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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I graduated from college in the 2000s and my peers are in a rude awakening when their kids start looking at schools. People my age have absolutely no idea what has happened to admissions since they were applying. My eldest is 10 and i'm already trying to help her cultivate her "pointy" interests. [/quote] PP - you are right that it's different but wrong about cultivating pointy interests - you can't do that - only the kid can and colleges are getting way more adept at noticing if something is parent directed versus kid directed. My DS got into a T10 school for a pointy interest but honestly he pulled it together without parent involvement and nothing I could have done would have encouraged him to do it or not do it. All you can do is create awareness. And even after that, I couldn't convince by younger DD to devote herself to any pointy interests...[/quote]
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