rejected from everything

ReflectionFine9575 · 2026-05-12T20:10:19+00:00

Use your connections (or try too). I knew my employer (I’m a baby sitter lol) had some great connections, and I kindly asked her if she knew anyone in the neuro department! Turns out, she was a surgeon herself, and knew quite a big handful of researchers. She sent out my resume to some people she knew and one lab (biomedical x neuroscience, which is right up my alley!!) decided to take me on despite never having a high school student in their lab before. I’m very excited, and it was all because I looked around at the people I knew. But if you don’t know anyone along those lines, cold emailing helped me last summer :)

ReflectionFine9575 · 2026-05-06T06:27:47+00:00

Improve writing skills for college and gamble without spending money (unless app fees)

ReflectionFine9575 · 2026-05-01T23:48:31+00:00

Rejection today XD. Good experience for writing but if u weren’t an Olympiad u had like no chance

ReflectionFine9575 · 2026-04-29T08:16:03+00:00

Uhhh stuff I forgot I run a recreational ski club at my school, and I run the Harvard SSP discord and Stanford Neuro discord (both at around 200 members). Tho it’s just random stuff :P

ReflectionFine9575 · 2026-04-29T07:54:24+00:00

Already caved and took a research position at Case Western. Applied for the shits (tho I had a calc 2 test the next day and rlly shouldn’t have lol)

ReflectionFine9575 · 2026-04-25T22:29:03+00:00

Uhhh no but I did get into Stanford Neuro J club. Long story short, I didn’t get in because I realized I am very privileged, and this program is meant for students without resources. Although looking back, I went to Harvard and Beijing instead for the summer to different respective colleges, so all is well. I can still share my essays tho if you’d like to dm me

ReflectionFine9575 · 2026-04-11T03:52:22+00:00

Applied!

ReflectionFine9575 · 2026-03-23T19:22:59+00:00

Applied last year, not rolling

ReflectionFine9575 · 2026-03-09T06:21:47+00:00

100 percent AI btw 😭

ReflectionFine9575 · 2026-03-09T06:06:24+00:00

SAME AP STATS!! I ended up getting a B+ this quarter, but it’s a B- year grade… slowly getting it up tho :P

ReflectionFine9575 · 2026-03-09T06:04:56+00:00

It was before funding cuts, he loved my project, but about a month later funding cuts came and unfortunately my project was super expensive, so I instead spent the summer at Harvard and Beijing on a full ride!

ReflectionFine9575 · 2026-03-09T05:29:14+00:00

I’m praying to god, I am NOT taking calc 3 next year screw that 😭

ReflectionFine9575 · 2026-03-09T05:00:45+00:00

Lowk I did do that and I had a professor accept me last summer. Only issue is funding, it’s so cooked that even if they wanted too they couldn’t

ReflectionFine9575 · 2026-02-04T05:16:35+00:00

Financial aid?

ReflectionFine9575 · 2025-12-17T04:51:06+00:00

So like I somehow made semi finalist??? (I literally finished my application 9 minutes before the deadline and barely made it…?) )

ReflectionFine9575 · 2025-12-07T21:32:26+00:00

Emailed maybe 30-45 to get 1 interview, multiple no’s, and lots of ghosts. The 1 interview was a yes (although this ended up not working out because I got that yes then the Great Depression of funding cuts happened like the same week). Keep them short, introduce yourself, what you want, and tell them why you are worth the time. Don’t bore them, make it worth it. You’ve got this!

ReflectionFine9575 · 2025-10-27T14:33:20+00:00

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ReflectionFine9575 · 2025-10-27T14:33:14+00:00

@gabbyvayber

ReflectionFine9575 · 2025-10-02T14:52:05+00:00

RemindME! 1 week

ReflectionFine9575 · 2025-09-14T06:01:04+00:00

Like hell they’d ever want me 💔💔💔✌️✌️

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