 Greetings salutations ladies and gentlemen we are back here with another video You're here with your boy Justin Che and today we have a very special guest on the channel Nicholas Che Thank you so much for having me. Yeah, you know, thank you for coming on Anyway today guys we have a Che brother collab my brother as you guys know it's Justin Che Today we have no idea really what we're gonna be talking about but he is on campus for Princeton Preview So we thought it would be good to sit down. I'm thinking about calling this cactus Chats, bro So Justin tell me about yourself. What do you do? Where are you from? Thank you for asking, Nick So my name is Justin Che. I'm From Dallas, Texas. Gotta rip the the D town in the 972 I'm currently 17 years old about to turn 18 in a few months. What do you look at a major in bro? Mechanical engineering for everyone who keeps asking Are you committed to Princeton? I have not officially committed to Princeton Although it's probably just like three clicks away. I could do it in like two minutes Hey, I haven't declared my major yet. Should we do at the same time? I don't think it's that big a deal Today we're gonna be doing a video about how we really got into Princeton I know this is a topic that can be beneficial for you guys and just talk about you know Not just our scores and our extracurriculars, but more so our common application essay and you know Going to the details of what we think personally helped us get in not that like legacy had anything to do with it But um, I'm gonna just leave that there So let's start off with the scores. Justin, what'd you get on your ICT? We're just gonna hop into it. I took the ACT two times. I got it thirty four point two five the first time and a thirty five point two five Second time. What are you Nick? What are you gonna get? I also took the ACT two times the first time I got it thirty four Probably thirty three point seven five rounded up and the second time I got it thirty five What are you? It's SAT Justin. I took that two times the first time I got a fifteen ten so that was a Seven ten reading writing and eight hundred in math and then the second time I took it in June Hashtag rip June SAT for it. Let's you guys know what if you know, you know, I took that and I got a 1540 777 in reading writing and 770 and I took the new SAT I got a 1500 only took him one time and then I took the old SAT. I got a 2170. What about your GPA, Justin? Right now, I think I'm at a three point ninety Okay, buddy big baller. I think when I graduated I was like a three point nine four What's your current person GPA Nick? Let's not talk about that. What's your current high school rank? I ended my High school career like taking like ranks or locked or whatever as ten out of graduating class. Did you drop? Discrete I used to be seven but it's okay. I don't really care. We're banning you from the family What extra curricula is are you involved in buddy? I'm involved in student council as my high school student body president. I'm involved say that again Student body president. Oh, yes, so that means you're gonna be giving like a speech a graduation, right? Actually, I just did. Oh, yes. Okay. He's not that cool guys. I'm also involved in band I am a school leader So I have like eight to ten people eight to ten clarinet players that I kind of show how to show them how to march Place-only music like that. Hey, I was in bed, too What are you Nick? Oh, thanks for asking. Thank you for asking so much, brother When I was in the band, I was actually the clarinet section leader So I was involved in you know, not just eight to ten people, but a whole section of 30 to 40 people I just forgot. I was also the woodwind captain. Oh my gosh. That's so crazy Right and the woodwind captain was also in charge of the entire woodwind sections moving on What else do you do on campus, dude? Let's not on campus, but I'm involved with the robotics team. So it's all you do robotics. Oh, cool What kind of robotics? It's called vex robotics. I don't know if you guys have heard of it I'm on a team with four other guys. So shout out to them. So we work by like 400 plus hours every year I've been competing like really hardcore since like sophomore year. Now in the big leagues Yeah, if you guys know my team, it's 365X Invictus for any unit out there. Okay, cool. Give me that plug Yeah, so Justin is also an avid videographer upcoming vlogger. I wouldn't consider it. Okay. Okay. All right. It's your fun Okay, I can't give myself the title yet. Okay. Not yet. Not yet. I mean, I wonder who he gets it from though I bet he has like some great inspiration. I think it's our mom. Yeah Why are you excited to come to Princeton, dude? Yeah, what are you looking forward to? Um, I don't know. There's like a lot of a lot of different stuff I've been like a ton of really cool people this these past two days. And so I'm looking forward to just hanging out with a lot of Really driven like money people. Why do you like Princeton? I fucking hate it I Mean it's a good school. It's got a lot of great academics. The professors are great I feel like I'm just like reading a script every time I talk about Princeton and all honesty man It kind of sucks. I'll be straight up. I Feel like I should let you know I feel like I'm I'm failing my duties as a brother if I don't let you know that it's hard It's not gonna be a lot of work. It's gonna be a lot of hours. It's going to be a lot of late nights But overall like the people are good you I'm sure you'll be able to find a good group of friends You'll be able to find clubs and extracurriculars that you can get involved in I need you here so I can recruit you from my studio Yeah, I'm already his slave. I'm already making his YouTube header. Yeah Oh, I forgot. Okay. So what was your comment application? I said I have a funny story I started I went through like a whole bunch of different revisions and I ended up rewriting my entire common app essay I think one or two weeks before the December 31st deadline. So our mom was not happy, but my common app essay It was actually I did a project in eighth grade it's basically a super open-ended project you could do anything and so I made a pendulum clock out of Legos and so I talked about my experience making that clock and how my Perfectionism caused me to make a worse version of the clock than if I had just built it You know without worrying about it being perfect or it being amazing. Just, you know, that's kind of flame Yeah, what I mean. I got me here. What are you Nick? My essay was about this girl that I used to love her name was Candice. She was with me every single day great curves great curves hand-in-hand Talking about my film camera talking about my experiences with my National Geographic Student Expedition Scholarship and How photography was really able to open just so many doors for me and just share a lot of experiences and places that I would Never have been able to go to without it speaking of which Justin actually got the same exact National Geographic Student Expedition Scholarship There's no head scratching Yeah, so um my my expedition with National Geographic Took me to the Silicon Valley for nine days And so I was there with like a group of like 30 to 40 other kids shout out to them They're really cool people on that trip. And so basically we just toured Google headquarters, Sanford's campus a little Then before that I was actually awarded a trip with the New York Times. They have a similar Program to National Geographic. And so I was able to go to Peru with 16 other kids. We were there for about 14 days, I think and so we were visiting Peru We got to see Machu Picchu and the focus was around public health and development in the Andes And so just really cool meeting a lot of great people learning about their work and learning about the culture there Do you think that had a big impact on your application? I Didn't write a lot about it like don't don't get me wrong like this sounds kind of bad like it was like a really really awesome trip, but It wasn't like like entirely life-changing for me, and it wasn't enough to like I Didn't feel like I could write a substantial amount about it like a 650 word Like this comment up for me the reason I feel like I included my trip in my common application essay was because it was able to just You know relate to something that I was already passionate about photography And then bringing that aspect into it was just a really good way for them to see that You know I was passionate about it But I also went out of my way to look for scholarships and find trips that could help foster my passion Obviously both of us being Asians Him being an engineer me being more of a creative side, you know that can maybe play a little bit into it Yeah, here's my rant. All right, I freaking hate it seeing how I got into Princeton blah blah like These are the essays like I'm gonna Princeton because like let's be honest You don't actually know if that was like the deciding thing that got you in Prince I've used this example a lot, but let's say you okay. There's like a huge stretch, but let's say you cured cancer And obviously like that's like a huge thing And then as you think like wow if I if I did this then like all these colleges are gonna accept me But like and then let's say Princeton does accept you But you don't know if it was because you cured cancer or maybe because you started a bad men team at your school and Princeton Really likes bad men. I mean no, but they take everything into account. So it's a holistic application. Here's your pedestal. Let's hop down Anyways guys, I think that about wraps it up for this video. Do you have anything you'd like to add I? Also a YouTube channel Guys just it also has a YouTube channel. I will have it linked down below. He's on the come up Should I go subscribe? Let him know that Nick sent you guys Subscribe for more videos and as always Don't stress Hey, wait, let's do your dad. I'm putting you on the spot. This is a casual is Just a you just do and this is the mini Super mini This is a behind-the-head behind the head down. Yeah, and this is a rapid fire