1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:01,200 That's right. 2 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:05,080 It's college acceptance season, the time when students find out whether they got 3 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:09,960 in or got rejected from the various colleges they applied to, which means 4 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:14,560 we are about to get a lot of dumb, uninformed shit floating around 5 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:18,680 on social media, as well as idiotic lawsuits. 6 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:20,240 So 7 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:30,200 let's ring in this new season. 8 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:40,440 Welcome, everybody, to this public service 9 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:44,080 announcement for the upcoming college acceptance season. 10 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:45,640 College acceptance season, what is that? 11 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,720 That is that time when students are getting responses. 12 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:54,640 It should be coming in the next few weeks for the first non early decisions, 13 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:59,000 as well as over the course of the next couple of months. 14 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,720 We should be hearing from students about the results of those applications. 15 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:09,880 And this is a time that you get a lot of dumbass analyses that happen 16 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:15,240 right after students find out that they were or were not accepted into a particular 17 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:22,560 college last year, we had Stanley Zong from the Bay Area in California suing 18 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:27,760 a bunch of universities because they thought, you know, must have been some sort 19 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:32,440 of discrimination happening, must have been based on race for sure, 20 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,920 because there's no other way that I wouldn't have gotten into at least one 21 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:40,920 of these very competitive universities this year. 22 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:44,960 We started early with lawsuits against University of California. 23 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:46,960 We started early with lawsuits against 24 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:51,640 the University of California, which is a very, very competitive university. 25 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:53,920 And we have a lot of people who are 26 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:59,680 very, very concerned about the impact of this over potential race discrimination 27 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:03,640 going into their admission decisions. 28 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:06,040 And, you know, every year there's going 29 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:12,240 to be a bunch of stuff posted on social media, both from students and parents, 30 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:15,360 who are going to go to school and oftentimes this is propagated by these 31 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:19,680 goddamn for-profit companies or individuals who are helping students 32 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:23,200 get into these schools by helping them with their essays and other things. 33 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,480 Those college consultants. 34 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:27,720 And they will start taking credit for all 35 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:32,480 the wonderful things they did to help students get into the college of their dreams. 36 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:36,760 All of this is a bunch of fucking garbage. 37 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:41,160 And this is part of the reason that I think before we even begin getting these 38 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,480 acceptance letters or rejection letters, I don't even like to use that word. 39 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,560 But, you know, non acceptance letters 40 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:52,240 is we need to just actually have a conversation about just slowing down 41 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:57,560 and thinking through the process of college application and how these 42 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,720 decisions are made, think through them reasonably so that we don't buy 43 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:04,520 into a lot of dumb explanations of what happened. 44 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:05,920 OK. 45 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:09,200 And here's what I want to really stress. 46 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,480 It's that, look, 47 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:16,560 unless you are in the meetings for all of these decisions that were made on every 48 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:21,600 applicant of a given college, you don't know shit. 49 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:23,600 You don't know shit. 50 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:26,800 Does that mean that there might be something shady going on? 51 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,880 It could be, but the reality is most of the time that's not what's happening. 52 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:33,880 You just don't know. 53 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:36,800 You don't know what everyone else submitted. 54 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,200 You don't know what kind of personal statements other students submitted. 55 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:42,600 You don't know what the admission officers were looking for. 56 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:44,200 You don't know which admission officer 57 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:49,000 was looking and reading your particular essay, why it hit or didn't. 58 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:53,840 You don't know which of the multitude of factors that impact final decision 59 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:56,720 could have contributed to your being accepted or not. 60 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:57,960 OK. 61 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:03,840 In other words, most of the people talking just don't know shit. 62 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:06,480 OK, let me go back to the Stanley's own example. 63 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:07,160 All right. 64 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:11,360 When this started going around last year, I was I was actually I didn't even know 65 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:15,400 that this happened, you know, a friend of mine texting me a link 66 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:21,040 to this article from last year to send the link, you know, the past month, 67 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:23,280 in the past month, sent it over to me. 68 00:04:23,280 --> 00:04:24,920 I looked at it and I was like, oh, yeah, 69 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:27,280 you know, it doesn't surprise me because it happens all the time. 70 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:28,080 Right. 71 00:04:28,280 --> 00:04:32,320 And then I read the details of this lawsuit and then I found out there was 72 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:39,000 something that was glaringly missing, which is that the. 73 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:42,280 The person suing, I don't know if it's Stanley's father, right, 74 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:46,520 somebody, whoever was suing, who decided it was a good idea to sue, 75 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:52,400 has no information on exactly what the application process looked like. 76 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,160 They don't know what the other applicants 77 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:57,680 did and what they presented on their application. 78 00:04:57,880 --> 00:04:58,880 They don't know shit. 79 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:01,400 OK, they also don't seem to understand 80 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:05,720 the basics of how a lot of these admission officers make their decision. 81 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:08,680 This is just uninformed 82 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:11,080 kibblegobble. I don't know what to call it. 83 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:12,840 Garbage, right? 84 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:14,080 Gibberish to me. 85 00:05:14,280 --> 00:05:20,120 OK, you cannot look at somebody's GPA and SAT score and think, oh, yeah, 86 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:22,800 clearly they should have a really good shot of getting into one of these 87 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,440 universities now. That's not how it works. 88 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:27,040 If you've been following my podcast, 89 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:30,720 you know that college admissions look at a lot of different things. 90 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:35,480 And the GPA and the SAT scores are honestly should make you think this is 91 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:37,600 just more like the baseline. 92 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:42,360 And no matter what the accomplishments you have accumulated in your high school 93 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:48,160 career, that doesn't guarantee shit if it's not valued in the same way that other 94 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:51,160 people's accomplishments are valued by the admissions officers. 95 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:53,440 And you don't know what the admissions officers are looking for. 96 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:56,920 You don't. You could listen to what the admission officers say. 97 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:01,480 But the reality is that there are so many damn applicants that go into any of these 98 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:05,280 universities, so many people that are having to review a shit ton of these 99 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:10,760 applications, OK, you don't know what made one student stand out and another not. 100 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:12,800 A lot of times it's almost like a coin flip. 101 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:14,760 OK, you don't know. 102 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:17,120 So here's the other thing I noticed. 103 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:22,680 OK, this student did not reveal the entirety of the application. 104 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:23,720 Hmm. 105 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,080 Don't know exactly what's going on. 106 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:29,680 I don't know exactly what could or could not have contributed to their being 107 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:36,720 accepted or not. OK, all this to say, if you are already buying into this bullshit 108 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:41,480 that it must have been because of race, you are the dumbass because clearly 109 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,040 there's not enough information to figure out what actually happened. 110 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:48,480 OK, now I know afterwards I looked around. 111 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:52,320 I saw that there was a lot of people who did wonderful analyses, people who actually 112 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:57,920 are, you know, you know, really analyzing and have experience with helping students 113 00:06:57,920 --> 00:06:59,400 with their college applications. 114 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,200 And they pointed out to a lot of things that could have been the case. 115 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,360 But again, these are all things that could have been the case. 116 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:07,160 We don't know unless we see the actual application. 117 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:08,600 The point is this, right? 118 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,880 Every time around this time of the season, students do this to each other. 119 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:15,400 They start comparing like even within their school, they start comparing to one 120 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:19,000 another like, oh, my goodness, but this student and this they don't have as good 121 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,480 of grades as me and they haven't taken as many like AP classes as me. 122 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:25,040 Oh, and then they don't have as good of an SAT score. 123 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:26,480 How did they get into this school? 124 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:30,840 And I didn't because you don't know what was on the rest of their application. 125 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:31,640 You don't know. 126 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:33,600 You also don't know how it is that the 127 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,480 admission committee was looking and reading at these applications, what they 128 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:41,280 were looking for, they weren't you weren't privy to that information. 129 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:43,200 Because if you're not privy to the information, 130 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:48,560 shut the hell up because you don't know. OK. 131 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:53,040 Oh, then you have this lawsuit against the UC saying that it must have been based off 132 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:58,000 of race. And again, here we have another case where people are making a lot 133 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:02,960 of assumptions about things that they just don't have information on. 134 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:07,280 Now, if this lawsuit was about, hey, we want transparency. 135 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:10,360 Can you give us a better insight into the admission process? 136 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:12,280 I mean, that's a separate kind of lawsuit. 137 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:14,640 But assuming there was some something 138 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:18,920 going on, something about discriminating based on race, right? 139 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:23,080 Going on to help out certain groups of students, but not others to discriminate 140 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:29,800 against X, Y and Z groups, right? OK, this is based off of absolutely nothing. 141 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,880 You're just looking at data like, oh, 142 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:34,840 there's a certain group of this demographic that got in. 143 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:37,960 And so, you know, it's not the same as the previous years. 144 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:40,920 And so therefore something shady must have gone on. 145 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:43,080 Like, that's not how this works. 146 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:45,720 You don't know. You don't know how it is 147 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,600 that the admissions committee is looking at the applications, how they're 148 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:53,000 analyzing each applicant holistically. You don't know how much of this is just 149 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:57,000 statistical, like normal fluctuations in statistics. 150 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:02,880 And you also don't know how much of it is that they are actually actively choosing 151 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:05,720 to understand holistic evaluation in a different way. 152 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:06,760 They do this every year. 153 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:10,440 Colleges do this every year where they will review the way in which they 154 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,080 know, accepted students, they will review the process. 155 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:17,280 They will have conversations about what is a better way to do it in order to get 156 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,520 the kind of student body that they really are looking for. 157 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:25,680 OK, and then they will adjust the things that they pay most attention to or they 158 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:29,840 might adjust the way they weight different considerations, different factors in the 159 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:31,920 application process. This happens every year. 160 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,080 You don't know when you don't know. 161 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:35,560 This is the point you don't know. 162 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:38,280 OK, this is just all of this is just 163 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:42,440 uninformed dribble, just drool coming out of people's mouth. 164 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:46,480 They just don't know they're upset, they're angry, they're frustrated. 165 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:51,400 And there are people that are capitalizing on it and then using it as a means to get 166 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:54,560 everybody riled up. I don't know for what, right? 167 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:58,040 For political purposes, for their own to align their own pockets. 168 00:09:58,040 --> 00:09:59,240 I don't know what the deal is. 169 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:00,680 OK, I don't know why. 170 00:10:00,680 --> 00:10:02,240 I don't want to assume the reason for it. 171 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:03,840 I mean, people could be well-intentioned. 172 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:08,160 But the point is, none of these people are informed on what actually happened. 173 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:12,800 None of them. They're basing their judgment calls on a lack of information. 174 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:19,440 OK, so I want to go through some key points here that for all the students and I'm 175 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:23,040 also wanting to talk to the parents here, OK, the parents, especially sometimes the 176 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:26,640 parents are the worst. OK, students and parents, I want to talk to both of you. 177 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,120 OK, if it doesn't apply to you, great. 178 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,440 But if this does apply to you, I want you to take a moment to really think things 179 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:36,240 through. All right. I'm not trying to, you know, punish you or anything. 180 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:37,640 I'm not trying to yell at you. 181 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:41,720 I'm trying to just give you some facts of the matter that maybe you should keep in 182 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:46,760 mind before you start reacting and getting all worked up and then calling a lawyer. 183 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:48,840 OK, all right. 184 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:53,600 First key point, and I've already mentioned this, but I can't stress this enough. 185 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,160 Unless you're in all the goddamn meetings 186 00:10:56,160 --> 00:11:02,520 during all of these application decisions, you do not know what happened. 187 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:04,920 Let me stress this. You do not know. 188 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:07,760 OK, and in fact, most of the people you 189 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:11,000 hear from, unless they were actually in those rooms, which I doubt you know any 190 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:15,320 of them, OK, they don't know either. 191 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:18,440 Don't trust any of these organizations, 192 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:22,440 these companies that claim that they have some deep insight into the application. 193 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:23,840 They don't. 194 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:26,800 They are guessing just as much as you. 195 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:31,200 Their guesses might be a little bit more informed with experience and with a longer 196 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:33,040 data set, but they're still guessing. 197 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:33,880 They don't know. 198 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:36,840 I've seen on YouTube people breaking down, right? 199 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:40,120 These consultants, college consultant places, they're breaking down like, oh, 200 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:42,240 we're seeing X and Y, Z trends, right? 201 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:44,840 In the early decisions, right? 202 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,040 I was like, oh, OK, all right. 203 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:49,520 What do you know about why students got accepted? 204 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:50,680 You don't know shit. 205 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:54,800 You see the results and then you're making guesses about what may or may not 206 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:57,840 have contributed to it based off of the limited information you have. 207 00:11:57,840 --> 00:11:58,960 You don't know shit. 208 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:00,480 Don't believe any of these people. 209 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:01,320 They're all guessing. 210 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:05,760 Some might be making more educated guesses than others, but all of them are guessing. 211 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:08,320 OK, nobody has a magic formula. 212 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:10,640 Nobody knows exactly what happened. 213 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:12,720 OK, got it. 214 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:14,000 So take it with a grain of salt. 215 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:15,720 People who are making educated guesses, 216 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:20,240 you could listen to why they think they know that this is why students are getting 217 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:24,480 in or not, OK, you could listen to their analysis of why they think so. 218 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:28,280 OK, but always understand these are nothing more than educated guesses. 219 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:31,240 These are not deep insights into anything. 220 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:33,440 They're just guessing. 221 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:34,640 They're just guessing. 222 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:35,640 So take it with a grain of salt. 223 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:36,880 OK, all right. 224 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:38,920 Second key point, 225 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,360 context matters, context matters. 226 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:46,640 What I mean by that is you need to see the application as a whole before you 227 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:49,560 figure out why a student got in or not. 228 00:12:49,560 --> 00:12:56,920 If you ever see anybody make any claims based off of strictly a few metrics 229 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:00,720 on their application, like their extracurricular activities and their, 230 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:03,280 you know, SAT and GPA scores, right. 231 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:08,400 OK, if that's all they're giving you, then you're not seeing the total picture. 232 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:10,800 You're not seeing what the admission committee saw. 233 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,640 You're not seeing the letters of recommendation, which the students 234 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:15,880 themselves probably don't have access to. 235 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:18,560 Right. A lot of times these are supposed to be kept confidential. 236 00:13:18,560 --> 00:13:21,040 You're probably not seeing any of the interview tapes. 237 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:22,960 If there is an interview tape available. 238 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,000 Right. I mean, some places that do these 239 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,160 interviews, maybe they have some record of it. 240 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:27,960 I don't know. 241 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:31,480 Other places, they might just be like, you know, the interview happened 242 00:13:31,680 --> 00:13:34,360 or conversations happen, maybe not even interview context. 243 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:38,320 Right. But you don't know what was talked about, how the student came off. 244 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:39,400 You don't know any of that. 245 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:42,600 You know, if you don't have a personal statement, you don't know 246 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:47,520 the totality of their application, which means you don't have the have good 247 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:52,360 grounds to draw any sort of conclusion about why an application was a good or 248 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,880 bad application, given that you haven't even seen the full application. 249 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,200 And it matters a lot because, again, I can't stress this enough. 250 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:06,240 Colleges care about more than just resume, one line, you know, 251 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:09,400 accomplishments that you could list off. 252 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:11,440 Right. They're concerned about more than 253 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:18,360 just the GPA, SAT score, your AP test and, you know, what else is it like? 254 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:22,000 A list of extracurricular activities and positions and awards that you received. 255 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:22,960 They want more. 256 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:25,720 There's a reason that they're asking for all this additional information 257 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:29,640 in the application because they use all that extra information and making their 258 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:35,520 decision. So unless you have the context, you're not going to get any good, useful 259 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:38,440 information on why a student got in or not. 260 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:39,560 You're just not. 261 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:40,560 OK. 262 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:45,800 And so, again, this goes back to look, if I don't see the full application, 263 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:49,720 I am not going to give a response as to why a student may or may not have gotten in. 264 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:51,360 It's a dumb exercise. 265 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:56,480 It's a worthless, time consuming, pointless exercise because it is 266 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:00,440 going to be grounded in very, very incomplete information that is going to 267 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:02,640 lead you to draw some terrible conclusions. 268 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:04,680 OK, this is just critical thinking one on one. 269 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:05,800 All right. 270 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:09,080 Just withhold your judgment until you get more information. 271 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:10,520 That's what I would say, withhold judgment. 272 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:11,640 OK. 273 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:12,960 All right. 274 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:14,400 Third, 275 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:19,640 because this is coming up more and more in the past, like, you know, I mean, it 276 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:23,680 existed for a while, but I mean, the lawsuits really you're seeing something 277 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:28,560 here, right, OK, which is people seem to be assuming that somehow race is what's 278 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:30,400 contributing to some students getting in or not. 279 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:32,280 OK, I want to I want to be clear about this. 280 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:36,880 Stop assuming that race or ethnicity had 281 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:40,200 anything to do with a student getting in or not. 282 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:42,080 OK, stop assuming it. 283 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:44,920 I'm not saying that that might not have been a factor. 284 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:46,920 What I'm saying is you all need to stop 285 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:50,000 assuming it and suing universities over this issue. 286 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:55,280 OK, looking at overall percentages of different ethnicities and who got in and 287 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:58,880 how many of them got in. OK, look, and then drawing the conclusion 288 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:01,960 that they got in because of the race, I'm going to be straight up with you. 289 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:03,200 OK, no sugarcoating. 290 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:05,080 That sounds racist as fuck. 291 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:07,480 That sounds absolutely racist as fuck. 292 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:14,440 You are assuming that the black Latino, the indigenous students who applied 293 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:18,920 basically the groups that are historically, you know, have been oppressed 294 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:23,680 in the United States, has been, you know, marginalized in the United States, 295 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:28,400 that they got in because they got some sort of boost because of their race. 296 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:30,720 That's what you're assuming and claiming. 297 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:33,120 This is go strictly to that UCF, the UC one. 298 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:37,480 But I mean, honestly, the Stanley's long lawsuit made me think about this as well. 299 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:41,120 OK, look, you're assuming that race has something to do with that. 300 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:47,880 It tells me that you seem to have certain biases that are leading you 301 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:53,040 that are leading you to jump to this factor as the factor that is determining 302 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,480 the fact that some students are getting in and not. 303 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:56,960 OK, 304 00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:58,640 that sounds racist as fuck. 305 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:01,720 Maybe not like an intentional awareness, 306 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:04,960 like you might not be aware that you have these biases, but you're showing your 307 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:08,080 biases is what you're doing. OK, check yourself. 308 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:11,840 Ask yourself why you're jumping to these conclusions that race seems to be 309 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:16,160 the reason instead of something else in the application or damn it, 310 00:17:16,360 --> 00:17:18,880 maybe like just statistics, right, just odds. 311 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:22,200 OK, instead of the application itself, which, by the way, again, 312 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:27,520 you're not privy to, you don't have actual information about what was 313 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:32,000 written on these applications, so you don't know what contributed to 314 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:33,120 student getting in or not. 315 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:36,960 And yet you're assuming that it must be based off a race. 316 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:39,080 That makes you sound like a racist. 317 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:41,520 All right, so slow down here. 318 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:43,680 OK, I'm not assuming you're a terrible person, 319 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:48,080 but I am saying that you are definitely showing some biases. 320 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:52,000 Calm down, slow down, back up, think critically. 321 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,400 All right, show the colleges you could think critically. 322 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:57,640 All right, my goodness. 323 00:17:57,840 --> 00:17:59,840 Fourth, 324 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:05,800 please, whether you're a student or a parent or somebody else, please, please, 325 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,080 please study some goddamn statistics. 326 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:15,560 I get that it might be difficult, but it is important for you to study statistics 327 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:17,840 so that you could think critically about situations like this. 328 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:21,120 Look, suppose you apply to ten competitive 329 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:25,000 colleges, each with an acceptance rate of like 10 to 15 percent chance of getting 330 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:29,960 in. OK, a lot of the students that get into one competitive college will probably get 331 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:35,560 into several of those competitive colleges, which means your chances of getting into 332 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:39,600 each of these each of these colleges, unless you're one of the people that are 333 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:43,520 probably going to be getting into most of them, are going to be fairly low. 334 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:46,080 And there's going to be some correlation here. 335 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:48,000 If you get rejected from one competitive 336 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:51,240 college, you might very well get rejected from all ten. 337 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:53,920 OK, in other words, 338 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:59,760 you should expect it as a real possibility that you would get rejected from all ten 339 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:01,720 colleges. Look, let me give you an example. 340 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:02,160 All right. 341 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:06,120 This is again, this is I'm going to let you just study the math of this all. 342 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:08,440 Right. But if you actually understand how 343 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:11,920 this works, you will understand that getting rejected from all these 344 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:16,240 competitive colleges, especially the ones in the top 20 on the on these ranking 345 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:20,880 list, you're probably going to get rejected, you know, from a lot of them, 346 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:23,600 if not all of them, that's a pretty common experience. 347 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:29,520 OK, look, I applied when I was applying to graduate PhD programs in philosophy. 348 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:32,480 I applied to 40 different colleges, 40 different programs. 349 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:34,960 OK, I actually saved up money to pay 350 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:38,360 for all the applications, because it was insanely expensive, you know, applying to 351 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:43,480 so many places. But the reason I did so was I knew it would be a one and done 352 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:46,360 chance. I wasn't going to spend more money on these applications. 353 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:48,120 I wasn't going to try again another year. 354 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:49,880 OK, it was a one time thing. 355 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:52,040 I'm going to do it. If I don't get in, I don't get in. 356 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:55,160 And the reason I thought it was very likely I was making alternative life 357 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:59,080 plans and figuring out what to do if I don't get into any of them. 358 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:05,000 I made those alternative plans because I knew that all 40 of these programs had 359 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:08,240 an acceptance rate of somewhere in the two to five percent, maybe a couple had 360 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,800 like 10 percent, but a lot of them were hovering in the two to five percent range. 361 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:13,200 OK. 362 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:15,320 And I understood the math. 363 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:19,880 The math told me that there's a high likelihood that I get into zero of these 364 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:25,560 programs, especially when I know that the acceptance rate is very, very low 365 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:31,480 already to begin with and that the basic cut off to even be considered 366 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:36,400 for most of these programs are going to be a really, really, really high GPA. 367 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:40,440 Right. We're talking like the top 10th percentile, if not higher. 368 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:42,440 And on top of that, you should be getting 369 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:47,280 the top 10 percentile in on your GRE, which is like the SATs for graduate school, 370 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:51,000 right, on your GRE scores, which, by the way, is not an easy test. 371 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:52,320 OK. 372 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:53,920 And so that's just a cut off. 373 00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:57,120 That's just to be considered in most of these programs. 374 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:59,600 And so doing all the having all these 375 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:03,520 accomplishments just didn't mean shit, it just means that you would be considered. 376 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:04,760 Right. 377 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:09,480 But even then, you're because there are just so few spots, you're just not going 378 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:11,240 to get in in most cases, right. 379 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:13,840 So I felt lucky as hell when I got into two. 380 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:17,120 I was like, oh, shit, I got into some. 381 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:18,240 Plural, too. 382 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:19,760 That was unbelievable. 383 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:23,040 I was expecting zero. 384 00:21:24,120 --> 00:21:26,320 I thought if I got lucky, maybe I'd get into one. 385 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,280 Be like, haha, done. 386 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:35,480 OK, the reality, the reality is that there's just not a spot for everyone. 387 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:38,880 OK, there's just not a spot for everyone. 388 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:42,200 It's a limited resource at any given college. 389 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:43,800 Deal with it. 390 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,000 Deal with it. 391 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:46,600 Understand the math of it. 392 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:49,080 Understand that your chances are low to begin with. 393 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:51,200 Set your expectations correctly. 394 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:55,120 Don't look at your own application and think too highly of yourself, because I 395 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:58,600 guarantee you, whatever your application shows, there's another student with an 396 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,000 application that just stands out even more. 397 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,000 You just don't know. 398 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:08,440 OK, if you're bitching about all of this, oh, I didn't get into one of these 399 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:14,560 competitive colleges, this just reveals to me that you still have a lot of growing 400 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:20,080 up to do both intellectually, study some statistics and emotionally. 401 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,000 OK, this is the reality. 402 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,880 You need to find a way to accept reality for what it is. 403 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:27,800 All right. 404 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:32,760 And I'm giving you just the basic math of it that you probably did not have a 405 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:36,360 guaranteed spot in any of these schools to begin with. 406 00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:39,160 In fact, I don't think anybody really does. 407 00:22:39,360 --> 00:22:40,600 OK. 408 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:44,760 All right, finally, last point. 409 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:47,160 I cannot reiterate this enough. 410 00:22:47,360 --> 00:22:49,200 I've mentioned this before in other 411 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,320 episodes, but I can't stress it enough. 412 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:55,440 You are not owed a spot in any college, 413 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:59,760 except being community college because they'll accept everybody, right? 414 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:02,800 You are not owed a spot in any college at all. 415 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,200 Colleges want a lot of different things 416 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,760 from students and a particular balance of different students with different 417 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:12,880 interests, different backgrounds from different states, different life 418 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:18,680 circumstances, they want a variety. OK, people keep ignoring this point. 419 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:19,520 And it annoys me. 420 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:21,000 It annoys me to no end. 421 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,600 OK, parents are often the worst of it. 422 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,240 They just won't hear me when I tell them, right? 423 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:31,720 You need to let go of this idea that somehow you are owed a spot in a college 424 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:33,800 because of all the things you accomplished. 425 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:40,120 OK, the things you work so hard for, you are deserving of the good things that 426 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:41,840 come from all of your hard work. 427 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,320 I am not going to deny you that. 428 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:49,720 What I'm saying is that all that hard work doesn't mean that you are guaranteed 429 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:53,560 or you are owed any spot in any particular college. 430 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:57,800 What it means is that you should be given an opportunity by society. 431 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:02,760 That opportunity could look a lot of different ways depending on where it is 432 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:06,480 that these opportunities open up, but it just might not be at the colleges 433 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:08,680 you apply to, it might be somewhere else. 434 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:13,560 OK, but if you continue to work hard, you continue to apply yourself, 435 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:17,840 you continue to improve, you should see the fruits of your labor. 436 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:19,520 I truly believe that. 437 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,960 OK, it just doesn't mean that the fruit has to be the particular college that you 438 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,560 apply to. All right. 439 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:27,720 You don't know. 440 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,080 There is a lot of luck involved in the missions. 441 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:33,520 And I think people need to really get this through their head. 442 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:38,720 It's not about you being a bad candidate or worse candidate. 443 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,680 It's not about you being higher or lower in some ranking. 444 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,280 It's not about any of that. 445 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:48,760 It's about a lot of different factors that are outside of your control and 446 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,640 sometimes even outside of the control of the college. 447 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:57,080 They don't have spots for an insane number of XYZ type of student 448 00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,960 because they're not looking for every student to look a certain way. 449 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:05,240 They're looking for students of different kinds, different backgrounds, 450 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:09,280 different interests. Maybe the essay just didn't hit with a particular reader 451 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,480 for whatever reason. Who knows? 452 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,480 OK, you were a solid candidate. 453 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,720 Maybe another student was a solid candidate when you have to pick between 454 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:19,280 these solid candidates and you can't pick them all. 455 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,040 Guess what? Sometimes it'll come down to a coin flip. 456 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:26,800 I've been in the decision rooms for deciding who to give scholarships 457 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:31,440 to who to open up a certain spot for, who to hire for XYZ. 458 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,920 Like a lot of these resumes start looking exactly the same. 459 00:25:35,120 --> 00:25:37,000 There's very little difference. 460 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,360 If there is some difference, they're minute. 461 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:40,960 They're more like a preference. 462 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,040 It has nothing to do with you as a candidate. 463 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:44,960 All right. 464 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,280 It's OK to be disappointed. 465 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:49,280 And that includes you too, parents. 466 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:52,040 It's OK to be disappointed. 467 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:56,920 So be disappointed and deal with it like an emotionally healthy person. 468 00:25:57,120 --> 00:26:02,280 And if you can't deal with it, get therapy, not a lawyer. 469 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:03,400 Got it? 470 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:04,400 Please. 471 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:11,200 In this upcoming acceptance season, I hope that with each year, 472 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:18,520 we as a collective community get better at this, which is let's not start jumping 473 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:19,960 to some goddamn conclusions. 474 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:26,200 Let's not have a bunch of lawsuits over shit that honestly is grounded in probably 475 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,840 various biases because you're clearly making some assumptions. 476 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,760 Like you just don't have the data to make the assumptions. 477 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:33,360 You're not warranted to making these assumptions. 478 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:34,600 You're just not. 479 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:35,560 You're just not. 480 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:39,800 OK, until you give me like actual reveal, like documents and, you know, 481 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,680 conversations happening behind closed doors in the admissions committees, 482 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,240 I am not going to buy any of your, 483 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:51,560 quote unquote, analysis or explanations of what actually happened because you don't know. 484 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:53,440 OK, all right. 485 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:57,960 This all to say there will be some upcoming videos I'm going to post on YouTube. 486 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,760 See the link to the YouTube channel in the description. 487 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,960 I'll be reviewing during this season when people start posting stuff up on social 488 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,040 media and bad information starts going around, sometimes good information. 489 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,520 I will be reviewing these posts. 490 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:12,560 I'm not here to trash on people's posts. 491 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,200 I'm just going to give my perspective. 492 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:18,880 Oftentimes I might, you know, cosign some of the things that are being posted 493 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:23,400 and really emphasize some of the things that they're saying to add to that kind 494 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,320 of culture of responding to college admissions in a healthy way. 495 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,040 Others I am going to call out, 496 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:33,720 especially if they're giving uninformed or biased or, you know, 497 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,680 doing a lot of guesswork, I want to make sure that that becomes clear 498 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,160 to the general public and I want to be one of the many voices that hopefully 499 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,840 will continue to kind of spread that sort of message. 500 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:46,280 OK, 501 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:52,320 and finally, if you are a student and you got accepted, rejected, 502 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:58,440 waitlisted, whatever the status is of your application and you want to understand why. 503 00:27:58,640 --> 00:27:59,160 Right. 504 00:27:59,360 --> 00:28:03,600 I would be more than happy to at least give you some insights from my experience 505 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,720 of the kinds of things that may or may not have. 506 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:07,840 Again, I have no guarantee. 507 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:08,800 I don't know what hit or not. 508 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:09,800 Sometimes it might just be luck. 509 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,000 I might look at your application and be like, you know, you just gotten lucky. 510 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:14,600 This is a really solid application. 511 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:18,560 You apply to a lot of places and any other year you could have been accepted. 512 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:19,800 Who knows what happened this year. 513 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,160 Right. You gave yourself a good chance. 514 00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:23,160 Right. 515 00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:25,320 I don't know what to tell you. 516 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:30,040 But sometimes what I find from applications is that there are aspects of the written 517 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:33,560 statements, the public, you know, the personal statements, or sometimes it 518 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:37,440 might be in the letter of recommendation that you don't have access to. 519 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:42,720 But there might be something in your extracurriculars that knowing a particular 520 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:47,240 university, why it might not have been seen as a good fit or some other reason why 521 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:48,760 you might not have been accepted. 522 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,080 Or even if you want to know why you got accepted, I could give you an idea of what 523 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:56,880 might have been part of the consideration and what combination it might have. 524 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,800 Again, I'm going to be guessing based off of experience. 525 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:01,720 I'm going to give you an informed guess. 526 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:02,520 Right. 527 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,040 But at least with some of the clear red 528 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:10,200 flags, I think those I can probably say with a little bit more certainty what 529 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,440 might have contributed to your getting in or not. 530 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:18,280 So if you are interested in me doing that sort of review, I think it's helpful. 531 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,720 I will try to give you some insight, 532 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:24,160 some feedback, some alternative ways you could have approached the application. 533 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:28,600 And this is a helpful exercise for students to do because if you especially if you're 534 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:29,840 planning on going to graduate school, 535 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,960 professional school, but even in the workforce, right, 536 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,680 you might not even be thinking about this, but sometimes, you know, 537 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,200 companies might ask for a cover letter or maybe they don't require it. 538 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:42,720 It's optional, but it might help to include a cover letter. 539 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,760 And cover letters often should read like those personal statements do. 540 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:51,960 So if you want to get some more insight into what, you know, people might be 541 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,720 detecting in your application, how they might be interpreting some of the things 542 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:59,920 that you have accomplished, I could actually help brainstorm 543 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,520 with you to try to figure out what might be going on. 544 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,560 And so hopefully that'll be super helpful. 545 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:08,760 But I will do this for you free of cost for anybody who's interested. 546 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:10,760 You could go ahead and send that over to me. 547 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:16,320 Just find my YouTube page against again, the link is in the is again in the 548 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:20,880 in the description, but on my YouTube channel, on the community post, 549 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,720 you could post that you want this sort of assistance. 550 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,240 You don't have to make it public. 551 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:29,880 I will find you separately and then have you email the information to me. 552 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:33,000 And I could give you that feedback directly. 553 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:34,680 I'd be more than happy to. 554 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,800 You don't have to worry that I'm some sort of scam artist. 555 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,800 I'm not hiding behind anything. 556 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:40,680 You could find me. 557 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:46,680 I'm a faculty at Pasadena City College and my information is all available free 558 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,680 online. It's really scary how much information about me is available online. 559 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:55,080 So, you know, I will do my best to try to help you to get that insight. 560 00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:56,040 Please let me know. 561 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:57,920 My goal has always been to get connected 562 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:01,800 with students, to get connected with parents so that we could have real 563 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,240 conversations, honest conversations to get to the bottom of what really might be 564 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,760 happening instead of a lot of the talking points that get thrown around. 565 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:11,840 So I'm more than happy again. 566 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,880 I won't know until I see your actual application, the full of it. 567 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:20,240 And so please be ready to go ahead and send that over to me at some point. 568 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,680 And I'd be more than happy to help you get that sort of insight. 569 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:28,680 So I hope to see you there on the YouTube community posts until next time.