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But the reality is, after sending thousands of students to the world's best universities and analyzing more than a million college admissions data points, the information is clear. The more subjects you take and the more standard deviations above the typical caseload of your school, the more likely you are to get into a top college. If I had to go back in time and compete in high school to get into Harvard as a 13-year-old now, I would simply start early, take more subjects, and still make my intensive academic load a primary competitive advantage in my application. Bottom line, every piece of data shows that there is a direct correlation between effort and acceptance to these top schools—and the higher the rank of the school the more effort you need to put in (see Figure 2.1).

The same argument applies to top schools in the UK such as Oxford and Cambridge, or Oxbridge as they are collectively called (see Figure 2.2).

This brings me to the concept of “competency learning,” which is integral to your success. The system of modern schooling was built during the industrial revolution to efficiently push through large volumes of students to learn the same core skills in the same time frame.