School research is very important component and I don't mean just look at ranks and look at the school's website when I talk about school research I mean deep Dives the people who have walked the journey you want to walk those are the kinds of people you want to have conversations with and understand how the schools are going to be able to support you in your vision is it possible or if it's not possible if it's not possible then you really want to re assess your goals so this is a really good time to stress test those goals that you put together in the conversations that have go gole but take everything with the grain of salt because if you speak with a student at your target institutions they may not know your full story and therefore may not be guiding you exactly as you should be guided in the process of putting together your unique application [Music]