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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Straight A kids in most "advanced" track with little effort.[/b] How? We told them they need to get good grades. It's not that hard to ask if they did their homework and check in on progress throughout the school year.

One sport and one extracurricular (think drama or instrument), by choice. None of which will make any difference in their apps. no captains/chairs/leads. Just for fun.

We encouraged reading novels early (trips to the library and reading to them almost every night when they were young), and now they do it by choice because they enjoy it. This is what I believe has made all the difference in everything academic.

Will pay for some kind of SAT prep materials/class in a year or so. It's a test; you should study for it.

Otherwise, that's it. Just engaging and being aware is all you need to do to raise academically capable kids with a reasonable college future.

We are donut hole and will not be paying for anything other than in-state rates, so [b]JMU/GMU/VT are fine for us [/b]assuming everything holds. [/quote]
UVA and WM seem like reasonable targets. [/quote]

Maybe. But their app will look like 3.8-4.0 uW with a 1400ish probably, and that's about it. Likely no hooks of any kind or exceptional ECs. Just generic good students. Maybe they apply, but we aren't going to push it or anything. It's competitive for those and oddly expensive. [/quote]

Imagine being this kid and working hard in your rigorous program, then overhearing your mom say “we didn’t really play the game, we just let our generic kids do what they needed to do to get into our state’s public universities. Really no point in trying to send them to elite schools.”[/quote]

Ikr?

Those are great stats.

If they're not great enough to game the system so your kids can go to school with billionaires and princes, so what? Those people are terrible. [/quote]

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