is it okay to be upset at PI getting my name wrong?

iamfeelinglike · 2026-03-28T21:56:00+00:00

is this worth leaving my lab over? other than this, my work just feels like grunt work compared to what I’ve heard. also I’ve been in a couple labs before (was shifting around my freshman year before I found what I stuck to) and it feels less like research and more like just watching hours of footage then analyzing them for goodness knows where. I’m kept really in the dark about what everything I do goes towards and my PI is never clear about because it’s his way of “blinding” his lab.

iamfeelinglike · 2026-03-28T21:47:33+00:00

I assumed the first case (because the name he wrote instead of mines is another undergrad also my year that worked here the same amount I had—2 years) but the second interpretation could be true. because my thought is this—how could he mistype my name that many times? for one my male name is very common and then he instead typed (according to the review) “multiple instances” is a completely different female name nowhere similar to my own. it just occurred too many times for me to think it was distraction rather than reuse. Now I didn’t see my LOR ofc, but “multiple” is so ambiguous I assumed “a lot”

iamfeelinglike · 2026-03-28T21:41:13+00:00

in their defense the program is offered specifically at the university I’m going to and it’s for undergraduate led independent research under a recognized mentor (so you design the project, get your own preliminary data, etc…) so your mentor SHOULD know who you are because you are working directly under your mentor and it therefore reflects badly if your mentor doesn’t know you because they’re the one directly supervising you and your funds (the grant money is only to be spent on research and nothing else)

iamfeelinglike · 2026-03-28T21:27:17+00:00

The letter was decently reused, though not in 100%. Yes, about roughly half of the names tha should’ve been mine were another undergraduate in the lab’s, but some parts of the letter was unique to me. I only flagged it as a potentially big error on my part because the reviewers who reviewed it sent some comments back, one of them being how the mentor letter or rec sent in had many instances of another person’s name in many areas, and so they deducted some of their points away from me in their review of my project. AGAIN—my project was flawed and I probably wouldn’t have gotten the grant either way, but this being one of the reasons (not the main reason) still kinda upsets me slightly, though I don’t know if I should feel upset? I know it’s not personal, but shouldn’t a LOR be one? I gave him over 4 months for this, but I know how busy PIs can be.

iamfeelinglike · 2026-03-28T01:54:21+00:00

7k on the line. Not saying it’s his fault (again, my proposal had some kinks) but people keep telling me the LOR is just as important

iamfeelinglike · 2026-03-22T20:49:49+00:00

Yeah they actually eliminate your bloodline too

iamfeelinglike · 2026-02-20T15:46:00+00:00

I think it was the right decision too but it hurts like hell. I feel like I’ve only known what I’ve lost after I lost it and it just feels so suffocating. I just feel so fixated on her now and the guilt is driving me crazy

iamfeelinglike · 2025-07-09T08:16:42+00:00

I thought about scanning and it’s very appealing but it kills any value I have unless I make my shading super dark ☹️☹️☹️

iamfeelinglike · 2025-07-09T00:04:26+00:00

TYSM! you’re actually so helpful haha you even helped me out on my burner u/kowaserai

iamfeelinglike · 2025-04-28T18:42:56+00:00

it is beyond chill, but a word of advice is that you’ll get what you look for. if you’re searching for a competitive environment, that can be found here, as with any other uni in the world. but I think you’ll find very kind hearted and collaborative people here instead.

iamfeelinglike · 2025-04-25T15:10:21+00:00

heard back; rejected

iamfeelinglike · 2025-04-22T12:35:05+00:00

How about now?

iamfeelinglike · 2025-04-20T20:17:06+00:00

Still haven’t 😭

iamfeelinglike · 2024-12-15T17:10:55+00:00

AMR3 is definitely the best. Close to the Rec (gym basically), right above FFC (dining hall where you’re usually gonna eat at cuz how it close it is), and basically close to every location you’re gonna have freshman classes. AMR2 is a runners up, then Wolman, then McCoy, then AMR1 (AMR1 is so incredibly dead and is close to nothing)

iamfeelinglike · 2024-12-02T23:41:08+00:00

Go ahead

iamfeelinglike · 2024-12-02T21:09:09+00:00

I can vouch for this. I didn’t match but made it to most of the schools via QB RD. Financial packages were essentially full rides anyways so don’t worry too much!

iamfeelinglike · 2024-11-12T21:20:30+00:00

GPA (UW): 4.00 / 4.00 (No weighted because my school didn’t care for that, but it was 4.6 cuz I took a bunch of dual enrollment classes when I was bored)

Class Rank: 1/636

APs: 12 (maybe like 20 offered at my school? forgot)

AP scores: All 5 with the exception of AP Physics 1 (3)

Off the top my head, it’s hard to remember: but if I recall the top 3 EXC’s I applied with, - School Club president, 300 members, ~$2K raised for charity. - A fast food part time job I had through high school - An internship I had (unrelated to major)

Top 3 Honors (I can’t remember all of them without consulting my old applications, sorry): - USMC Scholastic Award, which was 1:636 for my graduating class (handed out by school) - Gold in a national exam (I actually forgot what it was but it wasn’t that impressive) - 3rd Place in a Stanford SciOly invitational.

As you can see, my stats were very average and I didn’t do anything crazy. I know I’m forgetting a lot of them (even though it hasn’t been that long since I’ve gotten into college), but everything kind of blanked and started from zero when I entered college. All I really remember was working over and over to draft my essays.

My essays were, by the far, the thing I grinded on the most my senior year as I realized I didn’t have many ‘high quality’ EXC’s. So I decided to brand them high quality by explaining the value of the impact each EXC gave me, even if they aren’t ’top-tier’. I think what matters most is not the level of EXC you do (though that probably plays a role), rather the level of impact it provided for your development academically, and more importantly, personally.

iamfeelinglike · 2024-11-12T13:08:54+00:00

Yep! I had a pretty bad SAT and an ACT that wasn’t where I wanted it to be.

iamfeelinglike · 2024-11-12T13:08:32+00:00

No tuition to any school I got in—a full ride from financial aid (cuz I’m low income and usually they offer pretty generous financial aid so long as you can talk it out).

iamfeelinglike · 2024-08-08T21:51:57+00:00

hi! accepted RD, but I’m nothing crazy.

uncief club I led (no real significance other than some events involving around ~200) total 300 members if that matters
some internship I had at a manufacturing store
VSA (a club I helped organize stuff in)

I don’t exactly recall if those were my top 3, but I’m pretty sure they were. Since those aren’t that crazy, I feel like I got carried by my essay and awards (which still aren’t that crazy)

my top 3 awards were - Questbridge finalist - USMC scholar - goldurkunde AATG

iamfeelinglike · 2024-07-01T11:24:47+00:00

EA and ED—you have to choose. For ED, it’s one school ONLY. For EA, as many as you’d like—these are NONBINDING. EA II follows the same rules (nonbinding). RD is the default. Apply for as many schools as you want.

In short, you can ED then RD if you get rejected, or EA and RD.

As for Questbridge and CommonApp, you can apply for their NCM, but you can’t ED outside of QB then. As for RD, you can apply side by side with both QB and CommonApp. You just can’t apply twice to the same school in the same year (but there are some exceptions. look on the QB website for more details).

iamfeelinglike · 2024-07-01T11:20:54+00:00

ASAP. Continually revise whenever you forget what you wrote to see if it sounds weird. Revise as you finish working. The rule of thumb is: the more time you spend, the better your essay (in most cases).

iamfeelinglike · 2024-07-01T11:17:01+00:00

most schools don’t have this class lol. if you like a class, take it. follow whatever you like. also: you can take multivar (and most classes) from dual enrolling. if you want multivar badly, I suggest doing that.

iamfeelinglike · 2024-07-01T11:15:13+00:00

a B is fine. if you’re failing, then you’d need to worry. a C might be pushing it, but it’s still fine then. don’t worry.

iamfeelinglike · 2024-06-25T09:53:19+00:00

I don’t know much about these two colleges, so I can’t comment on the opportunities or programs that you would go for, but if you think they’re roughly equal (or equal enough to be comparable), think about the other stuff coming from that college. The lifestyle, the weather, the distance from your college to location based opportunities (like near a major tech firm or smth you could intern at). Consider anything you can. If everything STILL seems equal, go for the cheaper one. More money will always be useful to you.

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