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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, he'll get a summer job cooking french fries. But that doesn't make him particularly compelling to any competitive colleges, right?

He shows no drive or enthusiasm for anything besides gaming.   We couldn't afford any good summer camps or activities for him that his friends did.  We sent him to the cheap county or federally funded stuff in middle school and he hated it and refuses to go to anything that's free or cheap anymore.  Honestly they are really poorly run, so I stopped forcing him to go for the experience.

He has this idea he'll get into some competitive/selective colleges because of his grades and test scores, but I'm thinking that's not likely, and especially not likely for merit scholarships.  State school is most likely?[/quote]

Yes that job would be compelling.  He is showing responsibility and initiative.  He would be showing up to a job when he is supposed to, and this could lead to something else.  Wouldn’t you rather have your son taking some responsibility rather than playing on the computer all summer?  Assuming you are the OP.  A job doesn’t have to be a research experience at NIH to have value.  You sound so incredibly negative.[/quote]

Yep, colleges love kids that have real life jobs that they got without their parents help. Cooking French fries is a fantastic job for a kid like this because he'll learn about hard work and, as old-fashioned as it sounds, the value of a dollar. He'll start adding up in his head how many hours of work it will take to buy stuff he wants and a big lightbulb will go off over his head about the fact that work=money=stuff he'd like to own or do. 
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