Chapter 2Class Spam: Deadly and Effective
Many students spend hours and hours trawling online forums, asking friends, mentors, and alumni of top universities: what activities do I do to get into a top university?
The best answer to this question is comically simple but brutally effective.
As an 18-year-old, I applied to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Wharton, and Cambridge and gained admission to all of them. I beat students who were smarter than me, had Mathematics Olympiad Medals, were head students of their school, and had a wide variety of other achievements. What was my strategy?
Take the maximum possible academic subject load and do more than any other student around you.
But what exactly does this mean? At my school, King's College, ...
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