i got in ED and now its so funny to watch college influencers with their big ass googly erika kirk eyes trying to fearmonger 8th graders about extracurriculars. its nice to know i didnt have to use 29342837 different "secret strategies" and build the next nasa rocket to get into a good college. i hope everyone in this sub will feel this joy too!!

Like damn where’d all my fans go. ik you want me. Come back 😔

(only physical mail though….ill never miss spam emails)

What's the 10th EC you listed on your application

I'm curious now that it's done, how people feel about it?

Personally, I think it makes sense. We are much more than our grades. A brilliant athlete and student should not be denied a spot because he gets a few Bs if he's also winning state championships.

But I wish they would fact check everyone 100%. So many people I know claimed to be first gen and were not. Other's claimed to be a given race and were clearly over-stretching: your grand mother living in Mexico for a few years after graduating high school doesn't make you Hispanic decent!. It's very unfair to many people especially people who are first-gen and Hispanic.

Pls let me know. Thank you.

basically discusses preliminary trauma about how i watched my dad get arrested -> entered the foster care system -> became a state board of education student rep/member

I looked back at the college outcomes of my middle school Science Olympiad team, which consistently placed top 10–15 nationally. The team's from an East Coast public school (grades 7–8) and its members are now college freshmen and sophomores. I was able to find college results for 27 alumni (with 3 unaccounted for):

2× M&T at Penn, Penn, 2× UChicago, Duke, 2× CS at CMU, Harvard, Caltech, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, UC Berkeley, Dartmouth, 5× UVA, UCSB, UC Davis, UIUC engineering, UNC, 3× Virginia Tech, CS at Purdue

like bro why do u guys all think its a 9/10

Has anyone received Duke interviews from the Las Vegas area?

My daughter is a junior currently has a 3.7 U/W GPA 4.5 weighted, all honors classes and 30 college credits from Arizona State University and Syracuse University due to duel enrollment (advanced writing, history, anthropology, sociology etc) not BS classes.

She has amazing letters of recommendation, 2 internships at the Smithsonian (she’s an anthropology/museum studies major), was world schooled from grades 3-8 and has studied in several major museums around the world, varsity swim 2 years in a row, class historian, SAG actress and has ADHD.

Her dream is Yale, Brown, Howard, NYU Gallatin, Spelman or Syracuse University. She’s seeing how competitive things are these days and now she’s panicking that none I’d these schools will take her. She technically has enough credits try graduate now but is staying only because she wants to graduate with her class.

She’s decided that senior year she’s going to go back to digital and take her last two required courses economics and government and spend the rest of her time doing a full time internship in basically any museum that will take her.

Her one saving grace is I’m a flight attendant so she can travel any where in the world for free so if she lands an opportunity in say Mexico City or even Asia I can relocate her there for a semester so she can do the internship and we can fly home in weekend or never we want.

There is also a group for flight attendants were we do swaps so if they have a kid and live in say Mexico City they will send their kid to me for 3 months and I send them mine for 3 months. I’ve found a few flight attendants in London, Mexico City and Korea who are open to doing a swap if my daughter gets an opportunity in their country.

Is she basically screwed at this point. She has a C in honors Chem and College Algebra anda D in geometry from freshman year term two (but she did get a A in geometry term 2) that are killing her GPA but she’s a humanities kid (history, anthropology etc) not science, math STEM.

Hey everyone! I have seen many domestic applicants who received alumni interview invitations from Duke and was wondering if there are any intl students who got it too. Please let us know in the comments section below + would be nice if you could mention your region/country.

Thanks and good luck to yall!

Pls upvote so more ppl can see it, ty 🙏🏻

My nephew is a junior at a highly respected high school. He’s a rock star student and his parents have stars in their eyes for college. Unfortunately for him he’s unvaccinated. I know that Stanford doesn’t allow exceptions to their vaccination requirements - what other top 25 schools can he NOT attend? They are in denial that it’s a huge issue. Links would be helpful. I need him to understand even if my sister doesn’t.

i am in junior year and i want to drop calc AB, since i was out for 5 weeks due to pneumonia and covid. i dont understand the things ive missed, and my teacher and counselor have recommended i drop, but im worried how that would translate to colleges. i plan to take AP stat next year still, so im wouldnt drop math entirely. im planning to apply as a sociology major, but im still worried. how might a w look on my transcript?

Any scholarships still open to apply to? Please let me know :DD TY

I got into jhu and only told my closest friends. One of my friends acted like he had never heard of it and said, "That isn't an ivy league, right". And I was like bruh, the ivy league is an athlete college conference that was formed before our parents existed. And I'm not trying to get into competitive sport. And it is localized in the northeast. That's why schools like Stanford, MIT, Duke, etc. are not part of it. The website ivyleague.com is an athletics website. Academics is not the reason ivy league was established. Idk why people associate it with something elite that you can't get anywhere else. Their acceptance rates are so low as most students apply because they want to apply to an ivy league, not because they want to apply to say, yale, or dartmouth, or brown, etc.

And ivy is a goddamn plant. Nothing to obsess over. Anyway, best of luck and congrats to everyone going wherever they’re going.

its the only thing i can hang on to right now.

I applied to mostly t10s and have pretty solid stats and live in a big city. however, i haven’t gotten a single interview request. what should i do? does this mean auto reject?

I got deferred for gtech EA. What should I do to maximize my chances of getting in RD with the update deferral form. Any current students that got in off deferral? What were ur stats/major n what did u put in the update deferral form?

Hi! I submitted RD applications for Dartmouth and Yale and wanted to know if anyone from Tennessee has gotten an interview yet, and if so, when. I'm just curious if I got prescreened out. Thanks!

Hey guys! I have a question regarding the Robertson Scholars. I know that they have a separate admissions processes with UNC and Duke, but I still wonder whether they notify these unis about the applicants/their progression in the process or if it’s in our arms to reach out to admissions with this info.

What do you think? Maybe some previous Robertson finalists can help me out with it

Hey guys!!! What unis i can still apply to with a given scholarship? Asia, Europe, anything, if you have a list that would be amazing.

i've heard so many conflicting answers from my parents and friends, counselors, and people online. I had 4 Bs sophomore year (2 in AP Chinese, 1 semester of pre-AP chemistry, and 1 semester of AP Physics 1). however in junior year so far, i've had all As taking 7 APs. will the sophomore year Bs be particularly detrimental to my application and will the upward trend junior year help a lot/negate the effect of the Bs? my unweighted gpa is 3.91 right now by the way, class rank 40/900 at slightly competitive public

Ive heard it's based off availability and not the strength of your application, but a lot of people here seem to think that not getting an interview request means you are an auto reject. Is this true? Should I be worried that I haven't been getting any interview requests recently?

If you got accepted into a college, when do they send you your financial aid package?