Thread by @tayooye

One of my hidden skills:

Every single college application I have reviewed has resulted in admission + scholarship (100% batting rate).

I probably should build a business around this skill.

I meant other people's admission applications.

I reviewed 3 applications last year:

1. 100% scholarship to a top-ranked university in Texas (Nigerian)
2. 100% scholarship to a relatively low-ranked university in Indiana (Nigerian)
3. 25% scholarship to Georgia State (American)

I have also recently reviewed:

1. MBA at Cranfield (35% scholarship).
2. PhD at Wisconsin (100% scholarship).
3. MBA at Columbia (No scholarship).
4. MBA at Coventry (No scholarship).
5. PhD student (5 admissions, 100% scholarship)
etc.

Let me confess:

I have an unfair advantage.

I was a university professor so I know what admission committees are searching for.

First few lines of an essay that got my nephew 100% scholarship in a top-ranked university in the US.

...

The moon was full on the night we arrived. It felt like an ominous sign. The full moon, the unexpected traffic jam that delayed our arrival, my parents’ anxieties, and the eerie calmness I felt when I arrived in my room all pointed to the same conclusion: I was no longer a boy.

I was a man who must take care of himself without recourse to his parents. I had just turned 10, and of course, I felt like a little boy, I looked like a little boy and mostly still thought like a 10-year-old boy. However, I wouldn't return home that night and wouldn't see....

...my parents and siblings for the next three months. I was officially a boarding house student at XXX High School at 10, and I had to grow up immediately to live up to my new lifestyle.

Why was this a compelling story?

Less that 0.01% of American teenagers go to boarding school. That little "I went to boarding school at 10" tidbit immediately puts my applicant in a different consideration set.