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## Welcome and Training Overview [00:00] Okay, welcome, welcome, welcome everybody. This is Coach Art and uh I am just so excited to uh do another training tonight. Uh thank you for joining me here. I know that you always have the opportunity uh to um join, you know, do other things, spend time with your family, friends, uh do some um other exciting types of activities, but you choose to join um my uh humble training here. And so I greatly, greatly appreciate you guys always spending time. Um you guys always are amazing. Um for those who are brand new, welcome. Uh for those who are um for those who are uh returning uh trainees then uh welcome back. And um what I want to do is I always say this first of all um first thing is is I am uh one of those coaches that love reactions. 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And then um if you have any questions, by all means uh go ahead. You can add them to the chat or you can add them to the Q&A section. Okay. So, we're going to go ahead and get started. Um, and today I am going to be talking about a quite interesting um topic. And I actually haven't done this one before, but I've helped of course hundreds and thousands of students with this. But, um, and it's the it's the it's one that is very interesting, which is the why this college. I would also kind of uh add to the it's the basically the why essay and what we mean by the why essay is basically um you know why this college why this this this major uh that's a pretty uh consistent question that is asked by a lot of the private schools now um the UC's which uh you know we deal with a lot of the UC's University of California uh they don't actually have this question Okay. But a lot of these schools that you're going to be going for that are private schools or that are outside the UC system, they normally will ask this type of question of why college, why major? Okay. So, today we're going to go ahead and break that uh you know down one of the most important and the most frankly overlooked essays. Okay. A lot of students they take it for granted and they they don't really write it very well. Um, so if you've ever written a version that starts like, oh, it's in a great city and has a great reputation, then definitely this is for you because um uh if you write it that way, you most likely will not get the attention of the actual reader of your um of your essays. Okay. So, what we're going to cover today is why does the why college or why major um essay matter? Okay. Uh, we're ## Yield Prediction... and Why Fit Matters to Schools [05:00] going to cover the dos and don'ts, um, how to get it started, uh, the essay itself, and then what to watch out for, and then, you know, end I'll finish off with final tips and basically any questions that you may have. So, why does this actual essay matter? And, and there's a couple of things. First of all, um, they the schools actually use this as sometimes often a tiebreaker. So when admissions officers when they see very similar applicants um they will of course go to the essays um to kind of differentiate between those and use this as a distinguishing factor to uh break the tie of whether they're going to accept you or not. Okay. So that's why frankly I know we say the why essays but any of the essays are very important but this is even important as well. Okay. Secondly, um uh what happens here is this really demonstrates the students, uh genuine interest. And what I mean by that, if you have a strong why essay, it really demonstrate that you've thought through your goals and then the school's offerings and how they pair with one another. Okay. So, a very well-ritten why college essay uh can give uh a very strong picture to um the reader of why you really belong there. Okay. And then lastly, there's a thing called yield prediction. Okay. So what yields are is that schools want to know um the yield capacity or the yield prediction meaning how many students are actually going to accept the acceptances that they're that they're given from that school. So schools want to admit uh students that will likely to enroll. Okay? And so this essay really gives them that opportunity to find out um if that student really knows about the school and that they can ## What Not to Do... Flattery... Weather... Rankings [07:00] really exhibit and show why they really fit into that school. Okay. And then that uh translates into really having them predict um what they call yield. Okay. Their yield meaning the the students that will actually um actually uh choose to go to that school. Okay. All right. So um so the next thing here is okay so let's kind of go through the dos and the don'ts of uh writing the why essay. So first of all okay here are a couple things. Um, please please please please when we're talking about cliches, do not and I and frankly I see this all the time and and again nothing against the students that have written this, but they use cliches like, "Oh, I love the weather. Um, I love the environment. Um, it's ranked number five in business. Um, I've always wanted to live in New York." Well, guess what? Those are just absolute cliches, okay? And I'm telling you, thousands and thousands of students that are writing or writing this essay are going to say the same thing. But the one thing about that is it's great. Okay, I love the weather, but who cares? Like, what does that uh the weather? Because if you say you love the snowy weather, well, guess what? There are schools in, you know, across the nation that have snowy weather. Okay? or maybe there if you like say I like sunny weather. Well, guess what? All of West Coast is sunny. Okay, so that's where um you want to make sure that you stay away and not write about cliches. Okay, the another thing is is that you want to make sure that you don't get caught into what I call the copy paste trap. Okay. Um, so what I mean by that is is you don't want to take the Y essay and then just copy and paste it for 20 schools. Okay? The reason why I say this is because then you're really not personalizing that essay and really showing um how the uh the essay of that college really matches who you are. Okay. So the thing is that now not not to say that you can't use some material from those essays in order to help you write it but what you don't literally want to do is copy and paste the exact um you know text that you've done and then change a little bit of it because the problem here is then uh you may not be you may use more generalities to fit the 20 schools than you use you know specifics and And then lastly, uh do not give just empty praise. Oh, your campus is so beautiful. Okay, well you know what? That's great that the campus is so beautiful, but ## How to Avoid Copy-Paste Mistakes [10:00] guess what? There are thousands of campuses that are amazingly beautiful. Okay, so it really doesn't um show connection. Okay, it really doesn't. So that's one of the things where you know stay away from cliches, don't do the copy and paste and stay away from overwhelming praise because they already know the readers already know their campus. Okay, what they want to know is why do you want to go to that college? Okay, and who are you and how are how do you connect to that campus? Okay, now high level what what are you going to do? Okay, so first of all do your homework. Okay, you want to know what makes that college unique. So you need to research the programs, you need to research the professors, you need to research the unique resources that are at that college. And when I say research, okay, I keep on selling this to so many students, do not do the again I tell them this, don't do this is just take the information from the first page of the website. Okay, that is a big no no. And the reason why is that first page of the website is so general that if you just I see this all the time. Students will just grab whatever's on the first page of the website, pop it into their into their um actual essay. And guess what? It's too general. Okay? So, what you need to do is you need to dig dig two or three or maybe even four levels deep into the website to find the nuggets. Okay? Secondarily, be personal and purposeful. So, you want to make sure that you're aligning your academic goals, your social goals, your uh personal goals to what the college offers. Okay, that is the go that that is the crux of how to write these essays because if you can go ahead and say uh a very unique thing like for example is let's say that you are uh into um student uh let's say student rights and you say that there is an advocacy group a specific advocacy group about student uh let's say student mental health advocacy group at the school and because you have uh been a pioneer of that in your high school, you really want to continue that. That is very very um uh personal and purposeful, okay? Versus saying, "Oh, well, I just like the campus." Okay? Uh and then um that's what I was talking about here is the next thing is highlight your fit. Okay? So, what you're doing now is you're match and mention the specific opportunities, values, or campus culture. So, it kind of goes along with making it personal and then matching that up. Okay. So, the best essays make the reader say, "Wow, this student really belongs here." ## The Right Way to Research Courses and Opportunities [13:00] Because they you have you have a very specific type of um a very specific type of goal and it matches what the school can offer. Okay. All right. So how do we get started in in trying to develop this type of essay? So first of all um we have I have some type of research formula. Okay. And so the research formula is first of all you go ahead and go to the go to the websites. And what I mean by the websites, you don't just go to the general websites. You go to the department websites and you look at the different majors and you look at the different minors and you look at the different unique courses that are offered. Okay? And why and or maybe uh some type of standout um courses or concentrations that that is very specific to what you are looking for. But what that means here is that those majors, minors, unique courses, that's where you have to really be introspective to kind of figure out also is that in line with the type of majors or maybe a career that you want to. So again, going to the specific department websites or departments um or the website of the school and then digging deep into departments is where you're going to find those nuggets of that unique courses and standout courses. Now faculty bios research their interest research the the the recent work um labs publish work but I will caution you okay I will caution you some people will say oh to mention faculty but actually why I say is to research the faculty is to look and find out about their work but it's not necessarily good to say oh I want to go to the school because Mr. Smith is there. And the reason why is is because if you do that then what happens if Professor Smith is not there when you ## What Makes a Personal and Purposeful Essay [15:00] is no longer there when you um provide your application. Then the reader is going to say well um Mr. Smith's no longer here. So are you still interested in the school? But if you mention Mr. Smith's research project and the project that they're doing, make sure that that research project is still active or that it still is is has been impactful or making impact on or so. So, it's okay to mention their name as long as you're saying is you're interested in the work but not necessarily the specific person because that person may not be there. Another thing is is to look at the student publications or club pages. Okay? Look for different articles. Look at the different events that are going on. look at the newsletters um you know look at the initiatives that they're doing and see if there's things there that are very specific um you know that that that could interest you um in in in this uh and that you that could that could really pair off the goals and the needs that you have. And then lastly look at the campus initiatives or uh traditions. Okay. Um so for example if there if the campus campus is like really big on sustainability or uh DEI efforts or or service programs something like that then you can go ahead and again find out something very unique that's unique to you and the school and that those pair off. So, a pro tip for you is when you're doing a search, let's say if you go bring up Google or so, put the school name. Okay? Um, and and then what happens is is that um so you put the school name and then put uh ededu. So, let's say you know again uh I don't know I went to university of illinois.edu and then put a keyword like for example um a keyword for the deeper research. So, for example, if you like sustainability, then you put University ofillinois.edu/ ## Build a Connection Web... Academics... Social Fit... Campus Culture [17:00] um sustainability or just put sustainability and then look for, you know, the different information about that and dig deep. Okay? Uh you guys always hear me say dig deep. That's my phrase. Dig deep. Look deeper. find out different initiatives, different programs, uh you know, um and try to get more things that are really recent even as recent as you know that um up to the point where you were filing your you know your application because then it's very relevant. Okay? Or unless they have something that's been so long lasting and maybe it's a 20-year research project that you really so interested. That's a good thing too. Okay? Thank you for the heart. I saw the heart. Awesome. I appreciate that. Love those. Okay, the next thing is is build your connection web. So, this is the thing. Don't just find one thing you like. Find a web of connections that make this school your best fit ecosystem. Okay? So, if you're saying, "Oh my gosh, I only like the academics and academics." But you know what? Um then what happens here is that if for example again if the other things are not very good or there's not really a lot of connection then you know it might when they're doing differentiating you between other other other um students they might say well this student really has more interest because there's more connection. So um if you take a look at academics, look at the programs, you know, the labs, the honors colleges, uh concentrations. If you look at, um the professional side, look at internships or research centers or co-ops or internships that they may offer, right? Globally, look to talk about studying abroad or maybe certain special tracks or maybe they have language immersion. Okay? um or socially, student organizations, um cultural organizations, campus values, okay, mission or the mission even a mission uh the mission of of the of the school. all of these things when you kind of connect the that's what the hole is the connection web and you and then you you form okay you form this profile of saying wow and what I would say is this because sometimes the why essay okay is very short like I'm saying like a hundred words or 150 words so you can't really dive into too many of these but if you if you dive and let's say you choose you love the academ dynamics and the global piece of it. Great. Choose two of those. There's a connection. Okay. So, um you know, this is how you can connect those two by looking at the different resources in the schools. And remember, dig deep. Again, dig deep. Find those those interesting nuggets that are really really personal to you. Okay? I remember one student when I was working with them and uh he loved um and forgive me saying this that he loved the art of the quaodal quaotal tribe or something like that. Okay. And it was interesting and he was digging and he found this interesting um and he was going into anthropology and he found this interesting uh uh or a uh uh one of the professors that was doing a research project specifically about that and he was able to tie and saying hey I've I've gotten this interest because there was some there's some family tie to that and I'm so interested this and that was a beautiful connection and that's and and that was something that you know was very unique unique to him, okay? And his um you know, and his connection with that school. Okay. So, if we take a look at now the essay itself, okay, so we're taking a look at the essay itself. The first thing when you're doing a structure of the essay, okay, ## Full Essay Structure... Goal... Fit... 3 to 5 Specifics... Reaffirmation [21:00] is you want to be able to express what your major or career goal. This is really, really important. And the reason why I say this is because a lot of students say, "Oh, I like the school cuz I like the campus or I like the trees or I like the program." But they never really tell, okay, this the the the readers or the school. Well, well, how does that connect to you? And so that's where you say, "My goal is to be a renowned um I don't know um uh expert at uh the coral reef." Okay. And again, I'm just giving an example, right? And and specifically because the coral reef provides uh numerous amounts of benefits in helping, you know, the medical community find new new kind of drugs to to cure cancer, something like that. Okay. Well, now they know what is your major, what is your career goal. Okay. And so with respect to that now what you can do is you can do the pivot and you can tie that motivation to the the what the school offers. Okay. And so if the school offers let's say an in-depth um let's say um you know program of marine sciences that allows you to explore your of coral reefs or so beautiful. Then now there's that connection and then what you're going to do after that after you say so you say oh here I want coral reef and uh XYZ University is amazing because their you know their program focuses on BL on on coral reef development and maintenance right and then you go into the details you list out specific programs specific resources you want to highlight three to five specific offerings like the courses or the or you know the research the clubs or so okay that pivot that I'm talking about there is really link that passion to what the school offers you put details in three to five and then at the end you reaffirm the interest with the fit okay so the big thing is this structure I know looks very simple but it is the details um that will help you shine because if you briefly tell them what you're looking to do in your life or what your goal is, your career goal. If you tell them that you tell them that the school is matching that because of this, you give them the three to five details and then now you reinforce that by saying your your values and the college values fit very well and perfectly that guess what? then you are giving them a very pinpointed um very personal very specific reason why they should put you into that school and I always say you know again kiss right keep it simple right sometimes uh less is more because you don't need to go into all of this theatrics and everything else you just need to tell them what you want to tell them and that's how you do that okay so that's the structure of the essay itself self. So, for example, and this is a really brief example. This is not a great example, but you can see here, I want to study business at XYZ University because it's highly ranked. Okay. Well, great. Guess what? There's a lot of highly ranked schools that are that um are highly ranked for business. But if you say, "I'm excited to participate in XYZ's globally recognized business ethics curriculum and join the social impact consulting club to explore the intersection of finance and sustainability." Okay. So you can see that's very specific and if you start talking about how the intersection of finance and sustainability and if their program has a very specific program or even a course ## Real Examples of Weak vs. Strong Phrases [25:00] or maybe a initiative um or an internship that combines finance sustainability, holy cow, they're going to say, "Wow, this kid really knows what they want to do and it fits perfectly." And if everything else is in line, there you go. You see? So there's the there's the difference in just specifically stating that versus this generic versus specific, you are giving golden nuggets to them about who you are, what you want to do. And on top of that, um, you know, how you're going to, you know, impact, right? Impact, um, as you become an alumni of that school. Okay, cool. So what do you want to watch out for? What are the red flags when you're doing these types of essays? Okay, so first of all, these could negatively affect um your essays. First of all, do not use overly flattering tones. XYZ is the best school in the world. Oh my gosh. Okay, they don't want to hear that. The reason why is because most likely they believe that, of course, but you don't need to reiterate that. You need to give them specifics of why. Okay. Um, you know, writing what you think they want to hear. Okay. Meaning, so that is the wrong way. And I say this about everything. Do not write about what you think they want to hear. Write about what you want to tell them. Okay? That's very, very important. Okay? Because a lot of times if you do that, if you're right thinking about what they want to hear, then you start writing in generic or vague terms. I just love the campus vibe or something like that. Okay. And then another thing is being too broad or using cliches, which we talked about, but you know, sometimes you you try too hard when if you write about something like, "Oh, this is my dream school and I'll do anything to get in." Guess what? That is the wrong thing to say when you have an overflattering tone. Okay? It just doesn't work. It's great to be enthusiastic, but it's better to be specific. Okay? So take that as a tagline. It's good to be enthusiastic, but it's better to be specific. Okay? Because they're going to hear this, you know, it's my dream school. I want to I'll do anything to get in. They'll hear that a thousand times, but they may not hear and they may not hear about the intersection between finance and sustainability, right? That's the difference. Remember I told you about when you're comparing two students, who which one has really done their research and done and and is really matching what the schools are looking for. Okay. So, how do you elevate your essay? Uh, a couple things. And I know I've given tips already before, but for the research, but here's things. Skim the course catalog or the syllabus or syllabi, multiple for cool classes that you find. just read through and then they have that they will have those ## Action Plan for Drafting and Research [28:00] online just you can see skim the course catalog read about it get and you can sometimes what I've seen which is gold nuggets is sometimes they have descriptions that are amazing that you can use literally those descriptions and put it in your essay because it matches exactly what you want to do. Okay, quote or ref or refer to the mission statement. This is golden because a lot of times sometimes when if you say the mission statement is to serve something like they'll have something like a lot of schools have that like oh to serve this and this right well if your school history high school history where you had a history of serving the community or let's say serving the underprivileged community. Well there you go. What better than to have a student that matches the mission of the school by stating the mission statement and then saying well hey I'm a I have a proven record of doing that and I want to continue right okay uh another thing mention campus initiatives that align with your interest like for example racial justice climate policy innovation hubs but I will caution you is to make sure don't get don't make this into a political situation where you're really stating what your your political um stance is. Okay? All you're doing is mentioning what are the initiatives that they've done and what are the things that you um your goal is to help in that. Okay? And lastly, limit yourself to a few powerful points. Okay? And I say this for all things, avoid this laundry list. Don't just list out all the things that you've done because you that's already listed in your activities list. Okay? You want to be very powerful. And I say this again, less is more. Be impactful by using some few powerful points. But don't just list and list and list and list. It is it is better when the reader can feel that you have a cause, that you have a purpose, that you want to make change, you want to be an impact by stating fewer words and things that are very impactful rather than a laundry list of things. Okay? So, that's that's kind of certain tips there. All right. Hope I'm not going too fast here, but I get excited when I talk about these kind of things, especially essays. I love uh reading essays, editing essays, writing essays um with students. So, again, hopefully this is uh I I see a lot of hearts. So, thank you so much for getting those hearts because that really helps me in and understanding if I'm giving the right information. Okay. So, um with respect to an action plan, so what do we do? So, here's a way to kind of get going with these type of essays. Okay. So, for this week, um if you are thinking of writing these um particular types of essays, try to um try this simple process to generate this kind of content. Okay? So, first of all, pick three of your target colleges. All right? And then what I want you to do is to go ahead and spend about 30 minutes researching each one. And remember, take the research and really dig deep. Don't do the superficial, you know, just general outside um the first page. Go three or four, okay? Really be an investigative reporter and try to find the interesting stuff that matches you and then bullet uh build a bullet list of five highly specific points per the school. Okay? And then once you do that, now draft one essay using that the formula that I just said, picking the three targets and just write it. Okay? And then what you can do there is um and this will give you the experience of trying to of trying to be able to write the uh these essays. Okay. So what you want to do is again pick the three co target colleges, spend 30 minutes and then ## Final Takeaways and Next Steps [32:00] create a bullet list, okay, of the five points and then use that bullet list to write. And so what I would always do is find um one specific point and then match it to the school, okay? Or specific point about you and match it to the school, okay? And then you draft that essay and there you go. And think about it, if you do that for for all for each of the schools, you've written your um Y college. And it's the same kind of thing as the Y major as well. Because if you state this is this is my major. This is what I want to do. And then you say, well, this is why that major matches because the schools offer this to help me. It's the same thing. Okay. So, it's the same process. All right. So what are some key takeaways? What are some final thoughts um about this? So first of all um you guys have heard this already. Avoid generalization. That is the worst thing that you can do with the Y essays because with the Y essays it's it's one of those things where it's a thousands and thousands of students are just going to be giving literally again the first page of the website. Some of them don't even do the first page of the website. They just say, "Oh, I love the school because, you know, it's it's a great campus." But never tell them specifics of why. Okay? It is truly important to make it personal and purposeful. Make it personal and purposeful. All right? So, um, the one thing that I always say, and this is not just for the Y essays, but for every single essay that you do, you want to make it personal. Okay? And you want to make it that there's a directed purpose for telling them. Remember, the application is the only thing they're going to see. So why waste it on generalities? Why waste it on non-personal information where they won't be able to get to know who you are? And the biggest thing is show fit, not just admiration. Again, I know so many students, I love this school. I'm going to do anything in school. But you want to show the fit. That is out of everything out of everything that I said it you need to make sure who are you what is the school and how do they connect together okay if you can show that if you can show that then you've done your job with respect to the why college why major uh essay okay and it's that simple and you you might say oh that's it well but sometimes that's very hard to do okay all right okay so That's really the the case with respect to the Y College Y essays. So, um I know this was a little bit of a quicker one, but you know, uh it really is the case. The Y essay is normally one of the shorter essays that are out there. They again, normally they ask for like a 100red words, 150 words. I don't I don't ever see them go any higher than that. Um and so what you have to do is you have to be very very concise in that's why that's why this process as I mentioned you know of um of the of writing this essay state your goal uh do the fit tie it together give them the specifics of why and then conclude it really quickly that's the reason why that works and it's very effective because they're normally very small and short essays okay um I'm going to go ahead and now field questions. But if you happen to not be part of our program and you love the information that I provided and you'd like to get more information maybe of how we can help your student, um please book a 15-minute assessment with us, okay? Um with one of our college adviserss. Um you can put it to this number 949-7750865 and send it to book B. Okay? B O K. send a text to this number with the word book and then we will go ahead and contact you and uh get back with you and set up a time for our college admission advisors to give you a free assessment. So, let's go ahead and I'm going to start fielding some questions here and I want to make sure I get all of these. So, um forgive me. Let me just do a couple things here. All right. So let's go with the first question here is how could I make my essays unique to myself for UC schools in which I submit the same essays for all different UC campuses. Okay. So first of all a good question because you we're talking about UC's. The UC's don't have the why college why why college why uh major. Okay question. So that's one thing. And it says, "How can I make myself unique to my unique to myself for UC schools in which I submit the same essays?" Remember, what they're looking for is they're not looking for spec specivity spec specificity um for that college. What they're looking for is they're trying to find out the kind of person that you are. The question inherently that you're asking for is how can you make yourself different is what you're trying to do now is you're trying to figure out what is the reader? what can I do to um you're trying to guess what the reader wants to hear. That's not the way to do it. You need to tell them who you are. Okay? And so um with the UC's, you only have four questions that you're going to answer. So you tell them who you are. Don't be so concerned about telling them what you think they want to hear. Okay? Remember how we mentioned that in this? So it's really, really important. Tell them who you are. And again, I'm going to give this and and my sons probably kill me when I tell you about this, but I always use this as an example. So, my oldest son, everybody probably knows this if you've been on my training. I've mentioned to my about my sons, but my oldest son who went to UC Berkeley, his essays were is he wrote about um beatboxing, anime, hurdling, and um refurbishing computers for less fortunate families. Okay. None of that had to do with um necessarily the campus. None of that necessarily had to do with the um uh with his major. Um but what it did is it gave them the perspective of who he really is. So specifically because this question is surrounded by specifically UC's to differentiate yourself is to talk about yourself and be personal and to give them who you truly are and not to focus on what they think you want uh what they what you think they want to hear. Okay. So that's how you differentiate yourself. Okay. Um so hopefully that answered the question of that person. The second one is, is the widest college essay asked when the student has pro proceed to the second round after they met GPA? Okay, good question. Good question. All right, so um the question was is does this question the essay is it asked in the second round? All right, typically um typically no. Um, and the reason why I say this is because what happens here you what we uh it's funny someone asked uh this question in my open office hours last yesterday. They said what is a supplemental essay? And so this is considered the why us why y college y major is a supplemental essay because it is a secondary essay besides the uh if you're doing common app the personal statement it is a secondary or supplemental essay that they're asking which is normally again why us why college why major and so they will normally ask alongside the personal statement okay uh the UC's don't again UC's now mind you the UC's after they have reviewed your essays. the readers may actually ask for additional questions and that could be considered that and they might the reader might they they might ask you well why do you want to so more likely it's the case where it's specific so for example if you're if you want to go to the art school at at at a UC and they say well why do you want to do specifically us because of you know the kind of art you're doing so they might ask that right um but normally uh this why college is asked alongside with the personal statement. Okay, in the common application. All right, so that's uh that's normally what's the case. Okay. Uh but you could get a secondary question um if you if you go and this person said second round. Normally again uh a lot of the schools have two readers and then they have a a committee review or they might have a specific review by a professor or um uh subject matter expert. And so at any round, the first round, that second round of experts or the third round even the committee, they might ask for supplemental information. And that supplemental information could be, well, why are you choosing us? It could be um but typically it's it's it's alongside with the um the personal statement. Okay. All right. Great question. Great question. Um is there any more questions from anybody? Any more questions? Okay. What are the rounds of an application? I'm unfamiliar with the term. Oh, okay. Sorry. So let me kind of explain when I say rounds and there's so um I'll give it to you in the context of the UC's because that's something that is very familiar but also these are kind of typical what happens here is um first of all applications come in right um they're sorted they're you know they do something with the with the applications and then what happens is there's typically a first round and what that um if I say a round there's one round where they have readers okay people who are reading the actual applications and deciding on whether it's a yes, no or maybe. Uh in the UC's perspective, it's a highly recommended, recommended and not recommended. So you'll have let's say a review of by two readers, maybe even three readers, who knows? But so usually it's two readers. So that's the first round in which they will read it and then they will assess whether it's a yes or a no or a maybe. Okay, so that's the first round. Second round, and sometimes some schools this, some schools don't. UC's I know do this sometimes with respect to if you have a specific major um that they will or or you have maybe an interesting case what they're going to do is they're going to review uh by a a subject matter expert let's say a professor you know um normally it's professors uh specifically if you have let's say uh an engine uh somes that are highly impacted like engineering or or maybe an art professor something like that okay and then they have another round after that in which maybe it's a committee because what happens is normally it goes to a committee for final approval. Um a lot of times if you have a yes and a yes from a reader that goes through. If you have a um a yes and a maybe then the committee has to decide and of course you have a no and a no then that that's also a decision. So that's where we talk about rounds. Okay there's different rounds because um that's the progression of the application uh throughout the process. Okay. Um, okay. So, the question here was, "My kid is right away right now, but she needs to watch this webinar ASB tomorrow. I'm a member." Okay. So, um, we normally put the the uh replays uh out on um on our on YouTube. Um, it it it takes up to a week. Um, I can try to ask to see if we can get this on. Thank you so much. That's that actually uh that that that really uh moves me because it seems like a lot of people you guys love this this particular training. So, thank you for that. I really appreciate it. Um but we'll try to get this replay out there. Um again, these are the kind of things that we do in our program uh is helping students write specific types of essays. It seems to me like um and I'm going to ask the question, you guys give me some hearts. uh if we did these a kind of a series of these of how to write the Y essay, how to write the PIQ, how to write the personal statement, would you guys think like that and would you attend the training for that? Okay, cool. All right. So, I will tell you there's a very cool thing that we're going to do. Um my coach, Coach An, he's one of our our our great amazing coaches here. What we're gonna do is we're gonna pair off and we're I'm gonna actually we're, you know, we're gonna actually write a Y essay live. Okay. So, that's the next uh not the next one for next week, but we're going to be scheduling it. It's going to be actually in um I think in the beginning of July or so, but we're going to actually write a Y essay live. I'm going to go through, we're going to show you how to do research. We're going to actually pick a school. We're going to research. Uh we're going to act like a student, and then we're going to write it out. So, I think that's going to be a very cool one. Um, look out for that one. Okay. So, um uh I think that's it. If there isn't any other tra uh questions, if there is any other questions, I'll I'll call it a day here. But again, remember, if you uh are watching this and you have if you're not part of our program and you just want to see more about our program, book a free uh 15-minute assessment with us um by typing in book B at 949-775865. Text us that and then we'll get definitely have someone um talk, you know, contact you. Okay. So, thank you so much. Again, I always say this. I am so honored and privileged to have you with me um for my trainings. I know that you can choose to um spend time with your family, your friends, uh do other activities out there, but you choose to spend time with me. And I am so privileged and honored and blessed that you uh took that time out today. So, with that said, thank you so much. I wish you luck in writing the Y College essay and uh if you're part of our program uh hit us up in Discord and if you're not um you know contact us so we can try to help you. Okay, have a wonderful evening and uh we will see you uh in my next training. Okay guys, take it easy. Bye-bye.