Also the people in those YouTube videos likely don’t know much about the admissions process. They have the idea that if they apply to all of the ivy’s, one of them will say yes. The people on this forum are outliers tbh, we know (for the most part) that any school with a certain admit rate or lower is a reach, no matter the stats. Other kids? not so much.
I assume they look at what should be reach schools as target schools and felt the way we do when we get rejected by a school we could picture ourselves at.
Also, there’s the letting down friends/ family. I told everyone close to me where all I was applying and it was terrifying to tell them when I didn’t get in. Each and every one of them was so supportive and I lowkey felt like I let them down on top of letting myself down. I didn’t, I know. But you never expect people to be kinder to you than you are to yourself and those few days after I got rejected I really beat myself up