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Reply to "What do you wish you knew about the college process before starting high school ?"
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[quote=Anonymous]As someone who recently went through the process and is now at a pretty good university, here is my advice. There is no way to game the system. There isn't some magical check box of things to do that will give you the highest chance of getting into a great university . It is easy to read forums like DCUM, A2C, and CC and think wow, all these students are doing X competition, are in X club, took X classes, and they got in, so thats what I need to do. Find a few ECs that you are passionate about, work a part-time job, and do excellent in your classes/test scores and you have a shot at getting into to a good university. I went to one of the cutthroat NOVA high schools and pushed myself to the edge trying to follow the "formula". It was not worth it. I know kids who were in leadership in a club or two and worked at Food Lion and got into T20s. The toxic culture of doing 15 clubs, being in 15 competitions, and bringing yourself the the brink is not the way. [/quote]
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