1600.io's mission is to bring free and very-low-cost, world-class test preparation services to anyone, anywhere in the world. Our founder, George, is a Yale graduate who has tutored professionally for years, and he now offers his skills to anyone with an Internet connection.
I thought that other elements of merits than the SAT score are not to be seriously considered by Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and other elite universities if your SAT is below the top 1% percentile.
This is actually the best and perfect recommendation later I have ever seen on the internet. Thank you and your teacher on this recommendation letter really has given me deep insight to include in a letter. Thank you!
Update June 2023. George this was so helpful to me. My student was accepted into Yale, her 1st choice. 52K applicants and only 2K were accepted into Yale. I worked on her rec letter daily for just over a month, and I am so glad that I had seen your video to help guide me! Gratefully!! 🙆🏻♂
Isn't this indicative of how fickle highly rejective admissions can be? What about the students who don't have the luck of having a teacher who is a great writer and able to connect with them?
recs are bs, no teacher actually tries on recs bc they have to write so many for so many diff students are they're not getting paid, it's all about ecs and stats
@@Rammyrich these days students tell teachers what to write, so none of that matters, they literally ask us for class anecdotes and our resume, i’ve seen some of my rec for summer programs and stuff, it’s mostly just cliche stuff or something specific copy pasted from what we told them
Though this video is only 10minute, it gave me the biggest insight on letters of recommendation. This helped me a lot. Thank you George for sharing your letter of recommendation. The great letter made me emotional.
Thank You so much George, This was literally speaking to me. Focusing on understanding weaknesses, being consistent and realistic. I've been feeling so negative about my SAT prep lately. It has caused me to walk away from it. All this happened because I set unrealistic goals for myself. I will focus more on understanding my mistake, and rewiring my mindset to be more positive. Thanks alot George! Just subscribed, y'all deserve it <3
tried transcribing it, has some issues i am too tired to fix: To whom it may concern, George's the best student that I ever had the pleasure of teaching. This is no small feat. I have had many excellent ivy caliber students, however it was obvious right away that George was brilliant and excellent than all the rest. We were discussing the declaration of independence in class and the question was asked, why does something seem to last like the Declaration of Independence and other seem to fade with time. I mentioned, that whether there are few seminal recordings of Robert Johnson or Shakespeare Sonnet 1-16, those things that speak to a deeper part of our being survive the test of time. We moved in a contemporary examples of what each of us thought what something that would survive the test of time? George suggested the Classic Parker 51 pen. I've heard of Parker pens, but I had no idea that Parker was the quintessential pen of then George was a resonant expert. Later on that week as I searched through a junk drawer in my kitchen I ran across a parker pen. On the side it was written in silver lettering, and I realized it was a genuine Parker 51, the same pen George was talking about in class. At first I thought, how ironic. A classic pen advertising a defunct airline. I had and have no idea where this pen was from or if it always been in the drawer, but a realization dawned upon me. I was reminded of learning a new vocabulary term and then seeing it several times the following week, seemingly for the first time and wondering whether like the pen, those words had always been there? This is Georges gift, he has the ability to see the ordinary differently in the rest of us. What's more, George has the ability to tell it others see it differently too. I found having him in class not only made his fellow students want ----- seldom does the student have this effect on the teacher, but George is no ordinary student. Whether he is playing the Violin the Orchestra or the Bass in the all state band, George humbly brings his brilliance to bear. He brings it to bear in his music and his studies. George has remained on the very top of his high school class, having top of the who's who class in the --- we offer -- count. These are all important in understanding George but there's more. He is modest and liked by his peers, George makes the intellectual cool and people like being around him. When I started this letter yesterday I thought of the Parker 51 that started it all. As I looked for the pen I realized it wasn't in the Kitchen drawer. I described it to my wife and she said she had thrown it out at that morning because it was out of ink. Digging out of the Garbage, I pulled out the Parker 51 from the trash, none the worse for were rescued from the ?boleivioun on last time. I decided upon writing this letter to give George the pen, because really, if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have known it existed anyway.
Not even taking the test, but good luck to everyone who's reading this (and if ur reading this the night before u should be asleep as per Dan's orders so go sleep lol)
