| None of the kids who got into Ivy League schools from my kid's prep school were packaged in the manner you are describing. They weren't perfect students, one was first gen American, two were extremely intellectual "wild children" who happened to be top athletes..... One was so stumped on what to write for his main essay, that the night before the "drop dead" due date he wound up writing about sitting there trying to think of a topic. Few or maybe even none took a full-slate of APs. They took the ones that matched their interests- if the kid hated science, he didn't take AP physics. He's still at an Ivy. |