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[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 horseback riding 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.

- I think it's harder for students and parents to leave things off the the activities section. You have to leave things off so the story works.  So it's fine to do all the above and play soccer and be president of debate.  But if you also add your premed summer program at Georgetown summer after 9th grade and then president of French club it just muddies the waters. Do it all during high school! But you don't have to disclose everything you did[/quote]

This, need a nice, unique story. Worked for my kid too.[/quote]

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