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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone else's kids experiencing this? [b]Got into three good schools, but shut down at so many others![/b] Hearing the same from my friends about their kids as well, and from the kids themselves.

My sister hosts exchange students from China and they are experiencing the same thing up north - #1 in the class, great extra-curriculars, and schools that were well within their reach even 2 years ago are rejecting them left and right. The poor kid is taking it very personally, as are many others. It's heartbreaking to watch.

Asked a friend who is an educational consultant and he confirmed it's getting really brutal out there, more so than even five years ago, and he doesn't see improvement - he sees it getting worse. He says that the common app certainly contributes to it (volume), foreign admissions does as well,  (which are very lucrative for colleges), and also that there is an increased focus on admitting more minorities to balance the classes , which helps colleges  them up the ranking list. What this is doing is forcing all students, especially those born in good socio-economic standing (i.e more middle/upper middle class) to pile on the APs, pile on the extra-curriculars, pile on the charitable work, etc.

It makes me wonder (a) why parents continue to allow this crazy system to brutalize and burn out our our kids and (b) what we as parents can do to get enough to say 'we are not playing this crazy game

Something needs to change.  I plan to do some more research into all this and get myself involved in righting the wrongs within the system. I'm sure I'm biting off WAY more than I can chew :)
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The above is the original post in this thread.  It clearly says the OP's child got into three schools. [/quote]

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