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## Welcome and Introduction [00:00] What's up everyone? Coach Tony here. In this training, we're going to do UC application extracurricular secrets. So, this is a a training on how to make your activities stand out. So whether you are a junior right now are preparing for college applications for your UC app or your common app or if you are a eighth nth 10th uh grader who are preparing for apps for activities this training is going to be for you. So I'm currently going live on Facebook. I'm currently going live on Zoom. We have over 135 people here on Zoom. Facebook's always a little slower, so I can't tell the actual number over there. If you guys can see my screen, uh, you guys can hear me. Last week, we had some audio issues, but this week, if you guys can see me, hear me, drop a quick yes in the chat. If you guys can see and hear me, help me out, help me, help you out, drop a yes in the chat on Zoom, on Facebook, uh, as well. And then we should uh be good for to to go. I see ## The Three-Part College Admissions Formula [01:10] I see yeses, right? Yeses are good. All right. Fantastic. So uh for those who is our first time meeting, my name is Coach Tony. I'm actually a former UC Berkeley admissions reader. So I actually read apps behind the scenes, said yes and no, recommended yes or no to students. And then in doing so, you start to see trends, right? Why yes kids get yeses, why no kids get nos. And in doing so, you start to understand, hey, these are what college is looking for. And for if you are uh if you just joined our group, if you've been with us for a long time, uh inside our UC admissions Facebook group last Friday, if you're watching this live, last Friday, UCLA came out and holy moly, so many of our families got accepted to UCLA. So if you guys are bored after this call, don't leave this call, right? If you guys after this call, you guys are bored, go pop in the group, tap. I I pinned it to the very top. You guys can skim through the comments, get all warm and fuzzy. So, for any of our younger families, right, if you're in middle school, 9th, 10th, uh 11th grade, you can get excited for the future as well, too. So, a lot of our families got in. They kind of gave us credit, but again, they did the hard work. We just kind of helped guide them to get there as well. And what we told them, we're going to teach you guys today. Uh so today we are focused a lot on the extracurriculars the activity side of it. So let's go ahead and get started. So first off I would like to do some some theory so you guys understand where is where where does this where does this fit into the whole picture right? So when it comes to the admissions process there's three factors of important. There's going to be the academics there's the activities and the application itself. These are the three components that you got to make sure you get right. Today we're going to focus on the activities. Right. This is where the activity section fits in between these ## Why GPA Is Not the Most Important Factor [03:00] three categories, right? Which one is the most important? Pop quiz in the chat. Which one of these is the most important? Academics is less important than the activities which is less important than the application. So we believe this is like the inequality of the three components as well too. This is why, by the way, parents, if you're watching this call live and you're part of a lot of other Facebook groups and a lot of people, a lot of people are complaining in other groups that they're like, "My child was a 4.8. There's kids with kids with less GPA that got in." Duh. You're looking at the least important factor. So, my little mini rant there, you're comparing the least important factor that also goes with like, "Oh, my child is this ethnicity or this gender." Dude, UC's don't even look at that as well too. So again, people just like to say stuff to make them feel feel good. It's all but keep in mind this is the true order, right? That we believe that if you focus on your application being the most important thing, your activities being the second most important thing, and your academics, not saying it's not important, still important, least important of the three. This is going to help you guys kind of understand how you want to shake your time, right? Because at the end of the day, it's a time management game. You want to be able to manage your time. So if you think of from a time point of view, right, we want to minimize academics time. We want to maximize activities time, right? That that's kind of the big kind of math problem you guys want to think about. That's why I tell our students, hey, you want to yes, you want to hit the strong classes that you do, but we want to minimize time there. I want you guys to spend as much time as you can. So here goes tip number one, right? So number one, how do you maximize the time, right? Spend a lot of time, right? Time there. So typically if you are aiming for the UC schools, we typically see our students aim for about roughly 20 hours per week of activities, right? You're like, "Holy moly, that's a lot of time as well too." And though for those of you guys are aiming for Ivy's, right? Those you guys haven't checked it out on our YouTube, we upload a bunch of our Ivy interviews for our students have gone to the Ivy's, MITs, NY schools, as well as these Ivy Plus colleges, right? If you look at them, they're all doing ## How UC and Ivy Students Spend 20 to 30 Hours per Week on Activities [05:15] different things, right? I'm going to sneak ahead a little bit. sneak ahead a little bit. Tip number two, uh there's no checklist. There's no checklist, right? But going back, right, going back, right? The IVs, our students are aiming for around 30 hours per week of activities. And you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, Coach Tony, how is that even possible? I don't even have that much time to breathe, right? So, let's do a quick little math problem really quickly so you guys know this is actually very doable. And you guys can see that as well, too. Right? Typical week, right? Right. Typically, again, this is aim. The key word here is the word aim. Also, again, I'm sure some people be like, "Coach Tony, but this week's really crazy. Coach Tony, I have a test this week." I'm like, "Yeah, yeah, agreed." Right? This is the aim for, right? I'm going scroll a little higher. It looks like in my in the Facebook I'm getting cut off over here. But typical week, right? Typical week's what? Typical week 24 hours a day times 7 days a week. There's 168 hours per week, right? That's that's that's the math, right? You can't argue that's that's that's reality, right? Then you should, right? What's the most biggest non-negotiable for every single person alive? Sleep. You need to sleep eight hours per night times five times seven days. 56 hours uh sleeping there. And sometimes your kids like gosh, my kids not sleeping eight hours. They should, by the way, they should be sleeping eight hours a week. So that's that part, right? Next thing, what's another non-negoti? They're students, right? They're in school, right? School is what? Roughly roughly 30 hours, right, per week. This is not including all the extra things they do before and after school. This is school done 30 hours a week. Awesome. What else? There's homework, right? Cuz you think got my kids got to study, right? Let's account for three hours a day times five days a week, right? Five days a week, that's 15 hours there, right? Some of you a little more, some of you guys a little less, right? But I would say that's like what rough numbers we see, right? And cool full course load. That's usually what it is. And again, don't be like, I'm taking way more than that. Like, that's something you might want to consider. You may want to tweak a little bit, right? That's that sleep, school, homework. What you're missing? I call it me time, right? What is me time? Your kids got to be humans. They got to do normal human things. Video games, Tik Tok, Netflix, YouTube, whatever they do for like like that release, right? That that break for them. Two hours a day, seven days a week, right? 14 hours there, right? So when you do the math when you do the math of 168 - 56 - 30 - 15 -4 right you are left with 53 hours ## No Checklist Needed....The Myth of Required Research and Internships [07:50] in a week right let's give you guys like 10 hours for family dinners and whatever right all that fun right now you have about 43 hours left in a week right so the question I was asked student is how are you spending your time cuz think about with these schools that are very competit you guys are aiming for very competitive schools right the schools are very competitive do they want someone who's spending 40 hours watching Netflix all day some probably not right probably not as well too so the question is how are you spending you don't have to spend all that you have to be like a robot and do only things right but the question is how are you spending your time so again when I'm asking for 20 hours 30 hours it means spend half this time spend half of this time doing something and the thing is and now that goes to the next part, right? This goes to my number two. Good. Good transition. Right. There is no checklist. I'm going call Oops. There's no checklist. Right. We're going to call out a few of the families. I saw too, right? No, you do not need research. I was talking to a family earlier today. They was like, "Oh, but we need research." I'm like, "Need? No, you don't need research." No, you don't. You do not need internship. Oh, we need we need an internship. We need it. We need it. I'm like, no, you do not need internship, right? No, you do not need summer programs. That's all too, right? No, you don't need the big word is this do not need, right? Is the big key. Uh right over here. People feel like you have to, right? Uh people feel that thing, right? Can you though? 100%. Right? Can you 100%. And our our kids do, right? If you look at their interviews of our students, a lot of them did do research, did do summer programs as well too. Not saying they don't they don't do it, but the question is, do you need it? Answer is no. We've had stories of students who've gotten these top scores with none neither of these three kind of these are the three buzzwords I see a lot in in in high school, right? You don't they don't have that and they still made it in as well too. So there's not, right? Keep in mind, college is not looking for is not looking for a checklist of things that your student is doing, right? Is the thing, right? So, keep that in mind. There's not looking for a checklist, right? Instead, instead colleges are looking for who the student is. That is the the the key that what colleges are really searching for of understanding who the student is. Right? So now we talked ## Bucket One....Tasting Your Major Through Hands-On Experience [10:30] about hitting the the the 20 30 hours, right? Is a week. We talked about doing this. There's there's no checklist. So what do you need? Right? So number three, here's number three lesson. There's there's two buckets. There's two buckets that that when it comes to activities, right? When it comes to activities, right? activities, right? Two buckets. Bucket number one, right? Bucket number one is going to be tasting your major, right? And bucket number two is going to be doing things that makes your your child happy as well too, right? Or your student happy, right? Your student happy. So, what does this mean? The first one, bucket number one, let's talk about bucket number one first, right? Bucket number one, right? is called tasting your major. So, when it comes to admissions, right, when it comes to admissions, uh there's something there's things that the colleges are looking for called overlays, right? Overlays are things that a reader is trained to look for, right, in your application. So, they'll be looking for, hey, uh did you do these things? There's an academic component to it, which is not this training, but there's also an activity component of it as well, too. So each of the majors you're thinking about doing there are things right and again again same thing no checklist going back again not a checklist right of things basically I want to know right if so think about if I looked at your activities right activities does it show me that you are interested in X major right and that's the big question so if I looked at your activity section Not classes. People do this a lot. Classes, right? No, no, no. Classes, too. That's a different overlay. But when it comes to activities, this is where you really demonstrate it. I want to know, hey, if you're interested in something, how do I know? Let's do let's do it out loud. Let's so people can understand, right? So, in the chat, get ready to type and I need your assistance for this next part. Right? So, first off, let's do some easy examples. Let's do computer science. Right? So, example number one, right? Computer sides in the chat. Really quick, let me know if pretend you are an admissions reader at your school and a student says, "I want to be a computer science major, what would you want to see? What activities would you would you ## Bucket Two....Pursuing What Makes You Uniquely You [13:00] be like, "Ah, yes, this this student is going down a path to become a computer science major." Go ahead in the chat, type that in the chat. What things if you were a reader yourself, right? What things? So again, doesn't mean they're good or bad, right? We're not judging how good or bad they are. We just want to see, oh yeah, I can tell that they are interested in this path as well, too, right? So in the chat, I see coding. Very nice. I see coding. Uh I see classes coding, right? Uh websites, building websites. I like it. Right. Websites. We're building websites. We're building websites. So I wrote building computers. Building computers. Nice. Uh what else is there? Uh um classes to learn coding that's cool too same as coding right is as well robotics right very similar right to there as well too uh clubs right clubs uh related to AI I like that because that's again computer science what else is there hackathons I love it you guys are getting it right cool so these are examples again does that mean you have to hit these no but if you are a reader and you saw us on our student like oh yes I can tell this student is leaning towards a computer and science. Let's do one more example, right? Bio, right? These are the two biggest examples, right? Biology, right? Biology or premed. If I was a student who was interested in biome, in premed, what activities? Right? Because someone mentioned like an AP classes, which is again that's classes, that's different. That's that's a different overlay, different training, right? But now, if I was a reader and I'm looking for, again, pretend you guys are readers now, reader hat on, right? And you guys were thinking of a student who's interested in biology or premed, right? What types of activities will make you say, "Ah, yes, that student is probably going down a path for premed or going down a path of biology." Right? Awesome. We got got science clubs, right? Someone was specific. Hosa, shadowing a doctor. Love that one. Shadowing a doctor, right? Someone says volunteering at a hospital, right? Awesome. That's that's another one, too. Uh oh, Udemy edx, right? Learning about uh these are these are online courses. Just a random tip, by the way, for those who are doing this. Uh don't uh Coach Tony says Coach Tony says uh don't don't pay for the classes uh for the for the ## Real Life Examples from Our Students [15:30] certificates, right? It means nothing. It means nothing. Don't tell don't tell them I told you that. But uh the certificates you get from them, they charge like 300 bucks per class for certificate. Don't pay for those. Just go through the class yourself and that's as well too, right? Uh someone said a a job, right? Relay working in that field. Perfect. You guys get it. So the whole thing here and again people over complicate this. All you want to do as a reader, if I'm looking at your apps, awesome. any of these things will tell me as a reader, wow, this student is interested in that path, right? That's this field as well. Okay. Now, right, so that's part one. That that's bucket number one, tasting your major, right? Let's talk about bucket number two, right? Bucket number two is I call it doing things that makes your student happy. Why? Why do this? Because keep in mind, right? Uh keep in mind that we're not robots, right? We don't do one job. If you got think of as uh robots, robots do one thing and one thing only, right? We are not robots. We are humans because we are humans. We are humans. We are humans or we think we are. Who knows? Maybe one of us is AI right now in the chat, right? But we are human right now. So because we're human, we have different things. For example, right? Here's the four example. Coach Tony, right? Coach Tony, I do college admissions all day, every day, literally seven days a week, right? So, all you guys know who talk to me on the weekends, I do weekend calls and stuff that we do college admissions 101. I I do I do talks on weekends and all that fun stuff, right? That's my life and blood outside of college missions. Anyone know what else I like to do? I'm a huge WWE fan. I love pro wrestling. I've watched every single show I watch. It's on Netflix now. going to get into it with me. I'm going to WrestleMania. It's coming up later this month. Excited for that as well, too. So, WWE fan, right? That does that mean, right? Question for you. If I'm a WWE fan, right, does that mean I can't be a college admissions person? Question. If I'm a W, can I this? No. Right. I can't. Or no. Yeah, I can. Right. You can do both. What else do I do? Right outside of I collect Pokemon cards, right? You guys know me. Uh I have it back there. You guys can't see it, but I have a Pokemon cards, right? As well too. Collecting all that as well too. That's another one of my interest as well too. Uh if I go think back in me in high school, right? I also did a lot of martial arts. I did take one. I talked to a lot of students. I'm actually a 50B black dog, right? As well too, right? Wait, if I do take that mean I'm not a good college. No, that's another level of my identity as well too. So you see how when you start listing these things out, right, when ## What to Do If You’re Undecided or Switching Interests [18:20] you start listing these things out, there's going to be more and more things that makes up who this student is. So here's another way to think about this, right? Think of think about admissions this way, right? Right. Colleges are looking, right, are looking for smart students. Agreed. Agreed. Right. How do we show that? Grades, right? Grades, classes as well, too. So boom, we have that. So that's the biggest bucket. Let me draw a uh draw a table. Maybe that'll help. Insert a table. Right. So insert a table and oops. Oh no. Oh no. Right. A table. Right. So this table is uh smart kids. Right. What can we call it? Uh smart kids. Smart kids. Right. So that's that's the pool of people, right? But what's in this pool of smart people? Right. In this pool of smart people, they're also looking for insert a table in a table, right? A table in a table. Not only am I looking for smart kids, I want kids, all right, students who show me they're interested in computer science. Oo, you guys seeing what I'm doing right now? Right. So, there's the big bucket, the smart kids. There's the smaller bucket, the computer science. Right. So, there's there's that bucket. Now let's make this middle right so now you have a big bucket now you have a smaller bucket and so but in theory right let's go back a bit right computer science coding right how many computer science do you kids do you think do coding I would argue a lot right is number one now how many students do AI stuff how many students do hackathon stuff classes I would argue a lot for all these because this is what you show your major. So if you do this right, again going back to the topic today in terms of standing out, is this how you stand out? The answer is no. Because everyone's already doing that. You're doing that just to demonstrate interest. So right instead, what you want to show is not only are you a smart kid, right? Not only do you want to show me you're interested in computer science, you also want to show me this layer in between now, which is unique oops oops oops unique things that makes you you, right? Because again, if you think about uh here's another analogy that might make ## How to Write Strong Descriptions for the UC Application and Common App [21:00] sense, right? So you guys think of here, if I told you guys, think of all the college admissions people out there. It's a lot. It's a lot of us. Those you guys take got hit on my hit by my ads, right? You saw saw my face everywhere, right? A lot of college admission people. If I told you how many college admissions people work with a lot of families in California, specializ in a lot of California, top 100 colleges, it gets smaller. Not not not uh not not it's not smaller. Not everything, but it's smaller, right? But if I told you, how many college admissions people do you know? college missions California with a really cool mohawk, right? Likes Pokemon, likes resting blah blah. It makes it smaller and smaller and smaller to the point that there's only one student left. This this is how you stand out in the admissions process. It's not copying other people, right? It's literally doing things that make you you, right? Standing out means you are different. you are unique, not copying other people, right? There's things that we kind of copy, right? We do similar because that's how you demonstrate your interest in the field, but it's all this other part, this part right here, this little magical sub subsection, right? Some of you guys are doing uh sports, some of you guys are doing volunteering things outside, some of you guys are doing u extra things, right? I talked to a student who's an athlete but also is part of the school ac cappella group as well too, right? So, they're doing very different things as well too. But at the end of the day, they love it. That is what makes them them. And that's the big key of this process is this special inner inner thing that shows you who you are today. Okay, two more things before we do a little bit of Q&A for you guys. Let's I like I promised you guys there's something for the seniors, right? for the seniors. I'm number four now. Number four, I think we're number four now. Let me do something for the seniors. Yeah, number four uh for the incoming uh the upcoming seniors. And then number five, uh can I give you some ideas, right? Some ideas for you guys, right? So, idea factory. So, by the way, for those of you guys in our live chats right now, our Zoom or Facebook, give me some random interest that you have. Let me just give you guys some random ideas. I'll give you some random ideas in case you're like, wait, I don't know what to do. Boom. Here. Here's how you do that, right? So, first off, seniors, right? If you are a senior right now, really quick, our seniors, can you type the number 11 in the chat? Our seniors right now, if you're current senior currently right now, go drop the 11 in the chat. We have 150 people. Holy moly, there's a lot of people here. That's that's just Zoom. Facebook, I can't tell. Facebook could go up and down. Who knows, right? A lot of seniors here. Thank you, Evan, for joining me as well. Right. Oh, going back seniors, the most important thing, right, when it comes to when it comes to activities, right? It's how you talk about this on your app that's the most important. It's not the thing you did. People do very fancy things, but they can't talk about it. It's kind of useless uh either way. Okay. So, the the the biggest thing you want to do is you want to is how you write it. So, there's two apps I'll talk about today. There's the UC app and the common app, right? So, some of you guys are applying to the UC schools. Some of you guys are applying to like private schools, out of state schools. Uh, the common app, by the way, captures like a thousand schools. So, hopefully one of your schools fits on the common app. There are a few, just a heads up, like an FYI, right? There's a few schools that have their own special special app like MIT, Georgetown, you're applying to those schools, they have their own app, so you had to do a little do a little more copying and pasting, right? But for most of you guys, I'm pretty pretty sure you'll be using these two apps when you guys apply. Your UC application for the UC schools, one app for all the UC's, right? So the UC app uh one app for all nine UC's. There's a 10th one. The 10th one is UCSF, which is only for uh grad school. And you have the common app, right? The common app is going to be uh one app for potentially a thousand schools, right? Uh you might not apply to thousand schools, by the way. You probably don't want to. the cost money for each school, right? There's one app plus supplemental questions for each college. So, you'll see that like for example, if you apply to Harvard, right? You apply to Harvard through the Common App, but then there'll also be a set of questions that are only unique to Harvard, but the Common App will ask for the same things, the grades, the activities, your personal statement, and they will send that to every single school you apply to, right? Um, and then your supplements for each school there, right? So that's kind of the two breakdowns of the two apps as well too. And when it comes to the activities, right? When it comes to activities, right? These are a little different. So let me go ahead and talk about that so you guys have an idea of what to uh be heads up about. Boom. Right. So there's two things. There's the UC app and there's the common app. Uh really quick, I saw in the chat someone asked, "What about Calstate apps? A lot of our families are in ## Tips for Seniors on Prioritizing and Replacing Activities [26:00] California. There's the California State University system, right? the cow the cow state app they do not ask for activities they only say what are your grades what are your classes did you do activities you say yes right and once you say yes that's it as well too that's it perfect so now uh so what the difference so the UC app there's 20 slots there's 20 slots for the activities the common app there's 10 slots uh over here so there's 20 and there's 10 common pro tip by the way you want to fill up comment out by the way you want to you want to fill up all 10 for the UC app you want to fill up as much as you can it's more of an optics play so the more you you write the better it is for you right or visually better for you right is that um order does not matter in common app does matter right so when it comes to UCI you put in whatever order you want on the back end they're going to rearrange it to make it for the readers to know for the common app you put it in the exact order you feel is the most important to you to the least important. That that's that's what you think about. Hey, what's the most important thing to me? Number one, what's the least important thing to me? Number 10 or something, right? Um, keep in mind typically, right, your most important thing is probably the one thing you spend the most time doing. So, it usually has the most hours. So, if you're stuck, you're like, "Oh, we do that as well." And you kind of work backwards there, right? Keep in mind, right, if you have more I I'll do a merge merge field. actually do a merge field here. Uh, merge. Merge. Where's the merge? There's no merge here. Thought there was a merge here. File. No merge. There's I thought there was a merge. Maybe it's a different app. Huh. All right. So, so, so there basically uh there's uh the overflow area is called the additional comments. So each of these if you have more if you have more than than these actually I'm just put like down bullets here right uh there's additional comments you can uh add on uh as well to to share more if you've done more pro tip here no links all right or redirects to anything else they won't click on it realistically so so there there's no reason for you to do it anyways they're going to trust you it's it's it's the like the honor system they trust that you're going to not lie to them cuz if you lie to them that's a much bigger batter better worse issue for you is all okay so that's kind of the big things here um keep in mind there's going to be uh you also pick right from a set of uh of categories so each of these UC app they have different ones UC's have six commab has a lot more I forgot the exact number like 20 something categories or like lot lot of categories you pick for one of those right so the UC is a lot less so I I memorized it so the UC app is uh awards uh awards is number one. Number two is community service. Number three is educational prep program. Number four is other classes. Number five is what am I missing? Work experience. Number six is extracurricular. A very broad extracurriculars, right? So one of those six categories common up breaks it down to like is this uh is this athletics? Is this an award? Is this and then gives you a lot more micro categories to think about. So you guys can check pick that. Um there's no preference by the way for e ener in any of these. Uh you pick whatever is matching your profile is all right. But what what you end up adding here the most important thing in this category can't delete this uh delete rolls. The most important thing most important thing is the blurb. We call it the blurb. It's the ## How to Use Metrics and Rankings to Show Impact [29:45] description of how you explain each thing. Right? It's how you explain each thing when it comes to the blurb. Right? A few things, right? Mustd dos, some mustd dos for you guys, right? Do not write this as a complete sentence. Complete complete sentence. You are just wasting words, wasting characters. You have a limit. You have a limit on how much you can or cannot do it. Right? So, do not write consensus, right? You want to focus on uh almost write it almost like a resume. Almost like a resume in the sense of you do verb, right? And context context as well too. So verb context and I do period next verb context, right? And then context as well too. All right. And then period right in between each one. So it sounds like little section like that, right? Most important thing though include metrics in everything, right? So in every single thing that you can do, you want to put metrics to show the readers if you had to compare yourself, right? If you compare yourself against others, what will that look like? Because again, if you say again the example here, right? Example, I uh I uh won top three in the race, right? Is that good? Is that bad? Who knows, right? But if you say I won top three in the race of a thousand people, holy moly, that's you can you can tell again I I wouldn't write one, right? Because then that's a full one top three, right? Like whoa, that's more context. So metrics are huge. You want to put numbers to anything. So I always throw like anything line you you write. Is there a way to throw a number in there, right? So the readers can understand what that means. Like for example, here's here's a fun example, right? For those of you guys with kids who play video games, right? Video games. Uh Valerant. There's a game I was talking to a student. We were talking about last month. Uh and we're like, "How do we how do we package you, right? Uh in this thing." So they they're playing a game called Valerant. It's it's a fun like first play first person shooter. It's a fun kind of animated game as well too. And then we were like, "Hm, are you good?" He's like, "Yeah, I'm good." I was like, "Okay, what do you mean?" "Oh, I'm a radiant rank." I'm like, "Uh, okay. What does that mean?" So, is is that good? Is that not good? He's like, "Oh, it's it's pretty good." I was like, "Okay, cool. What does that mean?" Oh, he says, "Uh, top a thousand people get it, right?" I'm like, "Oh, okay. Is that good?" So, is top a thousand really good? And then he explained it this way, right? He explained, "Oh, only top 1% of the world are ranked uh radiants." Holy moly. Top 1% of the world, right? So, if I was to put this on your college apps, right, as well too, this student will fit under awards and it'll be top 1% ranked in the world as well too. On an off-topic random note, there are schools that do offer esports scholarships. They actually give you money to play video games at their school. Really fun concept in today's world that's not really usual in the past, but that's not the big thing here. Okay, that being said, I looking at time. I probably don't have time. I I could either do ideas or do Q&A, which which I actually want to do really quick in the chat. Thank you for everyone who's still here. We have over uh 160 people on Zoom and then a lot of people, dozens of people over here. So, I can do either questions, ideas, or I can do uh Q&A. What do you guys want to do? What do you guys want to do? Uh people like the ideas. People like the ideas. All right, let's do ideas. Ideas one. So, whoever picked the other one, I'm sorry. You got a super ## Video Games and Esports as Unexpected Admissions Strengths [33:30] outvoted everyone. All right. So, here's why we do ideas, right? Again, when it comes to these things, right? Do you guys did I give you a list? No. There's nothing you have to do, right? Nothing at all. Right? The answer is what do you like to do? Again, at the end here, here's here's a tip. Here's the pro tip for you guys, right? Pro tip, right? Pro tip is do things your student likes, wants to do, right? is is the that that's the ultimate kind of answer uh as well. So if uh if you if you forget anything, I will throw it back to the students. Hey, what do you like to do as well too? So in the chat, just to help me out a little bit, give me some uh some interest, some uh things, some fields, and I I can just rattle some ideas if I was if I was a student and I was interested in that as well too, right? Here's some things I would think about to maybe kind of get your juices flowing. All right, about like hm if I got want to get started especially because again hey I I'm stuck because that's why you're probably here right what could I do and again keep in mind this is not a do this you're good this is a does this make sense for the student does I can give you always if the student doesn't want to do it it's the wrong answer right so but hopefully maybe some students have I pick and choose one so that's the thing there right uh first one art right first one's art right so uh I would ask the student hey what do you like about art right do Do you like the the digital art or do you like u like hand stuff like not hand stuff like like painting right drawing as well too right and if you are interested in one of these I'm like cool what what do you like about it right I'd ask what do you like about this right and then is it them showcasing themselves is it them learning about others or doing other things right so let's say they like to showcase themsel I like I like to I like to showcase myself then I'd be like cool let's let's showcase yourself right what if you create like a Instagram account which is more visual right you create create an Instagram right where you showcase uh your work right maybe you like to write as well too you're going to go ahead and create uh a medium.com right and uh showcase your work and uh write a blurb uh about uh each thing that you do as well too imagine you grow this right then on your college apps right I grew grew X accounts ## Final Takeaways and Next Steps for Every Grade Level [36:00] uh 600 I don't know thousand% right to this right this and that maybe you want to showcase yourself you want to put yourself in an art show you can reach out to uh an art exhibition exhibit and see if you can showcase your art you can showcase your art maybe you just want to like you just enjoy art right you enjoy art as well too Maybe you can reach out to a local artist, right? How do I do that? I would go linkedin.com. I would see look for artists, right? Or IG, look for artist, right? In the city in artist in city, right? And then um you reach out to them. You DM them, right? You DM them. And if I was to DM them, I'd say something like, uh, hey, name uh this is uh my name. my name. I'm a XG grader at XYZ High School. Uh I'm very interested in pursuing arts. Um I saw that you I saw that you whatever you did would love to learn more. Uh can we jump on a fif a five 10 minute zoom chat uh uh this week? Right? Does this work for the very first person? No. Send this to a 100 people. I bet you send to 100 people, you probably get one, right? To to to respond maybe uh as well too, right? So that that's art. Does that make sense for art? And I don't know. I'm just kind of winging it. I'm trying to talk to myself as well too. Next question. What if I don't know? Right. So someone says undecided. Right. Ooh. Right. Here's real talk. Real talk. Everyone is undecided. Right. Your child or child is 14, 15, 16, 17, 16, 17, 18 even, right? Parents, when you were this age, you had no clue about life, right? So, if that's the case, how can we expect our students to know as well, right? So, realistically, everyone is undecided. That's how college really works, right? So, when you go to college, everyone's an undecided major. But, Right. But right but they probably are leaning into something right at that point in their life right in their life right so even though you have no clue you probably like something right they probably like or don't like something right and so I start here right so if they like oh I think I like that I'm like Cool. Let's poke into it. Let's What's the key word, guys? Let's taste it. I say the word tasting your major on purpose because when I say do the stuff in your major, students feel like they they have to commit to like, oh my goodness, I have to decide I want to do this the rest of my life. No, no, no, no. At this point, you're going to taste it. Just like ice creams. You guys like I like ice cream. Although you you guys like ice creams. I like ice creams. You know, when you go to the store and say like, "Hey, do you want to try that? You want to taste it?" They'll give you boom, boom, boom. And we give you a few options, right? That's what you would do. You would taste, right? Taste, right? Taste what you think the student is interested, right? Is interested in. What if you uh don't like something, right? What happens? We guys don't like the ice cream. We throw it away. We And we don't pick that. we do something else. So, it's okay not to. So, here's here's a here's a perspective change, right? Perspective change, right? Instead of thinking that your activity list is perfect, right? Treat it as a journal of uh of discovery, right? Discovery meaning, right? As a journey as a journey of discovery, right? Uh your right. The reason why is that your child won't know realistically. And here's fun fact for you guys. Fun fact, 80% 80% of students, all right, of students will switch majors at least once in college, right? I am part of the stats. I switch five times as well too. Right now, we have uh 170 people watching me live. That means can quick and do fast math. Uh that means like 40 of you guys, right? 130 140 30 40 of you guys are going to switch your major. So whatever your kid is thinking about doing, they're going to switch it out. So wait, if we're going to if they're going to switch, why are we spending so much energy? Exactly. That's the point. You're spending so much energy on something that they might not even commit to. So for me, treat it as a tasting of the field. So again, here here's um watch this, right? All right, I give you guys some action steps now. Right in our YouTube, check it out. If you guys haven't checked out, check out our YouTube channel. If you don't know it, slide my DMs. I'll send it to you. Right, we have a video uh of a student who got into UPEN, who got into UPUPEN. We interviewed them uh when they started in ninth grade. They were aiming to be computer science, right? They were aiming to computer. You can see it their on their academics, their activities. It made sense. They looked like a computer science student. They got in. They're actually current senior now, right? right now they got into UPUPEN literally one of the top schools in the US right they got in as a nursing business major you're like whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa how is that even related right and it's because this student kept doing thing and again she she explained the story if you guys are are curious tap in the videos like a little feel free to uh like the video subscribe and leave a comment for the algorithm right but you guys will see that she did stuff thinking. She was tasting. She was tasting the computer science major. As she tasted, guess what happened? Huh? This flavor is not kind of what I am hoping anymore. As a result of that, she started switching. Hey, I kind of like business. Hey, I kind of like nursing. So, as she did it more and more and more, her interest started switching over to nursing and m she applied as a nursing and business major and she got in. Right. one one of the hardest programs to get into is is that and she got in. So the idea is then don't feel like it has to be perfect because realistically it's not right. It's not. And as humans it's okay to change if your child says you know what I don't want to do this anymore. I'm like cool right? And here one one final pro tip for you guys. One final pro tip. One final pro tip right is that um if you drop something it's cool. However, you probably should replace it with something else. So, when someone tells me, "Coach Tony, my child doesn't want to do this anymore." I'm like, "Cool, that's fine." What are they replacing it with? Because if you drop that, that's like 10 20 hours gone. Where's the 10 20 hours to make up for that? Going back. Okay, going back. This is all fits together. How it all fits together, right? Is that you want to spend the time? It goes back full circle. We want to spend the time. how doesn't m I don't care whatever makes sense to you but right if you're going to drop martial arts if you're going to drop this club if you're going to drop this activity that's five hours a week how are you going to replace it are you going to spend more time on something that you're already doing or are you going to add a new thing that you haven't done yet is that your a your way to try out a new thing as well that's pretty much it guys hopefully that was helpful I do have to bounce right now. So, in terms of next steps for anyone who is hopefully Was that a good trading? Let me know in the chat. You guys like that? Was that good? Was that was that was that useful? You guys like go ahead and drop a yes if you guys liked it as well. That makes me feel good. All the yeses make me feel good is all uh is all there, right? So, next steps. Uh so, a few things, right? If you are a junior, so 2026, I have two things for you guys. Number one, in our Facebook group, our UC admission secrets Facebook group, uh we have a post saying, "I have a free gift for you." Right? Free gift post. Free gift post. Uh with color. Go ahead and drop it there. I'm putting together a special package for you guys. A free gift. No, nothing. You don't have to pay for anything, but it's a bunch of resources like a UC GPA calculator. It's a uh activity tracker, the UC application workbook, essay workbooks, essay videos, or a basically a comp a compiled thing to help your college app journey uh within the next few months out. So, if you guys want to go ahead and drop it, it's not live yet. Just go on Facebook or drop your favorite color there. Our team will probably send it out by Wednesday. I estimate Wednesday, question in the future. By Wednesday, it should be live. So, just drop your favorite color is number one. Number two, if any seniors are interested in our college app intensive workshops, we have a special workshop series over summer where we help you guys start and finish your essays, your personal statements, your common apps, everything, right? So, that's available. You just go to collegeappointensive.com is the website, right? Uh check that out, sign up. We're almost sold out in most weekends. We're already sold out uh all the April weekends. Um, we have May and June left for a few weekends. Uh, for summer, rest of the summer weekends, we have a few left as well, too. So, if you guys are interested, check that out. That's for our 2026 families. And for everyone else, everyone else, right? If you guys want my notes to this this uh thing, go ahead and text us. What is our number again? Uh, I keep forgetting the number. Uh, so the number is 949. Oops. 949-7750865, I believe, is the phone number. So, if you guys are interested in my notes, text the number, write the word notes, and you guys are good. For anyone who's brand new and you guys, we we give a all families a free 15-minute coaching call with our team just to set you guys uh on the right track is all help you guys. Got to talk about activities for you guys a little bit. You can't buy anything for families who have done this call. You guys know that you can't buy anything on this call. Uh if you guys are interested, just text the word uh same same number. text the same number just like uh 15 minute call or 15 minutes and then our team will help you out with that uh is all there. Okay, so that's pretty much it uh for me. I hope you guys have a great rest of your week. Uh this week, if you're watching this live, we have a few awesome trainings coming up tomorrow, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. So definitely tune in to those. Those would not be live streamed on Facebook. Those are private on Zoom. So, you guys want to join those, definitely uh slide my DMs, let me know so I can get you guys a Zoom link to those. Okay, so I'm going to say bye to people on Facebook. And for those of you on Zoom here, uh hope you guys have a great rest of your week and then I'll see you guys next time. Bye everyone.