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not at all surprised, the email came right before a competition i was doing so it was kind of let downish, but not surprised and lots of other things r going on in life so :P

@astyerche i'm sorry

@astyerche :( It's ok, next time

@firstuserhere thank you for your likes and support

@astyerche it's been fantastic reading this. Goodluck to you, hope you do well. If I wasn't busy with seri mats submissions, I'd write more rn haha. Are you applying? I didn't know CAIS restricted HS students btw, that was surprising

@firstuserhere MATS actually does not let minors apply anymore (the last cohort had a minor, and they enjoyed it, so that was quite surprising). CAIS i think its because of labor laws, and it kind of makes sense it isnt a priority of theirs to change it :<. Im trying to see if they have to potentially intern there, but I dont have a high hope for CAIS :<

@astyerche CAIS is a no go :<

@astyerche oh well. Did you get an email from them, or is it a lack of email?

@firstuserhere I emailed one of my friends who works there, and they confirmed the labor law situation.

Emailed them asking about being a high schooler. Also just realized:

Did NOT realize that there was this much money ̶m̶a̶n̶a̶.....

@astyerche I hope they consider me for something (I made it clear in the email that due to high school student + potential lack of previous experience that I would be interested in whatever they knew e.g. other programs/resources). I think its mad cool :>

@astyerche Got an email back that they're considering my application, it's automated.

@astyerche I got an email for their coding interview. I'll take it sometime tonight, hopefully it'll go well?

The email also was not bcc'ed, so I saw the other applicants (about 80, although split between 3 different streams). So, that's a lot of people.

@astyerche So I took that, it was actually quite chill! Some notes:

• Didn't refactor the code until the last stage, which was :P. It had been passing all the tests till then, and I didn't see too much of a need until the code was just getting unbearable. The refactored version is quite nice.

• I got 570/600 on the test (not quite sure how CodeSignal works, but it's out of 600 and I only failed 3 tests). It was actually pretty fun since it reminded me of the work I used to do when I was an intern somewhere.

• The last step required functionality that I implemented in a way such that I didn't have to change the previous functions that much, but they will see a cursed -1 haunting some of the functions.

• Looked at some of the other applicants; I'm probably one of the youngest. That's fun.

• No emails back about being a high schooler (this is probably good)

Hopefully I'll get a response back in a week. Not expecting too much, but would love if they gave some resources to look further into the topics!

@astyerche Oh, to clarify this was the pre-screening for Anthropic, which has highkey made me excited for the future when I do a job search

@astyerche Hm. After a sleep, I actually do think I have as much as a shot as the other applicants, due to my friends having participated at SERI and Atlas.

can you write code and are you ~an independent thinker and did you end up getting lucky

We will see if I end up getting lucky. I don't doubt others will full score but I feel like my application is decently strong with the 570/600.

@astyerche Just got an email back about HS status

Being a high school student does not disqualify you from being considered for the program.

So!!! That's freaking awesome, it means they'll consider my application (unlike a certain CAIS ;-; dw I love them though).

@astyerche

Your application will be looked at, and you'll hear about that from the "normal channels" (i.e. not this email thread). [...] In general, people in this space are quite happy to work with capable people regardless of credentials. 

:D That's actually really nice to hear. I'd still say my chances are low because lots of other applicants, but its nice to hear I'll be considered on my own merits.

@astyerche Hm. They ask for references. I'm not 1000% hype for this because I don't really want to ask my previous recommenders to different programs, partially because those were all pure math, whereas this is philosophy/AI. I can void this section, but it won't look that great. Reached out to someone but its a longshot