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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If in the top 10% of the class, yes, they will be in good shape.  After that, no, I don't think it confers much advantage these days.  [/quote]

I agree with this.  The problem being that it's really not easy to be in the top 10%.  Pretty much everyone at a big3 for high school is very smart.  Being in the top 10% is reserved for kids who study non-stop at the expense of almost everything else.  
I'm beginning to realize that college admissions-wise my kids my kids would have been better off or just as good in public.  They're well rounded kids--they work hard and do well in school, they play travel sports, they volunteer, they have active social lives---
but they're not going to be in the top 10%.  That is reserved for the kids who are compulsive about school (more power to them but it's not most kids).  
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agree totally with this.[/quote]

then you're an idiot.  the top 10% at any school is full of kids who have good grades and lots of other stuff, including active social lives.  none of them 'study no-stop at the expense of almost everything else'.[/quote]

No need to be mean.  I agree with original post.  Top 10% rarely are the ones who are well rounded kids.  My DC is at a big 3 and it's quite obvious that for the tippy top, good grades are the goal and they could care less about most extracurriculars unless they think it helps with college admissions.  Most of those kids are not in sports or theater, or do much of anything else. [/quote]

aside from being completely inaccurate, I love how you can divine their motives for being in an extracurricular, as opposed to your child, who does extracurriculars for the love of it, I'm sure.

This is just a load of crap and nothing more than a way for you to make yourself and your kid feel better about their inability to get good grades and do other stuff.    [/quote]

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