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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]start crafting ur child’s narrative in middle school - after that it’s too late to appear authentic - [/quote] BS. Both got in UVA in state plus multiple T25/top LACs and that is not needed. Let the kids be themselves, take the classes they want to take. Students who will really soar at T10s will take the top classes and be in the top whatever % in their HS without parents pushing. Usually these are the same kids that are already 98-99%ile on standardized tests at baseline, since they were younger (CTP, Cal Achievements, etc)[/quote] 100% My son did not have any clue where he wanted to go as a sophomore. He's a smart kid that just focused on high school, his sport, community service, a club from Freshmen year that a teacher urged him to join and he ended up loving, and a summer job one summer. I made a point to try to not exude any stress or pressure or even talk colleges. He's a kid that puts a lot of pressure on himself anyways. Everything he did, he did[u] because he wanted to do it without any care how it would play to a college (or if it even would)[/u]. He had time for friends. He's having one helluva run this cycle. 1 WL (at a school that was a safety and he didn't really like) and 8 acceptances (5% SLACS, T10s, etc.). No rejections. I'm sure that will end with Ivies tonight--or he'll keep running the sh*t out of this. lol We tuned everyone else out. We did not hire a private college counselor and we even did not apply to any of the suggested colleges by the HS counselor and applied to mostly reaches and a target or two. Personally, I think all these people hiring private college counselors and tiger momming the sh*t out of it since middle school end up with kids that sound like every other kid. Looking back, if we had listened to the HS counselor he would not be in any T20, let alone T10 school.[/quote] Wow this so smug, it’s gross.[/quote] +1 Curious to hear how Ivy night went for this fam. [/quote] In Yale! WL Harvard [/quote]
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