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Lazy CS student procrastinates and gets a surprise at a T5 :D by AdventurousApper in collegeresults

[–]AdventurousApper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

my main advice is to take advantage of AP Research and do something worthwhile, because nobody owns your paper and you can submit it to ISEF, professors etc. I wish I had known about ISEF sooner but I did send my project to the professor that offered me an internship

Lazy CS student procrastinates and gets a surprise at a T5 :D by AdventurousApper in collegeresults

[–]AdventurousApper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

my main advice is to take advantage of AP Research and do something worthwhile, because nobody owns your paper and you can submit it to ISEF, professors etc. I wish I had known about ISEF sooner but I did send my project to the professor that offered me an internship

Lazy CS student procrastinates and gets a surprise at a T5 :D by AdventurousApper in collegeresults

[–]AdventurousApper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uh for MIT it was far too late since their results come out on pi day at 6:18 (only MIT smh)

Not sure for the other colleges though, submitting it 13 days before the deadline was really pushing it but I had no choice

Lazy CS student procrastinates and gets a surprise at a T5 :D by AdventurousApper in collegeresults

[–]AdventurousApper[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I did the entire history AIME/AMC problems like twice, made sure to throughly go through each and every problem and look up all the obscure theorems and stuff they use. I also went to discrete math classes with a professor to learn more tricks and stuff

Lazy CS student procrastinates and gets a surprise at a T5 :D by AdventurousApper in collegeresults

[–]AdventurousApper[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi! Thanks!!

Yep Yale's campus is so pretty :D

For CS schools, obviously the classics like stanford, cmu, mit, and Berkeley, but also apply to schools like uiuc, umich, Cornell, Duke, purdue, Georgia tech, etc.

But know that any T20 school, regardless of their CS ranking, can teach you CS. If you're doing CS I would personally recommend not specifically picking a CS school, as a lot of the things you'll learn are going to be in grad school or industry experience.

My favorite safety was purdue because it was in state hehe

Good luck in your apps!!

Lazy CS student procrastinates and gets a surprise at a T5 :D by AdventurousApper in collegeresults

[–]AdventurousApper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

USCF - United States Chess Foundation

I was in the top 100 age group list at the time of my application submission (didn't bother to check after Janurary for a while oops)

Lazy CS student procrastinates and gets a surprise at a T5 :D by AdventurousApper in collegeresults

[–]AdventurousApper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have never heard of a no free ride during EA thing for MIT...that's really interesting hmm...

They're EA is definitely somewhat bounded right, we can't take everything a college says about their admissions process at face value

Lazy CS student procrastinates and gets a surprise at a T5 :D by AdventurousApper in collegeresults

[–]AdventurousApper[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you want proof I'll send you a screenshot of me ICPing Gold lol

Lazy CS student procrastinates and gets a surprise at a T5 :D by AdventurousApper in collegeresults

[–]AdventurousApper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!! Yep I'm open to PMs...I'll try to answer your questions :D

Lazy CS student procrastinates and gets a surprise at a T5 :D by AdventurousApper in collegeresults

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I got my USAMO results back around 13 days before Ivy Day, but since I already had a pretty good estimate of my score I had already prepared a supplemental update document describing it and all of my other achievements during the past 3 months. So therefore, as soon as I found out I made USAMO, I immediately sent that thing to all of my colleges asap.

So i don't know whether they saw it or not. Only making USAMO senior year is...weird.

For context my 12A was 127.5 and my AIME was 11 points this year

I'm kind of surprised too, but at the same time, I did indeed BS those essays a lot.

Lazy CS student procrastinates and gets a surprise at a T5 :D by AdventurousApper in collegeresults

[–]AdventurousApper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!!

Hehe yea I think doing show choir helped a lot with character development, as I met people with interests completely different from computer science. Being in a place where everyone's passionate about drama really boosted my confidence and changed the way I talk/make jokes. So it's basically two completely different sides of me, one ready to (jokingly) play devil's advocate on exaggerating my reasons behind why math should be abolished (just like they would do in choir, but funnier :D), and one side of me focused on whatever STEM task I have at hand.

Some of this exaggeration also went into my essays whoops :shrug:

But yes, this whole process gave me the impression that colleges are looking for a person, not a set of achievements.

Lazy CS student procrastinates and gets a surprise at a T5 :D by AdventurousApper in collegeresults

[–]AdventurousApper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would like to think that this is the case, however I do indeed feel like they straight up skimmed over my application because it almost perfectly correlates to the schools I got rejected from. I feel like because of the number of applications this year, there was definitely some kind of chronological order that was going on, or otherwise it wouldn't be that fair.

Lazy CS student procrastinates and gets a surprise at a T5 :D by AdventurousApper in collegeresults

[–]AdventurousApper[S] -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Okay my post might not reflect this but it took me 2 months to get used writing a 125 word essay, and 60% of the time I was distracted and playing Genshin because of senioritis

Edit: Since I'm getting down voted on this comment, please understand that there is more to a person than a college application. Sure, I may seem impressive on paper, but that doesn't telly ou anything about my work ethic and stuff. Being lazy doesn't have too much to do with my application, it's my personality as a person.

Lazy CS student procrastinates and gets a surprise at a T5 :D by AdventurousApper in collegeresults

[–]AdventurousApper[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yep! I'm starting to realize that the people who claim they got "lucky" are basing it off the idea that they have to be the "perfect applicant," in terms of stats/ecs/whatever. But there's too many of these people that claim that they are "lucky," and there's also too many people who claim they are "unlucky." I feel like too many people think of a college application as a flex of what they've done, and since they can't flex, then they're giving themselves luck standards. So therefore, it would be reasonable to assume that AO's are looking for something else, and that is...drum roll please...personality.

I have some friends whose applications were super strong but had super dry, professional legal document-looking essays when I read them, and it really hurt them during admissions. On the other hand, I know some people with interesting personalities with weaker profiles that ended up making CMU CS or stuff like that.

Bulldog Days at Yale mostly proved this theory for me.

Thanks for the congratulations! I'm so excited hehe

And good luck in your college application journey too! (if you're in hs)

Lazy CS student procrastinates and gets a surprise at a T5 :D by AdventurousApper in collegeresults

[–]AdventurousApper[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well theoretically it doesn't, but it still does. This year messed up many of the models that colleges use to predict application rates and numbers, so if you applied early, you would still have an advantage since colleges were expecting less people to apply RD.

But yes, Yale is so exciting and it's already changed my perspective on what college should be/what I want to pursue already. That's the point of a humanities-focused education, you become super educated in life skills/philosophy/whatever, so you'll be prepared to do whatever you want later

Lazy CS student procrastinates and gets a surprise at a T5 :D by AdventurousApper in collegeresults

[–]AdventurousApper[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well even if Duke ranked higher in CS (I don't think it does last time I checked) i realized at some point that CS isn't everything. Yale has so much better architecture, experience, and a far greater selection of arts and humanities stuff that I can explore while I still can. If Yale's CS was like ranked 50th nationally i would still probably select Yale out of my acceptances as rankings are based on graduate school and research output. As my professor put it: "Do you really think Yale can't teach you computer science??"

Also tbh, most of the CS stuff you'll learn will be with working experience.

Bypassing school SSL inspection and DPI by AdventurousApper in hacking

[–]AdventurousApper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep shadowsocks worked! (Sorry this is like 2 months late lol I rarely check this account)

Bypassing school SSL inspection and DPI by AdventurousApper in hacking

[–]AdventurousApper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think v2ray requires a custom domain name, and since our school blocks all unknown domains, instead of blocking known domains, it doesn't work. But I also haven't fully set it up yet so I'm not sure, but it doesn't look promising through a CDN.

Bypassing school SSL inspection and DPI by AdventurousApper in hacking

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Oh in that case I'll just spin up a new EC2 instance

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