I’m a high school senior applying to college, and I’ve never had a job before. I’m applying to a bunch of really selective schools like Unversity of Chicago, MIT, etc. I have really good grades (probably the top 1 or 2 percent in my class) and really good extracurriculars. So my question is, is it still possible to get into a really selective school if I’ve never had a job before?
Yep.
Yes. My son didn’t have a single job and he got into a couple of selective schools.
Most of my son’s friends never worked a day in their life before going off to college. Many went to great schools, some to top schools.