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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This article should tell you how fake everything is.. from what activities to choose to what classes etc to take. Everything is curated. What a way to kill your innate passion and creativity.. 11 year olds already on this path to get into an Ivy.

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One of her students has 23 tutors helping her on academic subjects and test preparation. The student is also writing a novel, editing an essay for a competitive journal and working on a research paper that looks at the linguistic patterns in Taylor Swift songs.

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It's interesting because you can get to at least some of this organically. Decades ago I had an internship in software engineering in high school...just because I really thought it would be fun. My interests bopped around a little bit, but my ultimate resume ended up looking kind of like the poor man's version of these kids who have these expensive college counselors. But it was all self-driven. Because of that, it was actually fun and interesting.[/quote]

Self driven is extremely different than paying someone $50K+ to curate your life from 6th grade forward in hopes of getting into a Top college.

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