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[quote=Anonymous]Agree with the poster above about interviews - I wish more schools did them. I also do some and it is often fairly easy to tease out sincerity and depth of interest. I know these are only 17-18 year old kids, but one can often easily tell.

I have had several kids who seemed so put together but clearly were doing things because they were told to do so. One easy way to find out is to ask if they will continue the activity in college (if it is possible - I know that often it isn't) - if they start hemming and hawing about it, they probably don't care.

I had another kid who I was pretty sure was overpackaged - very wealthy, fancy school, story seemed too good to be true. But I asked about their somewhat esoteric interest and I could see their eyes light up and they went into a lot of depth on the topic that demonstrated to me that they truly did care. So either their coaching was good enough to even account for that, or they truly loved this activity. Given that the topic was something that 95% of kids would find incredibly boring and their speech made it clear that they had truly invested a lot of time in it, I gave them the benefit of the doubt.[/quote]

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