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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]There’s more to life than [b]sacrificing your kid’s authenticity and interests to try to match the ever-changing whims of admissions committees[/b].[/quote]

Bolder would make a pretty good tag line for this website, tbh. [/quote]

"pointy" kids are being used to create a well rounded class.  
Hyper-focused on one or two activities where they achieve at the national level.  
Almost regardless of what that activity is.
Concert level didgeridoo
Championship underwater hockey
As long as you are the best at it.

It is almost impossible that this many kids are authentically interested in the didgeridoo or underwater hockey.
It is not clear to me how having the best didgeridoo or underwater hockey player helps round out the class any better than a highly regarded but not best violinist or volleyball player but that is the algorithm.

Right now all the top colleges are re-evaluating their algorithms and they may decide they don't care about pointiness as much as they used to.

I remember when non-profits were on every college counselor's short list of contrived extracurriculars.
Now nobody does it because it seems so contrived.[/quote]

Hmmm…I will encourage my kids to pursue underwater didgeridoo…Harvard here we come!!! [/quote]

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