Stanford University (2025-2026)

[spark willow]

and dropping out is better than

not going

[haughty obsidian]

It’s not intense it’s just massively overdemanded given the seminar class size of 13-17 or something

[spark willow]

Then aren’t other classes the same?

[haughty obsidian]

No lol most introductory classes are lecture style

They make introsems small so that students get more attention

[spark willow]

are u going to apply for math77q?

[haughty obsidian]

The deadline passed and unfortunately I didn’t but apparently it’s also offered in spring?? So maybe then I will

I remember looking at it and laughing about it but I’ll need to take stats courses eventually so why not gamble with it 🤷‍♂️

[spark willow]

lol

i think its only sophomore+

allowed or sth like that

[gray peak]

wait one of the cs106b solutions is so unoptimal

💀

just use memoization

[spark willow]

wt science course do u take?

[steady hemlock]

i love stanford everyone should apply

[upbeat dune]

If your child got into Stanford are you buying this for them

Or this

[grizzled basin]

im buying it for myself

icl the tree as a mascott is not auraful

[trim cosmos]

Aura doesn’t win the Big Game bucko

[gray peak]

don't come to stanford guys the computer science students bite

[spark willow]

lydi

should i also take XM522?

i dont think integ calc is covered in math51

[gray peak]

bro idk how many times to tell u but you should only take xm615 because that course will hard enough that you won't have time to do any other course

also for xm615 you will be integrating in 1 dimension

[spark willow]

ok

[steady hemlock]

i can’t wait

[gray peak]

don't think I can

[spark willow]

how long does it take for you guys to finish reading 1 ch and finish pset for math?

[gray peak]

depends on which math course you're in

math 61 takes like 15-20 hours on average per week

[grizzled basin]

15-20 hr for one course tf

[gray peak]

most underclassmen stem courses at Stanford take 15-20 hours

the higher level classes take less time, 10-15 hrs

[grizzled basin]

So if u take 4 courses that can be like 60 hrs a week

Wait

[gray peak]

yeah

[grizzled basin]

Actually that kinda checks out

I spend 15 hrs on my dual enroll math class

[gray peak]

4 classes is usually like 16-20 units and you're limited to 23 units

[grizzled basin]

Makes sense

[gray peak]

there are some evil courses requiring 20-25 hours per week on average

[low oriole]

maybe it’s a good thing if i get rejected 😪

[gray peak]

wait it's so worth it though

you will be struggling but it will be fun

[spark willow]

It takes me about 4h to read 1 ch and finish 1 pset for math51

Am I cooked for real analysis 💀

[gray peak]

you'll probably spend like 10 hrs on xm615 it's not as hard as math 61

[spark willow]

wtf😭

How hard is fkin 61

[gray peak]

pretty fucking hard unless you're an IMO camp person

[low oriole]

well yes!!!

[gray peak]

615 is 1 dimensional analysis with less abstraction
61 is multidimensional analysis with extreme abstraction (i.e. manifolds)

[spark willow]

I don’t think I need to take 61 if I’m cs major

[gray peak]

yeah u definitely don't but there's a significant portion of cs majors who choose math 61

[spark willow]

Ok

[gray peak]

one of our math 61 proofs was literally by bubblesort

lmao

[spark willow]

😭 😭 😭

[gray peak]

if ur goated at math you'll be goated at cs 😛

[spark willow]

I’m not goated at math😭

So cooked

[spark willow]

Lydi. Can u check dms?

I think I found mistake in math51 textbook 💀

[gray peak]

if you found a mistake in the textbook contact the instructor not me

[spark willow]

Can u double check?

Idk if I’m tweaking

[gray peak]

don't really have time rn

[spark willow]

Oh ok

Np

[haughty obsidian]

<sp> for light nsfw

[spark willow]

😭 wtf

[low oriole]

🥀🥀

[trim cosmos]

My friend always shows me the shit people post on the Stanford Fizz forum 😭

[fringe coral]

[grizzled basin]

That kid is me

[shy bone]

bro these esssays are horrendous

[winter mural]

how it feels to wait 12 more days for decisions to drop

[gray peak]

stanfurd university

[winter mural]

UC Palo Alto 🙏

My band directors absolutely hating on the LSJUMB while at the same time doing and saying worse things be like ☠️☠️☠️☠️

[fringe coral]

when does stanford decicison comes out?

[spark willow]

Prob on the 13th

For intl

Didn’t announced it yet

[fringe coral]

i see

the day of disapointment is nearing

[spark willow]

[fringe coral]

imma so scared

it will be saturday
and my saturday will be ruined

[spark willow]

I’m ready😭

[fringe coral]

well you will definitely be accepted

[spark willow]

I hope so

[fringe coral]

[winter mural]

The Magic 8 Ball and the Spinner Wheel both predict an admit or a defer -> admit so idk 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Top 2 college decision prediction methods btw

Source: it came to me in a dream

[gray peak]

defer admit pipeline common here

because it's hard to get deferred

[haughty obsidian]

less people get deferred than admitted in the early round

[haughty obsidian]

If you're curious, there was a gc with deferred peeps from this round and 3/8 got in

[north quarry]

my friend last yr said he || busted a nut || before he opened his rea forharvard and got in so dyk if itll work for stanford

[spark willow]

ya'll should do ts in the VC

on Dec 12th

[low oriole]

i can’t believe it’s so close time flies

[spark willow]

fr

😭

its alr 1 month after submitting my app

[low oriole]

ngl if i get deferred i will lit be happy

[spark willow]

😭

[low oriole]

no cuz i will be so surprised at anything that’s not a rejection

[dire sapphire]

yes

[grizzled basin]

aw hell nah

[winter mural]

We yes WE are doing it in the vc

[winter mural]

Just like this kid would 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[vale charm]

Is this yikyak

[steady dagger]

lsjumb is the best college marching band dont fight me

[gray peak]

@trim cosmos congrats!

guys we have new trees here already 😝😜

[vale charm]

guys dont make a mistake on your stanford application

like i did (i wasnt getting in anyway)

[terse terrace]

is this a typo??

It says december 5th but regular is January 5th?

Or do they actually need people submitting arts stuff to submit a whole month early....?

that seems very odd to me (praying its a typo)

[grizzled basin]

no they need it a month earlier

my friend who is applying was telling me about it

[terse terrace]

oh my god, looks like we wont be submitting one then lol

[terse terrace]

Do u think it'll be bad not to submit? I mean my art is nothing crazy at all but I do love photography (not applying as an art major or anything but idk if it would be bad not to submit if I could help me?)

[grizzled basin]

depends on how good u are at photography ig

my friend is in julliard pc so he's pretty good at his instrument 💀 so ofc he would really want to submit

[terse terrace]

I mean its nothing crazy lol Ive only taken one class, I didnt win YoungArts or scholastic and have no recognition since its more of a hobby and not like something im like exceptional at

so I guess it probably wouldn't hurt?? although idk should I submit it for other schools do you think?

[trim cosmos]

I love this school and I haven’t even attended a single class yet

[vale charm]

nope, deadline for rd arts is dec5

[vale charm]

i submitted a photography portfolio

though take my advice with a grain of salt cuz i got rejected 💀

[terse terrace]

Were you very distinguished?

[vale charm]

fuck no

[terse terrace]

Hmm okay interesting I feel like it’s probably not worth it to rush the app bc I haven’t started the supps yet

So it just seems dumb to rush that for like an arts portfolio lol

[vale charm]

yeah, i wouldn't reallllyyy recommend it but if you think it'll boost your application, go for it

[grizzled basin]

i love this school and i haven't even been accepted

[gray peak]

we have an acronym for everything

[winter mural]

YES I agree but my band directors apparently don't 😒😒😒

[vale charm]

Examples

[winter mural]

Top 1 reason why Stanford should accept me is because I know how to play my instrument frfr

[gray peak]

yaga

[steady dagger]

pwr

college

flomo

coho

roho

ra

ta

ca

[steady dagger]

lsjumb notably has 0 requirement for you to know how to play your instrument

or any instrument

[vale charm]

Que

[vale charm]

We have coho

[winter mural]

Fr, ts so tuff omg

LSJUMB my beloved 😍😍😍😍

I wanna learn new instruments

[steady dagger]

its actually so lit i like can vaguely play a brass instrument now

[winter mural]

Yippee!!!!!

I wanna learn percussion low-key

[glossy talon]

hootow

[haughty obsidian]

It’s either an acronym, pun, or contraction

There are some exceptions to the acronym rule. No one calls it AOERC they call it farillaga

The other ones nearillaga but I forgor the acronym for that one

Some acronyms are actually so bad

Like the committee on sexual health is called SHPRC (pronounced shipwreck)

I would be very uncomfortable receiving contraceptives from a a group of people who call themselves a shipwreck

[vale charm]

Lol is it bad

[haughty obsidian]

are you asking if a completely serious organization called “shipwreck” is a bad thing 💀

[haughty obsidian]

And welcome!

[low oriole]

guys i’m getting nervy

i need d-day confirmed 🥀

[vale charm]

There's a reason i didn't get in last year

In what ways tho lol

[haughty obsidian]

Like the phrase “to be a shipwreck” meaning complete and utter failure

These are the types of condoms the SHPRC would give out

[glossy talon]

NO

that’s so diabolical

[haughty obsidian]

“m4f can host” isn’t helping either

[vale charm]

No WAY

[vale charm]

Yes I figurex

Im not that stupid

[haughty obsidian]

Im so sorry I think I’m the dumb one then 😭

What’s your question?

[vale charm]

No I was just asking in what ways are they bad

You answered the quer

Question

[haughty obsidian]

Well the photo isn’t actually from shprc I was making a joke just a disclaimer

[vale charm]

Oh

[haughty obsidian]

It would be hilariously ironic tho

[glossy talon]

oh

i thought it was actually from shprc

[vale charm]

Im surprised stanford students be moving like that

[glossy talon]

dont they literally have a naked run

💀

[vale charm]

That's ucla no?

[glossy talon]

oh

[grizzled basin]

i think stanny and brown also have one

[low oriole]

just found out someone from my city matched with stanford !

ik it prob doesn’t matter but im terrified 🥀

[spark willow]

Stanford also has it

[vale charm]

Oh!

[vale charm]

@trim cosmos offchance

[spark willow]

Are u going to join, if u were in stanny?

[vale charm]

Fuh naw I'm chopped

[low oriole]

LMAO no it’s a girl

[vale charm]

Alter ego

[low oriole]

perhaps but i’d be very surprised if like there’s more than like 5 people in this server from my city lol

yes it’s fear the tree

[trim cosmos]

Probably not

[low oriole]

i’m rly confused tho cuz she like posted her qb letter and everything but also posted herself on the dartmouth admit page so idk what’s going on lol

nvm i’m stupid that was for the dartmouth bound fly-in i do not pay attention

[karmic raven]

no i submitted my rea portfolio super ealry too

they need all that early

[terse terrace]

Interesting, I think I’m just gonna go portfolio free and submit in January then since I haven’t done supplements

[karmic raven]

if you have any awards for your artistic discipline, i think that should make up for the absence of a portfolio!

[gray peak]

@trim cosmos sign up for math 193, it's our Putnam class and Ciprian teaches it
he's really nice and super smart (3 time IMO perfect score) and gives us free pizza every class
it's once a week and you don't need any prerequiste knowledge and you don't need to do hw

[gilded blade]

you get taught by ciprian? like the clay research fellowship guy?

[gray peak]

yes

he's a chiller

[gilded blade]

holy hell thats so crazy

thats

like an achievement in itself

[gray peak]

he's so nice bro

and every solution he gives is like magical

[gilded blade]

i wanna come to stanford rn 🙏 😭

[trim cosmos]

“Putnam class”

Sister I am in AP Calc AB

Majoring in poli sci

[gray peak]

it's lowkey chill

come for the food and friends

[trim cosmos]

😭

[gray peak]

you don't need any prereq knowledge

[gilded blade]

@trim cosmos idk you or your math skill or anything, but getting to attend a ciprian lecture is one of the greatest things to do in lifetime

[haughty obsidian]

i think the broader point is that the faculty firepower on this campus is immense in general

[gray peak]

yeah fr all faculty are at the head of their fields

[haughty obsidian]

i'm enrolled in mse472 and i'm going to attend a session with sergei brin later this week because of it

[trim cosmos]

Bro I wanna join the mock trial team but I’m deadass gonna get rejected right away lol

[gray peak]

most clubs here have 100% acceptance rate

[haughty obsidian]

except for the ones that don't 💀 💀

[gray peak]

it's a very small subset though

[trim cosmos]

My sister’s friend went to Stanford (graduated in ‘24) and she was the brilliant mock trial performer at our school (president, attorney, etc)

Even she didn’t make it onto the Stanford mock trial team

[gray peak]

try it out :D

[trim cosmos]

And she went to Harvard law then transferred to Stanford law

Yea I will

[gray peak]

even if you aren't admitted there are plenty of clubs that just take you

we have a CS club here where you can attend lectures from seniors at Google and it has an 100% acceptance rate lol

[haughty obsidian]

and plus you don't need to be on the team to do what you love

[trim cosmos]

That’s a little reassuring

[trim cosmos]

True I might just do debate

I heard that they’re undermanned

Mock trial seems a little too comp bc of Menlo right down the road

I’m lowkey looking into helping coach their hs mock trial team because I do California mock trial myself rn

[gray peak]

wait unrelated but are u considering data sci at all

[haughty obsidian]

is this the 152 thing in winter

[gray peak]

hm?

[haughty obsidian]

wait nvm

[haughty obsidian]

I was told that there was some cs course (cs152 or something) and for a moment I thought you were telling them to take it

[gray peak]

oh nope

[haughty obsidian]

nvm it's not a freshman thing I checked

[gray peak]

i just know someone who's doing datasci + polisci

[haughty obsidian]

I know someone who's a pure polisci person

[gray peak]

that's fire

[trim cosmos]

Erm maybe like stats but not wholly data science

[haughty obsidian]

you should do Gene Kim's introsem on how to gamble (using stats theory, ofc)

[gray peak]

once u get ur sunetid i can pull you into some GCs

[trim cosmos]

Thank you

I wanna join the fizz so bad

I’m missing out

[gray peak]

ur not it's a whole lot of x4x LMAO

[trim cosmos]

But every post seems like it’s from an incel 🫩

[haughty obsidian]

or random politics

and weird takes

[gray peak]

that's just fizz everywhere 💀

[haughty obsidian]

okay that's just a hilarious satire

[trim cosmos]

W CS stray

How is the dating scene at Stanny

[gray peak]

it's like surprisingly not bad

[trim cosmos]

Are there rich full pay internationals to rizz up

[haughty obsidian]

there are plenty

[gray peak]

the parties here are mid at best

[haughty obsidian]

dating is literally algorithm-ised lol

[gray peak]

my friends have just been going to sf to party lol

[trim cosmos]

Ugh SF

I’m most worried about transport

[gray peak]

caltrain slow asf

get a bike !!

[trim cosmos]

Yea that’s the plan

[gray peak]

u will not survive without a bike

[haughty obsidian]

wait lydi you know about the potter resident who biked all the way to sacramento and back

150+140km iirc

[gray peak]

yep how do u have the time LMAO

[trim cosmos]

More bikes than people from what I heard on my tour 🤓

[gray peak]

but kudos

[gray peak]

true..

we also bike very fast

💀

[haughty obsidian]

and we don't yield at stop signs

[gray peak]

💀

[haughty obsidian]

at least everyone but me

because i got pulled over

[gray peak]

you actually yield..?

oh

😭

that's just unfortunate

[haughty obsidian]

that's why i know about the gory details of 4 people who died on campus

[gray peak]

oh !

[stoic flume]

that's not..

[haughty obsidian]

they teach that to you unfiltered to scare you into wearing helmets and yielding

[gray peak]

maybe i'll start yielding (i wont)

[trim cosmos]

Trust me bro this is gonna be me when all my QB friends are going to Harvard and Yale

And MIT but a little less so because MIT seems like hell

[low oriole]

LMFAOO REAL…

[gray peak]

we're better

[trim cosmos]

I wouldn’t have ranked it so high if I didn’t think so ❤️

[gray peak]

i have heard stories that they are

[trim cosmos]

MIT matches like 100 ppl but they’re all MIT WISE kids

MIT’s fly in program

[gray peak]

oh you will feel fomo when everyone starts a month earlier than you

[trim cosmos]

Yea almost as selective as MITES

[trim cosmos]

This too

But longer summer break (yay?)

[haughty obsidian]

i think it's just a quarter system quirk

[gray peak]

if you don't want this for some reason apply to https://summerbridge.stanford.edu/

[gilded blade]

take the damm summer off over this

[gray peak]

it's actually good tho

[haughty obsidian]

my friends who did sb have all got W friendship circles

[gray peak]

or so i have heard

[gilded blade]

its actually meant to be your summer break tho?

[trim cosmos]

I’ve heard other schools do this

Idk maybe

[gray peak]

oh fr

[trim cosmos]

I might just hang around the Bay with my family

[haughty obsidian]

yes

[gray peak]

yeah

[haughty obsidian]

:/

[gilded blade]

prolly

[gray peak]

one of the easier dual majors

for math you take a freshman sequence and 8 courses

literally 8 courses'

[haughty obsidian]

is the freshman sequence up til 53

[gray peak]

ofc u can take more (for honours or enrichment) but basic grad reqs are not hard to fulfill

[haughty obsidian]

what is the freshman sequence

[gray peak]

nope

u can take whatever u want

[haughty obsidian]

welcome to the liberal arts

[gray peak]

any choice of 51/61cm/61dm 52/62cm/62dm 53/63cm/63dm

you need 19-21 but that is usually fulfilled through AP credit or summer bridge etc.

[haughty obsidian]

how is that freshman 😭 I'm friends with sophs who are only now doing 21

[gray peak]

they're freshman classes

[gilded blade]

bro realised quant potetial

[gray peak]

just do a math major bro

[gilded blade]

thank god

we dont need more quants

[haughty obsidian]

okay now I feel behind

[gray peak]

u shouldn't, they are pretty advanced courses that are designed for freshmen but you can take them any time

for a math major though u will need to have completed them by freshmen year (ideally, i think there are exceptions)

[haughty obsidian]

true. i think that just puts into perspective the disparity in math skill across campus though

i know some people who are in 18

[gray peak]

do a math degree and CS coterm (graduate - masters)
it'll take you 4 years

yep

coterm is undergrad and grad concurrently

it's a stanford thing

[low oriole]

lydi did you see that the new jeans instagram account got deactivated

[gray peak]

when you apply yeah, you'll have to declare at some point

[low oriole]

the mhdhh_friends one

[gray peak]

oh what

[gray peak]

oh ! 😭

[low oriole]

i sense ot5 ador comeback

[gray peak]

basically u get until soph year to choose what u want to study

[haughty obsidian]

the end of soph year*

[gray peak]

and then once you've declared, there are specific major requirements for graduation

[gray peak]

right

[haughty obsidian]

exceptions have been made too lol i know someone who declared STS in junior year (much to the dismay of their aa)

[gray peak]

most mathy people i know are tacking on a coterm or dual majoring with cs

if you choose to coterm you can graduate math UG with honours

where you're incentivised to take grad classes

[trim cosmos]

Yo no diss but the online merch store is ass

I'm getting a QZ and leaving

[gray peak]

wait

don't get shit

[haughty obsidian]

free stuff

[gray peak]

come during admit weekend you'll get discounts

and free stuff

[trim cosmos]

I don't have any Stanford merch somehow

I got a lot from my fly ins

But I want one piece

[haughty obsidian]

it's real?

[trim cosmos]

Sure

[gray peak]

the efficient thing to do is to wait until admit weekend but you might be able to email your AO and see if they can get you some merch :D

[haughty obsidian]

but don't you only know your ao when you get the postcard

[gray peak]

my AO emailed me after i got in

[haughty obsidian]

oh lol mine didn't

[gray peak]

oh 💀

[trim cosmos]

They only gave us one point of contact for QB

Bro I know my AO had to fight tooth and nail for me during committee or wtv system the admissions office has in place

[haughty obsidian]

they almost all do

[gray peak]

fr

[haughty obsidian]

unless the applicant is mega cracked like lydi

[gray peak]

nah

[trim cosmos]

Ig especially so for me because of academics but everything else was fine

I'm sure my essays made them crack a smile here and there

[gray peak]

my essays probably had my AO crying at how bad they were

[haughty obsidian]

did you see your ferpa

[trim cosmos]

https://tenor.com/view/ishowspeed-try-not-to-laugh-gif-7682731162751353849

[low oriole]

me

[gray peak]

not yet i have like no time for that 💀

might do it next qtr

[trim cosmos]

Oh yah I wanna read my admissions file when I matriculate

[haughty obsidian]

how do you not have time for a 30min appt 💀

[gray peak]

i do kinda know cuz i had a conversation at admit weekend with my AO

[gray peak]

29 units

[trim cosmos]

??

[haughty obsidian]

bro icl you're spending >30m on discord atp

[gray peak]

20 and auditing

[gray peak]

i multitask well :D

[gray peak]

so i think ik more than ferpa 💀

[haughty obsidian]

I still don't get the way you operate, good sir

[gray peak]

it's lowkey not hard to think and mindlessly type here tho

gives me something to do when crashing out over what a variational quantum eigensolver is

[haughty obsidian]

I was referring to the 29 units + startup + a bunch of clubs and smt or whatever + whatever else you've got up your sleeve

[gray peak]

the way it works is my schedule is very full

[haughty obsidian]

take care of yourself, please

[gray peak]

oh dw im enjoying it LMAO

[haughty obsidian]

is this masochism or end-stage productivity balling

[gray peak]

i think 19 units is a good amount, i'm doing that next qtr as well

[haughty obsidian]

yippee me too but i'm not auditing another 10 units and working for smt bruh that's crazy

[gray peak]

i won't be auditing next qtr i think

what courses r u taking?

[haughty obsidian]

two introsems, math 51, cs103 (these two I'm still doubtful about the workload), and a fun literature class (and energy108b as always)

[gray peak]

51 is not too bad, cs103 idk how hard that is but heard it was pretty light

51 is annoying there's lots of computation

[winter mural]

wait how soon?

[haughty obsidian]

i think holmes likes me so i'm now dragged into helping organize the winter potter field trip to tesla factory

[gray peak]

like the next day lol

[gilded blade]

VQE is like a class or smt at stanford? which class does it get taught in?

[gray peak]

idk what class it's for i'm just doing research rn

math / cs coterm

[haughty obsidian]

oh dang aight

I heard very diff things about 103

some people said the maths was unbearable, but ig they're not mathy people

[gray peak]

i think if ur on top of ur work u should be fine

it's lowkey ap stats level

[haughty obsidian]

o ic

[gray peak]

wait no that's 109

103 is uhh

the computation thing

so a bit harder than that

[haughty obsidian]

yeah it's a prereq to a bajillion things

[gray peak]

he/him

lowkey whatever idrc tho lmao

[haughty obsidian]

also lydi do you know holmes' pronouns yet

[gray peak]

no !

did you find out

[haughty obsidian]

yup

[gray peak]

ah nice

[haughty obsidian]

it's in their email signoff now

[gray peak]

pronouns lowkey don't matter as long as i know ur referring to me LMAO

[haughty obsidian]

lmfao true

[gray peak]

how is this 19 units bruh

[winter mural]

57 hours‼️

[haughty obsidian]

lmao lydi's doing more like 67 hours this quarter 🤷‍♂️

[gray peak]

more like 80 with everything else lmfao

[haughty obsidian]

or 80 idfk

yup

[gray peak]

4 finals and 1 project 🗣️ 🔥

[haughty obsidian]

4 finals??????

[gray peak]

LMAO

[haughty obsidian]

cs math college what else

[gray peak]

i have 3 math courses

[haughty obsidian]

?????????????????

actually no ur a math major

makes sense. when's your pwr?

[gray peak]

spring

[haughty obsidian]

I am telling you now to get on top of your RBA when you get it

[gray peak]

so spring i'm doing math 63, math 120, college, pwr

[haughty obsidian]

I f*cked myself over

[gray peak]

oh 😭

i think if ur not on top of ur work here ur just screwed

i used to never do my hw the first day i got it but now i can't

it has to be done within the first few days to keep afloat lol

[haughty obsidian]

I did that for the first 6 weeks

and then I kinda gave up

I'm still doing better than many of my classmates for pwr/esf though 😭

a lot of people haven't even started while I grinded for a draft over the weekend

[gray peak]

r u in ur dorm rn

[haughty obsidian]

yes

[gray peak]

come over lemme show u something

[haughty obsidian]

kinda sus but aight i'll be at your door in a bit

[vale charm]

this is so a2c coded

[velvet cipher]

anyone know if Rea is coming out Dec 5 or Dec 12

because of the questbridge email I assume 12th

[upbeat dune]

Where did you see the qb email

I never saw a date

The ones I saw said mid Dec

[low oriole]

yea i think it just said mid dec i think ppl are just assuming it'll be a friday cuz past decision dates

co 2030?: Friday, December 12, 2025 5:00 PM ???
co 2029: Friday, December 13, 2024 5:00 PM
co 2028: Friday, December 15, 2023 5:00 PM
co 2027: Friday, December 16, 2022 5:00 PM
co 2026: Wednesday, December 15, 2021 5:00 PM
co 2025: Friday, December 11, 2020 5:00 PM
co 2024: Friday, December 6, 2019
co 2023: Friday, December 7, 2018
co 2022: ?
co 2021: Friday, December 9, 2016

This is what I found (times in MST)

[autumn blaze]

why is it slowly increasing..

[spare steppe]

last year, stanford released their decision dates on their website..356 days ago, apparently. and it came out on 12/13 for them

[autumn blaze]

gng im afraidu

and im not even applying to stanford rea

[spare steppe]

LMAO i gotta be nonchalant abt ts

[low oriole]

i've lwk alr given up

i can't imagine anything but a rejection lol!

ion wanna get my hopes up

[spare steppe]

i literally dont care ✋😐🤚

must...be...nonchalant!! (im coping)

[spare steppe]

same omg, im playing stanny rejection sim every day to practice NOT getting bummed

[low oriole]

LMAO REAL

[autumn blaze]

this is a new level of the tism

remember gang we privileged as hell to apply to these institutes

[spare steppe]

im a purdue simp but stanny has a special place 😭😭

[low oriole]

but...it would just be such a relief to get in tho these next 3 months would be sm easier like ughhh

[spare steppe]

cuz i care abt the women in stem issue n social justice a lot

[autumn blaze]

SHUT

[upbeat dune]

This is great except Harvard and Cornell followed a similar pattern and both pushed back a week this year

[low oriole]

well yes

[autumn blaze]

WE DONT TALK ABOUT THAT FOR THE NEXT 3 WEEKS

[spare steppe]

n stanny's one of those rare places that is good for literally everything 💔

[autumn blaze]

BROWN? NEVER HEARD OF IT

MUST BE A PLACE IN EASTERN TIBET

[low oriole]

very true i just collected the dates for curiosity's sake

[spare steppe]

mhm mhm! n in hindsight im grateful for the stanny supps, they were interesting!!

[low oriole]

if it gets pushed back past the 12th i will crash out :/

[spare steppe]

i prob didnt write coherent responses to any of them

but i genuinely enjoy writing

unless if it's for english class, then i suck balls

[spare steppe]

stanny is NOT like the others gng 🤑

[low oriole]

i wrote 1 supp and rewrote 2 in the last like 4 hours before submitting sigh

so cooked

[autumn blaze]

brother i wrote all my supps the day of browns deadline

lmao

[fringe coral]

+1

[spare steppe]

watch me binge watch stanford prison experiment videos next week after my rejection 😭

[autumn blaze]

what the hell is that

[spare steppe]

a highk unethical and downright fraudulent psych experiment conducted by a stanford prof at stanford

[autumn blaze]

OHH WAIT is that the gender change weird shit

if so i think i read abt it somewhere

[spare steppe]

idts, it's the one where half the students were guards and half were prisoners

[fringe coral]

man
please
let
me
get
accepted
into
stanny

[spare steppe]

and they "found" that the guards became evil n abusive (n abused their power)

[fringe coral]

[spare steppe]

claiming that we're all inherently evil when given power or smth

[fringe coral]

is this real?

or some maked up shit?

[spare steppe]

but apparently the experiment had many flaws and the guards were fed what to say/do

and i think it's known to be an example of unethical experiment, although i dunno cuz i've never taken psych 😭

ironically i've been reading up on it the night before my stanny interview 😭

[low oriole]

me
too

[spark willow]

is estimated weekly workload even reliable?

y do i feel like it will take more time

to actually take those course

they said math51's weekly workload is 15h

and i feel like this does not cover test prep 💀

[west charm]

guys my SAT is 1410 (rw: 700; math: 710) and my superscore is 1460 (rw: 700; math: 760). my school doesn't apply the ranking system but my score is the highest in the batch (but i don't think it's important since it's not published by the school)

do yall think it's worth applying to stanford university for a Management Science and Engineering major?

[spark willow]

y not

stanford has lots of ppl with high SAT score

but they also have ppl with 1450s

• u can just try anyways

[west charm]

ohhhh

[west charm]

okaayy thanku smm!

[spark willow]

this is what supneb said

it might just be an encouragement

[spark willow]

but ig u can do this for every unis ig

[pliant atlas]

Tech bro typa shi 😭😭😭

[dire sapphire]

nah bruh fuck roomate essay

[spark willow]

y

i thought roommate essay was the easiest to write

since it didnt need tons of reflection

[grizzled basin]

roommate essay took 10 yrs to write

[spark willow]

?

fr?

[grizzled basin]

yes bro

[spark willow]

for me, it was the easiest

[grizzled basin]

im not quirky

[spark willow]

other ones took hella long time

[spark willow]

same

[spark willow]

what was the easiest sup then

except listing 5 things u like

[grizzled basin]

academic interest

or hpistorical moment

[spark willow]

"excited about learning"

stuff?

[spark willow]

this took me so long 💀

i was trying to not write something very common

[spark willow]

wt was ur historical moment u wanted to witness

if u dont mind answering

[grizzled basin]

theory of relativity

[grizzled basin]

yupyup

[spark willow]

dang

ic

so ur physics major?

[west charm]

got itt 👍🏻👍🏻

[grizzled basin]

nah biomedical computation

well

i did 1. comp bio 2. creative writing 3. astrophysics

[dire sapphire]

need to be quirky and shit

and im an english major 🥀

[spark willow]

i mean...

u can just follow sup essay examples though

[dire sapphire]

i mean

i feel like thats a recipe for unoriginality

so many other ppl r gonna be folliwing those too u feel me

[spark willow]

yea ik

but ig roomate essay doesnt really matter if its interesting an fun

[dire sapphire]

wdym

[spark willow]

i mean. best way to stand out is to be interesting

ig

[dire sapphire]

yuh

and stanny roomte essay lowk is like the largest invitation for being interesting

[spark willow]

yea

[spark willow]

wt was the easiest sup for u

like easiest to write

[dire sapphire]

prolly 1 or 2 ngl

historical momenet or biggest problem

u?

[spark willow]

roommate one 💀

its the first thing i wrote

and submitted 3rd draft

so it was def the easiest ig

[dire sapphire]

shiet

maybe ur a creative writer at heart

[spark willow]

nah

not at all 😭

[grizzled basin]

yo i cant lie i spend way more time on my supps than my non writer friends LMAO

[dire sapphire]

same LOL

imma just take it as a good thing

[grizzled basin]

writer's block hits like a truck

[fringe coral]

the hardest one was how will you contribute to stanford one

why is the essays so hard to write man?
I am not a writing person

😭

[grizzled basin]

i like writing and theyre still really hard to write

stanford has been the hardest school for me to write

stanford is typically on fridays tho right

[astral leaf]

wait i like the prompts

[shut estuary]

they were very fun

[astral leaf]

hi

u didnt reply to my email

😨

[grizzled basin]

I like all the prompts(except for greatest challenge society faces 🙄 ) theyre js rly hard to weite

[north quarry]

creative writing came in clutch

[dire sapphire]

real.

[boreal pollen]

any stanford student willing to take a quick look at my essay for How did you spend your last two summers? (50 words)

[spark willow]

yesss

def

i was like wtf

am i suppose to do?

Stanford Alumni gave me some options

they said

step 1. make SnapChat
step 69. donate to Stanford

Destroy society

💀

[fringe coral]

[fringe coral]

Can afford to do any

[spark willow]

Wdym

U don’t need any money to start

[fringe coral]

Donating to stanford does cost money

[spark willow]

U make money and donate

[spark willow]

Read step1

[fringe coral]

💀

[fringe coral]

How is that the first step

Lmao

[spark willow]

Or u can destroy society

[pliant atlas]

https://tenor.com/view/drake-computer-notebook-explaning-gif-21152267

[fringe coral]

https://tenor.com/view/leonardo-leonardo-dicaprio-clap-slow-clap-applause-gif-9181390816237073082

[gray peak]

u don't need to donate to get in

just make ur AO like u

[spare steppe]

easier said than done girl 😭

[gray peak]

😛

[grizzled basin]

no need to donate money just do really good in school, devote yourself to things outside of school, and study hard for standardized tests, as well as focus on writing to have competitive *and * compelling supplements hahah super unique idea right guys

[spark willow]

wt did u write in ur contribution essay? was it easy?

[spare steppe]

what did u write?

i feel like mine is too cliche 😭

[spark willow]

me?

[spare steppe]

you can have allat and it STILL is a gamble or sum, idk... maybe im saying this to cope

[spark willow]

um...

um.... 😭

[winter mural]

My essays are so cliche and average

😭😭😭

[spark willow]

mines... unique? ig

but its so stupid ig

[spare steppe]

oh! that's good

[spare steppe]

same omg

and i think a lot of them run too metaphorical too

without having much substance

[spark willow]

wt did u write?

[grizzled basin]

helllll no

i said all the essays were hard asf for me gng

[spare steppe]

being a girl in stem, facing a lot of fucked up shit, and the stuff i did within my community to try to address the issue

n i talk abt how i want to continue at stanford

so no one feels unseen/left out like i did

[spark willow]

dang ic

[grizzled basin]

i talked about a lab that's doing quite literally the exact same thing im doing

[spare steppe]

ts the MOST cliche topic i could've picked, but i couldn't think of anything else 😭

[grizzled basin]

but also like my background outside the lab or something idk

[winter mural]

MINE is literally more cliche, I just wrote about what being in band and robotics taught me and how I basically stood up to some racist mentors on my robotics team 😭😭😭

[spark willow]

btw. Purdue came to our school yesterday 🔥

idk how they invited them. since our school is small asf

[spare steppe]

yk i finished the 1st chapter of my purdue fic last night, right? 😭

[spark willow]

but yea. they came

[spare steppe]

nah but tbf, if stanny thinks my or ur issues r "too cliche" n rejects us for them, i don't fucking want stanny then

cuz how u gonna turn down a REAL ISSUE kids are facing on the grounds of not being unique

like it's highk insensitive even

[spark willow]

i feel like im cooked though

[spare steppe]

is it next friday?

that theyre releasing?

[grizzled basin]

i think everyone has cliche stuff

[spare steppe]

wait ur intl!??!?

[grizzled basin]

it's like what makes u special

[spare steppe]

omg i think

[grizzled basin]

everything has already been written before

[spare steppe]

i know 2/6 of the AOs

[grizzled basin]

it's what makes ur experience special

[spare steppe]

i talked to them during uni fair

was it ray xu?

the guy with the glasses

asian

[spark willow]

yea

[spark willow]

i think s o

[spark willow]

from purdue?

[spare steppe]

yeah

there r 6 AOs reading intl apps for purdue, iirc

[spark willow]

um... idk. his asian, but i forgot his name

[grizzled basin]

i think so?

icl im getting rejected i was too locked in on league of legends freshman year

[spark willow]

he went to UC Irvine and did masters in purdue (he said he have 3), and got another degree in Dartmouth or sth

[spare steppe]

yeah there's only 1 asian AO i think 😭

[spare steppe]

oh nvm then

[spark willow]

nah

[spare steppe]

3 masters degrees 😭

[winter mural]

That's true omg I've never thought of it

[spare steppe]

keep ur head up! applying sideways my beloved

no one should have to face racist comments in robotics

if u wanna talk, my dms r open!!

i'm not saying that i understand/experienced the same thing, but i personally have faced a lot of sexism in the robotics environment as well, so im available if u wanna rant lol

ppl who think it's a "cliche" issue, that it's resolved in the big '25 haven't experienced it themselves and are being part of the problem

[spark willow]

wait. btw. do u live in China?

[spare steppe]

nope, close tho!

🇻🇳

[spark willow]

nice

[spare steppe]

do u live in china? intl school?

[grizzled basin]

i dont think anyone would call it cliche and it's a bit of a stretch to say that u got rejected bc the ao thought it was cliche

i think it's more just what has that changed for you etc etc etc compelling not just competitive or something idk

[spark willow]

yea.

[spare steppe]

yeah and ig if i get rejected, i'll never know

ts true

my ego might have been a lil too inflated when i said that

srry chat

[spark willow]

i dont think living in China is fire

😭

[grizzled basin]

i dont think so i think the topic just got a lil distracted

depends on what part

[spark willow]

i wrote about cultural stuff for contribution essay 💀

am i cooked

[grizzled basin]

depends on how good it is ig

[spark willow]

idk... lwk

its an unique topic

but it has nothing to do with academics

💀

[grizzled basin]

i almost wrote about cultural stuff too but i was like uhh yk i dont wanna play into east asian in stem any more than i can

i talked about culture a bit for mit and caltech cuz i was like yeah they dont care about if theyre admitting too many asians

[spark willow]

ic

[steady dagger]

i also wrote about cultural stuff dw

[spark willow]

wt about i wrote about kimchi 💀

is it unique:
yes

is it interesting:
mb

does that have to do with stanford:
not really 💀

[glossy talon]

my essay will involve white bread

my cultural food

boiled chicken will be my contribution

i will steal all of the spices from the dining halls

[pliant atlas]

I wrote how I “lied” to Stanford that I was an undergrad so they could let me run one of their societies in nyc for them and once they found out they were chill with it and now I wanna continue doing that on the chapter on campus and become the longest running and youngest exec 😭😭😭

[glossy talon]

This is insane

[pliant atlas]

Banger asf 🔥

[glossy talon]

You better have sent in your SAT scores DIRECTLY from the college board

[pliant atlas]

Yeah already did lol

I did it for all the colleges accidentally for ea 💀

[glossy talon]

Stanford AOs going to show up at your high school and ask the principal if you go there

[glossy talon]

bro i did too i sent to like all of my EAs because my guidance counselor lied to me

[pliant atlas]

Bruhhhhhw

diddle them

Problem solved ✌️

[glossy talon]

75 dollars i will NEVER get back

[pliant atlas]

No one will ever believe them

[glossy talon]

I think you might be a pathological liar

[gray peak]

lmao

[glossy talon]

following in the footsteps of my ancestors

i will journey to all of the dining halls and collect their spices and maybe misname a few along the way

[pliant atlas]

LMFAO

[pliant atlas]

que? 😭

[spark willow]

😭

[gray peak]

every day this school tests me more

[steady dagger]

why the tree hate

[winter mural]

Thank you so much I really appreciate you :)))

[spare steppe]

nightmare fuel 😭

[winter mural]

Five nights at Leland's

[blissful abyss]

where tf is that???

wilbur?

[winter mural]

Yassified Stanford Tree™ is the best frfr

👅👅👅

[gray peak]

hi fonia

it's in old union lol

[low oriole]

omg this is kinda terrifying

why can’t it be a cute tree :(

[velvet cipher]

God I love trees so much

I wish Stanford was in Oregon

[winter mural]

Are you from Oregon?

I'm from Oregon

[velvet cipher]

Yes!

See our mutual friend :p

[velvet cipher]

Oregon -> Stanford gonna be tough this year, lots of good applicants

[gray peak]

orz ritwin mutual

[velvet cipher]

lmao

i am a math kid unfortunately

[gray peak]

i am also a math kid

[velvet cipher]

oh nice

dyk winston

[gray peak]

ritwin skips all the classes i swear i never see him in lecturee

[gray peak]

unfortunately not

[velvet cipher]

he doesn't need to show up lol

[gray peak]

lol fr

[velvet cipher]

what math classes r u taking at the farm

[gray peak]

real anal

putnam seminar

lowkey the putnam seminar is cracked

ciprian is amazing he gives us pizza

[velvet cipher]

nice

[steady dagger]

band is better we get actual food 😋

like panda express and canes

[velvet cipher]

very cool

[gray peak]

band is lowkey good tho

[steady dagger]

im so excited for canes tmrw

[low oriole]

omg

i want canes right now

i haven’t had that in so long

[velvet cipher]

im gonna be deadass the reason i chose to rea stanford over harvard was purely because of skiing

no other factors whatsoever

[gray peak]

skiing?

we have no snow here

[velvet cipher]

Tahoe

[winter mural]

Yeah ;-;

I'm high key cooked

[winter mural]

‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[winter mural]

Portland kids are absolutely cracked hoLY but also it's low-key like ts every year 🫩🫩✌🏻

[velvet cipher]

based on our mutual i assume ur outside of portland metro so you should be ok

[winter mural]

Can I DM you?

[velvet cipher]

yeah

[buoyant fractal]

i it even worth to still apply i might get a C in my lin alg/diff equ college class and final is in less than 2 wks

no extenuating circumstances, but i genuinely have to spend like 15 hours a week in order to keep up which is insane. i got an A in multivar and calc bc if that helps

[spark willow]

are u taking courses from ulo/ulo-i?

or other program

[buoyant fractal]

idk what that is but no, it's through community college

[spark willow]

oh ok

so dual enrollment right?

[buoyant fractal]

concurrent enrollment i think. its completely unrelated to my hs so it doesnt count towards hs credit/gpa

[spark willow]

damn

[grizzled basin]

do u have to submit grades then

if you have time to write the app might try tbh i know my friend who is math + cs dual major got bs in physics, bc, and diffeq thru dual enrollment at our absurdly grade inflated school (average is a 94) and got caltech + yale

[buoyant fractal]

i think all community college grades have to be submitted but ill look more into it

[buoyant fractal]

damn 😭 ig what makes me feel better is that no one in my grade has taken multivariable and only like 8 ppl r doing calc bc

shi but idk its hard to hide a C

[spark willow]

didnt u said it doesnt count towards hs credit/gpa?

[spark willow]

if u dont self report, no one knows though

if its not going on ur transcript

[spark willow]

and i think since it doesnt count towards hs credit. it wont go on ur transcript

[buoyant fractal]

yeah it doesnt

[buoyant fractal]

but cant i get rescinded (if i get in) if i dont report cc grades? i thought cc transcripts had to be sent

[spark willow]

i dont think u need to send anything that doesnt count towards credit

ask biggreen

[grizzled basin]

oh idk

all i know is the seniors dual enroll last yr were telling me if i get a bad grade js dont report it

im doing well enough that i will report it tho

[buoyant fractal]

did any of them end up with a C or lower and not get rescinded?

also my final is on the 14th so its likely that itll be in my college transcript by the time i apply

damn this is tough

[grizzled basin]

one of them got a B and reported it then dropped his spring course and is currently at caltech and also got yale

[tough solstice]

mods please force @grizzled basin to take a shower

[grizzled basin]

hey that's not nice

[grand tangle]

hiiii hey so for stanford is it better to write like 3-4 of the sups on the same topic im passionate about but diffrent sides of it or choose a completly diffrent thing for each one so they can know more parts of me>

[spark willow]

depends ig

but i chose completly different things (but still, some of them were related to my major)

[glossy talon]

do max 2 on the same topic but it depends on how big the topic is

i chose completely different things

[grand tangle]

Wait so u only mentioned in essay about what you wanted to major in?

[glossy talon]

stanford doesn't have an essay about major...

[trim cosmos]

I mean

[grand tangle]

Like I want to work on engineering and currently I have a 50 word significant challenge essay on a problem we have (specifically with farming) then I have the 50 word historical even sup on watching someone create a documentary on that topic and then I was do the how I would contribute to Stanford on my major plus the farming issue. And then I was going to what makes excited any learning on a different activity but also stem related😭 is that too much abt stem

[trim cosmos]

I think you should write about your major for the learning essay

Or something adjacent

[grand tangle]

Should I talk abt othe parts of me😭 or connect it like that

[trim cosmos]

It's not necessary by any means

[glossy talon]

these are fine, but i would change the historical one to something more whimsical

just because its easy to show what ur interested in with low opportunity cosst

[spark willow]

u still have ur academic interest essay though

thats 250 word

[steady dagger]

i lowk think most of my sups were at least vaguely related to my major

[grand tangle]

Wait wdym by this

[trim cosmos]

My advice for the historical moment essay is that if the event was recorded with a camera, pick something else

[grand tangle]

Ohh okkk yeah ur right

[glossy talon]

like, the historical essay is not really where they are looking for to see your achievements or your major, they really and truly just want to see you nerd out over something

[glossy talon]

THIS! pick some crazy mystery like what happened in the compromise of 1877

like its not one of those "how can you contribute" or "what have you done," its a like lets see how curious this guy is and what he likes

[spark willow]

they see intellectual vitality

[grand tangle]

Wait I have another question 😭 ik Stanford admits aloy of people who created apps and stuff.b bug if I have an app that I made but how do i highlight that app besides listing it as an ec? I made an app that thing does solve a legimit issue but my goal out of college is not for this app and be the next Zuckerberg ykyk so how do talk about it and say I want to further it maybe if it's kinda unrelated to what actually want to do after Stanford. For reference my app is mental wellness app and got Congressional app challenge winner and national Stem festival champion for it but my passion is to do bioengineering or mech e and study/create tech for agriculture don't want A0s to think that just made the app for colleges and abandon it ykyk cuz the app did solve a prob and cuz do want to work on it maybe expand it (or use the skills learned to create a better app) but it's not my main goal

[glossy talon]

talk about it in your essay

in the extracurricular one

put it in the awards section and the actitivies section

you could maaaybe use the additional info section

and you could put it in the contribution essay as like "i will now apply my skills to making another app for bioeng" or something silly like that

[spark willow]

i dont think they will check ur website

even if u send them the link

[grand tangle]

No I wasn't going to send a lik

[spark willow]

or u should have submitted with the portfolio

[glossy talon]

those awards soudn pretty prestigious even if i dont knwo what they are

so they will prob ccare about it

[grand tangle]

Okk so I should talk abt the process and the skills I learneddd in my essay

Wait would this be better for the 50 word ec one or 250 what makes u exited abt essay😭

[spark willow]

250

ig

emphasize it on how much u love about the major

or interest

sth like that

dont just say i learned this while doing that

[haughty obsidian]

honestly do whatever feels right and results in the most interesting expression of self

my learning essay was about making animatronic puppets dab but it isn't really related to my major

[north quarry]

geniuses would pick the date that the camera was invented

[solar magnet]

Did people who got matched from QB share when Stanford is releasing REA decision? Thanks!

[upbeat dune]

Didn’t you graduate

Regardless I don’t think they did

[autumn blaze]

dudes im nevrous grah

[winter mural]

‼️

[low oriole]

too real

[trim cosmos]

Nope

[spark willow]

ok

since i got rejected once

ts is not happening again 💀

no. like u run the simulation 💀

[haughty obsidian]

if you guys want hopium ask lydi for the rea acceptance letter

i've got the rea deferral letter if you want to know what limbo feels like

[north quarry]

LMAO NAH

ill try this

[gray peak]

nah

can't be bothered to dig for it

it's okay you'll get rea

oh wait u didn't

[haughty obsidian]

the admissions portal is still open lol

[gray peak]

💀

[haughty obsidian]

i'm still able to log on

[haughty obsidian]

also i didn't see you at the kudos cakeparty

i brought snacks

[gray peak]

smt meeting 😭

[haughty obsidian]

they're still donwstairs

bro 💔

[gray peak]

i forgot i had it today 💀

bro my schedule is cooked

[haughty obsidian]

i can tell

[gray peak]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYDh5d9pfu8&list=PLt5AfwLFPxWI9eDSJREzp1wvOJsjt23H_&index=2

omg it's t^2

[haughty obsidian]

we are in the tokieda bathroom
this one's a banger, folks

[gray peak]

i think t^2 is teaching 63dm

[velvet cipher]

goat

[teal kindle]

Waiting for Stanford rea to come out is hell

[grizzled basin]

real

[loud scaffold]

"Please describe what aspects of your life experiences, interests and character would help you make a distinctive contribution as an undergraduate to Stanford University."

i have absolutely no idea how to write this supplemental, please help

[autumn blaze]

well what do you think is interesting about you

connect that with whatever stanford values as a college

boom done

[sour geyser]

i treated it as a diversity essay

[trim cosmos]

I wrote about how I wanted to give back to FGLI students through a program at Stanford because I’m FGLi

I would say Stanford is a really big “doing” school, so introspect a little and think about what motivates you

[velvet cipher]

Maybe tomorrow probably 12/12

[teal kindle]

Has it ever come out so early?

Like December 5th

[velvet cipher]

yeah

But 95% confidence interval that it's between 8th and like 15th

I did the data analysis

It was December 6th in 2019 and 7th in 2018

But in recent years it's been a week later

[teal kindle]

Yeah it'll prolly be next week because they normally announce when the date comes out

[upbeat dune]

its not tomorrow

they always pre announce

you wouldve known by now