Stats & ECs That Got Me Into the Ivy League | (my GPA, ACT, activities, classes & advice)

[@evanlubbe7246]

“I took the ACT once and I got a 36”

[@liamoconnor434]

Evan Lubbe Ice cold

[@davisjohn-d6h]

Bruh moment

[@bloomy27]

Lmaoo

[@leviosaki2724]

Imfao

[@ForTomorrowToday]

I showed up on the first day of school and my roll # was 36

[@jeremybertolet8020]

"i took the act once and I got a 36" "I also took the math 2 subject test and got an 800" "I took the bio m subject test and I got an 800" omg how does she get perfect scores on everything

[@ddianalim]

She's a robot I swear...

[@stellamalone1351]

@@BPerriello94 i agree, i started my tutoring with a 26 in november of 2019 and now in may im only at 29. its still a good difference but a 36 isnt just easy peasy lol

[@cybergamer2329]

working hard

[@PrepExpert]

That's really impressive. Some combination of elite genetics and extremely hard work, I'm sure.

[@sheilal5980]

Diana: "I did not study, and I got a 35." I wish I was that smart😭

[@value2887]

Typical chinese

[@miaa1762]

Same 😭

[@minnminnho5482]

@@value2887 tycipally racist

[@value2887]

ho minmin ho

[@value2887]

@@minnminnho5482 ho minmin ho

[@sarah-wm6tr]

I appreciate that you guys didn’t take 15 APs because those people scare me

[@AhmadKhan-sm6gb]

And people who got a 35 on the ACT without studying don't lmaooo

[@liamoconnor434]

sarah sarah it really just depends on your school. I’m taking 21 during high school but have probably 3 hours of homework for the whole week in total. I don’t rlly need to study much either so some schools are harder than others.

[@sophiastonebrook]

Liam xp ap courses are standardized though?

[@ericwang9348]

Sophia Stonebrook technically but in practice teachers have a lot of latitude with how to teach

[@citrine7384]

some schools are limited on the number of APs they have so they may have taken all or close to all available

[@sh0efridge]

I’ve been binge watching college reactions and yours is by far my favourite! Congratulations to you and your sister on your acceptances and also on being so humble and down to earth! I’m a first year uni student in New Zealand so I don’t understand your schooling system at all but I find it super interesting because it’s so different from our system here! All the best for the future x

[@C1psi]

go kiwis!

[@briannay5231]

I’ve been looking to improve my extracurricular activity and my grades in general, and it’s nice to see you guys not pushing yourselves to take all AP classes and AP Calc BC! I get worried that I’m not ready to take that many AP courses every year, but I’m relieved that I don’t need to stress myself out. Thank you guys for sharing your insights!

[@andrea.pauline]

so u both are smart smart

[@nidhireddy5100]

aww ya'll are so pretty!!

[@ForTomorrowToday]

Pretty smart :D

[@cevcena6692]

@@ForTomorrowToday Well, that'd be an understatement I think. They seem smart smart

[@user-qe9jl4xw4u]

Omg, they mean pretty like pretty and smart

[@angelicahong5253]

Hello! I am a junior in high school. I just want to tell you guys how much I appreciate this video! I have been very stressed lately watching these high school stat videos and seeing so many hardworking students get into their dream school. I am also interested in the STEM field and I decided that this year I would not APUSH because it wasn't one of my interest. This may sound weird but it has been my biggest regret and I can't sleep at night wishing that I would have taken the class as so many other peers have. I felt that I would not be getting into college simply because I refused to take APUSH. I just want to let you know that this video made my day and I was so worried about how I looked compared to other students that I completely forgot why I decided to not take it. Your video made me feel so much better seeing how you guys got into such good schools even without taking APUSH. I think I worry too much haha. But thank you so much for posting this :) It has really helped

[@dido173]

Hey! It has been one year. What did you do? Did you get into any good colleges.

[@FrannieFails]

This sounds exactly like me. It wouldn’t let me sleep at night and I ended up switching into APUSH second semester, cramming for the first semester units was harsh but I hope it’s worth it. How did it turn out??

[@hyerimthing6371]

You guys are not just academic smart but interpersonal smart. I like how you guys prioritized mental health, and how it left space for doing things that y’all are passionate about: I wish I watched this video when I was a freshman

[@dianaweng1459]

Congrats, ladies! Proud of u both! I am also friends with your dad:)

[@raychenc1]

Super videos. I’ve been watching college videos now, since my daughter is applying to colleges. Seeing these videos makes me hope she gets into Penn, so she can have classmates like you!

[@Tara-is6xr]

You both are incredibly smart! Wow! :D Can you please do a video of advice for high schoolers, tips to get really good scores on the ACT, and stuff like that?

[@ddianalim]

Thanks for all the ideas! I'll definitely try to do an tips & advice video! Stay tuned :)

[@maggiewang200]

Diana Lim hello! in the tips vid could u provide suggestions on how to land local tech internships? thank u so much!

[@michelle-zy5mo]

You are both so freaking smart...as a current freshman in college I can literally only hope to be as smart as both of you...wow...this is inspirational. Y'all seem like you'd be good at Ted Talks lol

[@shinyjirachi8740]

colleges aside, ug are both so pretty 🥺

[@sophiarubens54]

thank you for showing that you can get into an ivy without taking 1000 ap classes! i only took 7 out of the 10 or so that were offered at my school and am a rising 24 at dartmouth! best of luck at upenn!

[@davisjohn-d6h]

This Decreased my motivation and killed my self confidence, thank you

[@mathi9402]

you're so cute 🥺 please post natalie's reactions and a vlog from your trip in asia!!😍😍

[@ddianalim]

Thank you

[@jasongao2766]

i took the act once and I am not trying to flex but I got a 24 :) AHHAAHHAHA ........

[@philn1520]

no offense, but im not even a freshman yet but I could probably do better

[@jasongao2766]

@@philn1520 lmao it’s sarcasm lol I got 1380 on my sat

[@philn1520]

@@jasongao2766 is that a good thing?

[@ha-zg3gp]

Phil N It’s like 96th percentile probably

[@philn1520]

@@ha-zg3gp how is it 96th percentile if the highest score you can get is a 1600

[@curtislee7292]

wait omg I went to launchx summer 2019 too! I was at the Northwestern campus tho. Now I'm Cornell or Cal bound!!

[@ddianalim]

Hahaha what a small world. Congrats on Cornell and Cal!

[@angiele1914]

Love the video :) My twins are seniors and applying for college this year too. They applied a few same schools, different majors... It would be intersting to see if they go to the same college:)

[@jeniphertenesaca4367]

OMG! I have been waiting for this video. Thank you guys so much and I will follow your channel to see your journey through college! What were your best methods used to manage your time? Being that both of you were always kept busy with school and extra curriculars, how did you guys manage to maintain an excellent performance all throughout your high school experience?

[@augustlin289]

Love that you’re a minimalist!!! It’s be interesting if you made a video about your minimalist journey :)

[@juliagamarano2779]

i'd love a video talking about minimalism!

[@C1psi]

aww i wish i had a sister to study with!

[@nicholasn.2883]

Swag. EC’s bring more value than AP classes on shit that don’t even matter. I wanna have a “talk” with whomever was like, “take every AP to be competitive”. It’s really not a good long term strategy. Way too man people gamble their time to get into a selective college and don’t even think further out than that.

[@keningzhao333]

Very helpful video! Love the website u created!

[@sarahdavid5801]

I went in cold freshman year and got a 23 and junior year I studied and only got a 31. I’m still astonished at how someone can go in cold and make a 35

[@joleena.]

every stats video i’ve watched they have so many classes each year 😅 my school we can only take 6 classes, 7 if you do zero period for like PE or avid. we could take 4 as long as we took 2 classes at a community college (dual enrollment) or if we had a job or extreme family situations

[@charlottebraun9114]

this was very informative!! do a vid abt you gap semester experience :))

[@shreekarunagaran6194]

congrats to both of you!!

[@light8174]

Kinda nervous now tbh. What I would like to do is different from what extra curriculars I do. That’s only because I live in an area where my resources is limited and I don’t have the privilege of going out and doing what I would want to do :(

[@sarah-wm6tr]

lovelylight that’s kind of like where I live but you can show initiative by starting clubs or businesses

[@ddianalim]

^ I completely agree! Also with the pandemic, I feel like people are investing in a lot of great online resources. Good luck in your college process!

[@gamalama1612]

this is a super helpful video. thank you :))

[@angelinamo482]

You and your sister are literally my role models! I am also interested in the computer science field :). I am currently an eighth grader and I was wondering if you guys would have any advice for what I should do this summer to prepare for high school and add to my resume. Btw y’all are so gorgeous🥰🥺

[@kawaiikambals8761]

Congrats!!! I am also a twin!!! We are currently juniors so these videos are super helpful! 🎊🎉💕

[@abhishekchatterjee7184]

Congratulations Diana.

[@ryankbr]

nina wang 🤭 your channel is gonna blow up then you guys can probably collab 🤩

[@angelafritz972]

I feel so dumb now 😂😂🤧

[@annieelizabeth3945]

35 and 36 act. Matching brains!!

[@Chris-xz1yf]

me over here sophomore year with A's and B's yeh... that's def not gonna get me into an ivy league with my 3.3 gpa LMAO

[@manishaasrani8692]

Is my school the only that does not count honors classes as weighted

[@kamikelly2261]

Manisha Asrani mine doesn’t either!

[@rhettolsontime8835]

Mine neither. Weighted gpas mean jack shit in selective schools though, as long as your classes are impressively difficult they don't care how your school weights them.

[@praneetvenigalla9766]

same with mine!

[@yesleeeverything915]

hopefully, my students get into the ivies as well! 👍👍

[@elannamak6099]

im the 1000th subscriber!!

[@augustrain4783]

AYE 36 AND ONLY TOOK IT ONE TIME😣😣😣

[@muskets5718]

Hi Dianna, I’m an 8th grader. I’ve been wondering, how do you find such great opportunities to get into programs like this? Especially the web design program because I would love to do that.

[@adrienbh]

u guys are so cute congrats on ur schools :)) did u guys decide?

[@zyanaraxheengarcia7993]

Me watching at 3am. I graduated college last 2015. 😜 Lol

[@annikachang4927]

Hello, you mentioned that you started an entrepreneurial club at your high school. I was wondering if you created your own program or if you used something like the LaunchX curriculum. Thanks!

[@fatimahlovesjoon6190]

a lot of the times, i feel like I'm failing or doing very very average because my school only offers honors and ap classes (I'm really not trying to brag but idk how else to express this) and sometimes I struggle a lot. i feel like i Suck at school because my unweighted gpa doesn't take into account the difficulty of the classes I'm taking (I've taken at least 1 ap class since 9th grade, and 2+ since 10th grade, with the rest being honors classes). I guess I feel like I'm doing too much but not enough???

[@izikszpan8429]

have you already decided which college you are going to go?

[@ddianalim]

I just committed to UPenn!

[@izikszpan8429]

@@ddianalim OMG that's so awesome, congratulations!!!

[@Katie-xm5ck]

awesome video! are you guys twins?

[@vaniagrawal4142]

Something is up with your profile picture

[@ddianalim]

Thanks! and yes :)

[@Katie-xm5ck]

that’s so cool! i’m a twin too!

[@libby2518]

i’m english & i’m desperate to go to an Ivy League, I can take the SAT but i won’t have a GPA and can’t take AP classes, obviously, but I have my GCSE’s which I got all A* & I’m doing my A Levels but do u know anything about what us universities do about international students?

[@KD-CD]

Look on the universities websites they usually have a info section for international students.

[@melikeursmile]

Did anyone else have a college advisor? I was leaning towards not getting one since its already so late (summer of senior year) so there's not much to do, and in terms of writing I don't think it would help that much. The main problem is how to write down achievements and extracurriculars in the best light. If anyone has one, please let me know how helpful it was!

[@bella._.5595]

The American school system confuses me a lot :(

[@allisonocelus5344]

wait if my gpa is on a 100 point scale and it is a 102 what is that on 4.0 scale

[@sejalghimire779]

i think it is 4.25. are you taking any honors or AP? because without them, you can't be over 100

[@allisonocelus5344]

Sejal Ghimire yes i took honors

[@sejalghimire779]

@@allisonocelus5344 then you probably have atleast a 4.25.. good job

[@allisonocelus5344]

Sejal Ghimire thank u!

[@sharay5937]

I'm a junior and an aspiring cs major. I'm wondering what you need to know and do in order to attend hack a thons. I'd love to be able to attend one, but the location has always been an issue. Also, how did you guys get a summer internship? Thanks.

[@ddianalim]

I know that a lot of hackathons offer travel reimbursement, so if there aren't hackathons in your area, maybe look into some bigger high school hackathons that you could fly to? I'd also recommend looking at online hackathons, which you can participate in from anywhere in the world! As for what you need to know for hackathons, pretty much all are beginner-friendly, meaning you don't need to have any coding experience before hand :) I think I'll make a video about a guide to high school hackathons, so stay tuned :) Also, it's kind of a long story about the summer internship, so I'll address that question in my Q&A video.

[@danielyoo5835]

i see that you have only took ap comp sci A in your high school career. How did u become so good at computer programming? i am very interested in majoring in comp sci

[@sebastianw.6637]

Comp sci is kinda a skill ppl learn in middle school or extracurricular activities

[@erzhanjanuzakov7464]

I took the SAT only once and got 1170

[@sumnerbroadfoot2615]

Do you have any advice for applying to college as a twin? My twin and I are juniors right now and will be applying in the fall!

[@miltonthegreat4444]

this is cool and all but, what do you if you are broke?

[@maddieyorba8754]

In my freshman year of high school, I wasn't very involved. I did basically no extracurriculars. Do you know if this will make my already low chances of getting into these elite colleges nonexistent? Would I be able to make up for the lack of extracurriculars in my sophomore through senior years?

[@davisnewman7715]

yes!! you will be fine

[@sophiarubens54]

you can totally make up for it! i did like 2 clubs my freshman year and then went ham with clubs, classes, other extracurriculars, and tests for the next three years and now will attend dartmouth!

[@hopsmax2827]

@@sophiarubens54 what ecs are good to take

[@lucasgallo5788]

hii, I'm brazilian and thinking about applying to some colleges in the US and I was just wondering how do you become a tutor. I already tutor some people at my scholl but I don"t know if that counts. thnks

[@ddianalim]

Hi Lucas! If you're already tutoring people at your school, I'd say that you can definitely count yourself as a tutor!! Best of luck in your college application process :)

[@snobbyhipster3063]

Can u please make a video on how to get straight As?

[@ddianalim]

I'm planning on making a video with tips & advice for high school students. Stay tuned!

[@user-di8wy1xm2l]

Is a 4.2 w gpa good?

[@philn1520]

that's good, could be better, try taking more AP/IB classes.

[@shreekarunagaran6194]

how did you get to graduate early? like what was the process?

[@ddianalim]

Hey! If you guys want personalized counseling from current college students on your college applications, I recommend checking out www.trytether.io! This is an amazing resource and they even have Penn students!!

[@muadabdi888]

what kind of math were you taking if you don't mind me asking?

[@ameliacostello3519]

wow flex on us okay

[@alimag515]

where is natalie's top from?

[@user-di8wy1xm2l]

Do you recommend taking Dual enrollment colleges?

[@НеопознанныйТреугольник]

What if schools in my country don’t offer clubs and stuff like that? Can I do something out of school? Is it going to count?

[@zheng3034]

Is there a difference between Mandarin and Chinese? because you said Mandarin but typed Chinese in the video.

[@sojuboju]

J zheng Different types/dialects of the Chinese language. For example, Mandarin and Cantonese are both Chinese languages but they are totally different dialects. I’m not sure why she said Mandarin but typed Chinese though.

[@ddianalim]

^ yup! Also yeah, I said Mandarin because that's what we learned in the class, however the official class name was AP Chinese Language.

[@ndblanks]

I know its late but what was your high school rank? Because that's important

[@ddianalim]

I ended up being salutatorian (2nd in my high school)

[@hopesescapades9272]

Hi there!! Do you know of any good online recourses for coding? I’m a complete beginner but I’d love to learn the fundamentals, at least! Maybe even learn how to hack, hehe.

[@clarissa5468]

I actually took quite a few online coding classes, as well as at my school, but a few decent websites are codeacademy, sololearn, and edX. W3 has pretty good material too, but it really depends on what language you want to learn. I'm also into cybersecurity, so you really have to look around for material for "hacking" and stuff. CTFs are a really great way to dive into that part of the field.

[@Beck-Stein]

I have a child entering freshman year in high school. Would you recommend all honors and AP classes available to him?

[@julianali3806]

please be aware of their mental health! it really sucks being weighed down with many classes and that will eventually bring their GPA down as well. ask them what they want to do and be aware of the workload :)

[@sejalghimire779]

My parents this year actually forced me to do all honors (my school doesn't offer APs to freshmen) it is really difficult. i can't really enjoy high school because im studying. make him do at least 2 if he can handle it.

[@Beck-Stein]

Sejal Ghimire he is in one to try out. He says it’s a lot of work. We decided on one ap class and no honors class for his first semester as a freshman to try out and get a feel

[@sejalghimire779]

@@Beck-Stein that's great. I am happy you and ur son can agree and that you care for his mental health.

[@Mj00527z]

Hey my GPA is 2.3, I'm from India. So can you help me to know really I'm eligible for apply in Stanford, Harvard and NYU universities or not. Please clear my confusion.

[@lilmeembot8958]

I give you the opportunity to chance me for yale! 😗 International student, 1600 SAT, 5’s on all 5 AP’s i took (self studied), 800 on two subject SATs, glowing letters of recommendation (i guess), good essays (i hope), research at science uni nearby, choir for 4 years, dance team for 6 years, But a 3.3 GPA.😞 (Good luck with that⬆️.)🤔

[@aspenhackbarth9442]

So basically u have to be born smart

[@lovelaura2750]

They work hard don’t disregard their effort.

[@tiealanaux2052]

I’m tryna figure out how twin got a 36 and didn’t get into Harvard. Like what

[@kyrashih455]

Whyyy I’m also Chinese but I’m dumb af

[@Momo-bu3le]

Ayyy mood I dropped my Chinese class yeeee

[@Smokie_bear9896]

Reddit gang wya

[@chuafamily8162]

Did you hire a college coach to help you pick you ECs, courses to take and essays?

[@shaunajewett2377]

cây đa cây đề có khác

[@kentrader2489]

R u gaiz twinsies xD

[@ddianalim]

We are indeed xD

[@akhilaggarwal9366]

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