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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm really depressed by everything I'm hearing about the essay.  The thing is that in my family we're pretty boring.  We go to church and we eat dinner together and we eat vegetables and we mow the lawn.

I honestly don't think if you met my kid you'd think "Wow, what a fascinating individual!"  You'd say -- Look, it's a white kid who plays the violin and takes advanced math.  You probably wouldn't find me very fascinating either.  None of us has eleventy thousand followers on Instagram.  We dress in regular clothes -- nobody has dreadlocks or a nose ring or a tattoo.

In my mind, people who are charismatic and fascinating and quirky and funny are  usually extroverts (which we're not in my family), and extremely self-confident (which no one in our family really is.).  We're timid nerds who read books.

It feels a bit like you're saying that being invited to attend your university is like being invited to sit at the popular kid's table in the cafeteria in high school lunch period.  I never sat there, but I always regarded that more as an accident of circumstance than as something I had to or could work on.  Some of us are just less interesting.  Kind of sad that these days you need to be brilliant AND fascinating, all by the age of 17.[/quote]

Introverted kids are absolutely fascinating! I bet the intellectuals at UofC are more introverted than extroverted. You are short changing your kid PP. Help him identify his introverted interests.[/quote]

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