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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So first off, we don't really care if our kids go to Ivy league, SLAC, or good public universities, but we are hoping they would have the capability to exceed or be accepted there.

We come from a LMC background, and went to good colleges, and through hard work are now solidly DC middle class.  We want our kids to have a little easier time, and we all these neighborhood families where sibling goes to an Ivy or similar college (for reference, for my entire county, we had one student go to an Ivy league every year; they were featured in the local paper).

[b]So is there some secret sauce [/b]on how to setup all your children for having these kind of options?  We emphasize that they do well in school, they do some extracurricular activities in sports and music but NOTHING like travel soccer or piano competitions -- we are working parents and those commitments are hard.  We might do some enrichment on the weekends like math work books and we encourage reading and such all the time, but nothing very structured.  We volunteer with our church for like holiday events, but again not some huge accomplishment for applications.

Are we preparing them enough? Should we specialize in something like a travel sport?  Obviously we try to ask our neighbors and schoolmates but they are pretty cagey and just say "lucky I guess" :) Which I understand, hence why an anonymous forum may work better![/quote]

There is, OP - crazy enough, it's just Thousand Island Dressing.  Apply liberally 3 times a week.  That's it.  [/quote]

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