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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I dont think a kid delaying is entitled; I think it's  more likely just cluelessness. Any DCUM parent is telling their kid to skip grandma's funeral for a yale interview.

I interview for Princeton (already posted here) and I see far more 1st gen or very low income kids than not. They're 97% pretty great, even if half don't get back to my emails for 4 days. Being bad at email is not a thing I care about.

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I'm sure I will get blasted for this but if you want to go to a top school, you have to act like you belong. Sorry that this isn't part of your culture. Knowing how to respond in a timely manner, send a proper e-mail, make small talk, look someone in the eye when you shake hands, etc. is part of life. By age 17/18 you should be able to do this. This is part of the soft skills part of college and why just basing admissions on "merit" (i.e. test scores) doesn't work. I don't want to send my kid to college with or hire kids who are social misfits and can't do these things. My father was the child of poor immigrants and the first one in his family to go to college. He figured it out.[/quote]

You’re not joining a country club, you’re going to college. Smh. Some kids take longer to develop social skills than others. Some brilliant students might never quite get there, and that’s okay. [/quote]

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