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[quote=Anonymous][quote]([b]And really, academics as a primary extracurricular activity? That is just not what colleges are looking for. Colleges want kids [/b]who can be high achievers while engaging in non-academic extracurriculars and contributing to their community. They want kids like my young relative who has 750+ on each section of the SAT, well over 4.0 at a selective public magnet while playing a varsity sport every season and engaging in community service year round. They want kids who can get the grades and the scores without spending every waking second on academics and who will be a contributor, not just a taker, on campus at their school. No one is scared of the kid for whom academics is the primary extracurricular activity because they know that colleges are looking for much more than academics in their applicants.)[quote] [/quote]

So this is ypur motivation? You seem to care only about what colleges are looking for?  Well, I don't give a damn about what colleges are looking for 12 years from now.  I care more about what kids like to do.   And if they prefer math competitions for extracurricular screw your colleges.  We all have choice.  I do not complain when your children go and volunteer in hospitals at an early age, hand out food in soup kitchens outside  their lush neighborhoods or go with the family on a safari and sneak in a little "tutoring" of the cabin help to meet the requirements you think Colleges are looking for.

I certainly don't give a damn about this 12 years in advance of when my kids school choose to go to college...if Colleges remain relevant...and my kids choose to go.

This is not about what Colleges want?  It's about what parents and their children want?  What I want for my children may not be what you want for your children or what you think Colleges want, today, for children.  
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