The Shop · Issue 03 Drop
Made for the cycle.
Three pieces, made small-run, paper-cream and deep forest ink. Each issue brings a small drop — sold during the release window, then retired. Pre-orders open now; ships first week of July.
Bulletin No. 03 · Matriculating Class 2030 · May 2026
Twice the figure a decade ago. The compounding force behind every shock decision letter this spring, and the structural arithmetic shaping the next ten years of the cycle. We highlight what matters.
The Record · The Dataset
An anonymous, structured record of where you applied, where you got in, where you were waitlisted, and where you'll go. Stats and outcomes bucketed for privacy; aggregate views update the moment your record lands. Your name and identifying details are never collected.
When you submit, you get a personal artifact — your cycle rendered as a shareable card with the destination school's colors. Plus a recovery code to come back and update outcomes as more decisions land.
The Watch · Live waitlist movement
The live waitlist tracker that thousands of applicants have been refreshing every morning all cycle. Anonymous, crowdsourced reports the moment a status changes — admit, AO email, AO call, deposit. Same live signal you know, now part of a larger record.
Updated continuously. Reports land within minutes of a status change — refresh before each AO wave.
Insights · Cross-admit patterns
The first real-time picture of cross-admit patterns at scale. If you held a Brown admit this cycle, what share of others like you also held Vanderbilt? Tufts? Stanford? The dataset answers what no Common Data Set ever could.
| Brown | Tufts | Vandy | Penn | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | — | 38% | 43% | 29% |
| Tufts | 22% | — | 34% | 18% |
| Vanderbilt | 28% | 39% | — | 26% |
| Penn | 31% | 33% | 42% | — |
The Quad · Field notes from the cycle
The long-form arm. Field notes from inside the admissions process — what counselors won't tell you, what colleges won't admit, what the data quietly says. New issues alongside each Decision Day moment.
No. 003
Forty-three percent of Brown admits also held Vanderbilt. Twelve percent held Stanford. What the cross-admit picture tells us about the structural warp at the top of the cycle.
№ 002
Field reporting from inside a New England admissions office. What the deans see when they open the system on March 14.
№ 001
How we collect what we collect, what we suppress, and the k-anonymity rules baked into every query.
№ 000
A founding letter. What the elite admissions cycle does to its participants, and what an honest record of it might be worth.
The Shop · Issue 03 Drop
Three pieces, made small-run, paper-cream and deep forest ink. Each issue brings a small drop — sold during the release window, then retired. Pre-orders open now; ships first week of July.
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