 Hello, my people, welcome to the Score Channel. My name is Meacham and today I am celebrating one year of consecutive weekly uploads. That's right, a year ago today we started this channel and it's been 52 weeks and every single Thursday I've put a video out there for you. Not all of them have been amazing, but you know, some of them have been pretty good and I'm really happy with the growth that the channel has seen so far in this first year. So I wanna say big thank yous to everybody who's made this possible, everybody in the Score Team and also of course all of you guys who are watching these videos and recommending them to your friends or sharing them with other people. You're the reason this channel has grown and you're the reason I wanna keep making videos. But now comes the part where I wanna ask you for a favor and I wanna explain why I need that favor. Here at Score, our mission is pretty straightforward. We want to provide the best quality, most personalized college counseling services at better prices than any of our competitors. That's exactly what we have done and the reason we're doing it that way is because we want to be able to make this service more accessible for more people. It's a luxury right now that only a handful of people can afford and we hope that by developing a better process that can be done at a great price, we can make it possible for more people to access this service. But we also know that there's always going to be people that aren't able to access it at any price and we also wanna help those people too. Part of the reason this channel exists is to provide information to people for free, information they can use to better their future. Whether that's help on tests or giving you instructions on how to study in different countries or just showing you different universities that you might wanna consider, that's all stuff that we can do here that helps people access this service for free. But we also want to provide our personalized services to people directly free of charge and we wanna take it another step further. We wanna launch a Score scholarship in the future open to anyone, not just anybody who's working with us, but anybody who wants to access that scholarship and shows that they merit it, we'd love to give that out to them. These are projects that we've had in the works that we've been talking about ever since the beginning of Score and it's stuff that we wanna see happen going into next year if possible. For that to happen though, we're gonna need some extra income because the way our service works, we provide an extremely personalized service that gives you more hours of attention than most of our competitors. We pay our people very well, I think, they're pretty happy. We try to pay people better than our competition and we always try to charge less and what that means is that ultimately our operating margins don't allow us to make a ton of money off of each individual case. I'm completely fine with that. I don't think that we need to be exploiting every single person that passes through Score. On the contrary, I want as many people as possible to get this service but it also means that it's hard for us to simply pile up money and invest it in these projects. I want this channel to become a source of income so that we can push those projects forward and for that to happen, we need to get monetized. That's essentially the next big goal for the channel. At the rate we're going right now, I think we're making really good progress. We're in line with my original projection of about two years to get to that point but I think it can go faster and it can do that if you're interested in making that happen. So what we need from you guys is simple. Just like the channel, subscribe to the channel, recommend the channel to other people. If you are in high school and you're thinking about studying abroad, this is the information you need. If you know somebody who might be considering college or is thinking about going back to college, send them this information. The more you share this with other people, the faster it's gonna grow and the easier it's gonna be for us to make those projects happen. Another thing I wanna improve here is the quality of the content for you guys and that's something else that I need to ask you for. Tell me what you want. This channel mostly started out as me telling a lot of my former students from different schools that, you know, I was gonna be making this channel and so a lot of the people here are Peruvians who are high schoolers but then there's also a whole bunch of people who've subscribed because of the videos they've seen and we now have this very international, very mixed demographic at the SCORE channel and sometimes I'm not sure what content really speaks to you. Do you guys want more university visits? Do you want more countries covered? Do you want me to get more into the financial aspect of things or would you like me instead to simply focus on the things you need to do for your applications like making your CVs and your essays and getting your test scores lifted up? We have all these different things we can talk about and I'm happy to continue exploring lots of different topics on the channel but I also wanna give you what you want to watch. That's gonna help the channel grow faster and it's gonna make you happier and that's ultimately what I want to do with this. So I'm extremely happy with how 2021 went overall with this channel and I'm just extremely grateful for all of the support that we've received so far from everybody and I hope that support continues into next year but I wanted to share with you some of these goals that we have and I wanted you to know that this is the direction of this company. We are a company, we are trying to make money but we're also trying to help more people and to do that we really need your support so appreciate that. Next week I got a little Christmas gift for you a little behind the scenes tutorial of how I put together a recent video and then also we're gonna have a little new channel trailer coming out for new years. After that we're back to our regularly scheduled programming. I will be making a run in the United States hopefully to visit a couple of universities. Maybe even some of our score success stories will be coming out of that. We got a lot of ideas in the works but again, tell me what you wanna see. The more you engage the more I can help. I'll see you next week.