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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, it is.  Complete.  Especially if no hooks.

However, I did prescribe to my kids getting straight As, acing SAT/PSAT/APs, taking lots of APs and post APs, foreign language AP, internships, published work, having deep interests in ECs, scholastic competitions and placements, honor societies etc.  All of this not to get into college but as a part of being educated and capable enough to make it in college and in a career.

After accomplishing that, we knew top college was a lottery and probably would not happen and we did not want to spin our wheels.  Kids applied to 7 colleges in EA/ED round. 3 rejections, 4 acceptances.

That was all. We also had some colleges for the RD round and one that had a deadline for May.   But, once you know that it is a farce, you don't really care beyond getting to your own career goals.  I am a big proponent of going to community college as a means to get a better GPA, a more personalized education, more facetime, better attention, less pressure cooker environment,  an alternate route to flagship university and to save a boatload of money.  [/quote]

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