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4:22 yeah I’m all too familiar with that pain. The only school I was accepted into out of eight I applied to was UT Austin because I was fortunate enough to have auto admit, and, even then, I was rejected from mechanical engineering which hurt significantly more than anything else because I never seriously considered I’d be rejected from engineering with my 4.0, state swimmer status, and by that point, 6 AP classes including calc BC and AP lang all of which I had gotten A’s in. The day I found out I was rejected I was genuinely so shocked that I just didn’t have anything to say I just sat down at my PC and booted up a game so I could distract myself from life because I did think of going to community college and then transferring, but ultimately decided it would be easier to fight through UT’s internal transfer process than to go through another round of applications. I won’t deny I’m still very salty and bitter about it, but I refuse to let it knock me down.

These all lines are alike mine! How does its match same to same, man!♥

Toot your own horn much

omg my name is arnov sood :0

U in shambles

watching this,,,, i realize that i am cooked and life is nothing but cruelty (hopefully I dont take my foot off gas)

Hey Arnav - thank-you very much for putting yourself out there on your most vunerable moments. I was feeling very bad on your behalf - as you were sharing your results. You had great stats and you deserved better, at least imho. I also like how you did not lose hope and how you have more than salvaged the situation. Great for not losing courage and for "keeping on keeping on". Best of Luck to you in your future as well.

👍👍👍best college admission reaction video. Every kid and parent should watch this. Thank you for sharing!

Are you an international student?

Can you make a video on your high school stats??

Man I got rolled by admissions this year so hard as an indian cs (still in US) applicant i dont even know what to say. I really put thought into everything about my application and thought that my essays were truly unique. Everything I wrote felt so genuine and I did not expect things to go the way they did. Looking at some of the people who got into these top unis with worse stats and ecs, it just feels so unfair. And no way in hell is affirmative action not a thing I swear these colleges got all the loopholes in the world.

where this at on kingdom hearts not there on nba shooters ?

High school was a difficult time for me I was a foot shorter than the girls 40 lbs overweight with crooked yellow teeth and a bad case of gas the ugliest girl in school would not give me the time of day so predictably I played with myself a lot and over time went blind

i was feeling confident about getting into a good college until i saw his stats 😭

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If bro got rejected with all these stats im cooked

Hey, same happened to me a couple of days ago… I was rejected from all the Ivies, since I’m an international student I did not applied to safeties in the USA, since my safeties are here in my country, still I wasted a lot of time thinking I was going to get in.

Hi, I am in a similar situation to you right now. I applied to a bunch of schools, many top tier private universities and still have gotten rejected over and over again. I am going to be going to a state school instead when i feel like i have done so much during hs to get in with so many aps and extracurriculars that made great impact. I am not disappointed but I am sad that i worked my whole life for this. I am thinking of transferring after watching this video. Do you love Georgetown or do you wish you stayed at university of Washington?

Not pessimistic me watching this before Ivy Day 💀

Truly inspirational! Thank you for sharing

So happy for you that you got into Georgetown!! Wishing you the best of luck!

Congrats, Georgetown has great IB and pretty solid UMM PE placement and yes though you can really grind technicals to get anywhere, Georgetown and good schools no doubt increase your odds and make it easier, there are also many opportunities in finance for target schools, though.

Our school had a great tool that let you see scattergrams of all the students from your school who applied to each college. Right from the get-go you can see where you stand. It really helped define which schools are safety and which are reach.

Congrats

Also, make sure to get involved in best buddy program wherever you go so you can meet people with disabilities

They better not be because the color of your skin cause that’s wrong

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My parents and my cousin Antonio on my mom side are alumni from University of Michigan

I think this is fake and click bait. Because almost all college reveals I've seen on YT include the computer screen rejection letter, and then the "confetti" acceptable letter.. no way were you rejected from GA Tech, Michigan with those stats, unless you had am atrocious essay, didn't compete your application correctly.

Dude- saw your stats, SAT, Valdetorian, and I'm not really buying you got rejected from every school, including your only safety school (didn't get your major). I can maybe get you got rejected by Ivies and Stanford, USC, but I know many with way lower SAT and GPA got into UT Austin (same rave as you). You got rejected by lame Michigan? Don't buy it. Georgia Tech is a joke school! No way were you rejected unless you didnt complete your application essay. Why didn't you apply to UCLA, UCB, UCSB, UCSD, Vanderbilt, U of Florida?

2 hours…. 😮 I think you got rejected because you are so slow to retrieve your reply online. 😂

how tf did you get an IB internship in winter of 1st year, I am an incoming freshman at vanderbilt and wanna try to get into IB. How did you get those internships in freshamn year

Wonder how much money he spent on application fees

You state one of your problems: You didn't know how to play the game. Someone could have crafted a great essay for you, first generation growing up barefoot on hard back clay floors in a rural village constantly afflicted with foot parasites (I'm adding some 'get in' drama). Second, and frankly, especially these top-tier schools hate top-performing Asian groups. You're fairly light-skinned, but especially dark-skinned Indians have committed the sin of being dark-skinned, non-western culture, some not speaking English properly which means you should underperform but instead you over perform. That just doesn't fit the oppressor-oppressed narrative. Some of that may change, see recent "DEI" news, but it's pretty clear that "applying while Asian" is now like "Applying while Jewish" used to be -- they don't want you, you perform too well. Dark or yellow-hued Asians are especially hated because they "should" be oppressed but they outperform and thereby indicate the truth: performance is much more cultural practices than any supposed prejudiced and in fact, the system has become racist in the name of fighting racism. Note that many schools got rid of or are getting rid of SAT/GRE because they clearly show the above and expose the existing racism. Those essays are constructed in a way to weed out high performers from the "wrong" groups. You didn't even know this game was being played which is another way of being excluded. It is also true that an "A" grade at a competitive high school is way harder than some subpar high school. Again, SATs would help. I sort of like schools like ASU what just take and educate everyone. These days, you can do almost all your highschool and much of your college just using RUclips and some online texts and example questions to study. Then just go to college to make friends/network/help people. That said, for several years, I was on the masters admissions committee at the highest ranking school in CS. I could have filled the whole class from perfect scores. Instead, I set thresholds on various test scores of people who just were not high enough. I set thresholds of people who were perfect in all scores from top schools. They were in. Didn't even read their essays. Then the middle group, I read the essays. I wasn't interested in pure BS: "I was president of my math club, bla bla blah", instead I looked for real things. One guy was in the SF musicians union because he earned money as a professional musician. That's unusual, that was an accept. Others had started and run/ran real businesses, with real funding, real products. Others had made meaningful contributions to open source. A person had done real technical work on an archeological site and was listed as a co-author on some of their papers. My favorite was a guy who got As then Cs in his Universities alternating. Oh, he fought for 5(!) tours in Iraq. I personally stood up and argued him in. So, in that group of non-perfect scores, there were real achievements, real, not BS, interests. Those were "accepts"

from what i've heard from other people is this: the college you do get into absolutely matters, but not to the extent most people make it out to be. If you do get into a prestigious school, then good for you, the name does carry that presitge and gives you a boost in internship/job applications more so than a safety. However, just because you do not go to a prestigious university and don't get this boost you can still make up for it but it will most likely take more work to get to the same place others are if they went to a more prestigious university. So in the end, you can still recover fairly easily.

I go to penn feeder school ( central )

Totally get it. I filmed a similar video my senior year (2020) and was similarly rejected from all the Ivies. I never posted that video, but I ended up going to UCLA and had some of the best years of my life there. I totally relate to being first gen, and going to an unknown public school that's never sent anyone to an Ivy. Rejection truly is redirection. I hope you're loving Georgetown!

You are wise beyond yr years ... I'm the prime example of someone who grinded in HS, got into 5 Ivies (ultimately chose Brown) + completely took it for granted that I was at an Ivy + thought that a great job/career would fall into my lap as a result of the Brown alumni network (which is non-existent compared to the other Ivies) ... had a rude professional awakening/reckoning throughout my 20s on Wall St + really didn't see any real success until my 30s 😒

Your situation is interesting and relates to mine a few years after actually finishing up with undergrad. It sounds like you are pursuing a finance career judging by your internships. I’m actually VERY curious how you got those internships. To be fair, I was supposed to recruit for sn internship during Covid so that kind of derailed my trajectory. I graduated with a finance degree also from WSU. Now, I am planning on getting a masters (potentially from UW) so I walk curious how you were able to land those internships, and how you liked it at UW even though you were there for a year.

I got into Montclair, Rowan and Rutgers Newark. Still waiting for Kean, TCNJ, NJIT and Rutgers New Brunswick. If the natter two reject me, I am committing to Rowan lol.

Hey, im kinda late to this but i really relate to you. Im highschool class of 2023 and I applied to around 8 school for Finance and CompSci. Compsci was mainly a fall back though, Finance was what I was really interested in. I got waitlisted and then rejected from SMU, capped from UT Austin, accepted to IU as a direct admit. I couldn't go to IU though cause i got really sick after graduating so I had to go to my local state school UT Dallas. I like it here but there's always a feeling like I should be somewhere better. My stats were mid compared to you but I had a 1420 SAT and a 3.7 UW. Im starting my spring semester of my freshman year at UTD and I'm not sure whether or not I should try and transfer to IU in the fall again or just stay where I am. If I go to IU, I'm going to have to do the standard admission process meaning I'm a pre-business major essentially for 1 year because transfers don't have direct admissions regardless of if you got in HS. Anyway, i was wondering what your thoughts were on this. My goal is to go into high finance after undergrad possibly consulting and UTD isn't really known for that.

I think this is most realistic college decision opening on RUclips. I was in the same boat as you, didn’t accepted to much of anything except one school. Ended my freshman year with a 3.7 then applied to a few of the colleges who previously rejected me and got into all of plus my majors school.

If your stats are true i'm honestly surprised at all these rejections. It may have been something with your application that they really didn't like but man i'm so sorry this happened to you

solid, mature video! good job

Did you apply early? Like super early? Colleges have so many students with the same stats applying so to get a decent shot, you have to get your apps in early. My son got into almost all of the colleges he applied to early. He didn’t get into the ones he applied to later.

Thank you Arnav! I'm co'2024, but I'm going to watch this after decisions come out so I can remind myself to have your mindset, no matter which schools I get into.

Apply to university this year and got deferred by my early decision school which is my dream school as well. Been fragile for about a week and now I all already over it and just finished submitting my regular decision applications. This video somehow really encouraged me that we'll always find a way out and locate a good spot ultimately. Thx for this video

Hey everyone! I just saw that this video blew up and wanted to thank you all for watching! I have additional videos on the way, so subscribe if you're interested! Based on your guys' comments, I also want to clarify some things: 1) There were a lot of things I could have done better on my application. I didn't describe what I did in my leadership positions very well and even thought I committed a LOT of time and energy in student government and speech and debate, I couldn't fully convey that within the 150 characters provided. Describing your activities well and framing them to build a narrative that makes it easier for admissions officers to “sell you” to the rest of team is extremely important. 2) My essays were subpar and essays will make or break your whole application. Coming from a large public school that focused largely on making sure kids graduated rather than sending them to top-tier universities, I didn't have any knowledge on how my essays should have been written. There's an entire game that needs to be played with college applications, and I didn't have the resources to understand that, especially being a first-generation immigrant and the first child. Most importantly, though, I procrastinated tremendously and didn't take the process super seriously because deep down, I felt like i could succeed no matter where I went to college. 3) After transferring, I learned that the reality is that all of these top private institutions fill up half of their class with kids from what seems like ~40-50 high schools (largely boarding schools such as Deerfield, Andover, Choate, Philips Exeter, etc.) -- these are schools I didn't even know existed coming from extremely suburban Washington State. A good portion of the class is also filled by athletes and legacy students. Coming from a no-name public school discredited a lot of my extracurriculars as admissions officers had no record to show that kids from my school would succeed at their institution or whether these ECs even meant anything. It's not even a private school thing -- if I did the same activities at a competitive public school in the Bay Area, my application would have been perceived much more positively. This is important to understand as a lot of college decision videos on RUclips are from kids who are already going to great high schools, which is why my process might look different. One sidenote: if you're going to a public high school that isn't extremely reputable, focus on getting a high SAT score as your GPA is less meaningful and also try to do extracurriculars outside of your school. I hope that this helped and let me know if you have any more questions! Stay tuned for more content!

I been waiting for a different video like this. Thank you for putting this out here for the whole world to see. You're a real one Arnav 🤟

I got capped from UT Austin around this time last year and it felt horrible at the moment but it turned out to be better for me because I’m at a school more focused on my major that I really enjoy. Sometimes we need to start at a different point than expected.