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[quote=Anonymous]I think this may depend more on the kid than the university.

My kid is at a T10 science/engineering double major. Yes, the academics are intense. But no, he is not having a competitive - as in cutthroat - experience at all. Spends a lot of time in the library with his friends. They're just nerdy and he seems to have found his people.

Think about DCUM group-think on rigor of schedule - he did not have a fourth year of foreign language (gasp!) and did not take an AP English course (double gasp!) and had less than 10 APs, maybe 8. Had two free periods senior year! No internship, no "research"! Did as little as he possibly could, but did have multivariable, top grades and scores. Was his genuine self in his app.

So, if someone is going in with the mentality that top college admission is a race to the most APs, etc., and stress about that, then maybe they are looking at their classmates through competitive, cutthroat glasses, so to speak. My kid doesn't look at the situation that way at all. Maybe it's just his personality.[/quote]

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