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[quote=Anonymous]I bet that Duke does a more thorough read of applications then the other schools and [b]questioned the validity (or at least depth) of your son's extracurriculars. [/b]
It just doesn't add up that any kid can do that many things at once with any degree of depth.

Listen, the editor of the newspaper at Jackson Reed just got into Harvard and to my knowledge that was his only outlying extracurricular.  Why?  Because it takes him 20 hours a week. 
It's a serious paper and serious time commitment.  Your son's resume indicates that he can head the school paper in about 10 minutes a day after he does 7 other things. 
It doesn't add up that he's doing anything at more than a superficial level (that or he's never sleeping, eating or socializing).

Applications are read by real people who see through the BS or at least can think logically through resumes.  I've seen this before on DCUM--a kid who claimed to have volunteered
for so many hours a year that it worked out to like 30 hours a week. This kid also didn't get into a top school despite having a crazy good resume and wondered why.  
Hmm.  Maybe someone at the school also did that calculation.

[b]I'm not saying your kid made anything up but rather that Duke saw his impressive extracurriculars as being pretty shallow level stuff since he was able to do them all.[/b]

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