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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote][b]The ones who spent all the time and money on test prep who came up short of their hopes.[/b] Those families may very well have been better off broadening their children's exposure to a variety of extracurriculars, including, but certainly not limited to sports. In fact, sports was not even mentioned in the post that was partially quoted.

Kids who spend time on academics and a mix of other activities have many, many advantages over kids who spend very little time on anything other than academics. Leadership, organizational skills, persistence, determination, hard work, interpersonal skills: only a few of the areas of growth for kids who explore interests in non-academic areas in their after school time. They develop traits that will benefit them for their entire lives and can make lasting friendships at the same time. As an extra benefit, they become better candidates for college admission. A win-win all around. [/quote]

What about the control group of families with similar desires who do not spend time and money and still come up short of their hopes.  I wonder if they are not worse off for not even trying.  Oh, those regrets can haunt one.  If only I'd given it a shot...what may have been!

For some it's better to have tried and failed than not to have tried at all.  Which failure is worse?[/quote]

These families could have had more and better success had they taken another route. We're not talking about families who do nothing for their children. We're talking about families that have spent a lot of time and money on test prep in hopes of a particular outcome, but have fallen short. Had they spent that time and money (and in many cases, much less money) in a different way, they could have had a much better result. Their kids could have had a much broader and varied education and ended up as better candidates for college by having a variety of experiences.

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