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## Intro: Why Starting Early Matters [00:00] What's up everyone? Coach Tony here. In this training, we're going to break down the monthto-month summer checklist for staying on track to college applications. And it's our very first time meeting. My name is Coach Tony. I'm actually a former UC Berkeley admissions reader, former UCLA outreach director. I've been behind the scenes in front of the scenes helping students get into their top choice colleges not just at the UC's but this past year a bunch of our kids went to the Ivy's bunch of our kids went to top private schools out of state state schools as well too. So pretty much what today's trade is going to be uh a breakdown of kind of what we usually have our students and our families go through uh to make sure they stay on track as well. So, if you are joining us here, uh, really quick, right, feel free to drop your graduation year in the chat. If you are a ninth grade, drop a nine. 10th grader, drop a 10. 11th grade, drop 11. 12th graders, not sure why you're here. Drop a 12 as well, too. If you're a middle school family, you can drop a six, seven, or eight in the chat down below so we can know kind of where you guys are uh coming from. Um, there. So, oops, Discord. uh there so you got we know kind of where you guys are probably kind of cater this presentation live to those who are here as well. Okay. So uh if as I present today there's questions go ahead and drop the questions in the chat box or in the Q&A box uh as well which I get to at the end of today. We will also have these notes available within 48 hours for you guys. The replay will also be available within 48 hours as well too. Before we get started, a few quick announcements uh for you guys. I drop it in the chat real fast for those who are here live as well. Right? Number one, if you are one of our current juniors, right? If you are a junior family, you're a class of 2026 ## April: Setting Academic, Activity & Application Foundations [02:00] and you haven't signed up for one of our live workshops yet. I'm not sure why you haven't. Right? The College App Intensive is a two-part event. First part, we help you guys uh come in with nothing, leave with your first draft of all your essays done. part two, you come back and we help you take that from done to fi from done to final draft as well too. So you guys are interested in signing up you can go to collegeappoint intensive.com for that. Every week we also uh share out a private newsletter giving some updates, some knowledge, some scholarship information. If you guys are interested that go to college admissions.co just.com.co. You guys can join that. Every Tuesday morning we release. So the next edition if you're watching this live is tomorrow morning. Uh again if you want the notes for today's call or the replays uh you can text our team 9497750865 as well. And if you're new here uh we give a free coaching f free coaching call to our new families uh here. Just text the word coach and then they'll help set you up with that here. Okay. Let's go ahead and get started with the month-to-month breakdown. Let's go ahead and start with this month of April. Right? So if you guys are in April, there's a few things you got to do and I'm going to break this down in three also categories. First one is academics. Two is activities. Three is the application itself. Right? Every single time we talk about college admissions, it always breaks down to one of these three things. There's always usually something you need to work on with one of these three, right? So let's talk about that today. So when it comes to academics, right, when it comes to academics, there's a few things, right? We're preparing for AP exam, right? That's going to happen in May. So in the month of May, you're going to be taking your AP exams. Really quick in the chat, is anyone here taking an AP exam next month? Is anyone here their child is in any AP class that next month your child is going to take an AP exam? Drop a quick yes in the chat. Have you watched by the in the future? Right. Go ahead and drop a yes in the comments below. Uh as well, there you go. People people are and students here too. Say I am. Fantastic. Fantastic. Right. So you guys are preparing for that. A little spoilers for those who are watching this live as well. Next week I actually brought in one of my friends who is an AP uh test prep expert, a tutor. Uh we'll do a little training on how to ace your AP exam. So you guys are watching this live. uh let uh you can let our ## May: AP Exams, Summer Classes & College List Creation [04:30] team know for like type the word use the word AP like AP class or something and then our team will send you the private link to that training uh it'll be happening next week there uh but basically you're preparing for your AP exam you want to do well in your classes same thing here right audit and see class performance right hey how are you doing this is around the halfway point of April itself so we have a few more April of spring itself so you have a few more months until finals again students don't accidentally get a B or a C. You saw it coming. You saw it coming the entire way. Catch it now so we can figure out how to bounce back up if we need to. Or if your grades are strong, let's keep it strong the rest of the way. That's pretty much for academics. Some of you guys might take the SAT, ACT, right? Some of you guys have signed up for the May exam. Some of you signed up for the June exam. That's an awesome opportunity for you guys to do this uh as well too. Okay, so that's that's the first piece over here, right? when it comes to activities, right? When it comes to activities as well too, you're going to fileize summer plans, right? Get start file summer plans. Summer is coming up in two months in two months. So, we should kind of know what we are looking to do, what we should be doing if you haven't file it yet. The time is ticking. Time is ticking on this. So, make sure you file yourself plans. Also, leadership, right? So, usually around this this month, next month, there's a lot of elections for the following year. So again, that's that's something you're considering doing. That's a good thing to do here. And when it comes to the application itself, right, what are we doing? Our coaches right now this month, we're doing a college list, right? So actually for our our students in our coaching program for our our juniors, you should be having your college list call with our strategist, right? They're going to basically help you figure out your reach schools, your your match schools, and your uh and your safety schools, right? Right? They help you create list. They help you create what majors you're going to be doing for each of these schools as well. Why do we do it so early is we need to know what applications to prepare for. We want to know what essays, right? What applications for, the applications to use, which essays to prepare for. Little spoilers, the apps don't usually change every year, right? So if you know what schools you're applying to, you could start looking at the essays for this upcoming year and start preparing with that as well. And again, if you stick with it, 99% of it won't change when come come the August 1st when it officially opens. Okay, so that's the big thing our students are doing with us here. The other big one, if you haven't signed up for the college app intensive, right, we have our kickstart happening right now, right? Our kickstart is happening. We're taking our students, right? They come in with nothing, right? They're leaving with their first drafts completed. I think that's the cool part of the event. It's a very structured approach. We tell student exactly what to do. So long as they're following along, they will hit every single part. And then for those who uh are going to come or those who are not going to come, right, give you get a little preview of the wicked, right? So what we're going to do first is going to identify right the activities the ex experiences and identities that make up who you are. This is a student right make up who you are. Once you have that you're going to go ahead and pick your top four topics right from this list itself. So out of everything you've done in high school what four thing has made you who you are today? everything did. But what are top four that made you who you are? Then once you have that four, you're going to do story time, right? Each story, each topic you pick, this is ## June: Finishing Strong & Starting Essays [08:15] probably a story in your head that you kind of thought of for each one. Tell me the story really quick though. After you told me the story really quick, the next component of this is going to be we call it dig deep, right? Dig deep as well too. That means there what's where that come from? What's the why behind what you talked about? What's the inner thing? What do you want the readers to know about you? Right? Then we have our students do a messy draft where that's basically get your all your thoughts down. Actually, no, before we do the match draft, we're going to pick the prompts first. Pick the prompts first, right? So, now that you have the story, the insight, right? What's the prompt you're going to pick with each other to pick the prompts on for each of the stuff? And again, keep in mind the prompts not probably not going to change by the time this upcoming year comes around. And then you do a messy draft, right? This is a messy draft. This is mainly for the PIQ's if you're applying to the private schools. If you're sorry, the UC schools, if you're not applying to the UC schools, these are excellent topics for your supplements, right? So, keep that in mind as well too. Once you have it, so CPIQ or supplements, right? Once you have that done, we're going to go ahead and have our students do the personal statement draft. Right? Okay. So, this is for the private schools, the out ofstate schools, the common application and after that that's the whole day, right? So, you clear it up as well. So, this is the kind of step by step uh if you're looking to come to your event. We we run through all this with the student, right? That is basically our kickstart, right? So, if you guys aren't coming, I don't know why, but feel free to to do it on your own. This is the steps here. Okay? So, that's basically April, right? And you also got to celebrate celebrate uh celebrate coach Tony's birthday. I my my birthday is next week as well too. Right. So boom. Right. So is that right? So that's that that is part of the the homework for all seniors. Right. Next May. Right. So in the month of May itself what do we do? Again this there's three kind of categories. Academics activities activities and the application itself. Right? If all goes well, you see that we don't will have a lot of changes, right? So, this one in May, right? Do well on AP exams, right? Prepare for finals, right? As well, too. So, you're preparing for your final exams. But also, one more thing is that summer classes, right? Are you going to do summer classes? I do recommend a lot of juniors right now do plan to take a college class unless your record is so good, right? The reason why is these classes are the last set of grades that the colleges will see. Colleges won't usually see anything past uh your summer. So that's going to be really important there. They'll see senior year but they won't see the grades of senior year itself. So that's going to be really really important for us to get right. Okay. So as that uh register so as register for summer classes, right? When it comes to activities, right? Same thing. continue continue doing what you're doing right and when it comes to activities right there's kind of two buckets of activities right the bucket number one is uh things related related t I call tasting your major right tasting your major so if you told me I want to be a business major I'll be like cool how do I know if I looked at your application how do I know you are a business major if you told me I want to be an engineer cool how do I know you want to be an engineer I call it taste doing things to show the reader that you're interested in. That is number one. Then the bucket number two is going to be uh uh your interests, right? And what makes you what makes you different as well too. So outside of your major, what else are you doing? Because everyone, let's say you're computer science, everyone who's doing computer science is doing the same bucket number one. They're all coding. They're all doing hackathons. They're all taking coding classes. That's the same for everyone. What makes it different is going to be bucket number two. And I think that's the big difference here. Okay. So that's that here, right? Keep doing what you're doing is is the biggest thing you'll see. By the way, that's that's pretty much activities the the whole way through, right? Application, right? Same thing as above uh as well. So when it comes to the application process, if you haven't come to Kickstart, right, come to Kickstart is is the biggest thing. You're working. But for those who have attended Kickstart, you're working on your drafts, right? We're our students are starting to work on their drafts already. We know that students are busy every summer, right? And again, some of you guys are probably planning summer trips and everything as well too. The reason why a lot of students don't uh do this till after summer is they're like, "Oh, oh, time management, right?" So, if you manage your time and you plan for it, this is why because one of the I'm gonna skip ahead a little bit, right? The reason why why start so early, ## July: Making the Most of Summer Activities [13:00] right? One here's a here's a strategy for you guys, right? One of the strategies you want to apply early action to as many schools as you can, right? The re the reason why you want to do this is that let's say uh best case scenario, what we all want, you get accepted, right? Uh uh result number one, you get accepted, right? And you're done, right? You get accepted, you're done. Especially if it's one of your top schools, even even easier. We're done as well, too. If you don't get in, right? Do you get rejected? No, you do not get rejected, right? Instead, you get re uh deferred. Deferred, right? Meaning they push your application to the regular cycle, which means you have two shots now. Re early and regular uh as well, right? So, you get two sh. So, why don't more students do this earlier? because most students don't start thinking about their college apps and essays until after they come back from uh from summer break right summer break you come back when September I think right late late August right early September right and then early action apps early decision apps right these are due mid October right so you have like a month right so October so that's why not a lot of people do it because hey they don't have time to finish it versus imagine if you started back in April back in May you will have all those months to kind of keep working on your essays make sure they're perfect by the time you get there you can submit with confidence okay so that's May let's move on to June right so again keep in mind this is going to be a general one some schools a little different some of you guys are already done in school um in May some of you guys will leave in June as as well too. Same same three categories. Academics, activities and the application itself, right? So when it comes to the academic and this will be get a little repetitive now as well too, right? You want to finish finals strong, right? Is the biggest one. Uh over here you got prepare for summer classes. Prepare for summer classes here. Activities, right? Continue activities. All right. When it comes to application, you're also going to also do uh you're going to also going to do um uh again work a kickstart if you haven't signed up for kickstart yet. This is our last month that we're hosting Kickstart and work on your drafts. Right? Boom. Right? Very straightforward. June nothing super complicated yet. Right now is get start getting exciting July. Right? So July is going to be fun. Right? Because some of you guys are going to be on vacation, some of you guys are not. So let's kind of copy a few of these real fast. Right? So when it comes to academics, right, summer classes, do well in summer classes. Again, as a reminder, the reason why we're doing summer classes is this is the last set of grades that colleges will see on your profile. You want to end on a strong note. All right? That's why we do summer classes here. Think two do two summer classes is the screen class there. Continue activities. Right? This is now let's throw in the word summer activities cuz now you're transitioning to summertime. you're doing stuff. For juniors, by the way, incoming seniors, this is probably your last summer to do anything. So, make sure you maximize the time. Big little little tip here, right? Like FYI, right? FYI, right? You have uh 24 hours a day ## August: Applications Open! How to Be Ready [16:30] times 7 days a week, right? That's a whole week, right? So, that's 168 hours in a week. Okay? Keep in mind, you you should be sleeping for eight hours at night. So that's 56 hours gone, right? Uh summer is there school? Probably not unless you get summer classes, right? But how much is summer classes, right? At most. At most, right? At most 40 hours. Uh sorry, like 30 hours a week, right? For school, right? And how much homework, right? Probably not a lot of home, but at most, right? At most 15 hours, three hours a day for homework, right? Let's say summertime. You got to hang out with your friends as well too, right? Maybe let's say two hours a day roughly two hours a day for Tik Tok, Netflix, blah blah blah. Two hours a day per day for I call uh me time. Me time. All right. Video games, Netflix, Tik Tok. When you do the math, right, 160 - 56 - 30 - 15 - 14, you still have 53 hours left. So the question when people told me, coach Tony, my child has no time. They're so busy. I'm like, really? Really, really? Tell me how they go. And because and I believe it if you give me a big list of stuff they're doing, but they're like, "Oh, no. They're just uh they're in the summer program." I'm like, "Okay, how long summer program? Is it all 10 weeks of summer?" "No, it's only two weeks." I'm like, "Okay, what about the other eight weeks that they have, right? Hey, they are doing a program for like eight weeks. Awesome. Are they in the program 24 hours a day?" No. It's probably if it's that long, it's probably like 8 hours. Cool. What about the other 8 hours sleeping, 8 hours doing that, 2 hours doing you? Where's the other six hours going to then? There's always time. People can underestimate the concept of time is a thing. Again, we're not making you do stuff you don't want to do either, right? Do stuff you enjoy. That's that's that's what the whole beauty of this, right? When it comes to July, we no longer have kickstarts, right? We now have accelerators, right? So the accelerator is where we take our students drafts from done to final draft. With this one, we do host them also in person um as well too. So we have 15 students, three coaches, 5 to1 ratio. Very very cool. 60 different city across California. You guys can join as well too. So that's that right. U one other thing you do for our coaching families, you're going to have an essay strategy session, right? Session with our strategist. What we're going to do is we're going to take your first draft where you're at and see. Cool. Are these the right dress for you? Do we need to tweak it? Do we need to scrap? Because I'd rather scrap it now than wait till later to scrap it as well too, right? So, this would be a big session that we do to make sure you are doing this uh here. Okay, so that's July. Moving on. Oops. Moving on to August, right? When it comes to August, uh same thing, right? This is pretty straightforward uh as well, right? So, August, uh boom, right? But it's a little little different now, right? do well summer classes, come to your activities, right? Uh what happens? Uh come to accelerator, right? What happens in August everyone? Applications, all college applications open October 1st. October 1st. So, not sorry, not October 1st. What am I talking about? August 1st. Every app will open August 1st, right? So, if ## September-October: Early Action/Decision Strategy [20:00] you're applying, anyone here applying to UC's, drop a number one in the chat. Anyone here applying to a UC school, drop a number one in the chat if you are applying to a UC school. And if you are applying to a private or out ofate school, drop a number two in the chat. If you're one of those who are applying to a private, an Ivy, right? Drop a number two in the chat. One, you see two privates uh as well, too. All right, we got mix. We got a mix here. We got mixes of ones. We got mixes of twos as well. Beautiful. Beautiful. Thank you everyone. Right. So, a mix of both, right? So, the UC app and the common app and those using the Coalition app, it all releases on August 1st. Spoilers again, it doesn't change most statist statistically doesn't change. And if they do change, which they which they do, they'll change like one or two questions on it, which again, it's not worth waiting till August 1st to start for one or two questions. So, I will go and it's not even like an essay question. It's like I think last year or two years ago, it was instead of asking what's your preferred name, they say what is your lived name? That was the one change the entire app. We we we go through it every year to kind of vet for it. For those of you who are watching this live in the month of August, the first week, I want to go through it live and show you guys what are the changes from last year to this year. Uh so you guys are aware of that as well too. Okay. But again, it's very something small doesn't like the year before that they moved the financial question about um residency from the from the last to the first section. So again, very very small change that doesn't really affect much at all. Okay. So that's that. So all the apps are going to open. So again, I would create I would recommend creating the accounts this month as well too. So which each of the schools you're applying to, you can apply you create an account. You can actually create an account now. You don't have to submit it now, but you can go create an account to see what it looks like. So you guys have an idea of what these apps look like as well. But again, big thing is that on August 1st, the college apps are going to open. And hopefully you guys are making progress uh on your apps as well too because you can start uh doing plugin in right one thing I'll share as well for those who are curious the common app has something uh called automatic admissions now right so the common app this is not this is like the private schools and out of state schools as well too right for these there's a new feature now on common app where you are able to plug in your uh plug in your details, right? And once you plug in your details, uh once you plug in your details, it some schools will actually say, "Hey, we want to grant you admissions automatically." So, it's a pre-enrollment almost um as well. Okay, so that's that. That's pretty much the applications. Okay, so moving on. We're in September now. We're getting excited, right? So, it's September here, right now. We're usually starting senior year, right? Okay. So, do well again. Senior year, you're going to go ahead and do well in senior year, first semester. Why do I say that? Because colleges, most schools will not see first semester, some will, right? Some will. Some schools might ask for it. Some might ask, some might ask for it is number one, right? Some if you apply reg some might require it if ## November: Finishing Touches & Enjoying the Holidays [23:30] regular. So some of your private schools their their their essays are due in January and February. By January and February you do have your grades. So some schools will actually require you to make sure you have that. So again either way make sure your first semester is really strong. Some schools again the UC's have something called augment to review where they might ask you for hey tell me how you did for a semester if you didn't do well and you usually get that by the way spoilers if you're in the middle if you're in the maybe pile. Okay so uh that's that's something important to keep in mind as well too. So that's that that's the biggest piece over here and then so that's pretty much it for academics when it comes to Timmy continue right but right here's the FOI here right here's the real talk right this is got this is going to matter less and less as the days go on right so when it comes to your activity section right you should you should do this just to keep doing it but for the purposes of college admissions is if you're doing something quality admissions, this is not going to be something they're going to check for or audit for as well too. That being said, right, we do recommend treating activities, right? Activities as your stress reliever, right? Because a lot of students, they're not doing soccer to to do well in college, right? They're not doing this club to look good for college. Some of you guys might have, but the idea is these clubs is their destressor. It is their escape away from everything else. So I do encourage you to that's why I tell them find stuff you enjoy because it won't feel like work but keep in mind the activity is not going to play a big role kind of almost moving forward here. Okay. And then the okay this is our last month. Last month we're hosting the accelerator event uh itself. That's pretty much it. I think those those all the big ones. So we're last month we are finishing the accelerating event for our coaching families. By the way, you're going to start doing sendoff calls with our team here. Sendoff calls. we go ahead and share your screen cuz by now you should have your essays done uh if you worked on it all summer, right? So, you're going to share your screen with us. We're going to make sure everything's plugged in correctly on your app and we click submit together on your app. So, you are good for the early action. Our internal deadline by the way for the early action early decision schools is going to be October 1st, right? Our students are typically done two to three two to four weeks before each app is due. So, you don't stress about it, right? Like I mentioned earlier for those I saw a question come in right there's early action early decision out there. Early action early action means you apply early you find out early. That's kind of the first one. The other one is called early decision. Early decision is apply early. If you get in, you're legally going here next year because you sign in a a an agreement with the college saying if you tell me yes, I am committing here. So with the ear decision school, you can only do it only pick one college, right? Uh only you can't pick more than one school because again you can't legally commit to two, right? Only to one. So that's that's the big thing here. It is a little higher increases, right? higher increased odds than uh than the other ones as well too. But again, it's only one that you're ultimately going to as well. And as a little spoiler, like what if I don't go right? Can they really stop me? Answer is no, right? Legally, they again they can, but they're not going to go after you because then keep in mind it's going to be bad publicity for them. But what's going to hurt is your school, right? So your school is going to be uh the one there. So again, definitely uh definitely definitely that's the thing there. Okay, so that's the biggest thing here. Uh that's the September, right? Moving into October, right? October as well. So we're going to October and you can start see getting similar and similar for you guys, right? Academics, we still want to do well uh uh first semester because again, what if they ask for my grades? We want to do well as well too. We want to continue our activities because that's going to be big. We no longer have accelerator for our students, but we're going to have the sendoff calls. The next internal deadline for us is on November 1st, right? If you're applying to the UC's, right? UC's and Cal States. We actually have our students submit it early, right? UC's and Cal States, by the way, UC's and CSUs give you a preview. Their applica, they do not have do not have early action or decision schools or decision. They only have regular and their regular is November 30th. Last two years they kind of changed it on us. Well, I last year they changed it which was like a little interesting but typically it's November 30th is the date. So that's something we want to you want to plan for um as well. Okay. So that's be the the big time over here. And then November. So you see we kind of speed through this up a little bit more in November. You guys, I I'm a huge fan of enjoying thanks Thanksgiving with your family. So try to get your abs as fast as you can as well too. Academics still do well. Activities do well. Send off calls. We do our send off calls where students for the private call the private out of state deadlines for us is December 1st, right? Because can you keep working on it after? Of course. Do you want to spend your Christmas break, winter break, holiday break working on essays? I don't think so. Right. And plus, if you applied early action, early action, right, you have most your essays done already. So, it's not like the hard part was done. The hard part is the essays. The rest is easy. Oh, once you have this done, we got to tweak a little bit per school and submit, submit, submit, submit, submit to all the rest of school. So, you'll be done with even before winter break itself. Okay? So, and that is the key of all this. as long as you're done uh before the new year. That's kind of our mini game plan for you guys there. Okay. Well, this has been a quick little highlevel kind of like breakdown of what you should be working on every single month if you're especially a junior right now going into senior year itself. Okay, that being said, um I see here um I see here you have a question in the chat. Uh, by the way, before I everyone is interested, right? One one more little little plug real fast. You guys are interested in the the the intensive events, right? It's really really cool. We've already had we already had three, right? It's only when we had three so far. We have uh two virtual ones so far. One we work with the high school. So, if your school is interested, talk to our team. We can actually come out to your high school and work with a group of students as well too. That's pretty cool. Um, so that's that. And then, uh, we have nine more weekends. NA I think Nimo weekends of this basically we're doing April May and June all of April sold out May one fun thing in May we have one inperson intent like one inerson kickstart which is cool as well too I'll be there so those who are free May 31st I'll be in the San Jose area uh to host that one that's be really really fun there and then uh in the uh summertime we're going to have kickstarts and then we're going to have help you uh sorry accelerators to help you with the the finishing of the essays there as well. Okay, so that's cool. All right, questions question questions. One person here says u signed up for a kickstart. Thank you for signing for kickstart. Uh but not accelerate. Can I cancel but sign up for another kickstart? Accelerate paid my down deposit. So what you can do reach out to our team. Send an email. Um right send it. So for you, send an email to our team and they can give you and they can give you they can they can help you out with this with this right email at supportlock it's the word collegebacks.com. So go ahead and email our team and then um our team can help you out with this here. Okay, next one. Should you ask for Lazarre and Oops, didn't copy it correctly. Did Should you ask for Lazar? Uh, great question as well, too. Let's go ahead and add to our little thing again. Right. I I forgot that. Thank you. No. What I would strategically do, I would ask in May, right? I would ask in May. So in May, I would ask two three people for a letter to to uh to to see if they can write you a letter of recommendation, right? Why why do you do it this early? The reason why is you're showing the the recommenders that you are proactive, right? The more traits you can showcase to them, the more they can showcase on their letters to you as well, too. So we usually and plus this helps you prefer prevent um like who who do I ask for later on. So one of the big things here and realistically you're not going to ask a senior year a senior year teacher for lesser because they don't know you right so it'll probably be someone you've already had contact with or working with already 11th grade teacher 10th grade teacher sometimes someone outside a coach or someone else right so usually by the end of junior year you kind of have idea of who you want to ask and some colleges will ask for like a teacher of a a math teacher English and you kind of stuck with kind of figure it out but again at this point is ask first, right? Ask first and then when you come back from break, right, September, right? Re ask for a letter of recommendation, right? And then say, hey, you told me yes, end of last year. Can you still write me one? They're going to say yes. Awesome. Then you can go ahead and do it um as well. Okay. So, keep that in mind here. Okay. So, I think that that'll help you. and just make sure that the recommended submits on time. We actually have a whole training also rest if you guys are interested in that. Just text our team. Our team can grab it for you. Uh if you guys are interested in that training there. Okay. Um another question here is should this copy is not working. All right. Try again. You mentioned Tim is less important. You consider taking a leisure role in a club FBA not worth it. Uh so here's the answer. The answer is always worth it, but you shouldn't be doing it for college, if that makes sense. Because if you're doing it for college, when I ask you why you doing that, your student will have no answer. So, here's a little spoilers, by the way, for the weekend events that we throw. This is how I know so fast why. What's the motivation behind your student? The reason I keep saying, if you watch my for a while, I keep saying do what your kid loves. Do what your kid loves. Do and some of you agree and some of you like, no, there that's too easy, right? to do something else. How I find out is during kickstart. I ask a student, tell me why you did this. The students who know why so fast those kids finish so easy because that's what we're trying to pull out of them is and then there's a reason why if and this this is like the little little gut check. Parents, if you are doing things, if your child's doing things to look good for college, it's could be really hard for them to write their essays because the essay is not about the thing. It's about their why. And if you did something because it looks good for college, that is your why. Your why is it looks good for college, which it's hard like you do you really want to write that? I want to do this to look good for college, right? versus there's a student who cares about this stuff a lot more and their story is gonna be a lot stronger. So that being said, right? And of course I think the student would want to do that, right? Because if you love something so much, you're going to keep doing it. If you keep doing it more, you want to give back, you want to help others, right? As well too. That so it's natural. Again, the idea is it should be natur you shouldn't have to force this uh as well too. But that's the big intention of all this is like is is that who your child is? Are they a natural leader? It's so cool. They'll love to do it regardless of the payoff of it as well too. And again, you can share, right? You can share. So when I say to to to to recap for those who are selective listening, selective listening, right? When I mention uh the real talk here, it means let's say you stop doing the things that you're doing, right? or you you you say you do it but you don't do it is no one's going to audit you. No one's going to be like is Johnny still the president of this club? They're not going to do that right as well too. But does does your list matter? Yes. What you do what you're planning to do senior year? Yes. The classes what you take senior year? Yes. That's important as well too, right? But are they going to audit you? I think that that's that's kind of been better. Let me rephrase why I wrote earlier. Are they going to audit and check is Johnny still doing this? John's still doing this. John's still doing this. They're not going to do that. So that that's the what I was trying to share earlier. Okay. All right. Does UC's look for AP scores for college admissions? It is a factor. We do see it. But there's a reason why you don't hear me talk too much about AP scores, right? Because again, it's just a score is all. Okay. Question. Do I need to get an internship for my application? Fun fact. No, most of our students do not have anything and they get in. And we interviewed a bunch of our students on our YouTube channel. If you guys look up the word Eagle Lock, college backwards, you'll probably find it as well. You'll see that our kids don't do that and they still make it in uh as well too. So again, do you need it? No. Can you have it? Sure. Right. Sure as well too is the biggest thing. Right. Next one. Uh do readers, right? Do readers wait until that to read the apps or is it rolling my app comes in? It is they they start reading once they are trained, right? They start reading once they are trained. When are they trained? Historically around late uh late October, early November. There's a reason why we have our students submit November 1st. Oo man. Right. Right. You can start submitting. I think October 1st is when the app opens to start submitting. We don't have students submit that early because again, no one's going to read it that early. But they'll start reading once the training is done. So for me when I was as a trainer, it was they only opened in the month of November back in the day. So our training was mid um was mid November. So any apps that was submitted from like a November 1st like 10th we no one read it or the team read it internally but like the readers themselves didn't read it yet. So once we were trained then we went ham then we started attacking the the prompts after that. So that's the thing. So it's I would say it's rolling. If you want to think about rolling, it's rolling and every app gets multiple reads there. Okay. Um, this parent asked again. I already mentioned it, right? So, if you signed up for the kickstart, want to upgrade or cancel or whatever, right? Send email to our team. They're going to help you guys out um as well. And for you, I don't think they'll cancel it. They'll probably do a change of weekend for you and have you just pay the difference to get to the the accelerator is all. But what don't don't listen to me. Trust them. our team might be much much better and smarter than I am. So do that. Okay, I think that's all the questions for today. So that is uh that is basically your month-to-month summer checklist for this. If you guys have any more questions, go ahead, let me know um in the comments down below somewhere as well too. But if not, I'll see you guys on next call. Bye everyone.