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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is probably a different post but I was thinking recently the college applications really don’t reflect a lot of important social skills, and that may show up more with the boys.

This is off point but as an example, my son has had a girlfriend for over a year.  It obviously takes some time that he could otherwise be filling with extracurrriculars for his college applications.  But, he’s developing real skills in treating women with respect and kindness, considering the needs of others, etc.  He interacts well with her parents and has developed something of a bond with her dad, who is from a different culture.  These all seem like solid life skills to me that will probably make him a better college citizen and employee some day.  But the colleges are filtering for people who don’t have these life experiences, because they have up this social time to instead start a pointless non profit or win some prize at a competition for something you’ll never use.  I’m not really throwing shade at those kids — that was my older kid and that’s a fine way to be.  But the colleges are definitely not capturing the real breadth of skills we might want out future citizens to have.  [/quote]

Really, you just list having a girlfriend for over a year as a major achievement, comparable with being involved in a non profit or winning a competition. Did you run out of reasons to be proud of your son? True that some nonprofits are fake, competitions might not be relevant, but let’s not kid ourselves here, so is having a girlfriend, which most kids do, while starting a nonprofit and winning a competition is objectively more rare and requires more effort than making out with a girl.[/quote]

You do realize even t20 parents absolutely think their son(s) having a pretty, smart, well put together girlfriend is a massive massive accomplishment easily surpassing many academic achievements

Part of the reason why college admissions has become an arms race is because of dating/social reasons — unlike the economic/financial reasons, parents loathe to talk about it but it’s been brought up dcum in the past because it’s true and this is a less “pc” place than almost any other college forum [/quote]

Who they marry is far more important than where they go to college [/quote]

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