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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There may be thousands of kids with great raw material for selective college admissions, but they don’t have parents who are in a position to spend time and money financing, curating and packaging that raw material. Even where parents don’t set out to cultivate and curate, there are other things at work in UC and UMC circles- peer pressure, messaging from parents and teachers, wanting to participate in certain activities to be with their peers, and exposure to adults who have attended certain kinds of schools and have had the luxury of certain kinds of experiences (hobbies, travel, volunteer work)[/quote]

In looking at things on the Reddit forums it looks like some kids think bigger is better. The more they do the better it is. That’s the exact wrong strategy.

They are looking for specialists who do one thing and one thing extraordinarily well. Who know they who they will be once they get on campus and don’t need to waste time trying to figure it out.

Even better if that specialized one thing is something very few other people have articulated.[/quote]

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