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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m very interested in this thread as DD has low EC’s at the moment. She gets tutoring twice/week, has one outside activity, and hasn’t joined a single club at school. She says none of them sound good. I’m trying to explain to her that she needs to do something.

All I can te so far is that for any given level of selectivity, there is a level of ECs that is sub-par, a level that is neutral, and a level that helps your application compared to others applying at that level.

I don’t know what that is for different schools, and I especially don’t know how to communicate to DD (10th grade) that while I want her to follow her interests, she needs to be interested in something.[/quote]

The solution is just for her to focus on applying to schools that aren’t as selective or obsessed about ECs and that love her for who she is. If your kid is studying, turning things in and getting good grades now, with all of the COVID commotion going on, and a school doesn’t respect that, and it wants your kid to jump through EC hoops for the sake of having flashy ECs, it doesn’t deserve your kid. [/quote]

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