15 things are more difficult than passing Harvard University

As a prestigious university in the world, Harvard has always been a dream destination for billions of students across the globe. Of course, to be dressed on Harvard University shirt is not simple, if not to say is extremely difficult. The approval rate for the most prestigious university on the planet is only 5.9%. Also from this school has launched a series of world famous figures such as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, US President Barack Obama, late President John F Kennedy and billionaire Bill Gates.

The work is even harder than going to Harvard

However, don't think that Harvard is big. And this block of things in this world is even more difficult to achieve than a ticket to Harvard, although at first they are very trivial.

1. A job at Walmart

The Walmart chain of famous shopping mall brands first came to Washington at the end of 2013. When this new land was just wet, Walmart immediately received 23,000 applications, so but the number of people selected is only 600. Walmart's approval rate is 2.6%, less than half that of Harvard.

While Harvard students holding a diploma in their hands may implicitly require a salary of up to 6 numbers, a Walmart employee can only pay about 11.83USD / h (about 270 thousand VND), equivalent to 25,000USD /year. Wages were low, the odds were high, did anyone say Harvard was the hardest in the world?

2. Investment fund staff on Wall Street

Getting a foot in the bustling Wall Street financial district is not a simple task, especially when you want to be an investment fund employee. Ken Griffin, founder of the liquidity fund, said that out of 10,000 applicants, he accepted only 300 people to join the fund. Approval rate is about 3%, just a bit better than Walmart.

3. Appear on Top 50 articles on Newsfeed friends

In order to have a Newsfeed for you to swipe around every morning, Facebook had to filter from more than 1,500 posts from people on your friends list. This popular social network uses algorithms based on the relevance of the posts, popularity and user interaction to suggest which articles should be where.

So, in order to appear on the Top 50 posts on Newsfeed, you must be among 3.3% of Facebook posts selected from a whole bunch of words with photos all over this social network.

4. Achieving the American Dream

The American Dream concept will probably be more familiar to writers and film lovers. A great deal is an eternal belief of all people about a free America, where there are many opportunities to change life, from a wanderer who can have a chance to become a famous figure.

But according to a survey of experts from Harvard University and the University of Berkeley, it is very difficult to achieve the "American Dream" to become a reality. These experts studied the number of people who came from poverty and then became rich throughout the United States, the results are not very satisfactory. In the states of Atlanta, Georgia, Charlotte, North Carolina, Jacksonville, Florida, Colombus, Ohio, Dayton, Milwaukee, Wicosin and Indiana the chance of a life change is only 5%, while in San Jose, California, that number is 12.9 %

5. One leg in Goldman Sachs

The famous Goldman Sachs Bank in 2013 received 43,000 records for 1,900 data analysis positions, creating a 4.4% rate. It is understandable that too many people apply for data analysis, because once they have achieved this position, they will be able to get a salary of $ 70,000 / year (about VND 1.6 billion).

6. Become a Secret Service agent

Being an imposing person, defending the US president is a tremendous honor. A Secret Service agent will be on duty to stay with the President and the President's family 24/7 without leaving. For that reason, the US Secret Service only received less than 1% of the total of 15,600 applications sent to this agency.

7. Join the Data Incubator data scientists camp

Data Incubator is a 6-week camp for people in New York who want to be Data Scientists. Of the 1,000 candidates, the organizers only picked the best 80 people to attend the training with these top US scientists. The rate selected here is 5.8%.

8. Enter high school at some "score schools" in New York

In New York there are some high schools even recruiting more rigorous students than Harvard University. In 2014, 16,675 applications were submitted to Brooklyn Latin High School, but only 3% of them were enrolled in this school. In addition, Queens High School of York University or the High School of America Studies in Bronx has a 1% approval rate.

9. Working at McDonald's

Americans who often scoff at McDonald's are places for insane learners with no future, but to have a job at this "manpower dump" is not that simple. The number is actually much larger than Harvard input, but it is undeniable that it is quite difficult. According to statistics, about 1 million people have applied to work at McDonald's but the number of recruits is only about 6.2%, lower than the rate of 7% selected at Harvard in 2011.

10. Working at Apple Store

Of about 10,000 applicants applying to Apple retail stores, "battered apple" only gives uniforms to about 200 people, equivalent to 2% of the number of resumes.

11. Green card in the US

People used to consider the system of permanent residence approval in the US for foreigners as a lottery game. Each year about 15 million people apply for a Green Card but only 50,000 succeed.

If you are not an Australian, New Zealand or Atlantic island nationality, your journey will probably be much more difficult. Only 2% of applicants are granted long-term residence permits in the US each year.

12. Attended the Indian Institute of Management

The approval rate at Harvard is 5.9%, but the approval rate at this Academy is only 1%. The Indians are already crowded, everyone wants their children to attend this famous school, but the number of students receiving is limited, so the rate will certainly be much lower than Harvard.

13. Be a flight attendant of Delta

The US airline also has a 1% approval rate. In 2010, Delta received 100,000 applications to 1,000 locations. Meanwhile this number in 2013 was 44,000 records for 400 positions.

14. Successful start-up

Start-ups are a trend that has been given special attention by young people and considered a "successful launch pad" of young people. Y Combinator is a "start-up school" in the United States. Students who attend the school will graduate from the school with an amount of $ 700 million to start a startup project. Therefore, Y Combinator only approved 3-5% of the number of applications sent to this school.

Besides, according to data from Bussiness Insider, the rate of a successful Start-up project is only 0.4%. I wish the desperate young people luck and trust in themselves, okay!

15. Working at Google

After leaving Microsoft in 2009, Don Dodge chose Google as the next stop with the position of product development. In a year of work at Google, Don announced the mysteries of the world-renowned search firm's recruitment. According to him, Google received about 1 million applications each year, but only 4-5,000 people were accepted, equivalent to 0.4%.