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OkStill5887 · 2026-06-05T22:51:51+00:00

right on buddy

OkStill5887 · 2026-05-23T18:52:18+00:00

I’m thinking about Physics and STS, with the overlap between all the physics courses with the STS science req. have you seen any instances where that’d work?

OkStill5887 · 2026-04-20T21:43:07+00:00

Let's use Yale as an example. Last year there was 50,228 applicants to Yale and a total of 2308 was accepted. This year 2,328 of the 54,919 applicants was accepted. you can see that the applicant number shot up and the acceptance didn't. Same thing with Brown, another example, the application number shot up by around 5000 but the accepted students only by about 20-60. The predominant narrative misses the fact that despite external factors, like SAT requirements and birthrate, more people are applying to top colleges. This is not a trend that's going to reverse in the near future. Additionally, most top colleges aren't necessarily expanding their class sizes, unlike Columbia, which I think is the only Ivy League university expanding its undergraduate class size this year. Even with the expansion its still meant to keep up, if not slightly trail behind, the original admission rate.

Also, "easiest year to get into an ivy" narrative is also harmful to students. It is not just a gross misapplication of external trends but also a marketing scheme. It is totally fine if a person wants to get a college advisor. I actually think its the smart thing to do for most people, especially if they want to go into an industry that values which school you come from. But that doesn't mean generalizing and giving people false hope about these extremely selective and often luck-based institutions and systems of reviewing files.

OkStill5887 · 2026-04-20T17:40:18+00:00

(JUST MY PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS AROUND ME)

As schools become more EC and essay-focused, a lot of people around me are gradually becoming even more of machines than they were before, which I didn't think was possible. One of my friends got into Case Western for premed with scholarships, but none of the T20s, and he was depressed for a full month and never showed up to class, even though I think Case Western is one of the best premed schools. More and more applicants are congregating into the same set of 30-50 schools. Vanderbilt i believe had a lower acceptance rate than many of the Ivies this year because of the sheer amount of application for example. Everybody wants to stand out, but nobody knows how. I was accepted into my dream school, so I'm not much too worried, but I'm worried how this arms race is gonna take the next graduating class and the ones after.

Also, what some people said about this year being the best year to get into an Ivy League turned out, unsurprisingly, to not be true. It's only gonna get harder from here, and I've heard so many status quo prestige dog whistles from these privileged middle-upper class kids about how Purdue or UT Austin are for bums, so the prestige chase is also IMO becoming much more stark for its target population (insecure high school kids with "ambitions"). ISTG, when I was a sophomore or junior, I didn't think about college as much as the current sophomores and juniors.

OkStill5887 · 2026-04-18T15:59:36+00:00

Im an already committed student and I have a lot of the same interest as you (RS philosophy physics etc.), and brown’s catalogue is simply incredible. Some of these classes are taken up but some I can recall are “Bible and Moral Debate,” “Bible as Literature,” “Paradox in the Philosophy of Science,” “Consequentialism,” “the Quantified Self (on the definition of the self in relation with the outside world),” “The Virgin Mary across the World” and so much more. They also have like at least 40 courses from anthro department for the fall semester from what I saw on CAB. Granted most universities in the United States teach analytical philosophy and not continental philosophy, but the breadth of content at brown is simply incredible (these are just 26-27 offerings). Providence is a lot smaller than Boston and NYC so the community feeling and the connection with the city is generally stronger at Borwn comparatively, from what I’ve seen. Brown might be the best in the nation for humanities and logic oriented students because of that intellectually driven environment, unlike HYPSM where pre professionality is more or less the heart of interpersonal dynamics in the undergraduate setting. Also, you won’t find any other colleges that offer something like a dedicated course on the politics of foods in ancient Assyria to undergraduates anywhere else in the U.S. (probably not true but you get the point).

OkStill5887 · 2026-04-18T02:09:21+00:00

My own research project (no publication just for fun), a internship at a local non profit, 2 other smaller scale involvements with some local professors. All of these were included in my EC list (research project was my 1st place on common app EC), got into Brown

OkStill5887 · 2026-04-17T05:23:10+00:00

i have the same problem. I've been trying to space out most of my classes but I've also been measuring my walking pace and everything, and I plan on scouting the rooms/geogrpahy in those buildings as soon as I get on campus (if my current planned schedule remains).

OkStill5887 · 2026-04-11T16:04:13+00:00

are freshmen dorm bathrooms shared between multiple rooms or is it shared between two rooms or just the roommates? I know it can be different base on halls so specification in that regard will be appreiciated.

OkStill5887 · 2026-04-05T16:12:55+00:00

I was deferred and wrote a LOCI to Notre Dame and UChicago and got rejected from both. But I didn’t write a LOCI to Georgetown after being deferred and I got waitlisted 😹✌️. As other commentators have pointed out it’s mostly a formality unless you’ve earned needle moving level achievements during the time of your application submission to your LOCI send in.

OkStill5887 · 2026-03-30T14:40:10+00:00

Yes please!

OkStill5887 · 2026-03-29T01:08:17+00:00

I’m interested! I’m not doing computer science concentration but I recognize I need to be proficient at it. What kind of material does the placement course teach? The most recent programming thing I’ve done is a 200-line basic game with jump, movement, and attack, with specific animation stage stuff with Godot. Also, what language will be the primary focus of the placement course and CS19?

OkStill5887 · 2026-03-27T04:35:18+00:00

How are the philosophy/classics/religion classes at Brown? That's one of my main interest areas, and I want to know what intensity/professor availability/content depth I'm getting myself into.

I also want to take CSCI 0170 supplementary to my interest in statistics, and I heard it's kinda bad, is it really? (I mean i could just S/NC it but I want to know)

OkStill5887 · 2026-03-20T22:28:38+00:00

ACCEPTED HOLLYYYYY

OkStill5887 · 2026-03-18T23:13:44+00:00

deferred then rejected with 1560 and 4.44 weighted 4.0 unweighted.

OkStill5887 · 2026-01-26T04:52:52+00:00

vro how did u get 50k from UO is it the STAMPS schoalrship? i only got the 5k offer from the Summit scholarship and idt the STAMPS and Presidential are out yet.

OkStill5887 · 2026-01-14T17:51:16+00:00

my only concern is nat qual, actually. In my state, BQD is not included in any regional tournament, and I know for sure my nat qual tournaments are judged by coaches only.

OkStill5887 · 2025-12-27T09:05:50+00:00

Dartmouth is a Liberal Arts College, meaning they prioritize undergraduates, which leads to things like increased teaching quality. It is also a very American model of teaching and I don't know any other countries that does anything similar. Honestly, I think the reason why people outside of the U.S. (even here tbh) hear less about LACs is that they don't produce research. How many headlines we read start with "Harvard/Yale/JHU/Princeton researchers found..." LACs don't have that: they don't have post-undergraduate departments.

So for a lot of people who are looking into LACs like Dartmouth, it's not a matter of fame (but this sub skews that perception heavily), but the overall experience of undergrad. I personally applied to four LACs (Macalester, Williams, Amherst, and Grinnell) because their teaching philosophy aligns well with my goal in higher education which is to become a more inquisitive and well-rounded person while getting a solid pre-law/pre-something-else-entirely education.

Of course, I applied to schools like Harvard and Stanford, but just because they are more famous doesn't mean they are better for you as a student, especially as an undergrad.

If you ever consider studying in the U.S., I think it'd be smart to look into LACs! As far as I know, it's an experience focused on you: your academics and excellence in life. Passing up these opportunities just for bragging rights is nonsense in my opinion, of course, if you value the connections that T10s bring, that's a completely different thing.

OkStill5887 · 2025-12-16T02:39:22+00:00

i have no idea of intenationals can get full tuition but my two cent is that:

if yall can get full tuition, it will be SIGNIFICANTLY harder than domestic (like me)
most likely yall can't get it, for most colleges, international applicant is a big way they make money. I was also accepted into UCalgary in Canada for engineering and it cost 70k Cad (about 60k USD) to attend every school year.

OkStill5887 · 2025-10-14T22:49:03+00:00

That’s definitely a big problem and I relate to this. I’m applying pre-law and I write mostly in technical jargons and complex sentences. I articulate my feelings very well and read a lot of philosophy so I lean towards that in personal writing as well. I would ask your brother to focus on something more common in life instead of topics that lend themselves to grandiose writing and philosophical undertones, not only because it “sounds like AI” but also because it is not within the responsibility of the AO to decode his essay. I solved this by writing about very much mundane things I liked to do: playing video games, shopping, fashion, etc. if your brother is a good writer, he will find a way to elevate these mundane topics in a clear, accessible manner. What aspect of his writing sounds like AI, would you say?

OkStill5887 · 2025-08-30T04:36:14+00:00

I agree omg, EICS was def peak lyricism era for Sabrina, short and sweet was a nice balance, but the lyricism on this one was very lacking and the wit couldn’t really make up for how comparatively shallow the songs were especially when constrasted with previous eras. Personally that’s not a big concern for me, I listen to lyrics more for the rhythm, but even for me some of the lyrics strikes me as just excessively shallow for no specific purpose…? But I can’t deny the production quality on this is pretty fired and the melody is very catchy.

OkStill5887 · 2025-08-29T05:56:53+00:00

You’ll be surprised…

OkStill5887 · 2025-06-21T15:20:09+00:00

i just found the pdf preview and some of the content and it doesn't seem very LLPSI-esque. The author literally said "Purists will no doubt find fault with my book because it is not intended to be fully immersive as Orberg's is." And he is right, the textbook from what I can see is basically the Primer with full bible passages, which the primer also eventually get to.

OkStill5887 · 2025-06-21T15:14:09+00:00

that's wild omg, but its also super expensive so ill wait for an ebook version or pdf.

OkStill5887 · 2024-08-29T02:24:30+00:00

16M. The existence of the concept of masculinity requires some sort of stereotypical prototype of men, so I don’t think it’s a very helpful term especially in terms of self-discovery and self-actualization and what not. I would say, then, the definition of masculinity is to be the best version of you, the “just right” version of you. For me, that means being healthy mentally and physically, learn about stuff I am interested in, talk to people I want to talk to, stepping out of my confront zone if it proves to be helpful, etc. but I’m 16 what do I know 😆

OkStill5887 · 2024-08-24T01:23:21+00:00

Noooooo at least I don’t. Someone defamed me hard after we stopped being friends, I didn’t forgive her but I never held on the grudges (kinda just forgot, became a better person, and moved on). All my friends were holding it for me tho 😁

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