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Reply to "a final warning to high school students in the college admissions game"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] In hindsight I struggled because I didn’t spend my HS years learning, building study and executive functioning skills, building resiliency, and thinking about what I was passionate about. I spent 4 years playing the game as best I could. I got all As at all costs. I chose my sports and activities based on where I could win awards or hold leadership positions. All of my choices were based on building my resume and I moved through classes and activities to check boxes. I picked a school and major based on what seemed prestigious and what I thought I was supposed to want. I was winning for the sake of winning. [/quote] how exactly would you have built that grit attitude? it has to come naturally, imo adults cannot teach it to the immature brains of kids, parents can give the talk to their kids but not do the walk for them I've seen smart kids regretting not being more ambitious and not getting into better schools, the parents did push them and they had enough support, financial and otherwise, just didn't have the drive to work harder, sometimes two kids in the same family just different personalities, one gets into an ivy, one just happy with community college in my experience, forcing an outcome is not the optimal path for the kid, let's say the kid is smart enough to get perfect grades and scores but is not studying and practicing hard enough, so feels better sailing smoothly without the extra effort, tutoring and so on, those kids will still get into good programs at lesser than T20 schools and keep good grades in college and get good jobs and yes, maybe they could have been the CEO of some startup if graduating from T10 but would that have been worth it the extra effort all along the way? if money is enough for good life, do you need to strive to be billionaire? some people are made for that, the extra responsibility, double work hours and so on, most people want easier paths and it is nothing wrong with it even if the potential is there, there are so many people reaching for the stars so there will always be someone filling that spot, no need to get into that competition if you really don't find it that much fun [/quote] 💯 to all of this. It’s becoming clearer and clearer to me….[/quote]
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