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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[b] (not Brown, Cornell or Dartmouth or Columbia)[/b].  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]

So he’s going to UPenn?[/quote]

Exactly - they love entrepreneurs [/quote]

The story is getting old.  I hope not all high school students will start a youtube or tiktok channel.[/quote]

Anyone can start a youtube or tiktok channel but can you get people to view your channel?  Starting a channel is the easy part.  The hard part is content creation to get enough eyeballs to see your channel.  If a HS kid can get >500K subscribers, he/she has more talents than another kid with a high SAT/GPA.

I agree it's getting old. Every kid and their cat has started a business, kept it going for two minutes, and used it to get into college. Either that, or they wrote a book that they then try to sell to classmates. Ugh.

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Again, how many of them can get 500K+ subscribers and millions of viewers to watch their videos in order to make money from it?  Very few of them do.  Those that do are accepted to Ivies as should be.  Those kids know how to make money and one day they will likely be donors for their universities.  Those kids that have perfect GPA and SAT scores will likely be working in government sectors and unlikely to make big donations to the universities.  It comes down to a business decision.
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