The REAL Reasons Many Students Get Into Competitive Colleges (Institutional Priorities)

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In this video, Tom from College Essay Guy explains what institutional priorities are, how they are determined at top colleges, and provides examples of common institutional priorities.

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:21 What are Institutional Priorities?
1:26 The role Institutional Priorities play in the admissions office/application review process
3:00 Examples of Institutional Priorities
4:32 What are legacy admits?
5:10 What are development cases?
5:41 Do first-generation students meet institutional priorities?
6:01 Meeting institutional priorities as an artist
6:37 How does my geographical location factor into Institutional Priorities?
6:59 How does my gender factor into Institutional Priorities?
7:34 What are undersubscribed academic interests?
8:46 You'll be OK even if you don't get into a highly selective college, we promise
10:00 How do I find out a school's Institutional Priorities?
10:31 Having an authentic high school experience vs. appeasing colleges
11:48 Outro

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