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Thank you We sneak in Top schools But some colleges
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air very selective and the most selective ones in the
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country are admitting five or six or seven percent of
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their students And the counterpart to that means that they're
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denying you know ninety five percent of the students who
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apply on do you know the reality is if a
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college has thousands or tens of thousands of applications coming
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in but they're only taking a couple of thousand The
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chances every of your being admitted are very small And
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what we advise against is then applying to mohr of
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those kinds of schools And logic goes that you know
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if a school is admitting ten percent of its applicants
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but i applied a ten of those schools Eventually one
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of them will admit me And unfortunately statistically that doesn't
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work because they're all thinking independently of each other Yeah
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Some colleges have especially selective admissions process We call those
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the elite schools Most elite schools or selective colleges admit
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only five to seven percent of all students applying Consider
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applying to a wide range of schools rather than only
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the highly selective ones to improve your chances of getting 00:01:15.803 --> [endTime] in somewhere No
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