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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are tons of kids who get into top colleges with the formula of:

Top grades in hardest tracks 
Tippy top test scores 
Enough ECs to pass muster as well rounded

This was me and most of my friends, who were all top 25% (and usually top 10%) at Ivy graduation.
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Unless you and most of your friends went to ivies within the last 2 (maybe 3) years, your experience is not relevant to how college admissions is now. [/quote]

Maybe.  But honestly someone who has a top 1% IQ and a top, say, 5% IQ is still going to do awesome at life if they end up at Vanderbilt or Boston College instead of Columbia or whatever.

You can train your kid to become a national fiddling champion to try to get some perceived advantage but in the end talent + discipline + EQ will result in positive life outcomes.

Anyway this is a temporary squeeze birth rates are declining so for those with young kids, it’s going to go back to being like the 90s and 00s again in another decade or so.[/quote]

Cannot say things like this here. Too reasonable.[/quote]

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