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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bethesda is a very competitive area in general.  Most people sending their kids to the public schools are living there specifically for the quality of the schools.  Which means they care about their child going to a prestigious college.

Nowadays getting into a prestigious college means the kids have to be well-rounded, and to many that means being world travelers.  Seems silly to think that parents of middle schoolers are thinking that way, but in Bethesda, they are.

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They can think that, but having been an admissions officer for 10+ yrs (not at an ivy), I'm fairly positive that UPenn and Columbia don't care that you've been to Mexico and Paris 10x each because they KNOW it's on your parents' dime and frankly every kid would travel like that if they had parents who could pay. Frankly at various conferences it comes up that universities are even starting to look sideways at all the kids who apply with mission/volunteer trips to Haiti and Mexico and wherever on their resume bc they realize parents are paying various programs/organizations to take their kids on such trips to build up their resumes. Not saying it hurts to do those trips, but colleges are starting to say -- hmm -- you are willing to go do food drives and build houses in Haiti, you live 10-15 miles from the poorest parts of DC and have never done any project there??[/quote]

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