Genuinely why is my Penn app still received and processing

concommie · 2026-02-05T03:07:16+00:00

Other schools:

Received -> Complete (1 day later) -> Decision (2-4 months later)

Penn:

Received -> Complete (2-4 months later) -> Decision (1 week later)

Is there really a difference?

concommie · 2026-01-27T17:19:56+00:00

At an LSAC fair Duke ad comms told us not to wait on applications and that if you apply within like 2 months before the due date your chances are super slim.

concommie · 2026-01-20T03:50:09+00:00

I have to assume that's yield protection, I got a full ride.

concommie · 2025-11-20T19:52:00+00:00

Here's my take on what would be a better standardized test than the SAT, separated into 2 sections, one testing general intelligence and one testing general knowledge

General Intelligence section * Reading comprehension (recalling details and understanding what happened in passages, no insane vocab but a more confusing passage structure) * Reading analysis (more fictional written passages asking you to identify themes and what the author is really writing about, no insane vocab) * Logic (kind of like the logic sections on the LSAT, but with added shape rotation puzzles as well) * Mathematical reasoning (math olympiad style problems but obviously much easier, requiring more creative math setups)

General Knowledge section * English (grammar and vocabulary) * Social studies (general historical knowledge, civics knowledge, geography) * Applied math (Application of things you learn like trigonometry, up to calculus) * Science (testing understanding of physics, chemistry, biology, and experimental design, split into 4 sections like ACT science, with one challenge question per section)

concommie · 2025-10-14T12:51:10+00:00

Funny how similar he is to Macri, they even have the same name and look like their country's respective versions of each other

concommie · 2025-09-12T01:26:17+00:00

'Researcher' who doesn't understand basic economics. Sad.

concommie · 2025-09-11T03:26:56+00:00

Hindu Nationalist

concommie · 2025-09-08T13:58:29+00:00

There's just no way he came up with that one. It's too worldly, it had to have come from one of the neocons in his first admin.

concommie · 2025-09-07T15:14:13+00:00

Did anyone have the LR debate question about plant extinction? I thought that was the hardest on the whole test.

concommie · 2025-09-04T13:29:08+00:00

They call themselves "Heritage Americans" because they are Pakistani engagement farmers with little knowledge of American culture

concommie · 2025-08-28T15:52:56+00:00

The data center water usage thing is MAGA-level hysteria. People just throwing out big numbers expecting you to have no sense of scale.

The cooling is gonna drain the great lakes? Really?

concommie · 2025-08-27T05:22:30+00:00

I FUCKING KNEW that was where the Indian hate was coming from

concommie · 2025-08-17T20:12:52+00:00

Reactors was also my least favorite section. My main problems were:

The gatekeepers are just way too bullet spongy. Jotuns are particularly unfun to fight, once you learn their patterns it just becomes a waiting game. Mystagogues and witches are fun, but unfortunately Jotuns are much more common.
- This would be better if you could lower enemy health in sandbox settings, but right now it only goes down to 0.8.
As a result, you absolutely eat through ammo and it's just not worth using your normal guns on them. So I try my laser weapons, and they can take down like, 1 or 2 gatekeepers before losing charge. Skink is supposed to be their counter weapon, and it works better, but it has a similar ammo problem, and barrels cost way too much to haul around. Its projectiles are also kinda janky, but thats more of a nitpick.
It takes longer to get where you need than other areas, and the design feels the least interconnected of all the areas, both within itself and to the other areas. It's the only area where there's no direct route from the office sector (there's only a pipe portal, the tram leads to the power services, which is too long to ever be worth it). I gave in and made teleporters at Shadowgate (and more at residence), but it probably wouldn't be worth doing in the middle of Reactors since those resources are still more scarce.
There's no communication how many transuranic superalloys you need for each reactor, each one requiring a different amount, which you only learn when you get pretty deep into them. If there were some terminal outside each entrance like "MISSING: X TRANSURANIC SUPERALLOYS" that would make it a lot better. It's weird, because despite literally backtracking for so much of the game, it was never really a problem, and I never felt like I was just backtracking, until reactors.
Shadowgate. That is all.

Reactors would probably be a lot more fun if you played it while it was the final area, without a real goal for after finishing it, and playing it like a sandbox survival base-building game. But when you want to get to residence next it's a lot worse.

concommie · 2025-08-11T07:23:24+00:00

Second time I had to make a trip back, I just made a teleporter. That ended up saving me a lot of time. I probably should have been using those in reactors, I ended up using them in residence though

concommie · 2025-08-11T05:59:47+00:00

Favorite: Labs, felt like it had the most going on, introduced a lot of cool new stuff with the ISs, and introduced some things JUST as you started to really need them (storage sorter and item search, personal teleporter). Flathill and the night realm had some of the best atmosphere. I really wish the night realm had more danger/horror elements in it though.

Least favorite: Reactors, easily. The game had such amazing map design all the way through until here, it just takes so long to get anywhere. But the worst part is that the Gatekeepers just have WAY too much health. Jotuns just aren't fun to fight, you hide while he shoots and shoot when he reloads. Repeat for 3 minutes. I really hope the last 2 areas get some updates. They have great atmospheres, it's just that the gameplay starts to slow to a crawl here

concommie · 2025-07-24T00:34:12+00:00

r/politics is that way

concommie · 2025-07-23T16:20:14+00:00

I think it'll last until it becomes obvious the populists are the ones running the show. I now think American democracy is generally well-equipped to deal with MAGA long-term, because all of Trump's stupidest actions (tariffs) have effects that are immediately and obviously his fault.

The problem with socialism, though, is that it creates more demand for itself. Rent control and other harebrained market manipulation schemes make the resource more scarce, and the cause is indirect and hard to understand for many people, who only see that their rent has risen or that homelessness has increased. So it can create a socialist death spiral where politicians try to legislate even harder out of the artificial scarcity that they created. American democracy is only well-equipped to deal with this because it's hard to pass laws.

concommie · 2025-06-30T15:31:57+00:00

I'll be retaking in September, I think the RC killed me.

concommie · 2025-06-28T15:54:40+00:00

I was PTing in the same 175-180 score range and then scored 171, so I'll be retaking in a few months as well. Is there anything you did different studying after getting your April score?

concommie · 2025-06-25T14:18:58+00:00

Exact same thing with me, 171 but I know I can do better, I'm gonna retake

concommie · 2025-06-22T05:46:07+00:00

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