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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son got into Princeton and Harvard, he went to Princeton, and he wasn’t the class president, or a star athlete and he didn’t invent Facebook. Neither parent went there so no legacy, he wasn’t a minority.  But he was an excellent student, took a lot of AP courses and scored 1560 on his SATs. So, super bright but not a star at those schools.  It turned out that what got him in, according to both schools, were his essays which we did not see before he submitted them. He wrote about many special moments in his life that meant a lot to him such as collecting beach glass with his grandfather. I can’t do his writing justice but it was beautiful. He went to a very good public HS but never had a tutor or test prep courses. We never pressured him and he did it on his own. Unless a child really wants it, no big investment in tutors etc will pay off. [/quote]

Heard about the benefit of lot of AP courses- what were his ECs? How did he handle it around the AP courseload?[/quote]

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