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[quote=Anonymous]If he a boy and full-pay or close to full pay, there will be numerous options for college.   The EC issue is only relevant if he is academically strong enough to be looking at top 50 schools.  And those places will definitely "see through" attempts to get him to do ECs simply for listing them on the application.  They are pretty useless if he is not clearly a top performer in those ECs, or a leader by junior year.

But what about a job? Colleges/universities in our experience actually seem to forgive lack of ECs if instead the kid was working significant numbers of hours, even if in something completely nonacademic.  Our DD spent a lot of time working in a deli/restaurant, loved feeling independent and making money and it actually ended up being quite a formative experience in her life, improved her Spanish immensely (since many of the workers didn't speak much English) and ended up being the topic of her essay (an experience with a coworker and immigration issues).  She was admitted to her top choice ED (a top 5 SLAC)[/quote]

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