Will I get accepted to... [prop bets]
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resolved Jun 13
Resolved
YES
Any college I applied to
Resolved
NO
UIUC for the math-CS joint major
Resolved
NO
Any Ivy/MIT/Stanford while being rejected from Davis or UCSC or UIUC or UMaryland
Resolved
NO
Every college I applied to
Resolved
NO
All seven UCs I applied to
Resolved
YES
Every "safety" (Davis, UCSC, UIUC, UMaryland)
Resolved
YES
At least four UCs
Resolved
YES
At least five UCs
Resolved
YES
Any of {MIT, Stanford, Brown, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, CMU, Berkeley, CCS}
Resolved
YES
BU with a merit scholarship
Resolved
YES
A majority (≥11) of colleges I applied to
Resolved
YES
At least six UCs
Resolved
YES
Any Ivy or MIT or Stanford
Resolved
YES
Any of {Stanford, Brown, Yale}
Resolved
NO
CMU for the Information Systems major
Resolved
NO
3+ of [the Ivies + MIT + Stanford]
Resolved
NO
Any Ivy League university
Resolved
NO
2+ of [the Ivies + MIT + Stanford]
Resolved
NO
Any Ivy/MIT/Stanford off the waitlist
Resolved
NO
A prime number of colleges

Please keep this market private; don't send it to people or discuss it with anyone who isn't on the market! Maybe it’s irrational, but I've just been sort of anxious about making it for awhile now, and don’t want it to be super public.

Let me know if you have any other fun ideas for prop bets, I might add them!

I've compiled a table of relevant statistics about each college for forecasting. Feel free to ask questions, but I may opt not to answer them. Don't worry about the tiers, they're just my rough effort to quantify my interest in attending each of the colleges.

General App Information (god it feels weird to write this all out publicly)

  • Demographics: Bay Area male; upper-middle-class; legacy at Stanford

  • Achievement GPA: 5.0 (with advanced coursework, especially in math)

  • SAT: 1590 (800 math, 790 verbal) (still can't believe this, Black Book ftw)

  • APs: US History (5), Statistics (5), Calculus BC (5, with AB subscore 4 lmao), Physics C: Mechanics (4), Chemistry (4)

  • Activities: NYT-published puzzle creator; puzzlesforprogress.net; Camp Lemma / Strategy & Puzzles Camp counselor; Manifold miscellany; OPTIC coordinator; Yearbook Assistant Editor; piano lessons; LMI puzzle contest co-creator; Zephyr Philosophy Club; Proof linguistics minicourse TA

  • Honors: IOL first alternate; CDB scholar; NACLO invitational round qualifier; AIME qualifier; Manifold election forecasting tournament 3rd place

  • Recurring essay topics: puzzle creating; nice numbers; camp counseling and CS1 student teaching; my Ultimate Personal Spreadsheet; Manifold contributions; interdisciplinary academic interests. A theme is parlaying my intrinsic academic explorations into positive experiences for others

  • Recommenders: Kathy (counselor letter), Eric, Josh - all teachers I have good relationships with

  • General narrative: I definitely failed at a lot of productivity goals, and felt pretty bad as a result during the college app process. But I think the end product came out pretty good! We'll see...

I won't bet much, if at all, for the sake of my own well-being.

See also

General policy for my markets: In the rare event of a conflict between my resolution criteria and the agreed-upon common-sense spirit of the market, I may resolve it according to the market's spirit or N/A, probably after discussion.

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