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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My sister went to an ivy and does alumni interviews for them. One thing she always tells me is that as "stacked" as the students' applications are, none of them get accepted - echoing a PP response about colleges not wanting a "jack of all trades, master of none" type of candidate. The universities are filling out a freshman class that is diverse - they need one really great trumpet player, one really amazing physicist, one really passionate activist, etc. They don't need - nor want - one student who has dabbled in a million things but is not passionate about anything. So to agree with many of the PPs, find out what YOUR CHILD is interested in, not what you think they should be interested in. Even I had a hard time accepting that with my children, since I grew up employing the "jack of all trades" strategy. Once I stepped back and reassessed, I find it really does work better in the long run since they are so much happier and empowered by having agency in their lives.[/quote]

So every twelve year old needs to buckle down and do one activity that they must excel at as if they were going to the Olympics or curing cancer. No time to be a normal kid and try different things even if you aren't great at it but are having fun. What a fun childhood.[/quote]

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