It sucks knowing that I could be spending over 75 dollars to apply to a college and it’s rejected by someone in a bad mood.

I wish colleges told us exactly why they rejected us

No matter what happens I'm telling all my friends I got denied because I was *too good*

The pressure on high school students today is crazy. Just to get into college you have to take AP classes, a bunch of activities to stand out, internships, good SAT score, good grades, etc. I feel for them.

Oh that makes sense! Princeton rejected me because I was too good😎

This woman reminds me of john green from crash course 😫

“oh i’m not feeling too good today, i’m going to ruin this 18 year old’s chance of going to college by rejecting their applications”

Yay it's my daily dose of anxiety lmao

#6: Being an Asian American

my mom always says that if a college rejects you, it’s THEIR loss. never put yourself down or think you are any less just because a college doesn’t accept you! i guess you’re just too good for them :)

Class of 2020 wya??🥳 I hope we all get into our dream schools! No rejections or waitlisting‼️

When you get rejected from all the colleges because your application is just “too good” 🤔

Got denied from Harvard and Stanford! Must have been too good!

1. you dont fit into what the college sees as "fit" 2. very opinionated form of getting into these colleges 3. college isnt need blind (they will still accept international students and things such as ability to finance education will affect your application) 4. your application is too good

I had a friend that had the following essay question: What is the bravest thing you have ever done in your life? They drew a big X through the essay question. They were accepted.

Omg I’m gonna be rejected everywhere

I nearly choked when she said that U Michigan is considered a backup school :0

coming from a student whose family is unable to pay for any kind of college/sat tutoring and has to use all the free aid she can get her hands on, i am endlessly grateful for your videos :) you have because a wonderful guide to me on my college admissions journey. thank you miss brooke ❤️

This whole college process is lame as hell, we have to fake all this stuff to get in?

As a parent, I have often thought about writing rejection letters back to the college admission offices that have rejected my children, just for the fun of it! Maybe a good movement to start!

My GPA was a 4.613, and I got two B’s so whatever that is unweighted.I think it’s like 3.95 or something. My class ranking was 12 out of 479. I got a 2220 on the old SAT which converts to like a 1520 on the new one. I never took the ACT, but I took some subject tests and did about as well on them subject wise as the subjects in the SAT. I played varsity soccer. We were ranked fifth in the nation and won state. I was the captain of my club soccer team and we were in the top 3 in the state. I was captain of my team for model UN and we won state for that as well. I was in senate so even though I didn’t have a leadership position in it, I did a lot of volunteer work. I was a semi finalist for a national writing competition, meaning I had won it at the state level. I took so many AP courses I don’t even remember them all. I think I took everything my school offered except like, art, calc BC and chem, and that was only because I didn’t have schedule space for the latter two.(our school made us take chem before AP chem and my middle school wouldn’t let me skip 7th grade math even at the advice of my teacher so I had to wait through the lower tier math courses.) I was in the school’s show choir which was audition only (idk if it’s like that at other schools?). Even though I never took lessons, I played piano and violin reasonably well and because I made it all the way through AP Spanish, I was pretty good at the language. When I applied, I had the ideal application. My teachers thought I was going to end up at Stanford or somewhere in the Northeast, and they wrote me very generous letters of recommendation. When I interviewed with a man from Georgetown, he said he would love to have me as a future alum and would express that to admissions. And then the responses for application after application came in the mail in small white envelopes with two paragraph letters that said invariably the same thing. I had not been admitted. There were many qualified applicants. We regret to inform you of this, but we wish you success in your future endeavors. I got one admission into UCSD’s bioengineering program, and another to University of Arizona, and then to my two state schools in New Mexico. The maximum academic award for UCSD was $2,500 a semester and they informed me I’d received it, but being out of state and wholly unspecial in my genetic identity or upbringing, that would be all they could offer me. $60k instead of $65k a year was very generous. By the time admissions were over I didn’t even bother to take the rest of my AP exams (8 my senior year of high school) because it wouldn’t help. I dropped all of the hard classes my last semester, and just took it easy and waited for college while I watched my friends accept admits to Yale, Stanford, Princeton, Brown, Duke, Georgetown, Georgia Tech, UPenn, Columbia, Harvard, MIT... I still don’t know what I did wrong. But, I went to a state school, graduated with Honors with my bachelors in mechanical engineering. Now I’m in grad school at the same place, working on marine drones. I have a satellite that’s manifested on a Virgin launch. The same launch as one from MIT. I have posters of it hanging in labs at NASA Goddard. I’m working on a new satellite and we’re filling out paperwork to get it launched as a science mission with the ISS. I got an internship at one of the largest aerospace and defense companies in the world, along with students from Georgia Tech and Stanford and CalTech and UT Austin. I have a full time offer from them pending graduation. I have no debt. I got to go to a conference for my work where I shared a room with Mike Pence and Buzz Aldrin and Jeff Bezos and the heads of space agencies. I didn’t go to a particularly great school. I don’t even know if it’s regularly on the Top 200. But it was home and cheap and accredited and now I’m in the same place I would have been if I’d spent $200k for a piece of paper that said the name of an Ivy League instead of the one I have. Maybe I would’ve had some better opportunities. My network could be more developed. My projects and capstones and research could have better resources. But long term, I lost very little.

This channel is made for people with anxiety

Class of 2021, where you at?!

#3 if you're broke, you're screwed aha rip

I got accepted to Williams College in 1984 for ONE reason. The admissions committee looked at my application and realized: “this guy NEEDS us”. And I did. It saved my life. And I’m still here. And so is my half mile record I set there in 1986. My way of giving gratitude to a school that changed my life.

Most of this advice is for top schools. if you go to community college or a plain state school you'll be fine if you do half decent in high school.

The food poisoning story makes me so angry!!! Like for _reals_?!?!

lol my guidance counsellor told me that my one lunch detention would make me stand out as someone with character

I feel my hair falling out already

As a first generation student,, I'm worried

U of m is an insanely hard school to get into

This person gave a look like "Michigan is soooo easy to get into" like BOIIIII you need 1 4.0 and a 1500+ sat score to get in.

The US college admissions system sounds awful! I'm so glad I don't live there.

ppl think umichigan is a backup school... that’s my reach 😭😭

Thanks! I used the Best ACT Prep Course Ever and got a 36! It’s really helpful!

Watching this in 2021 since I'm actually applying to university now and this is strangely comforting. Usually, the idea of my fate being left up to one person is debilitating but right now, knowing that I am doing my best, if I don't get in it's not because of who I am and that brings me peace.

When you have already been accepted into your top school and are committed to it but this video still brings back the stress of the whole process.

Holy crap now I understand why I got into really good universities but frigging University of Denver denied me

Oh so that why MIT rejected me, I was too good, not because I had a .03 gpa and a 1 act score

“Oh this essay is less boring” THAT MADE ME LAUGHHHH

Although this video isn’t something anyone wants to hear, it’s still a good one

That last one is a great reason to have your teachers get to know you. Be active in class! Talk to your teachers outside of class! I go to a HUGE school, but my teachers know me well because I participate in class and talk to them.

I stumbled upon these videos and the US sounds like a dystopia

I’m in college and this stresses me out

i’m literally class of ‘22 why am i here

Thank you so much for this absolute honest opinion! Just subscribed! Please keep sharing your insights with us!!

So being poor is a bad factor for college? Well I will stay hopeful. Thanks for the new information!

Thank you so much for this video. I am only a freshman but I am seeing everyone getting into college/getting rejected and it is stressing me out. Keep doing what you are doing!!

Great video as usual! I always love the topics 🤩. Keep up the good work👍🏾

I’m actually a current college freshman and funny story: I applied to only one school and got in lol. I love this school

as if it wasn’t hard enough already

When I get rejected from my dream school Harvard I’ll say I was “too good”

Really thankful to you suppertutorrrrtv!!!!

Excellent information. Thank you!

For someone who was rejected from a few schools, one of them actually being WashU, and was still accepted to a few others, this was really really informative as to how they reached their decision on my application

Thanks for sharing this video! It's good to know that an individual plays a role in college-- meaning that they don't fit the part.

Make the best of the schools you were accepted to. Don’t focus on your rejections. I was waitlisted to a bunch on schools despite a perfect academic record and multiple leadership positions. I ended up getting a full scholarship to a state school so I just went there. I found my place and was able to get involved in jobs and research on campus. I was accepted to my dream medical school at the age of 20 and will be able to graduate debt free unlike my friends who went to elite private schools. Don’t focus solely on the schools status!

We can't be so pessimistic, everyone! We'll be fine, you'll all get into your dream school, just believe you can do it. How will you get anywhere if you don't believe in yourself first? And if you don't get into your dream school, that's fine, it wasn't meant to be. Life isn't just about one path, it's about the endless paths. Ones you may take a detour on and end up somewhere even more beautiful. Like a secret garden or a view of a gorgeous city. Just trust the process. ❤🌟

Super good to know! Thanks!

LEGACY students are frustrating!!!!

"Don't let your parent be your advocate". I'm watching this as my son needs to apply. That little side note on the top left hand corner probably saved my son's future haha!! Although I must have raised him right because he is pretty independent, it's only natural for us parents to give good advice, input and suggestions and I think that still stands. But he has just completed matric and I don't think any of us have adjusted just yet. I have to put another hat on and let my baby fly! Thank you!

I know someone who got 4-5 on eleven AP tests, 1510 on SAT, 3.98 gpa and they got rejected from Cornell. Like wwhhgaaatttt?

3:00 oh so its discrimination based on something we can't control? gotcha

Man, watching this after being lectured about my psat score is a whole experience.

Does being an author of a 300-page novel count as a 'wow factor'?

heyy, thank you so much for the viceo! Would you consider doing one specifically for international students?

For all of the high school students watching this: don’t get discouraged if you don’t get accepted into all your college picks, or even ANY of them. Ultimately, your biggest safety is a community college or a local public university. The first two years of college are the same at Harvard and your local community college in terms of academics, and admissions teams know this. You are free to transfer and move around and do anything you want once you’re at ANY college, and ultimately...... maybe it’s for the best if you go to a public university instead! I felt so pressured in high school to go to a college that was the best of the best and not go to community college and whatever but ultimately something really bad happened to me in my senior year and I ended up going to community college by choice and it ended up being the best decision I’ve ever made. I’m now at a public university, I’m graduating relatively debt free this December and I’m gonna be able to go to grad school as pretty much wherever I want. Ultimately, a lot of my HS friends who ended up at prestigious universities are in the same boat as I am, and some of them are doing worse than me- or switched to a more local university to move closer to their parents. You shouldn’t freak out about college and let it consume you right now. Trust that wherever you go, you’re gonna succeed, and make decisions based less on what’s the most prestigious school (although absolutely go if you get into Harvard) and more on where you wanna live, how you can save money, and what kind of schools have good programs in your major.

I could tell that this whole video was tearing at you. You're precious, and a gift to the people who frequently watch your videos.

This is why I support a return to traditional or metric based admissions. This video confirms it!

can’t believe you guys have to write a different essay for each university you apply for 😨

Russian Roulette

Many private schools have savvy college counselors that are really good... My private school doesn’t even HAVE a college counselor.

Now I feel good transferring to a private school!

I applied to colleges/universities coming up on three years ago, and I got into most of the schools that I had applied to with the exception of like 3 or 4 schools. All that matters is that I got into my top two schools. I am currently a sophomore at Penn State.

As an international student, your videos are so helpful. Thanks a lot

So funny that you mention Michigan rejecting someone to enhance their yield. When I was applying to business school, I got into Harvard (where I went), Dartmouth and Chicago and was REJECTED by Michigan. And I was an in-state Michigan student.

When your college counselor was an admissions officer at MIT (me)

Mich rejection happened to me!! Wake Forest, too!

excellent!

This gave me anxiety, thanks.

On naviance there is a way to look at the scores and ranks of people who are from your school and also applied to the same school and you can see who got rejected and who got in. I only applied to schools where acceptances were near my grades

thank you so much for reason 4! I got rejected from Fordham after winning valedictorian and I really believed I had no chance anywhere else..

Excellent

#4 So this is why i didn't get into a school. I applied. Got extra help over another, I'm currently in, and i got on the wait list! Mistake on them.

Same goes for finding work once you are out. Similar to applying to college there are several steps--send in a resume/application then if the person that reads that likes it and bumps it to the top you get an interview. Then if they like you in the interview they may call you in again or they may do an initial screening first. Just like companies colleges look for different thing and that varies from school to school. I had good grades for example but the SAT was my nemesis--hated it and thought that half the words I would never use again because nobody talks like that or even writes that way in real life. Anyway, some schools put a ton of weight on standardized tests while others look at GPA and extracurriculars and such more. What it comes down to as well as the video says is your future can be in the hands of one person and maybe that person had a catastrophic morning and (exaggerating here) marks your essay down because you missed a period somewhere. Sadly the job world is not much better. You can get a bachelors, masters what have you but your success still seems to fall in the hands of others.

The thing that pisses me off is that from what ive recieved in the mail and seeing onl scholarships, colleges instantly assume if your family is above the "financially low income" then you will get less aid, chance for admitting, scholarship programs, grants, etc. Yet many students cant have their "financially stable" family to back them up for college cause the students the one paying for it. Im not talking down to the more poor kids, but like me, theres gonna be students who will be in the same financial college boat as the lower income family kids, yet will get less help just cause they think their family will automatically help them.

Woah… the fact that you chose U-Mich made me double-take. So accurate.

The first reason should probably be “Race”

My question: when you reference an advocate, could this also technically be athletic coaches? I know guidance counselors and teachers were heavily touched on, but what role can (or does) athletics play into for potential students?

can you post more sat video for the upcoming sat so i can get some tips?

To add to #3 a lot of schools are trying to avoid using legacy to a candidate’s advantage so it might not be as beneficial as you’d think.

Heres so advice if you only went to an art high school and middle school and you apply for a steam college you most likely won't make it si chose wisely on what high school you go to

I should not have watched this after already submitting my applications. I am STRESSING now

Honestly i cried so much today becz of how much pressure and stress i have.. I do have a good gpa n im not worrying about that but I really dont know how to improve my sat score... u even have to do extracurricular to stand out m bunch of things... n im a immigrant student.. this is not even my first language... idk wht i will do.. im trying so hard

In 2018 I got into Case Western, which has about a 30% acceptance rate, with a very generous scholarship. I was also deferred, waitlisted, and ultimately rejected by Ohio State, which has a much higher acceptance rate at 50%. I was told by a college admissions officer (friend of the family, works at a different uni) that they often defer students with dual enrollment credits until they know whether or not they have enough room in their upper classes. I earned 28 credits my senior year of HS so this may be the case. Ohio State was a very safe school for me and it was shocking to have been denied, but I ended up attending Miami of Ohio with a very good scholarship and I feel I’m getting excellent instruction at a place I love. Basically, the college admissions process is often a miserable experience. Have confidence that you’ll end up where you belong. And if not, no biggie. You can always transfer. I’m sure you will all end up finding success at a school you love!

In other countries, the admissions process is so much more simple. If you meet the tier or a certain test score, you're automatically in. Easy as that.

My high school on a college state university has a deal ( I dont know what to call it) with its parent university so I know that I will get in to a 4 year college. Its saved me a lot of anxiety even though it is not top choice. It's a good backup.

What are the best boarding schools and why do they help

It's sad that it's always about money and who can pay the full tuition, not necessarily merit.

I just got rejected from my dream school. I had 7 AP classes, 4.5 GPA, 30 ACT, graduated high school a year early, was on varsity sports, did multiple shadowing/interning opportunities, volunteered, did two cultural exchanges, all while working and going through personal/family/emotional struggles. Im generally a good writer (helped edit essays that got people in to Stanford, Rochester w/ full ride, and all of the military academies). My family couldnt afford to go there without financial aid... but about 60% of students attend paying the full 75k plus the school has like a $1 Billion endowment... so Im not sure it was the money, either. I have no idea where I went wrong and I'm absolutely devastated. This was basically the one school I wanted to go to and I hate that there are SO MANY reasons I could have been rejected and I'll never know why.