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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are the things?[/quote]

There are many facets of it but if I had to put a label on it, I’d call it “strategy.”  Knowing your kid’s strengths and weaknesses and matching them to a school that values the strengths and that your kid likes. Approaching this as a game is a mind shift that pays dividends. [/quote]

Interesting... what were your kids strengths, and which schools did they apply to?
How were you able to identify which ones value those strengths?[/quote]

Just found out that my nephew is heading to one of the Ivies next week (not Brown, Cornell or Dartmouth or Columbia).  According to him, he had neither a good grade (3.5 GPA with two AP classes) or SAT score (1400).  He is, however, making a lot of money as a youtuber and tiktok influencer.  He has about 500K subscribers on youtube and 200K of followers on tiktok.  He didn't have any hooks or ECs in high school.  I guess Ivies prefer him over someone with perfect SAT and GPAs.[/quote]

What you are describing is a hook. It is a lot of work to get 500,000 subscribers on YouTube. This is something he spends significant amounts of time doing. I would also argue that his grades and SATs are quite respectable.[/quote]low grades, low scores and this are even low social media numbers, especially for TikTok.  I call BS somewhere unless there is an actaual hook we are not hearing about because this student was not admitted opterhwise.[/quote]

Wow sorry for my extremely poor spelling, my tablet keyboard is having trouble.[/quote]

500k subscribers on YouTube is a lot for a high school kid.  That’s a lot of money.  The same with 200k on TikTok.  It shows leadership and entrepreneurship, and that’s what ivies are looking for.  There are more kids with 1600 SAT and perfect GPA than there are kids with 500k subscribers on YouTube or TikTok.[/quote]

But unless he’s an acting or marketing major, such sad commentary on the school’s values. So much dumb garbage on TikTok. Most parents don’t even want their kids on the app but a kid who gets followers is rewarded.  Is he raising money for a good cause? Teaching something valuable? I hope so. [/quote]

Well they probably think about it like... a kid who can accomplish this, has the skills and abilities to accomplish other things that will have societal impact... And it probably won't be tiktok and social media in 15 years. It's not like the kids' stats are terrible.

And yeah, maybe they will make YouTubes about the school and raise the school's profile. That's probably part of it too. It's a business at the end of the day. [/quote]

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