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[quote=Anonymous]You have to look at it as the full picture of the student and what the school is looking for.  My kids didn’t have some extraordinary leadership but they did have longevity in their interests, had summer jobs and worked, good grades in challenging classes and within range for where they ended up (low reach and more like t20-25) and had good essays that you understood more of who they were.  Also, as much as schools might say major doesn’t matter, they did better at schools where they weren’t going for the more competitive majors but their potential major referenced in why school x still made sense with classes they had taken and activities.

There is a lot of info out there on having a brand and narrative- I don’t mean in a fake and phony way, but authentically what is it and why is it a match for the school. Colleges are building a class. For my kids, how the admission officer may have envisioned my kids contributing to the college community is probably accurate (even if not the exact same as high school)  and how my kids have taken advantage of being at their chosen school is lining up with why they wanted to go there. I will also add, one of my kids has ADHD  and didn’t have formal leadership roles. For all the reasons listed above, they were able to still do okay with college admissions. The bigger challenge was getting organized enough for college applications.  We had an outside college counselor for that and to guide essay and even with that it wasn’t easy but was the likely reason they had their stuff together enough to apply EA and get merit to the college they now attend.[/quote]

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