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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just curious how many of us are out there. My Junior does well in school (not stellar), is artsy and a pretty good kid all around. I am letting her steer the ship in regards to college/major. I really just want her to be happy. Don’t give a crap about college rankings at all (pretty sure she doesn’t either). Anyone else?[/quote]

OP. Thanks for this! I used to care. But now that I have a senior and a junior, I see that the Undergraduate Admissions Emperor has no clothes.

There is no way to game a system that has no rules and no referees. The "holistic" process is useless because there is no transparency into what really happens -- athletics, alumni, advancement, and academics compete against each other to get their preferred applicants.

It's a perfect storm: pseudo transparency of online resources like the CommonApp and Niche, along with covid test policy madness, racist privilege-hoarding lawsuits, declining college-age population, flight of Black talent to HBCUs and elite matching,  massive marketing spending and recruitment of corporate marketing execs, and the ever-expanding college "advising" business (going rate for rush-job essay edit is about $500.)

I'm exhausted, my kids are confused, and our school's college "counselor" is stuck in 2019 mode.

At this point, I'm happy so long as they have ONE thing that motivates my kids to get out of my house.  :wink: [/quote]

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