use 5 seconds of that infinite time to scroll back up and hit the like button

Damn, you’re so right! That’s why I always feel like I’m not progressing with my extracurriculars as much as I could! You put it in a way that really clicked with me. Thanks a lot man!

Really love the direction this channel is taking, appreciate man

Do you mind making a video on how to balance success with a mindset that is not toxically competitive? I am at a prestigious university too, and i find myself surrounded with people who want to gatekeep their successes because everyone is competing with each other for the final ranking. This kinda made me into a competitive person too, which is taking a toll on my mental health, especially when everyone in my circle are like that. Thank you so much!

This is actually one of the best productivity videos I’ve ever watched. Everything you said resonated with me and I’ll definitely be using this advice thanks!

Pratik, thank you 🙏 Honest to god, you’re the voice this generation needs to hear because all those bogus college advice programs could never beat a preaching P vid 🤞 With the new year rolling around, I’m sure physical health is going to be a goal for a lot of hs students like me. Do you think you could make a video talking about fitting in physical health to a busy schedule? (E.g. when to find time for the gym, ways to stay healthy and still work hard, sleep habits, etc.)

Thank you so much Pratik, your vids really help. I am currently a freshman and am having a hard time balancing vex robotics and seaperch (underwater robotics) with school. These videos help so much.

ANOTHER BANGERRRRRRRRRRR FROM PRATIK !!!!!!!!!!!

Ma men, just wanna thank you for the videos and the infornation you give to the people. Your videos were really useful in mi applications process. Now just wait to the results!!! 💪

perfect timing, i was just thinking about this 🤞

The timing is immaculate 🔥🔥🔥

Make more college-related videos if you can. Like instead of high school grades and extracurriculars hopefully you can make videos on studying in colleges and all that. You have a lot of high school seniors watching you who don't want to have regrets in college. Thanks!

Thank you for the infinite time Mr. P 🙏🙏

I am really grateful for this content¦ I have school till 6pm, so this video is really helpful in managing my time for both my ec's and school work .

Chinese revolution of 1949 deeply hirts as someone interested in history, but you still the 🐐

I agree. Take a look at the top of the food chain (e.g., Head or Chief of X) at leading Hospitals in MA and NY. I have, and many top dogs neither went to an Ivy for undergrad nor an Ivy for med school.

Merry Christmas!!

hey pratik I was wondering if u could make a video on how to run a club sucessfully and make it last. Me and my firend are planning to start a club at our school and we would love to have your advice btw ur videos have given me a lot of motivation and drive to keep working towards my goals

We still need reacting to crazy apps ep 3!!!!

the only KZfaq channel where I don’t have to speed the video up

i see u on my feed but this applies to me so im here even if its just on mute and for a bit

Hey man Pratik, as a smart but anxious high school junior, your videos really soothe me and let me know that I don't need to stress about college. I have a lot of things on my mind and I'd like to contact you if its alr

I can’t believe it’s realistic for me right now. :)

Thanks a lot

Hey Pratik, I need a little help, so I just moved to Mass. and I am in my junior year, and at the moment I have 4 ap classes. Now I am worried about what to do for extracurriculars, I have been doing game development since 9th grade and want to make a channel where I make devlogs maybe, but I am really worried that most colleges at the ivy league level will not accept that, plus I won't have that many rec letters from my teachers here because I am new. I am still trying to figure it all out, thanks bro.

Pratik, I understand how you talk about a 93 being the same as a 99, but my county has a 4.3 unweighted scale. An A (93-97) is 4.0 and an A+ (98-100) is 4.3. the only concern is that if collegesjust proportionately scale the gpa from the 4.3 scale to the 4.0, it would lead to a decrease in my gpa compared to other counties, since the only way for my county to get a 4.0 scaled gpa is an A+ in every class. Should i take the A and more time for EC then the A+

I'm in 2nd semester of senior year and feel kind of miserable for hardly taking advantage of extracurricular opportunities and advancing in them, and even though I'm already committing to college, I am still making most of the time I have to get involved in things like jobs, internships, grinding HOSA and science bowl, certification courses, track, and so on. With that being said, I'm an AP student and obviously need honest time management tips so i can truly find success so i wanted to ask questions: how many total hours a week (preferably per day) outside of attending school should i be spending on school hw and whatever extracurriculars i am doing, should I be piling my schedule with extracurriculars with major events close to each other or should I do a lot of activities but allocate a specific month or so for a few (even summer months for some activities), and more importantly, how many hours a day or in what days a week would you say im allowed to dedicate to leisure time and sleep. I know these questions may have obvious answers, but to avoid feeling misguided or doing the wrong thing and trying more than I have to be successful, I kind of need insights on these as I try to finish my last semester well. Boy was that long, but I'd really appreciate any answer!

Yo Pratik, I am really burnt out and I am wondering how I can get myself more time for extracurriculars. Hope you can help.

wish i had this video 2 years ago

How important are rec letters because I'm currently a junior and not really close to any of my teachers. I not really sure any of them really like me since I basically do the bare minimum to get a decent grade in their class and the couple of teachers that liked me were freshmen and sophmore teachers which I haven't spoken to since then. What should I do?

5:40 was so relatable

Headphones on are a boon to my productivity in school, you won't have to deal with the "devious would you rather question"

for ecs and creating a “spike” what if you have two different areas of interest? e.g. business and comp sci. how would you focus on a spike then

Do you keep record of all ECs/awards from 9-12? Is there a roadmap for each year? Any recommendations? I seen some college path journals on IG, not sure if worth it.

Ngl I subscribed because you are pretty 🥶🫠 And the way you speak is incredibly convincing 👏

Hie, Preaching P, my name is Keith from Zimbabwe, now I have a physics Channel that I manage, but its hard to find enough time for editing and shooting the videos,please help, how can I create better systems to make myself more efficient, thank you again

Pratik. Im a junoir in high school rn and if I were to follow this principle I wouldn't be getting enough sleep due to the workload I am receiving. How should I go about this and should I still apply this to my life?

I’m in 11th and I have a job that starts straight from school, to 9pm. How can I balance that?

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aight prathik. I've been trying to do what you are saying and I'm starting a company and doing science fairs and everything, but my problem is that my parents think that school is more important so they don't want to focus on that stuff as much and lowkey kinda stop me from doing them sometimes. what do I do? also how do I find motivation to work on my research during winter break bruhhh.

Are certificates or proof like that necessary?

Hey man great video! Sometimes in application building finding a starting point is difficult, for example starting a nonprofit. So, how do we find a place to start and expand on these bigger, more abstract goals?

Ouch it won't work for me. As my country has different education system.

I’ve always easily got good grades without studying much, what I’m worried about is how to actually get extracurriculars or make a spike. Do you have any help or advice on that?

What majors would you comet to someone who is interested in math, science, and computer science btw I am in 9th grad and have a 4.2 gpa

Wait did u graduate in the IB curriculum

One question I do have is: so I am someone who had a bad sophomore year due to a death of a family member. Thus, my sophomore year tanked my GPA, and I am sitting with a 4.8/5.0 UW & 5.6/6.0 W (could have been a lot higher - other people have higher GPAs). In this case, can ECs, SAT, Awards, etc bring you back from this?

Are you from Tamil Nadu?

Pratik are you Gujarati?

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Hey I’m an IB student and my school doesn’t offers GPA’s nor expected grades. The college apps deadlines are around the corner so I was planning to only send my extracurriculars and then send my grades in July 💀. Also I want to send my SAT scores as soon as I have them but that will have to be after the deadline. (I’m an international student btw) Is that even possible to do in a college app? 😅 And another thing. Do you review college essays via email? I would love to have your feedback on mine. Thanks!

Hey Prateek! I'm a 9th grader from India. I've only recently discovered your channel and the whole aspect of getting into colleges abroad instead of staying in India. I've already wasted my freshman year. No community service done. No targeted extracurriculars (not to say that I don't have any, I have numerous golds and silvers but they are all at the city level). But, i atleast have one upside that I am quite good at python and webd (I wanna major in CS). I've approached local businesses to help them websites but none are interested. Nobody has trust in a random 14 year old out here. How'd I get out of this? What can I do in my sophomore year? Currently, I'm covering my academics for my sophomore year in advance so I don't have to do that much next year and I'm also learning machine learning which i hope will help me find research opportunities later. But the community service and competitions part of my stuff is lacking a bit too much. Help me.

Lockie scratch everything he is saying right now another easy way to get in ivys is if your dad donates 2 buildings for free to the college insta accept no kap 😅