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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Which EC is everyone doing?[/quote]

NP: varsity sports (non-recruit), club leader, Debate/Model UN, student gov, music/band, robotics/science fair, volunteering (animal shelters, church, or hospital)[/quote]

None of those are impressive.
Kid at Ivy.[/quote]

Please share your wisdom, O Anointed One.

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Different poster: I agree and here is why. Think about how many schools there are in the country. Now how many have clubs and then how many have club leaders? Same for varsity sports, student gov, band, science fair, and volunteering. So while these are worthwhile activities, none of these will make your child stand out from the hundreds of thousands of kids just like this. [/quote]

This is why everyone needs to understand why the "Top20" or whatever are bascially a lottery. If you have certain grades and scores and EC's, you are on a pool of "qualified" applicants. As the analogy goes, you are allowed into the stadium, but only the people on the field get to attend the school. How do you get on to the field? The orchestra needs a bassoonist and the applicant plays the bassoon. The basketball team needs a shooting guard, and the applicant is a shooting guard. The micro-physics department needs a new researcher and the applicant happened to do a high school thesis on the subject.

Any of the variables can be true of any school on any given year, but likely not every year. And there is no way of gaming the system to "get an advantage" - it is who happened to apply to what school when something in a particular community is needed"

So to the applicants, live your best lives, enjoy the academics and extracurriculars because you enjoy them, not because they are giving you "an edge" in the application process. Pick a variety of schools you are happy to attend and let the chips fall where they will. Where you go to college is not going to make or break your life.[/quote]

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