super concentrated in a couple areas and outside of that it's a lot harder to find good work

less so than biotech but a similar principle

[twin halo]

i see

i’m a materials engineering physics english prelaw

not sure where i should go for locational benefit

[vivid fractal]

how many majors/minors is that lol

[twin halo]

(btw this isn’t even satire i legit have similar options for the 3 majors 😭 😭 😭)

and i’m acc tryna prelaw

[twin halo]

i’m not rly sure

i’m planning on double majoring

in physics and english ideally

[vivid fractal]

what's the build cohesion there

tryna minmax

[twin halo]

but i applied to ucs for engineering

other than ucsd

so i might transfer out of engineering??

[vivid fractal]

like is there a lot of synergy between physics english

[twin halo]

which sounds really stupid cos i’m pretty sure

it’s harder to get in

for engineering anyway

[twin halo]

idk

i’m interested in both

and i wanna write sci-fi someday too

[vivid fractal]

gonna write the greatest research papers on the planet

[twin halo]

LMAO

[vivid fractal]

nah actually cause the world needs that because some of these research papers and lab reports sound like they're written by a 5 year old with a thesaurus

[twin halo]

lowkey one of my colleges offered a free trial music lesson (i’m a violinist)

time to be english physics music

[twin halo]

bro fr some r illegible 😭

[vivid fractal]

'write an interpretative violin song about how you managed to get a 2000% error on your lab'

[twin halo]

LMAOOO

wait that’s acc pretty good

i’ve composed before

[prisma lantern]

good luck tomorrow

[plain hare]

tmr?

[vivid fractal]

usc i think is tmrw but idk about anything else

[vernal flame]

tomorrow is temu ivy day

[winter widget]

hypothetically how easy would it be to switch majors at berkeley?

[vivid fractal]

depends on the major youre coming from and the major youre going to

[winter widget]

someone i know applied anthropology and wants to go into business

[stoic warren]

good luck he's stuck with bones and fossils for four years

[winter widget]

LOL

[stoic warren]

nah but l&s to haas is insane idk if you can even do that

[crystal zinc]

live laugh love Berkeley

is ucla bio THAT much better than Berkeley bio

[stoic warren]

refer to the sewage video

[crystal zinc]

cause I love Berkeleys campus

my high school has sewage

[stoic warren]

no they're pretty much similar unless premed

[crystal zinc]

it’s the same shit

immmm premed

[stoic warren]

oh yeah then UCLA's premed is better

[crystal zinc]

yeah I figure

okay probably ucla over Berkeley if I get in

[stoic warren]

but you can take the BART to UCSF

[crystal zinc]

man I love Berkeley but wtv

I love BART

[stoic warren]

bartholomew simpson

so i guess berkeley premed isn't bad it's like second to ucla

but i'd take UCSD over berkeley because it has a med school

[crystal zinc]

I didn’t apply UCSD

my mom works there she says her grad students are miserable

so

did not apply

[vernal flame]

BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT 🗣️

[stoic warren]

i would be miserable as a grad student too

in any university

[vernal flame]

i would die to be a grad student at ucsd sio

[rapid shoal]

bart mentioned

[crystal zinc]

they are dying doing it

[stoic warren]

if it makes you happy berkeley is feeder to UCSF

for medical school admissions

[crystal zinc]

oh that’s nice to hear

if I get in this is gonna be a nightmarish time

[vernal flame]

sio is peak

everyone i talked to at sio loves it there

[crystal zinc]

Nah she doesn’t

[stoic warren]

i can't wait to get rejected from USC

waste of money 😭

[vernal flame]

i wish i applied to usc and pomona

i was too lazy to

[crystal zinc]

USC 100k too many dollars

[vernal flame]

be so fr

[crystal zinc]

again my mom hated going there

[stoic warren]

you're legacy???

[crystal zinc]

for usc and ucla

[stoic warren]

i thought they give scholarships for legacies

for USC

and higher acceptance rate

[crystal zinc]

eh still too expensive

[stoic warren]

UCLA doesn't do legacy 😢

[crystal zinc]

I knowww

It’s very sad

But like don’t care anymore

[stoic warren]

at least i'm proud knowing i'm the first person in my family to get into a UC campus

[crystal zinc]

they asked me about if my parents were alumni for bruin day tho

[crystal zinc]

ate

[twin halo]

lmao ion think u even can

haas is so impacted

[winter widget]

its over for him

[twin halo]

so proud of u 🔥 🙏

[stoic warren]

it's probably a welcome back gift

i should've just checked off the box to find out what they'd do

[twin halo]

well

lesson not to apply to easy majors

just to switch

[crystal zinc]

oooo more merch I love merch

[stoic warren]

i hope he likes bones and fossils

[twin halo]

douchebag move + doesn’t usually work out

[hearty wing]

seen it work out a bunch

for ivies

idk

[stoic warren]

wait nvm that's archaeology

[twin halo]

ivies it works out more often lol

cos they have lots of resources +

[hearty wing]

public unis r cooked

[twin halo]

they usually accept by general strength of app

[hearty wing]

to strategic in

[twin halo]

like mit doesn’t accept by major

and ivies don’t really either

[hearty wing]

gender studies fs

and religious ones

i seen some weak aah apps get in

not to take credit away from them

but

[twin halo]

that’s kinda rude LOL

[hearty wing]

applicant pool is v different

[twin halo]

but also my point still stands

douchebag move

[winter widget]

the gender studies to cs pipeline stands strong

[hearty wing]

I mean cs/math has a crazy applicant pool in comparison

[twin halo]

wait yuzu have i congratulated u abt ucsd yet