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[quote=Anonymous][quote] THIS!! And also they are learning that selective colleges now value more than the kids who study and live their 4 years to get picked rather than the ones who live a balanced life, select a passion and go in on it for 4 years, are kind, helpful, resourceful, get good grades, and bring more to the classroom experience and dialogue. That not all selective schools want a classroom full of test takers as if a bnch of the richest now didn;t drop out of college to pursue life in tech or finance. Also, that there is value to lived experiences that correlates well with future problem solvers, and community builders.[/quote]

Except that there are tons of kids who study and aim to be selected but also are all the other things you mention AND score in the 99th percentile on the SAT or ACT.  Those kids are great test takers and balanced, with ECs that represent their passions. Those kids are the ones who think TO isn’t fair because they know friends who scored a 1300 after testing three times but have ridiculously high GPAs and did not put in as much effort with ECs, etc. but still sometimes get in.  Those are the kids who never would have applied to the selective colleges before TO.[/quote]

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