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[quote=Anonymous]LOL at people saying not to worry about it, just have your kid be a recruited athlete. Sounds like a good plan - I'm going to have my daughter pick up lacrosse in the spring of 9th grade, and that will surely smooth her way into Princeton or Stanford. The best thing I've read on this topic is Cal Newport's book, "How to be a High School Superstar." Kids who sign up for everything and attain low-level leadership in some meaningless clubs aren't really moving the needle. But kids who focus deeply in one particular pursuit and achieve something of note (like recruited athletes) actually do distinguish themselves in the eyes of selective colleges. And then on top of that, have test scores at the 75th percentile of a school's admitted class, and make straight As in your high school's most challenging curriculum. [/quote]
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