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this is the pop-out and I'm Albert Shin and today's episode is gonna be one

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that's gonna probably make a lot of people angry namely the people who make

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money off of providing help for people for students on SATs on college

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admissions etc etc but you know screw it we need to talk about this this is

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important now I want to make a note from the very beginning I cannot speak to

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what is happening across all of the different private industries that offer

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help to students for everything ranging from like tutoring services to classes

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on how to take the SATs or etc etc so you know I'm gonna speak strictly from

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my experience I have taught at let's see one two three three four four different

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private academies they were primarily targeted five actually nothing but

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primarily targeted towards suburban middle-class students who had high

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ambitions but also whoever else could really pay for those services and I've

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done everything from tutoring services to college consultation to helping with

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college essays just a range of services AP tests preparing students for that and

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I've come to learn a few things that you know I think over the years reflecting

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on it that I now am completely unhappy with unhappy with in it in mainly

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because I think one it's grounded in half truths and lies but second of all I

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think it doesn't actually put the students first okay so I want to talk a

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little bit about what some of this actually is and we have to break it down

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to kind of different services you are looking for let me start off by tutoring

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okay the industry of tutoring right okay so here's the thing if you are

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struggling with a particular subject and this could be at any grade level right

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any grade level you're looking for somebody who could help you better

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understand whatever it is that you are struggling with all right so let's say

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you're taking a history class or like I'm having trouble understanding history

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one of the things you might do is I want to get my grades up I'm gonna find

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somebody who could help me make sense of this help me learn so that I could get a

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better grade right okay so far seems perfectly fine okay this is where I

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think the tutoring industry takes a left turn a lot of people don't necessarily

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know what they should be looking for right so if you are looking for a tutor

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and you're thinking oh I need somebody who knows something about this

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particular topic and maybe you might be thinking I want somebody who is

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experienced okay you could use word of mouth and rely on somebody that somebody

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else recommends somebody you trust like oh yeah you know they help with a you

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know your students your kid maybe they can help my kid right okay so it could

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be word of mouth it could be you go through a website it could be you go

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through an institution right some of these academies after school programs

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have options to hire a one-on-one tutoring usually the academy will take

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a cut and the tutors get paid a portion of what you pay right okay so the

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question is this how do you know you're getting a good tutor well this is the

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hard part okay word of mouth we tend to rely on other people's testimony but of

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course who knows right like you'll see results from students and has nothing to

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do with the actual teaching of the tutor the tutor didn't really do much of the

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student just was a little bit more disciplined because you schedule time to

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get some work done right so word of mouth can be tricky you don't know if

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you could trust the person if it might not apply because circumstances might

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differ between the other student that they've tutored versus your kid okay so

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that's one issue you can try going to academies but they're gonna push

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whoever they can to go ahead and make sure that you come to them for those

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services because there's monetary gain to be had and then you could try to find

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people online there's sites where you could you know tutors will go up there

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and hire off of their services and then you hire them off the spot like and then

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you're gonna ask for qualifications right you might ask them like oh where

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what do you you know specialize in like what is your tutoring experience and so

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on but here's the thing teaching is a very particular skill set teaching as a

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skill set is not the same thing as learning or knowing a lot about a

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particular topic now the two sometimes go hand-in-hand right if you don't know

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it then it's gonna be hard for you to teach it right but in all the years of

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teaching what I've learned is that teaching is a distinct skill that is not

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the same as just simply knowing about a particular topic all right so let's go

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back to the history example right you might have somebody who is very well

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read in history maybe even got a PhD in history they know a lot about history

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okay teaching that to a you know eighth grader ninth grader that's a separate

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skill set and that you need somebody who knows a how to teach generally B how to

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teach specifically to the particular age group right that they're actually

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working with okay and C do it in a way that is effective because they actually

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connect with the student right and this is actually an important aspect of

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tutoring right you need to the the teacher the tutor needs to actually

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connect with the student that I mean you should be working on trial and error

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here because you're not sure exactly what you're gonna get okay you're not

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sure exactly what you're gonna get you can look at a resume and the resume

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could look wonderful on paper and then you get them in person and then you see

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the tutoring session you're like oh shit this is not very effective or maybe it

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is effective but like it like helps you improve your grades and maybe it helps

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you understand a little bit more but maybe you're not getting the most bang

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for your buck right so if you hire them for an hour in that hour you're not

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getting as much as you could in an hour okay so here's the thing I'm gonna talk

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about this specifically tutors but I think this could apply across the board

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with more generally any kind of help you're seeking right I personally would

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like to see a shift in the private education industry and I want to see a

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shift in a very radical way and the way I want to see this shift is that we get

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away from teaching particular topics in the way that private tutors often do

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right a lot of times a student will go I don't understand this can you explain to

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me and then the teacher explains it to them tutor explains to them oh okay I

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think I get it now oh if I don't get it let me try to explain a different way

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here right okay I actually think that part of the problem is that we are

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actually focused on teaching to the particular subject that the students

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struggling with and the reason I don't like this approach in teaching is that

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it actually might be effective in short term but one of the things you're gonna

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realize is you're gonna have to rely on somebody to help you again and again and

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again and again right you're gonna be a repeat customer you're gonna have to

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shell out a lot of money because guess what you understand that particular

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thing that they helped you with now but then a week later when they learn

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something new and they don't get that they're gonna come back and you're gonna

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have to go back and seek more help right so I want to talk about seeking help and

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particularly in the way that we approach the way that we seek out what are we

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looking for what are we actually looking for okay if your goal is to get a quick

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fix then this is perfectly fine I have nothing against it you go ahead and do

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it okay but my guess is that if you're struggling with something in your class

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or on a on an exam a standardized test right if you're struggling in some part

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of your academics then most likely it's because there's something about your

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approach to learning right the specific topic is merely a symptom of something

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deeper going on in the way that you learn the material you are expected to

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learn right so let me give you an example right suppose you're studying

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history and you're like I'm having trouble understanding you know all of

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these facts and trying to you know remember all of these details of how it

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is that what happened first and when it happened and how it impacted this and

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that that's partly because my guess this would be my suspicion is that your focus

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on the details but when you're studying history that's actually not the first

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place to start the first place to start is actually the narrative it's the story

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it's the it's the story of who is doing what to whom and why it's the story of

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how did these two countries get into conflict in the first place why do these

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people love each other hate each other why are these groups allies and not

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right like that the bigger picture is where you should start before you dive

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into the nitty-gritty details but that shift in your approach if that's not

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addressed then you're gonna constantly struggle with history you're gonna

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constantly struggle with it right and this is the thing this is the thing each

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topic has a unique approach because of the nature of the stuff that you're

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learning right like so in the sciences you're gonna approach it a little

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differently you're gonna study it a little differently because the topic is

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different and it's gonna require a different part of your brain to be

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activated in a different way so if you seek a tutor who is just merely telling

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you how to do the thing that is immediately in front of you you're not

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addressing the deeper roots of your struggles and when you don't address

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those deeper roots you're gonna constantly be seeking help you're gonna

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constantly be seeking help inside the classroom outside the classroom etc

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what's gonna be better for you in the long run is to actually address why it

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is that you're struggling so much and fix that right fix your learning habits

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fix your study habits right like fix whatever it is and it could be a range

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of things right it could be like emotional well-being it could be like

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family life it could be you know whatever it is that you're struggling

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with like whatever that is that's hindering you from learning that's the

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thing that needs to be addressed now people don't want to do this people

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don't want to do this I think for several reasons I'm not gonna guess as

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to why you might have not wanted to do it in the first place but you know some

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of the common things I've heard from students of mine are one it's hard to

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let's see oh yeah so it's hard let's see it's a it's it's gonna take too long

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right I'm not gonna see immediate results three I think I've seen

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something like oh but how can I trust that it's actually gonna work it doesn't

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feel like it's gonna work right okay look at the end of the day the proof is

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in the pudding right the results you get should be an indicator of whether or not

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your study habits are actually yielding is that it's actually a good way to go

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because if you're using the right methods you should be seeing good

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results right if you're not using the right methods you'll know fairly quickly

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within a week or two whether or not that method is not effective at all okay in

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recent years in my one-on-one sessions with students I have shifted completely

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from away from talking about a specific topic to addressing the root of their

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inability to grasp the concept right and what I found is that in working with

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students if they use the right approach they feel the effects immediately right

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it you know right it you know how you have those moments when you're like I

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understand I understand it now and when you understand it like you could feel

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the difference because you can explain it in a way you couldn't explain it

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before there's clarity in your mind right like people know what it feels

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like to really grasp something right and it's because we don't pay attention to

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that feeling enough that we're not realizing that there are certain things

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that we do that are more likely than not to lead up to those kinds of moments

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right so when I focus on on the methodology on the approach with

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students what I found is that they experience a difference and then they

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see the results on actual exams tests whatever metric you want to use right

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essays and when they see the results they're motivated to continue using the

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more effective methods right one of the again the reason we're seeking help in

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the first place because we're having trouble with something you don't need to

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constantly be seeking help if you seek the right kind of help okay what you

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what I'm saying is if you seek somebody who could help you address the root of

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the issue and get over that whatever that barrier is to your learning then you

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don't need the help afterwards right because you're gonna be motivated to

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using good techniques good study skills and that's gonna continuously feed into

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this loop motivating you because you're seeing results that's really gonna be

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the biggest motivator you're gonna see results you're gonna notice them right

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and honestly after a few months you probably won't need the help that you

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needed before okay now like I think a lot of a lot of people in the private

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sector might not like my saying this right for one because they might not

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know how to provide this help for students I know that this is a very

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specialized set of skills so you're not gonna find a lot of tutors who have the

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kind of self-awareness to know or to have the background knowledge and having

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done research in cognitive psychology or some of these areas of study that have

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demonstrated empirically what kind of methods work best for things like memory

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or learning big concepts or things like that so one a lot of people are just not

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skilled a lot of tutors that I found are just people that are straight out of

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high school straight out of college they know nothing about teaching they just

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did well in certain subjects and then they know a lot about the topic and so

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they think of it as a way to go and earn a quick buck or they I mean again it

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could be coming from a genuinely good place like they might be I want to help

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people right but unfortunately what you need is training in an area where you

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could be better equipped to help students in the long run if you actually

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want to be affected but here's the second reason I think a lot of people

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are gonna hate this it's that it's gonna it's gonna really screw up the money

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okay let's be honest if you if you need to constantly seek help that's a steady

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stream of income for whoever is providing the help right but if the

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business model is I'm gonna help you so that you learn how to help yourself

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right then it's kind of like well after a few months I don't need you right so

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it's gonna be a revolving door of people that you'll be looking if you're if

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you're one of these people working in these industries you're constantly be

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looking for new students to help right and that's not necessarily good for

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business right if you're especially if you're charging an hourly rate you'll

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want to keep as many of these students as possible and then continue to take

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money from them okay again I'm not saying there's anything malicious going

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on nobody's gonna like right like some evil villain here trying to steal as

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much of your hard-earned money as possible to scam you or anything like

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that I think a lot of this stuff is unintentional but I think it stems from

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the fact that in this industry there's not really kind of a way to screen

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people along these metrics that I'm suggesting you should be looking for

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right and I think once you start doing that once you start asking right some

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of these tutors right questions like how long do you actually have a student for

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before they could you know learn for themselves or if you ask them questions

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like what kind of training or knowledge do you have about how to study well

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right in a way that is backed by empirical data not just your personal

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experience not just some stuff that you've looked up online or heard about

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I could do that on my own but I want to know very like this is what you'd be

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paying for you'd be paying for somebody who is an expert in this particular area

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of helping you to learn yourself right and the reason I'm stressing this shift

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so much is that I think a lot of people especially from out of the United States

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in the United States the people who have been to college I think they might be

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able to tell their kids or people they know that this is for the most part true

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but in college a lot of the learning happens outside of the classroom the

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lecture helps you make sense of the stuff that you're learning or you should

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be learning on your own right but a lot of the learning happens on your own right

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when you go to college it's like you go to class for a few hours a day and the

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rest of the time you're supposed to be self-studying right sometimes a teacher

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is not even going to be helpful the lecture is just lectures weren't not

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helpful you just study yourself you get into a habit of teaching yourself if you

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don't know how to do that well while you're in high school first you're gonna

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struggle in high school but second that struggle is gonna carry over later on in

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college in life right because you're constantly gonna have to learn how to

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help yourself to learn how to learn so that you can adjust to whatever the

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circumstances are gonna give you but also be able to seek out and ask the

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right kind of questions to help you help better better whatever it is that you're

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trying to accomplish okay so first things first right when you're seeking

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help I would hope that you stop going base off of resume accolades etc unless

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it's actually relevant but specifically I would hope that you are screening

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specifically for teaching ability people who have taught before who have

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experienced teaching but also that they have taught students in a way that has

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helped students learn for themselves where they could study independently they

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didn't need a tutor anymore they didn't need you know some Academy or after

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school program in order for them to learn okay I'm hoping that makes some

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sense okay which brings me to one of my most hated enemies in the private

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education sector which is these SAT and actually any standardized tests

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academies right SAT AP exams you know all these things that students are

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preparing preparing for in order to improve their chance of getting into

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college but also once you get into college right if you're trying to go to

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law school right LSAT classes and so on okay whoo let me back up before I start

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going on a cuss riddled rant here okay all right look there is such a thing as

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learning how to take tests well okay there is such a thing as learning some

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concepts that are gonna be helpful for taking certain kinds of exams right for

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instance if you're taking an AP English literature test like you should be

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familiar with a range of literature because it's gonna be covered on the

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test right okay so I understand the need to seek out help okay I'm gonna tell you

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this all the help that you actually need are available for free at your local

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library in the form of all of these baron and was a Princeton review books

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that you could borrow you don't need to purchase them you could borrow them from

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your local library if you don't know your local library get familiar with them

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right they have a lot of free resources really nice okay you can just borrow

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away you don't even have to and then we actually read through it okay because

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here's the thing the SAT class is not gonna tell you anything different than

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what those books cover your AP you know class or tutor that you get probably is

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not gonna cover anything different than what is covered in those books if you're

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talking about content the books cover them all in fact if you were good about

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studying on your own you could probably read through and practice through all of

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these like you know books and then just take the test and do well okay the

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information is all there and it's free okay so then why are you paying thousands

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of dollars for somebody to help you with this particular topic right or that

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particular test because let's be honest like I say tease people who's pouring

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thousands of dollars like I've seen it I know how much these places make okay

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make a lot of money so why are you paying them well here's the thing it

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could be for a lot of different reasons my pride my experience is that with like

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about half the students that I've taught at these SAT classes right about half

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the students are there because they lack any sort of discipline where they're

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able to study this material on their own right it's not about their inability to

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learn they could learn if they wanted to they're just not motivated to like

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there's a deeper issue going here a lot of the students that come came through

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through the doors for me like about half of them were students sent there by

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parents and they have they have it was always like an argument right like the

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kids didn't want to go parents forced them to go all right okay parents are

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doing what they could because they don't know any better well parents I'm talking

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to you right now I'm gonna tell you let's talk about what could be better

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right sending them to an SAT class usually is an indication from my

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experience that something else is going on and one of the primary things that

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might be going on is that the student just has a hard time actually bogging

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down and working on this stuff right this has to do with time management this

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has to do with scheduling this has to do with motivation this has to do with a

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range of things sending them to an SAT class is not necessarily going to help

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with that it's gonna help them get a lot of practice in and you know here's the

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thing SAT you know classes those those programs they take credit for the

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students improving on their SATs but a lot of bullshit is thrown out in these

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conversations right like one of the things I hear a lot is one of the

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bullshit I hear a lot is look look you're you're used your SAT scores went

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up right from the first time you took it till now okay look the evidence shows

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that the you know if you've taken the test a certain number of times you're

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just naturally gonna do better just from the experience of having taken a lot of

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practice tests your score is gonna improve right your score is gonna

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improve it's probably not gonna dip from the first time you take the SATs to the

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second time right they know this right but then they're misleading you into

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making you think like oh we're responsible for your SAT scores going up

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no you just need to take a bunch of practice tests you just need to get a

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lay of the timing you just need to get a feel for what the exam is about what

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they cover right if you actually take the time to read through a book your

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score is probably gonna jump significantly especially if a lot of

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the information is not covered in you know the classes you took elsewhere

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right like at your school okay so what I'm saying is this these classes are

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extremely expensive and again it's a patch job for a deeper issue which is

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that you're having trouble actually teaching yourself and again the why of

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that could be a whole lot of things I think I don't know personally I honestly

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think that that money is probably better spent on somebody who can teach you how

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to learn and or addressing the circumstances that are making it

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difficult for you to learn the circumstance what am I talking about in

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terms of circumstances financial difficulty family trauma issues going on

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in the family it could be you know something else right relationships

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happen let's not let's not kid ourselves right like you go and get into a bad

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breakup and all of a sudden your grades drop like that's like this should be

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expected especially for a high school student who doesn't know how to deal

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with a lot of these like feelings that they might be feeling for the first time

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okay if you're suffering from any sort of mental health issues right go get a

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therapist therapists are expensive right but I guarantee you that'll be money

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better spent than spending it on all of these academies that are only going to

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maybe help you with your scores to some degree right but at some point right

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it's not gonna it's gonna stop being helpful it's gonna stop being helpful

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right for me I don't know about you but for me it feels like a lot of waste of

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money and honestly a waste of time because they are very intense especially

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the ones over winter and summer breaks these SAT classes are super intense

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extremely time-consuming time that could be honestly better spent elsewhere for

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the same goals you're trying to accomplish okay okay

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on a similar note right because look I'm on the same theme here I mean I know

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we're talking about a lot of different things but I'm trying to stay on the

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same theme here which is when you're seeking help a lot of people are

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seeking the wrong things I want to make sure that you're seeking the right

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things right so again whether it's help with specific exams or whether it's help

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with a particular topic the overarching message then is seek somebody who can

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help you help yourself don't seek out right help that will only help you in

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the moment or for that one particular topic but then you'll need to continue

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going back to them right I think a real good sign of whether or not a tutor is

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doing a good job or you know one of these after-school programs are doing a

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good job is if they get repeat customers right if they get somebody coming back

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to them again and again and again for extended periods then they're probably

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not doing a good job they're probably not doing a good job all right I'm gonna

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tell you from my personal experience because again like I said I've been

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experimenting with this for about a year now where I've been when I'm helping

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students one-on-one I focus strictly on their ability to learn well right from

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my experiences it takes no more than about three months usually less so it's

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usually about you know two to three months of working with a student working

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out a lot of kinks doing some trial and error see what kind of methods work best

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for them okay and then after that time they get bored in my sessions because

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they feel like they got a handle on it and that's when I know when they're

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bored in our sessions together that's when I know that they're ready to leave

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the nest or how they're able to do this themselves some of them will come back

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to me for a consultation here and there just to go ahead and you know because

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they ran into some new thing or there's like a new topic and there's a new way

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of learning something or you know they want to try out something new or you

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know they're facing a new set of circumstances so something's shifted and

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they come back to me but even then it's only like two three sessions at most

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right we only meet a couple more times and after that they're back to being

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good on their own and that's what I would look I am NOT trying to just

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complete shit on all of these programs that are available sometimes this is

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the best thing you've got around you I get that okay but what I would like is

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for a lot of these programs to do better and do better specifically in this way

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because there are too many programs where they hire people based off of

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credentials based off of the reputation of the schools they graduated from or

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the awards they have or X Y & Z but it does it's not actually reflected in the

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way that they teach or what they teach or how they teach right so we need to

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actually focus on what matters which is the the teaching part of it like what is

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it that you are getting when you're seeking help right from these people

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that are so-called experts okay and what I'm telling you is that name recognition

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of University people word-of-mouth recommendation that that honestly is not

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the right indicator of whether or not they're good at what they're doing what

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I'm saying is if they're good at what they're doing you'll see the results and

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what I mean by results is that you will never need them again okay that's what

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you should be looking for got it now I've said all this about seeking help

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with regards to AP SAT exams and also with help in your school subjects here's

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where it's a little different okay when it comes to college admission and you're

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seeking assistance on college admission okay you should be looking for something

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a little different because it is a one-time thing all right college

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admission is a one-time thing now there are some skills that carry over for

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instance learning how to write a personal statement learning how to

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present yourself these are all skills you're gonna need for going on interviews

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for jobs right so these are all skills you should be developing and maybe you

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could seek out help with that with being a better professional in the way that

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you present yourself okay that's all well and good but when it comes to

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things like let's say how to write my personal statement and getting edits on

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them okay you do need somebody who who can help you with this particular task

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all right it's very task specific okay and so the help you're looking for is

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gonna be a little different than the help that I suggested you seek when you

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know you're trying to learn how to learn okay so what does this actually look

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like okay one you need somebody who has experience reading through a whole shit

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ton of college essays okay here's the thing students you know when you unlike

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this just like an English class that you might be taking right you write an essay

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for an English class the students read their essays and they might read the

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essays of the friends they have next to them so like a few more essays right on

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the same topic but the teacher has to read all of your essays right what does

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that do for the teacher the teacher has a better sense of what a quality

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paper looks like not necessarily because they know more but in part because they

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have exposure to more you need people who have actually reviewed a lot a lot

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a lot of essays okay I'm telling you this right now from experience I feel

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bad for the students that I worked with you know like this is maybe about 18

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years ago all right a long time ago where I didn't have as much experience

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now that I've read through thousands of personal statements I have a good sense

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of what hits and what doesn't right and it has to do with a lot of factors it's

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not any of these like things we'll talk about this but it's not any of the

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things that you get least quick responses for like right on this topic or

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don't run on that topic it's not that there's the writing style is the way

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that students present themselves you develop an eye for it because you've read

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so many of them you need somebody who has that experience okay you could

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develop that to some degree by reading as many personal statements as you could

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get your hands on okay and then seeing how they did in terms of their

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applications but what you need is somebody who professionally look at this

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and then went through them went through one after another after another that

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developed an eye for knowing what works and what doesn't okay here's a second

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thing right and this is more of a pitfall to avoid okay if you've been

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following me up to this point then you should have it in your head that college

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admissions is partly your work but that meeting good luck right what I mean by

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that is there's nothing you can do to guarantee admissions into any particular

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place you could improve your odds but you can't guarantee admissions anywhere

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aside from you know doing something shady like paying somebody off okay which

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I recommend you don't just be clear okay you're not gonna get a guarantee right

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and in fact the writing statement you here's a harder part you don't know

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whether the writing statement right the the personal statement that was written

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actually contributed to helping them or hurting a student getting into a

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university right so anybody who tells you that they know the secrets to how to

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write a personal statement to get you into a particularly good college right

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where the college that you want to get into okay if they say that to you you

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know they're full of shit they're liars okay they might be meaning well they

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might believe themselves they're liars okay your personal statement doesn't

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guarantee shit it doesn't guarantee anything at all okay so if somebody is

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feeding you lies you should have red flags right you should have your ears

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perked up and be thinking hmm something about this doesn't sound right okay

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here's another red flag okay I know a lot of academies right these after

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school places that offer college consultations and college admission help

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and all that that they will flaunt all of the different universities they got

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their students into Princeton Harvard Yale Stanford Berkeley yada yada yada

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they'll brag as a marketing tool about all the places that their students have

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gone in fact some of these places will actually have their students write out

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some sort of statement talking about how helpful their program was to help them

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getting into the university and how excited they were when they got in okay

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if you see that a ignored at the least or B call them out on it call them out

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on it because that's that's a bunch of shit okay look the reason you get into

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university probably has 90% of it has to do with you and what you did it has to

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do with what you and what you did throughout your time in high school

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all right and throughout your life it's about you okay the personal statement

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could help push you over the edge but again it's a luck game I don't know what

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a particular college is going to like or not like about your personal statement

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all I can do is make your personal statement look as good as it can to as

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many eyes as possible right to be it to make it as informative as possible for

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as many people as possible so that it improves your odds but you never know

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right you might get somebody who reads your essay and for some reason it doesn't

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click with them or something another but it's like a one-off very it's because of

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the specific reader and the fact that they didn't give you a particularly high

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score on the personal statement or it might have nothing to do with it maybe

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they didn't even pay attention to your personal statement right it didn't help

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or hurt it had nothing to do with it your mission had to do with all the

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other metrics that they were looking at right every college is going to be

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different in exactly what they're looking for and what balance they're

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looking for and the types of students are looking for so if anybody takes credit

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for a student getting into a particular college by saying we help them get them

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there by getting them a particular SAT score or we help them by with our

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college consultation or we help them by you know you know right helping them

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with their personal statement in such and such a way they're full of shit they

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should not be taking credit for it the credit should be going to the student

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you're the one doing the hard work you should be getting the credit people can

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be there to help you along the way and they should deserve some credit for

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helping you but they are not the ones who got you in that is absolutely false

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hundred percent okay so look out for those red flags okay what does this

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actually mean okay well here's what it means when it comes to seeking certain

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kinds of help unfortunately you're gonna have to pay a shit ton of money to get

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good help and this is particularly true when it comes to college essays okay the

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people who are most equipped to be able to give you good guidance are people who

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have been on admission committees but guess what those people who are in

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admissions committees they are very very talented they have a great resume they

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if they choose to spend the time to work on you with your college essays it cost

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a lot of money I know this because I've been in that industry I could be

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charging up a lot of money for this right I offer free to my PCC students

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when they're transferring over to UC or Cal State I help them for free but I

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always tell them like look this is not something that is usually offered this

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level of in-depth one-on-one feedback is something that you usually cannot get

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for free and definitely cannot get good help for cheap it's gonna be expensive

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so what are your options well this is why I created this podcast okay I'm going

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to try to give you at least some guidance from my own experiences and if

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we get enough people participating sharing this podcast so let them be

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familiar with what we're doing here if we get enough people I am wanting to do

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some live streams where we could talk about have honest conversations about

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what kind of strategies work and don't and why because what I'm finding I've

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checked on YouTube on podcasts is there's a lot of good general advice but

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those general advice might not apply to you specifically you need the one-on-one

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help in this particular area and unfortunately this is one that the

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wealthiest is gonna either give the ones who are gonna have access to the the

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useful help anyways okay but that tells you that tells you a couple of things

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right there's a lot of people that offer you help that offer you some sort of

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maybe not a guarantee but they sell you a kind of dream of what you can get okay

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I want you to be careful when you're seeking out help and I hope that at

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least I gave you a couple of things to kind of look out for so that you have

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the right tools to figure out what kind of help best fits your needs all right

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what kind of help is the is it that you need at this particular moment what kind

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of help is actually useful and especially for those of you who struggle

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right I've worked with so many students whose parents are middle class they make

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you know they can make a living wage but you know a lot of these extra

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curricular activities and you know SAT academy so they cost so much money that

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they're squeezing their budget as much as they can in order to provide these

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opportunities for their kids right I don't want you to waste your money just

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to not see lasting results I want you to see lasting results which means that you

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need to know you need to be an informed consumer you need to know what you're

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looking for you know what to ask okay so again be mindful of what kind of help

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you should be seeking and how to seek it out and then start looking for some of

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these red flags that should help you question whether or not this place is

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actually doing things in your best interest or you know again it might be

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that they have their well-intentioned but they just don't know right they're

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going off of their own experiences but they don't know because they haven't

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been on the other side they haven't been on that admission committee they don't

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know what these places are actually looking for okay so I hope that was

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helpful we'll start talking a little bit about personal statements specific

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Lee okay but like I said what we're gonna have to do at some point is to do

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some live streams where you could ask your specific questions so that we could

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unpack your particular circumstances and how to approach the approach the the

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college application or studying generally with regards to your personal

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needs okay so until then