Video submissions in apps
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Anonymous
It helps in all aspects of life if you are good looking and well spoken. |
Anonymous
| Looks and personality. Lots of smart kids out there. Lots of hard working kids. Lots of good looking kids. Lots with great personalities. All those traits together is an advantage and always has been. |
Anonymous
So they are looking for smart kids (you can tell that on paper), hardworking (shows in LOR and ECs) and good looking and with great personality (latter two from video)? |
Anonymous
This is exactly what I thought of too. Do this! You can’t go wrong |
Anonymous
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what's fascinating is that some of these schools are KNOWN to have the wealthiest student bodies and/or a lot of private/prep school kids (UChicago). Not sure what to make of it.
Duke Brown (very wealthy student body) UChicago (disproportionate # of private school) WashU (very wealthy student body) Wake (very white and wealthy student body) Bowdoin NY Times tool: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/1...n-the-bottom-60.html Median family income: 1. Colorado College ($277,500) 2. WashU ($272,000) 3. Colgate ($270,200) 4. Washington and Lee ($261,000) 5. Trinity College ($257,100) 6. Middlebury ($244,300) 7. Colby ($236,100) 8. Georgetown ($229,100) 9. Bates ($226,500) 10. Tufts ($224,800) 11. Wake Forest ($221,500) 12. Pitzer ($216, 600) 13. Davidson ($213,900) 14. Kenyon ($213,500) 15. Franklin & Marshall ($212,100) 16. Skidmore ($208, 700) 17. Hamilton ($208,600) 18. Elon ($208,300) 19. Lafayette ($205,600) 20. Vanderbilt ($204,500) 21. Bucknell ($204,200) 21. Brown ($204,200) 23. Claremont McKenna ($201,300) 24. Dartmouth ($200,400) 25. Southern Methodist ($198,900) https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/15/1145503.page |
Anonymous
You may feel that way, but I think a lot of today's kids like the option. It's a medium they're very comfortable with. |
Anonymous
So hire an actor, and script writer, production crew. Then when a plain and dull student shows up they can assure they admissions office that it was just great lighting and make-up - not fraud |
Anonymous
| it strikes me that they are filtering for something here. |
Anonymous
Here are a few successful ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK1aItRvr78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR73Z2iyj1c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urs16KaDLP8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sy5M4hwN7Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g_8uNuqw2g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-av2fcdtv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC9cF7waU1E I think personality can really, really tip the scales |
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My kid did it with no script, starting at 7ish at night on the due date for two diff schools and was done before 8:30. All shot on kid’s phone and just by the kid. Accepted into many schools. I did give the kid the idea, though, for one of them and it was an excellent video.
Kid said that a bunch if freshman showed their admissions videos in the lobby one day and my kid said almost all were terrible. Meaning: don’t put too munch angst into it. |
Anonymous
| I know UChicago used to offer interviews and now offers videos as an option instead. I dont see a real difference between schools that offer video options vs schools that highly recommend interviews. In either case, the school will see what you look like or how well you can speak, answer questions etc. Videos certainly do not have to be a big production (literally). My kid just spoke about a topic they enjoyed. |
Anonymous
Tempted to have my kid copy the Elle Woods video submission word for word and shot for shot. |
Anonymous
ESL. Colleges have been burned by international kids who can't speak fluent enough English for college classes, but use essay consultants so essays look good. and TOEFL isn't hard. Or international kids who are they don't realize are international because their day students at private and catholic high schools all across the US. This is hugely popular. |
Anonymous
Nice. Now create a 501(c)(3) to help unprivileged kids in Bolivia create video submissions for T25 US college applications. Now DS has a passion project! |
Anonymous
These are really cute and they look like the videos they make for social media. They don't look like a professional was involved. |