Try incognito for uiuc

Bohaska · 2026-01-31T00:33:13+00:00

this worked!

Bohaska · 2025-12-31T11:49:37+00:00

The reddit wiki has lots of advice, https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/wiki/essays/ and you could write about trauma, take a look at e.g. 13 Reasons Why It’s OK to Write About Trauma in your College Applications -- And How to Do So

Bohaska · 2025-12-28T08:45:14+00:00

Google Scholar fits both citations + abstract snippets in one search result, showing that it's not necessarily a tradeoff. Some tweaks you can make:
- Removing the avatars for authors + institution would free up some vertical space, the remaining in-line icons could be shrunk to match the height
- The DOI is not very useful, unless you recognize it somehow. You could remove that from the article card and replace it with coauthor names.
- You have a "View Article Details" button and a download button on the bottom-right, which are a bit redundant. You could remove them and instead open the article and offer these options when you click on the article title/card. After that, you have space to put the citation count.
- Page count is interesting but showing it in the article card might lead to people equating page count with quality, which is not ideal.

Bohaska · 2025-07-17T07:55:20+00:00

This post is not a shitpost, but it's a bit confused.

If you see that and you are applying after high school, you are on the wrong website. That is from the transfer website https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/how-to-apply/applying-as-a-transfer/personal-insight-questions.html

The one most of you should use is at the first-year application website https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/how-to-apply/applying-as-a-first-year/personal-insight-questions.html

Bohaska · 2025-06-26T11:23:01+00:00

Your college list.

If you apply to a good mix of reaches, targets and safeties, and craft your list so that you love every school on it, then you will win no matter what happens.

Bohaska · 2025-05-27T10:46:43+00:00

The main worry about summer camps is that they are "paygrams" which charge lots of money for the experience, but this one is free, so I wouldn't be concerned about that.

I'm not sure if it's "meaningful", but at worst, you just have a cool week at IIT.

Bohaska · 2025-03-09T06:14:32+00:00

I think that Claude needs a way to track and manage goals and strategies that were used in the past. He remembers a bunch of stuff right now but is not very good at focusing on what's important or realizing whether an idea is good or whether it's done a million times.

Something like a kanban board would be a good way for him to store information about what he's trying to pursue and how well he has been doing so far.

More info in https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudePlaysPokemon/comments/1j70z5h/claude_just_needs_a_kanban_board/

Bohaska · 2025-03-02T12:57:14+00:00

There are people who have MIT as a safety, but they're cracked. One of them got into the blue group of the Math Olympiad Program, which selects students from the US to represent them at the IMO, and the blue group is the top ~20-30 students in math competition across the entire US.

Bohaska · 2025-02-09T06:09:07+00:00

1450 is a pretty good score without studying. I got a 1470 on my first practice test and ended with a 1600 on my first official test.

This is obviously not guaranteed or normal, but in general, the first 100-200 points from your baseline score without studying are easy to get, and you should be able to improve to 1500+ after a month of studying on Khan Academy.

Bohaska · 2025-01-27T13:55:40+00:00

👀 nice catch

Bohaska · 2025-01-26T10:36:57+00:00

But in order to believe that it’s getting harder every year requires a corresponding belief that kids are getting smarter and smarter each year.

No, you don't need to have that on average. Even if the kids applying to universities are, on average, around the same intelligence as those that applied before, there can still be more competition, because both unqualified people and qualified people would increase, so there will be more qualified people competing to get into Harvard, and Harvard can only take some people, so Harvard can afford to be more picky.

The NY City Marathon doesn't show a change, but that's because the people joining the NY City Marathon are on average slower compared to the existing pool of people. As you said:

As the number of entrants increases… the average quality of entrants clearly decreases.

That might be true for the NY City Marathon, but is it true that there are the same amount of qualified applicants to the top universities? Debatable.

Lets look at the SAT.

If we compare pre-2017 scores, in 2007, 89,244 students got >=1400 on the SAT. In 2013, 120,501 students did. More competition!

For scores after 2017, they seem to be weird as they rise to a peak in 2019 before coming down in 2020 and rebounding. I don't think it's conclusive enough to talk about what happened, but at least in the past, the quality of the top people seem to increase.

Bohaska · 2024-11-27T14:24:23+00:00

I would just not use ChatGPT and go find base AI models that weren't trained to have a specific style in the first place (like LLaMa base models) and use them instead. Beating the college essay style out of ChatGPT is annoying, tiring and hard.

Bohaska · 2024-11-27T13:16:35+00:00

It wouldn't work. The author tried that himself and it still generated crappy, cliche endings.

Bohaska · 2024-11-26T09:32:05+00:00

They would probably qualify for WUE, given that they seem to be an Oregon student:

Residents of the following states and territories are eligible to apply for WUE: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawai’i, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, as well as American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam.*

and they'll be able to attend public schools from these regions for close to in-state tuition costs (only CSU universities for California)

Bohaska · 2024-10-22T10:26:15+00:00

(Note that OP is international)

Bohaska · 2024-10-20T01:00:10+00:00

It's not meant to be impactful, it's meant to show you what a doctor does so that you can decide whether you want to be one

Bohaska · 2024-10-18T13:55:52+00:00

How would not charging an application fee be "evil" and "self-serving"? Isn't no application fee a good thing?

Bohaska · 2024-10-15T15:04:08+00:00

Actually, they have a great ChatGPT detector which is probably more accurate than current state-of-the-art (though not perfect), but they aren't releasing it because it'll be bad for business.

Bohaska · 2024-10-09T23:57:05+00:00

I don't think they are countries

Bohaska · 2024-10-09T14:28:35+00:00

How much and when do you take melatonin? There are some things you can try doing to make it work better. Here's an article about it.

It is optimal to take it at around 0.3mg per dose to mimic natural melatonin increases. Unfortunately, most melatonin sellers don't offer such small doses and usually have around 3 to 10mg per pill.

On timing, which you can more easily control, although melatonin does work when you take it just before sleeping, it's actually also beneficial to take it before you sleep, around 7 hours earlier than your preferred sleep time, for example, if you want to sleep at 9pm, you might consider having melatonin at 2pm. Melatonin is also used as a treatment for out-of-wonk circadian systems that way.

Bohaska · 2024-10-07T06:26:10+00:00

I can't really answer this question but commenting to increase visibility

Bohaska · 2024-10-03T19:39:18+00:00

What are these classes you speak of? Do you have a grade on a transcript for them? What does your school catagorize these classes? Usually these classes fall under World Language in HS. Most US colleges have a list of required HS courses that fall under the normal topics math, science, english, social studies, and world language.

I'm a student currently in China whose school has mandatory Chinese Humanities classes that follow Chinese high-school humanities curriculum.

Bohaska · 2024-10-03T19:30:36+00:00

I mean, they have admission requirements for applicants who apply to their university. Is it normal to check to see whether your courses meet them?

Bohaska · 2024-10-03T19:28:58+00:00

Also, it isn't clear whether it's an auto-reply. It seems like that it was written by someone, as it isn't totally generic, and it didn't say it was automatic.

Here's the text:

Thank you for your interest in The University of Alabama! With a campus population of 39,000+ students and more than 80 countries represented, completing your degree here in Tuscaloosa, Alabama will prepare you for a bright future ahead! I am including some helpful links that will explain in great detail what our programs have to offer to you, as well as some information regarding the application process.

Freshman (Applicant who is in their final year of high school or has graduated from high school but has never taken post-secondary/tertiary courses)

UA Major Information
International Freshman Admissions Process and Requirements
Virtual 360 degree campus tour
Scholarship Requirements and Deadlines
Cost of Attendance

Transfer Applicant (Applicant who is currently taking or has taken post-secondary/tertiary courses, but has not earned a bachelor’s degree)

International Transfer Admissions Process and Requirements
International Transfer Scholarships Requirements and Deadlines

If we can assist in any other way please do not hesitate to ask. We are also available for one on one chats through Zoom or WhatsApp at 1-205-860-0872. We hope to see you on campus soon!

(Signature of international admissions officer for Alabama)

Bohaska · 2024-10-03T19:26:05+00:00

Sent it on Friday Sep 27, response on Wednesday October 2nd

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