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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here, She does actually have social anxiety but has blossomed in her social life this year. She's just not a joiner and on top of that her dad and I both work so transpo on weekdays is a challenge. No sports and she played piano/ violin for a few years but didn't love it. She just spends time with us, drawing, video games sure. I always felt like she prefers be home but not in a basement dweller way. She helps around the house. We have been trying to find her a job but that has been a little job as she is open to making money. [/quote] Teach her to open and run her own Etsy store. Get her a book on bread making or something.[/quote]

If she’s going into senior year, it’s way too late for this kind of silliness. Plus it’s completely disconnected from anything else in her life. If dentistry is her current professional interest, build off of that. It’s authentic and substantive. [/quote]

Title says Rising Junior. She has time. [/quote]

Oops. Sorry. I missed that. 🤦‍♀️

I stand by my advice that OP’s DD stick with what’s authentic.

For me, the most important thing OP shared is that her DD is evolving well on her own. Socially, she’s finding her people and her social anxiety is receding. That’s amazing!!

Colleges care about ECs because they want to identify kids with genuine interests and engagement in something other than classwork.

For many kids, school-based sports and clubs are not interesting. The question is, what DOES interest them?

For a highly academic kid with an academic/professional interest, my advice is to build on that. If DD has an entire year, that’s plenty of opportunity to explore the world of dentistry - shadowing different kinds of dentists during the school year, doing some sort of “independent study,” and then something meaningful next summer, like reaching out to a dentistry professor re to help with research or plugging in to an existing dental non-profit to learn about the needs of underserved communities and to figure out how she can help. [/quote]

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