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I help lead an open collective (like open source) game project with 140 game developers. Join us:
📷[P1-OM] Open Collective
We are a team of motivated developers seeking artists, programmers, producers, user integrators, social media people and community managers.
Note:

• We are making a game purely from a passion standpoint
• We don’t have capital to offer, so please keep this in mind when you consider contributing with your time
• We have many other roles, so if in doubt, just apply .

Our game:
Our game is a really cute, wholesome game where you gather cute jelly-like creatures（＾ω＾）and work with them to craft a sky island paradise.
Feed cute creatures >>
It's a simple single player game to keep the timeline short for portfolio purposes.
It's made in Unity/BlendeMagicaVoxel.
About us:
Work:
We are a large open collective with many people who have already graduated to companies like EA
. We have a pipeline to get people mentored and connected with alumni already working with established companies.
Time:
There are no obligations to do a certain number of hours and so-forth. You can come in to build your skills or just enjoy game-deving with us.
Community:
Part of the goal is to see if open collectives can make games. It's kinda like open source but more engaged and structured. Since our team is large you are forced to learn the soft skills of teamwork so valued in the job interview process. We meet daily in Discord
and use it as an open office space for watercooler talk. Our allied devs also come and develop there almost daily.
As a community we're not really in it for the money, but we are in it to build a game that we're passionate about. We hope to release it on Steam for PC. Some people join us for the experience of working with a large team, others for an ideal portfolio piece (not over-scoped that still stands out). Some to have fun, and others because they're tired of developing alone for years. We're seeking other people who are passionate just like us, primarily a designer. However, our system is pretty well tuned by now and we are able to take on programmers, artists, animators and possibly 1 more producer as well.
Mentorship:
Being an open collective we often have amazing mentors like:
**vakola -**17+ years in game design, helped make Gears of War and Need for Speed. skyphyr - Helped make HoloLens. Visual effects artist, content creator, Houdini expert and render artist. 20+ years of experience. [1LF]cory2point0 - Army medic turned software dev, turned company mentor. 14+ years of programming with a specialization in agile software development.
We also have guest speakers like Tim Cotten was the lead designer of Ultima Online.
Connect:
They speak on our Discord.
. Our Discord is about the non-crypt0 open metaverse.
If you are making your own game, we have a daily shared work space time (just ask) which you are welcome to be part of! You can hear some of the recordings on our podcast
.
Respond:
If you would like to be part, or if you have questions, comment!

Welcome new readers. Please start with chapter one https://www.reddit.com/HFY/comments/11ai7iv/last_of_the_defenders_ch_01/
Previously https://www.reddit.com/HFY/comments/1219ns7/last_of_the_defenders_ch_29/
Allah leaned against one of the tables, purring softly. Li was beside her swiftly, gripping her shoulder reassuringly.
“But we’re not gonna let that happen,” the human promised. “And you’re going to help.”
“I knew they were evil,” Allah started to say but stopped. She bit her lip, tail flicking up a cloud of dust in the long disused room. The lights flickered again and the U’knock clawed at the glow stick on the table beside her, holding it before her, eager to have something stable to hold onto.
Li patted her shoulder again and turned to the table with the helmets. She lifted one to Allah’s head, pursed her lips and set it down. She picked up another, nodding in satisfaction, and began taking it apart. “I’m sure they think the same thing about humans,” she said.
“Who would care what they think?” Allah tried to keep the bile from her voice.
“PsyOps,” Li answered, as if the strange word should explain everything. When Allah only lowered her ear in confusion she said “‘If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither, you will fail in every battle’.” The human smiled. “The swarmers consider us a meddling subspecies that steals the resources that are rightfully theirs. We keep getting in their way, preventing ‘progress’ and forming unnatural alliances with other, lesser, organisms.”
“You sound like you have spoken to them.”
Li nodded. She removed two panels from the top of the helmet. “I’ve spoken to millions of them,” she admitted, then said softly, “I was probably the last voice most of them ever heard.”
She lifted the helmet and adjusted it to fit atop Allah’s head. “These millions,” the U’knock asked, “are all dead?”
The Defender nodded. “Very much so,” Li’s tone was light but the human face was a stone mask in the green light. The overheads flickered like lightning, casting her in hard brightness before the green gloom returned to paint dark shadows under her eyes and mouth. It made her look more predatory; a hunter hiding in tall grass, bent to pounce.
Li removed more sections from the helmet, the odd thing sliding down around Allah’s ears.
“I would like to know how to kill that many.”
A different kind of shadow crossed the human’s face, a sadness that cracked through the hardness.
Li turned to the panels she had removed, taking a pair of tiny buttons out. She held one up and turned Allah’s head, trying to fit the button in the U’knock’s ear.
“Let's hope you don’t have to find out,” Li said, trying a different button from a different helmet. “It was a pretty expensive day for me.
“And I’m still paying the tab.”
Li patted Allah’s shoulder again. The U’knock turned to look at her.
“Looks like that fits,” the human forced a grin. She handed Allah another button. “How's it feel?”
“Strange,” Allah admitted. She shook her head and felt the button wiggle inside her ear. “What is this?”
“Virtual Reality Education Helmet,” Li grinned again but the smile did not reach her eyes. “Welcome to Primary School.”
Allah tapped the thing on her head with a claw. It was stiff, but not hard like bronze. And it held an odor--several--of something cheesy and vinegary and a little moldy all at once.
“Careful,” Li cautioned. “Plastic that old can get pretty brittle.”
The U’knock wondered why humans would use something so obviously inferior if they could make things with the new metal. Then she considered her mother’s Com’Cha and retracted her claw from the gift. Even if a warrior offered a replacement made entirely of new metal, the old bronze weapon held a special place in her life.
Perhaps these helmets held such prestige for Li’s people?
“This will teach me to fight?” she asked, trying to muster the proper amount of reverence for the object.
“No,” Li shook her head, “I’ll take on that job. And Jung, too. This,” she tapped the helmet on Allah’s head, “will teach you basic commands and instructions for ground equipment and the extravehicular combat suit. You remember the mess hall? How hard it was just to get hot water from Demeter?” Allah nodded, perking and flattening her ears, “That's because you weren’t ‘thinking’ the right words. We’ll start you out with English because Demeter uses that by default. Once you have basic commands memorized, we’ll move to general tactics, strategy, and combat.”
“You used this,” Allah touched the helmet. It was cool, hard, alien in her head, “as a child?”
Li chuckled. “No,” she admitted. “V-REHs are intended to acclimate xenoforms--species other than human--to our ways. From farmer to front line fighter, there’s a training program for just about any job.
“That's also why the helmets are so modular,” she gestured to the discarded pieces. “They can accommodate almost any ‘head’ shaped configuration; kitty cat ears, literal four eyes. In some cases, like the Shoo, they can accommodate a species with no head at all.
“I gotta get back to work,” Li left the mess where it lay and strode toward the door. “Demeter, offload basic command lessons one through thirty to a microcore at the Romeo-02 terminal.
“C-c-commmmmmmmmmmPlying!”
“Can we trust Demeter to provide proper instructions?” Allah asked. Fears from last night--particularly one about melting brains--crossed her thoughts as they strode down the hall.
“I’ll do a quick file check to make sure but,” Li looked over her shoulder. She chuckled at Allah’s expression: ears flat, lips pushed out and constantly glancing upward to try to “see” the thing on her head. “V-REHs can’t hurt you. Maybe trick you into walking into a wall, but that won’t be an issue; the basic lessons are designed to be used while seated.
Do you need to poop or anything before you start? You could be in there for a while.
Allah nodded, eliciting another trip to another room similar to the showers aboard Star dancer, filled with more tiny rooms. This one was cream colored, and inside each room was a tiny cream colored throne with a bowl in the seat.
Li stood outside, giving instructions on the throne’s--the bidet toilet’s--use. Then it was back to the room of warriors--the security station, Li corrected--and Allah’s first lesson.
“Touch the V-REH,” Li lifted her hands to her own head, pressing her palms to her temples, “here. It’ll run through a self adjustment process and I’ll link it to your nanites. That should speed things up a lot.”
“Will it hurt?” Allah asked, “as much as last time?”
“This shouldn’t hurt at all,” Li said with a grin, “so if it does either take it off immediately or ask me to. It might be disorienting at first though so get comfy.”
Allah returned to the corner and settled on the hard floor, sitting cross legged. As she did, Li returned to and began tapping on the face of the monitor. A soft click sounded and a tiny shiny stone flickered in the faltering lights. Allah had still not touched the V-REH when Li moved the stone to another hole, pressed on her keyboard with her fingers and nodded in satisfaction. She turned in the tiny throne and regarded Allah quizzically.
“I can’t initiate a session for you,” Li said by way of explanation. “It’s designed to be voluntary, so nothing can. I can disengage you but that's about it.” She stood, walked the short distance to Allah’s corner and held out the stone to the U’knock. “The V-REH will need to calibrate with you, then recognise it needs this,” Li pressed the stone into Allah’s paw.
“I’ll be right here if you need anything,” the human pointed to the monitor, turned and strode to the throne.
Allah looked at the tiny stone. In the flickering lights, she had thought it was white. Up close, however, it looked more of a pale green. She carefully picked it up to inspect. As she did, it moved away from the light of the glowing stick beside her and captured the myriad hues projected by Li’s monitor. The stone shifted in color again, a dizzying burst of different colors packed so close together they appeared white again.
Why was she hesitating? Allah had pledged to help defend her planet, had stood before the quorum of Umati’clam and professed it as fact. Now, she dithered. Li had returned to her work, finger beating a rhythm like raindrops on the surface of the table. Allah felt alone, ignored. And part of her realized that she was. Li had good reason to--she was working to save Allah’s people--and to grow upset because her friend so easily turned to the task was beyond petty.
“What if I don’t?” Allah asked aloud.
Li’s fingers stopped suddenly, then the human placed her hands in her lap. She did not turn to look at Allah, but sat with the stone mask again and stared at the monitor.
“It's your choice, Allah,” she said slowly, “and it’s not one I can make for you. If you’re asking ‘Will I throw you out on the street?’ or ‘Will we stop looking for your father?’ the answer to both is no. I took you in last night, frankly, because you had the lowest chance of survival of those around me. Those that,” Li sighed, pulling on the thin cored that held her hair in a tail. “Those that had a chance.”
She shook her head, combing her fingers through the long, thick black hair. “I know you’re worried that you won’t be much help. And you’d rather be out there,” she gestured to the screen, wiggling her fingers. The glyphs disappeared to be replaced by images from seven times two plus two drones patrolling the city and the surrounding wasteland. “Looking for him right now.”
“That’s not what I--”
“And I know you’re scared,” Li interrupted. “And angry. You’ve got good reason to be. This…won’t be much fun when the shooting starts.” She did turn now, the sad smile that would not reach her eyes painting her lips. “But you were right,” she said. “I do need a friend. I’d like that friend to still be you in the morning.”
The human shrugged her shoulders. “I'm sorry to put that on you. I don't want to add to your burdens.” And Li turned back to the monitor and began tapping again.
Allah did not know what to say. She sat in the corner, watching Li return to work. Allah had felt alone, afraid. And angry, yes. But what must Li be feeling right now? Her own people had abandoned her quest. She stood in defiance of the bullies and defenders now.
This planet's protector.
“When I finish with this machine,” Allah asked, “we will pop the corn and speak of mates?”
The corner of Li’s mouth rose. “And watch Journey To The West while I paint your claws.”
Allah nodded. This was a burden she could, would, must happily bear. To stand beside Li, no matter the cost. Not out of honor, nor pride. Not even to save her people.
She would do this because her friend asked her to.
The U’knock raised her paws to either side of the helmet, pressing gently.

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I help lead an open collective (like open source) game project with 140 game developers. Join us:
📷[P1-OM] Open Collective
We are a team of motivated developers, seeking artists, programmers, producers, user integrators, social media people and community managers.
Note:

• We are making a game purely from a passion standpoint
• We don’t have capital to offer, so please keep this in mind when you consider contributing with your time
• We have many other roles, so if in doubt, just apply.

Our game:
Our game is a really cute, wholesome game where you gather cute jelly-like creatures（＾ω＾）and work with them to craft a sky island paradise.
Feed cute creatures >>
It's a simple single player game to keep the timeline short for portfolio purposes.
It's made in Unity/BlendeMagicaVoxel.
About us:
Work:
We are a large open collective with many people who have already graduated to companies like EA
. We have a pipeline to get people mentored and connected with alumni already working with established companies.
Time:
There are no obligations to do a certain number of hours and so-forth. You can come in to build your skills or just enjoy game-deving with us.
Community:
Part of the goal is to see if open collectives can make games. It's kinda like open source but more engaged and structured. Since our team is large you are forced to learn the soft skills of teamwork so valued in the job interview process. We meet daily in Discord
and use it as an open office space for watercooler talk. Our allied devs also come and develop there almost daily.
As a community we're not really in it for the money, but we are in it to build a game that we're passionate about. We hope to release it on Steam for PC. Some people join us for the experience of working with a large team, others for an ideal portfolio piece (not over-scoped that still stands out). Some to have fun, and others because they're tired of developing alone for years. We're seeking other people who are passionate just like us, primarily a designer. However, our system is pretty well tuned by now and we are able to take on programmers, artists, animators and possibly 1 more producer as well.
Mentorship:
Being an open collective we often have amazing mentors like:
**vakola -**17+ years in game design, helped make Gears of War and Need for Speed. skyphyr - Helped make HoloLens. Visual effects artist, content creator, Houdini expert and render artist. 20+ years of experience. [1LF]cory2point0 - Army medic turned software dev, turned company mentor. 14+ years of programming with a specialization in agile software development.
We also have guest speakers like Tim Cotten was the lead designer of Ultima Online.
Connect:
They speak on our Discord.
. Our Discord is about the non-crypt0 open metaverse.
If you are making your own game, we have a daily shared work space time (just ask) which you are welcome to be part of! You can hear some of the recordings on our podcast
.
Respond:
If you would like to be part, or if you have questions, comment!

Ask about anything related to Dwarf Fortress - including the game, utilities, bugs, problems you're having, mods, etc. You will get fast and friendly responses in this thread.
Read the sidebar before posting! It has information on a range of game packages for new players, and links to all the best tutorials and quick-start guides. If you have read it and that hasn't helped, mention that!
You should also take five minutes to search the wiki - if tutorials or the quickstart guide can't help, it usually has the information you're after. You can find the previous questions thread here.
If you can answer questions, please sort by new and lend a hand - linking to a helpful resource (eg wiki page) is fine.

Greetings Tarnished!
This is the place to ask any questions you may have about Elden Ring. This includes obscure detail questions, "newbie" advice questions, build questions, boss advice questions, and what have you.
Well written, constructive criticism is fine but please avoid ranting about aspects of the game you just don’t like. This includes “so and so boss is stupid and too difficult.”
If you are interested in the game but don’t own it yet, please don’t post “should I buy this game?” or “Is this game worth it?”. If you have played other FromSoftware games and enjoyed them, the answer is yes. If you haven’t, just do a little research! These games are difficult, and sometimes frustrating, and not everyone is going to enjoy them. And that’s okay!
Lastly, be friendly! We are all here because we are interested in the same game! Please treat your fellow players with respect.
Here are a few helpful links:
Our Discord which has an awesome Helper Request System!
Elden Ring Wiki
Elden Ring Map
Most Recent Patch Notes (1.06)
/BeyondTheFog for co-op help!
/PatchesEmporium for item trading!
/EldenRingBuilds for builds and build help!
Our community password is straydmn
Rise, Tarnished!

Hello Avengers! It’s that time again for daily questions! Whether you are new to the game or a seasoned veteran, feel free to ask away and answer what you can! Remember to remain civil and on-topic. This thread is for people to get their questions answered by the community without trolling, being attacked, or negativity.
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EDIT: Some clarification. As a reminder, this sub is community ran. We mods are volunteers and do not work for Crystal. These threads are meant for the community to ask others in the community for assistance, clarification, definitions...etc. While we actively pass along information to the devs whenever possible, we cannot guarantee that anything in this thread will be seen by a developer. As always, questions for the developers are always best sent to their official channels or the dev streams.

'Magic bleeds into real life. With Magic, I was mainly being driven by the idea that, if people could collect their own cards, there would be a huge amount of variety to the game. In fact, one way I viewed it was that it was like designing a game for a vast audience, dealing out the cards to everybody instead of designing a bunch of little games.' - Richard Garfield, Creator of Magic: The Gathering
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Welcome to today's open thread, where /MagicArena users can discuss anything they wish not related directly to Magic the Gathering or the Arena Client.
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Want to talk about personal life? Cool things you learned today? Whatever happens to be dominating today's news cycle? Do you have something to talk about that didn't warrant its own thread? This is the place for it!
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Remember that the civility rules are still in force, so please engage kindly and pleasantly with each other.
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Check out our Discord Channel [here.](https://discordapp.com/invite/Magic)
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Hey /paydaytheheist!
Every Thursday, we will be making a recurring thread every week where members of the community can come together and ask/answer questions pertaining to the game; mechanics, lore, tricks, tips, guides and achievements, etc... all consolidated into one thread!
Rather than making individual posts and cluttering the subreddit with questions that may have been answered in the past, this should make it easier for everyone to discuss the game if anyone has any questions.
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This thread will be posted every Thursday at 12:00 AM EDT.
Ask away!

Duolingo, Cake, ELSA are all too familiar with the Vietnamese market, but do you know that foreign language learning apps are equally "cool" in this international market?
A. EWA

• For: Basic and intermediate level, need to learn vocabulary, like to read stories or listen to audio books.
• Unique features:
• The collection of stories contains many classic foreign literature, which makes it suitable for those who like literature, especially classical one.
• You can read and listen to the audio at the same time. The voice is automatic but I find it acceptable.
• Click to look up words always to be able to read and understand the content of the story, so it helps to reduce the fear of reading.

Download EWA on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ewa-english-language-learning/id1200778841
Download EWA on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ewa.ewaapp&hl=en&gl=US
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B. EJOY EPIC

• For: beginners and intermediate, focusing on communication in everyday life.
• Unique features:
• Have specific courses for each level with detailed roadmaps, suitable for learners at basic level, don't know where to start and how to learn.
• Each lesson is a short video from real communication situations. The App will list out phrases and grammar + practice exercises in many different situations for those phrases.
• All answers have an explanation of why it's right or why it's wrong. This is the part I appreciate the most about eJOY Epic, because knowing why you made the wrong choice will help you better understand that part of the grammar or structure. Don't skip this part while studying.

Download EPIC on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/vn/app/ejoy-epic-english-courses/id1622797145
Download EPIC on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ejoy.epic&hl=vi —--—--—--—--—--
C. ROSETTA STONE

• For: Basic level, focus on communication goals, like to learn with flashcards, highly self-taught
• Special point:
• This app learns the way you learn our native language, focus on using voice flashcards with vivid images and limited explanations, which will be more suitable for those who like to explore languages on their own.
• Have common conversation phrases to practice listening - speaking. There are audio books with lots of communication practice content in many contexts.
• There are pronunciation and grammar training courses and online classes with native teachers (with fee).

Download Rosetta Stone on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rosetta-stone-learn-languages/id435588892
Download Rosetta Stone on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.rosettastone.mobile.CoursePlayer&hl=en&gl=US

Disclaimer: Nothing in these WriteStreakiverse games is meant to be taken seriously. Remember to be respectful and courteous when you're playing :)
Hi, everyone!
Or should I say...
^{give me a second, it's been a while since I've done this...}

📯📯Greetings loyal subjects! 'Tis^def I, your humble prime minister of this fine nation-state of WriteStreakEN. Due to my... unforeseen hiatus of very important prime-minister-related things to attend to (and totally not just me playing with a rubber ball bouncing against the wall for the past year or two), I've missed a lot of things happening in this fair country of ours.
It appears that more countries have been settled. Not only that, but our population has grown tremendously^def in size! I see some noble WriteStreakians here who have been sticking with us since the beginning, and I also see some newcomers. Both are respectable in their own regards^{def 3}!
But what sticks out most to me is that many of our citizens lack^def official titles in our kingdom. Clearly we're going to have to do something about this posthaste^def!

Subject of the Day:

• 📚 If you lived in an ancient society or kingdom, what title or role would you want to play as a member of that society? Explain why.
  • Examples could be: "I would like to be the royal gardener because I'm great with plants" or "I would like to be the royal fool because I love to make people laugh"
  • The possibilities are endless, and there is no wrong answer. Be as creative as possible!

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What is this?
A few years ago, the moderator of the French WriteStreak, u/MC_Eucaryote, started a series of games about the WriteStreak subreddit community. The games all had a plot to them and involved the "kingdoms" of the various WriteStreak subreddits. People of the same and different communities would interact with each other, and every response to the Subject of the Day would add onto the plot and contribute to a bit of WriteStreakian history. Some WriteStreakers, especially the moderators, like to act in character when they're playing these games. It's all in good fun!

To be honest i can't call it an "interview" because i just answered some questions that i made to talk about the PROJECT: ENDURANCE. I've try to record it and transform in a video, but i hated my voice and maybe i do it in a future. The fact is that i want someone to read it and discuss what they think.
In the paper, i talk about what i want the game to be, the mechanics, enemies, setting and etc.
The link to the article is in the comments.

Audio is a part of this case (“down the hill”, “gun”, anything else on the video not presently known.)
What will each side claim regarding the audio, and what evidence, testimony and arguments might be presented at trial?
I’m specifically curious about the interrogation recordings, and any accompanying impact, via the jury hearing him talk and answer questions. I certainly expect they asked him to say “guys, down the hill” a bunch of times, during interviews, right?
⚖️Awesome legal folk⚖️, question for ya below:
Via testimony from the cop(s) who interviewed RA, is it the case that all portions of the interviews are fair game, or is there legal stuff that I myself as a non-legal expert don’t know/can’t anticipate that could be grounds for excluding any portions of those recordings?
Okay, now back to possible evidence↩️:
I suppose expert testimony from audio specialists of some kind(s) is within the realm of likely-ish possibility.
What other audio-related evidence, testimony and arguments do we think might be presented at trial, by either side?

Demographics

• Gender: Female
• Race/Ethnicity: Black/hispanic
• Residence: LI, NY
• Income Bracket: Low Income
• Type of School: Large Public School
• Hooks: URM, ROTC

Intended Major(s): Medical Anthropology/Cultural Anthropology/Anthropology
Academics * GPA: 100.07 (W), UW Unknown * Rank: N/A * Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc: 8 APS, rest even mix of honors and regular classes. School bans APs for freshman, 3 per year (sophomore year it’s impossible to take more than 2 because of prerequisites). * Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Calc BC, AP Bio, Gov, Health, JROTC
Standardized Testing * SAT I: 1430 (680RW, 750M). Did not report this to Northwestern and Duke, submitted everywhere else. * AP/IB: Research (5), USH, Psych (4), World, Seminar (3). I forgot to submit this to my EA and ED schools. I reported all my scores everywhere else.
Extracurriculars/Activities 1. Section Leader at local churches choir. Accompanied by high involvement in church activities. 2. JROTC High leadership position. High involvement. 3. JROTC Drill Team Member. High involvement. 4. Tutor, Tutoring club. Medium involvement, I only did this my junior year. I explained in my additional info section that the organization halted tutoring. 5. Yearbook head of journalism. Medium involvement. 6. Member of large activism/community service organization. Medium involvement but high impact. 7. Summer Internship on healthcare (projects, presentations, classes on all sectors of healthcare). High involvement but only 6 weeks.
Awards/Honors 1. ROTC Scholarship 2. Girls state! 3. AP Scholar w/ Distinction 4. National Hispanic & African-American Recognition Programs 5. National Honor Society (??)
Letters of Recommendation * Guidance Counselor (10/10): He let me read it and also made it really personal. I think his letter resembled my character really well.

• Gov Teacher (9/10): I didn’t get to read this rec but he is known for writing good (and slightly embellished) letter of recs.
  
• Crim Justice Teacher (6/10): He let me read it and I felt like the essay is generic. It doesn’t add anything to my application but it definitely doesn’t paint me in a negative light either.
  

Interviews

• Barnard: Interviewed for CSTEP. I would say the interview was an 8/10; I easily connected with my interviewer but there were some questions I could’ve answered better.
  
• University of Rochester: Alumni Interview; super great! Loved my interviewer a ton :)
  

Essays Common App I started brainstorming my essay March of my junior year (perfect time to start them, IMO). Finalized my essay for ED1; after my rejection, I edited the essay (not heavily) and I think it improved the quality so much.
My essay was about my curly hair and my journey of its self acceptance. Throughout the essay, I continuously referenced barbie dolls and the way society compared me to one. I continued this idea throughout the entire essay and I think it worked really well. Everyone thinks I’m a good writer so I had a lot of fun writing this essay!
Supplementals For all of my Why Us essays, I discussed my passion for medicine, how my chosen major addresses this, and why the school was a good fit for my physician career. I had barely any medicine ECs so I felt it was extremely important to express why I want to pursue medicine.
Decisions
Acceptances: * Barnard College (Committed!) * Northwestern University (still shocked) * University of Southern California (insane) * University of Rochester * Villanova University * Case Western Reserve University * Fordham University (EA) * Lehigh University * SUNY Binghamton University * SUNY Stony Brook (EA) * SUNY University at Buffalo (EA)
Waitlists: * Boston College * Boston University * Northeastern University (EA deferred) * UNC Chapel Hill
Rejections: * NYU (ED1)
Waiting on * Duke (IDEK why I applied, just wanna see the result for funsies💀).
Additional Information:
In my additional info, I thoroughly clarified my home life. As a primary caretaker for my siblings, I couldn’t partake in as many ECs as I would’ve liked. Please make sure you’re specific here! This was roughly 1/3 of my additional information section.
I also talked about my extremely long commute to school and how this hinders my EC involvement.
The last of additional information was targeted towards explaining my ECs. For me, it’s really quality over quantity and I wanted to make sure the AOs knew this.
Advice 1. ED rejection is NOT everything. My NYU rejection absolutely crushed me but I’ve found my new dream school (Barnard!)

1. Do not ED if you think you have potential to improve. My ED application lacked a major award (ROTC Scholarship), and I had a few mistakes in my EC section and essay. I would say my strongest application was my Barnard one and it’s the one that got me the farthest.
   
2. Don’t feel discouraged if you lack “stellar” ecs. Clearly, my ECs weren’t all that nor were they plentiful. However, in my common app, I worded these ECs extremely well and I made sure telaborate on major projects I was working on in my Additional Information section. Also, don’t compare yourself with applications you see on youtube, tiktok, ApplyingToCollege, or even this sub. I can’t tell you how agonized I was thinking I would never get into one of my top choices, yet I got into multiple reputable institutions.
   
3. If youre a freshman-junior with any questions or would like to read my supplements (or even my common app essay), LMK. I’ve made a master document with all my essays (minus additional information as it is personal) and I would love to shshare it with any junior who needs it.