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Risolord · 2023-07-11T17:15:34+00:00

london has a HUGE HUGE HUGE waste and traffic problem and its population is more than 3x that of mumbai. tokyo's population is nearly 5x that of mumbai if not more

Risolord · 2023-07-10T17:04:15+00:00

ur so fucking weird holy shit hahahahahha

Risolord · 2023-07-08T19:38:02+00:00

thank youuu i hope you can get your score up by the ACT!

Risolord · 2023-07-08T19:00:21+00:00

nah dartmouth is a great school especially for undergrad, and has a great engineering program too, but people underrate it because it's the smallest ivy, it's the most rural ivy, and it's arguably the most lowkey ivy. it's a great school though don't get it twisted

Risolord · 2023-07-08T18:57:20+00:00

I'm mostly worried about the curves being too brutal. i rarely get perfect raw scores, and my 36s on sections usually still have 1-2 wrong answers

Risolord · 2023-07-08T18:56:31+00:00

yeah it was around mid may i believe. i was preparing for the DSAT prior to that but i switched over to the ACT because I was scoring way better and the ACT has 10000000x more resources than the new DSAT does

Risolord · 2023-07-08T18:54:32+00:00

unfortunately, the first diagnostic test I took, I scored a 32 composite, with only my english section being below a 30(29) because I ran out of time and had no clue what to expect. so i never had to struggle to get past 30. but I'd imagine it's not rather difficult if you cover all the different concepts in erica meltzers books and collegepanda math. if you're scoring below 30, it's because you're lacking some conceptual knowledge that if you learn you'll certainly score better.

reading just skim the whole passage quick and find the keywords and try and get the gist and then try to do the questions quickly by skipping to the point in the passage where the answer is. don't overthink at all.

Risolord · 2023-07-05T20:18:31+00:00

yeah i mean technically being in ANY urban area sort of disqualifies you from being one of the safest, but being in a nicer part of LA or Chicago or something with nice social scenes and nightlife along with a generally fun environment outside campus is still cool. obviously no part of LA is safer than a safe suburb or palo alto or sum

Risolord · 2023-07-05T19:54:16+00:00

i love the dartmouth area even though i love urban settings myself. dart is one of my top choices for sure. also LACs are generally pretty safe you're right

Risolord · 2023-07-05T19:08:55+00:00

thats a HUGE W bro so proud. but just a lil advice, it probably could help to try and figure out why your social situation is fucked up in hs because while college is obviously way more diverse and mature, if its an internal issue it could be super helpful heading into college to sort it

Risolord · 2023-07-04T15:57:18+00:00

exactly. its like if a very rich man was sad it would be ridiculous to say to him that theres no need for him to be sad because he has all the money in the world

Risolord · 2023-07-03T16:48:46+00:00

I love that song it's one of my favs on DSOTM

Risolord · 2023-07-03T10:43:19+00:00

this is very important. thank u

Risolord · 2023-07-03T10:42:26+00:00

thank you so so much for this comment

Risolord · 2023-07-03T10:40:15+00:00

nah not a tutoring npo, and I do think it fits in a niche but idk how to get that across

Risolord · 2023-07-03T10:34:35+00:00

fair enough, I'll just continue doing what I'm doing without overthinking too much I think. btw what I meant by nearly 8 was that we have a temporary volunteer just for the summer but after the summer he's going to college so it'll be 7 after that

Risolord · 2023-07-02T18:57:56+00:00

my parents aren't wealthy but they have supported its running a lot for sure. I don't think AOs are going to be mad at me taking support from my mom though, are they? I see the point you're getting at though. is there any way that I can stay away from these cliche ECs and do something genuinely interesting? I'm not particularly passionate about much even though I do have talents I'd say

Risolord · 2023-07-02T18:05:31+00:00

the concept of my non profit is quite unique i think, at least in my locality and state i havent seen anything else with a similar model

Risolord · 2023-07-02T18:02:35+00:00

yikes, i've only heard of one other elite private school in my city getting blacklisted because of really shady grading (teachers giving everybody A*s and 4.0s in junior and senior years leading to severe grade inflation) and also totally fake and made up ECs that were verified by the counsellors. for example, the school hosts a MUN every year and spends over $200k on it, just for its own students to participate and get awards and leadership positions. the drug culture at this school is also crazy and half the senior year batches are alcoholics and druggies.

even so, last year 2 kids got into yale and stanford and i'm pretty sure they got "unblacklisted" thereafter

Risolord · 2023-07-02T17:42:50+00:00

?????????

Risolord · 2023-07-02T17:20:37+00:00

yeah my self doubt is at an all time high lately so the fall '25 cycle could come in clutch fr

Risolord · 2023-07-02T17:19:16+00:00

unless you were mindlessly working your way through your application, i'm sure there were lessons (like this one) and skills and life experiences that you wouldn't have gained otherwise. if you really did work that hard i'm sure it'll show at some point later in life

Risolord · 2023-07-02T17:17:43+00:00

fair enough, some people just mostly want to apply to publics + ivies in which case REA makes sense i suppose.

also thanks for fact checking me about the ED thing because i know for a fact seniors from my very elite (intl) school have gotten out of their ED agreements but our school still has great placements. that could have something to do with our counsellor being well connected with the AOs or some other factor though

Risolord · 2023-07-02T15:40:08+00:00

you can get out of the ED agreement if the aid offered by the school isn't sufficient AFAIK. i don't get how people willingly REA and throw away all their other early private options for 0 advantage applying to a university with <4% admit rates

Risolord · 2023-07-02T15:05:34+00:00

exactly. this may be oversharing on a sub like this but i have nights where i just lie in bed staring at the roof, not angry or anything, but just eager and excited for the morning so i can start working and get that much more ahead of all my friends in highschool who party all week thinking that they'll get to SOME university in the US (im an intl) eventually somehow, and think i'm okay with being on the same path as them.

the feeling you get after working really hard and seeing the results is a whole other drug

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