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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pro tip for 8-9th grade parents. Encourage your kid to try debate and see if they like it. DC is a top debater and says every one of their peers got into one of their reach schools. A major proportion of these are Asian kids fwiw. [/quote]

Correlation not causation.[/quote]

Worked for me back in the dark ages:) And for me it was causation because debate taught me how to write and exposed me to top students aiming for elite colleges. I upped my GPA substantially in one year. Debate success probably also made me a more attractive candidate to colleges, because it’s verifiable/measurable against other top candidates… You can’t BS that you won you state championships or the Princeton tournament or whatever (side note: I don’t think colleges know enough about debate to know that the Ivy League tournaments aren’t always the hardest, so I think those are good ones to excel at!) in the same way that you can BS about the club you started.

Anyway, debate was absolutely the most life changing decision I ever made and it helped me get into a top college too.[/quote]

Debate?

Useless nowadays.[/quote]

Ever hear of law school?[/quote]

Also useless nowadays.[/quote]

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