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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can anyone comment on accepted or denied EA students to Stanford?  What kinds of high schools and stats?[/quote]

I know of a local private school kid. Both parents went there and have made multi-millon dollar gifts. Smart kid, don't mean to diminish he accomplishments, but...[/quote]

Rejected...Our son has a 4.85/4.0 at a VA Governor's STEM School.  1550 SAT/ 35 ACT, 8 varsity letter's, captainship in one.  Has dedicated over 700 hours of community service to include youth advisory board of the largest youth volunteer organization in our area.  Club sports at the highest level and all of the other obligatory clubs...National, Spanish, Science and Math Honor Society as well as Special Olympics Committee.  Reality is these schools are a crapshoot, can't get mad if you don't make it.[/quote]

Top schools aren’t actually looking for all this club sports stuff, honor society this and that and endless committee memberships. Unless kid is an Olympic athlete or likely pro player. What  they are looking for is passion, high achievement and exceptional aptitude for his or her chosen area of study, whatever that is. 
High test scores are expected but they’re not an ‘achievement’ - they’re just a box to check.

If your child enjoys volunteering 700 hours while being on 8 sports teams and 10 clubs and committees while taking 8 AP classes or whatever then great. Seems like too much to me but people should do what they want.  But he shouldn’t do that stuff to ‘get into college’.

Your kid can still develop into a great person while volunteering fewer hours and being in less clubs. How is your kid not burned out with all this??[/quote]

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