Please don’t skip the ads so I can help my parents pay for college 🥺❤️ college reaction video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nb9xkqeix6mWmH0.html

this was so refreshing to see someone who also got one B (in calc too 💀💀) and didn’t have a crazy stats, it made me feel better that i’m still going places :))) congrats!!!!

Quick summary of her stats: Submitted GPA (unweighted up to junior year): 3.926 Final GPA (unweighted including senior year): 3.922 No official class ranking: Assumed upper-middle Speaks/reads/writes in Mandarin (slightly different dialect at home) From Hawai'i and parents went to college SAT: 1520 (720 R/W + 800 M + 17/24 essay) PSAT: 1480 (730 R/W + 750 M) Subject SAT: Chinese w/listening (740) + Math II (720) AP: 5 in Mandarin, 4 in Psych, 4 in Bio, 4 in CS principles Activities: After school Mandarin teaching assistant (all four years) Volunteer at homeless shelter (since 3rd grade) Peer learning center tutor Started a jewelry business online (since 2018 -ish) Just dance club leader/founder (junior/senior year) Has a youtube channel (junior/senior year) Piano (since age 5) Church mission trip to Taiwan Church youth activity board (no sports)

Your essays and ECs are SO important, especially at schools with so many applicants. I had a 3.68 UW/4.4 W and a 34/36sc and didn't think I would get in to either USC or UCLA because of my GPA, but I also got in to both. My biggest advice is to start your essays early and work on them over time! Show you.

i’m literally still in middle school but this has motivated even more to work really hard in school. i’m really proud of you and we’re your going 😁

aw you’re a really smart and well rounded student :) wish I could be like you too

A weighted gpa is based on the types of classes you took so like AP and honors classes weigh more than regular classes

as far as i know, 5.0 scales are really only for rankings within high school classes. without ap and honors courses counting more, more competitive high schools tend to have several students around the same level! it just makes it easier to declare ranking, valedictorian, etc which can help apps!

CONGRATS!! USC is my dream school 🥺

i love how you're so proud and respectful of your parents - that's so inspirational! you're amazing!! keep it up!

I’ve been subscribed to your channel for quite some time and I just wanna say I’m so so proud. You have handled a yt channel, your own business, school, college applications, and so much more and have remained such a great role model in my eyes. You always seem to have a smile on your face through it all and I am so blessed to have watched you make your journey to your dream schools. You are wonderful and lovely and so so pretty and you deserve it all. Congrats and love from Georgia 💛

you are so genuinely kind and grounded, I love it 😌

I love how your’re so inspired by your parents😭❤️

i love how proud you are of your parents and their achievements !

I FEEL YOU WITH THE A- OMG

i really don't know how you managed to do all of this but watching this motivated me so much as i end junior year and have to start thinking about college apps ! thank u for being a good role model :)

I love how she’s so proud of her parents. It’s so cool to see how she talks about them.

This honestly calmed me down soo much about college apps. Thank you!

it might just be pms for me but this video made me cry when you were talking ab your parents and how incredible your classmates are. you go girl and i can't wait to watch you grow! xx

oml so proud of you girly! you deserve the world! 💓🦋

you have no idea how much people you're helping rn. seriously. tysm

Congrats! You are such a role model!

I’m a freshman and this made me feel so much better because UCLA is my dream college, and so far I have done a lot of community service hours, and clubs but I didn’t do a sport, and I felt like a lot of colleges like students who do sports, so I though that they wouldn’t be as interested anymore. Now that I know that you didn’t do sports it made me feel like I have hope.

Ooof AP Calc was also my lowest grade in all of high school 😔

aawhh i love how much you admire your parents

BRO WHAT i'm sichuanese too,, but ty for making this video i really freaked out bc most college stat videos seem impossible. this was super reassuring for me

congrats kate I am soo excited for you!! I can't wait for what ur future has in store for you

Congrats girl ! Your grades & scores are so amazing I’m so proud. I would love to see more videos of college related things too! I’m going into college next year too :)

i’m still in middle school and i’m really starting to try and take school more seriously so i can get into a good college and i’m also starting to save to go to USC. this really motivated me to keep going. thank you!!

congrats!! im so happy for you🥺🧡

CONGRATS!!

omg yes girl !! me too, ucla!!! i’m so proud of you!! many people don’t get it

congrats, kate! watching your videos is so inspiring and keeps me in a positive mindset. i got into my state's boarding school (NCSSM) yesterday, and i honestly believe it was because of what you said about the law of attraction in your college reaction vid. i love your videos so much!

I’m from France so I really can not relate to the grading system but it’s very important to me to know what amount of personal experience etc.. is expected. Your video is very interesting, thank u for sharing ur content:) I’m so happy you got into UCLA which is my dream college too!

I would love to see a video about your parents sometime! They are so sweet and sound really inspirational!

Kate: Getting perfect grades and school stats and being accepted to a great college Me: Watching TV and procrastinating on my homework even though I have three online tests the day after

Please do a video about the application essay if you can! I know they can be very personal, but even just your advice would be so helpful🥰✨✨also congratulations on all your success💓

i’m so glad my school doesn’t do pluses or minuses so if we had a 91 in a class it would just be an a, and if we had an 100 in a class it also would just be an a

You get into UCLA and USC and you made the right choice!! Fight on! ✌🏻

omg this is luck i just watched ur acceptance videos and OMG UR INSANE SO HAPPY FOR YOU and checked to see if you had a stat video and you uploaded like an hour ago.....feeling lucky tonight

your really pretty!!!

i'm a current USC student, and i just want to say you will definitely not regret it if you choose to come here!! the school spirit (ESPECIALLY MARSHALL) is so big and welcoming!

lmao my volleyball team was sooo toxic bro! a lot of people stopped doing sports bc of the coaches and team mates and everything. well thats how it was at my school so don’t feel too upset about it:)

congrats ilyyy

that's so cool you guys have jewelry and Asian history!!

Aww congrats you’re going to my dream school you’re motivating me to work harder

I’m so excited to watch! I just subbed watching your college day video!

congrats! thank you for being my role model❤

ucla is my dream school, im just scared i dont have what it takes. i start high school next year so ive been trying to kick it into gear. thanks! this video was really helpful so i can make goals for myself

Congratulations!! 😁 And good luck! 👍🏼

omg your my fav KZfaqr now

congratulations on UCLA!!

i always watch these kind of videos and get sad bc my stats are nowhere near as good!! :( but congrats to you and you are clearly a hard worker!

I'm currently a junior and I own a small business and I've made a good chunk so far. The first video I've ever seen from you was your business video, and it gave me so much hope,, but now imma just sit back and cry bc my grades aint it

I see what you did there. Using that AP psychology vocab "intrinsic motivation" lol

Congrats!!!

Just to answer your question, high schools like doing the GPA to help do class ranking (valedictorian, salutatorian). So basically the weighted gpa is I believe like .25 extra points for honors classes and .5 for ap and ib classes. This makes it a bigger and more competitive competition for Salutatorian and Valedictorian. If they don’t have weighted GPA, or if they have a cap on the weighted GPA, then there will most likely be multiple valedictorians. I hope this helped! ❤️❤️❤️

My school has 8 classes for the whole year. Monday we take all 8 classes then tuesday-friday i take 4 classes one day and the other 4 classes the next day.

CONGRATSS!! Thank you for this helpful vid! :)

Congratssss thanks for the tips💕

Congratulations! 💕

i love this video!!! helped me out a ton, thanks :)

I also got accepted to UCLA for the class of 2024! Hopefully, we get to have a semi-normal freshman experience. I was so excited about my acceptance that I made a whole video about it!

good job!! lol and i’m here stressing abt nxt year for when i apply for high schools

schools do weighed GPA's because it rewards you for taking a harder class. At my school a AP class is on a 5.0 scale so even if you get a b in the class it counts as a 4.0. It makes sense because your gpa is rewarded for taking a harder class

I’d love to see a documentary about your parents! Being bilingual alone is impressive and then going to college in a country where you’re not a native speaker is even more so. Does anyone know if having only one parent who went to college makes you like...half first gen?

can you share more about your essays? since I heard essays are the most important factor to get into university 💓

bro i feel you with the immigrant parents, my parents were so poor in india but theyre so successful now and it amazes me

Loved this!!

I moved in US for almost two yrs but I’m still not good at English which makes me anxious bc im going to college this year too. And now the schools shut down too but I haven’t transfer my transcripts of my old middle school and high school from China. Hope everything will get better soon. I really want to go back to school to figure out the college stuff.

i think schools do weighted gpas to get accurate ranks (rewarding people who get high grades in ap classes over regular classes)

in my school, you had to take 7 classes and there was an honors thing that you could graduate with. if you took 10+ AP classes, you would receive a high ranking, but it had to be with a high gpa and you had to do a big project in which you create your own podcast and your own presentation and present it in front of lots of people with information that you got from professionals, which was intense.

Kate li do a video on how it was like for your parents first moved to the United States. Tell us about the trials that was put before them and how they overcame those trials.

UCLA is my dream school. Congrats on getting in!!! I try watching as many videos of people who got into UCLA and their stats. I thought it was amazing you talked about your parents and it reminded me of my grandparents. They moved to the US from Mexico when they were 16 with no money and little knowledge. My grandma worked in the field picking strawberries and my grandpa helped built houses. They ended up saving money to buy a piece of land and built a house surrounded with hundreds of avocado trees which only cost them 350k. Now the property is worth 4.6M and they now sell their avocados to big companies. They are truly my biggest inspiration just like your parents are to you. Anyways, congrats on getting in and I'm sure that this video will help high school students a ton. :)

I would love to know more about how you decided which colleges to apply to (and how many), and what the main factors are that are helped you decided which college to attend ❤️🦋

Bro, I wish I went to your school. My school is like many schools out there that only gave us the hardest option of AP to do in sophomore year (which was the only AP that was offered for that year smh). So either kids went in that direction or just took regular history because we thought it would just take too much of a toll on our mental health. Another thing was that we were only offered spanish and french so mandarin wasn't an option. And it's not like we could get credits outside of school for another course because there were many courses that our school didn't accept credits from. Also, we couldn't take AP's outside of school so the weight wouldn't be added to our GPA in the end. The atmosphere in general was just too competitive and stressful since people wanted to know what you were doing all the time. There are many different types of strict parents: some that force/expect their kids to take many AP's or ones like mine that didn't allow us to use our potential to take more advanced classes which ultimately landed me into taking one AP class junior year even though I wanted to take 3. That too, AP Psych, the easiest class at our school. (smh again) One of my dream schools is UCLA and my parents are forcing my future path to go to community college or go to a for-profit school that I don't want to go to, so in the end, basically, I am pretty screwed. I have never done extra-curricular activities or sports outside school because I am not allowed to and haven't done a lot of volunteering because, yeah.....i'm not really allowed to. My parents aren't letting me take the SAT. soo yeah. Also, I'm not allowed to drive until I complete high school so that makes it even worse. Even if I end up going to community college after high school and try switching 2 years after, my parents will still disagree and I can't disobey them because they're all I have. Do you have any advice for what I can do to improve my situation? sorry for the rant.

It’s so cool seeing the different classes and requirements different states and schools have. Especially the AP max because I know kids who take only AP or IB courses and try to get both diplomas on top of that. Yikes.

Weighted GPAs are still sent and used by the admissions office because it can include the difficulty of your AP and Honors classes. Some schools however do not calculate Weighted GPAs for many reasons. Right now my Unweighted GPA is at a 3.7 (which does not look too good), but my Weighted GPA is a 4.2 closer to 4.3. Weighted GPAs just put Unweighted GPAs into a different perspective, and some schools use the Weighted more than the Unweighted.

AHH IM EARLY !! hi Kate !

Nice I'm really interested in colleges and that's why I've been hoping around KZfaq to see the grades people are getting to get into such prestigious colleges.I'm doing pretty good right now I'm about to start freshman next year and I'm taking pre calc and advanced placement physics and ap history and myp biology and aice general papers

Wishing I had a big sister like you 😭❤️

IM HERE EARLY💖

GOD BLESS YOU ALL 💕💕

I want know that I got high gpa in sophomore year and so that why I preparing to take Ap class in junior year and also focused on my research for college and but I still have time and my dream college is NYU or UCLA

I’ve always taken AP and honors classes but had mostly A’s w/ a couple of B’s and one C. I had semesters in my freshman year (12 classes). My school switched to trimesters the next year (15 classes). This past trimester tho really has screwed up with my GPA 😢 we couldn’t have Finals (which would have upped my A- to A’s or let us have the extra time for drop dead dates) because school has been cancelled for the past 3 weeks for the Corona Virus. I had a lot of events (FBLA State, SkillsUSA state, KC DECON, Jostens renaissance, Powerlifting state meet, and RYLA) but now I can’t really say I had those experiences. :( I hope my GPA and AP classes won’t be severally effected that it effects my ability to get into some reach schools. 🤷🏽‍♀️🥴

Congrats on UCLA and USC! I got into Berkeley and UCLA with a B+ in BC Calc and AP Chem second semester of junior year so these colleges definitely do understand that a 4.0 isn't everything.

Wow im kinda early:) love you videos

I hope I see you at UCLA or USC! Still deciding between those two and BU, Northeastern and Tufts!!

she’s like the older sister we all wanted

Could you make a video explaining what SAT is and stuff for ppl just entering high school

Compared to your stats and literally everything I have no chance lmao

could you do a video on your essays? also i didn't skip the ads:)

I'm in the ib programme in high school & the workload is CRAZY. usc is my dream school & i know that i will get in ❤💛.

I'm going to watch every of your videos and not skip ads so you can get more muny

"my intrinsic motivation is not there" lmao mood

At my school we do weighted because of the amount of people taking honors/ap classes. About 1/5 of my grade takes only honors/ap for all of their classes so it’s a big drop-off compared to people only taking academic level

Can you make a video on how you make your own jewelry?

kate where is your top from its so prettyyyy!!! CONGRATS!!

In my grade, we have literal gods fighting for valedictorian with 4.0 unweighted gpa... the 10 others with 3.99 don’t stand a chance. Unlucky

ahaha i didn't take the psat junior year because i thought it would be a waste since i did ok the last time but not enough for national merit. but then i grinded for the real sat and got a 1560, so maybe i could've got an award :( rip, regrets