Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100324:11:28:00
Discern who are you and would i be intrigued by you. >> reporter: what does the youtube video provide for an admissions officer that the application doesn't? >> well, you really get to see these applicants in their adoll he is cent best. you see the goofiness and cleverness and who they are as human beings, this is the point. >> reporter: former dean of admissions at m.i.t. calls the personal videos refreshing. >> it's easy to fall in love with someone in one minute and also easy to get turned off. what the students are doing by providing video this year is a very high wire act. taking huge ri...