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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GPA, Course Rigor, SAT/ACT(although supposedly optional) are the most imortant stat. 
Let's not kid about it.  These can be known among friends.  
[b]Also you can see their ECs and stuff faily easil[/b]y. 
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I disagree. Just like the saying, "you can't know what goes on behind closed doors", you can not know what a student has accomplished and put on their college applications.
My DS is extremely private about his extracurricular research work. He has progressively done more and more each year and finally some research his senior year of high school at a local university. His science work is impressive but I would guess that most of his classmates do not know about it. Or if they do have a sense, they do not realize to the extent that it has become. There are thousands of kids and examples just like this.[/quote]

Yes it’s entirely possible to have a hobby or an extracurricular that is not done through school. You don’t actually know everything about every other child’s life or activities[/quote]

+1 My DS did very little in ECs at school but had a long involvement in a service activity out of school. He wrote a wonderful essay about that experience where that showed how important it was to him and how he connected personally with the people being served in that activity. He wasn't in an official leadership role but the essay showed how he made a real difference to people working consistently in what could be seen as a small job but was actually a front-line role. He got into schools that friends with better stats did not and I think that made a difference.[/quote]

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