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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everything is so damn competitive now, and I don't know how people survive this world. It starts when someone is young with how competitive youth sports has become. It is extremely difficult to even make the JV team now. College admissions are more competitive and cutthroat than ever, and you have to be insanely lucky to get into a school like UVA, UMich, or UNC right now.

Even if you make it into a good college, the competition doesn't stop there. Most engineering, premed, and business clubs require applications and interviews to join. Greek life rejects most people who try to join. Getting research experience is extremely hard too.

And it is impossible to find a job now once you graduate.

How are kids supposed to survive now?[/quote]

First off OP, T50 colleges have not added more seats over the century, yet population keeps going up.

Secondly, doing well in sports, or the arts, or some bespoke skilled club is a "hook" for college admissions, at a minimum, and a recruiting tool at the maximum.

Thirdly, there are non-American cultures with sayings like "Sit on your @$$ until you learn it" and their kids listen to them and sit on their @$$e$ for hours doing drills, homework, test prep.

Fourthly, despite the recent SCOTUS court cases, college Ad Coms still want to sprinkle around their admittances to different geographies, genders, races, nationalities, etc. to craft a cool, diverse learning environment.

Lastly, there's always grad school if you're hell-bent on a label. Easier to get in to T10 grad schools (still not super easy, and lots of clueless people still apply) than its undergrad.

One more thing, if you're really grooming your kid for college AdCom then do contrarian things like fencing, squash, crew, water polo, etc or big teams like LAX or football.  Not small teams like basketball or golf. [/quote]

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