@Marian - I agree 100000%!! It seems to be just how they are wired from birth I’m not sure how much “home life” factors in.
@CALSmom very true!!
Well, at least she’s honest. She could have SAID she read books without actually doing it, especially with the Netflix hobby. A lot of kids just make stuff up to answer that sort of question.
Also proactive. She’s reading the supplemental questions on the college apps in advance, and thinking about how to get ready.
What kind of colleges is she looking at? I think you should be focusing on who she is rather than who you want her to be. She may grow and change, but she is who she is and will become what she becomes.
Also, look in the mirror. How many books have YOU read in the past year? Are books a topic of dinner table conversation? Does your family even sit down at the dinner table and have conversations? There is no right or wrong in this, but you are probably the one whose been paying the Netflix bill all these years.
Also, who knows? She may be headed for a career in film or media someday. My now grown up daughter has a friend who works at Netflix. Possibly someone she met via her own job via a different media company. Life takes different twists and turns, but my daughter did end up working for the same production company whose output she followed obsessively as a teenager. Maybe because she really aced the job interview by knowing so much about what they did.
It’s pretty well established that the home environment doesn’t make a bit of difference for intelligence. Zero. It’s not as clear for behavioral characteristics like curiosity or perseverance, but the evidence is mounting that home environment doesn’t make a difference there, either.
On the one hand, it can be depressing for us as parents to realize there is not much we can do to affect the outcome. On the other hand, there is a bright side too, in that we really can’t screw it up, either!
A few books worth reading on this nature-nurture debate would be Pinker’s Blank Slate and Harris’ The Nurture Assumption.
@calmom, IMO it is more what you do with you free time after your commitments. I don’t Netflix and chill all I do is read, research what interests me, and volunteer (she does that as well). If I watch TV it is HGTV or a documentary unless we watch something as a family. E.G. “I have this tab open, one on Corel Pro, another on cryptocurrency, another on population growth in our county, and another on FOREX, while House Hunters International is on TV.” She is watching Netflix lol.
Her siblings and some of her friends are curious watching DIY stuff, YouTube vids of things that interest them, TedTalks, and she does not have any of this curiosity. She will just do what her teacher’s require or we require and then when those commitments are done it is veg time.
It’s not a big deal just different from her siblings and many other kids I’ve met that is all, so I was looking to see if “others” had kids that did school and then NOTHING else.
I agree with what many have said about “passion” she just hasn’t found it hopefully she finds it in college.
@SatchelSF YES< no one wants to believe nature vs nurture, but it is hard to refute the results from twins very hard imo.
“I don’t Netflix and chill”.
Seems like quite a few people on this thread haven’t yet learned what that phrase means today 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_and_chill
@Twoin18 yes it does lol, but I surely didn’t mean it that way.
Intelligence and intellectual are two different things.
My high school friend who spent all her free time reading romances ended up as an editor for Harlequin books. You never know what will be useful!
Yes, I have a kid like that. Very fond of naps, hanging out with friends, hammocking, crafts, baking, sewing, watching movies/plays. Not really interested in literature, history, or politics or international news. Excellent grades, organized and self-disciplined, but not a broad hunger for knowledge. Not into digging deeper for the sake of knowing more. Might seem sort of “fluffy” or shallow at times. Nothing wrong with that.
I have a lower-scoring kid whose mind is always racing, interested in everything, always questioning, discussing. Wears everyone out.
We play trivia games as a family. Funny the different things these 2 sisters will know --like pop music and TV vs. history and geography.
One of my friends read Archie comics growing up — 1000s of them. She’s a dermatologist today.
That’s our family…older kid…man, she can nail a test…and she’s likable…she applied to 14 competitive schools and got into 12 of them…kid 2…way more of an original thinker…way more intellectual and questioning…but not nearly the success with the stats…
@emptynesteryet I think lots of kids (not on CC) are like your daughter, who sounds a lot like one of my sons (no “but”). They are still just kids. I, myself, became much more “intellectual” with age. I think that starting with a base of high intelligence, which she has, will serve her well in more intellectual pursuits in the future. I think it can take time for some kids to find a passion, stray from the crowd, become their own person, etc. We just try to encourage our S to be himself, and find something he loves. Given how I was at his age, I’m not worried.
@ Hlmom Archie comics were the best! Penn Law grad, political junky, avid reader and writer, editor, art lover, and active volunteer.
i think #dftba is the smartest thing on the planet
From all the replies it does not sound like a concern or unusual. Is your concern her major, what is she choosing to major in? Or is your concern the level of college chosen, what schools is she looking at?
Your D is normal!
ALL good replies and her normalcy is starting to seem more obvious with the more recent replies.
@TLTWINES the reason was she really is “ditzy” and clueless except in matters of school unlike her siblings who have vats more common sense about everything, but lower stats.
Im fine with her schools though I tend to think Texas A&M would provide her the best overall exp, network, and learning she is a “lac kid”.
She will apply 8 reaches, 3 matches, 2 guaranteed acceptance schools.
Thanks to all 
Good luck but would increase the safeties or guarantees schools. Many last year didn’t get into those. All depends on what schools she is applying to. Competition is getting worse every year. Also a lot of so called Matches tend to be reaches for many kids. Naviance is great if your school uses it but it’s not a guarantee of admittance as many found out last year… Just a heads up.
@Knowsstuff these are really guarantees like average stats are 21 ACT type of schools, yields of 15, they will take anybody they can get with a pulse.
School doesn’t use Naviance little country town 20-25k people almost like “she” is under privileged and has a educational hardship lol (not really but compared to Dallas school YES) but Kenyon did say “Our location could be seen as unique where is XXXXXX again?”
She didn’t like Kenyon very much though, but will apply.
I think that Arizona State University (ASU) offers guaranteed admission without any standardized test requirement whatsoever.
Not sure, but may also be true for the University of Arizona.