How We Got Into HARVARD and UPENN | College Acceptance Reactions + Stats + ECs + Essays
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- čas přidán 23. 01. 2021
- Hey everyone! Welcome to our first video!
We've dreamed of making a video like this since freshman year, and finally the time has come. Grace got accepted into Harvard University for environmental science and public policy, and I (Julian) got accepted into UPenn's Wharton School for marketing and communications.
This video is about our stats, extracurriculars, and essays that got us into our dream schools. We include our college acceptance reactions as well since they were so short.z
A quick reminder that everything we talk about in this video is what worked for US and is not guaranteed to work for everyone. To all the underclassmen watching, we wish you the best of luck throughout high school!
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Smith the Mister: / @smiththemister
Hey Julian can you link the summer program for entrepreneurship you wre talking about. I'm also interested in business, so it would mean a lot.
Yup! Here it is: launchx.com
Good luck if you plan on applying!
~ Julian
@@graceandjulian3114 OMG I’m going to launchx this summer!! Also, did u post smth on reddit or was that someone else?
I love how Julian ran to get his mom that made me smile.
My mother is my #1 supporter :)
~ Julian
@@graceandjulian3114 엄마ㅏㅏ
Hey Julian! Congratulations 🎊👏🎊 that's a wonderful accomplishment, I got in Harvard during REA for class of 25 hopefully we can hang out!
So informative! I’m going into my senior year and Harvard is definitely my top choice. I will also be declaring my major as Environmental Science & Public Policy
열번은본거같애요 ㅎ 큰도움되었습니다. 감사해요! 두분모두 대단하세요! Thanks! It is actually very helpful. Hope I can click "like" 100 times!
I’m not sure why, but this video gave me a lottt of hope haha! Also I love this channel! Your friendship is so cute 💖
We're glad it did haha! Thank you :)
Congrats to you both and hi from a fellow Harvard ‘25 student!!! I also wrote and published a book to integrate stem curriculum in my school district lol
hey that’s awesome, and congrats to you too! lets connect on social media!! - grace
Def write a book. Write a book and show passion projects. Wirte. A book and show passion projects. Right a book abs show passion prickles. Right a book abs show passion priciest. Right a book abs show passionproejcts
@@acchen7458 wtf LOL
@@kiwi9660 no way hes not high
Very informative for the upcoming aspirations!
Hi, my dream school is UPenn and I want to get in for marketing and communications just like Julian.(I’m also korean lol) It’s hard to find anyone who’s in this major. So I have no idea what I should do in highschool in order to get in(like ec and awards wise)Your a great role model can you make more videos about how we can get into Wharton and your essays?
Loved the vid! Thanks!!!
Congrats ‼️
congrats to you both! : )
Thank you so much!
yo thanks for making this college vid, this is the best one i’ve watched. btw i’m a freshman lmao
No problem, and thank you! We're glad you found it helpful. Good luck with your studies :)
This is a W video, especially at the end.
Also would you be able to go over your awards section for your application?
Congrates! It was an amazing High School experience for both of you! I have one question, or concern, which is if I had low grades in Freshman year but it shows improvement after, is that okay?
Yes! Displaying improvement throughout your high school career is incredibly important. You're presumably taking more difficult classes in later years, and if you continue to perform well, you're going to stand out.
Question for grace; what would you reconend for the Harvard seas class to put in an application I've seen a few videos of people saying it helped further in there education. I was wondering what you belive helped you get accepted. (For context I will be a freshmen in the 2021-2022 school year )
Hey! You said researches are easy, I think the most important/hardest part is to get in. Most of the colleges expect experience or whoever I have seen getting in has some kind of experience via competitions etc. Is it really important? Did you have any experience about your major before sending the emails? I'm doing the research for experience yet I'm scared I won't make it without having one to begin with! I'm a freshmen btw, guess it's never too early to stress about our application! Loved your video!! Please reply whenever you can.
hii!!! i want to attend upenn wharton for marketing and comm as well, so this is super helpful!! thanks & congrats :)
Hi! Thank you so much, and no problem. Hope to see you there in the future!
~ Julian
Congratulations!
Hey! When you list the activity for being a research assistant with a college professor, do you also have to tell the professor's name in the activity description?
Hi, I have a question for Grace. How did you sustain your GPA while participating in Girls Varsity Basketball and all the other extracurricular activities? I am also in the same situation and I think it is physically impossible. It is so exhausting. Any tips?
Can you make a video showing how you described your activities?
im so captivated by grace nodding
julian talks too much - grace
Did you take multivariable calculus in highschool? Thanks 🥰
Hey Julian and Grace I'm a high school freshman currently in Honors Algebra 2 and am interested in pursuing a career in medicine and doing pre-med in college, I like math science and journalism and was wondering if it would be a good idea to go from Honors Precalculus over the summer to AP Calc AB in my sophomore year like you guys. I would then take Calc BC, in my junior but was wondering if that option is better compared to the option of taking Honors Precalculus during my sophomore year and going into Calc BC my junior year.
No pressure at all.... but could you drop the email template you sent to the professors for your research position? No pressure at all but a helpful guideline would be extremely helpful
Hi! I was wondering how exactly you approach research opportunities with professors? What kinds of things would I email them, and would I have to pick and let them know a specific topic I want to conduct more research on? How did you decide what exactly to research (within your area of interest)? And how does the research process work (would your professor give you guidance on this? did you publish your research?)
I emailed professors that researched areas that I resonated with, so for me, I looked for professors that researched environmental science. I would look at the faculty directory for colleges around me and email the professors under environmental science. I leaned towards professors that research in the lab rather than data. I used a pretty generic email template, saying that I’m extremely interested in environmental science and mention that I resonated with something the professor had published. When I emailed my UCLA professor, I mentioned that I had attended a science research conference at Harvard, which I’m sure helped. When I emailed my USC professor, which was much more hands on and significant in my opinion, I included that I had previous research experience, which helped me get that position. Overall, it really helps if you have something on your resume that shows you want to do research or you have experience that indicates you can take such a position. As for the research process, I rarely worked with the professors and mostly interacted with Ph. D students in the lab. My work was never published, but it was still a great experience to work in a lab. Hope this helps, and let me know if you need further clarification! - Grace
@@graceandjulian3114 Thank you so much! Did you email multiple professors at each uni? And to do research over summer, when did you start emailing them (in spring, a few weeks before, etc)? How much time did you spend on it (did you go in every day? a few hours or a whole day? how often did you do it?)
how would your self esteem be without external institutions of prestige to cling to?
Was the Mayor'ss Youth Council hard to get into? What's the eligibilit and acceptance rate? Does it have cost? Thank you!!
Hi, i wanna ask you something about sat how did you both learn English, can you help me about it ? Can you give me sone advice?
Ahhh this is so cool my name is Grace and my brother’s name is Julian!! :D
Hi, firstly thanks for the video. I am really curious about math and physics I m reading university and maybe a Ph.D. level book with myself but in my country(Turkey )Professors don't want high school students (I tried speak face to face) Have chance to work with professor from abroad or what can I do with myself?
Hey, would Grace be willing to chat with me? I am attempting to transfer to Harvard (I am aware of the slim chances) as an ESPP major. I would love some advice and feedback about how she is liking Harvard and the ESPP program (have you declared your concentration yet?)
How many freshman students are admitted to Wharton - say in your batch
Grace looks so much like Kim Go Eun ❤
haha that’s a first for me but thank you! - grace
I am extremely interested in taking AP Psych and AP Comp Sci, but my current school does not offer these courses for my grade level. Could you please elaborate as to how you self studied?
We essentially just used online resources (public study guides, crash courses, etc.) as well as physical study books to prepare for the exams!
Congratulations to both of you, so awesome! @Grace -- is the handbook you created accessible anywhere? I would love to take a look! I am also an LAUSD student and I am also on the Mayor's Youth Council :)
Also, you mention the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences/Water Engineering and Resource Management Program, how did you apply for this? Is this a high school program that was being offered by Harvard? Is there a link where I can get more information?
Thank you, and best of luck!
Thank you!
The handbook will be accessible soon; we’re currently working on a website and the handbook will be available there.
The Water Engineering program is for high school and college students. Here’s the link: www.seas.harvard.edu/active-learning-labs/summer-programs-wintersession/summer-programs/water-engineering-and-resource
Hope this helps! - Grace
bsf goals
hello
kinda awkward question, but do you have any tips for middle-schoolers? (haha)
Grace, for the research assistant, can I do it remotely? Do you have to tell them about your grades or other things or showing your resume in order to get that position? Thank you!
Hey! I’m sure most internships/research are all remote right now, so you definitely can find one! When I reached out to professors, I emailed them my resume which only included my extracurriculars, so nothing about my grades. Hope this helps!
@@graceandjulian3114 Can you be a research assistant remotely? Or does it have to be in-person? Do you think colleges takes the special circumstance into account? Or familt responsibity such as translated many things for mom etc
Did u go to a rich private school?
Underrated
Hi! Hope you're doing well. Is the handbook you created with MYC accessible anywhere? Thanks!
www.lamayor.org/MYCCA
We recently launched our website, and you can find parts of the handbook on the website!
@@graceandjulian3114 thank you!!
Grace what is your Major ?:)
I love the MAMA
were you full pay?
How old are you?
Can you read your essays? Great vid!
Thank you so much! We were considering doing an essay-reading video, but unfortunately we've decided not to make one. Our essays contain a lot of personal information that we're not quite comfortable sharing. Sorry about that.
@@graceandjulian3114 ah ok no worries! It would be cool if you did an essay highlight video where you read snippets of the essays without personal information mentioned. It would give us a great idea of what kinds of writing skills/structures work best.
@@emmadonnelly7028 That's a great idea actually, we'll try to come up with a way to make that work!
was the entrepreneurship program JACP?
No, if you’re referring to the summer program that was Launch X!
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Hello! So this year I got a 3.5 GPA but I got 1600 on my sats and I’m working on writing an essay of why I had a “3.5” as well but if I get a 4.0 next year do I have a chance to get into either of these schools? I’m also a full IB student! I’m also president of 4 clubs with over 120 hours of volunteering. Does that help?
I think you definitely have a chance! Colleges are looking for improvement, so if you bring your grades up, this might help. Personally, I think you should apply no matter what. If you are an upcoming senior, my advice is to start your common app now, so that you have less to stress over senior year. Good luck!!!
I thought the elite colleges require like 10 or more APs??
Not at all! It's all situational, depending on the school you go to / where you live. My school didn't allow me to take APs until sophomore year, and I took as many as they would allow me (total of 7 by the end of junior year). Even though that may not be a high number compared to other applicants, it was more than the other students at my school, who had maybe 3-6 by that point. Colleges look at you in the context of your school/area, not the entire nation. It would be unfair to compare me to someone from another school that doesn't restrict how many APs their students can take. Hope that helps!
@@graceandjulian3114 It seems like you can game the system by shifting into a 'worse' school which restricts AP in freshman year so you can get away with taking fewer APs and still be seen as good. It's better to be valedictorian in a bad ghetto school than being a top 10% in Phillips Academy Andover.
Not quite? Firstly, that wouldn't be the most moral way of getting into college. You should try outperforming the system by making the best out of your situation and standing out as an applicant by maximizing the resources you have around you. If what you suggested did work and you were able to "game" the system, I'm not sure how much satisfaction you would gain from that acceptance, knowing that you potentially deprived others who weren't in a fortunate enough situation to "game" the system, of that opportunity. Secondly, whether that's truly "better" than being in the top 10% of a school like Andover is debatable. Say you move into a neighborhood of lower socioeconomic status, you have to consider that the school you would attend wouldn't have the same resources to prepare you for college as Andover. After all, private schools like Andover are college preparatory schools and have better resources to get the average attendee into college than most public schools. So while it may be "easier" for you to be the valedictorian at another school, it doesn't necessarily ensure that colleges will deem you college-ready, whereas they may consider even the top 50% of kids at Andover college-ready. Just take a look at Andover's matriculation rates, they send more than their top 10% to "elite" colleges. With all that said, no one really knows what route of education is "better," but we wouldn't recommend anyone try to cheat the system like that!
this is why is impossible to international students to get into any ivy
It's absolutely possible. Just 100x harder
Hi Grace, did you do interview with Harvard alumni?
Yes I did; I also had an admissions officer interview
@@graceandjulian3114 how did the interview go? Can you talk more specific about that?
@@graceandjulian3114 wait, why did you have 2 interviews?
@@emmadonnelly7028 Second interviews are uncommon but they do happen.
int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/1865-harvard-admissions-process/fcb2b57c15f154b139df/optimized/full.pdf
On page 15 of the harvard admissions lawsuit doc, it talks about interviews with AOs and their implications.
14:01
For future essay and Ec description purposes
also penn '25 here :)
Aye, see you soon then :)
~ Julian
IM STANFORD CLASS OF 2020 AND I DIDN'T DO ANY REACTION WHEN I ACCEPTED MAYBE IAM PERVERT
They and most students would be just as happy with successful cash flushed careers even if they had attended their local state schools. Don't buy the hype!!!!