2022 COLLEGE DECISION REACTIONS | 20 SCHOOLS: Ivies, Stanford, UChicago, UCs, + more | Test-optional
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- Here are all of my college decision reactions!
0:00 Intro
2:00 University of Oregon
2:34 University of Chicago
2:34 Loyola Marymount University
4:04 Tulane University EA
5:06 San Diego State University
5:28 University of Michigan
6:22 CSU Long Beach
7:18 University of Michigan Ross
7:55 University of San Diego
9:08 Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
9:20 UC San Diego
10:10 UCLA
10:55 UC Irvine
11:22 UC Santa Barbara
12:05 UC Berkeley (Haas Global Management Program)
12:59 University of Southern California (USC)
13:30 Tulane University RD
14:23 Cornell University
15:05 Yale University
15:23 University of Pennsylvania
15:43 Harvard University
16:08 Stanford University
16:41 Final Results
16:46 Outro
Applying to 20 universities was no easy feat, but I’m super happy with how things turned out. If you want to learn more about how I got into specific schools, comment some video suggestions and I’ll try my best to get them uploaded!
#collegedecision #collegeacceptance #college
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your parents are the sweetest people alive awww ☹️☹️
They’re really great🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
What’s with the sad faces??😅
1st generation college student is something to be proud of!! My wife and I are both first generation college students. In our early 30s now and looking forward to our babies being in your position years from now! Hope college is going great for you
Thanks so much!!
UCSD's freshman acceptance rate this year was actually 23.7% so it was more competitive than previous years, but you did amazing, congrats on all your acceptances !!
Univ of Chicago is amazing and wonderful. And rest assured, as many of the schools where you applied, it offers among the best education opportunities in the world. Chicago is also a fantastic place to be for four years.
Thank you so much!! I’m so excited to start :)
@@rickywaite UChicago is truly an amazing university! My mother went there. She loved it. It's beautiful as well. It's an amazing and great school with lovely education programs.
Best College Decision Reaction video of 2022! (The only thing that could have been better would be if you weren't wearing a mask when you got your UChicago results, but the scene of you losing it on the stairs helped make up for that.) It's easy to get jaded about the college application process, and then a video like yours surfaces where everything works out perfectly. Chicago and Berkeley actually read your application and recognized you for the true diamond in the rough that you are. I was a little concerned when you were wearing a blue sweatshirt for the announcement of your final decision, but not to worry! Either Berkeley or Chicago would be a great opportunity for you, but I think Chicago is the right fit. I look forward to watching videos of your college experience.
That’s so nice of you! Thank you so so much!!!
congrats!! i’m sure all of us would appreciate another video of you going through your stats :)
I love seeing your door frame growth chart behind you. So relatable ❤️
dude congrats :) what a beautiful accomplishment you can be immensely proud of yourself. you worked hard for it. keep us in the loop on youre journey in Chicago.
I love your mom's reactions, she's so wholesome :)
your mom is the absolute sweetest 🥺
Here I’am in 8th grade watching these videos since 6th grade, I really hope when I grow up I can too do these kinds if videos! Hope you are really happy that you finally succeeded into doing your own!!☺️💛
I’m so proud of you Ricky!! Your a king 💗💗
Thank youuuuu🫶🏼🫶🏼
omg your parents are everything!! Congratulations!!
Aww thank you so much!!
Congratulations! This video was well designed. Good luck in UChicago! Hyde Park is an amazing neighborhood.
Thank you!
Congrats!! I honestly thought you were gonna pick Berkeley, but Chicago is just as amazing!
wow, you have a magic power of getting into anywhere. Btw, liked your video. The best reaction video ever, for me.
OMGG CONGRATULATIONS, you worked so hard and it payed off 🥰❤️!!! Definitely will do great in Uni, hope to see you post more videos💕
Aww thank you so so much!!! I’ll definitely be posting more! :)
Your dad is asking the questions I thought when watching these - do colleges talk lol
Many congratulations! I graduated from UChicago's MBA program, and I think you'll love the place. All the best!
Thank you so much!!!
Awesome. Congratulations!
Thank you!!
Go Blue! From a University of Michigan graduate this brings back the feels man.
Very nice video. Appreciate the input you provided. Would like to see a video of stats if there can be one. 👍🏼
Enjoyed your parents are awesome, Congrats....
congratulations!!
thank you so much!!
Love this and love your parents!!!
and all of your Mom's glasses are iconic
Aww thank you!!!
I just got in to University of Chicago! I can't wait to see you there!
Congratulations!!
Congratulations !
YES CONGRATS! I REALLY HOPE I GO TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO!!
Congrats!
Pretty good results and I hope that with the benefit of time passing you also feel good about them. As I watch these videos, I really feel for today's applicants. Even though you know that admit rates at the most prestigious schools are 3-5%, I can see the pain of the rejection. I have the impression that something is seriously wrong with the way that the admissions process operates at places like Harvard and Stanford. The vast majority of applicants have almost no chance of admission, as evidenced by the all too common Ivy Day wipeout. These schools should be honest about what they actually want and why. They are wasting an enormous amount of money and time creating nothing but work for themselves and pain for the applicants. This "we have a secret process, it's not just a luck shot, and maybe you can get through" stuff needs to end. I think everyone suspects the truth, which is that for most applicants it is about luck. A school like Harvard accepts about 4 out of 100 applicants. Lets say that for every 100 applicants, 19 are not qualified and 1 is an extreme outlier (famous actress, recruited athlete, invented a widely used medical device, son of an alumnus who donated $50 million, you get the idea). So that leaves 80 roughly equal candidates for 3 spots. You just cannot convince me that the application process is so precise that they pick the "right" 3 of out 80. Almost any 3 they pick with be just as "right" as any other 3. It's not the "best fit," but the "most lucky."
Couldn’t agree more! :)
Not only that but another major factor is the adoption of extremely regressive baselines for admission for different demographics of people. Ivy League schools with Harvard being the most notable and extreme of them essentially punishing the hardest working applicants under the guise of "inclusiveness." Not trying to get political or anything it is just a fact with multiple pending legal cases about the situation.
@@Zappappappappa you said it perfectly. The political climate is absolutely terrible for college admissions right now, especially top end students.
Man you’ve got such amazing friends SPECIALLY the one who fell of the chair lmao 😂 🤣
Great choice. Congrats on getting to UChicago.
Thank you so much!
We need a stats video!! :)
Congrats! I'm a rising second year at UChicago! Maybe I'll see you around campus! :)
Ahhh hopefully!! Thank you!!!
Congratulations! I REALLY thought you'd go for Cal Berkeley
I almost did! It was sooooo hard to make the choice
You did really well and 🎉😊
Late but I hope Chicago has been amazing for you! I didn't get in, but my brother did and he enjoyed his undergrad there a lot.
Congratulations
Amazingggg! Pls do a stats videoo! 😃😃
Thank you!! And coming very very soon!
Congratulations! I will also be attending the University of Chicago in the fall as a first-year and I can't wait!
I can't stop laughing after you showed yourself in the store
I clicked on this and then realized I recognized you from UChicago class of 2022 hahaha. See you on campus!!! :)
Ayyy, see you in a few weeks!!👀
UChicago is a great place. Enjoy the Reg. I was a B-Level person myself (I wonder if they still have the big study tables down there … 🤔🤔🤔)
in 9th and idk whenever he says "i opened my mail", i click my mail open just to realise I AM STILL A KID
Dads vibes were immaculate this whole video😂😂
Congratulations!!! That’s insane. Maybe u could do a stats video and/or tell what’s ur major
Good luck in uni💗
Thank you so much!! I’ll most likely upload a stats video within the week! As for my major, I applied as either a business or economics major, depending on what was offered at each school.
@@rickywaite
Congrats on Harvard
Best Wishes!
wow congrats on chicago, umich, and ucB and ucLA
Good job.
Thank you!!
bro must’ve had the greatest essays of all time
I've literally never seen anyone get into UChicago, congrats on being their only student lmao
Hahaha I appreciate it
gained a new subscriber! congratulations!
I'm wondering why you didn't accept Berkeley? It'd be great if you can answer this question!
I went to the page of the University of Chicago and I see you!😆wow
10:36 yes dad they do!
Congrats on UChicago!! I’m going too! Maybe we’ll run into each other sometime!!
Ahhh congrats to you too!!! Hopefully we will!!
Gimme some application ideas and how to write good essays to universities
we need a stat video!!
Congrats Chicago is a great school!
Thank you so much!
Do you have to pay a fee every time you submit an application?! If so, that’s a lot of money 💰!
How in the world do you make a decision if you get into all 20 schools? I applied to 4 and chose Wake Forest.
I'm surprised you got into a, uc berkely but waitlisted at ucsd, uci, and rejected from usc
If you are waitlisted should you wait till the next year?
I wanna cry I hate waiting
Congrats! I’m also applying to UChicago and was wondering if you submitted the optional video portfolio?
I did not submit a video portfolio. I honestly didn’t even know there was one haha
@@rickywaite Wow. That’s really good to hear since it’s been stressing me out. I heard that EA’s who don’t submit the portfolio may create the impression that they wouldn’t attend if accepted (otherwise they’d create the video) and have a higher chance of getting deferred and accepted later if they choose to continue ED2.
@@rickywaite I hope this doesn’t come off as an aggressive question, since you clearly got into many good schools besides UChicago, but I was also wondering if you have any legacy affiliation there.
@@leopardduck4490 neither one of my parents graduated from college, so I’m actually a first generation college student! So no alumni connections lol. But I wouldn’t stress too much about the portfolio. If you’re a competitive applicant and meet the criteria of their institution, they won’t reject you simply because you didn’t submit a video portfolio. You really shouldn’t worry too much about it :)
@@rickywaite Thanks for your help. I’m hoping the video isn’t viewed as a necessary area of strength like the personal statement, but rather another opportunity to potentially stand out for exceptionally artistic/creative people or anyone who presents game changing information that didn’t fit into their essays.
Congratulations!
You got into a few good ones at least, UCLA, Berkeley, Chicago! 🎊🎉🎈
And at least you got waitlisted at Wharton! Who knows? You might get in!
Congratulations! 🎊🎉🎈
Yesssss please share your stats and your essays
coming soon! :)
Should have gone to Berkeley
I’ve felt that too a couple times, but I’m glad I left home and went out of my comfort zone
What was your sat; gpa?
Bruh I'm a high school freshman, idk why I watch these lol
I’m aiming to go to Western Sydney University with either one of these 2 pathways:
1. Early entry for bachelor of accounting for 3 years (Year 11 grade-B, year 12-band 4 or above)
2. Early entry for bachelor of criminal and community justice then masters in accounting (Aboriginal Studies-B, Band 4 or above)
I already did Aboriginal Studies as part of an accelerated program but I’m still aspiring to get a really high mark for economics
No because why is his room nicer than mine ( in every way possible )
Wowowowowow
wait YOURE LITERALLY JAKE GYLLENHAAL
Wait u have been admitted to class of 2026? Why not class of 2023-2024? I’m a bit confused or did he apply 3 years earlier ?
OMG my dream is university of chicago!! congratulations. please tell me what you did to get in
Hi! I have a video posted of the stats + ecs that helped me get in, and I will be posting another video on my essays soon :)
@@rickywaite ahhh thank you!!
Can you share your stats plz. UMich Ross is my dream school
University of Chicago with 125k. On the reveal, I'm thinking is it possible you don't choose this option. Good decision.
Please give me your skin care routine 😭
same last name!
stats?
Just wanted to ask that you applied all by yourself or went to some consulting agency ?
I didn’t have any outside college tutors or consultants other than the free services provided by my school :)
Can you help me a little bit
@@rajkanwarsingh8773 of course! You can either email me at rickywaite22@gmail.com or dm me on Instagram @rickywaite2016 :)
I got itno CSU
first know u today brother and subscribed 06 january 2023 11:52 pmt 979 subs
5:18 he looks like timothee chalamet
Yall are so cute
I enjoy these videos, but it would be nice to provide a little background info going into your reactions (e.g., test scores, GPA, and #of APs). Are you able to get financial aid living in a house valued at over 2,000,000?
Like I mentioned in the video, I’m planning on posting a thorough stats/resume video. Just giving the hard numbers (test scores, GPA, etc.) really isn’t beneficial because all competitive applicants practically have the same numbers. Like I said, I have a TikTok posted with my general stats, so you can check that out if you’re interested. Also not sure where you got that other information from lol.
@@rickywaite
Girl MIT is good for you
Not gonna lie getting in to UChicago is impressive. I went to Yale for undergrad and was rejected from UChicago, it really is just random (kinda). Please share what college you did decide to go to
i watch this video, and it made me feel so good about my self knowing this guy blew atleast $100,000 on a degree he could have paid 1/10 the price for, if he invest this $100,000 at a conservative rate of 10% a year, in 20 years it would probabily be around $700,000. another suqqer bits the dust.
Sorry for saying such an off topic thing but you lowkey look like Sebastian Croft
Bro literally you remind me of a young Jerry Seinfeld
Not relevant, but ur eyes look stunning 🧿🦚
Aw that’s so sweet, thank you!!!
Pov: im in 9th grade rn
well, use myessaygenie for your essays
Rip
Ok. meat - and - potatoes here is, do you have the grades, and SAT scores these institutions require for admission ? If you don't, get ready for lots of " no's."
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Why apply to schools you knew you wouldn’t attend? Why waste the application fee and cause someone else to be waitlisted for a spot you knew you wouldn’t accept? To make these videos? To massage your ego? Honest question.
Because you can never know if you are going to get into a college. I had no serious guidance throughout the process from people who had gone to prestigious schools, so I felt it was necessary to have sufficient backup schools. Everyone who I saw was overly confident ended up not getting into any schools, you have to be smart about it.
And 20 schools, each with at least $100 non- refundable application fee ? Glad your family has all that money to waste.
Thank you for your delightful comments! :)
@@rickywaite I know that it sounds bad the way he phrase it but why did you bother applying to CSUs when you have ivy/high UC level stats?
@@Bruin11 I really had no perception of how I would fair in college admissions so I made sure to apply to as many schools that I thought I’d at least have a good chance at getting admitted to in the high likelihood that I would not gain admission to the highly selective schools.
@@rickywaite that’s fair, totally understandable to have backups just in case! I remember I was in similar shoes and ended up just applying to all the UCs, I remember we had a guaranteed UC spot in a random UC (UCI was for my year) if you are top 5% in your graduating class or something like that. I ended up getting into all but SD and had a hard decision between Berkeley and LA, ended up at UCLA and love it!
Hope Chicago is everything and more than you wished for, enjoy the best 4 years of early adulthood!
Don't give out your stats. It's just going to be enabling these kids to compare themselves to other people.
Although I do think stats might cause people to compare themselves to others, that can be a good thing. After watching these videos, it helped me see what colleges like to see in applicants which motivated me to do certain things which I know helped me get into Brown University
Please explain how kids comparing their academic resumes to their competition for admittance into extremely competitive schools is deleterious, but you're fine with feeding a cat lasagna?
That’s not a bad thing. If you know others are better than you, it will motivate you to improve. After all, no one wants bad grades.