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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll help you OP. It’s a freaking arms race of affluent parents making sure their kids are getting the BEST enrichments, tutoring, mentoring, internships, etc. I occasionally interview for my alma mater and times have CHANGED!

I participated in an engineering program at a local college for girls interested in STEM where we built balsa bridges and went on a tour of the water treatment plant. I have interviewed kids who placed at the Westinghouse science competition or have patents. Patents! 
I worked at k-mart and Subway. I babysat. These kids intern at companies in the field they are pursuing. 
I was president of the French club and 1st chair trumpet in concert band. These kids are establishing their own charity or leading the advocacy for some pet issue with their city/county/state government.

I was smart and hard working. I was the Tracy Flick of my HS - all the APs, all As, all the sports and clubs. Kids “these days” are accomplishing things at 15-17 that upperclassmen at my selective university were not doing when I was there. If kindergarten is the new 1st grade, I’d wager that 16 is the new 21. I always come away from interviews wondering - how the heck did I ever get in, how the heck will my kids ever have a chance. [/quote]

This is so true.  I think many parents today, not knowing what it took (then moreso than now) are entitled. That is how the Varsity Blues, and the like, came about.  Those who have millions, donate millions - even if their kid is mediocre, in most ways.

I do not think that grade inflation is as much of an issue as DCUM PP's like to think it is. But there are many good students who know what it takes to do well. This, coming from a DCUM-approved school pyramid.

Most colleges want "diversity" - so many traditional students are getting bumped out of potential spots. That, and as other PP stated, international students from other countries are usually full pay, and that adds to both "diversity" and the bottom line, for colleges, which have become a business.

In short, there are simply too many applicants, OP. [/quote]

Parents are also desperate because the standard of living they reasonably expected to attain based on the economic circumstances of our own childhoods is far more difficult for our children to attain given wage stagnation.[/quote]

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