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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By engineering clubs, I mean racing teams like formula or Baja, rocket teams, DBF, hyperloop, and similar organizations that have an annual competition. At most large universities like the UCs or Michigan, these clubs are highly selective and reject most students that try to join. You have to submit an application and interview to try to get in. There were 200+ students competing for 15-25 spots. Plenty of students who did things like robotics in high school get rejected from engineering clubs in college. I hate how these places act like fraternities and are so hard to get in, spirally when so many employers care about being in these clubs [/quote]

Why can’t your kid do the work to start a club he’s interested in if it’s so difficult. Colleges can have multiple teams in one competition. He shouldn’t be only a taker, maybe bring something to the community he’s part of.
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Because a new club, a club that’s actually taking new members, is no good. Just like we all know a college isn’t worth going to if it has an acceptance rate over 20%. It’s all about proving you can get into an exclusive club. What the club actually does, or whether they do anything at all, is immaterial. That’s what you and all his friends and his college counselor taught him when he was applying to colleges, and he learned his lesson well. [/quote]

But how is it possible, while in high school the precocious child founded a bunch of clubs, was elected in the leadership, had quantifiable impact, not the mention they founded a non-profit that helped thousands across the globe, and the baking business with six figure revenues. It must be true because it was on the college application.

Were they lying, or it was mom doing all the legwork? Both? Got it! And they are complaining they don’t have a chance to get into competitive college clubs. But that shouldn’t be a problem for these self-starter entrepreneurial kids. Nauseating![/quote]

Don’t forget the passion project on which they worked diligently since elementary school. Funny how that passion died off the day they submitted the college applications. These kids that changed the world before graduating high school are quietly seating in the anti chamber of college clubs waiting to be let in. Something doesn’t make sense.[/quote]

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