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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand that College forum.  Parents act like the Ivy acceptance rate is 0.00001% and that DC needs a Nobel Prize to be competitive.  In fact, the Harvard acceptance rate is 5% (1 in 20 is getting in).  Difficult, but hardly impossible.[/quote]

not impossible, but pretty difficult. the problem is also complete lack of transparency, so you don't even know what you need to do - apart from having 4.0, 10+ APs, 99% SAT - to get in. and if you try to help your kid, it looks manufactured, but if you don't, they won't know how to package themselves as having "leadership" and "impact".[/quote]

I wonder about this for Ivies actually. Doesn't that focus on leadership and impact attract awful, power-hungry people? Thinking Vance and DeSantis types. Why can't a kid be bright, but have no leadership ambition and just want to be a good, solid human and member of society? You can be a great, quiet researcher whose only ambition is to work in a lab and come up with a cure to something. And ideally, politicians should be community-minded people who don't want limelight, ego and fortune. So when it comes to stuff like kids who started charities to show "impact and leadership", I think it's more impressive for a kid to have worked at a food pantry for years getting absolutely no accolades but providing needed grunt work. The system does not seem to favor humility or good values at all.[/quote]

There are hundreds of colleges for this kid...why do you care if Harvard or Stanford doesn't want that kid?[/quote]

not PP, but because those schools still have the reputation that they have smart students. and they do... but they also have a lot of social climbers.[/quote]

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