What exactly are individual top colleges looking for?

TiggerDad
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 01:43:58 +0000

As a parent of a musician child, it saddens me to no end when witnessing kids who were pushed to pick up a musical instrument just for the eventual college application. I wish and wish and wish that kids pick up musical instruments simply because they want to experience the joy of making music. Likewise, I wish and wish and wish that kids pick up soccer, tennis, swimming, fencing or Taekwondo just for the purity of experiencing the athletic competitive spirit and the joy of such experience. Whether music or sports, if they don’t amount to anything in terms of college admissions, at least such experiences would very much add to enriching human experiences. If these were exploited only as a means to an end, what an awful experience it’d be at the moment of realization that none of the “investment” amounted to “anything”.