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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I would encourage the Math and Music. Then look at MIT / Cal Tech when she's won a couple of Olympiads[/quote]

+1 these two could be a winning combination - left brain/right brain.

Study the bios and backgrounds of other 
candidates on Reddit to get ideas. There’s so much out there…[/quote]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/s/Bgt9aGxwl3

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good example of a spike for the person looking.[/quote]

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