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.
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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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@traders Lots of decisions dropping on Thursday. Only a few days left to get in your last-minute bets!