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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the only reason this is a problem is if helicopter parents and Daddyball types are brainwashing the kids with their own dreams "I'm going to be in the MLB.  I'm going to an Ivy League school" rather than it being a kid dreaming about kid things.[/quote]

Huh? I don't think you can equate "I'm going to be in MLB" with "I'm going to an Ivy League school".  Also, sound like these kids are in 8th or 9th grade.  If your goal is an Ivy, not a bad time to start thinking about how you're going to get there. [/quote]

As a Stanford and UChicago grad, I think it’s healthy (and potentially face-saving) to have a certain amount of humility about college admissions. I still remember more than 20 years later the kid who planned his getting-into-Harvard party senior year of high school, which he had to cancel. The best goal at the beginning of high school is to succeed at all your classes and pursue other academic pursuits for the sake of learning and acquiring knowledge. If you meet those goals you can begin thinking about your Harvard or Stanford application. My goal freshman year was to be valedictorian, not to get into Stanford. By junior year it was clear that I would probably achieve the valedictorian goal, I’d developed a pretty interesting set of extracurricular academic activities, and Stanford was within reach. But it definitely wasn’t even on my radar at age 14. [/quote]

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