Well said.

@@lauraannemarienoel2600 I'm not sure what to think about that. I suspect most kids would love to go to an Ivy (not just many). However, going to an Ivy isn't an end unto itself. You go there in order to further some other goal. It's supposed to help you to pursue some other passion. Surely the thing to do in high school is to go after that passion directly. Maybe that will gain you admission into a great school or maybe it won't, but you'll be closer to your actual dream than if you organize your life around what you think the school wants you to be.

@@lauraannemarienoel2600 If my kids choose to dedicate four years into getting into a single school, I won't stop them. But it's my job as parent to try to guide them to something better when I see them making a mistake. At the very least, I'd make sure they were aware of the hundreds of other options that might provide just as good or even better student experience than Stanford.

(this is coming from a simple High School Sophomore, i may have misunderstood some stuff) How I personally like to look at college applications is that in High School, you do whatever you want to do. I feel like a bad mindset to have with it is to think about it as "I NEED to do this so I can get into a good college" Rather I feel like it should be about something you enjoy doing, building a sort of unique experience to help you when you do pursue higher education of your desired field. I agree with what you said, it is definitely twisted for high school students to have such high expectations to go to good colleges and do extremely life changing stuff in their teenage years. However, I think it can be a great thing when it is simply is born from their own passion. Personally I like to look at it like this: Do some fun and great stuff in your High School Years - A) Get into a Top College - Great! You made your goal, and you can get a great form of education. B) Get Rejected from a Top/Dream School - Sad, but at least you gained some incredible experience in your high school years related to your major! Also top colleges can be extremely overrated. Yes they can be some of the greatest institutions in the world, but even then that doesn't mean much. It's really more so about what you do at the college. Summarizing this, I just feel like there just needs to be a better mindset going into college applications.

@@ezakt I think that's pretty much right. Another thing that you should remember is that "top college" depends a lot on what you specifically want to do, and you have a ton of choices nowadays. Also, the top US universities are actually pretty small. Stanford takes in about 1700 students per year. That's nothing. If you're interested in (for example) medicine, University of Toronto is ranked higher for medicine and takes in about 17,000 students. There are a lot of other things to take into account as well. You're going to be there for at least four years. What's the city like? Are there interesting clubs for you to join? You can also construct your own awesome experience, no matter where you go. You've got four months free every summer. You could enter a student vacation/travel program and work in Australia or something like that. There are just so many possibilities that go beyond getting into a particular school.

seems way too arbitrary, the girl and the cat story just makes me hate the elite assholes that much more if it is even true. F'ing Lame treating kids that work their asses off like their efforts are meaningless.

cool, thanks for sharing

I can’t find the essay about the cat, where can I read it?

@@antonella5435 samesies I wanna read it

This is so much bullshit. People pay through their nose to get essays edited and written, who are they kidding? They can smell the money 💰 and offer admission on basis of 1 essay, ignoring all hard work? That's so fake. Sat scores don't count, nor does gpa, but 1 essay? What a joke

wait he isn't even in stanford ?

@@user-uh9bo2im1h he's in RPI

😂😂 He's a fraud. 😮

@@user-uh9bo2im1hnope he didn’t even apply there kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fNV6ial8q725kX0.htmlsi=en4UaIjQBvpP_xn4

truth hurts, he is educating

he used that example to help his subscribers about what not to do

Hes telling the truth brodie.

Who said that

​@@adeola1919the leaked harvard papers did

Solution: apply to every single top50 Luck means that numbers increase your chance

This also reminds me of how, in game criticism, some people say that you can't criticize game design unless if you've made a game yourself. Game developers don't make games for other game developers, they make them for their target audience. The target audience should be the most valuable source of criticism, even moreso than the other game developers. Sure, the target audience doesn't know how the game was made, but they don't need to in order to offer valid criticism of the product.

He didn’t even apply to Stanford.. He’s a scammer kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fNV6ial8q725kX0.htmlsi=en4UaIjQBvpP_xn4

he didnt even get into stanford, so its bs

@@carmensandiego7749 not true

​@@Ricky_69 Yes, they're insufferable, especially him. 😂😂😂

@@carmensandiego7749 who are the whiners?

😂😂 Well now that I know more about Amy, I would say that he's more insufferable and also not a Stanford student, he's apparently at RPI. So what does he know?

yep

My school was closed both in the end of freshmen year and the entirety of sophomore year, and there was heavy restriction in junior year ; i'm now a senior and basically cooked.

I wouldn't say that. Be creative on your essay!

Not all hope is lost! You can always be creative with your essay. The main thing is to prove to the college that you have passions that you want to continue, and how those passions will improve the college's environment/programs in turn. Also, say how COVID affected your academics/extracurriculars, but also say how you pulled through the adversity and still found things to do! COlleges love that.

I… am… in… the… same… situation… as… you… Cried myself to sleep thinking about it

i agree with you, except with the diversity drive stuff. people complaining about affirmative action are extremely annoying, most likely cause they have a misunderstanding of what it even is. affirmative action doesnt get a worse student in just because theyre another ethnicity than asian/white or whatever nonsensical belief you might have about it. affirmative action just says "hey, if these two people are basically the same except for ethnicity, maybe favor the minority". it still gets equal skill level students in. dont like that system? too bad, we're dealing with the cards we're dealt.

This is what liberals want though

@@rounakrai8187it should still be equal for everyone, not just for minorities. (I say this as a minority)

@@localmilfchaser6938 i understand. ive been thinking about this more, and while i do support affirmative action, im not going to supremely hate on people who dont. its just what you believe. (and yes, im also a minority, look at my name lmao)

@@rounakrai8187 It's still not completely fair. They're generalizing how a minority lives their life and the experiences they may have such as discrimination or low income, etc. But by generalizing that, what about the exceptions? There can be successful minority students with many opportunities because their parents may be successful. And there can be white students who struggle financially in comparison. And if the chances aren't equal then that's not called fair unless college admissions officers go through the final lineup carefully and not use something uncontrollable like race to determine admission. Even if you give one group of people an extra percent of advantage in a situation where both are otherwise equal, then the other group will lose that 1%. I'm not sure what they expect from the groups that they generalize as non-minorities. If Asian counts, then what do I say? Sorry that I'm born Asian and I've been expected to be good at math and succeed in school? Like sorry that I've worked just as hard as others yet I get a slight disadvantage because people of my race work hard and statistically get into higher ranked schools? That sounds pretty messed up. At least we can agree that we're just going to have to deal with this, regardless of who it's supposed to help. This isn't supposed to sound rude to you specifically, but it's my take especially as someone who's Asian with my own difficulties and watching how people will both be advantaged and disadvantaged because of race out of all things.

No, it's that you have the wrong idea entirely about the type of individual that these schools want. Amy is someone that is great at regurgitating information from a textbook without making actual progress in and being innovative in the real world. They want real, hard-working, mature individuals that are leaders and that display passion for what they do. I will bet that her teacher letters are weak and state simply that she earned an A in their course while a quiet student in the class.

​@@LuvThyMind29 This is such an unbelievably dumb thing to say. If she was not asian she would have gotten in without a question. Asian kids definitely have a harder time in college admissions and there are so many statistics to back it up. She literally had good ecs too so its not just regurgitating information its performing well, applying things she learned outside of school, and just overall being a great student. If she was black you could chop off 100 from her SAT, chop off like 0.5 from her GPA, take out any placings in national competitions, and she could have gotten in with good essays.

@@iwanttoleave6305 What makes it dumb, (the fact that you don't agree)? With your level of maturity it is no surprise that you didn't get into top programs. She is not memorable, passionate or inspired in any way. Again, the schools are moving away from standardized exams and GPA because neither replicates anything in the real world. These are useless metrics.

@@LuvThyMind29 As an asian applicant yes that is what you need but in the video she was informatively presenting the fact that her being asian hurt her chances at admission. And who said I didn't get into top programs🤣

@@iwanttoleave6305 "And who said I didn't get into top programs" I'm making the assumption from your prior comments....Your arguments are not very sound. The above black applicant that was admitted was simply better than Amy in a different area. You naiively believe the SAT is all that matters. You are wrong.

How so

All humans are piht

I say he’s earned it

Admission to those colleges are on some vague requirements of Holistic - which can range from anything from I didn't like your name to anything, and they don't need to explain it to us. Based on such vague criteria, it's hard to accept the admission process as actually legit. Plus add to that the fact that college LOST their diversity admission case which proved they're biased. So we don't know if he really deserves to get in or got in just because that admission officer was in mood for something he had on his resume that day. Too bad these ivies stink of bias.

@@shyampadmanabhan4171fuck no he looks like a dog eater

in the uk... we don't even have the basics they have in the us lol. In most other countries school is more focussed on Accademics.

They have classrooms full of kids who "identify" as anything other than a sober, ambitious student, but they won't let Amy in because she "lacks an entrepreneurial spirit?" If that is what is guiding the admissions process to elite colleges we're in big trouble.

Depends on the school, the program, and your workload. Medicine is tough, and it can be easy to get overwhelmed. Talk to your advisor about how BS/MS works and what classes you need to take (you might need to overload), and if you think you can handle it, go for it. If you can't, that's totally fine, and those extra grad courses will always come in handy if you decide to come back for a full Master's in the future.

no, considering the courses u took in your country is equivalent to Ap classes, for examples- A-levels

I'd fill in all 10 activities. As long as there is some cohesive story line, you should be fine adding some content that goes beyond it. After all, you are a normal person with a life and hobbies outside of school. It would be strange if you're applying to CS and the ONLY thing you say you did in high school is CS. For example, I talked about Boy Scouts on my college app which was a big part of my life outside of school. I also brought up playing piano and the volunteering I did with that as my 10th/final activity.

I agree with what P said. Make sure you have something you're clearly interested in, but fill in other things too. This shows the college that you're passionate about the things you do, but you also like to try things out, too!

even if not 👽dud was spitting facts

He got accepted into Stanford.

@galacticlava1475 | And he chose RPI? 🤕

@@galacticlava1475 | Exactly -- getting accepted doesn't make you an actual student at said university

@@galacticlava1475 he didn't

say less my boy

the percentages are misinformationalyl presented in a way that highlights the chance when it doesn't talk about the amount of asians versus black students that apply. If you take 2000 asian and black applicants the black applicants have a 5-10% acceptance plus. And that almost definitely comes from the fact that many black applicants with lower SAT and standardized scores are accepted but then you have to factor socioeconomic background and access to tutors and things like that. So in conclusion college admissions is a very convoluted system but even with no race based decisions now it's still going to admit lower SAT scores from lower socioeconomic background which trends to be African American and Hispanic people although it could be anyone

Exactly, it’s not because you’re Asian. Asians don’t have a harder time for college apps. They all just try to to into ivies. That’s the issue, apply to safeties and falls. Also, it could likely be that they thought her stats were, since if you have so many extracurriculars it would seem fake. It has nothing to do with affirmative action, they want diversity and people with personalities outside of school. also, people try to jazz up the awards or clubs they were into. You sound like a liar. There’s like only 6 percent of Asians in America, yet they have a high 30+ percentage population at ivies,

Yeah, he is very conceited in this video. Complaining against racial bias does not mean that you're arguing against the fact that you're asian; it means that you're arguing against systematic issues and discrimination. I don't like his takes partly due to his disregard for students' backgrounds. It's a good video and he brings up good points but its very hard to relate to anything he says.

Exactly he is full of himself . That too for some who only got into brown.

Thanks for your comment Andrew! I just discovered this video (would it be fun to do a react of the react? 😮) and I agree that P is nice but the Asian part is a little strange. See the following: kzfaq.infoCa2ZkMMoH14?feature=share

i also think she actually didn't complain as much about being asian as he makes it seem in this video.. also that comment under Amy's video actually made sense. her resume did seem like she listed too much fluff just for the sake of it.

@@wamyy5he didn’t even get into Stanford… I’d probably ignore his videos

Exactly, it’s not because you’re Asian. Asians don’t have a harder time for college apps. They all just try to to into ivies. That’s the issue, apply to safeties and falls. Also, it could likely be that they thought her stats were, since if you have so many extracurriculars it would seem fake. It has nothing to do with affirmative action, they want diversity and people with personalities outside of school. also, people try to jazz up the awards or clubs they were into.

You're a freshman you have plenty of time

this is like using one scenario to invalidate the other 10000 scenarios. really proves that you're not down to earth buddy

Asians perform much better than any other racial demographic in standardized testing, and academics, and from findings in the Harvard Lawsuit also display good extracurricular performance, exceeding or matching their white counterparts in Harvard's own extracurricular rating system. and this is one case from 1978, in the University of California public university system.

Asians don’t have a harder time for college apps. They all just try to to into ivies. That’s the issue, apply to safeties and falls. Also, it could likely be that they thought her stats were, since if you have so many extracurriculars it would seem fake. It has nothing to do with affirmative action, they want diversity and people with personalities outside of school.

I'm a senior applying to college and I would recommend applying for international and national awards for things you are passionate about (art, econ, ect.) because thats something i regret not doing jr yr. Think about what major you want to pursue and why and start doing extracurriculars related to it maybe try to get leadership at a school club, START a club (you couldn't join cause it wasn't there), volunteer and try to get at least 100 hours for an organization that relates to you (say for instance you like penpalling then you can send letters to military vets or coding you could help an organization donate laptops and electronics to low-income areas). Also think about if you may have had a longer commitment in the past (like for me I didn't put this on my college apps but I remember that I really wanted guinea pigs so to afford paying for them for the past 7 yrs I have been selling chocolate at the local hospital) and you can phrase it in a way that sound impressive (ex. supporting ___ patients at X hospital by providing them with snacks ___ times a week for __ years using the money raised to care for abandoned guinea pigs or whatever). I think having at least 5 extracurriculars that seem important to you is good enough and obviously winning national awards can make up for the lack of extracurriculars if all your extracurriculars don't seem like you did them just for college. Also I think the writing can really save you! Invest time into your personal statement. Admissions at Dartmoth and Duke have said that your supplements are the most important aspect on your application then its your personal statement, then extracurriculars (which are used to show you can have passion and be committed). Get started on essays early and have at least 2 good editors from the schools you might want to attend read all the supps you submit so you can perfect them (you can also use youtube to see what essays look like for an accepted applicant)

Definitely put it on your application, but based on exactly what you did, play around with the positioning. If you were not paid, then this could be a very cool volunteering-related activity. If you were paid, then still put it on your application, but perhaps write about it in a different light when you make your "why do you want to be a doctor?" essay. For example, you worked in the pharmacy and learned a lot about that sector of medicine, but you realized that you wanted to work more directly with people which is why you're not going to become a pharmacist (you could refine this logic a lot more).

hi! This may not be for any college, but generally in the US colleges will not accept everybody. There are acceptance rates, which makes the application process super competitive and stressful. Even if you are paying full ride there is not a secured spot for you! Many colleges do offer scholarships however. I probably explained it confusingly so watch videos if you are still wondering!

nope you have to get accepted first then pay full tuition (unless you get financial aid)

Did u get in

Hey Arshveer, aw so sweet of you to be here and comment those kind words. Appreciate you a lot! You're awesome :)

He is lol

No. You just need your parents to have gone there back when it was an easy school, and you could just retake your classes until you got straight As. Legacy kids always get in. If their grandma is a big donor, they can even take 1 class at a time instead of a full load.

Not possible because u already have college credit

😂 yeah right?

he got in tho lmao

​@@aydc6740 he didn't?

Wait is he not?

Who let bro cook? He got into Harvard Stanford mit, think before you comment bruh. Google his name if you want

amy not gonna f u lil bro

Harvard is getting sued because a white conservative organization found a few token Asians to use in killing affirmative action. The overwhelming Asian population and Asian organizations do not support this lawsuit. The earth shattering findings of this lawsuit is how legacy white kids and kids of Harvard staff are being admitted knowing they would not be accepted if they had to go through the normal process. However, they will be no law against stopping that. The acceptance percentage of Asians in Harvard is more than AA and Hispanic kids COMBINED. With other ethnicities it makes up 50%. The other 50% are white kids. I’m sure all of them deserved to get in (sarcasm). There are smart races in this world other than White and Asian.

Why are you going after ‘affirmative action’ students (which we both know you’re talking about black and Latinx people, even though the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action are white women) and not legacies which have a 33% higher chance of getting in than the “perfect candidate”. It sounds like your insinuating that other minority groups can’t succeed academically enough to get into an Ivy League on their own merit, which is not only very racist, but buys into the model minority myth, a huge reason as to why Asian applicants are being affected by college admissions in the first place.

The guy Michael Wang who's suing Harvard, when he applied to Law School, only got into a school ranked 133? What's happened? Was that affirmative actions?

Affirmative action is right and I feel like Asians are being selfish and entitled not everyone grew up with resources like y'all most ppl come from a third world country where they can't engage in great ecs or prestigious competitions they should be given a chance too

So how does she stand out comparing to other Asians that get admitted to Stanford? She has similar stats to all others. Did not show much of personality. I did not found anything interesting about her. She thought lightly about clubs and essays since she is an “excellent” student. Every school has their own standards. Accept it. She should have applied to MIT since they don’t care about legacy or athlete. But then she is just “average” there.

thats what im confused about too

if your pissed about what he said your probably mediocre

its true DX@@hypejuice1321

ur gonna go to a community college probably lmao

4% acceptance rate. Not bias. Nor is she memorable. This is an individual who checked off what she thought she needed to check off to get in; she does not even remember the clubs that she "participated" in. Perhaps a student was accepted in her place who was described as focused and passionate as a student while acting as a parent to their little sibling and paying half of the monthly rent. I've met individuals like Amy that can't get through a research project on their own once in the real world.

There's thousands of students just like her 💀

​@@chukwuebukaamaechi9366thousands of students with national and state level honors, high level leadership positions and dedicated community service? National and State-Level Honors such as what Amy had are hard to replicate. Unless this is over a period of 10 years, this is a profile of a classic Stanford student.

He got into brown, but he got into this hyper competitive bsmd program at RPI, where he at rn.

@@jay.r.d so why did he say stanford student 💀

@@see9968 whether he's a Stanford student or not, he is still qualified due to his acceptances from other prestigious and competitive programs. He's being general here, so you can pretty much use his advice for applying to all colleges.

the title sounded catchy. sue me 🤷🏾‍♂️

@@preachingp It's not "catchy." It's an outright lie. If I were someone reviewing, say, a grant application of yours in the future, I would have a reason to question other parts of your application. After all, I would have applicants from Stanford, Harvard, UPenn and Johns Hopkins Med School applying for the same thing. And your med school is essentially unranked. Think about it.

But Gates and Zuckerberg got in to Harvard, they just didn't finish. It doesn't mean that these schools aren't looking for the next one, they absolutely are. Figuratively and literally, Steve's son Reed Jobs got in and attended Stanford, son of Steve and a Stanford alumna. And quite a number of slots at Stanford go to people without half Amy's credentials, the legacy kids.And actually the Stanford football team is made up of good student athletes too. They're not stupid.

@@carmensandiego7749 You're absolutely right. My bad.

😂😂😂 In both senses of the acronym.

She's very clearly shown herself to be a top-tier math student through competition wins, and leadership positions in and out of school. Her grades are simply the benchmark for excellence. You should try generalizing less and understand that Asian people can't help having such strong academics, and imposing racial quotas and then reducing them to simply antisocial "study hard never play" candidates is unfair.

@@Sid-vz8rm Every Stanford admit is extremely good at math. Every Stanford admit was head or vice head of their student body. Unless you're an IMO gold or silver medalist, that just isn't good enough. What does she offer apart from being just another Asian math genius? That's practically every Asian applicant already

@@Sid-vz8rm Has she tried applying to elite UK universities? The grades alone would carry her there. In the US though, there's no way she's getting into HYPSM with that run-of-the-mill application. Especially not as an Asian.

@@t.s5806if she was like every stanford admit, why is she not one of them themselves? IMO Gold and Silver Medalists are 2 a year, and so 8 every 4 years of high school. You believe every stanford admit has some level of achievement as noteworthy as that?

@@t.s5806I'm familiar with the UK and its focus on grades, yes. It doesn't make this a run-of-the-mill application. The lowest level of achievement is maybe the community service and that still shows commitment and interest. Even with as much downplaying of her honors as humanly possible, as much downplaying of her leadership roles to simply run-of-the-mill good student extracurricular activities, the plain truth is Stanford accepts around 2000 applicants a year, and 2000 applicants will not all have national-level placements and honors.

He went to 4 Ivy League schools and graded admissions for colleges lol, he knows what he’s talking about

@@fdias3798 Because he was a Stanford student.

he did get in, he just didn’t go.

@@veuphora2232 I don't think he'd choose to go to rensselaer polytechnic institute after if he'd gotten into stanford bro.

@@cheesewizard do you understand how much stanford costs? There's so many other factors like wildfires in Cali, the weather, scholarships, tuition, dorms. Obviously you don't understand bro.

@@cheesewizard Also because of how much crime there is right now in sanfrancisco

​@@cheesewizardBut he should have just said "Accepted Stanford applicant" instead of Stanford student 😂