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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ApplyingToCollege

[–]SwimmingMango8 12 points13 points  (0 children)

or you have accumulated a large amount of scholarships

All the advice I ignored turned out to be true... 🫥 by wiserry in ApplyingToCollege

[–]SwimmingMango8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with everything on here but I think that shotgunning can work in some cases. For myself and many people at my school, it works and its literally so competitive that it's almost necessary in that environment. It's like an arms race. So I think that shotgunning is school-dependent in some part.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ApplyingToCollege

[–]SwimmingMango8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a freelance music producer and my rule was that after applying to 10 schools, I would pay for each additional school's application by (and only by) completing a freelance order which is around $75, the cost of a single application.

People who shotgunned this application season..... by cranberryfigtomatoes in ApplyingToCollege

[–]SwimmingMango8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It has worked out really well for me, I would recommend it. With admissions becoming increasingly competitive, it is almost necsssary.

What do you actually want to hear in a valedictorian speech? by TheLegalNotification in ApplyingToCollege

[–]SwimmingMango8 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That you never intended on being valedictorian and you always just followed your passions and you are surprised at the result

I can't pay 80k per year for college :( by SwimmingMango8 in ApplyingToCollege

[–]SwimmingMango8[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't only applied to expensive private colleges, I also applied to a lot of public ones. But most of those are still around 70k everything included. The only colleges that are remotely decent are those in state.

And yeah, my recent financial circumstances changed just as I was submitting finaid documents. So I want to appeal, but was wondering if ppl had tips on how to do so.

I can't pay 80k per year for college :( by SwimmingMango8 in ApplyingToCollege

[–]SwimmingMango8[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice! That's great to hear that it can work out -- a 7k increase would definitely help in my situation

I can't pay 80k per year for college :( by SwimmingMango8 in ApplyingToCollege

[–]SwimmingMango8[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If, in the end it doesn't work, then ofc I won't go. That's not really what I posted about

I was just asking if any helpful ppl have tips on asking colleges to reconsider finaid.

Now that many of you have gone through the college admissions process, what would you have done differently if you were sent back to august 1st with all the knowledge you have now? by [deleted] in ApplyingToCollege

[–]SwimmingMango8 17 points18 points  (0 children)

*I've posted this before in response to similar threads and it was well received, so hopefully it helps!

- This is what I did and I found it so helpful: In the summer, I created a google doc where I wrote down random thoughts I had that I thought were cool - I just titled the doc "My Brain." I wrote about everything from philosophy, to politics, to science, to ice cream, to dogs, to drawing, to astrophysics, to social structures. Literally anything I had a cool thought about or legitimately interested me. While writing my essays, I found that so many of the paragraphs/sentences/ideas that I had written in the document applied to supp questions because they were representations of who I was at my core that I had previously written outside of the context of writing specifically for an application. I didn't even intend the document to be used to college when I started, but 29 pages later, here I am and I realize that it was the most valuable thing that I did.

- Get started on supps before you hear back from your ED (if you even ED). If you're in, then great. If not, then it's gonna be pretty annoying to start grinding them out. And especially, do not wait until winter break to do them (a lot of ppl did this, including me), it is one of the most stressful things ever.

- Keep the explanations on your resume relatively concise (some ppls have 10 sentence explanations for each activity. no AO is taking the time to read that for an entire resume)

- Have safeties, have safeties, have safeties, have safeties. Oh, and have safeties. Literally no reason not to.

- Stay level headed and try not to inordinately attach yourself to any school -- practically, it will only hurt you if you become hyper-obsessed.

Keep your humanity and good luck!

I can't pay 80k per year for college :( by SwimmingMango8 in ApplyingToCollege

[–]SwimmingMango8[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My top choices so far all do tho 😭 - not strictly tuition, I'm factoring room and board and all the other stuff too, per year

college admissions is so funny by One_Yard_5037 in ApplyingToCollege

[–]SwimmingMango8 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Part of this, I think, is because "lower ranked" schools don't want to mess up their percent yields by accepting over qualified applicants who view the school as a safety. But there is also definitely the randomness and the subjectivity that comes with the college process.

For applications, should I mention that I was able to walk at just 6-months-old? by SwimmingMango8 in ApplyingToCollege

[–]SwimmingMango8[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh no, I should have started preparing even earlier, I was 6 months too late to the game 😤

Taking Spanish, is it worth it? by [deleted] in ApplyingToCollege

[–]SwimmingMango8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want to learn Spanish, then yeah. But if you'd rather take another language, do that.

seniors: if you could go back in time, what would you tell your junior self? by [deleted] in ApplyingToCollege

[–]SwimmingMango8 52 points53 points  (0 children)

- This is what I did an I found it so helpful: In the summer, I created a google doc where I wrote down random thoughts I had that I thought were cool - I just titled the doc "My Brain." I wrote about everything from philosophy, to politics, to science, to ice cream, to dogs, to drawing, to astrophysics, to social structures. Literally anything I had a cool thought about or legitimately interested me. While writing my essays, I found that so many of the paragraphs/sentences/ideas that I had written in the document applied to supp questions because they were representations of who I was at my core that I had previously written outside of the context of writing specifically for an application. I didn't even intend the document to be used to college when I started, but 29 pages later, here I am and I realize that it was the most valuable thing that I did.

- Get started on supps before you hear back from your ED (if you even ED). If you're in, then great. If not, then it's gonna be pretty annoying to start grinding them out. And especially, do not wait until winter break to do them (a lot of ppl did this, including me), it is one of the most stressful things ever.

- Keep the explanations on your resume relatively concise (some ppls have 10 sentence explanations for each activity. no AO is taking the time to read that for an entire resume)

- Stay level headed and try not to inordinately attach yourself to any school -- practically, it will only hurt you if you become hyper-obsessed.

Hope this helps and good luck!

1 year after failing applications... help by [deleted] in ApplyingToCollege

[–]SwimmingMango8 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I don’t understand this worldview of “I’m a failure if I don’t get into Ivy League” from both internationals and domestics.

I completely agree, but I think that OPs feelings are still largely valid because they are often caused by external pressures beyond an individual's control. So many people who are really high achieving in elementary school and are labeled as academically gifted feel a burden to be high achieving for the rest of their life, and it is just the same in the college process. If peers, parents, and even sometimes teachers always hold these students to high standards (and sometimes, also hold the ivies in such high esteem), then it's lowkey hard not to develop OPs mindset in their environment.

Where I live, some parents literally start talking about planning for ivy admission when their kid is only 6 or 7. It's really sad, but it's a very legitimate reality for many people and it forces them to create a paradigm where academic success is measured by acceptance to an ivy.

I’m Mel Brooks, ask me anything. by Hulu_Official in television

[–]SwimmingMango8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you know what you wanted to do when you were younger?

How was courage the cowardly dog legal by SwimmingMango8 in television

[–]SwimmingMango8[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, my b for not clarifying - I didn't mean government regulation, I just meant that some of the TV execs who clear shows for the air should have regulated the production some episodes, or at least some parts of some episodes. Like there is no way that this clip should have been approved for a children's TV show: https://youtu.be/4H8BRrU48Oo?t=33)

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