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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No recruited athletes - sports as just another EC. No legacy. Standardized test required as part of admissions decisions. One application deadline - no ED/EA/REA. Schools can only have one supplemental essay and one LOC that must be from a teacher.

Admissions staff say they care about the mental and emotional well-being of the students but the system they are part is f is almost abusive. 
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It is honestly shocking colleges can get as many applications as they do, making students run in circles with different deadlines, admissions types, hidden admissions practices with relatively vague advice that lead students to pick up rigorous classes, many different "impactful" extracurriculars (but not too many of course, because that is bad for some reason), etc. It's all a game that is genuinely detrimental to highschool students and needs to have some standardization.[/quote]

You can choose to not have the game be "detrimental to HS students".  My own kid did mostly STEM APs (skipped AP Eng/APUSH/APGovt/AP FL) and skipped the others to have some balance and do what they wanted to focus on (Their EC).  They prepped for the SAT for 4 weeks, took it once and was done.

They got into all their Targets and safeties.  ED1---Deferred then rejected RD.  WL at 2nd choice.  NEU--Global Scholars (1 year in London).  So it played out exactly as expected. My kid had 3 great choices to choose from (2 targets and top safety).  I'd say they ended up where they belonged. Top stats kid who didn't "win the lottery" at single digit schools, but only outright rejected at 1 school (T10).  
We chose to let our kid skip the non-STEM APs, because it's not healthy to sleep only 2-3 hours each night (and those would have taken a ton of time, they are time consuming courses---for the STEM courses it wasn't much more work than a normal Calc/Science course and my kid got A/5s. ). We let them drop Spanish when it didn't work in their schedule and the alternate was a crappy teacher (they'd had previously---really really bad).  
It's your choice.  My kid enjoyed HS and got into a great T35 ranked school.  They are happy with the choice, as they might not have gotten into a T10 with even the extra courses[/quote]

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