College Application Advice - Common App Tips & Tricks

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Incoming and current seniors in high school who are just lost stress confused at the crazy, annoying parts of the application process. You know the essay submitting test scores like extra careers, all that stuff. I wanted to share with you all that information from my high school career and the challenges I face to give you some insight in case you have similar majors, interests or colleges in mind. So I know the first thing you guys are gonna be caring about GP and test scores, you know, obvious factors to get into college. This is an overview of my high school career and experience to help you guys understand where I'm coming from and High Blood college. So first of all, my g p A. Which is forcing your year because this stuff that put after that patient accounts 3.67 unweighted in a four for waited. Part took it in high school, and one of the biggest aspects of my life in high school was volunteering, which is a major major key for colleges. Colleges are always looking for stuff like volunteering and consistent mission work. I was a liaison going into my new school junior year, showed new students around school and I thought that from experience I'd be a pretty good thing for me to do simply because they all know where I'm coming from, and I know where they're coming from. Um, I also went Thio National Leadership Forum was a little government internships as camp up and you see, we did a bunch of cool simulation events, and it's the main thing to help me decide that I wanted to do political science as my intended major for college. Another activity that really influenced my outlook in high school was taking newspaper class junior and senior year when I moved back to North Carolina. The most important thing through all of this is that you find your hobbies and what makes you happy and what you want to do in high school because this is the perfect time to be exploring that kind of stuff. You know, if you want to play on the basketball team, start playing basketball pickup ball. If you want to get better at, you know, Spanish class hire a tutor joins all the clubs you can and make a bunch of friends and those that have similar interests as you do, and you'll find you'll have a much easier and much more fun time in high school To universally summarize. There are three big tips that will help you immensely in your success and both applying for colleges and making sure you have the best high school experience possible. It's okay to want to challenge yourself, you know, to grow in high school through rigorous AP courses and honors courses. Make sure those air courses that you're not only interested in but you also believe will help you have the best chance at advancing in your major if you have one in mind for college number to get credit for your hobbies. So you might as well fill him up all with stuff that you're interested in and stuff that you actually did with other people. When can grow in and submit and get credit for the final thing that you can get ahead in high school. If you want to challenge yourself and prepare for college and get ahead of the curve is to load up your schedule of those AP such Ivy's whatever your high school does. If you get ahead in those classes, you can actually get credit towards college classes that you won't have to take going in freshman year. So apart from those universally interesting things such as extra group activities, test scores, GPS, stuff like that, I wanted to go into some more niche subjects for maybe some of you younger high schoolers will take more classes and deciding what you want to do. So in high school it took eight AP courses, and I tested for seven because physics was the hardest cost I ever took. Anyways, I pulled up my AP scores right here because I wanted to be super transparent and detailed in the scores I got and what it could do to get into college. Most colleges, except a three year above on the AP, scores like super elite ones like Ivy Leagues and, like stuff like UC Berkeley. Stuff like that except like a four or higher, maybe five. Don't stress out too much about the test scores, even if you get it to some colleges will accept those. On the bottom line, you're taking these because you're knowledgeable and you need to test your knowledge of this stuff. Because your hands down the best teacher I had in high school and wrote me a letter. Doesn't count towards stuff you put in the common apple. Regardless, it is super helpful for college and getting those credit hours done with. Boom, You already have stuff toward your major done. Another thing I wanted to point out is that I had help with my common application essay and college exploration options as a whole. I didn't go through this process myself, actually had a professional Help me with it of a college counselor named Janet Martyrs on Dhe, she is from Stanford University. This book follow your interests to find the right college by her and her husband is actually one of the best pieces of reading material you can have for college. It went over a detailed list of every single college for every single major, like deep, comprehensive like words, you see how many words each page has like It's insane. She has a clientele list of people who ended up going on Stanford, Yale in America and all these crazy cool colleges. They just wanted by right about something that's been constant throughout your high school career, so people can really get to know you as a person with your hobbies are. Anyways, guys, thank you so much for tuning into this video about my complete college guide in the comments. A zealous some steps you can take to just make the most of high school in general.