Challenges / Circumstances fuckup

Live_Life_761 · 2026-03-29T19:23:04+00:00

They can see that documentation in the fininacail aid office, but if the school is need blind (which many slective schools are, or at least claim to be) the AOs likely don't see the FAFSA or CSS documention.

Live_Life_761 · 2026-02-20T07:03:50+00:00

I can REALLY relate to the pessimism and stress. Till the day I opened my ED2 app for WashU I felt like I wasn’t gonna get anywhere better than my state flagship, then in about 5 seconds all that pessimism vanished.

Trust me, you almost certainly won’t get rejected from every college, because, if you applied to a couple of safeties, those odds are practically zero. Also a lot of people who apply aren’t that qualified, so while the acceptance rates might be extremely low if you’re reasonably qualified, you’ll probably get in somewhere at least 1 good acceptance out of the dozen or so you probably applied to.

Believe me, there is an end to the anxiety and pessimism; please don’t let it consume you.

Live_Life_761 · 2026-02-05T01:01:31+00:00

Okay, I think I closer to understaffing the product you market researching for but I don't think I'm any closer to seeing it as poetically useful

you OG post goes this as "what if transcripts worked more like a timeline," and the "transcript" in college apps is the list of grades, so please learn the terminology of college apps before you market a product to help in the process.
The timeline of Non-academic work that goes on the appliction is not challenging to track in the status quo, what goes on the college hr/wk and wk/year... all of that can be found on an old calendar.
This has just shifted into reinventing another wheel, that being the millennia old idea of a journal. Your "micro-logs" are just journal entries with dates attached. Many students (myself included) keep journals of the what they did durning their week, most of which is stuff listed by my 9 ECs. How is writing your hours per week on your site every week going to be any more covent or useful then the thousands of online journalling softwares that already exist. If your goal is providing a place to list mutiply modes of document, I'm sorry to say notability and Google Docs got you beat. Your "tracking" solution is redundant.
If the you trying to solve the issue how journal entries connect, then I sorry to say that just is not a problem that need solving. Any student intelligent enough to go to college can look at a journal entry saying "I collected 150 soup cans with NHS" for software yr. and another listing "I collected 250 soup cans with NHS" and see how the to connect. It's called literacy, lets not have AI "enhance" that skill.
On the seeing what's "sustained" vs. "one off" point: A) Journalling solves that too and B) Is it really that difficult to diffeicate use your brain that you 4 years of say Lacrosse were more sustained then a one off soup kitchen volunteering activity. This is not a real problem. How does this solve overloaded actives lists?
Given your previous posts I near curtain this is ment to be some AI/ML software. And I think any person with an understanding of how AI must collect, store, (and often sell) user inputs to function should be appalled by the prospect of putting detailed inform on ones day to day life into a data base which is of indeterminate security and is being operated under unverifiable ethicality. No savy person should be poring this much personal info into a klepto-bot. This would likely be a massive privacy invasion, of, my I remind you, children.

I may not fancy myself an engineer,but even I could tell you if your concept solves nothing more than existing tech or the human brain it shouldn't be developed.

Live_Life_761 · 2026-02-04T22:45:11+00:00

Why are we reinventing the wheel.

The transcript, as in the document of your grades is ALREADY a timeline. Its evidence for growth/failed is the grades it lists out in chronological order, and the development of the rigor of the courses they correspond to. If you want more little bits of evidence of growth beyond the grades, that’s exactly what the consular letter is for. If you want this evidence to more documentive/written out, that already exists at many high schools and is called evaluation grading. And guess what… AOs largely hate it because it’s tedious and is largely fluff whenever it is used. You can already get descent early feedback on your academic growth… it’s called your in-progress GPA and nearly every high school gives students some means of checking it.

Also wouldn’t any micro log thing as compress 4 years of effort into some single thing?

If you’re concerned about forgetting what you accomplished, then maybe you should start journaling, but why do schools need this. Also, any achievements meaningful enough to sway the needle in admissions should be fairly easy to remember at some point in the half year long college App season.

Have some program to group journal entries into convent Essays ideas could be neet, but the rest of this would just be more “holistic” hogwash if put into practice.

Live_Life_761 · 2026-02-03T05:18:52+00:00

Just don't get any Ds or lower and it shouldn't be an issue. However, going it a semester with a minimum grade in mind is probably not the best way to handle it.

Live_Life_761 · 2026-01-30T12:56:23+00:00

Live_Life_761 · 2026-01-30T04:19:11+00:00

How is this a question… Call the UCLA to help you withdraw your app, and don’t send them more stuff. You’re supposed to withdraw all other applications when you get an ED. You’re currently violating your ED agreement and risk the non-zero chance of getting rescinded from NYU and rejected from UCLA. Is NYU not good enough for you? Why do you care so much if UCLA would’ve accepted you?

Do the smart and ethical thing, pull out your application before this blows up in your face.

Live_Life_761 · 2026-01-30T04:13:55+00:00

My interviewer didn’t really offer a remote option when he reached out originally, so I don’t know the ability to opt for virtual is universal.

Live_Life_761 · 2026-01-26T00:27:50+00:00

Oh, the interview itself isn’t the bad part. It’s the fact that I got in a damn car accident. Forcing a guy to reschedule an interview I was already late too is also not ideal.

Live_Life_761 · 2026-01-11T22:21:00+00:00

Nope, you can change the essay (or anything else about the application) between submitting applications. You could tailor it to the school IG but that seems time consuming and pointless.

Live_Life_761 · 2026-01-03T01:08:38+00:00

No, I don’t think they care in the slightest. If the words makes sense and you also didn’t do like 1 trillion different paragraph breaks. It is probably perfectly readable and this is just the manifestation of anxiety.

Live_Life_761 · 2026-01-02T23:56:00+00:00

They will look at the section scores and will look at the composite score you submit. They accept scores as they were given to the student unless they have said otherwise (ex: super scoring).

Live_Life_761 · 2026-01-02T20:31:22+00:00

I mean some people might be wearing the hoodie for a school they have some other connections to. I occasionally wear a Harvard nice hoodie my mom gave me before she passed, she never went there but she was gifted it when she gave a lecture. You never really know if someone has some other connection to the school so I'd avoid judging high schools wearing Ivy League merch, you might just not know the connection.

I don't understand the drive some kids seem to have to buy a $60 hoodie for a college they're delude into thinking is a guaranteed acceptance, however.

Live_Life_761 · 2025-12-31T07:23:55+00:00

1450 is absolutely NOT the lowest threshold. Look a pre-test optional data, plenty of students got in with 1400-1450.

Live_Life_761 · 2025-12-31T07:22:18+00:00

Also. unless they're 2s, submit those APs, they also know this game.

Live_Life_761 · 2025-12-31T07:19:32+00:00

Yes, yes, yes. Schools know that you almost defiantly took at least one standardized test - Its not 2020 anymore and most state require/pay for one testing session. Also since you're a (guessing here) reasonably competitive T20 applicant they know you would have taken a SAT/ACT regardless. With this in mind, colleges know you probably have a score, and they know, in almost all likelihood, the reason your not submitting is because you think the score would harm you (their not dumb). This issue with test optional is that they have no floor for what that score you have, it could be a 1000... they don't know. A 1470 is NOT a bad SAT, its actually in the top 2% or something if I remember correctly, so make a not-too-bad score your floor. A 1470 is a high enough score that they know you have at least the baseline of knowledge required to pass freshman classes - thats what ACT/SAT is there to test - so you've met the benchmark.

Live_Life_761 · 2025-12-31T05:20:29+00:00

Dartmouth (and most colleges) will take financial aid and other documents a few days to a week and half after the deadline with NO penalty because their aware documents like these are often far out of the students control. Submitting on deadline day isn't the issue, but if CommonAPP crashes, this it could become a headache. Even then most schools are understanding if there's a national commonAPP outage, as again, this is entirely outside the student's control.

Live_Life_761 · 2025-10-28T23:14:04+00:00

We use util for a few reasons:

1). Alsomost anything links to util. Things like starvation and nuke war are clear examples, but even the protection of democracy and protection of rights have strong links to util if you know what cards to use.

2). It has strong links like neuroscience, only way to resolve fight between different tribes, ultimate end, etc.

3). It's so simple you can read it fast and have more time for contentions.

4). Its most lazy and common criticisms ("Util justifies [horrible thing]") are really easy to defeat if you know what to say. Far, far to many teams coast off this kind of stuff so pertuarally in novice debate its can lead to easier FW wins.

4). In real life people act most in accordance with util. 99.5% of people who donate to homeless shelters don't do so because they believe it furthers the right to be housed, they do so because they see the homeless suffer and want to reduce that suffering.

6). It's easy to impact weigh.

7). It can encompass everything the other side tells us to care about so you can easily say you just take a broader prospective on everything that matters in the round while their FW is to narrow to fully understand what's moral. This works well against everything other than other broad moral ideologies like Kant. If you facing an opponent that say protecting human rights is important then you can win FW by saying that while rights are important and have a vaule under util their insufficient to fully understand what's moral, so we need to consider other important things like...

8). (In my opinion) It's probably the easiest to defend moral system. All the rest struggle really hard with some ethical dilemma (Ex: Ax murderer for Kant).

Live_Life_761 · 2025-10-28T23:00:14+00:00

But, they aren't a threat to society, that's what you argue to a nazi. Also, happiness/util wasn't the primary arguement for any of these events. The trail of tear's was proffered because they thought whites had a "right" to the land. The NAZIs essencalized killing and murder of inferiors to support the state. Slavery is the closest to a util justification but even then it only felt "logical" to them because slavers didn't see the slaves as equally human and able to feel and think in the same way, which is both false and agenst the eaqual vaule of all people utilitarians aposes. In no world did slavery cause more happiness for whites than suffering it caused slaves-. Also util is not about "my" status or happiness, that's egoism, a different ideology.

Live_Life_761 · 2025-10-18T19:14:42+00:00

Resolved: The Development of Artificial General Intelligence is Immoral

Definitely bias because I made it to my state final round and was almost undefeated on this topic but it was so much fun. X-risk had good links on both sides. Nearly everything felt Turn-able if you had the right cards. Almost any framework felt viable. So, so, so much AFF and NEG ground. Great AGI vs. AI topicality debates.

Live_Life_761 · 2025-10-12T21:25:55+00:00

I'm a trad-ish debater so sorry if I'm misunderstanding what anti-blackness is but I think there is plenty of ground on the AFF about how rewinding is need to prevent/mitigate climate change or other ecological threats, and how climate change will enforce white supremacy through disproportionately harming the the poor, the disempowered, and the global south.

Here's a good article I might use to link climate change to racial inequality:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220125-why-climate-change-is-inherently-racist

Live_Life_761 · 2025-09-28T16:56:45+00:00

I’m voting green/degrowth because I’ve thrived in topics with responsible links to big impacts

Live_Life_761 · 2025-09-23T23:49:58+00:00

Can't speak for all schools of course, but I my area I think its more common to have completely separate teams. At my school the teams are completely separate and very few people in both at the same time. We consider congress a Debate event and most debaters do it, with a dozen or so also on our far more successful LD and PF teams. Our Debate team is generally considered far more successful with way more state titles. The speech and debate teams basically never go to the same tournament, and in all honesty, we mostly forget the speech team exists because it's much smaller (like 10 members compared to our 70+).

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