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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]His major issue is a bias toward Research ECs because he himself worked in research.  He isn't self-aware enough to recognize it.

All of his advice comes thru that research lens, when in fact, Admissions is focused on building a community and finding kids who will be employable, loyal and wealthy after graduation (both for fundraising reasons and because schools are ranked by US News on employment outcomes).  This means athletes, class presidents, heck even prom king/queen can be more valuable to Admissions officers than the 600th applicant who did bio research with a random professor, if GPA, SATs and rigor are otherwise equal.[/quote]

Athletes, no unless recruitable.  Class presidents, yes each class only has one.  No idea about prom king or queen.

Research.....I think these top colleges do like to look at research kids.    It is not popular at our high school.  Only 2 or 3% of the kids in any class are interested in doing the research program, so it's definitely not as common as a lot of other ECs.  [/quote]

That said, I don't recommend any kind of high level research program unless a student is really interested.  Contrary to what you might read on here, it's many many hours of work over several years.[/quote]

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