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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The other truth is that t[b]here are just too many kids who are doing it all now. [/b] You could fill UVA with top students from NO Virginia now, and it is just getting worse here and everywhere.  If you want truly exceptional kids who value learning, not only will sat scores and number of AP classes not get you there, they will leave you with a pool of applicants so huge there is no effective, non-arbitrary way to sort them into admits and nonadmits.[/quote]

Actually, I think there are too many kids [i]trying[/i][b] to do it all now.   There is a very, very small cohort of super-talented kids who are able to do -- if not it all -- then at least one or two things very well.  Academics and leading a technology club, for example, or academics and sports.   For most kids, however, I think it only takes a little digging to see through the resume padding (membership on a Varsity team that isn't particularly good, for instance, or a leadership position that doesn't mean much).

If colleges admissions offices had more interest in investigating, they could probably separate out the truly impressive more quickly than you think.  
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