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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People saying collegevine and possibly other "experts" say to fabricate activity if one of kid's hobby is reading. Instead of just listing reading, say they organized a reading club etc...Agree or not agree?[/quote]

We know a student who did just that in 2021, started a reading club and did a bunch of things related to reading to put on the app. They still got WL at UVA in state and shut out of all ivy types and Vanderbilt. Their course rigor was awful but the GPA was one of the highest in the class. Scores mid 1400s. ECs do not make up for a lackluster transcript. The top schools took the students with the high rigor and real activities. [/quote]

Ofc they do. Did anyone say activities matter more than grades?

You guys are focused on the wrong thing. This kind of texture is just to add some personality to a rather boring standard high achieving robotic type of activities list. Some counselors recommend doing that to give a stem candidate more personality. To give them “texture”.

Private high school students typically don’t have to do any of this anyway. This is a public high school thing.[/quote]

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