Yale University (2025-2026)

[unreal meteor]

i'm east asia, also no interview ;-;

we can cope together

[shadow pivot]

nice! i've never done policy, not so normal here

[shadow pivot]

yes please; ik alumni here is scarce but it would be reliving to get an email 😭

[mellow imp]

yalies love selling out

econ is a relatively chill major with a great career pipeline

[meager bloom]

do a lot of yalies double major?

[native smelt]

like yes and no

[mental solstice]

LOL

[mental solstice]

yeah thats true

makes sense

[mental solstice]

imagine doing ethics politics and economics with computing and linguistics double major

thats basically 5 majors LMAO

[rancid mango]

For Yale ppl, tell me about the Yuttle

[cunning flume]

So when is Yale doing this

[meager bloom]

yale and columbia have the best mascot

[cunning flume]

This is ur version of Davis cow

[meager bloom]

oh why is he orange

[cunning flume]

They reuse them

They only have like 8 animals for all colleges

This is custom Yale one

[native smelt]

i dont use it

i’ve used it once actually

[meager bloom]

is that the shuttle

[native smelt]

i know the grad students use it a lot

[native smelt]

ya

[wicked cedar]

i don't use it, but i'm also too lazy

i redesigned the yuttle app for a design sprint though

[native smelt]

omg wtf

where is this

I NEED

[wicked cedar]

made it for DFA

[native smelt]

cuz im not gonna tryna be walk to marsh at 9 am in -5 degree weather

[wicked cedar]

lowk they should contract us

[native smelt]

whats dfa

[wicked cedar]

design for america

it's like the PM studio at yale for community start-ups

[royal veldt]

Low-key Yale admissions podcast make me more and more eager to apply

[quasi hull]

Hi goat I’m so bored over break I’m on discord…..

[quasi hull]

The lion does not walk to science hill I use ts every day

[unreal meteor]

I don’t want a lot for christmas
There is just one school i need
I don’t care about MIT
Or that harvard down the street
I just want yale for my own
More than yale could ever know
Make my wish come true
All i want for christmas is yale

I don’t want a lot for christmas
There is just one school i need
Don’t care for the other ivies
Lest the other top twenties
I don’t want to do RD
Fill up the rest of my commonapp
Don’t want to wait til Ivy day
Even if i get my way

I just want yale for my own
More than yale could ever know
Make my wish come true
All i want for christmas is yale
Yale, baby

Oh i won’t ask for much this christmas
I won’t even wish for brown
I’m just gonna keep on waiting
Keep refreshing my portal
I won’t make a college list
Show it to my counselor
I won’t even stay awake to
Count the days to ivy day

Cause I just want yale here tonight
Accept me it’ll be so bright
What more can i do?
Oh baby all i want for christmas is Yale
Yale, baby

[mental solstice]

send this to the yale admissions officers

theyll cry

no doubt tears of joy

[wicked cedar]

genuinely yes

they love stuff like that

[digital epoch]

SUCK IT YOUNGSTOWN STATE

[native smelt]

😝😝

[digital epoch]

have fun in bozeman

they beat our asses

[meager bloom]

holy comeback

proof why the ivy deserved to be in regular ncaa post-season

[left ice]

[shadow pivot]

17 days for REA 😖

[left ice]

[elder barn]

pls let us all in yale

[mellow imp]

i dont use it except to go to the med school now and again

and sometimes from the train station if i dont want to pay for an uber or walk lol

its mostly used by grad students

[mellow imp]

honestly the shuttle is just way too unreliable

[plucky void]

awww i did the exact same thing on my suitcase

[plucky void]

this might be cuter than the davis cow ..

[digital epoch]

fuh naw

i stan davis co

w

[unreal meteor]

wait deadahh

[unreal meteor]

@wicked cedar should I email it

[elder barn]

t-2 weeks

[native smelt]

This is how i got into yale btw

[sharp flume]

i need to make all the 5 yale next year🔥

This is the way

[unreal meteor]

yale yale yale yale yale

[elder barn]

Should I send a follow up for my application mentioning this

[unreal meteor]

💔

[hoary saffron]

i listened to that once or twice back in the day i thought it was kinda dumb

[visual umbra]

last year vs this year

[half shore]

💀

[elder barn]

Some of it is common knowledge but idk I found it insightful 😭

[left ice]

[digital epoch]

Don't kiss your interviewers

[twilit vault]

I had 920 min😛✌️

Still not top 1% does this mean they’ll reject??

[nocturne fjord]

Why not?

[gray scroll]

lmfao

[left ice]

oh no should have given the advice earlier

[shadow pivot]

r we supposed to get a financial aid document request or smt as intl💔💔🥀🥀

[mellow imp]

hmm? what did u get?

fwiw i got a document request with my acceptance letter lol, but the letter requesting extra documentation was dated two days before the acceptance letters went out

oh and that letter said congrats too lol

[shadow pivot]

nothing but I’m concerned if I should be getting? 😭

[shadow pivot]

oh, damn! you were aware of it beforehand?

I haven’t submitted the CSS so If I was to be getting in, would they ask for it bef acceptance letters went out was my question 😅

[frosty goblet]

Omg I got this too

It was like “you’re a top 0.1% listener” 🫣

[frosty goblet]

if any current Yalies wouldn't mind answering some q's about the supplmental questions id greatly appreciate it

my first one is:

for this supplement: **Tell us about a topic or idea that excites you and is related to one or more academic areas you selected above. Why are you drawn to it? (200 words or fewer)

is it supposed to be about some like niche quirky academic topic you like or does it work better if u talk about like an experince that led you to an interdisciplinary academic interest? I currently have the latter down and I wrote about how feeling a sense of freedom on a cruise ship made me scour the humanities to understand the power of place (my "spike" if you will)

but idk if its better to just discuss like one specific topic you like a ton

[lucid sonnet]

im also a senior but from example essays i saw, they talk abt a specific thing that they like and tied it back to their interest in the subject

[night briar]

i'm not a Yale student but i don't think it's 'supposed' to be anything. i'd just answer it the way i understood the question (which exactly what i did cuz i'm also applying)

like when you think of your academic interest, whatever it was, what kind of idea pops into your mind? one that excites you and stimulates your mind

write about it just like you'd say it out loud and be genuine

at least this what worked with me

[mellow imp]

fuck montana

fake stupid cringe state

why do 20k people and 800k cows deserve 2 senate votes

[native smelt]

i thought we had a chance i watched until like 5 mins left in 3rd quarter

why did we go for 2 😭😭😭

[royal spoke]

montana had great scenery on the west side

but yeah

[meager bloom]

and down goes yale

[elder barn]

i was wasting time scrolling through this thread (im actually so cooked), and I realized that it was the same for me, I wasnt asked why yale 🤨 i wonder if theyre told not to ask this or something lol

idk how im gonna survive waiting till feb-april for decisions if i get deferred/rejected rea

[left ice]

[proper lily]

mine didnt ask me why yale either. i kinda slipped it in at the end.

[shadow pivot]

is it weird that i haven't received a single email since the portal link email

like fin aid or anything

[last elk]

fin aid is a different process at yale (for perspective they were asking for my idoc even tho I havent even submitted my application yet bc i submitted fafsa and css already)

[unreal meteor]

Fr being ghosted sucks

[proper lily]

i don't want to wait a week to hear back. like tell me now and spare me the heartbreak

[last elk]

Real

[last elk]

Ngl thats better than the suny schools they dont ghost you they just send you marketing emails at the time when other ppl are getting decisions back

Lowkey torture

[elder barn]

Had a speech ready to glaze Yale n everything 😔

[elder barn]

Real asf

[unreal meteor]

!yale

@cunning flume can you give me perms for the command please 😭 🙏

[cunning flume]

Those don’t exist this year bc almost none of you send me dates

Maybe I’ll make them for threads that send me dates instead of forcing me to scour the internet

Also last year we restricted them to #🤖-bot-commands bc they got spammy

[native smelt]

need blind

[unreal meteor]

oh :c

it's

[native smelt]

so fin aid separate from admissions anyway

[unreal meteor]

dec 17 5pm eastern

@cunning flume

[unreal meteor]

ohh

[cunning flume]

That’s alr pinned my slime

[unreal meteor]

💔

[unreal meteor]

WE are all getting rejected 😞

They told me in a dream

[shadow pivot]

true

[shadow pivot]

valid

waiting sucks

[native smelt]

while you guys are stressed about waiting current yale students are stressed about finals!

🤣🤣🤣

Might truly be my final week

[unreal meteor]

I’d infinitely rather be stressed abt finals

[native smelt]

“Hardest part of yale is getting in” type bs

I’d rather apply to college 3 more times than go through the amount of stress i’ve gone through in the past month

I think i’ve aged 5 years

[slow hollow]

when some hser is on some “actually your ivy has grade inflation 🤓” bs

[wicked cedar]

me flunking out of the university i wanted to go to for 4 years ... #rorygilmorecore

[unreal meteor]

Lock in you got this

[elder barn]

1 more week how are we feeling

[shadow pivot]

not good, just found out someone who did yygs from my country also applied 💀

[pseudo moat]

i don't think yygs helps as much as y'all think

[shadow pivot]

I hope so? 🥲

[pseudo moat]

i mean i wouldn't pray on someone else's downfall but

[unreal meteor]

no yygs lowk helps a ton

all my yygs friends (except for one) all matched to some insane ahh schools

thru qb

[unreal meteor]

wait what country are you

[pseudo moat]

i know that but like

i mean for yale specifically

yygs kids have to be cracked anyways

[shadow pivot]

South Asia

[unreal meteor]

let us cope 😭 🙏

[unreal meteor]

i'm east asia

[shadow pivot]

lmfao r u

[pseudo moat]

sorry

[shadow pivot]

yygs alum

[unreal meteor]

yeah

ple 25

we might know each other lmao

[shadow pivot]

yeah I think this analysis is fair

[sharp flume]

they can always take two people from a single country dw

[unreal meteor]

wait what debate event do you do

[shadow pivot]

you’ve asked me this so much ong

WSDC

💔💔🥀🥀

[unreal meteor]

💔

oh fuck

mb

[shadow pivot]

i hope so too again 😭 It’s js been so stressful

it’s difficult to avoid overthinking & overanalyzing

[unreal meteor]

did you see this

[sharp flume]

I am applying rd but i just cant write killer essays i cant even find topics to write on

[unreal meteor]

i did policy and my partner transferred to philips exeter :c and now i do ld

[sharp flume]

ig yale is not written for me💔

[unreal meteor]

fast did you do yygs

2025

or 2024

[sharp flume]

Which ivies are you applying to

[shadow pivot]

Yale’s CDS don’t even hv data

for international

💔

[unreal meteor]

no one's does lmao

harvard has like 'considered' for everything 💔

[shadow pivot]

all except Columbia

[unreal meteor]

all except upenn

[shadow pivot]

noo they do

[sharp flume]

I applied but my efc was like 100$ and shit essays(wrote in 2 hours) got waitlisted and ultimately rejected

Yygs waitlists everyone

[unreal meteor]

💔

[shadow pivot]

like num of intl who applied & num of intl who got in

[unreal meteor]

ohh

[shadow pivot]

i calculated for Harvard last year & it was around 1.9%

💀💀💀

[unreal meteor]

1.9% 💀

[sharp flume]

I am from south asia lol

[shadow pivot]

we are so cooked

[unreal meteor]

oh heat

[unreal meteor]

i'm not intl tho tehcnically

i have citizenship

small saving grace

[sharp flume]

wsdc usually has a good chance at ivies

[unreal meteor]

hopoefully

[sharp flume]

Its an excellent ec

[unreal meteor]

wsdc 💔

no bro

policy is the only valid format

you can actually get recruited

[shadow pivot]

i hope sooo; we reached octo finals

[unreal meteor]

not like

[shadow pivot]

😓💔

[sharp flume]

idrk about debates much

[unreal meteor]

hard recruit like sports

[sharp flume]

I wish i did debate tho

Super duper ec

[unreal meteor]

but it helps a lot

[unreal meteor]

at toc?

[shadow pivot]

wym toc

[unreal meteor]

wait what is wsdc like

[shadow pivot]

3v3

[unreal meteor]

it's like the biggest tourney for policy/ld/pf

[shadow pivot]

ohhh for us the biggest tourney is

WSDC itself

like the world championship

[unreal meteor]

oh

ld sheninagans

[shadow pivot]

lolll is there nationals for policy or

team wise

[unreal meteor]

there are nats from nsda but like that's lay

the "best" tournament is toc

@shadow pivot what's the res/topic for wsdc

and what are the win conditions

i'm acc so intrested in other debate formats

[shadow pivot]

WSDC is basically topic is released —> 1 hour to prep w ur teammates without resources —> 3v3 w opposition where speakers go back & fourth

and each speech is 8 minutes

[sharp flume]

i just know about parliamentary debate😖

[shadow pivot]

content, style, strategy

[sharp flume]

Is there sth called pre worlds

[unreal meteor]

wait what possible research can you do in 1 hour

[shadow pivot]

you can’t

[unreal meteor]

💔 where's the topic education then

[shadow pivot]

u read beforehand

[unreal meteor]

ts why policy is the best format

[shadow pivot]

they can throw anything at u

😭😭✌️✌️

[unreal meteor]

you basically have to do a dissertation every season

[meager bloom]

thats like the point

u cant rlly

[shadow pivot]

Basically u have to stay updated w what’s going on

[unreal meteor]

what are some exampels of topics

[shadow pivot]

And read material

[shadow pivot]

Anything

Environment tech AI games sports

[unreal meteor]

is it a policy proposal or is it like truth testing

like "the usfg should do blah blah blah" or like "cats are better than dogs"

et cetera

[shadow pivot]

this yr one of the motions at world championship was whether we like the prominence of celebrity conflict ( Kendrick vs drake ) typa beat

[unreal meteor]

go for t 💔

[shadow pivot]

mostly logic

What I love about it is the prep time tbh

[sharp flume]

Wait i think this is cool

[shadow pivot]

It really challenges you because you have to think

There’s no other option

[sharp flume]

like the one who is more knowledgeable and up to date wins

Isnt it

[unreal meteor]

average ld

[shadow pivot]

not necessarily but being updated helps yes

[meager bloom]

itll be like “This house supports x”

[shadow pivot]

like reading sociology books was rlly helpful

[meager bloom]

and then some general topic or specific

[unreal meteor]

oh so like oxford union type shit

[shadow pivot]

did u also do WSDC?

[unreal meteor]

is there any space for critical ground

[meager bloom]

wsdc in the us is hell to get onto

[native smelt]

i have a 3hr30 min exam tonight

Kms!!

[shadow pivot]

I’ve heard 😭😭😭😭

[unreal meteor]

like in policy/ld crtiical lit is a huge part of the community

[unreal meteor]

gl

[shadow pivot]

WSDC is js content and logic

u don’t need to cite example s

or evidences

[unreal meteor]

yeah no i mean like in terms of content

[shadow pivot]

u need logic

[meager bloom]

most kids on the team r national champions/finalists/semifinalists

[unreal meteor]

i mean like in terms of norms

[shadow pivot]

yeah I heard it’s super super competitive 😭

[unreal meteor]

like are community norms default to util/conq for ethics, et cetera?

[meager bloom]

well some of the wsd questions r not super specific

[shadow pivot]

best of luck gng

[unreal meteor]

i mean like community norms

[meager bloom]

it could be like

[shadow pivot]

can u use more simple terms

[sharp flume]

Wait flora are you from nepal

[meager bloom]

“This house believes individuals who don’t recycle should be punished.” or some shit

[unreal meteor]

yeah

[shadow pivot]

yes!

[unreal meteor]

so like

[sharp flume]

how is wsdc competition there

[unreal meteor]

in policy/ld like off the top of my head there'd be teams going for "state punishment bad because state violence is always illegitamate"

[sharp flume]

like in my country its hella competitive

[unreal meteor]

is there space for that in wsdc

[shadow pivot]

one time there was a motion where TH, as Elle Woods, would not go to Harvard.

that was fun lolll

😭✌️

[shadow pivot]

its not super super competitive, at-least I didn’t struggle a lot because my school has a very flourishing debate club but the thing is because our competition is low

our performance at the worlds is bad

💔

like it’s such a small community

n we are severely under resourced

[unreal meteor]

like in ld there's moral skep right

so where should --> moral obligations

[sharp flume]

nevertheless debate is a cool ec

[unreal meteor]

if the negatory/negation can prove that moral obligations don't exist

they win on presumption

[sharp flume]

Despite the college apps it can take you far in life

[unreal meteor]

et cetera

is there space for that in wsdc

[shadow pivot]

fs! I loveeee debating & I’m super excited to continue WUDC

where r u from fast?

[sharp flume]

can I start debate at college

[shadow pivot]

this is jargonish for me to understand 😭

[sharp flume]

bangladesh

[shadow pivot]

oh nice! I think someone from Bangladesh WSDC got into Harvard right?

[meager bloom]

wsd doesnt rlly have values if that makes sense

u dont have to define the value ur case is built off

[shadow pivot]

fs omg I started in tenth grade

[unreal meteor]

is wsdc going to techify

[shadow pivot]

i think u should watch a debateee

on YouTube

[sharp flume]

YEAH

[shadow pivot]

my teammates from WSDC got into Harvard n UPenn last cycle

😭😭✌️✌️

hopefully it carries me this time

[sharp flume]

Kids at my school are really good at debate and there is a like syndicate here to not let anyone else in except the team. So i never tried haha

[sharp flume]

Glgl

[shadow pivot]

ugh I hate this about debate clubs and circles

it’s very exclusive

[unreal meteor]

@shadow pivot what should i watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1snKajTZGE4

wait ts is ld at like a high level

[shadow pivot]

okay wait

https://youtu.be/v9dwJNmIIx8?si=FxZhDo3INNXoItyi

this is good

the debate is abt whether sports betting

should b banned

[shadow pivot]

I’ll watchhh

[sharp flume]

does your school have quizzes

As ec

[shadow pivot]

no no

[sharp flume]

does any country except mine even have quizzes

[shadow pivot]

quizzes as in?

😭

[sharp flume]

Bet the aos wont even understand whats it

[sharp flume]

The interdisciplinary quiz competitions

like a general knowledge competition

[shadow pivot]

they will

js provide some context

did u apply early somewhere?

[unreal meteor]

@shadow pivot @sharp flume we need to schedule an a2c debate night

[shadow pivot]

I’m acc terrified of next Wednesday

😭😭😭😭

knowing damn well it isn’t for me

🥀🥀

[sharp flume]

I am so doubtful about my competency so I didnt lmao

and i am not good in essays

Ig you guys are

Debaters are good at writing

[sharp flume]

idk debate vro💔

[unreal meteor]

Uh

Delete this

I can see your insta

Unless you wanted to dox xd

[shadow pivot]

WHAT

I didn’t know

Instagram did that

💀💀💀

[unreal meteor]

Yeah

Dw I gotchu

Follow me back now

Also wtf they’re alr packing admit folders

Does that mean we’re cooked

[shadow pivot]

i am acc rlly rlly cooked bbqued

😭😭😭

[sharp flume]

wait can I send a follow?

[shadow pivot]

yeah ofc

[sharp flume]

I dont want to be like i have yours and you dont have mine

😭

[shadow pivot]

yeah ofc but damn

I didn’t know Instagram did that

😭😭✌️✌️

[unreal meteor]

follwo me to trust

[sharp flume]

i dont have yours

lol

And i just lost floras too

such an ass i am

[shadow pivot]

wait I’ll dm

[sharp flume]

sent, don’t dox me gang

[elder barn]

I regret not doing yygs, it seems like sm fun

[unreal meteor]

yygs was so fucking fun

[elder barn]

Yales supps are so fun, be whimsical lowk

[unreal meteor]

wait flora di dyou do yygs?

surprised we have no mutuals

[shadow pivot]

rightt omg

i even tried to apply lol

but it was too much work

[elder barn]

i got fomo from seeing it on one of my friends igs 😔

[unreal meteor]

:c

i lwok met my soulmate there but she was crazy so i dipped

[shadow pivot]

you got a senior interview it must mean smth fr

😭

but guys i looked at the asc report

[elder barn]

im telling u it doesn’t mean much

[shadow pivot]

and the 24-25 had 65 countries but 25-25 has only members from 30 countries

[elder barn]

I’m likely the only applicant from my country

[shadow pivot]

idk what led to the decrease but perhaps

that's why we didnt get one?

[elder barn]

Which might have helped in them wanting to see diversity

[sharp flume]

lmao

[shadow pivot]

well take it as a good sign fr 😭

[elder barn]

But it didn’t feel very evaluative

[native smelt]

isn’t the date literally in a week

you’ll have ur decision soon enough

[sharp flume]

yall are getting in

[native smelt]

what did they ask u

[sharp flume]

manifest

[elder barn]

I feel like being best in the country when the country’s mediocre isn’t helping me much

[unreal meteor]

OH WAIT

that makes so much sense

that's actually w cope

[shadow pivot]

yesyes

[elder barn]

But if I can get in with diversity I’m taking that route

[shadow pivot]

DOING ANYTHING TO COPE

😭

[elder barn]

Uhhh

[native smelt]

dei is gone so if you get it it’s completely attributed to merit not diversity

[elder barn]

U were right about the no why yale

She didn’t ask me that

But it was just a friendly conversation

[native smelt]

not that previous admits through aa were not also merit

[shadow pivot]

rllly? but sometimes doesn't your experience add nuance

[unreal meteor]

it's always merit

[elder barn]

she asked about my ecs

[shadow pivot]

to existing issues

[elder barn]

And cheetahs

And stuff

[native smelt]

that’s how an interview should go

[native smelt]

yeah i phrased that poorly

[shadow pivot]

like yes merit, but someone from place X may have a unique perspective on a topic

[unreal meteor]

can't relate 💔

[unreal meteor]

yeah no i understand what you mean

[elder barn]

But they look at the country in context to applications no?

[unreal meteor]

wait i also lowk realize i know your name 😭

[native smelt]

how

[unreal meteor]

google docs

[native smelt]

oh

[elder barn]

Yeah I’m hella grateful it was a senior cuz I feel like the proximity in age let us click really nicely

[native smelt]

ya u can stalk me if you’d like

[shadow pivot]

😭

[native smelt]

just don’t doxx

[unreal meteor]

WE will be getting coffee together at bbd

[unreal meteor]

yeah dw

[native smelt]

LMFAO

why not just like a meal

[shadow pivot]

how long after the acceptance letter

do they mail those packages

[sharp flume]

wait diversity isnt a thing anymore?

[native smelt]

it is

[sharp flume]

at yale?

[native smelt]

just aa gone

[elder barn]

Diversity is always a thing gang

[native smelt]

i phrased my thought poorly

just ignore it

[sharp flume]

oh

[shadow pivot]

n is diversity for whole undergrad

or like per class

[native smelt]

i think i got mine a week or 2 later

[sharp flume]

help me w the supps gang once you get in

[shadow pivot]

fair fair

[native smelt]

wdym

those are the same thing

[elder barn]

If I get in trust I’ll lock in n help everyone and their moms

[unreal meteor]

oh i mean sure

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE god if you're real let me go to yale i promise i'll convert to the correct religion

[elder barn]

i lowk feel bad for all of you from hella competitive regions though

[shadow pivot]

like when they say shaping class, are they shaping for this particular cycle or whole undergrad pop

[elder barn]

Cuz the pressure seems so bad

[native smelt]

idk

prolly both

[shadow pivot]

for me the result is in the morning if i get in im waking the whole ahh neighbourhood

[elder barn]

This is how you get recruited for cults

[unreal meteor]

i'd deadahh join any cult if it increases my chances

[sharp flume]

lmao just me would be enough. but lowkey how did you prepare for the interview, i have an alumni interview with uroch two days later

what should I do

[shadow pivot]

hv u guys received fin aid emails or such

[unreal meteor]

no :c

i didn't apply for finaid 💔

[elder barn]

Start a cult. It shows more initiative and leadership :)

[native smelt]

i didn’t get any emails from the fin aid office until after i got in

[sharp flume]

yale campus is goated tho

[unreal meteor]

didn't have time to fill out css and fafsa til like super late

[shadow pivot]

fairs fairs

https://tenor.com/view/glee-quinn-fabray-i-got-into-yale-yale-yale-university-gif-22799860

us next week

[unreal meteor]

the dorms are so old

liek i'm being fr when i say umich has nicer dorms than yale

[elder barn]

ik everyone says be urself but id say prepare atleast a good number of points, be prepared to talk about 5 of ur top ecs. For me it was a lot of “what was a moment you demonstrated x or overcame y” and you don’t wanna repeat mentioning ecs when possible :)

[native smelt]

i love my dorm tf

[unreal meteor]

they're so old 💔

if i take myself hostage would that increase my chances

"i will lose my will to live absent an acceptance"

[sharp flume]

there is sth called davenport college

so cool

[native smelt]

if u don’t get in it’s not that serious this school is kinda mid

[shadow pivot]

last yr there was a 30% decrease in intl apps

[unreal meteor]

mid college icl

[shadow pivot]

apparently cuz of that policy

[native smelt]

mid ahh college

[sharp flume]

did you rehearse

[unreal meteor]

dport shares basement w pierson

[shadow pivot]

convince us its awful

[unreal meteor]

and it's buns

so many rats

[shadow pivot]

:sob

[sharp flume]

wait it looks nice

[native smelt]

admin sucks food gets worse every year

[native smelt]

it’s pretty

[native smelt]

half the math department can’t teach

[unreal meteor]

is mckinnis like bad

[native smelt]

maurie mcbitchis omds

and that gremlin pericles

[unreal meteor]

at yygs some studnets told me that yale has hella lobbyists and she flies to dc every week 💀

yale lobbying expenses increased like 250% or smth iirc

i did my capstone on cap-gown relations lmao

[unreal meteor]

😭

[native smelt]

she barely is on campus yet makes executive decisions

[shadow pivot]

apparently there's sum weird naked running around campus tradition too??

😭

[native smelt]

i’ve seen her twice in my whole career

[native smelt]

that was yesterday

[unreal meteor]

"whole career" *one semester

😭

[shadow pivot]

oh!

[native smelt]

Everyone lined up to watch the naked run

[shadow pivot]

😭

crazy shit

[sharp flume]

wdym naked run

[native smelt]

longer than yours

🤣🤣

[sharp flume]

like fully naked?

[native smelt]

yeah

[unreal meteor]

💔

[sharp flume]

HOLY SHIT

[unreal meteor]

trust

trust

[sharp flume]

i am going to yale

[shadow pivot]

that's one reason to feel better abt getting rejected!

😭

[sharp flume]

i am sneaking in dawg

[shadow pivot]

LMFAO

[unreal meteor]

they do that at ucla to

[shadow pivot]

harvard 2

[native smelt]

no they don’t

they wear clothes at ucla

[unreal meteor]

oh what

[sharp flume]

i am sneaking in

[unreal meteor]

ohh

they do undies right

yeah you're right

ok nvm yeah we're going to yale

[native smelt]

um so ur freaked out

[sharp flume]

jk jk

[shadow pivot]

@native smelt did u get in early or rd

[native smelt]

rd likely

[shadow pivot]

omg

thats crazy fr

hv u viewed ur admissions file

[native smelt]

ya

[unreal meteor]

yeah he shared insights a while ago

[sharp flume]

what was your hook

[sharp flume]

where

[unreal meteor]

long ago

[native smelt]

im sexy smart beautiful funny and charismatic

duh

[unreal meteor]

omg that's literally me

we're literally twins

[shadow pivot]

i hope my recc letters

[sharp flume]

most yalies are that

[native smelt]

and i have 10000 hypixel duels wins

[shadow pivot]

came in clutch

[unreal meteor]

not me :c

[shadow pivot]

thats the one thing i have no control

over

😭

[native smelt]

you would think

[unreal meteor]

i play uhc on like

pvp.club

1.9 >>>>>>.

[sharp flume]

nah yalies are not chopped

highkey

[native smelt]

just incorrect

[unreal meteor]

https://tenor.com/view/lying-wong-gif-7845920779899236663

[sharp flume]

yalies are like pretty cool and niche

[native smelt]

and i’m a niche internet microinfluencer

type shit

[pseudo moat]

Young Athletic Literate Exceptional

[sharp flume]

and the yalies give the best essay advices on youtube istg

[native smelt]

fuck i need to get out of bed and study

[unreal meteor]

when they let me in i will help increase the average attractiveness of yalies 🥱

[sharp flume]

kevin and cassandra

[sharp flume]

you are chopped icl

[pseudo moat]

they need to stop letting a2cers into top schools

[shadow pivot]

bro also is it js me or

when i watch decision reactions video

[sharp flume]

(joke)

[shadow pivot]

they always get rejected from yale

😭

or is it my bias

[sharp flume]

tip: dont film one

you wont get in if you do

i was filming my ed decision i got rejected lmao

[native smelt]

i filmed one

[shadow pivot]

srsly like those vids made me question if

yale was even accepting ppl

😭

[sharp flume]

but one i opened while i was in bed immediately after waking up with no hope

i got in

[shadow pivot]

but likely

[sharp flume]

i think ivies need some luck

[shadow pivot]

gave some assurance

[sharp flume]

when you are intl

[native smelt]

i also filmed my likely call

[shadow pivot]

RIGHT they call

[native smelt]

i filmed all of my reactions

[shadow pivot]

i wouldve gon crazyy

[shadow pivot]

upload on yt ong

[sharp flume]

we need your insta

[native smelt]

i posted one on tiktok it got a couple thousand views

[native smelt]

if u come to yale i give

[sharp flume]

can I sneak in

[unreal meteor]

:0

:c

bro has my insta so ik he's being deadahh 😭

[sharp flume]

i am kidding lol

[shadow pivot]

nice nice

[sharp flume]

you are good

[unreal meteor]

i'm SOOOOO CHOPPED tho 👀

i'm SOOOOOOOOOO CHOPPED 👀

[shadow pivot]

what if i go see

a real astrologer

🥀

[sharp flume]

i am chopped too

i mean like a2cers should be chopped imo

you cant be good at everything

tho i am good at nothing

[elder barn]

yeah but be careful of overrehearsing, you don’t want to sound robotic

[sharp flume]

thanks gang

[elder barn]

Bring back the bridge 😔

[elder barn]

What’s ur tiktok

[elder barn]

No worries, all the best‼️

[vagrant sage]

how did u get that role 😭

[native smelt]

they gave it to me bc i’m big daddy

[vagrant sage]

oh

[native smelt]

if u get in u can follow me

[vagrant sage]

sigh i hate amstuds

[native smelt]

i hâte finals

[vagrant sage]

real

[elder barn]

u wanna be mysterious or what

go zoom in and look for ur names guys

[native smelt]

if u find it go ahead i won’t follow u back tho

my acc is public

but dont doxx me pls

[sharp flume]

What happens if we doxx you

You get more fans+aura

[native smelt]

dpmo

[sharp flume]

💔i cant doxx you gng

[last elk]

youve changed ur name like fifteen times since i started being on this server more

[native smelt]

i change my nickname often

also like lowkey no i’ve only changed it like 3 times

performative male -> new haven merchant -> big daddy uni

[dull ginkgo]

im so so anxious abt dec 17th

[dull ginkgo]

wait so theres less interviewing capacity?

[native smelt]

u got that

only a week

[dull ginkgo]

tbh i think my theory abt interviewing is for REA alot of ppl who would normally get intervews in RD dont because of how cracked the rea pool is and how time compressed it is

i could be coping though

[dull ginkgo]

its my dreammm, i cant let my parents down

[native smelt]

even if u don’t get in i don’t think you’re letting your parents down

[dull ginkgo]

my dad got a legacy letter and hes convinced im going to get in somehow💀

[dull ginkgo]

i peeped u go to yale when reading the previous chats, would u say the 91/9 ratio is pretty accurate/fair?

[native smelt]

i don’t really go around asking people if they were interviewed or not

assuming 91/9 is some statistic about interviews?

[dull ginkgo]

🤣

[dull ginkgo]

yea

that rattled me when i saw it

[native smelt]

it’s a fact but n is only roughly a third of the class

[dull ginkgo]

true but still

ugh i just wish there was a sign or something like an update, seeing ppl talking about yale AO's reaching out to their counsleors and LOR writing is genuinely so nerve wrecking

[native smelt]

dont read too much into things like this

nothing means nothing apart from the decision

[dull ginkgo]

i guess yah, im js so stressed

really hoping for the best for everyone

its crazy our lives might change in 1 week

[shy zinc]

!bgastro

[hollow sluice]

https://i.imgur.com/uoDQN2D.png

[shy zinc]

:p

[shy zinc]

wdym you dont do this this is a very normal real human in person thing to do

[shy zinc]

yearly yale interview tweak

you got this

[low turtle]

hi can i ask the question that everyone else has already asked but im gonna ask again bc i feel like i need more copium

is it wraps w no interview : /

[shy zinc]

no

Interviews are actually not required for our admissions process. Not everyone gets an interview. There are students who get accepted every year who haven’t had an interview. We just don’t have the resources to offer an interview to every single one of our applicants so we tend to take the resources that we do have and make sure we get interviews for the students for whom they’re really going to help us.

[low turtle]

yea i read allat

then i read the 91/9 thing

just feels like some hot bs they say to calm ppl

[elder barn]

Kinda random question, can they interview you if you get deferred? (With/without interview in ea)

[native smelt]

probably

my friend who got deferred then got in didn’t get an interview

[native smelt]

if it was bs they wouldn’t accept ppl with no interview

[dull ginkgo]

ya word

[dull ginkgo]

like this number just trumps everything i feel, cuz the 9% of people include like triple legacy, recruited athletes and some of the most cracked demi gods

[native smelt]

huh

this is just an incorrect statistic

i got a likely and they still interviewed me

[dull ginkgo]

I’m talking abt for REA

[native smelt]

they still interview legacies

and athletes

[dull ginkgo]

Of the 9% that didn’t get interviewed it included people who were recruited athletes and have insane hooks

[native smelt]

lol

[dull ginkgo]

Rlly?

I didn’t know that lol

[native smelt]

where did u find this info or did u just make it up

[native smelt]

i mean i’m not sure

but i would assume so

[dull ginkgo]

It’s just me presuming

[native smelt]

athlete doesn’t mean u skip the admissions process u still have to apply and write decent essays

[dull ginkgo]

Oh💀

[shy zinc]

so its false

dont make something up and then state it as a fact please

[dull ginkgo]

When did I do that?😭

The state it as a fact part

I Litteraly said it was a presumption

[shy zinc]

^

[dull ginkgo]

And what makes you so confident?

Cause the only part that I was potentially wrong about was the athlete part

[native smelt]

but like what do you want us to tell you

“yeah ur not getting in might as well withdraw your app”

conversations like these are just unproductive lol, once you’ve submitted the app it’s out of your hands

[dull ginkgo]

Nothing😭😭 I was replying to another comment

[shy zinc]

because if your statement is 50% wrong that makes the statement false

but yeah like uni said there's not much benefit to all the guessing, other people reading the chat might get scared too and that's not good for everybody

[dull ginkgo]

I am people in chat lol

We’re all scared of decisions and I think it’s just a way for people to release emotions like stress and anxiety when u can talk to other ppl abt it

[low turtle]

damn you got pressed lol

[shy zinc]

yeah that's very valid i did that last year too this is the place to do that

i'm just saying that we can do that without misinfo

[low turtle]

i j wouldnt be surpirsed if the 9-10% wo interviews were likely stellar applicants far above the curve or athlete/donors. nobody knows fs but point being a no interview doesnt seem to be as meaningless as yale makes it out to be

[native smelt]

who

[native smelt]

this also is not really a true statement

almost every yale admit is a “stellar” applicant in that sense lol. the whole point of the interview is to see if you are the kind of person that your ao would want to have a meal with

i.e most of the people who got likelies were interviewed

[low turtle]

was just my thoughts not a declaration of anything or to be taken as true/false

[dull ginkgo]

Who

[low turtle]

you lol

[dull ginkgo]

So who do u think makes up the 9%

[dull ginkgo]

That’s not a press gng😭😭

[native smelt]

idk

if your application seems complete without an interview then they don’t need to use resources interviewing u

also even then most people who are interviewed are rejected so

[low turtle]

yea im aware of what the interviews are meant for. im j saying the disparity from the survey is a bit worrying even accounting for possible response bias and all

[shy zinc]

i can confirm source: me

[dull ginkgo]

Word, i'd get if it was 60-70% of admitted students but 90% indicates to me its a bit more nuanced than that

[native smelt]

they also don’t survey the people who didn’t matriculate lol

[dull ginkgo]

true but even than it prolly wouldnt vary that much

[native smelt]

according to whom

lol

[shy zinc]

the yield rate is 70% so they're missing 3 out of every 10 people from the survey

and i also don't think everybody takes the survey? even out of the matriculated class

[dull ginkgo]

bruh😂

[dull ginkgo]

yea only like 1/3rd did

[native smelt]

i mean u can’t make inferences and then not back them up loool

[dull ginkgo]

im just saying i think that it wouldnt vary too much due to the large sample size

[shy zinc]

so 23.1% of all admitted students took the survey

that is not a lot

even adding another 10% could change the survey result completely

[dull ginkgo]

i dont need to back up every opinion i say, respectfully

[native smelt]

ok lol

[dull ginkgo]

true true

[native smelt]

i’m gonna go take my exam

[shy zinc]

good luck goat

[native smelt]

3 hr 30 min fucking exam

[dull ginkgo]

given its the only data we have and that first hand accounts of people at bulldog days and on campus say that most people got an interview its stil a very very worrying number if you guys were in my postition

[low turtle]

ts

[dull ginkgo]

u didnt get an interview right?

[low turtle]

nope!

[dull ginkgo]

what area are u in

[toxic leaf]

how many percent of rea people get an interview?

[low turtle]

bay

[dull ginkgo]

same twin🤦‍♂️

[dull ginkgo]

are u hooked

[low turtle]

💀

as unhooked as can be

[dull ginkgo]

i think alot of people got interviews from the looks of it, but then i also think alot of people didnt, truly have no idea

[dull ginkgo]

💀

[dull ginkgo]

tbh i feel like you'd then be the type of person they'd interview as long as ur sat was 1400+ and u had the GPA and community involvement etc etc

ts just dosent make any sense

[low turtle]

i had allat i think they probs do a bit more selective interviewing past the stats though like for "fit" and all and maybe i just didnt demonstrate fit for yale?

ecs pretty comp and had some olys

[dull ginkgo]

yeah thats what i was presuming too

i feel like with how cracked the bay area is that they prolly dont have enough alum to interview everyone who meets the threshold

which im pretty sure is 70% of applicants

[low turtle]

maybe

wbu

where you from

[dull ginkgo]

charlotte nc

[toxic leaf]

yeah maybe idk

[dull ginkgo]

idk what the comp is cuz i go to a small private school

[shy zinc]

yeah

[dull ginkgo]

u got 1?

[toxic leaf]

yeah

i got it through zoom though

[dull ginkgo]

wya

[toxic leaf]

new york

[low turtle]

ny pretty comp too

[dull ginkgo]

city?

[low turtle]

good stuff

[toxic leaf]

my person was at new mexico

long island

[dull ginkgo]

damn

[low turtle]

thy moved full online this year right

[dull ginkgo]

was ur interview recetnly?

[low turtle]

for interview

[toxic leaf]

it was a while ago

[shy zinc]

if so that's crazy

[dull ginkgo]

i think there was still in person but i could be wrong

[shy zinc]

the in person ones r so much better

[toxic leaf]

maybe like 11/14

i didnt really talk that much with her tbh like almost 30 minutes not even that

[dull ginkgo]

im just so scared to see white text when i open the status update, its my first time ever openinig a decision

[toxic leaf]

people i knew talked for like 2 hours

same

[dull ginkgo]

did alot of ppl at ur school get one

[shy zinc]

its a freaky experience

[dull ginkgo]

i js know shit is cooked😭

[toxic leaf]

i dont know anyone else who applied people are really secretive

[shy zinc]

my friend had like a 4 hour princeton interview 💀

[dull ginkgo]

WTF

[toxic leaf]

bro….

[dull ginkgo]

🤣

[shy zinc]

he didnt get in

[toxic leaf]

thas crazy

i know like in stuvysant 50 people applied

[shy zinc]

bruh i met so many stuy kids when i went to admit day

[dull ginkgo]

did alot of them get interview

[toxic leaf]

and a lot of them got interviews

they are from stuy though

[dull ginkgo]

my friend is applying to clumbia ed this cycle from stuy

[shy zinc]

peak maybe we'll be in the same class

[toxic leaf]

i should have done columbia ed isnt it like easier this year

[dull ginkgo]

hes going for math

[shy zinc]

EDing a school is overrated

[dull ginkgo]

bruh i swear i feel like columbia ed is gonna be a coinflip this year if you wrote decent essays and had good stats

[toxic leaf]

rea is so useless though

[shy zinc]

this is even more true

[dull ginkgo]

facts i wish yale had ed

[low turtle]

supposedly easier for everyone since 20% expansion but not sure why are even expanding isnt it kinda overcrowded alr

[shy zinc]

too cool for ed

[toxic leaf]

columbia campus is so nice

[shy zinc]

this is true

[dull ginkgo]

my friend whos going their rn says their battling rats

[toxic leaf]

i wouldnt be complaining if i got into columbia

just let me know already i iwsh i was deferred

[shy zinc]

thats what they told me at penn admit day

[dull ginkgo]

😭 😭

[shy zinc]

ratatouille

[dull ginkgo]

hopefully yale had a massive dropoff in rea applicants and a bunch of alumni were just super super busy

😝

[toxic leaf]

someone kill me for 7 days and bring me back

[dull ginkgo]

no litteraly

ive spent sm time going in a rabbit hole and brwosing these forums

[terse kestrel]

it doesnt matter imo u can trly do anything ab it

treat it like u r rejected (which statistically we r wiht or without an interview) and focus on RD

[dull ginkgo]

Yea u right

I just don’t have any other schools I see myself being a good fit at, besides Howard but that’s out of my families budget

[terse kestrel]

i mean i can guarantee that any school u go to u will love

most people dont get into their dream schools and they end up loving it more than they ever could have imagined

much more so than they would have if they went to their dream school

so just keep pushing

[dull ginkgo]

lol same

[native smelt]

well at yale you just battle mice instead

[dull ginkgo]

Yale has mice!?!?????

[native smelt]

This school is 300 years old

[dull ginkgo]

I thought they revamped shit when they got money from the IDF

[native smelt]

I was in the library at like 3 am the other night and a mouse was swerving around

[dull ginkgo]

Oh fuck nooo

[native smelt]

Get money from the idf? Nah they just give money to the idf

The money was promised to the idf 3000 years ago

[dull ginkgo]

😭😭

[dull ginkgo]

I’m p sure they get money from Israel

[native smelt]

Bro that was the longest exam i’ve ever taken in my life

[native smelt]

probably

[dull ginkgo]

Oh u just got out?

[native smelt]

Literally 15 mins ago

My first yale final 🥹

[meager bloom]

ig general question

do u like night exams in college

ive noticed a lot of colleges do that

[native smelt]

Hmm

I like them in the sense that i get to study during the day

[hoary saffron]

night exams are barely a thing at harvard

i think the latest exam is liek 2 or 4

[native smelt]

out of the 5 (?) exams i’ve taken

3 were at night

2 were in the morning

[dull ginkgo]

Is Yale hard? For context I do IB

[native smelt]

yes

Also what half of yale did ib LMFAO

[dull ginkgo]

Wym

[dull ginkgo]

I’m SUFFERING rn doing IAs

[hoary saffron]

IB is like 10000% easier than college

[native smelt]

i mean u get used to the difficulty

[dull ginkgo]

Word

[hoary saffron]

unless you do some easy shit

[native smelt]

But it also depends on how much u challenge urself

[meager bloom]

aps r probably 10000000% easier

[dull ginkgo]

U really think so?

[hoary saffron]

yes lil bro

[native smelt]

Like i took hard classes this sem instead of smurfing classes

[hoary saffron]

unless you do an easy major

[native smelt]

ya

[dull ginkgo]

A lot of ppl say that IB is harder than college

[hoary saffron]

LOL

[dull ginkgo]

Who come back to my school

[native smelt]

A lot of people are lying

[meager bloom]

i feel like majoring in gender studies wont be too hard class wise for me

[hoary saffron]

I mean maybe normal colleges

[native smelt]

Or have fuck ass majors

[dull ginkgo]

🤣🤣🤣

[native smelt]

But also yale isn’t easy

[hoary saffron]

ivy leagues are ivy leagues for a reason my guy

[dull ginkgo]

Yeah they go to chapel hill

[native smelt]

Like there’s this notion that ivies have hella grade inflation

[dull ginkgo]

Who are u feeling like😭😭

[native smelt]

The grade inflation is just so that they don’t fail students

[dull ginkgo]

Same w IB

[native smelt]

Someone who’s at harvard and not u lil bro 😭😭😭

[graceful saddle]

youre funny i like you

[native smelt]

Yes i fear it will

[meager bloom]

uh oh

[dull ginkgo]

That’s not the sole reason ivy leagues are held up to that level

Brown seemed so Mickey when I toured

[native smelt]

Yes but student experience holds more weight that how u felt when u toured lol

[graceful saddle]

@meager bloom dude i was being sarcastic when i said that 😭

[meager bloom]

oh help i was responding to mr lamar

[dull ginkgo]

Word

[hoary saffron]

idk what this means

[native smelt]

wait i mean it will be easy

[hoary saffron]

but i go to harvard not yale

so mines a little harder

[meager bloom]

oh phew

[native smelt]

Chill on that

[hoary saffron]

i thought you were an english major

[native smelt]

Tf

[hoary saffron]

what r u

[graceful saddle]

yeah i was referring to your reaction ^^

[native smelt]

Applied math

[hoary saffron]

oh

[native smelt]

LMFAO?

What made me give english major

[hoary saffron]

I wish I would've taken APM22A instead of Math22A 🙁

[meager bloom]

did u go to the yale hunger games capital feast

[native smelt]

well i might switch to stats & data science

[native smelt]

Yeah it was overstimulating

[hoary saffron]

yeah same shit

[meager bloom]

with the watermelons carved with the yale name

[hoary saffron]

what math r u in this semester

[native smelt]

calc 3 and probability theory

Just finished calc 3 🥹🥹🥹

[hoary saffron]

oh you ahven't gotten to the bad stuff yet

you're chillin

[meager bloom]

i just finished multivar thank god

[native smelt]

Chill on that