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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son has worked sooo hard and has the most incredible drive. He wanted to get into Stanford for CS so he thought of a practical passion project around coding. He created his own program to teach middle school kids and seniors to code for free, employed classmates to help teach the classes for him and scale the business model internationally and to other schools. He built his own website, launched global company as founder in multiple countries. His global impact in terms of students taught is high.

On top of that passion project, he took maximum load of APs in all subjects at private school. Top grades esp in STEM and music. Studied and took SAT five times over two years and now over 1550 super score. Played varsity sports, and instrument, no video games or hanging out with friends. He reads every STEM and business magazine he can find and spends all his free time outside of school and ECs scaling and managing the business he founded and his website. He wants to be Zuckerberg.

I am worried despite all his achievements, what if AI can replicate some of the achievements his company is teaching and scale it far beyond what he is doing? He's worried about his impact and legacy. I'm worried that he is so driven to get into a great college that he's missing a lot of social development. It's all he think about.

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I can’t quite tell from your message what he is most worried about, getting into Stanford, the longevity of his project, or AI.  I’m not sure if he also has so many messages mixed together but I’d be crisper about what is most important here.

His academic stats are good, but so is everyone applying to those schools.  Transparently the impact story with 1,000 users is not that compelling, especially in light of the effort he has devoted to this.  I would rapidly shift to encouraging him to fall in love with more schools.  I think as a parent it is worse for kids when we buy into their intense “one perfect true match” vision.

Lots of kids have dreams that don’t work out the way they hope.  Those kids survive, yours will too if Stanford doesn’t happen.  If you keep calm it will help your child.[/quote]

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