oh my goshh did u watch kaiti yoo haha

you got this!!

Yeah! You got it!

i love the determination but don't make a promise to yourself. its always good to never set your heart to a specific college because we never know what can happen. if rejections happen, it can honestly very much hurt so keep Yale as ur dream school but explore other options as well! this way u can survive better in the whole application process.

I believe in you

good luck!

Thank you!

shiny jirachi thank you 🥺

@@valnnguyen you look like Mina from TWICE

allison l just posted! If you’re interested in more similar content, it’d be awesome if you could support me and subscribe!

Valerie Nguyen ofc!! just subscribed to your channel, can’t wait to see more vids!! :)

mekylovesbts thank you!

Mine too! I believe in both of us, soo see you there :)))

@@lacampanella6172 yess !! we will both get into yale fingers crossed 🤞🏽:D

How did your college applications go??? Also, how did you get your act so high?? Currently, I have a 27…

Omg wait are you talking about Leah Bardugo?

the way you get good at writing is by writing - not by taking an english degree

where did you end up?

how’d it go :) ?

@@areenhashemi2462 You are seriously awesome thank you so much!

@@areenhashemi2462 Omg the ldr one really related to me🤣✋

Personally, a good essay topic is a combination of the prompts given. Something that shows your identity, your background, your interests, your struggles, your beliefs. And most importantly, *How it affected you, how you overcome your struggles, show that you've invested a good amount of time and energy on something that you're passionate about.*

Did you get in?

Do it for yourself!

@@kevonbaha7304 I’ve Now Realised That I Dont Have To Do It For Family, I Have Now Started Working My Way Up For Myself

Areeba Mirza loveee 🙈🥺

No, I think you only send if you’re applying for music major

It’s Casdriyal hey, you can dm me on ig and I can talk to you :) your situation is pretty unique so I don’t think anything i would hypothetically discuss in said video would be relevant to yoy

Valerie Nguyen alright! what’s your ig? 😓

It’s Casdriyal @valnnguyen :)

Valerie Nguyen Alright! I Dmed You On Ig!

hey! lowkey in same position and u just have to get super creative. honestly it’s good for you because the more creative you are the more likes AOs are gonna be like how did they do that(versus everyone knowing how you become prez of a club). look around for student run orgs or nonprofits outside of your school but still in your local area. reach out to profs and see if you can sit in on a class, use that relationship for a rec letter. published research, publish a book, apply for internship, etc. you got this!

Alicia Yu thank you! I applied as neuroscience

I believe in you, you can do this!!

Thxx

In school!

sunybunny aj check out my latest video! Also, I think it was my essays and personal life experiences that separated me from most applicants. My story is uniquely me and my own experiences can’t be replicated, which is why I decided to stray away from an academic-interests-oriented essay and focus more about who I am outside of school. Colleges already see your transcript and scores. Numbers can easily be ranked in comparison with other ppl, but your experiences are the only thing that set you apart from other strong applicants! Show them who you are outside of school; it’s much more valuable to schools to accept potential leaders and passionate people, not perfect robots! Of course, I’m not gonna lie: grades matter to a certain extent but once you’ve reached a certain “benchmark”, it’s all negligible, so don’t worry so much about the numbers!

Jasmann Singh hey! How are the Covid restrictions in your country? Is everything online for you?

Yep. Lots of competitions and debates were even cancelled if they were held by our government.

Jasmann Singh yeah i see. I think just try to do some research and find local opportunities! Google “extracurriculars during Covid” and I’m sure a bunch of ideas will come up. I can’t specifically speak to your interests, but I am sure there’s things out there!!

Rani Mandal posted! Good luck on your journey!

@@valnnguyen thank you

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Dariya Z. No worries! Yes I did! I needed to hahaha

Hey Annika! I applied early through QuestBridge. If you feel like you are a competitive applicant, I would definitely recommend applying early. If you are a senior applying this year, it’s important to know that a lot of the incoming freshmen decided to take a gap year and deferred their enrollment until next year, meaning that now they are class of 2025. So now there are less available seats in the class of 2025. Best wishes to you!! ❤️

Valerie Nguyen hi actually there was an article saying that it won’t affect class of 2025 yaledailynews.com/blog/2020/09/01/class-of-2024-sees-redcord-number-of-gap-years-most-diverse-class/ :)

Thanks for sharing! I forgot to update this as I also received an email from yale specifically addressing this :))

You’ll be okay!! Good luck! My school was also very big hahah

Yabbie Tuku hey! could you be a little more specific? If anything you want your application to be unique so there truly isn’t any specific thing you NEED on your application

Sorry, I meant if you had any tips you had for it!

@@valnnguyen Anything I can do that will make it standout!

Hayeon Lee hey hayeon! I applied through questbridge and they require us to submit every single test score 😬😬😬

Yes!

hey! this is just my opinion, but while you could tell colleges that, it doesn't show why you should be accepted to their college. if you're able to recover from this and get your grades to where you want them to be, that'll show them that you're up for a challenge and won't let little things like this hinder your overall performance. plus, i think they'd like to see improvement throughout your years so if you're able to do even better soph and junior year that'll help :) just what i think though

Hi girl! Don’t let that stop u! No they won’t stop you. Top tier schools like to see improvement so as long as u improved throughout highschool, you’ll be okay. U got this and don’t give up

Pei Jack posted!

Shreya Prasad only choose a few ECs you are *passionate* about and go at them HARD. Don’t be minimally involved in a bunch of clubs. Be a very active member/officer in a handful. I only joined clubs that I was interested in. And I also didn’t join multiple clubs that served the same purpose (for instance, I didn’t join 4 volunteer-focused service clubs)

Shreya Prasad good luck! You’ve got this :))

Shreya Prasad good luck! You’ve got this :))

Valerie Nguyen Thank you so much! That means more to me than you could know! :) I’ll be sure to keep your advice in mind.

Ariel Kellum I don’t see why not, but maybe you can reach out to an admission officer and see what they think! My guess would be that it’s not a problem, but you can always double check!

n d Nope-neither. My school is below top 50 in the state and below rank 2000th in america. I don’t think that it is important :)

there are lots of opportunities to get awards outside of school stuff like extracurriculars or regional competitions u can find online :-)

That should be plenty! Don’t worry too much about the quantity of your ECs. Quality > quantity

Valerie Nguyen thank you so much for your help i thought im just doing something about health maybe they want to see different stuff btw i don’t have awards is it problem? in my high school they don’t care ap classes and i took by paying money i hope they care this

Your not doomed but try to take AP Chem and do good in it to make up for not taking honers chem when given the opportunity

Yep! Just be sure to thoroughly explain those circumstances in the additional info section.

I applied in 2019, so test optional was not something that existed haha

@@valnnguyen thanks! Your video really helps while im writing the app for Yale. Hopefully I can see you at the campus:)

Marisa make sure you subscribe because I will be making one when I start school soon 🙈🙈

We don’t declare until the end of fall sophomore year, but I’m thinking neuroscience or cognitive science!

High school GPA was 4.0! I also stated my college GPA (the GPA colleges may calculate) was about 3.96. high school GPA accounts for the additional 10 points of AP classes. So even though raw my grade in AP Calc was an 80, the +10 points turned it into a 90, which is still an A :) In other words, HS GPA is weighted and in Georgia, the unweighted GPA is called the HOPE gpa.

@@valnnguyen oh okay thanks:)

Khadijah _ hey! Dm me @valnnguyen on ig :) If you share one with me on google docs I can look over it and give you a few pointers (but trust me I’m not an expert)

Valerie Nguyen girl you got into Yale 😍😍

For me you are an expert

Hi! AP classes added 10 points to our grade

@@valnnguyen but isnt that only the case for weighted. Like in unweighted isnt everything weighed the same.

@@gunnerklith5840 Yeahh i put down two unweighted gpa’s. I think every college has its own way of calculating GPA and weighing AP classes, but my unweighted HOPE GPA (by Georgia state standards) was 3.956 and my hs gpa unweighted was 4.0. I’m not sure what exactly went into this calculation, but I just took it as given since it was on my transcript. Perhaps it counted my grades with the extra 10 pts up to a 4.0 or 100 as a limit. I wouldn’t say I cared that much about my GPA in HS so I was not concerned with figuring out exactly how things were calculated.

Hi Tom! May I ask what do you mean?