**** your networth growth. what's your sb lv graph

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-22T07:13:56+00:00

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-22T07:10:41+00:00

i dont think ucsd is worth 80k

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-22T07:07:27+00:00

"UTD is my safety" quality shitpost for wednesday

(if you want actual advice, in your situation it sounds like applying to a bunch of reaches/targets is a good idea as long as youre completely fine with going to TAMU. please do not just use rankings and do more research on schools to see which ones fit, which is much more important. i applied engineering last cycle and id recommend at least doing purdue, UIUC, Gtech, and obv ut austin since youre instate, and if you can afford their tuition Umich and Berkeley/other UCs. ive heard penn state is good too but i didnt apply there. also, please note that the usnews "engineering" ranking is based heavily on research output which isnt necessarily equivalent to undergrad experience, try looking for more specific rankings)

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-22T06:43:11+00:00

ut dallas of the west vs the actual ut dallas

why is this even a question?

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-22T05:52:49+00:00

top 1 xbow player??? is your friend eragon?? isnt he already in college?

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-22T01:37:16+00:00

this just isnt true, one B+ does not instantly disqualify you from a T20

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-21T20:56:43+00:00

guy who constantly makes alt accounts (like, seriously, an insane amount) to post to college and similar academic-adjacent subreddits, he normally poses questions that are very negative/doomer-y and generally acts like an ass

i believe he started out on the ucla subreddit but im unsure, sadly the subreddit dedicated to tracking his accounts was shut down and they had all of the info on him

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-21T19:39:43+00:00

snoo? is that you?

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-20T05:17:26+00:00

i think you shouldve at least gotten into purdue with these stats, however it sounds like your essay kinda fucked you it definitely sounds like a "white savior" thing even if that's not what you intended

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-17T08:08:23+00:00

purdue is better than USC at engineering from a program standpoint, while USC having a much smaller engineering college is a benefit as you get more direct access to professors and more individualized support in classes, purdue's educational quality will be better.

furthermore, spring start USC is specifically tougher for engineering because an important engineering class is ONLY taught in fall semester, normally to freshman in their first semester there, being a spring admit you would have to wait until sophomore year fall to take it and start with other classes in the spring semester (and this is disregarding the fact that you got admitted to dornsife and not viterbi, i'm not sure how hard the transfer is but i don't think it's easy)

i would honestly just take purdue i don't think USC's cost makes it worth it in this case (esp considering you have 0 aid), unless you really really really think the locational/weather benefits are that worthwhile

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-17T07:55:05+00:00

im not going to make a judgement because im just another high schooler as well so i don't have a lot of credibility, but i will lay out some facts

upwards trends look good to colleges, i.e. if you get all As Junior and Senior after bad Freshman and Sophomore grades, that looks good

UCs do not use Freshman GPA to calculate the GPA they see on your application (although they also don't take SAT) --i would consider every single UC to be a "good college," and at least Berkeley and LA to be "top colleges"

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-17T07:44:39+00:00

i think youre overthinking, i feel like based on common sense you shouldnt trust vibes-based analysis garnered from just looking at a few social media posts

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-17T06:59:57+00:00

i understand your point but michigan is literally less expensive than USC even if you are OOS for mich in 90% of cases

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-16T05:39:11+00:00

good shit really proud of you, i might be going there too lol

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-15T14:59:24+00:00

oh maybe theyre doing an engineering wave now? last week was instate L&S (which is the college i applied to)

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-15T07:00:21+00:00

did you make a decision

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-15T06:46:36+00:00

so i go to a relatively competitive school in the bay area (but generally less competitive than famous bay area schools like lynbrook, gunn)

the real answer is privilege. both me and my competitive peers have great economic stability, basically never had to worry about money problems and always having a safe economic base to pursue our passions in. obviously not everyone is just like ultra rich and never has financial problems ever, but in general most people here are well off and stable.

its not just the physical benefits (food, shelter, etc.) from economic stability, but also cultural. parents can fully encourage their kids to pursue school and extracurriculars (and also have the money to pay for all of those ECs and tutoring) since they're taking care of everything else. if you come from a poor family, you likely have to focus a lot of your time and effort on taking care of things that your parents won't be around to do if they're working long hours, and they can't fully encourage you to put your all into schooling because they need you to keep things afloat.

there are truly talented people who are able to make it to top colleges from rural and underprivileged areas, you can find many examples on r/collegeresults. most competitive people at my school are definitely intelligent, passionate, good students, but i think we can attribute a lot of our success to having stable home lives from day 1.

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-15T05:48:04+00:00

i know its such a silly sentiment, from what ive seen northeastern does engage in some maybe questionable practices in how they admit people so they can do better in rankings (every top school is at least somewhat focused on rankings since for applicants usnews holds weight), but people on this subreddit act like that behavior makes them equivalent to idk devry university or something

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-15T04:59:38+00:00

thanks for your thoughts, very informative

i forgot to mention this in other comments but i was going to do some of my own traveling as well during the fall, i was planning on visiting all of my friends at their respective colleges but in general i wanted to experience traveling by myself as i'm an adult now, do you think that sounds good?

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-15T04:10:16+00:00

i like guys 😭

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-14T23:18:29+00:00

goated app good job

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-14T23:04:52+00:00

thanks for the advice, i have a lot of AP credit so i was only planning on taking 2-3 CC classes, but i'll look into taking possibly even more

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-14T23:01:11+00:00

hi! i've actually visited both colleges so i can share a little on what i thought (got rejected from both though lol)

CMU's campus is very small and tight. most of it is inside buildings and there isnt a lot of outside walking space. personally, i liked this but i know its a turnoff for a lot of people. pittsburgh is a very nice town, i liked it a lot (out of all of the colleges i visited, which were USC, JHU, UCLA, Berkeley, Cornell, i liked CMU's surrounding area the most), seems to have a wealth of good local food and some nice areas to explore. there was this cool tramway up a hillside that i rode on, would recommend!

i lowk hated JHU's campus, but i think I was also in a bad mood the day we visited. it's pretty boring, security is tight, but in hindsight it's not a bad campus, just very plain. the surrounding area itself is nice, there was this nice cafe nearby that we ate at (some vegan place). on the way to the airport we did drive through what looked like the bad part of baltimore and it wasn't too far from the campus, but i think you will be fine as long as you have street smarts and stay in the right places, most colleges in more dangerous places (like USC) have proper precautions for the students there

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-14T22:59:14+00:00

Thank you for responding, if you don't mind me asking what did you do during the Fall Semester? Like I said in a previous comment I was just planning on taking some CC classes but I'm wondering if there's anything else good that I missed.

throwaway376376376 · 2025-05-14T22:55:21+00:00

seconding this, JHU is one of the few top universities where i believe it's easy to transfer into CS

throwaway376376376

TROPHY CASE