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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is your kid passionate about? What would they do when no one is looking around? If given two weeks or two months with no supervision, how would they fill their time?

The answers to these questions will tell you a lot.[/quote]

OP here. Thanks everyone for the answers.

DD loves math and does a fair share of math programs and competitions. She does it in her free time for fun (personally that seems crazy to me! 😅)

Her other main hobby is playing the piano, which she does for a few hours a day and has been doing for many years.

She loves to read, but doesn’t have much time for it. She likes movies too.

These are all activities she enjoys but is not extremely good at. I would place her at the state/regional level for math and piano. She has interests but isn’t crazy good at anything. [/quote]

OP, the dichotomy of Stem talent/interest plus a deep involvement in a fine art is extremely common at my kid’s ivy. They all seem to have it or something similar. This includes the premed stems and the engineers. Very few of the engineers are hooked so it provides a mostly unhooked admitted stem group(athletes and certain other major hooks are not in engineering, for the most part). 
Stem plus a deep fine art is also very common at other schools that are T30-50 and common destinations from our area. The main difference in the kids who are at the ivy is that they had very different transcripts: love the challenge so took the hardest courses, grades are top of class, and seem to be naturally good test takers who have always been 98-99th%ile (the schools here do nationally normed tests all through , and the top score kids get into the highest math level in 3rd grade, or school sends info to parents on summer programs like TIP—so people know who the top kids are). By now, you should know where your kid is on nationally normed tests unless your kid has never had any testing. If they are naturally in that top 2% they are the type of kid that will rise to the top of high school easily and be noticed by teachers, and if they go to T20 will likely do well there. If they dont get in, and MANY of these kids dont, they will absolutely excel and stand out at their T30-50 and do very well because they will easily be the top 10-20% there
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