Thoughts on what they're looking for

Colleges & Universities Harvard University
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<p>I noticed from a lot of the Ivy decision threads that those CCers that held rigorous jobs (15+ hours per week) did really well. It seems like adcoms really value that now.</p>

<p>A lot of kids that got in were REALLY well-rounded (around 3-5 activities to which they were heavily committed). Are the days of the lopsided applicant coming to an end?</p>

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<p>My son is pretty lopsided. He does computer related things in most of his free time - he has two school ECs, Science Olympiad and Academic Team. He does occasionally have a rigorous job - freelance programming - when there are programming deadlines. Then weeks of doing nothing as well.</p>