Ali applies to spend a year at Harvard on an exchange programme and is rejected
story · status: told 2× · last event: retold (2021-08-08) · owner: Ali
Told alongside: Ali misses out on the Academic Foundation Programme and is reserve-listed in London and EBH (2017)
About: Harvard University
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-08-24 | first in the videos (mentioned; it began earlier) | Ali has been rejected from a few things, including a year at Harvard and the Academic Foundation Programme, but he would not call these setbacks. | Answering personal questions - 50k subs Q&A 00:06:46 |
| 2018-10-01 | told | In his third year Ali applied to spend a year at Harvard, as a friend of his did, and was beaten by people with better qualifications or applications. | Is university worth it? The non-academic value of university 00:05:19 |
| 2021-08-08 | retold | Ali applied for an exchange programme to spend a year at Harvard and was rejected, while some of his friends got in and had a great time. | Dating, Regrets and Boxing - 2 Million Subscriber Q&A 00:08:45 |
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- 2018-10-01 · Is university worth it? The non-academic value of university — Ali calls his Harvard rejection good for his personal development, because the world moved on and it did not matter, a good lesson to learn early in life. — 00:05:48