Hello everybody I hope everyone's doing well today!
This is Dr. Varun Gandhi and you're listening to the Power Punch Club
Podcast.
Today my partner Vineet Jain is back. What's going on man? How you doing?
How was Colombia? Life is great! Colombia was amazing! I'm back here in cold
Pittsburgh but gosh were all those people out there were world travelers
I really recommend to put Colombia on top of your list
beautiful beautiful country I was so humbled by the by the spectacular views
the mountains the deserts the beaches everything um that's all I gotta say
yeah that's good man I'm good I'm so that's a classic here I actually
mentioned you in the podcast so they already know that you're in Colombia um
I told them well I know that they know really I was you told me about your
podcast that you started recording by the way great idea I love this mission
that you put us on the mission about just giving everyone all the information
they need to apply to universities level the playing field no matter where these
students are anywhere in the world they have the exact same opportunities to get
into great universities so I really really value that but anyhow when you
told me about podcast I got that email when I was on a bus from Carrara to MIT
aid in Colombia and the buses have like great Wi-Fi and everything much better
than here in the United States by the way it's funny my cell phone worked
better there than here my data plan and while I listened to the first podcast
while I was on that on that drive and that's a story that's the memory that
that's power punch Club podcast is always going to have the best man that's
awesome thank you for sharing that and yeah you know and you you articulate our
mission really well but the other the other part that these two the
international students are missing and is their ability to articulate and
communicate their story through the different pieces of the application and
this is where power punch Club podcast comes in as well to help them
Stan how the different pieces of the puzzle mean something that's greater
than just the individual pieces absolutely articulation is key here is
the problem you may be the best student the most intelligent student the smart
student ambitious yet you've got to communicate this to your audience
through an application the application provides various different mediums to
communicate that do your resume through your letter of recommendations through
your statement of purpose and of course through your GRE score you have to graph
each of these opportunities and make the most of it and if you cannot articulate
in today's world it's it's game over for you
you might as you should start today to get better at articulating get better at
writing get better at talking get better at selling get better at branding
yourself because in today's world no matter where you are even if you decide
not to apply to universities you gotta sell your thoughts and your ambitions to
everyone around you it couldn't be tough I completely agree
that that's a really good advice and I hope people listen to you because they
definitely need to follow that and they definitely need to spend more time
articulating their story now for their application and form for the future
because that's one of the ways one of the the best ways to get a job in
America is if you understand what your story is and what what your why is
essentially but if if they spend more time articulating your story the reason
they don't have that time it's because they're actually spending too much time
on applying to so many different University so that's the topic we're
going to address today is how many universities should these students apply
to and all right yeah so the golden rule that we follow here at power punch Club
is six to eight universities anything more means you have no clue what you're
doing you're too confused and you have no game plan period that's it if you
even think that you need to apply to more than six six is actually enough
eight is stretch more than that we need to talk
with somebody and think about this you're spending so much money just
applying to more universities than you need to it's about 100 225 maybe 175
dollars per application that adds up instead take that money invested in a
mentor and a spiritual advisor someone who can help you get some clarity of
purpose into your brain and so that you have a better game plan when applying
completely agree man that's an amazing point that you bring up about how much
they're spending almost you know 15 applications a hundred dollars per
application sometimes even more than that it's more than $1,500 they're
spending on just applications and that's that's not money well spent from the by
no means but also it takes a considerable amount of time to just
create one really good application right like why don't they spend that time on
creating that one really really good application as opposed to 15 different
average applications yes you're you're right I believe that the problem is in
their philosophy in their underlying philosophy when they try to tackle
applications they think they need to get one good application and then that one
application can be copy and pasted and then it's a numbers game you know that's
what they think but that's not how it should be done what they need to realize
what everyone needs to realize is that every relationship is a new conversation
so they need to start from beginning in their application and that's why it
takes a lot of time they think you put all the time effort in in that first
application and then they don't need to do that again and again because they
have the material and that's wrong because what you need to do is create
material for each University based on that University based on their program
based on what type of candidates they are looking for and that takes time
you're right so if you're saying 15 applications almost 50 hours for each
application they're committing themselves to how much do the math about
in 50 hours for that application to them most students start in the last two
three months anyway there's no way they could squeeze that type of time and even
if they do it's not quality time definitely so would you save that is
that that's what differentiates a great application from an average one the time
it takes to articulate their story that's definitely the the most important
aspect of it for sure and it goes back to our previous conversation if you
cannot articulate your ambition your goals your vision your purpose of
applying to this particular University out of the hundreds out there they want
value you as a candidate and if you Bay if they don't value you you don't get an
admission yeah because you don't value yourself and if you don't value yourself
that is not going to come across in your story and lastly you know if it doesn't
that's all the application committee seeds when they're thinking about a
student do we want to accept the student or not when they're making their
decision all they see is their application and if they don't have
articulate their story through their application and communicate it in a way
that best represents themselves then they're not their application it's not
going to get justice done to it it's like a club I think I've used this in
another podcast but think of the universities as like a club you're going
to go dancing you got to prep off everything the GRE is like the bouncer
that stands in front of the club and let you in or let you out right depending so
that's the GRE is like the very first hurdle that you got across if you're GRE
score or GMAT score is not good enough you won't even be considered for the
next level comes the next level we talked about it your GRE score is okay
then an admission counselor is going to go through spend five minutes on your
application and say you know what this application is in the top 20 I'm going
to put it on the side and we're going to review review it together some other day
how do you get into that top 20% I've heard a number two
then hurdle number three is good articulation good resume good background
good everything that will get you into the top 2% top 5% and those are the
students who will be given an admission at that particular prestigious
university I love the conversation but I'm sorry to
cut it short you can definitely check us out on our website PowerPunchClub.com
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finally VJ is great talking to you man and let's catch up next time all right!
Absolutely! Thank You Varun!
Hey guys! This is Vineet with Varun at the Power Punch
Club. You guys know already that we're hosting events all across India this
coming summer for the Fall application season 2018. In these workshops, you're going
to come in the first few sessions are going to be identifying what your brand
is identifying what your goals are identifying what type of universities
you should be applying to what type of degrees you should be applying to if you
haven't taken the GREs there's going to be some assistance there on the GREs
though we we would require you to have taken at least one round of the GRE or
GMAT and then from that point on we're going to help you identify what stories
build your brand what stories you should include in your application when you do
include them in the application where do they go in the application do they go on
your resume do that go on your letter of recommendation do they go on in your
statement of purpose we're going to help you identify that and then we're going
to move on to help you write your application expect that by the end of
this workshop you will have one to two applications ready and you will know
exactly what to do for the last two three or four applications then you will
be all set one day twelve hours you will be all set for the application season
2018 we really recommend that you come and until then stay stay in touch
with us through our podcasts on to our website www.powerpunchclub.com
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