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[quote=Anonymous]I attended an Ivy and I’ll be honest, the club gatekeeping was surprising and disappointing. It’s a relatively small school so I was startled that the most appealing activities that had been advertised to me so heavily were actually so limited in numbers. The clubs and activities themselves recruit so aggressively before kids arrive on campus, but they’re all going after the same 25% of the student body. Even intramural sports had limited spots and it was a scramble to be chosen by captains to join a team. I think I got to play one semester of IM ultimate frisbee and fill in occasionally for a graduate department’s softball team.

I ended up doing a few things here and there, but got rejected from a ton of stuff that I had done in HS and loved. When I tried new stuff, I was deemed too inexperienced and didn’t make the cut. Because of this I spent a lot of time working out and partying and it filled my time but felt empty. My advice to my kids is to go to a school with a student body small enough that it needs them.[/quote]

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