Stanford University (2025-2026)

[gritty glen]

Lowkey harvard is a safety school Like if you thibk about it.

[sonic wyvern]

wat

[sterile kindle]

We Wharton bound

[junior night]

bagerait

[terse terrace]

My friend st Harvard says she wishes she chose stanny

Says MA weather sucks

[sonic wyvern]

ty dude but bro im grasping for air now dude

[agile mulch]

stanford is goated

[junior night]

omg imagine having to choose beteen H and Stanny id dream for that

[agile mulch]

stanford has a beautiful campus and weather

[junior night]

its fine UT is a good school (I keep telling myself this but i cant come to fruition)

[fading shore]

UT is a good school doe

[terse terrace]

She got into Stanford, Harvard Berkeley Columbia and a few others lol

[junior night]

im prolly UT bound

[sonic wyvern]

it is but one can only dream

[junior night]

YES but i was in state auto admission

so it doesnt feel rewarding

[fading shore]

Who cares

[junior night]

holyyyyy

[fading shore]

what u do matters more tbh

[terse terrace]

IK so cracked 😭

[fading shore]

one of my friend has to choose between HYP columbia brown nu JHU and rice bro

[junior night]

brooo id only dream to get in one of those schools

[agile mulch]

these people need to share the acceptances with the rest of us bro 😭

[fading shore]

All with like 60k in aid

[full zinc]

rejected all ivies bar 2 does this mean muchf ro stanford

[terse terrace]

Gtfo

[terse terrace]

This was last year and we had such similar ECs

[fading shore]

I’m fucked for Stanford cuz I gotta compete against that

[terse terrace]

Like I’m so confused

[karmic raven]

.

[junior night]

im fucked for stanford

[dusky gulch]

The weather was one point I gave to MIT/Harvard over Stanny tbh
The snow of MA is goated

[agile mulch]

if you are fucked i am bonnie blue

😭

[junior night]

LMAOOOO

dude it just feels crazy

how isef has such a crazy reputation to some

but it really doesnt mean much in teh grand scheme of things

i legitimately developed a horrible ego from all the glaze

[sonic wyvern]

if ur fucked, im ravaged

[gritty glen]

Ur in caltech thi

[dusky gulch]

If I get Stanford, my essays carried me hard

[misty mulch]

Bro lowkey, I know I’m opening rejections at this point

[agile mulch]

my friend got first place in his isef category

basically autoadmitted to cornell ed

hes just goated like that

i didnt make it

because my regional comp to get in is turbo competitive

and they hate eng projects

[dusky gulch]

Lowkey I think the best essay to make yourself stand out was the Roommate essay
Since there were so many ways to write it

[little cliff]

this the rs

[agile mulch]

idk how i did on that

[little cliff]

legit the only t20 ive gotten is jhu and all i have left now is stanford umich and duke

i know ts is rejections

[sonic wyvern]

just opening to get it over with lowkey

[spring crane]

what even is the objective t20 list

[sonic wyvern]

UTD number 1

[spring crane]

https://giphy.com/gifs/meme-good-job-congrats-9ZGQ6kbJEIPUVxLsYu

[fading shore]

and 🥀

they not giving good aid

[gritty glen]

I dont think Stanford would do much betta :P

[fading shore]

It’s a list of like 25 schools w diff tiers

[gritty glen]

Heeyyy its Caltech too Caltech is epik

[fading shore]

on the off chance they do

ugh

[dusky gulch]

Isn't Stanny's aid pretty good
I know a guy who's family makes like 200k, he only has to pay like 24k(total with the room)

[fading shore]

That’s what I’ve heard

But I dunno

[gritty glen]

Caltech is Caltech

depends if you wanna do research or kinda industry tho :P

[fading shore]

Caltech and Stanford tied for my #1 but I’ve never visited Stanford

[junior night]

ahhhh

im not getting in stanny

[dusky gulch]

If an ISEF participant ain't getting in im fried to the bone

My biggest EC was a state comp that I haven't even won anything for

[junior night]

well if an ISEF student is getting in theres something just wrong with me

[fading shore]

Awards don’t matter allat

[junior night]

i just dont see what

i really tried to show personality

i didnt just flex isef

i did teen health advocacy

[fading shore]

I don’t think u need to

Unless the experience itself was something good to write about

[junior night]

I genuinely LOVE research like

i didnt do it just for resume

[fading shore]

I only mentioned it in ECs and the summer essay

[fading shore]

you’d love caltech 🥀

[junior night]

and im just REALLy dissapointed

because UT Austin doesn thave research opportunities

theyre so limited

[fading shore]

It does

[junior night]

and I didnt get in anywhere

I hate the idea of doing research over summer

*only summer

[fading shore]

u just gotta learn to find them ✌️😝

[junior night]

they closed their office of undergraduate research

and I didnt get into UT Honors

its super sad

[fading shore]

wtf

[junior night]

the main reason i wanted to go to these ivies is bc of the research

[fading shore]

Nah u can prob find connections by making good with professors

like I’ve been offered ento research positions if I go to UT

[junior night]

ill try but the opportunities are SOOO limited man

[fading shore]

But that’s mainly bc I know ppl and they want help

[junior night]

ahh I see

congrats on caltech!

my friend got in too

[fading shore]

Tysm

What’s their name?

[junior night]

lemme dm

[tight kite]

how r we feeling for stan tmr

[junior night]

bad

[tight kite]

why

[sonic wyvern]

my name

[junior night]

reject every ivy

im an ivy reject

[fading shore]

Bad

Also congrats on harv

[tight kite]

thanks I think you already wished me congrats tho

like a few months ago

😭

[fading shore]

I prob did Lol

[dusky gulch]

In the middle
My essays showed what Stanford is looking for(Like intellectual vitality)
My Awards are NOT Stanford level tho

ECs are fine

[fading shore]

intellectual vitality is lowkey hard to show

I maxed leadership + IV + risk taking

[teal glen]

lol i'm isef grand getting fried

[fading shore]

Me too twin

Scorched by the UCs

[teal glen]

bro u have caltech

😭 we r not the same

[fading shore]

I just don’t wanna be an RD victim

[junior night]

DEADASS??

@teal glen

where have u gotten in

my RSI friend is getting FRIED

[sonic wyvern]

what are ur ECs

[teal glen]

js in-state safeties

[junior night]

SAME WTF

dude im genuinely confused do they actually hate isef now

[dusky gulch]

RSI???? Bro

I thought RSI was considered like IMO level

[junior night]

it is

[teal glen]

waitlisted at penn, columbia, jhu, washu

rejected caltech, mit, harvard, yale

[junior night]

ok he got in one ivy but like

hes RSI

[tropic badge]

how goood is regeneron STS top 3

[broken mesa]

columbia waitlist twin

[junior night]

he didnt get in MIT his dream school

[fading shore]

IMO gold

[teal glen]

100% hypsm

[junior night]

WTF

[fading shore]

[junior night]

yo

what isef grand did u get

4th or 3rd?

[teal glen]

2nd

[junior night]

NAH

DAWG ID SUE

[fading shore]

2nd?!! And you’re getting scorched????

wtf

[junior night]

BRO they hate isef

[tropic badge]

2 people from my school got selected for regenron sts and 1 got 3rd

[junior night]

I MTELLING U

[sonic wyvern]

well fuyck

[junior night]

THIS YEAR THEY HATE ISEF LOL

[fading shore]

Yeah I’m fucked.

[junior night]

I got waitlisted from my legacy school

[dusky gulch]

That's crazy

I don't see how that's possible unless he messed up his essays tbh
I expected RSI to be like an auto-admit pathway

[junior night]

IT SHOULD BE BRO

[teal glen]

:( i have a top summer program too bro i followed the formula and i got fried

[junior night]

IDK WHATS GOING ON

[junior night]

SSP?

[tropic badge]

2 ppl form my school got 5/5 ivies that they applied

[junior night]

STONY BROOK?

[fading shore]

Where the fuck do you go?? TJ??? stuy??

[tropic badge]

we had 3 MIT admits

[junior night]

wait bruh ima chill

[tropic badge]

2 Princeton

3 yale

[teal glen]

dawg wtf

[tropic badge]

Nah I go to a magnet stem program in greater houston

[fading shore]

Oh hell nah bruh wtf bruh

[teal glen]

well sts t300 is not even close to sts t40

sts t40 imo should get u into a hypsm

[fading shore]

No, STS t3

[junior night]

yo iris shen?

[teal glen]

oh shit sts t3????

[tropic badge]

yeah iris

[fading shore]

Yes bro

💀💀💀

[junior night]

YO

u live in woodlands

[tropic badge]

yeah

[junior night]

the famous woodlands

[fading shore]

WAIT WOODLANDS

[junior night]

theyre cracked at science fair

[fading shore]

THEY SWEEP ISEF BEO

[junior night]

HOLY SHIT

[fading shore]

😭😭😭😭😭

[junior night]

YES BRO

[teal glen]

LOLLL

[fading shore]

I recognize ts name

[junior night]

I LIVE IN TEXAS TOO

I FUCKING WON TXSEF

[tropic badge]

yeha u know justin huang and victoria Ou

[fading shore]

LOL LMFAO

[junior night]

YE I MET THEM

[teal glen]

the whole thing? and ur getting fried?

[junior night]

THEY WERE AT BLUE RIBBON JUDGING LAST YR

[junior night]

YUP

[teal glen]

yooo ik them too

[junior night]

well

[tropic badge]

they both got into MIT and stanford

[junior night]

I won my categry

and qualed to isef

through txsef

[teal glen]

this is nuts

[junior night]

there were harvard stranford and MIT kids in my room

and im the only bum

[fading shore]

Bro I won NMSEF and I’m getting scorched RD

[teal glen]

does anyone know how good columbia waitlist movement is?

[fading shore]

dick n balls

[junior night]

DAWG U GOT IN CALTECH

[junior night]

prolly good

[teal glen]

what i'm saying bro

[fading shore]

God forbid a man want 2

[junior night]

dude WE are the real ones getting destroyed

im not just isef carried too

i did hella service

like A LOT

[teal glen]

some drown while others die of thirst

[fading shore]

I am NOT drowning

My friend went 5/5 on ivies and 8/10 on t20 be so fr

[junior night]

@tropic badge did iris get in anywhere?

[teal glen]

wtf did he do

[fading shore]

Believe it or not I’m not even the most cracked mf at my school

[fading shore]

She had insane hooks and ECs lmao

HYP JHU Rice NU brown columbia

[junior night]

dude u just cant be asian

[teal glen]

💀

[fading shore]

I’m not getting Stanford

[teal glen]

me neither

[tropic badge]

she got into penn, harvard, yale and princeton

[teal glen]

🤞 for duke tho

[junior night]

holy FUCK

wb the rayhan guy

the other sts

[dusky gulch]

I had like two personal project websites and 90+ hours of service at the library
Did Math and CS comps
Uhhh started a math olympiad club in sophomore year
Robotics
Self-studying some stuff like UG Math
NHS

[tropic badge]

rayhan got into MIT CS

[junior night]

damn

[tight kite]

ong

[junior night]

did u get in anywhere? if u dont mind me asking

[teal glen]

anyone else think that isef is lowk fried now

[tropic badge]

iris also got MIT

[junior night]

dude woodlands kids are SO TOUGH

[junior night]

DUDE I BEEN SAYING TS

[fading shore]

Woodland kids terrify me

[teal glen]

acc tbh i'm not really sure bc i have friends who got into stanny and harvard

[junior night]

I MADE A REDDIT POST ON IT

[fading shore]

Yes

It’s going down

but I still find it fun enough to compete

[teal glen]

i rem like a decade ago isef finalist was like

enough

[junior night]

@tropic badge wait im lowkey a stalker but do yk ppl named like adam siddiqi

[fading shore]

I do

[junior night]

did he get in anywhere

[tropic badge]

the best uni ive gotten so far for electrical engineering is UIUC. I got a full ride at tamu (brown scholars) but got waitlisted rice and cmu. My rank is t20 out of 700+ but these dudes are on another level EC wise

[tight kite]

Lowkey I might be committing tmr

[teal glen]

bro @junior night i feel like ik who u r

[junior night]

ah I see full ride tamu is nice

[junior night]

u dont

[tropic badge]

yeah ik adam

[fading shore]

Oh idk specifically but I know him from isef I think

[junior night]

did he get in anywhere

@teal glen im just a typical asian kid

who made isef

[tropic badge]

not sure, i dont know him that well tbh

[teal glen]

what type of asian

[junior night]

and didnt get in any college

[teal glen]

that'll confirm my suspicions

nvm then

[dusky gulch]

Same if Stanny rejects im commiting to UT
Still have Rice WL, but UT better for STEM anyway

[junior night]

@teal glen so confirmed ISEF is losing prestige right cuz why are we getting destroyed

i didnt even get in washu or rice

[burnt light]

nothing at all?

[junior night]

my legacy school

[junior night]

naw im broke

im cooked

[tight kite]

rs

[junior night]

i got UT Austin

in state auto admit

[fading shore]

Isef is losing prestige but more so bc of how common research is, how easy it is to cheat and nepo

[sonic wyvern]

theres like 3 of us in the same boat LMAO

[junior night]

I SEE but i wasnt one of them 😭

[fading shore]

Most ppl aren’t

But that’s just how it is

[junior night]

its so annoying

i actually love research bruh

i got cooked but i have science fair judigng on saturday

[burnt light]

you can do research in college

!!

[junior night]

ut austin research opportunities are limited

they closed the office of undergraduate research

and i didnt getin UT honors

[fading shore]

Bro I have to skip straight to state

[junior night]

id have to find internships over summer

[fading shore]

I’m fried

[burnt light]

oh ya trump kinda cookin evb

[junior night]

whats evb

[tight kite]

everybody

[dusky gulch]

Wait so FRI is gone?

[junior night]

no

FRI is there

but the office is closed

idk how that works

[tropic badge]

the issue being at a competitive school is that everyone is cracked so it's easy to get overshadowed. Like 47 ppl from my school applied to stanford

[sonic wyvern]

i think only me and some other dude applied to stanford

[tropic badge]

and they're all well above average with many being cracked

[sonic wyvern]

only 2 cuz our school is buns

[dusky gulch]

I was the only one from my school who applied Stanford
But like 3 other people applied MIT

[fading shore]

4 from mine applied Stan

[agile mulch]

20-30 from mine applied stan i believe

[tropic badge]

yeah its super hard when so many from your school apply to the same t20

over 100 people from mine applied to rice

[gritty glen]

Bro what

Guys how

I think im genuinely the first person from my school to apply to a lot of these 😭😭 yalls schools are on a dofferent planet

[trim cosmos]

Eye on the prize…

[broken mesa]

screw waitlists

time for my dream school

https://tenor.com/view/stanford-fear-the-tree-gif-3579890

[glacial agate]

https://tenor.com/view/standford-tree-standford-tree-gif-3574384

[trim cosmos]

For those whose Ivy Day was favorable or not, remember that at Stanford, there is A Place For You Here™

Good luck tmr future trees!!

[gritty glen]

facts

https://klipy.com/gifs/accident-stupid

[junior night]

10 applied to Stan at mine

I’m fucked one girl got a likely

She’s not even gonna go

[gritty glen]

I did not know likely letters existed 💔 its ok

[verbal totem]

happy stanford day

[cedar quarry]

What time is this coming out tomorrow

[dusk wagon]

i think some have said 5 pm pst

but im not too sure

so dont quote me on that

[broken mesa]

It is 4 pst

7 pm est

[dusk wagon]

oopsie

^^

[trim cosmos]

Trees don’t compete with each other

They just grow

[broken mesa]

speed i need this

waitlisted at four ivies heading into my dream school

[dusk wagon]

bros only online for this one thread

[trim cosmos]

Ivy Day was meaningless for me

One friend got into Columbia

One friend got wled from two rejected from one

[dusk wagon]

hey be nice!

[trim cosmos]

I literally said nothing that was mean lol

[naive timber]

REA was actually pretty good for a2c 27% accepted is good

[trim cosmos]

I didn’t apply to the Ivies I withdrew from them

[dusk wagon]

fair enough

no reason to apply right

cause of match

[trim cosmos]

Correct

[naive timber]

is it worth it to apply REA if im not hooked

[trim cosmos]

Apply if it’s ur top choice

[naive timber]

it is but I’m scared I heard it’s more comp than rd

[verbal totem]

u dont need to be hooked!!

[trim cosmos]

Both rounds are so competitive to the point where it’s ridiculous to say one is more competitive than the other

[naive timber]

I apply in less than a year and have only one award that is kinda meaningless if I don’t expand upon it

[verbal totem]

my awards were so bad and were just speech and debate + some other stuff and i got into some pretty good schools. u don’t need awards lol

[terse terrace]

Where did you happen to get in?

[naive timber]

ur ecs were probably crazy or your essays

[broken mesa]

he got 5 ivies today

and northwestern

[terse terrace]

Um.. what the actual fuc

[naive timber]

yeah so without a doubt crazy cracked and didn’t need awards to carry

[verbal totem]

no published research. no crazy programs. was rejected from coke the very first round

trust u do not need to have national level extracurriculars

just care about what u do

i spent high school just getting involved w local causes and local stuff and that’s what paid off i truly think

[terse terrace]

Bro I did this all and I just rejected everywhere

Wish I was like @verbal totem

[terse terrace]

Coke is such a scam lol

[craggy lichen]

manifestation nation

let's manifest

[naive timber]

I care I have a personal connection to what I’m doing but my social anxiety limits me from everything bc I’ll have great opportunities but I’ll let them pass by

[subtle viper]

loll i also got coke rej round 1 :(

[short sierra]

please stanford im kinda homeless

[naive timber]

https://tenor.com/view/ishowspeed-meme-trying-not-to-laugh-laugh-homeless-gif-9458928528704746136

[gritty glen]

https://tenor.com/view/thomas-the-train-thomas-thomas-the-tank-engine-thomas-and-friends-ishowspeed-gif-7297322352901128995

[verbal totem]

yeah i was like oh im fried for ivy day 💀 guess not

[subtle viper]

AYYY

[gritty glen]

Wat major did u apply for? :D

[terse terrace]

I got rejected second round of coke but I lowk find it such a scam

[subtle viper]

who cares abt coke when u got the sweep 😛

[verbal totem]

gender studies was my main :)

[gritty glen]

Ahhh cool 😎

Are you prelaw?

Idk why but a lot of gender studies majors tend to be

[verbal totem]

not sure!

i def love stem still but gender studies is where i def want to spend time

humanities wise i rlly do love learning about the queer experience

and that of the social structures around us

so i want to explore i think the intersection of gender studies into other realms

[haughty obsidian]

gender & sexuality studies is honestly a w. dr. sokolsky did a lecture series touching on the neurochemistry of queer identities here at stanford and i thought it was rly interesting

[verbal totem]

right, like how can my work contribute to example medicine work? how can it contribute to biological advances? sociological?

how can it help us when it comes to vulnerable communities at the front of climate change?

etc.

[verbal totem]

yess and harvard is great because of their rotating professor

right now they have drag queen dr. lawhore vagistan teaching

he is a professor at tufts visiting for a year

[haughty obsidian]

is that actually their name

[verbal totem]

queen name lol

but yes

vagistan is a connection to their family

the agistan

[haughty obsidian]

I respect that but I find it difficult to believe a general college population will respect someone with a name like that tbh 😭

power to them

[verbal totem]

his name is dr. kareem khubchandani

and he goes by that in class

he just also goes by lawhore vagistan on the off lol

[haughty obsidian]

insane professor lore as always

[naive timber]

Am I cooked if 80% of my ECs have to do with cs, 10% has to do with what I want to major with which is still related to cs just with a biomedical focus, and then 10% of other stuff like work, volunteer stuff

[haughty obsidian]

stanford's primary EE advisor was on the CIA watchlist then detained in syria for several months leading up to the arab spring

i love interesting backstories bahah

[gritty glen]

Per usual

[dusky gulch]

You have the summer

Try to do some research with a professor
Or better yet make some personal projects

[haughty obsidian]

dusty? he did a lot of subsurface ice imaging stuff. what's dram?

i learned about the syria thing because i hosted a COLLEGE dinner with him and he spilled the juiciest beans ever like literally spewed out his whole life detail

[proud imp]

memory I think

[haughty obsidian]

ohhh yes yes

[naive timber]

im currently doing independent research with secondary data and planning to expand at my local university taking original data and then publishing it as a public dataset

[haughty obsidian]

ohh yes

i mean i wouldn't be surprised if he did

i'm talking about dustin schroeder who was appointed this year to a position where he advises most (newly declared) ee majors

[junior night]

stanford is my last hope

[broken mesa]

stanford is my last hope too

[junior night]

i hate college decisions

[haughty obsidian]

best of luck!

[grim meadow]

im scaredddd

[junior night]

Idc anymore

I’m numb to rejection

[misty mulch]

Me too

[steady dagger]

we all love dusty

[scenic trail]

good luck a2cers

[grand tangle]

Bruh I'm crying

I got rejected to like10 schoosl

What if Stanford doesnt accept me😕

[scenic trail]

u will be okay

what acceptances do u have

[grand tangle]

I have Columbia but I also went test optional. Got rejected everywhere else

[scenic trail]

then you go to an ivy

boo hoo

[grand tangle]

But I don't think Columbias a good fit for me and I may be miserable if I had to spend 4 yrs there😕

[stone grail]

💀

[karmic raven]

Columbia is a great option

[gritty glen]

Dont be so hard on yourself or Columbia! Its a fantastic school and even if you hate it youll have an easy time transferring out. It may just feel like the worlds ending right now but in a week or so itll hit you that you got into an ivy and youll be happy 🎊🎊

[karmic raven]

yes im not hooked or crazy or anything

[fading shore]

he’s not being hard on either

[karmic raven]

applied rea & got in

so would def recommend if it’s your top choice

[fading shore]

If he doesn’t think columbia is a good fit for him then that’s his opinion

[karmic raven]

but you also realistically shouldn’t expect to get into Stanford

[fading shore]

Columbia is a great school in general but not everyone is gonna enjoy it there

[karmic raven]

or most top schools for that matter

operate with the assumption of rejection

[trim cosmos]

That being said for the junior in the chat, please research and apply to the schools that you would realistically actually go to

[karmic raven]

^^^

[fading shore]

With that being said I do agree he should take a week off and relook at it then

opinions do change 🙂

[karmic raven]

& please be realistic with your college list

[trim cosmos]

Decisions change as well …

[scenic trail]

what junior am i tripping

[trim cosmos]

Status updates occur

[fading shore]

The guy asking about rea stanford

[scenic trail]

o

[gritty glen]

Ya ofc but its always worth reconsidering your options 😁 They may not end up being happy there but they will eventually end up where they belong regardless! It never hurts to go into something you think you wont like with an open mind, too

[grand tangle]

That's true maybe it'll grow on me next week

[fading shore]

go to admit weekend if possible

[karmic raven]

have you visited Columbia?

[grand tangle]

Nope

[karmic raven]

start there, then

[fading shore]

can’t wait for lsju decisions tmrow

[karmic raven]

if it’s possible

[fading shore]

Well, today

[trim cosmos]

We believe

[karmic raven]

oh lovely that’s today

gl my rd demons

[fading shore]

LinkedIn Astro + counselor Astro better lock in

[karmic raven]

I believe in yall

[fading shore]

[karmic raven]

what’s the LinkedIn Astro

[fading shore]

this is a joke btw don’t ban me 🥀🥀🥀

[grand tangle]

Linkdin astro?

[karmic raven]

omg did u have someone from Stanford admissions view your LinkedIn too

[fading shore]

nah I js have Stanford people lookin at my LinkedIn lmao

[karmic raven]

someone from Stanford admissions look at my LinkedIn for rea

[fading shore]

Idk if it’s from Stanford admissions but I can’t imagine it being anything else

• counselor phone call 💀

[karmic raven]

counselor phone call is p good sign

[fading shore]

god why is Stanford so rock solid LOL it has no faults for Astro

[fading shore]

js about transcript verification

[trim cosmos]

We’re not like Berkeley

[fading shore]

I’m not sure if it’s for my whole school or just me but the call only asked bout me

[karmic raven]

guess what

[verbal totem]

heavy on this

[trim cosmos]

Where the astro is so apparent that it ruins the fun

[karmic raven]

I got into berk for chem

hehe

[verbal totem]

apply to LAC please also! im telling u LAC are not bad

[gritty glen]

Aw hearing that makes me realize im fried for tmw xD awww atleast I had a ball with my interviewer

[fading shore]

Congrats lmfao

[trim cosmos]

Good job

[fading shore]

nah bro I’m just like

Coping

[verbal totem]

just because US news doesnt want to rank all the LAC they still r awesome colleges

[trim cosmos]

My condolences as well

[fading shore]

[trim cosmos]

Amherst my first love

[verbal totem]

luca i see a stanford acceptance for u

i see a stanford acceptance for u swag

[fading shore]

nah I’m going against a 5/5 Ivy sweeper

it’s joever

[fading shore]

UT my first love 🥀

[gritty glen]

Aw ty 😁 I hope so but im not too bothered if im rejected, im happy haha

[verbal totem]

u have mit right?

[trim cosmos]

Smh

UT lost to Purdue today

[fading shore]

MIT talm bout some “im scared for Stanford”

[gritty glen]

Yeees :D somehow….

[verbal totem]

u guys r too smart for me

[trim cosmos]

That settles who’s the better engineering school

[gritty glen]

Ok Caltecher….

[fading shore]

bhmit 😭

[karmic raven]

such a shame

[verbal totem]

nope nope nope

[trim cosmos]

??

[fading shore]

Bernoulli > Tim btw

[verbal totem]

GOOD

SEND PURDUE TO THE FINAL FOUR

SAVE MY BRACKET

[fading shore]

lore accurate because California beavers are bigger and stockier than Massachusetts beavers

[karmic raven]

ts how im feeling rn

😭

[verbal totem]

like how does one know this

[fading shore]

Congrats on MIT that’s rlly impressive ✌️😝

[fading shore]

I had to settle a debate

[gritty glen]

Ty, and congrats on Caltech that’s rlly impressive ✌️😝

But I will sayy...

[trim cosmos]

I fw Bernoulli heavy

[karmic raven]

why js there bl on the Stanford channel

[verbal totem]

???

[fading shore]

Triton, beavers eat trees btw

[gritty glen]

Dude as soon as I was admitted I ran to the mit blog and I found this and reconsidered everything

[karmic raven]

I’m not complaining but

[verbal totem]

omg i scrolled up

i see it now.

oh.

[karmic raven]

anyways

[fading shore]

I love that image lmfao it’s so funny

[gritty glen]

WAIT did you see it in person???!!!

[trim cosmos]

The trees couldn’t give less of a dam iykwim

[fading shore]

nah one of my friends did i think

[karmic raven]

trees make the oxygen beavers need to breath btw..

[gritty glen]

shucks

[gritty glen]

https://klipy.com/gifs/beaver-eating-1

[fading shore]

There is a big movement of caltech ppl wanting to change the mascot to thrtlr

Turtle

[verbal totem]

awww

[gritty glen]

WHAT 😭

[trim cosmos]

Why

[karmic raven]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/928653839421280380/1292309029061922837/togif.gif

[fading shore]

Caltech has a big turtle pond

[verbal totem]

omg i have to start wearing college merch in airports.

[fading shore]

It’s iconic

[verbal totem]

omg.

its real

[gritty glen]

Omg no. I got bit by one. They are mean beasts

[trim cosmos]

So iconic I haven’t heard of it until now

I fw the quirky and silly mascots heavy

[gritty glen]

I was literally talking to some caltech phd dude and mid convo a turtle jumps out of the stupid pond and latched onto my finger

[gritty glen]

NO

[karmic raven]

TURTLE

[fading shore]

HAHHAHA NO WAY LMAO

[gritty glen]

Thats probably him

this is why i was rejeced 💔 a squirrel also tried attacking me

[karmic raven]

IM CRYING

[fading shore]

I wanna find the campus coyotes and jump them

[gritty glen]

getting slimed by the wildlife in the middle of an urban area is such a feat

[trim cosmos]

They should name the turtle mascot

Tim the Turtle

To mess with MIT

[gritty glen]

The caltech clams

[karmic raven]

genius

[fading shore]

california institute of technology California spiny lobsters

[gritty glen]

Wow!!!!

[verbal totem]

california institute of turtles

🐢

not tech

turtle!

[gritty glen]

slow and steady wins the race -- caltech probably

[verbal totem]

— some caltech prof prob

[gritty glen]

Its like the on site ant keeper

[fading shore]

Nurbs

I fricking love Parker lab

[verbal totem]

luca i think i found u on instagram the other day

[fading shore]

Prob😭

[trim cosmos]

Wow that means u can find me

[verbal totem]

r u mr. ant man

[fading shore]

Antymicrobial? Yea

Heheha

[verbal totem]

yes omg u popped up on my reels

[fading shore]

Nah my sec account

[trim cosmos]

Oh I see

Tel Aviv impressed

[fading shore]

Someone asked me to shill ai the other day

more like a month ago but yeah

[karmic raven]

💀

[fading shore]

isef this year trust

Gotta clean state first though

sci fair the only comp I’m not confident about

[steady dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/tree-moment-tree-moment-arbol-gif-26948219

[fading shore]

But I’ve heard Stanford loves their isef kids

[steady dagger]

there are lots of isef people here i can confirm

i keep discovering that my friends are isef kids

[fading shore]

okay they better let me in

[steady dagger]

they infest the place like ants

[fading shore]

[verbal totem]

im not an isef 💆

[fading shore]

I better make isef this year

That way I can have the trifecta ✌️🫶

[gritty glen]

Whats the trifecta 😔

[steady dagger]

i never did isef or science fair or anything like that

[trim cosmos]

I also did not do ISEF

[fading shore]

isef, vex worlds, sci bowl nats

[steady dagger]

woa!

hello

[fading shore]

My main 3 ECs

[karmic raven]

me neither

[verbal totem]

hi sparkles

[fading shore]

I have 2/3 for this year rn and I gotta get isef to make all 3

[gritty glen]

yeah wel... mine was roblox...heh......

[fading shore]

Would also be a generational way to end snr year

[verbal totem]

ROBLOX

i love roblox omg 💔

i was playing flee the facility 20 minutes before i got into harvard

so unserious..

[karmic raven]

roblox game dev in the chat?

[trim cosmos]

Flee the Facility crine son

[karmic raven]

👀

[trim cosmos]

Nerf the running abilify

[verbal totem]

roblox game dev was on my app actually

[fading shore]

Bro if I lock in again and win sci fair state 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[gritty glen]

i wrote all my essays abou horses im genuinely friedfor every other college idk ive been rejected from all my commonapp colleges thus far 💀 oh well IDC idc

[verbal totem]

i can confirm

[karmic raven]

ME TOO

but I didn’t get into Harvard

[fading shore]

LOL i wrote all mine bout ants

[steady dagger]

there is an ants class at stanford!

[verbal totem]

u got stanford ur fine

[gritty glen]

bobox

[fading shore]

It’s by Deborah Gordon right

[steady dagger]

a couple of my friends are taking it its very good

[verbal totem]

omg and i was the BEAST

[steady dagger]

yes

[verbal totem]

and these ppl were teaming

CAMPING

not ok!

[karmic raven]

is life

[fading shore]

Gordon has her nice field lab in southern Arizona too

[karmic raven]

what super power

👀

[fading shore]

I think they work with pogonomyrmex there

[verbal totem]

the like

whats it called

when it says hide

[karmic raven]

u for this

[steady dagger]

guys i actually love stanford so much i hope yall get in

and then commit

[fading shore]

But she’s more of an ecologist and less of a systematics person

[steady dagger]

and then come here

[karmic raven]

the eyes one?

[verbal totem]

YES

sorry i dont know names

[karmic raven]

YES I DO THAT TOO

[verbal totem]

im such a visual person

[fading shore]

Yeah I’m not getting ts bro

[karmic raven]

me neither lol

real

[karmic raven]

they need to gimme aiddd

[steady dagger]

i love ecology <3

[fading shore]

Is it like, ecology

[karmic raven]

https://tenor.com/view/choking-choking-emote-gif-4834953046538741679

[steady dagger]

could not tell you

i assume they talk about ants

i was not in this class

ROCK CLASS

[fading shore]

ecology is fun but I liek systematics so much more 🥀

[steady dagger]

how do you know about my rock class

[fading shore]

ant ecology is neat though for the most part

[karmic raven]

there’s a rock class 👀

[steady dagger]

i may have short term memory

[fading shore]

If I go to caltech imma do evolutionary biology of Pogonomyrmex hybrids + systematics at Parker lab

[steady dagger]

wait yes EPS 1 is the best class in the world

[karmic raven]

omg yes I’ll look into it

[steady dagger]

its 5 units no homework

[karmic raven]

what are y’all’s favorite classes so far

[steady dagger]

eps 1 and math 53 and cs 107

[karmic raven]

fantastic

[steady dagger]

cs 107 was actually such an enjoyable class

[verbal totem]

u cs majors always double in something completely different e

[steady dagger]

yes!

[verbal totem]

r u doing that sparkles

[steady dagger]

wait i think most cs majors here just double in math...

[verbal totem]

wait rlly?

[trim cosmos]

I heard to take 106a for the A

[fading shore]

fuck bruh I lowkey half regret not applying to ivies but it’s for selfish reasons 😭

[gritty glen]

cs and cannabis studies harvard 30' ❤️

[steady dagger]

dont do that

[verbal totem]

ive met so many like cs + economics or cs + neuro or cs + english or some like other double

[karmic raven]

smh

[steady dagger]

just take 106b

[verbal totem]

LMFOAOA

[steady dagger]

you'll get an A anyways

[steady dagger]

wait cs+econ is also very normal

[verbal totem]

wait guys r the mit frats good

[fading shore]

No

[trim cosmos]

Even if I’m not stem at all

[fading shore]

It’s MIT bro

[trim cosmos]

?

[gritty glen]

😒

[steady dagger]

well if you've never coded before maybe take 106a

[karmic raven]

Stanford’s better anyways

[steady dagger]

but like dont smurf it if you know it already

its not worth your time

[fading shore]

Hey Caltech frats r worse

[karmic raven]

ok wait I’ll have to take this

how big is the class

[trim cosmos]

Then I’ll take 106a

[karmic raven]

dyk

[steady dagger]

its pretty big

[karmic raven]

uh oh

[fading shore]

🥀🥀 I wanted to experience more adrenaline ig but also not applying was so much better time and money wise + better for friends

[verbal totem]

oh perfect

i cant wait then

[steady dagger]

i mean all the intro classes are pretty big

[trim cosmos]

Yea that’s what I’m most worried about fall quarter

[karmic raven]

yess fs

Ivy day was actually hell

[karmic raven]

same

[trim cosmos]

All of my potential classes will probably be very big

[fading shore]

I lowkey feel like I coulda bagged more RD colleges if I spent more than an hour on the app

it’s okay today will clutch

[steady dagger]

you're guarenteed to have small classes your frosh year in your humanities core (COLLEGE and pwr)

[karmic raven]

today you mean

[steady dagger]

if you're in a popular major your intro major classes will probably be large though

[trim cosmos]

Crine my friend was complaining a lil abt COLLEGE102

[karmic raven]

actually wait I forgot time zones exist

oops

[fading shore]

Nah it’s 12;55 for me

[karmic raven]

oh it’s already 2

[verbal totem]

omg stanford is today

what the helly!

[karmic raven]

I just realized

[trim cosmos]

How the ppl be ragebaiting in their discussions then ending it off wit “I agree”

[steady dagger]

erm actually tomorrow is in 5 minutes

[fading shore]

I tried to Stanford valuemaxx so hard in essays I’m ngl

[steady dagger]

ive lowk only taken one humanities class so far and it was hella boring but if you talked like once a class you were chill

[verbal totem]

https://tenor.com/view/zadtwt-pinkpantheress-gagged-shocked-turning-head-gif-13930026580453081419

[fading shore]

Talm bout some community, leadership, learning, risk taking shit

[steady dagger]

lowk wrote my stanford app night of because i thought out of all of the colleges it was the one i was the least likely to get into

[trim cosmos]

Okay if u thought it was boring it will probably a lil interesting

[verbal totem]

mine too 😭 wrote it last minute

[karmic raven]

LMAO

[verbal totem]

i finished writing NU 30 mins before submitting

[karmic raven]

I did this w a lot of colleges

😭

[steady dagger]

we lowkirkenuinely talked about the same thing every class

everyone was super nice i just dont think the theme lended to diversity of thought very well

[fading shore]

ok so ygs r genuinely just cracked

I’m cooked 💀😭

[gritty glen]

hey quality over quanitity 💔 A better fit is better than more college offers bc you can only rly go to one

[steady dagger]

wait my NU essays were also written in one go

[verbal totem]

i just used my essays from harvard/columbia for everything else

[gritty glen]

😒

[karmic raven]

Caltech btw

[fading shore]

I agre

[trim cosmos]

I will be sure to choose an interesting COLLEGE theme then

[fading shore]

Twas all luck

[verbal totem]

seems like it worked 💀

[steady dagger]

oh i did esf

wait do esf even if its boring

esf >>>>>

[karmic raven]

I’m p sure I started Yale like 6 hours before it was due

& wrote two unique essays

[karmic raven]

sure

[steady dagger]

if you can get esf do esf its college and pwr in one class and its so much less work than either college or pwr

[trim cosmos]

I wanted to do ESF anyway

[gritty glen]

I submitted my mit portfolio with 6 seconds on the clock 💀

[verbal totem]

ill always remember my NU acceptance because i had just made this amazing bowl of pasta and pesto (oh my gosh u guys i dont wanna brag but u need to try my recipe its so good if i ever see u let me know i will make it) and then i got an email and everyone was like open it open it!

[karmic raven]

hey so are you going to drop the recipe

[steady dagger]

i remember opening NU at the mall like 15 minutes after it came out bc i couldnt get wifi

[verbal totem]

omg i need to make a cook book

abba cookbook

[trim cosmos]

I like to eat pasta

[karmic raven]

im hungry js reading your messages

[verbal totem]

right now im eating a feta cheese pasta

its rlly good and its like

also make sure u guys use the corkscrew noodles they get the most coverage with sauce

[trim cosmos]

Hello

[steady dagger]

i miss having pasta...

[trim cosmos]

Today is LSJU day

[verbal totem]

but i have all these little tomatoes cut up and i threw it on a pan

[steady dagger]

i cant lie i dont think ive had good pasta since coming to college

[verbal totem]

olive oil on top

season

[steady dagger]

i need a home cooked meal

[verbal totem]

toss it in and u need to like cook them till they r browning

[steady dagger]

yea :(

[verbal totem]

then u go and throw them into the melted feta u just coated the noodles in and bake at 375 (this is at altitude btw) for like 20 mins

enjoy my recipe 😋

[trim cosmos]

I’ll be sure to make that some tiime

I was at Westfield today Stanford ppl

I ate at the Din Tai Fung for the first time

[steady dagger]

what is westfield

[verbal totem]

how is college dining

in general

[trim cosmos]

The mall in Santa Clara

[steady dagger]

wait college dining is pretty good im just bored of it

[verbal totem]

like do u guys get sick of it pretty quick

[steady dagger]

i think theres enough diversity between dining halls that you can mix and match here

yaga sometimes has bangers

its been lowk hella mid though recently

[verbal totem]

r they all 24/7

[trim cosmos]

I dream of the LNY food

[steady dagger]

none of them are

😭

[verbal totem]

omg…

no…

say sike rn..

[steady dagger]

people cant like work all day i fear

[trim cosmos]

Ts is not Bowdoin with super snacks

[gritty glen]

guys this sounds stupid. How cold does the bay area get. Im from california but I dont own any pants idk im a shorts only typa guy

(sd)

[steady dagger]

like 40 degrees maybe?

you'll want pants in the winter i would think

winter at night gets to like 40 degrees

[trim cosmos]

You can get away with shorts this time of year but it was a lil chilly today

[gritty glen]

getting near dangerous territory there 🤔

Ok ok good intel

What about the Tule fog

[trim cosmos]

I went to Big Sur today as well and it’s so freaking elite but damn is it a hassle to get to

[fading shore]

Bro it was almost 100 here the other day

[trim cosmos]

As someone who lived the Tule fog

It doesn’t extend to Stanford

[gritty glen]

Wonderful 😎

[trim cosmos]

That being said the Tule fog was pretty fucking bad in December where I’m from

Didn’t see the sun for a solid two weeks

[steady dagger]

what is the tule fog

[trim cosmos]

Valley traps fog

Fog stay for many weeks

Fog make area very cold

Fog make area have no sun

[gritty glen]

My california geography class was like

beware of the tule fog.... the coldest winter I ever faced was a summer in the bay area..... i nearly froze.....

[trim cosmos]

It does get pretty foggy out in the Bay during the summer

Marin headlands are guilty of that especially

[eternal fjord]

yall i got rejected from all the ivies i applied to i feel so cooked for stanford

[mild kiln]

you got NW man

[eternal fjord]

I know!! It’s an amazing school but I can’t help but feel crushed still. Everyone around me was expecting me to get in to at least one and nothing hurts

[glossy talon]

same

[broken mesa]

also got no ivies yesterday

four waitlists is better than nothing but stanford outlook is dismal

[exotic crystal]

also got no ivies yesterday

all I got was one waitlist

[proud imp]

me too

[sullen fiber]

same

[exotic crystal]

for me I got a Cornell wl

[broken mesa]

i got a cornell wl too

and also harvard yale columbia

[stone grail]

💀

[dawn depot]

Bro can it just be decision time so I can see my rejection I hate waiting 😭🙏

[exotic crystal]

fr

I wish it was like sat scores

or AP tests

[dawn depot]

Everyone at my school boutta be pure depression from yesterdays blood bath

Only ONE Cornell admit from what I know and she’s like really mysterious I dunno anything abt her

[exotic crystal]

Ik at least three ppl got into an ivy yesterday from my school

one alr committed to Princeton

[dawn depot]

I just want like 3 ppl I know to get in

Cuz they’re deserving of it

[exotic crystal]

one of them is someone I know

😭

[broken mesa]

i have mixed feelings

happy I didn’t get rejected sad I didn’t get accepted

[exotic crystal]

at least I didn’t have a reject sweep

[broken mesa]

i had more waitlists than rejects somehow

[exotic crystal]

but I wasn’t accepted either

one waitlist 4 rejects lmao

[broken mesa]

if I don’t get into stanford I will commit to CMU SCS

[exotic crystal]

cmu scs > any ivy

[broken mesa]

the cost 🥀

[dawn depot]

You’re fine bro you got it

[broken mesa]

do the WLs make me cooked or uncooked for stanny

[dawn depot]

I’m just waiting after Stanford and I’m free from the shackles of decisions

[broken mesa]

i mean harvard and yale didn’t say no….

[tight kite]

The big ford is today

[broken mesa]

speed i need this

[tight kite]

Real

[drowsy skiff]

When

[tight kite]

4 pm pdt

[mild kiln]

fuck my life

[broken mesa]

WE are getting in

[formal lynx]

hopefully

[sonic wyvern]

yes WE are

[mild kiln]

ig so

[misty mulch]

Yes we are going to lealand

[cinder harbor]

waitlist by harvard, yale, pton, stanford left 0.0

[junior night]

Is he intl

[mild kiln]

good question

[worldly eagle]

manifesting

[misty mulch]

Stanford I need this fr

[sullen fiber]

stanford

come on

pls

[naive timber]

brotato chip ofc I have and have my list almost finalized but I’m in the Stanford thread lmfao

[naive timber]

but did u do something else with national recongition?

[naive timber]

wait we can put Roblox dev in our ECs ☠️☠️☠️

[naive timber]

UofA?

[trim cosmos]

Ur list will almost change and it was just general advice

[naive timber]

yes dw I appreciate u looking out for me and once I get lazy it’ll be cut down so I don’t have to do as many 😭

[junior night]

Skyler got off the waitlist tho and he got into CMU + Northwestern already

So it’s not like Stanford was his last hope 😭😭

[fading shore]

im not sure

[sonic wyvern]

i put professional t3/4 valorant player

[balmy raft]

same boat twin

5 waitlists 2 rejections total

[somber sinew]

3 waitlists 4 rejections from ivys

I’m cooked 😂

[mild kiln]

yall got waitlists?

[mild kiln]

you intl?

[balmy raft]

mostly a soft reject

[mild kiln]

better than a hard reject

[neat nymph]

depends on the school

at like MIT and harvard pretty much

[verbal totem]

stanford day

woo woo!

[elder wyvern]

i (john stanford) put a word in for everybody so we are actually all getting in

[somber sinew]

Nah I’m domestic

Got into jhu and cmu mcs so maybe there’s a chance

[mild kiln]

congrats!

[somber sinew]

Thanks

[peak tendon]

bro EXACT SAME

I got into JHU as well

I thought I had a fighting chance

but nah

like why tf did Princeton waitlist me but Yale after I spent weeks and hours and months. getting an interview. waiting after deferral. only to be rejected 😂 😂 😂

[charred canyon]

we sure are getting in

[blissful hedge]

When is stanford dropping

[verbal totem]

same as ivies yesterday

[soft geyser]

4pm

[blissful rock]

I can't find the settings menu... does anyone know how to skip ahead 6 in-game hours so I can view the results of the quest <crapshoot for Stanford!>

[slow tapir]

stanford reject me if you hate world peace

[slow tapir]

4pm PST, 7pm EST, 6pm central

[blissful hedge]

Good luck!

[spring crane]

[little cliff]

me

i only got jhu from the t20s so far

and like 4 waitlists

[grand tangle]

I've gotten 2 out of 18 acceptances and 0 waitlists, just rejections😭 I'm so fried

[little cliff]

which schools did u get accepted

i feel so bad for some of the people who don't get in anywhere with really good stats

makes me so sad

[verbal totem]

u got into columbia!!

ur not fried!!

[grand tangle]

Umich and Columbia 😭

[little cliff]

i saw this guy on the reddit yesterday stanford and yale alumni with all these crazy stats and he got in nowhere except like uc irvine or something iirc

[spring crane]

thats fried??

[little cliff]

ur good bro

columbia? ur good

congrats

[spring crane]

i feel like reddit is full of liars though

[grand tangle]

Columbia has the core😕