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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS is a 10th grader at a suburban public.  He is in all AP and Honors courses and a straight-A student.  Just got back from PSAT and was in the 98th percentile without prep.  He is a smart kid but seems to have no interests or EC that will make a different.  He is on the golf team, and that's all he really does at school, and he isn't a great golfer/won't be recruited.  I am trying to figure out how to make him interested in college apps and start to develop a passion or interest in general.  Summer after 9th grade he did nothing.  He wants to go to a place like MIT or an ivy, and that just won't happen even with good ECs of which he has none.  I mentioned this to my friend who works at a top DC private and she bluntly said, well he will get into a school like UMD or BC/BU if he is lucky.  I was taken aback as this is a kid who is at the top of his grade and views himself as "better than" a school like UMD or a 40/50 school like BC or BU.  He won't be hooked for admissions anywhere, aside from us being full pay which I know is not a hook but she said it can make a difference at some SLAC.  What do I do??????????[/quote]

uh thats  not a top score. your friend is telling you the truth. ECs will not make him likely to get ivy either. He should do ECs he cares about and should find a way to make an impact so he has a good chance at T25-40 schools, but he is not on a solid track for T10. Don't believe me? wait until he takes BC calc, AP Chem, APPhysicsC...he will start to struggle. MIT-level kids ace them easily, with 5s, have straight As in all subjects and 1570+ (99.8%) and yet still most of that group are rejected from MIT and "settle" for ivy/Hopkins CMU type schools. These kids know each other from competitions or competitive governors schools or other summer programs for highly gifted. That is the typical ivy stem kid. [/quote]

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