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I think that is one of the reasons colleges want strong extracurriculars, the  primary reason being they want engaged students adding to campus life.   Perfect grades and top SAT scores while spending 30+ hours a week doing other activities shows they can handle the rigor.  
I don't think colleges really want students who will struggle academically, at least not many of them.[/quote]

LOL. How does a student spend 30+ hours per week on EC's in addition to actual school? [/quote]

I have a kid like that, he's my energizer bunny type kid.  He has long days, and busy weekends.  [/quote]

I also had a kid who spent about 28-30 hours a week on ECs: 20 for performing arts and 8-10 on clubs, volunteering work. Took every hard class possible and loved the challenge, a wall of 5’s on the app, had done all the hard ones by the end of junior year. They were just more efficient and naturally intellectually quick so they spent very little time on homework compared to other students near the top of the class. They are at an ivy. Many of their peers are of the same mold, but it is definitely under half. They remain near the top in a competitive and difficult major. No one was their level in their high school. They needed a T10/ivy for fit to finally study among a large group of similar minds and not always be the smartest and fastest thinker in the room. [/quote]

Your kid did not need an ivy to not be the smartest thinker in the room. There are several universities (even far outside T20) where your kid would not have been the smartest in the room by a long shot. University of Alabama for example has a very large cohort of insanely smart ivy/ivy+ accepted/level kids, due to  huge scholarship $ and very specialized top level programs.

Not every family can afford an ivy, no matter what type of academic rockstar their kid is -- that is to say, there are large concentrations of kids like this at many universities, not just ivies.[/quote]

LOL[/quote]

Just keep thinking that way (Laughing) and waste your $$$$.  Outside of IB or PE firms, 95%+ of the people you work with will have attended the most affordable private with merit or state U to get their degree.  They are smart and their drive and determination is what gets you places in life, not the Uni you attend. Your kid will be surrounded by plenty of smart people

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