Thank you so much. Every other "how I got into ______" video says how they got a 1550+ on the SAT and a 4.5 gpa. It was really reassuring to hear that it's still possible to be accepted without having insane grades!
Dan, this is very insightful and I totally agree with you. I am one of the scholars here at Duke and I must say that there is a wide spectrum of students; however, it is important to remember that even if someone gets into a college they might not want to go. I have had so many friends who have had their dreams and aspirations destroyed because they just couldn't tolerate how much they had to do (I'm premed). Thus, I say go to a school that suits you and your personality, habits, etc. id rather go into a lower tier school and succeed there than go to an upper tier school and be defeated. Just some thoughts my man
So I’m in my freshman year at M.I.T and I definitely will say that a big part of getting into a good college are the extracurriculars. Your GPA and SAT scores do matter for sure. However, you can get a perfect GPA and SAT score and still not get in if you’ve got no extracurriculars. Schools love to see that!
tonic INC. sorry what do you mean? If you’re asking what you should do for extracurriculars, then that’s easy. Do what interests YOU and also benefits and contributes to the community. For example, for some extracurriculars, I played on my school’s basketball team, I was in orchestra, did a bunch of coding classes and even tutored students who needed help in things like math. I also started some clubs and organizations, one organization that was created to save endangered animals and animals experiencing abuse or neglect. A club could be a litter cleaning club or anything that helps the community and shows that you’re a good person.
omy just as I was about to give up applying to Duke, this channel pop-up out of nowhere! I guess this is it! thank you so much for this video, its really a reassurance that I have a chance at Duke
Good evening! I just watched your video since last year. You did a great job with your video. Congratulations on your achievements. Including with your extracurriculars. I will be completing with my AA degree from a community college this year in December. After I complete with my AA degree in general studies, I will be taking my semester off from university to do acting and music studio for receiving training that relates to television. Then, I will be back to university for my BA degree in journalism or communication in the fall of 2023. I graduated from high school in 6 years ago. I am a military child, so I traveled all over the states because I have a parent who is military. Television has always been my dream career at a younger age. I am working on my own book for right now. I have worked on it for 2 years during the pandemic. Everyone has their own pace. I have been a part time student from a community college for 6.5 years of working for my AA degree. Again, I really enjoyed your video because you have great contents. Best of luck at everything you do. My name is Andres by the way. It is pleasure to meet you. I am bilingual. I am Hispanic because my family are from Colombia and Puerto Rico. I was born in the western of New York. I lived there for 5.5 years. If you want to know which states that I lived in before, my book will be ready to finish sometime next year. God bless you and your family. 🙏
Hi Dan. I plan to apply ED to Duke but am really struggling as I don't have the highest stats. I would love to discuss how to address this or compensate when it comes to the CommonApp.
Hey Dan! You mentioned in one of your videos a blog, "The Brown Republican" if I recall correctly, are you able to share more about that in another video?
Great video Dan! as a junior in highschool i'm starting to worry about all the college stuff, but your video really was informative and great. Hope you have a great time at Duke! and if you don't mind sharing, about how many total B's did you get?
Chances of me going into Duke *1%* I’m in 8th Grade Positive Facts about me: Straight A’s occasionally one B. A student who doesn’t focus on having fun too much Playing Golf lessons during Saturday Negative Facts about me: Few grammar mistakes. Don’t read a lot of books. Only read comic books Time ran out and didn’t answer a lot of questions during my PSAT 8th grade. Possible (Don’t know what GPA) - I’m only between a GPA of 3.0 - 4.0 I mess up some classes even when I tried my best Play games too much (6 hours a day) Sometimes forget to charge my chrome book (I charge my chrome book most of the time) Not in honors class (even though I wish) Mess up in mathematical problems (Most of the time I don’t mess up but when it comes to simplifying) I don’t play football nor basketball. I make mistake easily When someone asks me a question I don’t know, I don’t know what to say. I talk weird when I don’t know what to say. Shy Embarrassed of doing something special Gets irritated when someone annoys me. Even though I’m not capable of going to duke is there any good colleges that will accept me even though, I make mistakes?
Dude you are on this video lying to people. On your Linkedin page you clearing say you were the Valedictorian of your high school with a 4.7 GPA. So why are you lying to people? What's the purpose?
Are you Hispanic ? May be that helps with less than perfect store! Be an asian we get kicked lot more harder. This video was very helpful and thanks for sharing the message
During the summer between my junior and senior year, I was looking for some extracurricular thing to get involved in for the upcoming school year, and ran across my local congresswoman's website. I think most (if not all) members of congress have internship programs in both the summer and school year that are open for high schoolers and are reasonably easy to get into.
Hey Dan I'm a student from Latin America. What do you think my probabilities of getting in are if I didn't take AP or IB ( because my school don't offer neither) classes? I feel that I shouldn't even try to apply.
If your school doesn't offer AP/IB's, you cannot be penalized for not taking them (since you couldn't have no matter how hard you tried). Therefore, you'll probably be judged more on how rigorous your academics were compared to your peers. I sincerely do not believe that your chances will decrease arising from a situation you could not control. Hope this helps!
I’m in 7th grade, but Duke is my dream school so if anyone could tell me what I could do to improve my chances of getting in: Good things about me: -A+ student (lowest grade right now is 95) -1 preAP class, one math class one year ahead (testing into geometry next year instead of algebra) -I play sports -I started community service -I take Spanish class (taking it throughout high school and doing AP once it’s possible) -I’m a good test taker -I’m doing 2.00 credits worth of classes my 8th grade year Negative things: -I tend to compare myself to others -sometimes I procrastinate I know I have a while, but am I on the right track? I feel like everyone’s smarter than me
So I am a sophomore at my high school and I was concerned about my GPA situation. As a freshmen I kinda messed up and ended with a 4.0 (weighted). This year first semester I am gonna be getting a 4.6. I was just concerned about how much I can bring my GPA up. My goal is a 4.5. Any advice?
Your question is pretty broad, basically you're asking how to raise your GPA, which is a question that every student would like to know I would suppose. There are so many pieces of advice I could give you and others could as well, but if I really had to give a piece of perhaps uncommon advice, I'd say to only commit as much of your time and energy into classes as you have to. Know what classes are your easy ones so you can best commit your time to the classes that challenge you the most.
Hi Dan, It looks like you are the only person in your room. Did you get to select your room without any roommate? If so, how did you get to choose? Thanks.
Thanks for your question! Actually, I do have a roommate (we're not that close tho), and I decided to film this video when he was in class so there wouldn't be any unexpected roommate cameos. At least for Duke, however, you can put down on the housing application that you would "prefer" a single, but that is still not a guarantee.
Hey Dan I'm an international student. What do you think my probabilities of getting in are if I didn't take AP or IB (because my school don't offer them) classes? I feel that I shouldn't even try.
Fabian Triguero they will take into consideration your opportunities that you have. as long as you’re challenging yourself and passionate about your goals you will be better than not trying
Joy Bagnol-Estudillo I wish, I’d personally prefer not to disclose my email publicly for spam purposes, however. If that changes however I’ll let you know.
I'll be honest with you, I have no idea what "packing on yourself" means, but I feel like you took my message the wrong way. Something I see pretty often within the "applying to college" community are applicants who set the bar wayyy too high on themselves thinking that you have to be insanely smart/accomplished to get into a college that they want, which is not at all the case. I wanted to show what I did do in high school: what I was, but also what I wasn't.
Thank you so much. Every other "how I got into ______" video says how they got a 1550+ on the SAT and a 4.5 gpa. It was really reassuring to hear that it's still possible to be accepted without having insane grades!
I’m in a similar boat. Duke is one of my dream schools. Hope to join you in a couple years!
Dan, this is very insightful and I totally agree with you. I am one of the scholars here at Duke and I must say that there is a wide spectrum of students; however, it is important to remember that even if someone gets into a college they might not want to go. I have had so many friends who have had their dreams and aspirations destroyed because they just couldn't tolerate how much they had to do (I'm premed). Thus, I say go to a school that suits you and your personality, habits, etc. id rather go into a lower tier school and succeed there than go to an upper tier school and be defeated. Just some thoughts my man
I agree with you completely.
You were my tour guide on ED blue devil day this year :) everyone recognized you from your videos, absolute legend. See you there 💙😈
I'm a sophomore in highschool and Duke is my dream college. Thank you for sharing this!
Ray-Ann Roberts Same!!
So I’m in my freshman year at M.I.T and I definitely will say that a big part of getting into a good college are the extracurriculars. Your GPA and SAT scores do matter for sure. However, you can get a perfect GPA and SAT score and still not get in if you’ve got no extracurriculars. Schools love to see that!
Adaline Louise what do you think I should do?
tonic INC. sorry what do you mean? If you’re asking what you should do for extracurriculars, then that’s easy. Do what interests YOU and also benefits and contributes to the community. For example, for some extracurriculars, I played on my school’s basketball team, I was in orchestra, did a bunch of coding classes and even tutored students who needed help in things like math. I also started some clubs and organizations, one organization that was created to save endangered animals and animals experiencing abuse or neglect. A club could be a litter cleaning club or anything that helps the community and shows that you’re a good person.
omy just as I was about to give up applying to Duke, this channel pop-up out of nowhere! I guess this is it! thank you so much for this video, its really a reassurance that I have a chance at Duke
Good evening!
I just watched your video since last year. You did a great job with your video. Congratulations on your achievements. Including with your extracurriculars. I will be completing with my AA degree from a community college this year in December. After I complete with my AA degree in general studies, I will be taking my semester off from university to do acting and music studio for receiving training that relates to television. Then, I will be back to university for my BA degree in journalism or communication in the fall of 2023. I graduated from high school in 6 years ago. I am a military child, so I traveled all over the states because I have a parent who is military. Television has always been my dream career at a younger age. I am working on my own book for right now. I have worked on it for 2 years during the pandemic. Everyone has their own pace. I have been a part time student from a community college for 6.5 years of working for my AA degree. Again, I really enjoyed your video because you have great contents. Best of luck at everything you do. My name is Andres by the way. It is pleasure to meet you. I am bilingual. I am Hispanic because my family are from Colombia and Puerto Rico. I was born in the western of New York. I lived there for 5.5 years. If you want to know which states that I lived in before, my book will be ready to finish sometime next year. God bless you and your family. 🙏
Hi Dan. I plan to apply ED to Duke but am really struggling as I don't have the highest stats. I would love to discuss how to address this or compensate when it comes to the CommonApp.
hey, did you apply regular decision or early decision? btw, this is a great, reassuring video. Thanks for making it
3:25 I think early decision
very nice honest video man, thank you
Hey Dan! You mentioned in one of your videos a blog, "The Brown Republican" if I recall correctly, are you able to share more about that in another video?
Hey Dan, nice to see you here, lol ^^
Some impressive stats there, too
dude this was great
Great video Dan! as a junior in highschool i'm starting to worry about all the college stuff, but your video really was informative and great. Hope you have a great time at Duke! and if you don't mind sharing, about how many total B's did you get?
Although I don't remember the exact number, judging by my GPA and what I do remember, I think I got at least 5 B's, but definitely less than 10.
Chances of me going into Duke
*1%*
I’m in 8th Grade
Positive Facts about me: Straight A’s occasionally one B.
A student who doesn’t focus on having fun too much
Playing Golf lessons during Saturday
Negative Facts about me: Few grammar mistakes.
Don’t read a lot of books.
Only read comic books
Time ran out and didn’t answer a lot of questions during my PSAT 8th grade.
Possible (Don’t know what GPA) - I’m only between a GPA of 3.0 - 4.0
I mess up some classes even when I tried my best
Play games too much (6 hours a day)
Sometimes forget to charge my chrome book (I charge my chrome book most of the time)
Not in honors class (even though I wish)
Mess up in mathematical problems (Most of the time I don’t mess up but when it comes to simplifying)
I don’t play football nor basketball.
I make mistake easily
When someone asks me a question I don’t know, I don’t know what to say.
I talk weird when I don’t know what to say.
Shy
Embarrassed of doing something special
Gets irritated when someone annoys me.
Even though I’m not capable of going to duke is there any good colleges that will accept me even though, I make mistakes?
Xx_Sunlight12345 YT no one is perfect, don’t worry! embrace your best aspects
This was very helpful, thank you!
I wanna go to duke sooo bad 👁💧👄💧👁
Dude you are on this video lying to people. On your Linkedin page you clearing say you were the Valedictorian of your high school with a 4.7 GPA. So why are you lying to people? What's the purpose?
Are you Hispanic ? May be that helps with less than perfect store! Be an asian we get kicked lot more harder. This video was very helpful and thanks for sharing the message
This video was amazing! Can you describe how you were able to get a congressional internship?
During the summer between my junior and senior year, I was looking for some extracurricular thing to get involved in for the upcoming school year, and ran across my local congresswoman's website. I think most (if not all) members of congress have internship programs in both the summer and school year that are open for high schoolers and are reasonably easy to get into.
thank you for the response! however, it looks like the representatives from my state only allow college students for their internships.
i dont take that much aps do i have a good chance of getting into duke🥺
Did you have to request your letters of recommendation from your High School teachers yourself?
Hey Dan I'm a student from Latin America. What do you think my probabilities of getting in are if I didn't take AP or IB ( because my school don't offer neither) classes? I feel that I shouldn't even try to apply.
If your school doesn't offer AP/IB's, you cannot be penalized for not taking them (since you couldn't have no matter how hard you tried). Therefore, you'll probably be judged more on how rigorous your academics were compared to your peers. I sincerely do not believe that your chances will decrease arising from a situation you could not control. Hope this helps!
Do you remember how many letters of recommendation you sent? If so, what was the number (if you don’t mind)?
Angelena Antenuci Duke required 2, and had 1 optional but I only sent 2.
What can I do to help me get into Duke? I'm currently a CC outside of North Carolina, not sure if that matters. And it is my first semester.
Congrats
I’m in 7th grade, but Duke is my dream school so if anyone could tell me what I could do to improve my chances of getting in:
Good things about me:
-A+ student (lowest grade right now is 95)
-1 preAP class, one math class one year ahead (testing into geometry next year instead of algebra)
-I play sports
-I started community service
-I take Spanish class (taking it throughout high school and doing AP once it’s possible)
-I’m a good test taker
-I’m doing 2.00 credits worth of classes my 8th grade year
Negative things:
-I tend to compare myself to others
-sometimes I procrastinate
I know I have a while, but am I on the right track? I feel like everyone’s smarter than me
So I am a sophomore at my high school and I was concerned about my GPA situation. As a freshmen I kinda messed up and ended with a 4.0 (weighted). This year first semester I am gonna be getting a 4.6. I was just concerned about how much I can bring my GPA up. My goal is a 4.5. Any advice?
Your question is pretty broad, basically you're asking how to raise your GPA, which is a question that every student would like to know I would suppose. There are so many pieces of advice I could give you and others could as well, but if I really had to give a piece of perhaps uncommon advice, I'd say to only commit as much of your time and energy into classes as you have to. Know what classes are your easy ones so you can best commit your time to the classes that challenge you the most.
Hi Dan, It looks like you are the only person in your room. Did you get to select your room without any roommate? If so, how did you get to choose? Thanks.
Thanks for your question! Actually, I do have a roommate (we're not that close tho), and I decided to film this video when he was in class so there wouldn't be any unexpected roommate cameos. At least for Duke, however, you can put down on the housing application that you would "prefer" a single, but that is still not a guarantee.
Thanks Dan. Appreciate your instant reply.
Hey are you an international student? And do you have financial aid/scholarship?
Should we submit a resume too?
Hi Dan
I love you
What if I don't take any ap class?
As long as you try and take the most rigorous courses your school offers, you're one step closer.
Hey Dan I'm an international student. What do you think my probabilities of getting in are if I didn't take AP or IB (because my school don't offer them) classes? I feel that I shouldn't even try.
Fabian Triguero they will take into consideration your opportunities that you have. as long as you’re challenging yourself and passionate about your goals you will be better than not trying
Hi Dan, My son is a junior and wants to apply to Duke. Thanks for your videos. He has a couple more questions, is there a DM you have?
Yes! He could add me on Instagram @gan.darcia.
@@dangarcia9912 Great, is email better as well?
Joy Bagnol-Estudillo I wish, I’d personally prefer not to disclose my email publicly for spam purposes, however. If that changes however I’ll let you know.
Man please make a video for an international student 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿 I'm from India please help me 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
3000 students? 3000?
Why does this vid seem like your just packing on yourself, “no teacher really liked me”, “I had no county awards, regional awards, and state awards”
I'll be honest with you, I have no idea what "packing on yourself" means, but I feel like you took my message the wrong way. Something I see pretty often within the "applying to college" community are applicants who set the bar wayyy too high on themselves thinking that you have to be insanely smart/accomplished to get into a college that they want, which is not at all the case. I wanted to show what I did do in high school: what I was, but also what I wasn't.