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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that the holistic admissions process favors girls.  DD is at an Ivy and was on a mission to get to an Ivy starting in about 8th grade.  She will admit she went through high school checking all the right boxes (clubs/leadership/awards).

DS is a senior and has the same perfect grades and higher SATs but nothing close with ECs.  In 8th grade his maturity and sense of who he was was nowhere close to his sister’s. He thought he was going to play 4 years of football and baseball and go into engineering.  Today he plans on majoring in philosophy and football/baseball is a distant memory.  His essay is about not going through life with a fixed mindset and instead taking risks.  My guess is this will all be lost on many AOs and they superficially will pass as on him as he has not checked all the EC boxes. [/quote]

Sounds like my DS, not having a seamless narrative. Your DS will be fine. There was a time when no one was expected to be thinking seriously about college until 11th grade but then things changed and with the way things are now, girls are already ahead because they plan better and think more long term at an earlier age. 
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