What exactly are individual top colleges looking for?

compmom
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 01:42:09 +0000

I’m not suggesting that everyone hang out and watch tv or something. I am just commenting on the implications of “strategizing.” If a kid attends a summer program as part of a “strategy” is that different from attending out of interest or to develop a talent? I think it is, but the difference is subtle.

We all go by the experiences of our families and friends. My kids had relatively stress-free lives during high school and did indeed do their first visit in Feb. of junior year, then some more in April vacation, a couple in the summer, a couple in the fall. It worked out fine.

They have a hard time relating to the abstraction of college until a certain point and reality hit one of mine in December of senior year. He had been so busy with his many endeavors he barely thought about college and got his essay done Dec. 31st. He did fine with admissions.

Different strokes…I think it is like the holiday season. For commercial reasons it just keeps getting longer and longer and in the end, the kids are stressed out