Waitlist WINNING

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ye

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they are not going to move agian

pton ppl would only decommit if they got off harv lowk so

i doubt

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mane now im thinking i probably couldve used their financial aid offer to negotiate more from stanford

im still on both 💀

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isnt stanford hella stingy w it

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harvard seems to be on the extended now

i saw like 2-3 people get off since the initial wave of people getting in

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yes

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lowk disgraceful for a hypsm

no shade but

how does princeton have the best aid

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what happens if i send a loci in rn

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stanford not being more generous is criminal 😭

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no grad programs

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hell naw gang ur not

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LMAO

im kind of tempted

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they have sooo much money per student because of no grad work

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no i mean like. how does the most pretentious ahh stuck up school have the best

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i wouldnt decommit from stanford for either of them

i just want the financial aid offers

😛

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fade stanford for having this small ahh waitlist and not moving it at all

400 kids bro

i erally should have declined ts waitlist offer who gaf

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what’s stanford’s usually yield %

wise

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do i look like i know these numbers 😭

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i heard its 90s this year

or high 80

idk actually but

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i mean yk how big the waitlist is 😭

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jesus fuck

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uh yeah cause i got wl

💀

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are you legacy

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yes triple leg which is why i would have gotten in if i REAd

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did they tell u tho how many they waitlisted??

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nah i js looked it up on google rq

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eh maybe

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generally universities dont really gaf about it unless u apply early and if im wl now i figure probably would have been admitted idk

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this guy im bff with had tri generation legacy and he got deferred

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kid from my school donated hella to stanford and had more legacy than me and he got in rd

which is maybe why they didnt let me in

who cares lowk

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waitlists are also used for legacies

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bro my bff had 7x legacy at yale and did a generational throw by applying ED amherst

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im kind of surprised it didnt move this year

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he got in after defer but got rejected yale

he also got into cornell so idfk

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i feel like legacy is becoming less and less important as time goes on

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it might be a AI thing though

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also i dont have 3 gen legacy i only ahve 2 so

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i watched this interesting video about the emergence of legacy and how it doesn’t match institutional priorities anymore

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bro icl being at stanford as a non stem major would probably have been so bad because of AI

flying into SFO was torture literally every ad i saw was for AI

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potentially but legacy is important cause they want donors

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also literally every ad in SF is for AI too

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SF is definitely techy

but stanford is figuratively and literally so large you dont have to involve yourself in ai

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my grandfather was flabbergasted i didnt get into stanford/ivy because when he applied it was like 25% 30% 💀 said he was going to stop donating (guy hadnt donated since 1980 so idk waht the fuck hes on)

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its kind of impossible to avoid ai anywhere though

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let me know how many of ur classmates use chat im going to be very intereste

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would say donor status is more important than legacy, just that legacy is pretty close relationship to who donates

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yes

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probably a vast majority

ok wel

i think claude is more popular than chat

now

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yeah, but outside of that the premise surrounds legacy as being a way that allowed for holistic applications to develop that heavily favored white people at the time without universities needing to reject someone more “qualified” by entrance exam. i forgot where i watched it but it was interesting to hear that perspective on why legacy was an emerging factor, because legacy wasn’t something rlly considered until the 1920-1930s iirc. i think the video was from some organization that works on exposing the funding of universities, i would have to search again for it

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theyre all the same to me

altho i use claude anyway

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that too

its a remnant of elitism

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college admissions barely existed before the 1920s anyway lowkey

like before that most people just didnt go to college

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thats honeslty what i was thinking too lmao

like everyone who applied back then wouldve gotten in cause applying is like rich ppl only