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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How committed to this niche field should the child be? My kid is a sophomore and is dead set on one school, but her main focus in general is STEM so she is focused on that and wants to make the most of the opportunities that she has regarding STEM at her private school so she focuses less on the niche field.[/quote]

I'm the author of the thread -- I think there are two considerations:
1. what is the caliber of the school your kid is looking at?
2. what part of STEM is she particularly interested in? or if that is unanswerable, what part can she tolerate?

To be quite honest, STEM applicants nowadays are a dime a dozen. Everybody is very used to seeing clubs for teaching poor kids STEM, doing some basic research, joining a robotics teams. These things are all great if they are things she enjoys and I would definitely encourage her to continue them if that is the case. I would also encourage her to put more emphasis on participating in or creating opportunities outside of school: shows initiative and more genuine interest.

But you would need to specialize much further to target schools at the tippy top I think. My daughter was STEM and she chose to address a specific environmental issue in the area we live in. [/quote]

Harvard and Physics is her intended major.[/quote]

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