How To Get Into Harvard (from India) 

00:00 - Introduction 01:04 - Marks, subjects, test scores 04:48 - Extracurricular activities 08:18 - Essays 10:04 - Recommendations 12:36 - Supplemental materials 14:00 - Financial aid 14:32 - Conclusions and questions

That Edna statement is so true "Luck favours the prepared".

The way she explained everything I definitely have to say she deserved it

first step: born in a high earning indian family. even these exam forms are very costly.

i think she forgot to mention that her father Ajit Nagral is a millionaire and founder of multiple companies. In fact her father and mother were major donors to Harvard Divinity School. (a new program made possible by a generous gift from Vibhu and Ajit Nagral out of their interest in strengthening the Hindu presence on campus.) The Price of Admission book by Pulitzer prize winning journalist Daniel Golden details multiple such cases in his book of Ivy league admissions.

The shift from the crisp hindi to that American accent is 🔥

Avanti: Marks doesn’t matter Also Avanti: i got full marks in SAT, I was 90 percentage scoring student in ICSE and ICS

The moral of the video is, " You have to be the most genuine and passionate part of yourself that you can ever be for applying at Harvard. Because they have enough well experienced experts to catch in one second that you're being genuine or not. "

For the first time in my life I have watched a video of a content like this. It just popped up in the recommendation so I watched and I love it how you spoke and how you addressed us all throughout the video. I like how broadly you think. If every student thought this way then the world would have been a better place than what it is now

I don't want to get in Harvard but still watched this.

I pray everyone like me aiming for harvard gets his/her way in..

How to get into Harvard one line answer " Born in rich family"

The easy answer- either u r really good at what u r doing or your father's really good at what he's doing and can pay those bills ;) no offense to those who get in through hardwork.. I was waitlisted so I know how it feels..

Guys can we please talk about how pretty she is and how soothing her voice is ?

This video actually shows how you should look at education system, not as a burden, but as an opportunity to grow yourself in the field you are interested about. Really helpful video. Thank you.

I really loved the way you explained this. Your voice was so full of calmness and it was amazing. I'm feeling more confident in preparing for this now.

You don’t have to go to Harvard to be a genius - Warren Buffet -

I love how carefully she describes every single details of the things needed... Maximum Harvard Grads just brag about themselves that how great they were in studies... This is something really helpful... We love you Avanti ❤️

Her voice is so soothing and calm.

Thank you so much for the tips.....You really inspired me so much... I feel motivated!😊

Your voice is so sweet I literally fall asleep

Love her voice..like seriously it’s so satisfying to hear her!

some of the best college application advice i have seen online...thanks for sharing!

I listen many lectures for admission procedures and guideline. But you have the best.specially in Extracurricular and essay writing

My Brain: I wanna get into Harvard. My bank Balance: Am I a joke to you?.

One word to define you : *You're Natural*

@avanti nagral..... It is such a great video for the students like us who are inclined towards big but are hesitant and are currently Undergraduation

I completely agree about converting your passions into your personal "brand." And yes, everyone, college is just the first step! You will continue creating your brand as a professional. I loved Biology and English in high school. Now, I work in public health nutrition and Bollywood media analysis. To summarize, there were clues as to my passions early on but they evolved over time. I thought going to medical school was my path, but I found my passion for public health when I was in college. I graduated with a BA in Psychology and a minor in Chemistry with Honors from Rutgers University. I then obtained a Master's degree from Johns Hopkins in 2017 and I loved it! I crafted my career like an artist. Don't be afraid to start taking notes on what you love and WHY (e.g. cooking, art, graphic design, biology, computer science). What moves you? What type of difference might you want to make in the world? These answers don't have to be final--just start writing things down.

Whenever I come across any of those " How to Harvard " videos, I always end up feeling intimidated and demoralised. Thank you so much for this

i dont even want to get into harvard but this is really admirable

I am yet in middle school but I like how sound and honest the video content was. I really appreciate your efforts for making such a helpful yet unique video channel . Wish you luck @ avanti and btw this video was on my reccomendation.

Thank you child I am sharing this with my grand daughter. Very clear and useful. All the best for your future 🌹.

Well,I read the title as "How to get into Hogwarts?" 😂PotterHead for sure ❤️

I don’t want to get into Harvard but I’m still here because of your voice , it’s so nice 💓.

Very genuine, down to earth, true guidance. Awesome Avanti.

Detailed and thanks for keeping it informative.

I didn't go to Harvard but those who work for me did. -- Elon musk--

This has really inspired me to work more hard and work more passionately, hoping that one day I'll make it🤞💫

Your voice is amazing!!! how humble and fluent and thankyou so much for making such a beautiful video.

Thank you so much Avanti I was so scared about my extra curricular but you give me the right path to follow thank you so

I’m utterly shocked with the way you carried out the video. The explaination was seriously spot on and it really made its way into my head. I understood what it takes to have the dream of being in an Ivy League college. Thanks a lot Di! You’ve quenched pretty much all of my queries and I’m surely gonna work hard towards this, am I’m sure I’ll end up somewhere good. Thankyou!

1. Either Live in the US 2.Have more money to spend Should be the easy answer.

Thank you very much .... it was really something I could well understand .. like really all bits and pieces of doubts I had got clear

Thanks for your inputs. Very meaningful and helpful.

Me, an introvert : WHO THE HELL SHOULD I ASK TO WRITE M RECOMENDATION LETTER !

Like just for the Quote "LUCK FAVOURS THE PREPARED"

Beautifully explained almost all the points. These are useful points for all.

highly useful and prestigious tips di...tysm ❤

You are giving me those soothing vibes with your voice and knowledge, much appreciated and this is gonna help thanks Avanti

I still have four years to apply to schools, but this was so clear and helpful. Thank you so much

Hey....you talk greattt!!!! Thanks a lot for the advice and also for changing my pov...i was planning to apply to a uni for scholarship and was worried abt projects and extracurricular stuff bt you made me believe that I can still apply without them...thanks a lot

I think its just not "Being born in a rich indian family". That is just an advantage you get. "Luck favours the prepared". She herself was prepared for the challenges of getting into a good college, she kept her scores intact and that is something she prepared for. The fact that she had the money to go through with it was her luck and if you work a part time job during your 11th and 12th, you can also help pay for your college. Not every person who goes to Harvard is rich. It is because they were ready to work hard enough for their goal. Love you Avanti ❤️

Whoa!... When she speaks hindi it's perfect Indian accent...and When she speaks English it's perfect American accent The change of accent is so subtle !!

In my 12 standard I got failed in chemistry. From that day I have promised myself that I am not gona compare myself to anyone and start working hard through the life and definately I am gona be better at studies. I am just concreting my mind towards that . Regardless off which institute I got enroll local college or college I live in I am continue to learn. I really wanna make a difference and don't know the future ,but destination is set and admiration is out of the park. Best wishes to you for Havard Graduation.

thank you so much it has been a really helpful video ☺☺

Thank you for being so precise with your content and after hearing the procedure you followed and recommend ....this gave me a different understanding of the purpose behind everything we do! Genuine Intentions and Efforts do bear fruits in our life! Now to any College(if I do not get Harvard) or organisation I choose to join I will remember these golden points and would try to implement these in all my credentials if possible!

THANK YOU . YOU HAVE EXPLAINED THE ENTIRE PROCESS INDEPTH AND VERY FIRMLY. LOVED THE WAY YOU EXPLAINED IT.

Thankyou Avanti , the video was very helpful🥰🥰🥰

Wow !! You are so stable while talking and your voice is so soothing !!!

You know what?? This was the best "how to get into Harvard" vid I've seen so far. She LITERALLY said just be yourself and don't have to act what they expect us to be. JUST BE YOURSELF... I was struggling on my essays and HECK I know what to write now!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH sista....❤️❤️

Her accent is just another level 🔥🔥

Really Enjoyed hearing your explanation. Good one diii ❤

your voice is so soothing … loveee listening uh🥺😩🤍

The way you explained everything and how you are telling your experience in Harvard it shows that what you have gained from Harvard university. Most importantly your communication skill is on another level, got motivated by watching your content and cannot stop myself to subscribe your channel :)

Your voice is so soothing ♥️ I’m planning to do my global health masters AND music (vocal performance/ songwriting) studies in the US as well. I am a Dentistry Graduate. Everyone here in Goa keeps telling me that I won’t be able to manage both, but seeing you do it motivates me so much more.

This is very very helpful. I dont know how to thank u for this. People need this information. Love from 🇱🇰

I am fully agree with you.luck and destiny will decide where you go and what you got in your life.yes it's true hardwork matter but at a certain point.

Whenever I sit down to study, the only study inspiration I get at that time is~ STUDY HARD AND THEN THE DAY IS NOT TOO FAR WHEN A LETTER SAYING-"Welcome to Harvard" will reach me! ❤️ I LOVE HARVARD!

The legends of Harvard shall always be its dropouts!

I just felt in love with this channel 😍

Thankyou for giving such a clear and honest idea of what Harvard really seeks in students. Thankyou for always being so helpful. You are very inspiring♥️

Ohhhh my God!! Ur voice is sooo calming and the points are so well put.

Thank you Avanti This video is very helpful

I like the way how you speak and you're really so polite and humble! Fall in love with you ❤️

I'm really satisfied with the way u put everything such lucidly... Thnx didi

Thank you sooo much Avanti ... I'm in 9th and I'm planning to get into Harvard in 2024 ... This video was so helpful ... Thanks a ton.

Thank you so much Avanti. I got to know a lot of new things that i didn't I did not understand the importance of

The thoughtfulness in your words is commendable! ❤

I want to become a Psycologist because I love study about human behaviour and there is a best friend of mine who is suffering from DID and I want to help her. But my all friends and cousins and relatives say that, "Pagalo ki doctor banane sai phale tu khud pagal na ho jayegi, Choose some other field of doctor." I want to study in Harvard University because I want to show them what I can do. Everytime when I tell people about my ambition I only got demotivation from them.😞😞😞 *But thanks to your video I will do my best and soon I will also study in Harvard University and do my best to become a Psychologist* Thanks you didi Love from India...🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 😊😊

I love the music in the background! That is some fine orchestral (?) music and it really brings out the gravitas of what she's talking about

wow. her voice is too soothing! ahhh🥰🥰🥰

informative and genuine, thank you

I actually wanted to get into harvard and other big universities. When I researched, all I found out was, if you don't have the money, you have no chance. But then people tell me, you have these so called SCHOLARSHIPS. The truth is, you have almost negligible chance of getting that scholarship as everyone is fighting for it like crazy and even if you do get that, it will never be enough to cover all the tuition and living costs in the us. You see I don't come from a rich family. It's this MONEY matter that drives me insane, if it wasn't about that, I'm damn sure I would be somewhere else rn.

Absolutely awesome Avanti. The best I have ever heard. You are inspirational and very clear in delivering your focus message. Liked and subscribed, Avanti. Would love to keep hearing from you.

your voice is so soothing, i almost fell asleep 🤍

She explained very well and ofc we r grateful for her making such content... But the reality is still that for such a dream, you need to be raised in higher class families... Coz 1) finances - although Harvard waives it's tuition fees for low income students, it comes after we get the admission... On the way to admission, there are hell lot of expenses... For example, the exams themselves are damn expensive, and it's not over after taking the exam..we need to report those scores to all the universities we are applying... score reporting to single University takes thousands of rupees , like 6-8k minimum....also their centres are in big cities, so the travel and accommodation for going to the city for exam... And so many other expenses 2) proper guidance - these kinda dreams and their roadmaps and the steps to take, all this guidance is easily accessible to only higher class people...and the facilities to attain those steps, those are also accessible to only higher class... How many students you see in Harvard coming from middle or lower middle class? Or from small towns of India? Then whom do we ask the answers to problems that arrive only to middle, lower middle class students while getting admission to Harvard and such universities? 3) extra curricular - It's well known that exam scores are only one part of this admission process... These universities prefer people who have an almost all rounding personality.. that means things other than exams, like sports, activities, events, projects, seminars, arts... Now we come from schools where in the name of extra curricular, we have only one PT class per week.. that too, our science or maths teacher takes extra classes in those PT hours... We come from schools where there isn't proper ground to play... The ground are not even able to accommodate all the students standing for national anthem at the beginning of day....As of events, there's only one annual cultural event, where there are only dances by few students, that's it.... In our exam oriented educational system, no one gives a damn about extra curricular activities or events...hell, even i got to know what extra curricular means when I got into my undergrad.... If you want to build your personality or resume with extra curricular, either you pay extra for tuitions that teach you sports or arts etc, join academy businesses that carry extra curricular activities, events.. or you join a high class, elite, luxurious, big city schools.... 4) well educated and alert parents- Building up extra curricular activities and all rounder personality takes years.... This prep starts years before starting application for universities... Almost when we're kids or young teens... At that age, we can't think of these things or know these things ... It's upto parents to take efforts in this route... For that parents need to know these things, they need to be educated enough to know things... First, There's no way parents of middle or lower middle class students know these things, hell they can't even understand such big things... To this day, they (including my parents) can't even pronounce names of these universities nor do they know which country they are in, what's the process... My parents don't even know what's a visa!! Secondly, all of these parents time goes into working to earn wages enough to feed family... Every day, every month, the sword of lack of money is hanging on their necks... All their time goes into worrying and working for earning enough to make up for food, clothes and shelter.... How are they gonna make time to learn about these things and how are they gonna make them happen??? Other than this, there are many things.... For example, for undergrad, Harvard (or Cambridge maybe, i think most of the universities) ask for letters from school counselor.... Now how many of our middle class schools even have something like a school counselor???? Moreover these people don't know what these admission things are... They don't know what to write in these letters... Similarly, for masters recommendation letters are required from academic professors... Again These professors too, need to be PhD holders and should be credible enough with their works... How many such professors are their in our colleges? How many of them know about these things??? There are so so so many other such things man..... Bottom line is - There are some dreams that we wish, that we might even deserve but they just don't come true because of our backgrounds... But know that this doesn't make you any less worthy... Just because you're not a Harvard grad doesn't make you any less.... Many people who have not even been to college, have lived legendary lives.... Build your own life, build your own happiness... And those who shame you for not being as elitely studied, worked as them, just tell them off in your mind, give them a smile and kill them with kindness....and throw that person out of your life, you don't need such people around you.... And the very last thing - know that success isn't happiness.... Just like a successful person doesn't necessarily mean a GOOD person, A successful person doesn't necessarily mean a HAPPY person..... Happiness is different for different people.. A high class person's happiness might be going to Harvard, a simple person's happiness might be earning enough for family, saving enough for future and having happy weekends spent with family.... Build your own happy life, and as said above, throw out people who belittle you....

How to get into harvard? Even asking this question is also out of my aukad...

An interesting video, plus I have crossed my age to do university at Harvard, I did a course there in 2018. Every minute in that campus is beautiful. Hopefully more and more get there and it’s nice to see you tell people to excel in things they like.

omg the way you switch between accents so smoothly is crazy

You help me get confidence about my career decision at the age of 14,, you proved that genuineness is most important no metter what just makking up fake things dont matter...

"Chintu ne ye kiya vo kiya" --sharma aunty

Thank you.. I had this crazy breakdown because college requirements really overwhelm me.. But you broke it down and it really helped:) As a curious individual, maybe tell us the extracurriculars and supplementary material you did and used?

i came here back when i was in high school, being honest, felt dumb and intimidated. now here im again in my degree college and i can go through this video without questioning myself. So who ever is feeling all this is overwhelming for you, i will say one thing, let time do the work, out yourself in and once you find that passion, you wont feel a things

After seeing her American accent -Suddenly mujhe slayy point ki USA vlog video ki yaad aa goyi . Only slayy point fans is comment se relate kor payenge..😀

Avanti: *switches back and forth from Hindi to English* Me, knowing full well that she's from India: *confused screaming*

Thank you so much for this! This was very insightful and helpful! Thank you for sharing your experience and guiding us! :)

Thanks sister. A ray of hope for me😇

Genuinely from the heart thank you

This whole video is so relaxing...i loved your voice and the music at the background!!

A more simpler explanation or a different experience that i can give as Avanti has also touched great topics, to consider studying in Harvard's they look at you as a person you meet for the first time tell them all the real(tangible/outcome oriented/non fictional) stories about yourself share the inner yourself with so that they can form a perception to how focused are you in the goals you would wonna engage. marks tell the story of how serious you take learning as a task, tough you don't have marks but if you could explain a specific topic as deep as you heart would like to take it, you are golden take majority time is creating the essays as close to your heart because the reader is not looking for a story but a character development in a story. This has been my short take on getting into any top colleges outside India.