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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Like so many straight A students who were chief school newspaper editor, captain of a varsity sports team, volunteering, and more who can't even get to VA Tech. I don't know what people who get into schools like Michigan or the Ivy Leagues are doing in high school. [/quote] My daughter's friend who got into Yale was an Asian male with a very high wGPA who won Science Olympiad competitions and is an advanced string player. Straight A doesn't mean anything, OP, you should know this. There is a world's difference between an A in a regular classs and an A in an AP class. [b]Kids who get into the top colleges have 10+ APs, have a national level EC, etc. [/b]Your newpaper editing and team captainship worked a generation ago, but not today. [/quote] This is sounds exhausting. Kids have no time to be kids.[/quote] So don't do all the "stuff". Let your kid do what they enjoy for ECs and take 6-8 APs and "enjoy HS". They can still get into many schools ranked 30-70. [/quote] +1000. Not everyone can go to T10 and not everyone wants to. Further not everyone can major in CS or Engineering and frankly some shouldn’t.[/quote] Ditto. My kids were good but not stellar students (in part because both have ADHD). One had barely any ECs, the other a couple normal things similar to what my siblings and I did back in the 80s like school band and a couple clubs. Both applied to schools that made sense for them and each only had one reach school on their lists. Got in everywhere except the reaches and are happy with their choices (and we're happy with the cost) and doing well. It simply isn't necessary to massively stress yourself out for the slim chance to get into a super tiny slice of available colleges. DH and I both went to regional public universities and are doing well in life. I work with people from a wide range of schools and we ended up in the same place. I do think it's important to do the research to find schools that have good programs in the kid's specific interests and the school "matters" in that way. But overall it's what you do at school that is more important than any particular brand.[/quote]
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