Caltech (2025-2026)

[round summit]

Just playing hehe

[narrow nacelle]

d/dx e^x is my goat.

[feral narwhal]

What does this even mean 😭

[narrow nacelle]

No.

[feral narwhal]

Tip of the iceberg

[versed bobcat]

https://tenor.com/view/busquese-com-iceberg-antartida-polo-norte-polo-sur-gif-7317196124460411033

[red light]

It is

[narrow nacelle]

I wanted to take Calculus so I could understand physics better, but my school requires PreCalc before Calc.

[red light]

You also don’t need physics to apply to Caltech

[versed bobcat]

are you applying as physics major?

[narrow nacelle]

I know, still goated though.

[narrow nacelle]

No, Aerospace Engineering.

[red light]

But you do need to explain why you’re not taking physics

[versed bobcat]

what'd you apply as

[narrow nacelle]

I took physics already. Just before Algebra 2.

[round summit]

Did you do MIT interview?

[red light]

mech e

More engineering undecided tbh

I barely wrote about engineering at all though

[versed bobcat]

does MIT interview hold much weight? Mine went very well but I doubt itll carry me over the finish line :(

[narrow nacelle]

I kind of want to do electromechanical though now.

[versed bobcat]

whatd you guys submit for portfolios

[red light]

It won’t make ur app worse that’s fs

[red light]

A lot lmfao

[round summit]

They say lesser important

[narrow nacelle]

If you don't mind me asking, did you score high on the SAT?

Because I scored extremely low.

[versed bobcat]

es probable

[narrow nacelle]

Like below average low.

[red light]

Like 1530

which is below average @ Caltech

[versed bobcat]

what exactly bc mine is basically a bunch of computational physics

[round summit]

Yeah below 25%tile

[red light]

800 + 730 cuz I didn’t bother studying

[narrow nacelle]

💀 I am not getting in. I scroed 1120 or something like that.

[red light]

oh 💀🙏

[round summit]

But 800 math is key

[red light]

yeah the 800 math is what matters

You get flagged if you have <750 math

English as long as above >700 is fine

According to AOs

[feral narwhal]

Caltech superscores for buckets right?

[narrow nacelle]

F

[versed bobcat]

https://tenor.com/view/yikes-gif-14297076895219370086

[narrow nacelle]

Yeah, I am gone.

[red light]

Yes

[round summit]

BUT your 800 =780 under new bucket system

[red light]

But the English bucket matters less than the math

[feral narwhal]

…

[narrow nacelle]

It was nice hoping.

[versed bobcat]

I have 790 m 740 e

[red light]

Indeed

[feral narwhal]

790 m 750 E

[round summit]

Me 800 too

[feral narwhal]

Imma take act

[narrow nacelle]

Damn, y'all scored high.

[versed bobcat]

I got 1-upped :(

[narrow nacelle]

So am I for sure not getting in then?

[feral narwhal]

Yea but that was my second try

[versed bobcat]

does everyone who gets in submit like a cracked ahh portfolio?

[ocean pecan]

why

[versed bobcat]

mine has like

some QM simulations

[feral narwhal]

Did you have to pay an application fee

[versed bobcat]

and things of that nature

that I made

[red light]

no

[narrow nacelle]

Yes. 😭

[versed bobcat]

do you have like

USPhO

or like

IMO or sm

[feral narwhal]

Because I feel I can get a 36, and my brother is saying 1540 superscore is low

[ocean pecan]

IMO 💀

[ocean pecan]

oh what

[feral narwhal]

Now why would we do that

[ocean pecan]

ngl ur bucket A bucket B thats good enough

[versed bobcat]

idk he prolly got some cracked ahh bs

[red light]

no, Olympiads are for cringe people

[ocean pecan]

uhhh

[red light]

Yes

[narrow nacelle]

Is this my sign to give up? Why, waht's wrong with paying?

[red light]

I’m kidding I love Olympiad ppl

[ocean pecan]

ayy

[feral narwhal]

For the other schools tha don’t superscore im at a 1520, but i do think thats alright

[red light]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17WKaZajFl_mhCqXGb1HbU97RZFjJ1KVM

portfolio I submitted rea

I was a big science fair kid freshman and sophomore year and now I do robotics

• science bowl for fun

[versed bobcat]

I aint gettin in

[narrow nacelle]

I am so coookkeeddd. 😭

Darn ittt.

[thorny sparrow]

Oh yeah the caltech guys viewed my portfolio a while back

[red light]

@thorny sparrow I’m so fucked state is this weekend

[versed bobcat]

uhh how far will essays take you

[narrow nacelle]

I hate this.

[red light]

coder is not locked in hopefully I can driver diff

[red light]

Very far

The portfolio isn’t mandatory

[thorny sparrow]

someone accidentally resolved one of my comments

[narrow nacelle]

I thought I would get in.

[thorny sparrow]

(idk why they had edit ngl)

[narrow nacelle]

If they are good, I heard they can carry.

[thorny sparrow]

😭 bro u will cook

[red light]

This is strssed very clearly by AOs

[thorny sparrow]

I fell off but sister team clutched and made worlds

[narrow nacelle]

But they can't carry an 1100 SAT can they?

[red light]

and yes, essays truly carry Caltech admissions

[narrow nacelle]

The essays?

[red light]

When you have good extracurriculars

[red light]

You’d have to explain well why you have an 1100

[thorny sparrow]

good ECs is a very high bar tho

[narrow nacelle]

I didn't even mention it.

Fuck.

[red light]

not necessarily good

Well I guess yeah, good

[thorny sparrow]

so like you have to be mega cracked for the essay diff to kick in imo

[red light]

You have to have a p clear stem passion

[feral narwhal]

You don’t understand how cool this is. I’m literally geeking over it

[versed bobcat]

I think my ECs are mid at best like theyre personally important to me but in terms of like external recognition I have very little other than UIL and national merit

[narrow nacelle]

That I have.

[ocean pecan]

tbf caltech lowkey the hardest uni to get into it so dont hate urself if u dont get in

[red light]

it’s more of how you write about the ECs

[red light]

This too

It’s ~3%, hardest in the US

[narrow nacelle]

I also worked at an injection mold shop as a mold maintainence.

[thorny sparrow]

I feel like caltech is also a gamble

you could be hella qualified and get not in cause of space

[narrow nacelle]

I am good at gambling.

[red light]

This too

[feral narwhal]

@red light do you write about insects in your essays?

[red light]

But I don’t really believe the space excuse

[feral narwhal]

I think I’m gonna do that as well

[red light]

In personal statement and another one yes

[thorny sparrow]

he did yeah

[feral narwhal]

Awesome

[thorny sparrow]

his essays cooked

[versed bobcat]

my essays are about making video games
I have a published game

[feral narwhal]

How’d you collect those?

[red light]

😭

[narrow nacelle]

Me too!

[thorny sparrow]

alr bro have fun at caltech

[red light]

wdym

[narrow nacelle]

We are twins.

[feral narwhal]

How’d you get all those insects

[narrow nacelle]

😭

[red light]

I grab them and put them in ethanol

[narrow nacelle]

As a tourist?

[red light]

for dead specimens

For live specimens I grab them and take photos

[thorny sparrow]

no u'll get in if ur that good at gambling

[narrow nacelle]

Like my gynandromorph major.

[feral narwhal]

Just hiking?

[thorny sparrow]

lowk what if i just do this to myself

[narrow nacelle]

The Camponotus one.

[thorny sparrow]

just jump in a vat of ethanol

[red light]

haha ischnura go brrrr

[red light]

Yeah that too

[red light]

Campo?

[feral narwhal]

When’d you start doing this

[red light]

Like

[narrow nacelle]

Yeah, remember when I posted that one in id channel, and everyone was confused?

[red light]

Idk 2019

[red light]

I do recall

[narrow nacelle]

I thought it was a queen.

[feral narwhal]

Very cool

[narrow nacelle]

If I get into CalTech, I'll give it to you.

To keep.

lol

[versed bobcat]

itd be so nice if they just sent an update email to let you know you're no longer being considered

so you can just move on w your life

[feral narwhal]

I’m seeing a lot of Caltech kids liking insects

[narrow nacelle]

Let the insect kids in, bro.

[feral narwhal]

Nah fr tho

[narrow nacelle]

Let's grow the myrmecology program.

Luca and I will grow it for them.

[red light]

Joseph Parker has a good evolutionary bio lab

[versed bobcat]

lowk Ill see you ALL at UTD except the caltech guy

[feral narwhal]

Have yall ever been to Chaney?

[red light]

I’m probably gonna working on evo bio of pogonomyrmex there

[narrow nacelle]

If I get in, I have a gut feeling I am about to annoy the hell out of poor Luca. 😂

[feral narwhal]

That’s the lab I work at 😭

[red ore]

hi

[red light]

Donde

[red ore]

how we feelin

[red light]

bro Awhat

WWHAT

PLEASE LET ME IN

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[feral narwhal]

Well you’re going to Caltech

I’m a hs

[round summit]

Did you get in to catch rea this year ?

[red light]

Rea yes

[red light]

yes bro please glaze me to Joseph Parker please please

[feral narwhal]

Parker is actually such a cool guy

[narrow nacelle]

Luca, pleaseee, tell them to let me in when you get there!

[red light]

I love him vro i visited his lab during CUC

[feral narwhal]

He can literally name every insect on this planet

[narrow nacelle]

Put in a good word for me.

[red light]

Unfortunately I don’t have this pull

[thorny sparrow]

wait so luca are you lowk gonna switch from engineering to evo bio?

[narrow nacelle]

lol

[red light]

No I’m js gonna work in Parker lab

Hopefully

Ideally

[thorny sparrow]

the sidequest that isn't a sidequest type shi

[feral narwhal]

wait if im still in the lab next year and you get to work in there as well well be in the same lab

no way

[red light]

Idk ento systematics work is ez

I can do it without a degree

Taxonomy is ezpz you can do it without allat training

I should have something published soon too for ants audhgswhgwgwgwg

[thorny sparrow]

ya'll do be cracked getting into labs in hs 💀

[red light]

I don’t

I live in New Mexico

[feral narwhal]

theres already two undergrads in parker lab

[red light]

fuckass nowhere

[red light]

Make it 3!

[thorny sparrow]

yeah bro lives in the ufo town

[versed bobcat]

idk how mfs do it / know to do it

[red light]

Do you think he’ll let me do ts over the summer

🥲

[feral narwhal]

email him, I emailed him and bro jus let me in

[red light]

Ig I’ll ask when I commit

[feral narwhal]

i will forever be grateful for mr parker

[red light]

Yeah but I need rooming xdxd

Which i suppose ain’t that bad

[feral narwhal]

oh yea then idk

[red light]

I’ll figure it out when I hear back from Stan and mit

I’m gonna be an mit victim lmao

[versed bobcat]

would you go to either over cal?

[red light]

but Stanford did call my counselor the other day

[red light]

I wanna see Finaid offer

[versed bobcat]

lemme off the waitlist (if i make it there)

[versed bobcat]

smart

[feral narwhal]

i guess genuine passion for insects is the method

[red light]

Idk Stanford was weird

Stanford app fs has less context

tree lemme in please

[grizzled iron]

Ya

[feral narwhal]

dude gordon lab at stanford is crazy cool too

[versed bobcat]

is no interview a bad sign for most schools or is it just yale

[grizzled iron]

Status “Ty for the app fee lil bro 🙏 “

[red light]

Mmm but that’s more ecology though

And I don’t like ecology

[versed bobcat]

true

[red light]

I am a systematics/evolution guy

most of my collections relate to evolution and taxonomy of Pogonomyrmex hybrids

[thorny sparrow]

stanford campus is cool

they won't let me in tho

I really like campus

[red light]

Stanford PLEASE

[thorny sparrow]

I like basically did the window peeping thing for all the labs

its so cool inside some of them

[feral narwhal]

if you like ants youd want to get paired up with john at parker lab

[red light]

honestly I think here’s how it’ll go with my last 4 colleges
UCLA, UCB ✅
Stanford ⏸️
MIT ❌

[red light]

Whomst

[ocean pecan]

u never know with the UCs istg man

[red light]

I’m more confident for those

[ocean pecan]

I got WL from Davis LMAO

[feral narwhal]

why no MIT

[oblique cape]

U guys making me feel like a chud for doing CS 😭

[red light]

Berk loves isef people + I’m from fuckass nowhere

[feral narwhal]

it the yield

[red light]

UCLA is a statmaxxer

[red light]

I don’t think my lot are in yet

[ocean pecan]

Yea been hearing that but it’s still crazy

I’m in state too

[red light]

Wait is John the guy who takes care of the liometopum

[feral narwhal]

yes

[red light]

oh ik him

[paper fog]

what time does caltech come out toomorrow

[red light]

3:32

[red light]

We have a bit of history together lmao

[paper fog]

how many ppl get in again for RD

i lowk forgot

[red light]

about 300?

250 ish

[paper fog]

bruh

yo i have a feeling imma get wl

[feral narwhal]

hes a great guy and always working

[ocean pecan]

WL is basically soft reject won’t lie

[red light]

There’s ~150 in admitted students disc

[paper fog]

bro i got

a caltech grade update

with my counselor last week

a reminder

[thorny sparrow]

Lowk I think i'm getting straight waitlist at ivies 💀

[red light]

yeah but we used to argue a lot back when I was like 13 and there was lots of Antkeeping drama stuff

[paper fog]

the friday before last week

[feral narwhal]

is yall second semester of senior year chill

[thorny sparrow]

comparing my stats to others

[red light]

I don’t think he cares allat much cuz he’s prob diff now

[red light]

fuck no

[paper fog]

no

[feral narwhal]

wait how you know him at 13

[red light]

I’m going to blow my fucking skull out

[ocean pecan]

This is propaganda

[red light]

dw

[feral narwhal]

wait why

[thorny sparrow]

i'm convinced its 3:30, i think they intended u use the website on the caltech culture page

[red light]

because I have to grind my ass off for robotics and science fair

[feral narwhal]

what could possibly be that stressful

[red light]

Then get dicked down by other stuff

[feral narwhal]

ISEF?

[red light]

It’s 2 min diff

[ocean pecan]

Bro u lose motivation a lil but u can’t slack off and there’s still mad shit to do

[red light]

That’s the plan

Round 3 hopefully

[feral narwhal]

i entered my parker lab research into isef

[thorny sparrow]

I know but the best kind of correct is technically correct

[red light]

Type shittttt

[feral narwhal]

is isef senior year just for the love of the game

[red light]

48 laureates 49 prizes

Yeah

I love isef ppl

I still talk to them daily

[thorny sparrow]

ngl I just burned out hella after college apps 💀

all the repressed trauma lowk stopped being repressed 💀

[feral narwhal]

why not STS

why isef

[red light]

Like @bagu2tte

Bruh what

[red light]

Because I was lazy

And I was busy

And my project was no started lmao

[feral narwhal]

😭

[red light]

Peak figures though

They’re so hot

[feral narwhal]

what is that?

GCMS?

[red light]

hplc

[red light]

This is gas chromatography mass spec right

I saw the machine at Parker lab

[feral narwhal]

yes

[red light]

Ts so cool bruh yall can check the chcs on ants

[feral narwhal]

so many chromatography terms out there

[thorny sparrow]

ts is like the ant circlejerk

[red light]

hplc is just liquid chromatography but more efficient cuz it’s at high pressure

yes

[thorny sparrow]

lowk it's cool to see people nerding about ts

[red light]

I’m using it to seperate antimicrobial peptides I extracted from Pogonomyrmex rugosus

[thorny sparrow]

I'm just following along with google and ap bio knowledge 💀

[red light]

and I have to go do a bunch of assays next week

[feral narwhal]

LCMS was the very first analysis I worked with

[red light]

[red light]

Fancy bruh wtf

[paper fog]

i feel like colleges care less abt isef nowadays

[red light]

HPLC is just LCMS but with no MS

[thorny sparrow]

it matters what you did

[paper fog]

most of the ppl with isef or sts40 getting alr had other good stuff

[thorny sparrow]

mit and caltech will def read on ur project

[paper fog]

yes

[red light]

Isef prob carried me to a lot of stuff imngl

[thorny sparrow]

nah I know a lot of ISEF carries

who didn't have much else

[paper fog]

i mean i know someone with stst40 that didnt get in anywhere last year

[red light]

Yeah

[paper fog]

i doubt its many

again theyll prob take a few but

[red light]

Isef defo carried me to a lot of summer programs and such

[feral narwhal]

isnt STS40 after you submit everything or no?

[red light]

Which then made my app goated

[red light]

Yeah

[feral narwhal]

what summer program did you do

[paper fog]

yes

[thorny sparrow]

lowk I regret not having a plan from freshman year

[red light]

ssp

[paper fog]

but if u got stst40 u prob had good research

[thorny sparrow]

I just did whatever I liked with no plan

[red light]

and prob helped a lot with cuc

[versed bobcat]

same what the fuck was I doing

[thorny sparrow]

which made my app weak

[versed bobcat]

yep

[feral narwhal]

bro this year they doing sum hella sus shit by doing lottery system

[red light]

Bruv I didn’t

I just did whatever I wanted

[red light]

No ur js overthinking it, iirc lottery was only for some other stuff

[feral narwhal]

what campus did you do

[thorny sparrow]

somehow you doing whatever you wanted put you in a better position than me doing whatever I wanted 😭

[versed bobcat]

no cracked ass summer research programs no crazy science fair shit
all I did was like start my schools ap physics program make a shitty ass game that nobody plays anymore and like self study math up to diffeq

[red light]

IU

[thorny sparrow]

c'est la vie ig

[red light]

Objectively best campus

We were so goated

[thorny sparrow]

FUCK I gotta finish diffeq hw before 23:59

I'm so cooked

[feral narwhal]

i chose purdue as my first

[red light]

2x Caltech 2x UPenn 1x Duke 1x uchi 1x Stanford already

We’re so back ❤️

[feral narwhal]

damnnnn

[red light]

Ew

[feral narwhal]

wait why

purdue got hella engineering aura

[red light]

Purdue didn’t get to watch Caitlin Clark play last year

WE DID

🙏😜😜😜😜

[feral narwhal]

😭

[red light]

lmao I applied biochem as an engineering major

It was so fun

[feral narwhal]

lowkey already got rejected from Simons

[red light]

only takes one

[thorny sparrow]

oh shit ur a junior

cracked junior damn

[versed bobcat]

of course everyone else who applies to caltech has credit for the courses they learn material for dawg

[paper fog]

i got into simons

but i couldnt do it

cuz of scheduling conflicts

[thorny sparrow]

Gang I didn't even think about college when doing diffeq

[feral narwhal]

awesome!

[thorny sparrow]

I just like this shit

[red light]

twin you should put in a good word for me if I commit Caltech

[versed bobcat]

tuff tuff
same here

[feral narwhal]

i got you

[thorny sparrow]

math is super fun but I suck at oly math (because I don't know number theory or combinatorics)

I'm trying to learn those now

I moreso like calc ig

cause of how applicable it is to cs

[feral narwhal]

what should i take after bc

[thorny sparrow]

linalg

[grizzled iron]

Damn bruh y’all smart

[thorny sparrow]

• calc 3

and then diffeq

or do linalg + diffeq then calc3

either works

[feral narwhal]

i was gonna do calc 3

[thorny sparrow]

but do linalg first fs

[feral narwhal]

wait why

[thorny sparrow]

linalg helps a lot for intuiting calc 3 imo

[versed bobcat]

ik bro all I got is like introductory diff geo for GR

[red light]

isn’t bc calc 3

[thorny sparrow]

gang no

[red light]

Take diffeq and linalg ins the ad

[feral narwhal]

no bc is calc 2

[thorny sparrow]

bc is calc 2

[red light]

what really

wtf

do yall not do multivar in bc

[thorny sparrow]

we end at taylor + maclaurin in bc

[versed bobcat]

no dawg

[thorny sparrow]

no multivar

my bc teacher did multivar tho

[grizzled iron]

I got Calc AB

[thorny sparrow]

for the shits and giggles

[feral narwhal]

im on ts right now

[grizzled iron]

That’s it 😭

[versed bobcat]

I genuinely might just not check tmr

im not on this level

[red light]

wtf

[versed bobcat]

at least on paper

[red light]

Man wtf

[thorny sparrow]

linalg gives you a very good theory foundation for vector spaces and transformations which helps in calc 3 imo

[red light]

Calc 2 was lowkey hell

[red light]

Yeah

This is true

[versed bobcat]

linalg is fundamental for calc 3

its absolutely necessary if you wanna touch calc 4 too

[feral narwhal]

ok so linear alegbra it is

[red light]

Not rlly

[thorny sparrow]

nah but the stupid progression makes you do calc 3 first

[grizzled iron]

I will but yk I’m fully expecting a rejection

[thorny sparrow]

imo calc 3 will fit in ur "math puzzle" better with linalg

[red light]

Linalg isn’t fundamental for calc 3

Calc 3 and linalg can be taken either way

It doesn’t make a difference

[feral narwhal]

would tou do calc 3 or linalg

[red light]

I did calc 3

[thorny sparrow]

linalg is like the glue of calculus imo

[grizzled iron]

Anyways y’all gn

[versed bobcat]

oh no I meant like mathematically

[red light]

Not even

[versed bobcat]

man I genuinely feel hopeless big dawg

[red light]

Calc 3 is probably better when applying for undergrad

[thorny sparrow]

You can do it w/o linalg but theory foundation wise linalg lets you achieve more iwht calc 3 imo

[red light]

Linalg might be more for if you want to knowledge max

[feral narwhal]

yall are conflicting me

[thorny sparrow]

idk bro

[versed bobcat]

probably most correct

[versed bobcat]

what do you want to do

cs?

[thorny sparrow]

I really don't know about what's best for college apps

[feral narwhal]

no bio

[red light]

Oh

Multivar

[thorny sparrow]

idk man linalg is lowk fire for bio trust

[red light]

😭

[feral narwhal]

lin alg or ochem

[versed bobcat]

yea linalg is super important for calc 4 but ig you dont need that for bio

[thorny sparrow]

math for maths sake type shit

[red light]

Ochem

100%

[versed bobcat]

calc 4 is kind of just some engineers, physicists, and math

[thorny sparrow]

ochem ngl

ochem is fun

[versed bobcat]

we just gonna ignore our only theory of gravity that works

[thorny sparrow]

I wish i had more time to finish reading klein

[red light]

It’s useful for modeling in fields like bio

But like that’s kinda dumb

[feral narwhal]

i would take both but that would tank my gpa

[red light]

Anyways yes ochem

100%

Ochem isn’t that bad

It’s literally js fucking functional group bs memorization

[thorny sparrow]

just read klein over the summer trust

it's such a fire book

[red light]

You’re halfway their if you’re working with CHCs regularly

[feral narwhal]

wait yall did that many DEs, wow

[red light]

Half of ochem is like fucking hydrocarbons n shit bro it’ll help w ur research

[feral narwhal]

theres levels to ts

[red light]

I did 132 credit hours

that’s why Stanford called my counselor bro they had to verify it wasn’t bs

[versed bobcat]

PDEs? yh

[feral narwhal]

what is that

[versed bobcat]

I cant take courses on it tho

[red light]

Partial differential equation

[versed bobcat]

you gonna have fun in college

[red light]

The easy kind of differential equation

[versed bobcat]

yeah bro its only partial

not the whole thing

[thorny sparrow]

partial de is easier

[versed bobcat]

https://tenor.com/view/big-brain-gif-27108854

[thorny sparrow]

I be reading ts rn

it do be making sense

[feral narwhal]

whats the highest math your taking then

[red light]

linalg

/calc3

They didn’t offer diffeq this year bro

Ts pmo sm

[feral narwhal]

wait last question what if I do 3 aps only and then 3 DEs

[thorny sparrow]

I didn't ever formally get credits for calc 3 😭

I just self studied

[versed bobcat]

where is the initial equation

[thorny sparrow]

gang thats crazy workload

[red light]

Doesn’t rlly matter

[versed bobcat]

same for me

[red light]

js be goated

[red light]

This isn’t that bad

[thorny sparrow]

we live to learn ig

[versed bobcat]

3 DEs as in..?

[thorny sparrow]

Depends on the classes ig

[versed bobcat]

im an IB kid

[red light]

I’m taking 6 dual enrollments rn

[versed bobcat]

ohhhh

that makes sense

[feral narwhal]

like lin alg, calc 3, and ochem

[thorny sparrow]

I have 4 aps, 2 normal, 1 de rn

[versed bobcat]

dawg Ishould have done dual enrollment instead of IB

[red light]

I wouldn’t do linalg and calf 3 same semester

[versed bobcat]

id have so many fucking math credits

im so mad

[thorny sparrow]

it's kinda light

I'm getting cooked by my non-school learning

I'm trying to learn too much lowk

[versed bobcat]

IB is os shit

[red light]

the worst I did was I think Gen Chem, alg phys, calc all in the same semester

[thorny sparrow]

I have 5 textbooks i'm trying to get through rn

[versed bobcat]

same im tryna do GR to stand out to the profs at my safety

[red light]

Though my calc 3, calc based phys, engineering statics, discrete math was pretty brutal too

[versed bobcat]

I need in asap

[thorny sparrow]

Klein, Atkins, Campbells, HRK, Morin, bunch of ml stuff

[feral narwhal]

does your school not have APs 😭

[thorny sparrow]

he don't got aps

he's in ufo town

[versed bobcat]

mine has IB

[oblique cape]

IB + AP is the strat trust

[versed bobcat]

no its not

[red light]

Gauntlet of doom and despair

[versed bobcat]

IB is worthless

[oblique cape]

berkeley liked it 😍

[thorny sparrow]

A in ACT/SAT??????

wtf is that

[oblique cape]

me when i spell berkeley wrong every time

[red light]

it’s a mandatory class in NM

Act/SAT prep

[thorny sparrow]

gang what

[versed bobcat]

so maybe im just a shit IB student too

[red light]

And it did help me lock in on psat that year

[thorny sparrow]

how is that a mandatory class

[feral narwhal]

bro genuinely lives in the middle of nowhere and his school got the greatest classes ever

[red light]

Idk it’s like state mandated or school mandated

I have no clue

[oblique cape]

Nah i only took 3 IBs

rest AP

[thorny sparrow]

act/sat prep is lowk just listening to ur high school education ?

[red light]

More or less

[red light]

Bro it’s New Mexico

We are STUPID

[versed bobcat]

oh im IBDP and I js take the exams

[thorny sparrow]

Like I got 1520 psat and 1590 sat just by knowing alg 2 gang

[oblique cape]

oh

[red light]

1520 psat twin

[thorny sparrow]

😭

[feral narwhal]

calm flex huh

[versed bobcat]

yo same

[red light]

Dont wanna talk about my sat tho

[thorny sparrow]

dude the math section is shit simple tho

[versed bobcat]

1520 psat

[oblique cape]

im still pissed off i didnt get NMSQT with a 1500 psat 😭

[thorny sparrow]

which state?

[oblique cape]

Living abroad

[abstract ember]

same

[red light]

I shit the bed on psat 11 though and I needed like a 1510 to qual bc boarding schools are region based and not state

Which is so dumb

[versed bobcat]

can you even get nmsqt abroad?

[feral narwhal]

i got a 1500, but i tihink imma qual

[oblique cape]

yes if you get a 1510/1520

[red light]

so I had to compete with tx schools living in NM and I was so pissed off

[oblique cape]

and us citizen

[thorny sparrow]

texas had high cutoff

[versed bobcat]

its fine national merit is just a full ride to a safety anyways and you dont need that

[thorny sparrow]

lowk getting 1520 psat isn't that hard if you're a nerd tho ngl

[oblique cape]

True

[red light]

Yeah since I’m at boarding school I have to compete with TX cutoff

[versed bobcat]

dawg we had 14ers get nm

[red light]

I shit the bed on PSAT 11

[thorny sparrow]

oh mb it was another bum state

[feral narwhal]

does national merit do anything for college apps

or is it just filler

[thorny sparrow]

I kinda bombed the PSAT 10 ngl

1480

[versed bobcat]

probably not?

id assume not

[oblique cape]

it's just an award/honor u can put

but honestly i would put it in additional info

[versed bobcat]

if I were an AO I wouldn't give a shit

[thorny sparrow]

I didn't put it for any college that got my sat score

[red light]

Me neither lol ur sat score matters not psat

[thorny sparrow]

I only put it on UCs cause it's indirectly telling them that i got perfect psat LMAO

cause they don't take sat at all

[versed bobcat]

I have like no honors besides state-level music stuff

so like

Iput it

but

[thorny sparrow]

also cause UC has 20 spots so i could afford it

[versed bobcat]

idk why I applied anywhere dawg

[red light]

highkey just live in small state

You can win everything

[thorny sparrow]

gang I live in bay area cali

[feral narwhal]

fax bro why was i born in cali

lemme live n south dakota

[thorny sparrow]

winning shit here is sooooo hard

[versed bobcat]

why was I born in a low income part of texas

[red light]

I deadass studied a week for a neuroscience comp as an engineering major and got 4th (almost 3rd) in state bro

😭 😭

[thorny sparrow]

I wish I lived in like Tioga, North Dakota (elite ball knowledge)

[feral narwhal]

ok bro lowkey parker lab needs you

[red light]

This state is too fucking easy

god I would have been a menace for sci oly

I was such a menace in sci oly MS

[thorny sparrow]

gang why don't we swap then

[red light]

6 events 🙏😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[thorny sparrow]

I can barely stay afloat in this bay area shit

[red light]

Fuck it bro I will I need to get a taste of hell

[feral narwhal]

doing sci oly for me was a mistkae

[versed bobcat]

this guy making me regret going to high school

[feral narwhal]

everyone and their mother does sci oly

[red light]

Sci oly was fun in MS but I can’t carry a team to nats 😔

[versed bobcat]

it was over freshman year dawg

[feral narwhal]

i should have done USABO

[thorny sparrow]

I should've locked in for USACO plat

[versed bobcat]

its been over

[red light]

Usabo is method

[feral narwhal]

people literally jut cheat on this

[thorny sparrow]

my ass only got to gold which is lowk worthless cause of cheating

[red light]

Science bowl highkey method

[feral narwhal]

literally what i was thinking

[thorny sparrow]

idk bro I like cs and I worked for ts 😭

[red light]

niche research is method bro

[thorny sparrow]

I wish I also locked in for f=ma/usapho

[red light]

I have ant paper soon

[thorny sparrow]

cs research 😭

it's so hard to get into w/o connections

[red light]

Journal doesn’t matter bc ant taxonomy doesn’t gaf about journal

[thorny sparrow]

and also like the prereq knowledge is so high for cs research that's legit useful

[red light]

You gotta get niche field that profs want people for

[versed bobcat]

My school didnt have it till this year

[red light]

project yufei Chen

[versed bobcat]

Method is to just not apply bc then you cant get rejected

[feral narwhal]

genius

[oblique cape]

Step #1: live in a country that has ISEF quals

😭

[versed bobcat]

Why didnt I just enjoy my winter break

Why did I bother dawg

[feral narwhal]

i feel like youll get into a good school

[versed bobcat]

https://tenor.com/view/two-people-laughing-on-table-laugh-laughing-lol-gif-3006610283817764608

[oblique cape]

CMU apparently's a similar time to caltech

🥀

[red light]

12-14

Range

[oblique cape]

ruh roh

cmu mit caltech

dream blunt rotation

[thorny sparrow]

Triple reject depression gauntlet

lowk I should do russian roullete

one bullet for each college releasing

[versed bobcat]

True

[feral narwhal]

yall needa chill 😭

[versed bobcat]

More likely to live than to be accepted

[thorny sparrow]

fr

[thorny sparrow]

😭

[red light]

NMsef vex state MIT

nightmare blunt rotation

[thorny sparrow]

ok bro you'll cook at states trust

it's fucking nm

[red light]

ITS SO CHOPPED BRO 🙏😭

[versed bobcat]

Truth is one guy out of every ten thousand guys who has a specific dream actually gets to live their dream and everyone else has to find something else that works

[thorny sparrow]

gang that's better than like half the state but lowk slow

[red light]

The ONE WEEK s BOT REBUILD ON A DAMN RUIGUAN BASE

[feral narwhal]

bro jus does everything

[thorny sparrow]

sorry more like better than 90% of the state

[thorny sparrow]

nah the bot looks good

[red light]

it is yes but it’s slow bc it doesn’t need to be fast

[versed bobcat]

I want to do string theory research but realistically that isnt happening g

[red light]

it could be liek 4 seconds faster

[thorny sparrow]

we had solo awp that was whizzin

[red light]

Getting rid of all inefficiencies

[thorny sparrow]

that shit went at lightspeed

[modern thicket]

i got rejected

[red light]

But there is no point optimizing 4+3

When you should optimize speed of solo AWP instead

imo

[thorny sparrow]

Ig

do you have elims rush?

[red light]

it’s because this mf finished the code YESTEDAY

YEARERDAY

[red light]

We have 7 + wing

[thorny sparrow]

Ok but lowk ur doing 4+3 in wrong order cause you wanna hold the long goal

[red light]

Which is like, good enough lol

[thorny sparrow]

7+ wing is also fine ig

[red light]

Nobody is going 9 block

[thorny sparrow]

but 7+wing has to be fast asf

[red light]

It’s NM broski

[broken shadow]

I didnt apply am i getting in

[thorny sparrow]

cause at least in r2 ur fucked if you do 4+3 in the wrong order

[feral narwhal]

shiny shoe

[red light]

We’re gonna have one with wing at very end and also one rq

[thorny sparrow]

same for 7+wing without speed

[red light]

It’s NM I don’t think most teams have 4+3 even

[thorny sparrow]

like 7+wing has to be lightspeed or else ur fucked

[versed bobcat]

I think we have a roughly equal shot

[red light]

Because 4+3 requires decent scoring and tongue

Which 95% of teams don’t have

[thorny sparrow]

gang isn't 4+3 basic

[red light]

And even if they do they’re probably not consistent

[thorny sparrow]

didn't think NM was THAT cooked

[red light]

no autons btw

[thorny sparrow]

wtf

[red light]

our coder didn’t bother to code autons that event for elims

🥲

[versed bobcat]

My team didnt make it to state dawg

[red light]

It’s so chopped

[thorny sparrow]

which region?

lowk i'm shocked sister team made worlds tho

[versed bobcat]

Texas

[thorny sparrow]

that shit was so clutch of them

[red light]

My record at an event w/ all teams going to state

[thorny sparrow]

which of the 5 gang

[red light]

Wait wrong pic

This one

[thorny sparrow]

holyshit bro

[red light]

Sorry this is the right pic

[thorny sparrow]

these diffs are normal lowk

if you do regular wingplay

[oblique cape]

104-3?

[red light]

no wingplay

[oblique cape]

I don't do FTC or whatever that is

[red light]

🙏😭 there is a total of FIVE teams in NM with a wing

[oblique cape]

But 3 points

[thorny sparrow]

oh that's cooked with no wingplay holy shit

[thorny sparrow]

gang WHAT

wing is basic

[red light]

ME, 69580X, 55885X, a MS team, and 64846B

[red light]

There were 2 at that tourney

[thorny sparrow]

jesus bro

[red light]

Me and 55885X 🙏😭

[thorny sparrow]

wings are so easy to do aswell

[red light]

Holy chopped bro I think I’m deadass the only team that can play decent wings

[thorny sparrow]

man all ts has me thinking what if I wasn't californian

imagine what I could've done

holy shit

[red light]

if I don’t triple crown

I’m a fucking bum

[thorny sparrow]

Gang you better triple crown states with how cooked ts is

[versed bobcat]

Whichever one has dfw

[red light]

Atleast double crown tc/sc, excel is a little rigged

[thorny sparrow]

oh shiiii that region is cooked

[red light]

We have 4 wq spots, but skills isn’t one of them

[thorny sparrow]

whats ur predicted skills?

[red light]

Its design instead which imo is just rigging

[red light]

Like 155

My park crossing is fucked

[thorny sparrow]

nah its the correct rolldown

[red light]

Bc this drivetrain was made for a diff bot

[red light]

Over skills?? Rlly

[thorny sparrow]

without park cross that's lowk decent

[thorny sparrow]

yeah there's a standard list

not pulling it up rn but

[red light]

It’s 80 driver and like 70-75 auton

[thorny sparrow]

everyone uses the same rolldown list from vex

[red light]

Auton skips the far parking zone

[versed bobcat]

Yeah we never make it far
Im in charge of programming so I had to do all the monte carlo shit for the notebook for us to be dead on arrival

[red light]

bc inconsistent parking so we don’t want to ruin auton

[thorny sparrow]

lowk that's good but mid by cali 2 standards

[red light]

Driver is standard all clear + long goal + 2 clears and park

[red light]

cali 2

[thorny sparrow]

mcl is fun

[red light]

I think I have #1 in NM with some fuckass 76 skills

[thorny sparrow]

brotha what

[versed bobcat]

Ye its not complicated

[broken shadow]

Yup

Actually i applied for history major

WHAT IF I APPLY

AS HISTORY

FOR CALTECH

[thorny sparrow]

ltv-lqr is also cool ngl

[red light]

Ok tbf at that event I probably coulda gotten like 100-120 but like

[versed bobcat]

Funny asl

[red light]

My coach told us not to

[thorny sparrow]

why?

[red light]

We don’t want to scare teams into trying to get >100 skills

[feral narwhal]

No majors my guy

[red light]

🤗

[thorny sparrow]

LMAO bro this kinda play is crazyyyyyyyyyyyy

only in nm type shit

[red light]

Welcome to my chud life

[versed bobcat]

Tuff

[thorny sparrow]

it's really easy to implement ngl

but it works so well

[broken shadow]

clearly, you aren't knowledgeable in the Academia of CalTech-

[thorny sparrow]

brotha

[red light]

Last ball issue but that’s geo and it’s cooked

[thorny sparrow]

how are you top with a 76

holy shit

[broken shadow]

im shaking is this real

[red light]

Unfort

[thorny sparrow]

gang this region is cooked

what the fuck

[broken shadow]

I like CalTech's vibe

[red light]

welcome to my chud life

[thorny sparrow]

me when the intake does not have enough tension

[thorny sparrow]

I want this life bro

[red light]

Bro I don’t understand how to build S bots

[versed bobcat]

I lowk dont wanna do this anymore how do I rescind my application hours before decision date

[red light]

this was built on a 30 minute cad

I’m so deadass

[thorny sparrow]

Lowk it's 99% there

[red light]

it’s enough to win state

And then I’ll holecount 10b for worlds

[thorny sparrow]

ur corner and tension geo is fucked

[red light]

I know

It doesn’t matter vro

I just have to wq

And it’ll all be over

[thorny sparrow]

yeah lowk with the kinda skills scores topping that region

ur guaranteed wq

ts too easy

Bro I could fly in and triple crown nm states at this rate

[red light]

[red light]

Fs

How does tension geo work btw

Without like jamming the intake

[thorny sparrow]

you just gotta use bands and tune it super well

I put bands on zip ties to help tune

[red light]

yeah rhats what I figurred

Flex wheels bad cuz too much grip right

[thorny sparrow]

yeah

they don't flex nearly enough

[red light]

But I assume if you use bands on the outside then flex wheels fine

?

[thorny sparrow]

ur gonna have issues with it rolling while in the intake ngl

[feral narwhal]

You don’t apply with a specific major

[red light]

Robot Rn is fine it’s just last ball that’s munted

[thorny sparrow]

it's prolly a minor tension thing but you can see how the balls struggle with the corner

[red light]

Yeah ik

It’s a geo issue

[thorny sparrow]

you should prolly just smoothen out the corner with poly and diff geo

[red light]

I can’t really fix it now

[red light]

No bruh I’m fucking rebuilding if I go to worlds

[thorny sparrow]

yeah it's enough for states now

just rebuild for worlds

[broken shadow]

you do lol

[red light]

I had a good triple state and my coder walked into a fucking wall with it

Cuz he was texting while walking

[thorny sparrow]

they just ask for area of interest

it's not by major admissions

[thorny sparrow]

😭

ts so cooked

[red light]

Also BRO I got a request on my second account about shilling an AI app

[thorny sparrow]

lmaoooooo

that's acc so cooked

[broken shadow]

@red light will caltech take me for DEI

[red light]

Dunno

I’m dei

[thorny sparrow]

bro is the king of nm

[red light]

cuz STARs

[red light]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1138554187605610548/1480103694891487262/attachment.gif

[broken shadow]

You know that I love you boy, hot like New Mexico, Rejoice

At this point i've gotta choose, nothing to loose

[thorny sparrow]

trust i'ma become the king of the bay

[broken shadow]

https://tenor.com/view/alê-ale-alejandro-bertoni-chrisgold97-gif-20647749

[thorny sparrow]

I gonna bag caltech, cmu, AND mit

trust

i'm totally not delulu

[broken shadow]

Caltech is NOT in the bay i fear

or MIT

or CMU

[feral narwhal]

But cmu is

[broken shadow]

Pittsburgh..

https://tenor.com/view/pinkglock-gif-25583982

[thorny sparrow]

no but i'll be the only kid from the bay to get into all 3

[broken shadow]

Oh wow

[thorny sparrow]

trust

[broken shadow]

I'll be king of LA

I will get into Brown and Columbia

[feral narwhal]

Sorry that’s me

[thorny sparrow]

frfr

we're all gonna cook

[broken shadow]

https://tenor.com/view/ryryscientist-bhad-bhabie-gif-5171189952987235178

[thorny sparrow]

i'm totally not gonna self-hate again tmrw after caltech rejection

[broken shadow]

I RUN LA.

I RUN UCLA.

I RUN USC.

I RUN CalTech.

[thorny sparrow]

idk why i'm anxious about decisions even tho i'm 100% sure i'm rejected

what is this false hope

[feral narwhal]

Nobody from my school has ever gotten into mit

[broken shadow]

If you all get into CalTech go to Erewhon xx

[thorny sparrow]

lowk caltech students too chud for erewhon

[broken shadow]

Erewhon is great trust

[thorny sparrow]

isn't it just price gouging for a facade of a status symbol

[thorny sparrow]

we had one kid but he was literally on usa physics team

[broken shadow]

I wouldn

sorry didnt finish

I wouldn

OMG THIS KEYBOARD

[feral narwhal]

if yall get into Caltech can I read yall essays

[broken shadow]

I wouldn't say its "price gouging" a few years ago I was curious too and calculated price of smoothie, and the ingredients come around to basically price of smoothie. It Does have higher quality produce and stuff. It doesn't feel that as much as a status symbol to me, unless u post it

[broken shadow]

u can read mnie

[thorny sparrow]

interesting

[feral narwhal]

You said you didn’t apply

Erewhon actually tastes good

Especially the matcha vanilla smoothie

[broken shadow]

Rttt

[thorny sparrow]

If I get in I'll send my essays to anyone lol but I doubt

[broken shadow]

I did

didn't

but i have a feeling ill be sent a letter by a robot owl tommorow

[feral narwhal]

Luca I wanna see those essays 👀👀👀

[broken shadow]

telling me I got in

[feral narwhal]

I’ll make sure you get in

Since I the king of la

[broken shadow]

Will CalTech accept me for Egyptology?

https://tenor.com/view/carrie-bradshaw-sex-and-the-city-satc-smoking-reflective-gif-7282787206784511167

[feral narwhal]

Yes if your dad donates one of the pyramids

[thorny sparrow]

luca essays are unmatchable levels of orz

shits poetic

[broken shadow]

its ok im DEI

[feral narwhal]

@red light imma have to run a significance test on this hypothesis

[broken shadow]

DEI Gay history major

[silk bronze]

I too would like to second the motion if possible 😄

[feral narwhal]

Bros a government major

[broken shadow]

F,M,K - Chem, Bio, Physics

[feral narwhal]

All in favor please say aye

[broken shadow]

M Bio, F Chem, K Physics

[feral narwhal]

Keep in mind it’s called biochem and biophysics

Not chembio and physbio

[broken shadow]

i am not talking about BIOCHEM

[paper fog]

who gets first wave of cmu

[thorny sparrow]

lowk the physics more important tho

[thorny sparrow]

I think you should be totally asking this in the caltech thread despite a cmu thread existing

[paper fog]

its dead

lets talk here

[broken shadow]

LMAO

[modern thicket]

dont disrespect my boy physics like that 😔

[feral narwhal]

Physics don’t know you

[thorny sparrow]

lmao

math is just the tool tho

physics on top

[paper fog]

yo

good luck to everyone and myself tomorrow

[versed bobcat]

Empiricism has left the chat

[bitter path]

Guys

What's the time

Of results

[ornate loom]

They fixed the accepted email thing right?

[sterile escarp]

what? 😭