How to Get Into an Ivy League School

Applying to college can be a daunting process. In this video, I break down some of my thoughts on how you can best prepare yourself to get into the school of your dreams.

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My name is Gohar Khan, and I'm an MIT grad helping you succeed at school. I make videos about study strategies, college applications, and occasionally, my day-to-day life. I want to equip students with the tools, knowledge, and resources they need to realize their academic potential.

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[goharsguide]

This is my first long-form video in a LONG time. Hopefully y'all enjoy!

[silverflash]

As a senior who just committed to an ivy league, there is a lot of truth that was said in the video. In my college essays, the overwhelming idea behind them was, what is a story that can only be told by me. As a first generation college student, being born from immigrants parents, with little money coming in for us, a lot of people suggested me writing about that as my themes. However, I felt as if that perspective is told to much, and I had no control of being born in poverty, to immigrants, or that I was the first one heading to college in my whole family. I pushed all those ideas aside, and instead wrote about a personal narrative that couldn't be replicated by anybody, a narrative about a pen in second grade that shaped my view on life. Yes, an essay about a pen, but hay got me in some top tier colleges, and trust me you wouldn't believe the amount of unique essays I hear of people getting accepted from. Even had a friend of mine write an essay about SpongeBob, and got into Yale. I feel, if you're capable of creating a unique story about your life that involves whatever field of study that you're interested in, that you'll do fine in the college application process.

[MaxwellChan]

As a sophomore in high school right now, this was extremely informative. I want to go into marketing or business administration in the future and I'm going to cater my interests and classes toward that. I love these videos! 😁

[AseemSingru]

I just committed to one of my dream colleges, and I will say- this admissions year was completely insane! Some of the lowest acceptance rates, and kids were getting rejected from safeties and accepted to reaches. Ultimately, remember, as clichéd as it sounds, to be yourself and truly represent the person who you are in your essays. Because that is what will shine through a sea of similar activities, extracurriculars and grades. All the best to incoming highschool juniors and seniors!

[CNoel]

Can we just thank him for all this free advice! Thanks, Gohar! You always give such great advice!

[thelofilife]

So very helpful, would love to learn at MIT someday this is really good advice. thank you

[sleepykitten]

Please make more videos like this. This was as useful as a month of your other content (not to put those down). This was great, please make more. I'd love to see them and I'll watch them all the way through.

[happy__Mangoz]

I’m gonna be in highschool next year and I really want to lock in. My dream school isn’t really and Ivey but it has a less than 20% acceptance rate. So I’ve been binging this guys’s videos since 7th grade. I got A-honor roll this year because of gohar, thanks dude. I’ve got one more grade to go before high school but you have my thanks for the advice you’ve given. Love you dude. 🙏❤️

[noobifest]

Thanks for the video Gohar. I have 4 semesters left and I feel like I wasted most of my potential. I have good grades and take the harder APs for my grade level but there is nothing else appealing to admission officers about me.

[lexa]

Please make more videos discussing college admission in a regular video format! I've learned so much from you, things I didn't even know until I came across your content!

[definitelynotmayah]

as a freshman trying to get into princeton- this gave me so many good tips and a good plan for my future.

[ethan_cuh]

I’m not even in high school yet and I’m thinking about college, it’s never too early to think about it as long as you don’t over stress about it (I’m in 8th grade)

[lucyburke]

Thanks for the help :) I love your channel
-high school freshman

[sanjayrajan]

Hi Gohar, I'm studying 10th grade in India. You have said that joining a lot of co and extra curricular activities make a lot of difference in our application. But in our school, they only focus on studies this year because unlike other countries, in our place, high school is divided as 9th 10th, and 11th 12th. In 10th and 12th we'll write an exam whose marks will be useful for a resume. So this year in 10th we don't even have a sports period! In the sake of concentrating more in studies. And there is no such thing as clubs in our place. But we choose a 'group' in 11th grade which is like choosing a path from medical, engineering or business management. So I request you to learn the condition of us and tell the hopes for us to join at a top college.
P.S. I live in the state of Tamilnadu. My condition is different from students from other states in India.

[SemiAutomaticTrebuchet]

Thank you this was very helpful. I’m not going to be applying to college for college for a long time but it’s gives a more defined path to follow and I also can relate because I also am extremely interested in machine learning and coding.😀😁

[wolf-o-rama]

I had gotten accepted into Yale about a year prior to this video. I just want to say thanks for this video. It really is an awesome video and very informative

[aeframess]

As somebody who’s been dreaming of Princeton and working my heart put this helps, thanks.

[imjustarandomguy]

Since I'm just fairly decent with a dream of getting into MIT this was helpful thanks, if there's any more things we should focus on maybe another long video might help

[sarahk.]

Thank you for making this video!! And damn you are smart look at the list of colleges you got into!! Great to have an inspiration like you on YouTube! Keep up the amazing work ❤️

[marimood]

thank you so much for these videos :')