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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few questions for the OP:
1. Top grades and stats? ***YES
2. Thoughts on major? Minor? ***OPEN, LOVES MATH, SCIENCE, LANGUAGE, BUSINESS/ECON. BUT NOT A ROBOTICS/MIT/MATH OLYMPIAD PERSON AT ALL. HE ACES MATH CLASSES BUT DOESN’T DO IT OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL
3. Any evidence for entrepreneurship? What kind? ***SCHOOL CLUB, WINNER OF LOCAL COMPETITION, GRANT APPLICATION PENDING
4. Type of environment he wants (big vs. small?) ***FROM A PARENT PERSPECTIVE, HE ISN’T FUSSY AND DOES WELL IN LOTS OF ENVIRONMENTS BUT IMO HE HAS THE MOST IMPACT IN A SMALLER ENVIRONMENT.
5. Private school, right? Did he do any independent research in HS with a faculty member? What topic? YES RIGOROUS PRIVATE, AND NO.
6. Debate all 4 years? Does he have leadership of any school clubs? WILL BE 3 YEARS DEBATE, SCHOOL CLUB LEADERSHIP.
7. Any ideas on career? Has he had any jobs or internships? ONLY VOLUNTEER WORK. HE HAS A UNIQUE VOLUNTEER POSITION FOR HIS MAIN SPORT, AS AN EXAMPLE.

This sounds like a really strong applicant to me but I just want a few more data points before suggesting schools (including some that have been mentioned).[/quote]

Hard to be too specific without identifying, but maybe the above in CAPS will help enough?[/quote]

The majority of private high school students I know who've been admitted to selective universities in recent years (including, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Michigan (OOS), Duke, Columbia, Dartmouth, Penn, and UCLA (OOS) generally had a nice mix of athletics (club and high school w/leadership), decent amount of work with existing non-profits (none of this forming a non-profit), PT employment, and involvement in HS clubs, theater, music, student government, the high school literary journal or weekly newspaper, and other normal high school pursuits. They've done well in the admissions process.

They did try to showcase a particular or focused area of interest via their involvement in some of these clubs - and maybe that "positioning" is what the OP is referring to?

- private college counselor[/quote]

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