How IVY LEAGUE ADMISSIONS think: secrets to college admissions

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro
02:30 - How admissions officers evaluate students
06:13 - Grades and stats
09:26 - Essays, personality, activities, & more
13:22 - Important things to look out for
16:38 - How to prepare your college candidacy
19:41 - The value of a top school

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Filmed: Dec 7, 2022

Current sub count: 9,240

[nucleusreticularis]

I expected sales and marketing nonsense but found Jason to be intellectual and real.

[jimwang]

As a high school senior who is currently in the application season I think the content of this video is REALLY REALLY HELPFUL to younger high school students, and strongly agree with the MENTALITY point that Jason emphasized at the end. A good mentality is also what kept me going throughout my high school career. The suggestions Jason gave is exactly what I concluded this year as a high school senior. I wish I can know these earlier!

Speaking of the Chinese student who got in Harvard with 1320 SAT score in this video, this is just so unimaginable to me. I am a college applicant in mainland China right now and honestly the competition is so much greater than what I thought. Students with a 1500+ SAT score are everywhere and even students with strong stats and essays are hard to get in even a top 30 University. It’s very hard to have a very positive view on applications in such environment. (Just some of my thoughts)

Anyways I really appreciate that you produced a video with such great content. I think I will send this video to my junior friends. EXCEEDINGLY WORTH WATCHING!!!

[thukhanh]

No joke, I’ve been stalking your channel for WEEKS because of how insanely stressed I am for the upcoming app season (current HS junior). Thank you SO much for these videos dude you rock

[priyaspreciousmoment]

Hey Amy, I'm currently an 8th grader who applied to 7 different high schools and got waitlisted and accepted into some. I got accepted into my top choice, but I'm not going there and instead to my local public high school (it's the best high school in the state). Although I had many acceptances--which I'm very grateful for--I can't help but feel a little disappointed by the waitlists. I want to get a head start on the college application process so I'm thinking mindfully about what I do throughout my high school career (which starts this fall). Your videos are so informative and have helped me learn so much. I feel so much more prepared now. Thank you so so so so so much 🙂❤

P.S. Stanford's my dream school :))

[ACGreyhound]

People can get into Harvard with a 1320 SAT without being an athlete or already famous? Wow! Color me surprised!! I had a 1520 back in the year 2000, but I didn’t even apply to most Ivies because I didn’t think I even had a shot.

[Seraj]

I have been feeling down because I feel I am too late to start thinking about this. My parents and myself did not know about this college process until I started watching your videos, and Gohar's videos. My dream school is MIT and I am trying my very best to get in.

[xrayeyes]

Most important is for any individual to know what makes them comfortable/ happy. So many traders in the stock market started in HS, went to University ended dropping out because academics is not for them. Others went to Fairfield University as an example, and now enjoying their extremely fruitful life by investing in diverse businesses . There are so many FOREIGN graduates in medical field and engineering ( CEO of Microsoft graduated from Mangalore University, India and there are others like IBM, Google, Adobe).

[sophiaisabelle]

We appreciate your hard work and effort. May God bless you.

[mark]

My cousin was told by Columbia admissions he needed a 1150 or higher SAT. Being a star athlete is more important than the SAT test. He broke 1150 and got his ivy league degree a few years later. My other cousin, much smarter, got a 1600 and later graduated from Columbia.

[suthiraphanassarat]

Caltech's academics are very demanding & rigorous without grade inflation so it's very stressful & high pressure environment forcing students to spend a lot more hours doing homework, performing experiments in labs, writing lab reports as well as research papers, etc. This explains the lower graduation rate of 80-90% at Caltech. But Harvard is considerably easier with grade inflation so the graduation rate is over 95%. There are some super hard courses like Math 55 A & B (Honors Abstract Algebra & Honors Real Analysis) but 99% of Harvard's students avoid them completely. Therefore, I think education is much better at Caltech because you learn more by "drinking from a fire hose"!!!

[qingwestgate]

19:17 This hand gesture finally explains my question from the very beginning why Jason positioned himself awkwardly in the corner rather than in the middle of the screen as Amy did.

[CNCiel]

Hi Amy,

I stumbled on to one of your videos through my recommended and then ended up binging through some of the others until this one. I'm probably part of your older audience (graduated from college several years ago) but I have always had an interest in the scholastics as I feel like I too was a "straight-A student" back in the day and I'll be very much invested in the education of my future children. Your work ethic and efforts are inspiring but especially after watching this video, I was wondering about the negative consequences and true worth of this high level of commitment. The bar has been steadily getting higher since when I was in school and the discipline, effort and consistency required to be a top student and get into top schools seems monumental. I'd love to hear your take on essentially three topics: the potential early burnout of students who choose this arduous path, if this path is necessary for "success" in life and if it's not necessary, then why the motivation to pursue it in the first place. Thanks for the video!

[sunnycali]

Work hard but don’t forget to have fun too!

[orlando]

These videos are extremely helpful. I cannot stress that enough.

[yeeyee]

Try 1320 SAT for engineering major…. Major matters.

[dansemacabre]

Nice, but what should I do when I am an introvert who doesn't want to interact with people?

[kethakav]

Thanks Amy! This was really helpful! ❤

[suthiraphanassarat]

You seem too obsessed with Harvard, Amy! Get it over with and try to make more vlogs about Caltech because it's your school and the best university in the world with the highest average 1550 SAT student body in the world! A student with 1320 SAT got into Harvard but he wouldn't get into Caltech, I'm sure!

[mackinacfleurs]

Very interesting perspective and great advise, thank you both. I see quite a lot of very smart kids looking into small Liberal Arts colleges for undergrad where they can be seen and understood, where they can have a closer relationship with their teachers and not just be a number or be constantly bombarded with the pressure of high achievement. At the end is important also to view college as a consumer, what can they offer me with the excessive amount of money I am going to be paying?

[Triisttan]

Damn I'm seeing this today and I've already submitted 16/19 applications and it's way way too late to use most of this advice. Just gotta submit Penn, MIT, and Stanford and then I'm done with applications. Hopefully I'll get into a reach school with my 35 act, but I'm not nearly as thoroughly prepared as many people are.