Terrible College Admissions Mistakes I Made (i wish i knew this)
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- Breaking down the worst college application and resume building mistakes I made in high school. Lock in ladies and gentleman.
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Contents:
0:00 - intro (& mistake #0)
1:21 - mistake #1 - college apps
5:09 - mistake #2 - activities & clubs
6:51 - mistake #3 - balance
9:11 - mistake #4 - productivity
biggest mistake you'll ever make is not smashing that like button (i wish i knew this)
15k YESSIRR
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hamza>>>
Yo, would you consider owning the largest Discord server (for a popular game) in the world an award to list?
bro is growing like crazy
For Questbridge applicants: You get five spots for your ECs, and ten for awards. It's a great idea to join more competitive clubs or to compete in independent things like essay contests because of this.
thanks man
As a 2019 QB scholar, I did my QB app to colleges (also my general QB application) w/ 0 ECs, but the most important part from QB was the essay + the fact that a lot of schools separate or review your application again within the low-income (also probably first-gen) context.
Rising junior right now and feel like an idiot for wasting my sophomore year not doing anything
Don't worry you have a lot of time. Just focus on a spike and try to enter a science fair. You got it!
Same here. Going into Junior this fall and I feel like I have so little time.
i did that too but hella locked in during junior year and got into usc!
rising senior and feel like i wasted my junior year 😭
Me fr
Dude I can’t express my gratitude to you. First up u just explained my life so far and I’m so happy that you are asking us to prioritize our studies and preparation for college instead of watching your video. Props to you 😊
Ok I finished the video. You have great advice and I agree with everything that you said. Safe to say that you’ve earned yourself a subscriber. Keep up the inspirational work!
You are the best, I’m a rising sophomore and one reason I started working harder and getting into new things is because of you, Thank You!
I'd love to get a video from specifically giving advice to Juniors going into the school year. Thank you and stay blessed.
Immigrants parents kid here.didn’t know that you need so many activities or awards for college.I am a rising senior great academically but absolutely nothing to put in the activities section.regret not starting early.
ME: Supposed to be studying for the SAT but decides to watch this video for fun
PREACHING P: If you have homework, get off this video right now and go do it.
Dang, I feel like he knows me 😅
Same thing happened to me rn
Same haha, sat tmmr good luck
tysm for covering clubs againnn
hey Pratik, just wanted to say your videos are amazing and help students so much, hope you have a good day
pratik yoi're videos are CRAZY accurate, im a junior now and im really trying to be a unique applicant what do you think i can do besides grades and research? ive also been whatching ur vids every since 200 subs! im def tryna gatekeep ur vids lol
Another quality video
watching the vid, know its gonna be a banger
watching all these vids as a freshman , ur literally the only youtuber that gives me some sort of direction of what i’m doing in high school
You're blessed to be in the best time to watch this video and getting into this. Go ham brother
@@zemichael4020 fr
Very touching. Thank you for sharing. ❤
Thanks for your advice Pratik.
The intro got me doing my work right away XD
Bro I graduated from high school in the year 2022 from India. In India if you want to get into med school you need to write the exam called NEET to get selected which is written by almost 2 million people. In first attempt I can't crack it so I took a drop year to prepare for the exam. After I cracked the exam in 2023 I found out medicine is not for me. So, I decided to pursue physics. But at the time I made this decision most of the top universities in India admission has already completed. Now I am planning to apply for the universities in US as a international student for fall 2024. Do you think the colleges would accept a person with 2 gap if he have good academic records? I confused right now 😕
Try for UK, or Germany or Italy or something. They mostly only look at your grades while US looks for ECs a lot
US is a little turbulent rn due to sheer competition and the student debts are something too
bro this man is insane
Thanks for the video dude. I was wondering - I played tennis at a national level and won some pretty prestigious awards / trophies. Am I allowed to include these national sport awards in college admissions even though I am not going to play tennis for them (I am going just for academics / studies)? Do you think it is a good idea?
the funny thing is the pomedoro technique works for me so i like grinded work and so in my break time i came to this vid and bro just said, "do ur homework"
amazingggg
Rising senior here realizing precisely how screwed i am.
same I have 6 activities and most of them aren’t even that good…
It's fine if you're not applying for top schools
@@divijchakravarthi1607 but I am… t30 at least
@@paperyape yea i really wish this guys vids existed 3 years ago 😂
@@divijchakravarthi1607 fr
Bro that part at the beginning was extremely accurate, are you stalking me
Preaching P always Preaching W
W vid, but where did you get the shirt from
i want to enter more competitions but i’m not sure which ones i should join and how to get started 😭
ANOTHER W VID
Hey bro your Vedios are so good to find loops in my application a quick question what is your opinion about my common app essay about saving a life of my peer through motivation
I literally just started doing my physics uncompleted work from mistake #0, thanks
Do u do 1:1 calls for SAT Prep?
Hi Pratik, I was wondering how much homework you had each night (on avg) for each year of high school
Thenks
Hi preaching p I am in 7th and taking Algebra one and am the highest performing math student in my grade for my small school. Everything seems so complicated I wish I had a blueprint, do x get into this school. Although I'm learning that does not exist. I don't know if I should go to math camp to do a lot of activities, focus on my activities, or even if I should worry about this now. PLEASE HELP.
i wasted like my entire freshman year and summer after. i haven’t been in any extracurriculars. can i still get into an ivy if i work hard?
Omg I’m famous!
James Jani said it best what You said in intro. Do you know him?
I'm a senior completing my common app right now. I basically have like 3 activities and 0 awards. What is your best advice for me? Should I try to cap on my application?
Nah your getting rejected from community college 💀
Focus on those three activities and try to make them stand out in your descriptions or supplements. You don’t always need awards to get on top colleges, but what you do need is to show work ethic and honesty.
Remember that an activity can be LITERALLY ANYTHING. Community service, family responsibilities, hobbies, groups, etc. Also, you can put simple awards like merit roll or class rank. You just gotta put something…😅
Hey! I am very thankful to you for guiding us scaredy cats through the college app process though I had one question, Can I list me shadowing a surgeon as an EC? (I am currently in 11th grade and I spent the summer after my 10th grade shadowing an orthopaedic surgeon, sat in on surgeries, making of patient records and even a bit of managerial stuff like checking what medicine is not in stock, etc. I even got to make a few plasters, got to pull out K-wires, and even got to talk to the patients along with the surgeons in the OR.) It was an incredible experience but I searched online and all of them are saying that shadowing doesn't count.
I mean it's something you did so why not. He says shadowing in the video.
Definitely put it in! Especially if you got to do those things on your own that you listed - that shows leadership which colleges really really seem to like
Thanks a Lott@@bellakiska
Yea I was jus confused tho thanks
@@roroo
good intro can you make more vidoes for college students
also a video for a good workout routine for beginners thank you
hey preaching p W video as always however as a upcoming freshman how would you advise when feeling stressed or overhelmed with all the work like classes and extracirculators
exactly the same for me man. i got into all this and to be honest I'm not even that smart-smart in the first place, so how the hell do I already get involved in national things and all that
@@uniquestorynation yeah its tough and its nice to know someone else relates and i hope for you to push yourself and figure things out
lets do this journey together. by the way, which classes are you taking?
@@uniquestorynation you don't need to be a genius you just need to find your talents and develop the shit out of them so you get good at stuff
@@TurboPacks Yeah right now I'm into astronomy, physics, and robotics.
had to click off in the first 5 seconds...I got the reality check I needed
I need to do my homework
7:17 I thought this was normal...
Omfg is that sad
Dude starts the video by calling me out wth but fine I’ll go do my homework
9th
oh wait igtg cuz of what u said in the 1st 30secs
more like 10th
preachingp? more like preaching facts fr
the p is short for phacts 💯💯💯💯💯
Turn to Jesus Christ guys! He loves you all very much. John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” :)
Thanks for the vid, I really benefited from the 3rd and 4th lessons. I love following your channel, and I'll follow with your "TikTak" account 😅