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hey guys welcome today we're gonna talk

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about CDs and resumes specifically for

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admissions so if you're sitting and

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wondering what you should do with your

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CV how do you write it do you need to

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provide all the documents to prove

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everything that you're mentioning I'm

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gonna answer all of those questions in

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this video so if you're interested

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continue watching

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we are going to look at a template

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provided by Stanford University it's a

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template that I've used it's a template

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that you should use and it says that for

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every ten years of working experience

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you should have one page of your resume

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and there is a pretty formal standard

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that I would advise you to follow let's

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look at this template you start with

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your first and last name please don't

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play with fonts I know it's very

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tempting to download some template from

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the internet and to use a font that is

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super creative but unless you're a

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designer I would stick to something

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really formal really easy to read

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sometimes fonts make it harder to read

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so please stick to this so your first

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and last name your telephone number your

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email address they say you stand for

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address but you don't have it again

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we're looking at Stanford's guidelines

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then you're going with a summary summary

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paragraph highlights your

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accomplishments experience tune into a

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target job troll key accomplishments or

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skills can be included with bullets if

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you're applying to your master's program

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it's very important to mention here's

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something that's relevant to your

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master's program maybe you've done a

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research on a topic that you're gonna

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study maybe you have some work

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experience maybe you have some awards

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that are worth mentioning I have my CV

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ready to download together with my book

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the link will be below so basically I

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mentioned all of the words that I think

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of worth mentioning like opportunity

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award by the US government and DA D

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award by German government and some

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Olympus that I want some progress that I

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made with my company because it was

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relevant to whatever I was doing and I

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was applying to my master's program ah

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then you go to you experience you start

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with something recent and if you don't

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have any work experience this section is

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your place by your education where you

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go more in depth about your education

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but if you have some experience if

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you've done some internship it's really

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really worth mentioning it here you go

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with your organization name city and

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state one line organization description

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don't include for recognized firms so if

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everyone knows what the mercedes-benz

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does

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and everybody knows you don't have to

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describe if it's a smaller company uh

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less more known then give a one-liner of

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what it does language trip is a study

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abroad booking platform whatever your

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job title what were you responsible for

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if you were a salesperson don't tell

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them that you were selling stuff because

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that's obvious

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instead focus of brief description of

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accomplishments with concrete actions

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and quantifiable results I always tell

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you numbers they play a magic game and

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they play a magic trick with your

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application the plan was to generate

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three thousand dollars in revenues I

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generated it's ten thousand dollars and

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I was awarded number one salesperson in

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my department in a 20-18 quota for

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typically three five bullet points

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include budget number of people managed

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if you managed people please write that

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down like manage team of ten if you've

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done something extra I would always

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mention it like if as part of your sales

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job you went to a conference in New York

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to represent your company please put it

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here as well

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or maybe organize something else

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organize a conference like mention that

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because it's also really important and

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it talks about your experience then

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mention your previous jobs if you have

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them again in the same manner but you

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don't have to be so specific you don't

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have to go into too many details about

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your previous jobs because what matters

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is like your recent experience if

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there's something notable like please

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mention it for the previous jobs as well

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if you have anything older than ten

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years but I think the majority of you

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won't they offer you to create like an

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additional experience section way we put

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organization name in title then we're

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gonna go to education so basically this

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is what they are offering to Stanford

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graduates to use but it's a good manner

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to use this to apply to Stanford or to

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apply to any other University because

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again if you are taking the highest

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standards I'm sure other universities

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would appreciate that in terms of your

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education you write your degree

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institution degree name subject area

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year I would also write your GPA and

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tell them what's the scale so for

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example I wrote five out of five so that

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they know that five out of five and if

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you were like top five percent of class

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or

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like that or like a class manager if

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something like that exists in your

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country ah you can also write it down

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because again this is more like

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professional because this is more

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intended for graduates but I love this

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structure this is why we're talking

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about it and I used it for all of my

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applications all of my students use it

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for their applications one-pager maximum

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really easy like you can copy/paste

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whatever is here the link will be below

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to download this file for education I

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would write everything down like your

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bachelor's if you have it your

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additional education maybe you've done

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study abroad in your high school and

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your middle schools with just GPAs just

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mention them there and that's it and

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then something additional like language

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competences Community Service in my case

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I've mentioned languages travel and

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ballet and like whatever you like to do

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that would have some additional

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information about you as a personality a

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very important question do you need to

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provide all the documents supporting

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whatever you wrote there and no you

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don't but it should sound realistic if

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you're telling them you're the winner of

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all the Olympians you're a PhD at the

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age of 23 you've done this this and that

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they're gonna be suspicious then I'm

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gonna believe you and I've talked an

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admissions officer from one of the top

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universities and she says yes we

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actually especially feel like what she

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said like for some countries from Asia

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they see a lot of like something that

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looks like straw to them there are too

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many accomplishments that they can not

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verify when they Google a company it

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looks like it doesn't exist when they

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Google in a war it looks like it doesn't

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exist

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they cannot verify and it looks like too

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many accomplishments for a 20 year old

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person and they just disregard the

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application because they think you are

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misleading them and this is something

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that you should just learn about America

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in general everyone wants to believe you

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when you come to the office you don't

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bring like papers with you you swear you

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just raise your hand and you swear that

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you're telling the truth when we got

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married in San Francisco they're like

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were you married before or like no in

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Russia they would tell us like bring all

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of your papers in America they would be

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like can you swear that you've

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married before or like yes we can so

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this is it but if you're lying if

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there's something you're intentionally

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like misleading people then they would

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just district out your application you

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don't want to do that so no there's no

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need to provide additional proof but yes

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you need to be honest and if you haven't

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won anything till then write it down

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find something else maybe if you realize

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if you're looking at the CV and you're

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like oh my god I don't have anything

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that she's mentioning I don't have

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working experience that I have this this

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and that okay if you're not applying to

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top university maybe you don't even need

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it if you're ready to pay out of pocket

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maybe you don't even need it but if

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you're looking for financial aid if

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you're looking at high-ranking

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universities that maybe take a year off

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not off but take a year when you would

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go and get some work experience maybe

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invest more time into conferences maybe

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invest more time into publications like

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do something that would make your resume

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stand out and this is why I'm doing this

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thing this is why I'm recording this

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video so you could take action in

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advance not like three months before

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your deadline this is super important so

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look at the application you can Google

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some sample CDs download the template

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you can download my CV together with my

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book where I'm talking about my

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admissions journey all of the links will

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be below thank you so much for watching

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this video I hope this content was

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useful if you have any more questions

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please chat in comments below

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ask questions answer other people's

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questions and it will pick up some very

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interesting and some common ones I have

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you know yes subscribe hit subscribe and

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I will see you soon in the next videos

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bye