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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is room to enter or write about ONE meaningful extracurricular activity. The arms race to build a resume by age 17 is burning our kids out. [/quote] I agree, the EC racket has become ridiculous. But I would add that its an arms race by your choice. Focus on raising a happy and emotionally healthy child goes a lot further than one whose parents considered raising children to be a competitive sport. We do a huge disservice to our kids when we ask them to sacrifice their childhood and mental health for the chance to win the Ivy lottery. That's setting them up for disappointment and making them feel like a failure when the opposite is true. There's a ton of successful people out there who did not attend a T10 college and while I realize that saying your kid goes to Elon or Lehigh, or American may not impress the coffee klatch, we need to get kids off the hamster wheel.[/quote]
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