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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn't see any difference in outcome between the two groups in the end.

Savvy parents who understand "narrative" can help their kids. I did it in reverse. Let them live their lives, and organize it into a "story" summer before senior year.  Two at T10 school[/quote]

With this approach (and I applaud you), don’t you take the risk of having holes in your narrative that you can’t turn back time to fill if you’re missing some essential courses or activities? [/quote]

Two things:

- Activities and courses dont matter as much as you think, IMO. You need to triangulate on a niche area that's, hopefully, of actual interest to the kid. So horses and medicine. This is not uncommon. The white girl who did [b]horseback riding[/b] and is interested in pre-med. Hard. So you need to triangulate on something more niche. Non verbal communication? Interesting. I'm sure AI could tell you a lot about this, and you could find a place junior year summer to work, either with therapeutic riding (not uncommon) or with non verbal kids (interesting!). Then maybe you switch from pre-med to linguistics. And then talk about other animals?  Write an essay for John Locke competition. Horseback riding plus work with non-verbal kids plus essay competition = this is a good story.  Or horseback riding and physics! Start with movement. Super interesting too. 
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Like your approach but could you illustrate it using something less fancy?  No everyone could afford expensive activities like this.[/quote]

give me a major of interest and one or two things they did in high school. 
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Mine is done so let's work on the most common high school activities: varsity and debate.  
My point is to have a good story you almost always have to have some uncommon activities first.
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I'm the other poster, with 2 kids who've gone through the process (3rd going through soon).

Debate is tough - its worse if kid is asian. Its just so stereotypical. I'd aim for ILR at Cornell. [/quote]

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