What’s up tanners!

If you are struggling between schools to pick, or how to choose a school to Early Decision / Early Action / Restrictive Early Action, this video is for you!!

In this video I talk through my main criteria for choosing a school, before going through every single school on my top list and why I did NOT end up picking these schools. As I mentioned, this video is mainly geared towards international students, especially those applying from Asia / China.

This video does NOT include the “hard” research (classes, programs, study abroad, major requirements, credit conversion from IB and AP, etc), but rather talks more about softer metrics that I think are much more difficult to find! If you’re someone who has done a lot of research into specific schools and would like a second opinion, here’s mine :)

Unless you are American (and sometimes even if you are), universities often put applicants in the same location into the same “selection pool”, before deciding which of these students get put through to the next round. This is why it’s quite important to consider your “pool”. (A fun exception are schools like Shanghai/Singapore American School, which are considered applicants from the US even though they’re not physically in the US).

Of course this is different for every university, but I’ve spoken to admissions offers from around 34 good schools and this seems to be the norm!!

If you were curious, here was my full school application list that I wrote applications to: Brown, Dartmouth, Northwestern, Duke, JHU, Harvard, Stanford, UPenn, Yale, MIT, Columbia, and of course, UChicago

Of course I ended up getting into UChicago ED, so all of my applications were never submitted!


THINGS I MENTIONED:
How I got into UChicago:    • How I got into UChicago | High School...  
UChicago Freshman Advice:    • watch this before coming to UChicago ...  


☀ T I M E S T A M P S ☀
Important disclaimer 0:59
4 things I wanted in a school 2:42
3 things I did NOT want in a school 4:04
List of all colleges I considered 6:41
Colleges I rejected:
Northwestern 7:05
Duke 7:13
Johns Hopkins 7:41
Harvard 8:06
Stanford 9:05
Princeton 10:07
UPenn 11:53
My top 3 colleges I rejected:
Yale 12:53
MIT 14:50
Columbia 16:19
Conclusion and my final reminders 19:40


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Day in the Life of UChicago Online
Using Boosted Board in college
Thoughts on NOT Being in the Ivy League


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About Me
Chloe Tan
19 years old
SingaporeIndonesian, grew up in Shanghai
Currently at the University of Chicago
Major: Economics, Minor in Data Science
Interests: finance, political science, entrepreneurship, data science

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