Cornell University (2025-2026)

[potent pond]

Hi chat

I been tryna sleep and failing

Ask me anything

[shrewd compass]

helooo

[desert thorn]

are the qb letters accurate in terms of when the eds come out

[shrewd compass]

how did u survive doompilling urself

[ashen warren]

it lined up last year but that doesn't mean it wil this year

[ashen warren]

whast ur major

[shrewd compass]

i've been having the same dream that cornell rejected me like 5 nights in a row now

[potent pond]

Lmao i finished the essay like 4 hrs early so i been rotting

[desert thorn]

PRAYING it's tmrw bro i cannot wait another week for ts

[shrewd compass]

i literally have to open the portal to make sure that i didnt

[celest zephyr]

I hope

[desert thorn]

if it does come out

or whenever it comes out

around what time

[potent pond]

Cognitive science and information science double major in cas/arts college
On premed track
I applied and got admitted to engineering though (for bme but ur not admitted by major)

[celest zephyr]

I just hope that questbride letter is a fake one made by some purely evil guy

[shrewd compass]

man no therapy 😔

[next goblet]

ezra cornell is my god

🙏

[celest zephyr]

Always 7 pm

I did like deep research for this

[ashen warren]

i'm doing applied math. do you know anybody doing that and how hard it is?

[wild viper]

Son I’m crine😭😭😭

[ashen warren]

i heard cornell has grade deflation

[desert thorn]

bro WHAT

[potent pond]

Prob avg/ not too bad
Idk much abt math

[celest zephyr]

And there were records saying they sent an email on the announce date 2 days before the actual release

[potent pond]

Varies by major , unsure abt math prolly true for the weeders

[next goblet]

yeah theyll prob send it out next tues

[celest zephyr]

So ig it is in fact 18th

[desert thorn]

wym by this

[desert thorn]

is this est 😔
that's so late bro

[next goblet]

i was helping my friend's sister on her cs 1110 final

💀

[potent pond]

Lol

I love 1110

[celest zephyr]

So they sent an email saying that the results would be available at 12th

[next goblet]

they were making some random ah game

lmao

[celest zephyr]

During 10th last year

[next goblet]

frog game

[ashen warren]

why so late this year

[potent pond]

Yeah

[ashen warren]

its not fair

[potent pond]

My year was asteroid destroyer

[next goblet]

it's lowk hella work tho

[potent pond]

Rules

[celest zephyr]

Im gonna shotgun like 5 cans of monster every day if I dont get in

Thats like the only way I can finish all my apps

[next goblet]

ya i act gotta lock in on my rds if i dont get in brah

[celest zephyr]

And we have so little time

[shrewd compass]

mods are going to beat you up

[next goblet]

uchicago releases a day after cornell im p sure

😭

[celest zephyr]

Because of that godforsaken release date

Why they doing this to me

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fr

[ashen warren]

omg is this some rule

im not allowed ot discuss

[celest zephyr]

Elaborate

[next goblet]

weee onlyyy have a weeeeek left boissssss

[ashen warren]

ok sorry

[shrewd compass]

portal astrology will get u slapped or smth

[ashen warren]

i got warned

[desert thorn]

oh so it like has to be the 18th then since they didn't send an email ereyesterday type shit

[shrewd compass]

LMAO

[celest zephyr]

Right

[desert thorn]

wilted rose emoji

[shrewd compass]

🥀

[next goblet]

wait guys

[shrewd compass]

1 week of doompill doomscroll

[next goblet]

yall should rename yourselves to cornell simps

i got #1 tho

[celest zephyr]

I cant do schoolwork anymore

I actually need the results

[next goblet]

fr

relatable

[celest zephyr]

I just hope cornell is just being weird and it comes out tmrw

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what college within cornell did u apply to

[celest zephyr]

Human ecology

[next goblet]

oh

[celest zephyr]

The least competitive

Or maybe not

[next goblet]

isnt ags the least

[shrewd compass]

this is as close as ur getting

[celest zephyr]

Which one?

Yeah

[desert thorn]

real

[celest zephyr]

Dea

[potent pond]

Imsi bored

[next goblet]

김지운 is that ur name

[celest zephyr]

Im also korean btw

[potent pond]

Bruh im in yalls fuckass intro class rn this prof piss me off

[next goblet]

lol im also korean

💀

[shrewd compass]

blockblast

[potent pond]

Shes some korean intl bot

[next goblet]

thats actually crazy

[potent pond]

Wont explain assignments

[celest zephyr]

Idk man

I just wanna get in

[next goblet]

im gonna be on a fligth back to korea when i open my cornell deciions

[potent pond]

Deas cool

[celest zephyr]

Id let the professor do warcrimes on me

If I can get it

[potent pond]

U just gotta build a lotta shit

[celest zephyr]

In

[shrewd compass]

atleast u don't got to deal with my lin alg professor 😭

mf dipped

[celest zephyr]

Id gladly build a great wall if I can get in

[next goblet]

i dont think it's that deep bro

🥀

💀

my username is the same

dlwodbs

[potent pond]

I aint built for this 🫠

Only took the class cuz it crosslists with cog sci

[celest zephyr]

Design and environmental analysis

Basically a major that no one really knows about 😭

[next goblet]

lowk idm if i get deferred from cornell

[potent pond]

U basically just design and build shit

Lots of studios

Lots of allnighters

[next goblet]

yeah ahhaha

[celest zephyr]

I heard that a lot of people are applying for hd tho

Good luck

Thanks

[next goblet]

i shouldve applied as applied phys

🥀

applied directly to meche

[celest zephyr]

You must be like one of the smart koreans

I dont even havr a 800 sat math lol

[junior kayak]

Cooked

[celest zephyr]

I lost my korean citizenship after that

[next goblet]

thats crazy

lmao

[potent pond]

My intl korean friend is so locked out shes cooked

[next goblet]

i've been watching way too much stranger things lmao

[celest zephyr]

I took 3 sats and for 2 of them my reading score was higher than math

[junior kayak]

I downloaded this app that locks yoir phone to study and I didnt realize I couldnt unlock it until after the time ended

3 hours

[next goblet]

are u an abk

[junior kayak]

Forced to study 🥀

[next goblet]

american born korean

[celest zephyr]

I cant even read books in english

[vocal fable]

im an abk 🔥

[shrewd compass]

have u watched GoT yet?

[potent pond]

im an abk

🤓🤓

[shrewd compass]

imma start the doomgrind

[next goblet]

oh actually

damn

[celest zephyr]

American born yes but raised in korea

[next goblet]

we're like all ethnically korean wth

[potent pond]

imagine me being white shaming my intl prof

LMAOO

[next goblet]

what's that

[shrewd compass]

abi over here ✊ 😔

[shrewd compass]

game of thrones

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ohhh

yo me too

[shrewd compass]

wait yall are all koreans 😭

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i basically moved here 6 years ago

[shrewd compass]

imma dipp

[celest zephyr]

I moved since freshmen year

So im basically korean

[next goblet]

my mom basically coerced me into applying to cornell

[celest zephyr]

I cant rly speak either languages well

[next goblet]

i was gonna do penn for physics

🥀

[celest zephyr]

Basically have 2 second languages

[vocal fable]

yea they do, they rlly like ivy league status but tryna get in easier than harvard

[next goblet]

but my mom was like "physics? u finna be broke"

[celest zephyr]

0 first

[celest zephyr]

Wait till she hears about my major

[junior kayak]

Physics is crazy. Kudos to you for wanting to study that 🫡

[next goblet]

😭

[shrewd compass]

EE im losing hairs 😭

[junior kayak]

EE is light

[vocal fable]

SAME

[potent pond]

koRea

[next goblet]

i dont wanna study physics it's just that im most likely to get admitted if i apply as physics

[junior kayak]

💀

[next goblet]

cuz usapho

[shrewd compass]

10/10 ragebait

[vocal fable]

"u got into johns hopkins? ahhh shibal no ivy league... when u get princeton?"

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oh is that gangnam

[potent pond]

Left is right next to coex

[celest zephyr]

Are you guys in a boarding school

[potent pond]

Right is busan

[next goblet]

yes

[celest zephyr]

Or do you live here

[shrewd compass]

wait how far u get

[next goblet]

oh

wth

[junior kayak]

If Johns Hopkins wasnt in Baltimore I would've loved to go there

[next goblet]

IM FROM THERE

haeundae?

[celest zephyr]

I return home every break

[potent pond]

Yeah

[potent pond]

Yeah

[next goblet]

haeundaeee?!!

wtfffff

thats crazy local wtf

[shrewd compass]

@next goblet how far did u get in suapho

[junior kayak]

[next goblet]

just qual bro 😭

[mild flume]

are we both studying physics? i want to go into astro because i hate free time

[shrewd compass]

wait thats enouhg??

[next goblet]

yeah i think

[shrewd compass]

I DIDNT PUT IT ON MY APP 💀

[next goblet]

wait what

[shrewd compass]

I PUT SOME OTHER BS AWARDS

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did u pass the FMA

?

[shrewd compass]

like scioly medals some intern medals

[shrewd compass]

i passed the first mcq test thingy

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FMA is not the usapho

oh

[shrewd compass]

i did ts in 10th grade i forgot

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is your name on the usapho qualifiers list?

[shrewd compass]

probably not

ye nvm

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they have a list of names

[potent pond]

Im such a tourist

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holy fk

haeundae ebeach

[shrewd compass]

wait it was 😭

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wait isnt that iggidae in the 2nd pic

[potent pond]

Im not intl but i didnt have any awards.

[tall marsh]

I WENT HERE it was so nice but touristy

[celest zephyr]

What did you guys do for ecs

[potent pond]

Idk it was the skytram

[shrewd compass]

neither am i

but all of my ec's / awards are not physics based

[next goblet]

i cant wait for the korean food

🥀

[shrewd compass]

cuz i started my app thinking oi was going to do cs

[next goblet]

1 more week.................

[shrewd compass]

then i switched and kinda didnt switch my stuff 😭

[celest zephyr]

Same

[celest zephyr]

Which ones

[next goblet]

i just did some olys

usaco and usapho and some other regional coding stuff

[potent pond]

Not like it matters too much

[potent pond]

So much korean shit in ithaca

[next goblet]

do yk what gukbap is

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acutally

[shrewd compass]

textbook grind and teacher put me in test

[mild flume]

applied for physics but all my ecs are like art, video editing, 3d modeling, working at a library, and music

[celest zephyr]

Every day brotha rahhhh🗣🗣🗣🗣

[next goblet]

bro omg

i miss gukbap so much

fr

[mild flume]

so here’s hoping that my ecs don’t have to match

[potent pond]

Theres so poong which is quite authentic small asian restaurant (v limited menu)
Then le cafe korean run cafe with kimbap and ramen and drinks

[next goblet]

does ithaca have authentic boba or na

[potent pond]

Then the normal typical restaurants of kokos and kimchi and lotus

[celest zephyr]

I always miss the

Chinese food in korea

[potent pond]

Theres also gangnam station but its chinese owned

[next goblet]

jjajangmyeon bro

[celest zephyr]

You just cant really find those here

[potent pond]

Theres utea, kft, dream tea, ninja chicken

U can google them

[next goblet]

waitd

do they have heytea in ithaca

[potent pond]

Dream tea has some authentic taiwanese desserts

[potent pond]

No-

I j listed everything

[next goblet]

i tried heytea in berkeley and ts was so good

oh

[potent pond]

Oh theres also a couple small asian market here

[vocal fable]

berkeley has so many better boba places tho!!

(im from berkeley )

[celest zephyr]

I kinda heard stories about how not many people apply to cornell because its boring

[next goblet]

bro lowk if i get deferred from cornell im gonna switch my name to #1 berkeley simp fr

[potent pond]

Im off campus now and i didnt get a meal plan so i can lowk eat whatever i want

[next goblet]

berkeley has hella fye asian food

[celest zephyr]

Id just be happy staying in my room highkey

[potent pond]

Theres a bibimbap take out store too (like korean chipotle vibe)

[vocal fable]

hella fye every food

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fr

[potent pond]

The dining halls sometimes claim to do korean meat or bibimbap

[next goblet]

yeah same

[potent pond]

Its fake but its food

Really fake

[next goblet]

i rlly wanna go to berkeley for eng 🥀

or penn for physics

[celest zephyr]

Lets return to this chat when we get in

[next goblet]

fr

1 more week

[celest zephyr]

I want more of our people

[vocal fable]

berkeley eecs acceptance 🪦

[next goblet]

eecs 🥀

[celest zephyr]

Thanks

Im tweaking

[next goblet]

we're almost there guys

[celest zephyr]

I dont even know what to do so

[next goblet]

i have 2 more days of school left

and 1 day of finals

and i have winter break

[celest zephyr]

I do rituals and stuff

And study religions for like luck

I have an in class essay and 2 tests tomorrow 😭😭

Havent even started studying

[next goblet]

thats cray

[celest zephyr]

Meeting two three koreans here just caught my attention

I can rly get off it

[vocal fable]

korean squad we all making it outta college apps

[next goblet]

[celest zephyr]

Wait are you also korean

[next goblet]

yeah ksa

[celest zephyr]

Idk maybe

Im kinda scared of people

[next goblet]

but my korean is assh

💀

i can barely speak korean fr

[celest zephyr]

Korean people here are too scary

[potent pond]

Omg freshman yr my friends and i did thanksgiving potluck

The big pot is thai tea with jelly

[next goblet]

holy fk

[potent pond]

I made the jjajangmyeon cuz name starts w J

[next goblet]

i cant wait to do ts in college

[potent pond]

Theres also like

[shrewd compass]

STOP UR MAKING ME HUNGY

[potent pond]

3 kbbq places here?

Ithacas very asian 😭 cuz of cornell

And pop culture

[celest zephyr]

Thats nice

I actually didnt expect that

[timid ivy]

in high school?

our last day of school is the 23rd bro

[celest zephyr]

Ours is next week friday

[shrewd compass]

twin

[celest zephyr]

Painful

[potent pond]

My last class was thursday

Not to flex

[celest zephyr]

This time of the year has the most work

The teachers just wants to massacre us by cramming all the stuff in the two weeks between winter break and thanksgiving

[next goblet]

Boarding school

[loud topaz]

cornell just a week away!

[spice thicket]

hopefully they confirm it soon lmao

[grim locust]

Hofstra this is so sad

[spice thicket]

LMAO

[bold sluice]

whats up guys!

[stiff oyster]

no canada goose pls

im in ilr

i like some parts of it but alot of the core courses ended up being outside my area of interest so im transferring to CAS

but the school has alot of positives

good career counselling, small size compared to other colleges in cornell

fully funded internships and global programs

and its easy to get good grades bc classes less rigorous

i work in central admissions so i dont know what they do in ilr

but i do know some ppl there. theyre cool

[misty scroll]

bro cornell is edging rn

[stiff oyster]

go ahead

no lol

they will read it dw

[tall marsh]

do ctrl shift v next time if you don't want it to bold

[stiff oyster]

it definetly helps to talk about labor or labor-adjacent topics

i talked about social policies and people with disabilities

so not like unions or HR

but still something that is considered relevant

[tranquil belfry]

@glad swift @potent pond i just saw a picture of a shima-enaga it might be like the cutest bird ive ever seen

[pseudo bear]

is there updated ed date

[junior kayak]

December 18th

[potent pond]

hi chat

[deft parrot]

They haven’t announced anything yet gng

[junior kayak]

Yall are running on pure copium it's not coming out today

[deft jolt]

It’ll come out today trust 🙏

[mental osprey]

perhaps 12th?

[deft jolt]

Where does 12 or 13 come from 🥀

[frozen cape]

its the 18th bro 💀

[deft jolt]

Noooo shh 🤫

16 latest 🙏

[mental osprey]

questbridge said 18th

but it may be different as the ed release dates

its just likely that itll be same

[deft jolt]

I really hope it doesn’t match QB

I’m too impatient to wait until the 18th

[junior kayak]

No announcement has been sent for today, tomorrow, or the day after

Yall should enjoy yourselves

Dont worry until the 18th

[deft jolt]

🤫

maybe they drop today, no announcement ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[loud topaz]

Whole lotta cope

[deft jolt]

Yes

[junior kayak]

If I could I would slow down time for the 18th to never come. No amount of time can save me from orgo 🥀

[deft jolt]

What’s wrong with orgo?

Test coming up?

[junior kayak]

I dont like it

Final exam

[deft jolt]

Good luck! 🙏

[potent pond]

chat lets ask questions again

im so bored

[potent pond]

lol i have bchem tmr

[junior kayak]

Jae. What are the chances ED releases today

[junior kayak]

Good luck

[potent pond]

isnt it the 18

[junior kayak]

I have physica Monday, Bio Tuesday, and Orgo Thursday

[junior kayak]

It is

[potent pond]

r u in 2207

[junior kayak]

Yes

2207 and Biog 1445

Easiest classes of my life

[potent pond]

1101 so chill i just need a 14/18 on the fully MCQ final 😂

[junior kayak]

I love them sm

Grade booster after engineering hell last year

[junior kayak]

Lmfao nice

I just need a 68 on the bio final for an A

[potent pond]

ya im not good at bio 😭

[junior kayak]

I love bio. BME to bio pipeline worked so well

[potent pond]

auto bchem so easy tho

im thriving in it

[junior kayak]

Biomg3300?

[potent pond]

yeah

[junior kayak]

I might take that next semester

I love autotutorial

[loud topaz]

lowk sorry this is off topic but is it worth it to take the campus to campus bus from ithaca to nyc

[potent pond]

oh r u taking 1445 auto

[junior kayak]

Yeah

[potent pond]

idc abt the topic im so bored ill answer anything lol
there are cheaper options

but u can take that

if u want

look at Flixbus or Ourbus

[mental osprey]

yeah I hope

[deft jolt]

wait are you guys current Cornell students??

[mental osprey]

cornell is just tweaking

and does that

[potent pond]

yes we are

[deft jolt]

Seriously

[junior kayak]

Yeah

[spice thicket]

me too!!!

[deft jolt]

Oh! Wow

[mental osprey]

jae i think I remember you saying that you took a dea class

[potent pond]

to add on, i have a friend who only takes c2c cuz i think location is better for him + he likes the amenities it comes with (??) like thinks its more comfortable

[deft jolt]

Is the climate hard to adjust too?

[spice thicket]

ready for finals?

[potent pond]

yeah im in DEA 1110 rn

[mental osprey]

is dea hard to get in..>?

[potent pond]

i only have 1 lol so yeah

[potent pond]

like as a college/major?

[mental osprey]

I just have no idea about the specifics in that major

[spice thicket]

oh that's lucky you got this easy

[mental osprey]

about like how many apply and how many are accepted

those things

[potent pond]

i never know how to answer "is X hard to get into" its all objectively hard

[mental osprey]

yeah

[potent pond]

DEA is in HumEc though so if ur instate theres a slight benefit

[mental osprey]

yeah true..

[spice thicket]

accurate

[potent pond]

im from NY so probably not a helpful opinion if ur from a warm climate area

but from travelling, u usually get used to a climate within a month lol so ull def adjust

[spice thicket]

lowkey I feel like cold is the best climate

[mental osprey]

do you have any idea about the number of people in dea

[potent pond]

for me, the temp isnt the worst thing cuz if u so choose u dont gotta be outside for more than 10 min

[junior kayak]

It's lowkey so warm up here no jacket is needed

[spice thicket]

incorrect grammar but ykwim

[junior kayak]

Not from Alaska or anything

[potent pond]

the wind and shit is worse

the wind makes everything suck ass

[spice thicket]

is this a joke or serious cause I saw videos on tt of the snow

[junior kayak]

Its cold

[potent pond]

and when it snows horizontally like the fuck

[junior kayak]

But I lived in Alaska lol so it doesnt bother me

The wind chill gets a lot of people

[potent pond]

uhh probably under 150 per year

[loud topaz]

Upstate ny greatest place on earth

[potent pond]

but im wildly guessing and didnt even try googling it

[mental osprey]

thats actually better than what I thought

[spice thicket]

no zurich is better

[deft jolt]

Oh fs, I could tell from all the snow 😃

[spice thicket]

lmao

[loud topaz]

How often do you guys leave ithaca

[deft jolt]

What are all your majors? 👀

[potent pond]

for breaks

[junior kayak]

Snow squall last year

[spice thicket]

you mean people who are applying or the people who go there

[spice thicket]

oh you're surviving lmao

[deft jolt]

why not both ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[potent pond]

im cog sci + info sci (UX concentration) on premed track

[junior kayak]

Bio sci neurobio concentration

[potent pond]

potential psych minor

[junior kayak]

Premed

[deft jolt]

Ooo cool!

[potent pond]

lol were we both Eng then internalled out

[junior kayak]

Yup

[potent pond]

😂 not us both starting as bme

[spice thicket]

cornell doesn't have aerospace so mech e or ece

[deft jolt]

xd

[junior kayak]

Lmfao

Best decision ever

[potent pond]

i think theres a minor

[spice thicket]

yes

[deft jolt]

That’s surprising ngl

[junior kayak]

My 3.9 this semester will bring my GPA up to a whole 3.1!

/hj

[spice thicket]

ok biomedical is insane

[deft jolt]

If I got in… I’d major physics + math

[potent pond]

nah fr i started at a 3.3 like the fuck

[spice thicket]

isn't grade deflation a massive problem there or something

[junior kayak]

Yes

[potent pond]

no

thats copium

[junior kayak]

💀

[spice thicket]

what is copium

[deft jolt]

xd

[junior kayak]

Engineering intro courses it is

[potent pond]

deflation means the avg in a class is a B- or lower

[deft jolt]

Poor Synth

Oh

[junior kayak]

Many inteo courses are

[potent pond]

eng intro is even still curved to a B

[loud topaz]

Do you guys like living upstate

[junior kayak]

Chem curves tk B- now so

[potent pond]

stop coping 😭

[spice thicket]

ah okay I've seen that online that's why I asked

[junior kayak]

And my 90 in 1910 was B after the curve

[potent pond]

gpa dont matter for engineers so it doesnt matter

[junior kayak]

Soooo

[spice thicket]

wait how long have y'all been at cornell

[junior kayak]

Too long

[potent pond]

its fine i like having my car

[junior kayak]

Im a sophomore Jae is a junior

[spice thicket]

oooo lovely

did you apply ed or get in rd

[potent pond]

did i tell u my project team went to rochester this sem

i think i did

[junior kayak]

RD for me

[potent pond]

i was RD too

EDed jhu

[deft jolt]

Oh dang

[spice thicket]

DAMN insane profiles then

[loud topaz]

omg i didnt know

[junior kayak]

I didnt even apply to JHU after touring lmfao

[potent pond]

no my dad worked at cornell med

[loud topaz]

i don’t think u did

[junior kayak]

The location 🥀

[potent pond]

i didnt even like it my top choice was brown so idk what i was doing

[spice thicket]

would you mind sharing the stats if not all good

[junior kayak]

Damn

[potent pond]

35 act , my hs didnt do gpa

or rank

went to prep hs

[junior kayak]

I gave Kotlikoff a big ol kiss

[spice thicket]

had to look this up LMAO

[potent pond]

we went to RIT for makerfaire
its roch in the fall and syr in the spring

[spice thicket]

oh that's interesting

[junior kayak]

I went to some random public HS in NoVA

[spice thicket]

ah cool!!

[junior kayak]

National awards in music and medicine

[potent pond]

i filled my awards section with sports

[junior kayak]

Triple varsity athlete non recruited cause I suck

[spice thicket]

just some chill national awards yk

[potent pond]

cuz i didnt read

😂

[potent pond]

the sport i was varsity on was auto-varsity

[deft jolt]

I’m going to apply to Brown for RD if Cornell doesn’t pan out

[potent pond]

😂

[junior kayak]

Lmfao dang

I was Varsity XC and Track & Field

Swim was auto Varsity tho

But swim was my best sport

[potent pond]

i did varsity fencing after quitting my sport during covid

i did club synchronized swimming we were nationally ranked n shi

[spice thicket]

ooo

[junior kayak]

Nice

[spice thicket]

so you passed the swim test yea

[potent pond]

i quit cuz during covid

we did those stupid ass zoom workouots

like the fuck

[junior kayak]

💀

I remember those

We did too

[potent pond]

and to compete, we swam in our own pool and sent a video recordingn in

thats some bullshit

[deft jolt]

I forgot Cornell has physical tests ngl

[spice thicket]

LMAO I had to do that in PE during covid

[junior kayak]

Had us turn on our cameras and do calisthenics over zoom

[potent pond]

i had the harder one

my year it was 3 laps

[junior kayak]

Womp womp

[potent pond]

now its tread for 1 min then swim one length

[spice thicket]

yes I read they changed it recently

[potent pond]

it was the firs ttime i had swam in years and it felt good

[spice thicket]

are you sure you can manage that...

[potent pond]

huh

im a lifeguard

😭

[spice thicket]

ik im joking

[potent pond]

i run the swim tests lmao

[spice thicket]

you said you were ranked nationally for swimming

sooo

[junior kayak]

Wait how do you become a Lifeguard here

[potent pond]

workday

its p easy

[junior kayak]

Sick

[potent pond]

$16.25 per hour starting, then 17.80 after a year

[junior kayak]

Wait actually idk if my certification is still valid

[potent pond]

or something

[spice thicket]

im assuming the pool is indoors?

[junior kayak]

Im a certified cpr/bls instructor tho

[frozen cape]

YOOO im a lifeguard i could do that

[potent pond]

i got certed at the YMCA but theres a PE for it too

[junior kayak]

Oh sick

[spice thicket]

how is your name able to glow like that

[potent pond]

yeah its ny lol

[frozen cape]

im boosting the server

[potent pond]

we have 2

[spice thicket]

oooo

[spice thicket]

ok cool thank you

[junior kayak]

Our pool hours are ass tho

[spice thicket]

btw you ain't a future d1 reject you're a FUTURE D1 ACCEPT

[deft jolt]

you mean no swimming ice lake ? 😞

[potent pond]

there are gorges ppl swim in

second dam, first dam, robert tremain, buttermilk

[loud topaz]

They’re clean enough to swim in??

[potent pond]

robert tremain more like an officiual pool type area, they have diving boards and lifegaurds

[loud topaz]

wtf ok fire

[potent pond]

have u never swam in a lake before 😭 😭

[loud topaz]

I thought you meant the gorges along the river

https://tenor.com/view/cynthia-erivo-shocked-shock-jumping-back-walking-back-gif-12035888169669287630

[potent pond]

hudsons disgusting

id never touch that shit

theres a mini beach on the hudson in my town 🤮

[loud topaz]

https://tenor.com/view/cynthia-erivo-speechless-lying-lie-meme-gif-4326958293716425845

that’s so terrible

[potent pond]

oh idk if theyre lakes but its the same thing as swimming in one

in terms of cleanliness

no trash

[potent pond]

some ppl skate on beebe lake when it freezes over

but prolly no swimming allowed

[junior kayak]

My physics final answer key just crossed out pi and 3.8 cause they are basically the same value... then said 25/16 is basically 24/16 so we get 3/2 💀

I hate this class

[potent pond]

i like how every thing ive done in 1101 is mcq

😂

ive gotten so good at guessing

[deft jolt]

I am baffled as a future physics major 💀

[potent pond]

my last quiz was 6 Bs and 5 As tho and that shit tripped me out

cuz it goes from A to H

on the scantron

[junior kayak]

Our prof said to use pi as 3 or 5, whatever makes the problem easier 😭😭

[potent pond]

bro what

[deft jolt]

Why 😭

[junior kayak]

No calculators so he did this lmfao

[deft jolt]

I couldn’t 🥀

[junior kayak]

Crazy

[potent pond]

ud probably not be taking 2207/8 as a phys major

so dont listen 😭

to the obscenities occurring

[junior kayak]

Lmfao

[potent pond]

i assume youd be on the normal like 1112/2213 shit

whatever the order is

[deft jolt]

Ok good xd

I haven’t looked too much into the courses

[junior kayak]

Whaaaattt. You mean to tell me you dont want to model a dinosaur as a perfect sphere and use pi=5 and g=10 🙀

[deft jolt]

Correct! I’d model it as an ellipsoid since the dinosaur has more length!

[junior kayak]

The dinosaur is fat

[potent pond]

LMAO

[deft jolt]

Oh dang

[potent pond]

stop im dead

[deft jolt]

There’s one for that too dw

I think

[potent pond]

ur telling me u dont want to spend an hour cranking a handle only to have to do it all again and make the TAs stay 20 min late and still have fucked data??

[deft jolt]

And yeah I’d be on 1116 like you said

[deft jolt]

Doing what now?

[junior kayak]

Data forgery 👏

[potent pond]

we wrapped a metal cylinder (attached to a crank/handle) in rope

[spice thicket]

lmao

[potent pond]

put a weigh on the end of the rope

turned handle 700 times and measured the temp vs. turn count

yes 700 times

[junior kayak]

💀

[potent pond]

had to be decently slow too for accuracy to prevent slipping of the rope/cylinder

[spice thicket]

must've been fun

[deft jolt]

This reminds of an experiment we had in biology…

A year ago we had to count EVERY kernel on a cob.

Autocorrect 💀

[spice thicket]

nope!!

[deft jolt]

Not yet 🥀

[spice thicket]

no it's going to be today trust they just don't want to announce it they'll do it today for sure /s

[deft jolt]

Exactly!!

Today’s the day

[spice thicket]

im staying up late tonight just incase

[deft jolt]

I have my alarm set already

[potent pond]

abt ur gpa

hear me out, just get an insane linear positive upwards trend

[deft jolt]

It’s always 7pm est I think

[potent pond]

ive gone up consistently each sem its so nice

im almost peaking im scared

[spice thicket]

yes

[potent pond]

im at a 3.7 now so i cant fuck up and get under A range 😭

[spice thicket]

congrats!!!

[potent pond]

ty

the effort it took to go from 3.3 to 3.7 actually tweaked me the fuck out

i took classes every summer and winter

[deft jolt]

Isn’t a3.7 in college like insane??

[potent pond]

to pad out my intros

[junior kayak]

Yes. But I royalled fucked up my first year with 20 credits both semester and had 4 finals both semester with my final projects and ruined my GPA 🤩

[potent pond]

for premed its better to have a 3.9 and cornell does 4.3s for A+ so even then my gpa prolly lower than it seems

[junior kayak]

My 3.8 or 3.9 this semester is bringing me up to a 3.44

[deft jolt]

I learned to not overload on credits already 🙏

[potent pond]

my credit count has been like
20, 3, 16, 9, 22, 3, 22, 6, 22, 3

locked the fuck in

last fall was SO BAD

[deft jolt]

0_o

[potent pond]

chat i cant make this shit up

[junior kayak]

I have 21 credits next semester if I take biochem

[spice thicket]

anyone here take IB

[junior kayak]

So I might not do that

[deft jolt]

Grinders

[junior kayak]

My semesters have been 20, 3, 20, 19 🤩

Next semester will be 18 or 21 🥀

[deft jolt]

So I guess Cornell being a pre-professional grind school wasn’t a total exaggeration 😭

[potent pond]

chat,.

[spice thicket]

holy guacamole is this good or bad

[potent pond]

its enrolled in 9 things

i had 14 midterms

and 5 finals

[spice thicket]

so like really good right

like in terms of academics but not so good for mental health

[junior kayak]

And a project team 😭😭

[potent pond]

idk how the fuck i got a 3.7 that sem

[junior kayak]

Engineering was way too much work with premed

[potent pond]

my current sem also looks bad but its genuinely sm better

[junior kayak]

I told myself internal transfer will be successful or its grippy sock town for me

[spice thicket]

are project teams worth it to do because some of them looked pretty cool

[junior kayak]

I think they are. Depends what you want to do

[potent pond]

my courses so far 😭

[spice thicket]

okay thank you

[deft jolt]

What are project teams?

[potent pond]

i use it as an excuse for my low gpa but legit only took premed classes freshman year so im just hard coping

LOL

[potent pond]

teams that do things

some do competitions

some just make things

theres probably anything for anything stem ur interested in

many also have social media or business teams to handle that side of things so the engineers/bio sci ppl can lock in

[junior kayak]

I took 4 technical courses my freshman fall and spring 😔

[potent pond]

so if ur interested in that u could do that too

[junior kayak]

Plus FWS, wind symphony, etc

[potent pond]

the dip uin my credit count freshie spring is bc i drained myself with a relationship and dropped 1920

i was so disappointed in myself

ruiend my streak

[spice thicket]

is it hard to join student assembly

[potent pond]

probably not

[spice thicket]

okok

did anyone else see that one random person left one comment on one of Cornell admissions's recent posts asking for ed to be released

[junior kayak]

Yall 😭

[spice thicket]

what

[junior kayak]

Obsessed over ED

Calm down

[spice thicket]

NOOOO

i thought it was funny

because there are no other comments on their posts

except that one time a p*rn bot did so and they deleted it

[junior kayak]

💀

[spice thicket]

yes but im managing it yk

[junior kayak]

Wooper pfp

W Pokémon

[spice thicket]

i found out now you can change your profile picture

[spice thicket]

YESS thank you

i think wooper > quagsire

[junior kayak]

W mindset

[spice thicket]

real

I see wooper tiktok edits and i always repost them

[peak socket]

yessir i could never

i need to get some like actual stylish stuff, maybe some leather

[glad swift]

awwww! I've not seen that subspecies but I did see this little guy in the UK who's their european counterpart

[junior kayak]

For any future Cornellians, it is my pleasure to announce the Cornell Pokémon Club is finally official for next semester

[tranquil belfry]

wait w do you guys do competetive? i play vgc a bit

[spice thicket]

bet

hope Ill be able to join

[junior kayak]

Yeah

I play TCG, but we have lots of VGC

Im going to Toronto in January for a Pokémon tcg regional championship lol

[tranquil belfry]

nice

[tranquil belfry]

oh w

im waiting for champs b4 i do any acc comps

i havent rlly played since snm

[deft jolt]

Which post

[spice thicket]

lmao

[frozen cape]

NUH UH

[spice thicket]

WHY are you arguing against your own interests have faith in yourself!!!

[deft jolt]

Fire comment by them

[deft jolt]

yuh uh

[frozen cape]

i have no faith in the system gang 💔💔💔

[deft jolt]

get accepted pls

[spice thicket]

It’s literally the only comment ahaha

[frozen cape]

i know im awesome but cornell doesn’t know i’m awesome

💜

[spice thicket]

don’t trust the system trust the human who read your application and saw how bright you were

[deft jolt]

Guys are you ready for what’s to come in 3 hours 👀

[deft jolt]

I think two people see before committee does or smth, right?

[frozen cape]

i need full aid gang at BEST i am expecting a deferral kajgjsjfv

[spice thicket]

my portal was locking me out and I got so excited then it let me in and I was like okay 😔

[deft jolt]

Same 😭

[spice thicket]

yes! Your regional ao is the first reader then another and then to committee

[grim locust]

Respectfully: shhhhh

[frozen cape]

ED benefits the school why would they admit someone who’ll lose them money and has below average stats lol

early

[dim wigeon]

I don’t think it’s today 😭

[mild flume]

big news guys they bolded november 14 again on the portal

is this a sign

[deft jolt]

shhh 🤫

[deft jolt]

you never know ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[grim locust]

Yall r crazy

[deft jolt]

I was abt to say this

[spice thicket]

they did? They’ve been changing the bolding and photos I think some graphic design student got portal access lmao

[deft jolt]

hopeful*

[spice thicket]

join us!

[deft jolt]

No idea why

[grim locust]

if it comes out I think I’d honor

vomit

[mild flume]

guys i think this means that the decision is coming out on november 14 2026

[frozen cape]

my application kinda crazy ngl because my former homelessness only fit in my additional information section 😭😭

[spice thicket]

LMAOOO

[grim locust]

U guys r crazier than swifties

[deft jolt]

Prepare your sick meds then

[spice thicket]

WHAT

[frozen cape]

yeah my life kinda crazy

[grim locust]

if it comes out today I’ll buy u discord nitro

[spice thicket]

don’t compare us they ain’t even near us

[deft jolt]

Ty Astro

Are you going into astrophysics by chance

[grim locust]

as a minor

😛

[deft jolt]

Crazy guess

[spice thicket]

if it comes out today I’m sending a love message to everyone here

[mild flume]

oooh i am

[deft jolt]

Nice!

[grim locust]

I have noooo clue how you did

[grim locust]

See u on campus

[deft jolt]

I’ll be majoring in physics + math 😋

[grim locust]

☺️

anyone wanna dorm together /j

[deft jolt]

I read your… mind

[frozen cape]

if it comes out today i will have a heart attack and die im not ready

[spice thicket]

dual… degree???

[mild flume]

holy courseload

[spice thicket]

no you’ll be alive!!!

[deft jolt]

Do you even get to pick your dorms?

[grim locust]

um is anyone a girl here, weird question just curious

[deft jolt]

Yes 💀

[grim locust]

I’m doing statistics on Cornell Ed and just curious

[deft jolt]

I’ll need help 🙏

[spice thicket]

I shall keep you in my prayers

[frozen cape]

tell me why my school is like 30% hispanic but im the only hispanic in most of my AP classes 😭😭

[spice thicket]

no sorry

[deft jolt]

Thank you erk the goat 🙏

[grim locust]

Wait everyone drop major + school

[spice thicket]

OFC!!!

[deft jolt]

Said mine already, which is CAS :)

[mild flume]

astronomy (astrophysics concentration) at A&S

[spice thicket]

Mech E / ECE - Engineering

[frozen cape]

GOVERNMENT ARTS AND SCIENCES WE GOING TO LAW SCHOOL 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[loud topaz]

biosci at cals 🥹

[spice thicket]

LMAO love it

[spice thicket]

Now you have to drop yours

cmon

[grim locust]

physics is my hobby but my major is chemistry

[deft jolt]

gah

I predict a major switch for u

no bias here

[grim locust]

no one gets a job w physics

major switch into what dude

[spice thicket]

chemistry kills me I hate ligands and complex ions and everything in between

[deft jolt]

Well, my plan is grad school xd

[spice thicket]

except you!

[deft jolt]

Even then.. yeah, things will be rough

[grim locust]

same

[mild flume]

astrophysics major with a religious studies minor... I WILL BE THE KING OF UNEMPLOYMENT

[grim locust]

What if I just never opened up the decision

[frozen cape]

crazy maneuvers

[deft jolt]

Religiously study astrophysics 👀

[spice thicket]

wanna practice? I’d like a venti frappe pls /j

I say this as if I would get in at all

[grim locust]

Put the fries in the bag bro

[deft jolt]

They’d email u saying you need to pay deposit

[grim locust]

I love ur optimism

[spice thicket]

Schrödingers decision letter

[deft jolt]

yeah, because WE will get in
-# (trust)

[deft jolt]

Thank you, Astro

[spice thicket]

YESSS, how’d you do that little trust text at the bottom

[deft jolt]

Love your acceptance too

[grim locust]

Look I know I’m not getting in but I’m having fun meeting you all

[deft jolt]

“-# “

[frozen cape]

i genuinely have no idea what my chances are of admission because my SAT / GPA are both below Cornell’s average (not by a lot but still) but i have multiple hooks so im like it could literally be anything 😭😭

[grim locust]

Maybe I’ll go to Binghamton and meet yall on the weekends

[spice thicket]

what 😭

[spice thicket]

nah see u on campus bucko

[grim locust]

In like the opposite my gpa/act are prefect but my Awards are sub par

[deft jolt]

I’m not getting in either dw… and you probably have a cracked profile

perfect ACT 😭

[loud topaz]

2 hour commute from bing to ithaca one way

[deft jolt]

I knew it

[spice thicket]

SAT is inflated due to test optional so

[loud topaz]

https://tenor.com/view/cynthia-erivo-shocked-shock-jumping-back-walking-back-gif-12035888169669287630

[mild flume]

dude im also so sccared because i keep rereading my essays and thinking this sounds like chatgpt

[grim locust]

what did u write it on

[frozen cape]

yeah i have 700 math 740 r&w and i submitted so i might be cooking

[deft jolt]

Do the hyphen followed by a hashtag before a space, then any text that comes after will be small

[grim locust]

I can read them if it’ll make u feel better I’m a certified English tutor

[deft jolt]

Hashtag space is big text

[spice thicket]

yes that’s not too bad, go back to test required and the averages are wayyyy lower

[mild flume]

the sad thing is that both chatgpt AND ME are trained on wikipedia articles and books so

[frozen cape]

i have a science award for perseverance but i literally didnt take a science class this year

[spice thicket]

-# hi

[grim locust]

I missed national merit by one point

[spice thicket]

on the psat?

[grim locust]

Guys watch me win Regeneron 😛

[grim locust]

Yea

[deft jolt]

Same here for not taking a sci class 🥀

[deft jolt]

What’s your topic? 👀

[grim locust]

I did have brain damage when I took it though in my defense

[spice thicket]

I did so bad on the reading but my math score was insane and I didn’t qualify

[spice thicket]

I feel like I’m getting insane lore rn

[frozen cape]

my school botched the schedule so i have an elective with 4 people in it total and i didnt get to take business law when i literally want to do law for a living

[grim locust]

Metal toxicity, its effects on neruodegrnerion and how we can supplement to prevent it

[frozen cape]

im crashing out

[spice thicket]

why??

[deft jolt]

The elective thing

[spice thicket]

ohhhh

oops

[frozen cape]

LOL

[grim locust]

I had a major concussion my junior year and still ended up getting a 4.0 with diagnosed brain damage

Hardest year of my life

😛

[deft jolt]

Holy

[spice thicket]

ok so you’re just built different ig I think I’m completely cooked

[deft jolt]

that’s a great essay topic if you chose that…

[grim locust]

I did not

[deft jolt]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[mild flume]

community: about the relationship between creativity and care, A&S response: about the science shows and books i used to consume as a kid (chronic pain disorder made me kind of sit at home all day), commonapp essay: self learning the guitar and dissecting it to learn about the physics behind it

[grim locust]

I wrote an additional info blurb about it

[spice thicket]

followed by this emoji LMAO

[deft jolt]

Ah okay

Hopefully you’re doing better now 🙏

[grim locust]

Oh that’s very nice

[grim locust]

I’m 100% and I do rock climbing now!

[spice thicket]

real Astro hope you’re better

[grim locust]

more brain damage soon to come

[spice thicket]

nuh uh

[deft jolt]

From…?

[grim locust]

Idk I got a 36 on the act post concussion I’ll be fine

[grim locust]

Rock climbing

[frozen cape]

my entire application is “give me the benefit of the doubt” the movie am i cooked for cornell ed 💔

[grim locust]

probably

[deft jolt]

Just don’t fall 🙏

[grim locust]

Fr!!

[deft jolt]

Easy avoid

[mild flume]

nah don't worry they'll give you the benefit of the doubt

[spice thicket]

don’t worry my gpa literally is fucking me sideways

[deft jolt]

Or make sure to press roll before you land

[deft jolt]

This is me as well fr

We might be cooked man

[frozen cape]

i got low 70s on my chemistry and physics exams when i had As in both classes beforehand cornell gonna be hella suspicious about grade inflation and i have a 3.8.. it may be over

[spice thicket]

Other than that I think I’m actually cooking cause I already got into my safety

[deft jolt]

I got into my safety too, which is nice

[frozen cape]

my school has sent like 15-18 kids to cornell tho we may not be cooked

[deft jolt]

So at least I have somewhere to go

[grim locust]

the thing is like 40 ppl from my school EDed Cornell

[spice thicket]

which was your safety?

[grim locust]

We had 25 last year it was crazy

[spice thicket]

My school has sent 1 person to Cornell in the last 25 years! Yay!

[mild flume]

the sad thing is that my physics grade got dropped to a B+ for 2 days... (i got sick) and those two days happened to be the quarter report day

[deft jolt]

State flagship through an onsite admission plan

[frozen cape]

other than one kid who got recruited by Dartmouth i havent heard anyone else applying to Ivies at my school

[spice thicket]

holy moly I was the only person at my school that did

[deft jolt]

Same here

[spice thicket]

Idk what that means but very happy for you

[frozen cape]

i might be the only Cornell ED person

[deft jolt]

I know one person who may apply but that’s for RD

[loud topaz]

only me and our val ed’d cornell

[mild flume]

i think im like one of like three

[loud topaz]

Ur in westchester

[deft jolt]

I am the only ED xd

[mild flume]

but one other applied for dyson so

[loud topaz]

Be real

[grim locust]

Do u see why I know im not getting in

[frozen cape]

yes :(( unfortunately

[spice thicket]

in my school only 10 people in total are even applying to America

[grim locust]

Omg ur INT?

[spice thicket]

36 act??? Hello???

[grim locust]

ru willing to share what country

[frozen cape]

INTERNATIONAL 😭😭

[spice thicket]

no I’m American abroad America rahhh

[frozen cape]

oh noo

oh

[spice thicket]

Switzerland!

[frozen cape]

ok

[deft jolt]

Just a super early EA plan, got results back in early Nov or smth