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How much do extracurriculars matter?
My daughter reads a lot, now is on fanfiction.com and spends all her non-school waking moments (and cutting into some of her sleep time) re-writing endings to her favorite stories.
She belongs to no clubs really, is in the band (playing clarinet for 6 yrs), she is at a boarding school but still not really socializing. She is taking their hardest courses this year, will finish calculus 3 as a senior and hopefully will take physics, she had it one summer and got high school credit just barely. She has a solid science background except we'll see about physics (2 years of chemistry, 2 of biology).
OK, she has like a 3.7 or 3.8 GPA so far and got 800 critical eading, 700 math and 670 writing and 30 compositie on ACT (26 in science, 29 math, 32 English, 32 reading). She will make National Merit semi-finalist and will make finalist if she can get clerical enough to send in the required stuff (her score was 6 points higher than the highest cutoff for our state).
She's like mush when it comes to thinking about college. She is having too much fun on fanfiction.com.
What do you think? This is academic, she won't listento me, but perhaps if you have a scolding enough response, I can send it to her and she can see someone else's opinion. Although even then I'm not sure anything will get thru at present.
Thanks for your advice.
Last edited by aurorad12345 : 01-09-2008 at 02:26 PM.
Reason: Oh, didn't notice the date, thi is is a very old thread! sorry
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