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Thank you We sneak in Top schools But some colleges

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air very selective and the most selective ones in the

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country are admitting five or six or seven percent of

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their students And the counterpart to that means that they're

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denying you know ninety five percent of the students who

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apply on do you know the reality is if a

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college has thousands or tens of thousands of applications coming

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in but they're only taking a couple of thousand The

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chances every of your being admitted are very small And

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what we advise against is then applying to mohr of

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those kinds of schools And logic goes that you know

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if a school is admitting ten percent of its applicants

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but i applied a ten of those schools Eventually one

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of them will admit me And unfortunately statistically that doesn't

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work because they're all thinking independently of each other Yeah

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Some colleges have especially selective admissions process We call those

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the elite schools Most elite schools or selective colleges admit

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only five to seven percent of all students applying Consider

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applying to a wide range of schools rather than only

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the highly selective ones to improve your chances of getting 00:01:15.803 --> [endTime] in somewhere No

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