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Tik Tok. Uh we're going live to our Twitch account. Looks like we're going live on our YouTube uh as well too. I'm going live on Facebook as well. So we're going live in three, two, one. And all right, what's up everyone? Coach Tony here. Welcome. Today is June 23rd, 2025 and welcome back to Ask Coach Tony Anything. So, we we started a series a few weeks ago. You guys like it. We keep getting more and more questions. So, we're going to keep doing this until we run out of questions, which I don't know if I can do that, but we're definitely going to go with that. If you missed last week's call, last week was amazing. We actually had a special guest from UC Scout directly. Uh, so we actually did a a really cool kind of joint AMA uh between all both of us and we answered a bunch of questions. If you guys need that, let our team know down in the chat or somewhere and our team can grab you that replay. A lot of awesome resour jumping in to help you guys with any questions. We are going live on a bunch of different platforms. If you guys can see me, hear me, go ahead and drop any questions in the chat. We'll go through and kind of answer some questions live for you guys with a few presubmitted questions before today. If it's our very first time meeting, my name is Coach Tony. I'm actually a former UC Berkeley admissions reader myself. Read a bunch of apps, recommended yes or no to a lot of students. I got to work at UCLA as an outreach director, and I even opened my own high school as well, too. For the last 16 years, our team has sent students literally everywhere, right? Tons of California-based schools, UC's, Cal States, private schools. We've sent kids to the IVS as well, too. We interviewed a bunch of them on our YouTube channel. You can check them out. I just look up the word eagle. Eagle is the word college backwards is how you memorize the name. So, but today we're going to go and kind of answer your questions live. So, if you guys are here any of the platforms, we're going live on Zoom, we're going live on Facebook, going live on YouTube, going live on Twitch, going live on Tik Tok. If you guys can see me, hear me. Let's go ahead and get started. So, let's dive right in. We have a few questions that were kind of presubmitted. So, as questions come on, go ahead just drop them in the chat. we can definitely help answers questions for you guys um as well. So actually let me see for our friends over here at Zoom you guys can see that now that's a little easier for you all to see. All right so first one uh first question we got submitted was what is the best strategy around choosing what the most appropriate PIQ uh to answer. So really really awesome question here. So basically let's do a little breakdown. PIQ is the personal insight questions, right? So these are think of it as the UC essays. I'm put quotes there. The UC essays that you need to write, right? So for if you're applying to any of the nine UC campuses, right? You're going to enter you're going to write four 350word PIQs uh as well, too. So that's pretty much what the UC essays are about. You can look at them, UCI, and you can probably find them all uh right here. There's eight of them. I'm g go ahead and go through them really quick. Right. There's eight of them over here. I'm going to drop it. Right. So, really quick, uh going through all eight together with you guys and then a few little tips as well too for each one. So, the first It's live. You guys know it's live as well too. Boom. Right. So, there you go. There's there's eight of them. You get to pick four of the eight. Right. you pick four of the eight, your choice. There's no prompt that's better or worse or anything else. So, uh that's the big thing here. So, when it comes to the example for your leadership experience, just like a leadership prompt, right? Number two is a creative prompt. Uh and keep in mind these prompts are meant to be broad on purpose. So, if you define like some of our students define creativity as like coding, computer science, that's cool. That works too for this one. Number three is greatest talent or skill. How have you developed and demonstrated that? Uh four is educational opportunity or educational barrier. This is an or question means one or the other. You don't do both. You do one or the other here. Number five, most significant challenge. How you overcome and how to affect academics. Little pro tip here. Even if it didn't, right? You should still acknowledge what it did affect in the academics. It might be nothing that you say that did not affect my academics. the reers are trained to look for this stuff. Number six, uh subject that inspires you inside outside classroom. Seven, what have you done to make your school a better place? Uh and eight, what has what makes you a strong candidate? My number one tip, do not use number eight. That's my number one recommendation. And for everyone who's doing number eight, for you to get number eight correct and make it like effective, you need to be the pretty much the only person in the hund the 250,000 applicants that the UC receives to say your story. Because a lot of you guys are like, "Oh, I my I never give up. I have perseverance. I am I am great." Right? You you don't think other students have perseverance. You don't think other students are great. It needs to be such a unique story for you. Uh is the key here, right? So going back there, I would say number eight. And so how do you pick the four from the other seven based on us? My let me give me a step by step, right? Step by step uh on how to pick how to pick these uh as well. Okay. So uh step number one and this is a little little funny thing. Uh, do not read look at the prompts. I kind of spoiled you guys a little bit, right? But step number one, do not look at the prompts because when I just did that with you guys, all of you are thinking your head, hm, which one can I talk about for the leadership one? Which one can I talk about for the the greatest skill one? So, you're already pigeonholding your head into certain things, but what if that's not the most effective one to use? So, we don't say don't look at prompts. Instead, actually, I think we usually call that step zero, right? Step zero, do not look at the prompts. Instead, what you want to do instead is you want to uh list out all list out all of your activities, experiences, and identities, right? So I tell students, hey, on a sheet of paper, write down every activity you've done in high school, every experiences you kind of lived like life events that you've gone through and identities that you feel you belong to as well, right? And I tell them do this in five minutes specifically, five minutes. The reason why you want to do that is you I want to get straight to the things. If you if I give them the whole day, they can think of everything, but things that you think of outside of five minutes might not be that important is the key, right? So things that are really top of mind that's the key you want to focus on that's why the five minutes is there. Then step number two once you have right once you have your experience then now you want to pick your top four or five from this list right so basically what you want to ask yourself is I did all these things right I did all these things what thing made me who I am today right so like again for those of you with kids who play soccer right and you said oh yeah soccer made them who they are imagine they never touched the soccer ball in their life. How different would life be for them? Right? For some of you who are computer programmers, imagine they never programmed a day in their life. They never went to that first class at Code Academy, right? Would how different will life be for them? Right? For those who are in art, imagine your child never picked up a paintbrush. How different will life be? There are simple things, activities, experience, identities that again completely change who at the same time there's things that doesn't matter too much, right? Again is important but not so important. So we have them identified the top four or five from this list. The key with no overlap meaning if let's say you talk about you loving math, right? Math is my number one. And number two is uh you taking a math class. That's the same topic. The same topic of math, right? So that's only one thing is the thing itself. So you want to pick four or five different things that do not overlap at all. Right? And by the way, pro tip, by the way, when you doing this, parents, do not be involved in any way. Do not say, "Hey, you should talk about this. You should do that." Cuz keep in mind that is your perspective of how they see it. This is, by the way, spoilers when when students struggle how to write. And I'm like, you wrote that you want to talk about this. Like, no, my mom told me to write about this. I'm like, okay, that's mom's idea. If mom, if you're doing your own personal statement, you can talk about that. But for them, it needs to come from the student because they know what they want to talk about is the key. Okay? So, you want to pick your top four or five, no overlap. Next step, right? Once you have top four or five, each one we do it, we call it story time. So, each prompt that you're going to talk about, right? Let's say you can soccer, right? You have a soccer soccer ball, right? There is probably a highlight, a lowlight, a significant event, a traumatic event, a unforgettable memory that the student has when they said that key word, that topic above, right? And that is your story. I tell the students to tell me that in 30 seconds, right? The reason why I say 30 seconds is they you have to get straight to the point, right? Imagine, think of like your favorite movie, right? If I told you, cool, tell me your favorite movie. I have all night. You're going to go through every detail, the color of the dress, uh the you're going to quote the people and say everything. But if I say you tell me your favorite movie, I only have 30 seconds, right? You skip all the details. You get straight to the core pieces. Oh, this happened, then this happened, then this happened, this happened at the end, the end. the core thing in third and that's what the reader want because the story is not what you want to focus on when it comes to the prompts, right? What you want to focus on is the next part which step four, we call this dig deep. This is a nod to our head of coaches, right? Coach Art as well too. He helps our students dig deep in this process. What you do is you basically figure out your why, your how, and your who. Why did you do what you did? How has it made you who you are? Who have you become as a result? These are the three key things that you want to make sure you get right. Uh because this is what sets you apart. Again, playing soccer, how many of you guys, your kids play soccer? A lot of us do. So, the thing is the story is not what's going to set you apart. If you win the championship, how many other kids have won the championships, right? So that's not going to be significant. What's significant is the student, why they did that because that's unique only to them. How it made them who they are. Again, that's only them. Who have they become again only them? These are the three things that tells me about the student themselves. That's the key. Then right only then step five we pick the prompt that allows us to talk about that story and dig deep as well too. So now you go back and you find the prompt that lets you talk about that. Now you know each of your four PIQ's is going to be the strong because this is the big story you want to read to know about because if not you're going to pigeon hole yourself. we think oh this leadership thing oh I was I was president one year of this but that club doesn't matter to you right so this is how our students don't get stuck on right because one of the things it's hard is adding more tell me more about that and for a lot of students they don't have the adding more so I think this is a big thing to help you guys with this process is to go this step so original question best strategy most pro that is the one there's no piq's that are better or worse just avoid number eight it's our biggest one and last pro tip pro tip right getting a B C is not a significant challenge as well too. People say, "Oh my goodness, I got a B. Uh it was the end of the world and then I worked so hard I got a a end." I'm like, "Bro, right? That that is not a s that is not even a problem in the world as well too. So that is not a PF after me. That is not a significant challenge." Okay, so that's that's that's the big thing here. That's question number one for you guys, right? Moving on. Again, if you guys like this, feel free to again drop the questions in the chat. Let me know the comments. I have all the comments kind of pulled up on my end uh from again the YouTube. I see people here from YouTube. Hello people from YouTube as uh we got people from Facebook who are here as well too. Thank you people from Facebook who are joining me live on this session. We got got some Tik Tok friends as well too. Hello Tik Tok. Uh t the tik tockity if hello over there. And then uh we got our Twitch friends as well too. Hello. I see you guys uh in the chat. So again, welcome, welcome everyone. If you have questions, this is this college is for you guys. Um, I already know this stuff, so I'm good. So feel free to drop your questions down below. We can kind of answer for you guys here. Okay, so next one. Uh, it's a big question. Big question here. So this one says, um, I haven't been able to find volunteer internship or volunteer opportunity for my daughter to do the summer with something impactful that relates to environment sense or being a teacher. Most places are full or she's too young. and she's 16 and a half going to be a senior loves butterflies raise them past years but not sure is good enough what kind of documentation we to do for that volunteer uh vacation bible school group leader sent would be helpful has religion has help with this is a lot of questions in one so this is a lot of questions he has no all right let's break this down there's a lot of questions but can I answer piece by piece first right so the first one I haven't been able to find internships or volunteer opportunity so the first question I would ask you right? Is why are we looking for this? Right? Very simple question. Why why are we doing this as well too? Because most people think they have to do research, they have to do internships, they have to do summer programs. And I'm like, no, no, no. You don't have to do any of that. A lot of our kids don't do any of this. They still make it in the top school. So, the thing itself is not the important thing for me is the why, right? Why? And then curiously, why are you doing this? Because keep in mind, spoilers, right? Spoilers. Whatever we end up doing, whatever we end up doing, right? We're not the only ones. We're not the only ones. Uh we're not that special as well too, right? More students will do something similar, right? What sets us apart sets us apart from others is our why. That's why the why is so important because if I ask and I don't know who this person is, but if you are uh I'd ask you why. And if you can't come up with an answer, if your only answer is it looks good for college, don't do it. Right? If if that's your only answer, because good thing we answer this question first, you're going to have a very hard time doing this exercise, right? If your reason is I want to do it to look good for college is the key, right? Because again, dig deep. Dig deep. My mom told me, my mom told me to do this. That's why again, which is a reason. It's not a bad reason. It's a reason though. But I'm sure if someone has a stronger reason that might trump your mom reason as well too. So that's that's why I first ask you do you need to because again you can right and why is it matter you can again let's say you're very hands-on you learn best hands-on wise that's very internshipy kind of stuff right uh for me I like learning hands-on I can sit in a classroom and learn but I won't digest it. That's like summer programs right you learn until some people love it like oh my god I love learning that's that's that right but for me I want to get my hands dirt I want to try. I want to fail and then keep going. That's internships, right? Boom. As well, volunteer. Do you need to? No. High schools make you do it because they want to help you with admissions, but no schools to my knowledge has a volunteering requirement. That's up to you if you want to do it or not there. So, that's kind of the first one. I ask you why. Second question, they want to do environmental science or teacher, right? As this is kind of next part. So, basically, what activities? I'm assuming the questions is uh the question here is like what activities uh should I do for these fields right these fields uh as well too and the answer I gave no one really likes right no one really likes it's the answer is be it could be anything could be anything uh as well too the question is right the question is why did you want to do this as well too right there something must have wanted you must have wanted to do teaching right if you want to do teaching Cool. Show me that. Right. If so, show me that. Right. So, how do you how do I know you want to teach? Is is it right? And so, like, oh, let me I like to work with others. Cool. Let's find opportunities working with others. I like environmental science. I think something about butterflies, right? I like butterflies. Cool. What can we do with the butterflies uh to help with that as well, too? So, I think that's the big thing to think about is uh figuring out what can you do because again, the thing doesn't matter. People focus too much on the specific thing. I focus more on the why. Why do you want again for between these two? What do you think you want to do more? Right? And pick one. It's hard to do both, right? So, pick one. I think want to do environments on the science. Cool. Let's lean towards that. What can we show the readers to show them that you're interested in doing this, right? So, think of it for parents. Here's another example, right? Let's say you want to uh you need to get your taxes done, right? Taxes done. Hey, I need to get my my taxes very complicated. Do you trust the first person who is like, "All right, let me do your taxes. I haven't done it yet, but I am I'm I'm ready to be the best, right? I'm ready to be the best. I haven't done it yet." Versus, do you trust the other person who's been doing Yeah, I've done taxes for the last 10 years. I've done taxes for these people. I've done all I saved up a lot of money. Someone with proof. That's the big difference here. A lot of students when they apply to college, they're like, "Oh, I want to be a teacher." And I look at your app, your activities, and I'm like, "Oh, there's nothing you do that relates to teaching, right?" Yeah, I want to do it. I'm like, "Oh, it's a big wish." Right? Keep in mind, a wish is always trumped by proof, right? So, instead, if I want to be a teacher, I volunteered helping this summer class, blah, blah, blah. I did this. I tutored my own sess blah blah blah. Right? All things to show you that I'm interested and I've been tasting it. I always say the word tasting your major, right? Uh tasting your major. I'm tasting it to see that I I do like it. So, I'm going to keep doing more of it is the key there. Okay. So, going back again, um too young, right? We live in a world now, right? Too young really isn't an a thing anymore. Uh if you guys have heard the news on was it uh the Facebook Facebook bought a company for 15 billion right or they put 15 billion to a company and the guy is young right the guy is like uber uber young as well too so he didn't need to be an old enough to do something right he just again has the credentials has the ability same thing here if they say no go find another door go find something else as well too again keep in mind uh we teach there's a training out there if you guys need it team all they can grab for you there's a way. I think coach Victor, he's one of our advisors. He teaches this, right? Create your own internship opportunity, right? You don't have to find one, right? They're hard to find is one. And two, they're very competitive is number two. Coach Victor did a literally step by step how to one, two, three on how to create your own internship. He gives you the scripts. He gives you exact screenshots of what to do as well too. So again, if you need that, let our team know down below or wherever platform you guys are joining from um as well. And if you're not on one of platforms, feel free to text our team. text our team at uh 949-7750865. Just ask them for like internship uh internship um training or something and then they'll go ahead and grab that for you as well, right? But you can make your own internship opportunity, right? You don't need to apply and be the I'm the too young uh factor as well too, right? Keep that in mind as next one. Next thing, boom, boom, boom, boom. Religious has to do with this has nothing, right? Irrelevant, right? does not ma does not matter right again it's how you live your life is what you do the thing is you don't want to put that in like convert people in your essays is the thing but that's who you are right that's kind of your identity that's what you've kind of grown up as well too so it's way to share right the thing is don't you have you don't have to preach it inside the thing but that's made you who you are right and a key is not the what the what is the religion the who you are is the byproduct of being with that religion, right? That's what you can share. They don't focus less on religion, more on the thing. The same thing when people who say, "Oh, it's because I'm a certain race. I'm a certain gender." And I'm like, "No, no, no, no." Right? You did not get rejected or stuff because of that, right? It's because of of the byproduct. Again, there's there's there's factors, right? But then again, if you guys know, further action took out a lot of this. And for those of you in California, which I know a lot of you guys are watching from California, we've been uh a byproduct of Proposition 209 since 1996 where since 1996 till today cannot use race, gender, religion or anything in any admissions or anything else as well too. So if you're saying that you're making an excuse because again probably other things why you didn't get in. It's not your gender, your race or your religion or anything as well too. Keep in mind it's how this has affected you right over the thing itself right that's that's the big takeaway uh over here um boom boom boom boom boom boom yeah I get to figure go try to get to the UC's that help you out as well too so again what document I think that's the last one here what type of documentation right um that's the best part about the the college right all colleges right you self-report everything right you self-report Everything if you did 100 hours you say you did 100 hours if you did two things you share two things as well too everything is self-report on the colleges right on the college app right you sign an integrity agreement saying that everything on your app is factually correct right as well too everything on your app is true you sign it twice at the beginning and at the end before you submit as well too imagine you lied right as well too, right? Would you be caught? There are some people who will make it through, right? That's on your conscious how you sleep at night as well too. But there is a team that does audit students, right? And if they audit you and you lied as well too, that's really really bad. They would resend your acceptance because that's academic dishonesty um as well too, right? So again, you don't you you self-report. So everything you keep track on your own. You share what you've done on your own there. Okay. So that is that here. Cool. So again, that's pretty much the I think I hit all the parts. There's a lot of questions I kind of pulled apart um as well too. And again, at the end just to answer questions like I think what you want to do. It's not the what it's not the what you do, it's why are you doing it, right? How did it make the students uh who they are who they are and who have they become? Who have they become as a result? Right? That's the key. That's the key that when when you when you think about this one, that's what I would recommend. Uh again, focus less on the what which one do you want to do? Right? I always say I tell students when it comes to activities, right? The filter question, the filter question for filter question for activities. If coach Tony didn't let me can't spell didn't let me share this on my college apps, right? Would I still want to do this? Right? Imagine your child, right, loves to play soccer. So soccer, soccer story again, right? Love to play soccer. And coach's like, "Hey, you can keep playing soccer." But you can't share on your college apps. Would your child say, "Ah, man, not doing soccer anymore." Or would they say, "I don't care. I like soccer. I'm going to do soccer no matter who that coach Tony guy is." Right? That's kind of what you want because again, the what is not as important as much as the why. And as long as the student has that why to drive them forward, that's going to be the key. Okay? So that's going to be the the next question over here. We have a few we have a few live questions from the channels. I'm gonna pull a question out right now. So if you guys are again on Facebook on uh the different channels, feel free to drop something in the chat um as well. Here is a Zoom one. There's a Zoom question. Um oops. Can I not copy the Zoom question? Right. Uh there you go. All right. So this one, right? My son was diagnosed with ADHD sophomore year. Second semester he started medic once he started medication he went from a C to an A. Where should he put the exponent of grade changes on the UC and the common app? Great question as well too. So something to keep in mind, right, is that anything that will make the reader go hm right a that make the reader go hm I want to know maybe like a drastic grade change up and down uh a big gap somewhere things that doesn't like that's not like that's a little odd right as well too like can how you know is pretend you're not their parent if you read them like huh would that be a little like if I read my neighbor and they wrote this would I like hm that's what happened there right what's That's interesting, right? And you want to you 100 want to explain in the college apps, right? I always tell families that it's you rather uh rather overcommunicate than undercommunicate, right? As a reader for Berkeley, when I read it, every yes I gave was absolute yes. They were for sure yes. Anyone that was like maybe, I'm not sure, they got a maybe or a no for me. It didn't get a yes. So keep that in mind as well too. You want and again doesn't mean that the yeses were like phenomenal students, right? Some of them might have had bad things or things are now not the greatest, but it was very solid. Everything made sense. I'm like, "Oh, got it. I understood the story of the student." Cool. So for this one, I would add it. Right. So for the UC app, there's a section where this fits perfectly called the academic comments. Right? Academic comments, 550 characters. Here you want to go ahead and share this. In that section, you can use phrases, right? Can use phrases uh for this. You don't have to use full sentences for this section, for this section, right? Uh because only small characters, you can use like quick little blurbs. You can explain everything. You can use full sentence too, but you have a lot less characters to talk about is why. But you can use phrases. I would do that uh to explain kind of the context of what happened. Again, quick two, three sentence. You don't have to tell a big story. You don't have to go in emotional things. Just give the readers what they're looking for. Got it. That makes sense. Then you move on. That's all it is as well too. On the common app, the common app they use, right? On the common app, right? They use the additional comments, right? You can also, by the way, could also use the additional comments uh for the additional comments uh for the uh UC app as well too. There's only 550 words as well too. You have more things to do. I forget how much the comment app is, but there's a big sub section you can add in as well too. Academic additional comments as well. It's at the bottom. You add it. You share context just enough so the reader knows what's going on. That's that's it, right? Share enough context for readers for readers to understand, right? No need to uh emotional tell uh emotional tell stories. No need to uh no need to make excuses, right? Just give excuses. Let's provide context for them. And that's it, right? That's pretty much all you need over here. Okay. Emotionally intell, right? So that's be that section over here. Okay. So that's that section that that's this question. All right. Next one. Um there's two questions here. I think they're a little different. Let's split up a little bit. All right, first one. Where is it to where is it better to include activity that could be an honor the activity list? I I I'm trying to understand the question. I think the question is asking is where do we add awards, right? Uh or honors as well too. So awards and honors, awards, honors for the UC app, right? It fits within the 20 activity slots, right? There's six kind of uh uh drop downs, right, you can use. They're either going to be awards or honors. It could be an educational prep program. It could either be an extracurricular activity. It could be a volunteering community service. Uh could be uh other coursework or it could be work experience as well. So these are the six two four six six areas. So when you enter any of your activities for the UC's, it will be one of these six that you'll drop everything down. So you can add the award and honor to it uh as well. That's where that will fit on fit in for the common app, right? For the common app, common app, there's a section of five awards that you can share as well too. So that's where in case you have any questions there, you can add it in that section. That's where the uh awards can kind of stay in as well too. So hopefully I answered that question for you guys. Uh next one. Um is there any anything I should know on how to get go into an AP human the best score you can? Hopefully you you asked this question a lot earlier because the AP exams were back in May as well too, right? So basically you can use College Board resources raise yourses. They usually have crash courses, crash things to help you kind of prep for them as well too, right? and practice tests to prepare for these and ask your AP teacher um is the last piece to think about as well. So again, using resources again, understand these are kind of standardized, so they're not going to surprise you on these exams. They'll probably prep you on what they tell you. Hey, we're going to test you on this percentage of this question um as well. Okay, that's that. Next question. Do another live question in the chat as well, too. Let's see in the chat room. We see one here. Right. So question here is which UCPIQ four or five is best for a disability. So uh here's the so when it comes to the prompts right when it comes to both UC and common app prompts right no question is better or worse better or worse right is is a thing as well too. So it depends on you right. So going back real fast number four or five. Oops, this was last week's four or five is uh educational opportunity uh or over educational barriers. I'm assuming if you do that you talked about the barrier, right? Is for this one. And for the second question is mostly been challenge you face, right? So it could be either or right? So for me either or works. Keep in mind how you go about the process. I'd be curious what your other prompts are going to be. Right? So again, you have four PIQs, right? So let's say disability is one of your top four, right? So I I'd ask you like what are your top what are your top four five topics, right? And you tell me okay topic one, topic two, topic three, topic four and say topic five for example, right? So these are my five top five topics. Let's say for example number one's disability, right? U excuse me is that and I would say okay cool four or five. So four or five is what I would mark first. Number two, right? Hey, this one's talk about uh soccer as well too. I talk about one or making thumbs up by the way, but don't don't quote me. One or two. Uh number three, I want to talk about ASB. I'm going to talk about uh three or four, right? And last one, I'm going to talk about love math, right? Love math. I'm going to talk about uh let's say four or uh six as well, too, right? So, these are the ones. And the last one uh we don't yet but say let's talk about uh um I don't know I don't know robotics right robotics as well too this one is either a six or seven right so these are the ones and then let's make it more fun five six or seven five or six or seven right so you do this now what you want to do is you want to go through here and see right which ones can you use right so you see here if I use four here I can't use four over here or over here as well too so you find which one makes the most sense, right? You go through which one's the easiest. Oh, I definitely want to talk about number six for math. That's the subject one, I believe, right? Number six is the math one. Uh subject. There we go. So, I'm for sure using number six for math. So, let's do that. Uh which means I could still use this, right? So, let's see. Um ASB. I want to talk about number four, right? Oh, in that case, I have to talk about number five here, right? And then I could use one or two. Let's use number one here. I can't use five or six, right? So I can use number seven, right? Again, this one is not a topic. You don't use that for the purpose of UCPI keys. But look at these top four. That's what you would use. The reason why we have students prep those four or five is that what ends up happening is that uh topics one through four is the UCP IQs, right? Topic one typically is your common app personal statement, right? That's usually what happens. And topics two to five are generally rel uh topics uh talking points for your college supplements as well too because each college you're applying to they have their own supplements. That's what that is going to be. Okay. So that's that. Um so that's there. Next one. All right. Next one. My daughter. How much time do you have left? Uh I have time for like three more questions. If you have the questions now go ahead and drop it in the chat uh right now. Again we're going live. We have still a lot of people here. Thank you everyone for joining as well too. We got people here live on the Zooms. We got people here in the Facebooks, the the people here on the Twitches uh as well too. Uh on Tik Tok um and YouTube. We got a bunch of people on YouTube as well too. Welcome welcome everyone. So let's d diving in a few more. We'll do like three more questions. Um I have to bounce to like 5:45. So we have a few minutes left. I'll kind of speedrun a few of these. Next one. My daughter 11th grade taking AP calc BC in May. She will not get to score to July. Aloney requires AP scores for multivari linear alge differentials starts in June. This will be the case of MCC. Select the workar around the list of community college will who will allow take math courses. So B basically this is one of the the general recommendations that we give for a lot of our computer science and engineering students. Right? So if you're computer science or engineering students, one of the big things, one of the big overlays, right, that you want to make sure overlays are things you should have on your app is very strong math is the thing. So we tell students if you can go past if you can go past BC you do you do want to do that right? So take on uh take on um uh multivariable calculus the linear algebra differential then the next level math typically high schools don't offer this. So these are offered multivariable multivariable multivariable right linear algebra and differentials differentials uh differential uh equations is offered at the can't spell today equations offered at the local community college level courses right multivariable calculus is the other half of that right calculus as well too is offered at the local community college you can go on to the college and take it so what this student's doing is that they took calc BC And some schools will require you, right, to get the credit for the class before the class begins. Very common, right? Nothing new as well too, right? Make sure we got to make sure you're good before you can take a next class as well too. So the workaround, right? One of the things a lot of people don't think about is the p the person with the power to add you manually is the professor. Right? So what I would do if I was a student in the future because it's probably over right for the student but in the future I would reach out to the professor who's teaching to the professor who's teaching this class and explain the situation right let them know hey I'm actually a high school student I just finished this class I got an A in my class I took the AP exam I did well can you manually add me to that class I'm with you as well too the that the professor has the ability to manually enter students into these courses, right? Um is a thing. So if you're proactive enough and again if you are good take hey can you can I do a test with you to to show you that I do know again offer a pro tip here right pro tip right offer right offer to take a a placement exam with them uh test with the professor themselves right that way right you can show them look I do know myself not I'm making it up I take a test with you five 10 minutes I'll show you what I can do and boom right as well too but professor can add you in. In terms of looking for schools, right, there's a really cool resource I think called CBC.edu. Is that the the right name? I don't want to uh butcher it alive. Some different tab real fast. Uh yes, cbc.edu. This is a directory of a bunch of online community college courses. Really cool resource for you guys because if it's online, you don't have to go there, right? Is a thing. So, I definitely would uh have you guys look into this if that's something you guys are interested in doing as well. Okay. Uh, next one. I'm struggling a lot with um time management and grades are dropping. What could I do to better organize, commit to getting things done on time as well too, right? I think the the answer is at the end of the day, right? The highle answer is do what works for you as well too because everything works for I I can share you my things what works for me but then um it may or may not work for you as well too right my tip by if you're asking me I would say you want to calendar everything calendar everything right with priorities right priorities as well too right for example right everyone guess what what's the first thing in the chat if you join me live what's the first thing the non-negotiable you put into your calendar once you if you want to calendar out your life time management what's the first thing you do in the chat right wherever you're joining me live right now I see a little comments like what's the first thing you want to add uh I see homework no I see school no uh more school no one most urgent priority sleep you guys got to sleep you don't sleep you're you're not going to make it right so number Plug in sleep time. This is why people like, hey, I'm staying for two in the morning. You don't have to. It's a choice. You chose to stay till 2 in the morning. You block out time when I'm going to sleep. I'm going to wake up during this time. Then, right, the the school, the academic non-negotiables, ac non-negotiables. Non-negotiables, right? Which is the the classes you take, the homework you do, the commute time to and from school. Non-negotiables there, right? Is the key. Then, right, it's the other activities that you prioritize. I'm going to use that as a big word prioritize as well too because again could you do anything you can't when when parents tell me their kids are busy I'm like no you just don't care about the thing enough right if I told you in the quick think about this way if I told you guys right if you can if I tell you a city where I'm going to be at in the specific location and I tell you in the next 72 hours if you meet me there I'm gonna give you $1 million cash taxfree as well too if you meet me in a city in California if I I'll tell you that it's a the question is are you going to figure out a way to make it there right and the answer is I'm assuming unless unless a man doesn't mean anything to you yes you could take a day off work you can move some things around to make sure you can get that cash and because that that's what you prioritize as well too so when students tell me I'm busy I'm like cool are you busy question here are you busy doing the right things or doing the wrong thing because both busies are busy, right? But the one here, the right things gets you towards your goals. This one over here puts you in a spiral. Like for example, parents, do you ever see your kids doing homework till 2 in the morning, right? As well, and you're like, "Oh, my kids were studying so much as well, too." Right? But I wonder, are they doing homework and talking to their friends? Doing homework listening to music? doing homework using Tik Tok as well too. Doing homework watching a movie as well too. That's not doing homework. That is listen to music and trying to get your homework done. If they just focus on doing homework, this doesn't take that long is is the thing, right? And with the rest of your things that you do, you prioritize the rest and you'll be fine as well, too. So, I think that's kind of what works for me. Counting and prioritizing and it changes, right? There's daily things you do, there's weekly, there's monthly things. when you have an exam, right, you know, hey, I got to spend more time on school and studying because I got to study for that exam. So, you change your goals again, right? That's kind of works with me. Again, at the end, you will know you best. So, figure out what works best uh for you here. Okay, cool. Um, last question really fast on here before I go. If you guys have more questions, feel free to drop them. Our team will probably save them and add them to like next week's Q&A as well, too. Uh, last one here. Uh, I'm warning you to explain the points taking a psychology over summer settleback instead of different class. So I'm assuming this is talk about dual enrollment, right? So if you guys know me, I'm a huge huge huge huge fan of dual enrollment. Dual enrollment is basically taking a a college level course, right? Excuse me. As a high school student, right, the benefits, what's the benefit of doing this? Right? Number one, college classes are one semester long or one semester long. However, right, one college unit is equivalent to 3.3 high school credits. If you guys look at your transcripts, you'll see that your year-long classes are 10 credits long. Five credits fall, five credit spring, 10 credits long. Which means if I take a three college unit class, that's 9.9 or 10 high school credits. It gives you the same credit as a full year-long high school in half the time. Perk number one. Perk number two, right? If you take an AP exam, right, a AP class, right, you need to take need to take an AP exam for college credit, right? Get three, four, or five. Not every three counts. You might need a four, might need a five. Really quick, right? Let's say UCLA, right? Look up the word AP validation, right? Whatever school is, right? AP, you'll see when you look it up, right? Not every three counts. So, I look at here. Look at this chemistry, right? If I want to take chemistry, if I get a three, I get credit for intro to chem. However, if I get a four or five, I get credit for general chem. Meaning, let's say I need general chem and I get a three, I didn't get the credit. I have to go to UCLA and take the class again to get the call. That's what that means. You'll see here every it's is different. If I go to a different school, UC Berkeley AP validation, right? You go this school and you'll see it's also a little differently. Some say three or higher. Three or higher. Um as well. I'm trying to find one that's not uh here. Right. Reading. Right. AP. If you got a score of four, you get part A, you get a five, you get part B, which means if you don't get a five, you have to take part B again at Berkeley. That's kind of what it means for this, right? So, uh that's that's perk number two, right? Oh, for the the perk is community college community college classes automatically gets you the college credit, right? As long as it's transferable is the key, right? That's another perk, right? Number three, right? Most of these classes are online. A lot of you guys tell me you're busy, so I'm like, cool. Let's make it flexible for you. Online classes keeps it flexible for you. And my best tip of all, you get to pick the professors for your college courses, right? When you look up, so this person goes to Saddleback, right? So Saddleback uh summer schedule, right? Summer schedule as well, too. You'll see that when they took classes, I'm try to pull up a random class. Uh let's do a fully online class, right? Oops. Oop. Oops. Summer fully online. So you see, uh let's pick uh math. to talk to you, right? Math. Uh, you'll see that certain classes are offered online and certain classes are offered in person. But what I'm looking for Oh, if it loads beauty of life, right? You'll see that each class has like a few teacher. There we go. This class right here, right? Intro to stats has curio, right? Sha Valdez, uh, Siozek George Sed all too. There's multiple people teaching this class, right? It's more small as well, too. There's no different class, different class. So, there's all these teachers teaching a class, right? And so, with these teachers, some of them are really easy, some of them are really hard. How do you find out? Rate my professors.com. What you want to do is you want to go type in the school name. The school I looked up is Saddleback, right? You type in your own school right there. And then once you look up uh the school's name, ads, close the ads, right? You type the teacher's name. So, let's look at the first teacher. Coreo Boreo, right? I look up their name. And then I see Brian Coreo. Let's look at the stars. Oo, has a lot of five stars. That's not That's a really good sign so far, right? Difficulty 2.7. Eh, could be better. Could be better as well, too. Right. Read the reviews and kind of see how it is. Next teacher. Let's kind of vet. Let's do Sha, right? Shave's the next teacher as well, too. So, Sha, uh, there's a few shaves. Kia shave as well, too. This one. Oh, a lot more mix. Uh, fours and fives. Difficulty even hard. It's out of five, by the way. So, even harder. And you see the class can read the comments as well, too, and see that. Let's do one more teacher just to uh show. Let's do teacher with the the cool long name, right? Uh, the cool long name. Page froze. Page froze. refresh the page as well too. If not, you guys can't see the last teacher. You have to do it on your own. Maybe homework for you guys to look it up. Uh oh, it's not working. It's not working. All right. So, basically, the idea is you can look them up and your goal is to find the easiest teachers. So, this student saying psychology, why we recommend psychology is it fits under the I gety approved course list, right? Course list. This, by the way, this is applies to people in California only. So if you're not in California, you do have your own list from your state is why? Well, but this is a California specific question, right? So the I gety soon to be called Calgetti. They're rebranding the name just to make it more universal to all the schools, right? Uh this is a list of classes that's transferable to all the schools. So when you look up like I get Saddleback, I get Saddleback, right? You see that there's a table of classes area one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven. Right? what you want to look at. I tell students, look at area three and area four. So area three is over here, arts and humanities courses and area for social behavioral sciences. These are typically the easier classes that you'll see on your schedule. So what I like to recommend is recommend all right three of areas three areas three and four, right? Typically under area three, the classes that our students like the most is art, music and theater, theater. And for area four, our students really like uh anthropology, so uh psychology, can't spell psychology, psychology, and sociology. These are the six classes that typically again, but there's a lot, right? Look at the list. There's a lot of classes you can take. They're all great, right? whatever works best for you. But these are typically the the website froze. But right, these are the typical classes that we like to recommend cuz it's easy. That's it. Because as a reader, I acknowledge that you took a college level course, right? Got a grade for the college level course, but I don't see professor's name. So if I were you, I try to find the easiest professor you can find. And that's a little trick to kind of game this as well. Okay, that being said, that pretty much wraps up, right? Wraps up our little training for you today. I hope you guys enjoyed that little Q&A. Went a little overtime as well. If you guys liked it, let me know down below. If you guys want me to do an encore, we can do again another week. Next Monday, if you guys are free, we'll do one more week uh of this as far as we can. If you like it, we'll keep doing it as well, too. But that's pretty much it for me. Hope you guys have a great rest of your week. Little teasers. This week, we have some amazing trainings inside our group. These trainings will be private though, so if you guys are interested, let our team know. Let me try to share what what trainings we have this week so you guys can get excited and and pumped for that as well. Oh, my link is not working. Just kidding. It's loading up. It's loading up. Oh, just kidding. This is not working as well, too. Oh, I have the wrong link up. Uh, we have a few awesome trainings later this week. So, if you guys are interested again, we'll post it inside our uh our groups. You guys can go ahead and check for that and see whichever I lied. I pulled up. I pull it up, y'all. We are good. We are good. All right. So, this week, um, tomorrow, Coach Art is doing a really cool private training on how to write the supplemental essay. So, if y you guys are applying to private schools, USC, Stanford, Claremont Colleges, the Ivy League schools, all these schools that have extra questions, he's going to teach you guys how to answer the supplement questions. Tomorrow on Wednesday, Coach David, our financial aid expert, he's going to teach you how to negotiate offers for uh college offers, right? So, help you guys negotiate for financial aid. And this Thursday, the incredible Coach Victor, he's doing a special training on digital portfolios. So, like how to showcase your online presence to be impressive to the various colleges. So, if you guys want to join any of those private trainings, let us know down below. text our team 949-7750865. They'll grab you guys the the the registration links for those. Okay, but if not, that's it for me today. Hope you guys have a great rest of your day. I'll see you guys.