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What hope is there for regular students?

Take this example: On Instagram Reels, a video posted by @limmytalks discusses a student who has voluntarily submitted his information to this college admissions content creator. The student’s stats are impressive: He’s played piano since age 5, been in orchestra since age 10 and founded a math club tutoring other students. Intimidating but not impossible.

But there’s more: The content creator @limmytalks points to the student having more than 100 million views for all online content, memorizing 1,001 digits of pi, and holding the Guinness World Records title for solving a Rubik’s Cube upside down (called a rotating puzzle cube on the Guinness site). Literally hanging upside down, legs hooked over a bar and dangling in the air.

In the video, @limmytalks takes guesses about where the student was accepted — acceptances are in bright green letters, rejections in glaring red. The results are in the video’s caption. The student was rejected by Harvard, Yale University, Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Stanford University, the University of Southern California, New York University, Johns Hopkins University and Tulane University. He was accepted into great schools, too, such as Duke, Boston University, UCLA and the University of California, Berkeley. But his rejections were listed first.

The comments are full of people despairing over their own chances. After all, there can only be one Guinness World Records holder for solving a Rubik’s Cube upside down, and if he gets rejected from so many highly selective schools, what hope is there for a "normal" student? And before you think students applying to schools with acceptance rates above 10% are spared, смотреть порно жесток there are also videos touting the tagline, "Where did this AVERAGE student get in?!?"