Build it then go viral for playing at a professional level and hold a concert to raise money to build a school in rural India

after researching the best way to grow the trees from which the wood was sustainably harvested.

But only ONE cello? And only ONE type of instrument? "Maybe" pile for sure.

From their bare hands, no power tools, and rope staples and tape 😂

cello? they'd better be a whole orchestra....

This! I remember when entire IT departments didn’t have one employee with a degree including senior staff. In the early two thousands corporate leaders started demanding that only people with degrees be hired and the next thing I heard the woman running the print area at Staples had a degree. A job that used to be filled with a high school graduate and sometimes a high school student.

and the entry level job requires 10 years experience

Your parents knew better than the rest of ours, and if everyone was as wise as yours we actually wouldn't be in this mess. Even 20 years ago when I graduated with a Bachelor's after being raised thinking that was all I needed (and that EVERYONE needs to go to college), it turned out to be nearly worthless. Mine made it so I could earn barely a living wage as a nanny. Whoop-de-do. I didn't go to school to be a nanny. And the reason why is that most adults ages 25+ had a Bachelor's degree (which had not been true in the generation before mine) so having one didn't make you special. It made you bare minimum qualified for the most basic entry level career jobs, and not even be able to get a job if your desired field was already full. I actually wanted to be a teacher. There were very few teacher jobs because the field was full of older teachers and there was a Recession so hiring was slow. Maybe if I had more college degrees I would win out on one of the VERY few spots. Now the world population is bigger, it's easier to get loans, or get scholarships if you're a minority or immigrant, so you're up against WAY more applicants. If you don't have special qualifications for beating the competition, or if you don't know what career you're studying for and have enough life/work experience to know you'll stick with that plan, just go to trade school! Or start work right away at bottom entry level, or volunteer (while you're young enough many of you can afford that) and get experience! College is expensive and in a lot of majors you have to spend half a year or more in unpaid internships, so you may as well just work and volunteer now to find out where it takes you. Then if you find out you need a degree for the career you're working your way into, you know you'll actually use the degree, plus you will have something else to put on your application.

@@kristinathomas5890 thanks for telling the truth. If I had to do it over, I'd go to trade school and skip the almost lifelong debt.

My Dad made it seem like college was a necessity so I got an associates degree (in 2002) which isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on now & my husband drives a commercial truck making well into a six figure income for going to trade school while I struggle to compete with high school students for entry level jobs now because I took 4 years off from office work bc of burnout. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Honestly, you have the hardest job. Sending hugs.

I feel this too!! I also work in Admissions

Why do you think the number rose so high?

@@RainbowSunshineRain at least for the institution I work for, our online division expanded by A LOT during COVID when everyone was remote/online. We're the only 4 year institution that's grown in enrollment in the state (and apps have skyrocketed). Other than that, I wish I knew!

Student loans aren't hard enough to get, plus the old 'people with a 4 year degree will earn more' bs. Not enough people are looking to go into the trades.

There is also a big shortage of scientists, engineers, doctors and a bunch of professions which requires higher degree. But you are not sending them anywhere, only advising them at best. What they love to do is important, and if they are bad behind a desk but like physically building things, they are indeed better off with trade school, even if the average wage is worse.

@@juzolibut most who go to college don’t become scientists, engineers or doctors. Of those who actually get engineering degrees in the US I know many who haven’t been able to get a job in their field while companies are bring in engineers from outside the country on employment visas. As far as the number of doctors are concerned before encouraging students to go into medicine there needs to be an increase in spots in medical school and an increase in residency slots.

@@ggjr61 So are there, or are there no jobs in that field? What you say is an oxymoron. Companies bring professionals in from abroad when they can’t find them domestically. If their engineering degree is real, they sure find a very well paying job. Of course they may need to move to a different city which they might not want to… Anyway, if you sum up everyone with a degree, they have higher average wage and better job security than any other group. This is especially true if you exclude some more useless degrees, and focus on STEM.

@@juzoli people just really like hating on college degrees for no reason

@@ashlinday4469 There is a group of people who like to hate smarter people in general. Scientists, experts, college graduates in general…

Haha that’s incredible 😂

But you went there and graduate. That fact only is soo 👍👍👍👍

I have a feeling that clip is going to haunt me

Would love a Penn and Kim follow-up reaction video on their experience on the process.

​@@holdernessfamilylaughs "Chill" means "Completely Hyperventilating Insane Looking Lunatic" folks, I shall be "chill" along with you next year.

1570??? Damn, I had 1520 and only one school wanted me. That was 13 years ago. Maybe apply for a college is isn't in the US top 100.

@@derekhayter4879 The SAT is out of out of 1600 now, not 2400.

⁠​⁠@@derekhayter4879a 1520 in the old score system is really bad.

@@zd8515 who said 2400

@@snopom 13 years ago the SAT was out of 2400

How many admissions were you actually looking at? I always figured with 100k+ applications, a bot would look through and check for certain flags that would be an auto denial. This would reduce the amount of admissions that had to manually be looked at significantly.

@@lkjkhfggd when I started- in 2001- I only had about 400 applications to read. Maybe because I did international students and that wasn’t the best year for them. When I left 15 years later, there were 4 of us reading international (1 person strictly for China) and we had about 3000 international applications total (my coworkers also read US students). My caseload was about 800 applicants. Most of us read about 500-600 cases.

I think this goes double today. We are very short on skilled trades people. Kids (and parents) need to realize that you can have a great career in the trades. They will be way better off than someone who went to college and racked up a ton of debt for a degree that isn't helping them in the job market.

My sons are 20 and 23 and have skilled labor jobs. My 23 yo cleared 6 figures the past 2 years and his brother is right behind him. No college. No debt. Our 22 yo daughter has been working for a major retail outlet since she was 17 and now is in a leadership position making 50,000. No college or debt. College doesn't set you apart anymore. If you are smart enough and hardworking enough, you do not need college unless you're going for a medical, law or engineering degree, with a few other exceptions.

@@lucycat4305 My son went to trade school for airplane maintenance. He got a job right after graduation. He's 26 and just bought his first house.

@@gaellegoutain1286 That's awesome... good for him! I love hearing things like this. Our 20 yo just got approved for a 250K loan for a home he wants to use as an investment property. He also has about 40K in his 529 that he didn't use for college and can use on as a downpayment. Meanwhile, most of his friends are still in college, will graduate with debt and have no idea what they want to do when they graduate in 2 years. My son does have fun going to visit them on the weekends, though!

@@lucycat4305 college is a gateway for a lot more white-collar jobs than medical, law or engineering. I'm not saying it's right, but that's just the truth. Skilled labor jobs don't require a college degree.

She uses them as bookmarks. 😂

​@@michelehafey2607And a spreadsheet with 16 variables that are color-coded.

NOT always true. I know some whose efforts have been literally over the top, and still, they never went anywhere in their careers. Employers hire people they LIKE, not necessarily the most qualified. So personality counts as much as qualificiations. Good looks also help A LOT! It can often be the deciding factor.

Until you graduate. You’re expected to have 3-5 years in experience and be underpaid.

At what school can you meet the admissions officers that will review your application?? - Demonstrated only matters for some schools, and for those it does, not that much (except for Case Western) - the rest is valid - during your interview, convey the traits of the version of you best for that college

Meet the admissions officers? Maybe if your parents are buying your spot that makes sense but mere mortals can’t meet admissions officers.

@@kineticmeow9242 Yeah- I saw job openings in my field of choice, and they're with like independent studios and they'll call for things like 5 years experience within the corporate industry with a masters in creative writing and 'actually having a sense of humor' and I just sit there and I am so close to bluffing, because the degree is a preference and as long as I bluff good enough I can maybe fake having experience in the industry Too high of expectations for what's going to be equivalent to minimum wage in 5 years.

When I started engineering at UT-Austin in 1989 the dean told us "Look right and look left." One of the three of you might graduate with a degree in engineering. I did not.

I went to Purdue in the mid-90s and it was the same. Highly competitive universities are a wake up call to kids who "breezed" through HS, and it took me the first year to adjust to my new reality that I was NOT the smartest student in the room for most of my classes. But in the end, we all learn from each other's questions and ideas, so it is sometimes a good thing to be humbled and I know I did better because of it.

Word on campus is "B"s and "C"s get degrees!

​@@es330tdI heard the same spiel at a competitive state university. At the time, I didn't know 1/4 of the students wouldn't finish undergrad, not for lack of hard work or smarts, but because it was too godsdamn expensive.

I was barely in the top 30% of my high school and i had over a 3.8 gpa because my hs was extremely focused on academics and you were shunned for not getting into a highly competitive four year college, private was preferred. I still regret not doing more AP classes even though i was very busy with extracurriculars. I got in to a school where I was suddenly below average. It took me getting out of pre-med and into a department I loved for my grades to reflect my abilities. Sure I failed two classes my freshman year, but I actually learned how to study more effectively when I retook them instead of barely studying and getting As/Bs with minimal effort like I did in HS. Now I am so grateful for my undergrad experience because it forced me to learn more about myself, I met my lifelong friends, and that crucible made classes easier in grad school.

Community College is where it's at. Unless you have money or a really good scholarship, there's not really any great reason to pay University prices for basics. I'm convinced the only reasons people do it are a) they assume community college gives a bad education (definitely not necessarily true) and b) they assume that the university experience will be far superior. I tell people whenever I can - I legitimately did more of the typical "university experience" stuff (including hanging out with new friends, going to parties, etc.) when I was at community college than I did after I transferred to a university. And I joined a fraternity at my university. It depends on a lot of factors - where you go, do you put yourself out there, do you join a group of some kind that you can be involved in - but communiy college can be a great experience and save you a boatload of money.

That's our plan. My kiddo is all business and cares about the degree to move on with things.

If you have to get college degrees, community college is the best thing ever!!!! It's a lot more expensive than when I attended, but still a lot less than university.

It really did fly by

@@JasonShoots Yes, which means she will be 17 next year and applying for colleges to attend in 2025 at age 18.

Academy award winning...

😮 BEST DAY OF MY LIFE… THEY RESPONDED…!!!

Great eye! That Member's Only jacket is a critical "member" of their costume department! Tell's is EXACTLY what era they're in! 😂

Young people like you will be vital to rebuilding your country and economy. I wish you all the best on your academic journey and hope you get all of the peace and prosperity you deserve in the years ahead. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇸 ❤ 🇺🇦

@@mabriff Героям Слава! Thank you so much, I can’t even describe how heartwarming this is to see coments like yours❤️

Well done to you. Your strength and determination helped you get where you are today. A happy, beautiful life to you. Love from Australia 🩷

Neighbor kid just moved in to Western Washington University. She did not apply to any college. WWU sent her acceptance letter just based on her grades.

It is a bit reminiscent on housing boom when everyone got approved for mortgages. The "now" part of this skit only applies to top universities. And it is the common app that has made it easy for students to "over" apply.

The top colleges got more competitive. The rest are struggling to fill their classes

I couldn't agree more, and I say this as someone with a college degree who was made to think that was what I "had" to do. Nope. We need all kinds of people working to make this world work.

@@ecto78 yep. And not to sound elitist (tbh I hold a Masters and ABD, so I’m intentionally careful about this), but university absolutely is not the best place for every single 18yo. It really is okay for kids to grow up and enter the trades (and frankly a good electrician or plumber can earn more than many tenured professors).

Congressional laws that enabled loans to students at predatory interest rates and eliminated the Guaranteed Student Loan Program in 2010 were major factors in creating our student debt crisis. I had a GSL in the (cough!) Reagan years, and even though loan interest rates were higher, so were the interest rates on savings accounts that barely register above 0% today. www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-is-federally-guaranteed-student-loan.html

@@rejoyce318 well yes. And if we want to talk policy, ending those predatory loan policies are an actually-meaningful way of reducing the debt crisis. There are others as well, including improving access to Pell grants and work study. But, FCFA is really not the way to do it, because (even if it could get through the legislative and budgetary process, yeah right) it has the unintended consequence of placing academia under government control in manner that would likely upend faculty tenure that itself preserves the independent research enterprise.

@@machtmer 100% that vocational education is vital, including the ability to graduate from one's local HS as a licensed or certified professional in addition to the HS diploma. I saw those programs become eliminated as the teacher in that field retired (cosmetology, auto repair, welding, etc.), as high-stakes state testing became the national obsession.

Pretty sure they know but they have no other options because between grade inflation and the way education is approached as a college preparation they are dealing with candidates who are not the same as they were 20-30 years ago.

I am going to be a wreck 😆

Truth! Also, some schools are sending acceptance letters to all students with certain GPAs. You actually don't have to apply to get into college.

When I filled out the paperwork to take the ACT in the mid 1980s, I told the company to send the results to two colleges in my state. I did well on the ACT and had a decent but not great GPA. Both colleges sent me applications half-filled out and essays were not required if I used that method of applying. I got my acceptance letter in late October. Today, I wouldn't attend there because I wouldn't be able to afford it.

Exactly which is why they apply to a ridiculous number of schools

Plus getting recs from teachers meant they had to hand write letters individually as well. Then either you collected it back or relied on them to mail. My niece’s school asked her 10 questions at end of junior year (what she thought she did well etc) this was distributed to the teachers to help them write recs. This was a school with 60 in the class. The mechanics of applying were much harder in 80s but competition much lower with fewer applicants than today

!!??!?!!!

That’s like the Seinfeld episode: you can take a reservation but can’t hold a reservation

@@miahuffman7811 They'll be admitted to their major in 5-10 minutes.

There is absolutely a college for everyone. All of my kids went to or are currently in college. They applied for 2-5 schools only. I feel there is more hype about it then necessary. The Common App actually makes it fairly painless.

Schools have significantly dumbed down their curriculums. Just because kids get good grades, does not mean they are any smarter than the kids who graduated with a C average 30 years ago. It just means that they are more obedient.

@@lucycat4305 my kids’ grades are backed up with 5s on their AP tests. So I don’t think that’s always the case.

@@TheLauren1113 AP scores do not measure intelligence. AP scores measure your kid's ability at rote memorization on multiple choice questions. The fact that they care about something so artificial as "AP" scores, means they will make good corporate debt slaves.

@@lucycat4305 whatever. Those are the metrics we have.

@@lucycat4305 Spoken like someone who did bad on their AP tests