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[00:00] stream button. So, if you guys are uh I'm seeing we're going to go live to Twitch on YouTube Facebook group uh as well. Uh ask Coach Tony anything July. Wow, it's July already. That's wild. That is [00:19] wild. All right, people are flowing. We got a lot of people here. Hello. Hello, everyone. All [00:26] right, [00:28] looks like we are good. We're going to go live in three time and kind of what uh this call is just to share uh some thoughts. Every single week we do a bunch of awesome live trainings for you guys. This is a fun we get a bunch of questions we can never get never get to um in these live calls so I can compile them up. We kind of answer them on this session over here. So you guys can uh we [00:51] can chat chhat back and forth. So let's go ahead and dive straight in to the questions here today. Again, if you guys are here live with us, just drop your questions in the chat. Ask any questions. Uh we can do that as well. [01:02] So, I'm right now sharing my screen. I don't think Zoom can see my screen yet. I'm going to share my screen really quick over here. Share. Let me see. Make sure it look good. [01:16] Looks like I have some a little black [01:18] line. It's not fully out yet. Um did that help a little bit? Maybe, maybe not. Kind of. All right, let's go ahead and [01:32] dive in. Let me zoom in a little bit just to uh people can see what I see on my side is all. All right, let's go ahead and dive straight in. Again, feel free to drop any questions you guys have in the comments. We can go ahead and uh have some fun today, right? So, first [01:45] one, someone here is asking, uh, I am [01:48] still confused about taking AP Calculus [01:50] BC at school next year. I added to my schedule, but I was told not to take DC at school next year. I added to my schedule, but I was told not to take it and take two maths at Delta instead. My school counselor said the Delta classes will not be added to my transcripts. So, now I am confused. So, I am assuming uh [02:11] so let me add some context first to this [02:13] question, right? So, I'm assuming this student is taking AP Calculus BC um at their high school, right? that that's that's choice number one, right? Choice number one is to do this. However, choice number two, right, is to take Delta uh math courses, right? So, I'm assuming for [02:32] this student, you probably one of our [02:33] coaching students that we've kind of [02:34] recommend you take college level math [02:36] courses uh as a high school student. So, I'm assuming this is either like calc 1, calc 2, or uh or maybe uh calc 2, calc 3, calc 2, calc 3. uh our conversion rate, right? AP calculus AB at the high school is equivalent, right? Equivalent to calculus one uh at the college, right? And then AP calc BC is [03:07] equivalent equivalent to calc 1 plus [03:11] calc 2 at the college level as well too. So instead of doing calc BC, you could go to the community college and take calc 1, calc 2. That had the same effect, right? It has the same effect um as uh it has the same effect as this as well too. So you guys can definitely uh do that is the the first first key over here. Um [03:35] and then uh so the question is which one [03:38] we do, right? But the counselor here says that it will not be added to their course. What does that mean? Right? So, it means not meaning most high schools, right, may not uh want to add dual enrollment or college level classes to your schedule. Keep in mind, right, from [03:56] a admissions point of view, right, it's [04:00] fine, right? It's fine. If you can think of the emoji of that, the fire the it's fine emoji, it's it's fine. I wouldn't worry as well too. The reason why is that um we are not we're not taking this class for high school credits, right? [04:16] We're doing this to demonstrate the [04:19] rigor of your math credits. That's the big reason why we're doing this specifically. It's not just it's not for your high school. It's more for the college. It's more for rec the colleges to recognize that we are pursuing and taking higher level math. That's going [04:34] to be the big key. um over here, right? So, if your high school doesn't count it, you tell them it's okay because spoilers, right? Is that when you apply to college, right? Your college applications, right? [04:49] They will ask you two things. They will ask you what high school did you attend and what classes did you take and right what college did you attend during high school and what classes did you take right so the colleges that you are taking to they will recognize if you took a class for high school credit or if you took a college class for the college themselves that's going to be the key right so that's going to be the big one uh for you guys to consider is when you guys are doing this college level, we're doing for the college, not the high school. Again, I don't I think you're fine. You don't need it to graduate from high school. You're fine there. Our goal is to get you guys [05:32] competitive for the various colleges. I think that's going to be the key. Why our team would probably recommend you take this over the other one because again, we don't need to count for high school. We want you to get college credit is the key over here. Okay, so that's kind of the first question. Um [05:48] this way, right, I'm going live. Looks like our our thing broke for Facebook. I'll try to reattempt it in a little bit. But in the chat right here, I see Zoom. We have a few questions live as well too. So, um, let me go ahead and [06:02] answer the first question over here live [06:04] from Zoom. Uh, the first one is, can you talk more about AP exams and scores? Should you only report fours and fives? What if you have threes? Does that impact uh does that impact uh admission and applications? Right? Really good [06:21] questions, right? So, first off, right, AP exams and scores, right? So, basically, you take an exam exam in May and find out in July. By the way, if you're watching this live, you find out today. So, if you haven't checked yet, go go online and check. You'll find your [06:35] scores out, right? You'll get a score out of five, right? One uh one and two is not passing, right? three to five. 325 is passing as well too. However, [06:47] what the scores mean, right? The score the score determines if you got college credit or not for that class. All right. As well, too. So, keep in mind, right, not every three will get you college credit. Get you college credit, right? [07:08] Sometimes, right? Sometimes you need a four. Sometimes you need a five, right? That's that that's the big difference to keep in mind as well too to look this up by the way, right? To look this up to look this up. Look up uh the the the [07:24] college, right? The college AP validation. That's kind of what you want to look up the college AP validation as well. So, let's for example, let's say example uh example is UCLA, right? So, I'm going to do a new tab. Can you guys [07:37] see uh AP validation? So, I just looked up uh UCLA AP. Oh, this is a tiny screen. I looked up uh UCLA AP validation and then because I did that, right? I see uh there's a bunch of sites. Usually, the first one is it. And [07:54] then, so I'm zoom in again so you guys [07:55] can see what I see. Right? So, this is every single class, every single test at the AP level. How what score do you need is the difference, right? So, going through here as well. Um [08:10] right you see like if you take art [08:12] history three four or five gets you the [08:15] credits right so again this one it [08:16] doesn't matter which one you took but [08:18] let's say for example we scroll down [08:19] chemistry for UCLA right if you got a [08:23] three in chemistry you get credit for [08:26] introductory chemistry get eight units [08:29] there right however what if your major [08:33] or your college requires that you do uh [08:36] general at chemistry intro The chemistry [08:39] is not general chemistry. So when you get to UCLA, you have to take general chemistry again. Or if you got a f if you got a four or a five. If you got a four or a five on your AP chemistry exam, then you get credit for a general chemistry. That's what that means, right? So scroll into another one so you [08:58] can see the big differences. Uh there's there's here there's um no that's not a good one. Uh here French, right? You see how if you got a three, you get credit for French four. If you took French, you got a four score, you do it French five. [09:15] If you got a five, you get credit for [09:16] French six. So every score you get will get you more classes, which means if you did, if let's say you got a French and you got a three and for your major, for whatever, you need to take French five and six, that's two for UCLA quarter, right? There's two quarters you should expect to uh take in addition uh as well, too. So keep that in mind is the key. Okay. So that's kind of what the [09:39] basically purpose of a uh of the AP [09:41] exams and scores are. So the question is should you only report fours and fives? Right? So when it comes to reporting scores, here's kind of it depends depends on the uh the college itself, right? So if right if you see so if you guys are applying to a UCbased school, we say submit all your scores, right? Uh including ones and twos, ones [10:09] and twos because it doesn't hurt you, [10:11] right? Doesn't hurt you at all. uh you're submitting it, they're going to treat everything as everything is either added value or neutral value, right? Neutral value as well too. And if you took one or two, I at least know that you took the exam, you didn't skip the exam for whatever reason as well too, right? So keeping that in mind, UC's [10:30] don't care. However, right, the however part is let's say you guys are applying to uh let's say if top 25 colleges, right? If you're applying to a top 25 college, then we would typically recommend submit only fours and fives uh as well too because again threes you can submit. It's not going to help you though is the thing, right? It's the same logic as test scores. It's going to [10:53] help you do it. Doesn't help you. You just don't need to submit it is kind of the concept of this as well too. So keeping that in mind, that's what we typically tell our students to do. Like if you're applying to a school that again gives you value for everything, right? Set them all in. It doesn't hurt [11:08] you at all. schools want to help you. So if you got a you didn't get a good score doesn't mean you're bad. What if you got sick that day, right? You got sick. If [11:15] you get sick, no matter how good you [11:17] are, you might not do well in general, [11:18] right? So there's a lot of different reasons why. So a number means nothing uh by itself. It's the number with the context. That's the more important thing as well too. Okay. And then how does [11:29] that impact admission and application? Keep in mind this just shows how good of a test taker you are. That's it. Right? So when it comes to rigor, we focus a lot uh emphasis on rigor. Right? AP [11:47] scores do not demonstrate rigor as much [11:52] as taking the actual class itself. This is why one of our big recommendations for students is even if we get a whatever score I care take the class when people just all they do is self-study and take like 20 exams it just shows me you're a good cramer right you have a good memory that you can memorize stuff and take the exam I said too for me the rigor is being able to handle the coursework of the class which means the class is actually more important for me than the actual score itself so I think that's something to keep in mind uh when you guys looking for AP exams okay but good question there as well. Let me try to restart. I think my uh look my Facebook live is is is broken. I think Facebook Live is not working uh as well. Unless Facebook live [12:36] is working. If you guys can see me. Um but it looks like it's not. Uh return home. Let's try again. Go live again. [12:48] Something must have happened to a live [12:49] over there. So we can No, maybe not. Maybe it's broken. Maybe it's broken. Oh, Facebook live is not working today. So we we we will uh [13:05] we'll not do Facebook live today. But there was a question. I I'll go ahead just for the sake of of that person. I'll go ahead and answer the question really quick. Um um for the person who asked the question on Facebook, someone says, "I did three attempts of the SAT with a high score of 1510. [13:27] Can I uh make another uh for higher [13:33] scores or does it look bad on my [13:35] application?" That's a great question as well too. Right. So when it comes to test scores, right, keep in mind, right, keep in mind that you will be submitting uh your scores to the colleges, right? So keep that in mind. You're the one who [13:47] chooses to send the scores or not send [13:49] the scores is number one. Uh for me is does it look bad? Does it look bad? Uh no, right? There's nothing that's nothing looking bad. However, is it the [13:59] best use of your time? Best use of your time. Uh probably not as well too, right? probably not as well because keep in mind right for you to get to the 1510 you probably went from like a 14 to a 15 or maybe a 13 to a 15 whatever your starting score is you went to that far you're noticing I bet you if you look at the from test one to test two test two to test three right the increase got smaller and smaller right you can't jump all the way to 1600 I mean you could in theory right but uh it's way harder to jump when you're kind of like towards that high in the 15 plus range So for you to get to at 1520, 1530, it's a lot more work. You got to put in a lot more energy and effort to get to a higher score than this. So the question is I [14:46] always ask, is it the best use of your [14:49] time to do this, right? For some students, yes. And for some students, no, it is not. It's not worth your time uh to do this at all is going to be the thing um as well. Okay. So keep keeping [15:02] that in mind. uh over here uh there because again keep in mind when it comes to the academics versus the activities versus the application itself right the academics is probably one of the least important factors in the admissions process the areas that matters more than that is going to be your activities and your application so unless you have phenomenal activities and a phenomenal application it's not worth the time to spend it on the academics anymore right I'll just keep the 1510 and move on to the other areas again unless the other two areas are really really good, then you're good there. But again, I'm I'm willing to bet that you can probably improve your activities and application more than going back and taking the test one more time uh is the key there. Okay, so again that that was the answer over here for you guys. So hopefully that was helpful there. Uh in terms of [15:55] uh another question here as well, let's [15:57] go ahead and uh bounce it from Zoom. Uh thank you Zoom folks who are joining here. By the way, if you guys are joining me on uh YouTube or uh YouTube or Twitch, feel free again drop your questions in the chat. We can help you guys out uh with that um as well too. Um over here um over here is next one is is disadvantage deal breaker if our extracurriculars and volunteer have no direct connection with our intended major. That's a great question as well [16:29] too right so when it comes to activities [16:31] when it comes to activities right we [16:33] used to we like to recommend two things [16:37] right first thing I call it tasting your [16:40] major right tasting your major right [16:42] basically you want to do things you you [16:45] want to do things related to your major [16:49] why because why this demonstrates [16:53] interest in in in that field right more [16:57] So, right. More. So, something else to keep in mind, one of the college questions that they'll ask you, right, or the college essay questions, right? College essays. Oh, with my mouse. [17:08] Where's my mouse? There you go. Uh, college essay questions they'll ask you is why do you want to be this major? And if you don't really have any, I call it proof, then you have a wish. It's a big wish that you want to do whatever it is, right? So instead of a big wish, you [17:25] want to give them proof the stuff that [17:26] you have done so far, right? And once you have done what they've done so far, that's how you can go ahead and uh share uh this. So that's why the major is very important, right? But just like the person asked here, what if you do stuff that's not related to your major? Is that okay? Right? Is it okay for me to I [17:44] like vanilla ice cream and chocolate ice [17:47] cream, right? or or it or do I have to only commit to uh vanilla because I'm I'm going to do only vanilla stuff, right? No, no, no. The answer is you want to do both. The second thing you want to do is things that you that's you the student you the student enjoys, right? And that's the bigger [18:06] part to focus on, right? The reason why because everyone uh in X major are going to do very similar things, right? Think about it. Those of you in computer science, I bet you have something related to coding on your app. You probably did a hackathon. You probably [18:22] built an app or something there, right? If you're in bio, you probably did some type of either research, a summer program, you worked in a lab, you played with science, something there as well, too, right? So, whatever it ends up being, you're doing very similar things. In today's world, you can't really compete on that, right? How can you get better than someone else who's doing something very similar to you? So the [18:45] way you want to be different is [18:46] literally do something different than [18:48] them as well too. So you want to you do the major just to show the interest in the major but right you also want to do what else right what else are you doing that makes you you right is the thing. So this could be other things non hobbies interests sports things that's not directly related because these are the things that make you who you are uh yourself that's different than other people and keep in mind right the big big takeaway is what you end up doing for activities is not that important right people focus too much people stress out too much about this that's not important what I care about more right what I care about more is Why did you do that thing? Right? People always tell me, "Cush Tony, what looks good for college? What should I do to stand out?" [19:39] And that's your reason. If you do that thing, then you did it to look good for college. And would you rather, if you were admissions person, would you pick someone who did something that looks good for college or did something because they cared about it as something that defines who they are today? Keep that in mind. Now, that's the two things, right? So, when it comes to [19:57] think I care more about the why rather [19:59] than the what. That's why the what doesn't matter. People stress out too much about the what, right? That can be whatever. A lot of our kids don't do research. A lot of our kids don't do [20:06] internships. Surprisingly, they all make it into top schools. Why? It's because the what is not as important to the why. We always start with the why first and move out to the what for our students. [20:17] Once you understand why you're doing [20:18] what you're doing, then working [20:20] backwards to figure out the what. That's going to be the key for you guys over here. Okay. So, that's be that the that answer here. All right. Next one. All [20:28] right. Um, let me see. Uh, if my if our team's here, can you ever see any questions on YouTube or Twitch? My uh my comments are off so I can't see it on my side. Maybe you guys can help. Let me [20:41] know somewhere so I can kind of take a [20:43] peek at that as well too. I can uh see if I can answer any questions from that. Oh, I think I can pull I can pull it up as well. Oh, I there there are questions, right? So, um All right. So, I have a question here [21:07] from the YouTube land, right? Hopefully I copied it correctly. Uh, so it looks like uh the high school offers 15 AP classes. Um, as of uh as of today, the high school was new and then nine out of the in nine out of 10, the offered were seven APs. We did our planning schedule on that. How do readers understand this? [21:29] Do I use the uh comment section to plan? So if I'm understanding this question correctly is that the high school as of today offers more APs than you did before. All right. And you can right yes you can share this right uh in the uh additional comments or if it's the UC app by the way uh or UC uses the uh academic comments as well too. But that being said, right, unless your school did your school, again, the question I asked this person, did your school school add eight a school add eight APs this past year, right? Because again, [22:06] you can plan for seven, but could you [22:08] expand more? You could, right? So, if your school offered more, you could do more. Again, even keep in mind that the fifth the total number doesn't mean uh what uh schools offering uh a total number doesn't usually doesn't usually mean you can take all that much as well too, right? Because again, let's say your school offers AP Spanish, AP Italian, AP French, AP Japanese, you're probably not going to do all those APs, if that makes sense. So the total number [22:36] doesn't mean too much for me. What I care about more is not what the total number is, but how many is the top student in your class taking, right? Relative to your school. So, let's say you're aiming for a top- end school. You want to match the top end student uh who's taking the class as well, too. [22:55] That's going to be the big key over here [22:58] uh for you guys. So, uh that's going to be the big one, right? So, I don't really care total amount. I care more of the uh what's the top student doing at their school here. Okay, next one. Uh [23:10] thank you YouTube for the question. Uh next one as well too is um I would like to see how I can make my public speaking better and how I can utilize my summer to improve. Great question. I too one day a long time ago said I want to be a better public speaker. Am I better? Who [23:25] knows, right? But in my head I'm a little better than I was uh a few years ago. So, the way to the the the way to be better at anything, the way to be better at anything is to do more of it, right? There's no way you can be better at something besides doing way more reps than anyone else. The reason why I can speak with so much conviction and confidence about college missions, I've done this every single year for 16 years straight. For a lot of you guys watching [23:54] this, it's your first child. You're going through this journey for the very first time. So for me it sounds like wow duh is this one because I've done it so many times. Think about your job. Parents, right? If you guys are uh [24:05] engineers, when you guys are building [24:06] like, "Oh, it's easy. I've done that every day." You build it really fast. If you're accountant, you plug numbers really quick, right? Whatever you do, you do it a lot because you do it every single day. Because you do it every [24:15] single day. It's very, very easy of it, right? So, for me, how do I get better at public speaking? If you look at my calendar, I'm on calls literally today, I was on calls since 7 a.m., right? I [24:26] have calls all the way to 9:30 today. Yesterday I was on calls to I think 7:30 all the way down to 10 p.m. I talk all day long non-stop right in front of the camera. I go out to speak at schools. I [24:40] speak out in front of um from parents [24:43] all types. I just talk a lot. I I get better by talking a lot. And of course as I talk more people give me feedback. Hey coach Tony try this. Hey coach try [24:53] this as well too. So as I'm doing it I just get better and better and better. But I can't get better if I just don't do it in the first place. Right? So for this student, this person is a student who's who said this, right? Is start, [25:04] right? Do something. If you're nervous, right, talk to a camera. That that's that's definitely I'm talking literally right now to a camera. We're all virtual right now joining this call live. So I'm [25:14] talking to literally a camera uh on my [25:17] screen. I'm looking. I'm talking uh as well, too. And it's nice to have feedback. That's the thing, too. That's [25:22] why I prefer live calls over [25:24] pre-recorded calls because now I can see [25:25] comments. Comments are coming in. People are dropping little hearts right now. People are saying hi. Questions are coming in. So, I'm seeing things are [25:31] good, right? Things are good because I can I'm hearing the feedback. So, again, talk talk to a camera, right? And get feedback as much as you can, right? From anywhere from people, random people are the better as well too. And keep in mind [25:45] that when you start, [25:47] you're gonna suck, [25:50] right? That that's that's the the rule you got to accept as well. I think a lot of people expect if I start I got to be perfect. No. When you start anything, a new hobby, a new thing, students, when you guys start writing your essays, your first essay is going to suck. It's going [26:04] to be bad. But you're going to edit it and you it gets better. You edit it, it gets better. You edit it and each time you edit, it gets better and better and better and better. But it has to suck at the very beginning. A lot of people try [26:16] to skip that. They're like, "Oh, I don't want to suck. I want to go straight to the best." No, no, no. That never happens. No one ever jumps straight, [26:22] right? Every athlete you think of, they all started ground one at zero, right? Then they practice more and more and more and more and more to get better. So again, for this person who's asking, I would say talk more, right? Talk. [26:35] There's also groups, right? Public groups um public groups uh called toast masters. Toast masters. Toast masters where it's like a professional group where you talk. It's like a public speaking kind of group where you do like mockup. I did it for a little bit. It [26:50] was really cool. um as well too. But then yeah, basically all we do is talk all day, which is pretty cool as well too. So I would have you practice this. And the the fear, by the way, the trick the trick to public speaking, right? [27:03] It's because you care about what other [27:07] people think about you, right? That's the big reason why people don't do it or don't do it. Well, I think the ultimate hack here is what I tell myself as well too because at the end of the day, right, how many people are going to watch this? How I got a DM from my family and people said, "Oh, whatever." I don't know if you guys know if you listen me long enough, you hear I have a stutter uh in my voice as well too. I [27:32] speak really, really fast as well. But again, and I that usually like I don't want to do it nowhere because people are going to laugh at me, say stuff. Until I got a message from a parent who told me, "Hey, I love your videos. I watched it. My kid gone to somewhere because of it." [27:48] And for me, that's who I'm doing these [27:50] videos for, right? I don't really care about the negativity out there. I'm doing for that one parent who's watching this trying to learn stuff to help their child get into the best schools they can. That's kind of why I do these videos the way that I do them as well, too. So again, don't care. just don't [28:04] care about the negativity as well too. Uh it's nice people give me nice comments. That's always always helped as well too. But again, it wasn't that if you watch my videos from like 10 years ago, oof oof oof oof oof. Got way better. Got way better over the years is [28:18] the thing here. Okay. So, that's that. Uh next one. Next question. Let's see. [28:24] Uh where my [28:27] uh let's go back to Zoom real fast. Um, let's do Zoom real fast and then we'll jump over to YouTube. I see a question popping on YouTube real fast. Um, as well um, is it recommend to report all APS for the uses but only fours and fives on common app? Do APS reported on the CSU app as well too? Um, [28:50] the quick answers I think the answer is [28:52] yes. uh fours and fives right for the pro top colleges right again if you co common app keep in mind common app is good for a thousand colleges right so again there's a lot of schools there a lot of you guys only think about the top college kind of why you guys might say that but as that too and CSU's uh yes you can report that as well too it falls in their academics things that they will consider for you guys as well okay so as that as that's quick ones let me do another one as well too uh does it hurt if we does it hurt if we end up with the B in a junior college class. Uh let me tell you something, guys. Be's uh feeling bad about a bee is a uh is like a curse is like a uh a uh how do I how do I phrase it nicely? Um you feel bad. [29:42] Here we go. You feel you feel bad about a B in a class because your parents told you told you A B is bad, right? A B is not bad, everyone. Oh my goodness. Growing up, Asian trauma right here. My [29:57] parents no A, right? You can't eat. Just kidding. Just kidding. My parents let me eat. But right, it's because your [30:04] parents told you the B is bad. B is not bad, right? You can be because B's happened, right? But B is still good. uh is the thing as well too. The thing is [30:13] if you're aiming for top top top top [30:14] schools, you want to have to minimize [30:16] your B's, right? But if you check our interviews, a lot of our IV kids have A's and B's on their transcripts and they still make it into these top schools. So it's again, one B is not going to hurt you uh as well, too. So don't freak out there. Uh but of course, of course, we're ambitious. We want to [30:32] aim in as best we can. So for me, if I was a student who got the B, I'm like, got it. What happened? what could I do to get better to improve my scores to get better on the next one is going to be the thing over here. So, keeping that in mind um as well. Okay, so that's [30:47] going to be the the big one over here uh [30:50] for you guys. Uh so, is it is it is it bad? No. Don't don't don't feel bad about that. Uh over here. All right. [30:56] Another one here. Uh here's a senior related questions for you guys. Uh, for the PIQ's, is the main purpose to explain the activity award community or to explain your character, how you go as a person? Great question. So, I did a really good training on this a few weeks ago. Let me scroll up a little bit. Uh, [31:14] [Music] [31:17] two weeks ago. Two weeks ago. Um, here you go. The exact step by step on how to pick the topics as well too of everything. And this is I'm going copy and paste because this is a this is a it's a good one. Right? So basically [31:32] when it comes to your essays or your [31:33] promps you want to use it to talk about [31:36] who you are. Uh is the thing right? So here's a here's a reference one as well too right. So in terms of like the the PIQ's the purpose is to the purpose is to talk to right talk to uh talk to who talk about who you are as a person uh is a thing as well too. Could it be an activity, right? Could it be an [31:59] activity? It can. Could it be an award? It can. Could it be community service? [32:03] It can. Could it be your character quality? It can. Can it be how you grew? It can. The answer is yes to all of [32:10] them. At the same time, it could be no to all of them depending on who you are and what you're doing. Right? So again, when it comes to coming up with their PIQ's, right? Uh first step one, step one, uh or step zero, right? Do not look [32:23] at the prompts. Right? That's the biggest mistake a lot of people do that leads you down a rabbit hole of like nothingness. Uh so what you want to do is you want to do this, right? List out your activities, experience, identities. [32:34] Uh you want to map it out really quick [32:36] just so you know kind of what it is. Five minutes because I don't want you to spend too much time over here. Step number two, list your top four, five things from this list. From this list of things, what is the most important things that uh you would say is like the most important made you who you are today? That is the top four or five. [32:54] Then each of the four or five is a story [32:56] time. What's the story associated with why you picked that as your top four or five. Then you want to dig deep and answer why did you do what you did? How has it made you who you are? Who have you become as a result? Share that [33:10] insight about them. Then you go find the problem that talks about. So again, could it be an activity? It could, right? It might end up being activity. [33:18] But again, I don't want to force it as [33:20] to anything until you go through this [33:22] exercise of identifying what the top [33:24] things are. This way, you know what you want to talk about. You know what you want to share because it could be anything, right? It could be activities, it could be a life event, it could be an experience, it could be an identity of who you are, could be a lot of different things, right? But again, it's about you. So, you know you best is the key [33:40] here. Okay. Good question. Good question. All right. YouTube. Uh YouTube [33:45] as well. I see here if uh is taking only three years of foreign language lower the chance of getting admitted to a top college. I heard top colleges want four years of a uh of a foreign language. So for most schools right for most schools for most colleges right the requirements requirements is two years right recommended is usually three. So you want to hit at least three years as well too. Can you do more? [34:16] Right. Can you do more? Sure, you can definitely do more as well too, right? But again, uh should you though? It depends, right? So, it depends on should [34:26] you do more is the thing as well here. So, when it comes to this section, um again, I figure out if you taking that language class, what are you not going to take? Because again, it's a time game, right? So, if you got to take this, what are you not going to do? And it depends on what this other thing is going to be. Uh for me to say, yeah, go [34:41] for yes or don't go. If you're going to say, "Oh, if I take a fourth year, I I can't do ceramics." I'm like, "Oh, easy. Go take the fourth year as well, too." Let's also say you love language. If you [34:52] love language, go for that fourth year. You're going to enjoy it as well, too. Let's say you hate language or you hate language as well, too. And you have the opportunity to take a very high level math course and you are like a math major. Oh, go take the math the math class, but it makes way more sense. So, [35:06] again, the answer is it depends on what [35:07] you want to do. It needs to match your profile is the key. But again, doing more is always going to help you uh is thing. But again, it's trade-off. What are you trading off to get this or what to to to or to not do this is the other trade-off here. Okay. Uh next one as [35:23] well. Um I just answered this question already. Next one is um over here on uh over here on uh Zoomland. English major app. Apply to UC. I took pre honors pre-calc. Got an [35:38] A. don't want to take AP calc and prefer stats. Look back. Nope. Because you're English major, right? You're more of a [35:45] humanities student, right? And humanities students go for go for AP stats. That's cool for you. You don't need calculus for for for English uh is the thing. So, you are good with AP stats. Plus, it's probably a lot easier [35:55] for you, too. So, I would do that. Uh, next one. Um, if you need to remove some activities uh for the UC's app over 20 slots, would it make sense to remove an award uh like AP SC because they can receive your AP results or combine sim activities? You could do both, right? So, you can do [36:15] either one. You can again take away the ones that might not play a huge significant impact on you. However, if you take it away, right, don't include it. Include it. The trick is is to share this in your additional comments. So if you have more [36:36] than 20, we have some students who do [36:38] have more than 20 activities. Uh you want to go ahead and share this in your uh additional comment section, right? Or right or you can also combine. So let's say you have two awards are very similar. You combine as long as you can talk about the same uh thing in both the same blurb. If you can use the if you [36:58] can use the same blurb for both right [37:02] com go for it as well too. You can help kind of combine those together that works as well too for you guys. Okay, cool. Go back to the the pre the presubmitted question. Poor people who submitted like again if you guys a quick little break by the way I I'll stay here for my five more minutes but quick little uh thing. If you guys have any [37:19] questions for the future as well too, go [37:21] ahead and use uh eagleock.comaskcoachton is the big one. And since I have you guys here as well too, something I want to share a little announcement uh announcement announcements, right? So, uh today is not my birthday, but today is uh the month of July, right? Just an FYI that our program will be increasing our prices on August 1st. So I we share this [37:52] every single year. We do lifetime pricing with our program. 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If you [38:43] guys want to upgrade, now is a chance [38:44] before we upgrade uh we increase the [38:46] price as well too. So that's going to be the little announcement for you guys here. Boom. Right, that being said, let's do a few more questions before we wrap it up for today. Um, next one. [38:59] Uh, how can I feel? How can I feel like I'm I feel like make sure I'm doing enough activities for college while managing my schedule for schoolwork, AP exams, SAT, and preparing for track tryyouts. Right? This is basically a this is going this is basically a a time management question, right? Time management question, right? So basically [39:23] for for students who juggle this keep in [39:26] mind right keep in mind that right keep [39:30] in mind that uh that this never goes [39:34] away this ne this question never goes [39:37] away this never goes away you just get [39:42] better as well too at this right so when [39:45] you're going through all this stuff [39:46] right you just get better at time [39:48] management so I tell students again plan [39:50] out plan uh plan your work. Plan your work out, right, is the thing, right? I bet you if you ask people, no one knows what they're doing anyways, right? So when you're planning your work, I tell them map it out, right? You the reason why you run out of time, you stay up late, you stay past your bedtime because you didn't plan for it ahead of time if you knew, right? For example, if you had [40:10] a flight at tomorrow morning 8 a.m., would you guys make the flight? You know, tomorrow 8:00 I have my flight. I need to make the flight. You'll be [40:20] there, right? If you say, "Hey, I'm going to meet my teacher after school at three o'clock," you will be there because you have it mapped out. So, the thing is you got to do the same thing with everything you do. I tell students, the first thing, for example, right? Examples, right? First thing you want to [40:34] map out is what? First thing on your calendar you want to map out is sleeping. People don't mark this out. That's why you stay up so late, right? Map out your sleeping time first. You should be [40:44] sleeping eight hours, students. Eight hours there for you. Boom. Eight hours gone. Then, right, you're not going to go to school, right? I'm going to school [40:51] plus commute times, right? Don't forget the commute times. How are you going to magically uh show up to school now as well too? And then what's next? Homework, right? You know, each week's a [41:00] little different. Homework, studying as well, too. Some weeks you have exams, you have to spend more time here. Some weeks are less. You can spend less time studying because as well too, you know, it's not a lot of work, right? You do [41:11] this and then your activities, right? What activities you do for this student? They have track tryyouts. They got to map that out when track is what they got to practice for to get there as well too. the SAT for them, right? The [41:22] studying as well. Everything is there, right? So, when it comes to some magical numbers you want to think about, right? If you're aiming for a UC plus school, right? I would aim for 20 plus hours of activities per week and work around that is a thing as well too, right? 20 hours [41:38] if you're aiming if you're aiming for IV [41:41] level schools, IV plus schools, right? We encourage our students to uh go for 30 plus hours, right? Sounds like a lot. That's that's what this is what three hours a day. Less than three hours a day. This is less than four hours a day. [41:55] Uh as well too. Check your phone uh your screen time. How many hours are you on your phone as well? You would surprise yourself how long you're on your phone as well too. If you convert some of that to activities, boom, surprise, right? [42:07] So, I think that's going to be the [42:08] thing. It's all about planning everything out, right? So, kind of working everything out, working backwards and planning everything out strategically so you don't run into like, oh no, I'm not going to have time is the thing here. Okay. Um, let's go. [42:20] We have I do I think it's two more [42:22] questions. I'm going do do two more questions um as well too. I think I kind of already answered this question right. Someone asked about uh three four years of foreign language. I'm going to add it to the foreign language question I asked earlier right. So this is like similar [42:36] right if done for engineering program [42:37] same thing right two years three do more [42:40] depends what you're doing as well too. Engineering again unless you're going to be a translator for the thing is it required probably not. I'd rather have you focus more on your math for like regarding engineering here. So this engineering regarding engineering, right? I'd have you focus more on your math and physics courses, right? Those [42:56] are two more important classes to make [42:58] sure you have rather than the other ones [43:00] there other than the language classes, [43:01] right? And last question here. By the way, if you have more questions, apologies. I I will go ahead and save it and we'll answer again next week uh for you guys. But last live question here. [43:12] Would um ALS be annoyed if additional [43:15] comments were added to additional [43:16] comments uh use in instead of using gaps [43:20] instead instead of using to explain gaps [43:22] specialization etc. Did you know that the additional comments is 550 words? 550 words, right? Meaning, right? This is not only a additional activity section and only add an additional activities section. Okay? It you can [43:48] also share your gaps and your special [43:52] situations and anything else. Right? It's a bit 550 words. A lot of words as well, too. So you have the room and the capacity share everything. You can write [44:02] the first additional comments I didn't [44:04] share yet. You share all that as well too. So you can definitely kind of overflow and you do all of it. It's not it's not an or state. It's not an or section. It's additional. Anything [44:13] additional you want the readers to know [44:15] to consider uh you want to share it over [44:17] here. Okay. That being said, that pretty much wraps up today's session on uh the ask me anything series. We didn't get to a lot of the questions still with 246810. We'll push again to next week as well too. So if you guys have any more [44:31] questions, go ahead and presubmit in [44:33] eagleock.com's ask coach Tony. We'll add your question to the Q list as well and we'll just keep answering them. Uh if you guys keep coming I'll keep delivering as well too. Uh next week I have a special guest with me. So you [44:44] guys make sure you tune in uh for that. But wherever you guys are joining us on Tik Tok or Instagram or Twitch on YouTube on Zoom live on Facebook, thank you all for coming to us live.