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[quote=Anonymous]I am not sure why so many here are criticizing OP, who clearly wants what's best for their child.

If you think about it, the odds of any US student in a graduating class in any given year to get into an ivy are LESS than the odds of a football player getting drafted into the NFL that year.

Do football players who want to play in the NFL start practicing a year or 2 before? Of course not! These players probably started playing when they were 5 or 6.

If you really want to prepare your kid for an ivy or top college, they need to start showing some passion and act upon it from middle school or at the latest, their freshman year in highschool.

Don't just have them write an essay about how interested they are in computer science and AI. Sign them up for programming classes, have them earn certificates, internships, maybe start some non profit to teach lower income kids how to code ...

These are the type of kids who get into the top schools.

Good grades and SAT scores are not enough. These will give top colleges a reason not to reject you but not a compelling reason to accept you. Top colleges can fill their incoming class 10 times over with kids who have straight As and 90th percentile SAT scores.

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