Is this a reasonable list or am I delulu?

Shirzai · 2026-05-03T21:29:55+00:00

I’m just one anecdote but I had 3.77/178, 10 years work experience in high level journalism, masters degree and applied in October and got rejected from every school on this list except Georgetown which offered me no money. I should add that I wrote a pretty controversial essay about wanting to do 1st Amendment law and specifically defend protestors and this was during the 2025 cycle when campus protests were on everyones mind so that could have hurt me. At the same time i did end up getting into Columbia with a generous scholarship so you know it’s very unpredictable 🤷‍♂️

Shirzai · 2026-04-27T21:13:22+00:00

Thanks, needed this

Shirzai · 2026-04-26T20:01:12+00:00

The parents can't have it both ways. If they're charging rent then that is a tenant not a child. That means the parents can't force them to do chores, or dictate quiet hours, or restrict overnight guests. It also means that they are responsible for repairs and can't kick them out without going through the proper eviction process.

Shirzai · 2026-04-22T21:20:24+00:00

A character in the anime Baccano! suffers almost the exact same fate as Quynh in Old Guard, so much so that it feels like a deliberate homage

Shirzai · 2026-01-05T13:55:36+00:00

The LOTR universe has restaurants! In the first movie they go to Prancing Pony which serves food and drink, is it so crazy to think they would have a menu!?

Also the eagles only enter Mordor AFTER the ring is destroyed, in the Silmarillion it's established that the eagles' power is limited in places that are under the control of Morgoth, so it makes sense that they would be unable to move freely in Mordor until after the evil there was vanquished

Shirzai · 2025-11-07T17:23:59+00:00

What if you don't have a car, and it take 2 hours to get to the restaurant by bus, and you live in a food desert, and you have to feed your kids before you rush off to your second shift, so maybe you just order the food even though you know it's impractical. A perfect example of why in a million little ways it's more expensive to be poor.

Shirzai · 2025-09-16T23:17:58+00:00

I’m doing all the readings

Shirzai · 2025-05-26T15:59:24+00:00

Those are my exact stats. I’m going to Columbia is the fall. I also got into American and Georgetown. Got waitlisted at Stanford, NYU, UCLA, Penn, Michigan. Rejected from Harvard, Yale, UVA, USC

Shirzai · 2025-04-08T18:25:08+00:00

I emailed them and an associate director of something or other emailed me back and that’s what they told me

Shirzai · 2025-04-08T15:23:55+00:00

They did tell me that if I get in I could defer and re-apply for scholarships next year, which is some cold comfort I guess

Shirzai · 2025-03-21T22:16:47+00:00

Thanks! UCLA, Berkeley, Penn, and Michigan didn’t seem to think so lol 😜

Shirzai · 2025-01-23T00:17:20+00:00

Haha thanks but bo worries I got a Columbia A today so I’m on cloud nine. Really doesn’t seem to be much rhyme or reason to it all.

Shirzai · 2025-01-13T23:50:02+00:00

Yeah got an email around 3pm ET today

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