Stanford University (2025-2026)

[upbeat dune]

iirc its usually 2-4 days ahead of time

typically first word is on their admissions website in the news footer or somewhere kinda hidden

[glossy talon]

crazy ball knowledge from carly

[upbeat dune]

ive been doing decision calendar sicne 2019

[pliant atlas]

💀💀💀

Why tf are yall so stressed about it 😭 either you get in or you don’t. You’ll find out eventually like there’s no point stressing about this stuff rn

[velvet cipher]

im not stressed there's just nothing better to do in ap chem 😭 🖖

[pliant atlas]

LMFAOAOOOO ykw valid asf you do you man

[boreal pollen]

Briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities, a job you hold, or responsibilities you have for your family. (50 words)
how are we supposed to write about an ec in such a short space? my writing seems to be just devolving into the activities list description, and i don't have space to include any of the like lessons i learned etc

[trim cosmos]

It says to briefly elaborate

The QB section for ECs is so fucking short but I put that I mentored people in my club so I just expanded on that

But twisted it to show it positively affects me

[north quarry]

I’m cooked for stanford

[fringe coral]

less goo

[spark willow]

Fk

😭

We’re so cooked

[keen pelican]

what

[spark willow]

Kr is too trash

Idk was wrong with them

I feel like we’re gonna lose both matches 💀

[stoic gorge]

Is we usa

[spark willow]

No

Kr

[stoic gorge]

oh korea

Nah yall are probably passing group stage

[spark willow]

I don’t think so💀

We’re gonna lose to both of them

[silver field]

Tonight is stanford due date for music app 💔 💔

I wrote every single one of my essays today

[fringe coral]

Argentina will prevail this time too

[spark willow]

mb

i still dont understand how USA is ranked 14

fifa

[fringe coral]

South Africa
Mexico
And the team that will qualify are all strong so ig you could say it is a death group

[fringe coral]

Just like how trump received Fifa peace prize

[upbeat dune]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/s/evQ7cDFAax

[haughty obsidian]

i can vouch

[shy bone]

where can you find some stanford essay examples?

[frigid frost]

https://i.imgur.com/v0Wc3XA.png

[spark willow]

https://www.collegeadvisor.com/essay-guides/stanford-essays-examples/

[shy bone]

tysm, i searched google but cant find many good resources

[spark willow]

college essay guy one is also good ig

sometimes it doesnt follow the prompt

but, at least u know wt to write

[gray peak]

this is so cringe lmao

[spark willow]

did ur roommate essay also started with

"Hey Roomie!"?

[gray peak]

nope

[winter mural]

Hopefully the "Dear Roommate," meta works 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[teal kindle]

Lol I started mine with this

[spark willow]

i lit ignored ts 💀

[gray peak]

lowkey might not be

they can claim whatever they want on the website

[teal kindle]

It used to be

Back in the day

I know this cuz I remember Gohar Khans answer for it

[teal kindle]

Go har(d) or go home

[spark willow]

did i followed the wrong example 💀

[past viper]

Will it be okay if i apply to Stanford without test scores ??

[gray peak]

Stanford is test required now

[past viper]

Will it be fine if i submit feb ‘26 Act scores?

[gray peak]

no, that is too late

website says the last act you can sit is in December

[past viper]

Ok

[spare steppe]

i js read some stuff abt "duck syndrome"... if yall dont mind, current stanny students: would u guys say it's a common experience? like r u guys currently feeling it as well (from ur personal experience)?

[upbeat dune]

This gave me an idea

We should make college essay mad libs

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/55sw21/eli5_what_are_mad_libs/

[spare steppe]

? isn't this what some ppl do with their supps, the blank being js the uni name? 🥀

ive seen vids on yt w/ purdue AOs saying "guys please don't forget to check the school name on your supps" 😭

[fringe coral]

Same
My also starts with this

[brittle shoal]

anyone submit an art portfolio?

if I do digital art is it digital media or paint/drawing

[ruby abyss]

are you guys explaining anything for "List 5 things that are important to you"? 50 words seems like too much for just listing but also too little for explaining lol

[trim cosmos]

Yes

Imo if it was recorded with a camera, pick a different one

[trim cosmos]

No I didn’t

[spare steppe]

mine was captured by a photo 😭

stanford was a fun side quest tho! genuinely some of those supps were quite fun in hindsight

although i was hella stressed while writing them

[haughty obsidian]

honestly, not really, but the occasional thought spiral can make me feel very inadequate and out of place.

I feel like people who experience duck syndrome associate negative traits and emotions to failure (because, after all, they've probably succeeded at a lot of things up till that point) and once they're faced with a genuinely challenging environment they're forced to suppress those emotions and 'stay afloat'.

i.e, if you can look past that and come to terms with your own flaws, you will be fine.

(on a similar note about imposter syndrome) people here are shockingly, jaw-droppingly amazing, but just because they are amazing doesn't mean that you're not.

some students (not just at stanford but in any competitive university), in their quest to stand out, have stood out so much that they have forgotten to belong.

but they remind you that you DO belong from the very beginning. hell, take a look at the bottom of your acceptance letter!

inb4 "cornball 🌽" yeah i get it this is sort of a vent and introspection on my part too 'cause I'm guilty of these things :(

[spare steppe]

i don't think it's corny at all! i think it's really beautiful, frankly, and really insightful advice i can apply wherever i (hopefully) end up, as well!

how do they have "a place for you" at a place that doesn't exist tho 💀

[haughty obsidian]

that's true 🤔

maybe not a place but about fifty grand in cash 🤑

[spare steppe]

huh! so a "stanford student" is agreeing with the fact that stanford doesn't exist!

[spare steppe]

dang they be paying u so much 😭

does that imply they had a lot of "applicants" this year?

fifty grand... $100 per application. huh then 500 student applications go to ur salary as a "stanford student"

multiply this by the number of "stanford students"...

hm 🤔

[haughty obsidian]

the philosophy department is proud of your deductive reasoning

unfortunately this means we must silence you

good night

[spare steppe]

yay can i be paid 50k a year to be a stanny "student" too

[spare steppe]

noooo

they're gonna send me to berkeley!!!

someone helppp

[haughty obsidian]

a fate much worse: you will be locked up in the crungeon for eternity

[north quarry]

Stanford prison experiment goes wild

[haughty obsidian]

there's an actual plaque at jordan hall commemorating the site of the experiment

[north quarry]

I wrote about how I want to do Stanford prison experiment part 2

[haughty obsidian]

aw man you should have written about being former stanford pres. david starr jordan's spiritual successor in eugenics 😔

prison experiment isn't even that high on the crimes against basic human ethics that have occurred here

[spare steppe]

i've actually started reading up on the brock turner case recently and it's fucking horrific

[glad jasper]

not ever former, he founded it 😭

[spare steppe]

okay i don't know shit about psychology so take all ts with a grain of salt, but i js find it rlly interesting to talk about! apparently the prison experiment was, on top of being an ethics violation, extremely flawed and had many biases involved too

some of the guards even apparently admitting they were told what to do (iirc?)

had a lil rabbit hole into this topic the night before my stanny interview lmao

i think vsauce did an alt experiment where he eliminated those biases, and kinda "disproved" the prison experiment iirc? it was a yt vid

but it's so interesting to think of the implications of the stanford prison experiment too, though. like apparently (again, grain of salt, i have shit memory) ppl were justifying abuse of power in PoW camps, pointing to the stanford prison experiment

saying it's human nature to become evil & abuse power in those instances, therefore they should be let off the hook

kinda crazy tho cuz based on my (highly unqualified) intuition (yes i'm going off of vibes), i guess i can see that when given power, people might lowk abuse it (cuz we're humans and have egos). but at the same time there are people out there ik who are genuinely nice, so idrk where i stand lol. could see it falling both ways. but can we attribute it to human nature? or is it js a personality trait kinda thing? and can an experiment with the "stanford" name be used to freaking justify evil behavior? ts wild

and apparently there was another experiment attributed to stanford w/ the psych ward thing right? where they sent normal ppl in (or a lack thereof). ts js sounds like they be ragebaiting the psych ward 🥀

[gray peak]

every day I go to math class I pass by the prison experiment sign 💀

[spare steppe]

sorry im nerding out tm 😭 im a2engineering n don't even take psych, but learning about the most random stuff js genuinely intrigues me

[spare steppe]

are they actually proud of ts 💀

[gray peak]

probably not

they just have it there

[haughty obsidian]

it's more like a memorial for something bad. if they didn't have it there probably would be outcry about stanford ignoring dark parts of its history

[gray peak]

remember the film they made us watch at nso

[haughty obsidian]

this discord message is duly sent from the land of the peoples of the muwekma ohlone tribe

[gray peak]

they are not hiding the bad parts at all

[haughty obsidian]

yeah

[halcyon carbon]

Hi! I’m new to this sub
Any idea when REA decisions are coming out for Stanford?

[spare steppe]

did they show u all of stanford's fucked up pscyh experiments, or..? 😭

[gray peak]

probably next friday

they haven't released the official date yet though

[halcyon carbon]

That’s what I thought too
Thank you :)

[gray peak]

not in particular; it was just the history of Stanford and what went wrong

[spare steppe]

there's this rlly cool psych teacher at my school (didnt take any of her courses tho, unfort). i told her im applying to stanford, n she looked at me like 😬

[haughty obsidian]

they also had a lot of students talk on stage retelling very uncomfortable or nonconsensual sexual experiences

[spare steppe]

"known for a lot of psychology experiments" apparently

[haughty obsidian]

i think they really want to acknowledge everything bad

[gray peak]

our psych department is pretty good

[haughty obsidian]

i'm not sure if the voices thing is a post brock turner thing?

[spare steppe]

is SA still a big issue at stanford?

like is it still happening on campus?

cuz i read some articles tlaking about how mental health support, and support for SA victims at stanford, is quite abysmal

[gray peak]

it happens everywhere but idt it's as big of an issue at Stanford since we do a lot to prevent it from happening

[haughty obsidian]

oh CAPS is terrible because they're overworked. ask any alumnus/a about it

[spare steppe]

brock turner is so fucked up. honestly reading up on the case rn and im fucking disgusted

[gray peak]

we have a ton of resources and you get trained with an online course before you're allowed to come to class

[spare steppe]

...oh. do u know if unis in general have therapy services or sum?

i go to therapy every week and honestly can't imagine functioning in college w/o the occassional therapy sesh 😭

[haughty obsidian]

I think I would find* more mental stability with my friends than with CAPS

[gray peak]

I haven't used CAPS because I've heard things but lowkey this is not exclusive to Stanford

[spare steppe]

is the online course actually helpful tho? it js sounds like those lame things ur forced to do, where they teach u to "be happy" "take deep breahts" "manage ur time" type shit

a lot of the time the advice i get from those school-wide mental health thingies (at my school) r js hella superficial

[gray peak]

it does help somewhat I guess
but most importantly it sets the expectation once on campus

[spare steppe]

at least i won't have to listen to this again, when i get rejected from stanford next week

😭

r we speculating it to be 12/12?

[gray peak]

I personally thought it was just common sense but the amount of people who have common sense these days are rapidly diminishing

[spare steppe]

"common sense isn't so common" ahh 💔

[gray peak]

from past patterns this seems to be true

you have to enrol in this it's mandatory lol

[spare steppe]

i think chloe said smth about harvard/some other ivies expecting the same day for EDs, but it ended up being pushed a week back (to 12/19) for them this yr

[gray peak]

if it doesn't drop on the 12th it'll probably drop the next week

[haughty obsidian]

"what we call common sense is a projection of our own values" -nitxhce nitchx.. no niche wait no it's nietze

[gray peak]

I had like 60 you're chilling

[spare steppe]

idk how to feel about stanny decisions coming out though. im prt sure i'll get rejected, and it js feels like a stone in my gut every time i think of it lmao

atp idek what to feel anymore. but i js dont like what im feeling rn 😭

[gray peak]

ultimately it's not too deep, but you'll see that clearly in retrospect

just make sure you go somewhere that you're happy

[spare steppe]

stanny is the first of the few schools i actually care about

so i think the (very likely, just by numbers alone) rejection will sting. really hard.

[gray peak]

rejection is never easy

[spare steppe]

but oh well! it was a shot in the dark and i had fun writing my supps regardless :D

genuinely, i keep saying it over and over, but the stanny supps were fun to write in hindsight lol

didn't realize it cuz i was hella stressed when cramming htem

[gray peak]

what you learn from writing the essays (for any school) is valuable

[spare steppe]

the short answer Qs rlly got me crackalackin the nonexistent matter between my eyes too

[haughty obsidian]

also nothing's really stopping you from going to campus and making friends here sometime in the future

[gray peak]

yeah just pull up and pretend to be a Stanford student that has happened more than epsilon times

[spare steppe]

my dream school's in the midwest tho! 😭

gahh i hope i get into purdue too

[haughty obsidian]

do the dual numbers have a sense of order

[spare steppe]

i forgor epsilon delta omg 💔

[gray peak]

Supneb do you wanna grab lunch at shake shack

[spare steppe]

i feel like a disgrace 😭

[haughty obsidian]

wait fuck i have plans with people

is it ok if i bring them along then? 😭

[gray peak]

lowkey sure

[haughty obsidian]

wait do y'all wanna make a gc or smt

[spare steppe]

also how do i do this to a place that doesn't exist

[gray peak]

ask them if I can join

[haughty obsidian]

okok

[gray peak]

it's in your mind you can imagine it

[spare steppe]

how much is stanny paying yall to say ts 😭

[gray peak]

$10

[spare steppe]

wait did u get recruited thru the normal app process? or did u apply thru a separate app to become a stanny "student"

i wanna make a side hustle by claiming i go to a T10 as well 😭

[haughty obsidian]

please don't elise pham yourself

[gray peak]

you just have to manifest it

[spare steppe]

i feel like for these ppl, once they see that red confetti it's a 3-step plan set in place alr

1. sell a course on how to get into stanford

2. get rich from said course (from desperate hs students)

[haughty obsidian]

there's this freshman on campus who claims to have cofounded a college consultancy business that has sent >100 people to ivy leagues how is that even possible

[spare steppe]

3. sell course on how to get rich from selling courses

[haughty obsidian]

its' on his linkedin

[gray peak]

it's easy just exclusively accept students from the IMO

I see that happening

[haughty obsidian]

ok so the nuance is that his older brother founded founded it and he's 5y older

[spare steppe]

"what's ur dream career"
"college consultancy!"
"what qualifications would you need?"
"i just need to get INto a random major at any ivy/hypsm, and the desperate highschoolers will slurp every word out of my mouth so desperately oh my"

[haughty obsidian]

genuinely though

bing wing extended hours 🥰

[gray peak]

hmm

[spare steppe]

@haughty obsidian did u do college consulting in HS? and owuld u say it's worth it?

[haughty obsidian]

hm???

[spare steppe]

@gray peak same question too if u dont mind 😭

[gray peak]

nah I did it myself

not worth the money

I'd say if ur close with ur English teacher they will be a massive help

[gray peak]

I haven't pulled up to green in a while

[spare steppe]

atp it feels like everyone and their grandmas have these services. they're told what research programs to apply to, how to fix their essays, they're being told what major to apply to and how to shape their app etc. and frankly some of these centers even control ECs i heard

at some point it feels like applying sideways isn't in the dictionary for these places 😭

omg and the way all my peers have research as well 💀

[haughty obsidian]

back home there's this company called crimson education (idk if that's in the states because it's from new zealand i think) that was expanding really aggressively and was giving out free consulting sessions to people interested. the first time around the guy looked at me with dead eyes and i gave up on it immediately 😭 luckily my high school already has an amazing counsellor, so I got a very high quality review of my application without paying for extra

[spare steppe]

omg i have crimson in my counrty too

off the top of my head i can name like 4 consulting agencies

in my country

[haughty obsidian]

crimson gives me the ick ngl

[gray peak]

college counselling is fine ig if ur mega rich

but for most people it's not worth

[haughty obsidian]

absolutely

[spare steppe]

i wrote what i could in my application. i genuienly believe i am applying sideways. i js dont know if not doing consulting was a bad decision cuz everyone seems to be doing it, and i might be "behind" somehow by not

[gray peak]

ur not behind

[spare steppe]

30-40k is so effing diabolical 😭

[gray peak]

it also doesn't always work

[haughty obsidian]

yeah was about to write a very long response but it's this ^

[gray peak]

someone ik who got college counselling didn't get into any of
her reaches

[spare steppe]

it's like. how can my 9 goofy ahh written-by-a-17-yo-who-also-writes-fanfic-sometimes essays match up against someone who has had theirs refined, revised word-by-word by a group of adults who read essays every day?

it feels inherently unfair somehow, even tho there are no rules prohibiting it. or maybe im js salty that i didnt do consulting

[gray peak]

I think it's pretty clear when someone's essay is not their own

my essays were shit btw and they still accepted me so I guess it really is holistic 😭😭

[haughty obsidian]

wait no one wants to go to shake shack 😭 😭 😭

i think i'll just go w u then

[spare steppe]

girl ur essays woudl have to have been really damn good for u to be admitted 😭

[gray peak]

that's fine

[gray peak]

wait u can also go with them

[haughty obsidian]

nah they're just eating at yaga

[gray peak]

genuinely were mid 😭

[haughty obsidian]

i'm sick of campus food

[gray peak]

ah okay

[spare steppe]

i think ur js downplaying the quality of ur essays 🤨

[gray peak]

I'm outside ur walls

[spare steppe]

define "mid" for a stanford student 💀

[haughty obsidian]

ru fr

[gray peak]

yeah

[haughty obsidian]

the fuck

[spare steppe]

i asked my stanford interviewer about food

and he was like 😬😬😬

"ull get used to it"

😭

[gray peak]

it's not that bad sometimes

[haughty obsidian]

wait it's actually kinda good thogh

[spare steppe]

wait do yall have viet food

[gray peak]

it just gets repetitive when they serve chicken all the time but that happens at most unis

[gray peak]

yeah

[spare steppe]

cuz i told my interviewer im not surviving w/o viet food either lmfao

[gray peak]

also Palo Alto is pretty convenient if u want food

[spare steppe]

😭 yeah what the flipflop was i even yapping abt during my interview

[gray peak]

the campus sandwich shop olives sells some pretty good Bahn mi

[gray peak]

I talked about food with my interviewer as well

[spare steppe]

oh yeah my stanny interviewer also said i can learn how to cook

[gray peak]

for a solid 30 minutes

[gray peak]

this is true

we have an introsem which is like chemistry in the kitchen as well

[spare steppe]

i felt like i didn't say enough about "why stanny" on my supps, so i genuinely tried to emphasize it during my interview. i think it came off as forced and i mightve fucked thigns up

[gray peak]

yep

[spare steppe]

yapped tm 😭

[gray peak]

it's okay they don't expect 17 Yos to be perfect

[spare steppe]

the questions were wild too 😭

[gray peak]

my interview was kinda mid as well it was more of a one sided convo

[spare steppe]

"if someone gave [your robotics club] 1 million dollars, what would you do with it?"

"what would you change, if you could go back to 9th grade again?"

yeah

[gray peak]

all in on the big blind

the math people at Stanford are all poker degens lol

[spare steppe]

like "what is your regret" type shit bro idk?? im 17 😭

[spare steppe]

never knew math and gambling go hand in hand

[gray peak]

they're considered and you can see your notes when you're admitted and submit FERPA

[spare steppe]

it's "considered" on the cds

[gray peak]

it's not weighed that heavily tho

[spare steppe]

at least i can have solace in knowing that, if (when) i get rejected, i'll never have to see what my interviewer thought of me LMFAO

cuz im scared 😭

[gray peak]

you'll be fine

technically we're not allowed to gamble here either but it's not enforced

[spare steppe]

but im currently getting so screwed over rn

freaking out about college -> a2c addiction -> cant focus on hw -> grades drop -> freak out more about college

ts an impeding cycle of doom

driving my gpa into ground

[gray peak]

make sure ur midyear is solid and you don't drop too much for finals

don't drop a whole grade point

but otherwise you're fine

[spare steppe]

yeah no, my midyear is ass 😭

ive reached my lowest grade ever period.

lowest gpa ever i think

this sem

[gray peak]

that's fine

if it's an A ur chilling

[spare steppe]

ur lowest grade is an A? 💀

dawg

dawg 💀

[gray peak]

depends on your school and how each college you apply to calculate it internally

the latter is not revealed to us other than the UCs

it's on their website I think

UC gpa

then you should email their admissions for a conversion table

[mental sundial]

if i cancelled an ap score, am i still supposed to report that somehow?

[north quarry]

yes

you report all exams

[mental sundial]

how do i report it if theres no score

[north quarry]

I have to check the portal again but I think there’s a option to say cancelled

cause either way they’ll see that you cancelled a score by students request

[spark willow]

Are u sure….

[spark willow]

I think if ppl cancel their score

Unis won’t see it ig

[north quarry]

yh

[north quarry]

when you send a official score report if ur admitted it’ll have a “cancelled by request of student” on the report

[mental sundial]

can you check

[upbeat veldt]

my school counselor told me not to report. I did not report

[karmic raven]

ehh mine were kinda things that related to my ecs and other supps

so i hope the ao made the connection

[winter mural]

mine was just five things that i literally thought were important to me 💀 i dont think i connected them to other essays at all

#cooked

[spark willow]

I don’t think it has to connect with essay though

[spare steppe]

current stanny students, howd yall feel the week before decisions? ik i have to face the fact that yes, i am most liekely getting rejected (given the abysmally low acceptance rate anyway). but ugh this is genuienly eating at me alive i cant i js fucking cant

[fringe coral]

Yea
I am getting rejected too.
But I just don't have the energy and motivation to start supps for RD or improve my essay even more

😭

[spare steppe]

i dunno if it's my friggin adhd, but i can't think of anything other than stanford rn. im trying so so ahrd but i ughhh

i wanna do my work and i feel so fucking guilty for not doing it. i have tests. exams. but stanford is js occupying my mind 24/7. it wasnt even supposed to be my main app. i crammed it as a joke, a shot-in-the-dark, knowing full well i'd get smacked with no red confetti in 5 days

but maybe it's because this si the first. well, i've had 3 decisions already. but this is the first one i genuinely kinda give a shit about

[haughty obsidian]

there are always firsts, and it's totally justified to care deeply about your first.

this applies to anything, but then again, it's just your first.

[haughty obsidian]

I was prepping for my Oxford interviews mostly, so I didn't have much time to think about it. I think it's good to find something to take your mind off of it until you actually get it

[winter mural]

i feel the same way omfg

[haughty obsidian]

Because once you get it, that's absolute clarity. They say that the anticipation kills more than the blade.

[gray peak]

i think i was most nervous the moment i applied but then i forgot i did so i was surprised 💀

[spare steppe]

i just. i dunno. i hate the prospect that my life is being screwed over and consumed by the prospect of a tree rejecting me rn 😭

[haughty obsidian]

Is it being screwed over, though?

[spare steppe]

i know the day will come eventually yes. i know that, with the abysmally low acceptance rate, i am most likely goign to get rejected, yes. but no matter how hard i try, i can't rub it off

[spare steppe]

i have so many school assignments to do, upcoming tests, lab reports... a chinese oral tomorrow i rlly need to start studying for. but i cant for some reason, cuz i keep thinking "oh! stanny. i should check my portal! i should do some rejection sim! i should watch yt vids on ppl who got in, to see how fucked i am!"

so i js end up doing nothing all day

[haughty obsidian]

wait also the ms for the linked list question i think does the same as what we did but decomposed into a "append to list and update tail" function and the main one that does the remainder shenanigans

[spare steppe]

for the past 3 days lowk 😭

other than js doom a2c and stanny content

[gray peak]

its ugly ours is cleaner

[haughty obsidian]

bruh

[spare steppe]

idk if it's my adhd, but i hate blaming shit on my adhd. feels like if i put in a bit more willpower i can js lock in somewhow. im js procrastinating and then regretting it, and then being bitchy abt it

like i feel so guilty for procrastinating rn, but idt i can physically do anything else. ive tried, and i can only write my lab report for 10 mins MAX before i find myself going back to panicking about decisions

for 30 mins

so ts is v unequal

[haughty obsidian]

stay hydrated and take a rest. perhaps leave this server for now

[haughty obsidian]

i don't think you could will yourself into not worrying about something. it's not your fault 🫂

[spare steppe]

my issue ahas mostlhy been with watching "how to get into stanford" videos and treating them as checklists 😭

[steady dagger]

i will say i definitely get this

[spare steppe]

even tho my app has alr been sbumitted

[steady dagger]

i didnt feel this way for stanny bc stanny was such a late decision but i felt this for other colleges

[spare steppe]

and probably decided upon alr

[haughty obsidian]

I definitely relate too

[spare steppe]

my fate is sealed already. i know ill know it in 5 days. and i dont fucking know why it's still eating at me. this is so irrational. im not supposed to be like this. why cant i control my thoughts and feelings?

[haughty obsidian]

stanford was my first (second?) important decision

[steady dagger]

stanford was my second to last and it definitely helped in terms of not having anxiety

[spare steppe]

and what's worse is i can't take the time to cry and crashout rn even tho i rlly want to, cuz i have tests tmr 😭 but i can't study for them either in this state. and idt this is a valid reason to ask my teachers to move the test either

[haughty obsidian]

I think as time passes you will find your way to deal with this. It's different for everyone, but personally I write lots in a lil book and if I really hate something I'll tear off a page and put it in the recycling bin downstairs (not the one in my room) so that I shall never look at it again.

[spare steppe]

oh! i have a lil book too :D i like to journal

the other day i wrote an entry about how everything christmas is stanford 😭 serving as a perpetual prison for how ill never be good enough 🥀

[steady dagger]

for me when i find myself worrying about things i cant control i just start to worry about things i can control

[spare steppe]

yeah ts emo af

[steady dagger]

which is about 10x more productive since you can actually do something about it

and atp my brain just wants to worry about something

[haughty obsidian]

Journalling is really emo, but it's also emo's greatest gift.

I think it's good for self-reflection. The fact that you're self aware about being emo is like the whole point

[spare steppe]

ig sometimes being emo and chalant is okay. i dont get the hype over nonchalantness tbh

[haughty obsidian]

I am a very chalant person when I get comfortable with people lol

It helps weed out people who aren't real ones*

LMAO phrasing

[steady dagger]

being chalant is very healthy

but its important to channel the chalantness into something non-destructive

[spare steppe]

yeah im tearing up rn 😭 i think im gonna go have a big cry rq n see if i feel any better

[haughty obsidian]

don't forget to stay hydrated

cya

[low oriole]

i’ve lwk alr given up and accepted a rejection so we’re chilling (we’re not chilling but wtv)

someone trolled me and texted me saying they dropped the decision date and that was in fact false

[velvet cipher]

WE are getting in to stanford

[low oriole]

i act need to lock in i’ve only got 11/22 schools done and i lwk need to submit everything before december 19th…

[velvet cipher]

I have accepted that I'm getting into stanford

Without a doubt

[haughty obsidian]

Role reversal: I don't want Stanford; Stanford wants me

[velvet cipher]

They do tho

I'm the goat

[haughty obsidian]

I'm not getting into Stanford, Stanford's getting into me 😏

[velvet cipher]

Ill bet w u

If I get in you give me $10

Else I'll give you $100

Bet on my downfall

[gray peak]

where's the kalshi market

[haughty obsidian]

E(X) is $45 in my favor 😭

[velvet cipher]

i think the odds are fair

[haughty obsidian]

because it's 50/50

[velvet cipher]

given that I'm getting in

[haughty obsidian]

you either get in or you don't 🗣️

[velvet cipher]

bro I'm the goat I told u

[velvet cipher]

coming soon

[haughty obsidian]

I mean I don't want to bet money but I'll be happy for you if you get in

[velvet cipher]

thank you

I realistically don't see myself getting rejected though

[haughty obsidian]

and since you're obviously going to get in then I might as well be happy starting now :D

[velvet cipher]

Yay!

[gray peak]

bro got IMO gold

[velvet cipher]

not quite but like

almost equivalent in terms of prestige

[spare steppe]

i became dr strange for a brief moment and saw 3,141,592,653 possibilities, and i get rejected in each and every one of them 💀

[haughty obsidian]

a building named after them, maybe? that's ultimate prestige

[spare steppe]

im scared guys. and i cant seem to lock in and do my work 😭

tf

[velvet cipher]

RSI, primes twice, high isef grand twice, etc

[spare steppe]

like the most important thing now is collecting myself to js lock in for my tests tmr

but i cant seem to

[velvet cipher]

two varsity sports, lots of other things

just Stanford and Harvard

And Berkeley, plus Princeton if Stanford rejects me

I will only make that decision if I get the liberty to idk

[steady dagger]

everyone wants stanford <3

[velvet cipher]

I don't think I'll get into both

[spare steppe]

stanford is the hypsm w the most aura hands down

not even close

[velvet cipher]

I am prob gonna too purely because of skiing

[haughty obsidian]

says the person who didn't early to stanford >:(

[steady dagger]

ts is true i wanted harvard 😭

city + nice vibes

[trim cosmos]

Maybe Princeton

MIT has stinky aura

[steady dagger]

stanford is definitely better academically for me though

[spare steppe]

idk, not for the stuff i care abt at least

[velvet cipher]

fr

I'm not applying to mit

[trim cosmos]

Yea I’m biased towards my school

[spark willow]

Purdue or Stanford

[haughty obsidian]

purdue probs

[steady dagger]

they call stanford the purdue of the west

[spare steppe]

dont have the honor to choose

[velvet cipher]

Yes and though it was the best 6 weeks of my life it made me want to go to MIT less

[trim cosmos]

Wtf go to Harvard instead

[velvet cipher]

No

Not a culture fit for me

[velvet cipher]

but I wanna ski 😥

and surf!

[haughty obsidian]

apply to dartmouth bruh

[trim cosmos]

Stanford doesn’t have ski slopes bro

[haughty obsidian]

they own a whole ass ski hill

[velvet cipher]

East Coast skiing is ass

[velvet cipher]

Tahoe twin

[steady dagger]

isnt tahoe like far

[trim cosmos]

Yes it is

[velvet cipher]

Plus Dartmouth math is bad

[velvet cipher]

Only like 3.5 hrs

Reasonable for day trips if you're committed

I've been skiing my whole life, competitively for a few years I don't mind 3.5 hour drives

[haughty obsidian]

mmmmm i kinda like dartmouth

[trim cosmos]

Dartmouth was pretty high up my QB ranking

I liked it as well

[haughty obsidian]

we violated montana election law together <3

[velvet cipher]

Im math

[gray peak]

dartmouth is nice because they like trees

[velvet cipher]

True

I like trees a lot

[gray peak]

ew math major

[haughty obsidian]

go big green

[velvet cipher]

I have grown some trees in my backyard

[haughty obsidian]

they're our brothers

[velvet cipher]

🙁

Trees are my favorite animals

[haughty obsidian]

he's joking lol lydi's a math major

[velvet cipher]

I can tell

Also I think they said this before

[trim cosmos]

Indeed I am

[haughty obsidian]

ecology is just applied applied applied applied maths

[gray peak]

take math 61cm

it's fun

[haughty obsidian]

lol

[velvet cipher]

61cm what da fuh

What kinda class is called 61 centimeters

[haughty obsidian]

wait till you hear about 61 decimeters

61dm 🤯

[trim cosmos]

Thank god ion have to take calc at Stanny

[gray peak]

dm is low aura

[haughty obsidian]

hey my friend is taking dm ok don't blame the quirky thirteen

[gray peak]

(dm is not low aura i am taking dm next qtr)

[haughty obsidian]

💀 💀

[haughty obsidian]

61 is just hardcore 51

[velvet cipher]

did u take da putnam

[haughty obsidian]

51 is manageable appr

[gray peak]

what class is this

[gray peak]

nah

[velvet cipher]

Jacob fox goat

[gray peak]

oh yes it's like discrete ish

[velvet cipher]

ik his daughter

[trim cosmos]

What is 61

[velvet cipher]

and son

[trim cosmos]

Chain rule my beloved

[haughty obsidian]

math 61

[spark willow]

Supneb

[haughty obsidian]

sì?

[spark willow]

Do u like math?

[haughty obsidian]

ouais

[trim cosmos]

Yea I asked what it was

[haughty obsidian]

see lydi's img

[velvet cipher]

Yay analysis

[haughty obsidian]

I'd say so

[gray peak]

61cm cursed asf multidimensional real analysis without measure theory

[haughty obsidian]

I just don't have a very rigorous training in it so I'm starting quite early in the sequence

[gray peak]

yeah

[spark willow]

[gray peak]

this is why Jordan content is needed

[haughty obsidian]

the fuck is that notation

[steady dagger]

is this what you were talking about in flomo

[gray peak]

yes

[steady dagger]

what an interesting floblem

is it not already

[gray peak]

girl ur not in flomo 😭

[haughty obsidian]

croblem

[steady dagger]

my bad what an interesting doblem

[haughty obsidian]

castañem

pottem

[steady dagger]

nothing hits as hard as adding fl- to everything im florry

at stanford all the calc 3 classes are integrated with linear algebra

actually idk what 61dm covers

[velvet cipher]

embarassingly I have no idea how college classes work

[gray peak]

61dm covers like half of 61cm's analysis

[velvet cipher]

Do you guys have to take like humanities and shi

[steady dagger]

which one

[velvet cipher]

And can you take random stuff that seems cool

[gray peak]

yeah cuz u have to satisfy WAYS

[haughty obsidian]

yes

[gray peak]

yeah

[velvet cipher]

what's that

[gray peak]

geneds

[steady dagger]

yeah but you can really make your humanities courseload as little or as much of a humanities courseload as you want

[spark willow]

Lydi. Wt math class are u taking rn

[steady dagger]

if you're allergic to like emotions or arts you can make your humanities requirements all stem-adjacent classes

[haughty obsidian]

why did you react sob emoji to me saying I like maths

[gray peak]

61cm is the main one that i'm learning content from

[spark willow]

Math is pain🥀

[gray peak]

61cm is hard but i think it's just because they are like

scared of teaching freshman measure theory

nope

[steady dagger]

course materials are generally not public

[spark willow]

Wait… so u skipped 51?

[gray peak]

i have credit for it

[haughty obsidian]

le biscuit measure

[velvet cipher]

Can one test out of math classes @ Stanford

[steady dagger]

you take either 51 or 61 you don't take both

[gray peak]

yeah

[velvet cipher]

ok great

[spark willow]

Did u transferred it from ULO💀

[steady dagger]

math classes like don't have prereqs at stanford

[gray peak]

if you have calculus BC credit you can enroll in 61cm

[gray peak]

no

[spark willow]

Oh

Ic

[gray peak]

ULO is nontransferrable

[steady dagger]

61 is a fun class but its a lot of time if you dont already know analysis

i spent a very reasonable amount of time on the linear algebra parts but i struggled a lot with the analysis

[gray peak]

lowkey the second midterm was way chiller

average was like 27 i believe

[steady dagger]

lowk isnt the class pretty well populated rn

[spark willow]

?

/100?

[gray peak]

yeah

[steady dagger]

i asked anna and she said theres like 70-90 ppl still left

[steady dagger]

/30

[spark willow]

Oh 😭

[spark willow]

Y so high?

Supneb said 21’s avg was like 52%

[gray peak]

math 19-20-21 (transferrable by AP)

math 51-52-53
OR
math 61cm/dm-62cm/dm-63cm/dm

61cm series will kick your ass

like in general

nah

well you can take them any time you want

but i wouldn't advise it

[haughty obsidian]

Yes

[steady dagger]

grad classes are hard

[gray peak]

grad classes are hard

[steady dagger]

and you can find sufficiently fulfilling content in undergrad classes

[haughty obsidian]

21 isn’t hard, though. I think it’s just that the rift between 21 and 51 students in terms of familiarity with maths is really large in freshman fall for some reason

[gray peak]

multilinear algebra and differential forms

then analysis of ODEs

[steady dagger]

is this 120

[gray peak]

you can take group theory, galois theory, representation theory, topology, (true) real analysis, complex analysis, etc

[gray peak]

no it's 210a i'm fucked

[haughty obsidian]

I am in awe that people learn so much maths in high school

[steady dagger]

when are you taking 210a

[velvet cipher]

nice

[gray peak]

it's just not the scuffed things you do with riemann integrals in 61cm

[velvet cipher]

lesbegue

[gray peak]

also the submanifold/manifold definitions are fake

current submanifold definition is locally a graph

which is fine, i.e. isomorphic to the general definition for R^n

[gray peak]

either next year or the year after

[velvet cipher]

Damn so college is not as easy as high school wow

[gray peak]

leaning on the year after

[velvet cipher]

Good to know

[gray peak]

it does

[steady dagger]

:0

this is a crazy development

[gray peak]

i think everyone who comes here gets character development

because you probably go from being the top from ur hs to the median here

[velvet cipher]

rip

[haughty obsidian]

true

[gray peak]

unless ur like ritwin 💀

LMAO

[velvet cipher]

that's what RSI felt like but it was great

[velvet cipher]

Best at mathcamp, best at mop, best at stanford

Unreal

[haughty obsidian]

what’d ritwin do this time

[gray peak]

ORZ

[steady dagger]

also idk about yall but hs was much more chiller than college

[gray peak]

he was ORZ

[haughty obsidian]

putnam?

[gray peak]

yeah

[haughty obsidian]

zamn

[gray peak]

ima take next year

i gotta bring my mock score up

[haughty obsidian]

wait freshman topped Putnam???

[gray peak]

very possible

[velvet cipher]

I should know this but what's the party culture at Stanford like?? My only impression is from that Stanford digital camera Instagram account that follows me for some reason

[steady dagger]

i feel like thats decently common

[steady dagger]

its ok

[velvet cipher]

I won't be surprised if ritwin got fellow

[steady dagger]

definitely not as good as like your state school

a lot of our frats are on probation

[gray peak]

parties here suck icl

i've stopped going to them

[steady dagger]

it is 100% more peak to have fun in your dorm than go to a party icl

dorm hopping > going to frats

[gray peak]

bro fr bcs what is going on at rinc

[steady dagger]

ive never been to rinc tbh

is it lit

[trim cosmos]

I’m deaduzz about to be at the bottom here

[gray peak]

yeah

[steady dagger]

idt i know anyone in rinc

[trim cosmos]

It’s not bad considering the bottom at Stanford is still pretty freaking smart though

[steady dagger]

i should get to know someone in rinc

[velvet cipher]

why does Stanford fizz ig also follow me 😭✌🏾

[gray peak]

probably ur mutuals

[steady dagger]

those accounts follow everyone they think is a stanford student

[haughty obsidian]

lmfao

congrats herr Kurt Gödel

[steady dagger]

every other week theres a new stanford students account trying to follow everyone

[haughty obsidian]

also the startup accounts

[velvet cipher]

stanford clash royale club 💔

[haughty obsidian]

that’s kinda cool though

[spark willow]

btw

math51 textbook really had calc error 💀

mine was 2023 March ver

and the most recent one is 2025 Aug ver

[gray peak]

yeah that's fine

[spark willow]

and they still didnt notice 💀

[gray peak]

as long as they fix that

[haughty obsidian]

if it ain’t broken don’t fix it.
if it is broken don’t fix it but ask the provost for 60 thousand dollars then postpone the repair indefinitely

[spark willow]

i alr reported 🥀

[low oriole]

omg i saw a video of someone complaining abt how bad they are lol

[haughty obsidian]

It’s pretty bad from my very limited exposure, but I’m just not a party person

But even party people say it’s not great

So I guess it’s not good then lol

[spark willow]

go to USC if u like party

[spare steppe]

guys, is stanford accommodating with learning differences like adhd?

or do yall js hafta suck it up n solve it ursleves

[gray peak]

our courses are much faster since we're on a quarter schedule and not a semester schedule

take 61dm

however you can't take 62cm if you take 61dm (by recommendation; all math department courses here don't have enforced prerequisites)

61cm definitely 62cm probably not

https://math.stanford.edu/~eliash/Public/52h-2013/52htext.pdf
here is a (very) old version of a 62cm textbook back when it was called 52h

this is public so i can share it

in particular the new version covers lie theory and homology as well

[spark willow]

math51 is easy...?

😭

[gray peak]

btw, all this content is covered in 10 weeks of instruction

be prepared to spend like ~20 hours on the course

per week

[spark willow]

no idea

[gray peak]

it's gonna be one of the easier math courses you'll take

[spark willow]

yea ik. but it wasnt easy at all 🥀

[gray peak]

u can take a slightly easier version online through ULO

it's called IM051

[spark willow]

yea

ulo-i

[gray peak]

why would you want to, and no

do you know de rham cohomology

if you're math major you are required to take 61-62-63 or one of the sequences

don't underestimate university math classes

that is all i will say

you will get reality checked

i know eps>0 people who have done MOP that are getting around median for 61cm

IMO camp

yeah

[winter mural]

REAL AF 😭😭😭 I'm doomscrolling "THESE THREE THINGS WILL GET YOU INTO STANFORD‼️‼️‼️" and then seeing that I included none of them, or like the "STANFORD AO EXPLAINS WHAT TO DO‼️‼️‼️" and I did like the complete opposite

I've accepted that I'm gonna get in though because of the Law of Equivalent Exchange

Recently my sleep schedule and grades are both declining

Which HAS to be a sign I'm getting admitted frfr

And also admit weekend stuff keeps getting recommended to me

This HAS to be a sign

Recently, I've started to feel hopeful all of a sudden

Idk if that's hopium or a good sign

Jope

[shut estuary]

i dont think so

[shut estuary]

you got this

[fringe coral]

i honestly have no hope

ik i am getting rejected

[spare steppe]

this right?

[haughty obsidian]

no that siu yuk

looks more like this

[spare steppe]

oh is it like the one u eat w rice

[spare steppe]

oh YUHH thats fire

esp when it's with broken rice 🤤

[haughty obsidian]

ikr

food here is bussin dw

I think dining enterprises had a glowup since ur interviewer went here

I'll eat at ricker and report back

[spare steppe]

i think in vnmese we call ts grilled ribs tho

ig sometimes it might not be ribs

[haughty obsidian]

boneless ribs 💀

[spare steppe]

yeah i think he was '12 (i checked his linkedin 💀 )

[haughty obsidian]

they use loin or belly meat iirc though

it's rly rly rich

cos of the fat so I have to be careful what i take

[spare steppe]

yeah i suppose that's true, depends on the cut u get there might be fat or it might all be hella chewy as well 😭

[haughty obsidian]

actually meat is rly tender

i also came from SEA so igwym

but americans know how to make meat tender bruh its wild

[grizzled basin]

Yo stanny can serve cardboard and i would still commit

[spare steppe]

oh yeah lmao, texas bbq is wild 😭

the meat be falling off the bones

[haughty obsidian]

tendernism or whatever it's called

[spare steppe]

ooh wait which country? if u dont mind me asking

[haughty obsidian]

indonesia tanah airku 🗣️ 🗣️

and then HS in singapore

[spare steppe]

nahh i remember having beef with indonesia whenever i watched football 😭

back when i was a lil kid

[haughty obsidian]

lmfao same w vietnam

sea games hits hard

[spare steppe]

i feel like crashing out over me begging a multi-billion dollar institution to accept me is not very healthy

i am getting my ass whooped by that tree regardless tho

next week!!

5 days

[haughty obsidian]

it genuinely isn't

there's a lot of guilt some of us feel because we benefit from the artificial upper class. from what i hear this is the entire point of one of my friend's polisci classes.

but then again, you gotta play the game to beat the game :/

embrace your inner ho chi minh and fight for equity in education, i guess

[spare steppe]

all yall stanford students r genuinely so cool tho. like i genuinely look up to u guys so much

but ig even if stanford rejects me (which...speaking numbers, yeah most likely), ig ill go do my own thing 😭

im js looking at my list and seeing myself getting rejected from all my universities, it's genuinely rlly scary ig

[haughty obsidian]

how come? do you want to see yourself amogus?

go git your own merit on your own terms dawg

[trim cosmos]

Thank u

[mental sundial]

HOW ARE YOU ALREADY ACCEPTED?????

decisions didn't come out?? or at least I don't see it?

[trim cosmos]

QB admit

[mental sundial]

Oh wow, congrats! Thats awesome!

[trim cosmos]

Thank you!

[spare steppe]

among who?

[pale otter]

Does anyone know whether the aos look at the letter of rec for a music portfolio or is it just the music faculty that see it

[haughty obsidian]

It was pretty good! Not the greatest presentation on my part* (and of course the veggies don’t match) but it tasted amazing

[haughty obsidian]

and some ubi soft serve in the general southeast Asian spirit

[pliant atlas]

I just said yo wsp

[haughty obsidian]

Presentation (on my part) was not great

Everything they did was exceptional

I put stuff on plates, and it doesn't look the greatest

anyways this goes to show that you shouldn't be worried about food here AT ALL

it's really good and 10x better than my high school's food :D

some people will complain about food but that's probably because they only go to yaga or something

go look at the menus for the day, folks. different dining halls have different food.

[balmy verge]

with Stanford requiring all AP scores to be reported, did you guys leave the scores blank for the AP exams you expect to take next spring?

[shut estuary]

false you can’t possibly know

[shut estuary]

yeah and then you update the school presumably

i could be wrong

[balmy verge]

yeah that's what I was thinking

I'm not sure how else it could be conveyed that I don't have a score

I think im just tweaking over it for no reason due to the decision date being in a week

[shut estuary]

don’t worry about it

good luck!

[balmy verge]

thank you!

[paper cipher]

I saw this exact same post but on the Princeton fizz

[spark willow]

yea

just dont select any scores

[balmy verge]

ok sweet thats what i did

[vale charm]

https://tenor.com/view/flight-reacts-flightreacts-tongue-tongue-laugh-gif-13724048537815479089

https://tenor.com/view/cyberpunk-abbreviate-walter-white-hank-breaking-bad-gif-11609305132227978440

[haughty obsidian]

dead internet theory

[velvet cipher]

Btw Stanford should post an announcement on Tuesday at 4 pm pst

That the decision is coming Friday 4 pst

[haughty obsidian]

is this a prediction or do you genuinely know ts

[spark willow]

prediction

def a prediction

[haughty obsidian]

honestly, given the 110% certainty this person has been saying that he'll get in, he might have actual insider info lol /lh

[spark willow]

they should do ts earlier 😭

[velvet cipher]

Prediction

[spark willow]

lol

[spark willow]

wild confidence 😭

[shut estuary]

LOL

[velvet cipher]

It's factual

I'm getting in coz I'm the goat

[spark willow]

ic

[spare steppe]

chat, someone in red and white associated with christmas trees is giving me a rejection letter in 5 days. does that mean im on the naughty list? 😭

[spark willow]

5 more nights....

its either 🎄

or

🪵

[spare steppe]

= 🐻 type shit 😭 (imma get rejected from both anyway 💀 )

[vale charm]

i wonder what the average intro class at stanford is like

they probably be teaching advanced ochem to first years

and somehow they all do well

[winter mural]

GIVE THEM (TBD which side) THE AXE!!!!!

[spark willow]

did anyone applied to berkely...?

[winter mural]

Also shout-out to UC Davis for being the first UC to let me login to the portal

[spark willow]

UC Davis is the best UC school ngl

they give financial aid to intl student

when berkely doesnt give a sht 💀

[fringe coral]

really?

what am i listening to

but it does nothing knowing now

[winter mural]

Yes

With the decision dropping in four days, whatever happens, it'll be All Right Now™ (unless I get deferred, in which case the war continues)

[spark willow]

......

[winter mural]

I'M JUST KIDDING 😝😝😝😝😝😝😝CAL SUCKS, BEAT CAL

There was a girl from my school that got rejected from Stanford but made it into Berkeley and then chose to go to Oregon State because Berkeley was too expensive

Same with how a guy from my school got into Yale but also chose Oregon State

[spare steppe]

LMAO YES

idk if ill even find a side tho

[winter mural]

We'll both end up at CalPoly and be hated by both 😔😔😔😔

[spare steppe]

dammit i hate typing on my phone 😭

[winter mural]

Real

[spare steppe]

im not even applying to calpoly 🥀

i had a dream where i got rejected by every single uni 😭😭

[winter mural]

Me neither 😭

[spare steppe]

i procrastinated on my EA apps and they feel hella rushed; but aside from stanny i think the engineering schools fill up all their classes in EA so i dont rlly have a choice 😭

nah but i so desperately wanna get into any of my 4 EA schools. then id actually be over the fucking moon

[winter mural]

Apply Oregon State or University of Oregon frfr

[winter mural]

STANFORD RAHHHH

[spare steppe]

copy jensen huang 🤩🤩

[winter mural]

Dw I'm manifesting that we yes WE will make it into Stanford this Friday (or get deferred and get admitted RD) and become Stanford 2030‼️‼️‼️

[spare steppe]

i kinda expect stanny to be a reject fosho; no one in my school has ever gotten in lmao

[winter mural]

YES‼️‼️‼️

[spare steppe]

but regardless i rlly hope i can get any one of my 3 other EAs. im so desperate it's crazy 🥀

[winter mural]

Yeah idk of anyone from my school either

[spare steppe]

my school lets us see a scatterplot of past students' stats and whether they got in... kids from my school w/ 1570 4.0+ have gotten rejected 😭

and my stats arent that good 💔

it's so scary to think abt writing all those essays, or like simping for schools so hard js to get rejected 💀

man that would highk suck

my worst fear is getting rejected from my entire list

with stanny being the first 🤩 (actually technically 2nd, cuz im a cambridge reject now)

[halcyon carbon]

How’d you apply your 4 EA schools? Can’t you only apply to Stanford in EA since it’s REA?

[spark willow]

no

theres exception

It is Stanford policy that you may simultaneously apply to Stanford with a decision plan of Restrictive Early Action and to any college/university with the characteristics described below:

Any public college/university with an early application or early deadline plan if their decision is non-binding
Any college/university with a rolling admission process if their decision is non-binding
Any non-U.S. college/university if their decision is non-binding
Any military academy
Any college/university under Early Action or by an early deadline if the decision plan is both non-binding and applying early is required to be considered for a scholarship or special academic program. Please see the FAQ section below for examples.

look at the last one

Any college/university under Early Action or by an early deadline** if** the decision plan is both non-binding and applying early is **required **to be considered for a scholarship or special academic program. Please see the FAQ section below for examples.

What is an example of an REA exception?

For most majors at the University of Southern California, students are required to apply Early Action in order to be eligible for merit scholarships. Because the Early Action program at USC is non-binding and students must apply early to be considered for merit scholarships, USC qualifies as an exception to Stanford’s policy, and students may apply to both Stanford and USC early.

[halcyon carbon]

Ohhh
Thanks for the clarification

[grizzled basin]

Cant rea stanny ea mit

[spare steppe]

my 3 others r public

[past viper]

When’s decision coming out for REA

[balmy verge]

supposedly friday but not confirmed

[upbeat veldt]

where is this date coming from

[balmy verge]

past couple of years its been the 2nd friday of december

[upbeat dune]

They always announce on the news and announcements tab on here https://admission.stanford.edu/index.php#announcements

[spark willow]

The lwk should announce it today

😭

Ppl said they usually announce it 2-3 days before

And if they don’t announce it today or tmr…. Then we need to wait till 15+ or sth ig

[low oriole]

istg if it doesn’t drop tomorrow im gonna tweak

[grizzled basin]

im already tweaking

[low oriole]

well real

[spark willow]

same 😭

[grizzled basin]

they might announce it on wed then if it's 2-3 days right

im acc so nervous

[spark willow]

ig

[grizzled basin]

like in my head i know it's a no but in my heart im desperate

[spark willow]

ik 😭

[grizzled basin]

js cuz last year i saw the reddit post confirming the date was the 11th for it's release on the 13th

[spark willow]

like at least email me bro 😭

y tf release ts in ur website

no one actually fkin checks ts 😭

every other school sends ts to ur email

[low oriole]

this this this this

[spark willow]

sths wrong with stanford atp

[low oriole]

like i have no right to get in

but

🥀🥀🥀

[grizzled basin]

my decision to rea was literally like i know im going to get rejected and it's going to hurt but fuck i wanna go stanny so bad im gonna rea

and it'll hurt less if it's dec 12 than april 1 after every ivy decision

[low oriole]

lwk regretting REAing rn for some reason

guys i’m so cooked

if i get deferred i will literally be so happy

[grizzled basin]

iom regretting it but also like not

[grizzled basin]

same

[trim cosmos]

You guys got this

[teal kindle]

defer me please Stanford

[grizzled basin]

every day and im like i prolly woulda been way less stress if i ed somewhere else

[spark willow]

fr

[teal kindle]

POV no one got into Stanford from the district in the past 2 years...

[grizzled basin]

i was actually planning to do caltech the entire summer 💀

[low oriole]

omg i wish i could see this

[grizzled basin]

no one from stanny in school my except 3 gen legacy and a recruit in 10 yrs

except there are schools in the area that have sent stanny

very rarely though

[spark willow]

our school never had a t40 💀

[trim cosmos]

Yeah it’s hard to get in

[spark willow]

its all universities 💀

[grizzled basin]

wait that's kinda insane

nah WE are getting in

[teal kindle]

Stanford brought back legacy means I'm more cooked 💀

[grizzled basin]

fax

i shoulda just ed to my parents uni bro 😭

[dire sapphire]

no regrets guys

fr

[grizzled basin]

yo @ jacob @ paul.js and i have to be the most active in this channel

https://tenor.com/view/no-miss-gif-3524058338517689971

[teal kindle]

swish

[north quarry]

nah its better to not know when it comes out fr

like ion know when it comes out

[grizzled basin]

that's just infinite edge

[spark willow]

tf u mean 💀

[spark willow]

• supneb, lydi

[north quarry]

so i dont have a feeling of impending doom

[spark willow]

lwk u will feel ts everyday

[north quarry]

well ion feel it rn

cause idk when it comes out

[spark willow]

if u dont know when they'll announce it

[spark willow]

REAed?

[north quarry]

yea

dont tell me

[mental sundial]

stanny coming out this week could ruin my finals week next week

[spark willow]

my finals are this week 💀

😭

[low oriole]

well yes

[mental sundial]

oh so winter break starts next week?

[spark willow]

nah

[low oriole]

thank God my school has exemptions 🥀

[spark willow]

the week after next wk

its not finals from my school

its from stanny 💀 💀

[mental sundial]

huhhh? don't tell me u have 2 finals weeks. i would legit cry if that happened to me

oof

[spark willow]

ts is legit pain

[grizzled basin]

most active who are applying 😭

[grizzled basin]

so real

it's like

either i get in and im unlocked and like whatever

or i get reject and mega depressed and give up

or maybe i get reject and then realize i need to lock in and cook on finals <- you are here

[low oriole]

GUYS IM SO NERVOUS

[grizzled basin]

hi nervous im dad

[low oriole]

i still have 11 schools + ut honors app + berkeley MET to do in literally 10 days

this is so cooked

[grizzled basin]

good luck twin

i have sm work to 😭

[spark willow]

dang 😭

i alr finished my app

1/1 applied

💀

[low oriole]

WE GOT THIS

[low oriole]

dang

[north quarry]

bro lives and breathes Stanford

[spark willow]

yes

my counselor is keep telling me that im insane or sth 💀

but i dont give a sht

[grizzled basin]

are u deadass

bro u are insane

oh my god

[gray peak]

wishing the best of luck to you all <3

[spark willow]

yea

🥀

[grizzled basin]

it's ok because WEE are gettiung in

[velvet cipher]

Reddit post was posted on the 10th

At 4:21 PM PST

Suggesting the announcement came at 4:00 PM PST, which is exactly 72 hours before the decision release

[grizzled basin]

oh

nvm

[mental sundial]

alright so ur saying we'll get something tmrw

[velvet cipher]

Most likely yes

So at 4 PM PST, check Stanfords announcements page!

[spark willow]

someone ping me 3 times if they announce the date