Yale student reacts to Devi’s college decisions 🤮🚫 plz don’t do what she did!  

Yep! It’s insanely risky!!

What's a safety school

Please tell

a safety school is a college I'd say you have at least a 70 or 80% chance of getting in. How do you know this? by the school's acceptance rate and what kinds of students they take and how those students' credentials match your credentials@@Aditya_Mishra001

@@CassandraHsiao Thank you didi ✨🙏🌸

Gasp! Risky! Happy it worked out for your sister though but definitely would advise a more balanced list!

@@CassandraHsiaohey does her getting rejected by the rest of the Ivy League schools say something about UPenn? Like they have an easy admission criteria and they take any student which don’t go to Harvard and Stanford? Is it true? I have heard about this.

​@@divyanshsahai no idea but I have seen some students who get rejected from rest of the ivies or top colleges but only get into upenn...

@@abhartit’s all about fit! i know kids who get rejected penn ed and end up at harvard or stanford. at the end of the day a TON of students are AMAZING! it’s what makes you the ideal match for a school that ultimately pushes you over the edge. upenn may happen to be a better fit for certain students which is why they get in

​@@fionayitongxie7595 yup! Also, if ur fulfilling institutional needs of a certain college! U will get in fs if u have amazing essays too

Exactlyyyyy! Like please look at everything, what used to be just a safety for me is now one of my top choices bc I actually looked into it 😭 what matters isn't prestige but what works best for YOU and what YOU want! And even if the ivies are exactly what you want, taking a gamble like that is really risky without a safety. But fortunately, as some commenters said, community college/transfer is a great option if one ends up in a Devi situation 💖💖

MIT and Stanford aren't even ivy leagues and they are among the top 5 universities on the planet. In fact, today MIT is the best university in the world.

“Good education is not limited to only ivy-league colleges“ Damn right it isnt

@@t.s5806 yes

@@candlecord lotta ppl apply to ivies for rankings/prestige but I apply there cuz I need 100% scholarships

You made a great choice!!! Yes there are so many paths to higher education!

would you mind telling me the name of that college? i’m currently in the process of trying to navigate my life and considering where to go for university.

@@lordfarquaad3086I don't know what college montygreen went to, but I had a similar situation I'm going to a community college right now, and there's a program where they pay for all the classes you take your first two years there. I don't think all community colleges have this, but even the ones that don't can really cut down your tuition by quite a lot What I'm doing is spending 2 years at a community college and then transferring to a university. There does tend to be a lot of stigma about community college but it definitely helps with paying for college, since you're not paying for all 4 years at a university

@@lordfarquaad3086 she/hes most probably talking about a community college :) you can do 2 years of college there and then transfer to a 4 year college to you your third and fourth year of undergrad education

i agree! she worked so hard and got amazing grades and slayed in debate. unfortunately there needs to be an extra edge that makes her unique to get into the ivies... but perhaps she had other unique extracurriculars up her sleeve too we just didn't see!

Definitely not. To be frank, her ECs were terrible

​@m1dos391 I'm with you. She worked hard, but she had no real passion outside wanting to go to Princeton. What did she want to do once she got there and after she graduated? We don't know, because the only things she does are what will look good on her college application. In real life, I suspect that will not make you a good candidate.

​@@angelicasmodelyou're talking like most people have plans for what they want to do after college. news flash: no one knows that. your plans almost always change during college.

@emperor8716 most people have an idea about what interests them and what they're good at though. That's what I was talking about.

!! I forgot about them having to do long distance now…

@@CassandraHsiao at the end ben visits devi at Princeton University

​@@aleighblair2054aww that's cute

She applied to only reach schools 😭 and Paxton applied to probably safeties and matches!

@@CassandraHsiao yeah but he got into asu…which is a good ass school

yeah with 88%acceptance lol @@amayaaaa.222

Paxton applied to an easier school. UA has a pretty high acceptance rate. If Devi had applied there she not only would have gotten in, but gotten the distinction award (aka, a big scholarship)

@@mellowyellow5865 but she got accepted in Princeton at the end

but most nerdy students go to high unis, and that’s realistic

Alex Dunphy from Modern family could qualify. She went to Caltech.

a great path!

I totally agree. That’s what my husband did and my son is following the same path. My husband passes underground with zero debt and hoping my son will. People need to realize that community college and State College to exist and provide the same degrees most of the time why going into it, tap university and coming out in that and paying the loans for the rest of your life. I do not think is the Weiss decision and smart for fighting to get into it. Top university with all the stress and anxieties with having no safe school listed.

@@Lady-A000 I am so much in debt until I found out about community college I wished I knew about it :( sooner.

Ha! 😂

Even harder to get into 😭

@@abaisubs1698 So true. I've recently been rejected from Stanford.

Just do community college and after 2 years apply for transfer. This will give time to put more activities and boost GPA, and you save thousands of dollars in two years

​@@aryamanbhadauria1584this is what im doing minus the activities part

@@aryamanbhadauria1584 bhai school ka topper tha mai

Keep trying brother, GOD bless you 🙏

​@@invictus143school topper... 😂 that's why you rejected

Yes it’s all about right match, not about the name/brand! Glad you found a school that suits you!!

Colleges are for networking, good alumni's helps a lot that's why MIT/Harvard are the way they are. People who think colleges will educate them, nope, you will study on your own most of the stuff.@@CassandraHsiao

Trust me, Ivy League are overrated. Go to a community college for your undergrad, you’ll save so much money.

Ivy League schools have some of the best financial aid programs in the country

There are merit based and need based scholarships in Ivy League schools. As long as you prove you are a top ranker with a good profile, you will get the merit based. Or just prove you are poor by showing your family annual income details, you will get the need based one.

@@peak_911 u get those at every college. But it still cost a lot. Could get into an ivy league, have scholarship, & go into debt to go there OR go the school here completely free. I feel like the bar for merit based scholarships r higher there bc every student would meet it if it wasnt

Well ofc, but you can do part time, if international students can do that, why can't you? it's funny when American students say they can't pay off tuition fees, while you literally have more freedom than international kids in your college. 1. Do part time on/off campus. 2. Internships(they might cover your whole fees0 3, Choose the right course 4. RA/TA if possible though i doubt it is possible, mostly phd grads are allowed @@Ad-qt8lx

​@@peak_911ivy leagues don't have merit scholarships, only need-based aid

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nah

if you don't wanna move far away

Ivy schools are elite universities in America with very low acceptance rates meaning its very difficult to get in. Typically if your applying for an ivy league, you would have a safety school which is a college with a higher acceptance rate meaning its easier to get in so that way even if you get rejected from the Ivies, you still have a back up college

Ivy leagues are a group of colleges and universities that are considered highly prestigious and they are pretty hard to get into

@@sirius7149 oh :0

Ah yes that’s the season 3 plot line of her deciding not to go to a school like that! It seemed like a good fit for her and possibly in real life Devi would’ve gone but because it’s a tv show they had to keep her in California 😂 so we could have season 4!

you can take a gap year and reapply (which I think is quite rare), or (more common) you can pick a different school and try to transfer in again. However the odds of getting in after rejection are very low

unless you increase your chances by doing something which no other did, change your SOP, maybe give SATs again if low, and participate in any extracurricular best way is you tell them about financial need that you were working part time to help out your family.@@CassandraHsiao

It's because of the deadlines to apply for a certain year. By the time the decision comes out for the Ivy league schools, the application deadline will have already passed for schools that are the next level right after as far as academic reputation. There are state universities with much later application deadlines that likely would still have been an option for Devi. But this would mean going much further down her preferences, like going from Plan A to Plan G because she arrogantly skipped Plans B - F.

@@yader91 but she can apply to those good colleges the next year right? So Whats the problem

Their very difficult schools to get into with most having about a 5 percent acceptance rate

@@lillzzie. yes but those that get in have precisely her kind of resume, and as my mother works for Columbia (an Ivy League with less than 5% acceptance), Devi had a top 5% type resume.

yeah but again their so selective and it’s mostly for the purpose of the show

Uni in USA have colleges under them, basically Harvard is a university, but Harvard college is a subsidiary of H. Uni which provides bachelors programs.

Its like one of the last episodes

Season 4 , at the end of episode 8

Also apply to some unis with lower entry requirements that you’re more likely to get in as backup for safety just in case you get rejected by the competitive ones.

Not their fault

not really, not everything is about america. actually most indian parents dream is IIT

@@studygram_ for indian american

@@momentousmanav not for her mom. She actually suggested Devi to enter to normal unis

there are so many! Nearly 4000 schools to chose from. Different schools from public schools to research-focused schools to trade schools to small liberal arts colleges.

@@CassandraHsiao there are, but it's really hard to know about them and their best courses cause I don't actually live in US. Anyways my search is on and I would definitely consider safety school along with ivy league Thanks

yes, you should apply to a variety of reach, match, and safety schools! I would recommend this book "Getting into A Top College" by Pria Chatterjee, who breaks down the top schools in the US and where they may fall between reach, match, and safety ranks.

@@CassandraHsiao thank you so much for the recommendation. Will do consider reading.🤗

​@@sandhyadixit9029Also, look at schools in your state! There should be quite a few and they'll be easy to tour from where you are :) you don't just have to look att the top ones in the nation!

you can always come on youtube, to shit about that

it's not the kids fault :))

safety schools are a smart idea no matter what, it doesnt take an ivy league student to recognize that

But she’s right and she’s giving solid advice, not judging. Besides this is a fake tv show

You’ll need fine

This is a great point!! It’s all about fit and not name