Levels of Academic Excellence — Finding the Right College Fit
00:00:00.000 | There are scholarships for the C student.
00:00:02.080 | It's a different game than the Rockstar,
00:00:04.360 | which is a different game than, you know,
00:00:05.880 | I have a lot of parents say, "My student's fantastic.
00:00:09.040 | "He gets mostly A's and B's."
00:00:10.800 | Okay, that's one version of fantastic.
00:00:13.360 | Okay, the next version is, "Well, my kid's fantastic.
00:00:16.360 | "He's gonna be fourth in his class,
00:00:18.080 | "or he's gonna be the valedictorian."
00:00:20.200 | And then there's the next level of fantastic,
00:00:22.080 | which is, "My kid's been taking math
00:00:24.100 | "at the local college since fourth grade."
00:00:27.640 | Sheldons of the world, for those of you
00:00:29.200 | that Big Bang kind of stuff, right?
00:00:30.920 | So there's all these different levels of fantastic.
00:00:34.000 | Depending on where you land,
00:00:35.280 | that helps determine where you're going
00:00:37.720 | and what makes sense.
00:00:38.920 | But if you want to get into MIT astrophysics,
00:00:42.320 | it's a lot different than getting into
00:00:44.360 | many state universities that aren't really known
00:00:47.200 | for their astrophysics.
00:00:49.040 | Or if you want to be a performing artist
00:00:51.200 | and you want to be at NYU's Tisch Performing Arts Center
00:00:54.240 | right near Broadway versus, again,
00:00:56.640 | And the local community college also has a theater program.