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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Frankly, I think it’s wrong that our current college admissions process is becoming like Korea, China or India where children lose their childhoods spending 10 hour days cramming to score high enough or pressured to abandon all ethics and cheat whenever possible to get a coveted seat at the few respected institutions. Whether you win the lottery or not, you have lost more than you gained along the way. [/quote]

You can easily choose not to go down that path.

My High stats kid did (1500/3.95 UW/8 AP). 
They choose to mostly do STEM APs and AP Psych (easy and more importantly they liked Psychology)
They skipped APUSH/AP Eng/AP Spanish/French, because while they could easily do the course and get an A/A-, they didn't want to add 15-20+ hours/week of coursework.  They wanted to dance 15-20hr+/week and enjoy HS just a bit.  So they took AP Calc AB&BC, AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Physics Mech, AP CompSci A, etc. And skipped the time consuming (for them) Humanities/LA AP courses.  
Now, maybe that is what prevented them from getting into reaches, who knows.  What I do know is my kid had the academic HS experience they wanted (aside from Covid and classes from their bed for 1.5 years)  We felt it was important that my kid get 5-6 hours of sleep each night not 3-4.  And they were not giving up dance, they did what they wanted to with that

My kid got WL at one reach, rejected at 3, in at NEU Global Scholars, and in at 4 Targets and 3 safeties.  And they are very happy where they are, and excelling for their future.

More importantly HS was not 4 years of misery doing things just because they might get into a T10 school
 [/quote]Someone will come along shortly and say your kid is not well rounded and can't read a 400 year old book and can't pick out countries from a map[/quote]

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