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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]College is no longer a time to explore sadly. Many engineering clubs at top schools have applications and interviews you have to pass to make it into the club. Greek life is selective as always. Club sports are even more selective than varsity sports teams at large high schools. It’s insane [/quote]

What colleges are you talking about? Can you cite any examples?[/quote]

Virginia Tech. All the engineering clubs there reject like 95% of the students that apply [/quote]

This is not true. There are design teams that take all comers. The issue comes if all the kids want to do the same one. With thousands of engineering students, they can't have hundreds on one team. My Hokie is on concrete canoe - doesn't align with her engineering major (full disclosure, there's not a Club that does align). They placed 2nd at Nationals last year and it's been a great experience socially, educationally, leadership-wise and with excellent transferable skills that she's been able to talk about to recruiters and put on her resume.[/quote]

Exactly. Parents and kids get so worked up about the exclusive clubs that they miss all the other open opportunities.

Don't fall into the "exclusivity" trap. Rather than complain about the closed doors, look for all the open ones.

These schools are FULL of opportunities! Kids need to seek them out by thinking for themselves rather than just trying to follow the herd.[/quote]

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