She’s from California and applied top heavy.
It’s the balance in her application, her friendly & calm demeanor, her excellent essays and her demonstrated interest in serving underserved communities via primary care (showcased in other videos) that netted her 4 interviews and an acceptance at a CA medical school on the first try when much higher stat applicants are being denied.
I know you meant well, just from seeing your interactions here, which was why I edited my post once I scrolled back up and saw your username. I'm very happy for her, and she does seem like a wonderful person, but I just wanted to point out a detail- her GPA/MCAT is 3.88/515, and she was ultimately only accepted to one medical school, which has stats of 3.69/511 (in-state), and a school for which she was in-state. Her stats are almost at the 75th percentile of this school.
These are all valid points but I question whether ORMs from CA with her stats are accepted into CA state schools at a 80% clip. Those schools are notoriously selective. Consider that UCLA, UCSF, UC San Diego are all T20s.
Maybe it's because...she didn't want to go there?
Yup, which was likely why she ended up with only one acceptance rather than a few more. Perhaps that is the take-home lesson from this- school list curation.
yea honestly, a lot of things they complain about happen there too, but since downvotes are anonymous and actually make the content less visible, most of the top posts end up "feel good".
How does he know the service helped?
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Well, the guy never names the firm, and the people that ask him to dm them never got a dm (other threads). Definitely could just be a troll, but it would be a troll based on reality as similar firms exist, such as Shemmassian.
It's not so much that the consulting firm gets you the pubs, it's more that they help identify the research opportunities that are most likely to lead to publications with minimum effort. From personal experience, I have two major research positions in my app. The first one gave me 4 publications by time of application. The second one I still am in the early stage of writing a single publication.
he describes exactly what they did.
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It’s almost always family money.
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This is why I’m so against eliminating the SAT/ACT. In my experience, it is the only element of the application that can’t be dramatically improved by throwing money at it. Somebody who got a 1000 is not going to get a 1600 no matter how much tutoring, coaching etc.Private College Counselor Fees & Cost | Admissions Consulting Pricing
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This piece, published by the organization itself, actually blew me away. "We were made fun of on “CNBC” for our fees — even though they grossly underreported our fees at the time. Recently, our fees made the headlines. You may have read about our fees on the cover of a Sunday edition of “The New York Post.” But what most surprises our critics is that we make absolutely no apologies for our fees."
That’s exactly why a lot of influential people want to ban the SAT/ACT.
perhaps not as directly, but wealth correlates very strongly with SAT/ACT success.
Didn't Olivia Jade get like a 34 on the ACT. "Get" *
The word “standardized” literally means “the same” - as in the NFL uses a standardized football for all games. Remember the huge controversy that erupted when Tom Brady was found to use a deflated ball? There’s a commonly shared sense of fairness that competitors should be held to the same standard.
The “old” SAT (no grammar, a lot more geometry, no calculator, verbal analogies, more difficult reading passages, etc) was designed to be much harder to study for (more of an “aptitude” test). Equity driven reforms led to the current exam, which is much easier to study for (more of an achievement test).
From my memory, ACT was much easier to prepare for. SAT felt somewhat impossible to study for. I know some people go through like 15000 vocab, only to not get 1 on the actual exam. I liked the SAT plus subject tests. It allowed applicants to display aptitude and subject mastery at the same time.
sorry, but I'm not sure why you just defined standardized there. My point was that wealth can be a significant factor in SAT/ACT scores as well.
And the quality of students hasn't dropped; what does that tell you...
Many quality students who didn’t go to elite prep schools or didn’t have money to afford fancy extracurriculars were left behind. At least that is my impression from the results of people I interviewed
Back when pedigree was all that mattered (think the Great Gatsby), were students at HYP as good as they are now? How would you decide that?
to be honest, I always figured the real reason driving SAT/ACT elimination at universities was so that it would be easier to practice affirmative action. Harvard used to release racial breakdown of SAT scores via Crimson until the test switched to 1600 again a few years ago, and average Asian accepted was 200 pts higher than the average Black accepted. (Asian: 2300, White: 2250, Hispanic: 2200, Black: 2100)
Yes per my eye witness account. ON moon, . Therefore ACT should be abolished.
How does she get that many invites and only get into one school. That is the part that is scaring me since my invites were mid to late cycle invites as it appears hers also were
Emory & Stanford are too research heavy for her. Kaiser Permanente is a head scratcher given that she's interested in primary care and from CA.
Kaiser also invites like 800 people for 50 slots. Apparently like 70 acceptances, with people turning down Hopkins and HMS. I can see why she didn’t get in to KPSOM.
