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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really curious what the “lackluster ECs” are for the maybe-amazing kid of PP.

Is there *any* leniency on ECs for unhooked at t20? Sounds like no, no matter how high the stats/rigor. [/quote]
to get into T20, you need like national award type ECs, or start an organization (a real one), done published researched, student body president, or something else spectacular.

Normal ECs like debate, mock trial, robotics club .. these aren't going to cut it, even with high stats.[/quote]

This is just not true. My dc was admitted to multiple ivies this year and has none of the first group. He did do a LOT of the second type and put a ton of energy into them.[/quote]

DP with the same experience. DC has several unhooked friends headed to Ivies and other T20s from public high schools with scores in this range and this same “BMOC” EC profile. At least one STEM major, too. [b]Maybe it takes crazy ECs from a few hyper-competitive high schools in the DMV [/b]but not for most people from most places. And we are in the DMV too, just not in a school zone where people move “for the excellent schools.”[/quote]
This is key. Remember, the applicant is competing with those from the same area/school.

We joke we should've moved to Podunk, Nowhere so that DC could've gotten into a T10.  But, DC said they liked that they were challenged in HS. They would've been incredible bored at a non magnet, and possibly, have lost interest in academics.

As you stated, if your DC was a BMOC profile then that makes them stand out.[/quote]

my kid's roommate at HYP is from Podunk, Montana and puts a lie to that it's easy to walk into t10s schools from these places. he's incredibly impressive and even more impressive because he had to initiate so much of his own way. kids at magnets have it laid out for them - they have to do the work, but they dont have to create the path. he did, in many areas: academically they had to develop interests on their own and then find mentors to support them (in this case, not even in the country .. did it over zoom). and their ECs aren't debate or something that's right in the school or included in a email from the school, things they did in their own, not even in their community.  including mountaineering/field rescue/expedition and high altitude rescue which was a real thing that took hundreds of hours, real strength/skill/strategy/training. Got a scholarship on their own to train in Nepal. All out of a middle class tract home in the not fancy part of Montana.

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I think OSHA would have a problem with minors doing high altitude rescue work.  You can’t even use the meat slicer at the grocery store under 18[/quote]

nope. it's 16+

but thanks for chiming in!![/quote]

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