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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

[b]So true.  Certain parents dread the word preparation.  Instead of acknowledging and getting their irrational fear treated, they deprive their kids of new skills, suppressing their desire to be better, foolishly justifying that they should have been born with it.  All out of their own misguided closet fear that any training might be labeled as preparation? [/b] [/quote]

Helpless kids, feel sorry for them.  
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I, too, feel sorry for those helpless kids who got ushered into test prep every day and told they could not do the extracurricular activity they loved. The kids who stayed with the extracurriculars ending up many times having much better college choices than the kids who spent so much time in test prep. A kid wh explores a lot of interests is just better prepared for a good life than a kid who spends so much time in test prep. 
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