Reply to What to do if your kid is - gasp

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "What to do if your kid is - gasp - well-rounded?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are there any colleges/universities that look favorably on a well-rounded kid these days? Excels in range of subjects (but mostly math), high rigor coursework/high test scores, sporty, awards in debate and entrepreneurship but nothing national level, some student leadership, loves being involved at school, lots of volunteer hours, well-liked by teachers. But wouldn’t naturally develop pointy areas just for purposes of developing an application narrative. He thinks that’s phony. [/quote]

Honestly, this sounds like a Dartmouth kid, provided he's also outdoorsy. 
If you haven't visited D, you should this fall and check out the Entrepreneurship center: https://magnuson.dartmouth.edu/
SLACs love this kind of kid too.

If Dartmouth isn't his thing, also check out:
Vanderbilt (esp given the leadership and debate)
Duke
Stanford (have seen more "star" academic kids without spikes recently, and they LOVE their interdisciplinary entrepreneurs with multiple skill sets)
Rice
WashU

If you are at a private school, look at the kids who were admitted to these and other schools from HS. Did they have a spike? Which ones had no spike? Your kid might actually know.

If you answer a few questions on entrepreneurship, it might become evidence that that's a mini spike.
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics