The BIGGEST MISTAKE in college apps | MIT, Ivies, Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, …

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How to get into MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, ...? The truth about college admissions. This is why most of us take the wrong approach to college and university admissions. The secret behind successful college applications. Why grades and test scores don't matter as much as most of us think

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I talk about why we fundamentally take the wrong approach to college admissions. Looking at the statistics of admitted students is really misleading because it implies that having almost perfect grades, test scores, and extracurricular activities is the best way to get admitted. But in reality, this is not what admission departments really look for.

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0:00 - Intro
1:05 – Misleading admission statistics
2:38 – Who gets admitted?
3:32 – What really matters in your application?
4:55 – The bad (and most common) strategy
7:18 – The best strategy to getting admitted
11:19 – Skillshare sponsored mention
12:20 – Conclusion