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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How did it get so lopsided when it comes to the college admissions rat race??? I hear a lot of parents blaming the Common App but is that really the root cause of this insanity?  These kids are taking double digit AP courses, aiming for above 1500 or 35 on standardized tests, and belting out more essays than humanly expected from top writers in the world in the matter of a few months.  What is wrong with our culture on this?[/quote]

The USA is behind on this worldwide social phenomenon, actually. Japan, Korea and China have been suffering from college admissions rat race for years. Over there it's far worse than here! There is also severe competition in India for the best universities, and in Europe as well.

I think the college admissions competition is a mirror of societal and economic tension. In the boom years of the American economy, people didn't need to stress overmuch. They knew they'd find a job that could support a family. Now it's different, and there's hyper-specialization because it's harder to make ends meet at the entry level jobs. This economic reality started much earlier elsewhere in the world, hence why competition to get into college was already fierce in Japan decades ago. I remember my 40-something Japanese cousins suffering a lot from that.[/quote]

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