Kamila
Hey college kids.
Kamila
Welcome back to my podcast.
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Who cares about college?
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This is my episode with Henry from Tufts.
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Will he’ll be attending Tufts this upcoming fall?
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Other than that, I hope you enjoy.
Kamila
Second hey college kids.
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Welcome back to my podcast.
Kamila
Who cares about College in today’s episode I’ll be interviewing Henry, so if you could introduce yourself.
Henry
Yeah, I’m I’m.
Henry
Henry Circle I’m from Massachusetts.
Henry
Obviously I’m a senior next year at Tufts University and I’m just a little bit about myself.
Henry
I’m Cambodian.
Henry
My parents are both Cambodian.
Henry
I speak your language.
Henry
I’m I’m from like an upper middle class family S suburbs in Massachusetts, the Boston area.
Kamila
And can you tell us about your distro, gender point application so we.
Kamila
Can sing this thing or like popular.
Henry
Oh yeah, I identified.
Henry
Yeah, identify as a male.
Henry
He him pronoun.
Kamila
Alright, alright so let’s start with the very basics on kind of getting a feel for how you went into this college admissions process.
Kamila
So you said your parents are from Cambodia?
Kamila
Did they like immigrate here and did they go to college here or did they immigrate and neither of them have gone?
Kamila
To an American College.
Henry
Uh, they immigrated.
Henry
Here and they both actually and only.
Henry
My father went to college.
Henry
He graduated university, yeah.
Kamila
So obviously like even like.
Kamila
The age gap.
Kamila
There’s obviously going to be differences in the college process, but did your parents or maybe some older siblings?
Kamila
Did you have any like family surrounding you to help you with the college admissions process?
Henry
Ah yeah, my older sister. I have 200.
Henry
Sisters who were both in college now and they were very vocal and helping me like Guy needs.
Henry
Loop guiding me through the process.
Kamila
OK OK OK, that’s good because you had that and then also with I mean your older sisters went to college choice symbols and expectation for you to go to college.
Kamila
Were you expected to go to an elite school like a very prestigious school?
Henry
Uhm, I would say I was because like growing up I was like seen as the smartest Childs of my siblings.
Henry
So I’ve been quite a bit of pressure.
Henry
On me and my dad wanted you to make.
Henry
It to the Ivy League, but I I don’t.
Henry
Really like I really got chose, Thompson said, and.
Henry
I’m happy with my decision.
Kamila
Alright, so OK, we’re going to get into high school now, so coming into high school you said you had your older sisters to help you when you came into high school.
Kamila
So did you have like a game plan as to how you were going to approach high school? Did you say like OK by the end of senior year plan application, I want to have this many AP’s to submit to colleges or like show colleges that I’ve taken.
Kamila
Did you say I’m going to join these extracurriculars and stuff?
Kamila
So, was it like, very planned out for you?
Kamila
Or was it more like?
Kamila
You’ve found out on your own.
Henry
I think there’s definitely more of me like finding out like what I want to do like.
Henry
Obviously, I took hard classes, AP classes, but come as far as clubs I just signed up with their interests.
Henry
me and I guess that works for me.
Henry
It’s just more like.
Speaker 1
Thank you.
Kamila
Now go ahead, go ahead.
Henry
Oh yeah, I was just saying it’s more I’m.
Henry
Just more like I.
Henry
I didn’t have a coffee plan at all like I just like went into.
Henry
Wanting to do it, what I want to do.
Kamila
Alright, can you quickly tell us what kind of school you went to and what kind of like resources and how resources and help they gave you in the college admissions process?
Henry
Ah yeah.
Henry
I went to an.
Henry
All boys Catholic private School Grade 6 to 12.
Henry
Uhm summers in Massachusetts, and I’d say like there’s a pretty good like support for college.
Henry
You know, we have these guidance counselors everywhere, but I think our guidance counselors are really proactive and making sure like we’re doing what we need to do for the college application process.
Henry
So I think I definitely did have a lot of support from, like bad dancers.
Kamila
Alright, so let’s get into your.
Kamila
We can talk, I’ll talk about like grades and then test scores and then we’ll get into like extracurriculars essays.
Kamila
And then the actual college application. So by the end of high school when you were submitting, when you’re still in high school, but when you were submitting your college applications, how many AP’s did you have?
Henry
Uhm, I rice middle applications.
Henry
I had eight APS to sophomore year and six junior year and I think I think you asked for my my scores.
Henry
My GPA was of.
Henry
A 4.51 out of four or five. I’m not sure how it works.
Henry
And my city was a 1510.
Kamila
Scene 10 and then you.
Kamila
Gave it all at once.
Kamila
Alright, so obviously your GPA is going to be high.
Kamila
I mean, you got into talks for, asked it how many times did you take it?
Kamila
If you maybe only took it once, and what preparations did you do for that?
Henry
Uh, my took it twice. I got 1490, my first time for 1490 again my second time and now my super score is 1510.
Henry
And as far as preparation, all I did was just the summer junior summer.
Henry
I just like went on Khan Academy.
Henry
It’s like completely free and like even taking practice tests and they just tell you what you need to work on, and that’s basically what I did.
Henry
Just offer it.
Kamila
All right, all right all right.
Kamila
So I guess we’re pretty much done with transfer.
Kamila
You really flew through that all right?
Kamila
Let’s go into extra curriculars so.
Kamila
I guess I’ll have you take it from here.
Kamila
Can you list out like I don’t need like the very small like you know you may be joined a club for a year or something, but I would say what are like the main extracurriculars that your application like Beverly Shine in your application.
Kamila
So can you list through them and then from there we can go into like a deep dive of what you did with each one?
Henry
Yeah, uhm.
Henry
So first and foremost.
Henry
First and foremost, I am the President of the future Medical Professionals Club, which is a club that was started when I was a freshman.
Henry
And basically it’s just.
Henry
Like a club like talking about medicine topics.
Henry
We have visits and talks from like surgeons and residents and parents and whatnot.
Henry
Other than that, I’m I’m.
Henry
I’m on a scholarship right now, which is it’s only executed, but it’s like I like to serve my kids in a class that is certain scholarship for getting students to run the tests.
Henry
I’m not sure exactly how it works.
Henry
But I’ve I’m a I’m active in a campus ministry which is like our community service like center in in on campus.
Henry
Like I’m a tutor I visit like.
Henry
We have a call.
Henry
It’s a class called.
Henry
Like the brother Bond where it’s like a retired like people just like staying in.
Henry
We do visits and stuff.
Henry
I’m also part of a club called Learn which is, uh, learning and educating anti racism now and so it’s just, uh, a club like dominant and talking about like racism in our community and how we.
Henry
Can deal with it.
Henry
But yeah, so those are pretty much like the main.
Henry
Key things of my application.
Kamila
Alright, so the first one you said you’re the president of medical.
Kamila
Like this medical professions club.
Kamila
So before we get into the actual club when you came into high school, did you know?
Kamila
Did you know that you wanted to like go into medicine?
Kamila
Were you like set on?
Henry
It was definitely thought in my mind.
Henry
My parents really were trying to push me and my siblings into the medical fields so I knew was in the back of my mind going in.
Henry
So that’s why.
Henry
I signed up for the club.
Henry
I ended up really liking it and I’d be.
Henry
Seeing President my junior year and yeah.
Kamila
And then OK, this is going to be like down.
Kamila
The line but.
Kamila
Because medicine was on the back of your mind, you were obviously like became the President of this club when you were applying to colleges.
Kamila
Was that like a main focus of yours?
Kamila
Like did you focus on anything sort of medicine related, or were you like and I’ll go through undergrad and then later I’ll think about like Graduate School for medicine.
Kamila
Like did it influence your college choices at all?
Henry
Oh yeah, I definitely was looking at schools that are more like stem focused and like uh, like good premed resources.
Henry
My college applications talked a lot about my inspiration for medicine, so that was like a big a big component of my applications.
Kamila
Alright, so OK, let’s get into the club now, so can you tell us just a little bit more?
Kamila
About like what you’d first did.
Kamila
I guess freshman year or sophomore year and then junior and senior year like what was your role in the club and then how did you climb yourself?
Kamila
Up to be president.
Henry
OK, so first it started as a freshman.
Henry
I think I already said that, but at that time it was run by sophomores who were year older than me and basically all we did was just like have make presentations for Jelly like every day like we would be in smaller groups.
Henry
Then we make presentations about different different topics in the medical fields.
Henry
Uhm sophomore year.
Henry
It was pretty much the same thing I was I.
Henry
Wasn’t the president yet, but.
Henry
It was like, uh, again.
Henry
The talks and from discussions like one of the Presidents his father was a dentist.
Henry
So he came and spoke to us a couple of times.
Henry
And yeah, but obviously sophomore year myself, media COVID struck, so the club was just put on like just putting holds.
Henry
I was pretty much put on hold until like second semester my junior year and that’s when I received like the I was nominated for President.
Henry
The former presidents were graduating so they handed down the Presidency to me and dumb.
Henry
I was trying to get us into hospitals to internship and whatnot, but it was kind of hard, especially, you know, with totally and even now.
Henry
It’s so hard, hospitals not.
Henry
Really, opening up to let people in.
Henry
But yeah, and this year.
Henry
I’d say it’s pretty much the same thing.
Henry
The club at its foundation, is to just inform students about medicine who are interested in medicine and like what the medical field is like.
Henry
So it’s basically just what the club.
Kamila
Is did you figure out what kind of medicine you want to go into?
Henry
I have no idea yet.
Henry
Yeah, I’m no clue.
Kamila
And with your college app like, obviously you’re going to write that you became president.
Kamila
’cause that’s like the highest position you can get in a club.
Kamila
But when you’re actually doing the college app, do you ever say like freshman year?
Kamila
I had this role?
Kamila
I mean, there’s like you know, Treasury Secretary and stuff like that for clubs.
Kamila
So do you ever say like freshman year I had this role sophomore year?
Kamila
I had this rule?
Kamila
Or do you just put like the highest position?
Kamila
You got in that club.
Henry
So for this club specifically, I just put like member for the first few years and then present for junior.
Henry
Senior year about one period.
Kamila
Alright, so let’s go into the second extracurricular that you mentioned, which was this scholarship that you got him through a test.
Kamila
You said it wasn’t really much of an extracurricular, but you still put it on your college app.
Kamila
So like what test did you have to take and then what was the scholarship for exactly?
Henry
Uh, yeah it was.
Henry
It was a I think it’s a private institution.
Henry
Everybody just take like a which is like, uh, stands for high school placement test.
Henry
And if you score like above 95% or higher, they give you like a certain amount of money off the year.
Henry
I’m not sure exactly.
Henry
How much?
Henry
It is but.
Henry
That’s pretty much.
Henry
It’s just like it’s just based on your test school.
Kamila
Oh, and this is for like this private school you attended, like they cut some of your tuition off for you.
Kamila
OK, does that look good for colleges?
Kamila
If you were able to get in and then get in with the scholarship.
Henry
Oh, definitely I would say so.
Kamila
OK, alright now next.
Kamila
You said I I didn’t catch this one exactly.
Kamila
Was it campus ministry?
Henry
Yeah, campus ministry.
Henry
Umso campus ministry like I think most like.
Henry
Catholic schools have.
Henry
It or any kind of like Christian denomination school.
Henry
It’s basically like a Center for like community service and with service and retreat trips and whatnot.
Henry
So through them you do like they connect to your different service opportunities like this.
Henry
Something to do every day.
Henry
Like some days I’ll I, I think I said it before but I’ll visit the brother Barn, which is where it’s on campus.
Henry
It’s like a place where we’re tired.
Henry
Brothers go and you can speak to them.
Henry
And there’s also like a like a retirement home just on the street that you can walk to and and like talk to you and play games with senior citizens.
Henry
It’s just like service stuff like that.
Kamila
How big is your campus like?
Kamila
What is there on your campus?
Kamila
I mean, I go to public school so I don’t know how private schools.
Henry
Uhm yeah, I I.
Henry
Think it is.
Henry
Pretty big, it’s like 150 acres. I’ll I’ll, I’ll know.
Henry
What kind?
Henry
How like how what?
Henry
That’s what size that is, but it it is pretty big.
Henry
There’s like a few buildings scattered around fields dotted around.
Henry
It’s something like, uh, Phillips Academy or anything like that, so it’s a nice it’s.
Henry
In high school.
Kamila
And with like campus ministry, was it just like you’re like volunteering here and there and then?
Kamila
They’ll say they’ll track you and then give your hours?
Kamila
Or do you have like actual positions that you guys have in campus ministry?
Henry
So chemistry is just definitely like a general term.
Henry
Like you, it’s all.
Henry
It’s like the thing you really sign up for.
Henry
It’s just like the Center for all these different things so you keep track of everything yourself.
Kamila
Basically, yeah, and going to a Catholic school like what does that entail in terms of like requirements for you?
Kamila
’cause I mean when I was interviewing.
Kamila
I was I literally just interviewed him.
Henry
Oh Tyler.
Kamila
Tyler yeah talent I.
Kamila
Just interviewed him.
Kamila
Yeah, I don’t forget.
Kamila
So Tyler was saying like you guys have some like required classes but besides that like is there really much else to a Catholic school?
Kamila
Do you have any like I don’t know masses that you have to go to any other requirements.
Henry
Oh yeah, so there are like mandatory masses like couple times a year.
Henry
Like maybe like three or four times a year.
Henry
And then they’re like I’m tired.
Henry
Probably talked about how we have a religion class every semester we take, but other than that it’s like nothing else.
Henry
It’s like they don’t force their religion on you or anything like they’re very open.
Henry
And diverse so, but yeah.
Henry
So there’s not much.
Kamila
And so you’re not like forced to do.
Kamila
Like a bunch of stuff.
Henry
No, no, not at all.
Kamila
OK, alright and last thing you mentioned with extracurriculars is this this learning club.
Kamila
So can you elaborate more on that?
Kamila
Like you know, what do you do there?
Kamila
What’s your role and what’s your position there as?
Henry
Yeah, so learning stands for learning and educating anti racism now.
Henry
And the basically the club is about how we can work to like to promote anti racism in the need community.
Henry
So in our school community, so this year, like it started last year, but the first half of the year is talking about and learning what racism and what anti racism is like, what they are and how they affect our.
Henry
Society, the second half of the year, is developing a project to change something in our community.
Henry
So last year my junior year we we added a few books to the curriculum.
Henry
The most notable book I can think of is the sign, her flowers by Ruby Core.
Henry
It’s a book about the immigrant experience about a a girl, her family from India, but yeah.
Henry
And then this year working on other projects, we’re not sure exactly what’s going to be yet, but we’re having talks and as far as far as position, it’s like there’s no like president or anything.
Henry
It’s every just like.
Henry
It’s just like.
Henry
A it’s a very open space, everybody just having a conversation with one another and you can just say whatever whatever is on your mind basically.
Kamila
Did you found that?
Kamila
Did you find this club like or?
Kamila
Was it already existing?
Kamila
When you joined like did you join it?
Henry
So when I was a junior, some seniors were trying to start the club and then like they asked me to.
Henry
Join so that I joined the club, yeah.
Kamila
That’s really cool.
Kamila
You actually got some books into the curriculum of your school.
Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah.
Kamila
This has something easy to do.
Kamila
I feel like that’s very set in stones.
Kamila
Alright, that’s that’s pretty cool alright, so I guess we can move on to your actual application now unless you have like other extracurriculars, you want to go over, but those are like, I guess, pretty much the main ones.
Kamila
So now I guess this is about junior here, and you’re genuinely thinking about colleges so.
Kamila
How did you start your college list?
Kamila
Obviously you were thinking about medicine, so that’s one thing.
Kamila
But what were the requirements or like?
Kamila
The things that you were looking for in a college and then how did you eventually narrow your list down?
Henry
Uh, so I’ll be completely honest.
Henry
When I was a junior, I was really.
Henry
Looking at like.
Henry
The top schools like looking at rankings, which you probably shouldn’t do.
Henry
’cause rankings don’t mean anything.
Henry
For schools they
Henry
All look the same at that point.
Henry
But on the I.
Henry
Rankings deftly played.
Henry
It played a big part.
Henry
Like my whole.
Henry
List at one.
Henry
Point was just.
Henry
Like maybe like 20 schools from the top 30 schools become.
Henry
Yeah, I think after that I will look into the schools more and then like pick and choose like certain programs they have in certain programs they didn’t have and that was basically how.
Henry
I conducted my college search.
Kamila
And did stuff like class size, City, suburb rules setting to best of matter two at all?
Henry
I definitely did I when I visited Columbia, I absolutely hated it.
Henry
It’s directly in the city like there’s like.
Henry
No campus feel really like it’s on top of some buildings.
Henry
I didn’t like that so I knew I wanted to be in the suburbs like somewhat or like like.
Henry
Just obviously there tough is just like 2 miles in the city I.
Henry
Can just help him train whenever.
Henry
I want and go to.
Henry
The city and as far as class size.
Henry
I definitely didn’t want to go to a big school like a big public school or anything.
Henry
I I like a medium size where like it’s like big enough that you’ll meet new people but not like too big or there’s like just it’s just overwhelming so it’s hard to say that perfect size for me.
Henry
And that’s why I like that.
Kamila
And then how many college visits did you actually go on before you decided?
Henry
Uhm, I’d say about like 12 because I I live in the Northeast and all the Ivies are in the Northeast, so I bet I like did it like a loop with all the Ivy leagues and then a few other schools like I want to see Carnegie Mellon too.
Henry
And but yeah, it was more of.
Henry
Just like virtual stuff too ’cause.
Henry
Like schools were really having in.
Henry
Person tours yet until like.
Henry
They started talking now, but even.
Henry
Then it’s really limited.
Henry
So it’s more just like online research, watching YouTube videos or not.
Kamila
And did you visit Tufts when you like?
Kamila
Did you visit the campus?
Henry
Yeah, I visited many times.
Henry
I was like 40.
Henry
Minutes away, so it’s pretty close.
Kamila
OK, alright, so let’s talk about your actual.
Kamila
Well, actually, can you list out the colleges that you did apply to like safety targets and then reaches and then we’ll go into your actual application.
Henry
So I I plotted 21 schools.
Henry
Uh my almost yeah.
Henry
Are you kidding me?
Kamila
Me, I thought I replied to a lot.
Henry
Don’t know if I can do this.
Kamila
Oh my God.
Henry
Yeah, I don’t know if.
Henry
I can list them all like from Tom.
Henry
And become a top tops.
Henry
Definitely apply early decision round to Johns Hopkins.
Henry
I applied early decision round one and I got actually got rejected from there.
Henry
Baylor, UMass Amherst that got into those they don’t.
Henry
Nobody got accepted early early action and then just a bunch of like some ID.
Henry
Like I know Dartmouth Cornell, I applied to Stanford.
Henry
Just ’cause like?
Henry
Why not and dumb.
Henry
Yeah, few other schools in there.
Henry
But my talk.
Henry
My safeties were definitely U mass and Baylor, my retries, Johns Hopkins, which ended up being too much of a reach and touch is like my like upper target kind of low reach school.
Kamila
21 Why would you apply to 21 schools like rolls? Your thinking behind that?
Henry
My dad he looked at, he thought I had the chance and I think he was like sort of right?
Henry
But he said that like if I can get.
Henry
Into these schools that I should just.
Henry
Apply anyways and I.
Henry
I like did like get him out of.
Henry
Work in the summer.
Henry
Too, so it wasn’t.
Henry
Too overwhelming and yeah, that’s pretty much it.
Kamila
Oh my God, OK?
Kamila
Let’s go into your application now.
Kamila
So number one.
Kamila
I mean, I used to ask about letters of REC, but they’re kind of like pretty obvious.
Kamila
You get them from like someone that you like, have a somewhat connection with like a teacher, like a personal connection.
Kamila
They’re not like too important anyways, in the call jet process.
Kamila
So let’s go into your application essay, which I mean, I’m probably most of the schools you apply to.
Kamila
You applied through common app.
Kamila
So can you tell us about what essay what your common app essay was, and then specifically for Tufts and their supplemental essays?
Kamila
What did you write about them like you don’t have to give like the whole essay, just like what general?
Kamila
What topic did you choose?
Kamila
And then what story did you choose to?
Henry
OK, so for the common app essay, the one that you sent to all your schools I just.
Henry
Did like the.
Henry
Free right one.
Henry
Where you can write about anything you want.
Henry
And basically I wrote about my grandmother.
Henry
And her journey like.
Henry
Experience experiencing the choir roots, which is like the the genocide there and I’m like a story she.
Henry
Would tell me.
Henry
About like it was.
Henry
It was sort of the rabbit in the banana.
Henry
Basically, like a childlike folktale, and I talked about that story and tight her experience from coming from Cambodia and also experience undergoing breast cancer at the same time and how that played a role in in the deepening.
Henry
Our passion for medicine.
Henry
So that was what made us.
Henry
It was about and then ask for it helps.
Henry
The submental I choose was wide helps.
Henry
I think that’s the only error has to do and it was I just wrote about like this, certain mitigated.
Kamila
Or do you mean you?
Kamila
Chose there’s it’s not like a required amount of supplementals.
Henry
Offer Tufts, there’s one mandatory one, and there’s like you can choose an option from 3, like this two.
Henry
What to do once mandatory and one like an option from 3 so mandatory one was the white tops worn and I just wrote about a certain major they had ’cause I.
Henry
I know I really want to be.
Henry
To basically can say like a sense of community.
Henry
Like I want to like.
Henry
This is why I.
Henry
Wanted Tufts and I wrote about the.
Henry
Quantitative economics major which I plan on majoring in.
Henry
And then also I wrote.
Henry
About was like.
Henry
Something about I think it’s something about your identity, like a cultural experience, something like that.
Henry
And I wrote about a Cambodian dish.
Henry
My mom would always make me for for school, like once a week, and about that like open my eyes.
Henry
It’s like perceiving different cultures in America.
Kamila
And one thing about your common app essay so.
Kamila
Like I’ve talked to like essay like essay Coaches and Stuff like that.
Kamila
And I’ve also listened to admissions officers and obviously they want to hear your voice like you should be the focus and center of it, and it’s completely alright to include Someone Like You included your grandma.
Kamila
So how did how were you able to in that like limited word space I?
Kamila
Guess word count how?
Kamila
Were you able to introduce her?
Kamila
Introduce her struggles.
Kamila
And then tie it to your own passion.
Kamila
Like how were you able to affect you?
Kamila
Obviously did it effectively.
Kamila
How were you able to do it so it wasn’t too much on her, but she was still there like she was still present in the essay.
Speaker 1
OK.
Henry
I am definitely doing like stricts with.
Henry
Like where you live from.
Henry
Like the amount of space you can designate.
Henry
For one thing, like I know I had like it’s only like 650 maximum, so I said to myself before I run it like the first half.
Henry
The 1st 325 words is.
Henry
Gonna be my.
Henry
Grandmother about my grandmother the second half.
Henry
The second half has to all be all be.
Henry
All about me and so basically like.
Henry
What I did was I it. I kept rewriting it until I got down to 320.
Henry
Five, and then on.
Henry
The next 325 were on me.
Henry
So I just made sure I was really strict on that, ’cause I obviously like you said it has to be about you.
Henry
Like you, she’s
Henry
My inspiration, but they don’t care really care about her.
Henry
They care about.
Henry
Why I want to like pursue a college education?
Henry
So yeah.
Kamila
And like how?
Kamila
Did you make that transition from her story to like you’re?
Kamila
You’re talking about yourself like, how do you make that like, really smooth transition?
Henry
I I don’t know what a lot of work went into, I can’t.
Henry
I can’t really nail.
Henry
That’s one thing, but it was definitely like.
Henry
A mix of.
Henry
Like the childhood story, she would tell.
Henry
Me about the rabbit and banana.
Henry
And like I also like when I when I was a little kid I would witness her going to treatments.
Henry
And whatnot, so I I could.
Henry
Talk about how I.
Henry
Saw first hand like what was happening.
Henry
There, so yeah, that’s pretty much how it’s already.
Kamila
OK, so I guess we’ve gone through your.
Kamila
Essays now I mean.
Kamila
You’ve applied to colleges by this point. Can you tell us which colleges of the 21 that you can remember?
Kamila
Which ones did you get accepted, deferred and waitlisted from? And then why did you do Y. D2 to Tufts? Or is it like your?
Kamila
Top choice or something?
Henry
OK yeah, so uhm Johns Hopkins was my first choice more so for like the the academic reputation and for like the like they have an amazing programs and anything you can imagine and I love the campus and when I visited that I loved it.
Henry
So I applied Eddie once or there.
Henry
’cause they have some.
Henry
Like I said, there’s some of the best programs in the country.
Henry
How crowded like I had.
Henry
So I had to give it a shot there.
Henry
And I think more so Tufts my first choice.
Henry
But I I wanted to see if.
Henry
I had a chance at Hopkins so.
Henry
That’s why I applied ET one.
Henry
There and then I knew like.
Henry
Right away that.
Henry
I was applying it to the Tufts UM.
Henry
Yeah, so I got rejected from Hopkins and then did my sister tops apply D2 dot accepted. I’m here now and then in the toilet I got accepted into Baylor which is a safety in UMass Amherst, which is also safety and Villanova, which is more like a target school.
Henry
But those are the schools I’ve heard I’ve heard.
Henry
Back from the rest of schools I have to like rescind my applications, obviously.
Kamila
All right, so how did you feel when you opened up tubs?
Kamila
Because that’s not an easy school to get into either.
Kamila
What was the reaction?
Kamila
Where were you when you opened the ladder?
Henry
Uhm, I was in my room.
Henry
I was on FaceTime with Tyler and two other friends and basically like I was like I was like shivering.
Henry
I’m pretty sure like.
Henry
I I’m just undergoing.
Henry
This sometime when opening conversations but my body is like shaking.
Henry
I was like so.
Henry
Nervous, I was like what if?
Henry
I don’t get in like what am I gonna do?
Henry
But yeah, I opened it.
Henry
I got in.
Henry
And it was just.
Henry
It was amazing.
Henry
Feeling it’s like.
Henry
Your hard work.
Henry
After all those four years just pays off.
Kamila
And it’s great that you got it now, ’cause now you don’t have to stress.
Kamila
About it for.
Kamila
The rest of senior year.
Kamila
Yeah, so I have a lot of senior friends.
Kamila
Who are kind?
Kamila
Of like stressing about the decisions alright so.
Kamila
You’re in Tufts.
Kamila
Can you tell us a little bit about like Tufts itself so you know where is it?
Kamila
Where exactly is it located?
Kamila
And then what is Tufts known for?
Kamila
Like it’s a top school, so it’s going to have like a bunch of things that it’s good at.
Kamila
But what are some programs that it’s specifically known for?
Henry
OK yeah tops is located in Medford, MA literally 2 miles outside of Boston.
Henry
Like I said, then you can take a train in Boston so you have like city access, but you’re not in the city, it’s just in a little quiet suburb of a nice little town.
Henry
As far as programs, they’re they’re known in this area, at least extremely well for their sciences program, and there’s that like a big focus on STEM.
Henry
Like they it’s like a liberal arts school, but they have.
Henry
Their own engineering school.
Henry
Which not many of the large schools do.
Henry
There’s already talk major international relations, like uh, diplomacy.
Henry
I’m not, I’m not sure.
Henry
Too much about.
Henry
That, but I.
Henry
Know you know Health Sciences, biology, chemistry, all that is really.
Henry
Like it’s really.
Henry
Like well known and they have their own.
Henry
Medicine Medical school too so.
Kamila
And you’re probably going to pursue that right there.
Kamila
Oh yeah.
Kamila
And you said your what?
Kamila
Is it qualitative economics you’ve wrote about so?
Kamila
This doesn’t really have to do much with the college process, but can you explain like why it is that you can get into medical school without pursuing something that’s necessarily medical related?
Kamila
Like I’ve never understood how that work like you can get into medical school, but pursuing an undergraduate degree, that’s like completely nothing to do with medicine.
Kamila
Like how?
Kamila
How does that exactly work?
Henry
Oh well, yeah.
Kamila
And if you know.
Henry
As far as the logistics of it, you can major in anything you want, but they are like certain courses like biology, biochemistry, organic chemistry.
Henry
But you have to take in order to apply to Med school, So what a lot of people do is they’ll just major in like biochemistry.
Henry
Then you go through all.
Henry
Those requirements, like right away and no point.
Henry
In Med school, but I want to like.
Henry
I want to do something that I was like like in case Medical School didn’t work out.
Henry
I want something that I could use.
Henry
So quantitative economics.
Henry
Is like come.
Henry
Just the numbers and statistics behind economics and they can’t.
Henry
But yeah, that’s that’s something I’m.
Henry
Also really interested in to.
Henry
Like both tide to each other.
Henry
Kind of so yeah, ’cause.
Henry
They’re both just like extreme passions that I have.
Kamila
Oh OK, so that’s how so, so long as you’ve do the minimum requirements for medical school in terms of classes, you can be anything.
Henry
Yeah, exactly.
Kamila
Oh OK, OK, so we’re coming to an end here and you’re not in college.
Kamila
So like I, I usually have more to add with like the college you know experience, but are you going to go on campus this coming fall?
Henry
Uh, yeah.
Henry
First first two years I have to live on campus, so I’ll I’ll be on campus.
Kamila
Alright, OK, so last thing we do is advice.
Kamila
So number one is advice for.
Kamila
It could OK.
Kamila
Let’s do this.
Kamila
Let’s do advice for current high schoolers.
Kamila
Who are, you know, maybe coming into high school or yeah, in the college are going to start the college app process soon, like juniors.
Kamila
Like me, right?
Kamila
So what advice would you give them?
Kamila
You can give like general high school advice if you want.
Kamila
Or you can do something more specific to the college at process. Maybe like a regret you had and then #2.
Kamila
If you want to add this in like what advice?
Kamila
Would you give for those who are still waiting?
Kamila
So they’re, you know, college letters and are freaking out now, so you can do those two groups.
Henry
OK, so as far as a general high school experience, I would say to try a lot of different things like so like colleges really like to.
Henry
See, like, uh, uh, why?
Henry
Like apply throughout different activities that somebody Baldwin.
Henry
It shows that you.
Henry
Are willing to try new things.
Henry
So, so that’s that’s like for some general advice.
Henry
For specific college.
Henry
Advice I’d say that time management is the most.
Henry
Important thing in college?
Henry
In college admissions like obviously applying 21 schools is no easy task. I had to really like manage my time extremely well on top of AP classes I take, I take 5 AP classes right now so it’s a big workload too.
Henry
But yeah, time management is key and I’m sorry what we lost was the last question you said.
Kamila
Uh, if you don’t have to do this one.
Kamila
’cause like I mean, it’s not that necessary, but like for for people who are like waiting for their cars is using like seniors who haven’t gotten like you know they’re not easy.
Kamila
They’re just doing regular.
Kamila
What words of like consolation would you give them just so they can freak?
Kamila
Out a.
Kamila
Little bit less, I would say.
Henry
Come if you don’t get to your top.
Henry
School, it doesn’t matter I.
Henry
Got rejected from Hopkins.
Henry
I was like, alright whatever.
Henry
They they don’t want me so.
Henry
Why would I want to go?
Henry
There you know.
Henry
But yeah, just just be patient like they come out in like a month I think.
Henry
Yeah, like in in a month so.
Henry
From just be like just be like.
Henry
Just be have an open.
Henry
Mind, it doesn’t matter where you go, the name, the name doesn’t really mean that much.
Henry
It’s more like what’s what?
Henry
You do with it from what?
Henry
I’ve been told to, but yeah.
Kamila
Alright, thank you very much Henry for coming on.
Kamila
I’ll email you when I release your episode, but other than that I hope you have good evening, goodnight.
Henry
Thank you for having.
Kamila
Me Yep bye bye bye.
Kamila
That’s it for my episode with Henry.
Kamila
Thank you if you made it this far again, make sure to subscribe and I hope to see you in the next one.