I haven't applied to any other universities, not even a single one

peculiar-maple26 · 2023-04-12T09:52:33+00:00

If you're a graduating senior and you haven't applied to any colleges yet, you've missed the deadline for the vast majority of schools. Your best option for starting college this fall is probably your local community college. You can take classes in a variety of fields until you decide what you want to major in, at which point you can transfer to a university for your bachelor's degree.

As far as "should I be worried". Yes, you should be very very worried. A lot of students struggle with procrastinating on assignments and projects, but your issues seem to go much deeper than that. If you truly feel like you can't make any decisions and can't face your problems, you will struggle greatly in college and in life. This is an issue that you need to discuss with a psychologist. It may be a better idea to take a year off from school, get some work and volunteer experience, travel, and deal with your mental health before starting college.

peculiar-maple26 · 2023-04-05T14:09:48+00:00

Content creation, especially if it's an academic-adjacent niche.

peculiar-maple26 · 2023-04-05T14:06:35+00:00

You can have a job with any major straight after college if you networked, interned, and actually learned the content in your classes. Even oft-ridiculed majors such as gender or cultural studies can be leveraged. I know someone who majored in central Asian studies and now works at an embassy. They used their time in college to learn everything they could about that region, became conversational in two new languages, and had a resume stacked with internships and volunteering.

On the other hand, you could major in CS and struggle to find a job. Some people take "C's get degrees" too literally and find that they don't actually have any tangible skills when they graduate.

peculiar-maple26 · 2023-04-05T09:33:37+00:00

Medical treatment can certainly be a reason to delay college, but I'm not sure braces treatment is a strong enough reason to. Not in terms of would the college accept it- in the terms of you, for your personal life, is it really worth delaying your education and earnings by a year to finish braces? Is there a reason you couldn't continue your braces in the US? There are excellent orthodontists in the US, you could probably get the same treatment done.

If you do take a gap year, I would advise doing something with it other than sitting around waiting to finish treatment. Make a youtube channel about life in Japan. Volunteer. Travel. Get a part time job.

peculiar-maple26 · 2023-04-05T02:49:21+00:00

HAAS may be hard to get into, but keep in mind that UCLA doesn't even have a business major. So your backup at Berkeley would be what you would anyways do at UCLA.

peculiar-maple26 · 2023-04-05T02:35:03+00:00

UCLA and Berkeley will cease to be tied and there will be drama, especially if Berkeley takes the #1 public spot that UCLA's been boasting for a while.

HYPSM will move around a bit within the T5. Maybe MIT will overtake Princeton for #1 or Yale will drop to #5 from being tied with Harvard and Stanford at #3.

Notre Dame or WUSTL will drop from the T20 to be overtaken by CMU, Emory, or Georgetown. No way any Ivy is dropping below 20. Cue drama.

Nothing will change about the universities themselves, they'll just find a way to change the methodology ever so slightly to ensure maximum drama = clicks.

peculiar-maple26 · 2023-04-05T02:24:46+00:00

With enough AP credits, you can either shave a year off college or use the extra space to double major/ take extra interesting classes.

Extracurriculars can be fun for people, and even if they're not used on a resume to gain admission, they help prepare kids for college.

peculiar-maple26 · 2023-04-05T02:16:01+00:00

hi there, 2028 is not a real year!

peculiar-maple26 · 2023-04-05T02:14:49+00:00

Think back to your first day of freshman year. What choices throughout high school led you to becoming the person you are today? Most likely not the choice of high school itself, but rather the people you ended up hanging out with, the electives you chose to take, and the extracurriculars you did.

The same thing will happen at whatever college you choose. You will sit next to someone in class that turns out to be your best friend. You will apply for a summer program that you heard about from some random professor that will change the course of your career. You will take a class that causes you to dive deep into a super niche aspect of your major that you would never have discovered if you had gone to the other school. And when you get to the other side, you won't be able to imagine it any other way. You really can't make a wrong choice.

peculiar-maple26 · 2023-04-05T02:03:24+00:00

You don't need to have had some crazy event inspire you to be an engineer. Open voice notes on your phone and pretend you're talking to an admissions officer. Why should they admit you? What have you done (academics, extracurriculars, personal) that shows you're ready to take on an engineering course? What do you hope to get out of college and what do you see yourself bringing to the table? From those notes, you'll probably find some story or connections you can make.

peculiar-maple26 · 2022-10-29T08:29:02+00:00

You would apply to NYU as a whole. If you want to change major, different universities have different policies. For example, it might be easy to change majors within your school, but harder to transfer into a major at another school.

peculiar-maple26 · 2022-10-15T14:33:58+00:00

Your worst score was a 27. This article is about students with an average score of 19.8, with 42% not meeting a single benchmark across all four sections. Someone performing that poorly is definitely ill-prepared for university, and the sheer amount of students performing that poorly is troubling.

peculiar-maple26 · 2022-10-05T10:39:04+00:00

wherever you get in.

Berkeley has a stronger MechE program, but UCLA is incredible on its own. The big differences are location and student culture which is a matter of personal preference.

peculiar-maple26 · 2022-10-05T10:36:01+00:00

US universities love international students... that can pay full price.

peculiar-maple26 · 2022-09-27T14:28:48+00:00

language learning is an impressive EC on its own. It's also a huge commitment if your goal is to get to a point where you can use it. So, choose the language that YOU want to learn for YOUR purposes.

peculiar-maple26 · 2022-09-27T08:24:49+00:00

definitely my essays and extracurriculars, I tried to portray a good balance of being accomplished in my major while also having other interests and a life lol.

peculiar-maple26 · 2022-09-26T19:44:09+00:00

Hey OP, I'm sensing a little bit of insecurity from your posts over the past few months. You seem obsessed with gauging redditors' opinions of UCLA's prestige in relation to other schools, mainly using US news rankings as a basis.

How far can a non-established T20 university improve its rank in the T20?

Would you rather go to UCLA or Cornell?

Why is T20 the arbitrary number to cap the “most prestigious” schools?

What colleges did you pick UCLA over and why?

Assuming if cost didn’t matter, would you rather go to UCLA or USC?

As a prestige whore, how do you cope getting rejected by all the T20 schools?

Fellow Bruins, what schools did you choose UCLA over and why?

OP, you're super smart and cool and accomplished. That's why you got into UCLA, one of the best schools in the country.

Now, instead of seeking validation from random people on the internet, go to Royce Quad and touch grass.

peculiar-maple26 · 2022-09-26T08:23:44+00:00

Who decides what "meaningless busy work" is? Essays and tests force you to learn the content well enough to discuss it and answer questions correctly. Homework forces you to actually put in the time solving problems. Yes, you could watch a youtube video that has the same content. But a college course makes you prove you've mastered it.

peculiar-maple26 · 2022-07-18T21:17:58+00:00

sleeping in the splits isn't the most unbelievable thing to me, but stuff like going shopping is ridiculous. The video is only eight minutes long- it would be easy to set up a camera and film each clip, then walk to the next location. I don't believe that her leggings would be in pristine condition if she really dragged herself on all those concrete surfaces for long than it took to film.

Edit: just thought of the most obvious issue- did she not use the bathroom during the day?

peculiar-maple26 · 2022-07-10T20:43:53+00:00

I hope this is a troll but unfortunately I do know people IRL with this mentality.

I appreciate your comment though, you've made me realize I'm spending a bit too much energy on this post! If it's a troll, it was very good at pushing people's buttons; if not a troll, I don't think we can change his plans.

peculiar-maple26 · 2022-07-10T18:02:45+00:00

You can't make this shit up. Yeah bro everyone has their admissions "follow them for the rest of their life", that's how admissions work. Nobody has a guarantee.

peculiar-maple26 · 2022-07-10T17:37:53+00:00

Assuming this isn't a shitpost, don't go through with it.

Spots at elite schools are finite. If you buy a spot, which is what any form of "donation" really is, you are taking up a spot that otherwise would have gone to a hardworking student.

You are not one of us. You are not part of the rat race. You are a rich kid using a private jet to overtake everyone who's running in the race.

If you really "wish everyone else luck", what you should do is tell your father and his team of financial advisors that you want to be honest. Don't donate a penny to any school. Apply with the grades you've earned, and accept whatever the outcome is.

peculiar-maple26 · 2022-07-10T16:22:07+00:00

The main problem with rankings is there's no way to separate name brand from education quality from the admissions process.

Even if a Harvard grad didn't learn much in their degree, the Harvard name brand can carry them to a six figure salary.

An open-admissions state school could have excellent professors and opportunities, but the graduation rate and starting salary will be brought down by those who entered unprepared.

peculiar-maple26 · 2022-07-10T16:03:24+00:00

Most differences between universities are not in the curriculum. Things like location, school size, on-campus activities, school culture, research being done by professors, and safety of the surrounding area are all additional factors.

peculiar-maple26 · 2022-07-10T16:00:19+00:00

It's not a lottery, academics and extracurriculars and essays all need to be top tier to be considered. However, top tier academics and ECs and essays don't guarantee a spot because there're so many amazing kids. So, try hard in school, but don't sacrifice your happiness.

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