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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS is a 10th grader at a suburban public.  He is in all AP and Honors courses and a straight-A student.  Just got back from PSAT and was in the 98th percentile without prep.  He is a smart kid but seems to have no interests or EC that will make a different.  He is on the golf team, and that's all he really does at school, and he isn't a great golfer/won't be recruited.  I am trying to figure out how to make him interested in college apps and start to develop a passion or interest in general.  Summer after 9th grade he did nothing.  He wants to go to a place like MIT or an ivy, and that just won't happen even with good ECs of which he has none.  I mentioned this to my friend who works at a top DC private and she bluntly said, well he will get into a school like UMD or BC/BU if he is lucky.  I was taken aback as this is a kid who is at the top of his grade and views himself as "better than" a school like UMD or a 40/50 school like BC or BU.  He won't be hooked for admissions anywhere, aside from us being full pay which I know is not a hook but she said it can make a difference at some SLAC.  [b]What do I do??[/b]????????[/quote]

Easy.  Let your kid do what he enjoys and let the college chips fall where they might.  He’ll have plenty of awesome choices if his grades stay at that level.  Maybe not Ivy+, but then again that would be a long shot even with the ECs. There’s negligible to be gained by forcing him to do things for performative reasons.  [/quote]

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