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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NYC mom at a top tier high school (not listed above) and my kid got in HYP SCEA w no help. We are pretty savvy ourselves to be fair, but loads of kids with slightly better stats were deferred. They had expensive help from the jump. I think there’s a real risk of sounding too polished, too pointy, too driven. These kids with “passions” they developed staring in 9th grade for “exploring the intersection of AI and restorative justice in the urban landscape” or some packaged bullshit just sounds like .. some packaged bullshit.

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I agree 100% - esp at a private school. Simple is better. 
My kid did independent research on something so simple and interdisciplinary that it could have been a few pages in an American history book. Nothing fancy, but she was interested in it. and it really tied into her other authentic passions, existing ECs, and interests. 
No fancy tech app was created, no internship, no university professor-approved research. No non-profit.
Just a written paper in an HS kid's journal (no university-published research!!) and an in-school presentation. and then some volunteering at an org that already existed! 
the horror.[/quote]

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