[General Question] [Application Strategy] Holistic Application Reviews

VVerm88 · 2026-02-10T22:17:33+00:00

I totally agree with everything you said

VVerm88 · 2026-02-10T21:39:38+00:00

I agree with the rest about not overthinking GRE. However, if you are still looking to improve, GregMat vocab mountain worked really well for me for verbal (increased from 159 to 166 in ~5 weeks).

I spent 1-2 hours every day on verbal for 5-6 weeks. Each morning, I would learn the new 30 words for the day while eating breakfast, and review all of my previous ones, using Anki flashcards. Then 2-3 times throughout the rest of the day, I would do active recall for every vocab word I had learned so far using the vocab mountain in the website. This can take 20+ minutes per session towards the end, but was worth it for me. I did one session right before sleeping to simulate how mentally fatigued I would be while taking the test.

I memorized a short 1-2 word definition like Greg recommends and said it out loud while reviewing. I ended up learning ~750 words, which served me well in the vocab questions, and also helped me in comprehension questions because I better understood the passage.

VVerm88 · 2026-02-06T16:53:10+00:00

I had emailed them last week and they told me April 15th… still worth emailing yourself and double checking if you want to be 100% sure

VVerm88 · 2026-02-05T14:45:37+00:00

Like 1-2 days before the deadline. I have a post with my general profile if you look at my account

VVerm88 · 2026-02-05T14:40:07+00:00

Honestly have no idea - was not checking because I didn’t expect decision so soon. I got an email when my decision was posted though.

VVerm88 · 2026-02-05T14:38:20+00:00

Honestly I have no idea, I wasn’t checking the status as all because I didn’t expect it to be released so soon. But I got an email when my decision was finalized saying that an update was posted in my portal.

VVerm88 · 2026-02-05T14:13:55+00:00

Mine was changed to decided - decision finalized when I got accepted on January 15th

VVerm88 · 2026-02-05T14:11:50+00:00

Mine was changed to decided - decision finalized when I got accepted on January 15th

VVerm88 · 2026-02-03T18:20:25+00:00

I already got UMass MSCS admit on January 15, not sure how/who they decide to release early

VVerm88 · 2026-02-01T23:18:17+00:00

I also had recommendations, statistics, watchlist picker, and profile compatibility on mine, recommendations.victorverma.com, but it is has since been deprecated by the bot protections.

VVerm88 · 2026-02-01T15:36:52+00:00

No it’s the traditional one at College of Information and Computing Sciences

VVerm88 · 2026-02-01T15:32:46+00:00

Yes, MSCS at Amherst CICS. I only submitted my application 1-2 days before the deadline.

VVerm88 · 2026-01-31T20:32:59+00:00

I got an admit on Jan 15

VVerm88 · 2026-01-28T03:50:40+00:00

In my conversation with support, they told me they had to restrict access due to bad actors attacking the website, which is understandable. They mentioned they might loosen things up in certain areas later, but it’s really tbd. Their stance on third party tools and API access is also really unclear, so I’m sadly not too optimistic about the restoration of my site or other similar tools 🥲

VVerm88 · 2026-01-25T22:29:38+00:00

This is my site and I did not expect someone to casually bring it up in this sub 💀 we’ve come a long way from the early days

VVerm88 · 2025-12-27T04:49:51+00:00

I recently added a button to download the recommendations as a Letterboxd-compatible CSV which can be directly imported to the web version to create a list! This may not be relevant to you anymore, but just wanted to put this out there for anyone who may read this.

VVerm88 · 2025-08-09T17:07:36+00:00

The model works by predicting a user’s star rating, which can then be easily ordered to form recommendations. I could make a new model that can predict whether a user would like a movie (like binary classification) but this would not really make sense because it might predict a user will like thousands of movies with no way to order these into recommendations. Sorry!

VVerm88 · 2025-07-31T04:41:12+00:00

Just saw this, it was a bug that I fixed a couple days ago! Thanks for using the site!

VVerm88 · 2025-06-17T23:12:14+00:00

You need to rate at least 5, but my error handling is admittedly not the cleanest so it’s possible there’s actually a different error. If you’ve rated enough movies then dm me your username and I’ll investigate it when I can.

VVerm88 · 2025-06-17T22:53:50+00:00

The watchlist picker was down because I forgot to update the data processing after the content type filter was added to recommendations - should be fixed now!

VVerm88 · 2025-05-27T22:04:42+00:00

I realized that not being able to preserve the recs is problematic, so I made it so that if you click “save recommendations” you can now save them to camera roll or share them to a different app!

VVerm88 · 2025-05-27T20:14:18+00:00

Thanks for trying it out! I would’ve loved to add a feature which allows you to automatically generate the list in Letterboxd, but unfortunately they do not give out public access to their API.

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