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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Believable but shallow.

No one is heading up a decent paper and also playing a school sport as a captain (with all the captain responsibilities) and being student body president if any of these things (outside of the sport) take more than a few minutes a day. They're just not.

I'm sure Duke admissions reps can see through this from a mile away. If we can see it, they can SEE IT.[/quote]

I disagree.  There are definitely kids like this who balance it all.  They go to school, make announcements at lunch as Pres, use their free period to touch base with people writing articles for the paper, go to practice after school, stay for club meeting after practice if that’s the meeting night and roll home around 8:30 pm to begin homework.  The next day, same schedule but late to sports because they have a student government meeting after school with the principal, but home right after sports practice for dinner because they don’t have a club meeting.  Telephone call with newspaper staff and homework  til midnight or later. I have had kids with this schedule.  It does happen.  BTW, the captain thing really doesn’t require much time beyond the regular team commitment, other than brief check-one with the coach.[/quote]

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