Asking Columbia Students How They Got Into Columbia — Transcript

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1. 0:00hi everyone welcome back to another
2. 0:01video in this video I'll be interviewing
3. 0:04Columbia students on Columbus campus to
4. 0:06ask them what their favorite part about
5. 0:08Columbia is and how they got into
6. 0:10Columbia as well as some other questions
7. 0:12before we officially get into this video
8. 0:14I would just like to put out a
9. 0:16disclaimer I am no College admissions
10. 0:19expert and neither is I believe any of
11. 0:22the students involved in this video so
12. 0:24please take anything we say with a grain
13. 0:26of salt this video is only intended for
14. 0:28entertainment purposes but I do hope
15. 0:30that this can help you in any way if you
16. 0:32are applying to college or going to soon
17. 0:34plan to college another thing that I
18. 0:36would just like to mention is that I
19. 0:38know a lot of people have been asking me
20. 0:40in my DMs my comments about my own stats
21. 0:43extracurriculars essays and Etc and I
22. 0:47would just like to come on here and say
23. 0:49that I will not be releasing that
24. 0:50information the reason why I'm not going
25. 0:53to do that is because I believe that
26. 0:55there is no set way of applying to
27. 0:57college and it's actually very foolish
28. 0:59to follow a model when you're crafting
29. 1:01something as personal as a college
30. 1:03application and that's true there's no
31. 1:05perfect student I really do believe that
32. 1:08colleges look for Unique students rather
33. 1:10than perfect ones this brings me to the
34. 1:12sponsor of today's video Ivy Brothers as
35. 1:15a devoted lurker on the subreddit
36. 1:17applying to college I have actually
37. 1:19known Ivy Brothers for quite some time
38. 1:21and read the Reddit posts throughout my
39. 1:23college application cycle for those of
40. 1:25you who don't know Ivy Brothers is a
41. 1:27college admissions agency that
42. 1:28specializes in helping students curate
43. 1:30passion projects and provide custom
44. 1:32tailored counseling alongside their
45. 1:34data-driven Insight that they have
46. 1:35developed from their own machine
47. 1:37learning program the team also consists
48. 1:40of previous college admissions officers
49. 1:42from top schools like the Ivy Leagues
50. 1:44having very recently gone through the
51. 1:46college admissions process I know
52. 1:48firsthand how complicated stressful and
53. 1:50tedious the entire journey is so for any
54. 1:53high schoolers this would be a great
55. 1:54resource to look into if you are looking
56. 1:56for some extra guidance or help
57. 1:58otherwise let's get into the video
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59. 2:17foreign
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62. 2:40hi I'm Serena I'm a sophomore studying
63. 2:44environmental science and sustainable
64. 2:45development
65. 2:47hi I'm Maury I'm a sophomore I'm
66. 2:49studying computer science and philosophy
67. 2:52and some econ
68. 2:53hi I'm Jessica I'm a junior I'm studying
69. 2:55sustainable development hello I'm
70. 2:58Lavinia I'm the first year at Columbia
71. 2:59and I plan on studying math and econ I'm
72. 3:03Brian Daly I'm a first year in seas and
73. 3:06I'm studying computer science
74. 3:07my name is Boris gurov I'm a first year
75. 3:10student as well in Columbia College and
76. 3:11I'll be studying Financial econ
77. 3:19these clips are actually going to be
78. 3:21used by SBS Korea for a documentary on
79. 3:24Colombia and I after filming these
80. 3:27decided to use some of them for my own
81. 3:30videos this being one of them and when
82. 3:32Terry was being interviewed we told them
83. 3:34that this was only for SBS Korea so
84. 3:36that's why she was speaking Korean here
85. 3:39foreign
86. 3:59I'm from the Philippines I'm from China
87. 4:02I'm from Princeton New Jersey
88. 4:05I'm from Boise Idaho
89. 4:07I'm from Sofia Bulgaria
90. 4:12I'm from Seoul Korea
91. 4:15I'm also from Seoul Korea
92. 4:17all right what's your guys's favorite
93. 4:19thing about Colombia
94. 4:22well I really like how because I'm doing
95. 4:24sustainable development like the climate
96. 4:27school is like top-notch the professors
97. 4:30are very approachable and all are
98. 4:32amazing I look up to a lot of them and
99. 4:35you know they all have their own
100. 4:36published books that like it's really
101. 4:38crazy to like really take advantage of
102. 4:41as well
103. 4:42um
104. 4:43and I also just like these like chill
105. 4:47times where we could just sit with our
106. 4:49friends like at below you know yeah
107. 4:53uh my favorite thing about Colombia is I
108. 4:56get to meet a lot of inspirational
109. 4:57people that is not afraid to take their
110. 5:00own path and I am very modified
111. 5:02motivated by that
112. 5:05yeah I definitely agree with what Serena
113. 5:07said about like the academic resources I
114. 5:09think like the professors and academics
115. 5:11are really top-notch and I think like by
116. 5:13being in such a metropolitan City like
117. 5:15New York you get access to like
118. 5:16unparalleled resources and I also think
119. 5:18like just being in New York for
120. 5:20University is like such an incredible
121. 5:22experience and like I don't think I
122. 5:24would trade it for like any other
123. 5:25university experience
124. 5:28why did you choose to Ed to Columbia
125. 5:30University
126. 5:31so it was
127. 5:34um really obvious choice for me and
128. 5:36because throughout my whole life I had
129. 5:37these sort of two paths one being very
130. 5:39academic and one being very artistic and
131. 5:43where I'm from I'm from Italy uh you
132. 5:45can't really
133. 5:46uh do both at the same time and Colombia
134. 5:49gave me the opportunity to pursue both
135. 5:50while being in New York and so for me it
136. 5:53was either here or nowhere and I got it
137. 5:57what's your guys's favorite thing about
138. 5:58Colombia I'd say my favorite thing about
139. 6:01Colombia is definitely the city and the
140. 6:02access to the resources that we have
141. 6:04especially being able to network with
142. 6:05Professionals in something like the
143. 6:07financial industry and other companies
144. 6:09and all of the people that are in New
145. 6:10York it just makes it such a good
146. 6:11experience and it's really really
147. 6:13valuable for your career
148. 6:15I was gonna say the exact same thing but
149. 6:17just to add on I guess being in New York
150. 6:18it's not just about those experiences
151. 6:19it's also about having fun it's quite a
152. 6:21fun city to be in and it's just great
153. 6:23overall
154. 6:25what's your guys's favorite thing about
155. 6:27Colombia
156. 6:28I love how it's in the city
157. 6:31um the city has a lot to offer it's very
158. 6:33energetic diverse and our students here
159. 6:36we get a lot of opportunities and
160. 6:38experiences being in the city
161. 6:41I also like that despite being in the
162. 6:43busy City there's this Intimacy in the
163. 6:46curriculum and it's very Humanities
164. 6:48focused as well
165. 6:50what's your favorite thing about
166. 6:51Colombia
167. 6:53um
168. 7:05if you can take a guess as to why you
169. 7:08were admitted to Colombia what's that
170. 7:10guess what's that one guess
171. 7:14so I mean you gotta take into
172. 7:16consideration like multiple factors
173. 7:19um people say you gotta have the grades
174. 7:20you gotta have the SAT you gotta have
175. 7:21the leadership you gotta have the
176. 7:22extracurriculars you know
177. 7:25um but I feel like it doesn't always
178. 7:27have to be all like up here like you can
179. 7:30have a better
180. 7:32um you could have better grades like a
181. 7:34little bit
182. 7:35Less on having less emphasis on like the
183. 7:38leadership so it really depends per
184. 7:39person I feel like for me it was mostly
185. 7:41the leadership
186. 7:43um yeah
187. 7:45um I think I
188. 7:48what's really important Beyond grades
189. 7:50because a lot of people have good grades
190. 7:52is that you really have to have a your
191. 7:54own self-narrative you have to be able
192. 7:57to ask the right questions you're
193. 7:59actually passionate about this subject
194. 8:00you're studying and you're here to all
195. 8:04quests on the mission to answer your
196. 8:05question rather than to absorb or to
197. 8:07listen to lectures
198. 8:09and I believe if they see you can make a
199. 8:13value of the resources they provide
200. 8:15they'll let you in yeah
201. 8:17yeah so I definitely agree with
202. 8:19everything that has been said so far I
203. 8:21think like obviously everyone at
204. 8:22Columbia has really great grades on
205. 8:24everything so I think they really look
206. 8:25at you beyond what you offer just
207. 8:27academically they look at what you can
208. 8:29bring to the community and what you can
209. 8:31take from the community because because
210. 8:32like they're looking for people to like
211. 8:34enrich the Columbia Community but also
212. 8:36to like they want people that they can
213. 8:37nurture so I think like it's really
214. 8:39important to like have leadership in
215. 8:41like community service like for me I was
216. 8:43really involved with like the community
217. 8:44especially on like the environmental
218. 8:46side and that was like my personal
219. 8:47narrative and like really being involved
220. 8:49in like environmental movements so like
221. 8:51that's kind of like what I structured my
222. 8:53application off of and I think they
223. 8:54really liked like the personal narrative
224. 8:55bit
225. 8:56if you can take a guess why do you think
226. 8:59Colombia admitted you
227. 9:01I think both for my obvious passion to
228. 9:04come here it was blatantly obvious that
229. 9:06I wanted to come here
230. 9:08um but also for how
231. 9:11diverse my path in like high school and
232. 9:15middle school was and again for this
233. 9:18like binomial of academics and
234. 9:21Performing Arts the whole time if you
235. 9:24could take a guess why do you think you
236. 9:26got into Colombia I think that I got
237. 9:28into Colombia because
238. 9:30I had some diverse experiences because I
239. 9:33did research and I also did things like
240. 9:35debate and I even put that I did an
241. 9:38Among Us tournament in my application
242. 9:40just some weird things that might have
243. 9:41made me stand out but I think a lot of
244. 9:42it was that I did research in high
245. 9:44school which I think definitely helped a
246. 9:45lot
247. 9:47I think for me it was more so a holistic
248. 9:49application so I had quite a few
249. 9:51internships that I had done as well as
250. 9:53being on the national team of Bulgaria
251. 9:55for volleyball so I think it's the
252. 9:56sports The Internship experiences the
253. 9:58good grades and I think holistically it
254. 10:00just added up very well
255. 10:01if you can take one guess why do you
256. 10:03think you got into Columbia
257. 10:08essay okay
258. 10:16um in high school I was involved in a
259. 10:18lot of non-profit organizations and I'm
260. 10:21also a musician so I think those two
261. 10:23made me stand out a little more
262. 10:27I was involved in a lot of Publications
263. 10:29and art and writing so I feel like that
264. 10:32really fits in well with Columbia's
265. 10:34curriculum and New York City in general
266. 10:36all right thank you guys so much thank
267. 10:38you thank you guys so much yep thank you
268. 10:40all right thank you guys so much
269. 10:43thank you so much thank you all right
270. 10:45thank you so much
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