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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Nerd herd"?!?  Seriously.  You obviously didn't go to an Ivy, Stanford, Williams, etc.  Last I looked, they don't take straight out nerds at these schools and if they do, they take ones like Gates and Zuckerberg...  You can't get into these schools without being well rounded or if not, outstanding in some area like world class athelete...  And whip smart to boot.  [/quote]

College admissions is no longer focused on only well rounded applicants. They are looking for kids with a specific passion. TJ is full of passionate kids. [/quote]

+1. When we did the college tour last spring, all the colleges were saying "we want passion today; the well-rounded kid is so last decade." The most selective schools are getting 30,000 applicants, and most of these are very qualified, with great GPAs and SATs. Thus, the criteria of "passion" has emerged as yet another way to pull out kids from the big pile of applicants. One example that comes to mind is Tufts, which is selective but not among the most selective, which asked kids to "geek out!" on the essay last fall. FWIW, I'm familiar with one top ivy that has taken 4 kids from Blair so far this year, and this is before regular decision acceptances come out in another few weeks.

Here's the rub, though:  the most selective colleges, which have 20-30,000 applicants, can in fact fill a class of 2,000 with kids who are, at the same time, (a) passionate about something, (b) well-rounded, because they play an instrument or do a sport, (c) leaders of clubs or teams, and (d) who possess good social skills. The bar is really high today. It seems unfair, I know.

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