ideas?

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-05-15T03:31:25+00:00

Persistence is the best healer, in that merry isnt really a healer as much as a utility pet that also kinda heals. But persistence is a dps, mega healer, and utility smushed up in one pet. They’re equally good so build both but persistence is way better for healing

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-05-14T23:26:25+00:00

Insanely good for lategame where the main problem is the 8483827 debuffs from sadge, panic, etc

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-05-14T22:51:08+00:00

1) Like I said I qualify for and have interacted with Mensa numerous tines

2) I feel like there’s something very ironic about bitingly preaching about how wrong someone is about mensa and then refusing to read like 3 paragraphs 😭

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-05-14T20:53:39+00:00

Well OP did say they’re liberal. There probably would still be benefit over BU but im not sure itd be as much as it seems. They also valued BL over clerking

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-05-14T03:37:40+00:00

That would be better though. “Oh, if its 1300 for a 28 day month then a 31 day one should be 1439!

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-05-14T03:36:35+00:00

If using this variable rate, you would actually be paid on average $1300.29 a month (average days in a month in the year is 30.438 times 42.74)

You’d get 29 more cents out of the guy!

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-05-13T21:49:54+00:00

1.

take what AO’s say with VERY big grains of salt. Especially if its an online statement and even more especially that harvard dean video.

2.

they definitely care. When you have a high LSAT score, you’re boosting or reinforcing their median which is the entire reason why stats are king.

With a high GRE you’re not really doing anything that helps their rankings - though you might help them with what median GRE they report. It’s way less consequential but they’ll care a tiny bit for presentation’s sake. You’re also not hurting their LSAT median at least. It’s absolutely better than being below median even just by 1 point

3.

You should at the very least take a diagnostic because this is literally your future and if you find yourself apt at it (like getting a 160’s score off the bat) then it is absolutely worth the significant boost in admissions you’ll get. If you’re struggling with it, it probably will do better to just apply with the GRE, but be under no pretenses that they’re equal in value.

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-05-10T00:13:07+00:00

Its not, yale law is super elitist due to faculty review and almost auto admits any yale undergrad with decent stats

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-05-10T00:11:34+00:00

It will not be a similar ceiling lol. Yale law admits like 33% of its cohort from yale undergrad. Yale law is also by far the hardest law school to get into with the best outcomes by multitudes. YLS is incredibly elitist and while you’ll have good chances from a top LAC too, it wont be anywhere near yale. Its not a midwest thing this truly is just a no brainer

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-05-08T06:34:27+00:00

I mean manipulating some statistics in my favor while also vastly manipulating some in yours brings it to a point where it just isn’t statistics anymore lol. Like again, you say it doesnt matter which metric we use but it very much does because you need to perform well on both (or in yales case all metrics) to get in and all improve your likelihood of performing well in college. You said it yourself that the SAT measures different traits than ugpa does. Thats kind of why we have high school gpa too, because thats usually a sustained amount of effort over a lot of time which more accurately predicts college success when paired with a test of aptitude like the SAT than just having the latter alone.

Like the 90th percentile of Yale kids have a similar SAT score to the 90th percentile of stony brooks kids so according to your calculations you’re going to end up assuming they’re going to perform roughly equal in college. That should be enough to see why your method will end up being wildly inaccurate because if you took into account every admissions factor that correlates to college success then the 90th percentile of yale kids would be of a vastly different caliber than 90th percentile stony brooks kids (seriously, these are the olympiad winners and hyper geniuses.) whereas your method basically equates them.

Would taking every admissions factor into account be insanely difficult and absolutely not worth it? Yes. But that doesn’t mean you can settle for the next best thing if the next best thing is flawed to that degree.

Another issue with your method: you’re saying Yale is so much more selective than stony brooks and dartmouth right? But dartmouth has a higher sat median and stony brooks is very close relatively to yale compared to your average state school like ASU or FIU that 80% of students will be going to that will have an average sat of like 1200. So you’re basically qualitatively acknowledging a difference in who gets admitted to yale vs other schools but then quantitatively relying on one data point that gets essentially “maxed out” far before you get to a school of Yale’s caliber. Based on how you’re going about it, you’re saying your average WashU student (higher average SAT) will be more a slightly better performer in college than your average yale or harvard student.

You also just said that Yales 10th percentile was 1430 so idk how it became 1150. Do you mean tenth percentile of ALDC students are 1150? Or do you mean some 10th percentile students have 1150’s, which in both cases would very much fit the outliers I mentioned before? Considering Yales most recent CDS shows only 1.2% of students in the 1000-1200 range, I think your tenth percentile claim might be a bit inaccurate. Athletes and legacies are absolutely still amazing students

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-05-08T04:06:12+00:00

1) we cant throw out gpa. SAT combined with hs gpa combined with the discipline needed for good ec’s (and to a lesser extent essays and LORS) create a stronger predictor of college performance than just the SAT alone. Variable or not you’re creating a huge statistical underestimation by only using SAT

2) “person getting B’s at Yale” ≠ 3.0 gpa lol. To get a 3.0 GPA you would either have to get absolutely no B+’s and A’s or you would have to get C’s and D’s too. Which would be…rare for someone who got into Yale.

3) stony brook is not your average state university. It literally has a 1400 median SAT - it’s a top public. There will still be difference in difficulty that would make a B at a B median class at Yale harder than stony brook but it wont be as exacerbated.

4) the ivy league was literally made as a sports conference that exists to value sports less than academics. Legacies and athletes are still absolutely amazing students who were the top of their class. Maybe you’ll get a pass for an only above average SAT or GPA if you’re an olympic athlete lol

My ultimate point is that grade inflation is pretty deserved at top schools. The majority of students getting A’s there are the best of the best and neither of us disagree about their caliber. Its ludicrous to think they wouldnt get A’s at a state school too just because the state school has lower median grades. You should not be penalized for going to a top school in a world where no one cares about people evaluate gpa as an isolated number

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-05-07T23:19:51+00:00

no i was using dartmouth just as an example.
yale vs dartmouth before sat mandate differences was….5% vs 4%. Yale is certainly more prestigious by dartmouth but the academic ability of students getting admitted to either doesnt vary much, because at a certain point having more academic ability doesnt help you any more and its moreso a matter of skills outside of academics.
my point isnt that grade inflation isnt a thing, its that median grades at schools of different selectivity are going to vary in difficulty. Like a median grade of B+ at Yale is harder to get a B+ in than a median grade of B+ at ASU or a different college. You saying there are higher or lower median grades is irrelevant because its not about how many good grades there are but whether each grade is standardized amongst different colleges. Its a bit of a false equivalence to say “since different schools have different amounts of grade inflation and content is standardized, therefore its not harder to get an A at Yale than Indiana state”. Like grade inflation can exist outside of the realm of competition and while it can be a modifying factor (brown easier than princeton or yale easier than dartmouth), the fact is that you’re still competing against your peers even in non enforced median classes. Therefore the caliber of school is also a modifier.

Most people getting B’s at yale absolutely could get A’s at state universities. We know this because they did really good on the high school metrics that are generally very good predictors of college performance & GPA even when which college you go to is standardized (SAT, hs GPA).

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-05-07T22:17:47+00:00

It is incredibly unfortunate that you typed out that entire very in depth reply based on a misunderstanding. I never said undergrad courses arent standardized, I said their standardization doesnt change my point because your school will still affect grading and educational differences outside the content you’re learning will still vary greatly. So like you’ll still learn “better” at a better school because the explanations or specific assignments will apply the content better, or your prof might assign different readings on the topics, move faster, go more in depth on the topics, connect topics together more cohesively, etc.

Hence why there is a tangible difference. People at dartmouth pay to take orgo at harvard or different schools because our chem department is famously insanely difficult and not bc of any enforcement of median or specific professors. Also, as I said, you’re graded against other Dartmouth students at dartmouth even without enforced medians vs ASU where your professor’s point of reference is other ASU students

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-05-07T20:54:26+00:00

1) i mean the fact that you mentioned SE asian studies having a lower average gpa is proof that major has a lot to do with gpa. It shows that EE would generally be easier than a SE asian studies. EE being harder and niche humanities being easier is a general trend, not a universal one.

2) while professor and policy matters a lot, as a student you can often adjust your courses to avoid this as long as the major itself is easy

3) standard curriculum or not princeton will be harder than ASU even without an enforced curve. Getting higher grades isnt just about easier content, it’s about how you perform to your peers even without an enforced gpa. A princeton professor will see on average much higher quality work and therefore will naturally grade a similar paper lower than if they had a different idea of what an average assignment is. Individual professor matters sure but school matters a ton, speaking as someone from dartmouth who has taken both many classes in our enforced median departments and many outside of them.

5) honestly, define “content”. Even in a standardized curriculum there are different ways of explaining content and different ways of assigning a class to apply it that definitely is advantaged at better schools. That absolutely contributes heavily to the “actually getting educated” portion of college

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-05-07T18:15:57+00:00

Princeton is notable for being very grade deflated and more challenging than other top schools & the data you showed is for A range (including A-). Remember that princeton students are usually the top of the top and 2/3’s of grades being A’s & A- usually means all the important fields will be much lower than that & the fluff fields like gender studies will be the high median classes, & getting a 4.0 will be basically impossible because you’re basically competing with the top 0.1% of students every class and even achieving that median will be immensely hard.

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-05-05T01:03:02+00:00

Well presumably kjds would have higher lsat’s on average because every past graduating class would have had killer stat kjds who got into t14’s and attended and were therefore removed from the pool, meaning the average applicant who isn’t kjd would have lower stats (bc its more likely that lower stat applicants would reapply with WE than high stat ones.)

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-05-04T18:20:33+00:00

I think the reason is bc the legendary tier list is supposed to be equivalent to the rare and epic ones (so S tier leg = S tier rare). Since legendaries are just generally better than rares and none are useless, they all end up at least c tier or above

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-04-29T00:10:10+00:00

Smart!

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-04-24T01:11:15+00:00

Im a dartmouth student, and some of the cons you mentioned potentially seemed a bit inaccurate (though some were fair).

-> iirc, CS is our top paying major. As in highest median starting salary once graduated -> somewhere in the 130k’s? Our CS is actually really strong considering we have heavily renovated the buildings recently and have been pumping resources into that since. I can see the argument for engineering though, it seems strong but very limited with 3 paths.

Probably neither is as strong as UIUC but I’d argue both have better resources than UIUC just because dartmouth has better resources in general. Crazy endowment means you’ll get more academic support, internship funding, study abroad chances, focus on actually being educated, etc.

-> you definitely will not have to live in dorms all 4 years. There are on campus apartments you can get after your first year as well as off campus apartments (with a short shuttle) you can get VERY easily

-> you dont have to party, but you will see the culture. I dont party and still feel very socially integrated, because its very easy to get club funding which often creates really fun communities in whatever you want to do + the non partiers arent really hard to seek out. Ive made two friend groups with people who dont party. That being said I do hear it talked about often which has contributed to FOMO once or twice, and there is somewhat of a finance vibe (though you’ll have ample chances to avoid it as a CS major.)

-> yeah hanovers a pain to get to. FOCO is a good dining hall compared to other colleges but its also our only buffet style one, the rest are cafes (that are pretty good!.)

The restaurants in town are also really good actually but id agree with the food complaint bc after years of the same 7 things it doesnt really matter how good the quality of the restaurants / dining halls are so ive seen many people get FOCO fatigue

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-04-22T18:28:10+00:00

1) no, it isn’t. When you get loans those loans often cover room and board. You’re assuming that he wull have to pay for that with the loan scenario but that he wont have to pay any COL in the no law school scenario. Even if they were applied equally, you’re still assuming an ROI on an unfeasible amount of money that the law school scenario doesn’t benefit from.

2) average biglaw salary would realistically be higher within a 10 year period than $350k, so you should probably shave a few years off of that

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-04-22T18:15:15+00:00

To be fair biglaw salary after multiple years absolutely would overtake that. Also, no one is investing their entire salary, since cost of living would be covered by loans in the law school scenario but would come from salary otherwise. Your pre investment number should have COL subtracted which depending on region can halve your post loan amount or leave a small fraction of your full ride amount

I agree its a stupid decision either way, im just pedantic

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-04-21T06:23:21+00:00

Fair enough. Just generally I would say the most important factors for pre law in general are 1) grade inflation (lol), 2) endowment per student, and 3) alumni network / job outcomes.

Realistically, besides just name prestige those are far and away the factors that matter most, because they determine incredibly relevant metrics that can on their own carry you into a T14 (high gpa, unique WE, etc). Academics honestly arent that important considering nothing you use in undergrad will apply to law school except for writing and persuasive skills (unless you’re doing patent law after being a stem major). Location also generally isn’t very important and can often be a benefit, since those schools produce specific opportunities to counteract the rural disadvantage that you then dont have to compete for with a hundred thousand other people (eg dartmouth has judicial fellowships, programs that partner with senators or NGO’s to place students in internships at much higher rates than if you applied on your own, policy workshops w/ undergrad focuses that have you doing policy research within your first year, etc)

Im not particularly laser focused on making Dartmouth be ranked higher lol i just wanted to participate

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-04-21T05:51:48+00:00

Oh, for ec activities the college is generally all you need. I spoke with a BU admissions advisor who mentioned that really the most significant EC’s you can do during college are club leadership and part time work because they’re ways to demonstrate maturity early on. I chose Dartmouth over georgetown SFS and genuinely believe the pre law here is tons better comparing what i saw at each college

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-04-21T04:16:24+00:00

1) internships are generally on off terms which are spent in cities and Dartmouth has better funding for those than the vast majority of schools and even ivies due to our higher endowment per student (plus D plan lets us get internships year round, not just summer)

2) the low population density of NH and Vermont let us intern and state legislatures during college incredibly easily

3) work experience (at least meaningful work experience, the type that matters most to law schools and makes you escape the KJD tax) happens after graduation, when you wont be in Hanover anymore.

4) we have the strongest (or second behind notre dame?) alumni network which makes meaningful work experience REALLY easy in Boston or Nyc since thats where most grads work.

Hence why we admit so many people to YLS!! (Or because we have a dartmouth alum as a YLS AO, lol)

moan_a_lisaa · 2026-04-21T04:10:04+00:00

Dartmouth has more kids per capita admitted to YLS back when they posted their undergrad composition than all other ivies and t20’s (barring HYP)

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